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Lakeside Estates, Walnut Bend, Briargrove Park http://www.walnutbend.org/walnutbend/outside_home.asp Lakeside is right next door to the west with buried utilities....Briargrove Park is to the east on the other side (east) of Beltway 8 and will be more expensive in most parts

hope you have several cattle prods and firearms for this mission

the intelligent thing to do would be to not buy a house near railroad tracks that are probably a century old

it will be hashed out during the legislative session

it was back before the Carnegie Foundation changed their ranking system....but AAU membership is something real.....but it is much broader than what the goals Texas is shooting for when they discuss "tier 1" and in terms of Texas and university establishment Houston and Dallas were both well along and similar in size before either had a state school

I am not sure why myself....I think the number of schools in the dfw metromess is a detriment to them overall with UTA, UTD, UNT, TWU, UNT-Dallas and the UCD VS Houston with UH, TSU, and Lonestar College I speculate that for a long time when A&M still had a large amount of room for student growth Houston just accepted them as suiting the needs of Houston and then TAMU-Galveston, Lamar, SHSU, and PVAMU were close with SFA not too far away Dallas would have TAMU-Commerce and Tarleton if you looked out that far......really though UH was a Houston creation at the start by HISD and was not a state school until the 70s while UNT, TWU and UTA are all very old by those standards as for number of college grads the metromess is above Houston by about 11,000 undergrads and Houston was pretty close in grad students.....there is a chart out on the web with Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Boston, NY and several other places and I can't find it.......Dallas and Houston were pretty far down the list of big cities in number of college students enrolled....basically for Houston to compete with the cities they want to compare to Houston would need to add a university just a bit smaller than UH to have the same number of college students and some other US cities

http://www.atlm.edu/index.html yet another "metro" school that looks a LOT like UHD and nothing like devry maybe they should call it barbera J's and mickey L's bayou school that is real good

someone should inform someone that Houston would rather put up a wall between Houston and New Orleans....and then catapult some people back over it onto their heads

worst idea ever Dubai will soon be a textbook example of how to take a huge opportunity and squander it on total stupidity and grandeur that can't be sustained

I ask because people on this forum often participate on other forums similar to this one for other cities and I can't get any answers at that site it is really that difficult to figure out.....and I ask in the DALLAS section of this forum.....again not hard to figure out....sort of like when someone ask what was going on with swamplot a few months back.....not this forum....but people from this forum go to it a lot

actually he has a stupid point in a quick google search of the two metro universities that come up in the USA one is exactly like what UHD is http://archive.metrostate.edu/academic/ and the other is like what he describes.....but they recently changed their name to something stupid http://www.fmu.edu/ and 4 in England are much better sounding than UHD http://www.mmu.ac.uk/ http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ http://www.lmu.ac.uk/ http://www.sihe.ac.uk/ same for South Africa (though I suspect if UHD wanted a name like this it would fly through) http://www.nmmu.ac.za/default.asp?bhcp=1 sounds to me like Dr. Uzman needs to get a clue and get out more and UHD should just go ahead and change their name to some ignorant PC crap like Hopes and Dreams, Obama/Chavez State, Social Promotion State, or We Hand'um Degree State that was by far the best name of the bunch and it sounds like they let the biggest dullards of their faculty make a false claim with nothing to support it because he wants some garbage name...UHD is hardly some school that can make any type of "gravitas" claaim seeing as it is an open enrollment school offering tons of classes for people that are behind coming out of high school "The most ethnically diverse, the most racially diverse university in the system and you say, 'Change your name,' " Rose said. "Marketing can fix (any confusion)." and to make the claim above when UH is one of the most diverse schools in the USA with the first female Indian born president and chancellor just shows childish ignorance....the other names suck and some have been proven to turn students off because of bi-directional wordiness (that has been proven in study after study to be associated with a lesser school) or they just sound stupid...."City" State University someone needs to tell Dr. Uzman exactly what UHD is.....and it ain't "gravitas" that is for damn sure or anything to faithfully and appropriately reflect upon they should just go ahead and change UHD to "Liberal PC Crapper University"

UH should be #1 in the competition with Tech a very close second because they do the highest amount of externally funded research at about 78 million a year for UH and close to that for Tech if you include their Lubbock Med School, they have the second highest endowment of the 7 considered, right behind Texas Tech, and they have a real possibility of gaining a med school and they currently have a strong engineering program....UH also currently has a very high % of grad students vs undergrads Ag, Engineering, and Medicine are what brings in the most grants......of the seven schools in consideration only Texas Tech has Ag and will ever have Ag and Tech is also currently the only one with a med school (two actually with one in El Paso but that should not count).....if you add in the amount of research Techs med school does it puts Tech very close to the amount of externally funded research that UH does......UTD and UTA both have UT Southwestern that they work with and UTSA has UTHSC-SA but the Tech med school is basically on the very same campus as the university...UH would probably locate their med school in TMC UH has low enrollment requirements and a low graduation % working against them when compared to UTD and Tech especially.....but IMO that is the least expensive thing to solve and the only thing holding UH back from increasing the enrollment requirements (and the graduation rate along with that) is the fact that Texas currently funds all, but UT Austin, TAMU, and PVAMU based on enrollment....but with increased funding for "tier 1" UH would not have that concern and could raise their admissions standards with less concern about funding and would have funding to recruit higher quality students and not lose much total enrollment to start and if they were to elevate their reputation then students would be drawn there in greater numbers UH also has a respected Law school, and College of Business which do not bring in grants, but do bring in a large % of alumni giving and UH has a pharmacy program that only Tech currently offers of the 7 being considered (but Techs is located in Amarillo) and none of the other schools have law or any other professional programs with the exception of Tech Tech has Ag, Engineering, Med, Nursing, and a well funded College of Business, and Law so Tech currently has all the major grant getting programs and all the major donation programs.....but Tech is way out in Lubbock, but their alumni giving is very good which is why they have the largest endowment of the 7 (UTD in 3rd) Tech has a small % of grad students though, but is working to address this working against UH is Rice being located in Houston and TAMU being located so close to Houston because people cry that dallas is the largest city in the USA without a school in the AAU or a "tier 1" school.....I attribute this to dallas ignorance and the fact that "dallas" opened UTD (even though UTD is in Richardson) instead of working with UTA which if you put UTA and UTDs programs and endowment together they would already be very close to "tier 1" and you would not have two UT System schools both trying to work with UT Southwestern(which they both do) dallas also has unt, TWU, and now the failed ignorant waste that is unt-dallas that was started as a pork barrel money grab for south dallas by the idiot royce west....dallas was in a prime position years ago to elevate UTA because unt and TWU were already there along with the UCD (which is in downtown dallas and is similar to Lonestar College where several schools share space and offer degree programs though it is not nearly as successful as Lonestar) and unt and TWU, and UCD could have been the "catch all" schools....but instead they left UTA as another catch all school and created UTD as graduate and upper level only....and now because of political ignorance they have wasted yet more state money on the highly unsuccessful unt-dallas Houston only ever had UH and TSU for the longest time and TSU was not going to abandon the "minority mission" and had no desire to be a "catch all" for everyone else and so that left UH to do it all....now with UHD/HMU, and Lonestar College the students of Houston have other options if UH elevates admissions requirements currently UTSA is way too far back in externally funded research and endowment, and admissions to compete with UTD, UH, and Tech and the same with UTA and UTEP though all 3 are catching up fast in externally funded research.....unt is actually losing in externally funded research and has the lowest % of grad students vs undergrads, an extremely small endowment, very small college of engineering, and no professional programs other than a DO school in Fort Worth and DO schools are generally not research oriented and there is very poor collaboration between the DO and the main campus if Texas was smart they would elevate UH, Tech, and UTD, and then in the next round UTSA, UTA, and UTEP....but the idea that is gaining ground is put forth by the president of UTD and that is to toss money in a pool and let all 7 emerging research universities compete for it which IMO is chicken s**t and will probably result in the status quo which is 7 universities not standing out in the USA as "tier 1"......I believe he feels as a part of the UT System and with UT Southwestern there that UTD can get it done which they possibly can......I feel UH and Tech can get it done as well especially since UH and Tech are both currently in the silent phase of plans to raise a billion dollars each over the next 5-7 years....I have not seen any plan of this sort from UTD to date, but I am sure they are working on it or their president would not put forward this proposal...the plan would involve the funds in the pool being used to match grants and large alumni donations...UH has very productive faculty on a per faculty member basis of grant funding and so do UTEP, and UTD....Tech is lower than they need to be (and working to address that) and UTSA and UTA are doing pretty well for their situation....unt is 50% lower than the lowest of the other 6 and doing next to nothing to address that in any real way and unt will never have the programs in place to really make up the ground...and even if they do it will be a duplication and a waste while I feel it will be nice to stimulate community support for UH, TTU, UTD, UTA, UTSA, UTA, and UTEP which is what the money in the pool proposal is about I am concerned that UTA, UTSA, and UTEP will gain just enough community support to gain enough money to shrink the available funds to the point that UH, UTD, and TTU will not be able to elevate themselves to true "tier 1" or AAU membership........while all 6 of those schools being aggressive is GREAT IMO my concern is that Texas will not step up in the future and grwo that pool to recognize that six (maybe even seven) schools are actually aggressively getting grants and alumni support and it will leave 6 schools better, but not good enough to meet the real goals of this "tier1" talk I also have a concern that under this plan there will be a lack of coordination between schools that will result in some schools (especially unt) rushing to start programs that are not a good match with the current offerings of their school, and that they are really not prepared or qualified to run, and it will result in waste, duplication, and poor quality Really Texas needs to cut through the BS and elevate UH (because they earned it and TAMU is not in Houston and Houston should not be penalized for having a strongly supported private school in Rice), Texas Tech (because they have earned it with their broad offering of professional and grant gaining programs and their endowment and alumni support), and UTD (because while dallas has made huge stupid mistakes in their higher education planning UTD is well respected and highly productive in research)......and then in 6 years Texas should elevate UTSA, UTEP, and UTA because by then TAMUK-SA should be a bigger school for a catch all for San Antonio and UTSA is growing their engineering offerings and their collaboration with UTHSC-SA and raising admissions and if you make the argument about dallas deserving a "tier 1" school then I see no reason to exclude San Antonio, UTEP and that area of Texas deserve a top school and UTEP does have highly productive faculty for gaining grants and UTEP can collaborate with TTUHSC-EP, and UTA has done well with what they offer and they are a much broader school than UTD and they have a large and growing engineering program

well if it is her in the myspace link in post #5 then I think most would think she is black......but one never knows! http://www.myspace.com/pa2tx either way post #5 was a bit funny for web drama!

what does it take to be able to post on dallasmetropolis....registered, got the email, clicked it, am a memebr, still not approved to post....has been several days....sent an email to the mod...no reply and no action from a PM to him from the "contact us" pretty good way to have no traffic for a site!

hard to answer because of differences in quality and styles of material and the differences in installation for each anywhere from 4X to 12X as much or possibly even more if you are in the Gulf Coast area it could e higher right now because of everyone repairing storm damage and not wanting to pull away from that "fast" work to do something as complex as copper lower end traditional could be 90-150 a square and copper could be 600+ a square and that can vary depending on your current roof conditions or the complexity of a roof design you would do best to have someone look at the property or your plans if it is a new build.....way too many variables to answer straight up but it will easily be 4X as much over the cost of decent composition roofing and it can go way up from there

not exactly what the issue is with this thread....it is the same meat you have been buying for a decade or more only now it has a label on it as one poster stated it is probably the grocery company either unable at the current time or unwilling to find out exactly what country the cow was in before being butchered I would doubt it hit all 3 countries, but it easily could have been in two countries and probably not unheard of to be in 3 calf from Canada brought into the USA to graze and then sent to Mexico to the final feed lot and then butchered and the meat sent back....very unlikely, but possible or calf from Mexico taken to Canada to graze and then finished in Nebraska feed lot and butchered....again unlikely because of the mortality factor in transport and the weight loss and recovery time for weight gain after long transport from Mexico all the way to Canada or vice versa......but two countries is VERY easy for a cow to travel.....born and grazed in Canada and feed lot and butchered in the USA ect. it has been going on for decades with the exceptions of Canada being closed because of mad cow a few years back and occasional political bickering between the USA and Mexico

I quit going about 7 years ago it has just gotten too screwed up down there and even the regular people are often just looking to "take you" for anything they can because business is so bad and they are mad about the border crackdowns....now with the border violence and kidnappings FORGET IT!

maybe Brewster Rooster is laying there faking he is dead old joke

they will be reviewed in 2009 http://www.txdot.gov/public_involvement/st...sues/sunset.htm

and you also seem "smart" enough to judge a 50,000+ student university based on 100 students in the football program....I am sure this lends credibility to your opinion and the next time rankings services and university studies the world over come out with a list of top universities they will include your "proven" method of judging a school based on .002 or less of the total student body

in your mind most large public schools are bad, but in the mind of everyone else the world over many large public schools are very good which is why no matter what ranking method or who does the rankings these schools fair very well and also why recruiters from top companies flock to them for graduates I think Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, TAMU, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Arizona and many more would disagree with you if anyone could be looked at as a joke it would be smaller east coast private schools that are well known for grade inflation I know your opinion carries a lot of weight in the world of academia, but rankings published from Shanghai, to London, to the USA consistantly have UT as one of the top US universities and as one of the top public universities in the world.....and I have my doubts that anyone in London or China was so marveled by Vince scrambling to the right at the final seconds that they elevated their rankings of UT and all the large public schools mentioned above are members of the AAU.....and I think the collective minds of the AAU know what a quality university is VS you on HAIF

this post alone proves you have no clue about what you are talking about if any HS counselor is dumb enough to think this then they are too dumb to even be a high school counselor

tunnels are solid lines skywalks are dashed......I nominate you for the navigator on TheNiches Neches river trip

the datsuns you were hawking on here

strangely for the last two years all we have heard from the media is that we are in a recession......now you actually want to pull out the true measure of a recession and wave it around