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Comment by Aggie on December 2, 2009 at 4:43pm

CENTER NAMED ULI HOUSTON'S ACADEMIC PARTNER


COLLEGE STATION (Mays Business School) – The Real Estate Center has forged a new partnership with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), one of the most respected real estate think tanks in the nation.

The Center has replaced Rice University as ULI Houston chapter’s academic partner.

Center Director Gary Maler, who now will serve as a member of ULI Houston’s executive committee, says this sort of relationship has been his goal for the Center for many years.

The partnership will be valuable to the Center as it will allow for closer relationships within the development community, as well as to the organization as the Center provides them with the latest market research.

The two groups recently sponsored their first annual Forecast Conference in Houston. More than 530 real estate professionals attended.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ULI is the premier organization for real estate developers.

Comment by Aggie on November 25, 2009 at 10:43am

THANKSGIVING QUIZ I got 13 of 20 or 65% and I used to raise turkeys.

Comment by Aggie on November 24, 2009 at 6:19pm

When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it. No taxes, no debt, women did all the work. White man thought he could improve on a system like this. - Cherokee

Comment by Zickbee on November 24, 2009 at 5:41am

I love the jib jab card of you! I never knew you could sing and dance like that! What hoot!!

Comment by Aggie on November 16, 2009 at 6:57pm

Good one Lori, I had a snake under the refigerator last weekend.

Comment by Lori on November 15, 2009 at 5:29pm

>>
>> Snakes, also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis), can be
>> dangerous.
>> Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.
>>
>> A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a
>> recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect
>> them from a possible freeze.
>>
>> It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of
>> the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it
>> go under the sofa.
>>
>> She let out a very loud scream.
>>
>> The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked
>> to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the
>> sofa.
>>
>> He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About
>> that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He
>> thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the
>> floor.
>>
>> His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told
>> him to hold still and called an ambulance.
>>
>> The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on
>> the stretcher, and started carrying him out.
>>
>> About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency
>> Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's
>> when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
>>
>> The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called
>> on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake.. He armed himself
>> with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he
>> decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in
>> relief.
>>
>> But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she
>> felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake
>> rushed back under the sofa.
>>
>> The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to
>> revive her.
>>
>> The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery
>> store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her
>> husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him
>> out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
>>
>> The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor
>> lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that
>> the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle
>> of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
>>
>> By now, the police had arrived.
>> Breathe here...
>>
>> They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a
>> drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the
>> women tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake!
>>
>> The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his
>> sobbing wife.
>>
>> Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of
>> the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit
>> the leg of the end table . The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered
>> and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
>>
>> The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the
>> window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out
>> and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and
>> smashed into the parked police car.
>>
>> Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire
>> department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they
>> were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead
>> wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square
>> city block area (but they did get the house fire out).
>>
>> Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was
>> repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was
>> right with their world.
>>
>> A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold
>> snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should
>> bring in their plants for the night.
>>
>> And that's when he shot her.

Comment by Aggie on November 13, 2009 at 5:00pm

Sweet Pea I believe you are right. That was a great ending to a great movie. Been meaning to watch it again.

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