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University of Tennessee announces dean’s listThe University of Tennes-

see Knoxville has posted the names of students who have been named to the fall dean’s list.

To qualify for the dean’s list, an undergraduate student must earn a term grade point average of at least 3.50 and complete at least 12 credit hours.

From Sullivan County: John E. Adams, Sarah G. Adinolfi, Rebekah J. Alison, William L. Alley, Micah B. Anderson, Katherine P. Ardire, Avery E. Aulds, Laura M. Baker, Owen H. Barbour, Joseph P. Beg-ley, Alex Beyersdorf, Anna K. Biggs, Savannah M. Black-man, Christina N. Bouchillon, Stephen T. Branch, Samuel D. Brown, Valerie N. Brown, Breanna J. Browning, Sarah E. Cagle, Samantha M. Cahill, Theresa L. Cahill, Gregory R. Cantrall, Joshua L. Capwell, William D. Carr, Benjamin S. Carrick, Garrett T. Carter, An-nice Yuen Nee Chew, Thomas T. Clarity, Amy E. Clemens, Owen W. Click, Meredith Q. Cline, Hayden D. Correll, An-tonio V. Costa, Wesley N. Cox, Drake M. Crawford, Hannah C. Crawford, Jarrod R. Creasy, Katherine M. Culligan, Sar-ah M. DeLung, Blake Dingus, Preston T. Dishner, Taylor A. Dishner, Aliza R. Dixon, Andrew S. Doran, Rachel O. Doub, Aemilia R. Drozdows-ki, Greyson K. Dulaney, Jere-miah Duncan, Kayla E. Dun-can, Tiffany F. Dye, Brittany M. Earp, Braeden A. Edwards, Katelynne C. Edwards, Warren A. Ehrenfried, Alexandra N. Eleas, Hannah E. Emery, Re-ece C. Emery, Emily M. Ervin, Natalie M. Falconer, Evan A.

Fenyves, Lexie Ferguson, John C. Floyd, Tony M. Foreman, Savannah L. Franklin, Kelli Frawley, Anna M. Frye, Kar-lee E. Gibbon, Brandon R. Gil-liam, Samuel E. Gilliam, Colby L. Gladson, Kaitlin E. Glynn, Myranda S. Gorman, Elaine T. Greenfield, Benjamin S. Greer, Jocelyn C. Grigsby, Emily K. Grimes, Timothy L. Grizzel, Amy M. Gross, Preston B. Hall, Adrian L. Hargrave, Gabrielle E. Harman, Justin H. Har-mon, Rachel E. Harr, Thomas A. Harrison, Lexi J. Hartsock, Meredith H. Hawk, Clifford S. Hawkins, William D. Hogue, Marielle L. Holtzclaw, Barton A. Hove, Brayden R. Hutchins, Nicolette D. Hutton, Joseph R. Ignace, Bethany D. Jones, Andrew S. Kanel, Ashley D. Kappelman, Edward W. Karst, Dylan T. Keller, Alison C. Kil-gore, Dallas B. King, Sean W. King, Joslyn I. Knox, Sarah Y. Lang, Luke P. Lawrence, Edi-son H. Li, Valerie A. Lick, Dal-ton K. Light, Mollie M. Light, Peyton M. Light, Alexia C. Lit-tle, Jacob A. Lockhart, Hannah T. Mai, Katie M. Masters, Emily Matney, Elliot J. Mccrary, Lu-kas W. Mccrary, Logan C. Mcda-vid, Thomas B. Mcdavid, Jacob L. Mcreynolds, Sarah K. Me-ade, Mason C. Meyers, Michae-la J. Milhorn, Adam C. Miller, Lyle H. Miller, Payton M. Mill-er, Spencer D. Miller, Emma R. Millican, Ruby E. Millican, Avery Q. Morelock, Ryan R. Moser, Spencer A. Murphy, Me-gan R. Murray, Bradi L. Musil, William A. Naylor, Tyler N. Oreskovic, Abigail D. Owens, Tanner D. Owens, Karsten J. Parker, Brianna L. Patterson, Megan A. Peck, Lauren P. Per-ry, Preston D. Perry, Whitney

N. Pickwell, Kaleb A. Pittman, Margaret E. Potente, John A. Potter, Daniel B. Ramsey, Isaac K. Ratliff, Isaiah L. Reeves, Toy M. Reid, Haley C. Rice, Kaylie L. Richard, Amanda R. Roach, Hayley E. Robinette, Mara J. Robinette, John P. Roller, Aar-on J. Rowland, Eric A. Sala-ma, Erika N. Sanders, Michael A. Sanders, Matthew D. Scott, Talya M. Shelley, Tiffany N. Shelton, Carter W. Sheppard, Patrick T. Shull, Chesnea A. Skeen, Chad A. Smith, Garrett W. Smith, Hailee R. Smith, Jonathan W. Smith, Maken-na S. Smith, Taylor N. Smith, Maci M. Snodgrass, Blake A. St Clair, John C. Straley, Leslie M. Stroud, Whitney N. Taylor, Na-than D. Terrill, Sarah E. Tes-terman, Kindra Thomas, Gabri-elle E. Tidwell, Ryne E. Tipton, Kimberly K. Troutman, Bailey L. Tullis, Lexie G. Vaughn, Jose N. Velasco, Bowen L. Wag-ner, Isaac C. Way, Marshall S. Welch, Kara R. White, William C. White, Hannah C. Whitson, Parker M. Wilkins, Abbey C. Williams, Nathan V. Willis, Mickey J. Winkle, Mikaela D. Woods and Yonna M. Worley.

From Hawkins County: Kris-ten E. Ankrom, Andrew L. Blythe, Ashley R. Carter, Mor-gan A. Crawford, Hunter D. Cross, Jennifer L. Davis, Em-ily E. Doub, Jordan A. Dowdy, Donavin E. Estep, Kasey E. Fleenor, Ashley M. Forster, Al-exander C. Holcomb, Rufus J. Hood, Brianna D. Johnson, Sar-ah M. Kinsler, Hunter N. Leef, Thomas J. Lueddeke, James C. Mullins, Lisa D. Murrell, Leslie H. Ottinger, Madison E. Price, Abigail G. Rider, Han-nah J. Rider, Kylie D. Russell, Carson G. Sievers, Andrew D.

Testerman, Jonathan T. Trent, Zachary T. Ward and Brianna M. Watkins.

From Washington County: Abby E. Aurigema,, Charles L. Backus, Kenzie J. Bastian, Kelci M. Beavers, Madison D. Blackburn, Jared C. Boles, Ol-ivia C. Boles, Ernest O. Botts, William E. Bowers, Ethan D. Bowman, Olivia C. Breeding, Lucas Carroll-Garrett, Ryan T. Caveney, Arpan R. Chakraborty, Kerwin Chu, Austin K. Cole, Nicholas G. Combs, Gabriel M. Corleto, Hannah A. Culbertson, Gus M. Darden, Sean M. Dar-ling, Ryan C. Dent, Alexandria J. Domyslawski, Madeline J. Domyslawski, Hannah M. Dun-bar, Adam M. Edwards, Ash-ley P. Ervin, Nicolas M. Fabus, Christopher J. Feathers, John L. Flaherty, Nicholas M. Foster, Darrell J. Fowler, Ashlin M. Fox, Michelle C. Franks, Jack-son P. Frizzell, Miranda F. Fry, Bradley K. Fullbright, Ignacio M. Garcia, Bethany G. Garland, Grayson S. Garland, Payton E. Garland, Tyler D. Glover, Shel-by M. Goodsell, Katie R. Gouge, Ashley Grillo, Sophie D. Gros-serode, Matthew J. Guinn, Da-vis D. Harmon, Emily L. Hash, Robert T. Hash, Hannah E. Hausman, Matthew R. Heath, Rebekah F. Henderson, Ker-stie M. Hillman, Cole D. Hoff-man, Tanner H. Holden, Jar-ed J. Hopland, Abigail Howe, John F. Huffman, Michaela M. Humby, Virginia C. Ingram, Allen H. Irwin, Hannah L. Jarrett, Megan E. Jeffcoat, Kelsey M. Johnson, Michelle R. Johnson, Madison T. Jones, Rachel R. Jones, Samantha P. Karklins, Cole R. Keck, Ryan C. Keever, Emily J. Keith, Kasey M. Kelley, Ashley M. Kelner,

Morgan E. Kite, Rachel Klein, Remi Koch, Laura Lam, Anna-bel L. Large, Logan G. Larkey, Garrick W. Ledford, Jonathan D. Leonard, Megan E. Lich, Av-ery M. Linton, Rebecca K. Man-sy, Patrick J. Mardis, Kiersten L. Marsh, Jose I. Mejia Sierra, Kristen N. Miranda, Adam W. Montano, Courtney A. More-lock, John L. Mottern, Perry M. Murdaugh, Morgan L. New-som, Caroline M. Norris, Luke A. Norton, Chloe P. O’Dell, Daniel X. O’Leary, Jonathan P. O’Leary, Alexandra Palaz-zo, Emily R. Palmer, Allyson M. Parks, Mackenzie L. Parks, Taylor D. Payne, Dianna J. Per-ry, Abby N. Phillips, Quinn A. Pilkey, Allison S. Poget, Gary H. Price, Victoria J. Regan, Caroline A. Rhea, Gretchen L. Roberts, Jacob T. Rogers, Nich-olas A. Ross, Abby G. Sanders, Jessica L. Scarbrough, Jeffrey Schoondyke, Grant T. Seeger, Kelby J. Seivers, Logan R. Size-more, Lejla Skahic, Charles W. Smith, Kori L. Smith, John P. Spires, Mary A. Stallard, Nel-ly Stepanov, Morgan T. Street, Seth S. Street, Ivy M. Thorn-burg, Anna E. Tomita, Sydney N. Tomlinson, Haley D. Torbett, John T. Torbett, Peter L. Torok, Emily L. Toye, Lauren E. Trent, Jonathan T. Trzil, Zachary R. Trzil, Olivia K. Tumlin, Haley E. Wagner, Adam D. Whitfield, Olivia L. Wilkinson, Kali M. Williams, Reilly E. Williams, Raymond C. Winstead, Alaina M. Wood, Kathryn A. Worley, Kevin J. Ye and Tariq W. Za-karia.

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Sunday’s Living section. E-mail sub-missions to Carol Broyles at cbroyles@timesnews.net.

By ANGIE HYCHECommunity Contributor

It’s time to talk about organizing again! In this biweekly column, my goal is to share practical, low-budget organizing tips and techniques that you can use immediately as you organize your home or business. My first col-umn was designed to get you motivated to organize by painting a picture of what being organized looks like. Now I am going to shift gears and help you de-cide how to get started.

Usually the first step in a project is to gather all of the needed ma-terials. So you might think that I am going to tell you to go buy a bunch of organizing supplies. After all, it’s what most people do when they decide to get organized. But as much as I LOVE organizing supplies, buying sup-plies is NOT the first step. The first step of any organizing project should always be re-ducing or decluttering. No matter what part of your house or business you’re organizing, your first step should always be taking a good look at everything in that cat-egory to de-termine if you need to get rid of any of it before finding the appropriate container for storing it.

Why is it so import-ant to reduce first? The simple fact is that the vast majority of us are simply drowning in our stuff. Take a look at a few sobering statistics from the article “21 Surprising Statistics That Reveal How Much Stuff We Actually Own” by Joshua Becker, from the website becoming-minimalist.com.

• There are 300,000 items in the average American home (LA Times).

• The average size of the American home has nearly tripled over the past 50 years (NPR). And still, 1 out of every 10 Americans rent off-site storage — the fast-

est growing segment of the commercial real estate industry over the past four decades (New York Times Magazine).

• Twenty-five percent of people with two-car garages don’t have room to park cars in-side them, and 32 per-cent only have room for one vehicle (U.S. De-partment of Energy).

• British research found that the average

1 0 - y e a r- o l d owns 238 toys but plays with just 12 daily (The Tele-graph).

• Just over 3 percent of the world’s chil-

dren live in America, but they own 40 percent of the toys consumed globally (UCLA).

• The average Ameri-can woman owns 30 out-fits — one for every day of the month. In 1930, that figure was nine (Forbes).

• The average Amer-ican family spends $1,700 on clothes an-nually (Forbes), yet throws away 65 pounds of clothing per year (Huffington Post).

I could go on, but you get the picture. Most of us simply have too much stuff! So if we just buy new containers for all our stuff, all we’re doing is shuffling this excess stuff around. We’re not addressing

the root problem, and we’ll never effect last-ing change. When we own too much, our pos-sessions end up owning us, rather than the oth-er way around.

So if you’re all fired up and ready to get or-ganized (which I hap-pen to think is a truly admirable goal), begin at the beginning. Re-solve to reduce first. Make a commitment to take a long hard look at each of your belongings and evaluate whether you truly need them. Start thinking about what you really need in your home or office environment and about how clutter is affecting your day-to-day life. Look around critically and get ready to make some tough choices.

My next article will give you some practi-cal suggestions for how to decide what to keep and what to get rid of during the decluttering process. I’ll give you some simple guidelines and questions to ask as you make these de-cisions, as well as ad-vice on what category of items and/or area of the house to begin this process.

I would also love to address some of your questions! Send your organizing questions to angie@beshipshape.com.

Happy organizing!

Declutter before buying any organizing supplies

Jessica Fischer graphic

‘The first step of any orga-nizing project should always

be reducing or decluttering. ... Why is it so important to reduce first? The simple fact is that the vast majority of us are simply drowning in our stuff.’— Angie Hyche,Shipshape Solutions

Simple decor fixes can help battle the mid-winter blues

By MELISSA RAYWORTHAssociated Press

During these chilly and gray days of mid-winter, many of us look to our homes as sanctuaries. The standard ad-vice for cheering up your living space is to add a few splashes of bright, hap-py color, says designer Maxwell Ryan.

But while that may seem like an easy solution, he says, it’s actually not very effective. To create a home that really helps battle the mid-winter blues, you need more than just a pop of color.

The Associated Press asked Ryan, founder of the home decor website apartmenttherapy.com, and two oth-er interior designers — Florida-based Laura Burleson and New York-based Jenny Kirschner — for advice on small decor changes that can lift spirits and brighten up a home.

BRING NATURE INIn February, many people are craving

time outdoors and missing the natural energy of growing plants and flowers, Ryan says. “We’ve watched our plants die outside or the leaves fall from the trees,” and we’re due for an infusion of healthy, growing life, he says.

So add a few new plants to your home — perhaps succulents arranged in a kitchen window, or flowering branch-es in a large vase. Or plant flowering bulbs indoors in a large, deep bowl (try paperwhites or amaryllis) and enjoy tending them as they begin to bloom.

“Even if you just go to the corner store and bring in cut flowers,” Ryan says, you’ll be adding a bit of nature’s energy to your home.

SHIMMER AND GLOWAdd “a little glimmer of light” to your

living space, Burleson says, by adding shiny elements like metals, cut glass and lucite. These help natural light bounce around a room even when days are short. The goal is to make the most of what light there is.

Burleson also suggests adding metals in warm colors that “hint of spring,” such as a copper, brass and rose gold.

All three designers suggest improv-

ing the happy glow of your home by swapping out any lightbulbs that of-fer cold or harsh light. Kirschner says hardware store employees can help you find the most appealing “daylight bulbs” to bring a sense of sunshine in during gray winter days.

Or consider swapping out old lamp-shades or adding a new lamp. “Spread your light around down at the level you live at,” Ryan says, so that it’s “closer to you, closer to your face. You’ll look better and feel better.”

Designers recommend having at least three points of light in any room. Once you have plenty of light sources, make sure you use them by adding dimmers to control the light, and upgrading so that several lights can be turned on from a single knob or switch. Ryan has begun using Hue bulbs, which can be controlled by smartphone and adjust-ed for brightness and color.

“My living room has five lights in it,” he says, and they’re now easily con-trolled via his smartphone.

Another way to make a room’s light-ing more welcoming: Light your fire-place if you have one, Kirschner says, or create a similar feeling by clustering glass hurricane vases with pillar can-dles inside. Arrange several together on a coffee table, she says, “and light those when you come home from work.”

FAUX FUR AND FRAGRANCEIt’s easy to create an uplifting senso-

ry experience in your home by adding faux sheepskins, faux-fur throws, and rugs or pillows made of cashmere or soft wool, says Kirschner.

Ryan agrees: Make sure you have pleasing textures around you, he says, including underfoot. Try adding a sheepskin or soft blanket over a chair that you use when working at home.

Kirschner also suggests adding pleas-ing fragrances to your space. Choose organically scented candles, or simply take items from your kitchen (lemon and orange slices, cloves and nutmeg, or other fruits and spices) and steep them in water in a heat-safe container over a votive or tea light candle.

AP

Florida-based interior designer Laura Burleson used gold-tone metal hardware, accessories and lighting to bring a warm glow to this home office, then added a cozy throw blanket and flowers to make it feel brighter and more cheerful.