Classifying the Mennonites as a whole is an interesting challenge. I
have a friend whose father is Swiss and who grew up speaking German, at
Goshen as well as in the Juras. A heritage like this, 400 years old, is
an ethnicity, complete with unique garb, economic adaptations, language
and home
From Ray:
one fun thing to try is google map. go to google and type in
'48th st and baltimore ave philadelphia', and when you see
the map click on it to enlarge it, and once you're at the
big map of 48th and baltimore click on 'find businesses' at
the top. you'll then get a search box where you
Dear list,
Daniel Brook's book, The Trap: Selling Out To Stay Afloat In Winner Take-All
America, is a must read for thinking citizens. I've read the first third and it
is apparent that this is a very important work.
Mr. Brook is offering a very thought provoking analysis of American society as
After getting such a great start, are they going to rope off the bowl again
and reseed to finish letting the grass grow?
Perhaps, you¹re right about that.
On 7/27/07 9:07 PM, Turner,Kathleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's nothing wrong with kids being kids.
And if you had said specifically that you didn't see a reason for children to
be in an establishment that PRIMARILY served alcohol, I wouldn't have
I'm tired of the bad traffic here on the listserve, and I know I'm not the
only one. I propose we meet in person to discuss one (or more) of five
options:
*Develop rules and guidelines (and allow moderation)
*Migrate to psfni
*start an alternate group
*Move to a BB like Phillyblog
*leave things
I was hoping to have a few weeks to run tests, but it seems things have boiled
over here.
The UnivCity listserve has, for me, become less than useless over the past six
months. I find it valuable for neighbors to be able to share stories of what's
going on in the hood, to plan meetups, and to
Ross Bender wrote:
Thanks, Tony, but I just need to point out that Mennonites are no longer a
single ethnic group. Historically, we have been Swiss-German, Dutch, Frisian
and Prussian -- The Mennonites being showcased at the Arthur Ross Gallery
are some of the latter who were invited to the
From Ray:
one fun thing to try is google map. go to google and type in
'48th st and baltimore ave philadelphia', and when you see
the map click on it to enlarge it, and once you're at the
big map of 48th and baltimore click on 'find businesses' at
the top. you'll then get a search box where
In a message dated 7/28/2007 11:04:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm going to unsubscribe from univcity and hope to see some of you on the
other side where I hope to be able to provide a less antagonistic atmosphere
for neighborhood communication.
In her
I've Created a New (Moderated) University City Mailing ListKyle,
You and Anderson are so right. These people are really getting to me too.
Let's ditch 'em.
I'm so excited! See you fellas on the new list.
Glenn
- Original Message -
From: Kyle Cassidy
To: UnivCity listserv
see ya there.
-Original Message-
From: Glenn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 7/28/2007 11:41 AM
To: Kyle Cassidy; UnivCity listserv
Subject: Re: [UC] I've Created a New (Moderated) University City Mailing List
I've Created a New (Moderated) University City Mailing ListKyle,
You
B Andersen wrote:
After getting such a great start, are they going to rope off the bowl
again and reseed to finish letting the grass grow?
Lord, NO. The grass was a one-time only thing for the Orchestra. Even
then, it was a huge effort, requiring seeding, fertilizing, some
tilling, watering
Uh, Al, I'm not sure your offlist threats to sue folks with whom you didn't
agree on list, could be called deliberation to help participants recognize
the moral merit in their opponents' claims.
I won't miss that.
- Melani Lamond
In a message dated 7/28/07 11:38:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would I be considered to be part of the ³bad traffic?² If so, then why?
Perhaps a good place to start would be telling those with whom you disagree
with the expression of their views and why.
You could list all the posters who upset you and let them know and why. We
should be adult enough to
I think you are misdirecting your anger--I believe it should be directed at
UCD, not FOCP (in fact the way I heard it, some FOCP were upset at the decision
to rope off the bowl, as I was)
Momo.
You raise a very important topic to consider. Let me try to respond. I had the
misfortune of
On today's front page of the Inq., there is one of thos stories of a Penn real
estate love in. You've read this crap many times, so I won't bore you with
details. It was a newsmercial about Penn and campus apartment with 50 million
dollar kisses, etc, etc.
But then I spotted the news quote
RE: [UC] I've Created a New (Moderated) University City Mailing ListI've
started working on my suggestions for the black list.
Your good good friend,
Glenn
- Original Message -
From: Kyle Cassidy
To: Glenn ; UnivCity listserv
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:02 PM
Subject:
I guess you didn't read about the daytime muggings from the local undesirables.
Seems like Googling is a lot safer than actually walking around west philly
these days.
- Kathleen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or -- here's an interesting thought! -- you could turn off your
computer,
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that it depends on how you define
University City and population. For example, a very small
definition of UC that's bounded by, say, 30th, 40th, Market, and
Spruce would certainly see population rising because of all the new
construction taking place in that
What happens is that people who are forced
to live in a neighborhood because it's cheap are packed in like
sardines get forced out by the rising rents, and the people moving in
aren't so packed in.
Isabel,
I've seen this packing too. It's one of the realities for the poor.
Sometimes in
Bruce:
I find it particularly ironic that you are pointing out bad traffic on
the listserv!
There is no reason to start other list to serve the same people, which
is why many
of us in the past have not diluted the subscriber base and have yet
another
Listserv to subscribe to.
Three
Kyle:
While Ross created the Culture listserv, he did not unsubscribe from the
UC-List.
There are multiple listservs which have popped up over the last couple
of years to allow
people to privately (in many cases) discuss what is happening on the
UC-Listserv!
I think your reasons for
I don't agree with you, Ray. Arthur Ross Gallery, which you represent,
is a corporate entity. By choosing to place this vision before the
community, you made it Penn's vision, on some level. On some level, Penn
is obligated to present a coherent explanation of why your vision (which
does seem
In a message dated 7/28/07 2:00:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The population of University City has never been nearly as high as it is
now, said Melani Lamond, an associate broker...
Anybody who's ever spoken with a reporter knows that all too often, the
resulting quote is incorrect,
In a message dated 7/28/2007 2:00:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On today's front page of the Inq., there is one of thos stories of a Penn
real estate love in. You've read this crap many times, so I won't bore you
with
details. It was a newsmercial about Penn and
I think what bothers me most is the very high-handedness of it all.
It implies that some residents and/or subscribers should not be borne
because their statements or opinions upset us, so let us better folk adjourn
to another forum where we can more readily censor them.
People are people and the
Just gonna wonk out here a little. Don't mind me.
The Inky seems to have printed the high end of the one bedroom range
at Domus for effect and ended up distorting everything. (Quick!
Someone hit the staff writer with a rolled-up Inky! Bad reporter!
Bad!)
Anyway, a one bedroom in the luxurious
I'm surprised this is such a big deal. And I'm not sure what constitutes
bad traffic other than outright spam. I've been reading this listserv for
at least the past 6 years, and i've never seen it as a problem. I set up a
separate email account for the lists I subscribe to so that my main
In a message dated 7/28/2007 9:16:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Inky seems to have printed the high end of the one bedroom range
at Domus for effect and ended up distorting everything. (Quick!
Someone hit the staff writer with a rolled-up Inky! Bad reporter!
Bad!)
Amara Rockar wrote:
Just gonna wonk out here a little. Don't mind me.
The Inky seems to have printed the high end of the one bedroom range
at Domus for effect and ended up distorting everything. (Quick!
Someone hit the staff writer with a rolled-up Inky! Bad reporter!
Bad!)
Anyway, a one
I read that at their web site (domuspa.com) and caught the most coveted
phrase.
Now, if they actually get the rents they're asking, they will be the most
coveted apartments, at least if you believe the principle that you can
measure how much people covet things by how much they're willing to pay
$200 a month isn't negligible, and that sentence to me feels like it's
deliberately constructed to hide somehing. And it seems incredibly
disingenuous to fold the meal plan into the comparison, unless Stratum
is *also* going to be feeding people.
Isabel
On 7/28/07, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN [EMAIL
Isabel Lugo wrote:
$200 a month isn't negligible, and that sentence to me feels like it's
deliberately constructed to hide somehing. And it seems incredibly
disingenuous to fold the meal plan into the comparison, unless Stratum
is *also* going to be feeding people.
from the article, it
Hear, hear!
If the name of this new forum is as Al Krigman wrote, that says it all.
This is the by-product mentality of people who are used to arranging their
communities as they see fit, (i.e. suburban-type developments with all the
amenities in place.) NOW, all we have to do is find the ³right
Wow. The whole impetus for my buying a house 7 years ago was that Chestnut
Hall raised my rent to a ridiculous $600/month for my efficiency
apartment, and I figured I might as well own something if I was going to be
paying that much. I'm trying to imagine the house I could buy if I could
afford
Yeah to everything you said. It's beyond me why people can't just
ignore or delete what they're not interested in. Like you, i get list
emails sent to a dedicated, threaded mailbox. I skim about 1/10th of
the posts, read for real about 1/4 of the ones I skim, and
automatically delete
Different eyes read differently. Stratum appears to be promising some
kind of new, top-end rental unit that's been tested on comparable
student markets elsewhere.. If that's so, it can't be modeled on the
Quad; it would have to be something the Quad isn't. Maybe the top end of
the student
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