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From: accapadi@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: 2nd Annual Austin ReLeaf TreeAthalon
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:57:52 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: IBM, Austin


This Saturday, November 14, the Austin Jaycees will host the Second Annual
Austin ReLeaf TreeAthalon.  This unique event features a different way to
boost tree-planting.  Here's how it works:  Walkers raise pledges and follow
a "Trail of Trees" brochure guiding them along a 5K Fun Walk on the Town Lake
Hike and Bike Trail, and end up as part of a team that will plant 135 trees
at Zilker Park.

Grand prizes will be awarded to participants who rasie the most money through
pledges.  Prizes include:

	* 2 round-trip tickets on Southwest Airlines (Minimum $200 in pledges
	  to be eligible)

	* A 21-speed Bridgestone CB-1 bicycle and helmet

	* A $150 gift certificate from REI

	* A $100 gift certificate from Whole Earth Provision Company

Pledge money will go to Austin ReLeaf to purchase and plant trees in Austin.
All walkers will be eligible to win prizes in a drawing scheduled after the
tree planting.  Prizes are donated by local restaurants, sporting good stores
and businesses.

Registration is $15 and includes a free t-shirt and a "Trail of Trees"
brochure.  Participants can pay registration with money collected from pledges.
Minimum pledge is $15.

Interested participants can pre-register and pick up pledge packets at Run-Tex,
908-B West 12th street.  Participants can also register on the day of the
event at the Zilker Park Soccer Fields.

The pledge walk will begin at 9:00am with tree-plantings scheduled for
approximately 10:00am.  Participants will enjoy festival activities including
live music and free refreshments.  Plenty of free environmental information
will be available at booths set up by area environmental organizations.

A press conference and awards ceremony is slated for 11:00am with local and
state dignitaries in attendance.

Austin ReLeaf a non-profit organization dedicated to the planting of trees,
serves as an umbrella organization for local tree-planting organizations.
Austin ReLeaf's goal is to help plant 1,000,000 trees in Austin by the year
2000.

The Austin Jaycees is a non-profit community service organization whose
purpose is to improve and enhance the quality of life in Austin and to 
provide leadership training through the management of community projects.
For membership information, please call 472-5292.
-- 
Matt Accapadi                            Internet: accapadi@austin.ibm.com
IBM AWD AIX System Performance           VNET:  ACCAPADI at AUSTIN
11400 Burnet Rd. Bld. 906/9632           yaknet: 512-838-3193  Tie 678-3193
Austin, TX 78758-3493                    fax: 512-838-8344
Newsgroups: austin.general
From: rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett)
Subject: Re: accepting risk (was speed traps on 2222)
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Distribution: austin
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:51:00 GMT

In article <5966@tivoli.UUCP> aqn@tivoli.UUCP (Andy Nguyen) writes:
>b.    "Asset to the medical industry," "donorcycles:"  again, in absolute
>    numbers, the issue is highly insignificant.
>
>Basically, people just can't stand seeing others having fun & endangering
>their own lives (and no one else's).

Personally, motorcyclists give me the heebie jeebies because, in urban
traffic, appropriate separations AREN'T maintained, and I know that if
the driver makes a mistake, and takes a spill, a car driver is very likely
going to "terminate" his life.  And, in today's litigious society, who is
to say that your wife, your children, or your parents, won't try to sue that 
driver's ass off because of that?

Any vehicle driver--car, truck, or motorcycle--claiming that he's performing
the automotive equivalent of running ass-naked across the prairies, "not 
affecting anyone else" because of {superior skill, financial grounding, etc}, 
just isn't facing reality real well.  You're a part of traffic, which just
happens to be comprised of vehicles weighing from 2,000 to 20,000 lbs, driving
at high speeds, very likely in mediocre to poor streets and in marginal 
weather.  YOU can't anticipate how you will die, or who you will affect. Your 
arguments are as specious as the generalizations you find objectionable.

I would like to see either side produce some figures to back their claims;
so far, nobody has done so.  It shouldn't be too hard, either.  Based on
my visits to ICU wards, and the number of patients suffering from some type
of head or spinal trauma--often younger people, quite often a result of
motorcycle or bicycle crashes, I suspect the naysayers may have a better
foundation.

So let's have some facts.  I know there are responsible motorcylists out
there; a daily commute down Mopac will show a lot who aren't.




---
Robert Dorsett
rdd@cactus.org
...cs.utexas.edu!cactus.org!rdd
Newsgroups: austin.general
From: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Subject: SWBT "Two-inch lady" in Austin? (your number back...)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Austin, Texas
Distribution: austin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:42:39 GMT


I'm looking for the phone prefix/*xx code to get the telephone to repeat
the telephone number your dialing from.  I have three phone lines in my
house, and could use it to figure out some wiring problems.  I know they
have it here in Austin (in New York, I remember dialing 958 and it would
repeat my phone number).  

When the phone company was here installing the lines, he was using it all
the time.  I asked what the number was, since it was preprogrammed as
a speed-dial into his handset, he replied, "It's secret..."  I'm sure
someone else knows it here in Austin.  Too bad I didn't have my DTFM 
decoder hooked to the lines :-(   (BTW: it sounded like three tones,
possibly a *xx where xx=00-99 type of number).

Thanks in advance,
L.
-- 
| Lenny Tropiano           ICUS Software Systems        lenny@icus.ICUS.COM |
|               ...!{cs.utexas.edu,ames,pacbell}!icus!lenny                 |
+-------------- 6905-B Argonne Forest Cove, Austin, TX 78759 ---------------+
From: polekat@underg.ucf.org (Polekat)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: EFF-Austin November Meeting
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 07:17:59 CST
Organization: Underground Computing Foundation

 
          -------------------------------------------------
          |             EFF-Austin Announces              |
          |                                               |
          |         A General Membership Meeting          |
          |                                               |
          |            Saturday, November 14th            |
          |                2:00 - 5:00 p.m.               |
          |            Meeting Room, 4th Floor            |
          |       Austin Public Library, Main Branch      |
          |                 800 Guadalupe                 |
          |                                               |
          -------------------------------------------------
 
EFF-Austin, the local chapter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 
will be holding a general membership meeting on Saturday the 14th of 
November from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Austin Public Library (Main Branch) 800 
Guadalupe.  This meeting will provide a chance for EFF- Austin members 
and 
anyone else to get updates from the officers, hear about what 
EFF-Austin has planned, and find out what they can do to get involved. 
More importantly, it will allow members and others to ask questions, 
make suggestions and voice any ideas in an interactive, real-time 
discussion about our growing organization. 
 
The meeting is open to the public. Everyone who is interested in 
EFF-Austin is welcome and encouraged to attend. For more info about 
EFF-Austin or the meeting, contact Ed Cavazos (email polekat@tic.com / 
voice 385-2789) or Jon Lebkowsky (email jonl@tic.com)
 
At 4:00, the meeting will be turned over to representatives of various 
groups who are currently planning and discussing public-access internet 
services for the Austin Community.  EFF-Austin has been watching with 
interest as various plans have developed, and is excited to be 
able to provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of them.  
This part of the meeting promises to be lively and informative. For more 
information about the public-access internet portion of the meeting, 
contact Max Cray (email max@underg.ucf.org / voice 339-2724. Ask for 
Chris).                                            
 
See you on the 14th!

--
polekat@underg.ucf.org (Polekat)
From: jshouman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joan-Marie Shouman)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: homeless on street corners
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:55:25 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <2883@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> ljane@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Linda Cast) writes:
>
> The Salvation Army says that here in Austin their immediate need is warm
> bedding. Additionally, warm clothing, food, and supplies such as soap,
> would be welcome. We can take such things to them at 501 East
> 8th street. Drive around back and leave them, or take them inside. They
> will give them out or you could.  
> 
> This didn't answer the original question of how to respond to the person
> with the sign on the streetcorner. I'd be glad to read a knowledgeable
> response to that also.
>
> Linda 
>-- 
This seems like a good idea; however, having worked on The Drag for two years
and having gone to U.T. for the past five, I've talked to many of the homeless
around campus:  Almost all of them REFUSE to go to the Salvation Army.  Accord-
ing to them, the S.A. has strict rules of various sorts that really p**s them
off. (I don't know if what they say about S.A. is true, but they definitely
feel strongly about it).

Also, many people who can't deal with the homeless on a personal level already
donate plenty to the S.A.  Maybe resources could better be spent in other ways.

I have given some food to the homeless on the drag -- most of them are quite
appreciative (those that aren't probably just wanted alcohol money anyway).
I occasionally give a dollar or two to some of the people I have became some-
what familiar with over the years (and who I know will buy FOOD).

As someone has already posted, getting some extra grocery items does not cost
that much more -- and the good it does for the people living out on the street
is worth so much.

I hope this helps answer the original question.

--Joan
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___________________________________________________    	      
Joan-Marie Shouman	      |non cogito ergo	   
(jshouman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) |non sum :)	   
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Newsgroups: austin.general
From: painter@apatch.dell.com (Tom Painter)
Subject: Re: homeless on street corners
Keywords: homeless
Organization: Dell Computer Corporation
Distribution: austin
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:35:40 GMT

In article <83355@ut-emx.uucp>, wiebe@ut-emx.uucp (Anne Hill Wiebe) writes:
|> I'd like to request thoughts/suggestions on the homeless and
|> other people we see, [...]

If you'd really like to help the homeless, you should donate time
to the various homeless causes.  These people often turn to the street
corner because the programs are insufficient, and the programs are
insufficient due, in part, to a lack of volunteers.

To paraphrase the saying, "If you want to feed a man, teach him to fish."
A handout will only help for a moment. 

The reality is that, despite the signs, many of the "street" people are
not willing to work for "food, etc.".  I have a friend who has tried a
number of times to "hire" people on the street corner for yard work, 
only to be told that they wouldn't work.  He offers $5 / hour.  
Apparently, standing on the street corner is somewhat lucrative.

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Painter         Strategic Projects - Corporate IS   (512) 339-5797
Dell Computer Corp.                                    painter@dell.com
Austin, TX
From: amos@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Walter M. Amos)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: UT Anime Club free screening Friday Nov 13
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:03:56 GMT
Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy


The UT Austin Anime Club will have another free showing of Japanese animation
open to the public Fiday, November 13.  On the program are:

Conan the Future Boy ep. 2 (subtitled in English) - the continuing humorous
adventure tale of the young Conan, born into a post apocalyptic world he
doesn't understand, and his quest to help his friends to freedom from the evil
Industrians.

Bubblegum Crisis episode 8 (subtitled) - the hard-edged, hot-rocking,
cyberpunk hardsuit heroines, the Knight Sabers, are back again battling Genom
Corporation and its nasty Buma robots.

Gundam 0080 eps. 1-3 (subtitled) - a touching side-story set in the Gundam
universe, detailing one young schoolboy's idealism about war and the ultra
cool Gundam robots, and his subsequent education about the real nature of
war.

Ranma 1/2 eps 110-111 (in Japanese, synopsis provided) - the hilarious story
by Rumiko Takahashi of a young martial artist and his dad transformed by some
magical Chinese pools in the midst of their training, so that they transform
into a young girl and a panda when doused with cold water (and back again with
hot.) "Love and tears, panda & kempo" - what more need we say?
*************************************************************************
Plus some surprises!  So if you're interested in great animation with some
diverse stories, check out the Anime Club free showing, open to all Friday Nov
13, from 7pm to midnite, in Engineering teaching Center room 2.108.  For those
not familiar with UT, the ETC building is located near 26th and Speedway,
right at the north side of the 26th street bridge.

The screening is free to all, but club membership entitles you to check out
anime videotapes from our club's large video library, as well as to recieve
copies of the club newsletter.  

Please feel  free to email this account with any questions.
===============================================================================	
"Zu jeder Zeit, an jeder Ort, bleibt das Tun        |          Walter Amos
  der Menschen das gleiche..." - Galactic Heroes II |   amos@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu 


Newsgroups: austin.general
From: rcc@zycor.lgc.com (Randal C. Clarke)
Subject: Looking for a place to live...
Originator: rcc@oasis.zycor.lgc.com
Organization: Landmark/Zycor  (Austin TX)
Distribution: austin
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:19:41 GMT

Hello netters,
    Well, to make a long story short; I'm sick of where I'm living and
I'm on the hunt for a place to live when my lease runs out at the end of
December.

    Here are my preferences:
    --1 bedroom
    --Solid (i.e. built or at least remodeled within the past few years)
    --Something slightly unusual about the place would be a real plus.
    --Location should be anywhere between campus and south austin.
    --Price is a factor (I don't graduate until May) around $350/month
      would be great...

    I can always go to a locator service (and might well do that) but I
thought I would turn to y'all for advice on fav places and places to avoid.
Any info would be greatly appreciated...and if you all would like, I can 
compile the replies and post a summary.

   Randy
From: lwb@cs.utexas.edu (Lance W. Bledsoe)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: accepting risk (was speed traps on 2222)
Date: 6 Nov 1992 09:42:13 -0600
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: im4u.cs.utexas.edu

In article <2786@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> dwelch@mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch) writes:
>If you want risks, go bungee jumping, or ice climbing, or something --
>don't take them where you can drag others along with you when you crash
>and burn.  A car is not someplace to reaffirm your life force.

And for a really big risk...  Eat barbecue!

Really, after seeing the piece last night on 20/20 about Lion Foods, I
may have to turn into a vegetarian!!!  I was sick for about an hour
afterwords!

Lance


-- 
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Lance W. Bledsoe        lwb@im4u.cs.utexas.edu        (512) 258-0112  |
|  Avalon Technical Services, Inc.            Contract Software Engineer |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: billc@mpd.tandem.com (Bill Carter)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: accepting risk
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:55:09 GMT
Reply-To: billc@zippy.UUCP (Bill Carter)
Distribution: austin
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin TX

In article <1de3olINNagp@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> lwb@cs.utexas.edu (Lance W. Bledsoe) writes:
>And for a really big risk...  Eat barbecue!
>
>Really, after seeing the piece last night on 20/20 about Lion Foods, I
>may have to turn into a vegetarian!!!  I was sick for about an hour
>afterwords!
>
>Lance

   I'm with you!  Remind me to never eat anything out of the supermarket
   deli.  Especially the salads in the big bowls that look like they've
   been sitting there for days, and the warm food like fried chicken
   or barbecue.  The prepackaged meats seemed like a good place to
   exercise risk management as well.  Looked like the only reasonably
   safe thing is to have them cut you hunks of meat with a knife while
   you watch.

   -Bill Carter
Newsgroups: austin.general,austin.forsale
From: srogers@teenwolf.mcc.com (Steve Rogers)
Subject: townhome for sale/lease
Organization: MCC
Distribution: austin
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:00:54 GMT

Beautiful Lakeway townhome, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage, in older
part of Lakeway on Live Oak golf course.  Majestic living room with cathedral
ceilings and a beautiful view overlooking the course green and hills beyond.
Amenities include interior courtyard, fireplace, wet bar, hot tub room, laundry
room.  Owners wish to sell, will accept a 6-month lease or a longer
lease-purchase agreement.  Available Nov. 16. $1000/mo.  Contact Alan by
e-mail amck@mcc.com or call at 472-9543.

Note Contact info, as I am posting this for someone else.
| Steven Rogers  MCC/ESL  3500 West Balcones Drive
| Austin, Texas 78759-6509  (512) 338-3691 srogers@mcc.com
| Everything is disclaimed -
| Contents have spontaneously generated and posted themselves
From: huijsen@cs.utexas.edu (Willem-Olaf Huijsen)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Efficiency for Rent
Date: 10 Nov 1992 21:45:02 -0600
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu


  Efficiency for Rent
  ===================

  El Rio Appartments
  2405 Rio Grande #110

  ALL FURNISHED  and  BILLS PAID

  Just 5 blocks from Campus!

  Available around December 15, 1992
  Rent $230/month

  Please reply through mail
  to Wolf, huijsen@cs.utexas.edu
From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: 2nd Annual Austin ReLeaf TreeAthalon
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:44:49 GMT
Reply-To: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

According to accapadi@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi):
>Pledge money will go to Austin ReLeaf to purchase and plant trees in Austin.
>All walkers will be eligible to win prizes in a drawing scheduled after the
>tree planting.  Prizes are donated by local restaurants, sporting good stores
>and businesses.

Great, just what we need.  A fund raiser so that more trees can be planted
in Austin to release more airborne volatile organic compounds that are a
primary cause of air pollution and misery for allergy sferers.  Good
intentions that will end up leading to unsuspected problems.  When will
this city learn!
-- 
John Bodnar                          : I'm naturally radioative...you are too!
The University of Texas at Austin    : 
Internet: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : Radioactive potassium & carbon that are
UUCP: ....!cs.utexas!ut-ccwf!jbodnar : naturally in us all keep us healthy.
From: MEH0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (JC)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: roommate or room to rent
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:31:08 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin TX.

I'm posting this for a guy who can't access the austin groups (since
he is not in Austin)...  Please direct all mail to JC at e-mail
address below.  (Reply might work since I faked the From line...)

Coop student (will be working at Motorola) looking for a place to stay
from Dec to May.  Has some small (caged) animals.  Will consider
roommate or room to rent in house.

    JC -- MEH0570@ritvax.isc.rit.edu

-- 
   Brian McMinn                 brian@amd.com
   Advanced Micro Devices       N5PSS
   Austin, Texas                1-(512)-462-5389
"You can't leap a chasm in two jumps."
Newsgroups: austin.general
From: guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery)
Subject: Re: Please help! Suggestions on finding conference room
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 22:42:34 GMT

>benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William Kent Richards) writes:
>
>> I need a 1500-2000 sq ft conference room for nov 20-22.  I've tried
>> all hotels, and no go.  Any other suggestions?  Thanks very much!

How about UT, or other schools? LBJ library? Joe C Thompson center?

jam
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Austin, Texas | guppy@wixer.cactus.org
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From: kneff@teton.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ken Neff)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: accepting risk (was speed traps on 2222)
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:44:47 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: TIVOLI Systems

In article <1992Nov9.171308.22740@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker) writes:

|> On the contrary, motorcyclists are a major asset to the medical 
|> industry. Motorcyclists are a major supply of spare organs and
|> tissue for various&sundry transplant operations.

Do you have any facts to support this statement, or is this just
your (nonsensical) belief?

|> In fact, police
|> in the Chicago, IL area refer to motorcycles as "donorcycles" 
|> for just this reason (ref: _What Cops Know_ and _Pure Cop_ by
|> Connie Fletcher).

Ignorant people often say stupid things.  I doubt that Chicago motorcycle
cops refer to motorcyclists in the same manner.

Motorcyclists often refer to automobile drivers as "cagers", in reference
to motorists' need to surround themselves with steel cages to protect them-
selves from the world.  It's as hard for us to understand why motorists
feel the need to hide from the world as it is for them to understand why
we don't.

Boy, Lance, you sure opened a can of worms!

-- 
1990 Corrado           Civilization in three easy steps:   Ken Neff
1988 Hawk GT            the wheel, internal combustion,    Tivoli Systems, Inc.
(CMRA #647  DOD #0022)        and climate control          kneff@tivoli.com
From: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: accepting risk (was speed traps on 2222)
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:55:05 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <2824@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> dwelch@mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch) writes:
>Do you think it's alright for him to be risking someone else's life while
>he's risking his own? 

No, and I never said any such thing.  I do think that it's possible
for Joe to risk his life on his *motorcycle* (which is what we were
talking about) without endagering others, and it's his own business
if he does.

-- 
Ray Shea                               I woke up this morning,
UniSQL, Inc.                           all my shrimps was dead and gone...
unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu       
DoD #0372 -- Team Twinkie -- '88 Hawk NT650
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