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Many insects are associated with disease because they can be parasites and vectors, but it is not generally known that insects are often afflicted with diseases, including viruses, bacteria, and fungi. I study a fungal parasite of a lowland Neotropical ant species. In September of 2006 and February of 2007 I went to two sites in Amazonian Peru (Iquitos in the north and Madre de Dios in the south) to collect the ant Cephalotes atratus, which is infected by the fungus Cordyceps kniphfioides. Cordyceps fungi infect insects, causing them to climb trees so they die in elevated locations. The fungus consumes the insect tissue, and then produces an elongated fruiting body (a mushroom) containing spores that disperse aerially to infect other insect hosts.
My aim is to understand host-parasite coevolution by studying both broad and fine-scale geographic patterns of the ant and fungus. Cephalotes atratus is a canopy-dwelling ant that rarely comes to the ground, so I climb trees to access their nests. This requires modified rock-climbing equipment and the aid of field assistants from Peru. So far we have collected ants from over 70 colonies. Using specific molecular primers I will be able to extract ant and fungal DNA from infected ants. I can then determine geographic patterns of variation in host and parasite DNA and the level of parasite infection in different ant populations. Cephalotes atratus lives in human-altered habitats (e.g., cities and agricultural fields), and I will later examine whether I can detect any effects of habitat destruction on host-parasite dynamics.
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One of the first generation of minimalist masters, Reich studied drumming with Roland Kohloff, principal timpanist of the New York Philharmonic, and later composition at Juilliard and Mills College. He helped put together the premiere of Terry Riley's In C in 1964, and a few months later completed It's Gonna Rain, his seminal tape piece of looped speech fragments. His other influences ranged from John Coltrane to Ghanaian drumming and Balinese gamelan music, resulting in lively, pulse-oriented music of great color. The scope of his music ranges from the sound of clapping hands to full-length multimedia theater pieces.
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I have learned that when you think that you are at the end of your rope, and you don't think you can go further, that there is somebody out there who can help turn you around and give you a new lease on life... you just have to open your heart.
I have learned that when it comes to opinions, there is no right and there is no wrong... everybody has an opinion... everybody has a reason why that opionion is theirs... and nobody has the right to tell you that your opinion is wrong... even if it is!
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that family can consist of close friends, not just blood members.
that a miracle does not always come with glittering lights and alot of pazazz (my nephew was born in 2000)
that money is not important, love friendship and kindness go alot further
and that your real name does not matter (my nephew calls me coffee LOL)
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Yang Zichao was born in China in 1963, Hong Kong artist and designer Douglas Young born in 1965, coincidentally share the same name in Chinese: Yang Zhichao. Parallel Lives explores a slice of history between two overlapping lives separated by a boarder of Hong Kong and China. Yang Zhichao spent four years collecting the personal notebooks of 3,000 individuals dating from 1949-1999. His series entitled, Chinese Bible covers 50 years of history within the writings of personal notebooks. Douglas Young is obsessed with Hong Kong's recent past and collects objects from his lifetime that are now disappearing in the fast changing modernization of the city. The objects themselves are not antiques nor are valuable but they speak volumes about Hong Kong's daily life in the past 50 years. Parallel Lives is an exhibition of collective memory by two very different artists who share a commonality of age and name as well as search yet have never met.


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November 1995
LETTERS Ferocious Differences
Castañeda's plea to keep our border open to Mexican immigrants
underscores the points he makes about Mexico's failures as a society. Try to
imagine conditions in Mexico today with an additional 10 million people (more
than a tenth of Mexico's current population), the vast majority with little
education and few skills. That's the estimate of the demographer Leon Bouvier,
of the Center for Immigration Studies, of the Mexicans who have immigrated
legally and illegally into the United States since 1960, plus their
But in advocating immigration to the United States as a pressure valve for
Mexico, Castañeda ignores the negative consequences of this enormous
south-north flow for the United States, and above all for its own poor
citizens, mostly black and Hispanic. Growing income disparity within the United
States is not the result only of Reagan policies. Another contributor is the
vast pool of unskilled immigrants (Mexico being the largest source of them)
that has flooded our labor market, displacing poor citizens and driving wages
and benefits down. Immigrants also compete with poor citizens for social
Immigration is thus relevant to "The Crisis of Public Order," Adam Walinsky's
compelling article in the same issue. Immigration both aggravates the poverty
that nurtures violent crime and diverts resources from programs to do something
about it. And there is at least some evidence, which Walinsky's data do not
address, of a disproportionate Hispanic (principally of Mexican origin)
involvement in crime--for example, in Colorado, where in 1988 Hispanics
accounted for 11 percent of the population and 25 percent of the prison
Lawrence E. Harrison
It is clear that the United States, acting as a safety valve for Mexico's
unwanted, unsatisfied peoples and as a source of hope to all, has merely aided
the Mexican ruling class in maintaining an exclusive grip on the nation's
wealth. The unsatisfied can simply emigrate and send part of their paycheck
Apparently, what Mexico really needs is an outright revolution with a few
ruling-class heads on the pikes to initiate change. This would be far more
palatable to many in the United States than the social revolution we will
experience at home if the gradual Mexican invasion of illegal immigration is
allowed to continue.
Mark Fickes
Is Castañeda, who does not tell us which of Mexico's three racial
groupings he belongs to, seeking to have the United States ally with a small
racist group of millionaires and their assassination teams? I vote for a
Mexican revolution. It may solve the immigrant problem in California, because
many of la raza's militants could return to their homeland and fight for
justice in a land in which Mexicans are genuinely oppressed (Mexico), instead
of asking for special privileges in a tolerant country that unwisely admitted
them (the United States).
Kenneth Barkin
Jorge Castañeda replies:
Mexico's current economic crisis is mentioned in the essay as an example
of a much more atemporal and substantive problem: why Americans do not
understand Mexico. Using the surprising--for many--nature of the crisis as an
example, Itry to explain why Mexico retains an undeniable opacity for observers
from abroad. I argue that it stems from the differences between Mexico and the
United States, which stretch beyond levels of income and productivity and reach
into the deeper realms of the soul, history, and society. No attempt is made to
establish a causal relationship between Mexico's ills--economic, social, or
otherwise--and those ferocious differences.
After examining some of the differences I consider paramount, I conclude with
another example--of an upcoming surprise that should not be one. Mexican
economic, social, and political stability will be seriously affected if
emigration to the United States is curtailed at a particularly difficult time
for millions of Mexicans. Again, this is simply an example, not a causal
relationship or a policy recommendation. I do not know, and certainly do not
presume to discover in a short essay, whether Mexico's ills can be or have been
solved--or aggravated, as the case may be--by immigration; I certainly do not
state that immigration is the answer, nor do I recommend "that the United
States allow huge waves of illegal Mexican aliens into the country in order to
forestall a revolution in Mexico" (though this is partly what the United States
has done for half a century, rightly or wrongly). I only want to suggest, in
passing, that Americans should proceed today on the question of immigration
with their eyes open. Among the many factors that U.S. immigration policy
should take into account is the effect on Mexico. After fully considering what
impact a given immigration reform could have on its neighbor, the United States
may decide to act regardless of that impact. And that impact may occur
regardless of whether the United States takes it into account.
Locking a single pleasure craft through a huge lock is wasteful, but
only in the amount of energy consumed to pump the water uphill, less any energy
generated when that parcel of water is returned. To the degree that Devine bids
us squander our energies in mourning mythical dead salmon and darkened homes,
he compromises the credibility of the rest of his article--and reduces the
likelihood that the waste he decries will be addressed in less sensational,
more effective ways.
Thomas W. Flynn
I really get tired of hearing that big banks, big insurance companies, and big
business are the bad people of our society, and not the guardians of our
savings, our insurance reserves, and our food supply. There are many obvious
abuses of the subsidies, and I wouldn't pay a dime for flood damage to people
who knowingly live in a floodplain (but that was a surprise to many
honest people in 1993).
But the scale of the abuses in the use of food stamps and the endless array of
welfare benefits are wrong too. Nevertheless, people have to be fed, housed,
and clothed, and their children educated, no matter what. At least the cost of
water supply and control has been somewhat quantified, and the costs mentioned
are but a dot on our annual expenditures, whereas the philosophy of nature
first, man second is an old philosophy almost from the beginning of recorded
history, and is unquantified and an emotional reaction today.
Wilfred P. Juckem
The megalithic federal "public works" dams showcased by Devine are, however,
only part of the problem. America's rivers and streams are also obstructed by
thousands of nonfederal dams that have been and continue to be constructed
primarily for hydroelectric power, owing in large part to federal legislation
enacted in the late 1970s to hedge against the vagaries of the world oil
market. These dams have contributed greatly to the precipitous ecological
decline of many U.S. rivers, and environmental degradation is particularly
profound in river systems with multiple hydroelectric dams.
Under federal law the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that
regulates the construction and operation of nonfederal dams, cannot license the
construction of a new dam or relicense existing dams unless, after giving equal
consideration to power values and to environmental quality, it determines that
to do so will be in the public interest. Unfortunately, the FERC continues to
approve new dam construction in degraded river basins and appears poised to
begin relicensing existing projects without due regard for river health or
adequate protection and mitigation for fish and wildlife. Until the FERC takes
its legal charge seriously, the deplorable state of many American rivers will
Rob Masonis
The article, however, was totally off base on the prices that irrigators in
Westlands Water District pay for water from the federal Central Valley Project,
in California. In reality they pay from $34.00 to $45.00 per acre foot, even
though the federal government originally contracted to deliver water for
The prices have been substantially increased by legislation passed by Congress
in 1982 and 1992. For example, the prices failed to include the $6.35 per acre
foot paid into an environmental-restoration fund by CVP contractors. It is
indeed true that Westlands' farmers pay more than most for their water.
The author also used an apples-and-oranges comparison: for Westlands he used
the range of basic prices paid by the district to the federal government,
rather than the cost delivered to the farms. For avocado growers in San Diego,
however, he used the delivered price.
Comparing prices paid by farmers with those paid by cities is another
apples-and-oranges situation. Water prices are driven by four major factors:
how far the water must travel, how high it has to be pumped, whether the water
must be treated for human consumption, and the expense of distributing the
Farmers generally (the San Diego avocado grower is one exception) are close to
the source, don't have to pump their water over high mountains, don't have to
treat their water, and have low distribution costs. Water from northern
California must be conveyed more than 400 miles, pumped more than 3,000 feet
uphill, and delivered through a very expensive urban-type system in order to
reach the San Diego avocado grower. That's why it costs $300-$400 an acre foot;
water from the same project (California's State Water Project) is currently
delivered in the San Joaquin Valley, adjacent to Westlands, for $47.00 an acre
David Yardas, of the Environmental Defense Fund, was correct in saying that
most farmers can afford the state-project water. He was dead wrong on two
counts: Westlands and other CVP contractors pay much more than he said; and he
neglected to mention that full cost in the federal project is much higher than
the state-
The article also repeated a common misconception about cotton, calling it a
plant that "guzzles" more than thirty inches of water a year. Water
requirements for cotton are more accurately described as moderate. Cotton uses
about the same amount as grapevines, but a third less than fruit or nut trees
and other field crops grown in the area. Cotton requires less than half as much
water as alfalfa or irrigated pasture (or, for that matter, many lawns, parks,
and golf courses).
Farmers in Westlands are switching to vegetable crops, including tomatoes,
garlic, onions, and lettuce, as rapidly as the markets for these commodities
expand. Since 1980 vegetable acreage in Westlands has increased from 70,000 to
180,000 acres. The major reason is economics; these crops provide a higher
return than the crops they replace. As a group the vegetables also use about
six inches less water than cotton.
Cotton acreage, on the other hand, has remained static or declined slightly.
This trend demonstrates clearly that somewhat lower water prices and the
existence of a commodity program don't encourage farmers to grow, much less
"lavish" water on, cotton or any other crop. Farmers fully realize that water
is too scarce to waste. Many of them choose the crops they grow on the basis of
net income per acre foot of water.
For the record, Westlands does not have leaky canals. Water is distributed
through underground pipelines and metered at each delivery point. More than
half the acreage is irrigated by sprinklers, and almost all the permanent crops
have drip or micro-sprinkler irrigation systems. Several farmers conduct
field-scale trials in an effort to find a cost-effective way to use expensive
subsurface drip irrigation on annual field crops--another way to get the most
out of every drop of water.
David Orth
Many hydropower dams also store the river's flow in their reservoir and then
release the water for power generation at times of peak electricity need. This
is called peaking-power operation, which produces much costlier electricity
than regular operations. Peaking power causes both the reservoir created by the
dam and downstream stretches of river to fluctuate between low and high water,
degrading shorelines and disturbing fisheries, waterfowl, and bottom-dwelling
organisms, especially during nesting or spawning periods. Irregular releases of
water by a peaking-power dam also destroy the river's natural seasonal flow
variations, which trigger growth and reproduction cycles in many species.
In addition, the flow of water into a hydropower dam's turbines draws fish into
the spinning blades. The fish are often killed by the turbines. Those that
survive are often injured or stunned, making them easy prey below the dam for
flying predators such as gulls and herons. Thus the area below a dam is
nicknamed "chowder alley."
Fortunately, the means are at hand to reduce the environmental damage caused by
many of the nation's hydropower dams. In the next fifteen years the operating
licenses will expire on more than 500 nonfederal hydropower dams (owned by
private developers, utilities, municipalities, and others). The relicensing of
these dams is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which can
condition the relicensing of these dams on improvements to reduce environmental
damage. Because hydropower-dam licenses last thirty to fifty years, this is
truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change how the nation's hydropower
dams are managed.
Margaret Bowman
Few Americans perceive how critical the nation's inland waterways are to our
commerce. Well over 1.1 billion tons of bulk commodities will move over our
nation's rivers in 1995, primarily the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their
tributaries. Coal from West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania can move to
electric-power plants, chemicals and a variety of petroleum products are
delivered from refineries to wholesale and retail distributors, and grain from
farms is shipped to millers and processors. In each case these commodities move
with greater safety, less pollution, greater efficiency per unit of energy
consumed to move each ton, and at less cost than they would by competing modes
of transportation. Even with taxpayer support the inland waterways bring
economic benefits to everyone in the form of cheaper electricity and lower
prices on finished goods.
Pointing out the $1.5 billion authorized by Congress for capital improvements
on the Ohio River system over the past ten years is particularly misleading.
Virtually all these lock and dam projects have replaced or will replace
existing facilities that are decades old. Moreover, shippers pay to the Inland
Waterways Trust Fund an excise of twenty cents per gallon of fuel used in
barging operations. This excise supports 50 percent of the cost of studies and
capital improvements to the locks and dams and related infrastructure.
Steven F. Leer
A cursory glance at the history of the U.S. West reveals a struggle between
supply and demand. With a large influx of easterners before the turn of the
century and after the Great Depression, common sense demanded the means
necessary to survive.
An example is the federal Central Valley Project, built under Franklin
Roosevelt's authority in the 1930s. Prior to the development of the project,
California land was largely barren. Under the CVP, however, a wide variety of
crops was produced, providing economic sustenance and stability. It is a
perversion of the truth to state that dams "impoverish" citizens. In fact,
those within the CVP and other federal projects welcomed the chance to "make
it." Dams change the ecosystem--but for the benefit, not to the detriment, of
Flood control is another area in which focusing on hard costs makes little
sense. Population growth, much as we are loath to admit it, has interfered in
the marketplace. Devine recognizes this fact but ignores its effects. He
suggests building in areas outside floodplains--but it is not that simple.
Areas outside floodplains are often already developed or protected, limiting
residence choices. Perhaps cessation of building altogether is the unstated
solution--a novel idea, but one with little practicality. Until our economy can
be sustained without depending on growth, building is the unfortunate
Most disturbing is Devine's evaluation of agricultural water practices. The
wide variance in water costs between cities and agriculture apparently bears
explanation yet again. Municipal and industrial water prices are (comparably)
higher for several reasons: filtration and disinfecting facilities, water
meters, underground pipe, and in California extensive transportation
facilities. The water that farmers receive is untreated and unsuitable for
human consumption--"raw" and less reliable, because city and environmental
water uses have priority in times of shortage.
Yet an image of wasteful water practices by agriculture has long been
cultivated, particularly by David Yardas, of the Environmental Defense Fund,
and by other environmental groups. Even at a cost of less than $20.00 per acre
foot, farmers would be shooting themselves in the proverbial foot by wasting
water--in essence, only costing themselves more money. There is also the
question of why agriculture would use up a necessary yet limited resource so
Devine states that "a great deal of water vanishes from fields. . . .
surrendering a huge volume of water to evaporation and seepage." Groundwater
aquifers in California can be drawn down and recharged. Once water is in the
ground, minimal loss occurs, making unlined canals a component of groundwater
recharge. Lining canals, using low-flow systems, and making other costly
improvements do mean that less water is used--but less water is stored
In the past decade California agriculture has invested some $300 million
annually in micro, drip, and other advanced irrigation methods, negating
Devine's assumption that farmers "still rely on inefficient" methods.
Considering that most irrigation improvements have come in the past ten years,
relying on studies from the 1970s hardly seems accurate or fair.
Is there some waste? Unfortunately, yes, but simply jacking up the price of
water will solve only a portion of the problem. Working through programs (like
those of the California Department of Water Resources) to educate farmers to
alternatives is far more efficient and effective.
The diversity of fruits, nuts, and vegetables that are grown in California as a
result of the Central Valley Project has benefited the nation. Even cotton, the
undeserving poster child of crop-choice critics, is virtually never in surplus
and contributes significantly to the national trade balance. All of this
bounty, using only 30 percent of the developed water supply, leads one to
conclude that a wise investment was made in building water projects.
R. Brad Shinn
Robert S. Devine replies:
Thomas Flynn is misinformed about lock operations at Lower Granite Dam. The
lock draws its water from the upper reservoir. When a boat headed downriver is
lowered, or the water level is lowered to accept a boat going upriver, that 43
million gallons, otherwise unused, drains into the downriver reservoir. Locks
waste significant amounts of water; during drought years the Army Corps of
Engineers restricts lockages in an effort to conserve.
Wilfred Juckem correctly notes that the many benefits that dams provide were
not the subject of my article. However, in many cases the benefits aren't
nearly as great as advertised. When one also considers subsidies, industries
hurt by dams (such as commercial fishing), and environmental harm, many dams
don't appear to provide net benefits to society. I appreciate that Juckem is
tired of the phrases "big banks," "big insurance companies," and "big
business"; I hope he appreciates that I didn't add to his burden by using any
of those phrases in my article. Juckem also refers to the costs of dams and
dam-related subsidies as "but a dot on our annual expenditures." Well, to
paraphrase the late Senator Everett Dirksen, a billion here and a billion
there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Steven Leer makes it sound as if barging is clean and green because it pollutes
less and uses proportionately less energy than do competing means of shipping
bulk commodities. But dredging, the disruption of natural river flows, and
other measures that serve shipping cause extensive environmental harm. Leer
also states that barging deserves taxpayer support because it's cheaper than
competing modes of transportation--but in many cases it's cheaper precisely
because taxpayers support it. He justifies the $1.5 billion that Congress has
doled out to the Ohio River system for upgrading its locks and dams on the
grounds that the existing facilities are decades old. Perhaps their age makes
rehabilitation necessary, but their age hardly justifies the use of taxpayer
dollars, especially considering that federal money built those locks and dams
for bargers in the first place. Leer closes by pointing out that shippers pay a
fuel tax that covers 50 percent of capital improvements to waterways. Such a
tax was imposed in the 1980s (over the fierce objections of bargers), but
loopholes greatly reduce the amount shippers pay; in fiscal year 1995 the fuel
tax covered only 23 percent of capital improvements. Leer forgets to mention
that the federal government pays 100 percent of the annual operation-and-
maintenance budget for inland waterways, an amount that usually exceeds the
money spent on capital improvements.
Brad Shinn writes that I pervert the truth when I state that dams "impoverish"
citizens. No such statement appears in my article. But dams do inflict economic
harm on many citizens, such as farmers whose fields are encrusted with salt
owing to upriver irrigation practices, persons displaced by reservoirs, and
those whose livelihoods depend on fish populations that have been devastated by
water projects. Shinn grossly overstates the case when he declares that we must
develop floodplains because builders have nowhere else to go; usually other
land is available. His assertion that before the coming of industrial
agriculture the Central Valley, in California, was "largely barren" reveals a
narrow utilitarian perspective. The pre-Columbian Central Valley was a
grassland of immense biological wealth, home to clouds of waterfowl, salmon,
and even tremendous grizzlies and wolves.
Shinn's argument that farmers cost themselves money if they waste water is
specious; some irrigators receive water that is so heavily subsidized that it's
cheaper to use it profligately than to pay for improvements that conserve it.
Shinn says I'm way off the mark in stating that the U.S. Department of
Agriculture almost always declares cotton a surplus crop; the USDA says I'm
right. Shinn writes that California irrigators use only 30 percent of the
developed water supply; a variety of authoritative sources put the figure at
about 80 percent.
Shinn and David Orth rightly challenge my unintended implication that farmers
should be paying the same price for raw water that others pay for treated and
arduously delivered water. However, I stand by the pivotal comparison that
reveals a large part of the subsidy that irrigators enjoy: the Westlands Water
District pays only $8.00-$31.00 per acre foot (not $34.00-$45.00, as Orth
states) for Bureau of Reclamation water, although it costs the bureau
$61.00-$80.00 to make that water available. Orth's figures are inaccurate in
part because he includes the $6.35 per acre foot that gets paid into the
environmental-restoration fund. That $6.35 pays (or barely begins to pay) for
the environmental degradation caused by irrigation, not for water per se. Orth
defends using more than thirty inches of water a year to grow cotton in a
desert by observing that some Westlands growers raise crops that require even
more water. I'm glad he's not my attorney.
Finally, several of the respondents employ a peculiar bit of reasoning often
used by the benefactors of dam-related subsidies; they boast of the economic
good created by the taxpayer money that has allowed them to prosper. But as
they're now so prosperous, why should the government continue to subsidize
them? Should we also give entrepreneurial seed money to Microsoft? Instead of
asking for more, these fortunate businesses should thank the taxpayers for
giving them a great start and begin making it on their own.
My second thought is that ETS is based on a dead philosophy, a casualty of the
Second World War, which holds that meaningfulness and usefulness can be charted
and graphed and numbered and analyzed. Why does the American university find it
too difficult to rid itself of false idols: logical positivism and ETS?
Sergia Nasby
Nicholas Lemann's fascinating review of the history of academic aptitude
testing left out one significant factor: high school rank (HSR). Aptitude-test
scores when combined with HSRpredict better than HSR alone in the liberal arts,
but are not as helpful in predicting success in engineering schools as
performance on a mathematics test combined with HSR.
Ray H. Bixler
Ray Bixler overstates high school rank's lead in the predictiveness
race. Yes, it's generally more predictive of college grades than the SAT, but
not always or by a huge margin.
We were saddened to learn that Daniel Cohen died, of AIDS, last summer. In his
occasional reports for us from Paris, a city he had lived in as a student and
visited often, Cohen gracefully and concisely incorporated impressive amounts
of information--a skill apparent to the readers of Smithsonian, to which
he contributed often. Cohen was memorably pleasant to work with:our
fact-checkers always looked forward to his articles, because they arrived as
scrupulously annotated manuscripts of the kind that the checking department
hopes (usually in vain) to receive from every writer. Everyone Cohen worked
with quickly fell into an easy friendship with him, and we will miss both him
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I like being able to send kids to another room to play so I can read a book. I like leaving a project on the formal dining room table overnight. I love having some "privacy" space between my bedroom and the kid's bedrooms.
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I like being able to send kids to another room to play so I can read a book. I like leaving a project on the formal dining room table overnight. I love having some "privacy" space between my bedroom and the kid's bedrooms. |
i do all those things (1350 sq ft . . . it's 850 plus a finished attic). i send the kids upstairs, or outside, or to go take a bath, lol - or i read in bed. if for some reason i do a project on the dining room table instead of on my big sewing table in my craft space, i can leave it there overnight and we can eat breakfast (and lunch, if need be) on the breakfast bar of our kitchen, or in the car as we run around, or out on the porch. kids' room is upstairs, my bedroom is downstairs - not that i'm sleeping down there yet (still cosleeping upstairs), but when we're ready: hello, privacy!
don't get me wrong, i can think of reasons i'd enjoy a bigger house. size matters, but layout matters more! . . . i love my small (or imo normal) house, and i'm glad you love your big house. it just struck me as funny because all those things are totally doable for me too!
I think wanting to downsize is noble, but you have to be really honest with yourself about what you need-- if you don't think you'll be able to deal with the small, storage-less kitchen, you won't.
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We moved here from a beautiful, new home that had 2100sf finished plus and unfinished basement (completely usable for storage and play) and an unfinished upstairs (we never used.)
Sometimes I miss the space. But I don't miss the constantly cleaning. Constant.
I'm still unpacking here but so far I can really see that this smaller space (we lived here before and just moved back...so I did know what I was getting into) takes about 60% less of my time. So I can spend more time with my children and with cooking and with knitting.
We have a tiny 1 car garage that will be used for some storage but mostly for dh's home office. Then we have a storage shed for things that can be stored long-term that are not temperature-sensitive. And we have a huge, fenced yard. Without the yard we would be in trouble. The house feels too small for so much kid-energy but because we can open the door and let them FREE it takes care of that.
The thing with smaller spaces is: declutter viciously
Before we moved back home I spent a month decluttering. We got rid of about 30% of our furniture (donations, freecycle, friends) and about 60% of our non-furniture stuff. I cannot count how many trips we took to the thrift store to donate or had friends over to go through stuff and choose what they could use.
There are very few things that I am sentimental enough about to keep moving them cross state lines.
So I cleared out. Even if a thing was useful, it didn't mean that I needed to own it. I could give it to someone who really needed it...so I did.
Decluttering also made the move more sane. We were able to fit everything in to the moving truck with room to spare. We were able to load the truck and unload the truck without killing ourselves. And less stuff just makes me feel more at peace.
I believe that our children need more of US then they need the stuff we fill our houses with. So if I can spend less time picking up, cleaning, reorganizing...that's a very good thing.
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We're a family of 5 in 650 sq ft and feel like we have plenty of space
I think you'd be fine We have an extremely skewed perspective in this part of the world about how much space and stuff we "need". |
we do have a skewed idea of how much space we need. have you ever seen the books, not so big house?
the idea is quality over quantity. and, really, a great way to live green is to not take up so much space. really think about what we *need* as opposed to what we want. we are super consumers as americans, and our ideas about houses just fall into that.
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That being said, I think we also really like having separate bedrooms with walls, so that noise doesn't become a big factor. Same reason we are fans of multi-storey houses rather than bungalows or apartments--psychologically, we both like having the separate spaces.
We are still very excited about decluttering, simplifying & living in a smaller space. But I'll come back and update in 3 weeks after we've moved into our new house--maybe I'll have changed my mind
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As others have said -- I am ok with moving to a smaller space. It has always been important to us to not buy new construction (and this is our 4th home purchase). That's not a judgement on anyone else, just how we feel! I like being with DD, 3, and DS, 1. We're always in the same room. I expect as they get older, things will change, but for now -- I'm excited!
But any inspiration for letting go of family (old/antique) furniture would be appreciated!
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I was living in 860sf with my DH and 2 kiddos, and we are about to move (for 1-2 years) into a 550sf apartment. So, I think 1200 sounds big!
I have personally VICIOUSLY purged with this move. I am worried about living in 550sf, but I think we'll make it work. While kids are young, I've found they want to be around me anyway.
I'm with others- don't store stuff you won't use. Give it away to someone who will really love and appreciate it. Or sell it and use the money in 5 years to buy new furniture.
OP here. SubliminalDarkness and maybe a few others commented on storing furniture in the basement. Most of our furniture has come from parents and grandparents (some of whom have died), so a lot of the pieces have memories attached. That's why I need to lurk around here -- I need help letting go of "things" that I feel guilty getting rid of. I mean, I know it's ridiculous to keep an old pie crust table that is not practical to have with 2 young children, but it was my grandmother's! And I could go on and on with just about everything we own! And the frugal/poor side of me thinks why donate this perfectly useful dresser when we might need it in 5 years. HELP!
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so far (it's been a month), it's good. We have 3 littles, 4 months, 2, and 4, and like someone said, it's not like they've ever been more than 2 feet away from me anyway, so I don't have that to compare to. They've always been right up in my pocket. We plan to live here 5-7 years, and I expect by then, I'll want more space, but for right now, this works well for us. In many ways, it lives a lot bigger than our old house.
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And the frugal/poor side of me thinks why donate this perfectly useful dresser when we might need it in 5 years. HELP!
If it is a perfectly useful dresser, you can get a little bit of money for it on Craigslist, and in the event that you actually find yourself NEEDING a dresser in five years, just keep an eye out and someone will be selling a similar dresser eventually. Just price it reasonable.
Sometimes we watch the "wanted" list on Craigslist to see if anyone NEEDS the extra stuff we have. We just got rid of a perfectly nice, comfortable but a bit worn recliner. It was clean, but older and slightly miscolored in a few spots. A woman with fibromyalgia posted asking if anyone had an affordable recliner for cheap (she couldn't sit upright anymore or something) She was so very very happy that we would sell it to her for 40 bucks. Yes, that was cheap but because of the miscoloring, I couldn't really charge a high price. This lady was so completely ecstatic, you could tell it was such a relief for her to get this recliner! And it was something that was just taking up space in our house.
We used to try and keep everything, but after a cross country move where we had to pare down our stuff, we realized how liberating it is to only have what you need in your daily life. All the furniture in our house has a place and a purpose and every room gets used regularly. If we get something new, something old has to go.
It feels good to find new homes for things that we cannot use, or do not have room for. It is very rare that I find myself needing something I rehomed, but we have little storage area in our house, and I quite often appreciate that all areas of our house are fully used, are relatively uncluttered, and we are not tripping over things that we are keep for some potential need that may never even occur.
It does have a very generous kitchen for a house of it size. I actually think I have more cabinets. While it doesn't have a huge lot it has a larger sort of common area that the neighborhood kids play in that I can see from the window.
Anyway we are a family of the same size, but a bit older (our kids are 5 and 8) and we are very happy in our current space. Good luck from somebody who could never live with her MIL as long as you did.
It is doable. Before you even move boxes and stuff in, take an inventory of your space. Reconfigure the closests with double hanging or double shelves/closet organization, or invest in storage boxes/shelves/cubbies that sit in the closet floor. Utilize those door hanging organizers for stuff too (not just shoes! I flound a cool one for books and toys in a children's catalog) Utilize under bed drawers/garment boxes for storing out of season clothes and other seldom used items. In the kitchen, get those wire racks, dividers, etc that will maximize the cupboard space. Maybe think of getting new (or thrift sotre) dishes. If you have stonewear, they are kindof bulky, Look for thin correl (corell?) take up about half the space. In the bathroom (if you don't have a linen closet or something) definately get an etagiere or shelves or cupboard over the back of the toilet. If you have a dining room, consider getting a corner shaped cabinet for storing linens, entertaining dishes, or other things. Get all your storage places in order while they are empty, it is easier! Have a coffee table? Make it 2 levels so you can store baskets underneath, or make it a 'chest' so you can store stuff inside. Put hooks on doors (if they are solid) for haning stuff. Put on kid height hooks too!
As you unpack, now is the time to purge!
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We're a family of 4 (2 adults, 4 yr old and a 1 yr old) in 1000 sq ft. apartment. There are 3 bedrooms 2 baths. I actually wish we had a smaller place. It is very hard to keep everything clean and I think we would do better with less stuff in a smaller space to clean. I think you'll be fine and you'll find all kinds of ways to create more storage : )
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Dear President Obama,
Things seem to be going a little rough for you right now on your campaign for reelection in 2012. As a self-declared Progressive you have explained to us the future benefits of your plans, however, I believe most of us don't understand the mechanics of how we will get to those future benefits. Maybe a majority of the American Public doesn't understand the wisdom of your plans the way you are presenting them. I know it's unsolicited, but I'm going to give you a little advice from a common sense regular guy on how I think you can get more support.
For the past several decades, with the blessing of Republican and Democrat presidents, Progressive congressional leaders and followers have put a lot of effort and energy into finding new and confusing ways of taking money from US Citizens. In the past, we average everyday citizens have busied ourselves with our individual desires and been self-centered in our thinking so we have not been putting much effort into letting our elected officials know our displeasure regarding this attitude. I'm not sure you realize that a free hand to continue this course of action has ended.
My advice to you is that if you wish to be reelected, present to the American Public a tax plan that is transparent, written in language that every American can understand and allow every United States Citizen to contribute financially to help pay for our government. If everyone helps pay for our government, then everyone will have a vested interest in how our government is spending our dollars. I, as one American Citizen, would appreciate the opportunity to have a "Beer Summit" or share some coffee with you and discuss the merits of a "national consumption (sales) tax" or a very specific "flat tax" with you.
If you wish to retain our current tax system, I believe it is in your best interest to clearly define what percentage of our tax burden you wish each citizen to pay. You have stated that you want the upper 1% of our wage earners to pay for a greater portion of our tax burden. I know that currently the highest 1% of our wage earners pay around 40% of all taxes, the top 5% pay around 60%, and the lowest 50% (those with adjusted gross incomes of less than $33,048) essentially pay nothing. I think it would help your reelection for you to tell us what percentage of our tax burden you think each of these wage earners should pay?
Mr. President, I'll be watching your campaign this week and if I have any more suggestions, I'll let you know. By the way, in order to set up our Beer Summit/Coffee Time, your staff can contact me at the email address below.
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Keep Calm meets Shaun of the Dead. YEAH BOYYY!!!!!
Front page of Reddit!
Sold on TeeRaiders.com Nov. 7-9, 2012.
keep calm, carry on, shaun of the dead, zombie, winchester, film, mash up, funny, simon pegg, nick frost, edgar wright, ghostglide, who, sherlock
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Brand Invicta
Style 10095
Series Subaqua/Reserve
Style Casual
Gender Men's
Strap Width 24 mm (31 mm at widest)
Case Stainless steel
Dial Color Silver textured
Hands Gold, white and luminous hour and minute. Gold second. Silver tone and red day
Markers Gold tone and luminous indices
Clasp Type Buckle
Strap Color Black
Strap Material Black genuine leather with crocodile pattern
Case Shape Round
Bezel Stainless steel with 18k gold plated stainless steel top ring
Weight 241g
Movement Swiss made chronograph quartz (Ronda 7003L SM)
Crystal Flame-Fusion
Case Diameter 52 mm
Case Thickness 20 mm
Water Resistant 50 ATM/500 meters/1650 feet
Calendar Big date display at 12:00 and day retrograde display between 8:00 and 4:00
Strap Length Up to 9 inches
Case Back Screw-down
Crown Screw-down 18k gold plated stainless steel
Material Genuine leather
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Invicta Men's Subaqua/Reserve Silver Textured Dial Black Genuine Leather
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Punta Gorda, Florida, USA.
sunset, water, ocean, hdr, landscape, florida, beach, nature, clouds, see, sky, orange, red, ludanayvelt, explore_feature, palm trees, tree, escape, coast
thank you, I have this print in Metallic paper 12 by 18, printed for completion, it looks better than on the screen. Not sure if Metallic available here, but it on http://www.redbubble.com/people/ludan...to-the-sun , I sold couple of them there


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We awoke to sirens, could see flames from the out the window. It looked close by. I took theses pictures from a block away. I do not know if the people got out. I prayed for them.
House fire. Winthrop st., Troy Mills, IA
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