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Wait. Just west of the spur and just west of the 59/288 jumble are 2 completely different areas. You don't mean over by the high-rise by Flora.... You mean over by Chenevert. I didn't pass there.

Passed there on the way home... Didn't see anything. And I would think 2 multi- story concrete structures would be hard to miss. You sure you were on Alabama?

DBig.. Won't you beee my neighbor?!? Your marker reminds me... [ Tangent ] Went to Lil Bigs for the 1st time yesterday. Their fries are the bomb. Went to lunch today at Pappa Genos... an awesome little philly cheessteak place up at Ella and 18th. Awesome.

Holy hell.. I finally get to use all that Latin i was forced to study in high school. *clears throat* Tuam: Is a form of the pronoun Tuus, meaning You. It is in the singular, feminine, and accusative form. Woohoo.. education not wasted.

The Haif Financial Challenge has ended and the winner is..... inconclusive at this moment. It's probably U080570.. but it's showing 20thdad Full Scoreboard. 20thdad's AIB stock did a jump in value last week, but it was like an adjustment as if the price was that way all along. Prior to last week... The AIB stock price for the start date, Dec 17th, was shown to be 1.23 Now its showing the stock price for the same day to be 6.15. This happened in the last challenge too as a result of a stock split, though that does not appear to be the reason this time. Anyone know what happened or why stocks do this ? 20th... If we adjusted your AIB to reflect the historical stock price of today... at 6.15 a share, you'd have been able to purchase 81.3 shares ($500 worth) instead of the 406.5 shares. And at today's price of 3.54, those 81 shares would be worth $287.8

I would agree that the DA's office did screw up, mostly in their belief that they didn't believe she was a flight risk... but the rest of it sounds more like dotting i's and crossing ts to make sure they don't have a screw up that could cause her to get off. The Fire Investigators don't get off blameless though... From - http://www.chron.com...an/7452300.html Lykos indicated that was untrue, emphasizing that arson investigators are law enforcement officers and can act accordingly. "There is no such thing as an investigatory or an investigative hold under our law," Lykos said. "If you believe that there's probable cause to believe felony has been committed — if you see a misdemeanor committed on view like that — you have an absolute right to arrest." They put all the blame on the DA, but if the above statement is true and they too had the power to hold her, then they are more at fault. They had already convinced themselves of the need to charge her. They didn't need DA Mom's permission to act and to hold her while the DA was formalizing the charges.

Cool. Are you able to change the size parameters... If you are.. I would think a horizontal layout would be better both for how most people are used to seeing an online map and for taking up less space per post.

Passed an interesting little place on the way to lunch today. I'd never heard of it, but apparently it's made the rounds of Houston Press and Bayou History. At the corner of LongPoint and Pech, There is a small (1300 SF) cemetery located in the corner of an auto repair parking lot. Some history on it. The children have since sold most of their land. All the rest of Hillendahl's land, except for about 11 acres, were sold for the present site of Monarch Oaks, a residential subdivision. Part of the remaining land was leased to stores. Though stores, streets, and residential sections invaded the area, Hillendahl insisted that the family graves remain undisturbed. The 25 by 55 foot cemetery at the corner of Long Point and Pech contains the graves of his parents, grandparents, an infant daughter, and 15 other kin. From Flickr user cadillaccrack - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3132/2303146726_ba2820831a.jpg

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7445303.html Metro will take delivery of 19 new rail cars for its Main Street line in late 2012 from an unlikely source — Utah. Metro, along with San Diego's transit agency, has piggybacked on a contract the Utah Transit Authority negotiated with rail car manufacturer Siemens.

I couldn't tell which way the OP was taking things, which was why I found it surprising anyone could argue so strongly either way. The irony didn't come across at all considering 3 people gave it a -1 and Kinkaid's blowup appeared to be directed against the OP ( least that's how I perceived it )

Houston is challenging the numbers. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7442563.html The city of Houston will ask the U.S. Census Bureau to change its official count, raising questions about whether some apartment complexes or even entire neighborhoods were missed. Houston's population is 2,099,451, according to Census data released last week. That's more than 100,000 fewer people than earlier estimates, and slightly below the 2.1 million that triggers an expansion of City Council to 16 members.

Union Station at MMP is pretty much always open and has a pretty nice interior.

The wording of the original post was so bad, I couldn't tell if the OP was pissed that public money was being spent on public art, or if he was pissed that the money that was usually spent on public art was being eliminated. Regardless, Kinkaid's blow-up was hilarious and choke full o tolerance. Then Barracuda comes out of left field with the "TeaParty", because if we're talking Intolerance, that must obviously be what the conversation is about. All the statues are facing South towards the vacant land that will eventually be built on by the Aga Khan Foundation Center. (Not an accident by the way, since the foundation gave a lot of money to make it so)... with the obvious artistic message being to "Show Tolerance towards those with different beliefs." Anyways, While I'm sure they'll eventually put up a lovely building, my hopes now are that they'll eventually be forced to sell, that the land gets scooped up by the Tea Party that chooses this location for their National HQ/"America is Awesome" Museum just so I can watch the heads of my haify liberal friends explode.

Tolerance's warm embrace never felt so good.

I'm just a semi-frequent passenger. Thanks for the clarification on the attainable speeds and distances.

The graph is now slightly meaningless since I've been terrible the past 2-3 weeks about filling in the historical data. Anywho.. with less than 2 weeks left, U080570 still has a commanding lead and native_houstonian with his Blockbuster stock is still wayyy at the back. Full Scoreboard

Not to a developer it isn't. They don't slap down mixed-use projects for the fun of it or out of the goodness of their hearts. They do it to make money. What you describe is important.. but it's not going in a brand new mixed-use development.

Citiy Pops, not MSA Houston : Up approx 145,820 (+7.5%) to 2,099,451 Chicago : Down approx 199,900 (- 6.9%) to 2,695,598 Still separated by nearly 600k With those numbers, It sure makes the old "Houston to #3" debates seem rather silly. With those rates.. We're not even passing Chicago by the 2020 Census. And honestly, maybe I'm looking at the numbers wrong. But our 10 yr increase of 145k seems very low. Where did all our N.O. residents wander off to ? At their July 2006 ( Half Decade? ) estimates, the census had us at 2,144,491, which means a ) Houston has lost lost population the last 5 years. b ) The Census' half decade estimates are way off. c ) The Census really has no clue what they are doing and the numbers are all made up. d ) I screwed up the numbers. You are confusing City populations with MSA rankings. We might well have passed Phili in the MSA rankings, but that would make us #5

I have minimized it. Ignoring and minimizing are both fine solutions ... but at the point which everyone does that ( and given the deluge of cr@p, They will).. what's the point of keeping that Sidebar there? I'm guessing Mr. No-Name Haifer who has graced us with over a dozen twitter-fed status updates (including profanity) in his week long life as a Haifer probably has zero idea he has been sharing. Nobody swims in a polluted stream. Its value becomes zero.

Only the most awesome 64k's worth of fun a kid could have back in the 80s !!!

If cell phones had been more prevalent back in the mid 80's... Commodore's marketing would look something like this.

I used to feel the same way, until I stated working on the beltway, and now work on I-10 inside the beltway. There are so many office buildings and office parks withing 3 miles of there, it is a good location. Look at all the new retail that has sprouted up along I-10 between Wirt and 8 since 10 has been rebuilt. There is plenty of demand for retail and commercial in this part of town. Its not inconvenient to get to at all. I can understand why most urbanistas would frown at it, I used to be the same way. Lord, It's outside the Loop. But I've learned that even if you choose to live someplace innner loop in a walkable community, if you're lucky enough to have a job and its located outside the loop, it's all for naught. Plus.. another thing I've come to realize, 610 isn't a magical line and "suburbia" is relative. The old suburbs in the 610 to 8 zone is where you're gonna find all the great ranch homes of houston. I have lots of family and friends in the western 610 to 8 zone, and lots of them love the new CC. New mixed-use development isn't only for urbanistas on their bicycles. Even though midtown would be the more ideal place for a mixed use development from a transit-connectivity standpoint, who is going to shop there? Middle-class shoppers with money. I don't see dollar stores and fiestas going up in a primo new developments. I don't see 3rd ward contributing to the development's viability. Neartown, the Musuem district and the couple of thousand DT residences.. Thats it.. Contrast that to CC, surrounded 360 degrees by Spring Branch, Memorial, the Villages, and the Kirkwood/Dairy Ashford area, all by residents not afraid to drive a few miles to shop. CC is a developer's wet dream compared to Midtown. PS. "Far out" is relative if you're on a brand spanking new freeway. It takes me longer to get from my home near the Menil to I-10 than it takes me to get from Shepherd exit on 10 to the beltway. The new 1-10 is dreamy.

A submerged freeway is still a barrier unless its covered over with at least park land... ( and that would then be a tunnel, which so many houstonians think is impossible) Regardless, just look at 59. Montrose is no more connected and at one with University Place just because you now get from one to the other via an aesthetically pleasing bridge instead of an underpass. Even if 59 were fully submerged, you'd still have the 6 block long GRB acting as a huge barrier for 1/3 of the way. Downtown and Easton shall never be one.

I enter the front door when I'm on a desktop and I hate em. They used to be good, The community bulletin board filled with the occasional Haif-centric message made by someone who made the conscious decision to post for all HAIF to see. Now we get untargeted "Shaking & crying whenever there's a Chris Lilley post... " and random tiny urls from strangers. That being said, if I have to choose between watching HAIF die because they no longer get crossover traffic from FB.. or putting up with a flood of nonsense.. I'll choose the latter.

I'm not sure why everyone keeps referring to it as sheet metal. Its a railing/guardrail system made up of thin tubing and it looks just fine.