Re: [UC] high efficiency boilers?

[Elizabeth F Campion]

Garth installed our Boiler and boilers for friends, neighbors and
clients.
He is a "MASTER".
But he can get swamped.

Liz

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:43:22 -0500 99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello there,
> I'm looking into getting a high-efficiency condensing boiler to 
> replace
> my old gas boilers.  Garth Gill came by to do an initial assessment 
> and
> it sounded like he would be able to do a very thorough job with 
> separate
> gas monitoring to attach 2 apartments to the same boiler, give me
> control over zones, etc., but I haven't been able to get back in 
> touch
> with him.
> 
> Does anyone have a condensing boiler?  Do you like it?  Do you have 
> a
> sense of how much your heating bills dropped, if at all?  Suggest a 
> good
> installer?  I think all the usual suspects in the neighborhood are
> pretty busy, though I have some flexibility time-wise.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steph
> 

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215-546-0550 Main, -546-9871 fax,  Desk + VM: 215-790-5653
PRUDENTIAL, FOX & ROACH REALTORS, LLC
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Re: [UC] UC Epiphany [was: Sound vaguely familiar?]

[Kimm Tynan]

Karen,

It¹s hard to have one¹s assumptions about the world upturned.  Cognitive
dissonance, I think is the term.  I say this because I know you are a member
of the HS, and my impression is that historic preservation is important to
you, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.  I think many people
may think I am anti-historic preservation, and that is not the case at all.
It¹s just that, in this neighborhood and others, I¹ve witnessed the dynamic
that you so eloquently described far too often, and so I am *cautious and
suspicious of* historic preservationists, at least in gentrified/fying
neighborhoods (places like Center City are a different ball of wax), and in
this one in particular.  I don¹t assume that historic preservation is an
incontrovertibly good thing, and am intensely aware that it is one value
that competes with others, and that in that competition it is very much, as
you note, a double-edged sword.

I¹m sorry this experience has caused you so much anger and sadness, but glad
you had your epiphany.  That means others could too.

Happy New Year.

Kimm



On 1/3/08 5:21 PM, "KAREN ALLEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
>> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; UnivCity@list.purple.com
>> > Subject: Re: [UC] Sound vaguely familiar? From the Washington Times --
>> 11/18/07
>> > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:34:43 -0500
>> >
>> >Stabbing the community in the back through collusion with hypocrites isn't
>> >the same as the transparency  required in a representative democracy.
>  
>  
> Thanks to Tom Lussenhop and the "Campus Inn" proposal, I have had a epiphany.
>  
> I now know when Penn says "jump", who the jumpers will be and how high they
> will jump (or, if you will, how low they will stoop).
>  
> I have seen the depths of hypocrisy that people can sink to. I have seen how
> people and organizations who have publicly supported a purported ideal can
> throw that ideal under the bus without hesitation, and can come up with
> utterly preposterous, and insulting-to-one's-intellegence justifications for
> doing so.  Arguments analogous to "We have to save the forests, but until we
> get a law protecting them, we're going to help the lumber company destroy the
> forests". 
>   
> I now know that historic preservation, at least in this neighborhood, is not
> an ideal, but a weapon that can be selectively used against certain people or
> entities, while others are totally free to do whatever they want, so long as
> they are aligned with the "right" people. Whenever I hear "historic
> preservation" invoked in the future, I will automatically question the motives
> of the people invoking it, why it is being invoked, and for or against whom is
> it being invoked.  Instead of naively assuming that it is being used to
> preserve the past, I will now question whether it is being used to manipulate
> the present, or to ensure a bright future for a self-selected few.
>  
> Thanks, Tom, for enlightening me. [That's NOT a solicitation for you to write
> to me offlist.]
>  
> Karen Allen
> "I went to school at Temple, but I got my education at Penn."
> 

[UC] high efficiency boilers?

[99]

Hello there,
I'm looking into getting a high-efficiency condensing boiler to replace
my old gas boilers.  Garth Gill came by to do an initial assessment and
it sounded like he would be able to do a very thorough job with separate
gas monitoring to attach 2 apartments to the same boiler, give me
control over zones, etc., but I haven't been able to get back in touch
with him.

Does anyone have a condensing boiler?  Do you like it?  Do you have a
sense of how much your heating bills dropped, if at all?  Suggest a good
installer?  I think all the usual suspects in the neighborhood are
pretty busy, though I have some flexibility time-wise.

Thanks,
Steph


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Re: [UC] penn for sale list?

[John Ellingsworth]

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/ is ideal for most things.


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I believe there is a Penn list of items for sale or to be given away.   Is 
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Re: [UC] Vietnam Café Opening

[pmuyehara]

 Wilma,

His brother told me that the opening is on January 21, a date selected by the 
family as propitious for the opening.  It will be the only Monday they are 
open, since that will thereafter be the one day they are closed each week.

Paul


 


 

-Original Message-
From: Wilma de Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: UnivCity listserv 
Sent: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 6:47 pm
Subject:  [UC] Vietnam Café Opening










Dear Neighbors,

I ran into Anh Lai, (former ESL student when he was a kid from Vietnam).

Some might know him as Officer Nick or Nick of "Nick's Discount" on S. 47th
St..

Miraculously, he has been a Philadelphia Policeman, for a bit and has a two
sons who are JUST as bad as he was when was a child. (STILL can't believe
it!)

Anyway, he said Vietnam Café should open by January 21st.

There were problems with the City of Philadelphia Dept.of Health with regard
to the Building Inspection, as been already been reported.

However, the PLCB held who delayed the Liquor License slowed the December
opening of Vietnam Cafe.

Let's see what happens.

Regards,

Wilma de Soto




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[UC] penn for sale list?

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[UC] Vietnam Café Opening

[Wilma de Soto]

Dear Neighbors,

I ran into Anh Lai, (former ESL student when he was a kid from Vietnam).

Some might know him as Officer Nick or Nick of "Nick's Discount" on S. 47th
St..

Miraculously, he has been a Philadelphia Policeman, for a bit and has a two
sons who are JUST as bad as he was when was a child. (STILL can't believe
it!)

Anyway, he said Vietnam Café should open by January 21st.

There were problems with the City of Philadelphia Dept.of Health with regard
to the Building Inspection, as been already been reported.

However, the PLCB held who delayed the Liquor License slowed the December
opening of Vietnam Cafe.

Let's see what happens.

Regards,

Wilma de Soto




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[UC] UC Epiphany [was: Sound vaguely familiar?]

[KAREN ALLEN]

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; UnivCity@list.purple.com> 
> Subject: Re: [UC] Sound vaguely familiar? From the Washington Times -- 
> 11/18/07> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:34:43 -0500>>Stabbing the community in the 
> back through collusion with hypocrites isn't 
>the same as the transparency  required in a representative democracy.
 
 
Thanks to Tom Lussenhop and the "Campus Inn" proposal, I have had a epiphany. 
 
I now know when Penn says "jump", who the jumpers will be and how high they 
will jump (or, if you will, how low they will stoop).
 
I have seen the depths of hypocrisy that people can sink to. I have seen how 
people and organizations who have publicly supported a purported ideal can 
throw that ideal under the bus without hesitation, and can come up with utterly 
preposterous, and insulting-to-one's-intellegence justifications for doing so.  
Arguments analogous to "We have to save the forests, but until we get a law 
protecting them, we're going to help the lumber company destroy the forests". 
  
I now know that historic preservation, at least in this neighborhood, is not an 
ideal, but a weapon that can be selectively used against certain people or 
entities, while others are totally free to do whatever they want, so long as 
they are aligned with the "right" people. Whenever I hear "historic 
preservation" invoked in the future, I will automatically question the motives 
of the people invoking it, why it is being invoked, and for or against whom is 
it being invoked.  Instead of naively assuming that it is being used to 
preserve the past, I will now question whether it is being used to manipulate 
the present, or to ensure a bright future for a self-selected few.  
 
Thanks, Tom, for enlightening me. [That's NOT a solicitation for you to write 
to me offlist.]
 
Karen Allen
"I went to school at Temple, but I got my education at Penn."

Re: [UC] Sound vaguely familiar? From the Washington Times -- 11/18/07

[Anthony West]

No, I'm afraid you are not.

All politicians who represent districts of 100,000 citizens will always 
consult and work with all sorts of citizens' groups that deal with 
smaller areas, when strictly local concerns arise. They may or may not 
do bad things together. Probably, over time and space, thousands of 
officials and thousands of civic groups will do both good and bad things 
together.


There is, however, no way for a democratically-elected politician to go 
about taking the pulse of the community, without referring in part to 
local civic groups, if no elected local public officials exist for him 
to consult with.


Civic associations are numerous in most large jurisdictions and they 
often have overlapping or conflicting missions. They are part of a 
larger mix of voluntary associations -- school, church, recreational and 
business groups -- that routinely interact with government officials. 
Their right to do so is enshrined in the Constitution. Both the 
successes and the failures of democratic policy-making are largely the 
outcome of this process.


About all we can tell of the merits of the P.G. development case from 
afar, is that some folks are for it while others are against it. The 
folks who aren't getting their way (so far) have an interest in 
asserting the other side is nasty and unrepresentative; the folks who 
are getting their way (so far) have an interest in being discreet about it.


Specifically: the Post story features the former president of the West 
Lanham Hills Citizens' Association against its current president, in a 
dispute over policy. So this story presents not the slightest evidence 
that all civic activists are bad; it merely shows civic activists are 
diverse and disagree.


I wish all the best to both factions among my former neighbors in P.G. I 
was down there this last weekend Whatever the outcome of the tussle in 
West Lanham Hills, I just hope those fellows can do something about the 
traffic on New Hampshire Ave. It's dreadful! Left-hand turns are 
especially hard.


-- Tony West


Glenn wrote:
 Am I correct?  




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Re: [UC] Sound vaguely familiar? From the Washington Times -- 11/18/07

[Glenn]

- Original Message - 
From: "Anthony West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: "UnivCity listserv" 
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] Sound vaguely familiar? From the Washington Times --  
11/18/07



My point is simply that no politician who represents a huge constituency 
lacking official subdivisions, will ever tackle the tasks of 
representative democracy without consulting community associations like 
these. Perhaps, if they seem important enough, the politician will seek to 
take them over. Duh. Likewise, apparent losers will be ignored. Also duh.


I do need to be paid for enough of my activities to pay my bills. Your 
tenants tell me you feel the same way: They say you stress the need to be 
paid for your activity of renting your buildings to them. Every month, you 
request payment from them for services rendered. You're right in doing so, 
Glenn! Don't let anybody tell UC-list you owe them free rent.


-- Tony West


"They say Olson staffer Wanda Brooks, the acting president of the West 
Lanham Hills Citizens' Association, canvasses the neighborhood looking for 
such violations as cracked sidewalks and uncut grass, then prepares 
suggested warrants for police and other county agencies." from Fear Of 
Eminent Domain Grips PG Hamlet by Arlo Wagner


In such a system, unofficial civic associations, for better or for
worse, fill an essential gap in democratic decision-making. It is not
possible to run a government of this size and structure without
utilizing their activity.

-- Tony West


Well, my point is that the reported civic association president, like in 
your very own FOCP and SHCA, ain’t got nothing to do with any democratic 
"consultation."  That's why I compared your point to the excrement from the 
male bovine.
I didn't see anything about consultation in the article, I saw abuse of 
governmental power by some dishonorable pawns being used by hidden powerful 
developers.  I guess the losers of that community have some extra incentives 
to get out while the winners have a little something extra under the 
Christmas tree.


To assert that these backroom deals cut with the vehicles for neighborhood 
bullies(civic associations) can replace an acceptable democratic process is 
the same bullshit that Penn spews on us.   Stabbing the community in the 
back through collusion with hypocrites isn't the same as the transparency 
required in a representative democracy.  Penn should give you a gold star 
for these posts!


Your point appears to be that this report is about griping miserable losers 
of that community instead of about citizens being bullied and intimidated 
with all of the tricks we West Philadelphians have come to expect.   But I 
think the vast majority of readers of "Fear of Eminent Domain Grips PG 
Hamlet" understand the significance of this report despite your attempts to 
dismiss it.  It’s reported that this civic association president is 
hypocritically abusing her power exactly the way we so often see here in our 
precious university city district.  This is a reported attack against the 
principals of democratic decision making not an essential part of it.  I'm 
glad that Al shared that article with the public list.


Your silly position in which you're justifying hypocrisy, deception, and the 
abuse of power in the absence of "subdivisions" is like arguing that invalid 
research or a lie is better than nothing. Of course, I'm aware of the manner 
in which you represented our community as President of FOCP and understand 
more personally the reason behind your argument.  Kings do wish to deal with 
the lords while ignoring the pesty slum dwelling commoners  Say hi to Melani 
and Lewis for me.


Mr. West, as I see it, you are making the point that the powerful should use 
the power of government to intimidate communities. It's kind of like a law 
of nature.  Am I correct?  And that the deception of calling these damned 
civic association leaders, the voice of the community, is a legitimate 
method to screw citizens out of their rights in the interest of corporate 
expediency and domination. And that a powerful entity is justified paying 
its "president" to dishonorably and dishonestly use her power to intimidate 
a community.  That this is somehow necessary and obvious in a representative 
democracy, and that citizens speaking out against bullying and their loss of 
rights are a bunch of losers that should be ignored.   Did I understand your 
point correctly this time?


Because that makes a lot of sense to me Mr. FOCP President. And I would 
never ask you to work for free like your buddies at UCD and those lazy FOCP 
members. I really think Lewis should give you a badge and maybe a judge’s 
gavel too.


The Wanker

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This will be heaven.   But, I hope he doesn't know where you live.

Melani









Glenn wrote:

Democ

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[J. Matthew Wolfe]

 

Bernadini

Dear Neighbor-

 

This Saturday night (January 5) at the historic Palestra, Penn's Men's
Basketball takes on the New Jersey Institute of Technology.  Tipoff is at
7PM and it is Penn's Community Night.  We have free tickets courtesy of
Penn' Office of Community Affairs and Athletics Department.

 

To entice you further, Denise and I plan to have people over to the house
before the game.  We plan to go from about 4PM until 6PM, giving up plenty
of time to walk to the game. 

 

While we do not know everyone on these listservs, we are always happy to
meet new people in the neighborhood.  One of the amenities of living in
University City is being in close proximity to Penn's college athletic
contests.  The Palestra is the finest college arena in the country.  If you
have never been to a game there, you can go over with a group for free.  A
good deal.

 

Plus, Penn needs your support.  They have been playing poorly in what is a
rebuilding year, and since we are still on semester break, there will be
LOTS of empty seats. (Maybe that's why we are getting free tickets)  Fans of
NJIT are welcome, but you will be bound and gagged to prevent you from
cheering.

 

We hope you can come.  Unlike the Penn football games, we do not have an
unlimited number of tickets.  We should be able to accommodate everyone, but
let me know in advance.  If we run short, we can probably get more if we
know by Thursday evening.

Matt Wolfe and Denise Furey

215-387-7300

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wolfe Manor

Matt Wolfe and Denise Furey

4256 Regent Square

Located at the corner of 43rd Street and Regent Square

West Philadelphia/University City

215-387-7300

215-387-5641

215-680-4343 (cell)

 

Public Transportation from Center City:

Take the Subway-Surface Trolleys (Green Line) West to 43rd Street.  You can
pick this up downtown along Market Street at 13th, 15th, 19th or 22nd, as
well as at 30th Street Station.  You may take any of the lines EXCEPT the
10.  The 34 runs along Baltimore Avenue, the 13 runs along Chester Avenue
and the 11 and 36 both run along Woodland.  Regent is one block between
Chester and Woodland and two blocks south of Baltimore.

 

Driving

>From the West, take Chestnut Street to 44th Street and turn RIGHT (it's one
way South in that direction).  When you dead-end at Baltimore Avenue, make a
left.  Go to 43rd Street and make a right.  Regent is two blocks on the left
across from the park.

 

>From the East, take Walnut or South/Spruce Streets to 44th Street and turn
LEFT (it's one way South in that direction).  When you dead-end at Baltimore
Avenue, make a left.  Go to 43rd Street and make a right.  Regent is two
blocks on the left across from the park.

 

>From the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76), get off at the South Street exit.
Watch because the exit ramp is from the LEFT lane.  At the top of the ramp,
go west towards Franklin Field.  South Street will turn into Spruce Street
past the stadium.  Take Spruce Street to 44th Street and turn LEFT (it's one
way South in that direction).  When you dead-end at Baltimore Avenue, make a
left.  Go to 43rd Street and make a right.  Regent is two blocks on the left
across from the park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. Matthew Wolfe

Law Office of Alice W. Ballard, P.C.

1616 Walnut Street, Suite 2205

Philadelphia, PA  19103

(215) 893-9990

Fax (215) 893-9997

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

4256 Regent Square

Philadelphia, PA  19104

(215) 387-7300

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