VicMan
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Sigh. What happened to the good old days when airlines hired stewardess for their looks? And what
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5641425.html
Emilio was in a bus crash...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/2...iref=newssearch
and he is not doing very well.
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The flight should begin today
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Aside from Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, and Baytown (cities that would have to agree to pay METRO a 1% sales tax to get METRO services), most of East Harris County is still pretty rural in nature. Not sure that busses make sense, aside from P&R lots. If people really and truely are having mobility problems, it may be less expensive and more efficient to give those people a transportation stipend than to provide regular transit service on a local level.
Speaking of that, let's look at the Galena Park and the Northshore areas: http://www.ridemetro.org/Schedules_and_Map...ystem%20Map.pdf
I know that more people are moving into the Galena Park ISD side and the far eastern part of the Furr attendance boundary - I notice that some new schools opened in those areas so I know families are moving in.
However I think the people of Crosby, Huffman, and Sheldon may be best served with stipends
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I'd love to see the actual study. I wonder where it is published...
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The Chron reported that HISD is again considering consolidating school and closing schools. It will hold community meetings to decide which schools to close.
Here are some suggestions listed here: http://blogs.chron.com/schoolzone/2008/03/...r.html#comments
* Build new campus to serve students of Ross ES and Scott ES
* Build new campus at Atherton ES site to serve Atherton ES and Dogan ES
* Build new campus at Sherman ES site to serve Sherman ES and Crawford ES
* Build new campus at Kennedy ES site to serve Kennedy ES and Allen ES
* Build new campus at Peck ES site to serve Peck ES and MacArthur ES
* Build new campus at Lewis ES site to serve Lewis ES and Bellfort Academy (Since the Lewis ES/Bellfort Academy ES attendance boundary is zoned to Lewis ES for K-3 and Bellfort Academy for 4-5, this looks like a ploy to have all of the grades at one campus and not actually an effort to reduce school capacity to fit lower enrollment)
* Renovation and expansion of Lockhart ES, consolidate Turner ES into Lockhart
* Renovation and expansion of McDade ES, consolidate Kashmere Gardens ES into McDade
In addition HISD is considering closing:
* N. Q. Henderson ES
* J. Will Jones ES (Told ya so!)
* Stevenson ES
* Wharton ES
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As expected many of the schools here are in gentrifying areas inside 610 (Midtown, Neartown, Third Ward, Fifth Ward, Memorial Park area, Near Northside) with Kennedy and Allen, which are in Independence Heights. IMO it is about time that schools are closed in many of these areas. I'm not sure about closing Wharton, though, but I think the others can go.
Also I am not sure if Key needs to be closed. HISD could use Key to even out zoning if HISD absorbs North Forest ISD.
IMO HISD should turn Bellfort Academy into an ECC (as there are currently no ECCs on the southeast side, as seen here: http://www.houstonisd.org/FederalStateComp...CC%20SCHOOL.pdf )
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What I think the district should do with the leftover campus is move a middle school there, and then use the old middle school campus as an elementary school.
I hope that HISD will take over - if so HISD could redraw the boundaries to make the attendance areas "smoother." (i.e. make the areas so that logistics are easier)
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North Forest ISD is merging Smiley and Forest Brook High Schools - We do not know which one will be kept and which one will close.
ALSO - NFISD is closing Tidwell ES and merging it into Hilliard.
See: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...ro/5622823.html
and: http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/kho...d.5a05f2b6.html
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all this money and look at the results. children can't speak English.
HISD suspected this would happen a few months ago.Hmm, I thought HISD had been in Robin Hood for awhile. This said HISD was in Robin Hood too: http://www.groupbuilder.net/client_files/A...release_num=865 - and that was in 2004
Richard Geib explains a lot of urban school issues here: http://www.rjgeib.com/biography/inner-city...s/innerblu.html - He taught at Berendo MS in LAUSD in the 1990s and documented it here.
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The people have different reputations; Brittney Spears was seen as an idiot and unstable. (I think we know why)
Likewise Selena was something of a daddy's girl/momma's girl as she was with her family so much. Some people think that made her naive and easy prey for people like Yolanda Saldivar.
What do you want me to say? That I was thrilled at the opportunity to vicariously revel in the aura of a crowd reveling in the aura of a pop singer for whom I had (and still have) no appreciation? I'll bet that if Britney Spears had been murdered in the same way at her peak, and a statue was erected in her memory in some mid-sized town without many other viable tourist draws, high school field trips from predominantly-white areas would have stopped there...and the experience still would have disgusted me, quite frankly.It's not that I have something against Hispanic bubblegum pop music...it's that I have something against bubblegum pop music. And I was with a largely Hispanic crowd, so naturally, I was compelled to visit the thing.
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1. If sprawl and its effects are not good shouldn't we try to turn suburbs into self-sustaining cities so that people do not have to commute as often?
2. It is possible to travel from South Park to the Museum by public transportation (METRO) - You can go on the website here (even people without internet can go to a library and use the internet there) and get a bus schedule - http://tripplanner.ridemetro.org/
NOW, suppose that Timmy wanted to get a ride on a Saturday afternoon from around Jones High School (7414 St. Lo) to the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
He can go on the 077 and the 001. He leaves from Martin Luther King @ Pershing and arrives at Main at Remington, near the museum.
In short: Timmy doesn't need a car to get to the museum and it will take maybe an hour or two per direction to get there.
On the other hand, The Woodlands has a private company with "Park and Ride" bus service, but it does not operate on weekends: http://www.btd.org/Park&Rides.htm
False dichotomy alert. When did I place Houston's "demographic geography" over the "education of our citizenry"? If the museum truly wanted to educate Houston children there are many other options and avenues for doing so. I'm tired of pandering to our suburbs at the detriment of the continued revitalization of our inner-city core. Sprawl is not good, we should be trying to mitigate it. You can argue that this is one way, but I would argue that they should've chosen something else to put there to encourage walkability in their contrived town center. Don't those people have any imagination? No, this is a matter of the suburbs want, they got the money, so they get. Money talks too much in this city. Call me naive, but it's my opinion and I can express it. This POV would be a no-brainer in most other cities I've lived in.Just because it is relatively close doesn't mean the children of South Park are able to go to it. Many don't have cars, parents who work long hours or are disinterested, and buses are unreliable. I could have inserted Acres Homes or any other far-flung low-income community and my point still stands.
Your point about The Woodlands' children being more likely to become energy executives reveals a great deal about where you're coming from, so I won't even begin to approach your classist assumptions on that point. The HMNS is not just an energy museum; that is only one component of many.
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To make $.
But if she had marketed that book as fiction and then marketed her real story as truth surely she would have made money anyway.
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Honestly, the original story sounds more interesting than the made up account (wolves?! gimmie a break now!), lots of people don't know that non Jews, such as Catholics and blacks were killed by Nazis during the Holocaust as well.
That makes me wonder why she had to lie about it in the first place.
If she A. marketed the wolf story as fiction and/or B. wrote her real story about herself, she would have more respect. If she did A and B and if she didn't get into that fallout with the publisher (I look down at the parties for getting into the legal case) she would have a lot of respect; she would have my respect.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/02/2...x.ap/index.html
It took awhile for people to find out but now people know that this story is fake.
This lady, "Misha Defonseca" claimed that after the Nazis took her Jewish parents she walked around Europe alone with wolves. Instead, she was Monique De Wael, a student living Brussels when her parents, Catholics who eventually resisted and were killed by Nazis. She suffered tragedies, but did she have to make up this farfetched account?
And here is a Slate article about it - http://www.slate.com/id/2185493/
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AFAIK teen driver licenses are not as necessary in the city (ESPECIALLY so in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.) because of public transportation. In most of Houston if you know the basic orientation of the city you can use public transport to get back.
However in rural areas and many suburbs teen driver's licenses are needed.
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What the COH could do is air a very catchy, popular, clever anti-homeless ad mixing footage of *mentally competent* homeless people giving their tactics away to pictures of liquor.
The end message: "Do not give any handouts to them."
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According to the blog of As for Me and My House they want some more actors to star in episodes 2 - 7!
So, if there are any HAIFers with loads of free time, maybe they can come on the show and make references to HAIF
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Afton Oaks is a fairly pricey neighborhood west of River Oaks - it does not have the same status as RO but it is still next to all of the yuppie attractions such as the Galleria, Highland Village Shopping Center, etc.
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I didn't get a full-fledged driver's license until age 18 (I was in my second semester of junior year (3rd year) in high school at the time).
In TX the state permits parents to teach kids. My dad taught me and my sister.
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Guess it's safer and more lucrative than messing with violent offenders.
I wish there was a way to summon each and every officer who enforced this silly law into an office, one boy one, and proceed to give him (or her) a large smack on the face. They knew better than to enforce that law. With real crime (and, yeah, that includes automobile crimes) some laws should not be enforced or enforced as much.
Oh, and the people who insisted on keeping this law need to be hit too. Kudos to the feds for striking it down.
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I can't believe so many people responded to my thread. I would just like to see a Houston based show. If I had the money I would start my own Houston based network, television and movie studios. How much would it cost to start a network? By the way, what happened to PAX TV?
It is now ION Television.
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Could the editor please suspend the language filter for this thread so that we could accurately describe this show?
What amazing crap.
Did you actually watch the show?
Were there any issues with the show OTHER than what was already mentioned (reliance on stereotype, premise needing fixing, overacting in cabinet scene)?
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I think that in HISD's case it has much, much more to do with community identification with schools. Remember the uproar over the hiring of an assistant principal from Worthing as the principal at Booker T. Washington? Link
There was uproar in HISD over the most recent bond election because it consolidated several elementary and middle schools. Think of what would have happened if high schools were suggested! The entire school board would have been run out of town on a rail!
That's part of the reason too.
No Vic I was writing about Marshall...speaking of Hightower, why do so many teachers want to leave? Just wondering.I think it's because Patricia Paquin is principal: http://www.houston-press.com/2006-06-29/news/cut-short/1
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We've been doing that for decades. Remember when Saddam Hussein was our friend? Osama bin Laden?
The US did use mujahideen to fight the Soviets but I do not recall any direct special chemistry between OBL himself and the U.S. government.
What made OBL hate the USA? When Saddam came with the Gulf War the Saudis wanted protection. OBL offered his men but the Saudis chose the Americans. The Americans being stationed near holy sites ANGERED OBL. Since OBL was a war hero, all the Saudis could do to silence OBL was deport him.
HISD suspected this would happen a few months ago.
- Or you guys can get the producers to take my ideas and Jeebus's ideas
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During a Spring Break trip for the seniors of the Class of 2007 of my high school, a group of kids who wanted to watch an Astros game in Orlando came on a bus. We stopped at iHOP, but it had pretty bad service. I ordered cheese sticks but I got chicken tenders. Normally I wouldn't mind but I was watching my money (and the tenders cost more), so I asked for cheese sticks and the waitress treated me like I ordered the tenders and that I was lying. WHAT? The other kids noticed that the service was downright rude, so they made a frown face out of pennies.
For lunch we went to a Ponderosa Steakhouse and we had a nice waiter, so we made a smiley face out of silver coins. The hair was with dollar bills and the nose was a 1 dollar gold coin.