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or some of us, sliding back our computer desks is akin to opening Pandora’s box.

The horrifying tangle of cords, cables and wires resembles a 3-year-old’s sloppy plate of spaghetti — only it’s all dustier.

These technological rat’s nests are not only unsightly but they make it just about impossible to do any work back there.

You can never tell which device connects to which socket, and God forbid you accidentally unplug your PC while it’s installing an update.

We don’t have to put up with this mess, however. With a few household items, some inexpensive hardware store purchases and a little bit of time, you can get this computer desk chaos under control. Here are a few tips that should come in handy:

Make use of non-visible surfaces

Clean up your cables Use these tips to organize your cluttered computer desk cords

Take advantage of the back edge of a desk or the underside of a table to streamline the look of your cables and cords as you organize them. Wires and cables don’t have a right side up, so you can often tuck them out of sight in unusual positions.

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You can’t organize all the electronic equipment and their cables in an area if you don’t have enough room to plug all of it in. Surge protectors are must-have items.

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Learning to fly in 82 days

By SYLVIA ANDERSON St. Joseph News-Press

For most teenagers getting a driver’s license is plenty exciting. But when Anastasia Crenshaw turned 16, she began dreaming of something more challenging. So by the time she turned 17 on Aug. 18, she received a pilot’s license, becoming one of the youngest people to have one. It’s especially noteworthy considering only 6 percent of pilots of any age are female. “Initially it was to get out of band,� Anastasia laughs. “But it’s not to get out of band anymore.�

Anastasia loves playing the piccolo in band at Jefferson City (Mo.) High School, but she was not looking forward to marching band practice this past summer. So she made plans to stay with her father, Jim Crenshaw, who lives

in St. Joseph and happens to be a flying instructor at Rosecrans Memorial Airport. The Benton High School alum has an aviation degree from Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Mo., and flew professionally. Although he now prefers to fly for fun and runs Sunflower Mobile Homes in Elwood, Kan., he was very excited to take on his daughter as a student. “I don’t know if it’s more of a dream of mine or a dream of Ana’s to get a pilot’s license, but it’s something we both wanted,� he says. “And we crammed everything into 82 days.�

It’s a lot to learn because flying a plane is completely foreign to anything else and nothing like driving a car.

To steer an airplane on the ground, you use your feet, and the brakes are at the top of the pedals. It’s

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Jim Crenshaw helped teach his daughter, Anastasia, 17, learn to fly this summer.

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Clean up your electronic cables CONTINUED FROM page 1 protectors don’t do the job. Mr. Nill recommends buying one with surge suppression and connections for coaxial cables and phone lines (power surges can travel through those wires as well). Some can be purchased for as little as $15, but most quality protectors fall between $20 and $40.

“And make sure it has some sort of guarantee or warranty,” Mr. Nill says.

Furthermore, don’t confuse a surge protector with a power strip when making a purchase. Although they look similar, a power strip is nothing more than a glorified extension cord. Only surge protectors offer suppression from dangerous power surges.

“They look very similar, so make sure you look carefully,” says Steven Smith, computer technician for Prolific Technologies in St. Joseph.

You can use mounting tape or Velcro strips to stick a surge protector to the underside or leg of a desk, neatly out of

view, and have only the one plug running to the outlet.

Invest in cable nail-ins or 3M hangers

When cable or Internet technicians stop by to hook up service, they usually pop dozens of coaxial cable nail-ins into your wall, along the baseboard or around a door frame. These simple wire holders keep your cables securely and neatly in place, and you can pick them up in packs of 25 for about $2 at most hardware stores.

Use them to fasten more cords and cables to the wall, as well as any surface you don’t mind pounding nails into, such as cheap plywood desks or media centers.

We recommend these for desktop computer owners, but not laptop users who constantly will be shifting cables and taking power cords with them.

“Think of coaxial cable nail-ins as permanent solutions for when you’re sure you know exactly where the wires should go,” says Jill Duffy, productivity soft-

Keep it together with ties and tape

You can bind together a bundle of cables with zip ties. Usually, Ms. Duffy says, packs of 20 to 100 cable ties can be found at your local hardware store for $1.99 to $5.99. If you’re in a pinch for a short-term solution, good old-fashioned masking tape or painter’s tape can help tame snaking cables.

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Save those little plastic bread bag tags and reuse them to label the cords and wires on your modem, Wi-Fi router or a crowded surge protector. If you’re seeking a more polished look, you can label your wires at the base using a label-maker instead.

Just leave a long space after the label name so you can fold it over the cord and attach the two sticky sides together.

And those toilet paper rolls? Loosely wind up your cables that aren’t being used (if you bind them too tightly, Ms. Duffy says it can damage the wires inside the cord) and slide them into an empty roll. Then, you can stash the cords in a box or bag and they won’t tangle.

“T.P. rolls work great for small cables, like mobile device chargers, and paper towel rolls work better for bigger and longer cords,” Ms. Duffy says.

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Learning to fly in 82 days CONTINUED FROM page 2 also not like a video game.

“Every time you land the real airplane you had better make it a good one. You can’t crash and hit reset,” Mr. Crenshaw says.

Summer flying classes also meant getting up at 5 a.m. every morning because that’s when the air was the coolest. When they weren’t flying, Anastasia was constantly quizzed on all aspects of flying a plane she had to know, including things such as the plane’s electrical and fuel systems, making pre-flight plans

and knowing if your alternator quits, how long your battery will last.

“We basically lived, ate and slept airplanes,” Mr. Crenshaw says. “It was a very intense 82 days.”

A person of any age can learn to fly a plane, but you must be 17 years old to get a license. To qualify to take the test, you must have a total of 40 hours of flying: 20 with an instructor and 20 by yourself.

Anastasia had 68 hours.

Mr. Crenshaw says the 40-hour requirement was made in the 1950s and much has changed since

then and there is much more to learn, so 60 to 70 hours is more common.

Anastasia also changed planes midway through her training, so she also had to learn how to fly two different planes.

“She’s very serious about this,” Mr. Crenshaw says. “There’s a mentality you have to look for in a student. Some are hot-shot types that you don’t want to see them get a pilot’s license because the first thing they will want to do is want to fly under the St. Louis Arch or something.

Ana’s not that way at all.”

Before coming to St. Joseph, Anastasia had two months of ground school instruction at the Jefferson City Municipal Airport. She took the written test in Kansas City, where she had to score at least 70 to pass, answering randomized computer questions covering everything she had learned. Her final test was on Aug. 18, where she first took an oral exam.

“It’s a double check by the examiner to make sure you know what you are doing,” she says.

She had to plan what they call a cross-country

trip to several airports, calculate fuel consumption, figuring in air currents and file an actual flight plan. Finally, she went up in the air and was confident she could pass the test. She had passed all of her father’s drills, including when he turned off the power and flaps while she was flying to simulate an engine failure. She had a perfect, smooth touch down. “(Learning to fly) was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” Anastasia says.

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