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Anyway, IMO American Airlines should fly DFW-Beaumont - If a rail system connects Houston and Beaumont, I'm not sure if ExpressJet/Colgan would continue Beaumont, but Dallas-Beaumont seems fairly feasible for air operations even with a rail.

Kinkaid, perhaps EVA Air (especially since it has FF with Continental) or Singapore Airlines could fly Houston to Taipei nonstop. The one thing I would want the carrier to do is provide bus service from Houston Chinatown and Sugar Land to the airport (as China Airlines does).

The Naha incident, as seen in the video linked by Jeebus, is still under investigation - I wonder what caused it.

The good news is that Qatar Airlines is rumored to be starting non-stop service to Doha in mid- 2008! This will compete directly with Emirates' new service. Both Qatar and Emirates are known for their service and both can provide great connections to the Middle East, India, and beyond.

Kinkaid, it's official: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/arti...mp;parent_id=56

Anyway, the CI pullout has been announced in one Taiwanese paper, but nobody else has announced it (yet) - Maybe as December hits CI may officially state that Houston is over. (Seems like CI does not have the equipment to fly nonstop)

I noticed someone else made a comment about the video on a blog site: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11

"Mike" says: "The commercial is brilliant - the cowboy and the indian become friends, thanks to China Airlines."

I wonder if that's the joke that CI (China Airlines) is trying to convey - I didn't realize that until I saw Mike's comment...

Also I recognize the desk agent (the lady who responds "Yes, it's this way.") - I think she appeared in a banner ad for China Airlines and Delta codesharing.

Yeah, I found this on ABC too: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=...&id=5791707

Now he sounds like a deranged psychopath... WHAT is going on?

I am surprised about Westwood, although there are a lot of skankesque apartments nearby.

The Westwood referred by this is the Houston Super Neighborhood #29 - Westwood - Which is a part of the far southwest side: http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/nbhd_svc...rInfo/SN_29.htm

a coworker was telling me that he was in the CVS drive-thru and a guy propositioned him. i guess this CVS offers an additional drive-thru "service"

As I said, people should bring cameras and/or cell phone cameras. This stuff will be comedy gold if uploaded to YouTube.

China Airlines currently flies a Houston-Seattle-Taipei route.

When China Airlines started the route, it had this advertisement (the first part is English dialog with Traditional Chinese subtitles):

I find the Texas (Cowboy) and Washington State (Native American) stereotypes cute:

From the article: "Lt. Albert Mihalco said the man confronted his girlfriend as she was opening the lingerie store."

That could have happened anywhere. Many murders involve people who know each other.

The murders that should be feared are stranger murders.

Puma: The mall shooting was likely a case where the victim knew the perpetrator.

Generally what scares people are murders that hit strangers.

Anyway, some of the issues with Greenspoint may have been pushed further north into ... Spring ISD.

wouldn't be much of an issue now..Forest Brook is down to 947 students and down the street from CE King..

why not send them there? Just because its near HISD...CE King is nearby and can accept alot of kids also

If the directions are searched on a map, Kashmere seems to be closer than Cyril E. King.

By driving distances to zoned high schools:

*Forest Brook to Kashmere: 2.9 miles

*Forest Brook to Sam Houston: 4.1 miles

*Forest Brook to Cyril E. King: 5.2 miles

*Forest Brook to MacArthur: 6.0 miles

And as for Forest Brook to Barbara Jordan: 5.1 miles

As for Smiley:

*Smiley to Cyril E. King: 4.5 miles

*Smiley to Kashmere: 6.2 miles

Unlike with WHISD, though, it seems like HISD does not have to close the NFISD campuses. The WHISD campuses were said to be in TERRIBLE shape (failing fire code violations, trees growing through stadium bleachers).

Whoops! My mistake... I meant 48+1959!

It was later revealed that Newton is NOT homeless. The cops found his address: http://www.examinernews.com/articles/2007/...news/news01.txt

I also found some addresses belonging to Larry Paul Newton on Zabasearch (the birth date, 1959, matched 2007 as 38+1959=2007).

I went to Kyoto last May/June - Unlike most large Japanese cities, it seems like a true mix of old and new (others, like Tokyo, seem almost all new, except for the shrines and imperial palaces)

In Japan I found a can of tortilla chips to dip in barbecue sauce. That was rather interesting...

there was an issue a few years back with a new development as the lot sizes were an issue..KB and friends create high-density living and they want space out there...

it's not that easy....does HISD have a plan in place for the kids? With open enrollment in HISD, who will enforce the kids from going all over the place? Lets say your in high school and 200 Forest Brook kids come on down and enroll, will you be comfortable or issues will arise?

they need tax revenue but there's not much back there unfortunately...

I do not know if HISD has any plans.

What magnet schools do is they set a number of slots available to outside residents and/or establish admissions criteria.

For a school likely to accept a large number of NFISD magnet kids, like Barbara Jordan, the school may welcome extra students. With "zoned" schools there may be more territorial conflicts (while magnets are mixed and do not have as many "neighborhood" issues)

I wonder if the adults knew that, since the adults were the parents of a girl who had a falling-out with Meier.

Hbcu, since the buildings in NFISD seem to be fine, it looks like all HISD needs to do (if it takes NFISD) is to rearrange the attendance boundaries and maybe close some schools.

After that is done, HISD should ask home builders (KB Homes, Beazer, Lennar, etc.) to build in the NFISD area so that NFISD can take people from gentrified neighborhoods.

I haven't seen anyone genuinely laugh about it so far. I hear that the offending parents are being ostracized (as they should be!)

Oh, that first one is here: http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/artic...pokin_1.ii1.txt

BTW, HAIF rules do not allow posting of entire news articles, please trip the quote to a small piece of the article.

The house is zoned to, in Houston ISD:

* Lantrip ES

* Jackson MS

* Austin HS

1. Where is the article from? It is not a good idea to post full newspaper articles.

2. The names of the parents were outed in blogs.

HCBU, I wonder what will happen if/when NFISD is absorbed by HISD.

Will this mean that a group of former renters will want low price neighborhoods with public transportation access? Since HISD has a better reputation than NFISD, I wonder if that would happen.

Katie, I know that some universities (like mine) accept scores of "3," and some do not accept scores of "3" for credit. My university had me placed in Rhetoric II instead of Rhetoric I.

I wonder which universities only take 5s...

* 1 = Nothing - Failing

* 2 = Bad - Failing

* 3 = Passing

* 4 = Good

* 5 = Best

What's the fine? I remember seeing some woman being picked up for fare evasion on Channel 11 news. She did the whole Oh-it-must-be-in-here-somewhere-bit, searching her bag. It ended with her being led off in cuffs, flipping the bird to the camera. Amusing stuff.

I think it is around $100.

I noticed that Downtown had a lot of patrols, and that police were in many of the business districts and NASA. For some reason I didn't see police in Gulfton...