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by Ethan Newberry on Dec.06, 2011, under acting, are you serious, blog, daily fun, funny videos, holiday, improv, sketch, tuesday trailers
Here is the most recent Thad's Thecrets that I posted to my main channel. It's the HOLIDAY EDITION, "Thadsmas Thecrets".
Do you want to celebrate THADSMAS too?? Print out some of the ornaments below and decorate your tree!! Then, post some pics of your creations and post them to my Facebook Fanpage!! I WANT TO SEE SOME THADSMAS CHEER!
Directions: Right click and Save As the images below. Print the ornaments twice. Cut them out. Paste back to back. Put on the top of the tree or on branches. Easy.
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by Ethan Newberry on May.10, 2011, under are you serious, art, blog, daily fun, music, photography, technology, tuesday trailers
Having been a motion graphics designer and art director for much of my adult life, I'd like to think I know good after effects work when I see it. This is GREAT after effects work. It uses a very innovative technique to achieve such a simple beautiful video. It took the artist well over a month to complete in his free time, but the results are worth it. Just fantastic.
I'm A YouTube NextUp!
by Ethan Newberry on May.02, 2011, under are you serious, awards, blog, daily fun, funny videos, improv, monday funday, running, sketch, technology, work
I DID IT!! Thanks to YOUR votes and support, I was chosen to join the YouTube NextUp program!! I cannot believe it and some amazingly awesome stuff will be happening on this channel very soon. Here is my YouTube NextUp Video Showcase submission. It highlights where I am from, what kind of YouTube creator I am as well as an idea of where I want to take my channels. Thanks again to each and every one of you for your constant support!
Depressed Doggy – latest video from TheSampler
by Ethan Newberry on Apr.19, 2011, under acting, are you serious, blog, daily fun, funny videos, improv, sketch, the real cool club, tuesday trailers
Sitting at home and coming up with sketches for one of the most adorable lil dogs makes for good comedy. Sir Diddimus is my roommates dog, but I like to refer to him as our little Oscar Nominee. He's going places people. Just enjoy his sobering performance.
Help Me Win The YouTube NextUp Program!
by Ethan Newberry on Apr.04, 2011, under acting, are you serious, awards, blog, daily fun, funny videos, improv, monday funday, sketch, technology, the real cool club, travel, work
So here's the deal. YouTube is having a contest to choose 25 of it's up-and-coming Partnered members with under 300,ooo subscribers to enter into it's NextUp Program. What does this mean? Well, $35,000 to spend on the project of that partners choice, for one. Also, an all expenses paid trip to New York to participate in a 4 day intensive learning the ins and outs of the YouTube business and how to take their partnership to the next level. And guess what? I'M A SEMI-FINALIST!!
This could not have come at a better time for me, what with the amazing success of "Saturday". I would love this opportunity to make my idea come to fruition with an actual budget. My idea is to bring The Real Cool Club live comedy broadcast to YouTube utilizing their new live broadcasting feature. With this money I could finally build a set, bring in production crew and give the show the shot it deserves. I'd also finally be able to get some of my friends paying work doing what we love: making comedy!
Go HERE and "thumbs up" my video. That's it! You can do it once a day until April 8th. Then YouTube will choose the top 50 and proceed to the next level of judging where they will whittle it down to 25 grand prize winners.
I have friends who are also Semi-Finalists and I know they'd appreciate the votes as well: CorridorDigital, Jimmy Wong, Jason Horton, and Wren The Reaper


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Organizations should establish an aggressive power management policy that mandates that all desktops and laptops be turned off when not in use. For example, the policy could force desktops into hibernate or sleep state when they've been idle for 30 to 60 minutes. Enterprises can use power management software to implement this policy. Such a policy can be deployed by using a policy wizard for local management policy, or using a group policy object for a large Active Directory user base, for example. The U.S. government's Energy Star site offers a solution for creating group policy objects to set power policies across all users (Google EZGPO).
These policies should be combined with Wake-on-LAN, that allows a computer to be woken up on demand by a UDP broadcast network packet. Organizations will also likely want to employ Distributed Wake-on-LAN if they are managing dispersed systems in remote branch offices, etc. The ability to wake up computers is important to ensure manageability, such as applying security updates, patches and antiVirus updates as needed. A side benefit of this approach is that organizations can guarantee that all endpoints are secure without interrupting employees with mundane system management tasks during business hours.
Ideally, enterprises should also look to replace outdated computers and monitors with energy-efficient ones. When making these purchases, be sure to choose Energy Star-rated PCs and replace CRT monitors with LCD flat screens. Enterprises should also consolidate their power-hungry servers. The EPA has found that servers lose approximately one-third of their power as heat. To compound the problem, organizations are forced to use A/C to cool down data centers – which consumes even more energy. One best practice for reducing power consumption is to use virtualization software, such as VMware. Some organizations turn off non-critical servers during non-business hours. However, you need to be careful when taking this approach, typically mission-critical infrastructure such as email, file and application servers can't just be down just because no one is in the office.
In a recent presentation from Lumension Connect, we asked the poll question: Has your organization looked at local power company energy rebates for PC power management? And 84 percent said they are not aware of the programs. What are the initial thoughts on the results?
These results make sense. When we first started exploring the issue of power management, we assumed a large number of our customers were already managing power in some way. But clearly power management adoption is still in the early adopter phase. Power companies across the U.S. are currently still offering rebates and incentives – they're collecting tariffs from customers and handing the money collected out to those customers who have implemented green computing initiatives. We checked with our local power companies – both offer rebate programs.
Where does a company's greatest savings lie when it comes to power management?
When they add up the cost of energy being wasted, companies will probably be shocked at the numbers. Turning off PCs is the key to success, and desktop power management tools will pay for themselves if they're implemented properly. It is essential that organizations use reporting features to make sure people are really turning off their PCs and not circumventing the power management policies. If policies are implemented and followed, companies can save as much as $25 to $75 per PC per year, according to Energy Star.
Recently, a third party found that companies could save 178 kilowatt hours per year per PC on average through power management. A recent Forrester blog post explained that AT&T expects to save 135 million kilowatt hours of electricity by powering their 300,000 PCs during non-working hours. According to Forrester, this should add up to a savings of about $12.8 million per year. Also, Gartner estimates that PC power management can save a 2,500-PC organization more than $40,000 annually.
What are the steps to qualify for a power management rebate?
First, identify local programs being offered through your power companies. Then obtain the necessary forms and guidelines. You may have to submit a formal written plan for saving energy, but it could be as simple as saying, "We're going to replace 1,000 PCs with Energy Star-rated PCs." and estimating your energy savings by doing so. The power company will reserve funds for you based on your plan, once it has been reviewed and approved.
Next, you need to implement your plan. Typically that might include buying power management software and deploying it on all endpoints, replacing old desktops and consolidating servers. Note that some power companies will only recognize desktops as part of the plan, since laptops are always much more power efficient than desktops. You need to let the power management software run to establish an average baseline of uptime. Once you have a baseline, you run your power management policy and should see an immediate and dramatic reduction in the uptime of your PCs.
The final step is to calculate your power savings. The formula is: uptime X cost of power in your area = how much power you're consuming. You should compare this number to the amount of power you consume when your PCs are on all the time. You can do so by purchasing a Kill-A-Watt meter, available for about $30 from a hardware store or online. This meter will help you calculate wattage consumption. For example, a 110-volt system running at 0.5 amps is roughly equivalent to 55 watts. You can determine your maximum power draw by looking at the power rating of your PC power supply; 500W or more is common with high end gaming desktops for example.
By inputting the amount of power you're consuming with all PCs on and comparing that to how much power you're saving with your power management program, you can estimate your savings over three to five years. You then submit this data to your local power company. Some companies also require a detailed inventory of the machines with the power management software installed, along with proof of purchase of license and an expiration date. If you've implemented your plan as you said you would, the power company should send you a check.
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You then submit this data to your local power company. Some companies also require a detailed inventory of the machines with the power management software installed, along with proof of purchase of license and an expiration date. If you've implemented your plan as you said you would, the power company should send you a check.
What additional resources are available on power management?
1. EPA.gov. On this site you'll find information about power management programs as well as an easy-to-use calculator for estimating savings.
2. U.S. government's Energy Star site
3. Kill-A-Watt meter. Available from a local hardware store, this tells you how much power your systems are drawing.
4. Wake-on-LAN.
5. Local power company site for rebates; these are typically broken down into domestic rebates for fridges, air conditioners, etc and commercial rebates for businesses. Look at the commercial side of the website for information, if there isn't a specific item for "Desktop Power Management" there may still be a rebate available through a "Custom Program."

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Nadine Kathleen Duskey, 95, of Parkersburg passed away on Oct. 29, 2012, at Cedar Grove Personal Care.
She was born in Clarksburg, W.Va. on July 14, 1917, the daughter of the late Clarence W. Sr. and Anna Luthringer Gilbert.
Nadine retired from the Wood County Clerk's office and was a member of the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church where she had been active with the Rosary Altar Guild.
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Rockets rookie forward Chandler Parsons had gone through just one training camp practice in the NBA, but in a rushed preseason, that was enough for him to get playing time Wednesday, the last chance to get on the floor before the games count.
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To wrap up the recap of my recent travels, here are some of my favorite finds from Copenhagen, Denmark, a city known for exceptional design and newly known for its extraordinary take on Nordic food. Food + design...and I was right at home from the second I stepped off the plane.
everyone, literally everyone, bikes…everywhere | design runs deep in this city, even at a simple hotel breakfast, love that flatware | serene outdoor design hidden in the back of a boutique
patterns galore with these lavastone boards for the kitchen at Stilleben | delicate handcrafted ceramics at Keramiker Inge Vincents | the most incredible licorice-caramels at Karamelleriet
inventive yet approachable Nordic cuisine at Relae | cutting edge design at Hay House | the view & a rocking lamp at Ruby, which serves up the best cocktails in town
food, drink + design swim together at Fiskebar
Noma. Voted the "Best Restaurant in the World" twice over. Couldn't get a reservation, but they were gracious enough to give a brief tour. Amazing.
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[English translations of the original Slovenian poems reprinted from New and Selected Poems, 2010 with the permission of the poet]
"Earth Blue As An Orange"
1. "Earth, blue as an orange." (Well you have to start somewhere). A shattered man of irrelevant years, I am still one of those immortals trapped in a worm's body, trapped in this earthly orange until he pays his dues. He totters along with Orion's spear in his stomach, laughs in his heart like a clown, not the happiest laugh but the most sincere, kick-starts a moped, coughs into the autumn morning. Something blue nevertheless — we ought not get too tangled in brambles of sentences, and anyway I don't give a toss. My heart is a bleeding lump of meat On a butcher's or anatomist's table. And also, if you wish – I mean you who have the privilege of sunning yourself in the shadow of this worm — it's also an umbrella for tears and a sewing machine of tied hands. This should be read as the fate of Christ, a man with the sky in his heart and the body of a little cripple — and in fact it was here I really wanted to start with the crippled little man who is laughing a bitter green laugh, a metallic green guffaw the likes of a stinging nettle; the little man looks into himself as into a mirror. Licked by a gust of silence. We will now listen to a radio show, set the dial to the station of olive trees and lavender and wait for the broadcast to begin… But what will begin that I don't know inside out already, you infernal worm? A duck flies past the window and there's the question of a galleon which I capsized on a beach, a wreckage under my bum and I think nothing will explode in this mouth-organ music of purple cacophony. Waiting for my clown-like gust my heart is watching me as if I'm a criminal. What kind of light is this, to weave all this into a coat For a funny little man? But at least I've bitten the bullet True, I don't know what I'll eat but October is grey and we know November is the cruelest of the twelve angels. The wind is gnawing at my island: one must stand firm! I watch this place-in-a-bottle of green glass catching light here and there not all of us are made for happiness, what a stubborn turtle plodding away but not content to play with pain So the bottle being must be made to face facts for a start Autumn fog is an invigorating draught, I stick my finger into a star and bleed as it becomes a grown man. 2. This is meant to be a letter. But where's the typewriter? How can a man wipe his wounds if he has no cloth? I am trying to recall the buffeting of the wind in the labyrinth of narrow streets in Starigrad on the Isle of Hvar. I am losing my mind thinking about that Italian café from the novel whose title I forget. Something the Mediterranean shares with my heart. Of course it is not the only thing my heart is after in its battle with the world. But where is my boat? I don't have a boat, and here in this place that makes me by definition a sailor without a boat. Therefore let us consider this febrid insect in my limbs. It must be some digestion hormone, turning me live into cloud-fodder. This side of the universe is a leap from the frying pan into the fire. Freedom is something green. A man is walking along the street in prisoner's clogs. His chains rattle and the man is smiling. This Martini is bloody strong. The man is of course myself. A traveling shop, on its shelves the happy nattering of exotic spices, a truck rumbling along the potholed road through the Starigrad green. What are those pitted fruits called? Zizula? Forever they will mean my happiness. Only let me dig it up out of the earth, blister my hands. Love is always linked with a man who is bleeding, but this one is rather more stocky. And if anybody here thinks he is about to crawl, they are mistaken. Of course he will. I am speaking of that Italian café from the time between the wars, a café in winter with its lights already on in the morning and almost empty. I wish I could sit by the window with an unread newspaper spread across my knees, a refugee from the Bora wind and the whistling that dances through the streets, but there is a lot to be said for pulling up your collar, pushing your hands into your pockets and strolling around with an unwritten book, freeing the most intimate of your dreams, speaking what I know full well cannot be silenced with any silence. Milk is white. 3. To speak from a place where silence speaks. Seven hearts of mine have put on Greek armor, they are running across the plain of Kopais below the Chitheronia of my imagination. How to catch dreams that have untied the hands? From letter to letter I open out the shutters on a little house like a children's toy, on a little house in a little house, in which there is another little house and one more and it sings like the songs of Strniša. To see and feel something for the first time as a man counting little stones. The shadows had frightened me off, I shut down the computer and went to the shopping mall. I drove around town, in my left pocket a folded piece of paper, a piece of iron a man carries in his heart. And drinks from. And eats from. Fog is a beautiful thing to a man who cannot sleep. It washes his eyes, kisses his soul. The land inside is green. The sky green. Green sea. Green city. Green moonlight. Everything green up to the zenith. Green centipede. Sea undulates against the morning, sadness shimmers in glasslike depths. Green boots on my feet ran down there among the olive trees and cicadas. At night I dived into a fountain, came out with some little stones that warm my heart. Morning light feels a face and shapes it into a delicate blossom. I walk. The sky touches the rooftops gently. A green hippopotamus is swimming, seagulls screech. If you touch me your knees become tendrils springing flowers. Water is clean as honey. Lavender bushes nestle on my life's crossroads. Light is thinner than a rosemary stem. A hazy field of lavender. Aroma of coffee. Translated by Ana Jelnikar and Ciaran O'Driscoll
The Sky Over Berlin
(a German poem)
A modern-day poet talking into a mobile phone about life in a big city. Very interesting, he says, to lose a thousand Deutschmarks. You sit in a bistro, guzzling dark wheat beer, it is a late in the evening. Lively conversation. You bend, and the vinyl cards fall out of your pocket. This story about globalization is a load of crap, says Jun, telling us instead about the civilization, which is based on a thirty-six-hour-and-twenty-minute long day. The world can be understood through a different concept of time. Alexandra runs off. Irina is all in a flurry about the football match Ukraine vs. Germany. The equalizer got her interested. She has no idea what this means for Ukraine. Football's been introduced as a compulsory subject in schools all over the country, she tells us. One must go with the times. Join the consumers, cheer on stadiums and turn it all into poetry. And why not? I will throw Versace vests into the bin. On Friday night we're going for sushi. Jun carries on talking, explaining about the upside-down pyramid. Just think, he says, how these things were worked out when there were no Crays, PCs, Macintoshes, lap tops, notebooks, working stations. Imax, Cinemascope, grand pianos, digital sound systems, creditcards, phonecards, plastic hotel keys, health insurance and ID cards, holograms and chips that give the exact bearings of their owner. But who to? Cameras in front of banks, traffic lights, on borders, road signs, in corridors, foyers, entrances, bathrooms, kindergartens, lifts, cars, boats, trains, buses, computer screens, airports, airplanes. Long live democracy. Long live control, censorship. The poet feverishly whispers into Nokia, Motorola, Erickson, Siemens, throwing suspicious glances, but secret agents are invisible, made of chips and processors, like a spider, they are one with the web, everywhere present, in all the phones, hidden in invisible electromagnetic waves. Listening out for the buzz words. The poet records them on the hard disc of his poetry collections. He won't let himself be distracted, he goes on talking, credit cards, yes, live today, pay tomorrow, it's all in your head really, in your guts if you go for it; who loses, disappears, a poet leans over the sink and spits out blood, yesterday he got rid of his old computer and got a new one, none of his old discs worked in the new program environment, no worries, connect to the internet, one hour and thirty minutes for two Deutschmarks in Easy Everything, the internet cafe reminds you of a Las Vegas gambling mansions with one-armed bandits or of Pachinko Halls in Japan, its only limitation is your head, your ideas and your understanding of things, though even these are no longer yours; their copyrights are in the hands of Bill Gates, Warner Brother and Sony, America on Line and New York Times, Church, Compaq and CNN, which – at bottom – are one and the same opinion machines gigantic network, so, why bother going against the flow and trying to create something truly yours, much easier is just to sink in the glorious images, to throw yourself into the wave of ever-new gadgets, lovers, marriages, children, cafés, clothes, jargons, trends – yes, it all seems to depend on your interpretation of things, your consumption's ability on your status; though occasionally, from somewhere, from the deep-end of your soul, a wee panic bug shoots up, and you sit on the subway thinking, yes, it's true, a man it means a body, a social status, a bank account, all the tongues he speaks, and so on. You put down your paper, look up, stop staring at the woman opposite you, you are trying to guess how she lives, what sort of a life she's got, if there's something you don't like about her, no worries, there's another one sitting right next to her, there are plenty in a city like this, but neither does she quite satisfy your expectations, and besides, why do they have to be wearing trousers, true, they feel more comfortable in them, trousers are practical, leather trousers stick to your thighs, constant irritant to the shaved skin, but men want to see legs, skirts sliding up the thighs, men need a visual aphrodisiac to excite their imagination, but the woman stares ahead like a wax doll, doesn't bat an eyelid, who can tell what legs she's hiding in those trousers under the coat, but why the strange feeling that she wants to get up and scream yes, that's what I'd want, I'd want to strip naked and throw myself onto the bike of life, I've had enough of this shit, shopping, preparing organic food, have your soy burgers and yoghurtless yoghurts, I've had it, enough of decaf coffee and nicotine-free cigarettes, of fitness, hair-dressers, fat-free cholesterol, of a man who's never at home, yes, much like the one next to her, an almost exact copy, flicking scattily through the newspaper, glaring headlines, almost no text, color photographs of football players, impossibly expensive cars you can buy on credit or by installments, advertisements, notices, offers, promises of happiness and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, who for years hasn't had the courage to look a woman in the eyes, and who, between phone calls at work, secretly leaps to the erotic internet pages to look between the legs of the digital Natasha; and even before he gets to the end of the paper, his phone rings, war is a serious matter, shares have tumbled by sixty percent, disaster, why didn't he sell them a week ago, they were rising rapidly then, give it another day or two, he thought, then I'll sell them, and now this. Of course, his wife hasn't a clue about his problems, she's commissioned a new bedroom, bathroom, living room, balcony, kitchen, a dining set out of the finest porcelain for the very good price of ten thousand Deutschmarks, apparently Lady Di ate from it before she was pushed off the road and her car crashed into the tunnel, it was awful, Prince Charles mourned her death terribly, and possibly for the last time had sex with that cross between a horse and Fernandel, with that chamomile freak, but then had to rush off to Scotland for the highest-ranking golf tournament, Jun called it the club of the three hundred, but the biggest hypocrite among the Slovenian poets shook his forefinger, saying: Iztok, watch what you read, it's all lies, Rosthchilds are good boys, have you tried their wine, but he couldn't finish the sentence, having sped off to greet an eminent new Nobel Prize committee member, a shit on two legs, as one would say, but he'd never let himself use such language, or if he did say shit, it would sound extravagant, almost witty, but the guy whose phone prevented him from getting through to the end of the newspaper to find out the latest on how to obtain an hour-long hard on, a seven-minute ejaculation and perfect bliss with some Polish woman in the latest BMW roadster, stared ahead into the virtual landscape of uttered words and his super-sly thoughts, not to mention his major interest to wheedle his partner out of his share and make up for the difference he had lost at the stock exchange. Suddenly his face contorted, the voice on the other side had just informed him, very sorry, they did not opt for his company, but do recommend themselves for the future. He who had been watching the woman opposite him, trying to turn her into the object of his erotic screenplays, had some thinking to do. He looked out the window, the train was speeding across a huge building site, whining amid heaps of concrete towers, half-built overpasses, bridges, through a tunnel, past office blocks, the sky crisscrossed with yellow and orange cranes, a watch tower standing solitary by the side of the tracks from the time the wall was still dividing the town into the section of the living and the quarter of the dead, somewhere at the end of the compartment the digitalized opening refrain of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sang out, he jerked, the train shook as it went over the switchpoint and disappeared underground. There's the inner world too. You have immersed deep within yourself, which is not saying much. Being within yourself means having at least three, if not more, of you gathered around the campfire of your empty self. The one who is keeping a fatherly watch over everything, directing the traffic, and whose caring hand is ever in command of the situation, not always rosy. Deep down, below, wedged into a slit, a lava of sorts is glowing white-hot wanting out, to spout all over, a surge of panic, bordering on insanity. Things are unraveling double quick, you've lost your head or let dissatisfaction go rampant, and the calming father has a difficult time of keeping it all in check. Some third party formulates explanations, not necessarily false, on the contrary, they can clarify very precisely what is going on, but they lack the power to influence, let alone change anything. Man, looking into himself as though he were a well, knows that beneath the narrow slit, dangerous stress has been accumulating for years, made up of small sacrifices and suppressions, but the separate elements have long ago melted into a red-hot broth, into a sizzling little fiend with only one thing on its mind: to break the armor and disgorge. The pressure he is creating is not wholly destructive, destruction as such does not interest him, all he cares about is breaking out. The sight of the flaring slit of panic unfolds like a movie. In a flash all the scenes reel off one after the other, everything that has been pushed under, into the dark. Too much has amassed, it lights up, now threatening to blow the telephone man to smithereens, so no one will piece him together again. But there are pills of all kinds and variety, sedatives, stimulators, stoppers, accelerators, for sleeping, for staying awake, against depression, headaches, steroids for muscles, viagra for a continual erection, he could stuff himself with these, and the slit would fill up for as long as it took him to finish this or that business, get through this or that book, pay this or that bill, jump this or that secretary, co-worker, might as well jump them all, and one way or another await the New Year's Day, only to collapse into bed, never to wake up again. But no, man observes that point which seethes with the sense of utter panic, he watches his quickened, angry and headless rushing here and there, he listens to the furious hissing and cussing, and ponders the odd fact that even though he understands perfectly well what has happened and why it is all happening, there's nothing he can do to free himself of the mounting pressure and untie the inner knot strange that in spite of his honest coming to terms with what has so disagreeably brought on his fits of panic, the pressure won't ease, no, it remains a vicious threat. The devil's lava has no intention at all to spout, keeping the pressure, stirring panic, just that. The anger you felt can hardly be put down to any more serious form of madness. But he saw more, he saw what withdrew into itself and was silent. And ate up the words and thoughts and simply was. The dark sky over Berlin, which didn't just hang over the city, but engrossed everything and drew all of man into a form of deafness, into something that did not answer back. And a little bewildered, man shrugged his shoulders, coming to terms with what was more powerful than him, no pressure, no consequence. And man was looking into himself, sensing the dark, deaf sky staring at him with all the faces of his own skin: his absent other, five times his size, staring, as it were, with all the pores of his being. Man watched aghast: the fiendish slit that had been disgorging anger and panic, suddenly seemed a puny yelping dog, but the pressure refused to give way. And man stopped looking into himself and looked outside, at the world rushing past the train windows, and thought how the world incorporated the speeding train, which, like his inner world, was immovable on the inside, at which point his cheap mobile phone whistled twice in his hand and then died in his palm, its battery flat a useless, redundant object. An end of transmission. Berlin, November 2001 Translated by Ana Jelnikar
Salisbury Hotel
There's a hotel that they shut down. It stands on the corner of St. Ann's Street and Green Lanes. The poem entitled Salisbury Hotel I wrote once before. But – this awful, this always present 'but' – the poem didn't survive the snow that that night covered the Welsh town of Swansea. I feel like I've had a spontaneous miscarriage. The poem had been written – I remember the evening, Peter and Ana were waiting in the lounge for me in vain, the poem was stronger and all that I won't be able to write again was staring at me from the computer screen, waiting to see what I'd do. It happened because of programs that had downloaded themselves from the net, waiting in ambush for me to fly off to England, far from access to the server, to upload themselves. When I turned on the computer, they demanded I activate them through the net. Unless they were activated, it was impossible to save the text. And there it was, superb, sharp, full of energy, and, as is the case with all of them lately, long, encompassing everything I wanted or did not want to write. Over a thousand kilometers of driving on the left side of the motorway, the snow, a night cut across, like the English flag, with strips of paranoia. The creaking of doors, comments on our reading tour of England, the blackness of the open ocean in the Brighton midnight. America on the other side. Hotel corridors in London like a ship's interior. A special freshness in the air. I tried finding a way of saving the poem in whatever form I could. It wasn't possible. I left the computer on and rushed for the reading in the Dylan Thomas Literary Centre, amid the seamen, amateur poets, drunken enthusiasts in the snowy evening, as the sharp wind swept the smell of the port off the streets. The town turned into a milky wood, through which our taxi drove recklessly, a tiny bus winding through the narrow streets with a double mix of accelerated heartbeat and contentment at being human. A memory of the morning when I stood in a cold, wet wind in front of the Salisbury Hotel, wondering what I could turn it into. First, I thought, I would move it to Rozna dolina, put it in a park closed in by a tall black fence. I would invite the gang and maybe others to join me, take up their roles, inject it with life, open a youth hostel, a hotel, a cultural centre, in which I would host international gatherings, tie it all in with publishing, music, blue skies over Kilimanjaro and bread dumplings, from the streets of Prague, but rather than with ham, which is actually not bad, with sauerkraut and the music of my hunger, my plaintive lament because of which I am not worthy to consider myself a grown man. But now I know I would leave it where it is. The Salisbury Hotel means life, it means cinema, it means love, it means anonymity in a six-room flat with a giant glass wall, which blossoms in the middle into a Secession style stained-glass window and turns the flat into a studio, a workshop and library. A private entrance, inaudible circling around the city at night, a growing feeling of homelessness in the face of pain, the broken language of an immigrant from the Third World. To whom no one pays any attention, regardless of the color of the lines on his face or wrinkles created by lamentation. I felt the smell of a moldy office and the creaking of the bed in a small hotel with two faces, where Allen Ginsberg, president Carter and I stayed over, as we were told that night in a taxi by David Woolly. The Salisbury Hotel therefore means a kind of pain or the nostalgic openness of a poem I was forced to erase without a trace. I was wondering whether to copy it out by hand; now I'm sorry I didn't, because no other poem will capture so well the wet cold and the silent presence of Dylan Thomas as that one had done, but I didn't, I didn't imagine it would hurt me so or drill such a hole in me, an empty draft, something gnawing. Sometimes an unuttered word tells more than seven sentences, sub clauses included: that poem told many things, one big gap of silence, a successful symphony of unspoken things, a story impossible to utter. The Salisbury Hotel therefore means closure. With a heavy heart I opened the computer case, turned off the electricity, wound up the cable, put away the mouse, scanned one last time the lines on the screen with tired eyes, lost deep in thought, then sadly clicked on Don't save. Click, a week of a life, an entire universe lost with a touch of a key. The Salisbury Hotel means a house of desire, for which it is not possible to clearly make out whether it's just a dream of a man in the wet wind or something else, some unworked trauma from early childhood, which reminds one of a Dickens novel. Who wouldn't be familiar with that flash on the computer, when the program window shuts in a split second, leaving behind a taste of bitter coffee? Truly, I feel like a dog crawling on its stomach, trying to scrape off his ribs an impossible need, but then I remember that the game of reality has its own logic anyway, impossible to predict, and that this cushion of impossibility is only some kind of foam from one's moment, a scream, with which you tell things impossible even to think, a secret letter intended for an unknown reader. The Salisbury Hotel means to be living, to realize yourself in language, to turn it into the sharp gust from a lotus flower, to have one's blood pumping. It means the morning shadow of dreams that have died. It means my own pastoral of a homeless man, a look back on all such similar moments, a silence and a smile, a future that has possibly already happened in one of one's previous lives. Translated by Ana Jelnikar and David Brooks
There are no oak trees in the valley anymore. I am, though. I look around in wonder. Where have all those dunes come from? Here, where the Earth splits in half. I like this place, the silence of a truck, moaning up the steep hill, the screaming of a Swedish chain saw. There are no eagles anymore, local guys sold all their eggs to Italians, every spring there is a procession of baskets, commuting to the fish market in Trieste, of course they carry no fish, it is mostly nightingales and owls, night singers that make plumbers mad (do you remember Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii, the hermit thrush, Eliot heard in Quebec Province. Its "water-dripping song is justly celebrated", he says, "though not by all"). But I wanted to comment on the dance of death, the second reality of the valley. Sometimes on horse backs, black devils, monks of Satan, the Ottomans, maybe one should write them down like Ottomen, Otto, born 1111, the half-brother of the Hohenstaufen German king Conrad III and uncle of Frederick I Barbarossa with burnt crosses they flooded the valley, though the Ottomans came much later. They were the reason that the local people built this wall, ramparts, high towers, bastions in caves and on the ledges of overhanging rocky walls of the valley. Ancient people who were well aware of death, they needn't wait until the beginning of the 20th Century to turn the notion of it into basic ontological postulates (Heidegger, Jankelevitch, Levinas I have in mind, and the holocaust). I love the rustling of dried oak leaves. This faithful sheets of rusty breeze pierce my ears with the sword of some natural satori. I know this country is awake, it watches me. And suddenly I am transported into the living dream and my body is gone and my wordy perception is blown away by the blast of the reality volcano. Colors are sharp razors, my eyes are cut in two, my heart is stolen by a Peruvian mummy, my voice is as dry as a desert. Now I understand where the dunes came from. They came from me, winds carried them out through the holes in my bones, now the valley is full of monsters and my skin turns into a sail and we sail down the sea of oak-woods, now long gone. And the Turks and the eagles turned into bush trees, drops of blood, birds three and half centuries ago. This is a dangerous land. Spirits are vicious. They attack you and cut you in half and transform your knees into grapes. They abuse their magic alphabet, they decorate foreheads and portals with ancient inscriptions as they too belong to the universe of books and use formulae. But they are just filters, guardians at the doors of perception, custom officers of dreams. Before we disappear into the ninth basement of barbers we have to leave a book, a child, an oak tree and a bastion behind. It is only then that our horse of love could transform himself into a hedgehog. Or a squirrel. I don't remember any more. Three and half a century has been a long time ago when I was still alive and in love. Winds have blown my dust away, and my spirit was eaten by moths and oak trees now gone. Who could understand that? Not me. The reality bird resembles some kind of a bottle. With an unreadable message in the belly of its non existence. Painted all over the (outside) walls of this bastion church.
Reverent Richard L. Jackson, The Gentle Monster
Is a reverent Richard L. Jackson a real person or just a literary character? A fair question, due to L. in his name, I mean. What does it mean to be real? Do we talk about a real person as of one that exists, a living human being with two legs and a bank account in some Southern bank? Are there any Southern banks? Or is it the Yankees, old chums who got it all? Waiting like vouchers for Katrina to hit New Orleans and then happily enroll themselves into some real estate business they call charity or humanitarian aid. By organizing some live aid concert in the North, Carnegie hall or Coliseum East. I remembered Jim Morrison on stage, he said. It was before Christ, in a different universe. We hitchhiked all over, from Atlanta on the west to West Indies on the East. How do you call that jelly fish? Something Portuguese, I don't remember. But I remember the day quite well. It was windy, sunny bright morning. We had Italian pasta and some white wine, Pinot Griggio I think. I was ready to fall in love, but the sun was too bright and I could not see. Was the third man at the table the reverent L. Jackson? Of course he was. He doesn't say anything, keeps everything inside him, never tells a lie, nor a joke. He reminds me of George Bernard Shall, the Irish soccer player with pimples on his face who later started the Irish film industry. Train spotting, To kill a Mocking Bird, With Cool Blood, One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest, Soul on Ice, Portnoy's Complaint. Who would not remember those? We stayed friends for life though I admit that my English never really grasped the spirit of the Britt's. The glorification of Lawrence of Arabia, the personification of Prospero in his inability to understand the Talibans. Or, for God's Sake, W. B. Yeats! Green is the color of the morning sun, sang Donovan. Who the hell is Donovan? Is he real? The hero of the Sixties that nobody remembers anymore. I remember him because I just found one of his LPs. I still keep my collection of LP records. It is difficult to realize that most of the living world today refer to those in the same way I referred to T.A. Edison's invention of a phonograph. Would this pass at the creative writing workshop as a piece of poetry? How about Mr. Richard L. Jackson? Would he mind it? Why did I turn him into a reverent R. L. Jackson? And what does L. stand for? Questions, questions, questions. It's the spirit that counts.
According To "Winter Yaps"
The urine of the red fox smells more like skunk musk than the urine of the gray fox, as stated in "Winter Yaps." So, how could a man of lower skills turn this kind of the beginning into a poetry of some value and common interest? We deal here with matters of animation and recruiting of large crowds of educated humans that we identify with artistic success. Or simply put it this way: how do we know that we're watching a great player? If we don't get it we don't know it. It is intuition, a feeling one has or one doesn't have. We don't know whether we have a sock full of grasshoppers in front of us on our comfortable sofa until we untie the knot, said Alexander. But what about crowds in the Third World? Do they read their poetry on sofas? I doubt it. They probably listen to some duke with some weird instrument, plucking the strings as if they were cherry flowers. My God, I can even hear the sounds. They resemble the tapping of rain on the roof of my cottage. Soft, or even better, light and silky as a wish. Now this time it is my hesitations controlling the rhythm of my poem. What to do with all the quotes? To be or not to be them? Basketball experts clearly appreciate basketball. Imagine that! Imagine all the people living in the world of peace. Imagine that! Was your father a war hero? Yes, he was. He attacked Nazi tanks with a sword. Now, what is the purpose of a good poem? What should it do to millions and millions of readers all over the world? Should it tell them about their suffering? They know it well. Should it sympathize with them? No doubt. But that is just a part of it. Should it disclose some deep wisdom? Or fart? I think that farting is good for poetry. It makes it genuine, monstrous. What is my role in all this game? Should I turn into Fannon or Che Guevarra? Take a gun into my hands and start some humanitarian project for UN? Rimbaud did that. He humanitarianly aided some arms' dealers. According to Alain de Botton it was the London physician Bernard Mandeville who proposed that it was the rich who are in fact the useful ones, because their expenditure provides employment for everyone bellow them and so help the weakest in the society to survive. I would not mind laying that woman on the front cover. I like her slender long legs. This Alan de Botton has to be some bourgeois pervert. Not that I object. Do we poets stand for meritocracy? And what about beautiful landscapes, love songs, drinking out in the open in the ocean midst of glowing moonshine? Imagine it! Billions of nebulae glowing over my village with some fields of cabbage casting razor sharp shadows into the night. Hauling of wild animals, winds bringing the smell of urine of the red fox, that reminds a poet of skunk musk rather than of the urine of the grey fox, as also stated in "Winter Yaps." Whatever that may be.
Christmas Carol
whenever you say you are going to leave me I immediately start writing poems in English and that is every half a year, usually around Christmas. Quite, or even too often, I would say to keep my heart pounding and me suffering but yes, I do understand, oh, yes, I do understand, and of course I understand there is nothing I can offer but bitter words of love and love itself, but that, though a strong argument, doesn't count for enough, you need a family, a cup of chocolate, the warmth of one's arms when you come home, you need home. we recycle one and the same scenario. do you remember the movie about the same day being repeated every morning anew. the main hero played by a famous actor whose name I forgot, after the third or fourth repetition he knew it well and all. it was only him who knew it (and you in our movie) the others involved in the proceedings of that day kept looking suspiciously at him, because he kept saying funny things about what it is going to happen in a minute or so I don't remember the end but every single repetition of the one and the same day concentrated on the unhappy love affair, the breaking of a relationship, the sadness of it it must be terrible to wake up in the morning still deeply in love knowing it will all end soon, as many times before in the afternoon with enough day to be left for suffering and an endless nightmare just before he wakes up again in the same circulus vitiosus. you too, you know it well basically we talk about three locations: the metropolis, the province and the island (they all have their names but for the sake of an artistic impression we shall skip them) and basically two times of the year: summer vacations (extended well into the fall), and Christmas when you come visiting us, back to the province again. Thus up and down goes the wheel of fortune. few short days of happiness and bliss followed by a long curvature of distancing finally to be told that it is over, an arctic winter and a long era of slowly warming up, first the daffodils pop up and then explosion of vegetation in the desert, flowers of zillion different colors and bees, and flies, and mosquitoes of course (and ticks when we make love in the forest or tall grass). am I a heavy drinker, a lost soul, an unfaithful bird? of course not. regardless how many times before I have passed through it, it is new every next time, and it is always awful, final, and completely real again and again I am a helpless wreck, a fish caught in a net and hauled to the shore tossing and turning and gulping for water and air (and a little bit of love and a kiss) I know there is sincerity and suffering on your side of the mountain too. I blame neither one nor the other nor gods or merciless fortune or Venus, jealous as I am, I am not a believer in god nor a Gnostic nor anybody of the sort (I am not an atheist either). I could say that we are the living proof of the Post-Nietzschean world, where time is cyclic, the affairs mythic, even tragic. I know all this. I wonder though whether this is the dream world of the Arabian nights, a story from Alf Laylah wa Laylah with screams and tears and with all the expected paraphernalia of it. how not to suffer and to love happily at the same time and not to sour the sweet lament every three or four months I should know it better, you say and I know you're right…


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Beautiful, Portland ME, on river close to beaches
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Open floor plan is great for families. Big, gourmet kitchen with cherry cabinets,granite countertops and SS appliances if you enjoy cooking at home. The first floor has a large double sided fireplace open to the dining room and living room. Just a few steps away is a large family room with three couches, computers, ping pong and flat screen tv.
MBR includes a private bath with separate glass shower and jacuzzi tub.
Large, flat panel TVs in living room on ground floor and playroom,Wii,Netflix,and High-speed wireless internet plus plenty of board games are available.
Basement has two bedrooms. There is also an elliptical trainer, universal weight machine, exercise bands and balls available if you want to work out.
The neighborhood is a private, small neighborhood of 25 homes where we all know each other very well. This is a place to quietly relax and use as a home base for visiting the great sites and beaches around Portland. My favorite beach is 18 minutes away, and Sebago Lake is just a 25 minute drive.
Portland is a great city famous for its restaurants, museums and waterfront.
The house is convenient to the Maine Mall, Portland International Jet
Port and downtown Portland. About a 5 minute drive to each.
The ferry terminal is also about a 5 minute drive where the islands of Casco Bay are waiting o be explored. Portland Maine as it all, and my home is convenient to everything.
Julie Walsh
Port and downtown Portland. About a 5 minute drive to each.
The ferry terminal is also about a 5 minute drive where the islands of Casco Bay are waiting o be explored.
If you are looking to go to the beaches and quaint villages on the coast, our home is centrally located to all. If you are looking to go to the lakes and mountains, we are close to those too.
Our home is a peaceful retreat and a home base for exploring the great state of Maine.
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Reviews for this vacation home rental in Portland, Maine
Michael Gray
Pittsburgh pa
Great house
August 20, 2014
Awesome place for a large group or family. Great friendly owners who can always be reached. If I ever go back I will contact Julie and coley for sure!!!
Ana Lewis
Houston, Texas
What you pay for is not what you get
August 15, 2014
We rented this home in Portland, Maine from August 7th through 10th (Vacation Home Rental 70512).We had numerous issues including Ithe the inaccurate description of the rental unit and the extreme service/maintenance issues that severely impacted our use and enjoyment of this rental. Below are the issues which we represented to the owner. ssues with Condition of the Home: (we documented these issues with photos to support our statements) include without limitation- Stains all over the sheets that looked like blood and dirt on the sheet forcing us to sheet on top of the comforter- no hot water both because you turned off the hot water heater and then because you had no oil in the tank- we all had to stay in our filth for days/hours even after coming home from the beach with no hot water)- one of the bathrooms could not be used to shower since you failed to properly grout the shower- water pouring down through the ceiling on the kitchen, including on the stove impacting our ability to cook- disgustingly dirty floors covered in dirty, all dishes and pots were dirty (we had to SCRUB them before we could use them)- horrible smell in the downstairs bedroom (my mother had to sleep on the couch in the living room every night since this room was so odorous)- disposal could not be used without threat of electrocution resulting in issues with backed up sinks. False representations in the rental home listing: There is no charcoal grill- when we asked you about it you said you had taken it away- we could not BBQ and had to cook indoors limiting our options and heating up the house. No coffee maker - we had to go out and buy coffee every morning We had no use of a garage which was locked and off limits. There were also smaller things like no beach towels, hair dryer, etc This was the first time I used Vacation Home Rental and was truely disappointed since what is listed in your site was not actually what was available in home. Also the condition of the home for the top price we paid is a ripe off. When you pay top dollar for a home you expect a good quality home.


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Archive for June, 2013
Add Some Personal Flare to your 4th of July Party!0
July 4th is almost here and we've got some great 4th of July party ideas to share with you!
Whether you're hosting a celebration or were asked to bring something to a party you're attending, you'll love all of the fun and festive recipes we found on Pinterest and pinned to PMall's "4th of July!" Pinterest Board! As you can see from the American Flag-inspired cake at left, people have been sharing some great red, white and blue ideas – and we just can't get enough of them!
For those of you don't want to take on the challenge of the flag cake, be sure to check out our board at the above link – you'll find tons of easy ways to add some July 4th flare to your food!
We found everything from using cookie cutters to create star-shaped watermelon bites to strategically making fruit kabobs with bananas, strawberries and blueberries so when you fill a platter with them it looks like the American Flag! We even pinned some great drink recipes for kids and adults!
Once you've created your red, white and blue snacks or desserts, present them to your family, friends and party guests in the new Patriotic Pride Embroidered Gift Basket at right!
The reusable red liner is artfully embroidered with PMall's exclusive stars and stripes design and personalized with any family name or message so you can add a personalized touch to your party! If you don't want to fill it with food, the gift basket can also be used to store all of the party plates, napkins and plastic ware that the guests will be using at the party. If you host the 4th of July party every year, this basket is a must-have! It also makes a great hostess gift for your friends and family, too!
While the food is always important, no party is complete without decorations!
Now that it's summer, everyone will want to enjoy the nice weather outside so make sure you clean off your lawn chairs, stock up on sunscreen and bug spray and decorate your yard with one of our Personalized Yard Stakes, like the All American Personalized Yard Stake at left. The yard stake will let your guests know where the party is AND act as a great outdoor decoration! Customers love our personalized yard stakes because the design is magnetic and can be taken off the stake and switched out with another design whenever you'd like. Once you've purchased the yard stake with your first personalized magnet design for $32.95, you only have to pay $15.95 for any new magnet designs you'd like to personalize! You can switch out the magnet so that your yard stake is always celebrating the current season, holiday, birthday or any other celebration you'd like. The beautiful star pattern featured on the All-American magnet design will look great with all of your other party decorations and your guests will love that you've thought to have that July 4th flare outside.
Even though your guests may spend the majority of the time outside on your deck or patio, they're sure to be coming in and out of your house to use the bathroom or to help bring refrigerated foods outside throughout the celebration. Personalize the Patriotic Flip Flops Doormat so they're met with 4th of July fun at the door and also to prevent your guests from tracking mud, water, or anything else into your home! The fun flip flop design is so cute you'll want to leave the doormat out all summer long!
If you like the All American and Patriotic Flip Flop designs that you see here, be sure to check out all of our 4th of July Personalized Gifts - these same designs can be personalized on other gifts plus we have other great gifts you can use at your 4th of July party! You can personalize a blanket to save your spot at your local parade or have one of our party tubs engraved so your guests can drink ice-cold beverages in personalized style. Head over to PMall now to find all your 4th of July party needs!
Wedding Planning Tip: Don't forget the Favors!0
If you're planning a wedding, you know how stressful it can be to put the celebration together. There are a million things to do and it's easy for things to slip through the cracks. Well we're here to help you in two ways today! First, check out this photo-shopped wedding photo we came across on Pinterest at left. Hilarious, right? Hopefully that made you smile and laugh and you were able to forget about wedding plans – even if it was only for a second .
Now that we've helped you de-stress a little bit, we're here to help you with one of the items on the wedding planning to-do list that is often over looked – the wedding favors!
If you visit our Wedding & Anniversary Gifts Store you'll see we have an entire Wedding Favors Department that is full of great favor ideas.
Our collection of Personalized Candy Bar Wrappers are one of our most popular Wedding Favors, especially the Filigree Wrapper design, which comes in different colors and can be personalized with or without a photo of the bride and groom. You can leave one at every seat or decorate a display table that features a sign saying "Love is sweet, please enjoy a treat!" and have your guests take one as they leave the reception! We love the idea of tying in the "Love is sweet" theme – it's cute and perfect for all wedding celebrations! The personalized candy bar wrappers will not only add a personal touch to your wedding, your guests will LOVE the treat, especially because they're sure to be pretty hungry after a night full of fun and dancing at your wedding! If you're a big fan of the candy idea but don't want to limit yourself to just chocolate bars, create a sweet table and personalize the Elegant Monogram Custom Favor Boxes that your guests can fill up with an assortment of goodies!
If you're looking for a favor that isn't edible but is a gift that everyone can use, you may be interested in our Personalized Candle Tin Favors - especially the Wedding Monogram design which has become a favorite among PMall fans. They're the perfect size for people to use when they're traveling or at home and they'll be able to think of you and how much fun they had at the wedding every time they use it! Plus, since you can pick out a design to match your wedding colors, you'll be adding a personal touch to the centerpieces or tables at your reception that could otherwise seem stale.
Brides and grooms who are looking for a wedding favor that will really leave an impression on their guests will LOVE some of our unique wedding favor gifts. Whether you or your future spouse are musicians or just love listening to music, our Personalized Guitar Picks are always a big hit! You can pick a design that lets you upload your favorite photo and a personalized message, or pick a simple design that will feature your own special words on either side! They come in all sorts of colors and fonts so you can customize the guitar picks exactly to your liking. Have your wedding band toss them out to the crowd while they're preforming or leave them spread out as confetti to decorate the tables at your reception. It won't matter how you display them – all of your family and friends will love the unique touch and will be talking about them for years to come!
As you can see, our Wedding Favor Department is full of great ideas that you can put your own spin on … we have everything from personalized mini frames to photo playing cards and golf balls! And the good news is if you head over to PMall now and place your order before June 30th, you'll save big thanks to our Wedding Gifts Sale! So make your way over to our Personalized Wedding Gifts Store now so you can save big, stay within your budget AND check another thing off your wedding planning to-do list!
How To Make Her Last Night Out Her Best Night Out!0
Now that it's wedding season, all of you maids-of-honor and bridesmaids should get started on planning your bride's bachelorette party. We know you want to make sure that your friend or sister has the best, last night out as a single girl – that's why we're here to help with some fun ways to personalize her bachelorette party, making her last night out, her best night out … ever!
No party is complete without a fun dessert, which is why we had to share this photo of high heels cookies that we found on Pinterest! Aren't they fun!? We love how each cookie has it's own colorful design, but you don't need to go to that extreme if you plan on making a cute, girly-themed dessert for your party. You can save time and money by decorating each of the high heels in the same color and style or you can create other styles of cookies, such as lipstick bottles, lingerie, martini glasses, etc. that fit the girly theme just as well as the cute pumps, too!
If you like the high heels cookies as much as we do, you'll love PMall's Wild Side Personalized Bachelorette Party Invitations! The invitations feature a fun & flirty zebra-striped shoe design that will get all of the girls excited and pumped out for the night of fun! They are sold in sets of 24 and can be custom personalized with all of your party info – you barely have to lift a finger (except for typing )! Once you get the invitations personalized and sent out you'll be ready for the next step – bachelorette party games!
There are a ton of bachelorette party games out there that people like to use, but our favorite has to be the bachelorette party truth or dare!
We like to make our own Truth or Dare topics because the game will be much more fun when you tailor it to the taste and personalities of the bride and her guests. Plus, when you personalize your own truth or dare questions, you can make sure that they'll fit with all of your party plans, such as location, time, and the activiities you have planned for the night.
All you have to do is write down 10-20 (or more depending on how many guests will be attending the party) dares and truth questions and put each of them in envelopes that are labeled so you'll know which one to hand out when the time comes. Make sure to seal the envelopes with the Bachelorette Personalized Party Stickers so no one can peek! These fun stickers help add a personal touch to the game that the bride will really appreciate. She may have been to several bachelorette parties where they've plaid a similar game, but when she sees her name on the cute stickers she'll be truly touched that you spent the extra time and effort to make it special. Have each girl continue to pick a card and answer a truth question, such as, "Who was the first boy you kissed?" or complete a dare, such as "Dance with the first guy you see at the bar!" Once they have successfully completed their task, hand them a sticker to wear for the rest of the night! It'll show that they're part of the fun party and that they've already participated in the fun!
Everyone will notice when your group of girls enters the room once you're all wearing the fun, pink stickers, but don't forget to make the bride stand out! Personalize the Bachelorette Bash Satin Sash to say "Bachelorette (her name here)," "Future Mrs. (groom's last name here)" or anything you'd like! You can have it personalized in one of 10 colors – we think pink or purple look great, but you can also select a color that matches her wedding colors for that extra special touch! Make sure the bride keeps her sash on the whole night, that way everyone around you will know to congratulate her throughout the night – and she may even get a free drink or two out of it!
It's adding little personal touches like these that will make her last night out, one of the best of her life. She'll know that you spent the extra time to make it special for her and she'll never forget it!
So head on over to PMall.com now to get started on planning and have a great night out with the girls!
Make it a "Daddy & Me" Father's Day!0
Father's Day is June 16th and thanks to this adorable photo (at let) that we saw on Pinterest, we were inspired to put together some Father's Day gifts that both Dad and his kids will enjoy!
Dads who are as cool as the guy in this photo deserve amazing Father's Day gifts so they know just how much they mean to you or your kids.
While PMall's Father's Day Gifts Store is full of great gift ideas for Dads with all sorts of hobbies, the photo of the Dad who was brave enough to shop in a cape with his son inspired us to put together a couple of "Daddy & Me" themed Father's Day gifts that we think you'll love.
The cute Daddy & Daddy's Girl Personalized Apparel is one of PMall's most popular Father's Day gifts this year and it's easy to see why – the matching shirts are adorable! Dads always have a soft spot in their hearts for their little girls and now they can show that with these cute matching t-shirts!
This cute design is available in an infant bodysuit, and youth and little girls sizes, as well as adult sizes for Dad so no matter how old is little girl is, he can match her! Just think of all the great photo opportunities these matching outfits come with, and they're also great because the next time they have a daddy/daughter tea party they can dress for the occasion together!
But little girls aren't the only ones who get to dress like Dad this Father's Day, the Big Guy & Little Guy Personalized Clothing was designed for father and sons to join in on the fun, too!
The Big Guy & Little Guy design can be personalized on infant, youth and adult-sized t-shirts, sweatshirts and even hats! Whether "Big Guy" is Dad or Grandpa, you can outfit your inseparable pair in the adorable, personalized and matching shirts with their very own last name!
If Dad and his son or daughters are baseball fans, then they're sure to love the Big and Lil' Slugger Personalized Apparel! The Slugger design can be personalized on baseball-style t-shirts or on regular t-shirts or sweatshirts that come in all different colors for you to choose from. Just add their first or last name to the bottom of the design and you have another great Father's Day gift and photo opportunity!
You can find all of these cute "Daddy & Me" personalized apparel designs and more in the Apparel & More Department of our Father's Day Gifts Store. We have all types of apparel that he'll love, including personalized t-shirt designs that include his favorite hobby and personalized neck ties that can feature his kids' names or photos!
Hurry over to PMall.com's Father's Day Gifts Store this week to take advantage of our final Father's Day Sale! Now through Sunday, June 9th you can save up to 25% off personalized gifts for him! We hope you enjoy exploring our unique personalized Father's Day gifts as much as we do! Enjoy your Father's Day!


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Technology Hits a Midlife Bump
By STEVE LOHR
Published: May 4, 2003
MARTIN PICHINSON is one of Silicon Valley's undertakers. His company, Sherwood Partners, has carved out a prosperous niche as an expert in shutting down failed technology start-ups on behalf of venture capital firms and other disenchanted investors. And, this summer, he plans to move his company's headquarters to Palo Alto, Calif., the heartland of opportunity for his rapidly growing business.
Mr. Pichinson, 57, does not always bury companies. Some can be rehabilitated or sold off. But Sherwood Partners has shut down 150 once-aspiring start-ups in the last two years, and Mr. Pichinson figures that thousands more are destined to fold. His company stands ready to help things along.
"We're doctors of reality," said Mr. Pichinson, who began his business career in the garment industry. "You don't have to have a Harvard M.B.A. to know that more money has to come in than go out."
The winnowing of the corporate population is just one sign that the information technology industry is maturing in ways that will affect technology companies, their customers and investors for years to come. But what's painful for Silicon Valley is beneficial for those who use the stuff it produces.
The industry, according to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a strategy executive at I.B.M. , has entered "the post-technology era." It is not that technology itself no longer matters, he explained. Instead, he said, the steady advances in chips, disk storage and software mean that the focus is no longer on the technology itself — with its arcane language of processing speeds and gigabytes — but on what people and companies can do with it.
As a result, industry executives and analysts say, the balance of power is shifting away from technology suppliers and toward their corporate customers. At the same time, the use of lower-cost building blocks of computer hardware and software is spreading, making it easier for companies and individuals to share data and work together using industry standards rather than remain dependent on one or two main suppliers.
These trends, they say, point to increased pressure on prices and profits for most technology companies, a good deal for corporate customers and a very tricky time for investors.
This is more than a backlash against the bubble years, or a mere pendulum swing in attitudes and practices. The technology itself will still deliver waves of innovation in the future. Yet an industry that has risen to account for 10 percent of the economy and nearly 60 percent of business capital spending can no longer play by its own rules.
"I don't see a loss of faith in technology, but gravity has been turned back on," said Dick Lampman, the director of Hewlett-Packard's research laboratories.
Yet an article published last week in The Harvard Business Review does question corporate America's faith in the value of technology. Titled "IT Doesn't Matter," the article argues that information technology is inevitably headed in the same direction as the railroads, the telegraph, electricity and the internal combustion engine.
All of these industrial technologies aged from their boom-time youth to become, in economic terms, ordinary factors of production, or "commodity inputs," the article noted. "From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered," wrote Nicholas G. Carr, editor at large of The Harvard Business Review. "That is exactly what is happening to information technology today."
Most corporate executives, however, still think there is a lot they can do with technology to give them an edge. Glen Salow, the chief information officer of the American Express Company , sees the recent trends in the industry as working to his advantage. First, he said, the hard times in the technology business have increasingly meant that big corporate customers hold the upper hand in their dealings with suppliers. That shift, Mr. Salow added, has given him not only more bargaining power on price, but also more influence in the products and services that are developed.
Corporate customers want to use technology to achieve goals like cutting costs, improving customer service and speeding the pace of bringing new products to market. But in the past, the computer industry has often treated customers with a certain arrogance, selling raw technology, take it or leave it.
MR. SALOW recalled a conversation he had in the late 1990's with the chief executive of a major computer company, whom he declined to identify. As Mr. Salow recalled, the computer executive told him, "My job is to make the hottest box on earth and deliver it on your loading dock."
"You don't hear that kind of talk anymore from him or anyone else," he said. "There has been a huge change from that perspective. The voice of the customer is being heard."
Corporate customers are insisting that technology companies adopt industry-standard software formats and communications protocols, so that the many different kinds of computer systems in corporate data centers can work together. In doing so, the companies are encouraging a technology trend that was really kicked off by the Internet, with its global reach that connects all sorts of technologies. For the Internet to work, the computer plumbing had to cooperate. And hardware and software standards make it more difficult for technology companies to "lock in" customers to their more expensive, homegrown technology offerings.


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New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, US, Architectural Student Assistant
Designed awards, pamphlets, posters, powerpoint presentations, using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, and Microsoft Powerpoint. Also created a networked file organizational system for coursework and digital files.
Delaware County Community College, Media, PA, US, Technology Lab Tutor
Tutored Math, English, Physics, Chemistry, and Architecture, as well as trouble shooting technology problems in the computer labs, software and hardware.
Brandywine CAD, Wilmington, DE, US, CAD Drafter
Site Surveys, Architectural Drafting, Industrial functional schematics. Utilized ctb's, .lsp files, macros and aspects of ADT for greater efficiency.
Preferred Homes Incorporated, Springfield, PA, US, Assistant General Contractor
Basic skills in landscaping, framing, electrical and plumbing, site planning, dry wall installation, and backhoe operation.
New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, US, BArch, Architectural Technology
Architectural Environmental Systems, Architectural Design & Drafting, Urban Design, Space Planning, Architectural Animation, Structural Systems & Infrastructure.
Delaware County Community College, Media, PA, US, Architectural Technology
Introduction to AutoCAD and Autodesk Revit, Methods and Materials of Construction, and Project Management.
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