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The Nevels, who previously lived on the west side of Lawrence, decided to build the home because the foundation of the previous house on the East Lawrence lot — located on the 1100 block of New York Street – was crumbling.
To build the new home, the Nevels commissioned David Clemente, a local home designer and builder, to create something of his own inspiration.
One of the main features the Nevels requested is natural light in both the main floor and the basement, Clemente said. To make that happen, he said, he “killed two birds with one stone” by placing a large window well around the stairwell in the southwest corner of the design.
After placing the stairwell and the window well in the corner, which is located directly to the right of the entrance, the rest of the design of the house was quite simple.
A panel of windows provides light for the basement and the living room.
The window well itself includes 16 windows, spanning from the trim of the roof to the bottom of a small underground outdoor well.
Next to the entrance, the main floor of the home also includes a large, open living room with higher ceilings, as well as doors leading to an office room and a half bathroom.
Clemente said he used different height ceilings throughout the main floor of the home to break up the sight of the home, because the small amount of space on the land did not offer a lot of opportunity to create the facade.
Clemente placed more windows in the vertical space between the two roofs to provide more natural light in the main floor of the house. All told, the house includes 54 windows.
Tami Nevels she enjoys the home’s multi-level roof, noting that some neighbors who have visited the house have assumed it has a second floor.
The hallway to the east of the the living room leads to a large, open kitchen. While using an island in the middle of the space, the kitchen has a long counter traveling the entire length of the room.
The southeast corner of the main floor house is dedicated to the master bedroom, with its door leading right into the kitchen. The bedroom includes a his-and-her closet before leading into the master bathroom. The bathroom includes a bathtub and a large, open shower.
Similarly to the main floor, the basement features and an open room for lounging, with two bedrooms on the north side of the floor. The rest of the basement, located below the kitchen and master bedroom, is used for storage, Tami Nevels said.
Behind the house is an outdoor lounge area with a fireplace and a detached garage. The East Lawrence neighborhood does not allow for an attached garage, so Clemente moved the detached garage as close to the house as he could.
The Nevels are pictured on a patio area off their kitchen.
The result is a cozy outdoor patio that seems enclosed, but still allows for the outdoor feeling.
“I wanted to give them some privacy, but a breeze will come through there so they aren’t burning up in the summer,” Clemente said.
Above the attached garage is a one-bedroom guest apartment. The apartment does not include a full kitchen, but serves well for when guests stay at the house, Tami Nevels said.
Altogether, the simple, sleek home offers exactly what the Nevels want out of a house.
“We love our home,” Tami Nevels said.
Journal-World Reporter Dylan Lysen features interesting Lawrence homes on a monthly basis. If you think you have a home that could be featured, please contact Dylan at dlysen@ljworld.com. Submitting a home does not guarantee it will be featured.
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On the same day Gov. Phil Murphy signed the $15 minimum wage bill into law, a group of Rutgers University student activists who campaigned for that cause on campus pleaded guilty to criminal charges that stemmed from a minimum wage protest.
New Brunswick Court Judge James Hoebich issued a fine of more than $750 each on Monday to a dozen students who faced multiple disorderly persons offense charges brought on after a 15-minute protest of a Rutgers board of trustees meeting in December 2017.
Hoebich also gave the students a six-month probation period, after which the criminal charges would be wiped from their records.
The students were members of Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops, which campaigned for months under the #FightFor15 slogan to pressure university President Robert Barchi to raise the campus minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The students disrupted a board of trustees meeting as part of that campaign by crossing a barrier and a line of Rutgers University police officers. Footage of the meeting shows that the students chanted for a minimum wage increase and didn’t listen to requests to stop so the meeting could be conducted.
The video shows that the meeting ended after 15 minutes without the members' addressing any agenda items.
“They thought it would lead to Rutgers disciplinary charges — they didn’t expect criminal charges,” Mintz said to the judge.
Mintz said the students each faced probationary periods from the university over the last year. He said the fines the students face were steep considering that the charges stem from a student protest.
“All students are expected to review and abide by the Rutgers University Code of Student Conduct and university disruptions policy, which recognizes that the right of free expression does not include the right to engage in conduct that disrupts the university’s operations or endangers the safety of others,” Devlin said.
Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) meets with soon to be former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Photo via Boehner’s Flickr.
House Speaker John Boehner’s shock resignation last week may lessen the chance of a government shutdown, some observers suggest. On Monday, the U.S. Senate passed a temporary budget measure, sending it over to the U.S. House, where debate is expected to be underway on Tuesday.
Some conservative Republicans are looking to de-fund Planned Parenthood, the women’s health group involved in a controversy surrounding the alleged sale of fetal tissue to researchers.
The fiscal year ends Wednesday, and without at least a temporary budget signed by the President, all government agencies will need to create contingency plans that will affect local residents, businesses and economies.
Here are some money angles you can explore if the Republicans and Democrats can’t get a bill to President Obama’s desk.
October is a peak month for autumn tourism, according to the National Parks Foundation, but all 401 national parks will be closed if the government shuts down. More than 700,000 tourists could be affected, the NPF reports. The National Parks Service estimated that the 2013 shutdown led to a loss of more than $500 million in tourism spending. Local businesses that rely on these tourists will also be affected. Talk with hotels, restaurants and retail shops near national parks. Have they experienced cancellations or a lull in businesses? Do they expect to?
U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have said the department does not have the reserves to cover Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program for any period after Oct. 1 if the government shuts down. In the 2013 showdown, the USDA was able to provide food stamps to 47 millions of Americans who rely on SNAP. How do residents in your community who rely on SNAP plan to cope without food stamps? Are other charitable agencies preparing for a growth in clients?
If the government were to shut down, each federal agency must decide who is still expected to come to work, and who will be forced to take a furlough day. In the 2013 government shutdown, more than 800,000 federal workers were told not to come to work during a shutdown. Congress voted to pay those furloughed workers back pay (even though they couldn’t work), but there is no guarantee this time around. The White House reported federal furloughed employees received $2 billion in back pay in 2013 for work they were unable to perform. Even workers who do have to work still won’t receive a paycheck until a budget is passed. Security workers, for instance, are expected to work during the shutdown, so air travel will be unaffected, according to the U.S. Office of Personal Management.
The 2013 shutdown led to more than 10,000 stop work orders for businesses who do contract work with the federal government, resulting in payment delays for work they had already performed and temporary layoffs, according to a report from the White House. Businesses that don’t contract with the government aren’t out of the woods either. In October 2013, the Small Business Administration couldn’t process some 700 applications for $140 million in small business loans. How are local businesses responding to the talks of a shutdown? Were any businesses in your community affected by the 2013 shutdown? Are they developing contingency plans?
If the government shuts down, Veterans Affairs officials report that nearly all VA hospitals and clinics would be affected. Department staffers could face immediate furloughs. If it’s anything like 2013, mostly administrative staff would be furloughed, so VA benefits checks could be backlogged or even stopped as there isn’t enough cash to pay November benefits, according to the VA. How are local VA hospitals and offices prepping for a shutdown? Are there veterans who are more vulnerable than others? Talk with veterans about their concerns.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New film documentary “Bully” has made big headlines in recent weeks over its U.S. film rating, but larger than the topic of who can see the movie is bullying itself and its spread due in part to social networking and technology.
Bullying has existed for centuries and likely dates back to the dawn of mankind. But in recent years, speaking out against it has become a rallying cry for parents, educators and celebrities from Ellen DeGeneres to Lady Gaga. The 2010 suicide of gay college student Tyler Clementi was just one high-profile case that struck a chord with many people.
“Bully,” which opens on Friday and was directed by Lee Hirsch, follows five kids and families over one school year, looking at the issue and how it has impacted their lives. Stories include two families in which kids have committed suicide and one mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter who was jailed for bringing a gun on a school bus.
While the extreme outcome of bullying is suicide, as in the case of Clementi, other effects include the loss of self-esteem, troubled relationships, depression and self mutilation.
The movie reaches theaters after stirring a controversy over its initial rating that restricted people under 17-years-old from seeing it without a parent. It is now being released unrated. But beyond the rating, bullying is a growing problem in part because technology has given today’s youth more ways than ever to torment others, experts said.
Using cell phones and computers, kids send immediate, nasty messages via texts or posts on social media websites. And many experts see the Internet as a new school playground where kids gather to share information, post pictures and trade gossip.
Julie Hertzog, director of parental training group Pacer’s National Bullying Prevention Center noted a direct correlation between what’s happening at school and online.
“They’re not exclusive to each other - they’re happening synonymously and heightening the experience,” she said.
Currently, one out of four kids is bullied and as many as 160,000 students stay home from school on any given day because they are afraid of facing their bully. Each month 282,000 students in U.S. secondary schools are physically attacked, according to STOMP out Bullying.
When it comes to cyberbullying, 43 percent of teens and 97 percent of middle schoolers say they have experienced it. Fifty-eight percent of them do not report it to an adult, according to the STOMP out Bullying group.
Ironically, however, education, technology and the Web may be the very things that can have a hand in diminishing bullying, said “Bully” director Hirsch and others.
Dr. Joel Leibowitz, an L.A. based psychologist who deals with children, teens and issues involving bullying, told Reuters that parents, teachers and administrators no longer can risk the belief that bullying is a rite of passage or that kids will work out problems among themselves. And he thinks the public’s attitude toward bullying is starting to change.
Hertzog believes the documentary “Bully” could help be a catalyst for change, calling it “an amazing opportunity for dialogue” while Liebowitz feels it can “bring people to a greater sense of awareness” about the issue.
Director Hirsch is hopeful, too.
Liebowitz said there will always be some element of bullying in society because it is human nature for some people to be bullies and others to feel bullied. But, he added, the behavior can be moderated through education.
“Path dependency.” I explain: “Transactions costs.” I’ve grown accustomed to the interface. I know where the Yahoo! settings are. My contacts list has swelled over the years; my folders runneth over. What old dog has the time or energy to export, import, file transfer and learn new tricks?
A Red Cross team working amid debris at the crash site of Ethiopia Airlines near Bishoftu, a town some 60 km south-east of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday.
AN Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed early on Sunday, killing 149 passengers and eight crew, the airline said, the same model that crashed during a Lion Air flight in Indonesia in October.
Sunday's flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 0538 GMT, before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later.
"The group CEO who is at the scene right now deeply regrets to confirm there are no survivors," the airline tweeted alongside a picture of Tewolde GebreMariam in a suit holding a piece of debris inside a large crater.
Passengers from 33 countries were aboard, said Mr Tewolde in a news conference. The dead included Kenyan, Ethiopian, American, Canadian, French, Chinese, Egyptian, Swedish, British and Dutch citizens.
At Nairobi airport, many relatives of passengers were left waiting at the gate for hours, with no information from airport authorities. Kenyan officials did not arrive at the airport until five hours after the plane went down. James Macharia, the cabinet secretary for transport, said he heard about the crash via Twitter.
Flight ET 302, registration number ET-AVJ, crashed near the town of Bishoftu, 62 km south-east of the capital Addis Ababa, the airline said.
"The pilot mentioned that he had difficulties and that he wanted to return. He was give the clearance (to return back)," said Mr Tewolde during his news conference.
The flight had unstable vertical speed after take off, said flight tracking website Flightradar24 on its Twitter feed.
The aircraft had shattered into many pieces and was severely burnt, a Reuters reporter at the scene of the crash said.
The airline had earlier incorrectly identified the plane's model number, but later confirmed it was a 737 MAX 8.
It's not clear what caused the crash. Boeing sent condolences to the families and said it was ready to help investigate. "A Boeing technical team is prepared to provide technical assistance at the request and under the direction of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)," the company said in a statement.
This is the second recent crash of the relatively new 737 MAX 8, the latest version of Boeing's workhorse narrowbody jet that first entered service in 2017. The same model crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Oct 29, killing all 189 people on board the Lion Air flight. The cause of that crash is still under investigation. A preliminary report issued in November, before the cockpit voice recorder was recovered, focused on airline maintenance and training and the response of a Boeing anti-stall system to a recently replaced sensor, but did not give a reason for the crash. A final report is due later this year.
The plane is the latest version of the 737, the world's best selling modern passenger aircraft and one of the industry's most reliable.
Under international rules, responsibility for leading the crash investigation lies with Ethiopian authorities, while the US NTSB will automatically take part because the Boeing aircraft was designed and built in the US.
Investigators will seek to secure the crash site and collect evidence starting with black boxes capturing cockpit conversations and data, while compiling records on recent operations of the plane and the crew.
Latest: Rauner issues disaster declaration for Christian Co.
Gov. Bruce Rauner has declared Christian County a state disaster area after three tornadoes, including an EF-3, ripped through Taylorville and surrounding areas on Saturday evening.
Rauner toured the area on Sunday.
More than 20 people were injured in the storm and hundreds of structures were damaged or destroyed.
The state disaster declaration makes available a wide variety of state resources that can help affected communities respond.
Nokomis said via Twitter that the entire Prairie State Conference will make donation buckets available for all their basketball home games this week, including Nokomis’ home games on Monday and Wednesday.
Shelbyville and Decatur MacArthur will also donate proceeds from their home games Tuesday.
Auburn asked fans to bring non-perishable items for its home game Tuesday against Monticello while Teutopolis, located near Effingham, will also collect supplies for its basketball home games this week, asking for bottled water, non-perishable food, work gloves, trash bags and baby needs (diapers, wipes, bottles and formula).
Additionally, students from Southeast High School arrived in Taylorville on Sunday to help clean up debris, along with the Taylorville boys basketball team coached by Ryan Brown.
Brown posted on Twitter that interested schools should make donations to Missions for Taylorville, which is coordinating all relief efforts.
The tornado that tore through Taylorville Saturday evening is the strongest one on record with the National Weather Service in Lincoln, rated at EF-3 and having estimated wind speeds of 150 to 155 mph.
It went for 11 miles at half-mile long at its widest, officials said at an afternoon briefing.
A total of three tornadoes occurred Saturday in Christian County. The other two were rated as EF-0 and EF-2.
COUNTRY Financial announced that it is opening a temporary claims office in Taylorville to serve central Illinois customers affected by weekend storms.
The office will be located at Christian County Farm Bureau, 400 W. Market St., Taylorville. The temporary location will open on Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. and be staffed daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. after that.
COUNTRY Financial customers can visit the temporary office, call 866-COUNTRY or visit www.countryfinancial.com to start the claims process.
Taylorville officials are asking those who want to help residents affected by Saturday night's tornado to give cash donations, and are still urging those who don't live there to stay out of the damaged neighborhoods.
At an 11 a.m. briefing, Christian County Sheriff Bruce Kettelkamp said an anonymous donation has allowed for a relief fund to be set up for immediate needs: food, clothing, medicine and school supplies.
Those in Taylorville who need help can call Lt. Scott Woods at 217-824-4961 to apply.
Officials also said the 9 p.m. curfew in affected areas (map: http://bit.ly/2rhFyi8) will be in effect tonight and for at least the next few nights.
About 300 Ameren customers still without power. They should be restored by 6 p.m., unless repairs to individual properties are needed.
Taylorville schools will be in session on Tuesday.
There will be a center open at VisionWay School on Wednesday to help people with insurance claims.
Officials stress that monetary donations are preferred, not solid goods. The official donation fund is: Missions For Taylorville through US Bank. Contributions can be mailed to Taylorville City Hall, 115 N. Main St., Taylorville, IL 62568.
The problems with gawkers clogging up streets has lessened, but officials reminded people to stay out of affected neighborhoods unless they have a legitimate reason to be there.

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