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ARCH 322 : Perception of 'Transparency'
"Transparency means a simultaneous perception of different spatial locations. Space not only recedes but fluctuates in a continuous activity."
Rowe, C. & R. Slutzky
'Transparency,' 'space-time,' 'simultaneity,' 'interpenetration': in the literature of contemporary architecture these words are often used as synonyms. However, in architecture, the transparency implies more than an optical characteristics, it implies a broader spatial order[1].
At the beginning of any inquiry into transparency, a basic distinction can be established. First, transparency concept may be an inherent quality of substance or second, it may be an inherent quality of organization. For this reason, it is easier to establish distinction between a real or literal and phenomenal or seeming transparency.[2] Transparency meaning is to percept the different spatial location in which space fluctuates in a continuous activity and pleasure the spatial experience.[3] For example, when two or more figures overlapping each other, each of them claims for itself a common overlapped part and it brings about some kinds of contradiction of spatial dimensions. Figures interpenetrate each other and it does not cause to visual damage. However, the transparency consists of more than a visual feature. It expresses a wider spatial organization. This article explains the transparency in terms of the distinction of the two types of transparency: The Literal and Phenomenal transparency.
Architectural criticizer and historian Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky identify transparency in architecture as more than a mere visual perception of clarity but as a new psychological perception of time and space.[4] The article on transparency in 1955 and they claim that the transparency has distinction in two main issues in that article. These are literal and phenomenal transparency. A literal transparency is conceivable as perceptual transparency. It is a quality inherent to substance or matter, such as in mesh screens, translucent walls, etc… On the other hand, the phenomenal transparency, that is, a conceptual transparency, a quality inherent in the spatial or volumetric organization.[5] The phenomenal transparency is applied with solid material and create different transparency interpretation to architecture. A spider web can be example to understand better. Spider web is not a transparent material but it shows the things that in the background. Transparency that is composed of transparent materials, and enable to rear objects visible is ordinary and obvious. However, phenomenal transparency is a visual device to percept the different spatial locations in which space fluctuates in a continuous activity and pleasure the spatial experience.
Learning and teaching phenomenal transparency hence requires rigorous experimentation of understanding and play of various layers and planes in architectural design and phenomenal transparency is achieved in the interpenetration of these spaces. For example the
Mondrian paintings based on phenomenal transparency. It is in the painting on the left. First row (from left to right) figures shows two separate layers are placed (yellow and red), then red plane to reveal the yellow layer underneath. In second row start with blue layer and blue plane to reveal the other color layers underneath. In the last row, the all layers overlapping each other and create new spatial stratification. [6] Rowe and Slutzky carried to this phenomenal transparency idea to architectural buildings.
The Bauhaus building designed by Walter Gropius is the one of the most significant examples for literal transparency undoubtedly. Gropius was interested in diagonal views of the corner which display the transparent properties of glass to their best advantage. In the exterior façade, the curtain of glass that drapes over the workshop's faces demonstrates material transparency that leaves little to the viewer's imagination[7]. One can perceive the glass and framing behind it, and the space behind the glass is easily recognized and also the given sense of permeability. The grid system in façade connects building's faces and informs the viewer of the space defined.
Unlike the Bauhaus, Corbusier's Villa Stein in Garches appears a great example for phenomenal transparency. Unlike the literal transparency, in this building, the architect provides a suggestion of what the volume of the space might look like behind the opaque walls, and the viewer is allowed to bring to mind the hidden spaces.[8]
Transparency is not only used via windows visually, but also we percept the interpenetration of spaces. In building, several of layers are revealed like Mondrian paintings. In these layers, some of real, some imagined and some of them have feature that is perceivable easily than others.
First layer consists of the plane of the front façade starting at the second floor and cantilevered from the ground floor plane, second, the plane connecting the ground floor wall and redefined on the roof by the two free standing walls of the terrace as well as the termination of second floor windows on the side elevation, third, the plane connecting the parapet of the garden stairs and the terrace and the second floor balcony, fourth, the plane defining the rear wall of the terrace and the front wall of the penthouse, and fifth, the rearmost wall of the terrace as well as the walls below. [9] In there, the real surfaces and imagined create a new logical interpretation between fact and implication. Some surfaces can disclose in the horizontal axis with floors and roof.
Vertical layers that defined the interior space of the building are spaces that overlapping in series. In this building, transparency without causing any visual confusion reveals by overlapping layers and interpenetrated surfaces. Different layers that percept simultaneously bring a new perspective to architecture. With this way, opaque place is cut by shallow spaces and people can percept easily the continuity of simultaneous spaces.[10] At Villa Stein, the ground is conceived of as a vertical surface traversed by a horizontal range of windows at the Bauhaus it is given the appearance of a solid wall extensively punctured by glazing, [11]
When compare the Bauhaus and Villa Stein in terms of similarities, shallowly, garden façade of Villa Stein and elevation of wing of Bauhaus's workshop (workshop wing is a visible literal transparency example for that building). Both of them have cantilevered slab and do not allow any interruption, also both have built-in ground floor. Both of the buildings are paid attention to continuity of window at the corner[12]. Apart from these features, there are not any similarities between them. Bauhaus workshop wing is a visible literal transparency example for that building.
From here on, Le Corbusier is primarily occupied with the planar qualities of glass and Gropius with its translucent attributes. By the introduction of a wall surface almost equal in height to that of his glazing divisions, Le Corbusier reinforced his glass plane and provides it with an overall surface tension; while Gropius allows his translucent surface the appearance of hanging from a band which sticks out somewhat in a curtain box.[13]
To sum up, the aim of this critique is to understand the distinction of the two types of transparency is a device that forms the experience of space and subjects. Varying interpretations allow for the experience of space to be unique to each concept. I released that the distinction of both form of transparency belongs to how the viewer interacts with the design. A kinds of transparency of looking. While literal transparency is perceived and visible easily and at the same time it offers a direct and simple communication, the phenomenal transparency is abstract and hard to understand of meaning from the outside.
- Eroğlu, Y. (2003). Mimarlık ve şeffaflık (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). İTÜ Fen Bil. Enst.
- Rowe, C. & R. Slutzky, Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, Perspecta, 1963, vol.8, pp. 45–54.
- D'souza, N., Balakrishnan, B., & Dicker, J. (2012). Transparency: Literal, phenomenal, digital. Boston, MA, March 1-4, pp. 708-715.
- Turhan, E. (2007). Mimari tasarımda cam kullanımı ve alışveriş merkezlerinde değerlendirilmesi (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). İTÜ Fen Bil. Enst.
- Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, Feb 12, 2012
- Reid, Micheal. "Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal." Last accessed Mar 13, 2012
- Asımgil, B. (July 2004). An Evaluation of Conceptual Transparency in Architecture of Office Buildings in Turkey After 1980 (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). İzmir Institute of Technology.
- Ascher-Barnstone, D. (2003). Transparency. Journal of Architectural Education, 56(4), 3-5.
Arch 302 FINAL JURY
My proposal is coming from the analysing the historical Sigorta map in İzmir. I created main spine with traces that based in the old site. This main spine acts as a thick wall and this wall formd according to the requirements. And other stores fromed around this spine. My main cocncept is that the void that is locked up in ancient han typologies, to turn from inside to outside Iranian souk typology is given inspiration to me to develop my proposal for this site. Then, this spine brances according to the program. The wall in the first level mainly consists of storage and servives areas. Also it included space generated as circulation , in somewhere it transfroms to core of the site. Thr bazaar has four main core included toilets, elevators and stair. The thick wall concept brings about massive sense to the bazaar. In somewhere, this massive sense breaks and occurs as courtyards. The program generated on; wood bazaar ( handmade wood design and wood engraving ). Workshops, ateliers, production rooms, recreation areas, display areas, and exchange areas. When people visit the bazaar, they take a oppotunity to attend to workshops as well as they buy somehthing. form shops. When doing all of them, smell of wood spreading to whole bazaar comes to your nose.


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Astronaut families: Wives, children of Apollo astronauts look back on 'amazing' time
As Gene Cernan finished his 1972 Apollo 17 moonwalk, he dropped to one knee and wrote "TDC" — the initials of his then-9-year-old-daughter, Tracy Dawn Cernan — in the moondust and set his reputation as the coolest dad in the universe.
Now Tracy Cernan Woolie and 56 years old, the Houston woman has plenty of stories of growing up in the shadow of NASA, the only child of the last man to walk on the moon. But the one about the moondust inspired music, "Tracy's Song" by No More Kings, and earned a still-talked-about mention in a 2012 episode of the ABC sit-com, "Modern Family."
She was having dinner with her parents and her phone blew up. "My phone rang and it was, 'They just said your name and your dad's name on 'Modern Family.' It was the rebirth of the initials-on-the-moon story. It's one of the big things I still get calls about."
In the "Modern Family" episode, Phil (played by Ty Burrell) said that he wants to be as cool as Gene Cernan, because in writing his daughter's initials on the moon, Cernan gave her the gift that no other dad ever has.
Upcoming events
Wings Over the Rockies: Sue Bean and Barbara Cernan Butler will talk about their experiences as astronauts' wives at Apollo Palooza July 14 in Denver.
Children of Apollo: Amy Bean and Tracy Cernan Woolie will be part of a panel of children of astronauts talking about their NASA experiences in Lunch With the Children of Apollo on July 18 at Space Center Houston.
Gene Cernan's story: The 2014 Netflix documentary "The Last Man on the Moon" tells the story of Gene Cernan's career and how Apollo 17 changed his life.
Otherworldly art: Alan Bean focused on art after retiring from NASA and his works — all with a bit of moondust worked in — reflect the vocation of the first part of his life.
Woolie and her lifelong friend, Amy Bean — daughter of the late astronaut Alan Bean — now recognize they grew up in a special time and place, but when they were kids, it didn't feel unusual. Their dads were astronauts, but many of their neighbors were, too, and most others were engineers or in some way connected to the space program.
"When I was a child it was all I knew. My friends' fathers were astronauts — they flew T38s to work and rode rockets into space. It was their job," said Amy Bean, 56, and a resident of Boerne.
Gene Cernan and Alan Bean were both naval aviators who were chosen for NASA's third astronaut class in 1963. Both had lengthy careers there, with Bean going into space on Apollo 12 and Skylab III and Cernan manning Gemini 9, Apollo 10 — the dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 lunar landing — and Apollo 17, the last trip to the moon.
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When the astronauts brought their young families to Houston, Johnson Space Center hadn't yet opened, and homes were just starting to be built in Nassau Bay, where many of that third group ultimately lived. Alan Bean's wife, Sue, now 84 and a Houston resident, remembers driving to Kemah for groceries because there wasn't a grocery store there, and it would be some time before anyone opened a restaurant there.
But in the middle of the Cold War, the space race was heating up. The Soviets sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space first in 1961, and President John F. Kennedy gave his famous space race speech at Rice University the next year.
Bean, Cernan and everyone else at NASA worked nonstop designing space modules, testing equipment and figuring out how to get crews to the moon and back. They'd leave their homes on Sunday night or Monday morning and return late Friday, traveling all over the country, helping design space modules and other equipment.
Once they were assigned to a mission, training was more intense. They'd visit Cape Canaveral in Florida or learn survival skills somewhere in the desert or in the jungles of South or Central America.
The Beans and Cernans have remained close friends since they met in the early 1960s and still reminisce on those times and how the wives worked to keep things together at home.
"The wives were close because the guys were gone so much and so often," said Sue Bean. "It was not that the guys didn't want to be home. They wanted to be with their families, but … there just wasn't that much time."
So the wives got their kids to school and summer camp, helped out when one husband or another was on a mission, and consoled one another when accidents inevitably happened.
"People ask me, 'Were you scared?' You were scared, but you never talked about it," Bean said. "You think, 'Let's hope no one comes to my door.'"
Keeping in touch
The wives met monthly in what they called "The Astronauts' Wives Club," which later became the title of a best-selling novel about the Mercury 7 wives and a short-lived TV show that some of the wives said was sensationalized.
Early astronauts' wives still get together each year, though they tend to call it the "Keep In Touch" trip or the "Astronauts First Wives Club," since most of the marriages didn't survive the men's long absences or their newfound celebrity. The Beans divorced in 1976, the Cernans in 1981. Both women said they simply wanted their husbands to have "regular" jobs that allowed them to come home at night, but the men wouldn't comply.
The wives learned to handle the media, since Life magazine photographers stayed inside their homes during space missions and other reporters camped out curbside for daily press conferences.
After moon missions, the astronauts and their wives traveled the world, delivering other nations' flags they'd taken with them into space to kings, queens and other leaders. They went on safari trips and rode camels — or at least posed next to them in pictures. They met Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and rode on Air Force II.
"I had an amazing childhood," Amy Bean said. "I remember Dad saying that when we got to NASA they said we'd go to the moon but we had no idea how to get there. We had all these great minds come together and figure it out.
"The Apollo kids witnessed commitment and courage. We witnessed our parents overcome tragedy, loss, and learn from it," she said. "I've thought that all my life, and my father reinforced it, 'If you work hard enough, there is nothing you cannot do.' Now that shapes you."


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Hide the kids – Resident Evil 7's Banned Footage Vol. 1 and 2 are now finally available for Xbox One and PC. Previously, the DLC was only available on the PlayStation 4.
Banned Footage Vol. 1 adds two new missions – Bedroom and Nightmare – along with Ethan Must Die, a much tougher mode for players to test their mettle in. The second volume brings 21 Scenario and Daughters Scenario, the latter which is a prequel to the main story. There's also a comical mode called Jack's 55th Birthday where the player must feed Jack Baker lots of food. For real.
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SCOTT COUNTY — The Scott County school district will appeal a state audit claiming it's violating state standards.
Superintendent Bingham Moncrief tells The Clarion-Ledger that the September accreditation audit was a "witch hunt." The state Department of Education says Scott County violated 20 of 27 standards reviewed.
The audit claims, among other things, that the district reported false information, broke state and federal laws, and failed to follow graduation requirements.
The district could be put on probation by the state Commission on School Accreditation. If that happens, Scott County would still be accredited, but would have to correct problems within a year or lose state approval.
The state audits districts to check compliance. Paula Vanderford, who oversees accreditation, says the state chose Scott County because it had received complaints about the district.
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And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
"Is this you? Is it? IS IT?"
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Mike (John Moulder-Brown) takes a job as an attendant at a public swimming pool/bath-house complex. His co-worker is Susan (Jane Asher), an attractive young woman some years older than Mike, who takes a teasing interest in him. Mike quickly develops a crush on Susan, and rejects her suggestion that he earn extra money by responding to the advances of some of the bathhouses customers. Although confessing to Susan that he is a virgin, Mike also rejects the advances of his former girlfriend. As his fixation on Susan grows, Mike is furious when he discovers that, not only is she engaged, she is also having an affair with a married man (Karl Michael Vogler) who was one of Mikes teachers at school. Mike begins following Susan out of work hours, spying on her with her male companions. His obsession becoming uncontrollable, he takes action to sabotage her relationships.
There have been many instances of outsiders producing the most accurate portraits of specific societies or times. Deep End, Polish expatriate Skolimowskis first English-language film, offers a vision of London in the late sixties that is so believably bleak and ugly that you may feel like you need a wash after youve watched it - though you probably won't want to have it at a public bath-house. Passing references to actual events - a Government family planning campaign, a particular soccer match - evoke a real sense of time and place that is heightened as the camera pulls us through nightclubs, strip-joints and X-rated movie houses. It is no surprise that the inhabitants of this society are as thoroughly unpleasant as their surroundings. (This feeling is immensely heightened by the concept of "personal hygiene" consisting of one wash a week at a public bath-house. Skolimowski presents this aspect of his characters lives without comment, but for modern audiences - at least, Australian audiences - it adds an extra layer of crawly nastiness to the whole film.) Only two subjects seem to interest the people here, sex and soccer, and even then the latter is usually just a lead-in to the former ("You like soccer, then? All the boys like soccer" is the standard female opening line). The characters without exception are obsessed with sex, though it seems to bring them little joy; the brief, rough couplings in the bath-house appear more of a temporary escape than a pleasure. Sexual success is the yardstick of personal success, and by these standards Susan is very successful indeed. She is a truly nasty piece of work, and every inch a product of her environment. Using men for her advantage is so ingrained that she starts on the teenaged Mike without hesitation, and probably without even thinking about the possible consequences - or at least, allowing herself to do so. In a strange touch typical of Skolimowski, Susan spends her spare time sewing stuffed toys. One of the storage rooms of the bath-house is nearly full of her work. Her intentness on keeping her hands busy suggests a deliberate effort to stop herself thinking about her actions and her surroundings. That she thinks at all isolates her from the people around her. The obvious resentment she provokes indicates that her companions have recognised that she is equipped to escape from their mutual hell. This is even true of the sexually inadequate Mike, who finds her behaviour an increasingly personal affront, leading to an almost surreal sequence involving the theft of a cardboard cut-out advertising board of a stripper - who may or may not be Susan. Actually, theres nothing much wrong with Mike. Hes only fifteen, and truly, you wouldnt want to touch any of the women on display in this film with a ten-foot pole; but this is a world where sex is everything, and if youre not good at that, youre no good for anything. Mike has judged himself, and found himself a failure. He, too, is a product of his environment, and in the terms of the film it is entirely fitting that it is he who brings about Susans downfall.


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Welcome to the first installment of DailyOverlay's NBA Consensus Lineup Construction Project.
If you have followed us since the beginning of the NBA season, you have most likely visited the Industry Expert Consensus article on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays each week.
We've decided to have a little fun on our end and see if we can be profitable in cash games and GPPs using players ONLY from the expert consensus suggestions.
Each night we run an expert consensus, we will post our lineups in this lineup construction section.
A couple of rules for you to know before posting tonight's lineups.
- All players in our lineups come from the names listed in our consensus article. However, if one of those players is ruled out and we have time to put in that player's backup or a player around the same salary, we will pivot to that player.
- We must use all of the "Highly Touted" and "Recommended" players as possible, then fill in the remaining salary with players from the"Suggested" player list. All of us submitting lineups will have some subjectivity to who we play based on the matchup when we need to fill out the remaining portion of our rosters.
- Brad and Matt will post the results our lineup construction in their consensus grading articles, so be on the lookout from that.
- We will have at least 1 DraftKings and 1 FanDuel lineup every night. They will be in a 50/50 lineup and large-field GPP each.
- We want you to have fun with this and enjoy seeing the results. Please comment and share your thoughts as much as possible. Also, join in the fun if you wish to copy our lineups to see if it helps you cash as well!
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Our first tour was to the Boeing's Everett factory site where the 700's (747,767,777, & 787) are made. Unfortunately, you cannot take anything, and they stress anything into the factory. We were told the story of someone dropping their camera onto a wing resulting in someone paying for a very expensive dent.
Boeing Everett Factory Facts
- the biggest building on earth by volume
- has enough space for 911 basketball courts
- is run like a small city with its own fire department, security, medical staff, cafeterias and coffee shops
The photo below was taken at the Future of Flight Aviation Center. My advice - drive to the factory on your own if you can. When we saw how much it was for admission at the Everett factory, we wished we had driven ourselves. Most of our money went toward transportation with one of these touring companies.
What is it about a public market that draws me? I think it is a place where all five senses are thrown into overdrive or probably overload. Hubby and I love it!!!!!
Pike Place Public Market is fantastic. We stopped at the place where they throw the fish as featured on a Travel Channel or Food Network show I saw but I couldn't catch it on my camera. We wandered through the Market, had a meal at the Jasmine Thai (now in love with Thai food), and wandered some more at the shops across from the Market.
Walking along we ran into a LONG line of folks outside a Starbucks. When Hubby found out the reason, he quizzed me as to why they were there. I offhandedly said because it was the very first Starbucks. Bingo!
The second photo below is my contribution to Coffee History for all you coffee lovers from your tea loving sister :).
Sufficiently fortified, we walked up Pine to catch the Monorail to the Space Needle - its only stop and about a two minute ride. The Space Needle was built for the 1962 World's Fair. It was "far out" for its time and fifty-two years later, it was still neat to ride to the top. Enjoy the photos below of the Needle and the views of Seattle and beyond.


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NeoGAF's duckroll noticed something interesting:
Still interesting!
It could mean it's a movie. Or, of course, that they simply went with this aspect ratio on the test footage of years ago for no special reason, etc.http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23646121&postcount=516 said:Berserk is probably a movie. At least, I see no reason why anything which is not going to be screened theatrically would have an aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
Still interesting!


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Last March, on the Feast Day of Sts. Cyril and Mythodius, Pope Francis said at his daily Mass homily that we must preach the gospel with courage, prayer and humility.
The Word of God, he said, cannot be given as a proposal or suggestion. Rather, it must be a proclamation. Only when it is proclaimed "with this frankness, with this courage, is (it) capable of forming the people of God."
The word "courage" jumped out at me, because it had come upon my horizon in a bold way just a few days before the pope's Feb. 14 homily.
An old friend with whom I've kept in touch through Christmas letters but little else had reached out to me after years of quiet. To my surprise, she said she'd been keeping up with my writings, and they'd given her courage, "especially in these divisive times."
"You have been my anchor, my dear, sweet, old friend," she said. "You are so brave to embrace your views and not only speak about them but live them every day. I am so proud of you and so humbled by your courage!"
We arranged to talk by phone a couple days later, and in that conversation, she updated me on what she's been experiencing in her corner of the world, the state of Washington, in recent months.
My friend is not Catholic, and I honestly had no idea where she was at spiritually. We met many years ago, while living in the Pacific Northwest, through a music group. We both loved to sing.
She also introduced me to motherhood, and was one of the first to show me the ropes as we welcomed our first child into the world.
But we had not talked in a long time, so learning she was struggling against the culture like many of us, and not swimming with it, brought a surge of joy to my heart.
It was especially sweet since the week prior, another dear, longtime friend had chosen to part ways due to our political differences. I saw my Washington friend's re-emergence as God's consolation to the sting of that loss.
"I have to be honest," my Washington friend admitted, "when I first read about how you were praying at the abortion facility, I was surprised. I can only imagine how hard that might be. But more and more, I've seen how brave it is. And I've needed that example in my own life. It has made me want to be braver, too. Please pray for me."
Through the course of our conversations, I shared with her how long it had taken me to get to the sidewalk – years really. It wasn't something I jumped at right away. I dreaded it at first, and still do almost every Wednesday.
But the more time I have spent time there, the more important the mission has become.
Personally, as a writer, I have come to see how in these days of what I'll call the War on Words, it's clear that no matter how polished my essays, they're limited in light of the clanging culture.
More than any book I might write, or column I might conceive, I'm finding my living witness, showing the face of Christ in person, may have the most effect of all.
As a writer, that's a humbling revelation, and yet also inspiring. I can talk until I'm blue in the face, but until I show it, the world may never really notice.
If you think about it, Jesus worked this way, too. Sure, he said some incredibly poignant things. But when I think of Jesus' impact, so much of it really comes in what he did in his 33 years of life. The same could be said of his rather quiet parents. Actions then, as now, speak even louder than his words, and we, as his followers, can learn from this.
Of course, his final act, in which few words came, is the most powerful statement of all.
In a world in which my words undoubtedly will be drowned out by other, louder ones – or at the very least, severely misunderstood – what do I have left? More and more, my prayers and presence on the sidewalk have seemed more impactful than anything I might utter.
I hope you will consider joining me, on the sidewalk or through fervent prayer. It's as good a time as any to start.
[Note: I write about my experiences on the sidewalk Downtown Fargo on Wednesday, the day abortions happen at our state's only abortion facility, for New Earth magazine — the official news publication of the Fargo Diocese. I hope you find "Sidewalk Stories" helpful in understanding the truth about abortion and how it plays out tragically each week here in Fargo, N.D. The preceding ran in New Earth's March 2017 issue.]


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"Who are you really?" It's a fundamental question we all have to answer. Our first instinct may be to respond with a name. After that we tend to share a résumé of what we do or whom we're related to. Should we define ourselves by the members of our family or even by what other people say about us? Maybe who we are is something deeper. Identity is what people believe to be … [Read more...]
How Understanding God's Image Changes You
Paul painted a bleak picture of the fallen heart: "God's wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness andunrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress thetruth, since what can be known about God is evident among them,because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, that is,his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen … [Read more...]
Lamplighters: Colossians
What would happen if you gave your entire life to Jesus Christ? What extraordinary things would God do in you and through you? Evangelist Dwight Moody (1837–1899) said, "The world has yet to see what God would do through a man who was completely surrendered to Him." What if that person was you? The book of Colossians teaches Christians why we should give our entire lives to … [Read more...]
Study Excerpt: Pathways
We want to do right. We want to lead ourselves and others down the best path. But what about doubt? What do we do when our decisions don't result in what we expect? Sovereignty just might offer a solution. Sometimes, we get confused about sovereignty or are uncertain of what it practically means for our lives. Looking closer, we might find way more than we expected. In … [Read more...]
The Formula for Success: An Excerpt from "Playing for More."
One of my favorite movies is Chariots of Fire, the 1981 Oscar-winning film about track athletes competing in the 1924 Olympics. One of the runners, Eric Liddell, struggled to reconcile his Christian beliefs with competing. He tried to explain to his sister why he ran: "I believe God made me for a purpose. But He also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure." That's … [Read more...]


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Review: The Widow by Fiona Barton
May 2, 2017
When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen...
But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore.
There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.
Now there's no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage.
The truth—that's all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…
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Fiona's debut novel has definitely spoke volumes on how well her brain is able to spin such a spell-binding, page-turning story. I am itching to pick up her next book.
This book is full of doubt, deceit and twists that left my jaw hanging open. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I needed to know the depths of deception. I needed to know who was guilty. I needed Jean to finally stand up for herself.
This is definitely a must read for those of you who are thriller junkies like me. This book is more than deserving of all of the rave reviews it has received since it was released.


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Along with Vanessa Hudgens & Nina Dobrev, Eva Longoria and Jessica Szohr attended the 'Dog Days' premiere at The Atrium in Santa Monica, CA yesterday(August 5th).
Eva Longoria who recently gave birth, wore a MARIO DICE FALL 2015 white blazer dress, featuring a crossover closure and asymmetrical hem. A pop of color came via her rosy pink lips & blue stone ring which topped off her look along with a ponytail, diamond studs and nude & transparent sandals.
Jessica Szohr wore an ATOIR cutout white ruffle crop top and white & black pencil skirt which she teamed with a white & black strap pumps. While I like the pieces, I prefer the skirt & pumps over the crop top. Also the bun is not a good look. TABITHA SIMMONS heels finished up her look.
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Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you find some helpful hints for organizing your time and space. My passions are to help you make home a refuge instead of a crisis center, and to help you function in peace rather than chaos - at home or at work. I have switched my main blog to 1-2-3 ... Get Organized on WordPress, so please visit me there.
Monday, July 30, 2012
5 Tips for Organized Back-To-School Shopping
This is the first year in forever that I am not doing back-to-school shopping either for our daughters or foster daughters! Hard to imagine! For some, school is just a couple of weeks away. Didn't summer just start?!?
Here's a blog post I've done in the past to make back-to-school shopping a little less stressful ...
If we took our cues from the stores, we would think summer is over, even though it seems like it just began! After the 4th of July, all summer clothes are on sale and winter clothes will soon be on the racks, even though we are sweltering! Great time to beef up your summer wardrobe, if need be.
If you need to shop for back-to-school clothes or if you have children who need to do so, here are a few tips:
1. Take inventory of what you have. If you have children, tackle this job one child at a time. Make a list of all tops, categorizing them separately - short sleeve, long sleeve, t-shirts, dressy, dressy casual, etc. Do the same with bottoms - shorts, capris, jeans, skirts, dress pants, etc.
2. While going through the closet, start a donation pile and a throwaway/rag pile and a giveaway pile for clothing you want to pass on to specific people.
3. Make a list of all the possible outfits, both summer and winter.
4. It will become obvious which articles of clothing have no matches or matching accessories - shoes, socks, jewelry, belts, etc.. Make a shopping list.
5. NOW it's time to shop! If you are shopping for your children, make back-to-school shopping a fun event. If you can, take one child at a time, have lunch together, and make it a special day.
Even though this process takes a while, it is far more productive. You may discover outfits you never considered, you'll clear the closet of unwanted items, and your shopping will be intentional rather than haphazard, which will likely save you money. And you and/or your child will have a list of outfits to wear - especially helpful on those days when choosing an outfit seems overwhelming!
Similar topics:
Organizing Your Child's Room
Get Oranized Month 2009 - Organizing Your Clothes Closet
Get Organized for School - Clothing Inventory
Getting Organized for School - Learning Style
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Disorganized Brain = Creative Brain?
Eric Barker's review of Steven Johnson's book below is bursting with thoughts to ponder. Makes me want to read the book. What about you?
"In Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson posits that "the more disorganized your brain is, the smarter you are" in reference to the results of a neuroscience experiment by Robert Thatcher.
Across the board, in Johnson's book and other sources it seems pretty clear that creativity is messy.
Ideas need to be sloshing around or crashing in to one another to produce breakthroughs:
- Johnson cites research showing that the volume of ideas bouncing about make large cities disproportionately more creative than smaller towns.
- Having multiple hobbies allows your brain to subconsciously compare and contrast problems and solutions, forming new connections at the margins of each.
- Similarly, reading multiple books at the same time vs serially lets your brain juxtapose new ideas and develop new connections.
- Wandering minds are more creative.
- Studying a field "too much" doesn't limit creativity -- it does the opposite. More ideas banging about just produces even more ideas.
- The "accept everything" mantra of brainstorming doesn't work. Debate is far more effective. Let those ideas fight.
- ADD and bipolar disorder are both associated with greater creativity. When you're drunk or exhausted your brain is poised for breakthroughs.
- Even with teams, it's better to mix up experience levels, familiarity with one another and other factors to keep things rough around the edges."
More on the brain and organization:
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Labels: ADHD, Organizing
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Get Organized with Chalkboard Paint?
Never would I have thought that I would write a blog post about how chalkboard paint can help you get organized. Well, actually, I haven't. But the people at Krylon, makers of chalkboard paint, have written an article about how to use chalkboard paint to organize your home. I don't often include a post from a blatant advertisement, but they have some cute ideas. Go here goes ...
"Everyone's life needs a bit of organization - so why not do it with a bit of fun and whimsy? For a new way to get organized, think charming, unique ... think chalkboard paint. That's right, the old-school chalkboard is making a stylish comeback. And with a bit of hands-on creativity, your home can be organized, stylish and enjoyable.
Definable drawersIs your home being overrun with clutter? The best way to overcome clutter - and keep everything tidy - is to ensure everything has its place. Labeling is a great way to stay organized and alert family members where items are - and where to put them away. Using stickers and markers for identification can sometimes look plain and boring, and are more permanent. Luckily, there is another way to label: chalkboard paint.
Drawers are ideal for storage and come in a variety of sizes to store anything from toys to jewelry. Plus, you can find great deals on old sets at yard sales or thrift stores. To start, simply clean and paint your drawers in a color that coordinates with your room's decor. Once the paint is dry, create a border around the front of each drawer with painter's tape. Next, spray several even coats of Krylon Chalkboard Spray Paint inside the taped area. When the entire project is dry, use chalk to identify the contents of each drawer. And, don't limit yourself to white chalk. Colored chalk can add a stylish twist to your project.
Time to...To organize your schedule - or your whole family's - keep track of time with a fun and creative schedule clock. This unique project replaces traditional hours and minutes with your daily activities.
Start by finding a large, flat, wall-hanging clock and carefully remove the hands. Then, apply a coat of Krylon Indoor/Outdoor charcoal black primer to cover the entire clock, making it the same even color. Once the primer has dried, apply three coats of chalkboard spray paint.
Finally, when the clock is fully dry, reattach the clock hands and finish by designating certain hours for your daily tasks. This project is especially ideal for young children who don't yet know how to tell time; simply use drawings to help them know when it is time for their activities and you'll avoid the everyday question of "is it time to (fill in the blank) yet?"
Labels for entertaining tablesWhen entertaining guests, you want them to feel welcome and at home. Adding personal messages or labels can be the solution to put your party over the top. Chalkboard paint can be the perfect addition to many of your go-to entertainment pieces.
Spray the base of your wine glasses and label with guests' names to keep track of drinks. Spray the fronts of buckets, bowls or canisters to call out their contents.
Spray a large platter or board to create a welcome sign or menu for your guests. The ideas are endless. And, for an extra decorative touch, use Krylon Leafing Pens to create whimsical designs around your creations.
Soon, your home will feel more organized and stylish with these easy and delightful craft ideas. And the best thing about a chalkboard is you can constantly change it up. Simply erase and write something new. For more project ideas, visit www.krylon.com."
More on organizing with paint:
Magnetic Paint - An Innovative Space Saver!
Shadow Boarding Your Tools
An Unusual, Time-Saving Painting-Prep Tool
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Clever Storage Ideas from Better Homes and Gardens
I came across several fun storage ideas courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens. There were several in the article, but these are my favorites:
A towel rack converted to store sweaters and shoes.
Use drawer organizers to organize game pieces and small games.
No more lost pieces! And so easy to use - just take out the container holding the pieces you want to play with and slip it back in the drawer when you're finished!
Hidden Outlets
This is my favorite! If you're redoing your kitchen, have your outlets built in with covers to hide them! If there's enough room, you can store the cords there, too.
Recycled Paint Cans for Accessible Storage
Clean up used paint cans, decorate if you like, and nail them to the wall for easy access. Great for hats, scarves, gloves, socks, hair accessories, etc.
More clever storage ideas:
Options for Organizing Spices
Do It Yourself Shoe Storage
Clever Bathroom Organizing Ideas from Martha Stewart
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Labels: Closets, Decluttering, Storage
Friday, July 20, 2012
An Easy Way to Store Tablecloths
My mom gave me this idea on storing tablecloths: hang them up on hangers! She keeps hers in her basement near her washer and dryer. As soon as they come out of the dryer, they go on hangers to avoid wrinkles.
I keep mine in my guest room closet. In the past, I've used an entry closet. Anywhere where you have a little extra closet space or space for a hanging rod can work. Stuffing them into drawers just creates wrinkles, and ironing is not my idea of a good time!
More on storing linens:
Preventing a Linen Closet Avalanche - Storing Sheets
Get Organized Month - Declutter Your Linen Closet
Three Steps to Organizing Your Closet (Kindle version)
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Labels: Closets, Decluttering, Dinner, Storage
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
10 Green Organizing Solutions for Crafts
Craft supplies are messy aren't they? Becky Striepe of Crafting a Green World has compiled ten Do-It-Yourself Craft Organizer Projects, each with instructions and pictures. Great ways to upcycle, too!
"Organizing your crafty space can make crafting so much easier, can't it? I can't tell you how many times I've had to delay a project because I couldn't find that vintage button that I knew was somewhere or the pretty wrapping paper I'd salvaged over the holidays and stashed – well, someplace! Where is it again?
No matter what your craft, chances are your space could use a little more organizational oomph, but organizers from the big box store come with a big impact. They're often made with plastic and shipped all over the world. Boo on that! We craft green, and we want our spaces to be green too, right? Instead of heading to the store, check out these upcycled organizers for your craft room instead!
1. Show Caddy Organizer – Got an old shower caddy that's past its prime? Give it a little scrub, paint it with some low-VOC spray paint, and you can re-use it for vertical crafty storage.
2. Hangers for Fabric – Raid your closet or the thrift store for those clippy pants hangers. They're a great solution for storing your large pieces of fabric.
3. Make a Frame Thread Holder – Transform an old thrift store frame into a pretty solution for all of that thread.
4. Chalkboard Sign - Of course, you need to keep your thoughts organized as well. Jot down your important to-do's on an upcycled chalkboard.
5. Recycled Can Wall Organizer – Arrange clean, salvaged cans into a wall organizers for your crafty knick knacks. They recommend Eco Glue, but I'd go with something stronger like E6000. You don't want this falling apart on you!
6. Upcycled candle holder organizer – keep those teeny items like buttons and paper clips in check by repurposing old candle votives. You could use this same method to adorn thrifted glass ware, if you have bigger items to store.
7. Mason Jar Storage – Reuse some of your old Mason jars along with a thrifted cake or cupcake stand for some small-item storage.
8. Ribbon Storage – Spunky Junky bought hers new, but you can hit the thrift store for a slotted Tupperware bin – or really you could drill holes into any thrifted Tupperware container that's the right side – and use it to make an upcycled ribbon dispenser.
9. Old Dresser for Fabric – Got a huge stash of fabric? Keep it neat and organized in an old dresser spruced up with a coat of paint.
10. Funnels for Twine – Wrangle those balls of twine with funnels! The ball rests in the top, and you dispense the thread through the bottom. Easy peasy!"
More on craft storage and organizing:
Organizing a Portable Craft Station
Organizing Art or Craft Space
Storage Ideas for Crafts and Art Supplies
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Labels: Crafts, Green, Organizing, Storage
Monday, July 16, 2012
Apps to Help You Go Paperless
Paper multiplies faster than rabbits! Do you have stacks of receipts for reimbursements or taxes? Business cards you need to be able to access?
Lisa Gerstner of Money Power offers a few suggestions for getting rid of paper clutter via your smartphone.
"If you have a smartphone, scanner and computer, you have all the tools you need to banish paper clutter from your life. The payoff: You can more easily organize your files, photos and miscellaneous pieces of paper, and you'll be able to access them with the click of a mouse or tap of an app.
Scrap the small stuff. Get a handle on paper receipts with tools that save and categorize them. With the free Lemon app (available for Android phones, the iPhone and iPad, and Windows Phone), you just snap a photo of a receipt and add a label. You can view a breakdown of the information on the app and at Lemon.com.
Shoeboxed, which manages receipts as well as business cards, has applications for Android devices and the iPhone and iPad. Plus, it integrates with several outside accounts, such as Evernote and Google, so that you can export data into them.
Just looking to clear your desk of business cards? Get the free CamCard Lite app. Take a photo of a card and the app stores an image of the card and transfers the information to an address book (you can manually edit the info if the reader translates it incorrectly)."
More apps to help you organize:
Wunderkit - An iPhone app for Collaborative Projects
Organize Your Christmas Shopping with New Gifts HD iPad App
Get Organized for Your Vacation with Trip Doc App
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Labels: Decluttering, Office, Storage, Time Management
Friday, July 13, 2012
Disheartenig Findings from a UCLA Study on Clutter and the Middle Class
The following article by Meg Sullivan about clutter and the middle class is a sad commentary on our society. UCLA's Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) photographed, videotaped, tracked family members with position-locating devices, and measured stress hormones in 32 families. It's amazing how many of the problems are related to clutter! Read on ...
"It's the place to look for the plumber's phone number, the date of the next doctor's appointment, that photo from your summer vacation and the spelling test your kid aced last week.
Yet even for all these telling glimpses into the minutiae of daily life, your refrigerator door reveals much more about your middle-class family.
The sheer volume of objects clinging to it may indicate how much clutter can be found throughout your home. Furthermore, that clutter provides a strong clue to how much stress Mom feels when she walks through the door at the end of a day at work.
This is one of the juicy tidbits from "Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors," the first book by researchers affiliated with UCLA's Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF).
Founded in 2001 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CELF sent a team of professional archaeologists, anthropologists and other social scientists to conduct a systematic study of home life in 32 middle-class, dual-income families in Los Angeles.
The resulting rigorously documented book presents a troubling picture: costly but virtually unused "master suites"; children who rarely go outside; stacks and stacks of clutter; entire walls devoted to displays of Barbie dolls, Beanie Babies and other toys; garages so packed with household overflow that cars have to be parked on the street.
'This is the very first study to step inside 21st-century family homes to discover the material surroundings and vast number of possessions that organize and give meaning to the everyday lives of middle-class parents and children,' said co-author Elinor Ochs, a UCLA anthropologist and director of CELF.
Added lead author Jeanne E. Arnold: 'This is something that's never been done before in a modern society and may never be done again because it was an incredibly labor-intensive enterprise.'
"Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century," which will be published July 1 by UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, shows how these families are using their time, what they do with the stuff they buy, how much use different parts of their homes get and what aspects of home life cause stress.
Findings include:
- Managing the volume of possessions was such a crushing problem in many homes that it actually elevated levels of stress hormones for mothers.
- Only 25 percent of garages could be used to store cars because they were so packed with stuff.
- The rise of big-box stores such as Costco and Sam's Club has increased the tendency to stockpile food and cleaning supplies, making clutter that much harder to contain.
- The addition of costly "master suites" for parents proved the most common renovation in the homes that were studied, yet the spaces were hardly used.
- Consistent and troublesome bottlenecks emerged in the homes, yet families rarely devoted renovation dollars to remedying these obvious problems.
- Even in a region with clement year-round weather, the families hardly used their yards, and this was the case even among those who had invested in outdoor improvements and furnishings.
- Most of the families relied heavily on convenience foods like frozen meals and par-baked bread, yet they saved an average of only 10 to 12 minutes per meal in doing so.
- Fragmented dinners — those in which family members eat sequentially or in different rooms — threaten to undermine a sacrosanct American tradition: the family dinner.
'Marketers and credit card companies record and analyze every nuance of consumer purchasing patterns, but once people shuttle shopping bags into their homes, the information flow grinds to a halt,' said Arnold, a UCLA professor of anthropology. 'But the 32 families who threw open their doors to us allowed unfettered access to their busy homes and lives.'
The researchers doggedly videotaped the activities of family members, tracked their every move with position-locating devices and documented their homes, yards and activities with reams and reams of photographs. They asked family members to narrate videotaped tours of their homes and took measurements at regular intervals of stress hormones via saliva samples.
The researchers then plotted, compared and correlated the mountains of data they had collected over the course of four years. The project generated almost 20,000 photographs, 47 hours of family-narrated video home tours and 1,540 hours of videotaped family interactions and interviews.
'Most of the time, the average American cannot see that which is most deeply familiar,' said co-author Anthony P. Graesch, an assistant professor of anthropology at Connecticut College. 'But when you invite anthropologists into your home, they will force to you step out of the 'insider's' perspective and examine your house, your possessions, the ways that you use time.'
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Create No-Clutter Zones Where Clutter is Off-Limits
Yesterday I spent some time on the phone doing some virtual organizing talking about this very topic! It's universal, isn't it?
Do you have areas in your home that are clutter magnets - coffee tables, the entry table, the dining room table? Places where people drop their stuff instead of putting it away?
Declare certain places to be no-clutter zones, especially those that are visible when you enter your home. It's depressing to walk into your home after a long day and see a mess!
How to do this? First, solve the underlying problem of not having designated places for clutter, if applicable. Here are some ideas to reduce clutter coming into your house:
- Keep the mail in your hand until you dispose of it into various containers: recycling bin, trash, bills and items that need attention. This, of course, assumes you have such containers.
Sort your mail while you're walking back from the mail box or as you enter your house. A few intentional moments will save a big pile of mail clutter! We have recycling containers in our garage, so some of our mail doesn't even enter the house.
- Create repositories for book bags, purses, briefcases, keys, coats and shoes. Hooks, shelves in an entry closet, a coat tree, a bench with storage, cubbies - whatever works with your space. If the entry point of your house looks like an explosion, spend some time figuring out a solution and train your family to use that solution!
- Don't buy things unless you need them. Avoid garage sales, thrift stores, and recreational shopping. Just because something is a great bargain doesn't mean you need to buy it!
The next step is to declare no-clutter zones.
- Determine which surfaces will NOT collect clutter, no way, no how. That forces you to think through where that clutter should live. And it identifies those items that don't have a home.
- Work on creating homes for everything. If you have too much stuff for everything to have a home, it's time to get rid of some stuff or get creative with additional storage.
- If need be, have a container for each family member in which their stuff can be deposited until they put it away. This is a short-term solution to clutter in common areas. At the end of the day, plan in a few minutes for everyone to empty their containers by putting their items away in the right place.
- If you are behind on clearing clutter, institute a 15-minute family clutter challenge one to three times a day until you get caught up. Set the timer for 15 minutes, put on some fun music, and have each person collect their own clutter and put it away. You may even want to give a prize for the most things put away. Is that rewarding the biggest clutter bug? Hmmm..... Oh well! You decide. :)
- Another option - leave the commercials on during your TV programs and declutter during those 2-3 minute periods. It breaks down a big job into bite-sized pieces.
These are some ideas to help you get started. Here are some other ones:
3 Tips to Staying Motivated While Downsizing or Decluttering
6 Ways to Prevent Yourself from Bringing Clutter Home
Teaching Kids How to Sort and Declutter
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Refocus Each Morning - ADHD or Not
I have been doing some business coaching with a client who has ADHD. He likes to process verbally, so we meet together at the beginning of each day. This is what we do:
- Review what happened the previous day.
- Look at today's schedule to see what is coming up.
- Determine the priorities for the day.
- Prioritize the tasks: which is the most important and the most urgent, second most important and urgent, etc.
- Schedule less important and urgent tasks later during the week.
- We also evaluate to see if strategies are working.
- And at times, we brainstorm to solve problems and come up with new ideas.
My client's busiest time is at the end of his day, so he likes to refocus in the morning during his less busy time. By going through this process, he is able to stay focused during the day. And knowing I'm going to show up each day motivates him to stay on task. :)
I absolutely LOVE helping him be more effective, and we're starting to see our efforts pay off.
You can do the same thing, too! If you prefer, going through this process at the end of your day might be even more effective, as you'll be poised to jump start your day tomorrow.
More on staying focused:
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Friday, July 6, 2012
Clutter Solutions
Here's an enlightening article from Jenny Coad that appeared in the London Daily Mail. Vocabulary: Car boot it = put it in your trunk.
"Bikes in the hallway, breadboard in the oven, clothes draped over chairs. Storing even the most basic belongings can be a logistical challenge in a small home.
My diminutive flat is constantly decorated with washing, like great, drippy wreaths of bunting. Bottles of wine share space with shoes and spare chairs sit about like chess pieces waiting for their next move. I am not alone.
An Ipsos MORI report published last month, entitled The Way We Live Now, puts storage space at the top of the list of domestic worries. Anyone trying to de-clutter and sell their home will sympathise. But if you can't afford a bigger property - and with mortgage requirements being extra tricky at the moment, few can - what sensible solutions are there to the storage crisis?
* Made to measure: Having cupboards fitted to suit your space might sound like a costly outlay, but it will make a big difference. Wardrobes, kitchen cupboards and bathroom cabinets should go up to the ceiling. This will make the room seem taller.
* Don't be shy of a shelf: They can go almost anywhere - in alcoves, below stairs, above doors. Put them in wherever you can and those piles of books, magazines and newspapers will melt away.
* Hard-working furniture: Interior designer Kit Kemp recommends adding pockets to the sides of chairs using the same fabric.
* Don't be shy of a shelf: They can go almost anywhere - in alcoves, below stairs, above doors. Put them in wherever you can and those piles of books, magazines and newspapers will melt away.
* Hard-working furniture: Interior designer Kit Kemp recommends adding pockets to the sides of chairs using the same fabric.
They should be just large enough to hold the daily newspaper, she says.
Cover it up: Plenty of us are avid recyclers, but no one wants to look at their empty wine bottles and discarded baked bean cans. Keep it in something with a lid.
Cable chaos: We're all wired up most of the time, so having enough power sockets is essential. But keeping them out of sight is a smart move. Cable tidiers are available from a number of retailers.Say no: When you move into a new home, parents will try to offload things they have been saving for you: old crockery, Seventies chairs, your old school photos. Be firm.
Outsource it: Storage facilities can provide a useful interim if you can't quite part with the goods.
Bite the bullet: If you can bear to get rid of it, do so. You might even make some cash in the process. Car boot it, eBay it or give it away.
Grow up: In the garden, you can plant herbs up the wall to keep the ground space clear of pots or beds. These will cover up crumbling brickwork, too."
Cover it up: Plenty of us are avid recyclers, but no one wants to look at their empty wine bottles and discarded baked bean cans. Keep it in something with a lid.
Cable chaos: We're all wired up most of the time, so having enough power sockets is essential. But keeping them out of sight is a smart move. Cable tidiers are available from a number of retailers.Say no: When you move into a new home, parents will try to offload things they have been saving for you: old crockery, Seventies chairs, your old school photos. Be firm.
Outsource it: Storage facilities can provide a useful interim if you can't quite part with the goods.
Bite the bullet: If you can bear to get rid of it, do so. You might even make some cash in the process. Car boot it, eBay it or give it away.
Grow up: In the garden, you can plant herbs up the wall to keep the ground space clear of pots or beds. These will cover up crumbling brickwork, too."
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Three Steps to Decluttering
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Beat the Heat and Organize an Indoor Decathlon for Your Kids
Here's a great idea when you've run out of ideas for summer fun, especially when it's hot outside. I'm recycling a blog post from previous summers ...
An indoor decathlon is similar to the outdoor decathlon, but you do it indoors. It's great for a snow day or a day when it's 100 degrees!
I like to alternate short and long games so people don't get bored.
Examples of games:
bubble gum blowing
clothes pins in a bottle
pin the _____ on the _____
visible scavenger hunt
pass the pigs
paper airplane flying contest
elimination jenga
paper balls into a waste basket
I keep the list of games a secret. Then it's a series of surprises.
Gather all the supplies needed for each game.
Create a box or bag of prizes.
Create a score sheet chart with each person listed and each game listed.
After each game, record the scores. If you have five people playing, the person who comes in first gets five points, 2nd place gets 4 points, etc.
After all 10 events are played, the person with the most points is first, etc. #1 gets to choose a prize first, #2 second, etc.
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The H'san Natal are an imperialistic race which is rumored to be avoided by Darkseid himself.[1] They periodically enslave Psions and have them perform experiments for them, and their ships are manned by a variety of alien species.
The H'San Natall abduct and impregnate females, after which they mind wipe them and return them to their homeworld. When it's time they abduct the hybrid children, indoctrinate them, and send them back as sleeper agents to be used against the world's defenders prior to the arrival of the H'San Natall.[2] The H'san Natal have conquered thousands of worlds.[3]
Type of Government:
Ruling class at the top of society, ruling over the warrior, technocratic, and worker classes
Level of Technology:
Advanced; warp-capable interstellar ships,[4] teleportation systems,[5]humanoid mechs,[6] genetic manipulation,[7]reanimation of the dead,[8]organic metals and polymers,[9]
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- Ch'ah (Prysm's father)
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- Risk (human hybrid)
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- Scorcher (human hybrid)[10]
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Chapter 5 - A person, a lantern and a sandalwood box
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"A human corpse can lie, but bones never do."
As the words fell, Ji Yunshu had already pried open the mouth. The surrounding charred skin cracked and fell to the ground, the noise faintly echoing in the silence.
"The hyoid bone[1. The hyoid bone can be visualized in this picture. As you can see the hyoid bone looks it's floating, but in fact, it's not held in place by another bone. It's held in place by muscles and ligaments. Its function is to allow a wider range of tongue, pharyngeal and laryngeal movements. For more information click here.] is obstructed. If we continue upward, you can clearly see that the coronoid process[2. The coronoid process is the red part of the picture here.] is shattered. This would indicate that someone used an extremely heavy object to strike the lower jaw." That was to say, once the victim's head had been smashed to the side, the attacker had stabbed the victim's nape.
"There is a vaguely circular mark on the nape made by the puncture of a sharp object. It caused the tips of the bone to fracture, leading to copious blood loss. Although it's impossible to determine the time of death due to the burnt skin and flesh, I could approximate from the bone tissue within the remaining teeth. From these three loosened teeth, the estimated time of death should be yesterday. However, that fire started four hours ago. It's clear that these five people were brought to this abandoned house after their deaths. If nothing else, there is also no sign of struggle while they burned."
Jing Rong became curious after listening to her logical explanations.
Then, Ji Yunshu walked to the next corpse and examined it. She palpated the corpse's hyoid bone.
"In a normal human, the regions above and below the hyoid bone are always softer compared to the hyoid bone in the middle. However, the hyoid bone on this corpse is identical to the first one. Both of their bones are soft whereas the above and below are hard. For such a situation to appear, there is only one possibility; they died from poisoning, which would explain why they didn't struggle at all while being burned.
Jing Rong lowered his eyes.
Ji Yunshu scrunched her forehead charmingly as she continued to analyze. "The skeletons of these five bodies are amazing. They must have been trained in martial arts, which means it would have been quite difficult to kill them. Both sides must have fought hard, which resulted in their bones receiving such damage. However, their opponents must have been on the losing side and decided to resort to poison. Since they used poison, it was certainly one that needed to be ingested, leading to the current abnormality with their throats. If we wanted to investigate further, it would be better to start from the food, perhaps… from where they had last stayed, like at an inn."
"Do you see anything else?"
Ji Yunshu shook her head. She got up, taking off and throwing away her white gloves. Her hands rose to dust a corner of her outfit.
"Are you a coroner?" Jing Rong asked.
That man asked as many questions as there were stars in the sky!
"This humble self is only a painter. I merely have a bit of knowledge about bones, so I just examined them. A coroner would open the torso, examine the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys and brain. Their work is completely different. If Young Master still wants to investigate further, send these corpses to the coroner to examine them. If not, there's no need to continue."
She wasn't in the habit of forcing others. Besides, investigating this homicide case or not, in the end, has nothing to do with her.
Jing Rong scanned Ji Yunshu with his eyes.
There was such a character hidden in this tiny Jinjiang city!
This scholar had said so much. If he persisted on cremating the corpses because of sentiment, it was inexcusable.
Furthermore, these men were his subordinates, and they died from poison. Right now, he also wanted to quickly discover the truth hidden behind this case.
Could it be… that this is related to the capital?
Unfortunately, his return to the capital has to be delayed once again!
"Lang Po, instruct your men to deliver the corpses to the coroner for autopsy, and once you have the results, notify me immediately."
The burly man called Lang Po immediately ordered some men to carry away the corpses.
Jing Rong turned to Ji Yunshu and looked at her. "How should I address this young master?"
Ji Yunshu displayed an indifferent expression and reserved attitude. But to be polite, she still wore a careful smile.
"I am a simple painter not worthy of a name. The time is already late. This humble one would like to return home to take care of my father who has been bedridden for a long time. Goodbye."
'Bedridden father?'
The so-called bedridden father, Ji Shuhan, was standing there. The corner of his eye twitched when she mentioned her father.
At this moment, Ji Yunshu had already taken a lantern and sandwiched the sandalwood box under her arm. She walked to the county magistrate and whispered, "Today, I was called to work twice. In addition to six hours of work, I wet two pairs of shoes and wasted two pairs of white gloves. Add at least 10 taels more to next month's salary."
This kind of planning and calculation, truly meticulous!
The magistrate clutched his fingers behind him and rolled his eyes. Forget it. The Zhou family had given them 40 taels of silver as a bonus; the court allocated 70 taels, and the murder case of East Suburbs could fetch 20 taels. His monthly salary was 45 taels. Even including his salary and other miscellaneous expenses, there were still 60 taels left.
'Ohoh! It was more than enough!'
This certainly was a meticulous calculation!
"I'll add 15 taels. The weather is getting cold; you should buy a flask of hot drink." Magistrate Liu was beaming with smiles and waited on this indifferent ancestor of his.
Ji Yunshu's expression stayed cold. She didn't take the effort to reply, simply striding deeper into the black curtain of the night. Her lantern flickered in the darkness, the only sign of her passage.
A person, a lantern, and a sandalwood box created a rather picturesque sight.
Jing Rong, who was left behind, displayed an expression of deep contemplation. 'Although that scholar's frame was slender, he didn't appear to possess the aura of a weak scholar.'
Since time immemorial, a talented person hidden in a city would definitely not be simple at all!
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Now that you have put in a lot of effort into making your garden look beautiful, it's time you start preserving it by using regular tree surgery. This becomes all the more important when you notice any of the warning signs. Wondering what such symptoms are? Read on to learn the signs through which you can figure out if you are in need of a tree surgeon.
Trees, one of the most cherished landscaping aspects of any garden, form to be a responsibility, especially when they age or end up in unwanted places. Getting them removed or pruned might just be the right decision in such cases for your other vegetation. Since you do not have the expertise to handle such jobs, it's always better to call in tree surgeons in Guildford whenever you notice a warning sign.
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Crossed Branches
With the passage of time, the branches of a tree will start growing and begin crossing over each other. These crossed branches are harmful to the tree's health since the friction of the branches rubbing against each other, actually harm the bark. This may often cause decay of the entire branch- a condition which can easily spread to the entire tree if it is not handled properly. Thus, if you come across a tree with crossed branches, call in a surgeon for pruning your tree.
Major Storm Damage
It goes without saying that storms can have an adverse effect if they come through your property. Broken branches are more dangerous for the health of your tree since it exposes the inside of it to harmful elements. Removing the entire tree can thus be a wise decision to safeguard your property from hazardous situations. Availing tree removal services from qualified tree surgeons is thus recommended whenever you notice that a tree has got broken branches.
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Signs of deep cracks found in the bark of your tree can indicate that it is unhealthy and requires special attention. In case you find two or more cracks in the tree, try to give some special care and love to the tree by pruning it. By availing trimming services on a regular basis, you can keep your trees look healthy and lush, throughout the year.
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