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As I’ve said previously, I survey employment ‘bulletin boards’ on the Internet on behalf of my clients in Panama City Rescue Mission.  Here’s a typical help-wanted advertisement on Panama City.Craigslist.org:

Maintenance Man NEEDED! (Callaway, Fl.)

Date: 2010-09-02, 12:22PM EDT
Reply to: job-7____8@craigslist.org

We are looking for someone that is willing to be a Vendor for our property, for MAINTENCE, which means, picking up the ground, mowing, cutting shrubs, ECT.

Need: OWN TOOLS, EXPERINCE, And REFRENCES!!

The pay will be– A FREE 1BEDROOM APARTMENT EVERY MONTH..

Please contact the ____ Terrace Apartments at 850-___- ____.
Please ask for Angela or Chelsey.

Office Hours are Monday – Friday 9am-6pm.
CLOSED on SATURDAYS, and Sunday 1pm-5pm.

–Please leave a message if we do not answer.

Thank you,
Have a wonderful day.

You can outdistance that which is  running after you, but not that which runs inside you. — a maxim in Rwanda

A child that has never been in a strange town thinks her mother cooks best.  — a maxim from Togo

No matter how short you are, you will always see the stars. - African proverb

This is the longest ‘search term’ ever entered into a search engine (Google’s) to find tenPesos.com:

Which of the following attributes of a Toyota Scion would be most appropriate to emphasize in television commercials during an economic recession?

That’s right; someone typed all that into Google. And Google presented this weblog in the search results, although I haven’t written of Scion brand cars.

remaining U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration schedule:

You learn a lot about a man by his behavior when hungry. – Zambian proverb

I just watched an en enjoyable movie, Green Zone, set in Iraq in 2003. I recommend it. »→

a brief survey of some automobile manufacturers’ and distributors’ efforts to market cars to U.S. Hispanics

Approximately fifty million Hispanic persons reside in the United States – about 15 percent of the general population (Zwaniecki, 2009).  They comprise the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population.  The purchasing power of Hispanics is growing at a rate nearly three times as fast as that of the general population and is estimated to be one trillion dollars (MMD Newswire, 2010). »→