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Creative Prompt #271: Transparent

transparent aluminum

Microfinance transparency – Promotes transparent pricing in the microfinance world by collecting interest rate data and publishing educational information about how interest rates work.

Investors should steer clear of companies that lack transparency in their business operations, financial statements or strategies.

Definition: Transparency, as used in science, engineering, business, the humanities and in a social context more generally, implies openness, communication, and accountability. Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed. It has been defined simply as “the perceived quality of intentionally shared information from a sender”.^[1] For example, a cashier making change after a point of sale transaction by offering a record of the items purchased (e.g., a receipt) as well as counting out the customer’s change on the counter demonstrates transparency. (Wikipedia)

Amazon original series

Trust and transparency have become popular workplace demands as employees seek to be aware of what is real and true.

power of transparency

invisible man

transparent CSS

So to help you better understand whether your emails are protected by encryption, we’ve launched Safer Email, a new section in the Transparency Report.

Welcome to transparent.utah.gov, a website dedicated to the transparency and accountability of government finances.

Transparent aluminum armor

The Transparent Speaker design blends in effortlessly into your bookshelf and sits nicely with any decor.

Transparent Airfares Act of 2014 – Declares that it shall not be an unfair or deceptive practice for an air carrier or other covered entity to state the base airfare in an advertisement or solicitation for passenger air transportation if it clearly and separately discloses: (1) the government-imposed taxes and fees for the air transportation, and (2) its total cost.

With transparent caching, Caching is a simple concept: store the most popular Internet content and deliver it from the operator’s network, rather than always retrieving it from the remote source. The operator benefits through reduced bandwidth consumption, and the content owner and subscriber benefit through better quality of delivery.

Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog.

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The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.

Definition (from Google): (of a material or article) allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.

“transparent blue water”

synonyms:

clear, crystal clear, see-through, translucent, pellucid, limpid, glassy, vitreous More

“transparent blue water”

see-through, sheer, filmy, gauzy, diaphanous, translucent

“fine transparent fabrics”

antonyms:

opaque, cloudy, thick

easy to perceive or detect.

“the residents will see through any transparent attempt to buy their votes”

synonyms:

obvious, evident, self-evident, undisguised, unconcealed, conspicuous, patent, clear, crystal clear, plain, (as) plain as the nose on your face, apparent, unmistakable, easily discerned, manifest, palpable, indisputable, unambiguous, unequivocal More

“a transparent attempt to win favor”

antonyms:

ambiguous, obscure

having thoughts, feelings, or motives that are easily perceived.

“you’d be no good at poker—you’re too transparent”

Creative Prompt #269: Chirp

cricket chirps

CHIRP – Candlewick Handselling Indie Recognition Program for Frontline Children’s Booksellers

In Simply Fine Lenox® Chirp, bold splashes of teal and watercolor birds are unusually stunning. Delicate brush strokes give each fine china piece an Asian feel.

GeoChirp – Twitter Google maps mashup which allows one to find twitter users with similar interest in any particular geography around the world.

Definition: “A chirp is a signal in which the frequency increases (‘up-chirp’) or decreases (‘down-chirp’) with time. In some sources, the term chirp is used interchangeably with sweep signal.^[1] It has also been called quadratic-phase signal.^[2] It is commonly used in sonar and radar, but has other applications, such as in spread spectrum communications. In spread spectrum usage, SAW devices such as RACs are often used to generate and demodulate the chirped signals. In optics, ultrashort laser pulses also exhibit chirp, which, in optical transmission systems interacts with the dispersion properties of the materials, increasing or decreasing total pulse dispersion as the signal propagates. The name is a reference to chirping in analogy to the sound made by some birds, see bird vocalization.” (Wikipedia)

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CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your amateur radio. It supports a large number of manufacturers and models…

Description. Chirp is a magical new way to share your stuff – using sound. Chirp ‘sings’ information from one iPhone to another.

CHIRPradio.org is a listener-supported music and arts focused community radio station in Chicago staffed by more than 150 volunteers.

CHIRP is the most sophisticated sonar technology available for use by the fishing and boating public.

Chirp magazine

chirp distributed filesystem

To chirps is to chat up, woo, or court another person. This is a London street slang definition.

Connecting families and nannies, the Chirp way! Since 1994 Chirp has assisted hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area families hire best-fit nannies…

Easy Chirp is a web-based Twitter app with a simple interface. It is optimized for disabled users and works well with assistive technology such as screen readers.

Chirp is a plant watering alarm – as simple as that. You put it into the soil near a plant and it emits a tiny chirp when the soil is dry, reminding you to water the plant.

Chirp Interactive is a social network aggregation platform that leverages social media and networks to keep users connected at all times.

Creative Prompt #268: Boy

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Boy George

Boy Scouts

Definition: “A boy is a young male human, usually child or adolescent. When he becomes an adult he’s described as a man. The most apparent thing that differentiates a boy from a girl is that a boy typically has a penis while girls have a vagina. However, some intersex children with ambiguous genitals, and genetically female transgender children, may also be classified or self-identify as a boy.

The term “boy” is primarily used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions or both. The latter most commonly applies to adult men, either considered in some way immature or inferior, in a position associated with aspects of boyhood, or even without such boyish connotation as age-indiscriminate synonym. The term can be joined with a variety of other words to form these gender-related labels as compound words.” (Wikipedia)

About a Boy (movie)

Boy (stylized BOY) is a Swiss/German pop duo founded in 2007 by singer Valeska Steiner (Swiss) and bassist Sonja Glass (German).

Oh boy!

boys howdy

Boy Meets World

Nancy Boy

Po-Boy

Beastie Boys

Boys’ Life (magazine)

Boy by Roald Dahl

Backstreet Boys

La-Z-Boy

The Beach Boys

Boys Town

Boy toy

Bad Boy Records

Pet Shop Boys

Run Boy Run

Mama’s Boy

Pep Boys

Boys State

Dutch Boy (paint)

Golden Boy

Bugle Boy

Billionaire Boys Club

Jersey Boys

Creative Prompt #266: Apartment

Dwelling

Using single-threaded apartments (the apartment model process) offers a message-based paradigm for dealing with multiple objects running concurrently.

Bachelor Apartment is a 1931 RKO comedy/romance film directed by and starring Lowell Sherman

“Apartment” is a song by American alternative rock band Young the Giant from their 2010 self-titled debut album.

Apartment therapy

apartment for rent

The Campbell Apartment is a public bar and cocktail lounge located in a corner of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. It faces Vanderbilt Avenue.

Dining at Apartment 2g is an invitation to the Chefs’ apartment.

Apartment allows Rack applications to deal with database multitenancy through ActiveRecord.

Martin Wattenberg: Apartment is a series of closely related works, created in collaboration with Marek Walczak and with help from Jonathan Feinberg.

APARTMENT FINANCE TODAY magazine

Definition: “An apartment (in American English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment house (in American English), block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. In Scotland it is often called a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).

The term apartment is favored in North America (although flat is used in the case of a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor) and also is the preferred term in Ireland. The term flat is commonly, but not exclusively, used in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and most Commonwealth nations.

In Malaysian English, flat often denotes a housing block of lesser quality meant for lower-income groups, while apartment is more generic and may also include luxury condominiums. This usage has also been appearing in British English where apartment is used to denote expensive ‘flats’ in exclusive and expensive residential areas in, for example, parts of London such as Belgravia and Hampstead.

In Australian English, the term flat was traditionally used, but the term apartment is also frequently used, as is “unit,” short for “home unit”.

Tenement law refers to the feudal basis of permanent property such as land or rents. It may be found combined as in “Messuage or Tenement” to encompass all the land, buildings and other assets of a property. (Wikipedia)

In the United States, some apartment-dwellers own their own apartments, either as co-ops, in which the residents own shares of a corporation that owns the building or development; or in condominiums, whose residents own their apartments and share ownership of the public spaces. Most apartments are in buildings designed for the purpose, but large older houses are sometimes divided into apartments. The word apartment denotes a residential unit or section in a building. In some locations, particularly the United States, the word connotes a rental unit owned by the building owner, and is not typically used for a condominium.

In the UK, some flat owners own shares in the company that owns the freehold of the building as well as holding the flat under a lease. This is commonly known as a “share of freehold” flat. The freehold company has the right to collect annual ground rents from each of the flat owners in the building. The freeholder can also develop or sell the building, subject to the usual planning and restrictions that might apply.

In some countries the word unit is a more general term referring to both apartments and rental business suites. The word is generally used only in the context of a specific building; e.g., “This building has three units” or “I’m going to rent a unit in this building”, but not “I’m going to rent a unit somewhere.” In Australia, a unit refers to flats, apartments or even semi-detached houses. Some buildings can be characterized as mixed use buildings, meaning part of the building is for commercial, business, or office use, usually on the first floor or first couple of floors, and there are one or more apartments in the rest of the building, usually on the upper floors.

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APARTMENT POETRY QUARTERLY.

Apartment building recycling initiative (NYC)

Luxury apartment

Apartment 3-G: A serial comic strip about three single female roommates as they juggle their careers, friendship, men and life in the big city.

Apartment Toolbox creates a centralized location for communication and documents requiring regular updates, common in a multifamily environment.

The Apartment (1960 movie)

apartment house

apartment block

California Apartment Association

Freshome covers a wide range of smart decorating ideas for apartments with a twist.

Apartment Life

Apartment Zero

“Apartment One’s creativity in reimagining our brand identity was transformational.

studio apartment

At Apartment List, we’re building extraordinary products and services that redefine the rental experience– making it seamless, transparent, and fun.

apartment complex

Creative Prompt #265: Sparkler

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Definition: “A sparkler is a type of hand-held firework that burns slowly while emitting colored flames, sparks, and other effects.

In the United Kingdom, a sparkler is often used by children at bonfire and fireworks displays on Guy Fawkes Night, the fifth of November, and in the United States on Independence Day (United States). It is called as Phool Jhadi in India and is popular during Diwali festival.” (Wikipedia)

1997 movie

Sparkler Monthly

type of fireworks

peach sparkler

Java development

Sonoma Sparkler Natural Raspberry is a blend of natural apple juice, natural raspberry puree, and natural raspberry flavor.

Diamond Sparkler is the sole remaining operating sparkler manufacturing facility in the United States.

Tiffany ‘sparklers’

The Sparkler 5k was created in memory of Felisa Barnes who passed away in October of 2009 in a car accident.

Monrovia’s Sparkler Sedge

Sparklers create a visual effect over the head of your character, visible for all players in a district.(Guildwars)

Original Lip Smacker products

Carex phyllocephala, ‘Sparkler‘ is generally considered to be winter hardy to USDA Zone 7.

An Art group monochrom were planning to light 10,000 bound sparklers as they described as “symbolic liberation” to reflect that sparklers are generally used in monotheistic traditions.^[5] A large group from Toronto, Ontario, Canada also held an event displaying 10,000 sparklers to symbolize brightness, intensity, warmth and creativity.^[6] In 1999 the two artists Tobias Kipp and Timo Pitkämö developed a technique of drawing portraits with burning sparklers on paper, which they called pyrografie. Since then the two artists have drawn more than 20,000 pyroportraits.^[7](Wikipedia)

Malibu rum sparkler

Homosexual vampire, produces odd light when in contact with the sun. Have you seen “Twilight”. Yeah that Edward is a complete sparkler. (Urban Dictionary)

My Little Pony, Sparkler.

And Happy Fourth of July to all of you in the U.S. and who celebrate!

Creative Prompt #264: Hotel

Ladies Night at Finbar’s Hotel by Maeve Binchy et al

Hotel California by the Eagles

Finbar’s Hotel by Dermot Bolger

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hotel room

cheap hotel

hotel booking

hotel reservations

The Grand Hotel (1932 movie)

Definition: “A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging paid on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities^{[citation needed]}, including en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning or climate control. Additional common features found in hotel rooms are a telephone, an alarm clock, a television, a safe, a mini-bar with snack foods and drinks, and facilities for making tea and coffee. Luxury features include bathrobes and slippers, a pillow menu, twin-sink vanities, and jacuzzi bathtubs. Larger hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, fitness center, business center, childcare, conference facilities and social function services.

Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In the United Kingdom, a hotel is required by law to serve food and drinks to all guests within certain stated hours. In Japan, capsule hotels provide a minimized amount of room space and shared facilities.” (Wikipedia)

lodging establishment

hoteling

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011 movie)

inn

Savoy Hotel

boutique hotels

extended stay hotels

Hotel management

Library Hotel (NYC)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014 movie)

coaching inns

Disneyland Hotel

Hotel Transylvania (movie)

Hotel Books is an expression of spirit conveyed through spoken-word poetry and ambient music

Heartbreak Hotel

Creative Prompt #263: Market

Farmer’s Market

Heading to the market

MarketBar

Whole Foods Market

MarketWatch

Marketing

Marketplace

Stock market

Definition (one of many): “A market, or marketplace, is a regular gathering of people for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.^[1] In different parts of the world they may be referred to as a souk (from the Arabic), bazaar (from the Persian), a fixed mercado (Spanish) or itinerant tianguis (Mexico), or palengke (Philippines).” (Wikipedia)

One Market Restaurant

Market Street

On the market

Square Market

Guerilla marketing

marketing

market basket

Android market

world market

market day

marketing strategy

Internet Marketing expert

digital marketing

global markets

Boston Market

Flower market

Lancaster Central Market

Etsy

market leader

flea market

Writer’s Market

Spice Market

Common Market

Young’s Market Company

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Market or The Market may refer to:

Market (economics)
Market (place), a physical marketplace or public market
Market economy
Märket, an island shared by Finland and Sweden
The Market, a specialized type of Safeway store
The Market (company), a Farm Fresh Supermarket concept store

Media

The Market (TV series), a New Zealand television drama
Market (2003 film), 2003 Hindi film
Market (1965 film), 1965 South Korean film
The Market: A Tale of Trade, a Turkish film

Types of markets

Aspects of markets

Physical locations of markets

Specific physical markets

Creative Prompt #262: 13

Don’t hate me.

I really couldn’t resist since it is Friday the 13th. This prompt will be a challenge for you. Perhaps everyone will write a short story?

Musical by Robert Horn and Dan Elish

2010 movie that include identity theft

13 Bankers describes the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to our economic well-being.

Friday the 13th – date, superstition, movies

The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for adjustment of debts of an individual with regular income.

TV channels in various markets

Definition: “13 (thirteen /??r?ti?n/) is the natural number following 12 and preceding 14. In spoken English, the numbers 13 and 30 are often confused. When carefully enunciated, they differ in which syllable is stressed: 13 ⁱ/??r?ti?n/ vs. 30 /???rti/. However, in dates such as 1300 (“thirteen hundred”) or when contrasting numbers in the teens, such as 13, 14, 15, the stress shifts to the first syllable: 13 /???rti?n/.

Strikingly similar folkloric aspects of the number 13 have been noted in various cultures around the world: one theory is that this is due to the cultures employing lunar-solar calendars (there are approximately 12.41 lunations per solar year, and hence 12 “true months” plus a smaller, and often portentous, thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” of Western European tradition.^[1]”(Wikipedia)

California’s Proposition 13

EA Sports FIFA 13

13th Floor in office buildings?

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.

PG-13

Apollo 13

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

Act 13 is a major overhaul of Pennsylvania’s oil and gas law. After years of deliberation on the issue, legislators passed the bill on February 8, 2012.

Taylor Swift and Lucky 13

California Code of Regulations title 13

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Creative Prompt #261: Poppy

Poppy Montgomery, actress, Unforgettable, Without a Trace

opium poppy

Seattle restaurant

Definition: “A Poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, Papaver somniferum produces edible seeds, and is also the source of the crude drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as analgesic and narcotic medicinal and recreational drugs. Following the trench warfare which took place in the poppy fields of Flanders, during the 1st World War, red poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.”

poppy fields

Poppy was initially made for our research project about understanding biped locomotion, and full-body physical and social interaction in robots and humans. (The Poppy Project)

Poppy tea

California Poppy Reserve

The California Poppy is the state flower

1936 movie (Poppy)

Connecting the visual image of the poppy with the sacrifice of service made by our veterans has been an important goal of the American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Program since its inception in 1921. On Memorial Day and Veterans Day, millions of red crepe paper poppies—all handmade by veterans as part of their therapeutic rehabilitation—are distributed across the country in exchange for donations that go directly to assist disabled and hospitalized veterans in our communities.

The Poppy Program raises community awareness and respect for our veterans by educating Auxiliary members and the public about the symbol of the poppy, taken from a line in the poem “In Flanders Fields” written on the battlefront during World War I by Lt. Col. John McCrae, M.D.

The 2014 California Poppy Festival was scheduled for April 26-27, 2014.

(chiefly UK, Canada) A simple artificial poppy worn in the buttonhole to remember the fallen in the two World Wars, especially around Remembrance Sunday.

Dresses for women and girls. Follow the story of Poppy and Fred around each dress. Vintage inspired and made in Great Britain.

Poppy Daily – poppymag.com – a site for young creatives

Rain Poppy is an herb gatherable by herbalists that can be found in The Jade Forest, Vale of Eternal Blossoms and Timeless Isle. (World of Warcraft)

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Creative Prompt #260: Jellyfish

spike in jellyfish activity

Definition: “Jellyfish or jellies^[1] are the major non-polyp form of individuals of the phylum Cnidaria. They are typified as free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The bell can pulsate for locomotion, while stinging tentacles can be used to capture prey.

Jellyfish are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea. A few jellyfish inhabit freshwater. Large, often colorful, jellyfish are common in coastal zones worldwide. Jellyfish have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years,^[2] and possibly 700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal.^[3]” (Wikipedia)

moon jelly

In the heart of Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, Jellyfish, an intimate pan-Asian restaurant and lounge

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jellyfish sting

Jellyfish and comb jellies are gelatinous animals that drift through the ocean’s water column around the world.

JELLYFISH is a tool for fast, memory-efficient counting of k-mers in DNA.

Meduzot (2007 movie)

Jellyfish is a global boutique intelligence firm that combines on-the-ground intelligence collection and analytics with an unprecedented country-to-country economic diplomacy program that helps governments, corporations, institutions and private individuals forge secure partnerships, discover new opportunities and mitigate operational risks.

Jellyfishbuzz- Whether you’re looking for a new case, headsets or even a charger, jellyfish brings accessorizing to a whole new level by offering a mix-and-match collection of products in four delicious colors. So show off your style, get noticed and change it up!

Jellyfish Eyes: the debut film by Takashi Murakami. A big screen tale of poignant memories and wondrous dreams.

Jellyfish Recordings is a Vancouver based record label

Creative Prompt #259: Grapes

The weather has been hot for us and for some reason the ‘crush’ has been on my mind. The crush is when grapes are harvested in the Napa Valley and, probably, other wine growing regions. Odd what comes to mind…

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Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Definition: “A grape is a fruiting berry of the deciduous woody vines of the botanical genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.”

Northern Grapes Project – Cornell

Did your elderly auntie have a decor item of glass grapes in an amber color?

grapes runescape

growing grapes

Cesar Chavez

Gallileo Gallilei quote -“The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”

white grapes

grape juice

grape (color)

Grape (The Groovy Adaptable Packaging Engine or Groovy Advanced Packaging Engine)

Sour Grapes (1998 movie)

Good for Grapes (folk band)

bunch of grapes

grapevine

The 1965-1970 Delano Grape Strike and Boycott On September 8, 1965

table grapes

purple grapes

organic grapes

California Table Grape Association

sour grapes (phrase)

Quote by Kathleen Mifsud– “Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have dinner with.”

Creative Prompt #258: Crossroads

I was inspired by this word at the recent CQFA meeting. While there is some standard imagery, there is also the metaphors that go with the word.

What is your crossroads? Are you at a crossroads in your life? Do you remember a crossroad in your life? What happened when you took the path? Did you go back and take the other path? Do you with you had?

At the crossroads

Crossroads, the first green-certified building on Cal’s campus and the nation’s first organic certified kitchen on a college campus.

Crossroads is a world champion. a capella quartet rooted in—but certainly not limited to—the Barbershop genre.

The work of Crossroads is to dismantle systemic racism and build anti-racist multicultural diversity within institutions and communities.

Crossroads.js is a routing library inspired by URL Route/Dispatch utilities present on frameworks like Rails, Pyramid, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc.

Britney Spears and Tamra Davis in Crossroads (2002)

Definition: a place where two or more roads cross; a road that crosses a main road or that runs across land between main roads

A junction (road) where four roads meet

In arts, entertainment, and media

Film

Cross Roads (film), a 1930 British film directed by Reginald Fogwell
Crossroads (1937 film), a Chinese film starring Zhao Dan
Crossroads (1942 film), a mystery film directed by Jack Conway
Crossroads (1976 film), directed by Bruce Conner
Crossroads (1986 film), starring Ralph Macchio
Crossroads (2002 film), starring Britney Spears

Literature

Cross Roads (novel), Christian fiction by William Paul Young
Crossroads (comics), a five issue limited series from First Comics
Crossroad (manga), a 2003 seven volume manga series
Crossroads (series), a high fantasy series of books written by Kate Elliott

Music

Albums

Cross Road, a 1994 compilation album by Bon Jovi
Crossroads (1986 soundtrack)
Crossroads (Eric Clapton album)
- Its sequel, Crossroads 2: Live in the Seventies (box set)
Crossroad (Masami Okui album), 2002
Crossroads (Tracy Chapman album), or the title track
Crossroads (mind.in.a.box album), 2007
Crossroads (Sylver album), 2006
Crossroad: Unplugged Live (Calvin Russell album), 2001

Songs

“Cross Road” (song), by Mr. Children
“Cross Road Blues“, a 1936 blues song by Robert Johnson, later recorded as “Crossroads” by many other musicians
“Crossroad” (song), a 2010 Ayumi Hamasaki song
- “Crossroads”, a 2002 UK number one single from Blazin’ Squad based on the above
“Crossroads”, a single by Avenged Sevenfold from Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
“Crossroads”, song by LL Cool J, from the album 14 Shots to the Dome
“Crossroads”, Don McLean song, from American Pie
“Tha Crossroads“, a 1996 Grammy Award winning single by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
“Crossroads”, a 1991 single by Calvin Russell, composed by Sailor White

Other

Crossroads (quartet), winner of the 2009 BHS international quartet championship
Crossroads Guitar Festival, a three-day blues and rock concert arranged by Eric Clapton

Television

Series

Crossroads (1955 TV series), an anthology centered on the lives of members of the clergy of various religious denominations
Crossroads (1992 TV series)
Crossroads (CMT TV series)
Crossroads (soap opera), a British soap opera (1964–1988 and 2001–2003)
Crossroads (VH1 TV series)
America at a Crossroads, a PBS series about radical Islam and the second Gulf War

Episodes

“Crossroads” (Band of Brothers), the fifth part of HBO’s Band of Brothers miniseries
“Crossroads” (Battlestar Galactica), a 2007 episode of Battlestar Galactica
“Crossroads” (Jericho episode), a 2006 episode of the CBS drama Jericho
“Crossroads” (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1

Other uses

Crossroads Christian Communications, a media company and television network in Canada

Videogames

Crossroads (video game), a 1987 chaotic shooter video game for the Commodore 64

In places

Australia

Cross Road, Adelaide, road in Adelaide, Australia
Crossroads Medieval Village, a medieval commune style project in NSW, Australia, near Yass

United States

Geography

Cross Roads, Monroe County, Arkansas
Cross Roads, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Delaware County
Crossroads, Kansas City, a neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri
Florence, Kentucky, formerly known as Crossroads
Hustonville, Kentucky, formerly known as The Crossroads
“The Crossroads”, an intersection of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil
Crossroads, George County, Mississippi
Crossroads, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Stone County
Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, a borough in York County
Crossroads, Tennessee
Crossroads, Wayne County, Tennessee
Cross Roads, Texas, an incorporated town in Denton County
Cross Roads, Henderson County, Texas, an unincorporated community
Surry, Virginia, formerly Cross Roads
Crossroads, Bellevue, Washington, a neighborhood
Crossroads, Monongalia County, West Virginia
Crossroads, Summers County, West Virginia

Nicknames

Crossroads of America, an unofficial nickname for Indiana

Shopping malls

Crossroads Center, a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota
Crossroads Mall (Boulder), a former shopping mall in Boulder, Colorado
Crossroads Mall (Florida), a former shopping mall in the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida Bay Area
Crossroads Mall (Oklahoma), a shopping mall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Crossroads Mall (Omaha), a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska
Crossroads Center (Waterloo, IA), a shopping mall in Waterloo, Iowa
Crossroads Plaza (North Carolina), a shopping district in Cary, North Carolina, near Raleigh
The Crossroads (Portage, Michigan), a shopping mall in Portage, Michigan

Elsewhere

Cross Roads, Jamaica a primarily commercial neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica
Cross Roads, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa
Crossroads Centre, an addiction rehabilitation facility on Antigua in Antigua and Barbuda
Crossroads Mall (Mumbai), the first shopping mall in Bombay, India – possibly the first such mall in India
The Cross-roads, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional world of Middle-earth

In companies and organizations

CrossRoads (clothing), a fashion brand
American Crossroads, a non-profit political organization
Crossroads Care, a charity for carers in England and Wales
- Crossroads Caring Scotland, a parallel charity in Scotland
Crossroad Publishing Company, a New York-based publishing house
Carrefour (English: Crossroads), an international supermarket chain founded in France

In other uses

Crossroads (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language hieroglyph
Crossroads (mythology), in folk magic, a location “between the worlds”
Crossroads Movement, which gave rise to the International Churches of Christ
Crossroads village, a term for a settlement situated at a crossroads
Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll

Creative Prompt #257: Orchid

The prompt is being posted early this week, because there will be a special post tomorrow.

Radiant Orchid: Pantone 2014 Color of the Year

Phalaenopsis orchid

Fairmont Orchid, Hawai’i

San Francisco Orchid Society

Orchids at Palm Court is a superior fine dining restaurant that offers gourmet, fancy meals inside the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza.

The Orchid was the name given to a DHARMA Initiative station dedicated to exotic matter research, namely time travel, under the guise of being a botanical research station. The true station was located in an underground chamber beneath a greenhouse, and drew energy for its experiments from the same anomalous energy source as the frozen wheel. The Orchid was located several hours north or northwest of the survivors’ camp, and was found fairly close to the remnants of the statue of Taweret. (Lostpedia)

The Mid-America Orchid Congress

Town of Orchid, Florida

Orchid Grey

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

Black Orchid

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (movie)

the Zodiac Sessions by Orchid

purple Dendrobium orchids

The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley

Keiki Power Pro Orchid Plant Cloning Paste (really???)

Black Orchid by Tom Ford

Orchid by DaySmart software

Dancing Orchid in Chaos (Amazon Instant Video)

Butterly Orchid

We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP

Definition: “Orchidaceae is a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and often fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species, found in 880 genera.^[2]^[3] Selecting which of the two families is larger is still under debate, as concrete numbers on such enormous families are constantly in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species nearly equals the number of bony fishes and more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family also encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants.^[4] The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species).

The family also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), Orchis (type genus), and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species into cultivation in the 19th century, horticulturists have produced more than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars.”

Vanilla is a kind of orchid!

Orchid Cellmark is one of the world’s largest and most experienced AABB accredited DNA Paternity testing laboratories

JayeL on 1-2-3 Mosaic QuiltedSunday, July 12, 2026
Amazing how fast the project gets done if I quilt it myself!
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Wow, it looks so great! I really love that wavy stitch, works in so many cases. That's wonderful that you…
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Thanks for your tieps. I agree yout table topper looks wonderful.
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I really hope so! I am so happy to see how many people are participating.

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