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The venerable Surf Club, among the last of the grand jazz-age Miami-area private clubs, is on the verge of a transformation that would restore the faded luster of its historic Mediterranean Revival building and crown it with a trio of crystalline hotel and condo towers.

The fast-moving plan, which goes to a vote at the Surfside Commission on Monday, comes months after the club afflicted by shrinking membership and growing maintenance costs agreed to a $116 million buyout by the Koc Group, a Turkish conglomerate.

In public hearings and forums leading up to Mondays vote, Koc and its local partners pledged to open the club and its facilities to the public for the first time. Their project also promises a fiscal windfall to Surfside, a once-sleepy beach town north of Miami Beach that is undergoing a wave of upscale beachfront development.

The ambitious plan has been embraced by preservationists, town leaders and the Surf Clubs 122 remaining owner-members in part because it would embark on a radical renovation of the landmark 1929 building. The developers propose to strip away substantial and unsympathetic later additions, including an entire service wing and a long wall along Collins Avenue that hides the club from view, and restore or recreate original murals, light fixtures and doors.

By the end, they say, the building will appear much as pioneering Miami architect Russell Pancoast designed it, both inside and out. Architect Kobi Karp, whose firm is handling both the restoration and the design of the new buildings, said the process was aided by the availability of Pancoasts original plans, which elucidate details as minute as moldings and doorknobs.

At the same time, the developer proposes to add significantly less building density to the 6-acre club property, which spans both sides of Collins, than allowed by Surfsides code, so that neither the historic building nor its low-scale Surfside neighbors will be overwhelmed by the new structures, supporters say.

The scale of the additions has nonetheless taken some long-time residents aback, and residents of an eight-story condo directly to the south, the Surf House, are mounting a last-minute campaign objecting to a service and garage entrance at 90th Street that would face their buildings front entrance. But there has been little public opposition to the project.

This deal was designed backward we really considered the relationship to the community and the members first, said Robert Zarco, an equity Surf Club member who, as its general counsel, negotiated what he described as a complex transaction with the developers. This group was the most amenable to preserving the history and heritage of the club.

That history has been long and colorful. The club, which opened in 1930, predates the founding of Surfside and was designed by Pancoast in the highly ornate, and authentically detailed and proportioned, high-Mediterranean style then in vogue, with high beamed and vaulted ceilings, majestic colonnades and massive fireplaces.

Though it lacked a golf course, it boasted a broad stretch of virgin beach and quickly established itself as an exclusive center of social activity, beach lounging, and dining and dancing for local grandees and equally grand winter visitors, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and, later, stars like Elizabeth Taylor. But its most famous guest, in 1946, indisputably was Winston Churchill, who spent his time at the club painting seascapes.

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Renovation of Surf Club, where Winston Churchill painted, goes to Surfside Commission Monday

Roofing contractor St Petersburg, FL company, Roofing Emporium, has added commercial roofing services. This Florida roofing company now offers commercial roof repair and installation services to businesses in the North Florida area.

St Petersburg, Florida (PRWEB) October 14, 2012

There are many differences between roofing companies and an even further spread between licenses. Most roofing companies are required to be licensed in each state to perform residential roofing services. This includes homeowner additions and upgrades to existing structures. The commercial industry has stricter requirements and requires more skilled contractors to perform the work.

The Roofing Emporium contractors are now able to perform commercial contracting work due to the multiple license types that have been acquired.

The commercial roofs that were installed decades ago typically consisted of aluminum or rubber materials depending the budget on the of the building owner. New improvements to roofing materials are made annually as older products are retired. More emphasis has been placed on businesses to be more energy efficient by the year 2016.

The commercial materials now offered by Roofing Emporium contractors include metal, PVC and other lighter roof coverings. These materials often work well with vent installation and solar panel integration.

The hurricane season is planned for in advance by Florida homeowners and business owners. The period of August through October each year is one that can bring multiple requests for repairs or new roof installations. One feature that has been improved by the Roofing Emporium website is the ability to take online quotes. A new and improved quotation system has been tested and is now operational that allows quick quotes to be generated online.

This new improvement is part of a series of upgrades that has taken place at Roofing Emporium since July of 2012. These new enhancements and improvements to existing roofing services are designed specifically to meet the growing demand for qualified roofing services in St Petersburg as well as the remainder of North Florida.

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As a residential roofing contracting company, Roofing Emporium has earned a reputation for high quality and excellence in North Florida. New expansions of services have now made it possible for commercial services to be offered. This new upgrade is helping Roofing Emporium to make new business relationships and to protect more companies by repairing and installing quality roofing systems. By offering these new services, Roofing Emporium is now one of the first responder companies that arrives to assess storm damage and provide expert level repairs for North Florida homeowners and business owners.

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Premier League Top 6 Finish 12/13 Top 6 Finish: Liverpool 5/4

The Reds are short of options in attack after failing to bring in a replacement for Andy Carroll before the close of the summer transfer window.

The need for reinforcements, particularly in attack, has increased with the foot injury suffered by Fabio Borini leaving Luis Suarez as the only recognised fit senior striker at the club.

Rodgers has revealed he has spoken to the club's American owners about the need to bolster his squad in January and he is hoping to get the green light to bring in some new faces.

"There are still areas we want to reinforce - and we have to reinforce as soon as we can," Rodgers is quoted as saying in the Mail on Sunday.

"Our best team are comparable to any team in the Premier League. But we're a very thin squad and we are having to challenge on a lot of fronts.

"I've had good conversations with the owners and they understand where we are at as a team."

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Rapid Remodel, a full service kitchen and bathroom remodeling company, officially launched its services in San Diego, giving users the ability to create and customize a remodeling project directly on the http://www.RapidRemodel.com website.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) October 14, 2012

Rapid Remodel handles every aspect of the kitchen and bathroom remodeling process from design to project completion. Rapid Remodel guarantees bathroom remodels to be completed in as little as three days and kitchen remodels to be completed in as little as seven days. The personal approach and robust process allows Rapid Remodel to stand alone amongst other options in the bathroom and kitchen remodeling industry.

To deliver swift service, Rapid Remodel has formed strategic partnerships with well-respected suppliers such as Merillat and Kohler, enabling Rapid Remodel to deliver high-quality results at a rapid pace with prices nearly half the cost of a typical large retailer remodel project.

To learn more about Rapid Remodel and to design a new kitchen or bathroom now, go to http://www.RapidRemodel.com. Creating and saving a design is free!

Rapid Remodel wants to put the power back in the hands of consumers. Customers no longer need to pay too much money for a remodel that will take months to complete. Visit http://www.RapidRemodel.com to learn why Rapid Remodel is different and see how much money can be saved.

To start a design, simply select the Lets Get Started button on the Rapid Remodel homepage. The website will then ask a series of questions to narrow down exactly what type of room to be remodeled. After completing the questions, feel free to switch out products, finishes, and styles to personal preferences. After the design is complete, select Save Design to create an account and keep past designs for future reference. Once a design is saved, schedule an appointment with a Rapid Remodel representative to get the project started!

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London, Oct 14 (IANS) Architects and engineers are reviving the use of wood as an eco-friendly replacement for concrete, as borne out by the completion of an eight-storey office building in Austria and residential block in London.

The LCT One building in Dornbirn, Austria, is a 'hybrid' building made from both wood and concrete and designed by Austrian architectural firm Cree. Assembled from solid panels made from layers of wood and other materials, the high-tech building has a central concrete core housing its lifts and utilities.

From a concrete foundation, vertical posts of glue-laminated wood (known as glulam) support hybrid floor panels made from more glulam beams embedded in reinforced concrete.

Made by sticking together smaller pieces of wood to create structural elements, glulam can resist compression better than concrete - but weighs much less and is more sustainable, the Daily Mail reports.

Cree claims that prefabricating the glulam elements of the building cuts construction time by half, guarantees quality and slashes the buildings' carbon footprint.

Concrete emits nearly its own weight in carbon dioxide as its produce; the raw material for wooden skyscrapers, by contrast, literally grows on trees and absorbs carbon from the air as it does so.

Residents of the 21 timber houses which make up Sinclair Meadows in South Shields area of London can sleep cosily in the knowledge that they live in the most eco-friendly social housing development in the UK.

Householders will benefit from some of the lowest energy bills in the country as the complex has the largest array of solar panels on domestic dwellings, which will provide electricity.

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BY BILL BIRD wbird@stmedianetwork.com October 12, 2012 9:42PM

Updated: October 13, 2012 5:20PM

When youve got to go, youve got to go to one of downtown Napervilles two public parking decks.

In an effort to end a surging scourge of people urinating in public, Naperville police are urging patrons of the citys downtown to head to the toilets provided in the municipal parking decks at 75 E. Chicago Ave. and 43 W. Van Buren Ave., both just off the main drag of Washington Street.

Between Oct. 4-8 of this year, a total of 10 visitors in the downtown area have been cited for public urination, police Sgt. Louis Cammiso said Friday. Fines for that offensive offense range from $100 to $500, not including court costs, he said.

Police records indicated public urination tends to occur in downtown alleyways and seemingly secluded portions of parking lots and strip malls. Three people were ticketed between 2 a.m. and 11:55 p.m. Oct. 6 in separate incidents on the 0-99 block of East Chicago Avenue, records showed.

Cammiso said police would like to remind the public a Port-a-Potty is in place on the ground floor of the Chicago Avenue parking deck. Public bathrooms can also be found on the ground floor of the Van Buren deck.

On behalf of the Naperville Police Department, we welcome and encourage patronage of the citys many businesses and sights located in the downtown area, Cammiso said. But we ask that everyone Keep It Clean.

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Countertops Raleigh announced the launch of their new website aimed at streamlining the home owner experience when it comes to planning their kitchen countertops remodeling project.

Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) October 13, 2012

When we started the business 16 years ago, we made an important decision to focus our attention on natural stone surfaces like granite countertops, marble, travertine etc. This gave us a huge advantage when the market was saturated with acrylic products that were plain boring to look at! says Tommy Operations Manager.

Countertops are an essential part of any kitchen design, but deciding the type of material to cover the cabinets has become an increasingly tough decision to make giving the vast alternatives the market has to offer. Many decades ago, choosing a countertop surface was an easy thing to do. You had a hand-full of materials to choose from and that was that. Today, there are hundreds of different types of materials. All the way from different types of natural materials to recycled, glass, tile, wood, environment friendly, engineered stone, man-made and many others.

The trick in choosing the right material for a home would be its owner. The person or family who lives in that house will ultimately have to live with it for many years, maybe even decades to come. Exploring the different options for your kitchen countertops in Raleigh NC has just gotten easier! says Laura who has been a team member since 2010. We focused our site strictly on the user experience, our experience as a fabricator, and our love and dedication to technology. Thats what makes us different said Tommy.

Countertops Raleigh is a leading granite, marble and quartz surfaces fabricator with over 16 years of experience. You can reach them at (866) 236-0968

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By Alex Ward

PUBLISHED: 14:24 EST, 13 October 2012 | UPDATED: 15:34 EST, 13 October 2012

A stay-at-home mother has won $200,000 (124,450) for her huge 40 foot mural done entirely with pencil.

Adonna Khare, 32, spent more than three weeks finishing off her mural of animals in the gallery as people came to view the artworks in competition ArtPrize at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Ms Khare of Burbank, California, created the 8x35 foot mural in her garage and said the animals reflected her life and the people in it.

Prize for pencil: Adonna Khare sits under her mural, 13x40ft, done entirely by pencil which won the people's choice award and $200,000 in prize money at ArtPrize

She then hung the mural in the gallery for the competition on September 9 and made additions to it as people passed by until it grew to 13 feet high and 40 feet long.

The emerging artist and elementary school art teacher had taken three years off at the birth of her daughter Kinsey who is now three-years-old.

According to theLos Angeles Times she said: I needed a goal, and I wanted to experience ArtPrize.

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WOODSTOCK A historical but dilapidated garage behind the Old Courthouse soon will be demolished.

The Woodstock Historic Preservation Commission approved a certificate of appropriateness to end the life of the 1920s-born building with no roof, boarded-up windows and cracks in the walls.

At the same Sept. 24 meeting, the commission decided to model Old Courthouse restoration on the buildings appearance in 1905.

Restoring the former McHenry County sheriffs garage would have cost more than $60,000, the city estimated in asking for the certificate.

From my standpoint, it really was kind of an agonizing decision, Historic Preservation Commission Chairman Allen Stebbins said. We need to do what we can do to preserve our historic structures, and it is a historic structure. ... But I really had to go back to where would the money be best spent.

The city also cited a leaky water main behind the garage as a reason to take down the structure. The leak is costing the city more than $2,000 a year, Stebbins said.

Some commissioners thought the city could have explored other options for the garage, Stebbins said, but only Erica Wilson voted against the citys request to demolish it.

The garage was built by jail inmates, including Dapper Dan McCarthy and Hymie Weiss members of the Prohibition-era Dion OBanion gang.

After the demolition expected to take place before winter hits the city will turn its attention to courthouse restoration. The decision to model the building on its 1905 self gives a first glimpse of what the finished product might look like.

Additions to the courthouse were built in 1904 and 1905, which was a major factor in the commissions decision.

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Zhongtian Lighting, a leading supplier of LED light, released 23W T10 LED tube light [ZT-T1012-33623A] with CE and RoHS certificates. Its quality and lumens are improved with the advanced technology and experience of Zhongtian Lighting's professors. It is widely used in meeting rooms, restaurants, office buildings, factories, shopping malls, schools, airports, subway stations, garages, hotels, homes, hospitals, libraries and teaching buildings and other indoor lighting.

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With Epistar LED chip, T10 tube delivers 1950lm-2100lm at only 23W consumption. It consumes only 23W and emits luminous intensity equivalent to a 50W halogen lamp. The lamps save 80% energy and last up to 25 times longer than conventional lamps. The technical specification as following:

Model: ZT-T1012-33623A

Rated power: 23W

Lamp beads: 336pcs

Housing material: PC+6063 Aluminum

Input voltage: 85-264VAC/DC50-60Hz

Efficiency: 0.90

Luminous flux: 1950lm150lm

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