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How Do I Make the Most of this Big Closet?
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Q: My boyfriend and I recently moved into the top floor of a beautiful brownstone in Brooklyn. Our bedroom has a big closet by NYC standards, but we can't figure out how to make the most of it.
To the left and right of the door, the closet extends another two feet back. And above the door? Another foot or two. How can we best make use of all the dead space that is hard to get to when anything is in the middle of the closet? And since we have no dresser, how do we best keep lots of rail space, but add shelving for two guys with a lot of clothes?
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Have you thought of using narrow chests of drawers at the ends? You could also create cubbies for the ends of the closet instead. A second hanging bar is a necessity of course. As for overhead storage you could turn this into an off season clothes storage area or a linens spot. I would place some sort of storage bar on the inside of the doors for hanging ties or scarves.
It's a fantastic closet. If you're really looking for expert help I would call on a organization specialist.
That's challenging. Here are two options - and note that your exact mix of clothing is really going to impact your choices.
1) Put shelving across the bottom with pull-out drawers or baskets. This leaves inaccessible gaps on the right and left. On one side put in open shelving facing towards the middle of the closet. On the other, mount the pole higher and run in all the way to the wall. Use the inaccessible space for seasonal items or very long garments. Depending on the depth of the closet you may be able to put a high shelf above the pole for more out of season storage.
2) Mount short poles from the front wall into the back wall at two heights on each side, creating mini-closets. In the middle of the closet, now open, run a narrow strip of shelves from floor to ceiling. Again, if space permits add a high-mounted shelf for out of season storage. I'm not sure this is optimal, but you seem to have a relatively deep closet that could make this work if you have a lot of hanging items that you need to keep separated from each other and less required drawer space.
How deep is the closet? I would build 2' deep vertical shelves along the sides for usable storage for shoes, towels, or anything else you can fold and fit along the sides. I would also put shelf across the entire closet for added storage above the coat hanger bar. Consider using frosted window film to 'blur' some of the clutter when the doors are closed.
You could feasibly build fairly simple shelves on the sides of the closet in order to store baskets, folded clothes, etc. Then add a shelf above the top rail in order to store out of season items and linens, like Closetdweller's suggestion above. You could also add a couple long shelves to the bottom for organizing shoes.
I would raise the bar another 6 inches or so, and then hang a second bar below for half or 3/4 of the width of the opening to almost double your hanging space. Next add a long shelf the length of the closet above the upper bar for seasonal storage. You would need to use smaller stackable boxes to be able to fit through the space between the shelf and the wall.
I would then add shelves that span the depth of the hidden areas on both sides of the opening for foldable clothes. I did that in our last house and it was amazing how much extra storage it gave us. You will still need to not over stuff the bar to be able to get to the sides, but the lower bar should help. We used pre-finished solid shelving, which we cut to fit.
Good luck!
How deep is the closet? And how wide? in total.
If you have the space, I'd use Ikea's STOLMEN. You can easily do a number of combinations of drawers, multiple hanging bars, etc. Put a shelf up high and use soft sided bins to hold out of season clothes, etc.
Consider making an L or U shape (with drawers at the ends) if your closet is deep enough for the 24 inch units.
If your closet isn't deep enough, use a couple of the 40 inch units low across the length of the closet.
I would fill the ends with 12-18" deep shelves. we also live in a brownstone (in jersey city!) with a similar (smaller) pantry in the kitchen. we screwed in small 1x2 pieces of wood flat against the wall and just set custom-cut plywood pieces on top. now we can use ALL of the space in those ends!
also, maybe you can put just 1 shelf up high (maybe 12-18" below the top of the doorway) that's maybe just over half of the depth of the closet). put your luggage, extra blankets, extra pillows, etc. up there. my boyfriend just rearranged our clothes closet and was able to put the luggage up there. even though the luggage is deeper than the shelf, it's above the doorway so it won't fall down.
best of luck!
Go to the container store and design a elfa closet system. It's pricy but worth it (wait for their 25% off event)! I can't tell you how much stuff I can fit into my tiny closets. Organize what you have to see how much short and long hang space you need, and put drawer units in the middle, shelfing on top, and long and short hang on the sides where drawers can't open fully.
If you're looking for something non-permanent, try the Algot or Antonius systems from Ikea. I would get a couple of the freestanding units and stack them in the sides. Face them so the drawers open into the closet. Get the flat top so you can put a couple tupperware containers on top of it for seasonal clothing and what not. Or put your baskets on top of them and open up the floor for a shoe rack or two. Good luck, guys!
I had this exact same issue and closet layout in an older house I recently purchased. My solution was the same as loub suggested above (suggestion #2).
I turned the two sides into more narrow areas for hanging items (upper and lower bars each side) and then ran a more narrow strip of shelving up the middle with room on either side to step in and grab hanging items. I do still have some room above the top hanging bar on each side so will be adding an additional shelf above each for a little more storage space.
Definitely some curtains on the insides of those doors.
@Kari_Altadena I was thinking the same thing. Gets the most use will still be accessible.
will=while :)
I know someone else already said this, but I heartily second it - use the elfa shelving system from The Container Store. If you take them the measurements (Floor to ceiling,front to back, side to side) they can do a custom space plan for you to help you maximize the space. Planning is free, and they have a sale coming up in December for 30% off of the actual shelving system. You can install it yourself (even if you have only the most basic of handy skills) or they can install it for you. I've used the stuff for years both for myself and for clients and it is hands down the best shelving system I have encountered.
If you're willing/able to install a closet organizer (actually drilling it into the walls) I strongly suggest easyclosets.com. I absolutely love mine and it was quite a bit cheaper than the Container Store.
If you have the money, I think it's worth it to engage a closet consultant who can help you make the best use of the space without you having to mess with the details yourselves. Otherwise Ikea and Container Store closet systems are good options. The dark ends are best used for little-accessed items such as off-season or super-dressy clothing.
I recently got rid of my dresser and the process was LIBERATING! I forced myself to brutally edit how many pairs of socks and underwear, etc. etc, I *ACTUALLY* need. I do laundry at least once a week, so it turns out that 17 pairs of black socks was totally unnecessary. I now have one of the Ikea Algot frame & 4-drawer systems in my closet for the remaining undergarments and unhangables. Best news? No more rooting around through the chaff to reach the wheat.
I have the same issue. What I did is made it a walk-in closet. You step into the closet, turn left or right (to what is now either the left-hand or right-hand 2' of unused space), and there are your clothes. I put one dowel on top and another dowel on the bottom for extra utility. I put a shelf on the top above the top dowel since that space is now easily accessible.
For the vast middle section then, you have several options. You could get a bench with shoe storage, or a narrow fold out shoe cabinet like they sell at Ikea. The wall space is great for a mirror and/or hanging jewelry and/or belts.
After switching to this layout, I have not been sad. SO much more space, and the four dowels allow for a lot more organization.
I have an 12 foot long closet that I ripped out the single dowel of with a wobbly plywood board for shelf above it.
I bought metro shelving at Storables and basically created a custom shelving solution. You can buy poles of any height (they'll cut them custom as well) and the appropriate amount of shelving for it. They even have bar attachments that hold hangers that hook under the shelves. It's AMAZING. And no drilling, no holes, no permanent installation. It cost me about 250 bucks total (it's a HUGE closet) but yours is smaller, so shouldn't be that much.
I also live in NYC and had a similar problem. My closet was huge but really poorly done so there was simply one bar and a shelf on top.
Cheapest way to mimick a super custom closet is with Ikea Billy Bookcases. I ran the 15in wide down the middle (adding the extra piece on top to maximize the height of the closet). Then you can run rods off of the bookcase to either end of the wall -- probably two rods to the right for shirts and 1 rod to the left for dresses and coats and long storage.
All in all between the bookcase and rods I spent around $100 so not terrible for a rental. If you are feeling ambitious you could put two more 15" billy bookcases on each side facing the middle for extra storage.
I'd do two rods, the lower one for shirts and just high enough off the floor for the sleeves to clear, one above that for jackets, slacks on hangers, robes, etc. The lower rod could stop at one side of the closet with the upper rod running all the way to the end, leaving an extra-tall hanging section for bathrobes, etc. (In my house, "evening dresses", but probably not in yours!) (Then again, maybe you have costumes...! ;^) )
I'd put a shelf above the top rod, about a foot deep. With the extra foot of space to the doors and wall above them, you can probably tip baskets or plastic drawers enough to push them onto the shelves for whatever additional storage you require. (I have a hall closet a bit like this one -- we lined the back wall with shelves for craft materials and hang coats in front. (I think ours is more like 3 feet deep, though.)
We had this exact problem when we first moved into our house; our closet (which is located in our living room just for wtf old house funsies) is ten feet wide and five feet deep, but there were exactly three feet of hanging bars in the middle(?!?!?). If you're planning on hunkering down in this place for a few years, a closet system is an investment in inner peace.
We hung a 10ft bar wall-to-wall along the ceiling with another 8ft bar longest-shirt-length below it, two 2ft bars on the perpendicular right-hand wall and a 3ft bar in the front left corner parallel to the long bars. There is a tall, narrow bookcase tucked into the void of the shorter lower bar that my amazingly talented beefcakey baby brother made for me in high school shop class. Between the slightly-more-attractive-than-builder-grade brackets, 25ft of wood planking to back the bars, 25ft of wood bars, and cherry stain, we paid about $60 for supplies and another $40 to feed Beefcake for his help installing the whole business.
Like others, I recommend the Elfa closet system. You can get a free design if you take in your space measurements. You probably will find the design will include a very high shelf to hold out of season items. Since it seems you have baskets that could be used for that top shelf storage, I would measure those and take the measurements with you.
Budgetwise, you are working from a free design so you can purchase what you can afford and add on as necessary. You can also take it with you if you move somewhere else.
You need basic assembly skills with the only needed skill being one of attaching the system components to the wall. You may have the necessary skills yourself, or friends who have those skills, or a handyman who can work from the design and make the attachments.
The current Elfa designs include tight mesh drawers in current colors like platinum gray. Very nice looking. The components can prove useful in all sorts of situations.
Elfe system and a stool!
Boy could I have a field day with a closet like this!
First off, for the two feet on either side that are not easily accessible... If you have items that you infrequently use or require long-term storage, that's the place I'd keep them. Think of things like luggage, boxes that don't get unpacked, files you need to hold on to, sporting goods/equipment or things that are very seasonal like Christmas decorations etc. You could also consider using the wall space in these nooks for things that you can reach in and grab - ties, belts, scarves etc. If it's hanging o the wall, it's easily accessible while still providing that long-term storage for other items.
For the main part of the closet, I would consider adding a second hanging bar - it's pretty easy to do and worth the $10-$15 expense. This may mean that you have to raise the higher one slightly but,... double the space for hanging. Longer items - it looks like you may have a robe or two, I would relocate to the back of a nearby door in the bedroom or bathroom. Under the bottom hanging bar, consider adding a shoe rack since you don't want to obstruct those lovely glass doors. Or, if you do want to put fabric behind the glass so you're not looking into the closet, then add over the door shoe racks and add baskets for dirty laundry at the bottom of the closet.
Above the top hanging rod (which looks kind of flimsy, so you may need to replace it with one that runs the full length of the closet and has more support), consider adding a solid shelf that you can build on-top of. Bed, Bath & Beyond has simple, inexpensive metal grid cubes that allow you to build-up and make use of the space all the way to the ceiling. And that makes for an easy place to stack sweaters, t-shirts, shoes, boots etc.
With an investment of about $50.00 and a few hours time, this closet could be amazing. Hope you make the most of it!
something similar to this setup using ClosetMaid or other closet organization systems
must be cold in there with your foot all curled in
Foot selfie!
Putting a battery powered light inside would help in seeing what stuff you have in the top shelf. If there is an outlet nearby, a cord could be run inside to a plug in motion sensor light mounted to the interior wall,too.
There is a kit through ClosetMaid that you can get at Home Depot for about $100. Includes all rods, shelving, hardware. Gives you the option of double hung rods on one side, single rod (long hanging) on the other, and about 7 shelves right in the middle (sweaters, add your own bins, etc). I moved before I could buy and install it but I thought it was a really slick, simple option.
My family of three shares a similar oddly shaped closet. We went to the hardware store and grabbed cheapo L brackets for $1 a piece, with enough for 3 per 6' shelf, also from the hardware store. Trick 1: forget a chest of drawers, start those shelves like they were a dresser 14" off the floor. Place the first row of cubes or bins directly on the floor [we like the white bins from IKEA that come in a 3 pack], with hard to reach ones housing out of season shoes and clothing. Simply rotate them towards the center as seasons change = super easy! Cut down the shelving and mount depthwise for the remaining height of the closet with two rods of full access clothing directly in the center for you and your boyfriend. The shelves keep scarves, hats, and other assorted memorabilia safe but out of the way
i agree on going the elfa route!
before going to container store, also measure what you plan to put in your closet: how much vertical and horizontal space do your clothes, shoes, purses, suitcases, etc. take up.
Hi John! Congrats on the move. Depending on the measurements and whether or not you have a separate closet for outwear, here are some suggestions:
Put in high and low hanging rods on either side, with shelves above and below (his tops and bottoms on one side, and yours on the other side, and if you share clothing, perhaps casual on one side and business/formal on the other).
Then the middle section can be a ceiling to floor wall modular storage. Bottom sections can be all shoes, then above that socks, and then above that other fashion needs.
You can even make it storage/drawers until about 4 feet and the make it almost like a bureau, with a wall hung mirror, and more modular storage on either end and above.. Almost like mirror is framed by storage. So you can make it something like a demi - walk in closet.
I can see it being all white, perhaps even all clear, or even dark wood… depending on your style.
With that in mind, you can hang a beautiful light(s) from the middle of the closet.
I'm thinking modern, classic, simple, easily accessible, and lit and space efficient.
Good luck, can't wait to see what you end up doing!!!
Id take down that little rod and start over. We completely redid our master closet for about $30 with basic supplies from our neighborhood hardware store. We found cheap Closet rod/shelf brackets, and paired them with dowels and precut shelves. We put one long dowel rod with a few brackets as high up as you could comfortably reach to grab hangers, installed the premade shelving all along the length and store plastic boxes up there with rarely used items. We installed two more sections of brackets, dowels and shelves, only leaving about a foot in the middle between the two to allow longer items to fit on the upper dowel and hang down. Now we have a
closet with tons of hanging space, and some seasonal storage. It only took about an hour, and the cost was minimal.
I have a closet with similar weirdness. At least you don't have sliding doors.
I pulled out the stupid pole and shelf. I put an IVAR (from IKEA excelent because it is 8ft tall, can be cut down, and you can add as mant shelves as you want) right in the center- and mounted double closet poles from it on both sides. Use L brackets to secure it to the back wall. On one end the lower pole is supported by a bracket 3/4 of the way out to allow for long items which hang from the top pole. In the far corners, and on the floor I placed storage drawers.
My friend spent a fortune on an elfa closet, that has no more usefulness than the one I built. I spent less than 120, which also included all new hangers.
Good luck with your closet.
Take out the hanging rod system that's there now. You can buy these sort of things fairly cheap from many different stores.
Measure and get two rods (and six brackets; three for the top rod, three for the bottom) that goes from one end of the closet all the way to the other.
Mount the top one close to the ceiling and the bottom one about half way down (or enough so that items can hang without bunching or wrinkling). If the ceiling is quite high, the top rod could be reserved for his items (since he's taller?).
Ideally, I'd go with one of those closet systems that has all the compartments and such but I realize that's a more expensive option (and why I haven't done it to my closet).
This is what I mean. http://www.2dolphins.com/images/km/master_bedroom/km_new_closet_interior_2.png
Agree on Elfa/Container store or similar. What I did instead of dressers is to buy Elfa multi-drawer units, which let you pck just the depth you need.
I'd make one side of your closet for each of you. An Elfa drawer unit (s) below, then a rod with a shelf on top.
In the center, depending upon the depth, I would get narrowish shelves. The trick is to leave enough room in the center of the closet so you can put items like luggage on the top shelves, to use that space, and for a step ladder so you can reach those shelves/items when you need them.
Cover the glass panes and get two over the door hanging units for light things like robes.
Remember: closet systems can be re-used in other apartments, especially the drawer units and the vertical "standards
You forgot an arrow pointing down to one foot.
Many closets have a similar configuration, including the one in my bedroom. I'm a fan of California Closets. I'd be happy to email you a picture of my closet to give you some ideas.
"2) Mount short poles from the front wall into the back wall at two heights on each side, creating mini-closets. In the middle of the closet, now open, run a narrow strip of shelves from floor to ceiling. Again, if space permits add a high-mounted shelf for out of season storage. I'm not sure this is optimal, but you seem to have a relatively deep closet that could make this work if you have a lot of hanging items that you need to keep separated from each other and less required drawer space."
Exactly! Or, if you don't need that much hanging space, you could have two poles at one side and one at the other side with additional shelves above or below. In the middle you could also go for a chest of drawers (not too deep and not higher than 3 to 4 ft.) and install shelves above. I would definitely install deep, high mounted shelves where you can keep boxed stuff like out of season clothing, additional blankets and linnens and so on...
17 pairs of black socks is too many? Oh dear. I have 38.
Use elfa as examples of how to organize, but figure out how to custom make it yourself with shelving from home depot (plus the Ikea billy bookcase! I'm happy others said the same thing). I love my closet, I designed and built it myself, and I'm not really that handy. Just spend some time to think through how best to utilize the space. I think I spent about $500 on mine (as opposed to at least $800 using Elfa - that's if you put it together yourself).
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I agree with everyone suggesting some inexpensive shelving along the sides. Without mining all of the comments to see if this was addressed, but you should definitely put a bar as high as possible in the top of the closet, as a high- shelf is probably out of the question. Then ajdust the lower bar to be about "dress shirt height" below the top bar. You'll just need a long hook of some kind to access the top pole.
As the "main" pole will likely be a bit higher than normal as well, you can use this for storing longs and irregular height objects like shoe storage of some kind on the floor.
Alternatively to shelves on the side, if you're tight on budget, find some bins that fit the space and stack away.
We just purchased a house and used the IKEA PAX units for each of our closets. They are customizable for you needs and the least expensive we have found. Yes they take some muscle, time and patience (plus you must actually go to IKEA) but it pays off in the end.
I have paid the big bucks for closet people to come in to do it for me and afterwards I just feel ripped off. Do it yourself -- IKEA PAX, the way to go...
Go to the Container Store. It will figure out a great plan for you and help you figure out your needs. Then you can decide to goneith their system or another. Most of my closets I organized using its Elfa brand snd I recommend it all the time. Fabulous, flexible, adjustable. The stuff is great snd easy to install.
It is much easier to reach in to the hidden areas to pull out a hanging item than to push clothes out of the way to get to a shelf. Put the shelves in the middle -Elfa type work well. You can double hang one side for shirts and slacks and have the other side for longer items. Keep the hanging areas as low as possible so you can put shelves above to store extra shoes or purses and the highest shelves for out of season stuff.
I lived in an apartment with a similar closet and I ended up putting in a closet system. It was night and day! This link goes to my new closet, but I utilized the old closet and if you scroll about a third of the way down the page, you will see the organizer I had at my old place - basically 3 "bays". This was a California Closet, but any closet company can do this and most of them have consultants that will come to your house and design it for free.
Yes, you need a closet system. You can do way cheaper than Elfa. You can get one of those companies that you pay to figure out the layout and install it. Or you can DIY it. You can do it with things screwed into the walls, or if you are a renter and want to not install stuff permanently, you can do it largely with freestanding furniture bookcases and dresser pieces if you want (screw into the wall with a few screws and anti-tip devices, like the ones that come with Ikea stuff, for safety.)
For the sides, put shelves there, or at least on one side. Make the shelves adjustable, so they can fit whatever you decide to store on them. They won't be the easiest stuff to reach, though, as I've had this arrangement. Best for storing stuff used not everyday. It isn't perfect, but it never will be with a closet that has doors more narrow than the closet itself is.
For the middle, two option come to mind. Place a tall narrow bookcase or shelving unit in the center, and then run shorter steel hanging rods to the left and right - screwed into the bookcase piece in the middle, and into the wall at the end (you won't need backs on the corner closet pieces or bookcases, so the rods can go right through them to the wall.) If the middle bookcase unit is not built in, then you'll want to anchor the bookcase so it doesn't move around. A built-in closet system wild be the most sturdy, but also more expensive. The shelves are great for sweaters and shirts, Best if the shelves aren't really wide, and if you have a lot of shelves close together vertically - that way, your shelves don't need further organizers, as your stacks of shirts, etc. won't be that high and won't topple over into one another.
As for hanging stuff, you'll figure out how much hanging rail you need and for what height clothing. I'll just say that while two rods are great, for me who is not so tall, I find rods that are too high for me to reach hangers off comfortably are just too high. I like them comfortable to reach to hang stuff. I'd probably do one rod each side, not too high, with shelves above for more folded stuff, and shoe shelves below for shoes. I'd hang full length stuff like coats in a different closet.
Another option is to place shelves or shelves above drawer units in the middle on one side, and two rods on the other side, one higher and one lower.
The ones I've had that I like best are melamine shelves. I don't like the wire ones so much. Also, stay away from the cheapo metal wire ones that are coated with white plastic....I've had them, and they eventually get a sticky coating on them from stuff in the aire that is impossible to wash off.
To make the side shelves more usable, make them 18" deep, not 2 feet, and leave a foot or so of free space in front of them, so you can get to them easier. For best use of the top space, above the height of the closet door, I've done two things: 1) make an upper most shelf that is not as deep as the rest, so you can angle things up there to store. Or 2) make the highest shelf easy to reach, and get some boxes that you store stuff in on one top closet shelf to get most use of the topmost space.
Either way, you will need a ladder nearby to reach top shelves, so if you have room so you can store one in the closet, then make room for it. Those lightweight aluminum ones with a top area higher than the highest step for anti-fall stability work great. Also, for more room to store clothing in the closet, consider getting nice freestanding hampers so you don't have to make room in the closet for dirty laundry. Or use separate shoe storage units to get more use from your closet. Or get a free standing wardrobe for some hanging things, etc.
Decide what you most want to use the closet for, be it hanging stuff, open shelves, drawers, or shoes. Because chances are you won't fit everything you need to store in this closet, and will have to have some stuff in freestanding units nearby or elsewhere in the apartment. Coats, jackets and shoes are better stored by the front door. I find these closets use the space best for open shelves and some hanging rods, because you can go much higher on these hidden behind closet doors than you can in freestanding units that look good. I like dressers with drawers outside of closets, and a freestanding wardrobe can hold a lot of hanging clothes, and a freestanding wardrobe unit (new or antique) that is only around 19" deep, which is not deep enough for hangers, with lots of shelves in it makes a great linen closet or sweater closet.
And, as I have had with these closets, you will want to get to the day when you no longer have this sort of closet, but one where the doors open fully in width and height to make the most use of shelf space in the interior.
Hi! I just finished installing a closet system that I designed using EasyClosets.com
I researched every option possible from IKEA to California Closets and came upon this site. It's a very easy install and designing is actually a lot of fun. We also had 26on the left and right of our closet, but out closet is only 23" deep, so it made it tricky to design. I put a rod going all the way to the wall on my side and my DH side has shelves that he can just manage to access. Good luck!
Add narrow high shelves or shelving units along each side, against the wall facing inward. Add a shelf directly above the rod and another one a foot or so above that. Then maybe put a dresser or shelving at the bottom.
Alternate Idea:
Stuff on Wheels -- Easy to Wheel Out of Closet When You Change Seasons or Want to Go Through Your Clothes [really nice when you're in the mood to donate or consign things]:
Wheeled Containers with Drawers
Wheeled Clothes Racks That Can Fit In and Out of Door
With Hooks on the Wall to Hang Stuff On.
Wheels make it so easy to move things from the closet and rearrange.
Adding standards and brackets is an easy way to fill out dead spaces. They are available at most hardware stores and you can have plain wood panels or laminate shelves cut to fill the space. This is a real simple way to "make" custom shelving without really have to make much. It is so simple even I can do it.
Have you seen the custom closet fixtures by Allen + Roth at Lowe's? I can't say enough good things about this system... It was easy to install, affordable, durable, and looks so nice. We have about the same exact closet space as you and fit a Java slatted wood tower like this: http://low.es/1bYlGCP on the left side. There's 4 "blocks" in the tower, so it's a shelf at the top, then add a shoe grid, then a shelf, then add a shoe grid. So there's ample room for each of us to store shoes and folded jeans. With that attached to the wall, it serves as an anchor for the shelves and hanging bars... We have one long shelf at the very top for stuff not used very often, my husband's clothes hang on the top bar, there's a shelf halfway down, then my hanging bar at the bottom for my clothes. Every square inch of that closet is used and it looks super-organized and classy. I even took my bifold doors off and I'm not embarrassed if people see it ;)


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Dana Carvey was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1993. He has mastered multiple celebrity impersonations and often would perform in the ever popular SNL skit "Celebrity Jeopardy." Carvey was even offered the job of hosting the "Late Night" show on CBS, but he turned the job down to Conan O' Brien for a career in the movie industry and as a stand-up comedian.
Carvey is also widely known for his role as Garth in the movie "Wayne's World."
Producer Matt Sloan said he is optimistic about the show and the opportunity to work with Dana Carvey. The Gator Growl staff feels that Dana Carvey's popularity will span a wide-range of audience members' preferences, appealing to both students and alumni as a well-known comedian and SNL star.
Carvey was selected in the surveying process as one of the two most popular names to appear. The surveys were designed to allow students more of a say in who would appear on stage. A musical act will be announced in the next few weeks, also to be voted on by the students.
Gator Growl is in its 86th year at University of Florida. Hosted by Florida Blue Key, Gator Growl is produced by more than 500 student volunteers, making it the largest student-run pep rally in the world. The event will take place Oct. 16, the eve before the Homecoming Game.
Student tickets can be purchased at Gate 13 of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. General admission tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com and at the University of Florida Box Office on the Reitz Union Colonnade.
For more information, visit gatorgrowl.org.
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Madiba's Long Walk to Freedom – Social Media Pays Tribute
Last night, the whole world went abuzz with the terrible news of Former President, Nelson Mandela's death. And this morning, heartfelt messages, inspired posts and emotional tributes spread like wildfire across all social networking platforms. While some people formally waited for the announcement, most only woke up to hear about it on social media, as #RIPNelsonMandela #RememberingMandela #Rest In Peace Madiba #ProudlySouthAfrican and #legend trended on Twitter and Facebook. People are increasingly going to their smartphones and tablets to be part of and see the unraveling and mourning of a the nation's loss.
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"Today's L.A. Times has a story on inflation, which includes the following gem:
"'Analysts generally agree that the Fed must try to keep inflation from getting out of hand. Created in the early 20th century to regulate the nation's money supply, the Fed combats inflation by keeping the economy from overheating. The theory is that if it grows too quickly, prices begin to skyrocket and inflation ends up pushing down consumers' standards of living.'
"Apparently, excess economic growth is one of leading causes of reduced standards of living."
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The five questions David Cameron must answer on the great West Coast rail omnishambles
This rail omnishambles will run and run (unlike the West Coast mainline franchise). If the government is not careful, the charge that is forming of an incompetent and out of touch administration will start to stick. As governments in the past have found, when that happens it becomes very difficult to alter public perceptions. Cameron needs to grip this, and quickly, before Labour returns to London from its One Nation love-in.
But an investigation that deals only with the very narrow question of what several junior or senior officials did or did not do will be painted as a whitewash. To be credible, an inquiry will have to encompass the role of ministers in the Department for Transport and beyond. If there are ministers to be fired and amends to be made, the Prime Minister should establish the facts and get on with it. For starters, here are five key questions he needs to answer in order that he can explain properly what happened to taxpayers, who work hard all year and give the government a large slice of their income, only for ministers to waste £40 million – £100 million on a franchise fiasco.
1) What did the Treasury know? I am told again, as I was immediately after the bizarre decision to give it to First Group, that the Treasury took a close interest in the process. As you would expect. But did that interest tip over into enthusiasm for the bid that seemed to offer the government more even if the figures looked less than credible?
2) What precisely did the ministers do to challenge/question the decision with their officials before it was announced, when stripping Virgin of the franchise was so obviously fraught with financial and political risk?
3) Did Justine Greening suspect something was amiss after the franchise was awarded? If she really did voice serious doubts in the department, did she tell her successor Patrick McLoughlin? If she didn't tell him, and he was sent out to the select committee to say that all was well, she could be looking at the sack.
4) What is going on in the upper reaches of the civil service? We hear much, from Lord O'Donnell and others, about the "focus on delivery" that has been the hallmark of attempts to modernise Whitehall in recent years. To put it politely, progress seems a little slow.
5) When exactly did Number 10 know there was a problem? For weeks Richard Branson was telling anyone who would listen that the assumption underpinning the numbers was badly wrong. One wonders whether he or one of his many people communicated this to the PM or to one of Cameron's staff in Number 10. If so there will be records.
6) I know that this is supposed to be a list of five questions, but it has been based on the work of the Department for Transport and due to an error in the compilation process there are actually six. On HS2, do the government's sums, produced by the same Department for Transport, add up? The Sunday Telegraph has already carried reports which reveal how rickety the numbers are. The government proposes to spend tens of billions on this scheme, based on estimates and projections made by the DfT. Cameron should be asking ministers and officials to take a thorough look.
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I was thinking of creating a package or something that ran on a Raspberry Pi that monitored your internet connection. Basically you would configure to say, monitoring your public school website, Google, your router, your server(s), email then it'll give you a simple status web page that would display if the services are ok or if they are degraded (poor response time\random packet loss).
It would be alerting, but that might be a bit difficult informing your ISP that your internet is down, if your internet down, but it could send an email for degrades and post-outages. I think the key thing would be reporting. I know from the support side, you have problems tracking down "random" issues if the customer is vague. Also it gives you a better position if you've got hard facts, ie it's not my switch, it's the LAN port on your router.
I think it's important it's a device on the network that could be plugged in anywhere as this will give you an actual real-world status, also it needs to be on a non-live system so it can't impact it. Benefit of the Raspberry Pi is that it's fairly cheap, low power and small - so you could hide it in some office at the other end of the school.
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A Catholic teacher from Michigan was arrested and held on $25,000 bail for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old student after his mom found pictures of the woman in her garter belt on his phone.
Abigail Marie Simon, 33, pleaded not guilty to the charges involving the boy and was jailed in lieu of bail, according to the New York Daily News.
The teen's mother discovered the affair between her son and the tutor after seeing a sexting exchange on his phone that included lewd messages and photos of Simon in her garter belt. How horrifying for that poor mom! Can you even imagine? It's just plain sick.
Simon's charges include criminal sexual conduct and accosting a minor for immoral purposes. The inappropriate relationship apparently lasted from early February to late April and involved rendezvous for sex at the teacher's old apartment.
Simon, a study hall teacher and tutor at Catholic Central and West Catholic high schools, was fired in April after the teen's mother told administrators what was going on. Simon now lives with her parents and has been ordered to have no contact with the boy.
These cases are beyond unsettling for moms everywhere. Can you even begin to fathom finding all this out when you thought your son was safe at school? And no matter how a 15-year-old boy might feel at the time about having sex with a pretty teacher, there's no doubt such a disgusting abuse of power would be deeply damaging in ways that might not even become apparent for years.
Let's just hope this boy gets the counseling he needs -- and his teacher, if she's found guilty, gets the punishment she deserves.
Do cases like this worry you about your own child's teachers?
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she pleads not guilty..meanwhile tries to think up a way he got the pics...
Its really hard to see the "damage" done here to the 15 year old boy in question. Has anyone ever followed up groups of boys who did this 10 and 20 years later to see if there were any real issues? I bet if you compared two groups of 100 men - a norm group and a group that had seen action with adult women while they were 14-16 you would see very little difference in how they turned out.
Michael, you've posted a message suggesting that this case is no big deal since any 15 year old boy would probably have wanted to be in this one's shoes. The problem with that type of thinking is that you are taking away the tutor's need to behave like a responsible adult. If you're going to argue that the boy probably wanted it anyway (and that most normal boys would), don't forget that there are girls who've seduced male adults (whether or not the law officially recognizes their ability to do this). Should the men they've had sex with be in jail considering that their victims wanted it anyway?
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Park City Group on Monday announced Gary Rocheleau has joined the company as a senior adviser.
The Safeway Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer, a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, have teamed up to develop a print, radio and digital public service announcement featuring actress and SU2C Ambassador Marcia Cross. The PSA is designed to increase awareness for the fight against prostate cancer.
The Vons division of Safeway on Wednesday announced a new program with Chevron to offer a joint Reward Points loyalty program.
The Safeway Foundation on Monday announced it is giving $2 million to community health programs and hospitals to launch grassroots projects for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity.
Actress and Stand Up To Cancer ambassador Marg Helgenberger will appear in a new public service campaign on behalf of The Safeway Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer, the companies announced Wednesday.
Safeway announced that it has tapped singer/songwriter and philanthropist Avril Lavigne to thank customers who support the retailer's annual Support for People with Disabilities fundraising campaign.
Safeway on Monday named Lori Raya president of its Vons division.
Safeway on Friday said that the leader of its Vons division will retire after serving in the role for more than 10 years.
Safeway announced that its stores raised $1 million for the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization that exists to honor and empower military men and women who incurred service-related injuries on or after Sept. 11, 2001.
Safeway dedicated Veterans Day weekend to pay tribute to past and present service members and raise money for an organization that provides programs and outreach to those who were severely injured while serving their country.
Safeway announced its 10th annual campaign to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association's efforts to develop treatments and assist people coping with neuromuscular diseases.
Safeway on Monday announced that its month-long prostate cancer campaign raised nearly $10.1 million as part of the company's ongoing effort to fund research geared toward finding a cure for the leading cancer affecting men.
Safeway is bringing Coinstar's self-service coin-counting kiosks to its U.S. and Canadian stores, the supermarket retailer announced Thursday.
Safeway on Friday announced the start of its companywide fundraising campaign for Easter Seals, Special Olympics, Rebuilding Together and a range of job training programs that help people with disabilities live fuller lives.
Over the past seven years, Safeway has demonstrated a list of accomplishments aimed at healthier living, including launching its O Organics line of USDA certified-organic foods, removing added trans-fats from all of its private-label products and launching Eating Right for Kids, a line that contains no high fructose corn syrup. Today, the effort shows little signs of slowing as the chain kicked off 2011 with two new initiatives: SimpleNutrition and Open Nature.
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The theme of this year's RCLC public forum is Diversities, Affinities and Diaspora. In the contemporary world of complex diversity and mobility, we see the emergence of new configurations of identities, affiliations and communities in diaspora. The purpose of the symposium is to explore the changing nature of languages, cultures and identities in diverse global settings, partly as a consequence of mobility. This year we bring together the following internationally respected scholars:
Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, University of MelbourneProfessor Sinfree Makoni, University of Pennsylvania StateProfessor Elana Shohamy, University of Tel AvivEmeritus Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones, University of Birmingham
Date: Monday, 18 August 2014Start Time: 5:30 PMFinish Time: 7:00 PMVenue: Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, City West CampusRSVP Date: Monday, 11 August 2014RSVP Contact: http://www.unisa.edu.au/Calendar/Diversities-Affinities-and-Diaspora/
Thursday 31 October 2013
The Ministerial Advisory Committee: Multicultural Education Committee (MEC) is pleased to present Professor Joseph Lo Bianco at this public. In the lecture, Professor Lo Bianco will argue that multicultural education, properly re-imagined for the challenges and realities of the 21st century, remains a critical focus for Australian education.
All interested educators and community members are invited to attend.
This lecture will be introduced by the newly appointed Chair of the Multicultural Education Committee, Associate Professor Angela Scarino.
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Research Centre for Languages and Cultures – 2013 Symposium14-15 November 2013Bradley Forum, City West Campus
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On the face of it, the task in translation is to rework a text written in one language into another so as to make available to a new audience something they would not otherwise be able to access. This means that a translator is involved in communicating meanings that have been constructed in one language—with its accompanying cultural contexts, for readers who share the language and participate in some way in that culture—to an audience that does not share that language and culture. Hence translation cannot entail simply reproducing the meanings of one text in another language; rather, after constructing a reading of the text and its intention, the translator must rearticulate meanings for new audiences. Through the medium—and mediation—of the translator's voice multiple linguistic and cultural framings are brought into relation so that meanings may be communicated across linguistic and cultural boundaries.
Mediation may be intrapersonal, and involve the individual in understanding the meanings of another's language and culture. Or it may be interpersonal, and communicate meanings to another who does not share the linguistic and cultural framings in which the meaning was communicated.
Translators are potentially involved in both such forms of mediation, but in their work the interpersonal dimension of mediation is very much foregrounded. This interpersonal dimension may be made more complex, and problematic, by pressures on the translator to become invisible, and to make the act of translation transparent (to use Venuti's metaphors), where the audience reads a translation not as the product of another's language and culture but as a product of the language and culture into which a text has been translated. The audience may not be aware of, or give significance to, the act of translation that has produced the text being read. In this way, intercultural mediation of the translator may be 'off the record', at least in some contexts.
At the other extreme, the issue of the translator's mediation can reflect the potential intersection between mediation and cultural appropriation in a text, or mediation and the discourse of power. Filtering down to the specifics, the translator's intercultural mediation is reflected in the need to negotiate culture-bound terminology, semantic gaps between languages and the like.
The translator's work can be investigated from multiple perspectives. It can be seen in the ways translators position themselves between languages and cultures and engage in the processes of mediation. It can be seen in the ways that translators themselves are brought into the process of mediation through their education. It can also be seen in the ways that education in the processes and practices of translation is, or can provide, education in the process and practices of intercultural mediation. This symposium aims to provide an opportunity to investigate such issues across a range of languages, cultures and contexts.
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This presentation attempts to define interculturality in a socio-cognitive framework and relate it to current pragmatics research. Intercultural Pragmatics is a relatively new field of inquiry that is about how the language system is put to use in social encounters between human beings who have different first languages, communicate in a common language, and, usually, represent different cultures (Kecskes 2004; Kecskes 2010). The communicative process in these encounters is synergistic in the sense that it is a merger in which pragmatic norms of each participant are represented to some extent. Intercultural pragmatics represents a socio-cognitive perspective in which individual prior experience and actual situational experience are equally important in meaning construction and comprehension. Research in intercultural pragmatics has four main foci: 1) interaction between native speakers and non-native speakers of a language, 2) lingua franca communication in which none of the interlocutors has the same L1, 3) multilingual discourse, and 4) language use and development of individuals who speak more than one language.
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The Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia is excited to present a symposium on Language and Wellbeing: Perspectives on education and health.
Each year the University of South Australia's Research Centre for Languages and Cultures hosts an applied linguistics symposium designed to encourage discussion and debate on a diverse range of issues related to language and languages.
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The continuing globalisation of education, in tandem with migration trends and significant socio-economic developments in the Asia-Pacific region that have changed the geopolitical landscape, gives pause for thought concerning the evolving role of languages education in this part of the world. In particular, these things raise questions about how and on what basis governments and educational institutions are promoting both languages in general as well as specific languages, the degree of uptake by students, the way in which educators think about languages and design and deliver language curricula, and how languages taught in the region sit in relation to one another - and, most intriguingly perhaps, the role of English in relation to that of Asian languages.
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The Research Centre for Languages and Cultures held its annual symposium on 2-3 December 2010. The symposium placed a spotlight on the changing dynamics, theory and research of linguistic and cultural diversity in the international arena. In particular, discussions in this symposium highlighted the challenges and dynamic responses to Indigenous Australian and new migrant languages, cultures and education.
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Languages in flux: the place of Chinese and English in the Asia-Pacific region14 November 20115.00 - 6.30 pmSir Hans Heysen Building room HH3-08UniSA, City WestThe Research Centre for Languages and Cultures (RCLC) is privileged to present a seminar featuring distinguished scholars of international renown who will offer individual perspectives and insights on the status and roles of the Chinese and English languages, particularly in the context of China as the emerging economic and political superpower in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Among other things, the discussion promises to provoke questions around notions of language and power, the nature of the relationship between English and Chinese, and whether and under what circumstances English might be usurped by Chinese as the world's lingua franca.The discussion promises to be of interest to all those involved in language, languages education, language change and the social, political and economic forces that govern the perception and influence of languages.
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A ground breaking for the proposed Wakefield comfort station may take place sometime this month.
Andrew Nota, South Kingstown's director of administrative services, said Wednesday that the Rhode Island Department of Transportation is in the final stages of singing a contract with New England Building and Bridge Co., Inc., for the $1.1 million project.
The project was open for bidding Aug. 8 and RIDOT, which is managing the project, received four bids. New England Building and Bridge was the lowest bidder.
WAKEFIELD–Last week, two student musicians and their music instructor from South Kingstown High School paid a visit to Nashville to participate in the highly acclaimed All-National Honors Festival.
SKHS Director of Instrumental Music Don "Doc" Smith served as chaperone for students Willie Grear and Justin Smith, who is Doc's son. The four day event featured extensive rehearsals, performances and seminars at different venues in Music City.
Scouting for Food – Don't forget to put out your grocery bags of non-perishable food items for the area Boy Scouts to collect this Saturday morning. All food collected will benefit the Rhode Island Food Bank. The Boy Scouts of America "Thank You" for your generosity.
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RICHMOND — "Ask Questions...Get Answers... Give Feedback" was the theme of three open forums hosted by Barry Ricci, superintendent of Chariho Schools, in Charlestown, Richmond and Hopkinton this week.
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The James Kelso Award is a community service award that is named for James M. Kelso, a state representative, community leader and managing partner of the Coast Guard restaurant who died in 1999.
The award originated in 1999 and recognizes a local resident or organization that has provided unparalleled volunteer service and has shown an outstanding commitment to both the community and its residents.
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"I'm thrilled that the Col. [Steven G. O'Donnell] had faith in me to put me in this position," she said Thursday. "I think it's a great honor to have been chosen for that. I think it's kind of exiting for people to be saying that I'm making history."
NARRAGANSETT- The town of Narragansett is one of 13 towns that applied for funding from the new Municipal Road and Bridge Revolving Fund.
The 13 towns requested a combined $29 million from the program, which was created and passed as part of the 2013 legislative session and was quickly implemented by the Rhode Island Clean Water Finance Agency and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation.
The goal of the fund is to take direct action on economic growth, while improving Rhode Island's locally-maintained roads and bridges.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN—Earlier this month, National Grid submitted its 122-page proposal for the streetlight buyback program, legislation for which was passed by Gov. Chafee in July. The Washington County Regional Planning Council (WCRPC), who drafted the Streetlight Investment Act and championed the buyback program among southern Rhode Island's cities and towns, has expressed concerns about National Grid's proposal, which would ultimately see municipalities purchase streetlights and assume their operation costs from the utility.


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Pyromelter said...
I like the idea of guild bound materials.
I still don't like the idea of farming tons of shards. Shards frankly don't make any sense.
My idea is that there is a starter quest that any caster can do, and to complete that quest you need to kill a certain boss (on normal or heroic). Only one quest item will drop, however, similar to rotface/festergust bloods. That way, if you have 8 caster dps, you can prioritize your best caster, but it won't take 6 months for your 8th caster to get that starter quest item.
After that, the individual should have to grind for a primordial-saronite type material to make it uber expensive, possibly along with other crafting mats. Make that the beginning part of the staff, then require the player to obtain either power infusions or items to buff the staff, that would drop off of certain bosses. At this point, you can start making the drops 50% on normal and 100% on heroic.
The idea is that you need simply one item from each boss, as opposed to getting shards from the same boss over and over.


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The ankle joint represents the intersection of the tibia and fibula bones in the lower leg, and the talus bone which connects the lower leg to the foot. The ankle serves the dual purposes of supporting the body while standing up, and facilitating walking and running. A simple break will involve some time in plaster with the use of crutches, and the bones will realign and heal naturally in a matter of weeks. Complicated ankle fractures are likely to require surgery, and the recovery time will extend to months. These include:
Broken Ankle Accidents At Work
In the winter months, hospital admissions for broken ankle injuries rise sharply due to freezing conditions, with slips on ice and snow violently forcing the ankle off at an unnatural angle, causing it to break. Broken ankle injuries among workers are often the result of defective or poorly maintained equipment, such as collapsing ladders, or hazardous premises in general. In busy working environments, such as on building sites, there is the risk of obstacles being discarded in the path of workers, causing them to trip and fall. These types of accident may be the result of an employer or co-worker's negligence for the purposes of claiming compensation.
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|City of Wautoma sanitary sewer reconstruction project update
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To date, PTS Contractors, Inc. have worked on Center Street and installed 574 feet of sanitary sewer and 44 feet of storm sewer, along with two new inlet structures. Existing sanitary sewer laterals were replaced on Center Street in conjunction with the sanitary sewer construction. The contractor had a second crew working in the city completing spot repairs necessary to complete the lining portion of the project. The second crew also located the existing sanitary sewer in the alley South of Main Street. The contractor installed a clean out at the end of the sewer line, enabling the city to maintain this section of sanitary sewer.
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Arve Henriksen releases "SOLIDIFICATION " 7 vinyl box on the 30th of November 2012
"Solidification is a 7LP box that includes his Rune Grammofon albums Sakuteiki, Chiaroscuro and Strjon, all with added bonus tracks as well as a brand new album called Chron, his first since his ECM album Cartography. The beautiful 24 page booklet includes extensive liner notes from Fiona Talkington and John Kelman. The package includes 2 DVDs with all tracks as 16/44 files, hi-res FLAC files and original master quality 24/44 or 24/96 WAV files."
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CBS is trading two Pro Football Hall of Famers for a recently retired player who is sure to join them in Canton, Ohio, just as soon as he is eligible.
Tony Gonzalez will be joining CBS' pregame show, "The NFL Today," replacing longtime analysts Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe, the network announced Tuesday.
Gonzalez is a 14-time Pro Bowler who played 12 years with the Kansas City Chiefs and the last five with the Atlanta Falcons. He is the league's second all-time leading receiver with 1,325 catches and is fifth in receiving yards (15,127) and sixth in receiving touchdowns (111).
"Having just stepped off the playing field, Tony brings a fresh and insightful perspective," CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said in a statement. "As a future Hall of Famer, we are excited for him to share his knowledge, experiences and opinions with our viewers. Tony was one of the most respected and hard-working players in the NFL and a tremendous teammate.
"We look forward to him bringing these attributes to CBS Sports."
Marino has been on the show for 13 years, Sharpe for 10.
"We want to acknowledge Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe who have contributed greatly to the success of 'The NFL Today' for more than a decade," McManus said. "Dan and Shannon are true Hall of Famers on the field and in front of the camera. As they pursue other professional opportunities, we thank them for their hard work and dedication and wish them nothing but the best."


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A local film fest was canceled this year for the first time since its inception 17 years ago.
The Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival was unable to find the $180,000-$200,000 needed to put on the event, which spans several days at , said Jo Moulton, the president of the nonprofit organization that runs the event.
Most of the funding in the past came from a small handful of large donors, but they were unable to give as much this year, the president said today.
"The economy has affected their ability to do that," she said.
No grant from city
Another big chunk of funding used to come from the city, but this year, Moulton did not apply for a grant, said Assistant City Manager Aaron Adams.
"Historically, the (festival) has been the beneficiary of economic development sponsorship grants," he said via email. "The (festival) chose not to apply for consideration of economic development funding last year and, as a result, could not be considered with the other applications."
Moulton saw funding problems on the horizon last year, and she did not want to get a grant for tens of thousands of dollars and then be unable to hold the event, she said.
"If I got the money, and (the fest staff) couldn't pull it together, what if they owed the city? It's me who applied for it," Moulton said. "I didn't want to be responsible for that."
Moulton could have held a scaled-down event this year, but people's expectations are too high for that; she didn't want to disappoint the fans, she said.
"I didn't want the bad economy to dictate the quality of the festival, so we may as well put it on hold to work on the next one," she said. "Could it be done for less? Yes, it can. You can do a festival for $10,000, but what do you get?"
Last year's event climaxed with an appearance from Cybil Shepard and producer Peter Bogdanavich. to screen the film she co-produced.
Next year looking better
Funding and manpower look more plentiful for next year's event, Moulton said.
A couple new backers stepped in with plans to reorganize and put in major funding, but they came too late to save this year's fest, she said.
In the meantime, Moulton is working on holding some small film-related events in September, around the same time the fest usually happens.
As always, the fest is looking for donations and volunteers. "I really, truly appreciate the all the volunteers," Moulton said. "It's really the volunteers who made the festival happen."
Information about sponsoring the event is available here. To volunteer, contact information for the organizers is available here.


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I don't know that many artists like Edward Cushenberry. Take that however way you like. Maybe there are some unpolished points, some devil-may-care cavalier attitudes that invade his work from time to time, and for that I'm a little bit grateful.
No artist likes to hear that they don't put thought or effort into their work, and that's not what I'm saying about Cushenberry here, though nor am I singing his praises simply because I've decided to feature him on this site.
What exemplifies his images are how raw they are. That aforementioned unpolished nature of Cushenberry gives the viewer, or at least I feel gave me while viewing, a rare feeling nowadays. It's a feeling that indicates maybe what we're seeing is unrestricted, that there aren't many shots that ended up on the cutting room floor. Not that this work is a bevy of poor self-editing, it's more that his work has a certain flow of intentionality that indicates that every shot really mattered to this guy. At a time when the finnickity nature of photographers is most likely at its peak (or God forbid, still rising), it's refreshing to get access to something a bit more real. This is a body of work composed without melodramatic flair or ironic mesh screen.
It would be easy to fall into all sorts of traps analysing Cushenberry's images under archaic banners such as 'the snapshot' or 'the family' but none of that is interesting at this stage, not for fledgling artists still trying to find their footing. Nothing here is new, but what's fresh about Cushenberry is a firm standhold in not dressing his images as something they're not. And as an oversaturated viewer dealing with copious amounts of artist statements and vague declarations of departure from previous artistic institutions, it's a bit nice to get something devoid of artificiality.
What are the people in your photographs to you?
On the surface the people in my photographs are just family and friends.
But on the whole, they play a big part of who I am and the work that I make. My work is extremely personal, invades peoples' privacy, and allows me to live vicariously through my camera. I first started shooting this way when I was in school at Art Center College of Design. My friend Josh Schaedel and I were sneaking into an abandoned office at school to sleep because we both lived far away from school.
Soon I found myself being on campus 24 hours a day and seven days a week. I began taking pictures as a way to leave the office, and eventually the photos transformed into a way for me to share experiences with people who were close to me. I found myself living through my camera. The more I shot, the more intrusive I wanted to get because I was interested in others and the way they thought, behaved, looked, and how they lived and existed. A lot of my subjects gave more than others but I was able to get really personal and intimate, and create narratives that were a mixture of intense and quiet moments.
Right now, postgraduation, I pretty much shoot the same but I'm also looking for commercial work so I've been doing test shoots and shooting a lot of digital and a lot portraits. But I'm still interested in my friend's lives, especially now because the majority of them are out of school and are in the same boat as I am. I've also been documenting my relationship with my girlfriend and my relationship with my friends who are women.
What are the challenges of photographing in your space?
One of the challenges of photographing in my studio is that after a while the work becomes very repetitive and constrained. I'm currently working on this portrait series that takes place in the corner of my studio only because that's where the best lighting is.
But as of late, all of the portraits have been looking similar because I'm shooting at the same time and location. The goal of this series was to take very minimal portraits but at the same time trying to convey the personality of my subjects during these shoots. Some of them work, some of them don't. So I'm finding myself using different areas of my studio, shooting at different times a day/night and using on camera flash with my point and shoot in order to have some variations to the project.
Watching for light in and around my studio has become a little easier but it's still hard to get people's schedule to match with the best lighting situations. 7am-8am has beautiful lighting but it's hard to find someone who wants to come to my studio that early, especially on a Monday.
Tell me about 'The Weirdness'.
Man, The Weirdness was and is still weird.
It's a documentary of my friendship with Emily who was also in the photo program with me. We had color theory class together and we eventually started spending a lot of time together. Soon I started shooting very intimate photos of her and it became this project about pushing the limits of what a friendship was. Even though the photos were sexual in nature, that's the furthest it ever went and it never went past taking pictures. I'm not bummed about that part it, but I feel that it's important to state that only because people always ask me that question.
On the other hand, in order to get some of the photos, limits were definitely pushed, there were nights I was questioning why or what I was doing with her and I'm pretty sure she thought the same thing too. I never intended it to be a separate project, for me it was experiencing something new- the majority of the project took place during my days in the office and it gave me something to look forward to when I was staying on campus. The Weirdness was shot over two years and began to slow down, especially when we started our own respective relationships. Besides the obvious, it was a fun project and very important part of my work. I called it "The Weirdness" because that's the only way I could describe it, it's some of my rawest work that I've made.
Even though the work has a lot of sexuality in it, I never meant for it to be anything more than just a documentation on a friend. A lot of people like the project. I had a teacher tell me that I made being a pervert "beautiful", in fact a lot of my teachers liked that body of work once it was finished. My mom and dad have seen some of the work, they get it.
Forgive me if this is an opportunistic question, or a leading question, but what are your views of minority representations in the Art World?
When I was at Art Center, I was lucky enough to have a few knowledgeable teachers and friends who introduced me to "different" artists. I've always been in a position where I felt somewhat under represented.
I grew up in the suburbs, went to private schools and that feeling didn't go away when I went to art school, especially when I had teachers and students question my "blackness" and the majority of those teachers and students were white. I get really stoked when I see galleries that have group shows or solo shows by black and/or minority artists.I also get excited when I see black artists who have work that speak to my experiences of being black. Like I said, I grew up in the suburbs and I feel that my work is a result of living in Orange County.
So my idea of what it is to be black is different from others' ideas of what it is to be black. So, as much as I'd love to be "I'm not a black artist, I'm an artist" I do get excited when I see artists who are like me. It gives validation to what I'm what doing. I still hate myself for missing Henry Taylor's show at Blum and Poe, and the Blues for Smoke show at Moca Geffen Contemporary was amazing. Come to think of it, I always get stoked when I see black contemporaries.
I grew up listening to Punk and Hardcore and I felt that Bad Brains made it okay for me to listen to that music without having to question myself. I also love skateboarding and I remember years ago there was an all Black issue of either Transworld Magazine or Skateboarding Magazine and every article was an interview with a black skater. I had torn out pages of the magazine and had them taped on my wall until my dickhead cousin took them and threw away the pages calling them "Whiteboys".
Getting to the point, 30 Americans is the best example I could give to answer that question. I love that book.
Edward Cushenberry currently resides in Los Angeles, CA and can be found online at the following:
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Léa Seydoux in Petit Tailleur (2010)
(Source: sylviagetyourheadouttheoven, via lovelyleaseydoux)
"It was weird, but hopefully we like each other and trust each other so it was simpler to be with a woman who I consider like my sister. I knew Léa like I knew no one. Our relationship was so intense, and we had to give everything-body, soul, everything." -Adele Exarchopoulos
Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos of "Blue Is the Warmest Color" in Interview Magazine. Photos by Mikael Jansson.
(Source: interviewmagazine.com)