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Hilltown Archives The Altamont Enterprise, July 22, 2010
Shared driveways and the one-cut rule
By Zach Simeone
KNOX After an hour-long discussion last week on shared driveways, easements, and how they tie into the long debated one-cut rule, the town board scheduled a workshop to discuss a policy on shared-driveway easements and their potential ramifications. It has been scheduled for Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.
With the one-cut rule, landowners looking to divide their land into two lots are able to circumvent the town's subdivision regulations and planning process, with one such subdivision being allowed every 18 months. Some families in Knox subdivide their property for a child, who builds a home and starts a family, and shares the original driveway owned by his or her parents.
The conversation began when the town board addressed a letter from the planning board, expressing concern among planning board members because they had been telling residents that the town does not permit shared driveways, when, in fact, the town has no policy addressing the matter. The letter goes on to ask that the town board develop such a policy.
"That's usually only an issue when someone is using the one-cut rule, but still, they frequently come to us for advice on subdividing," said long-time planning board member Daniel Driscoll this week. "We were concerned because we would routinely tell them the town does not permit shared driveways, because the town had told us many years ago that they don't want shared driveways, but there's no written ordinance, or policy, or anything saying that."
So, Planning Board Chairman Robert Price wrote the letter to the town board.
Split votes
The first motion following last week's discussion, for a workshop that would have also included discussion on the one-cut rule, failed, as board members did not agree that the one-cut rule should be discussed. But John Dorfman, the town's attorney, asserted this week that the two subjects are indeed connected, and told the board at the meeting, "The one-cut rule should go no ifs, no ands, no buts."
When asked to elaborate this week, Dorfman said, "Subdivision regulations are set up so that there's an ability to safely control a property, methods for drainage there are a lot of issues that come into a subdivision, but they're very important issues, and they may affect other properties. If you cut off a piece and give it to your child, it doesn't require subdivision approval."
He went on, "If you do a one-cut every 18 months, and, at the end of that time, you've cut it eight or 10 times in theory it could be done you could very well have a private road servicing many properties that would not be regulated. A private road to one house is one thing; a private road to eight houses is another thing. So, in terms of getting fire, police, and emergency people there, there are other public interests that apply."
After the original motion failed, a second motion to schedule a workshop, discussing only shared-driveway easements, was approved by a 3-to-2 vote, with board members Patricia Gage and Travis Stevens, both Republicans, casting the dissenting votes against the Democratic majority.
"It wasn't because I didn't want to have the workshop at all; it's because I thought both things were connected together, and I thought it would be difficult to discuss one without the other," Gage said this week of shared driveways and the one-cut rule. "I wanted to discuss both the one-cut rule and Bob Price's proposal concerning the driveways at the same time."
Councilman Stevens could not be reached before press time.
"I don't know why the town board hasn't adopted a policy formally," Price told The Enterprise this week. "But, I do know the town has held the position that they don't like shared driveways, because it leads to problems where the town winds up having to take over a road and spend the money to make it meet town highway specifications, which costs the taxpayers of the town money."
Asked why the town has no policy on shared driveways, Supervisor Michael Hammond said, "It's never become such a concern to the town that it required something like that."
Candidates for town offices were asked in November for their stance on the elimination of the one-cut rule; Hammond, similar to his comments this week, said that, while some fear it will be used as a loophole by developers, it has not been an issue thus far, and he did not see it causing problems in the foreseeable future; Councilman Nicholas Viscio said that, while it should not be eliminated, it should be modified to better protect the town; Councilman Stevens, who took office in January, said only that there should be an open discussion on the topic, and that the town board should seek the planning board's recommendations.
Price said this week that some issues caused by shared driveways can occur in instances where the one-cut rule applies, as one-cut subdivisions can result in shared driveways. He went on to provide the following scenario.
"Let's just say somebody builds a house on a parcel that's 25 acres, and they come before the planning board and say, 'We want to subdivide this parcel into three more parcels, so there are a total of four, and we want everybody to continue using the same driveway we have, because we don't want to spend the money to create a new one,'" Price began.
"The planning board says, 'Sure, go ahead.' Eventually, three new homes get built, so there are four homes, and four families using the driveway," he went on. "Let's say, it's Henry's job to plow the snow, and that's fine, because these guys are all friends. One day, Henry moves off to Milwaukee, and some stranger moves into Henry's house, and this new guy doesn't want to plow the snow. So then, they come to the town and say, 'Will you please plow my driveway?' If the town starts maintaining the driveway, then they end up owning the driveway by default."
The town would then have to spend the money to maintain the road.
Referring to the planning board's telling residents that shared driveways are not allowed, Price told the town board last week, "The bottom line is, we're not speaking the truth, and we've been doing it for a long time."


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NL Waiver Wire: Week 23
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Taylor Green | Brewers | 3B | 0 percent Yahoo ownership
YTD (minors): .336/.412/.580
Oliver ROS: .272/.330/.436
In trading away Brett Lawrie and the rest of their farm system for two-years of Zack Greinke and Shaun Marcum, the Brewers signaled to fans that they were ready to win now. As a result of the trades, the Brewers' farm system was near-universally crowned as one of baseball's worst, along with the Chicago White Sox. They had no post-trade prospects ranked in either Keith Law's or Baseball America's preseason top 100 prospect lists. Accordingly, Taylor Green's re-emergence as a relevant prospect is exactly what the Brew Crew's decimated farm system needed.
After an encouraging showing in A ball in 2007 (.328/.407/.514 triple-slash line over 110 games) and A+ ball 2008 (.289/.382/.443 over 114 games played), a wrist issue limited Green over the past two seasons. In only 93 games, almost entirely at the Double-A level, in 2009, Green slumped to .258/.330/.356 production that entirely lacked power (.098 ISO). He was not much better repeating Double-A in 2010, batting .260/.336/.438, though his power potential encouragingly returned (.178 ISO).
In 2011, however, Green returned to his earlier form. Over 120 games in Triple-A this season, Green hit .336/.413/.583 with 22 home runs and a .248 ISO. Green has great command of the strike zone, evidenced by a strong career minor league walk rate of 11 percent and an elite minor league strikeout rate of 13.5 percent.
As a power hitter with a slap hitter strikeout rate, Green, 25, has the tools to succeed at the major league level. Oliver's MLE for Green's 2011 is a robust .309/.366/.508, and Oliver's ROS projection is encouragingly strong for a rookie with minimum major league experience: .272/.330/.436. Green's batting profile says that he's capable of launching 20 home runs with a batting average above .280.
Playing time is the only thing standing between him and fantasy relevance. Casey McGehee is Green's primary hurdle to a full time job. Though McGehee has batted better of late (.260/.324/.480 in August, .530 wOBA through three September games), he may be a non-tender or trade candidate this offseason for reasons highlighted a couple of weeks ago.
Green is also capable of playing second base, having played 15 percent of his minor league career at the position. The Brewers could play Green at second until Rickie Weeks returns, especially given the paucity of production out of Weeks' stand-ins this season. Second base, however, will not be a long term solution for Green to get playing time given Weeks' four year extension (with a fifth option year) this past offseason. Prince Fielder will be a free agent this offseason, and a move from left field to first base may actually improve Ryan Braun's real-life value, so a move to left could be possible for either McGehee or Green, though neither has played anything but infield positions in their major and minor league careers.
How the Brewers plan to use Green will be an interesting story to follow, and it is one fantasy owners need to monitor closely. If Green gets any semblance of regular or predictable playing time with the playoff-bound Brewers this September, you are going to want to pick him up. Green could be a really under-the-radar 2012 sleeper.
Recommendation: Given the dearth of production and that position's proclivity for injury this season, Green is a must-monitor third baseman in mixed leagues with 12 or more teams and corner infield requirements.
Homer Bailey | Reds | SP | 14 percent Yahoo ownership
Oliver ROS: 4.17 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 6.4 K/9, 2.5 K/BB
Given his 4.57 ERA on the season, routine trips to the disabled list under Dusty Baker, and a strikeout-per-nine rate below 7.0, a 14 percent ownership rate may seem high. Homer Bailey may seem like a bust at this point in his career, having formerly been a top-notch pitching prospect, but as a fourth starter type in mixed leagues, Bailey still has value.
Despite Bailey's struggles, there are strong positives to his 2011 campaign. For one, he has both sustained and improved his walk rate this season (career best 2.20 BB/9). With a career-high F-Strike rate (61.5 percent, 59.3 percent major league average), Bailey has continued the trend of cutting his career walk rate (currently 3.58 BB/9). Bailey has done this while steadily improving his whiff rate against batters over the past four seasons—his 9.0 swinging strike percentage is a career high.
Despite a decline in groundball percentage this year, even accounting for the improvement in pitching across the league, Bailey has taken a step forward with his game. A seemingly low left-on-base percentage and seemingly high HR/FB and HR/OFFB rates may have masked Bailey's improvements.
So what should we make of Bailey's 6.7 K/9, a three year low? Should we expect it to go up, or discount Bailey's fantasy potential (and improved pitching game) going forward?
On one hand, we could attribute it to a change in pitching style. Bailey used to lean heavily on his mid-90s fastball,but he is increasingly using a slider and curveball. Given the expected strikeout rates for plus-speed fastballs and sliders, however, this seems unlikely. Perhaps qualifying Bailey's increased reliance on a curveball and slider by calling them "developing" pitches could explain the decreased strikeouts.
Another plausible explanation, however is bad luck. Strikeout rates tend to be more stable over smaller samples than other statistics, such as walk rates and ERA, but in half season samples, they still tend to have much variance. Bailey has pitched only 106 innings this season, so it's plausible that his improved whiffs just have not translated into strikeouts yet.
Over the past 30 days, Bailey is supporting a robust 8.5 K/9 (22.5 percent strikelout percentage) and stellar 6.2 K/BB ratio. Despite a 5.18 ERA over that span, Bailey's xWHIP of 3.15 and SIERRA of 3.00 rank among baseball's elite. Despite his ERA, Bailey's WHIP is still strong at 1.27. If Bailey's seemingly bad luck this season were to neutralize, or even swing in favor of the good luck dragons, Bailey could post a mid-3s ERA and low 1.2s WHIP down the stretch despite his home ballpark.
With the Reds' season collapsing, Bailey's further development as a pitcher may be a bright spot in an otherwise disappointing season for the franchise.
Recommendation: Bailey is worth spot starting in 12-team mixed league formats, and worth a pickup in deeper/NL-only formats.
Yonder Alonso | Reds | 1B/OF | 3 percent Yahoo ownership
Oliver ROS: 271/.334/.445
If you can fathom it, Yonder Alonso was once talked up as having enough potential as a first baseman to relegate Joey Votto's career to left field. Of course, since those days back in 2008, Votto has developed his power stroke while maintaining his elite walk rate and batting average and line drive rates, all the while keeping the strikeouts in check. Alonso, on the other hand, has developed nicely, but not nearly as exponentially as projected as he's advanced through the minors.
Alonso is a DH masquerading as an outfielder. Scouts near universally agree his left field defense is Dunnian. But Alonso is not known for his glove; he's known for his bat. At least he was for a while, and after a lackluster 2010, is again.
After batting a relatively lackluster .282/.380/.432 without (much) power in Double-A after a promising showing in A-Ball (.304/.389/.485), Alonso has rekindled most of his "Matt Kemp power*" (.174 ISO) in Triple-A this season. Alonso's best asset is his ability to drive the ball well with good gap power and low strikeout totals to go with a fair number of walks, like teammate Votto. In fact, Votto's 2008 season comes to mind as the fairest comparison to what Alonso is likely capable of producing. Oliver's MLE for Alonso's 2011 season in the minors is a .285/.355/.476 triple slash line.
He has also held his own thus far into 29 games (sample size!) of 2011, walking seven times and hitting .389/.459/.685 with four home runs in 54 a- bats. Alonso could easily develop into what Billy Butler's been billed as, promised as, for the past several season.
*Matt Kemp power is an old coinage of mine from 2008 that refers to guys with ISOs ranging between .170 and .185; hitters with enough power to be capable of consistently posting 20 HR/60 extra-base-hit seasons.
Dusty Baker has used Alonso pretty regularly over the past week. If his playing time becomes regular or predictable, he could be worth owning. Alonso currently has eligibility at first base and outfield, but Baker has already used him once at third this year. Juan Francisco (see below) figures to get the bulk of the Reds' playing time at third if any rookie is to get it, but on the off chance that Alonso gets third base eligibility this (or next) season, that would greatly boost the fantasy value of a player many see as breaking camp as a starting outfielder for the Reds next season.
Recommendation: Yonder Alonso is worth a bench spot to stream as a corner infielder or fifth outfielder in NL-only and deeper mixed leagues.
Juan Francisco | Reds | 3B | 0 percent Yahoo ownership
YTD (minors): .318/.345/.557
Oliver ROS: .275/.308/.492
If you have a hole at third base—e.g., you've held on to Casey McGehee—or are in need of cheap power, Francisco may be your man. OBP leagues should be strongly cautioned: Juan Fran walks rarely. On a plus note for batting average leagues, however, Francisco tends to drive the ball well, despite a poor strikeout rate and walk rate, kind of like how Alfonso Soriano did in his prime. Hence, while he may not hit .300, he can likely hit in the .270s. Francisco, in this regard, is a bizarro Jack Cust: cheap power guy, semi-useful in batting average leagues, but a strong category liability in OBP leagues.
With Scott Rolen done for the season, Francisco may be getting an extended chance to audition for the 2013 starting third base position (Rolen is signed through 2012), though that role is likely Todd Frazier's long term.
Since his recall on Sept. 1, he has been used in all but one of the Reds' games as their primary third baseman (pinch hitting in the other). Four and a half games is an incredibly small, inconclusive sample, but it is nice to see him hit the ground running after struggling for a handful of games in April, batting 6-for-18 with a home run and five RBI since his return. Granted, that has come with only one walk to six strikeouts, so perhaps those numbers need to be looked at with a grain of salt.
Francisco clearly has his flaws, but in September the waiver wire tends to be slim pickings. Take your value and strategic usefulness where you can find it.
Recommendation: As a starting third baseman, Juan Francisco is worth streaming in 12-plus-team mixed leagues, and NL-only formats.
Collin Cowgill | Diamondbacks | OF | 0 percent Yahoo ownership
Oliver ROS: .271/.329/.424
Cowgill is a "polished" (code for older, college-drafted) prospect who steadily ascended through the minors, only to truly break out in Triple-A this year. After posting a relatively bland .819 OPS in A+ ball in 2009 (.168 ISO, six home runs in 61 games), and an .825 OPS in 2010 (.179 ISO, 16 home runs in 131 games), Cowgill posted a .984 OPS this season, blasting 13 bombs with a .200 ISO in less than 100 games for the Diamondbacks' Triple-A affiliate.
That .200 ISO power may not be particularly special coming out of the Pacific Coast League, ranking outside the top 35 for players with 300 or more plate appearances in the league this season. But when combined with 20-30 stolen base ability, a solid strikeout rate of 16.2 percent and an above-average walk rate of 10.7 percent, it means that Cowgill may have major league potential as a 15-home run capable, gap-powered hitter with respectable batting average totals and a good number of stolen bases.
Oliver says that Cowgill's 2011 campaign in the PCL is the equivalent of a major league line of .290/.343/.434, and it forecasts him capable of doing the same down the stretch for the Diamondbacks if they keep giving him semi-regular playing time. The ceiling is limited with Cowgill, but he should provide solid production all around. Three home runs and five stolen bases with a .275-.280 batting average in September is entirely in the cards.
Recommendation: Cowgill should be a solid contributor as a semi-regular fifth outfielder for deeper (12+ team) mixed leagues and NL-only formats, though owners should inquire into the availability of John Mayberry first.
Bryan LaHair | Cubs | 1B | 0 percent Yahoo ownership
Oliver ROS: .272/.332/.499
Beyond the fact that they are way out of the division/pennant race, Bryan LaHair is the reason the Cubs should-and-could have traded Carlos Pena in July to the Pirates before their epic collapse*.
*This is not to say that the Pirates were a particularly good team that should have invested prospects to attempt a "win-now" strategy a la Andy McPhail's 1998 Chicago Cubs team. But with Pittsburgh facing the pressure of being a "dying" franchise losing its fan base and respectability, the Cubs probably could have leveraged some kind of deal to save cash and bring in (fringe?) prospects with the Buccos.
LaHair, like many Cubs prospects of the past decade, is 28 years old and on his fifth tour of duty in Triple-A. The Cubs, however, did not draft LaHair. This should be evident by the fact that he draws walks. A long-ignored prospect of the Seattle Mariners for nearly half a decade following a useless 150 plate appearances in the majors in 2008, LaHair signed with the Cubs in 2010, and he has done pretty well in Iowa since.
In 254 games for the Cubs' Triple-A affiliate, LaHair swatted 63 home runs and drew 111 walks (11.1 percentage). His batting line was a robust .320/.396/613, albeit with a BABIP near .350 and a strikeout rate just north of 20 percent (20.5 percent, not bad at all for a power hitter).
Oliver thought LaHair's 2010 performance (.289/.385/.557) was worth a respectable .267/.331/.453 (.340 wOBA) triple-slash line in the majors, but Oliver has fallen even more in love with LaHair this year, considering his minor league line worth a .286/.348/.546 (.378 wOBA) major league line over more than 500 plate appearances. Among all major league hitters with 500 or more plate appearances this season, LaHair's .378 MLE wOBA would just barely rank in the top 20, and it would dethrone the Cubs' current wOBA king Aramis Ramirez* (.372 wOBA).
*Technically, the Cubs' true wOBA king this season has been Reed Johnson (.378 wOBA), but Johnson does not have even 250 plate appearances.
Since getting recalled earlier in the week, LaHair has hit the ground running for the Cubs, batting .385/.385/.692 with a home run and double over 13 plate appearances. LaHair is a first baseman, but the Cubs have not been afraid to use him as a corner outfielder. Presuming the Cubs are "in" on the Albert Pujols derby (which has Prince Fielder as the runner-up, consolation prize), one has to presume that means that the Cubs likely intend to play him in the outfield corners along with Soriano (under contract forever) and Marlon Byrd (under contract one more season). This would presumably push Brett Jackson's debut back until mid/late 2012, with an eye on Jackson taking over center field, if ready, in 2013.
LaHair is not getting any younger, so one would have to imagine he has to be in the Cubs' short term plans for 2012. He is not a marketable prospect, so it is unlikely they could use him as a trade chip to return anything of interest. LaHair is also insurance in case the Cubs cannot or do not want to sign Pujols or Fielder this offseason. Some Cubs fans may have flashback nightmares of Micah Hoffpauir when they think of LaHair, but LaHair is much more than a mere flash-in-the-pan late bloomer; he's someone to be moderately enthused about—a potentially useful major leaguer.
Recommendation: LaHair is unlikely to get regular playing time down the stretch, but is worth owning as a corner infielder if he does get predictable playing time. More realistically, LaHair's September should be monitored as a fantasy audition for 2012.
Johan Santana | Mets | SP | 23 percent Yahoo ownership
YTD (A+ rehab): 2 GS, 5.0 IP, 5 K, 0 BB, 0 HR, 0 ER
Oliver ROS: 3.78 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 7.5 K/9, 1.9 BB/9
Santana has had more than his fair share of injuries over the past few seasons, and his 2011 has been entirely lost to injury thus far, but in terms of potentially elite gambles on the waiver wire two and a half weeks before the end of the season, Santana may be an ace in the hole. Though an experienced pitcher rehabbing in A ball, Santana's first two rehab starts have been pretty encouraging. He's thrown five innings with five strikeouts and zero walks. I have not read any reports of velocity concern or setbacks since his last one. If Santana stays healthy, he could get a start or two in the majors for the floundering Mets. They could be worth streaming him for.
Recommendation: Santana is only a deep mixed league and NL-only play.
Trayvon Robinson | Mariners | 1 percent Yahoo ownership
Oliver ROS: .251/.316/.411
What is Trayvon Robinson doing in a National League-oriented Waiver Wire column? It is a good, fair question. The answer is that I was writing about him in a lengthy email response to a reader's question, and I figured I might as well share my thoughts with others.
Trayvon Robinson is something of a fantasy value enigma. From his debut in 2006 through 2008, he was not much of anything. He struck out a lot (almost a quarter of the time), walked very little, and though he stole about 20 bases, he was caught stealing in roughly one-third of his attempts.
Then, in 2009, Robinson upped his game. He added a little more pop (.193 ISO), started walking, and really started stealing bases. In fact, in 2009, he doubled his previous stolen base total record of 22 with 47 (though he was still caught 20 times). Robinson's 2010 in Double-A built upon his advanced speed game and newly found walking ability, swiping 37 bases, but his power evaporated (.138 ISO) and the strikeouts and caught-stealing propensity (15 caught stealing in 52 attempts) remained a problem. Robinson seemed doomed to a career ceiling of Julio Borbon.
But in Triple-A in 2011, Robinson's "game" took a whole new direction. Presumably ordered to quit wasting precious outs while on the bases, Robinson saw a huge boost in his power, launching 26 home runs with a .269 ISO over 100 games for the Dodgers. His previous single-season high in home runs was 17, over 136 games played. Strikeouts continue to be a problem, but Robinson has kept up an improved walk rate for three seasons now, which, paired with power, greatly offsets the harm of his strikeout propensity. Robinson's 2011 for the Dodgers was so good, in fact, that he was included as the Mariners' prized return in the three-way deal among Seattle, Boston and Los Angeles that sent Erik Bedard to the Red Sox.
Caution says, however, that high strikeout totals in the minors tend to mean atrocious strikeout rates in the majors. Oliver gives Robinson credit for only a .246/.314/.442 MLE (with 21 home runs). Despite this caution, Robinson has held his own in the majors through his first month. Over 25 games, Robinson has batted .274/.319/.464 despite a humongous strikeout rate (35.9 percent) thanks to a combination of good power (.190 ISO) and what would be the major leagues' highest BABIP (.420) if Robinson qualified for the batting title.
Oliver's ROS projection for Robinson is a substantially more reasonable expectation for him the rest of the way. Robinson may be cheap power (though most of it has been gap power at Safeco), but he'll likely carry a big batting average liability. He's not nearly the "rookie keeper" his major league numbers this season may indicate.
Recommendation: Travon Robinson should not be trusted as a reliable source of production down the stretch except in AL-only and very deep (14-plus team, five-outfielder) formats.
Dee Gordon | Dodgers | SS | 9 percent Yahoo ownership
Oliver ROS: .269/.298/.342
With Hanley Ramirez out for the season, many owners have been scrambling to find some ghost of a replacement out of a group of players shallower than the kiddie pool. The Dodgers activated Dee Gordon from the disabled list on Sept. 1 and in the six games he's played since, he has swiped four stolen bases. Gordon will not offer any power or on-base ability for owners, but he should be able to hit .275 or higher with Eric Young Jr.-like stolen base attempts per opportunity. He needs to instantly be owned in more leagues.
Recommendation: Gordon should be owned either to use, or block another owner from using him, if you have the space. His speed could be a game changer down the stretch.
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Culver-Stockton College mourns death of student
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:39:56 GMT —
Students and staff at Culver-Stockton College are mourning the death of a former football player.
Twenty-one-year-old Anton Kozelichki died Thursday.
He was an athlete, sport's fan and a model student.
Kozelichki was a student that everyone loved at Culver-Stockton.
"He's been always a caring person and someone that you just want to have in your life," Kozelichki's friend Sean Mitchell said.
"The absolute best, just in every way, like I said he was a great friend," Culver-Stockon College Defensive Line Strength and Conditioning Coach Brent Holtrop said. "He was always willing to go out of his way, always cared for people and a great student in the classroom."
In his freshmen year, Kozelichki played for the Wildcats, but a medical condition forced him off the field.
"He had epilepsy and had some issues with seizures and things like that," Holtrop said. "He tried to battle through it as long as he could, and when it finally, really became a factor for him, he had to look at his future and that was hard for him to do because like I said, he wasn't the type of guy that worried about himself."
But that didn't stop Kozelichki from staying involved.
"He was a big supporter of anything athletic here at the school. If it was football, basketball, volleyball, he was there," Mitchell said. "He reported on, I believe most of the football games here at the school. If you listen to the radio station you probably heard his voice."
Kozelichki's friends said he will be deeply missed.
"He had a lot of life left to live and it's sad," Holtrop said.
Click here for the full obituary from McGuire & Davies Funeral Home.
A visitation will be held for Kozelichki from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, April 27 at United High School in Monmouth, Ill. The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 27 at the same location.
A prayer gathering was held Thursday evening on the Culver-Stockton campus for students, faculty and staff and a memorial is planned on campus at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 in the Charles Field House. Family members will be present for the on-campus memorial.


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What if, in a world where mathematics could be magic, the thing you desired most was also trying to kill you? Dom is a numerate, someone able to see and control numbers and use them as a form of magic. While seeking a mathematical item of immense power that has only been whispered about, it all goes south for Dom, and he finds himself on the run across three countries on two continents, with two unlikely companions in tow and a numerate of unfathomable strength hot on his tail.
Along the way are giant creatures of stone and earth, statues come alive, numerical wonders cast over hundreds of years, and the very real possibility that he won't make it out of this alive. And both of his companions have secrets so deep that even they aren't aware of them - and one of those secrets could make for a seismic shift in how Dom and all other numerates see and interact with the world.
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NEW YORK — The U.S. government paid almost $80 million in unemployment benefits during the worst of the economic downturn to households that made more than $1 million, including a record $29.9 million in 2010, tax records show.
Almost 3,200 households — about 20 percent of them from New York — that reported adjusted gross income of more than $1 million received jobless-insurance payments averaging $12,600 in 2010, the latest year for which figures are available, according to IRS data compiled by Bloomberg. Those payments outpaced the total incomes for about 25 million U.S. households.
The $80 million represents less than 0.01 percent of this year's $845 billion projected deficit. Yet the unemployment aid to millionaire households underscores the lack of means-testing in some federal aid programs. The aid also is a reminder of the difficulty of reining in spending.
"So many people are taking advantage of government support that they probably feel like, why shouldn't they take advantage of it, too?" said George Walper Jr., president of the Spectrem Group, a Chicago-based market-research and consulting firm that tracks the number of households worth more than $1 million.
Lawmakers have repeatedly tried to end or limit benefits to high-income households. A January report by the Congressional Research Service found at least five such efforts.
The House passed legislation in December 2011 as part of a jobs bill that would have taxed unemployment benefits at 100 percent for single filers with adjusted gross incomes exceeding $1 million or married filers reporting $2 million in income. The provision wasn't included in the bill signed by President Barack Obama.
The Internal Revenue Service doesn't release information about individual income tax filers, so it's impossible to identify specific millionaires who received unemployment benefits. It's also unknown whether the benefits were paid to a person who earned $1 million during a year in which they were unemployed for part of the time, or to a spouse.
The benefits are unlikely to have gone to a dependent, such as a college-aged child living in a millionaire household, because they would file a separate tax return to account for their own income.
The federal data shows 610 millionaire households receiving jobless benefits in 2010 filed their returns from New York, second to more-populous California, with 810. New York City's securities industry, which paid an estimated $19.7 billion in bonuses to employees last year, shed about 32,000 jobs from January 2008 through 2012, according to the New York State Comptroller's Office.
Unemployment insurance was created in 1935 as part of the Social Security Act, and an extended benefits program for long- term unemployed workers was put in place in 1970. The law allowed state governments to levy payroll taxes on employers to fund the program. Weekly payments vary by state. Out-of-work Americans can collect $405 in New York, $235 in Mississippi.
An emergency unemployment program was started in July 2008 for Americans who exhausted their benefits by being unemployed for 26 weeks or more. The program has been amended 11 times, allowing some recipients to collect payments for as long as 99 weeks, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The most recent amendment was signed last year, extending federal help through the end of 2013.
The average millionaire New York household collected an average of $13,590 in unemployment benefits during 2010, or a maximum of 33 weeks of benefits.
Nationwide, unemployment benefit payments rose to $94 billion during the 2012 budget year, almost triple the $33 billion paid in 2007, the Congressional Budget Office said. Payments peaked at $150 billion in 2010.
Real unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and people working part-time for economic reasons, peaked at a seasonally adjusted rate of 17.1 percent in April 2010. The figure stood at 14.3 percent in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In central Harlem, where almost 1 in 3 people are poor and more than half the neighborhood isn't part of the labor force, a line that frequently extends almost down the block to the Apollo Theater on 125th Street continues to form outside the state unemployment office early in the morning.
Clark James, 42, waiting outside the office, said he was laid off from his job as an assistant manager at a nonprofit organization last month. His eyes widened at the thought of millionaires receiving jobless benefits.
"I'm not a millionaire!" he said. "But if you've paid taxes for it, why shouldn't you collect the money? And going from $1 million a year to $405 a week - that's a big drop."
Gary Burtless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said the millionaires collecting unemployment insurance made up just 0.035 percent of the 9.2 million Americans who received jobless benefits in September 2010. They also accounted for a little more than 1 percent of the nation's 280,360 millionaires that year.
The distribution of unemployment insurance, with 68 percent of payments going to households earning less than $50,000, indicates the program is "effectively designed," said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute.
The 18-month recession "was the worst thing this country's seen in seven decades," she said. "The state funds were never meant to deal with a downturn of this size and duration."
The typical U.S. household filing for unemployment received $8,050 in payments during 2010, IRS figures show. The smallest average, $3,034, was reported by 283,667 income tax filers that reported less than $5,000 in adjusted gross income. Thirty-three households earning more than $10 million collected average unemployment checks of $11,455.
Payments continued to rise in the aftermath of the recession, which ended in June 2009. The typical $12,600 unemployment insurance payments in 2010 to households with earnings topping $1 million represented a 46.4 percent increase from the average $8,606 in benefits paid to 2,362 millionaires in 2009.
With memories of the recession still vivid, many of those households remain conservative in their spending habits, according to Walper.
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"American Hustle" star Jennifer Lawrence had a little mishap, falling on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday.
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From Fort to Port covers the architectural history of the city of Mobile, Alabama, from the time of the French fort of 1711 to the end of World War I in 1918. The text, with 332 illustrations, traces the history of Mobile's architecture from the town's beginnings as a colonial military outpost o its establishment as a modern commercial port city. Included is a record of the evolution of commercial, civic, religious, and residential buildings as they were affected by the environment, by building practices, and by the historical and social changes brought about through two centuries.
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I haven't seen the fight, I have it recorded.
His never made any real adjustments. Note sure why he doesnt throw a jab. It's the first thing I learnt in the gym.
I say he will be a stepping stone now for other fighters, sadly.
Shame he hasn't tried to make a few adjustments over the years,
I'm sure it would have been a different story for him.
He doesn't throw a jab because it isn't any good.
That's the thing about a jab. Jabs are not inherently effective. If he had Ike Quartey's jab I'm sure he would hang it out there. He doesn't, his jab sucks, so he doesn't use it. Then you get to the question of why he doesn't have a better one, and that is just a case of below average fundamentals.
To me its not so much about making adjustments. Mick is often compared to Gatti so lets look at that. Gatti made adjustments. If you watch him very early on in his career he was actually a skilled mover, liked to use his jab, still liked to exchange, but was a skillful fighter. We all know how he then turned into a 100% face first brawler, however you can see through the later part of his career him making some adjustments. These adjustments helped him to win some pretty big fights later in his career that he most likely would never have even been in had he not made those slight changes.
Mick doesn't have the fundamentals that Gatti had. Gatti had a jab, Gatti had ring smarts, Gatti knew how to evade a guy and slip some shots, Gatti knew how to move. Mick has always just been superfit, superstrong, super-determined. A come at you fighter that never stops. I don't think he was ever really capable of making material adjustments because of this. Sure it doesn't even seem as though he tried, but in reality I doubt it would have helped him too much. Lets face it, he has always looked at his best in fights when he has 100% been on the front foot and just pounding away.
With regards to the thread question, yes he is done. I thought he gave a good effort in that fight but he was seriously physically outmatched. He also doesn't quite have the durability or the sharpness that he once had. Too many wars, too many shots. It comes with the territory. You want to fight like that, those are the consequences.
Still love the guy to death and will always support him no matter what he does, but he will never beat another top fighter, whether it be at 135 or 140. He is done in that arena.
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The candidate, Bradley Byrne, responded with a lengthy press release vehemently defending his belief in creationism and the infallible truth of the Bible.
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Chicha can be bundlingly summed up as psychedelic Peruvian surf guitar cumbia. To a listener raised on English-language rock music, listening to this is something like listening to filmi versions of mambo tunes or cowboy songs. In both cases the music is familiar-yet-not. The songs ask for a new attentiveness. Things have been altered. The language is different, but it's not quite that. The personality of the music has changed.
The original Juaneco was a man named Juan Wong Paredes, an amateur Amazonian part-Chinese saxophonist, who, dying, passed his band on to his son, Juan Wong Popolizio. Popolizio acquired a Farfisa organ and made the acquaintance of Noé Fanchin, schoolteacher, guitar player, and a devotee of the medicinal psychotropic ayahuasca.
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Fanchin, along with four other members of the band, died in a plane crash in 1976. By that time, he had introduced the group to the songs of foreign rock bands like the Shadows and the Ventures. You can hear his legacy on this album most clearly in "Vacilando Con Ayahuasca", its Don Wilsonish guitar joined by the sighs and groans of a woman pretending to be under the influence of the schoolteacher's favourite drug. "Sss … hhah … oh!" Squeak, moan, languish. It's the chicha "Dum Maro Dum".
Radio shows introduced the Combo to cumbia and the music of Brazil. They mixed all of this—ayahuasca, Paredes' Farfisa, cumbia, Brazil, Fanchin and his stoned Shadows fandom—together with references to the culture of the Amerindians local to their Amazon home town of Pucallpa, a group named the Shipibo. The music that came out of this melange is the music that Barbès has compiled on Masters of Chicha, Vol.1. The cumbia cowbell is there, and the songs are buoyed by a cumbia bounce, and there are familiar cries of "Ay ay ay ay!" and "Woop woop!" but the music leans on the guitar and the organ with an uncumbialike fondness, and the instruments have a delicious, lolling wooze that is alien to traditional cumbia's nervy twitch. It sounds springier, floatier, dreamier. This is where the music's new personality lies, in that druggy floatiness, the Shipibo-Shadows twist.
A different reviewer has suggested that, compared to some other kinds of Latin American music, chicha songs can seem lightweight and samey. It's true that the music on Masters of Chicha isn't likely to grab a listener with the forebrain force of, say, tropicalismo or tango, but it has a charm of its own, a persuasive set of tunes, a wobbly joy in the singing, and the ingratiating crepey rills of that Farfisa. Barbès seems set to become chicha's primary distributor to the English-speaking world, performing the same useful service for Peruvian bands that Buda has been performing for Ethiopian musicians and that Asphalt-Tango has been performing for the Romanian lautari. This is terrific news. Their website doesn't yet tell us who the next Masters of Chicha on Vol. 2 are going to be, although my bet would be on Los Mirlos or Hijos del Sol, two groups that made significant contributions to the Roots of Chicha compilation that came out last year. We'll see.
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I love Perfect Picture Book Fridays! The only hard part is choosing just one book to share each week when there are usually about 50 I'd like to add to the list! :)
Before we get to today's choice though, I think we need to have a serious discussion about the Official Perfect Picture Book Snack. Something Chocolate has already been taken for Would You Read It Wednesdays, so put on your thinking caps boys and girls, and let's come up with something scrumptious! :) Because I'm a mite peckish! The comment section is open for suggestion....
But back to PPBF.... I love books that turn out to be something you didn't expect. I love getting to the end and thinking to myself, "Wow, that author was clever!" I love books that I like better every time I read them. And that is just the kind of book I'm sharing today!
Written By: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Illustrated By: Robert Neubecker
Dutton Juvenile, July 2007, Fiction based on fact
Suitable For: ages 5-8
Theme/Topic: Careers, Standing up for yourself, Coping with rudeness and bragging.
Opening: "On Career Day, Mrs. Feeny asked her students to stand up in class and talk about their parents' jobs. Emma Sweetpaw said her dad was a UFO hunter. She said he used a two-ton telescope to search the sky for flying saucers and a giant satellite to receive alien transmissions."
Brief Synopsis: One by one, the students stand up and brag about what their parents do - a UFO hunter, a jeweler, a NASCAR driver. When it's the narrator's turn, she says her dad changes light bulbs, which seems pretty tame compared to what everyone else does... until she reveals which lightbulbs!
Links To Resources: Careers (grades K-5), Careers (grades 6-8) (these are both link lists to info on all kinds of careers), Amazing Facts About The Empire State Building, Fun Facts About The Empire State Building
Why I Like This Book: What kid wouldn't love to have a parent with a really cool and unusual job? This book is set up very cleverly. The first few kids to introduce their parents careers all brag - their parents are UFO hunters, jewelers, and NASCAR drivers. Pretty hard to top! When it's the narrator's turn, she sets them up, saying her dad changes light bulbs. Of course they make fun... until they find out where the light bulbs are. The pacing is great, letting the reader discover a page at a time that all isn't exactly as it seems. I also love that the story is based on fact - someone really does have to change those light bulbs and it's a pretty tricky job! This book offers a great deal of information about a little-known job as well as a great opportunity to talk about all the different careers that are open to kids when they grow up. It's interesting, educational, clever, and fun!
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The Top Job sounds awesome, Susanna. I love books that surprise too. I have never heard of this one. Adding it to my list, for sure.
Oh and it would have to be popcorn with tons of butter and salt. But that is what we have always eaten here on the farm. :-)
The Top Job sounds like a wonderful book to help children start a dialogue with their parents. Though I knew what my dad did for a living, I would've never thought to ask him to explain it to me. Since chocolate is out of the question, my next choice is Nilla Wafers. Our pediatrician always gave them out, so I nicknamed them "Doctor Cookies," and they're also great with milk.
Love this book, Susanna!! I grew up in NYC, so the Empire State Building has special meaning for me...and I enjoy presenting books to kids that are based on true happenings. Also, most kids don't really know what their parents "do"...this book might be a springboard for a kindergarten or higher grade level discussion on careers. What a great choice!
Love Robyn's idea of popcorn...I have a BIG bowl EVERY night...air-popped, with a little olive oil, sea salt and a dash of sugar...kind of like Kettle Corn...but healthier than what you get ready-made in the bag or micro box. I'd say ice-cream...but that just gets consumed too quickly for the number of calories it has. :)
I've been tweeting and posting on my FB page all of the PPBF posts, trying to get the word out about this unbelievable resource that you are providing! By the way, my Twitter account was messed with...had to change my password...and several of the PPBF group got tweets from the me that wasn't really me...sorry about that.:(
I wanted to suggest something savory, so I think popcorn is a great idea.
What an excellent book, that is a resource in so many ways. I was always so embarrassed telling my father's profession at school. he was a scrap metal merchant, and half the parents in my class were dons at Cambridge University!!
I think I would learn a lot from this book myself, and I like the way the author leads and teases into the facts.
sounds like a wonderful book. will definitely be checking it out.
scrumptious -- cupcakes!
I love books with surprise endings! This one sounds like a lot of fun. Especially opening the door for conversations about jobs and careers. Great review Susanna!
Official snack? hmmmm I am a big fan of chocolate, but my second favorite treat? Cupcakes! :D
Well, now that I have read the comments, I have to say that popcorn is another GREAT choice.
This book sounds great -- love the way the unassuming job turns out to be truly impressive.
Milk-and-cookies sounds like such a picturebookish snack, and with something like that, if a person really wanted to sneak some chocolate in, they could have chocolate chip cookies. (No one would want my usual snack of plain yogurt followed by a bowl of spoonsize shredded wheat...)
And my dad had his own biz as a sheet metal fabricator! That man was an artist with a piece of sheet metal. And he sang in a beautiful tenor voice while he did it, too. :)
I got one of those from you! But I knew it was spam, so no worries! :) I changed my password too, though, just in case.
That's a pretty neat book, Susanna! I remember when I lived in NYC, there was a special on TV about the guy who changes the bulbs. I thought it was fascinating, and so cool to think about him up there all alone, surveying the city, changing bulbs so at night we saw pink or green or red, white, and blue. I am all for books that show that the possibilities for our lives are endless!
I am making my lemon cake today, so I'll be having that. It is divine.
What a fab book. It makes you wonder how the author was motivated to pick that topic :) The cover looks so fresh too. Can't wait to see pictures from your reading event.
I really want to read this picture book now and find out!! I love it when authors write something completely different and new that kids can learn from. Looks like a great book!
Have a wonderful weekend, Susanna!
This sounds like a fun book and I love surprise endings too!
Great PPB! It sounds like a lot like a picture book I'd like! It'd be cool to hear about all these different (and wacky) jobs!
I think we should have Cheesecake! To be exact, my Aunt India's Cheesecake! Aunt India? Can you make a lot of Cheesecake on Thursdays and send them to Susanna Leonard Hill? Thanks! ;)
This book does sound very clever. I am looking forward to reading it.
Does it have to be a snack?? I'm thinking...since I start reading PPBF in the morning...it could be something I eat in the morning. Cereal doesn't sound too exciting. Granola bar doesn't sound too exciting. Bacon and eggs sounds a little better...But, if I had a dream breakfast...how about cinnamon brioche french toast with butter, maple syrup, blueberries, strawberries, and just a dollop of whip cream?
Great choice this week! There are so many jobs out there keeping our society running that we don't hear about. I love thinking about how things get done and who does them.
I vote for a fruit based snack - fruit tarts, fruit parfait, fruit on cheesecake, pear tarts, apple pie, peach cobbler. I may have to do some baking today!
First things first, and for me that almost always means food! I vote fruit for a shack. I think it would balance out Wednesday's chocolate. :)
This looks like a great book Susanna. Kids do a lot of comparing and knowing how to deal with that is important. It also show that things we take for granted (like lightbulbs always being lit) perhaps shouldn't be. What if no one did that job? Excellent choice this week, as usual.
So you finally showcased this one. If anyone wants to read a bit more about this awesome book, here's my review. I love how it's based on a newspaper headline.
Sounds like a wonderful book, and reassuring for kids who may think their parents jobs are weird! As for snacks- well I'd be up for something savory too- like guacamole and chips. And then some of Renee's lemon cake after that :-)
It is a great book! And boy, this snack decision is going to be a toughy! :)
Fruit would certainly balance out chocolate... it's just so healthy... Maybe lemon bars, or strawberry shortcake, or blueberry pie :) This is a wonderful book - I think you would like it :)
I like the way you think, Penny! WIll you be coming to my house to cook? :)
I do too, Heather! There are so many neat things people do and you don't always even realize it! When you're done baking, mail some to Blueberry Hill! :)
I think you would like it, Erik. It's really well done! As for cheesecake, I LOVE cheesecake! My brother makes awesome cheesecake, but only once a year at Christmas! Maybe we should have a battle of cheesecake and see whose is better - my brother's or your aunt's - we can be the judges :)
It's great because after all their bragging, she totally sets them up :)
This is really a fun one! Have a great weekend, too! :)
The author actually saw a newspaper headline about this topic and that's what gave her the idea! Cool, isn't it? And I got a sample of the pictures in collage form - too small to post, so I'm waiting for next week - but the photographer did a GREAT job!
I know! It's really an amazing job, and someone really has to do it! As for the lemon cake, please mail some :)
Yes, this book is a fun one and interesting! I like the idea of milk and cookies - it does sound picturebookish :) And I could go for yogurt and shredded wheat if it was vanilla or fruit yogurt :)
That's why I love this book - it's fun and interesting and opens the door to great discussion! And cupcakes! YUM! You are a girl after my own heart :) But popcorn is good too! :)
It's really a fun one! And I would definitely be up for cupcakes!!! :)
Oooh! I like popcorn! Great idea! And yes, I think this book has a lot to teach, both in terms of how to deal with other kids bragging and also as writers - its' so well done!
Vivian, I grew up in NYC too! And maybe that's why I especially like this book :) Your popcorn recipe sounds delish! Totally have to try that! Thank you so much for all you do spreading the PPB word - I really appreciate it!!! :)
You know, it's funny - my parents were lawyers, which I knew, but I never really knew exactly what they did except that it kept them busy long hours! I think any book that facilitates a discussion of possible career choices - what's out there and what's involved - is extremely valuable. As for Nilla Wafers, that would not be my choice (unless they were dipped in dark chocolate :)) but you can eat all you want :)
This is really a good book - you'll like it I think. It's a good one to learn from as a writer, too, because it's really well done. I think I want to come live on your farm - I love animals and popcorn with butter and salt :) Maybe I could meet Quacker :)
OK, so where does he change light bulbs? I'm totally intrigued. I'm going to borrow this book from the library -- I ask my daughter on a weekly basis what she wants to be when she grows up and she'd enjoy reading about what some parents do. We've also talked about bragging lately, so this book doubly applies! Thanks for the review and have a great weekend!
Am not familiar with this book, but it sounds so reassuring for kids who may be embarrassed about what a parent does. And, it exposes kids to all kids of jobs -- all are impoprtant. Love books like this fod children.
Oh, Margaret, you're going to love this one! I won't spoil the surprise, although you could probably figure it out from the resources :) I hope you and your daughter enjoy it! Have a great weekend!
I like it because it opens discussion about careers, but also shows how a kid can cope with other kids bragging. The child in this book is smart!
I've only just discovered your blog and I love the idea of PPBF! These are the kinds of books that I would love to add to a library for my children. I'm looking forward to reading more :-)
just to be clear, my vote is for popcorn. :-)
This book sounds really great. I love finding picture books that are good for a little bit older child (three of mine are in the 5-9 age range). Thanks, Susanna!
Sounds like a winner, Susanna! I've visited the Empire State Building, and was afraid to look over the edge of the observation deck, let alone change a lightbulb. But, someone has to do it. What a fascinating look into the subject! As for a PB Friday treat...I vote for a cinnamon scone.
Glad to meet you, Ashley! So glad you stopped by! I think you'll find all kinds of great books! :)
I know! I'm not sure I could change the light bulb either - definitely couldn't look down! :) Mmmm! Cinnamon scone sounds good :)
I think they'll like this one, Amy - you, too! And just to be sure, did you want popcorn? :)
OH! It makes me cringe with worry about when my boys had to tell others about my job as a nurse. You see, I never thought the gross jobs of nursing was gross until my boys told me to stop talking about them at dinner! lol
Love this selection. I'm sure the lessons are as valid for the parents as well as the kids. :)
I think being a nurse is something your boys could be proud of, and usually boys like gross :)
Love the sound of that book!
I am really hungry so I've already thought of a dozen snacks. The first to come to mind is a cinnamon roll with plenty of frosting. Although I'd need a nap if I ate one of those right now! :)
The book is great! And have you ever heard Jim Gaffigan's bit about Cinnabun? Very funny :)
Oh how fab you got all that information about it. And yay for popcorn, boo for my link never showing lol :P
Now your talking..... mmm chocolate! I love popcorn too.... decisions, decisions...lol... Love your Picture Book Susanna,my Dad was a builder. Guess you will get my link up eventually. the Famous Nini... http://thepatientdreamer.com/2012/02/25/perfect-picture-book-friday-8/ Thankyou
Did you try your link and it didn't work? I will do it for you if need be, but I thought you usually got it on there...
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Oh how fab you got all that information about it. And yay for popcorn, boo for my link never showing lol :P
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I'm sorry, Diane, I didn't realize you'd asked me to put it up and I didn't get your email post notification yet... I'll do it now. Maybe we should put chocolate and popcorn together - chocolate popcorn! I'm sure I've seen it at the Popcorn Factory :)
This looks like a great one Susanna. I hadn't heard of it before.
I think you would like it!
Well...no! Wish I lived close enough. I did have something similar to this at Mimi's Cafe while visiting my sister in Scottsdale. So...if you have Mimi's, you could take your laptop and do PPBF there :-)
Alas, no Mimi's that I know of! You may have a good idea though... there's a great bakery not too far away... :)
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Well...no! Wish I lived close enough. I did have something similar to this at Mimi's Cafe while visiting my sister in Scottsdale. So...if you have Mimi's, you could take your laptop and do PPBF there :-)
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The story sounds so much fun. I love surprises and the artwork looks very entertaining. Snack. Hmm. I made some dipped and bedazzled (sprinkles, chips, etc) marshamallow pops the other day. It could be an option. Sweet, but not chocolate. I love the idea of popcorn, too.
I'm intrigued! More details on marshmallow pops please!
I'm still thinking about the perfect picture book snack. Hmmm. Milk and cookies???? :D
Maybe so! Someone else also suggested that! And BTW I am still chuckling over that Hunger Games spoof trailer - i sent it to my kids :)
cool, I'm game. And thankyou.
Okay, now I'm anxious to know where he changes these light bulbs lol!!! I better get this book and share it with my kiddo so I can find out. Great pick, Susanna.
I want to second This Kid Reviews Bks suggestion of cheesecake. I love it, although it has waaay too much love for my hips.
Enjoy the book, and your cheesecake vote is duly noted. Yum!
What a fun idea for a book. Brilliant, really. Glad you shared. I bet it's hard to pick just one each week. *sigh*
I know - this is one of those books that makes me say, "I wish I'd thought of that first!" :)
You left me hanging and wanting more! Just like a good review should. I'm so happy to have joined the PPBF group of bloggers. Can't wait to get to the library to read all these great recommendations.
I'm so glad you joined too! And my library probably sighs when they see me coming - back up the Uhaul - here comes that picture book lady :)
Oh Susanna! I need to know where those light bulbs are!! And as for food, you can't beat a home made sandwich sponge with fresh fruit and cream inside.
The resources are a dead giveaway about where the light bulbs are :) And your snack sounds SO GOOD!!!!
That's a GREAT (and delicious) idea! ;)


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i have the same problem. honestly alaina = kristy = kady
are like one in the same, they're the same person. lol hard to tell apart.
i have the same problem. honestly alaina = kristy = kady
are like one in the same, they're the same person. lol hard to tell apart.
Alaina - Carrie Underwood Lookalike, gap between teeth. (silly like 16 year olds should be)Originally Posted by blue valentine;2804876;
Kristy - Trains Horses and Kickboxer (had the flu and was not herself)
Kady - Britney Impersonator (looked very confused by the judges comments)
"So, what is fame? It's lightening that strikes some people. It's lightening that some people seek." Jewel
I definitely feel the criticism was undeserved, but oh well it can only make her stronger. To me her vocals were really strong.
You could tell she didn't like the criticism at all. Maybe it was just me, but she was coppin' a bit of a tude.
Her vocals were just beautiful. I could hardly blame her if she had a little 'tude.
I thought she was unduly raked over the coals. Her vocals were spot on, maybe the song was a little too laid back, but she wasn't alone in that arena.
Kady looked confused by the judges' comments and I think she has a right to be. I thought she sang a lot better than they gave her credit for.
I thought that Kady did really well and that her criticism was unjust. She might have been a little boring, but I am sure she was nervous as it was the first week.They picked on her and let someone like Alexandra slide when her vocals were all over the place. Next week maybe she won't be boring if she walks down the stairs too, oh but wait, then she won't be original!
Kady has the best voice of the gals but I felt that she did not sing well last night. No.
My jaw dropped last night when I heard the judges trash her. I thought she did a great job. Normally I don't like it when 'America' votes against the judges instead of for the singer, but I hope they did last night. This girl does not deserve to go.
Well, you're doing better than me because I forgot all about Alaina already. So if it's someone like me who's voting to save a blonde chick I may get them mixed up. At least Brooke is easier to pick out of the line up.Originally Posted by blue valentine;2804876;


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Despite Galileo's late fourth-quarter surge, the Tam High football team took care of business on its home turf to beat the Lions 48-36 on Saturday in both teams' season opener.
"I just want to thank my offensive line," said senior running back Aseal Birir, who rushed for 258 yards and six touchdowns. "If you see those holes they were huge even a truck can run through them."
According to Tam coach Jon Black, Birir's six touchdowns is likely a school record.
The Red-tailed Hawks dominated early taking a 22-0 lead relying on the legs of Birir, who rushed for three touchdowns in the first quarter.
"We came in here trying to stop the run but we couldn't wrap up the big guy," Galileo coach Mark Huynh said. "I mean six touchdowns and over 300 yards that's a heck of a running back."
Huynh's yardage estimation on Birir was a bit off, but Birir's offensive surge did not stop Galileo (0-1) from making it interesting down the stretch.
The Lions fought back by scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter from the stellar quarterback play of Kyle Nelson, who threw two late touchdowns to cut the Hawks' lead to 34-29.
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The Star is dog-friendly (bar area) so the perfect place to combine a laid-back lunch and country walk across nearby moorland of Special Scientific Interest where an 11th Century Church nestles or climb to the 3,000 year-old Cadbury Camp with its Iron Age Fort and stunning views loved by poets, painters, photographers and film-makers. It's convenient venue for those who cycle, horse-ride and golf. There's a wide choice of local courses including a driving range and nine-hole course virtually next door. The Star has a small, safe play area in its spacious beer garden with ample seating. There's even space for marquee parties in the garden and with notice, the team are happy to lay on a bespoke menu for groups who want to get together and enjoy a wonderful meal.
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I apologize for my recent absence, I was detained against my will. Well, okay, not for the entire three weeks, but I've spent the past two recovering from the excitement of the first week.
I turned 40 a couple of weeks ago, and certain members of my family took it upon themselves to shake me out of my comfortable, predictable life and live it up a bit (I think I've mentioned that I'm a major creature of habit, and generally go to great lengths to avoid varying my routine). So when my mother suggested several months ago that I renew my passport so that we could partake in a little cross-border shopping, I thought "Sounds a little crazy, but why not?".
When she picked me up on day one of our trip and we started driving across the city toward the border, I was ready for the adventure that lay ahead of us. Even when she said that we had to make a quick stop at the airport to "drop off something" that had been "left behind" by one of their B&B guests, I was still wondering what kind of trouble we were going to get up to in Seattle. So when my step-dad suddenly appeared out of nowhere (to pick up the car, it turns out), and my mom blindsided me with the news that we were in fact going to Las Vegas instead of Washington State, I couldn't have been more surprised (or panicked). Las Vegas wasn't exactly on the top of my list of places to visit, but it was fun to do something so removed from my usual life, and spending that much time hanging out with my mom, sister-in-law, and her sister (who also just turned 40, and was equally surprised to be going to Vegas) was a real treat. Thankfully, my husband managed to slip a pair of sandals into my bag without me noticing, as I had dressed (and packed) for drizzly west coast weather. Arriving to 80 degree temperatures wearing my usual wool socks and Blunnies was a bit of a shock to the system.
Contrary to what the title of this post would lead you to believe, I did not spend the entire two days in an alcohol-induced haze gambling away my life savings. We did pack as many activities into our time there as we could, but unfortunately didn't have enough time to head out into the desert, which was a little disappointing; I can't imagine a landscape more different than the one I'm used to. The highlight of the trip was taking in a Cirque du Soleil show (Mystere). We've seen a few of their shows on t.v. and absolutely love them, but I'd never actually seen one in person. Needless to say, it was amazing (as well as hilariously funny).
I'm not much of a shopper, but we did some of that as well. My lovely friend insisted that I should share my big purchase with you here, although I suspect she's probably just making fun of me. Surrounded by the most glamorous of shops filled with clothing, jewelry, and baubles of every description, I came home with a...(wait for it)...
...egg carton.
I happen to think it's a thing of beauty (don't the brown eggs look so pretty next to the turquoise?), but according to my daughter, I'm lamer than lame. Apparently the lameness gene is a strong one, because my mom's lone purchase was a door knob. Do we know how to live it up or what?
My actual birthday weekend was spent getting to know the partner and young children of one of my oldest and dearest friends. We're old high school chums and were roommates at university, but have been bad about staying in touch over the years. Thankfully, our relationship is such that whenever we do manage to reconnect, we're always able to fall right back into things as if we'd just seen each other the day before . I'm so smitten with her adorable boys that there's no way she's getting a moment's peace from me now.
Long story short, the excitement of the trip, combined with time away from home and visiting with friends meant that there was a lot waiting for me when celebrations came to an end. You could say I had a lot "hanging over" me, not the least of which were weeks of missed blog posts, which were unfortunately relegated to the bottom of the priority list.
I'll be back very soon with updates on recent projects, as well as some news about the loss of one of our dearest animal friends.
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The weeping willow tree is not native to the United States. It originated in China but now grows all over the world. The weeping willow can grow as high as 70 feet and thrives in moist soil. It gets its name from the way the branches droop downward from the crown of the tree. The care of the weeping willow involves where to locate it, how often to water it, when to prune it and other contributions to its overall health.
Carefully consider where to locate your weeping willow tree. You must take into account that the root system will extend out from the tree a long distance. Never plant a weeping willow near sewer lines, septic tanks or close to foundations. The roots will infiltrate these areas and potentially cause damage. Sidewalks and driveways are also at risk from roots. If possible, plant the tree by a pond or spring on your property. Weeping willows do best in full sun, but they can survive where there is slight shade throughout the course of the day. Realize that the weeping willow is not a long-lived specimen, with some unable to live for more than 30 years.
Plant a new weeping willow as quickly as you can once you get it home. Water the roots if they appear dry, and if you are not able to immediately plant the tree, then keep it in a cool, dark area such as the basement. Avoid planting a weeping willow during heat waves and times of drought. Wait until weather conditions are more moderate. Use a large pot to plant the tree and maintain it in the shade with adequate water until the weather breaks. Then transplant into another location.
When planting a weeping willow place it in loose rich soil. Dig out an area in the ground at least twice as wide as the roots. This insures they will have the room they require to grow. Fill the hole in so that no air pockets surround the roots. This can make the roots dry out. Perform a simple test on your weeping willow if you have doubts about how it is doing after planting it. Scrape off a tiny section of bark. Observe the tissue beneath the bark; if it is green or white the tree is alive, but if it is black or brown, it has died.
Initial Year
Never plant a weeping willow in winter, and also never less than six full weeks before the average first frost. Water the tree during any dry periods. Check the leaves now and then to see if they droop, which means the tree needs water. You can employ a simple fertilizer mixture such as Miracle-Gro. Spread this into the soil around the entire tree, though not onto the tree's base itself. Weed around the tree during its initial year. Pull weeds by hand and resist using weed killers. Place mulch around the base to keep weeds from coming back. Do not be alarmed in the winter if the tree appears to be doing poorly. Even though the tree will turn brown and the leaves fall off, the roots are still capable of growing on warmer days.
Later Years
Prune back the drooping branches as they near the ground. This will allow the tree to grow in a healthy manner. As the tree matures, you may want to prune the lower branches off so that there is room beneath the tree. Remember that weeping willow wood is not particularly strong. It will break easily in high winds. This makes it a poor choice for a permanent picnic area. The roots will also grow far out from the base of the tree. Do not be alarmed to see some of them break through the surface of the ground. Once the tree has survived its first two or three years, it is very low maintenance. Only when there is a drought will it need to be watered. The weeping willow can grow as much as eight feet per year once it has become established.
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