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MetaGlossary.com. BULLET SPACE. Urban Homesteading Assistance Board. The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, or UHAB, is a 35-year old non-profit organization in New York City that helps create and support self-help housing.

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

UHAB works with residents to acquire, rehabilitate and manage their apartments. In the process the organization creates and helps sustain high-quality limited-equity housing cooperatives that are to remain affordable, in perpetuity, to people of low and middle-income.[1] In 1974 UHAB started as a resident advocacy and training group serving residents in foreclosed or abandoned properties in New York City.[1] Since then, UHAB has evolved from a largely assistance and training-focused organization into one of the city's leading developers of affordable housing.

History[edit] The Very Reverend James P. UHAB was founded in April 1974.[1] Government contracts[edit] One of the larger city contracts is administration of the city's Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) program. C-Squat. Squatters' notice at C-Squat.

C-Squat

History[edit] Journalist and author Robert Neuwirth described the situation that gave birth to many of New York's squats, including C Squat, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, "In the 1970s, scores of landlords walked away from old tenement buildings. Welcome to the Brooklyn Writers Space. Lists.mutualaid.org Mailing Lists. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life - S. Walton, Richard Hofstadter. Theories of Learning - Crystal Mapping. 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare.

10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should)

The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web. With that gesture, MIT OpenCourseWare helped launch an important educational movement, one that MIT President Susan Hockfield described in her opening remarks at yesterday’s meeting as both the child of technology and of a far more ancient academic tradition: “the tradition of the global intellectual commons.” We have looked here before at how OCW has shaped education in the last ten years, but in many ways much of the content that has been posted online remains very much “Web 1.0.” MacroHistory : World History. Freer Sackler Galleries. Ancient Library. Ancient Greece: a world in evolution. The 21st Century Learning Initiative. Free Books. A lot of people keep asking about a good list of programming books.

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Hence, we are building this list to save your time and to spread the knowledge. Some of these books will definitely help us to evolve our coding skills and thought processes for developing better solutions. We will do our best to keep updating this list, hope you find this list useful, here we go. Meta-List Graphics Programming Language Agnostic: NerdDinner Walkthrough Assembly Language: Bash Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide See .NET below Django Djangobook.com Emacs The Emacs manual Thanks Emacser (October 17, 2010) Forth Git Haskell Dive Into HTML5 Java JavaScript Linux Advanced Linux Programming.

Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Short Stories. JournalistExpress: News & Research Portal for Reporters. Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing! Hidden in Plain View During WW II Lockheed (unbelievable 1940s pictures).

Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing!

This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves. During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. Before... After.. The person I received this from said she got back an interesting story about someone's mother who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this.

Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching it all be set up like a movie studio production. Note.... I am 85 and had much of my pilot training in Calif. Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II - wow this is amazing! Please visit stories, etc. for more pictures, stories, etc. 9 Cool Things to Do With Old Books » Written Word. Bibliophiles and bookworms, English majors and lovers of literature: is it possible to have too many books?

9 Cool Things to Do With Old Books » Written Word

They accumulate so quickly! Every member of your family getting you the same three books you requested for Christmas. Home. A new way of choosing what to read next. Continuum - Independent Publisher of Academic, Professional and Reference Books and eBooks.

Used, New, and Out-of-Print Books, eBooks, Music, Movies, and Video Games. 13 Sites to Download Free eBooks. eBooks have become very popular with devices such as the Kindle and the new iPad.

13 Sites to Download Free eBooks

You can get applications for your smart phone to read PDF files and eBooks from most popular book sites. There ia a large choice of eBooks and many are free. Amazon has a collection of free eBooks for their Kindle reader so be sure and check their site. You don’t have to buy a Kindle to read them. They have applications you can download for your computer, iPhone and certain smart phones that are free. Many eBooks are standard PDF files so all you need is a PDF reader on your computer or port them to your Kindle or iPad and many other devices.

You can also check out a list of free eBook sites by visiting this XMarks link for free ebooks. Sites To Find Free eBooks Ebookee – Books you will find: Almost any book, magazine, even audio books you can imagine. Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library. Old Poetry. Electronic Poetry Portal. Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century.