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Coupeville Library Expansion and Renovation Project
Eight months after breaking ground, the remodeled and expanded Coupeville Library reopened on March 8, 2010. The project, funded by a $2.3 million bond approved by voters in 2008, more than doubled the size of the library, added a library programming room and teen area, increased the amount of public seating, and provided space for additional computers. In addition to a meeting room, a bookstore-like atmosphere with moveable shelving, comfortable seating, and natural light, the expanded and remodeled Coupeville Library includes many environmentally-friendly features. These are:
- Solar panels
- Very high efficiency mechanical units that are approximately 25% more efficient than code-required systems (resulting in PSE rebate for energy efficiency)
- Day-lighting controls and room occupancy sensors to reduce unnecessary electrical lighting loads.
- Energy efficient low voltage and compact fluorescent lighting fixtures throughout the building.
- Abundant natural light to reduce need for artificial lighting, including use of "light tubes" to bring natural light deep into the interior of the space.
- Low-flow plumbing fixtures
- Two rain gardens designed to filter and mitigate the majority of roof rainwater runoff and a significant amount of site drainage.
- Drought tolerant, native landscaping eliminating the need for site irrigation system.
- Construction waste management program requiring salvage and recycling of 50% of non-hazardous waste
Original artwork is also integrated into the remodeled library:
- Wrought iron work by Daniel Sirak of Coupeville at library entrance
- Hand carved figures in alder panel by Glen Russell of Greenbank in children's Area
- Georgia Gerber cat sculpture mounted on Japanese black walnut table by Gary A Leake, funded by community friends in honor of Janet Enzmann
Coupeville area residents approved the formation of a library capital facility area and agreed to pay for a remodel and expansion to the current library. Both propositions passed in the August 2008 primary; nearly 65% of voters approved establishing the library capital facility area, and 60.63% said yes to funding the $2.3 million project.
The firm of Lewis Architecture & Interior Design of Bellevue was selected to work with the Building Committee on the development of the design for expansion and renovation of the Coupeville Library. Lewis has completed a number of library projects including the Mukilteo Library, the Granite Falls Library, Burlington Public Library, the Snohomish Library and the Bainbridge Island Library. Lead architects for the Coupeville Library Project are Ross Jamieson and Stig Carlson.
Coupeville Library finds interim home, Whidbey News-Times, May 12, 2009
Central Whidbey library efforts recognized by state association, Whidbey News-Times, May 19, 2009
Library groundbreaking party set, Whidbey Examiner, July 8, 2009
Library expansion is an investment in education, community, Whidbey Examiner, July 16, 2009
Crowd turns out for library opening, Whidbey Examiner, March 10, 20010
Coupeville celebrates library expansion, Whidbey News-Times, April 15, 2010
Library honors late Greenbank artist, Whidbey News-Times, October 24, 2010
PhotosReport prepared by John Bolte, Coupeville Building Committee community member
Feb. 26, 2010 - This was a week of hard work by staff as they added more books and periodicals to the shelves, trained volunteers, and set up the first computer work stations. It is amazing the number of details and "small" things that require attention. Cables for the new computers have now been run to the floor boxes and neatly wired to the server in a room just off the staff work room. It is expected that the public use computers will be hooked up and operational next week. Following are some photos high-lighting the progress this week.
This sign appears in a street side window. Even the flowers seem to be anxiously awaiting the opening! Feb. 26, 2010
A Coon Cat by Georgia Gerber will be welcoming patrons as they enter the front door in honor of volunteer extraordinaire Janet Enzmann. Feb. 26, 2010
And how about Leslie's office!?! Just look at that double screen computer set-up! Feb. 26, 2010
In this photo, the Community Room has been set up for the training of volunteers. Feb. 26, 2010
Feb. 19, 2010 - Landscaping was the major task of the week and the photos below will show the progress made. In addition, some of the furniture has arrived. Plans to close the temporary library south of Coupeville are in place and it will be moved back to Coupeville during the week of Feb. 22. Next week will be devoted to interior pictures as we move ever closer to the opening
This photo shows landscaping of the rain garden near the front entrance to the Library. Feb. 19, 2010
The handicapped entrance railing and landscaping was installed early in the week. Feb. 19, 2010
Landscaping has been completed in a small area near the rear entrance to the Library. The plants look small now but will grow quickly and present a nice view for those customers who use the rear parking and entrance to the Library. Feb. 19, 2010
On the west side of the building, trees have been planted and staked to hold them in place until they become well rooted. You can also see plantings in the rain garden on this side of the Library. Feb. 19, 2010
This is another view of the plantings in the rain garden on the west side of the Library. Feb. 19, 2010
The lighted path leads from the front entrance of the Library to the west open field and town parking lot. It provided additional opportunities for tree and shrub plantings. Feb. 19, 2010
This tractor was used all week grading and leveling the site prior to installing the landscape plantings and trees. The entrance to the open field west of the Library was also graded with crushed rock. The entrance runs along the south boundary of the Library on town property. Feb. 19, 2010
This photo is a view of the finished Library from the north parking lot area. A handsome building! Feb. 19, 2010
Another view of the Library from the southside street entrance. Feb. 19, 2010
Feb. 12, 2010 - This week, books began to arrive at the library and shelving for still more books was being installed. The Library became a LIBRARY as books appeared in the stacks area! All of the general contractor's temporary buildings and equipment have disappeared although outside landscaping remains to be completed.
Proof that this is really a Library! Feb. 12, 2010
This photo is in the children's area. The sun was streaming in from the west and was very pleasant after days of clouds and rain. Some shading will likely be required during the upcoming summer months. Feb. 12, 2010
Another view of shelved books in the stacks area -- taken from the teen area on the west side of the building. Feb. 12, 2010
Some rolling shelving has arrived for use in displaying new and popular materials. They rolled very easily now and will hopefully be just as easy to roll when loaded with books! Feb. 12, 2010
And what Library would be complete without a copy machine?? This machine arrived mid-week from storage. Feb. 12, 2010
Jan. 29, 2010 - Things are shaping up at the Library! A lot of cleaning has been done, the final checking of the heating and air conditioning system is underway, black topping of the remaining parking lot areas is complete and shelving has arrived! We also have a "new" Coupeville Library sign -- actually the original sign by Glen Russell, now renovated. The only major item remaining to be done is the large sliding door to the Community Room. In should arrive in the next few days. Outside, landscaping remains to be done.
Here is the reinstalled Coupeville Library sign. It is installed near the rear entrance of the building. A new sign will be placed at the front entrance. Jan. 29, 2010
Black top fill-in around the front entrance to the building. Final striping of the parking areas remains to be done. Jan. 29, 2010
The first shelving arrived today (Friday) and is stored in the Adult Reading room. It will be installed next week. Jan. 29, 2010
Frames for some of the stacks arrived and are temporarily stored in the Children's room. Jan. 29, 2010
Still more shelving and dividers have been rolled into the stacks area. Planning for books and materials is not far off! Furniture will come a little later. Jan. 29, 2010
Jan. 8, 2010 - It was a rainy week in Coupeville so some of the outside cement and parking lot finish work has been delayed. However, inside work continues with trimming of some of the doors and windows, hanging some of the doors, and installation of the overhead light overhead light covers.
The cement pad in front of the front steps has been completed. The area in front of the pad will be black top and part of the north parking lot. Jan. 8, 2010
Only part of the handicap sidewalk to the front entrance was completed before the weather halted the work. It will be completed next week. Jan. 8, 2010
The fireplace was operational today! It will provide a nice setting in the adult reading room. This room is now nearly finished and carpet installation in the room is expected next week. Jan. 8, 2010
Some of the doors have been trimmed and hung. The wood grain give a sense of quality to the finish work. This door opens to the community room. The far door opens to one of the restrooms. Jan. 8, 2010
This photo shows the finished lighting fixtures in the community room. The center panel of each light contains fluorescent bulbs. Light is directed downward from center panel but also directs light to the white surfaces on either side of the panel. That light is then reflected into the room. Note the large window surface in this room. Great for letting natural light into the room but also provides a nice view outside for people using the room. Jan. 8, 2010
Here is a view from the manager's office. She will have a view out the front door and all the way to Penn Cove! Jan. 8, 2010
Dec. 28, 2009
Here is the ceiling in the entry hallway, looking from the front entrance toward the back entrance of the Library. Dec. 28, 2009
Some of the built in woodwork has arrived. This is a photo looking into the Children's area. Dec. 28, 2009
Forms have been completed for the concrete pour of the level entry to the front door of the Library. Workmen have also prepared the area at the back of the library for the concrete and blacktop work to be installed for a walkway and parking. Dec. 28, 2009
This photo provides a view of the sidewalks being installed from the wharf and downtown Coupeville to the Library. Dec. 28, 2009
Dec. 6, 2009 - Still another interesting and exciting week at the Library. It seems like one or more workers from almost all the building trades worked this week and the progress will be obvious in the photos below
Cabinets have been installed in the Friends area. This space is just to the left as you enter the Library front door. Note the large cabinet under the window. This is a mobile cart and can be rolled out into the room as needed. Dec. 6, 2009
This photo was taken in the stacks area. Note the upward directed lighting that will reflect off the acoustical ceiling panels. Also, the fact that the lights are on tells us that power is on in the building. Dec. 6, 2009
No, these are not lights! They are the solar tubes that bring light in from the outside (actually from the cupola). The sun was shining and even though the picture was taken late in the day, these light tubes were very bright. The "lights" are directly over the circulation desk. Dec. 6, 2009
This photo is taken in the men's restroom. Both restrooms are now completed. Dec. 6, 2009
This is a photo of the fireplace in the adult reading room. The wood cabinet was installed on Thursday. The plastic cover is to protect the fireplace while the rest of the trim is installed throughout the room. Most of the trim should be completed next week. Carpets on the floor will be the last thing to be installed. Dec. 6, 2009
We have water fountains! These fountains are located just inside the back door entrance to the library Dec. 6, 2009
This smooth operating "gate" coils up in the ceiling and rolls down to close off the main library from the entry hallway and the community room. The hallway and community room are seen just behind the gate in this picture. Dec. 6, 2009
This is a photo of the front entrance foyer. The Friends area is just to the right in the photo. Only the trim around the doors and windows remains to be installed. Dec. 6, 2009
Outside and to the rear (west side) of the building is a water retention area that was graded and installed this week. The area in the foreground was covered with a straw mulch and likely will become a grassy area later this spring and summer. In the upper right, a "privacy" structure now surrounds the heating and air- conditioning units. In the background upper part of the picture is the Friend's book storage shed. Dec. 6, 2009
Finally, this is a photo taken from the north side of the library. This is what you will see from the wharf or from "downtown" Coupeville. A really handsome building, don't you think? And the view will be even better when the security fence is gone and landscaping is completed. Dec. 6, 2009
Nov. 30, 2009 - The exterior of the building has been painted! Inside, tile work inside along with the installation of acoustical ceiling panels is some of the work that is completed. Floor tiles were being installed as well.
Here is the newly painted west side of the Library. All of the building was painted with only some touch up remaining at the end of the week Nov. 30, 2009
This photo shows one of the bathrooms where tile has been installed. Fixtures come next! Nov. 30, 2009
Another view of the completed tile work in one of the bathrooms. Nov. 30, 2009
And still one more photo of one of tile work in one of the bathrooms. Nov. 30, 2009
This photo shows some of the curved acoustical panels in the adult reading room. Nov. 30, 2009
This photo is shows the acoustical ceiling panels above the stacks. Nov. 30, 2009
Here is a photo of the "kitchen" area in the community room complete with a workman installing the cabinet work. Yes, there will be a sink in the opening where his head appears! Note that there are plenty of electrical outlets. Nov. 30, 2009
Nov. 15, 2009 - Lots of workman have been in the building this week (and last). We are in the "finishing" stage of the project -- even though there is much detail work to be done and "finish" work necessarily needs to be slow, deliberate and carefully done. Below are a few photos taken this week.
Exterior siding in now 99% complete. This is a view of the south side of the building that was the last to be completed. Nov. 15, 2009
The fireplace in the adult reading room has been installed. Of course, completing the walled enclosure and adding trim still remains to be done. Nov. 15, 2009
This photo shows the installed book drops on the south rear entrance area of the building. They will be trimmed out and have a finished look in the next few days. Nov. 15, 2009
The first floor tile has been installed in the entry from the rear of the building. The tile are about 6 inches wide and 16 inches long. They look great in this entry hallway. Grouting, cleaning and sealing remain to be done. Nov. 15, 2009
Her is a first look at tile in one of the bathroom. A single workman was meticulously doing that work Friday afternoon. Nov. 15, 2009
These curved ceiling panels will be suspended from the ceiling in the adult reading room. Note the holes drilled in the underside of the panel. These panels will provide for sound absorption and should provide a quiet and pleasant reading room for anyone wanting to spend an hour or two at the library on an overcast, rainy day such as we have been having recently! Nov. 15, 2009
Nov. 1, 2009 - The photos below show some of the progress during the week.
The missing right front window has been installed! All windows are now in place. Nov. 1, 2009
Siding was installed on the east side of the building this week. Installation on the back (south side of the building) remains to be done. Nov. 1, 2009
The handicap entrance to the front of the Library is ready to be finished. It is a near level walkway to the front door. Nov. 1, 2009
Wires, Cables, Wires everywhere! Here is one of the electrical panels that will distribute power in the building. Nov. 1, 2009
Leslie Franzen will have a Manager's office! Note also the finished and sanded dry walls. Painting was to begin on Friday and will be finished early next week. That means some of the cabinet work can begin. Nov. 1, 2009
Oct. 26, 2009 - Looking from the outside, it did not seem like much was done at the library this week, but inside, a huge project was nearly completed. Sheet rock installation on the walls was completed about midweek and they began taping the seams. The solar tubes (all four) are now installed to bring light in from the cupola. The photos below show some of the progress during the week.
Siding on the west side of the building is now complete except that above the curved window. Oct. 26, 2009
This photo shows the room where the stacks will be. Taping is done but some final finishing will result in a "seamless" wall. Oct. 26, 2009
Here is a view looking toward the back entrance of the library. Oct. 26, 2009
This picture was taken in the "community" room. The small room to the left is a storage area. The indentation on the right will be a small "kitchen" area. Oct. 26, 2009
Oct. 19, 2009 - The dry-wallers have been there most of the week and dry wall installation always means a lot of dust, small left over pieces of drywall, etc. More siding has been installed despite rain off and on during the week. And we have solar panels installed on the roof. Two of the four solar tubes from the cupola to the circulation desk area have also been installed. Below are some photos showing the week's progress.
Siding is nearly complete on the building west wall. The color will change. Oct. 19, 2009
Another siding photo. The cupola and west dormer siding is complete. Oct. 19, 2009
Here are the installed solar panels on the right side of the south facing roof. Oct. 19, 2009
This photo shows more solar panels on the left side of the south facing roof. Oct. 19, 2009
Here is a photo of two of the four solar tubes that will bring natural light in from the cupola to the circulation desk area in the library. I think we will be impressed with the amount of natural light these units bring to the area. Oct. 19, 2009
Oct. 12, 2009 - Interior details are being completed prior to beginning installation of the drywall. Windows and doors have been installed -- just prior to the steady rains we have had for the last two or three nights! Workman began installing the exterior siding this week and that work will be continuing. Following are a few pictures taken during the week.
The front entry is beginning to take shape. Handicap entrance will be along the top of the stone wall to the left. Oct. 12, 2009
Insulation is being installed in all exterior walls and some interior walls for found proofing. Oct. 12, 2009
We will have air-conditioning and heating!! Interior ducting is in place but the complete installation will take a little more time. Also, here is a first look at the exterior siding. Of course, the final color will be different. Oct. 12, 2009
A few hours after the last picture was taken, siding appeared on one side of the cupola. Oct. 12, 2009
And still more siding on the west side of the building. Most of the siding work should be completed in Week 15. Oct. 12, 2009
Oct. 5, 2009 - This was a week of almost daily visual changes at the Library. Many of the windows were installed on Tuesday and only a few windows on the front of the building and the front entry remain to be put in place. In addition, there were roofers on site for about 3 days during the week and it is finished! The fall rains, if they come soon, will no longer be a concern, as the interior will remain dry. Below are a few photos.
These are the new windows on the west side of the building that were installed. Oct. 5, 2009
Shingling began on Tuesday and was completed in about 3 days. The roofers worked around all the solar panel tie-downs on this side (south side ) of the roof! Oct. 5, 2009
The roof shingling is completed. It looks nice!! Oct. 5, 2009
Still a lot of work to do but here is a photo of the front steps. Yes, a lot of steps but as we know, there is a near level entry to the left of these steps and there is still a level entrance on the opposite side of the building. Handicap access is provided! Oct. 5, 2009
We are beginning to get a better idea of how the front of the library will look in this photo. The entrance and high roof line at the front of the building will be truly impressive. The windows look in on the adult reading room. Oct. 5, 2009
Sept. 28, 2009 - There was a lot of activity and lots of workman at the library during the week. It is astounding the amount of detail --electrical wiring, plumbing rough-in, sprinkler system rough-in, etc. etc. going into the building and it has taken a little longer than expected. Also installing the fascia boards on the roof has taken a little longer than expected project and those must be in place before the roof can be shingled. There was action on the front steps and although still covered with plastic in the photo below, that part of the project is coming along nicely. The photos below show progress being made!
Front steps -- covered with plastic for protection from rain. Still a lot of work to do to complete the front entrance Sept. 28, 2009
Here are those fascia boards along the edge of the roof. They were weather treated and painted before installation. Some work still needs to be done and then we should see the roofers here to install the shingles you see on the roof peak. Sept. 28, 2009
Black pipe -- a lot of it! This will be installed to provide sprinklers throughout the building. Sept. 28, 2009
Air-conditioning and heating duct-work has been installed. Sept. 28, 2009
Pipes, wires, electrical boxes everywhere! The Library will be well supplied with utilities! Sept. 28, 2009
Sept. 21, 2009 - Progress continues with a lot of detail work inside the building. The electricians have just about completed the rough-in electrical wiring. A new gable appeared on the rear (south) side of the building that will provide cover for the new rear entrance to the library. Darren hopes to have roof fascia completed this week which means shingling can begin and it is possible windows will be installed. Solar tubes have arrived and are ready for installation. The roof solar panel tie-downs are now on the roof. It is safe to say the solar panels will be firmly in place regardless of the winter wind storms common here on Whidbey!
The new gable will provide cover for the rear entrance to the library. Sept. 21, 2009
The Library front steps are beginning to take shape. The rock wall hides the level entry that will come in from the sidewalk next to the street. Sept. 21, 2009
These are the tie-downs on the roof that will hold the solar panel in place. Lag screws into the rafters hold down these solar panel supports. Sept. 21, 2009
Sept. 11, 2009 - It may seem like it has been a slow week because we are not seeing dramatic changes but in fact, a great amount of detail work was done in completing the roof framing, finishing the roof sheathing, adding blocking where it will be needed later, etc. The dormer structure on the back (south side) of the building was also completed. We are getting close to being able to shingle the roof and get the whole building protected from any changes in the weather that could occur at any time. Below are three or four pictures showing the current status of construction
Dormer added on the back (south) roof -- will allow light into the staff work rooms below. Sept. 11, 2009
This photo shows all of the roof sheathing completed. More detail work along the eves will be needed before shingling can begin. Sept. 11, 2009
Interior walls in the stack area and teen study area are being made ready for sheet rock. Sept. 11, 2009
Looks messy now but this will be the community use space when completed -- lots of windows -- formerly the children's area. Sept. 11, 2009
Sept. 5, 2009 - Another week of progress on the Library expansion. The roof trusses arrived early Monday morning and by the afternoon many of them were already in place and nailed down. We also saw some work on the rock wall at the front of the building and by the end of the week a major portion of the roof had sheathing in place. We also have a cupola! It looks great and does indeed reflect the appearance of the block houses seen elsewhere in Coupeville. The photos below summarize some of the progress this week.
The trusses arrived on a large truck towing a large trailer -- along with the crane to lift them in place. Sept. 5, 2009
The crane easily lifted multiple trusses and located them where the workman could fasten them down. Sept. 5, 2009
In this photo, a smaller truss is ready to lowered to the proper resting site Sept. 5, 2009
By Tuesday, most of the trusses were in place, properly spaced, and fasten down with metal clips. Sept. 5, 2009
Here is a view from inside the building after most the trusses were in place. Note the higher (soon to be curved ceiling) over the teen area. This picture looks west to the open field. Sept. 5, 2009
By Thursday, and cupola began to emerge! Sept. 5, 2009
And by Friday, the copula roof was in place. Sept. 5, 2009
This photo is a very preliminary view of the rock wall that will be seen at the front steps of the building. Lots of work left to do on the front entrance. Sept. 5, 2009
This week of progress on the Library expansion was setting forms and pouring concrete.
Forms complete and rebar in place for the concrete floor. August 22, 2009.
Friday morning at about 7:30 AM -- the cement pump is in place to begin pouring the floor. August 22, 2009.
At this point about 1/2 of the floor has been poured. August 22, 2009.
This device vibrates and levels the floor as the create is delivered from the pump. August 22, 2009.
Toweling begins. This worker has a super trowel while the workman at the right finishes the outside edges. August 22, 2009.
And here is the finished floor! August 22, 2009.
More rocks! -- They will be used in the landscaping scheme at the new entrance to the library. August 22, 2009.
Good progress this week despite the extreme heat. This picture shows the completed forms for the foundation of the expanded section of the building. Most of the forming was completed on Wednesday with the temperature hovering around 95 degrees! July 31, 2009.
This picture shows the first cement truck and cement pump ready to begin filling the forms with concrete around 10:30 on Friday morning. July 31, 2009.
This shows the cement being received and poured in the forms on the OPPOSITE side of the building. The cement will cure over the weekend and the forms will be removed on Monday. July 31, 2009.
Taken inside the building. All of the interior walls have been removed and except for some final cleanup, the interior deconstruction is complete. July 31, 2009.
Coupeville Library staff meeting with the architects to review plans and offer feedback, Feb. 2009
Coupeville Library staff meeting with the architects to review plans and offer feedback, Feb. 2009
Coupeville Library staff meeting with the architects to review plans and offer feedback, Feb. 2009
Coupeville Library staff meeting with the architects to review plans and offer feedback, Feb. 2009
Coupeville Library staff meeting with the architects to review plans and offer feedback, Feb. 2009
Coupeville Library staff meeting with the architects to review plans and offer feedback, Feb. 2009
Coupeville Library expansion public meeting on Dec. 20
Current view of library


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I don't know. Back of the envelope, it just doesn't make that much sense to me. Maybe there are a bunch of sponsorships they could sell - advertising in the lanes and partnerships with hotels and car rental joints, etc. But I think the average security experience is going to get better, not worse, as fewer people will fly now that it's more expensive and those fewer people flying will be more experienced. Plus, the laptop and shoes and jacket things will go away fairly soon for most people as technology is developed. So I'm not even sure they would ever get a quarter of their target market to sign up.
Maybe I'm wrong. Steven Brill is a smart guy, and the investors aren't dummies, but it seems like irrational exuberance to me.
"I think that we're living in a violent time and we have a duty to ensure the safety of our flock," said Fred Rodriguez, a senior pastor at Elsinore First Assembly in Lake Elsinore.
Rodriguez said he came to the seminar because he worries that church violence will get worse. "The Scripture says we're living the last days," the clergyman said. "A person doesn't have to look too far to see evidence."
"There are practical things we can do," he added, "and we let God take care of the rest."
Traditional security measures, like metal detectors or pat-downs, might compromise that sense of sanctuary, Baker said. So he proposed other, subtler methods. He suggested that churches organize undercover security teams -- and recommended that some members come armed with concealed weapons.
If violence breaks out at church, it could take minutes for even the fastest police and rescue crews to respond, Baker said, "and there's a whole lot of bad that can happen in two to three minutes."
Baker, like other security consultants, said churchgoers need to fight back instead of hiding if they're being attacked, as many students have been coached to do in the event of a school shooting. "If I'm going to get beat, I'm going to get beat doing something," Baker said. "I'm not going to get beat doing nothing."
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British Go Journal No. 54. October 1981. Page 23.
Jim Barty
Every go player improves if he keeps on playing. This improvement is never steady and consistent, it occurs in jumps. Each jump shows that a go revelation has born fruit. But between the jumps are the plateaux where you plod along for months or maybe years always at the same depressing level. I remember being stuck at 2-kyu for a whole year; one of the insights that finally jogged me out of my rut was the significance of 'pre-atari'. Most go players, when they see an atari, play it immediately. Their reason seems to be that atari is a forcing move which compels an answer. If you have successfully forced your opponent into some particular response then you can bask in the illusion that you have control over what's happening on the board. However, the fact of the matter is that you may have destroyed all sorts of delicious aji. Why should this be? The explanation is disarmingly simple.
When a group has just two liberties you can put it into atari. We can describe this state as 'pre-atari'. But which liberty do you fill? If you fill one you can force one response, if the other you force the other response. The simple but crucial point is that there are two ways you can force your opponent. Two possibilities. Here we are very close to the Japanese idea of 'aji'. Do you want to hit your opponent on the head or the backside? If you refrain from hitting him either way but probe nearby he may be forced into making a grovelling answer to your probe. You have forced him off balance because he can't just parry your probe but must shelter himeself at the same time from both the blow on the head and the kick in the pants.
Dia 1
Dia 2
Let's look at an example: In Dia 1 White has spotted what he thought was aweakness in black's shape and pushed with 1 and cut with 5. Now Black can play atari at either A or B. Whoa! Steady there, what should Black really do? He should think beyond the two ataris, and play 1 in Dia 2. White has to grovel and connect at 2 in Dia 3. Now Black can settle himeself comfortably. If White tries to resist with 2 in Dia 4, Black can unleash one of the options he discretely refrained from playing before and humiliate White.
Dia 3
Dia 4
Dia 5
Examples of ataris that should be left alone are very common. Dia 5 shows another example. Black has just played a rather flashy move at 1, tempting White into a tricky fight. White decides to simplify the position and sacrifice his three stones by pushing through with 2 and 4. But white should refrain from popping in the extra atari at A. The reason is that he might later be able to play B, which threatens C and after C the two ataris at A and D really come to life. The conclusion is that White can play B almost as a free move because Black can't respond aggressively. Had White carried on gleefully playing atari at A the aji that lets him have such an easy time with B disappears.
Obviously if an atari is double sente then you can't very well avoid playing it straight away. However, if it is just sente for you then leave it alone because there are always TWO ataris. Try to find a sequence in which the other atari might be helpful. Even if nothing comes to mind now, 50 moves later things might be very different. If nothing comes of it you will have an extra ko threat or some yose in sente, or both at the same time.


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Four Former Jefferson Parish Public School Board Employees Sentenced For Embezzlement Scheme
|December 7, 2011
KIMBERLY M. WILLIAMS, age 35, a resident of New Orleans, LA, GESELLE SAVOY, age 58, a resident of Alamogordo, New Mexico, DANAY JACKSON, age 33, a resident of Harvey, LA, and TRACY WALKER, age 41, a resident of Westwego, LA, were sentenced in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. A fifth defendant, AMANDA JACKSON, age 55, a resident of Harvey, LA will be sentenced on January 18, 2012.
WILLIAMS, SAVOY AND D. JACKSON, had previously pled guilty to conspiring to commit federal program fraud while employed by the Jefferson Parish Public School System (JPPSS). WALKER had previously pled guilty to misprision of a felony.
WILLIAMS and SAVOY were both sentenced to 5 years probation with six months home confinement and were ordered to pay $132,152 in restitution to the Jefferson Parish Public School System. D. JACKSON was sentenced to 5 years probation and was ordered to pay $9,712.50 in restitution to the Jefferson Parish Public School System. WALKER was sentenced to 3 years probation and ordered to pay $11,820.00 in restitution to the Jefferson Parish Public School System.
According to court documents, WILLIAMS, SAVOY, D. JACKSON, and WALKER were all employees of JPPSS but none were certified teachers or qualified to perform tutoring, testing, or remediation for JPPSS. The bill of information charged that WILLIAMS and SAVOY submitted fraudulent payroll documents for themselves and D. JACKSON and WALKER so that defendants received approximately $132,152.00 in supplemental pay and stipends from JPPSS' Louisiana Education Assessment Program (LEAP), Graduate Exit Examination (GEE) tutoring fund, Education Excellent (EE) fund as well as a general fund.
The case was investigated by U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Department of Education, the Louisiana Electronic and Financial Crimes Task Force and the Jefferson Parish Sheriffs' Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U. S. Attorney Julia K. Evans


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Everything does seem to be coming on thick & fast at the moment! I only have about 500 photos to upload here, having gotten into the habit of taking a camera around with me and photographing plants and scenes, where before I would have just stopped a while, looked, said or thought "that's pretty cool" and walked on. I'll concentrate first on the food stuff going on right now or very recently to hopefully get your fire up (if you needed it) and going into wild food projects and/or experiments of your own.
1) – The basics: have I said anything about jams & jellies since this blog has been online? Ridiculous, really, considering how much time and effort I put into making them each year. It involves ::deep breath:: collecting your fruit in a saucepan, covering with water and boiling until mushy (helping this process with wooden spoon or potato masher with the harder fruits), separating pips, hairs, stones, dead bugs etc. by passing through a sieve, food mill or jelly bag, then mixing with sugar (the books say an equal weight, but I usually go for a 4:5 ratio of suagr:fruit, eg: 800g:1kg) and boiling fast until a drop of the mixture gets wrinkles on the surface when you nudge it with a finger on a cold plate. Then ladelling into jars that have been washed and sterilised with boiling water ::phew!:: (look it up if you want more details.)
Here's one I made this year using the garden rosehips – which for some reason went squishy about three months earlier than usual – plus some larger rosa rugosa fruits and a bowlful of Hawthorn berries:
This needed quite a lot of mashing, after which it went through the food mill and then I spent the best part of an hour squeezing the maximum possible amount of liquid through a jelly bag (I hate rosehips – they contain loads of tiny hairs that can irritate your innards if ingested so you have to fine-strain them or gut each one individually with a knife and then run under a tap – but then I love the taste so what can you do?)
Books say not to squeeze the jelly bag if you want a clear jelly. To me this represents a criminal waste of fruit matter, although a compromise I've found works is to wait until the solid mass cools a bit, then pick a handful and squeeze inside the bag leaving the juice free to percolate through of its own accord. Another problem with rosehips is that they're a bastard to thicken/set, especially so when you've processed them in several batches of water. Like many of the softer fruits it helps to mix in some harder ones like apple or haws (as above – remember their 'crazy-high levels of pectin') or lemon juice sometimes helps. I boiled mine extra long this time to make sure:
Note the bigger pan: jam often gets excited in a fast boil and can spill over and make half your kitchen sticky for a week. This has happened to me far too many times than is good for my reputation to admit, and invariably leads to the surrounding air being turned blue by my cursing… It all worked out pretty well this time, though. Four jars contributed to this year's haul so far:
Mum gets the credit for maybe half of these, which include: Plum, Blackberry, Blackberry/Apple, Damson (ugh, not ripe yet), Elderberry/Hawthorn/Apple, and oddities of marmalade, honey, 'Cherry Plum' (from H's garden), Chilli and one unlabelled Misc. which came as a gift.
2) – Syrup. Pretty much the same process except you try harder to minimise the amount of solids and keep it liquid at the end by not boiling so much. Here are the various stages of my 'Elder Rob': first a load of elderberries popped off the stalks with a fork and washed, cooking in their own juice before being joined by handfuls of blackberries, blackcurrants, last year's sloes from the freezer, chunks of apple and a bunch of 'warming' spices:
Then mashed through a sieve (I put the leftover pulp through a second time after cooking it again with more water), measured out into a bigger pan and boiled for a bit, again with 4:5 sugar, until slightly thick and 'syrupy', then poured into sterilised bottles and kept somewhere warm & dry.
Great for when you feel a spot of 'flu coming on (the elderberries have antiviral properties) or you need something hot and comforting in a cold winter evening – best mixed with hot water and a shot of rum/whisky/brandy.
3) – Harvest-time! I find it very satisfying to be out and about with a shoulder bag, a knife and a few 'just in case' plastic bags. Not even necessarily with any plans to forage for particular items – just if you happen to find something interesting or bountiful and find yourself in the right mood to stop and harvest a few things…
…then you can stop and do so for as long as you please (not having to be somewhere else as fast as possible helps with this) and come back feeling you've accomplished something wonderfully simple and direct but powerful at the same time: you've actually 'put food on the table' in a way that most Breadwinners never even approach:
I gathered all this (Lime leaves, beech nuts, hazelnuts, Hawthorn- and Elder-berries) on the way back from the station over the course of perhaps an hour and a half. Processing took maybe the same again or slightly longer, leaving me with this:
Now they say that hunter-gatherers, even in the harshest environments on the planet (the only places they still exist since we farmers booted them off the best lands) can meet all their caloric and nutritional needs with an average of two hours per day of what we might consider 'work' (though hunting, fishing, foraging all come closer to 'play' in most peoples' definitions). At times like these I almost dare to think the same would be possible here, even with a heavily degraded landscape and no tribe of many hands and much ancient wisdom to make the work lighter. How long could the above sustain me for at approximately four hours in one day? Hard to tell – there's less volume than I would usually go through in, say, a week of farmed foods, but then it probably punches above its weight in terms of nutritional density. How sick of this would I get if I had to do the same thing three times per week? Probably not so much as I would do with farmyard chores! Also the same abundance doesn't make itself available all through the year so this would be a time for harvesting more than to simply meet day-to-day needs. Thought experiments like these bring home to me the importance of engaging in subsistence efforts with a large group of people who pool their resources and, while they may specialise to some degree through preference or aptitude for one particular task, they would also keep the freedom to shift their activities into other spheres of differing utility to the tribe.*
4) – Chutneys. Something to do with surplus vegetables and a variation on the endless sweetness of jam. Chop everything up to your preferred fineness, fry it for a bit in the bottom of the pan, then cook in vinegar (I hear cider vinegar is best) for several hours with a reasonable amount of brown sugar and loads of herbs, spices, seeds, chopped nuts, dried fruit and anything else you can think of until it reaches the desired consistency. So far I've done a 'Hawthorn, Sloe & Apple' (Haw/Sloe + vinegar mush has to go through the food mill to get rid of the stones before you mix in any other ingredients):
…and a 'Marrow + Omni-Veg' (if I remember: onions, peppers, garlic, carrots, runner beans, tomato, celery, beetroot, apple with ample lovage, sage, rosemary, chili powder, cloves, mixed allspice, nutmeg, black pepper, salt as well as raisins, various chopped nuts, mustard seed … juniper berries … erm … other stuff):
5) – Other experiments. Lime leaves, as gathered above, seem to be having a second wind at the moment:
…which is lucky because I didn't get the opportunity to try something I heard earlier on in the year – an intriguing method for drying and powdering masses of the edible leaves for use as a thickener (thanks to high mucilage content) in soups & stews and as an adulterant for flour. Apparently this comes from a French hard-times tradition, but also relates to African practices with the Baobab leaf, both of which were perhaps distilled in the 'Creole' cooking traditions of Louisiana that use Sassafras leaves in much the same way:
It just happens that Louisiana Creole cookery is, at its heart, an admixture of French and African cookery traditions with a few bits and pieces of native Arawak culture thrown in to the bargain. One of the mainstays of Creole cookery is the Gumbo a rich stew made with seafood, sausages and meat that, typically is either thickened with okra (from West Africa) or with sassafras leaves (filé powder) as it's most commonly known.
The use of filé powder is always thought to be a native Arawak tradition (which it is)… But what made the use of dried and powdered sassafras leaves so acceptable. From the African slave population it's possible to see that the use of sassafras as a thickener echoed the use of baobab leaves back home, it gave them an echo of their lost homeland.
But what about the French colonialists? Could it be that the use of sassafras leaves also gave them an echo of their homeland? Perhaps the easy adoption of sassafras leaves as a thickener in stews also provided them with a taste of home, reminding them of the use of linden leaves in their homeland. ('Clues to Lost Recipes with Linden – A Culinary Detective Story')
So that's what I've tried, with all of the above leaves duly dried and condensed down to this amount of powder after a minute-or-so in the food processor:
I'll let you know how it works out.
Otherwise, this fruit leather made from elderberry leftovers might not have enough flesh in it to make it palatable, but I might break it into small chunks and turn it into fruit tea:
Also, Poppy seeds are quite fun and easy to gather (albeit rather tasteless), if you get to them before the winds! If you leave them in a hole-free bag and shake it about a bit, you'll find most of the seed comes out and gathers at the bottom. If you want to be fastidious you can squeeze each individual poppy head over a bowl & sieve and break it apart if it feels like there's still something in there. This was a yellow-flowered variety which apparently self-sowed itself in a neighbour's garden. I've not had much luck with the wild ones you sometimes find growing on (non-sprayed) field margins.
And I'm coming for you, Burdock (your roots, that is – as pictured on my original banner photo from, what, four years ago?):
What an abundance! I'll try to keep you posted with any new developments over the rest of the season.
* Some of these insights come second-hand from Rebecca Lerner, who has actually experimented with eating a wild-foods-only diet for a week, first on her own and then with friends helping her out – scroll down this page.


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A long-sought American gangster known for flashy cars, flipping off the feds and fleeing south of the border has been captured in Mexico and sent back to the United States.
Federal agents have been chasing Raul Sergio Madrigal since 2009 when — apparently spooked by pending charges — he ran away to Mexico and left behind his stable of BMWs, Maseratis, a Bentley and a Hummer.
Authorities contend Madrigal, 33, is a member of the largest gang in Texas and ran a major drug-distribution network for the Gulf Cartel.
He is in U.S. custody after being snagged near Monterrey, Mexico, authorities said Friday.
"What we tried to tell him was come up here, be a man," Brian Ritchie, head of the FBI's multi-agency gang task force, told the Houston Chronicle, referring to phone calls from Madrigal about surrendering. "You got caught, take your licks, and move on down the road."
Madrigal and 13 other people, including his younger brother Edgar, were accused of crimes with penalties of up to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Madrigal couldn't evade an Internet dragnet launched in Houston in April. Madrigal was one of the original most wanted fugitives on the website stophoustongangs.org.
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FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration agents, working with their Mexican counterparts, snagged him this year at the Monterrey airport, said Shauna Dunlap, spokeswoman for the FBI's Houston Division.
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While in a Texas prison in 2005, Madrigal joined the Houston Tango Blast, part of a coalition of what authorities consider the most problematic gang in Texas. He did time with a member of the Gulf Cartel who later would be his cartel connection.
The gang, which has affiliates in San Antonio and Dallas, has far more members than any other gang in the state, authorities said. They are known for tattoos with respective city's telephone area codes and sports team emblems.
Madrigal hid almost in plain sight in Mexico.
His wife made regular trips back and forth across the Texas-Mexico border and posted family photos on her Web page.
They showed Madrigal loving life on the lam: There he is on a Mexican beach enjoying Spring Break; there he is in a club extending his middle finger; there he is in a giant hotel bubble bath — reminiscent of the scene in the classic drug kingpin film "Scarface."
"She is posting photos of her visits with Raul, and he's flipping us off, you know it is for us, and there are little messages underneath," the FBI's Ritchie has said. "He is kind of taunting us."
Madrigal's brother Edgar pleaded guilty to reduced charges in 2009 and is due to be released next September.


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Zeal Hatchet Goggle Dark Night Automatic+ GB and Sky Blue Mirror Goggles is available in one size, fitting medium – large heads shapes well. With Helmet wearing this goggle will even fit smaller faces due to the nature of helmets creating a larger void for the Hatchet Dark Night goggles to fit into.
Understanding your prescription
Your prescription is split into three sections, Sphere, Cylinder and Axis. You will most commonly see this written as, Sph, Cyl and Axis.
There are simple rules for each part of the prescription
Sphere – Is always a number in 0.25 jumps (i.e. 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00, 1.25). This can either be written in minus or plus (- or +).
IMPORTANT: You must select the correct symbol when ordering (minus or plus, – or +) as selecting the wrong sign will create the completely wrong prescription required to correct your vision.
Cyl – Is always a number in 0.25 jumps (i.e. 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00, 1.25). This can either be written in minus or plus.
IMPORTANT: You must select the correct symbol when ordering (minus or plus, – or +) as selecting the wrong sign will create the completely wrong prescription required to correct your vision.
Axis – Is a number between 0 and 180, it can also be written to point five (0.5) of a degree. This simply happens if the optometrist can't decide wether you prefer for example 79 or 80 so they simply write your axis as 79.5. In this case lets get your glasses as accurate as possible so please provide us with the 79.5.
The in instances when a prescription doesn't have a value for the Cyl section please leave the Axis blank (or some opticians write this as 0.00), the Axis is indicating what degree the Cyl figure sits at so if there is no Cyl there is no Axis required.
Other symbols which are often seen written in a glasses prescription
Infinity Symbol ∞ – this is another way of writing zero (no prescription) so simply select 0.00 into the corresponding section for either sphere or cyl.
Plano – this is another way of writing zero (no prescription) so simply select 0.00 into the corresponding section for either sphere or cyl.
Varifocals – What is the Add (Addition) part of my prescription?
You typically start to get the add part to a prescription when you hit 40+ and it is a measure of the amount of magnification you require to read.
The add is a plus (+) power which identifies how much extra addition (magnification) a glasses wearer requires (on top of their distance prescription) in order to read comfortably at close up distances, such as reading.
NOTE: Sometimes an optician will write your prescription for reading as a full prescription rather than simply supplying your reading add.
Right: -2.50 / -0.50 x 180
Left: -2.00 / -0.75 x 175
Right: -1.00 / -0.50 x 180
Left: -0.50 / -0.75 x 175
Reading Add = +1.50
In this case to get your reading add take your distance Prescription Sphere off your reading Shere. The difference between the two figures is your reading add used for Varifocals.
Let our Dispensing Optician Measure your Pupil Distance accurately
For the Pupil Distance options on the ordering pages select 'Let Extreme eyewear measure your PD' and we'll post you our specially designed glasses.
(Note: On some projects the PD option will state 'send ruler' this option will still get you the new PD Measuring Glasses)
All you have to do is take a simple photo of you wearing our glasses and emailing your photo to us.
Our Dispensing Optician will then accurately take your mono pupil distances. Our PD glasses allows our dispensing opticians to gain all the details they need to set up single vision and varifocal sunglasses / eyewear accurately.
Let us supply you with perfect vision.
This service is free for all prescription eyewear orders.
What is your PD?
Your Pupil Distance is the measurement between the centre of your right and left pupils in mm.
How can you find out your Pupil Distance?
- You maybe lucky enough to have been given this by your optician
- You can select to have our Pupil Distance measuring glasses posted to you. These will leave us on the same day you place an order 1st class post.
Why have we gone to the trouble of supplying PD Glasses?
Prescription glasses and sunglasses always work better when the centre of the optical lens is over your pupil. Not having this set up correctly can cause head aches and limit how well the glasses will work.
Varifocal Wearers
If you don't know your Mono Pupil Distances (this is two separate measurements for your right and left pupils) we strongly advise you select to have our PD Glasses posted to you. Varifocals with out mono pupil distances will not work correctly.
If you know your Mono Pupil Distances during the checkout there is a comment box, please write your right and left mono pupil distances in this comment box.
A pupil distance of 65 may have mono pupil distances of
Right 33
Left 32
Your total PD is still the same (65) But by using the separate mono pupil distances the centre of the varifocals will be positioned over your pupils making sure the clear corridor leading to your reading is in the correct position.
How do I receive PD Measuring Glasses?
In the PD options select 'Let Extreme eyewear measure your PD'. The Digital ruler will be posted out on the same day as your order is placed to your shipping address supplied. (If your order comes in after 4.00pm the ruler will leave us the next day)
Abroad Orders
We will post the PD Measuring Glasses abroad but please allow a little more time to complete your order. The PD measuring glasses may take up to a week to get to abroad addresses.


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Cranes, Hoisting & Rigging Services in Port St Lucie
Selecting a Crane Rental Service
Cranes and hoists are indisputable one of the most used industrial machines. One can opt to rent or lease a crane or hoist depending on your needs. Good crane and hoist rental services will provide you crane inspection certification and hoist inspection checklist in order to ensure maximum safety for the crane workers.
Safety measurements
Companies providing crane, hoisting & rigging services in Port St Lucie are obliged to provide regular safety training and safety information on new regulations, issues and laws to the crane operators and trucking crew. Ask for the safety record of the crane, hoisting or rigging company.
Companies delivering industrial rigging services are obliged to train the riggers. As rigging equipment is often specially designed for a specific job, the correct use by trained personnel is extremely important to guarantee the safety of the co-workers. Contact the rigging company in city to be advised properly.
Some crane rental services provide an on site safety check at the beginning of a job whereby a safety specialist discuss and evaluates the details of a job and the specific safety measurements to be taken. I If you opt to let an external crane service company work on your building site, check if they participate in the specific program of the Federal Department of Transportation whereby the crew is required to undergo randomly drug and alcohol testing.
Choosing the right hoists
Most industrial hoists are electric or engine hoists. So if you want to rent a hoist, provide enough information to the rental company about the use (boat hoist, crane hoist) so they can advise you on renting the right manual chain, electric or engine hoist.


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lewd22 brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 81 Designs von 28 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
This e-commerce website will sell hair and skin care products to afro-carribean ladies based in the UK.
This is a two page design contest, the main (home) page and a product page - please only submit original work as I am not interested in templates.
I am creating an e-commerce store that will sell hair care, skin care and beauty related electrical products (straighteners, hair dryers, etc) to women of colour (primarily afro-Caribbean) within the UK.
The winner of this contest will receive $500 for the delivery of a main page and product page non-coded design, and I will also choose a runner up who will receive $50.
The Logo
I have had a logo created already and it can be found here http://www.hairandbeautydirect.com/logo/ in a number of different formats.
The colour used for the logo is #990033
The Layout
I have used my amazing paint skills to create a basic layout for these designs. The main page one is here http://www.hairandbeautydirect.com/…esign1.jpg and the product page one is here http://www.hairandbeautydirect.com/…esign1.jpg. I would like them both to have the same general layout but on the product page buttons and a space for product info & pics will be needed.
The files above are just guidelines, you can be pretty flexible with the layout as long as it includes all of the sections and pics used in my files.
Looking at my main page template file - there are three main product categories I would like to link to with images (the "Hair care", "Skin Care" and "Electrical Products") and I have purchased a multitude of images from istockphoto to use in these images, they are available here http://www.hairandbeautydirect.com/stockpics/.
And where I have "Rotating Guides Image Goes Here", it can just be filled in with a placeholder image at the moment as it will be replaced with one of these rotating ajax image slideshows that links to articles (more info here http://www.frontpageslideshow.net/).
With regards to colours used, I would like the same Hex colour used in the logo (#990033) and white to be the primary colours. Plain black text for main copy to allow easy readability though please.
Apart from that, the rest is up to the designer! Please remember though that this is focused at females so I need the design to have a glossy "beauty magazine" type feel to it.
If you have any questions please ask and I will be giving as much feedback as possible throughout this contest in order to allow you to create the best design you can.


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To start, make sure the "Photos" layer is checked in the left layers panel and zoom down to your area of interest.
As an example below, check out the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. You will see photo icons on top of the satellite images. The larger photo icons indicate larger collections or clusters of photos. Click on any photo icon to open the Photos window.
To browse through the images in a collection, click on a photo in the filmstrip and use the "left" and "right" arrow keys on your keyboard to flip through them quickly.
Whether you're deciding between Paris, Beijing or Venice for a nice vacation or simply want to go on a quick virtual getaway after a long day, we hope this new way of viewing photos in Google Earth helps bring places around the world to your fingertips.
If you'd like to contribute to our efforts of building a virtual atlas of the real world and have amazing photos you'd like to share, you can do so by uploading them to Panoramio.com.


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The MSP Foundation course looks at the basic principles of the MSP methodology, the components (called themes) and the processes.
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text: The Bukit Peninsula is a 140-square-kilometre, lemon-shaped, limestone tableland that dangles like a pendant upon a chain at the southernmost extremity of the island. Bukit is the Indonesian word for hill and, until recently, this dry-land outcrop was home only to seaweed farmers, fisherman, cassava farmers and a few ardent surfers. The only other industry was the mining of blocks of building stone, from inland karst quarries. There was little infrastructure, no telephones lines, no electricity and almost no surface water. Roads were limited and many of the gorgeous beaches were inaccessible. The only tourist attraction was Pura Luhur, the 11th century temple at Uluwatu, balanced on the very edge of a narrow rocky cape. Since the Millennium, however, this up-and-coming region has reinvented itself to become the most up-market destination on the island. The recipient of a great deal of media attention, The Bukit now boasts some of Bali's most opulent destination villas, glamorous private estates, and internationally-branded boutique hotels, making it the area of choice for sophisticated and discerning travellers and residents. The growing social infrastructure is expected to yield shops, spas, clubs and world-class restaurants.


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Continuing a strong tradition of
philanthropy at Adler University.
As the oldest independent psychology school in North America, Adler University continues the pioneering work of its namesake, Alfred Adler, by educating and training socially responsible practitioners, engaging communities, and advancing social justice. What makes Adler University unique among graduate schools of psychology is that it was founded on an important Adlerian ideal: Our health resides in our community life and connections.
The idea that individual and community health are inextricably linked drives the University's thinking, curriculum, and community impact today. To that end, training the next generation of leaders to be effective practitioners engaged in social change requires a curriculum that redefines the roles and responsibilities of professional psychology and then integrates those principles throughout the learning experience. Consequently, students are empowered with knowledge, skills and practice experience to effect social change.
The extraordinary growth in the quality of the Adler University would not have been possible without the courageous work and life-long commitment of our School founders and past leaders. While we recognize their contributions, we also acknowledge the meaningful support of our benefactors who, over the years, have generously contributed their personal time, wisdom, and financial resources to advance Adler University's social justice mission.
Our Office for Institutional Advancement works with the Adler University community of faculty and staff to create momentum and sustained participation in essential initiatives while continuing a strong tradition of philanthropy. The University has identified key priority areas requiring on-going support, including; scholarships, capital projects, endowment, the work of its Institutes and Centers, and of course, operating expenditures to help sustain institutional strength and fortitude. Adler University also offers opportunities to support special campaigns and faculty support.
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What are examples (general features) of the finite groups $G$, such that every irrep (irreducible representation) is contained (as constituent) in the representation induced from trivial representation of some non-trivial subgroup? (I allow subgroups to vary - I mean take all subgroups, induce reps from trivial characters and require that any irrep sits in this set).
Remark: If we induce from the subgroup = {identity}, we will get a regular representation of the whole group, and every irrep lives there. So I should not allow this trivial subgroup.
Example 1: $S_n$ satisfies this property (there is some comment by David Speyer which I cannot find now, which says (as far as I remember) that induction from $S_{k1}\times S_{k2} \times\cdots\times S_{kl}$ will do the job. I have another argument but it is more complicated).
Example 2: Take $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ for prime p - it does NOT satisfy my requirement - the only subgroups are $\lbrace 1\rbrace$ and $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ itself; first one is forbidden by the rules of the game, and induction from the second will give trivial irrep.
Example 3: If we take PSL(2,7)=GL(3,2) and induce from the 3-Sylow subgroup - it will contain all irreps as constituents (see MO 104939).
In particular: what about $GL(n,\mathbb{F}_p)$ and $A_n$?


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Greetings, one and all.
I just completed my purchase of the last Freedom 40' built in the US. This boat was initially known as "Maggiemiluv", owned recently by Rick Wright, who evidently had laudable intentions for her refit before he fell ill and subsequently passed, leaving too soon a beloved wife and daughter. What little I've come to know of Rick has prompted my deep respect, and I hope that my own efforts to breathe new life into his old boat might earn his nod.
I've long admired the Freedom 40' and Garry Hoyt. I'm a lifelong sailor, student of naval architecture, and former professional boatbuilder and rigger. Before I became a teenager, Garry's work served as a dissenting view on stodgy tradition, and effectively provided impetus to my own exploration of design, construction, and real world implementation. Because some small craft designers took a decidedly different path from tradition, namely wholesale abandonment of accumulated wisdom, I knew as a kid to avoid fads and gimmicks. That said, I cringed once years later upon overhearing a fellow yacht joiner at Hinckleys, and an old-timer at that, say, 'good 'nough,' as he completed a task.
I've arranged my new/old boat to be transported overland from the Chesapeake to my home waters near the mouth of the Columbia River where I'll personally work to reverse some of the more egregious ravages of time, and hurriedly refit in an attempt to introduce my critically ill fiancee to the pleasures of sail, north to/in the Salish Sea this summer. Unfortunately, the old wrap-around sails couldn't be located while I was purchasing the boat. I understand that Rick's widow, assisted by yacht broker Pepper Gilbert worked tirelessly though ultimately unsuccessfully to locate the old main and mizzen. If anyone knows of any old suit of Freedom 40' wrap around sails that I may either borrow for a single season or purchase reasonably, I'd very much appreciate a conversation. Ultimately, like Rick decided, I'll probably re-rig the boat within a year, though I favor cambered-panel junk rigs to goosenecks, boom vangs, and sail tracks.
Then again, given an opportunity to sail the original wrap-around sails (blown-out or not) and geometry, I might be persuaded to tip my hat yet again to Garry's brainchild.


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JSZao brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 84 Designs von 24 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We're developing a website for one of the largest cooking sites on the internet, and we want your help! We're looking for several mockups, intensely professional, minimalist, simple.
We are re-designing this website from the ground-up. Some of it's competitors include myrecipes.com, allrecipes.com, epicurious.com, http://www.recipezaar.com/. These are the competitors that we need to crush :) Layout should be liquid, elastic...we're looking at users with 800x600 and 2300x1900, so flexibility is important. Each PSD mockup should have a home page 'look', 'article page', recipe page, a 'secondary content' page, search/results page, open to others if you have thoughts. Please review the website for an idea of the content involved and the site map, etc. When desigining, please keep the current AdSense ads in mind with the design...also note, we have no use for banner ads in the design. We have very well-paying clients, so for the right designer, we can be an extremely profitable client. We do not need help in programming/coding, just the design of the site. To re-emphasize, this site will most likely be one of your most visible portfolio pieces, as this site gets tens of millions of pageviews every year.
To clarify, as some have asked, we ARE planning on choosing a winner. That will be dependant upon client approval. Once the contest has less than 24 hours left, we will narrow the field down to the top 8 that we like. At that point, we will send the mockups from the top 8 to the client. If they like none of them, we'll extend the contest, adding their critiques to the contest. If they like one with no modification requests, we'll award the prize to that winner, if they like a few with modification requests, we will PM those designers. To emphasize, all designers retain full rights to their design unless we pay them for it, we only retain rights to the winning design as chosen by the client.
Some have asked if the logo can be enhanced or re-designed. We're not currently looking for it to be re-designed, but feel free to enhance or sharpen it as you see fit for your submission. While appreciated, it is not the most important aspect of the contest.
- Color scheme consistent with current logo. Please download current logo from site as reference.
- Minimalist, simple design. Not to be confused with boring, unprofessional, or lackluster. - Note, current site is minimalist, as is http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/ - Worlds apart ;)
- The rest is up to you! Feel free, be creative, and enjoy having a portfolio piece that reaches millions, if you win.
- No templates
- No over-kill designs
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Seeking full/part-time veterinarian. Our practice is a modern, 4,000 sq. ft., small animal hospital located in a prestigious Lehigh Valley suburb. Our hospital has 5 large exam rooms, large reception area, prep and surgery rooms, modern equipment including Sound-Eklin digital x-ray and digital dental x-ray, Central O2 and advanced anesthetic monitoring.
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