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Ikea's Billy bookcase just got a whole lot brighter
Long a storage staple, the Billy bookcase boasts some brand-new looks for 2013
Never a company to sit on its laurels, Ikea has been busy updating some of its most popular products, including the Billy bookcase.
First designed in 1979, the unit has evolved and changed to accommodate the ever-growing number of household items that need to be stowed away or proudly displayed.
Different colours and textures have been gradually introduced over the years, but now Ikea has boldly leapt into the future with three startling additions to the range.
White on the outside and on the shelf edges, the designs are coloured using a foil finish in either this striking aquamarine blue, a vivacious orange (both designed by Gillis Lundgren), or a black-and-white print with a wallpaper-style image of books opened like fans (designed by Susanna Löfgren).
Each available as a limited edition from February, the Billy bookcases are all sized W80 x D28 x H202cm and priced at a very reasonable £45.
Somehow we expect the queues down at your local Ikea store will get rather longer, but buying one of these beauties will certainly be worth the wait.


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From Airport Freeway and Central Dr, Bedford, Texas, drive east on Airport Freeway toward Central Drive. Make the first left turn onto Central Dr. Woods of Bedford Apartments will be on the right.
It is not uncommon for people to need to live somewhere between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas for professional or personal reasons. The trick is finding a place that allows quick access to both cities, but also creates an atmosphere of comfort and security. The Woods of Bedford apartment community is conveniently located between Fort Worth and Dallas, and it offers the kind of lifestyle people need to be able to relax at the end of the day.This is a lavish community that has five swimming pools that are surrounded by elegant landscaping. The grounds have several large courtyards for residents to use, and there are grilling stations available for family gatherings and weekend cookouts. The cyber cafe offers free WiFi, and the 24-hour fitness center is the place where residents can stay in shape and burn off excess energy.The apartments offer plush carpeting, large closets, and custom cabinets. Residents can also request wood burning fireplaces and real vaulted ceilings to add to the look and feel of true luxury. Each unit has air conditioning and individual climate controls for the comfort of the residents. When it is necessary to have quick access to Fort Worth and Dallas, then it is necessary to live at the Woods of Bedford.

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Rice star Anthony Rendon suffers severe ankle injury
Rice's Rendon hurts ankle, foot
Junior suffers multiple fractures with Team USA
Rice junior third baseman Anthony Rendon, the 2010 Howser Trophy recipient as the nation's best collegiate baseball player, suffered a severe injury to his right ankle Wednesday while playing for Team USA in Cary, N.C.
It's the same ankle that sidelined Rendon, who is considered by many scouting services as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 MLB draft, when he tore ligaments in last year's NCAA super regionals. This time, after his right foot was apparently caught underneath him during a rundown against South Korea, there are reportedly multiple fractures in his ankle and foot. His ankle is believed to be dislocated as well.
Rendon will be evaluated by Dr. Tom Clanton, who performed the surgery on his ankle last summer, upon his return to Houston today.
Rendon didn't miss any of the 2010 season and went on to hit .394 with 26 home runs and 85 RBIs.
"The care and safety of the players and student-athletes is always foremost," Rice coach Wayne Graham said in a statement. "We'll use every resource we have to assure that Anthony is returned to full health."


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On a quiet night in Venice, Iago, ensign to the Moorish general, Othello, enlists the aid of Roderigo in his plot against Othello.
Scene 1- A sea port in cyprus. Scene 2- a street Scene 3-A hall in the castle Othello The Moore Of Venice
Act 2 Three scenes We're now back on the streets of Cyprus to hear Othello's herald make a public announcement: in celebration of the Turkish fleet's destruction, Othello has declared that tonight will be a party night in Cyprus. Every man can do what pleases him best. Othello and Desdemona celebrate their love, while Iago offers Cassio some wine. He turns it down, stating that he does not drink, and then summons the married couple. Iago states, in soliloquy, his intentions to frame Cassio for making passes at Desdemona, and complains of watching the lovesick Roderigo sad with loneliness. Iago manages to get Cassio drunk and the gentlemen all sing songs of valor and joy to one another and in praise of Othello. Cassio mumbles that he, the Lieutenant, must be saved before the Ensign. Iago, the Ensign, is silently angered by this. Cassio leaves the festivities proclaiming his soberness in an overtly drunken fashion, allowing Iago to tell Montano of his worries about Cassio's ability to govern. Iago tells Roderigo to follow the drunken Cassio. Othello
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by Wendy Sommers
Welcome to December already! Can you believe it? This month usually means we're busier and have so much on the go. Finding time to scrapbook can be difficult but remember to take some time to create and relax.
This month I am working with Echo Park's Holly Jolly Christmas collection. This collection is so gorgeous! I love the vibrant colours and playful element stickers. It's a step away from traditional Christmas colors, but just enough to still fit the bill for holiday themed layouts.
Here are some close-ups of my layout:
Here, I also used the woodgrain alpha by Jillibean Soup (you can find it in the LCOM store here):
I love using twine to accent my embellishments. This lime colour is perfect for holiday themed layouts! It is available in the LCOM store in a rainbow of colours here. The colour I used on my layout is called Chartreuse:
And here is my layout: I hope my layout today inspires you to take a few minutes to enjoy yourself and scrapbook!
Products used from the LCOM store:
Echo Park - Holly Jolly Christmas - Collection kit
Echo Park - Holly Jolly Christmas - Alpha stickers
Echo Park - Holly Jolly Christmas - Assorted brad pack
Echo Park - Holly Jolly Christmas - chipboard pack
Echo Park - Holly Jolly Christmas - elements stickers
Jillibean Soup - Chipboard alphas - woodgrain
Jillibean Soup - Christmas Eve Chowder - die cuts
The Twinery - Chartreuse twine
Other: date stamp, jenni bowlin ink


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When I entered the store I felt as if I was if I was back at Mexico! Awesome prices and great selection of bread and cakes! I wish they would open one where I live because I would go all the time!
Wow! it is the best mexican grocery store I have ever been in. They make everything, and I mean everything and it is down right there. The tamales are so fresh and delicious, their pastries are...
Mercado Guadalajara is located at 1802 12th St Ste 101 in Hood River and has been in the business of Manufacturing - Mexican Foods, Nec: Packaged In Cans, Jars, Etc. since 2009.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – In a game filled with youthful flatbellies who hit the ball a country mile, then hit the gym with similar ferocity, Miguel Angel Jimenez is a relic from a past generation.
He's also a relic in serious contention for the Masters title.
With a tournament-best, 6-under 66 Saturday, the 50-year-old Jimenez climbed the leaderboard in search of his first major championship.
"Played very solid from green to tees," he said. "My iron shots was working very good, too, and you hole some putts when you were having chances for birdies. Minus six, you cannot complain."
Scoring for the 78th Masters Tournament
Masters Tournament: Articles, videos and photos
For the day, Jimenez carded seven birdies against just a single bogey.
He is trying to become the oldest major champion in history, eclipsing Julius Boros, who was 48 when he won the 1968 PGA Championship.
"It's my 26th year on Tour," he said. "And probably some people say, 'That's so many years; that's got to be hard and that's got to be hard on the body.' No, I love what I'm doing, and I hope I'm still in the same conditions for another 25 [years]. I'm not going to get bored of myself."
And yes, he'll continue what's become a famous pre-round stretching routine, because – as he knows – flexibility is important in golf.
"Probably it's funny. Sometimes I'm looking at myself on video, and I'm laughing, too. It's nice, it's bueno. But you know what is the main thing, I never get injured."


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While research on other Christian denominations shows similar individualized attitudes about the role of faith in everyday life, the generational differences are more pronounced among Catholics. "Catholic teenagers are the most distanced from the church authorities," reports Christian Smith, professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, a fact he attributes to "largely ineffective" modern Catholic religious education. To be sure, some caution is advisable when interpreting generational differences measured at different stages of life: The millennials are just at the beginning of adulthood, so their optimistic and individual-focused opinions may change with their circumstances. "Some of this is useful idealism and some of it is just inexperience," said Mark Regnerus, associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Still, the cultural shift can't be ignored, Mr. Regnerus said. "We've been swamped by messages of romantic individualism. Those ideas can lead people to marry, but can lead you out of the marriage just as fast when things get tough."
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Calvary Church emphasizes a God centered, Bible saturated ministry through the preaching of the Word. Our corporate service times are designed to lift up Jesus and help those in attendance to know, worship and serve Him with all their heart. Our pastor's preaching and teaching ministry is a primary thrust of what we do at Calvary both in training and outreach.
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Congratulations on your pregnancy and forthcoming birth!
Do you want a birth which is easier, more comfortable, peaceful and often drug free? HypnoBirthing® can give you all of this and more! HypnoBirthing® is a form of childbirth antenatal education which will not only teach you specific breathing techniques and self hypnosis for use in labour. It will also teach you deep relaxation and preparation for childbirth. The techniques used in HypnoBirthing® are easy to learn. Whether you plan to have a homebirth or hospital birth, you will find that HypnoBirthing® will help you achieve the birth that you want. Please read on to find out more about HypnoBirthing®


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Date: 22/5/2006
The Surrey Planning Manager, Hilary Herbert, has become the new President of the Planning Officers Society. She was elected at the Society's Annual General Meeting held in Harrow on Friday 19th May 2006.
At the AGM Hilary stated that it was her aim for the year to build on the theme of Making the Planning System Work, but with particular reference to the regional and county planning roles and take forward the message that planning is essential to the delivery of sustainable development and needs to be more highly valued and resourced.
Hilary has spent much of her career in planning, joining Surrey originally in 1974 and after a period at the London Borough of Sutton, returned to Surrey in 1987. She was appointed Planning Manager in 2006 having previously been Head of Minerals & Waste. Hilary graduated from Sussex University with a degree in Economics and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Town Planning from Southbank University. She is a Member of the RTPI.
Hilary was Chairman of the Planning Officers Society European Issues Topic Group from 2001 to 2003. She took up the position of Senior Vice President of the Society in May 2005 and has been very involved in ensuring that strategic planning and minerals and waste issues are integrated with the rest of the Society's work.
The Immediate Past President of the Society is Graham Jones, Director of Strategic Planning at Harrow LBC. The new Senior Vice-President is Steve Quartermain, Director of Planning & Environmental Services at Hambleton DC . The new Junior Vice-President is Phil Kirby, Director of Planning and Community Services at Broadland DC .


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Born out of the frustration of regularly checking the sports pages for any news of signings for
my own team, and not seeing any, 'Have We Signed Anyone Today' was originally a joke site which
just said "No" whenever it was checked. It has since been developed to show a little more truth.
Very simply, the site asks for your preferred team, then scans for news articles relating to transfer
news, specifically signings. It's not 100% accurate, but hey, it was developed over a couple of lunch
hours and I'm still working on it.
The feedback has blown me away, it was a little joke that turned into something more serious and now
it's featured in the b3ta newsletter
(check it out if you don't already) and on the Guardian.com
website, which gave me the amazing quote for this page headline :)
What this "success" also means, is that traffic has been high and although the site is minimal to say the
least, it has also increased bandwidth, which has meant I have had to stick adverts on. Sorry for this,
but help a fellow football fan out eh?
This site uses cookies. Deal with it or move along.
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Funded by venture capital company Idealab Capital Partners, the Pasadena, Calif., start-up (www.free-pc.com) will offer free PCs, Internet access and e-mail accounts to consumers who agree to receive tailored advertising on their desktops.
Separately, USA Networks will invest $10 million in the company, which will ship 10,000 computers to approved applicants during a second-quarter test period.
Cybergold, Berkeley, Calif., will provide incentive-based ads.
The model, evidently attractive to consumers, should attract advertisers eager to target a previously untapped demographic, said Steve Chadima, VP-marketing for Free-PC.
"This is a great opportunity for advertisers to reach people who don't currently go online or view online advertising," Mr. Chadima said. "The advertising will be on the desktop even if the user is not on the [Free-PC] Web site. It will facilitate highly targeted advertising. In many cases, [new users] will be people who hadn't been able to buy computers, but who do buy products."
Data from a questionnaire consumers complete when applying for a free computer will be used to send them targeted ads.
Not everyone, however, is convinced the model will pay off for Free-PC -- or for advertisers.
"Right now, $39 per capita is spent annually on online advertising," said Jim Nail, senior analyst at Forrester Research.
"A free PC is going to cost a couple hundred bucks. So . . . Free-PC is going to have to capture a disproportionately high share of ad dollars just to break even," Mr. Nail said.
He questioned whether Free-PC's customers will entice advertisers. The audience he expects "is people who can't afford to buy a computer. I don't think advertisers are going to be that interested."
More important, advertisers will want to assess customers' buying habits and computer use before they commit to anything, Mr. Nail said. Despite the huge response, that group of people "doesn't mean a whole lot to advertisers yet. But if they are kids just out of college or the elderly, that's a more interesting audience," he said.
Because the audience Free-PC attracts may have little or no computer experience, Free-PC also will have to provide free computer support. "That's going to run up Free-PC's costs, too," Mr. Nail said.
But Mr. Chadima said Compaq, experienced with first-time computer users, will provide computer support. The start-up is convinced of the viability of advertising-dependent products.
"People want computers," Mr. Chadima said. "People who already have computers will take another one. For advertisers, this is a way to open up the market to a group that is apparently untapped. This will allow everyone to be a part of online advertising -- not just the wealthy."
Free-PC will use database technology to target customers with appropriate ads in much the same way NetZero, another Idealab company, targets its customers. Westlake, Calif.-based NetZero, a free Internet service provider with an ad-supported model, is providing the free Internet access and
e-mail to Free-PC customers.
NetZero also had few confirmed advertisers on board when it launched last October. Now it has 45 advertisers and 300,000 users, said CEO Ron Burr. While not yet profitable, the service attracts advertisers and subscribers, he said.
Another unrelated ad-supported model is Indianapolis-based Aureate Media Corp., which provides software users with free software in exchange for providing demographic data and viewing targeted ads contained in the software. In January Aureate delivered 30 million ad impressions to 600,000 customers.
That could bode well for Free-PC, now focused on "encouraging more advertiser


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Dakota Johnson: I exploited myself on Instagram
- Bang Showbiz
- 11 February 2017
'Fifty Shades Darker' actress Dakota Johnson has admitted she "exploited" herself on Instagram
Dakota Johnson feels as though she "exploited" herself on Instagram.
The 'Fifty Shades Darker' actress used to be a prolific user of the photo-sharing site until she realised how "vulnerable" it made her feel, and she can't understand why other celebrities are so willing to share intimate details of their lives in the public domain.
She said: "There I was and it was making me feel like I was being exploited - only by myself. I was literally exploiting myself.
"And I felt so raw and vulnerable and it was all my own fault.
"Which is why I don't get that need to offer up information about myself to strangers.
"I couldn't care less what models are doing on Instagram.
"I make movies because that's my passion and people can interpret them as they please but anything else for me is way too much."
Despite her fame, the 27-year-old beauty - who is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith - insisted she rarely gets recognised in public.
She told Glamour magazine: "I'm one of those people who walks around like an invisible person.
"People literally run into me and it's always been that way."
Dakota is currently single but "can't tell" if guys are intimidated by her because of her role in the kinky movie franchise, though she insists she is anything but scary.
She added: "I still can't tell [if I intimidate people]... I don't think I'm a very intimidating person so I think anyone who took the time to talk to me would very quickly realise what I am. Just a goof."


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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
A few years ago, I headed out my back door to dump my recyclables and noticed that my neighbors (or perhaps an errant woodland elf) had left a couple of gigantic pinecones on the steps out there. I spend most of my time indoors, like a penned calf, so I'd never seen a pinecone that big. I was incredulous.
I snapped a quick photo and posted it on Flickr. The next day, I awoke to find that some pals had started up a whole conversation about giant pinecones, and that the photo had inspired them to create a Flickr group called "Hot Babes with Giant Pinecones".
A brief but memorable Internet sensation was born (OK, pretty much only in my mind). Since Tess had gone to the effort to create a group called "Hot Babes with Gigantic Pinecones!", I thought I should get totally dolled-up and add some more photos to the group. Because that is what any normal person would have done, right?
The whole thing cracked my shit up. I've been a Flickr member for many years now, and have seen firsthand the way fetishists will seek out and drool over the most seemingly innocuous stuff on your photostream. I've had to block several clog lovers (yep, the clunky wooden shoes) who favorited one too many of my pics. So why not a women 'n' pinecones group?
Tess and I started exploring Flickr to try and find more photos of ladies and pinecones to help flesh out our group (no pun intended). We started getting campers, hikers and all kinds of random folks adding stuff to the group. It was awesome! We'd find a photo and invite them to add it to the group by using this graphic Tess created:
Despite people's initial reaction of "WTF is this group?!?!", we started to get photos of women in bathtubs clutching giant pinecones, smiling girls dangling pinecones from a string, even guys pretending they had big pinecone weiners (guys can be "hot babes" too, we decided). It was super, super fun.
Alas, the group has lain fallow for far too long. I haven't sought out new members for the group in ages, and haven't taken any new pinecone pics myself, either. This needs to change! There's a crispness in the air, Pumpkin Spice Lattes are BACK at Starbucks -- what says "Autumn" more than a hot babe and a giant pinecone?!
I'm making a public pledge here and now to renew my commitment to this ridiculous Flickr group, and I encourage you guys to be a part of it. Grab your nearest pinecone, get to snappin' and JOIN US! Don't have any pinecones handy? You can usually find them at your local craft store, or you can order them online via (where else?) Pinecones.com.
This post was brought to you by the changing seasons, the desire to start new traditions, and the fact that I am sick as a dog and totally messed up on Nyquil Cold & Flu right now.


text: 22 June 2011Stars of The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE), Kirk Norcross and Lauren Pope, have revealed that they both underwent nose reshaping surgery at the same time. The pair, who feature in the current series of the ITV2 reality television show, were spotted leaving a London clinic with bandaged faces. Pope later tweeted the announcement to fans, saying: �Morning all! So another day indoors for me and Kirk. On the agenda today is baking cakes. Will tweet some pics when they're done!�Yep we're ok, just a bit bruised and bored already! Lol. It�s only a week recovery so I'll be back in action by Friday x. �Only slight black eyes though, the surgeon must have been very gentle with us because we both had 'em broken! Xx� When Pope and Norcross tweeted that they had a big announcement last week, fans were expecting to hear the peal of wedding bells, but instead were told that the on-off couple had undergone cosmetic surgery together.


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Hingham, MA
Landmine Classic
It was about 75 degrees and sunny. Trails were muddy and had some big puddles from the rain the previous day.
It was a GT golden bike race; there was the gold bike, a GT booth and a whole crew of cheerleaders who did a dance and cheer before the start of are race which felt a little bazaar to me. Normally the only females you see at mountain bike races are the occasional girlfriend or wife of a male mountain bikers who might race themselves but they rarely wear skimpy outfits or dance around.
I think 18 started in my category (pro/cat1) which is a little lower than average for this year. I was expecting more considering that the race was so close to Boston; a central location for many.
I went from leading the race, to 3rd, then fell to 6th and by about 3 miles in to the 26 mile race I was 7th. I think that is how I finished unless someone dropped out or got lost in front of me which is a good possibility considering all the rocky fast sections and all the turns and overlapping the course did. More turns arrows and road crossings than any other race I've done.
The 49 year old x national champ Kevin Hines won. My ex team mate and riding buddy Andrew Freye was in a close battle for 2nd with John Foley which he lost after a slip up on one of the wet bridges. Team mate John Burns had a good race finished 5th I think.
Monday, September 14, 2009
4 comments:
- starblinkee said...
Cheerleaders in a bike race? They must have been headed for a basketball game and made the wrong turn lol. But at least they must have done something to boost the morale of the racers.
- September 23, 2009 at 5:51 PM
- mikejoos said...
yea the cheerleader thing was a bit strange... i don't think it is something that is going to catch on.
- November 23, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
- January 2, 2010 at 8:17 PM
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don't give up and also keep penning because it simply just very well worth to read it,
looking forward to find out way more of your own posts, good bye!
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JOE Torre was asked yesterday if he thinks Alex Rodriguez has won over Yankee fans.
"I think so," Torre said at his Safe At Home Foundation Golf Classic. "Yankee fans like to see explosiveness. They're used to having big boppers." Now he imagined A-Rod bopping until the age of 40, probably past Barry Bonds, and said: "God only knows where he's gonna wind up."
Torre may as well have been referring to A-Rod's future home. Because the $30 Million Question hanging high over The Bronx is this one:
Have Yankee fans won over Alex Rodriguez?
After three years of crying and moaning about his October failings, after boobirds mocking him at every opportunity because he is not Derek Jeter, Yankee Stadium gets its chance to show A-Rod the love.
Maybe it's too late now. Maybe A-Rod has made up his mind to opt out of Pinstripes.
But whenever he becomes the youngest man, at 32, to crack his 500th home run, perhaps tonight against the White Sox, Yankee Stadium should stand and cheer long and loud for him, so the ovation is still ringing in his ears when Scott Boras starts showing him the money.
New York knocked him to the ground, and A-Rod got up.
"It'll be crazy. You get an impact from it when you see, in all these ballparks outside of New York, that they're taking all these snapshots," Torre said. "That's distracting. The flashbulbs go off every time a pitch is thrown to him. But it's gonna be special.
"Last year was so opposite that I think he had a tough time dealing with it. I know it was very uncomfortable for all of us. We always feel what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I told Alex this spring: 'The only advice I can give you is to let go. Don't pretend that something doesn't bother you if it does. Just talk your mind. Don't always try to come up with the right answer. Just be what you are.' I told him just to let go each at bat. Good or bad, just let it go. I just said, 'It's unfair, because they go out of their way to find reasons to not like you.' "
Torre was asked whether this magic moment might therefore be extra satisfying to A-Rod. "He'll be very touched by the reaction. He's a sensitive guy," Torre said. "A lot of people figure you make a lot of money, you're very talented, stuff like that doesn't enter into it. But I guarantee you that it's gonna mean a lot to him."
With the ghosts of Babe, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle watching.
"When you do it at Yankee Stadium, it's always gonna take on a bigger meaning," Torre said. "As far as how much I don't know. He may try to pretend it doesn't mean a lot, but being around him for the last few years . . . this game is his life. A milestone like this, in a Yankee uniform, is gonna mean a lot to him."
Might a watershed emotional New York moment influence A-Rod's decision?
"It's all gonna come down to what he's comfortable doing," Torre said. "Whatever the reaction is to his 500th, he should have already known how the people appreciate what he's doing here this year. It can only add to it."
If Torre comes back, he wants A-Rod with him. "You can't replace the statistics that he throws at you," Torre said. "He hits some balls like Strawberry. Hit a ball in the air and it never comes down. Willie McCovey was that way."
It's time to shout Hooray-Rod.


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AccueilMetropolitan Catastrophes
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Metropolitan Catastrophes
Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations in the Era of Total War
Publié le mercredi 09 juillet 2003 par Natalie Petiteau
A two-day conference to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Monday 12 July - Tuesday 13 July 2004
The Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research invites younger or established scholars to submit proposals for original papers to be presented at a two-day conference on the metropolitan dimension of total war. Total war blurred the boundaries between home and front and transformed cities into battlefields. The logic of total mobilisation turned the social and cultural fabric of urban life upside down. Moreover, large cities and city dwellers became legitimate targets of enemy action and suffered disproportionately from air raids, sieges, genocide, and epidemic diseases in the wake of war. The social upheavals and physical devastation of total war cast a long shadow over the postwar years. Survivors and later generations set out to reconstruct urban life and to search for meaning in the midst of the ruins of their communities.
The imagery of urban disaster preceded the experience of catastrophes. The first strand of the conference, Scenarios, discusses the apocalyptic imagination of intellectuals and experts in peacetime. Artists and writers anticipating doom presented the coming upheaval as an urban event – a commonplace of late-Victorian and post-1918 pessimism. On a different plane, civil servants and engineers materialised visions of urban chaos and devised countermeasures in case of emergencies. Both groups helped to furnish a repertoire of cultural forms which channelled and encoded the actual experience of war. The second strand deals with metropolitan Experiences, notably mobilisation, deprivation and destruction in wartime. Possible themes range from displays of 'war enthusiasm' at the outbreak of hostilities to house-to-house fighting concentrated in the ruins of family life. Ruins and the repercussions of war is the central theme of the third strand, Commemorations, which investigates postwar efforts to remember and forget. The quest for meaningful forms of commemoration was hard enough after the First World War; the Second World War, which saw whole cities disappear in flames, raised the possibility that the limits of representation had been reached.
Some of the topics which presenters may wish to address include:
* Anticipation and allegory: images of urban chaos in Expressionist art
* The business of panic: safety practices in two postwar periods
* Terrific entertainments: air warfare, the atomic bomb and science-fiction publishing
* Ghettoes and the remaking of urban space in Eastern Europe
* The psychology of siege warfare: Leningrad in the Second World War
* American metropolises and the political crowd during the Vietnam War
* Longitudal perspectives: Paris under the impact of wars: the Franco-Prussian War, the two world wars, the Algerian War
* Berlin: centre of revolution, the Nazi's 'Germania', city in ruins, capital of the Cold War
* National myth-making and forgetting: the London Blitz; the bombing of Tokyo
* The fire of Smyrna (Ismir) experienced and remembered
* Hiroshima: a regional city turned international site of memory
* Modernism and nostalgia: urban reconstruction in the East and the West
This conference hopes to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas on the comparative history of metropolises and wars. During the last decade, scholars have shown increasing interest in the social and cultural history of modern warfare in general and the two world wars in particular. Yet the comparative history of total war remains largely unwritten; much research is limited by national perspectives and conventional periodisation. This conference explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises (understood as cities of international stature, but not necessarily capital cities) worldwide over a long time-span. While papers which focus on a single city at a particular point in time are welcome, contributions comparing different metropolises or contrasting the relative impact of different wars on the same city are especially encouraged.
Keynote speakers will include: Professors Patrice Higonnet (Harvard), Jay Winter (Yale) and Antony Beevor (London).
The Centre is seeking proposals for both 30-minute papers and shorter contributions of 10 minutes. Contributors would be encouraged to include visual material. We expect to publish a selection of papers in a volume. The working language of the conference and the published volume will be English. Contributions towards speakers' expenses may be available.
Please send a 300-word abstract and a 1-page CV by 12 January 2004 to: Dr Stefan Goebel, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; e-mail: email@example.com.
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Many parents are concerned that busy, highly structured lives filled with work, homework, scheduled events, and lessons have left little time for unstructured play. When families do have time for recreation, they oftentimes do not feel comfortable with letting their children roam free. Experts estimate that a child's range for roaming and wandering is one-ninth of what it was just four decades ago (Spencer & Woolley, 2000). When given a choice, do our children even ask to go outside? No, instead they are easily entertained by video games, the Internet, computers, movies, and the television.
But what if there were some way to use these same technologies to entice children to go outside? Global Positioning Systems (GPS) provides us with just this opportunity. In fact, according to a new Harris Interactive technology research study (Business Services Industry, 2007), one in six adults in the
Strategies for Using GPS with Your Children in the Outdoors
1. Making Tracks in Your Backyard (Observation)
This is a great activity for the middle or high school student. Let him or her pick a place in the out of doors that he or she finds interesting. Use a GPS unit to mark this spot so that you can return to the same place at different times during the year.
Encourage your child to keep a journal and write a story about the special place.
- He or she can draw pictures, take photographs during each season, and collect leaves, flowers, and seeds that can pressed and laminated in the journal to help tell the story of the spot.
- Over time, a record of observations can be created to allow comparisons to previous years.
- Consider adopting or planting a tree to mark the special place.
- Record information about the tree, such as height, circumference of the trunk, animal and plant life in the vicinity, and changes observed over time.
- Charts and graphs can show how the tree has changed over time.
- You can also record air temperature, wind direction, estimated wind speed, type and amount of vegetation cover on ground, soil temperature, soil color, and soil moisture.
2. Making Tracks in Your Community (Problem Solving)
A GPS receiver can be used to mark a waypoint or a location of a famous landmark in your child's community.
- Your child can record the number for this waypoint, its latitude and longitude, and a "clue" that will give the finder some interesting information about the landmark.
- Keep the "clue" or record in a safe place. Over time your child can add multiple clues to your community collection.
- The waypoint location information from the clue can be recorded into your GPS receiver and your child can give the following clue to his/her friends.
- This can become a great scavenger hunt or game with multiple waypoints and clues!
You can also do the reverse and create a scavenger hunt in which objects are sought from a list and kids record the GPS location of each object. After the contestants have found all of the objects, the GPS locations can be checked against a key to see how well everyone did on finding all of the objects! This is a type of virtual caching that is called "waymarking."
3. Trekking
Everyone loves a good treasure hunt! Here is a great way to make walks with your kids more engaging by creating a series of clues or planned stops.
- First, plan where your stops will take place.
- If you are in a special place like a park or nature center you may want to pick scenic spots, lesser-known trails, or interesting natural mineral locations.
- Use small containers such as film canisters and place the clues for the next stops.
- There should be about 5 to 8 clues along the way which should be easy to find.
- Each clue should provide a waypoint number in consecutive order and a latitude and longitude location.
- The final stop on the hunt will be the treasure!
4. Geocaching
Geocaching is a new way to go orienteering and something that can be done all around the world. It is fun, great exercise, and can even help improve the environment.
- In geocaching, someone hides a box or a cache and notes its coordinates or position online at http://www.geocaching.com. The website often lists other clues and grades caches by difficulty.
- A GPS unit can be used to find the box or cache. While it sounds quite simple, the caches can be difficult to find because the GPS unit only gets one close to the cache location.
- Inside the cache, which is usually a sealed rubber container or an army ammo box, there will be a logbook to sign and date and an assortment of "treasures." The finder can take a treasure, but is to replace it with another small item.
- People who have visited the location often post information on the cache. These narratives can be very helpful when choosing a cache to visit.
- Many geocachers have a geocaching backpacks. Fill your backpack with the GPS unit, pens, a local map, bug spray, a variety of small items for the cache, a small first aide kit, binoculars, a garbage bag and gloves, and maybe a small notebook.
- The "Cache In and Trash Out" effort encourages people to remove any litter they come across on their outing. Geocachers have carried out dozens of bags of trash from public places since this movement began.
Other Great GPS Resources
EveryTrail is a free online web 2.0 platform that allows hikers, backpackers, and other outdoor enthusiasts to visualize and share trail trips using GPS coordinate data, digital photos and location-based notes overlaid on interactive maps. Visit http://www.EveryTrail.com.
Waymarking is a virtual cache that exists in the form of a location. Depending on the cache "hider," a virtual cache could be to answer a question about a location, an interesting spot, or a task. The reward for these caches is the location itself and sharing information about your visit. A virtual cache should be out of the ordinary enough to warrant logging a visit. Visit http://www.waymarking.com.
An EarthCache is a special place that people can visit to learn about a unique geoscience feature or aspect of our Earth. EarthCaches include a set of educational notes and the location or the latitude and longitude to find the place. Visitors to EarthCaches can see how our planet has been shaped by geological processes and learn how we manage these resources. You can learn how scientists gather evidence to learn about the Earth. Visit http://www.earthcache.org/.
More Ways to Use GPS
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Using your GPS unit and/or written directions provided by the National Geodetic Survey, which are available for review by the public, you can seek out NGS survey markers and other items that have been marked throughout the country. Placed at the top of mountain peaks or in the pavement of a town square, many people walk by one every day. The interesting thing about benchmarks and horizontal control points is that a majority of them are located in plain sight (though largely ignored). Some of these points haven't been visited or documented in a very long time, so you may also be rediscovering long neglected objects of American history as well! Visit http://www.geocaching.com/mark/.
Humankind Systems, Inc.
Here's a cool idea that also encourages reading! After your kids have read their books, they can release them "into the wild" and track their progress online through a free book tracking website. According to Ron Hornbaker, President and CTO of BookCrossing.com's parent company, Humankind Systems, "Sharing books with your friends and neighbors is a natural instinct...what we've done is created a tracking database so that you can see where your books are, and read the journal entries along the way." Visit http://www.bookcrossing.com/home.
Degree Confluence Project
The goal of the Degree Confluence Project is to visit every latitude and longitude integer degree intersection in the world and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, along with a narrative describing the adventures it took to get there, are then posted on the web site. This creates an organized sampling of the world. Another goal is to document the changes at these locations over time. Although we initially want to visit as many different locations as possible, don't hesitate to revisit a confluence if you're in the area. There is a confluence within 49 miles if you are on the surface of the Earth. To learn more visit http://www.confluence.org.
eBird, a project developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, provides a simple way for birds to be tracked in
Letterboxing North
Letterboxing combines navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a treasure hunt-style outdoor quest to explore interesting, scenic, and sometimes remote places. The ancient custom of placing a rock on a cairn upon reaching the summit of a mountain becomes art with this activity. Most letterboxers carve their own stamps or team up with an experienced stamp artist. Virtual letterboxes, which don't involve going outdoors, solve clues on websites and find a stamp image or perhaps a virtual logbook. Visit http://www.letterboxing.org.
Travel Bugs
A Travel Bug is a tag with its own unique tracking number stamped on it. The tag is attached to an item - and becomes a hitchhiker – for which the owner invents a goal to be achieved. One Bug's goal may be to reach a specific country, or travel to 10 countries. Travel Bugs are tracked with the help of users who go online and "grab" them or receive them from other users. Each Travel Bug has its own on-line "diary" that mirrors its real world movements. To learn more visit http://www.geocaching.com/track/faq.aspx.
Business Services Industry. (2007). National study shows GPS Adoption Rates [Electronic Version]. Business Wire.
Louv, R. (2006). Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder.
Spencer, C., & Woolley, H. (2000). Children and the city: A summary of recent environmental psychology research. Child: Care, Health, & Development, 26(3), 181-197.


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Behold GIFs of Oscars' Best Actor and Actress Nominees
All of their actorly prowess in fifteen ever-repeating frames. Is it any wonder they got nominated?
This year's Oscar nominees were announced this morning, revealing many snubs and surprises. But let us not dwell on who didn't make it and instead pay tribute to those who did. With that in mind, here are your celebratory GIFs of the Best Actor and Actress nominees. Marvel at how many emotions they can convey in just fifteen frames. Is it any wonder they are up for Oscars?


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Refugees International Japan (RIJ) is a not-for-profit organization that helps destitute victims of war and conflict without wasting resources on politics or superfluous third parties, with the money it receives going directly to intended recipients.
In January 2011, RIJ approached Custom Media to help with their branding and marketing efforts as they needed a partner that not only supported their needs but also cared.
"The Custom Media team is always professional and they show genuine concern for improving opportunities for people displaced by conflict."
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Our pro bono efforts are tiny compared to those of the many volunteers and leaders in this field but by rebranding, designing and editing RIJ's bilingual marketing collateral—advertisements, brochures, flyers, posters, annual reports and auction catalogs for key fundraisers—we hope our bit helps.


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New grads finding rosier job market in techNumbers released by the Labor Department Friday show the unemployment rate up slightly from last month at 9 percent. But there's some good news for job seekers. There were nearly a quarter million new jobs added in April, the largest gain in 11 months....
-Stanford student, Matt Bush is one of the lucky ones. He's got a job after graduation and it's with Facebook. -For me, like personally and professionally, it matches up really well with the skills I have and interest I have. -In addition to the technical skills as a computer science major, he has the passion. -I know a lot about the company. I've like thought a lot about it. I've written papers on it. I have a lot like quite use for it and they're definitely really eager to hear about those. -These days when other industries are trying to pull out of the recession, Facebook like most tech company is on a hiring surge. In fact, this year nearly 150,000 tech jobs are expected to be added in the US. -Look around Facebook, Silicon Valley offices and you'll see plenty of empty desk all getting ready for new hires. -Actually probably more job opportunities now than there has been in recent memory for new college grads. -Mike Schroepfer is the Vice President of Engineering at Facebook; the one who hire the majority of the 600 person engineering team including Matt Bush. Schroepfer refuses to provide specific numbers on Facebook's hiring statistics, but says he spends 20% to 40% of his week recruiting and hiring. -What we're really looking for is do you have the right fundamentals and thirst to learn. It feels like we can never, you know ever hire fast enough. -And while he encourages studying computer science or engineering, he says a fancy degree isn't necessary. -We have people here who don't have 4 years degrees in computer science. We have people here who have gone too either late schools. -As for Matt, he is taking the summer off after graduation and will start full time at Facebook at the end of August. In San Francisco, I'm Kara Tsuboi. Cnet.com for CBS News.


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802.11a/b Site Survey: A Testimonial
October 10, 2002
Miami International Airport (MIA) is undertaking one of the largest airport-wide deployments of 802.11a and 802.11b. Jim Geier explains his first hand experiences with the first step of this project, performing an RF site survey of MIA's public areas.
As an independent consultant, I've been assisting Telecom Engineering Consultants (a major contractor to Dade County in Florida) with the deployment of a public wireless LAN throughout the Miami International Airport (MIA). The WLAN will cover the majority of public areas, such as concourses, terminals, baggage claim, and concessions. This massive wireless hotspot will provide the opportunity for millions of people traveling through MIA each year to access e-mail, surf the Web, and interface with corporate applications.
MIA plans to deploy both 802.11a
Initial Walkthrough
Because of the massive size and irregularly shaped facilities of MIA, the RF
In addition to performing the testing during the walkthrough, we were able to gain an appreciation for the size of MIA. Simply put, the airport is massive. With lots of square feet to cover, processing into security at each concourse was very time consuming considering the equipment we were carrying. Despite our airport badges and security escorts, we had to comply with the same security screening measures that passengers do.
Access Point Location Testing
After gaining respect for MIA and having a good understanding of the facility layout, we were ready to test possible locations for installing access points. The airport has a very large U-shaped terminal on the second floor, with ticket counters and concessions located in the center of the terminal from one end to the other. The baggage claim area is just underneath the terminal on the first floor. Like spokes of a wheel, the concourses spiral out from the terminal on the second floor. Newer concourses, such as Concourse H, are relatively wide; some of the older concourses are narrow with seating areas at each gate that protrude outward where the aircraft park.
The MIA facility is, obviously, somewhat irregular. We found it necessary to test each location where each access points will eventually reside. This process gave us a tremendous opportunity to learn how an airport affects the propagation of radio waves.
We began testing potential access point locations by placing an one at a point based on our intuitions, then recording the signal-to-noise (SNR), association status, and supported data rates within the unit's coverage area. To make life easier, we mounted the dual 802.11a/b access point (with a beefy battery) on a roll-around cart, with the unit and its antennas affixed to the top of a telescopic pole. When testing a particular location, we could raise the antennas high enough to replicate actual mounting locations. On a separate cart we carried two laptops, one equipped with 802.11a, the other with 802.11b. In addition, we toted around an AirMagnet analyzer unit to record SNRs and other test statistics.
Airport Trends
After testing over sixty access point locations throughout the airport, we found some interesting trends. When testing in the baggage claim areas, 802.11a range was often better than 802.11b. At first, we thought our test equipment was lying, but we retested these areas several times using different radio NICs. It appears the narrow passageways between baggage claim areas enables the higher frequencies of 802.11a to propagate farther than 802.11b. The laptop with 802.11b in these areas lost association with the access point 50 feet sooner than 802.11a. (I'm sure this isn't what critics of 802.11a want to hear, but that's what we found.)
In addition, 802.11a nearly always operated at higher data rates than 802.11b, at all ranges up until 802.11a became completely disassociated with the access point. In most areas (except baggage claim), the range of 802.11b extended at least another 30 to 50 feet -- much farther where line of sight propagation was possible, such as within some of the concourses. So, you really don't need more 802.11a than 802.11b access points to fully cover a facility, assuming your goal is to support 11 Mbps or better data rates everywhere.
When performing the access point location testing, we wanted to collocate an 802.11a and 802.11b radio in the same access point chassis. Our fear, however, was that the better range of 802.11b would make it difficult when assigning access point channels because of extensive 802.11b overlap. In most cases, though, the narrow and curved concourses, terminal, and baggage claim areas reduced the potential for channel conflicts. In the few cases where 802.11b provided overwhelming range as compared to 802.11a, installers can reduce the 802.11b radio transmit power to avoid significant channel overlap.
Something else that goes with testing in highly populated, public areas is the attention you receive. At first, we were strongly aware of people staring at us while performing the testing. Our strange contraptions were obviously not what passengers were expecting to see at the airport. The common question was "what is that thing?" Our standard response was "we're testing for aliens." It's amazing how many people appeared to believe us!
Jim Geier provides independent consulting services to companies developing and deploying wireless network solutions. He is the author of the book, Wireless LANs (SAMs, 2001) and offers computer-based training (CBT) courses on wireless LANs.
Join Jim for discussions as he answers questions in the 802.11 Planet Forums.
Curious about whether your facility needs 802.11a or 11b? Join us at the 802.11 Planet Conference & Expo, Dec. 3-5 in Santa Clara, CA. Jim Geier will be there with a workshop that answers the question 2.4 GHz or 5GHz? Strategies for Choosing the Right Spectrum.


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It takes me about 15 minutes to make sure there is no urine coming out after urinating. Doctors do not know my disease. Is it permissible that I wear a piece of cloth during ihram to avoid disturbing people in toilets?.
If the urine stops after this time, then you have to wait, and there is no concession for you in prayer when there is najaasah (impurity) present, because you are not regarded as suffering from incontinence. You should choose times when there is less crowding so that you will not disturb people with your being late.
As for putting a piece of cloth over your private part, that is not something that is forbidden when in ihraam.
We asked Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him): What is the ruling on the muhrim (pilgrim in ihraam) who suffers from incontinence putting something over his private part, such as a bag, so that the najaasah will not spread? Is this one of the things that are forbidden when in ihraam?
He (may Allaah have mercy on him) replied: That is not one of the things that are forbidden when in ihraam.
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Marc Anthony was left horrified when he was accused of cheating on wife Jennifer Lopez with close friend Jada Pinkett Smith, because he feared the affect the false rumors would have on The Matrix Reloaded star's family.
Anthony and Lopez sent shockwaves through Hollywood in July (11) when they announced they were ending their seven-year marriage.
Rumors soon emerged suggesting the Latin superstar had had an extramarital affair with Pinkett Smith, his co-star and love interest on TV medical drama Hawthorne, and last month (Aug11) it was claimed that her 14-year union with Will Smith was also heading for divorce.
The Smiths denied the tabloid report and issued a rare statement regarding the status of their relationship, saying, "Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false. We are still together, and our marriage is intact."
Anthony has now broken his silence about the reports, admitting the most hurtful aspect of the unfounded gossip was the impact it would have on his longtime pal's children, son Jaden, 13, and daughter Willow, 10.
In a candid TV interview with news show Nightline, which aired on Thursday (01Sep11), he says, "When something like that (affair rumors) happens, it's laughable. We were laughing about it because we've been friends for years. Jada, Jennifer, me, him, for years.
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When he was prime minister, Tony Blair declared that he had no reverse gear, but his local council, English Heritage and a group of disgruntled neighbours have just forced him to reach for it.
Mandrake can disclose that Simon Templeton, the architect whom Blair charged with seeing through a series of enhancements to South Pavilion, his £5.75 million country estate has just agreed to "re-think" his plans.
"Since receiving the letter of advice from English Heritage we have re-thought the proposals," Templeton said in a letter to Aylesbury Vale district council in Buckinghamshire.
He said Tony and his wife, Cherie, had agreed to give way on the issue of a series of masonry buttresses that were required to support a Grade II listed wall on the property, and the design of a sports pavilion.
They are considering building the pavilion, as English Heritage requested, as "a lightweight structure of contemporary form."
The council also wanted an unauthorised 9ft metal fence that the Blairs had erected around their new £30,000 tennis court to be taken down, but Templeton has appealed for a stay of execution.
"Clearly, since the sports pavilion application has been delayed due to our re-design, may I ask for the fencing to be considered separately and retrospectively?"
Neighbours have already accused the couple of "overdeveloping'' their estate, which was once home to the late actor Sir John Gielgud. So far, they have added a tennis court and a car-parking extension, and they want to turn a gardener's cottage into guests' accommodation.
As Mandrake disclosed in January, Kathryn Davies, a buildings inspector for English Heritage, told the council that Templeton would have to take another look at his latest application to build a sports pavilion on the estate and reinforce some of its walls.
In her letter to the council, she expressed concern that the plans for South Pavilion, a Grade I listed building which they bought in 2008, did not show due concern for its "special character'' and the local building "traditions''.
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SOURCE: One Liberty Properties, Inc.
August 08, 2011 09:00 ET
Rental Income Increased 8.9% Over the Second Quarter 2010
Rental Income Increased 8.9% Over the Second Quarter 2010
GREAT NECK, NY--(Marketwire - Aug 8, 2011) - One Liberty Properties, Inc. (NYSE: OLP), an owner of a geographically diversified portfolio of retail, industrial, office and other properties primarily under long term leases in the United States, today announced operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2011.
Patrick J. Callan, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of One Liberty, stated, "During the second quarter, we continued to execute our business strategy and delivered solid results. We continue to seek acquisitions to build our portfolio while at the same time taking advantage of opportunities to improve our property portfolio. This was exemplified by the sale of a property for a gain of $932,000. We intend to re-deploy the capital in the next few quarters as we work to close on properties in our pipeline of opportunities."
Operating Results:
Rental income for second quarter of 2011 increased 8.9% to $11.24 million compared to $10.32 million for the second quarter of 2010. The increase is attributable primarily to rental income earned from the 15 properties the Company has acquired since February 2010.
Total operating expenses for the second quarter of 2011 were $5.0 million compared to $4.73 million for the second quarter in the prior year.
Income from continuing operations was $4.11 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, compared to $2.15 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2010. Included in the current period results is $1.24 million ($0.085 per share) attributable to gain on settlement of debt at a discount. The per share impact to 2011 results takes into account the issuance of 2.7 million shares in February 2011 and shares issued under the Company's dividend reinvestment program.
Asset Disposition:
The Company sold a property located in California for approximately $11.5 million, for a net gain of $932,000.
Funds from Operations:
Funds from Operations ("FFO") was $6.7 million in the second quarter of 2011 compared to $4.5 million in the second quarter of 2010. FFO per diluted share increased 15% to $0.46 in the second quarter of 2011 compared to $0.40 in the same period in 2010, with $1.24 million or $0.085 per diluted share representing a gain attributable to the settlement of debt at a discount. The per share impact to 2011 FFO takes into account the issuance of 2.7 million shares issued in February 2011 and shares issued under the Company's dividend reinvestment program. A reconciliation of GAAP amounts to non-GAAP amounts is presented with the financial information included later in this release.
Balance Sheet:
The Company at June 30, 2011 had $11.4 million of cash and cash equivalents, total assets of $437.3 million, total debt of $202.7 million and stockholders' equity of $220.2 million.
On July 6, 2011, the Company paid a quarterly cash dividend of $0.33 per share to stockholders of record as of June 28, 2011. Based on the closing price of $14.23 per share on August 4, 2011 the current yield on an annualized basis is 9.3%.
Additional Information:
Interested parties are urged to review the Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 for further details. The Form 10-Q can also be linked through the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website. For additional information on the Company's operations, activities and properties, please visit One Liberty's website at www.1liberty.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures:
One Liberty believes that Funds from Operations ("FFO") is a widely recognized and appropriate measure of the performance of an equity REIT. One Liberty presents FFO because it considers FFO to be an important supplemental measure of One Liberty's operating performance. One Liberty believes FFO is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present FFO when reporting their results. FFO is intended to exclude generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") historical cost depreciation and amortization of real estate and related assets, which assumes that the value of real estate diminishes ratably over time. Historically, however, real estate values have risen or fallen with market conditions. As a result, FFO provides a performance measure that, when compared year over year, reflects the impact to operations from trends in occupancy rates, rental rates, operating costs, development activities, interest costs and other matters without the inclusion of depreciation and amortization, providing perspective that may not necessarily be apparent from net income.
One Liberty has determined FFO in accordance with standards established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. ("NAREIT"). FFO is defined by NAREIT as "net income (or loss) computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains (or losses) from sales of property, plus real estate depreciation and amortization and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures." FFO does not represent cash generated from operating activities in accordance with GAAP and is not indicative of cash available to fund cash needs. FFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income as an indicator of operating performance or as an alternative to cash flow as a measure of liquidity. Management believes FFO is of interest to securities analysts, investors and other interested parties and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures as reported by others.
Forward Looking Statement
Certain information contained in this press release, together with other statements and information publicly disseminated by One Liberty Properties, Inc. is forward looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. One Liberty intends such forward looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provision for forward looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and include this statement for the purpose of complying with these safe harbor provisions. Information regarding certain important factors that could cause actual outcomes or other events to differ materially from any such forward looking statements appear in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 and in particular "Item 1A. Risk Factors" included therein. You should not rely on forward looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could materially affect actual results, performance or achievements.
About One Liberty Properties:
One Liberty is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust incorporated under the laws of Maryland in 1982. The primary business of the Company is to acquire, own and manage a geographically diversified portfolio of retail, industrial, office and other properties under long term leases. Nearly all of the Company's leases are "net leases," under which the tenant is responsible for real estate taxes, insurance and ordinary maintenance and repairs.
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: MARKET CROSS
List entry Number: 1058383
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Somerset
District: Mendip
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Shepton Mallet
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Grade: II*
Date first listed: 20-May-1952
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ST6143 SHEPTON MALLET CP MARKET PLACE (centre)
6/194 Market Cross
Market Cross. Established c1500, completely rebuilt 1841 by G.P. Manners. Dressed Doulting. Perpendicular style. Octagonal open arcade with spirelet springing from central bench pier. 3-stage pinnacled spire with canopied niches having cinquefoil heads, the spandrel spaces above the canopies being ornamented with foliation. Spire springs from massive central hexagonal pier surrounded by open arcade of 6-segmental arches on pillars. Open quatrefoil parapet around top with crocketed pinnacle at each corner and over the centre of each arch. Whole cross on cobbled plinth, with masonary bench in 3-stages around central pier. A plaque, approximately 100mm by 700mm, attached to the central pier has an inscription in 4 lines stating that the cross was set up in 1500 by Walter Buckland and his wife Agnes. (Pooley, Old Crosses of Somerset, 1877).
Listing NGR: ST6189043651
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Pooley, C, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset, (1877)
National Grid Reference: ST 61890 43652
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- Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments at Remediation Sites in Texas (RG-263) (January 2017). This is the agency's primary ERA guidance (ERAG) document and has been restructured to follow the ten required elements of an ERA as outlined in the TRRP rule. It is the parent document to the companion documents described below. The ERAG has also been designed to work with a database (see below) by providing subject-matter instructions for its use, which are dispersed throughout the document in relevant locations. See History of the ERA Program for additional information.
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IMDB Rating : 7.7
IMDB Votes : 2,411
User Reviews : 10
Date Released : 13 September 2014
Run Time : 134 min
Movie Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama
Movie Director : Keishi Ohtomo
Movie Writer : Nobuhiro Watsuki, Kiyomi Fujii
Movie Stars : Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeru Satô, Emi Takei, Min Tanaka
Rurôni Kenshin: Densetsu no saigo-hen Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
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The problem with big villains…
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A story so big it steals from the characterization and the development of the themes that made the Kenshin tale so interesting in the first place.
I have already questioned why anyone in their right mind would want to spend the better part of 6 hours building up to the "final fight" behind Kenshin and the super-baddie (who is so overdrawn he could just as easily have appeared in a Bond film) ….?
And I see in the IMDb, at least so far, one or two fans have been brave enough to make the very same points I am making.
To be honest, I enjoyed the children's TV series more than this opus. Whether that makes me a poor critic or a child at heart is another matter entirely.
I repeat my view that the point of film is to entertain. If a film fails to entertain, it fails, period.
In this film, the only one who seems to be having fun is Masaharu Fukuyama, playing Kenshin's original Master, conveniently appearing to assist a very tricky plot arc.
The first time he finds Kenshin on the beach, almost dead, he remarks how astonished he was to see his "stupid student" again after almost 15 years.
But he says it with a smile, and we know he is happy to see Kenshin.
At that single juncture, I thought, for one brief shining moment, that this saga was finally going to be fun.
And it was. For the 15 minutes or so that Masaharu Fukuyama appears on camera, we get a peek at what this film might have been.
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Former Lakewood Ranch High softball star Ashley Hanewich is starting to rev it up at Wisconsin.
Hanewich recently finished her junior season for the Badgers on tear hitting .474 over her last seven games. She completed her season with .273 Big Ten Conference batting average, slugged four homers and batted .233 for her 20-31 team that was 5-13 in league play.
Always a top student, Hanewich also was named to the Big 10 All-Academic team for the second straight season. Among her season highlights were two walk-off homers. She hit a single season personal high four homers in 2010 and for her career she has six triples to rank fourth all-time at Wisconsin.
The right handed hitter topped her team against lefties with a .556 batting average and batting in the leadoff spot had a .391 batting average. Her 19 runs scored this past season more than doubled her out-put for her freshman and sophomore years.
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SoCal FreeNet Brings Free Wi-Fi to San Diego
July 25, 2006
Enthusiasts say supporting free wireless Internet access is about 'creating something bigger than ourselves.'
Three years ago, Matt Fanady, a twenty-something technology enthusiast living in Southern California, plugged in his first wireless Linksys router, shared it with his neighbors, and SoCal FreeNet was born.
Since then, SoCal FreeNet (not affiliated with The FreeNet Project), has grown into an active, all-volunteer non-profit group with several hundred members on its mailing list, several dozen active volunteers, a Web site, and more than 15 successful free public Wi-Fi network installs under its belt.
We started from the San Diego Wireless User Group, (SDWUG) which is no longer in existence, says Fanady. We were a group of people who got together to talk about wireless on the technical side, and then in August of 2003, we had our first opportunity to install some gear. A landlord in Golden Hill saw a write-up in the paper and asked for our help. We said, Wed be happy to get your tenants online, as long as you share with the greater community.
I got involved from the neighborhood, in a sense of giving back, says MacCullough. I was basically one of the beta testers for [the first] network. I was in the first building that was hooked up in Golden Hill. I didnt have an Internet connection. One day, I got a note from my landlord saying, This group of guys is going to come and poke around here, and get up on the roof, and when theyre done youre all gonna have free InternetThanks.
So it dropped into my lap. Once I figured out what it was, I got sucked into it. I started hanging out and learning what they were doing. Now, Im the guy you call when you need some tech support. If my friends or neighbors have a problem, they call me. Im one of the faces for this in my neighborhood.
Fanady and MacCoullough, along with Michael Mee, who handles Project Management and R&D, and Wayne Suiter in charge of Web Development, form the core group of organizers. Together, they put in roughly 100 hours per month on various SCFN projects.
The feeling that this was becoming a job started to hit home when we all went to help in the disaster relief after Katrina, says Fanady. While we were gone, we had an electrical storm that took out three of our backhaul radios. One of our jobs, a nonprofit that uses our network as its sole Internet connection, was down for like a week. There are no contracts, but we sort of promised these people a certain quality of service. There is an element of responsibility.
As it approached its third anniversary, the group recently returned to the site of its first network, Golden Hills Rentals (a.k.a. The Pink Palace) in the Golden Hill area of San Diego, and mounted its largest install yet.
The landlord of the Pink Palace said, I want this service to be something really special. Make this something that is more than just a radio on top of a roof. Im ready to spend the money. Lets make something happen, says Fanady. We got a false start one day when we thought wed do it one way, and then we scrapped and tried another plan, which evolved into the mega array.
The range, says Fanady, is pretty spectacular. For an ordinary user, he estimates a range of a couple thousand feet. If you were to take a powered bridge with you with a directional with line of sight, it could be miles.
A large part of the SoCal FreeNet missionand what Fanady and MacCoullough seem to enjoy mostis learning. Equipment, decisions, stepsand misstepsare chronicled at the site so that others can learn from their experience.
This is an ongoing learning experience, says MacCoullough. Its a matter of trial and error. People come into this and they throw around ideas, and then it doesnt end up the way we hoped that it would, and you have to adjust course. I guess its fortunate in terms of true documentation that we can revise the Web site to say We went down this path and it turned out to be a dead end. Its all part of the learning process.
The corps of volunteers who shows up for a build ranges from seasoned professionals to curious neighbors.
We get a lot of people who do one facet of the project as their day job, says MacCoullough. Electricians. Tech programmers. Networking people. Wireless people. Everything from people who do the physical to the logical, and people who know nothing and want to learn. We dont know all of these trades. Theres such a great learning experience involved for us. Its so great: even at this point, we learn something new every time. It broadens us at every turn. We spread that around as much as we can. Even with the Web site, we are documenting as much as possible, the good, the bad, the ugly, of what weve done, so that others can learn from this.
With the skills and reputation theyve acquired, the SoCal FreeNet leaders could easily turn their grassroots community service into an entrepreneurial endeavor. But despite the large number of unpaid hours, the groups commitment to creating free access remains unshakable.
Free Internet over wireless is just the beginning of what will become possible as wireless technology improves and the general public becomes more aware of wireless networking in general, says Fanady. Free Internet was the carrot on the stick to get people to use the network, and to get landlords interested in paying for the gear. Everyone understands free Internet. However, the rather intangible possibilities of local wireless networks are very difficult to sell.
Part of our move to 802.11g from b [data rate of 54Mbps versus 11Mbps] was to create a fatter pipe to the end user so we can begin rolling out bandwidth-intensive applications, accessible only on the network, Fanady says. One of the first (and easiest) applications we will be rolling out is a Squid Transparent Proxy, which will store content from Web sites commonly visited and cache them for other users, so for instance, a commonly downloaded movie trailer would stream to clients at around 23 Mbps much faster than any consumer-grade Internet connection could possibly deliver at this time.
Future plans include Web servers running on the network, creating a community forum of sorts, where people could, for instance, post videos of local bands -- or, if the network grows enough, possibly stream these events live. If we were to simply focus on coverage for the landlord's building and not the surrounding neighborhood, it would change the dynamic from a bunch of guys trying to build a large network encompassing as many people and as much acreage as possible, pushing the technology to its edge, to a couple of guys who help landlords increase their rents by offering free Internet, Fanady says.
Every day, we learn something new that we can use elsewhere in life, he says. Were learning a new technology and creating something bigger than ourselves.


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Baraka Bouts celebrates 10th anniversary
Peter Steiner | Monday, November 5, 2012
In Swahili, the word "baraka" means blessing, prosperity or opportunity.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Baraka Bouts has exemplified all three aspects of this term for the last decade. The annual charity bouts have been a blessing to many deprived children in Uganda, exceedingly prosperous in charity and participation and an opportunity for young women to grow in mind, body and service.
This year's 10th annual charity bouts mark the success of a program and tournament that started with humble beginnings, but has become a thriving athletic and charity organization.
While the women's boxing program was founded in 1997, Baraka Bouts first began in 2002 with charity at the core of its mission. From its onset, the proceeds of the annual bouts have assisted the education of needy children by supporting the Holy Cross Missions in East Africa.
"Baraka Bouts has been a blessing to both the Notre Dame community, but most importantly to St. Joseph's community in Uganda and all the other children in Uganda that have benefited from the donations we raise," senior co-president Courtney Currier said.
Over its 10-year history, the prosperity of Baraka Bouts has grown immensely. From fundraising to the actual bouts, the event has recently advanced in many concrete ways.
"We are now a two-night tournament and we have over a hundred girls participating this year," senior co-president Kat Leach said. "We changed from a Power Hour to our Power 24-Hour and raised close to $2,000 this year, which was incredible. I think the boxing gets better every year. The girls learn more and more and the bouts seem to be more competitive, cleaner and more technical each and every year."
These improvements have clearly benefited the charitable aspect of Baraka Bouts. Last year the club widened the scope of its mission by supporting another secondary school in Uganda.
"We actually just expanded last year to start sending money to the Holy Cross Missions to support two different schools," senior captain Brianna Kunycky said. "We used to just support the Lakeview Secondary School in Uganda, but now we also support the St. Joseph's Hill Secondary School because we expanded our program to include two bout nights."
Though Baraka Bouts helps many children abroad, the women's boxing program also has a significant impact on the women stepping into the ring, Leach said.
"I think [Baraka Bouts] is a really unique Notre Dame experience," Leach said. "Not many girls come to this program having any experience with boxing and it's an opportunity to challenge themselves, to try something new, to learn a new sport. We come in each and every day and work extremely hard."
No one can attest to these benefits of boxing more than current Notre Dame professor Aimee Buccellato, who founded the women's boxing program in 1997 and has watched Baraka Bouts progress over the years.
"I think it's fantastic [that Baraka Bouts is celebrating its 10th anniversary]," Buccellato said. "I'm extremely proud of these women. I think the experience and participation in a sport like boxing is not just a physical one; it's a mental one. Anybody who is willing to get in between the ropes, under the big lights in a very public place is bound to be able to take that experience with them throughout their lives."
In the end, celebrating the 10th anniversary of these charity bouts means celebrating the all the lives – both at Notre Dame and in Uganda – that have been enriched by the blessing that is Baraka Bouts.
Contact Peter Steiner at [email protected]