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VonDrake Meets Disneyland: Friday May 5th and Saturday May 6th
Cast: Rajah (writer, as a child frequent Disneyland visitor, been to DL 3 times in the past 2 years or so) and VonDrake (first visit ever to Disneyland, unsure how he'll like it after having just seen Disneyworld)
Dates: For Trip: 5-5-00 through 5-7-00 for VonDrake, 5-5-00 through 5-12-00 for Rajah For this post: 5-5-00 through 5-6-00 "What's the best way to get from LAX to the Harbor Blvd Hotels at night?" This is a question I posted on several places, as I was very concerned about transportation options to the Castle Inn and Suites after our plane arrived around 10pm. We'd decided on the Super Shuttle, and then discovered the answer: Friends!! One of my best friends who now lives in LA contacted me the day we left and asked if we needed a ride from the airport. Since we hadn't made reservations yet with Super Shuttle (you don't need them to go anywhere *from* the airport, just to get back), we gladly accepted their offer. The rest of Friday (5-5-00) was spent anxiously waiting for time to go and making sure everything was done. When finally it was time to leave, I returned to the apartment to drop off my car and met up with my parents who gave me a ride to the airport. VonDrake was driving straight from work. Turns out, it was a good thing my parents dropped me off because VonDrake (who has almost no experience with airports) had a hard time finding a place to park and my dad ran to the rescue while my mom and I checked in. Thanks to their help, disaster was avoided and VonDrake and I were able to be in the first group of boarders on our Southwest flight. The flight itself was pretty good. Even though we had a twenty minute delay both out of Houston and out of Phoenix, we ended up landing roughly on time and were walking out of the gate just as my friend and her fiance showed up, so the timing worked out very well. Well, we proceeded to the baggage claim then out to their car, and I got to demonstrate just how poorly my sense of direction is when it comes to LA. It was a good thing we were with her fiance, who was the only one in the group who has driven to Disneyland before, because I was so turned around that when we were driving *past* Disneyland (it was on the right), I made a comment that our hotel should be on the right and the park on the left. Yes, Disneyland is that obvious when you know to look for it :] Well, we checked into the Castle Inn and Suites with no problem (even though I had been picturing the wrong hotel the entire time), found our rooms, then hopped over to Denny's for a quick bite to eat before we crashed for the night. My opinion on Castle Inn and Suites? I won't stay there again unless it's the closest hotel with an opening (which was the only reason we stayed there this time). While the room was primarily clean, it was old enough that no amount of cleaning could make some things look any better. There were no bugs that we saw, but the beds were very uncomfortable (and yet I slept better there than I did in the really comfortable ones at the Disneyland Hotel later in the trip, go figure) and the rooms were rather noisy. Decent, but doesn't get a very high rating from me. Saturday, 5-6-00 We considered getting up to try to get Fantasmic Dessert Buffet tickets, but when we checked the times we discovered that we'd have to get there as early as *4:30* in the morning to get the tickets, and we decided there was no way it was worth getting up that early. As it was, we set the alarm for about 6:00 so we could go to early entry, but I was awake around 5:30. The second I saw VonDrake show signs of life, I started whispering the names of attractions that were open for Early Entry. Finally, he got up just to shut me up, even though he wanted to sleep in [img]/infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif[/img] One funny side note: I normally don't talk in my sleep (to my knowledge) but apparently I was so excited about being at Disneyland, I started mumbling the lyrics to the Tiki Room in the middle of the night when I was fast asleep. VonDrake couldn't believe what he was hearing. I just laughed when he told me about it the next morning. Finally, after taking much longer than was necessary (I was very impatient, I must admit...I wanted to get to the park NOW! [img]/infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif[/img] ) we started off for the park and Early Entry. We arrived around 6:50 in the morning, even 20 minutes after the gates had opened for early entry, and the park was practically deserted! In not even an hour's time, we were able to see Peter Pan's Flight (which inside we agreed was even better than the WDW version), Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (which VonDrake thought was great, not *quite* Pooh but still great), Dumbo (the first time I remember going on it, although I'm sure I did as a child), Pinnochio and Snow White (both of which were much better than I remembered), Alice, and the Fantasyland side of the Matterhorn. By the time we got off the Matterhorn, it was time to line up at the Adventurland rope (7:45), and they actually had everyone stand in a real *line* instead of one huge chaotic clump of people. By the time the rope dropped, the line for Adventureland circled back to Main Street if not beyond. We went straight from the rope on past Indy and around to the Blue Bayou, where we were some of the first to get reservations for lunch and dinner. Then we started to cut back through New Orleans Square (I *love* NOS, Frontierland, and the Rivers very first thing in the morning when almost no one's around) to try for Indy again. As we passed Pirates, we noticed there was no one in line, so we backtracked and decided to continue a tradition (if one time before counts as a tradition?) of riding Pirates with our own boat. No one in the boat in front of us, no one in the boat behind us, and no one on our boat but the two of us. We love seeing Pirates that way [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] VonDrake was completely blown away by Disneyland's Pirates! He couldn't understand how DL's pirates could be even better than WDW's, until he saw it in person. Now he and I agree -- WDW is missing half the story. It's like riding the Cliff's Notes version of Pirates, and the entire story is at Disneyland. I just smiled at him and directed him on toward Indy. We checked with the CM at the entrance to see what the wait was and found a 20 minute wait. So we started down the queue then got just a few steps in when VonDrake pointed out that if we didn't get breakfast *now*, there's no way we'd be hungry for lunch at 11:30. So we decided to risk a longer wait on Indy and grab something to eat. It was just a hop, skip, and jump over to River Belle Terrace where we ordered two Steamboat breakfasts. Yuuuuummmmm. Three of the most delicious pancakes I've ever had, scrambled eggs, and bacon made for more breakfast than I could eat. We even got to see a very talented CM flipping the Mickey Pancakes. I wonder how often he gets applauded for that tricky task? At least 3 times while we were in line. After breakfast, we hopped back over to Indy and still only had a 25 minute wait. I had fun showing VonDrake the details in that queue, but I think they put the spike room on an automatic drop now instead of activated by the pole. As we went through, we got the Fountain of Youth passage, and I didn't discover until later that VonDrake didn't realize there were two other passages to choose from. Oh well, two more things for him to see the next trip, and he was still quite impressed by the ride. I, as usual, loved it and finally got to see how they did one of the effects. After Indy, we climbed through Tarzan's Treehouse, which we both thought was cute. I'm not too sure which I liked better: Tarzan or the original Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse, but I do think they did a very good job with the Tarzan remake. At least when they replaced the classic, they replaced it with something that was just as good. After Tarzan, we started wandering aimlessly and found ourselves outside the Tiki Room. Well, here's a good chance to see it, so we hopped through the turnstiles just as the Tiki Gods started their spiels. We missed Maui (I think -- the water god), but VonDrake was able to see the rest of them. Then we got to go in and VonDrake finally got to see what the Tiki Room is *supposed* to be (even if it does still need a rehab badly....it's still a lot better IMO than WDW's version). After the Tiki Room (which VonDrake really enjoyed), we wandered over to Tomorrowland and finally found Space Mountain. The standby wait was somewhere around an hour and the fastpass return time was too close to our lunch reservations for comfort, so we skipped it right now and basically wandered aimlessly around Tomorrowland while I tried to figure out where we were. I'm quite familiar with just about every trail in Disneyland, but Tomorrowland was never my favorite place and so I was finding it easy to get *lost* there. We found ourselves out of Tomorrowland and in front of Small World before we decided to ride anything. Since VonDrake hadn't ever seen Small World (it was under rehab when we were at WDW earlier this year), we decided to hop in line and take a ride. Our timing was great: we got to see the clock chime twice on that ride. First at 10:45 just as we were getting into our boat, and then again at 11 as we were getting out. Such a cute ride, and something you definitely have to do at least once on a trip -- it's part of the Disney tradition! [img]/infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif[/img] I forget what we did between 11 and 11:20, I think we just wandered back to and around New Orleans Square until we could check in, but when 11:20 rolled around we were in the Blue Bayou waiting area awaiting our turn to be called. We had signed up early enough in the morning that we got a spot on the water, which was great for VonDrake's first time to the Bayou. VonDrake ordered the cajun style Calamari and then we split both a Monte Cristo and an oreo cheesecake. The Cristo was as delicious as I remember, but the cheesecake...YUM!! That was the BEST cheesecake I've ever, ever had. Wow! It's a good thing we don't live closer, or I'd run over to the park for nothing more than a piece of that cheesecake! Even splitting the Monte Cristo and the cheesecake, we were both quite full so decided to try a light and easy ride next. Haunted Mansion it is! There was a bit of a wait, but they didn't have the entire queue opened up. I want to say we waited about 15 minutes before we were in the stretching room and on our way. Such a fun ride! Unfortunately, we ended up with a Doom Buggy that had a sound system that was barely functioning, so I was glad he'd seen the Haunted Mansion at WDW before. We should have gone around again and tried for a new Doom Buggy, but we didn't -- I discovered later in the trip that apparently I've been having bad luck with the Doom Buggies lately because on my last trips, I had Buggies with bad sound just like on this round. Of course, the remainder of the trip every time I went on HM I had a Doom Buggy that worked perfectly. Oh well. Once we got off Haunted Mansion, we decided to take a ride around the Rivers. The Columbia was at the dock and I didn't remember ever being on the Columbia (another one I'm sure I've done as a child but don't remember) and I found that very fascinating. It was neat, and I especially liked the museum below decks. I wanted to ride on it again later in the trip, but it was down for refurb. After the Columbia, it was on to Toon Town. BOY was that place crowded! We looked at the line to Roger Rabbit, which stretched most of the way back to the bridge, and headed straight for fastpass. As it was, we had about an hour and a half to kill after getting our Fastpasses, so we fought the crowds in Toon Town just long enough to show VonDrake "see, isn't this neat", and then we both wanted a place to sit down that was out of the sun. Since nothing could be found in Toon Town itself, we headed back out and decided to take a ride on the train. As we were waiting in line, we heard one of the shows of Animazement finishing up and thought that sounded neat. Full circuit on the train was fun, especially seeing VonDrake's reaction to the Grand Canyon and Primeval World panoramas. The T-Rex fight was covered up for refurb, but the rest was open to see. When we returned to the Toon Town station, we hit the line for Animazement just as they were seating people. I wasn't sure what to expect with this show... I'd heard mostly poor reviews on it, but it had sounded good and was a place to sit down in the shade so we gave it a try. We thought it was an excellent show! Very creative! I especially enjoyed the slip-ups in the Aladdin sequence (planned, I won't say more so I don't ruin it for those who haven't seen it, but those who have should know what I'm talking about) and the transitions between the scenes were really cute. I wish I'd had a chance to see that again, but it was only showing on the weekend and we only had enough time to see it once. By the time Animazement was over, we both felt a lot better. Sitting down for about an hour really helped rejuvenate us, so it was on to Roger Rabbit and our Fastpass time. VonDrake wasn't sure what to expect with this one, so we both had a lot of fun on it. I don't know if I like how Fast Pass is set up on that, though. The entire standby line is outside and both standby and fastpass people end up walking very quickly through the inner queue. I actually think I liked it better when you had to wait in line -- then you had enough time to see a lot of the jokes that you miss with the new setup. After Roger and a brief look around Toon Town, we returned to New Orleans Square for our dinner ressies. We were still a little early, so we went upstairs and looked around the Disney Gallery until it was time to go check in. VonDrake has now joined the "I wish there was a Yesterland Themepark" club after seeing some of the descriptions and drawings scattered around the gallery. Unfortunately, we both missed the back room with the Space Mountain model (I found it later in the trip), so I'll have to show that to him next time. Then it was already dinner time (4:30) back at the Blue Bayou again. This time, I ordered the salmon while VonDrake had the crab cakes. I thought the salmon was really good, and I think I'll have to withdraw my membership from the "I don't like salmon" club -- between all the good salmon I had at WDW, my mom's excellent salmon, and then the good salmon I had at Disneyland, I'm coming to like it. Dinner was over a little faster than I expected, and then it was on to Thunder Mountain, which VonDrake thinks he likes better at Land than at World. It's a tough call, but Land's is my favorite by a very slim margin. I also got to experience the "goat effect" for the first time -- for those of you unfamiliar with this wild effect, it's quite simple. When you go around the curve with the goat chewing on the dynamite, keep watching the goat for as long as you can. For some reason, it makes that particular curve a lot wilder! After Thunder Mountain, we decided on Country Bear Playhouse and we happened to walk in just as the last show of the evening was about to start -- perfect timing. We even got a good spot for me to be able to take a few pictures. VonDrake enjoyed that better than I did. I always enjoy the Country Bears, but I never have enjoyed the Country Bear Vacation Hoe-down nearly as much as I enjoy the original Country Bear Jamboree. The "new" show is still good, but it's not nearly as good as the original IMO. But I'm glad VonDrake was able to see it -- I didn't realize that he almost decided to skip it because I kept saying it wasn't as good as the original. After Country Bears, we weren't really too sure what to do so we just started wandering. I think we were somewhat heading either to Main Street for some shopping or to Tomorrowland, but mostly we were just wandering. We ended up at Coke Corner and I heard someone on the piano, so I wanted to stop by to see who it was. This was something I've always wanted to do but never had the time to do -- just sit and listen to the piano player. Well, when I got close enough to see it was Rod himself at the keys, I told Michael we were going to sit here until we figured out what we wanted to do next. I've long wanted to just stand and watch the master at the keys, but this was the first opportunity I'd ever had. I figured we'd just sit there for a few minutes then move on. That was around 6:30pm. By the time the parade started at 8:15, we were still sitting there. Rod and Alan are just *amazing* at that piano!! We ended up getting both CDs from the music shop down the street. Since we were sitting at the Corner when the parade started, we decided to go ahead and stay where we were, so we got to see the parade from Coke Corner. For just the floats, this was a good spot. But we could barely see any of the characters on the ground or the guests dancing with them. Plus, we happened to have the seat right in the traffic flow for those trying to cut through Coke Corner, and there were two little monkeys (boys) who were determined to climb to the top of the light pole in front of us despite attempts to get them to stay down. We thought the music was beautiful, and I'm so glad we were able to hear the new music and not the old. I think I would have complained about the old music as well! After the parade, we let some of the crowd die down before we started down Main Street looking through the shops. Neither of us was too awake, I guess, because we didn't end up getting anything until we reached the music shop. There we picked up the CD for Rod and Alan (I'd run to the music shop earlier for Rod's CD) and I got some piano music for Tarzan, Lion King, and Lion King 2. I haven't played much piano in a *long* time, but I've been wanting to get back into it and figured those were good soundtracks to start with. We didn't have long to shop before we had to stake out our places for the fireworks. We ended up in the place that had been highly recommended to us -- right on Main Street just right of center, between Coke Corner and the Photo shop. Wow. What a fireworks show!! BEAUTIFUL! That I think is the BEST fireworks show I've ever seen, even topping any other Disney fireworks shows. Now this is *just* fireworks -- I still like Fantasmic, MSEP, and Tapestry better, but Believe tops Fantasy and Reflections IMO!! Really neat, and I *want that music*! [img]/infopop/emoticons\icon_wink.gif[/img] I loved the Topsy Turvy, Very Merry Unbirthday, and the sequence leading into the 'darkest dreams' part (just before Tarzan and Hellfire). Oh, and the shooting stars and that FANTASTIC Tinkerbell effect! One cute tie-in to Disneyworld was the little girl waiting for the fireworks to start who was standing next to us. Some of you may recall from my WDW report the little boy who had his hands clamped over his ears at least 10 minutes before the fireworks even started and no matter what his parents, VonDrake, or I could say, he wouldn't believe us that the fireworks weren't going to start for several minutes. This little girl was doing the same. And one thing we found kinda interesting -- neither of us thought these fireworks were as loud as the ones at World. Anyone have any idea why? The *second* the fireworks were over, we were streaming our way through the crowds trying to find seating for the second Fantasmic. Oh, one side note -- the first Fantasmic was declared *full*, *no more room* around 7:30 or so -- may have been a little later, but by the time the parade started, they were already announcing no more room for Fantasmic. So we cut through the crowds and tried for the Adventureland route -- only to be told Adventureland was an exit-only. Okay, over to Frontierland.... again, an exit only. Ahh, but on the second half of the Frontierland entrance, *there's* an enter only! Okay, so we'll cut down easily... to be blocked off by benches and CMs and told to walk the other way.... around, around, all the way to Big Thunder Mountain, then back past the Columbia and Mark Twain dock, and only *then* do we start looking for places to stand. I found a place right in front of the River Belle with a decent view, but it wasn't that great so I left VonDrake standing there while I checked with a CM to see if standing on the bridge over Pirates was still allowed. It was and there was even some room still available, so I grabbed VonDrake again and we fought our way through crowds, vender carts, and strollers (geez, people, those are things to carry your kids in, not RAMMING BLOCKS! I swear by this time of night almost everyone with a stroller was *ramming* the crowd trying to get through. Not just trying to maneuver through but deliberately *ramming* people in front of them. I'd never seen that before at a Disney park, though I'd heard about it.) But we made it up on the bridge and found a good spot where VonDrake could see clearly and I could see pretty well. Then we just settled in to wait. And wait. And wait. Ahh, but it was worth the wait. I still love Disneyland's Fantasmic better than WDW's (even though WDW's is great as well), but VonDrake's not too sure which he likes better and is leaning toward World. I think having to stand at an angle for over an hour after having been in the park since 6:50 that morning made a big impact on his impressions of Fantasmic, though. He *really* wanted to sit down to watch it like you can do at World. Once Fantasmic was over, we made our way to Thunder Mountain for another ride. Then we cut around through Fantasyland on our way over to Jungle Cruise (another of those we really wanted to do at night) and stopped briefly at Coke Corner once more. Yay! Rod and Alan were both there, so we were able to get both our CDs autographed! I was happy as we made our way to the Jungle Cruise and got on as the last two on our boat. We ended up on the 11:45 ride (park closed at 12) and I must say going on Jungle Cruise after dark just before the park closes is the best time to ride. Jungle Dave (our guide) did an excellent job and was able to throw in several new jokes and take us backward a time or two (like to see O2H -- not only the back side of water, but water backwards, or to see a neat lighting effect on the head trader). After Jungle Cruise, we considered riding Indy one more time -- after all, we still had 10 minutes until park closing. But having been at the park since 6:50 am and running on only about 5 hours of sleep, compounded with the fact that it was nearly 2am our time, we decided to just return to the hotel for the night. All in all, I think we had a very productive day! Despite the HUGE crowds (and I guess some of you regulars are going to tell us that wasn't *huge*, it was just big?), we were able to see *almost* all of Disneyland in one day and we never had to wait more than 25 minutes for any attraction. We didn't stop to see any characters, although we saw several running around, we only got to see the mountain climbers (normal and Mickey/Goofy) from a distance, and didn't get to see anything in Tomorrowland, but otherwise we saw pretty much the entire park. -Rajah firstname.lastname@example.com Rajah and VonDrake's Honeymoon |
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President Barack Obama's trip across upstate Thursday afternoon detoured to Rochester. He stopped at Magnolia's Deli & Cafe on Park Avenue, where he greeted and posed for pictures with people there.
According to the White House, at the recommendation of Sen. Charles Schumer, the president stopped at the restaurant for lunch with college students and parents to discuss the current cost of a college education and his plan to improve college affordability.
Schumer said Thursday he urged Obama to stop in Rochester during his upstate tour.
"I know firsthand from walking in the Park Avenue Festival every summer that Magnolia's Deli & Café is one of the most highly recommended eats in Rochester, and the president made a great choice for lunch," Schumer said in a statement. "But more generally I am glad the president stopped in Rochester, because as the home of some of New York's premier colleges and universities, it is a great backdrop for his message of college affordability and the necessity of a good college education for middle-class job opportunities. "
The senator said he could not be with Obama during his visit to Rochester because of previously planned family commitments.
"I'm glad he heeded my advice to visit Rochester, which I told him is a prime example of a community that is effectively employing its higher education institutions to reinvent and grow its economy with new high-tech jobs and advanced manufacturing," Schumer said.
Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards greeted the president at Magnolia's. The mayor said he received some 30 minutes' notice from police.
Richards said he put a plug in for Rochester. In the days leading up to the president's visit, Richards had talked about some federal programs getting scaled back or the subject of pitched budget battles in Washington, yet that were paying big dividends in the city. Those programs range from Community Development Block Grants to money for nutrition initiatives.
"I told the president that some of these programs they are giving him a hard time on work here," Richards said, "and (to) hang in there."
According to pool reporters traveling with the president, among those at Magnolia's was Rochester lawyer Paul MacAuley, who was finishing his cheesecake and stood to shake Obama's hand: "I said, 'Where's Michelle?'"
"Michelle couldn't come," the president responded. "She's got too many things going on, including a new dog."
Obama told one group his new dog is not completely potty trained.
The president also stopped to pose for a picture with 11-year-old Rubi Platt who is in town visiting from Orange County, Calif.
"It was really, really, really cool," she said of meeting Obama.
The president entered the cafe at 1:35 p.m.
Obama began the day in Buffalo, where he appeared at SUNY at Buffalo. He pushed for a new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on affordability and performance. The system would determine how federal financial aid is distributed. He wants to have the system in place before the 2015 school year.
The White House confirmed Thursday that Obama will spend the evening in Auburn after his speech beginning at 6 p.m. at Henninger High School in Syracuse.
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My kitchen is just shy of 139" wide, would an island with seating fit? A major traffic thruway would go right behind the seating.
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Cabinetry is 24", space been cab and island is minimum 42, island should me 36 " and aisle minimum would be 42. Equals 144 inches. If you reduced the aisle you would just Make it...but it would be tight |
felixnot, you left out counter overhang. Work aisle minimum should be 42 counter to counter, walk behind seating minimum is 44" from counter to wall. (36" is edge past not suitable for major traffic) So 24, 42, 3 (2 1.5" overhangs), 36, 44 gets you to 149- 10" more than you have. Is there a way to turn the seating 90 degrees and put it on a curve at one end of the kitchen? Might end up with one seat too close to wall but would be less of an obstruction... if you have to have seating. |
- Posted by GreenDesigns (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 16:29
Counter depth is what is important here. 25 1/2" is the counter depth, and if you have cabinets on two walls, that leaves 89" to work with. For a major traffic route, you need a 60" aisle to have people seated and people pass behind without banging them in the head with groceries or laundry etc. If you were willing to go down to 48" and endure a VERY awkward traffic pattern, then even then, you'd only have 41" to work with, which if you did the absolute minimum aisle of 36", leaves you 3" for an island. Not doable with cabinets on both sides of the kitchen. Eliminate the cabinets on the other side, compromise with the 48" traffic aisle, compromise with the minimum 36" cabinet aisle, use a 15" cabinet for the island base and have 15" of overhang, and it's doable. |
- Posted by thirdkitchenremodel (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 17:17
Green - your math makes sense, and that's a lot of compromises. Sound like I need to eliminate the island option. I could do a wall of shallow pantries on one side and standard bases on hte other and still have plenty of space in the middle for an island or cart, just no seating, right? jakuvall - turning the seating 90 degrees - wouldn't that be a peninsula? That has been the direction I have been going in however I was encouraged to look as using an island instead. Here's the thread in question, if anyone could comment: |
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- Posted by hobokenkitchen (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 17:23
We reduced the depth of some of our cabinets to allow seating. I also prefer a narrower aisle width between island and cooking area. I think 37 - 40" is just fine - leave more room on the traffic side. |
Didn't mean a peninsula- meant on the end of the island. Npt knowing layout, but works in some situations. NKBA minimum to walk behind seated diner is 44, 60 for wheel chair. |
- Posted by chicagoans (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 18:40
I think by turning the seating 90 degrees jakuvall may have meant something more like one of the below, rather than a peninsula. (Roughly modified from the plan on your other thread - you'd have to draw to scale to see if something like this would work.) |
I did an island with only 11.5 feet. Part of the reason it worked (for me) was that the seating was at the end of the island, like in Chicagoans plan Also, I'm in a townhouse, so I felt like I could get by with narrower clearances since the house overall is narrow. I'm really happy with the result, but it something you should be sure you can live with--especially if you have multiple cooks. |
- Posted by WindyCityLindy (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 21:10
I think ours is 139.5 or 140" wide, and we have an island with seating. It's fine for us, but it's absolutely not a major walk through. Whether it would work for you depends on a lot of factors--how large are you and your family members? How often will someone sit there? How often will people walk behind the stools? How often will they be carrying things? How large are the stools you want to put there? How deep will your overhang be? How good are your family members about pushing stools/chairs in when they get up? We have a 36" distance from the counter on the seating edge to the wall behind it. We have a 12" overhang. We are on the small side, and we can walk easily behind the stools we have even when someone large (like our contractor) is seated there normally. We do not have to slide by sideways; we can walk in a normal manner. This is significantly less space than people recommend, but it works just fine for us, and it was the best solution that we could come up with to make our kitchen more functional. Moving that island counter space over to the wall behind the seating area would have left way too much space in the middle of the kitchen for our tastes. It wouldn't have worked for how we cook. |
- Posted by WindyCityLindy (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 12:57
I just measured ours, and it's actually 142" wide. I would not have done an island if it were 3" smaller, or if I had, I would have had the cabinets on the non-seat side made to be shallower. In your case, with the seating backing to a major walkway, I'd be very, very uncomfortable with that set up. |
I only have an 11'3" wide kitchen and we love our island! It makes social time so much easier and more free to move around. We have about 40 inches from the island to a high traffic wall. Works fine. The island is a vanity base cabinet (only 21 inches wide) with a 10 inch overhang. Seats four very easily. I say go for it! |
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In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education announced its "Race to the Top" (RTTT) funding competition, which provided $4.35 billion in monetary incentives to states in exchange for the states adopting sweeping reforms in their elementary and secondary education programs. Forty-six states applied for these grants. Texas was not among them. Gov. Rick Perry said "no" to the funding, saying there were too many federal strings attached to the funds, denying Texas schools approximately $700 million in RTTT funds.
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The jewelry arrived from San Jose, Calif., in a cell phone box. It included an anonymous note that read: "Please return these items to the sisters that they were stolen from."
"The person who stole them asks for forgiveness and has asked for God's forgiveness and is extremely sorry for the pain the theft has caused," said Lt. Bruce Apotheker of the Newton Police Department.
The items were stolen from the Catholic Convent on Walnut Park around 1981 and were returned to Boston's Our Lady Help of Christians church last week.
"We're happy to receive the items back and we're mindful that the person who did it must have been remorseful," said the pastor, Fr. John Sassani.
Fr. Sassani says more than likely it was the passage of time and a moral compass that led the jewelry back to the area.
Newton police are not focusing on pressing charges. Rather, they say, they simply want to return the jewelry to its rightful owners.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined parents and business owners outside of her Manhattan office on Sunday, and urged Congress to pass federal legislation that would create paid maternity leave.
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National Transport Commission, 2005. Report that summarizes a 5-year, multi-stage project that investigated the behavior of long multi-combination vehicles transporting high center of gravity, heavy loads; found that spring versus air suspensions are more stable, and identified a new parameter that was used to characterize tracking misbehavior, Lateral Acceleration Gain. Available at http://www.ntc.gov.au/filemedia/Reports/RAG4OverarchingReportJan2005.pdf.
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2. Woodrooffe, J., P. Sweatman, D. Middleton, R. James, and J.R. Billing. 2010. Review of Canadian Experience with the Regulation of Large Commercial Motor Vehicles. National Academy of Sciences NCHRP Report 671. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.
3. Ervin, R.D., and Y. Guy. 1986. The Influence of Weights and Dimensions on the Stability and Control of Heavy Trucks in Canada—Part 1. Prepared by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute for Roads and Transportation Association of Canada, Ottawa.
4. National Transportation Council. 2003. Performance Based Standards: Phase A- Standards and Measures. Regulatory Impact Statement. Melbourne, Australia.
5. York, J., and T. Maze. 1996. Applicability of Performance-Based Standards to Truck Size and Weight Regulation in the United States. Sesquicentennial Transportation Conference Proceedings. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
6. U.S. Department of Transportation. 2000. Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study. FHWA-PL-00-029. Washington, D.C.: Federal Highway Administration.
7. U.S. Department of Transportation. 2004. Western Uniformity Analysis—A Regional Truck Size and Weight Scenario. Prepared for the Western Governors' Association. Washington, D.C.: Federal Highway Administration.
8. Woodrooffe, J., P.F. Sweatman, S. McFarlane, P. Dovile, M. Dunbabin, and D. Swenson. 1996. Dynamic Performance of Various Truck Configurations: Base Report. Prepared for the Federal Highway Administration Transportation Studies Division. Ottawa: Roaduser Research International.
9. Woodrooffe, J. 2002.Western Longer Combination Vehicle Scenario: Vehicle Operations and Safety Analysis. Prepared for the Federal Highway Administration, Office of Transportation Policy Studies. Ottawa: Woodrooffe & Associates, Inc.
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Ryszard T. Kopacz, 30, was fired from the Richmond Police Department (Courtesy of McHenry County / July 10, 2014) |
In the days after he started work as a police officer in a small McHenry County village, Ryszard Kopacz was fired, investigated by the state police, arrested and charged with several felonies.
Kopacz had been on the job less than a week when a resident of Richmond, a village of about 2,000 near the Wisconsin border, complained to the department that the new hire went door to door in uniform on the night of July 4, asking people for prescription narcotics, authorities said. The part-time officer didn't show up for work the next day and he was fired July 6, the department said.
The department notified the Illinois State Police of the officer's alleged solicitation of prescription drugs, authorities said, but Kopacz now faces separate charges that he burglarized his previous employer, the nearby Hebron Police Department, and possessed two stolen rifles.
Kopacz, 30, of Wauconda, was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of official misconduct, burglary and possessing stolen guns. A judge set bond at $10,000 and Kopacz was freed Thursday.
The investigation into the prescription drug-related matter is ongoing, Richmond police Chief Ciro Cetrangolo said in a statement. Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond declined to comment, citing a pending investigation.
Kopacz's lawyer, Steven Goldman, declined to comment on the details of the allegations, though he said his client denies the accusations. Goldman said Kopacz served in the Army, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was honorably discharged.
Kopacz could not be reached for comment.
Before joining the Richmond department, Kopacz was a Hebron police officer for several years. That department is now conducting an internal investigation to determine whether anything else needs to be reported to state police, said Chief Scott Annen. Kopacz, the chief said, "had his hands in a lot of facets of the Police Department."
Annen acknowledged that Kopacz had disciplinary and performance-related issues at the department, though he declined to give details. Kopacz was fired in mid-June for budgetary reasons, the chief said.
Asked whether Kopacz had been a good officer during his time in Hebron, Annen said he "didn't expect anything like this."
After residents complained to the Richmond police about the alleged July 4 incident, the department started investigating and notified McHenry County prosecutors and state police, Richmond department officials wrote in a statement.
Officers undergo a psychological evaluation and background check, the chief said.
"I have a zero-tolerance policy towards officer misconduct when alleged," Cetrangolo said in the statement. "I credit the strong working relationship and bond we have built with the citizens of our community for bringing this to my attention so quickly."
The rifles Kopacz allegedly possessed had been removed from the Hebron police station, authorities said.
Federal court records suggest Kopacz has faced financial troubles recently. He filed for bankruptcy in April 2013, declaring about $21,000 in assets against almost $90,000 in liabilities, court records show. At the time, he listed his income from the Hebron Police Department as roughly $43,000 per year.
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Amending the Constitution: 100 Days to 200 Years
The Constitution hasn't changed much since it was adopted in 1787.
However, it has been tweaked by 27 amendments—some were ratified in a few months, another took more than two centuries.
The ink on the Constitution had barely dried in 1787 when people discovered what it did not say. It did not spell out adequately, they argued, the individual rights that citizens of the United States had under the Constitution.
So James Madison, the "father of the Constitution" and a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia, went to work.
The result: 12 amendments. They were approved by Congress in late 1789 and sent to the 13 states for ratification, which, then as now under the Constitution, required three-quarters of the state legislatures or constitutional conventions.
Twelve? Yes, but only ten (originally numbers three through 12), known to us all today as the Bill of Rights, were approved. It took … [ Read all ]
Posted by Jim on September 17, 2013, under - Constitution.
Tags: 27th Amendment, amendments, Congress, Constitution, Constitutional Amendments, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Madison, John F. Kennedy, John Marshall, legislatures, Presidential term limits, slavery, supreme court
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The Check is in the Mail: The Hunt for Abraham Lincoln's Congressional Pay Records
Today's blog post comes from David J. Gerleman, assistant editor of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's two-year stint as a Illinois Whig congressman is one of the lesser-known periods of his eventful life. Had he remained in obscurity, it might have remained the crowning achievement of a fizzled frontier political career.
Having been tasked with looking through the records of the 30th Congress for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, I have gotten to know Congressman Lincoln intimately. Well over a year was spent sorting through the sea of papers generated by Congress for the years 1847–49: handwritten draft bills, printed amended bills, engrossed bills, resolutions, joint resolutions, simple motions, yea and nay journals, petitions, letters, committee papers—all these and more had to be searched for traces of Lincoln. Among the wealth of congressional materials were volumes dedicated to recording minute expenses, such as the cost of firewood, stationary, and glue. There were records of how much paper folders, messengers, and cleaning women were paid, yet one vital component was missing—Lincoln's pay and mileage records.
Ironically, it was Lincoln's great rival, Stephen A. Douglas, who helped set off an intense search for pay records of the 30th Congress. While hunting through an odd cache of files in the Auditors of the Treasury Records … [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on January 7, 2013, under - Civil War, - Presidents, Letters in the National Archives.
Tags: 30th Congress, Congress, David J. Gerleman, guest blogger, guest post, lincoln, mileage, pay records, research in the National Archives, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, voucher
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Emancipation Proclamation: The 13th Amendment
Today's blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick.
The news of the Emancipation Proclamation was greeted with joy, even though it did not free all the slaves. Because of the limitations of the proclamation, and because it depended on a Union military victory, President Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to abolish slavery.
After the Senate passed a bill for an amendment in April 1864, but the House of Representatives did not, Lincoln suggested that the bill be taken up by the Republican Party in its 1864 platform for the upcoming Presidential elections.
His efforts met with success when the House passed the bill in January 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. The necessary number of states ratified it by December 6, 1865.
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution formally abolished slavery in the United States. It provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been … [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on January 3, 2013, under - Civil War, - Presidents.
Tags: 13th amendment, Congress, Constitution, emancipation, Emancipation Proclamation, guest post
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Emancipation Proclamation: Petitioning for Freedom
Today's blog post comes from National Archives social media intern Anna Fitzpatrick.
January 1 marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. While this document is remembered for freeing the slaves in the Southern states, petitioners had been attempting to end slavery since the nation's founding. Petitions by anti-slavery groups were sent to the newly elected Congress soon after it first met.
On December 30, 1799, the Reverend Absalom Jones and other free blacks of Philadelphia sent a petition to Congress. Although they recognized the "blessing" of their freedom, they were concerned about their fellow men: "We cannot be insensible of the condition of our afflicted Brethren, suffering under various circumstances in different parts of these States; but deeply sympathizing with them, We are incited by a sense of Social duty and humbly conceive ourselves authorized to address and petition you in their behalf."
Jones and the petitioners noted that the Constitution "is violated by a trade carried on in a clandestine manner to the Coast of Guinea." They also mentioned that the Southerners' practice of kidnapping free African Americans and transporting them to … [ Read all ]
Posted by Hilary on December 4, 2012, under - Civil Rights, - Civil War.
Tags: Absalom Jones, African Americans, Congress, Emancipation Proclamation, EP 150, free blacks, Philadelphia, slave trade, slavery
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No, it's not in the Constitution
These days, pundits, candidates, and party activists like to cite the Constitution of the United States as the moral and legal backing for whatever they're proposing.
But the Constitution is silent on a lot of things you probably thought it said. Here are eight examples.
The President can veto a proposed amendment to the Constitution.
No. He has nothing to do with the amendments. Congress can propose an amendment with a two-thirds vote of both houses, or a Constitutional Convention can be called by a vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures. However, once the amendment is proposed either by Congress or a convention, it must be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures.
Only one amendment, the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition (the 18th Amendment), was ratified by conventions in the states.
The "Founding Fathers" who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 are the same men who wrote the Constitution in 1787.
Only five individuals signed both of these two founding documents. They were George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, George Read, and Roger Sherman. Some of the famous signers of the Declaration were elsewhere when the Constitution was being written. Thomas Jefferson was in France as our American minister, and John Adams was American minister to Great Britain.… [ Read all ]
Posted by Jim on November 15, 2012, under - Constitution, Uncategorized.
Tags: amendment, Benjamin Franklin, Congress, Constitution, democrary, Founding Fathers, history, President, republic, veot
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