How to Reorganize Your Garage

Are you fantasizing about moving into a bigger home? Has your expanding family outgrown your living space? Are you ready to add space and value to your existing home without building an addition or starting an expensive renovation project?

You may not realize that you already own additional, valuable space. Walk outside and power up your garage door opener. Welcome to your new space! That?s right: Your garage offers more than storage for all your sports equipment or a place to park your vehicle. It serves as a valuable asset for your family?s changing needs and helps you win the fight against clutter. Discover how to organize your garage into a useful space that adds value to your home.

Start the reorganization process by emptying the garage. Remove the vehicle, home improvement supplies, camping gear and boxes of stored mementos. As you remove items, sort your stuff into categories. Try to keep similar items together in a pile. After the garage is completely empty, check its structural soundness. Repair holes in the roof or around the foundation. Seal cracks in the floor or walls. Repaint the inside and outside surfaces if necessary. Now you are ready to turn your garage into a functional, organized space.

Before moving your stuff back inside, decide if you really need to keep everything. Donate unused or outgrown items to a secondhand or reuse it shop. Your local Habitat for Humanity center may accept paint and wood. Throw away broken items. Dispose of hazardous materials like batteries and paint according to local waste disposal guidelines.

After sorting your stuff, you will have piles of items ready to load into the garage, but resist the urge to move back in right away. Take a moment to think about the space?s potential. You might turn your garage into a weight room for your budding athletic star. Or you may want to create a crafting corner and expand your online business. Nurture your green thumb by adding space for gardening tools. Make room for a second car or the equipment you need for a new hobby. Transform your newly discovered garage into a space that meets your family?s needs.

Consider adding organizational tools that help you keep the space uncluttered and neat. Look at the walls and the ceiling. Can you build a loft to hold infrequently used items like holiday decorations? Can you organize your tools by hanging them on pegboards and hooks attached to the walls? How many small boxes, bins or metal coffee cans do you need to sort screws and nails? Would shelves and a bike rack on the rear wall keep your sports and camping equipment organized?

Instead of buying a bigger house, take advantage of the space your garage offers. Install organizational aids and determine as a family to keep the space neat. Not only do you add value to your home, you also make room for the stuff you really want, use and need. Reorganize your garage and find valuable space you can?t live without.

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Joe Solmonese: Some Questions for NOM's Brian Brown

Dear Mr. Brown:

With this week's court-ordered release of previously classified NOM strategy documents, there are way more questions than answers. I know that you're one to keep your cards pretty close to the vest and that you aren't likely to spill the beans on any number of questions, but I'd like to pose a few queries nonetheless.

First, how can you think you're winning when the American people are so clearly moving toward fairness? You write that "victory is possible, even likely..." Before you get too far ahead of yourself, you should take a look at a few non-partisan public polls (like Gallup for instance) that shows majority support for equal marriage. And don't forget young people where support is off the charts and nothing indicates that as that cohort ages they'll suddenly be inclined to reverse their support for marriage.

Where are all of these supposedly unhappy kids of gay parents? I've got to be honest, one of the most bizarre parts of these documents was your goal of paying an outreach coordinator to find kids of gay parents to speak on camera. Aside from how patently offensive that is, how'd it turn out? My guess is that you didn't have a lot of takers?

Does Mitt Romney buy into your strategy of racial division, rebuffing disclosure laws and lying about people of faith? You are clear about your close working relationship with Rick Santorum, but Mitt Romney has also signed your horrendous pledge to fight against equal marriage and investigate your made up harassment. Has Romney signed on to your agenda lock, stock and barrel?

Will you continue to insist that you're more than just a front for a small cabal of donors? You take great pains to paint yourselves as a large grassroots force but everything suggests the opposite. Five mega-donors make up 88% of your funding. And your bus tour not only failed to turn out more than a handful of supporters at each stop. Where are the teeming masses you insist exist?

Do you think all the resources you've put into places like New Hampshire and New York to stop marriage have been a waste? In 2009 you said you had budgeted $2 million for New Hampshire but even with a solidly Republican majority legislature, just last week they decided to keep their equal marriage law in place.

Why didn't you establish a federal PAC? You clearly planned to back in 2009 but that seems never to have materialized. Is it that federal election law would have required that you disclose who gave money to it?

How can you say you're solely focused on marriage when you tout the work of your American Principles Project? As part of your self-described strategy toward "winning the marriage battle" you discuss efforts to "expose Obama as a social radical... raise issues such as pornography" and wade into keeping open the Guantanamo prison and opposing the President's appointees. What does that have to do with marriage again?

Do you wish you spent more than $50K on the "Expert Witness Project"? You say you want to help nurture intellectuals and scholars but you don't have much to show for it. Would it have been worth it for you to invest more so that in the Prop 8 trial for example, the one so-called expert did more to help our case than your own?

Why are you hell-bent on avoiding campaign disclosure laws? Aside from going to court to keep your dealings in the shadows (which, you have to appreciate the irony of a court forcing these strategy documents released, no?) you brags that "one key advantage we now have is the capacity to protect the identity of our donors." Then you also encourage donors to give to a slush fund for use around the country saying, "It is critical that we have a reserve fund to give to these efforts to ensure victory and protect donor identity." What is it that you'd go to such great lengths to hide?

Brian, I look forward to your thorough answers to these questions. Maybe over a coffee at Starbucks? I'll wait patiently...

Joe Solmonese
Human Rights Campaign President

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Position Open: Educational Materials Center/Instruction/Reference ...

The University Library seeks an innovative, highly-motivated Librarian to be responsible for the Educational Materials Center (EMC), with major responsibilities in library instruction and reference. The position will be responsible for developing, promoting and evaluating the EMC collections (K-12); the position also provides library instruction related to education and the EMC; coordinates library instruction in the summer during the absence of the Instruction Librarian; assists in the planning and provision of reference services. The Librarian serves as a member of the Reference, Collection Development and Instruction Workgroups.

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"Game of Thrones" returns April 1 (Reuters)

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) ? HBO's fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" will return Sunday, April 1, the network announced Friday.

The network also announced that the movie "Game Change," about John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, will debut Saturday, March 10. It stars Ed Harris as McCain and Julianne Moore as Palin, with Woody Harrelson as campaign strategist Steve Schmidt.

The new series "Girls," from "Tiny Furniture" star and creator Lena Durham, will debut Sunday, April 15. "Veep," which stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a beleaguered vice president, debuts Sunday, April 22.

HBO also announced that "The Weight of the Nation," a four-part documentary about the nation's obesity epidemic, will debut Monday, May 14 and Tuesday, May 15, with two parts airing each night.

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PFT: Packers healthy, ready to go for Giants

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Eyebrows have been raised, in Denver and beyond, regarding the ability of the Patriots to hire former Broncos coach Josh McDaniels as an offensive assistant.? The Pats, coincidentally or otherwise, announced the move within 30 minutes or so after the Broncos beat the Steelers, setting up a prime-time Saturday night game between Denver and New England.

The move obviously complies with current NFL rules; otherwise, the NFL never would have allowed it.? The broader question is whether NFL rules should allow it.

McDaniels wasn?t fired by the Rams, where he served for one season as offensive coordinator.? Instead, the Rams opted to release McDaniels from his contract, knowing he could ? and likely would ? return to the Patriots, where he worked through the 2008 season.? If the Rams had decided not to release McDaniels from his contract until, say, after the postseason ended, McDaniels couldn?t have joined the Patriots.

And here?s where it gets even more interesting.? Rams owner Stan Kroenke, via family members, also owns the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche.? Thus, if Broncos fans aren?t happy with the fact that the man who drafted Tim Tebow and Demaryius Thomas is running the Pats? scout-team offense this week as Bill Belichick tries to avoid having the tables turned on that 18-point win by the Patriots less than a month ago, Broncos fans can show their displeasure via the local basketball and hockey teams.

Regardless, the Rams shouldn?t have had the option to make McDaniels available.? NFL spokesman Greg Aiello explains via email that rosters become frozen once a team?s season ends, and the rosters remain frozen until the day after the Super Bowl.

So why shouldn?t the same rules apply to coaches?

That?s what seems to viscerally disturb many NFL fans.? McDaniels wasn?t fired during the Rams? season ? he worked with the Rams through the end of the season, and he has now landed with a team that is still playing.

The solution is simple.? The NFL should prohibit the hiring by a team that is still alive in the postseason of any coach who was under contract with another team when that team?s season ended.

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World's smallest vertebrate: Tiny frogs discovered in New Guinea

ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2012) ? LSU's Chris Austin recently discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which is now the world's tiniest known vertebrate, averaging only 7.7 millimeters in size -- less than one-third of an inch. It ousts Paedocypris progenetica, an Indonesian fish averaging more than 8 millimeters, from the record. Austin, leading a team of scientists from the United States including LSU graduate student Eric Rittmeyer, made the discovery during a three-month long expedition to the island of New Guinea, the world's largest and tallest tropical island.

"It was particularly difficult to locate Paedophryne amauensis due to its diminutive size and the males' high pitched insect-like mating call," said Austin. "But it's a great find. New Guinea is a hotspot of biodiversity, and everything new we discover there adds another layer to our overall understanding of how biodiversity is generated and maintained."

Austin, curator of herpetology at LSU's Museum of Natural Science and associate professor of biological sciences, is no stranger to discovering new species, having described numerous species previously unknown to science, including frogs, lizards and parasites.

The research, which will be published in PLoS One, on Jan. 11, includes a second species of diminutive frog newly named Paedophryne swiftorum that is only slightly larger than Paedophryne amanuensis, averaging only about 8.5 millimeters in body size.

Austin's work, supported by the National Science Foundation, highlights an interesting trend among the discovery of extremely small vertebrates.

"The size limit of vertebrates, or creatures with backbones, is of considerable interest to biologists because little is understood about the functional constraints that come with extreme body size, whether large or small," said Austin.

With more than 60,000 vertebrates currently known to man, the largest being the blue whale with an average size of more than 25 meters (75 feet) and the smallest previously being the small Indonesian fish averaging around 8 millimeters, there was originally some thought that extreme size in vertebrates might be associated with aquatic species, as perhaps the buoyancy offers support and facilitates the development of extremism. However, both new species of frogs Austin described are terrestrial, suggesting that living in water is not necessary for small body size.

"The ecosystems these extremely small frogs occupy are very similar, primarily inhabiting leaf litter on the floor of tropical rainforest environments," said Austin. "We now believe that these creatures aren't just biological oddities, but instead represent a previously undocumented ecological guild -- they occupy a habitat niche that no other vertebrate does."

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1. Eric N. Rittmeyer, Allen Allison, Michael C. Gr?ndler, Derrick K. Thompson, Christopher C. Austin. Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (1): e29797 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029797

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