Showhomes Charleston Wins Best In Staging Design Rising Star ...

Charleston, SC ( ) February 29, 2012 ? Lorelie and Coy Brown, franchise owners of Showhomes Charleston, walked away from the Showhomes 2012 Annual Conference with the Rising Star award for Best in Staging Design.

Those competing for the Best in Staging Design Rising Star award are those franchise location owners that have been in business 18 months or less. They submit before and after photos of staged homes which are anonymously judged by staging experts. These professionals base their verdict on trends in furniture and accessories, Showhomes staging guidelines for furniture placement for focal points and traffic flow, appropriate lighting and artwork usage, and overall visual appeal to buyers.

?Our entire team is thrilled to have received this award, especially in our first year with Showhomes,? says Lorelie Brown, owner and staging consultant of the Charleston franchise. ?It is rewarding to know that we are on-point with the emphasis of our business and fully ensuring that our clients are pleased.?

The staging aesthetic is an important part of the Showhomes business model, which centers on the staging of vacant houses. According to the Showhomes website, ?staging is a science, and we create environments that strike emotional chords with buyers which lead to list price sales.? Live-in Home Managers are trained to stage and maintain the homes while they are on the market, helping them sell faster.

?We must now raise the bar to further exceed expectations and continue to grow,? continues Brown. ?Each of us believes so much in the Showhomes concept, and we?re passionate about what we do each and every day. We feel privileged to serve real estate agents and homeowners in Charleston with our unique home staging services, so these awards are just icing on the cake.?

The Charleston franchise was also honored with a Circle of Excellence award, recognizing franchisees that excelled in customer service and support.

Showhomes is a member of the International Franchise Association and the Real Estate Association, and has been recognized as one of the top ranking, best franchise opportunities by the Franchise Business Review. The company has been featured in such media outlets as: CNN, Oprah, HGTV, Travel Channel, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Money magazine to name a few.

For more information on Showhomes Home Staging, visit www.showhomes.com or call (615) 292-0892.

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Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook shipping now, starts at $999

If you were speedy enough to grab those spilled docs for Dell's new ultra machine, we've got great news -- you won't have to wait much longer to put 'em to good use. Just as promised, the Round Rock, Texas crew's taken the locks off the virtual shelves in which its slim XPS 13 sits. Weighing in at just under three pounds, this mighty 13.3-inch Ultrabook will set you back $999 for the entry level model, which packs Intel's Core i5-2467M CPU and HD 3000 graphics, along with 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. If you do, however, decide to take the pricier ($1,499), better-specced road, you'll be walking out with a Core i7-2637 processor as well as a 256GB Solid State Drive. Regardless of which route you end up taking, be sure to check out our hands-on before you add it to your cart.

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Death toll rises to 3 in Ohio school shooting (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - The death toll rose to three Tuesday in the shooting rampage in an Ohio high school cafeteria as schoolmates and townspeople grappled with the tragedy and wondered what could have set the teenage gunman off.

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Tips on Seeking Good Debt Management Advice

A number of people tend to overlook the good debt management advice experts provide because they feel that they can well manage on their own. But these people are those that have the tendency to make poor decisions that can actually worsen their financial problems.

Debt management is simply the means reducing your debt through managing your assets and negotiating with creditors. It involves debt management plans wherein you deposit set funds per month to specified accounts. The money is then used by the debt management company to pay off your bills.

In choosing a debt management provider, you should consider different factors. Enumerated below are useful tips on how to choose a firm that may bring you closer to financial comfort and eventually debt freedom.

? Referral ? It helps if you exchange notes with people who has been in a similar situation; you can ask questions regarding their experiences with their credit counselors or debt management specialists. Moreover, a company of good reputation will be able to share their successful clients without giving out the personal information, so go on ahead and ask a referred company to give examples.

? National Accreditation ? Not assuring success but a company that is accredited promotes high standards and ethical practices. One of the most outstanding accrediting bodies is the American Association of Debt Management Organizations. Companies under this group focus on credit counseling, debt management plans, and budget or finance industry education, among others.

See how much you can learn about Debt Management when you take a little time to read a well-researched article? Don?t miss out on the rest of this great information.

? Better Business Bureau ? This agency can provide you with information about the short-listed firms. You can also consider talking to someone from the State?s Attorney or Attorney General?s office to find out if the firms you are considering have been subjects of any regulatory action. It will also help if you check the firm?s website to confirm if it is a member of the online arm of the Better Business Bureau and if it has been awarded the reliability program online seal.

? Profit vs. Non-Profit Company ? In some states, companies are required to be of non-profit status before they can do business in those states. Most non-profit credit counseling companies are often funded by credit card companies with grants and fair-share deductions so they can recover their money from those who are not making their payments. A non-profit company does not pay taxes. Analyze the company to weigh if their status is just a marketing ploy.

? Excessive Costs ? Credit card companies and other lenders have lowered their funding for credit counseling. In turn, the counseling firms raised their fees. You should be wary of those companies charging a huge upfront payment when establishing an account. Some companies, on the other hand, can afford to waive their enrollment fees.

? Education ? A good credit counselor or debt management specialist is always willing to provide you with enough information on how to manage your financial problems. This can be in the form of CDs or videos.

? Written Plan ? A company of good reputation will allot ample time to analyze your situation, to help you budget, and to put the plans in writing. Everything has to be documented, from the terms of payment to realistic goal setting. Some of these firms can provide comparison quotes to see how much you can save, what your interest rate will be like, and how long it will take for you to be debt free.

Seeking good debt management advice should not be a burdensome task as long as you are equipped with the know-how and with an open mind that it can be done. The next thing you know you are already on your way to being debt free.

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Real estate spotlight, Feb. 24, 2012 - seattlepi.com

Here's a magnificent home in North Capitol Hill, at 939 18th Ave. E. The 5,634-square-foot house, built in 1907, has five bedrooms, four bathrooms, several bonus rooms, stained and leaded glass, French doors, built-in cabinets, a bar, a front porch and a back patio on a 6,000-square-foot lot. It's listed for $1.75 million.

Photo: Heather Berger And Edward S. Krigsman, Windermere Real Estate / SL

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[OOC] The Fragment of a Thought

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"The Fragment of a Thought"

Okay, so this is the place to ask questions, reserve characters, to discuss any matters regarding the roleplay and plot, and to just chit chat with the other players. ^^ Remember about character reservations though, you get 48 hours once I confirm them, and if you really need it, I'll grant an extra 24 extension to you if you request it here.

Okay, also I feel it would be best to lay out some general ideas that didn't fit in the intro page well, I am going to be creating a separate OOC thread regarding subplot ideas and side stories-while we have a main overlaying plot for this roleplay, how events play out is rather flexible and other happenings are expected here. I'll also be adding in detailed info regarding Places and such for this roleplay later tonight, I unfortunately have other things I need to attend to at the moment, but I'll be checking in on the roleplay off and on until I am able to fully re-commit my attention to it.

Beta Type Jakuri

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I can see this becomming popular because it's well polished and follows a successful formula , but elemental rpgs are just a bit too blah these days. Good luck on your rp.

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ZeroTolerance

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Well, I hope this becomes set apart from the norm based on everyone who joins helping to contribute to it and inserting their own ideas for it. The elemental part of it is just one factor . . . not the defining aspect.

Beta Type Jakuri

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Hey, I'm interested. But, I want to know, do the characters listed as simply "humans" have powers, or are the powers optional?

Tiger's Howl

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Hmm. I'm playing with the thought of creating a villain as a sort of Agent of Chaos at first. Not entirely evil, but misled (since I really don't see the fun in playing a character who's just straight up, everything-should-die evil :v).

The Painkiller

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I'm thinking of playing a villain, too. Probably a bit more hardcore than Painkiller's; though not exactly the embodiment of evil, haha. It's complicated. I'll brood and get back to you 8D

Renmiri

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@Tiger's Howl The powers are completely optional for standard humans, if you want to control a normal human or a gifted one, then you can do either. Would you like me to reserve a slot for you?

@The Painkiller That is totally acceptable. I'd love to have a villain like that in the roleplay, so, should I reserve a slot for you?

@Renmiri Okay, if you decide you want to create a villain, let me know and I'll reserve a slot for you. ^^

Beta Type Jakuri

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Yes, please do. Not sure when I'll be able to have it, but I should soon.

The Painkiller

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Right.

Upon reflection I have no anime images whatsoever, nor can I find any fitting what I'm intending for my character. Are images required? Because otherwise I can just go with a description or link to images as a reference. If not then I got nothin'. :v

The Painkiller

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Alright, I'm in. Haven't gotten inspiration like this for a while now 8D Awesome. Thanks<3

Renmiri

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@The Painkiller I'm not going to lie, I prefer it when people link to anime images over anything else, but if you can't come up with anything for that, then I'll accept a well-written description of the character. . . . I might even be able to speak to a close friend of mine about even drawing your character out in anime format as a request. She's an excellent artist, and I think it possible that she might do it if you gave a good description.

@Renmiri Okay. ^^ I'll reserve the slot for you then~ I look forward to seeing your character.

Beta Type Jakuri

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I think I'll just go with a description. The character I had in mind was gonna have a few assorted tattoos (because what else is expected of an agent of chaos and whatnot) and I wouldn't want to put people through the trouble of having to draw it all and so on.

The Painkiller

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Hey(:
Looks really good. Could you please reserve Boy 3 Aqua for me?
Thank you very much.

rafaelantonio9

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@The Painkiller All right then. I look forward to seeing your character. ^^

@rafaelantonio9 Yeah, I'll reserve the slot for you. ^^ By the way, I see you're new to the site? Welcome to RoleplayGateway. :)

Beta Type Jakuri

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Yes, I would like to reserve a human character, for the profile Fortune Walking.

Tiger's Howl

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Thank you(:
What type of weather is there usually on the west coast?
Just wondering for my character creation.
Sorry I'm from New Zealand. :/

rafaelantonio9

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@Tiger's Howl Okay, I'll reserve a slot for you, but is that male or female? o.o

@rafaelantonio9 It's not a problem, and well the West Coast typically has weather like the rest of the United States, New Ithaca City is located further south so winters tend to be pretty mild, summers are balmy and hot while autumn and spring are mild. It storms and rains there, but the worst threat they have for bad weather is minor flooding, occasional earthquake given its location, and the rarer Pacific hurricane.

Beta Type Jakuri

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Okay, I'm well through my profile now, having arrived at powers; I have one last (hopefully >.>) question. Does 'psychic ability' apply purely to those using the mind, or would enhanced physical characteristics such as strength or speed also be applicable?

The Painkiller

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Actually, nevermind. I'm kind of have a writer's block at the moment, I can't think of anything. Sorry.

(This is Tiger's Howl)

"Mortal,

It was you yourself who cast your lot not with Security but with Fortune. Never Rejoice overmuch when she leads you to great victories, never Repine when she leads you into great adversity. Remember, Mortal, should Fortune ever stand still, she is no longer Fortune."

-Boethius, 524 a.d.

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Oscar time! Stay near the stars in Hollywood

Want to bask in Oscar buzz? Consider a stay at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, site of the first Academy Awards and just steps from Kodak Theatre.

By Chris Rodell, msnbc.com contributor

On a weekend when Hollywood comes together to celebrate the 84th Academy Awards, some fans go on location to celebrate the festivities.

Call it Oscar tourism.

Guests book rooms at posh Hollywood hotels with the hopes of rubbing shoulders with the stars in hotel elevators, halls or lobbies. Most probably won?t get past security at the private after-Oscar parties, but who knows?

Sometimes it's enough just to be in a star's orbit, something many fans from around the world enjoy.

?As soon as the dates for the Academy Awards are announced, we start getting calls from long-time guests who love nothing more than to be here on Oscar night,? says Bob Gregson, sales and marketing director for the Hollywood Roosevelt.?

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the hotel?s Blossom Ballroom on May 16, 1929.?

?There were 200 people there and the whole ceremony was over in 15 minutes,? Gregson says. ?I don?t think anyone then ever imagined how big it was destined to become.?

In 1942, growing attendance prompted a move to?Grauman?s Chinese Theater, directly across Hollywood Boulevard from the?300-room, 84-year-old landmark hotel. Since 2001, the Academy Awards ceremony has been held at the Hollywood & Highland Center's Kodak Theatre, just steps from the Hollywood Roosevelt.

Those same ballrooms used on the first Oscar night this year will serve purposes more utilitarian than celebratory: The Roosevelt is headquarters for E! Entertainment Television, and the network uses the ballroom to stage its coverage.

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Visitors to La-La Land will find beaches, culture, history and much more.

Guests over the years ? during Oscar week and year-round ??have included Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Leonardo DiCaprio, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Baldwin and Marilyn Monroe.

When Clark Gable and Carole Lombard stayed at the penthouse suite, it cost $5 a night. Today, it?s $5,000. Basic rooms there this weekend start at $366.

A newer cluster of stars are shining in the two-year-old Redbury Hotel at the iconic address of Hollywood and Vine. Recent guests at chef Daniel Elmaleh?s Cleo restaurant include Jeremy Piven, Elizabeth Banks and Joe Jonas.

?Any night of the week at the Redbury, you?re likely to see the stars,? says hotel general manager David Lang. ?But on Oscar night, you might find yourself walking down the hall where A-list stars are hosting their private Oscar parties.

?We?re getting guests from around the world who are eager to immerse themselves in the buzz that comes from staying at a luxury hotel right in the center of all Hollywood has to offer. They?re booking rooms as much as a year in advance.?

Those rooms this weekend start at $339 a night.

Other Hollywood hotspots:

? The W Hollywood?boasts that it allows guests to "watch the stars under the stars." Another Hollywood and Vine address, this one includes a massive outdoor movie screen. Rooms this weekend start at $459, with a minimum 2-night stay.

? Looking to make a splash during your Oscar week stay? Check out the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa. Its proximity to Kodak Theatre make it the headquarters for the world media due to descend on Hollywood for the Oscars. Renaissance rooms start at $419.

?The logistics of the Oscars tend to surprise guests as much as the glamor,? said Gregson. ?There?s security, staff and media, and they?re all crowded around this one little neighborhood.?

Hollywood is gearing up for its biggest night of the year, Sunday's Academy Awards show. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.

More on Itineraries

Chris Rodell is a Latrobe, Pa., freelance writer who blogs at?www.EightDaysToAmish.com.

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Wine & Spirits Sales Associate (Fort Greene) | Food Job Central ...

Thirst Wine Merchants, a busy neighborhood wine shop, is looking for qualified candidates. Applicants must be available to work evenings and weekends and have retail wine experience. You are passionate and curious about food and wine, and naturally provide gracious hospitality. You also must be knowledgeable about and comfortable selling natural wines.

To apply for this position you must:

*be able to take direction.

*be a hard-working team player who?s honest, friendly, wine-knowledgeable, comfortable hand-selling, always learning.

*be familiar with and curious about natural wine.

*be able to receive, lift, and organize, many, many cases of wine.

*be capable of multi-tasking.

*stock, clean, and maintain busy store.

*be diligent and computer literate.

Please tell us a little about yourself, about a favorite wine region, about a wine you like to drink and what you like to pair it with it this time of the year, and why you?d like to work in a small, bustling, neighborhood wine shop. Include a cover letter and a resume?NO ATTACHMENTS. Please describe an experience you had drinking a wine that truly had a sense of a place. If you?re a fan of fruit bombs, over-extracted, over-alcoholic wines, or if your favorite wine is Malbec from South America, DON?T waste your time by applying.

Serious inquiries only. NO PHONE CALLS. DO NOT WALK IN AND APPLY.

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Feng Shui And Your Bedroom | Knowledge About Home Improvement

A great evening sleep is significant for well being and alertness particularly when it is advisable focus and be mentally active the following day at work. Nevertheless, you may need to take a look at your bed room and its surrounding options to be sure that it is conducive for a peaceful slumber. That is each practical and common sense to make a spot of rest as comfortable as possible. You do not need any disturbance while you get ready for bed or throughout snooze time. At the very least, you should have a snug mattress to rest your weary soul.

But what?s pleasurable might not essentially be good for you in Feng Shui speak. For example, a water mattress could also be a novelty for those who seek the finer issues in life however it isn?t what Feng Shui would recommend. This is because water is Yang. The concept of Yin and Yang form the bedrock of Feng Shui and all Chinese metaphysics. Yang is reverse of Yin. It?s like day and night, cold and hot, energetic and passive, loud and quiet, shiny and dark, motion and stillness, etc. You possibly can?t have one without the other. They co-exist and complement one another. The secret is achieving an optimal balance between the two.For a bed room, it needs to be extra Yin than Yang. It?s a place that ought to be quiet and inactive. Feng Shui equates Yin with health/relationship facets and Yang with wealth/profession aspects. Water is Yang and for a water mattress, it makes the mattress too Yang. Think about sleeping on a pool of water that is continually moving. It?s not an excellent Feng Shui feature. Your sleep just isn?t going to be a restful one. Feng Shui does not recommend having a TV in a bedroom as additionally it is too Yang.

Other unfavorable features which are too Yang for a bedroom:-

- Too many home windows or massive home windows

- Too much daylight streaming in in the course of the day

- A lamppost or electrical pole outdoors

- A bed room door that?s aligned on to the mattress

It?s best to be certain that to drape the home windows with thick curtains to dam out excessive sunlight. If there is a lamppost instantly outdoors the bed room, it is best to hold the window closed at most times. The bed should be realigned away from the bedroom door and its headboard should rest against a stable flat wall for stability. A hill or mountain is a Yin feature. If it may be seen from the bed room window, it is even better because it supplies stability. Feng Shui favors a bedroom that?s extra Yin ? calm, peaceful and stable. You should feel recharged and rejuvenated after a great night time sleep.

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3:AM Magazine ? Maintenant #86 - Andr?s Gerevich

An interview with Andr?s Gerevich by SJ Fowler.

Though his constitution as a poet is multi-lingual, multi-national, fundamentally cosmopolitan and reflexive, it is the definitive clarity in the work of Andr?s Gerevich which has marked him out as one of the most considerable and singular voices of his generation. From the remarkable Hungarian poetic tradition, which has continued to produce poets of individuality and conscience for hundreds of years and to this very day, Gerevich has defined himself as a resolute and powerful writer, poet and screenwriter. His work burrows into the cadences of speech, of reflection, of confession, speaking clearly from the first person, while without apology it maintains its affability of form in order to scale its ambition of content. In the 86th edition of the Maintenant series we present Andr?s Gerevich.

3:AM: Your work is crystalline, immensely sure and has a disarming clarity to it, an immediacy. You seem to be excavating immense areas of expression within a space that strikes the reader as closed or small, event personal?

Andr?s Gerevich: Poetry I like is about immediacy and, you could say, intimacy. To achieve this a poem has to be crystalline, direct, in a way even ?unpoetic? in its simplicity. However, this simplicity in form is not the equivalent of simplicity in emotion or content. All forms of ?decoration,? be it verbal, intellectual or emotional can work as a distraction or a digression, it distances the reader from the essence of the poem. It is often superfluous. Some poets create work of aesthetic value with little or clich?d content. I prefer clarity to confusion, while so much contemporary poetry tries to make an effect on the reader by being vague and obscure, or even incomprehensible. On the other hand, I also enjoy poetry that uses a metaphorical or visual language in a way that helps construct meaning. I have just recently been rereading some of Blake?s work, which I admire. But anything that approaches surrealism I find alienating. When I write poems, naturally, I always try to achieve the same qualities I am looking for in other poets? work.

There is also a personal, biographical reason behind the immediacy and intimacy of my poems. When I was a young child in the early eighties my mother spent a year in the United States on a university scholarship. This was well before the days of the internet, even communicating on the phone was close to impossible across the iron curtain. We kept in touch by exchanging letters. A few years after she returned my whole family moved to Dublin in Ireland where my father had a job. I was still less than nine years old. And again, for years I communicated with my friends and grandparents, people I loved and left behind, by writing long letters. I grew addicted to writing through these letters. Writing was less about expressing intellectual content or playing around with the aesthetics of language, it was primarily about communicating emotions in an immediate and intimate way. Later, still a child, without giving up my habit of writing letters, I also started writing stories and a lot of poems.

3:AM: I am reminded of Kenneth Rexroth in the American tradition, or Gyorgy Petri in the Hungarian tradition by your works sense of subjectivity and rhythm. You seem to mark a narrative that deceives initially by seeming formalised but then loses itself in a sense of poetic abstraction. Do you seek the poems to seem intimate or effect that?

AG: It is an interesting approach. Petri in Hungary is known for his political poetry. Under the communist regime he was banned from publishing, most of his work was distributed illegally in samizdat editions. He was very critical, even sarcastic about our version of communism. My poetry is very apolitical. Or, lets say, it is not directly political, as one cannot avoid the label when writing love poems addressed to men today in Hungary. Petri was more a poet of the community, I am rather a poet of the personal. I was a teenager when he died, so I had the chance to attend some of his public readings. His last books were all about his battle with cancer and dying, those poems were very intimate, immediate and tragic. This very last phase of his oeuvre is closest to my sensibility. In terms of form Petri is part of a poetic tradition more constrained than I am, he was often using set forms and rhythms.

I am not very familiar with Rexroth?s work, I have not read much by him until recently. However, if there are similarities in poetic language and attitude, it is proof that we have our roots in the same heritage, we were influenced by the same poets ? all poetry is connected: we all learn from our predecessors and contemporaries, and if we are able to create something distinct or unusual, it will later be used by other generations of poets too. Regarding the American tradition, Frank O?Hara is a poet whose work I admire and even translate into Hungarian. Immediacy and intimacy, the characteristics we have discussed, are also central to his verse. I think our poetics are very close, so probably I have learnt a lot from him too. And we have both learnt from Cavafy among others. On the other hand, my writing is more disciplined, while his is more spontaneous.

3:AM: Did your work as a translator from English to Hungarian play a part in your experience of being translated the other way?

AG: When you translate literature, especially verse, you learn how difficult it is to reproduce a poem so that is as effective in its new lingual and literary context as it was in the original. You learn that the most important rule of translation is not to try to precisely follow the original text, but to have a poem in the end which reads like a poem in the target language, which does not sound like a translation, but blends into the literary traditions of its new context. You can only draw one important conclusion: the more liberty you give your translator, the better the outcome will be, as he is the person who knows his literary culture better. You have to trust him.

3:AM: You studied screenwriting at the National Film and Television school, which is a notoriously hard place to get accepted to study in. Is this a continued medium in which you write? Is it one that intertwines with your work as a poet?

AG: Many people graduating from film school never become established screenwriters, and those who do often never attended film school at all. I wish to continue my work in film. So far I had worked on a number of artistic animation films, shown at festival and in galleries around the world.

After graduating from the NFTS I went back to my old life, moved home from London to Budapest, and focused on literature again. I was elected the head of JAK, the Hungarian young writers association, and also entrusted with editing the poetry section of a literary monthly, Kalligram. I did not have the time and energy to focus on anything as grand as a screenplay or a novel, but wrote poems and essays, and even two adaptations for the stage. I started working on a new script last year, but as you know, writing a screenplay is a slow process, it takes years from having your first idea to the premiere of the film, if it ever gets made at all. On the long run I intend to work more on both plays and screenplays.

Films do have their unexpected effects on my other writing: I noticed recently how much dialogue actually ends up in my poems. However, I have always been a film buff, my poems have always had both a visual and a narrative quality, it goes back to times before I began working on films.

3:AM: Equally where you have lived is truly varied, from Dublin, Vienna, Budapest, near London, near Boston. How much are you occupied as a poet with this sense of contrast, of being pan-European, cosmopolitan perhaps?

AG: The issue of national identity and having a geographically locatable home were never important for me as a boy growing up. I was in my mid-twenties when I moved to the USA on a scholarship, and there I realized how European I actually was. Living in a different environment helped me develop this identity. Later, when I was studying in the UK, I realized how Eastern European I felt. But living in Hungary these categories are not primary parts of my identity. I am attached to Budapest, I love the city, it is where I have spent most of my childhood, its where most of my friends and relatives live. On the other hand, I do not have a strong national identity. I am more attached to London, or for that matter even Paris or Berlin, than any other part of Hungary outside the capital. My literary and cultural heritage is European. Writers in the English language are as significant to my education as Hungarians. Film is international. The only real issue of national identity affecting my daily life is language. When you write in Hungarian you are writing for a very small audience, and only a limited number of translators can give your work justice in other languages. English speaking writers don?t realize all the disadvantages of being a writer in a minor language. Otherwise I identify myself as European and very cosmopolitan. When it comes to ancestry my heritage is mixed: beside Hungarian lineage I have ancestors of German, Ruthenian, Slovak, and Polish origin ? typical for people of the ex-Habsburg Monarchy. Even though I do not speak any of these languages, I am proud of my colourful national background.

3:AM: Could you tell me about your work with the journal Kalligram? And your work with Chroma, based in London?

AG: Kalligram is one of the most important publishing houses of contemporary Hungarian literature, however, it is based in Bratislava, Slovakia, which country has a very significant Hungarian speaking population. It publishes books and journals both in Slovak and Hungarian. The leading literary journal they publish has the same name, Kalligram. It?s a journal for stories, poems, essay, and criticism. I was Kalligram?s poetry editor for three years. Chroma was a London based queer literary and arts journal. It lasted six years. Originally I joined to help collect material from Central and Eastern Europe, I had to find poems and stories by gay authors in this region.

3:AM: What is your experience of the poetry scene in Budapest?

AG: Everywhere in the world I go I find lots of poets, lots of young people writing poetry. Of course, it?s a limited scene, its only for the enthusiasts and the initiated, but there are bars and caf? everywhere where young poets gather and read each others work, or go to small theatres to listen to their elders. Generally I have good experience. The poetry scene in Budapest is very lively, every night there is at least one public reading, but at times several more. There are dozens of literary journals. Until recently even the most popular serious newspaper had a poetry section in the weekend edition. Poems are read on the radio, every evening an actor even reads a poem on TV. Young poets are organizing their own shows, writing their blogs, establishing and publishing new journals. It is a very energetic and lively scene with lots of very talented poets, and lots of enthusiastic and devoted readers of poetry. Unfortunately Hungarian is a difficult language to translate, and poetry is the most difficult genre to translate, there are very few people who succeed, therefore only very little manages to break through the language barrier ? and often in mediocre translation.

3:AM: How wide and how deep in multitude, in quality, in variation, is contemporary Hungarian poetry in your opinion?

AG: As there is a very rich and lively poetry scene, there are very distinct voices too. Some poets use strict forms while others write free verse. Unlike in many other European languages, many poets still rhyme in Hungarian, and it is not considered obsolete, it can be very modern, very contemporary. There are representatives of all kinds of traditions present on the poetry scene: some academic, some streetwise, some traditional, others modern, some fashionable, others followed only by a niche audience. Most poets also translate verse from the languages they speak. There is a large number of literary journals, many with different and distinct profiles, and a lot of publishing houses don?t shy away from bringing out books of poetry. Altogether, Hungary has a very healthy poetry scene.

ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER
SJ Fowler is the author of three poetry collections, Red Museum (Knives Forks and Spoons Press 2011), Fights (Veer books 2011) and Minimum Security Prison Dentistry (AAA 2011). He is the UK poetry editor of Lyrikline and 3:AM. He is a full time employee of the British Museum and a postgraduate student at the Contemporary Centre for Poetic Research, University of London.

First published in 3:AM Magazine: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012.

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Putting Some Z.I.P Into Your Relationships

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Relationships are really what makes the world go ?round, aren?t they? I mean, good, positive, healthy and meaningful relationships provide us with the richest experiences we have here on this old earth of ours. Your loving spouse who shares everything with you; that best friend who connects with you like few others do; the people at work who appreciate you and help you to become the best that you can be; This is what brings joy to life!

But? relationships can also be the bane of our existence! What really brings more pain in this life than a broken relationship, especially when it isn?t just broken but downright ugly!

So, it behooves us to do all that we can to keep our relationships zipping right along, doesn?t it? If we put our very best into our relationships we can almost guarantee getting the very best out of our relationships!

Through the years I have spent hundreds of hours working with people in their relationships: Marriages, friendships, working relationships and social relationships. Through it all I have seen some wonderful things and some terrible things. It truly is the good, the bad and the ugly!

But I have been able to find three core elements of successful relationships. These are things that, when done over time, begin to create for you the kinds of relationships that you truly desire. They are the kinds of relationships you have always dreamed of.

The key to remembering these three items is the acronym Z.I.P. Z.I.P. stands for three things you can do ? and begin to do immediately ? to improve any and all of your relationships. They are:

Let?s take a closer look at each of these three:

Put some ZEST into your relationships.

By Zest, I primarily mean fun. Relationships were meant to be fun! We wouldn?t have been made with the capacity to have fun if relationships weren?t supposed to have a little zest in them!

Think about it: Don?t you usually start out most healthy relationships with a lot of fun times. Whether it is going out to dinner or a ballgame, or spending time playing a game or even just a lively talk, you usually have fun as a major part of the relationship. Fun is some of the glue that bonds the relationship.

But as life goes on, specifically in a marriage, but in all relationships really, the fun starts to go by the wayside. More and more it is about getting the job done, whatever the job may be.

To restore the relationship, to put a little zip into it, we need to reintroduce the idea of ?zest.?

What about you? Have you lost the zest? What can you do to get it back? Think of a specific relationship you have: What were the fun things you did at the beginning of the relationship that acted as the glue that bonded you together? Now, commit to doing those again and see if your relationship doesn?t begin to soar again! If you can, develop new fun things to do together so you can both start an adventure of fun together!

Cultivate more INTIMACY in your relationships.

First a couple of clarifications: One, I don?t just mean intimacy in the currently common understanding, that is, sexual intimacy. I mean for all intents and purposes, taking your relationship to a deeper level. Second, I don?t mean that you have to start doing group hugs with your workmates or having revelation sessions where the tissue flows freely.

What I do mean is that every relationship that is mutually satisfying has a level of depth to it that provides meaning. This is really what the search is for in our relationships: meaning.

Remember when you first started your relationship, whether with your spouse or friend. All of that time was spent opening up, telling who you are, where you were from, what your likes and dislikes are. There was a deep sense of satisfaction with the relationship ? that is why it continued. You liked who they were and you enjoyed being known by them.

But then something happens. We get to a certain level and the pursuit of depth ends. We stop sharing feeling, likes, and dislikes. We stop sharing joys and dreams and fears. Instead, we settle into routine. The daily grind takes over and we stop knowing one another and we simply exist together. Now don?t get me wrong, every time you get together doesn?t have to be deep. Remember, I am the one who advocates in the previous paragraphs just having plain old fun sometimes. But there is a need for regular times of intimate connection where we go deeper with others.

This is particularly hard for many of the male species like myself but it is not only possible but healthy and needed! If we want to have the kinds of relationship we were made to have, we have to open ourselves up to having others know us and for us to know others.

True meaningful relationships come when we are loved and accepted for whom we are at our core, not simply for acting the right way in our relationships so as to keep the other person in it.

Think about the relationships you would like to see improvement in. Take some time in the coming weeks and months to spend time just talking and getting to a deeper level in your relationship. Specifically, let the other person deeper into your world. You can?t force the other person to be more intimate and you certainly can?t say, ?Let?s get together and have an intimate conversation,? because that would be too contrived. But you can make a decision for yourself that you will let others into your world. Perhaps this will be the catalyst for them doing the same.

You can guard yourself from intimacy but then you won?t go much deeper and you will feel a longing in your heart for more, or you can begin the deepening process and see your relationships change for the better.

Develop a PURPOSE in your relationships.

The most meaningful relationships we have are those that are held together by a common purpose and vision for what the relationship can accomplish, not only for those involved but also for a greater good.

Let?s face it, when people have a common purpose they feel like they are part of a team and they feel bound together in that relationship. Even when people may be disappointed in the people they are in relationship with, if they have a purpose, such as raising the children, they are much more likely to stick it out. Purpose creates bonds.

So what happens if we are proactively involved in seeking out a common purpose with those who we want to have a relationship with or those who we already have a relationship with but we would like to see it go deeper with? Well, it gets better and stronger.

Think about your strongest relationships. Aren?t they centered around at least one area of purpose or a common goal?

What about a relationship that has cooled? Think back and see if perhaps you used to have a common purpose but it has gone by the wayside.

And what of your desire to see a relationship grow? Take some time to begin to cultivate a common purpose. Sit down with that person and tell them that you would like to have some common goals, some purposes that you pursue together. As you develop these, you will see your relationship strengthen in ways you never imagined!

Let?s recap: You want your relationships to show a little ?zip?? Then put a little Z.I.P. in them:

Put some ZEST into your relationships.

Cultivate more INTIMACY in your relationships.

Develop a PURPOSE in your relationships.

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