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mademan305

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  1. Buying stuff from Dillard's is a little less 'hit-and-miss' and a lot less annoying than shopping at TJMaxx et al. Stores like that don't carry my size often in attractive clothing, and you have to do too much digging at closeout stores to find decent stuff compared to walking into a Dillard's on sale day and getting what you actually want for the same price.

    I don't know about all that, a while back I walked into TJMaxx in the University area and bought 5 pair of Nautica jeans (all for $29 a pop, compared to the Dillards price of ~$59) All of the jeans were in my size (36X32), which was easy to find by the way (mostly all in the same place), tried on all 5 pair, purchased them, and the whole event took about 30-40 minutes. I don't know what size you wear, but they have all of the common sizes in majority of their clothes. By the way, sale day at Dillards is a joke. When I was working there they had about two racks full of Polo shirts all for 25% off. After the 25% discount the shirts were still about $40. I guess I've had a different experience....

  2. Any info you can share about how the store is doing? Seems so dead! Very attractive store, though.

    No, I only acutually worked there for about a month last year around the holidays so I can't really shed any light on how the store is doing. I worked there on Black Friday last year and it was even dead then. The store didn't have any significant door busters at all. IMO price point may be keeping some away, I don't know what the other factors may be.

  3. I love Dillards clothes, but their prices are absolutely ridiculous. I would never buy anything from there as you can pretty much get the same brand names at stores like TJ Max, Marshalls, Burlington, etc. I actually worked at Dillards at Northlake at one point and I really thought it was funny how people would pay $65 for a regular pair of dress pants that you can get at TJ Max for $29.

  4. Oh so you want to establish a football team for White people in Charlotte using tax money because the one at JCSU is predominately Black? That is the only thing that I get from that statement.

    I absolutely didn't get that from Aussie Luke's statement and I don't know how you related what he was saying to race. He's saying that not that many people care about the small divisions. People are interested in watching Division I football and it's not going to happen at a school as small as JCSU. Conversly, I believe that UNCC now has around 20,000 students, which could possilby support a Division I program. This is the same reason a lot of people would rather hold out for Major League baseball than to build the minor league park built for the Knights. Small division football is just like watching minor league baseball as opposed to watching the big leagues. If you can't understand then you must not be a sports fan.

  5. We should form a march. We should get the word out and one weekend all organize on campus with our pro-49er football signs and set up shop in front of the Chancellor's house (maybe not, probably somewhere else on campus). We could also make this a fund raising event. If this got big enough maybe one of the local news stations would cover it, get some recognition from viewers and they could make a contribution. I'm just kinda talkin' out of the side of my neck but I would be down to contribute somehow to make a football team a reality.

  6. You might mean Bonnie Cone (Cone Center). From what I have gathered on campus she would always shoot down the idea of a football team because her son was paralyzed playing football (Never checked the story for accuracy). However, I believe it was last year that she passed away.

    Maybe your right that Judy Rose has declined the idea of a football team since I see that she is the Director of Athletics for UNCC.

  7. I would love for them to have a football team, but don't forget that for every dollar they spend on mens sports they have to match it for the women's sports as well.

    Every time I've heard it discussed, Judy Rose(I think that's her name) shoots it down with all the usual reasons. Like not having stadium for one thing.

    You might mean Bonnie Cone (Cone Center). From what I have gathered on campus she would always shoot down the idea of a football team because her son was paralyzed playing football (Never checked the story for accuracy). However, I believe it was last year that she passed away.

  8. That does sound really suspicious

    Interesting story, a student of mine had to leave class early on Friday because he lived there.

    He mentioned that the city had discussed selling the property several times, but that residents complained about the sale.

    Now it's "uninhabitable" and will probably be sold to a private developer.

    Hmmm....

  9. I guess the main point of calling themselves high-tech is the fact that the entire building will be "hotspot" enabling all users to access the internet via laptop from anywhere in the building. Also, that the Internet speeds will be 30 times faster than typical residential speeds which does hint to fiber optics. But obviously digital cable and digital phones are not really what we consider high-tech these days.

    Hmm, I already have complete digital here in Huntersville with Satellite TV, High Speed Cable, and VoIP phone, and everything connected via a WiFi router. My TV has been completely digital since 1999 when I installed Dish Network. It's nice to see downtown finally catch up. :lol:
  10. Yeah, I think actually last week the Observer announced that they had met thier pre-sale requirements. As matter of fact a member of UP stated the same thing a day before the Observer did.

    Not sure if there are many doubters of this project anymore or if this means anything to the ones who do still doubt it, but I heard from a through someone who is dealing with a real estate agent for the Vue that said the pre-sale requirements were definately met. Just thought I would through that in there for what it is worth, but after all the press I for one have heard all I need to have no doubts this is true.

    I think its a done deal, but then again I have not been following sky scraper development that long.

    Yeah, I think actually last week the Observer announced that they had met thier pre-sale requirements. As matter of fact a member of UP stated the same thing a day before the Observer did.
  11. Well, I'm not sure of where Bill Jones' district is but if we're talking about Charlotte as a whole

    then the fact is that Charlotte is 60% white, (http://charlotte.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm) this

    is hardly a "majority-minority". But obviously we are talking about the national audience that the

    city is going to attract and I think Charlotte is more appealing to Nascar fans than Atlanta and would

    attract more fans to a HOF.

    I don't think that argument carries a lot of weight. Charlotte is pretty racially balanced. (It might even be a "majority-minority" if you were to just forget Bill Jones' district, and look only within the 485 ring.)

    Atlanta is in the running because they want it... and they have population, media, money... and their legistlaure is behind them.

  12. Sounds like it will be Atlanta that gets the HOF, unless politics get in the way. I've reached a state of ambivalence about this. If we got it, great. If not, I think it would make the arts package much more palatable. When you think of the arts package we'd be getting so much more in the way of variety than the HOF.

    I don't think Atlanta will get the HOF based on demographics. Atlanta's population is dominatly African American and doesn't have that large of a fan base within the city. NASCAR is really pushing diversity right now and my personal opinion is that Atlanta is still in the race only as diversity vehicle. I think when its over Charlotte will have the HOF. As for Daytona, they already have a NASCAR Museum and I that could be taken into consideration, It makes sense to spread things out. I don't know just my opinion on the matter.

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