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Piles of work papers and to-dos are visual reminders of things you don’t want to be doing -- putting in a little extra effort to button up your home office will help streamline your home for summer, so you can move on to the fun stuff.
This plan will help you clear the clutter and put systems in place to make it easier to keep things looking good all year.
Make a plan of attack
How big your home office is, and just how packed full of stuff it is will make a huge difference in how much time you’ll need to devote to get it in shape. If you use your home office regularly, or if your home office is large or has accumulated a lot of clutter, plan to spend a few longer stretches of time on a weekend and follow up with shorter tasks during the week.
If it’s a small space or not too cluttered, you may be able to compress the plan into a single weekend -- read it over before beginning and tailor it to work for you.
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Day 1: Deal with paper.
Decluttering tasks: What is all of that clutter? Do you even need to keep this stuff? This is the day to find out. At the end of today’s tasks, your home office may very well look worse than when you began -- consider yourself warned!
Do some research. Sometimes we keep things simply because we are not sure if it’s OK to throw them out. Go on a fact-finding mission (call your tax preparer or search online) and figure out what you need to keep and for how long.
Sort and stack. Work your way through your home office, pullingevery loose paper out of drawers, shelves, cupboards etc. As you go, sort your stuff into categories as best you can, shredding and tossing what is no longer needed.
Make quick temporary labels for your category piles with a marker on plain paper -- it’s amazing how quickly you can lose track of what goes where.
Set aside anything that does not belong in your home office and make a point of returning it to where it belongs (or to whom it belongs to) today.
Cleaning tasks: Keep a shredder, recycling bin and trash can nearby for obvious junk mail and garbage.
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Day 2: Make some space.
Decluttering tasks: Pour yourself a big cup of coffee or tea, because you’ll need the boost to get through today’s task -- but when you’re done, your workspace should be feeling significantly better.
Pull every (nonpaper) item out of your and office storage and sort it into piles, placing like with like -- for instance, all letter writing supplies in one pile; everything computer related in another.
Now take a closer look at those piles, removing unneeded duplicates (do you really need three staplers?) and anything that doesn’t belong in your office.
Armed with the knowledge gained on your fact-finding mission on Day 1, dip into your files and see if there are papers you can safely get rid of.
If you want to move toward a paperless home office, go online today and set up paperless statements and billing.
Day 3: Get organized.
Decluttering tasks: Think outside the file box to find an organizational system that works for you. Rather than going to an organizing store first, see what you can use around your home. It’s more important to give everything that has been sitting out in piles a permanent home than it is to buy new containers. Here are a few ideas for organizing your home office:
A grid of clipboards on the wall can make for a handy place to keep papers organized.
Wall-mounted cups keep frequently used supplies neat and within reach.
Cups and bowls borrowed from the kitchen make great desktop and drawer organizers.
Labeled, open-top baskets on shelves are great for people who like piles.
Traditional files are still useful for important documents.
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Day 4: Freshen up.
Cleaning tasks: Give yourself a big pat on the back, because the hardest work is now behind you! Today is all about making your home workspace fresh and clean, so it will be a healthier, more pleasant place to spend time in.
Vacuum your home office from top to bottom. Use an attachment to clean window treatments, high corners and fabric lamp shades.
Wipe down shelves and surfaces with a damp microfiber cloth.
Use monitor wipes to clean your screens.
Use a keyboard cleaner to blow dust from between the keys or gently clean them with cotton swabs.
Bring in some fresh plants to help clean the air.
Day 5: Consider comfort.
Decluttering tasks: How comfortable is your home office? If you use your workspace often, it’s important to have an adjustable chair with proper support, good lighting and perhaps a small stool to put your feet up on. See what you can do today to make your home office more comfortable.
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Day 6: Add a personal touch.
Decluttering tasks: The beauty of a home office is that you can emphasize the home part as much as you like. Bring in family photos that make your smile or treasures from your travels; drape a beautiful textile over your chair; or store your office supplies in pretty fabric baskets and teacups. Cut a few fresh flowers from the garden and place them in a vase on your desk. Light a scented candle while you work. Do whatever makes your office feel more like you.
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Day 7 and beyond: Do daily maintenance.
Decluttering tasks:
Aim to handle paper as soon as you get it, rather than letting it pile up. If you don’t have time to do this daily, set up an inbox with slots for a few broad categories (bills, work, school etc.) so papers will be easier to handle later.
Post a note detailing what you should save and for how long.
Schedule a weekly time to empty your inbox.
Cleaning tasks:
Straighten up your home office before you are done working each day. Bring the coffee cups back to the kitchen and completely clear your desktop.
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Kalanag, born Helmut Ewald Schreiber, (January 23, 1903 in Backnang – December 24, 1963 in Gaildorf) was a German film producer and magician in the German Reich and in the early Federal Republic of Germany.
Life[edit]
Early years[edit]
Already in his youth, the son of a factor worker devoted himself intensively to the art of magic and entered the Magic Circle of Germany at the age of 16. He attended secondary school in Stuttgart and later studied at the University of Munich and at the Technical University of Munich.
During his studies of philosophy in Munich, he organized one of the first German magic congresses. At the same time he gained experience as an actor and dramaturg at the Münchner Kammerspiele. From 1925 he worked in the film industry in Berlin. As a production manager, starting in 1926 he was in the silent films Hunt on People (1926), The Man Without a Head (1927), One Against All (1927), The Duty to be Silent (1927), Evidence (1928), The Winner (1928), Marriage in Need (1929), Motherly Love (1929), The Mistress and her Servant (1929) and Innocence (1929).
In 1927 he became editor-in-chief of MAGIE magazine of the Magic Circle. He chose his stage name after the elephant Kala Nag ('Black Snake') from Rudyard Kipling'sJungle Book.
Time of National Socialism[edit]
Due to his good contacts to Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels he made his career at the Tobis Film Company. With the onset of the sound film era Schreiber rose to production manager, from 1930 to 1934 he was also active as a motorcycle racer. From summer 1936 he worked as a production group leader, in 1939 he became an executive of the film industry, in June 1942 he finally became production manager in Bavaria and remained there until the end of the war. As author, cameraman, recording and production manager, Schreiber was responsible for a total of 150 films. Schreiber, who belonged to the NSDAP since 1933, prevented the dissolution of the Magic Circle, which, however, from June 1936 as part of the so-called Gleichschaltung forced to the Reich Chamber of Culture (Reichstheater chamber, section Artistics) affiliated. Schreiber got involved with the National Socialists as president of the Magic Circle (1936–1945), membership was reduced from the originally 1373 members to 400 and prevented the use of Jewish compositions as background music. Without belonging to the circle controlled by Schreiber, magicians in Germany were banned from performing which inevitably affected Jewish magicians. In contrast, after the war, Jewish artists defended Kalanag and pointed out that he still kept Jewish personnel in the service of Bavaria for a long time. In 1936 Schreiber was awarded the Hofzinser Ring, which he passed on to Ludwig Hanemann (stage name Punx) in 1948. [3]
After the Anschluss of Austria, Schreiber extended his influence to there. Schreiber became director of the Bavaria Film in Munich, produced public speeches by Adolf Hitler and in 1939 was a guest at the Berghof am Obersalzberg. Schreiber fostered friendship with Hitler's personal adjutant, SS Gruppenführer Julius Schaub, who sponsored magical events. For magicians, uncommonly disliked the public education about fraudulent tricks of spiritualists and threatened traitors even openly with the Gestapo. This attitude may be related to Schreiber's friendship with the Berlin police chief and occultist Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, who had once considered the tricky imposter Erik Jan Hanussen to be a real magician. Schreiber propagated the illusion 'Simsalabim' as his creation, which historians ascribe to the Danish-American magician Dante.
End of the war[edit]
Wondershare filmora 9 3 2 15 0. Towards the end of the war, Schreiber mediated between the Allies and wanted SS men, who offered free access to the legendary stolen gold, which is officially largely lost. Later, when the military police Schreiber wanted to arrest on the Bavaria site, this appeared in the presence of high American military who protected him. As president of the Magic Circle, he was deposed and received from the Allies a professional ban. After a denazification process Schreiber fled to the British occupation zone to Hamburg, where he lived with a magic friend who was known as the 'king of the black market' and was later convicted of diamond smuggling with a Swiss magician.
Postwar career[edit]
Since Schreiber had a professional ban in his previous profession, he turned his hobby into a profession in 1947 – at a time when the postwar period was turning into a postwar boom or economic miracle. With the support of former Tobis people, he entertained British occupation soldiers with his Kalanag revue, consisting of elaborate illusions and lightly dressed showgirls.
The most famous numbers included, among others, the Magic Bar dating back to Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin and made famous by David Devant, where the whole idea of a single pitcher was served on demand, as well as for special tricks the saying 'And we'll do it all with water from India' poured a spurt of water out of a never-ending carafe on the stage. As the highlight of each performance, he had a car disappear from the brightly lit stage following an idea by Howard Thurston. An important element of his shows was always his wife and partner Gloria de Vos (Anneliese Voss). As his assistant, with the degree of sex appeal and dancer allowed for the time, she gave each performance a special shine. Exoticism was also provided by a cheetah appearing in a box.
Officially it was never known how Schreiber had financed the elaborate show in post-war Germany from scratch. Alone the costs for the disappearing car amounted to the then astronomical sum of 10.000, - DM. Magicians like Janos Bartl or Fredo Marvelli, whom Schreiber had badly harmed during the time of the national socialism, called for the boycott of his shows.
World tours[edit]
In the 1950s, Kalanag toured with his 50-member ensemble tours of Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, South Africa, Brazil, the United States, Turkey and Switzerland. In the summer of 1960 he appeared in the Zwickau Groß-Variete Lindenhof. At that time, Kalanag was the only major illusionist in the world who still toured with such an elaborate show. The magic historian Richard Hatch points out that the traveled countries strikingly match the banknotes that had disappeared in 1945 with the Nazi gold. Supposedly, the CIA has therefore observed Kalanags activities throughout his life. Before and after Kalanag, no other German magician has ever taken the economic risk of such costly world tours. At the end of the 1950s interest in variety shows diminished, which also brought Schreiber into financial difficulties.
Germany television GmbH[edit]
Schreiber became entertainment director in the commercial Free Television Society. The company served the construction of the Germany-Fernsehen GmbH planned by Adenauer, which should have offered a conservative alternative to the broadcasters of the ARD. However, the project failed due to the 1st Broadcasting Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court.
The later years[edit]
Although Kalanag had achieved a high profile and status, he could not build on his success with a slimmed down version of his revue. In the mid-1950s, Schreiber moved from Hamburg to the Württemberg village of Fornsbach, where his cousin Margarete Sedlmayer owned land and ran a café. Here he built a bungalow with a show stage ('Kalanag Studio'). On January 23, 1963, he celebrated his 60th birthday, but on Christmas Eve 1963 he died of probable heart failure in the Gaildorfer Hospital. According to his daughter Brigitte Löser, 'he lived very unhealthily and was very overweight'. He left his divorced wife Gloria, a fortune of 500,000 DM. He sought throughout his life a larger treasury from the Nazi gold, of which she also assumed that Schreiber hid somewhere.
References[edit]
Douglas Botting, Ian Sayer: Nazigold – The Story of the World’s Greatest Robbery – and its Aftermath. London 1984, ISBN0-586-05594-0.
Werner Geissler-Werry (1977), 'Kalanag (eigentlich Helmut Schreiber)', Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 11, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 44–45; (full text online)
Richard Hatch: Kalanag and the Vanishing Banknotes. In: MAGIC. 1989, S. 48. (englisch)
Richard Hatch: Das letzte Wort. In: magische welt. 2003, S. 98.
Wittus Witt, Bernd Heller: Mein Präsident. In magische welt. 2003, S. 98.
Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts. Band 7: R – T. Robert Ryan – Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN3-89602-340-3.
Rolf Aurich: Kalanag. Die kontrollierten Illusionen des Helmut Schreiber. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN978-3-95732-152-7.
Benöhr-Laqueur, Susanne: Kanalag: Unergründlicher Opportunist und Antisemit?