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blasphemy the Oman is in office now and all is candy and nuts!....you must be one of the fools still paying their mortgage and car payments and for utilities.....if you would just put your faith in the power of O then you would have so much more extra income!

Stephen F. Austin but I have been a student at a number of other random schools in Texas as well this is exactly the issue that is being resolved with the name change.....soon if not already UH will no longer offer any remedial courses in any subject......a student will need to go to HCC or HMU to complete those before attempting to transfer....UH will also raise their admissions standards as well....it is not fair to the students at UH or to the employers of UH and HMU students for the students to not be able to differentiate themselves from one another....because at the end of the day they are two separate schools with vastly different goals and requirements also at 23,000+ students and 4,500 living on campus UTA is far from a small school and the fact that it is in a city hundreds of miles apart from UT-Austin makes it easier for people to know they are different schools......TAMU-K was separate from the TAMU system until the late 80s or early 90s when they were merged to cut down on duplication at the higher levels of administration, but few if any would ever confuse them with TAMU College Station.....especially because of the distance....and TAMUK has benefited from being a part of the TAMU system especially in terms of Ag and Wildlife Research that TAMU College Stations location prevents from taking place and from the sharing of faculty with the Texas Ag Experiment Station and Texas Ag Extension (or what ever stupid name they call them now)....but there is no confusion between the two because of clear naming and distance between location UH and UHD/HMU have the unique issue of being universities with vastly separate goals and requirements yet only being a very short distance apart....the only other schools in Texas that could come close to this are UTA and UTD and they have each established their names quite well and it is not an issue for them......but every school in the UT System has their own admissions requirements and degree requirements with UTD actually having the highest quality of freshmen admitted for a public university in Texas based on GPA, Class Rank, and SAT/ACT....so some could actually say being UTD has hurt them because many will still think UT-Austin has he highest ranking freshmen classes in Texas actually the lack of respect for UH is probably greatest in Houston and UH has done very well with with Bauer, Hilton, and Cullen Colleges all having nationally ranked programs.....and they will blame any lack of respect on low funding VS UT and TAMU and especially VS other state schools in the USA and on low admissions requirements relative to the quality of education offered and on low graduation rates the graduation rates will improve with higher quality student admissions and the funding issues are being worked on....but based on funding received UH is doing very well when compared to peers around the USA

because as the study suggested there was confusion about UHD and UH being seperate universities with vastly different enrollment requirements and vastly different long term goals and rightly or wrongly people in the position of hiring were getting them confused and people graduating from them were sometimes pretending to have been a student at one VS the school they actually went to UH has a long term goal to increase research, recognition, admissions requirements, and student profiles......HMU has just stated they will continue their open enrollment policy for the present and at least the shorter term future there is already muddling between the two and if they are to go on greater diverging paths in the future the time to clear up any confusion is now not in the future and what exactly is "a little too distinct" about it....because now students and faculty can't play on any confusion to try and elevate the degree that they have.....so is TSU a little too distinct as well......maybe we should just change them all to say "some random university or college in the Houston area" then students at Rice, UH, St. Thomas, HBU, HMU, TSU, Lamar, Sam Houston, Lone Star College, and HCC can just throw some random piece of paper in front of their employeer and hope for te best

This was by far the best choice.....the others were awkward, violated all the common conceptions about present day university naming (like multi directional), lacked anything but a very small regional focus that most would have not understood (Like Hobby), or were just plain stupid and ignorant (like hopes and dreams (hopefully the idiot that suggested that is back scrubbing toilets) )

it happens so often on the internet for me that I just laugh....people can brand me anything they wish, but I will not be the one suffering the wrath of those they take up for....usually it will be the ones they take up for suffering it the most....and strangely I never mention any race....but those trying to brand me always do....and strangely I have never felt that the inability to wear cloths properly, act decently in public, turn down the volume of music, avoid starting large fights in malls, avoid milling about and just trashing a place and using horrible language and making rude comments to people especially girls and women was something that should only be looked down on when one particular race does it......but again one particular race always seems to use their race as an excuse to excuse that behavior ...and to attempt to brand those that look down on it or go to lengths to avoid it as racist by bad I mean the mall was never surrounded by horrible low rent apartments full up of people trashing the place they call "home".....and the mall itself was mostly dead VS filled with losers that can't pull their pants up or avoid clogging entrances and passage ways while those actually shopping are forced to go around them and or suffer their dirty looks and insults....much less the sometimes violent behavior

Memorial City was never close to being in an area as bad as Sharpstown Mall....and sticking your head in the sand has never done much as well

so pretending that many around there don't act like animals will solve the issue....maybe if we all close our eyes and click our heals we can pretend we are not about to get mugged at Sharpstown Mall....especially when we just closed our eyes for a second! some may have come a long way.....but many more have gone a long ways backwards......no matter what one thinks about separate facilities for races only a fool would argue that Shaprstown was not a hell of a lot safer back then than it is today.....if 70% of black kids born in single parent homes and 50% of black kids graduating high school along with a half black president raised by white grand parents and sent to all the best private schools....much less the condition of Sharpstown and Greenspoint (even with multirace bathrooms) is progress then I would hate to see what lack of progress is I guess progress to some is having access to and the ability to destroy and dump on and ignore what others have also nowhere did I mention race until this post responding to yours.......don't try and push your feelings and "insight" about the animals that trash that mall and many others off on me......you were the one that took a word "people" and injected race into it not me.......which tells me you may deep down know where the issue is, but try and ignore it and pawn it off on others as their thoughts and statements.....when the reality is you see what anyone without blinders on sees....but you don't have the guts to allow yourself to realize what you are seeing

fixing up what people have torn up so they can tear it up again is not the answer the real answer is much more simple than that

actually recent studies that HONESTLY looked at the issue have disproven this theory all recent studies have shown when you spread out the ghetto all you do is spread out the ghetto and tear down neighborhoods that were marginal or even decent further towards a ghetto this is why section 8 and programs like it are so despised by anyone that has lived in an area that has section 8ers

nothing will make a difference until you address the "people" that "bez chillin der"....until that is cleaned up no one will want to come near there for anything

actually you still can have chain gangs....Joe Arpaio has done it in Phoenix....you just have to have someone in power with the balls to ignore court idiots and the threats of lawsuits and find other ways to get around court ordered stupidity and destruction of society same with loitering and begging http://www.dui.com/dui-library/arizona/new...dressed-in-pink you can carry a portable breath meter and test them for being drunk....then toss them in for that I would bet a large part of them would suddenly find that they are quite sane if faced with being locked up and forced to work or staying locked up longer I also doubt most stores give away and or dump shopping carts since they are easy to repair and cost a great deal to start with and they would have scrap value as well and some stores hire people to find them and return them Houston has a shortage of anything in some peoples eyes and that does not stop police from wasting time on all types of "crimes" as soon as the bums and their enablers are gone and or in jail the cops will have plenty more time for other crimes lastly who cares what the loser mayor of some failed city says to you at a mayors meeting

sentence them to 30 days of cleaning up trash and cleaning up graffiti for loitering and for every day they refuse to do the work add on 3 days make it illegal to give them any money and set up stings to catch enablers doing it and put a LARGE fine on it to go towards "bum help" like buying brooms and shovels and scrubbers for them to do the work with make it illegal to beg and give them 60 days of labor for begging VS the 30 for loitering give them 90 days of work in addition to the 30 and 60 if they are begging or loitering while drunk arrest and charge them with theft when caught with a shopping cart they do not have a receipt for or a "title" for (yes I know shopping carts are not titled that is the point) one way tickets to san farncisco, new orleans, LA, DC, Detroit and NYC

the pick on Swamplot is 300 lanes

hey now what is wrong with microsoft front page ....and having your "support" email addresses on AOL they need to get a hold of the BerriBlends girls husband ASAP!

what if you are in the cleaning and restoration and contracting business

in the past the Muzak Service would send tapes that resembled 8 tracks, but were designed to loop......now Muzak offers satellite, CD, or network services http://music.muzak.com/delivery/ http://www.amazon.com/Antics-Forbidden-Zon...s/dp/B0000027E4 you can buy the MP3 of the single for .99 at Amazon (click on the listen to samples) and or the whole CD....not sure it will be sold on vinyl or CD as a single now

because Bayou Place was supposed to be a place with eating in the day for workers, eating at night for those living in the area, eating at night for those coming into the theater district, entertainment for those coming into the theater district for after the show and entertainment for those living in the area, and most importantly to actually DRAW people to it at night for the entertainment venues offered....IE to give a "night life" to that part of Houston...from reading this entire thread it seems to me that many felt HP was going to actually do the same thing....especially draw in the night life and drive business to the other tenants of HP Last I saw one of the new main tenants at Bayou Place was going to be a server farm....which is about as far from day or night life as one can get

I picked #4 I have used them in the past though and office buildings tout their connection to them so someone must see being a part of then as an asset

because she is yesterdays has been, looks like tom petty on crack now, and has totally gone off the deep end and needs to be locked up to have her sanity checked

not a change of argument at all.... said HP will not drive business to itself just as a collection of shops and that no collection of retail at high or low end has been the driver for its own business it is JUST like Victory in Dallas.....build an arena, one hotel, and a bunch of high end retail and restaurants and then watch no one come....because there are hundreds of other options and just a collection of retail and restaurants planted somewhere does not draw people on its own....it needs to have an existing base of customers to draw to it to have success.....and even though downtown is large and full of people there are already tons of other options like Park Shops and street level stores and restaurants you listed a bunch of places that came to exist after an area had become full of residents and affluent.....this is not currently the area around HP all the examples you listed and I provided links for came to exist a decade or more after the customers were already in the area

all of the places you mentioned came to exist AFTER the actual people were living around that area......what was first Briargrove and Tanglewood or the Galleria....I don't know 100% for sure, but I am almost sure it was the subdivisions what was first Beverly Hills or Rodeo Drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodeo_Drive I don't think wiki is the greatest source, but it looks like Berverly Hills was around long before the 70s which is when wiki say Rodeo really went upscale was West U there first and Rice or was Rice Village there first West U 1917 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_University_Place Rice Village 1930s http://www.ricevillageonline.com/ Tanglewood 1950s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanglewood,_Houston,_Texas Galleria 1970-1971 (Happy Birthday Galleria! two days late) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Galleria I am not saying over time that the Galeria and other things like it have not driven future development.....but I am saying the shoppers to support them existed before they were developed which is why they had initial success and I agree 120 residences would have not made or broke the mall....but just as in the examples you cited like things cluster....so aiding that cluster with your own residences would have been a better start

sometimes being realistic can be taken as negative when it is not.....usually big projects like this are fully or nearly fully leased before completion and all the stores open at almost the exact same time especially with the holiday season coming second I think it has been proven time and again in cities the world over that "just a bunch of shops and restaurants" clustered in any form or fashion alone is not a driver of business for that cluster I have not been to HP yet, but I see nothing so far that makes me think of it as anything different than The Park Shops or even Bayou Place or really any other mall or collection of stores or entertainment and stores in Houston I think most people were excited by the concept of office, residential, and retail all in the same space.....when the office component shrank and the residential went away completely I think most see it as I do as just another collection of stores, restaurants, and some entertainment I think many may wonder as I do what will DRIVE business to this location.....so far after it has opened many including several who have been there still wonder about that.....and often when a large new development like this has trouble filling all the spaces and or getting the stores opened in a timely fashion it rightly makes people question what will DRIVE the business to this location I also do grow tired of people shooting for the "upscale" when again I think it has been shown that "upscale" offerings in random location is not a driver of business....upscale locations IMO end up all in one location because the drivers of the upscale business exist in a location near there....I also feel that HoB may well be short lived because of the trendiness of the whole concept and others like it....and that is a bad thing for a development to try and hang their hat on I wish HP no ill will....I am not the biggest pusher of "mixed use" but I think in this case dropping most of the "mix" was a big mistake....I also think trying to ignore parking issues in Houston of all places is a big mistake and that includes offering expensive pay parking as an option I hope HP does very well....but I have concerns that it will not do nearly as well as planned and I think it has to do with dropping he vision that made it such a discussion point on forums like these in the first place....can I see why some of the "mix" was dropped.....yes from a short term perspective.....but things like HP should not be built with the short in mind....unless you like to lose money in the short term and possibly much more in the longer term I wish it te best....I will visit one day....I still happen to like regular malls as well....but that is all I really see HP as now....a mall....downtown

they would be the few that fall back into publicly run schools that may require long bus rides ect. to get them to a school with enough students to have an economy of scale and they could be passed from grade to grade with zero accountability by them or their parents and those few teachers that choose to put up with them and their parents could deal with them until they land in their eventual home which is jail....this may sound harsh, but there will always be kids and parents that take ZERO interest in their education and instead of catering to them and allowing them to trash other students schools and educations like so many desire......these are the VERY students and parents that need to have their behaviors modified by long bus rides, metal detectors at all doors, high on campus security, lack of after school sports, extended school hours for failing students either paid for by the parent or made up for by the parent performing mandatory school/community service and work like picking up trash and painting over their kids graffiti and cleaning the school....lack of attendance would result in more parent service or cuts in welfare or both and if year around school is required for them to get enough attendance days then that would be what happens and yes I believe in mandatory attendance for all but home schooled kids again you remind me of lil johnny "funbaby" edwards when he was naive enough to say "no student should go to failing schools and no one should have to live in crime filled neighborhoods"......of course no one there that heard this totally ignorant and stupid quote had the balls to ask stupid lil johnny where all the criminals would live, where the "don't snitch" people would live, and where all the people that do not give a damn about their kids or their kids education would go to school......because they all knew damn well lil johnny had NO ANSWER for such a reality based question because his policies are based on total blind, stupid, ignorance to the fact that some people just don't care and that no matter how much money you toss at them and their problems you will only embolden them to do the same destructive behaviors over and over it is time to totally isolate the most worthless of society in schools and neighborhoods where they can be the ones that have to go through great difficulty to perform what is DEMANDED of them instead of making kids that just want a decent education be bused all over the city to various schools that are only designed to mask the failures of the real school behind the magnets and charters.....the ones that need the bus rides, metal detectors, high security, forced tutoring, and total lack of extra curriculars are those that have shown time and again that they care nothing about what is provided for them.....they should be forced to ride buses long distances and spend all their free time on that bus, in school, or in study hall until they land in jail or they change their behavior, or they graduate and land in jail eventually the sooner the real problem makers are isolated from other students the sooner all will benefit....this will never happen when all schools have the demand placed on them to take any student because again worthless parents will haul their problem child to the best school and allow them to come to school hungry, unprepared, run wild, trash the place, and act up....the ability to toss these kids into a school that requires a long bus ride, screening for guns, has armed security, and has isolation will be a HUGE benefit to ALL others....and then if their parents can politic to get those schools policies relaxed to the point that they are like many of todays gang filled worthless hell holes at least all others that care about their kids can just shrug their shoulders and resign themselves to the fact that some will be criminals and the world needs ditch diggers too......but again at least their kids will be AWAY from these animals and their kids will be in an environment that they are satisfied with not every kid in an under performing school is a bad kid, but there are enough bad kids in each of these schools to hamper the education of all others and many of these kids may not have the self esteem or the home life that will allow them to break away from the grips of the worthless that desire to drag them down with them.....but if they can at least get in a different environment they will have a chance and it is not fare to make a few special environments for these kids while other better performing students with highly structured home lives and supportive parents are sent to plain schools that can't help them excel because of their families high income and or they are the ones forced to take long bus rides to horrible neighborhoods....and it is certainly not fair that their parents have to reach further into their pocket to cover the entire cost of private education plans like yours reward the kids that want to break away from the trash in their current schools and areas, but it does it at the expense of those that actually don't need to break away from trash and or those that can actually excel if given the chance and it does it for all the wrong reasons which is their parents SUCCESS....I have no problem rewarding kids that want to break away from trash and I have no problem with them getting SOME extra resources over others, but my other problem with your plan is that it will end up with the trash just shopping for school after school to trash instead of making THEM the ones that are isolated, bused, put in plain schools with just books until they can read and it basically prevents schools from excluding that trash be it a public or private school as long as parents can just dump their kids in any school every school will have the potential to be trashed by those kids....only when these schools are made private can they tell parents that their kids behavior, lack of caring for their education, and their lack or parenting will not allow them to be a student at that school....then those kids can go to the current public equivalent of public alternative and disciplinary schools and they can suffer the busing ect that comes with it if you are going to give choice to a few then you need to give it to all.....because it is just plain BS to make some parents pay twice because their kids have no issues and because they worked hard and made something for their kids and family...and it is BS that the special needs will get all the benefits even if they are good kids with good parents while regular and excelling students just get to go to neighborhood school or ride a long time on a bus to a magnet far from home and in the ghetto

no full 100% voucher system has ever been tried so you have no clue how well it would do VS the current failures the Milwaukee system is based on one thing and one thing only which is income and that shortchanges those that pay the most in taxes and have worked the hardest to get them and their children to where they are at and it rewards those that pay the least in taxes.....it does not surprise me that those that favor income redistribution have no issue with this the Milwaukee system also has the HUGE flaw of schools not being able to turn down kids that have no business being there.....and that is the same problem with your desired state/public managed system....it does nothing to prevent failed parents and their stupid uncontrollable children from going to the best schools where they have no business being and forcing their way in and screwing it up for everyone else....once parents learn that only the very worst publicly run schools will accept kids that come to school hungry, without their homework or books, with their pants around their ankles, and throwing gang signs then they will either choose to care and clean up their act and their childs act or their child can be warehoused in a public school until it is their time for jail.......forcing any school to take marginal students with discipline and behavior problems and parents that refuse to be actively involved in their education is what is failing us now.....ANY charter school or magnet school that is publicly run will always be forced to eventually open up to these kids or face the very lawsuits you fear....private schools will not because the USA has freedom of association and those kids and their parents can be marginalized from contact with kids with a future as they should be and they can be free to fail in publicly run schools and again why would I want a "lottery system" where there are winners and losers even among those who may wish to take their and their childs education seriously.....this is exactly the flaw with your argument......give to a few "lucky winners" and let the rest suffer with all the unteachable and uncontrollable what is it exactly that scares you about allowing all to take their education resources into the realm of free choice to pick what they feel is best for their kids Vs what you favor which is a few lucky winners and a bunch that are short changed because of the lack of control of some kids and their parents a very very selfish position if you ask me

the Milwaukee system was set up to fail from the beginning and is nothing how anyone with a brain would set up a FULL voucher system it is clear that following the lead of those like you IS FAILING now so it is time to change courses there are numerous instances of success in the Milwaukee story what there is not is any signs of total failure other than to allow ALL to have choice and for the failed Milwaukee government to even have a clue how to set it up properly and from reading the story it sounds to me like as soon as things started looking up the state suddenly stopped tracking progress probably because union mind controllers and brainwashers ask them to stop with the hopes it would die.....if it was REALLY failing you know as well as I the media would be all over it because they just as you fear the loss of government PC crap control of schools