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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 06:34 PM) Can of worms, opened. Tacos, Gyros, Pizza, straight up breakfast are all in contention. Big Star tacos. win. Also a good burger if you can find it. But yeah, greektown used to be my go-to but now it's too far.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 07:14 PM) Damn, I wish I was still in Urbana. A lot less people there right now for summer school and two Jimmy Johns close by. JJ's the best super late night food. That's an argument waiting to happen. But it's false. Mexican food trumps all for late night.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 07:15 PM) Direct cost? A decent chunk, not a ton. In terms of human capital? They'd be permanently screwed. I'm actually interested in the direct cost. They'd at the very least offer a pretty decent relo package. But yeah, no f***in way i'd ever move to indianapolis unless someone tripled my pay.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 07:10 PM) Depends on if they stay because they get money or not. The cost of doing business in the state of Illinois is the problem at the center of all of this. The CME's taxes are 9.5% now in Illinois. In Indiana they would be 6.5% now, so they would save even more than the $50 million increase they just saw. If the State of Illinois comes up with a package that saves them a good chunk of that money, then their number one complaint is solved. Why should they move at that point. How much would it cost to actually move their company to indianapolis

I didn't even know people knew there was one by the aon center...but apparently everyone did.

Chances they still have bread by 1:30?

way to ruin it!

I don't mind wade because he plays hard and risks his body. He also doesn't ham it up for the crowd as much as lebron. I love that derrick rose is an awesome individual, but i'd still love him if he was only really dedicated on the court.

More like Jamal Crawford. Where he's just standing there and acting like he's playing d, but really isn't going to move at all.

The happening was terrible in every aspect. Eberts film made me want to see it very much. He called it a cross between the goonies and a modern sci fi flick, which sounds awesome to me.

We have very high hours worked, especially compared to the Nordic countries, and pretty much above every European country except for Italy.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:20 PM) To be fair this is actually how a lot of other countries run their secondary schools. Kids get tracked early on into college or vocational. I took their comments as saying they would be thrown out of school.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 05:10 PM) There's something about Garfein's face, his facial expressions, his attitude, that has always irritated me. definitely. I think he thinks he's better than his job suggests.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 05:13 PM) So what's your solution in Tex' scenario? Where everything is already in place to give the kid a chance at an education, even more so than the average student. But at the end of the day the student doesn't want to be there. Throwing more money into the school system isn't gonna change that. So what's your solution? And how can you honestly think that other distractions don't play a part in this? I'm not sure, as to tex's part. Throwing them out certainly would probably improve the rest in the classroom, but it also creates a huge barrier for that student. I'm not sure whether it is considered throwing money at them. I imagine those drop outs become a high percentage of those we consider burdens to the state. There have been success stories with alternative schools created by community peer groups for dropouts and disruptive students that have been controversial in theory, but beneficial in practice. And I'm not saying other distractions don't play a part in it, but I do consider focusing on those useless. Unless we are going to ban video games and cell phones, I don't see how that should be the focal point. This study shows that it aims to insert teachers into the culture of the neighborhood too. I'm mindful of what Tex said about how much we expect out of teachers, but if there are problems at home focusing a group of teachers to disrupt those patterns is an interesting idea.

Anyone see chuck garfien's post-game interview with Humber. He basically laughed in Humber's face about how he was released so many times. (Haha, sure you were "DFA'd" hahahaa." Humber: dead faced)

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 03:41 PM) But at 12-16, are they not at crucial ages for learning concepts necessary for high school and college? they are, that's why I don't like the "kick them out if they don't want to be there."

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 03:36 PM) We could also recognize that teaching doesn't trump parenting. And that some things are parent's responsibility. Instead, because teaching is a paid position and aprenting is not, we place all the expectations on education. How should we regulate parenting tex? I'm open to it. BUt I have a problem with being so dismissive of kids who aren't doing well at 12-16 years old at school. Even if they are doing it to themself at that age, I'm not sure how much weight we should put on that, because at that point the child is not going to achieve anything in life. We've seen the charts of unemployment for those without high school employment.

Because there are lots of ways to improve education, this was one of them, if this teaching method improves it, we should move forward with it. I don't know how to affect the kids parenting, but we can affect their schooling.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 03:59 PM) I think I mentioned "my generation included" in my initial post. Honestly, read what I typed and think about it for a second instead of immediately just lashing out about how ignorant it is. Our kids are in school for quite a bit of time? Public high school kids get out at like noon a lot of the time now, because they have fulfilled their credits or whatever. What is that about? Many inner city children rarely even attend school these days. This seems to be symptomatic of the way children are raised and allowed to behave at home, and then much of this culture has been brought into the public schools and the structure has actually been changed because of it. What needs to happen is children need to be in school more. Longer days. More days a year. More content. Harder content. More focus. They are in school for quite a bit of time, compared to everything else. So we should make sure that time is spent with the best teaching methods and culture we have. Longer school time would be great, and many charter schools are trying that, but that also costs money and money needs to be raise thru taxes and taxes and gov't are taking away our guns and so that won't ever happen. This study seems to be a step in the right direction, though I guess we should have stopped them before they did, handed them a Malcolm Gladwell book and said the best way to fix this is to send the kids to the farms to learn a work ethic. It worked for Mao.

This gap really isn't anything new. Your generation sucked too, let's just remember that. Kids are stupid and will drink chocolate milk all day if left alone. They are in school for quite a bit of time, however. So perhaps we should focus the discussion on how we run those schools and less on how terrible it is that kids are soft these days b/c of video games.

you know, I know what you are saying probably feels great, but it isn't really constructive at all, nor proven. And while it's probably annoying seeing kids play with video games, their familiarity with technology will be a big asset to them. Our problems are structural. Anyway feel free to suggest repealing 50 years of standard of living so kids can be educated better and achieve a great standard of living.

God I hate Oney Guillen.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 02:02 PM) Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that the last few generations of American children (mine included), have had a soft, easy lifestyle for the most part due to a higher standard of living than the rest of the world and has failed to develop a work ethic. Probably has nothing to do with that or else the nordic countries would be way behind indian and african children that are still grinders. Also, interesting enough, Harvard pumps out top talent every year despite their campus being remarkably wealthy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 12:37 PM) Apparently, sneaking a fastball by Paul Konerko is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. Hahahahaha Last night was a turrible hawk night. Also hearing his draft philosophies.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 08:37 PM) Thought this was interesting... CEO of GM says he'd rather see a $1/gallon increase in federal gas taxes, than the increases in fuel efficiency the government is pushing on US automakers. Says he feels it would be better for automakers, as well as do a better job pushing Americans to buy more efficient cars. Link to short story. Thoughts? Anyone agree or disagree? he's just saying that because he knows the carbon tax has no chance.