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		<title>Friday Facts: Narnia, Math, Linguistics, Lascivious Radios</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/11/20/friday-facts-narnia-math-linguistics-lascivious-radios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Median age of mathematics texts used in city public schools:  18 years :: Median tenure of mathematics teachers in city schools:  4.5 years :: Median SAT mathematics score, city schools (2008):  485 :: Percentage of 12th graders in city schools who know how ‘median’ differs from ‘average’:  38% :: A city ordinance passed in 1931 prohibited the hiring by city hospitals of any registered nurse “younger than nine years of age, regardless of experience or education.” State medical laws, which supersede municipal doctrine, mandate a minimum age of 21. :: The city’s official “Fictional Sister City” is Narnia, according to a 2001 mayoral edict. Prior to that, it had been Atlantis. :: Languages which have been banned within city limits over the years include, but are not limited to: French, Portuguese, Java, Tagalog, Mandarin, “variants of Basque,” English and “Anything even remotely Irish.” :: A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad “fight special” bearing more than a hundred boxing fans to the city for a series of welterweight title matches was met by special police at Central Depot on this day in 1927, to respond to complaints of illegal drink-mixing and gun sales on the Common Rate car. :: A short-lived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lack Of Swimming; Hole In District</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/10/20/lack-of-swimming-hole-in-district/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The groundbreaking this morning of the new South Wilton High School (Expected completion: August 2010) was a bit history-making in that it will be the first public school building built in the city in the last thirty years that will not have an elaborate swimming facility as part of the design. Why? Let&#8217;s go back a bit. In 1975, Beatrice Nussbaum, she of the wealthy shipping and coal mining family, passed away at the age of 69, leaving most of the family fortune in a trust, the funds of which were largely earmarked for the construction of new schools and educational facilities in the city. Public school officials were overjoyed to have such largesse fall unexpectedly right into their laps- then they were made aware of the will&#8217;s full stipulations. In 1915, Blake Nussbaum, scion of the family, was one of the 1,198 passengers and crew who drowned in the tragic sinking of the RMS Lusitania. He was 17 years old. This left a huge mark on the psyche of his younger sister (and only sibling), Beatrice, who then developed a lifelong fear of the water and everything associated with it. She became convinced throughout her entire life that Blake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Hope, Change and/or Straight Talk</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/09/26/friday-facts-hope-change-andor-straight-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: The voter registration deadline for the November 4 election is October 6. Once again, your mayoral candidates- - Democratic: Joseph Wilders, current mayor - Republican: Maribeth Cosgrove, longtime City Councilwoman - Libertarian: Lewis Armstrong, local businessman - Green: Louis M. Armstrong, Watson University humanities professor - Independent: Leonard Pierce, former Fifth Ward Democratic party leader (Mr. Pierce is also a sometime contributor to The City Desk) :: Mayor Wilders currently has a three point lead in the polls over Councilwoman Cosgrove. :: Of more than five hundred city residents asked in an informal poll, only three percent indicated that they would be willing to vote for a transvestite presidential candidate. :: Number of local businesses with &#8220;Hope&#8221; in their name: 7 (Including &#8220;Hope&#8217;s Erotic Bakery,&#8221; &#8220;Never Give Up (Hope)&#8221; resale and thrift store benfiting St.Katherine&#8217;s Childrens Hospital, and &#8220;Hope Floats&#8221; movie-themed ice cream parlor) :: Number of local businesses with &#8220;Change&#8221; in their name: 43 (mostly car service stations ending with &#8220;-Change,&#8221; but also including &#8220;Loose Change&#8221; used clothing store and &#8220;Change-a-lot&#8221; diaper laundry service) :: Number of local businesses with &#8220;Straight Talk&#8221; in their name: 0 (Although Community Radio 790 AM has a 15-minute niche news broadcast three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Peelers, It&#8217;s the Humidity, Blood</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/08/08/friday-facts-peelers-its-the-humidity-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: When the new Southside High School opens at the end of the month, it will be the first high school in the city built without an Olympic-sized swimming pool in 46 years, after the school district was finally able to override the requirements of Elanor Jean Hapsworth&#8217;s will. :: Number of days (so far) this summer in which the temperature has reached 90 degrees or more: 23 :: Ecdysiast clubs out near the airport with aviation-themed names: The Landing Strip, Propellerz, The Cargo Hold, Lindy&#8217;s, Flyboys, The Landing Strip Too :: More than 500 units of blood were transfused in the Nilsson-Presbyterian South Hospital emergency room during the month of July. Below is a percentage breakdown, listed by causes provided in accident/police reports: 32.5% Car/truck accidents 22.8% Miscellaneous/Not specified 14.4% Gunshot, stab, and/or assault wounds 10.7% ATV/motorcycle accidents 9.9% Aneurysm/hemorrhage 4.3% Firework mishaps 3.1% Injuries from falls (2.8% falls from objects, 0.3% crushed by falling objects) 1.6% Household/landscaping/construction equipment accident 0.5% Domestic animal attacks 0.2% Wild animal attacks :: New events for Citywide Field Day XV, to be held at various elementary schools across the city during the second week in September: Four-square (individual and pairs), tennis-ball fling, spitting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fake Homeless Man</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/14/the-fake-homeless-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new piece of public art has been slightly creeping people out on the 39th and Berger Street corner of the Art Institute campus. Near the sidewalk, sitting on a waist-high granite ledge, is what appears to be a homeless person, dressed in a torn ski jacket, Cleveland Browns sweater, jeans and a pair of worn combat boots. As people pass by or even just stop to wait for the light to change, the figure starts hurling invectives and ranting about current events in disjointed, confusing language. Underneath the yelling and ragged clothing is a fiberglass figure which began its life in a local amusement park over forty years ago. The sculpture is the project of Jeffrey Cottman (MFA &#8217;09), who found it while looking though a disused storeroom in the school&#8217;s studio building late last year. Beat up pretty badly and looking very worn, the figure had a couple of labels on the inside- one for the city&#8217;s Hav-A-Land Gardens Amusement Park (closed in 1974) and Rogerston Amusements Corp. Ltd. How it ended up in a basement room at the Art Institute is anybody&#8217;s guess. After some research online and making a few phone calls to collectors, he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Burning leaves, weeping sausage</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/02/friday-facts-burning-leaves-weeping-sausage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: The city is home to no less than seven junior and community colleges, one of which (Sparrow Valley Community College, on Cedar Ave and S.Sparrow Valley Dr.) boasts a Zagat-rated three-star cafeteria. :: The large outdoor clock above the main entrance of the City Hall Annex was accidentally set to Standard Time last weekend. On Monday morning approximately 12 employees and visitors were seen waiting outside the building one hour before official opening time. :: Amount of leaves a City resident is allowed to burn per week (by volume): 7 cubic feet :: Distance from freestanding structures (doghouses and meat-smoking lodges excepted, starting in 1989) burning City leaf piles must be: 25 feet :: Times City Code stipulates a resident must wave arms and &#8220;clearly and directly&#8221; state &#8220;I am burning leaves&#8221; before setting leaves aflame, to notify any deaf or blind children who might be playing nearby: 5 :: Times a resident of one of the city&#8217;s six unincorporated areas must &#8220;thoroughly and purposefully&#8221; probe leaf piles with a lawn implement to ensure no children or squirrels have burrowed into the leaf piles before burning: 1 :: An elaborate new storefront window display was unveiled for the struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batteries on the Tracks (or Lack Thereof)</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/28/batteries-on-the-tracks-or-lack-thereof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 01:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, Watson University instructor Susan Jakovac was looking for a new project to use in her Statistical Analysis studio class, but she kept coming up short. Jakovac wanted something with real world application, that would require her students to do some hard data collection and observation and nothing seemed quite right. That is, until one afternoon, while standing on the platform at the Osberger Avenue subway stop waiting for the Brown Line, she happened to look down at the tracks in sheer boredom. She realized that something was missing. &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t really noticed before- but there used to be so many batteries- mostly double and triple-A- down between the tracks,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I always figured that it was from people discarding them from their CD players and Walkmen- I looked around and saw about six people right there listening to iPods and the wheels started turning.&#8221; The wheel-turning led to a bit of digging and some luck in the records of the City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA). Though it led to cost overruns and a great deal of annoyance on the part of CSTA employees, Damon Flynn, a political appointee who ran the authority from 1997-2000, had a touch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go There: Gordon Insect Museum and Educational Center</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/07/go-there-gordon-insect-museum-and-educational-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a new feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. Word comes, in the form of a press release, that the Gordon Insect Museum and Educational Center is once again open for tours, after having been closed for the last three weeks. The GIMEC is a private facility owned and operated by Gordon Pest Control and located on the third floor of their main office, at 3348 Manchester Ave. It&#8217;s a rather large space and much better than you&#8217;d think a commercially-based educational facility about insects could be. This is due, in large part, to its founder, Mitchell Gordon, who started the exterminating company in 1964, but saw it as his duty to not only try to eliminate every unwanted insect in the tri-state region, but also educate its citizens in the field of pest control. Sparing no expense, he had the first version of the GIMEC, designed by a top student of Norman Bel Geddes&#8217;, installed in 1975. Periodic updates since then have kept the center refreshingly up to date, compared to other similar educational facilities which seem to have been built, then largely forgotten and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving and the night before</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/22/thanksgiving-and-the-night-before/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight is the busiest bar night of the year, often resulting in several impromptu semi-reunions around the city. After the cut, a partial list as to which bars serve as gathering places for alumni from area schools. :: Central South H.S. &#8211; Rafferty&#8217;s :: Eastern H.S. &#8211; The Bell Jar :: Woodrow Wilson H.S. &#8211; Level13 :: City High &#8211; T.G.I.Friday&#8217;s on Cantor Avenue (The one by the new shopping center, not the one by Laurel Park) :: Stenton H.S. &#8211; The Elbow Room :: Murrow Comm Tech &#8211; Typesetters&#8217; Club (actually, they&#8217;ll open up to all former journalism/communications students for the evening) :: St. Alban&#8217;s H.S. &#8211; Old Albie&#8217;s Tap Room :: St. Therese H.S. &#8211; Manlio&#8217;s Sports Room and Grill :: Cardinal Burke H.S. &#8211; T.G.I.Friday&#8217;s on Cantor Avenue (The one by Laurel Park, not the one by the new shopping center) :: Logan H.S. &#8211; Shatterstarr :: Hatfield Prep &#8211; Kegger at some guy&#8217;s parents&#8217; estate in Wicker Hills I hope this helps. I will likely be at home drinking, which is the safest bet, as you&#8217;re less likely to run into folks that way. Besides, you shouldn&#8217;t stay out too late, as the downtown parade starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Turkey, Lights, Abzug</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/17/friday-facts-turkey-lights-abzug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Thanksgiving dinners served by St. Lauren&#8217;s shelter in 2005: 351 :: Thanksgiving dinners served by the Oak Room at the Ritz-Carlton in 2005: 138 :: Where both establishments have purchased their turkeys for the last 85 years: DiNardi&#8217;s Meats :: Number of lights used in the Mabel Tripp Gardens annual Festival of Lights holiday event: 2.5 million :: Total hours the lights will be lit November 19 &#8211; January 1, 6 pm to midnight: 258 :: Volunteer hours needed to hang the lights: 1200 (50 volunteers x 3 eight hour workdays) :: Number of people who have portrayed Santa Claus in the city&#8217;s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade: 8 :: Number of these who actually claimed that they were, in fact, the real Santa Claus: 2 :: Number of women who have portrayed Santa in the parade: 1, longtime New York city councilwoman, Bella Abzug, in 1977, promoting a traveling exhibit of her hats at the Ragnot Museum of Art. :: Number of calls in 2005 to the Community College home ec department&#8217;s &#8220;Thanksgiving Emergency Help-Line&#8221;: 22 :: Only subject in the city school system officially referred to by a British name: Maths &#8211; R. White, C. Messick, L. Dinkins-White]]></description>
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