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If you know of frends or family moving to the Seattle area needing help buying a home...www.johnlscott.com/kevinh Kevin Continue

Hello All Dissertation Students, I am in the process of finding out a topic for a anthropology dissertation , more specifically in forensic anthropology. Although I am quite sure what I want to do, I am interested in having views of others in the fields, and where they think research is lacking. With a bit of luck, my ideas will be amongst the areas suggested! I am particularly interested in your… Continue

The event is planned for Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at the Mt Vernon Gun & Sportsmen Club on Miller Lake Rd. Starting at 3pm --- 4pm FOOD! --- 6pm Music and more fun! Come as you are. Hope you can make it. Continue

Sent to me by a friend........ Will you give this to my Daddy? As a Company, Southwest Airlines is going to support " Red Fridays ". Last week I was in Atlanta , Georgia attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned around and witnessed one of the greatest acts of patriotism I have ever seen. Moving through the terminal was a group of soldiers in their camos. As they began heading… Continue

I believe that the biggest difference Obama will make as the next U.S. President is that his election to the highest office in the land will do the same thing for young African-Americans in the business and political worlds, that Jackie Robinson's appearance in Major League baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers and earning the honor of Rookie of the Year in 1947, did for boys who loved the game of baseball, but hadn't been allowed to play the game. It should open doors in much the same way that Te… Continue

Manzur Mahmud used to hide when he prayed. He'd duck down in his cubicle at Dallas' Texas Instruments or scramble to a friend's office to conduct two of his five daily Muslim prayers. Now the Bangladeshi engineer walks down the corridor and enters a small prayer room. North Texas companies are increasingly making space for quiet rooms as Muslim employees play a larger role in the U.S. workplace and feel more secure about verbalizing their faith. Meanwhile, businesses nationwide are seeing a r… Continue

This is long, but I'm not going to apologize! Here in Dallas, we have yet another story in the news of a child being "forgotten" and left in a locked car to die by their parent in the midst of a string of 100-105 degree days. 1-year-old Markus Anthony Lewis died Sunday afternoon after he was apparently left in the family van by accident on a day when temperatures in North Texas reached 105 degrees. It was the hottest day of the year. The Lewis family took two cars to a local pool earlier in t… Continue

When my first boy was an infant, I had a friend with a son about four. We lived in the same apartment complex which backed up to a golf course. Late one summer afternoon as I drove in from work, I happened to see my friend and his son walking across the open green expanse toward a huge old oak tree. I parked and watched them, thinking about the day when I could walk with my own son, and teach him of the world. When they reached the tree, each unzipped his pants and proceeded to urinate on the gr… Continue

I hate it when people forward bogus warnings; I have even done it myself a couple times unintentionally...but this one is real, and it's important. I verified it with www.Snopes.com even. So please send this warning to everyone on your e- mail list!!! If someone comes to your front door, saying they are checking for ticks due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up, DO NOT DO IT!! THIS IS A SCAM!! They only want to see you naked. I… Continue

This past Tuesday, the 20th, my folks were doing what they have done most evenings for the past several years. She was weeding and puttering around in the back-yard, and Dad was watching. As is normal, he decided to put some birdseed in the feeders for the squirrels to enjoy. In every way, it was a normal evening in the lives of Tobe and Charlcie. My folks live in a well-established neighborhood, where the 6-foot tall privacy fence is considered to be not "neighbor-friendly", and therefore, the… Continue

Your profile page is your Home. How do you want to present yourself? Start with a great picture! If you don't have a picture, add a graphic that represents you or your business. Either way, you are making a mental impression on your visitors and they will begin to remember you by name in other areas of the network. Don't forget, that although we all originate from the MTV area, we don't all know each other, and this is a social networking site. Add a page title. Above your pic… Continue