Biyernes, Disyembre 25, 2015

Martes, Disyembre 22, 2015

Home Security & Automation for Custom Homes and New Construction

Home Security & Automation for Custom Homes and New ConstructionThinking about new construction, building your new dream home? Automation can be an important piece of the puzzle. Knowing that your investment is safe and secure along with the people you love and your cherished possessions, is an important consideration, especially in times like the holiday season.Royal Security can help you to have a dream home with the features you want and need like programmable heat automatic lighting, and live monitoring of all events and visitors.

We work hand in hand with custom home builders such as RKA Construction. Royal Security and RKA Construction take pride in building the very best custom luxury homes with the very best security and automation features included. We have a reputation which proves our commitment to doing high quality work with integrity and attention to detail. We communicate and partner with our all of our mutual clients to make sure their every desire is manifested in the safest and most convenient way in their dream home. We can add  video cameras, programmable thermostats, image sensors, smart lighting, flood sensors, smoke and fire protection, glass sensors, motion sensors, keyless entry locks, and more to all of the great architectural features you’ve had designed into your new home.

Take a look around our website or call 570-992-6502 to learn about how we can meet your building & security needs and exceed your expectations. We’ll be glad to come out for a consultation to show you how to best meet your home security and automation needs.

Philadelphia logo designs

When choosing a logo designer in Philadelphia consider how long the designer has been in business and if the portfolio they show you is comprised of real logos that were designed for real companies. We find that most of the online offerings are mass produced images of phony companies and they look like it.

An experienced logo designer will incorporate industry standards, colors, technical aspects, and even elements particular to Philadelphia if it is appropiate. This will result in a better logo with lasting value and flexibility in all media platforms including web, print, billboard and invoicing.

Hunter Graphics creates vector graphic images that translate to any size and with backgrounds colors that can be changed for different applications. Don’t get sucked in by the cheap guys. A professional logo is the visual link between all forms of your marketplace presence and a good one will pay for itself many times over.

To see some real samples of real businesses logos and graphics visit us at https://www.facebook.com/HunterGrafx.

To see some real samples of real businesses logos and graphics check to see what we have been doing at https://www.facebook.com/HunterGrafx

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Linggo, Disyembre 20, 2015

Lake Arrowhead PA Painting Contractors

Are you are looking for the best house painters in the Lake Arrowhead PA area? Do you need interior house painters or exterior house painters you can trust to do a professional painter job in a reasonable time-frame? At Vintage Professional Painting you will find a house painter to meet all of your house painting needs in Lake Naomi. We are highly skilled to work with all types of paint, finishes, stains and a complete range of painting application techniques. We do historic restorations as well as new applications.

Meticulous House Painters

We have over 30 years of painting experience in the Lake Naomi area, with have an excellent reputation as exterior painters and interior painters. If you look at our website testimonial page you will testimonials of many satisfied clients. Also, you might want to see the Gallery page to see pictures exemplifying our work.

RELIABLE PAINTING CONTRACTORS

There are a few inexperienced and college painters around the Lake Arrowhead area that would love to contract the job, but please do yourself a favor and hire a professional to provide you with the quality work you deserve. You will find our prices to be very affordable and you won’t have a job left half done or worse in need of repainting.

You can contact Vintage Painters by phone at 570-236-7623 today for a free estimate on your painting project in Lake Arrowhead. Also don’t hesitate to call us to get answers to any questions you may have, and be sure to read the testimony of many highly satisfied customers.

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Sabado, Disyembre 19, 2015

Delaware Water Gap PA Painting Contractors

At Vintage Professional Painting we provide over 30 years of experience as house painters in the Delaware Water Gap area. If you have need of painters, either exterior house painters, or interior house painters, do not hesitate to contact us. Take a look at our photo Gallery page and see examples of the high quality professional house painting our painters have done in the area of Delaware Water Gap.

Meticulous House Painters

When you hire a painter, you want to be sure you are going to receive the painting services you pay for in a professional manner. If you read our testimonial page, you will find we maintain a level of integrity when we provide our painting services which will have you joining our countless satisfied clients in and around Delaware Water Gap, PA. Do yourself a favor and save yourself time, money and aggravation. Hire Vintage Professional Painting for your next painting job. Avoid the college painter who may leave the painter’s job incomplete or in need of being striped and reapplied due to poor, inexperienced application.

RELIABLE PAINTING CONTRACTORS

We know there are many historical homes, farm houses and older buildings in the Delaware Water Gap area. These structures take an additional expertise that requires skills that many contractors do not have. We are lead certified and have the skills that are required to work on these vintage buildings. We have worked with all different types of paints and stains using a wide variety of application methods to achieve the interior house painting or exterior house painting results you desire.

Call us at 570-236-7623 today for a free estimate or to ask any questions regarding your exterior painter or interior painter project in Delaware Water Gap, PA. We look forward to working with you on your house painting job in the Delaware Water Gap vicinity.

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Biyernes, Disyembre 18, 2015

Cresco PA Painting Contractors

Vintage Professional Painters are your go-to for high quality house painters in the Cresco area at reasonable rates. We are fully insured and if you go to our testimonial page you will see that all of our customers are highly satisfied with our house painting work. We are able to give you our best as exterior house painters and interior house painters.

Meticulous House Painters

After thirty years of professional house painting in the Cresco PA area, we have the experience it takes to guarantee you will be happy with our painter work. We have expertly applied all different types of products from paints to stains and work on house exterior painting and interior painting with a variety of application methods that produce the effect you want and above all long-lasting results.

RELIABLE PAINTING CONTRACTORS

College painters and inexperienced contracting companies can leave a job unfinished or worse in need of costly removal and a second treatment. Please, we don’t want you to take short-cuts in hiring from among the Cresco, Pennsylvania area house painters. Now that you have found the best, take your time and look through our site. We are confident you will find Vintage Professional Painting to be top-rated in the Cresco area with the integrity and know how to get your painting work done right the first time.

Call us today at 570-236-7623 for an estimate. If you have any questions about your project, and you are searching for a house painter in Cresco, PA we can provide you with the very best house painting services.

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Miyerkules, Disyembre 16, 2015

Buck Hill Falls PA Painting Contractors

You can count on Vintage Professional Painting to provide all of your house painter services in the Buck Hill Falls area. We have over 30 years of experience as house painters and can give you the high standard of finished product you deserve.

Please don’t hire a college painter or an inexperienced crew who might leave your job unfinished or worse in need of stripping and redoing. I have had to come in and fix jobs which have been poorly executed and require remediation. I really want to save you all of that time, money and hassle. Do it right the first time with Vintage Professional Painting.

Meticulous House Painters

We have a proven record as the highly-skilled and professional exterior house painter and interior house painter company in Buck Hill Falls. Our testimonial page will speak for itself as we make sure all of our customers are satisfied customers. We have experience applying a wide range of products with application methods that demand and prove our precise attention to detail. Our work will last you years longer than the competition because it has been applied correctly.

RELIABLE PAINTING CONTRACTORS

When you hire us as your painter for your Buck Hill Falls painting jobs, we make sure they are completed with a strong level of integrity. We return calls quickly and always maintain clear communication with our customers. We understand your needs and availability may change and we can be flexible. We maintain a clean worksite and leave our jobs meticulously ready for you to enjoy.

We look forward to working with you on your next interior house painting or exterior house painting project. Contact Vintage Professional Painters by phone at 570-236-7623 today for an estimate on your house painter job in Buck Hill Falls. We are ready to discuss your needs and answer any questions you may have. Let us do our best for you.

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Martes, Disyembre 15, 2015

East Stroudsburg PA Painting Contractors

Do you have a painting job in East Stroudsburg, PA which requires professional house painting? Look no further. Do you need professional interior house painters or exterior house painters to complete your painting job in East Stroudsburg? Vintage Professional Painters can provide a wide range of painting services to meet your house painting needs to the high standard you expect.

Meticulous House Painters

When you are seeking the best house painters in East Stroudsburg, you can feel confident you have now found a painter who will provide superior quality with the integrity of a professional painter. We are responsive and have the attention-to-detail house painting requires. We assure our customers are 100% satisfied with our work.

Reliable Painting Contractors

Please do not hire an inexperienced college painter who will be unable to give you the results Vintage Professional Painting can with over 30 years of experience. As a journeyman painter, I have had experience with all different types of house painting jobs. I can work with a wide variety of paints, stains, products and applications. We are sure to meet your unique house painting needs. Please go to our Gallery page to see examples of the excellent interior house painting and exterior house painting jobs we have done.

You will find our rates are very reasonable as exterior house painters in East Stroudsburg. Be sure to visit our Testimonial page to read about the highest quality standards we repeatedly have proven as house painters. We complete each job in a timely manner, staying in open communication with you, so you know where we are on each step of the process. We keep our job site clean and leave it meticulously ready for you to enjoy.

So don’t delay on starting your house painting project. Call 570-236-7623 today for a free estimate. We can answer any questions you may have, and get you started on your house painting job in East Stroudsburg, PA.

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Lunes, Disyembre 14, 2015

Stroudsburg Painting Cotractors

If you are searching the web for the best house painters in Stroudsburg, PA whether it be interior painters or exterior house painters, you can stop searching. At Professional Vintage Painting you will find a painter to meet all of your house painting needs in Stroudsburg, PA. We can work with all types of paint, finishes, stains and a complete range of painting application techniques.

Meticulous House Painting

After 30 years of painting experience in the Stroudsburg, PA area, we have an excellent reputation as exterior painters and interior painters. Please do yourself a favor and check out our website to read the testimonials of many satisfied clients. Also, you might want to see the Gallery page to see pictures exemplifying our work.

When you call us at 570-236-7623, be assured you are contacting the best painter in Stroudsburg. We are very responsive returning our calls in a timely fashion. We provide very clear job outlines and stay in communication with you, so you are confident we are completing your job to your specifications. We keep our work area clean and make sure that we leave the job site meticulously cleaned.

Reliable Painting Contractors

There are a few college painters out there that will leave a job half done or worse so poorly finished you have to pay to have it redone. Please do yourself a favor and hire a professional. Hire Professional Vintage Painting. We will save you time, money, and you are guaranteed to be pleased with the finished job.

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Sabado, Disyembre 12, 2015

Pocono Pines Painting Contractors

Looking for house painters in Pocono Pines? We can provide the very best services you can find in a painter. If you need exterior house painters or interior house painters, look no further. You have found a professional painter to meet all of your needs in Pocono Pines.

Meticulous House Painters

At Professional Vintage Painting we have over 30 years of experience in house painting and can work with all different finishes, stains, and a full selection of paints to meet your unique needs. If you have a property which requires the services of a painter, whether you need exterior painters or interior painters, we can provide the attention-to-detail and professionalism that we exceed your expectations.

Please don’t hire any old Pocono Pines crew of college painters who may leave your job unfinished or botched. We have had to come in and fix the jobs of these painters as they don’t last. If you are going to hire a painter to do your job, you want to have full confidence in their work.

We can be reached at 570-236-7623 to answer any questions and give an estimate on your painting project. Check out our testimonial page which speaks to the quality of our work. When you look at the gallery page to see examples of our past work, you know you will not be disappointed. Our track record speaks for itself.

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Huwebes, Disyembre 10, 2015

Pocono Painting Contractors

Vintage Professional Painting’s house painters can provide for all of your house painting needs in the Poconos. If you are looking for a painter to professionally complete your painting job in the Poconos, I am a journeyman painter with 30 years of experience in paint applications, finishes, interior painting, exterior painting, power washing, and staining. I can give you the very best service, so look no further.

Meticulous House Painters

We are exterior house painters and interior house painters. We are not only fully licensed, and insured, but we always provide quality work, arriving on-time ready to work. We keep our clients well informed of every step of the project. Don’t be left in the dark or left with a job half done.

We take pride in our painting work and keep the work area clean with a strong attention to detail. In the Poconos, we are your best choice for a painter, whether you are looking for exterior painters or interior painters. We make sure our customers are 100% satisfied with our work and will surely refer us as a trustworthy professional painter. Don’t hire a college painter to do your job if you want it done right.

Please call 570-236-7623 today for a free painting estimate or if you have any questions about your project, and be sure to see reviews from past customers on our testimonial page. Join them and experience the satisfaction of knowing you made the best choice in house painters.

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Lunes, Disyembre 7, 2015

Bender’s Tree Service for December 2015

Let Bender’s Tree Service take down the problem tree you’ve been worrying about before winter sets in and you have a bigger problem on your hands. Temperatures are mild in this end to 2015. Avoid broken limbs and downed trees in the snow and ice before bigger problems come up. Avoid Winter Tree Damage

Linggo, Disyembre 6, 2015

Recent Family Room Addition by Robert K Ace

A recent family room addition with attached deck completed by RKA Constrution this fall. Call us for all your addition/remodeling needs 570-420-9908. http//rkaconstruction.com Family Room Addition by Robert K Ace Construction

Biyernes, Disyembre 4, 2015

Built In Storage Bench

Needing extra seating complete with storage? RKA Construction just finished this built in bench for one of our clients. Contact us at 570-420-9908, we can help you with any of your remodeling needs including helping you find ways to create more livable space in the home you love living in. http//rkaconstruction.com Built In Storage Bench

Martes, Nobyembre 24, 2015

Tera Productions Releases Music Video

Tera Productions proudly announces the release of our new music video for Pocono Mountain Harley-Davidson. This 4:48 video is culmination of the generous efforts and talents of Robert Provitera and the fine staff and owners of Pocono Mountain Harley-Davidson. If you have any questions or comments or you are interested in having your own music video, please contact us through our website.

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Huwebes, Nobyembre 19, 2015

RKA Construction Builds with ExpressWrite

Robert K. Ace Construction has hired ExpressWrite and partners to expand its service area and reach out to new potential customers for all its high quality construction services including roofing, siding, new construction, renovation, kitchens and baths. About RKA: Choosing to build a home is one of the most important decisions you’ll make, and for […]

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Miyerkules, Nobyembre 18, 2015

Pocono Mountain Harley-Davidson Music Video from Tera Productions

Watch this great new video produced by Tera Productions for Pocono Mountain Harley-Davidson, entirely written and produced by Robert Provitera.  

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Robert Ace Construction

You probably found us through google if you weren’t referred to us by someone you know. That is how we at Vintage Pro Painting get many calls. Our reviews in google. A contractor that we can recommend with equally high ratings is Robert Ace Construction specializing in Custom Homes, Roofing, Additions, Windows, Siding and Decks.

If you’re planning to build a new custom home or to renovate your existing home, please do yourself the favor of choosing the best builder to do the best job. Take a look at the testimonies on the website of http://rkaconstruction.com/ or in google and see for yourself their proven track record of building quality custom homes for over a decade in the Poconos which meet and exceed discerning customers’ expectations. You deserve the very best home and RKA knows how to provide that for you at the highest return on your invested dollars and your invested time. Robert Ace makes your home building project their highest priority.

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Martes, Nobyembre 17, 2015

Disturbing Amateur Newbie SEO Trend

We’ve noticed a disturbing trend of amateurs and newbies who purport to be SEO professionals lately. I’m always trying to keep up with the trends and learn more, so I’m often on/in webinars, seminars, and conferences where there are people selling search engine optimization courses directly to these inexperienced people. The line is, SEO is easy. We’ll show you how to do it in a few days and you can sell your services for thousands of dollars immediately. Because of this, there are a lot of people out there, who say they do SEO, but in truth have no idea what they’re doing.

What I’m seeing more and more of these days is the following. In reality, the newbies who just bought someone else’s SEO course and learned how to manipulate Google for the time being, may well have just started doing SEO yesterday, or in the last few weeks or months. So when Google updates their algorithm to stop people from trying to easily game the system and spamming the results, these so called professionals have no idea how to fix suddenly lost rankings. In short the client get penalized and loses their rankings.

If you don’t have the money to hire a real Search Engine Optimization professional, do yourself a favor and try something else, because in the long run it’s going to hurt you and cost you much more money to fix the mess. We talk to people on a regular basis who have tried other so called SEO professionals, and have spent  many hundreds or thousands of dollars for no results, or very short lived results. Then it costs them even more to fix the problem and clean up the mess and penalties that prevent the site from ever ranking well in the future.

If you’re in need of experienced optimization and website marketing, give me a call at 570-269-5130.

www.1stseoweb.com – Real Results, No Sales Fluff

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Sabado, Nobyembre 14, 2015

Benders Tree Service – Serving Tannersville PA

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Tannersville, PA area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/tannersville-pa-tree-service

Biyernes, Nobyembre 13, 2015

Benders Tree Service – Serving Henryville PA

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Henryville, PA area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/henryville-pa-tree-service

Huwebes, Nobyembre 12, 2015

Benders Tree Service – Serving Middle Smithfield PA

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Middle Smithfield, PA area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/middle-smithfield-pa-tree-service

Benders Tree Service – Serving Analomink PA

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Bushkill, PA area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/analomink-pa-tree-service

Martes, Nobyembre 10, 2015

Benders Tree Service – Serving Blairstown NJ

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Blairstown, NJ area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/blairstown-nj-tree-service-tree-service

Lunes, Nobyembre 9, 2015

Benders Tree Service – Serving Belvidere NJ

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Belvidere, NJ area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/belvidere-nj-tree-service-tree-service

Benders Tree Service – Serving Delaware NJ

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Delaware, NJ area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/delaware-nj-tree-service-tree-service

Linggo, Nobyembre 8, 2015

Benders Tree Service – Serving Marshalls Creek PA

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Marshalls Creek, PA area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/marshalls-reek-pa-tree-service

Benders Tree Service – Serving Bartonsville PA

Bender’s Tree Service serves the Bartonsville, PA area with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning. We have over 15 years experience taking problem trees down, both residential and commercial. Give a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and superb cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/bartonsville-pa-tree-service

Biyernes, Nobyembre 6, 2015

Benders Tree Service – Serving Bushkill PA

Bender’s Tree Service has been serving the Bushkill, PA area for many years with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning service. We have over 15 years experience in the Poconos taking difficult trees down, both homeownwers and commercial. Give Tom a call today for a free estimate. Expect reasonable prices, great work and awesome cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/bushkill-pa-tree-service

Huwebes, Nobyembre 5, 2015

Robert K Ace Construction in the Poconos

RKA Construction takes great pride in building the very best custom luxury homes. They have a reputation which proves their commitment to doing high quality work with integrity and attention to detail. Most importantly, they communicate and partner with clients to make sure every desire is manifested in the clients dream home come true. See how they can meet your building needs and exceed your expectations. Check out http://rkaconstruction.com/ .

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Benders Tree Service – Serving East Stroudsburg PA

Bender’s Tree Service resides in and services East Stroudsburg, PA with Trimming, Cutting, and Pruning service. We have over 15 years experience taking all types of trees down. We handle both residential and commercial. Give us a call today at 570-807-9614 for a free estimate. Expect fair prices, detailed work and great cleanup. http://benderstreeservice.com/east-stroudsburg-pa-tree-service

Miyerkules, Nobyembre 4, 2015

Thai Food

Loving the Thai food lately. Going out to dinner, occasionally with Dad in NY or locally in the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos. The curry is great. Healthy and such wonderful flavor.

Check out the awesome carvings at Saen Thai over by Shawnee. They have them on the walls and in the tables under glass.

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The Spinner

An old black and white film of Kennywood Park shows some of their early thrill rides. One is a giant spinner, like a record turntable but large enough for a couple dozen people to sit on. It is completely smooth with nothing to hold onto except for the spindle in the very center. I guess the idea is to try to stay on as long as possible as it begins to spin faster and faster.

The ride at Kennywood was built in a time before seatbelts in cars, an era when kids would ride their bikes and scooters up and down freshly cindered streets with no helmets or knee pads or worried parents hovering over every wobble or tumble. Parents cared of course. They loved their children. Our parents loved us. They patched up our scrapes and cuts, held cold wash cloths to our heads and dried our tears. They let us find out that some things hurt when you do them. Sometimes you fall down. Sometimes you fall off and it hurts. The person who designed the spinner at Kennywood must have been a mom or dad who looked at their kids one day and thought it would be such fun to build them a giant smooth spinning disc to ride on with nothing to hold onto except that one post in the center. As it began to spin faster and faster the children would slide off the slick surface into the waiting arms of moms and dads in a time when moms and dads did wait patiently at the edges with cold wash clothes and band-aids and tincture of iodine. The science of centrifugal force causes objects to fly away from the center, towards whomever or whatever is on the edges, on the outside. The designer must have known that centrifuges also separate and sort things out. Centrifuges separate red blood cells from white blood cells, solids from liquids, Uranium 238 from Uranium 235. They can be used to simulate weightlessness for training astronauts and simulating extreme maneuvers for fighter pilots. Or an amusement ride for kids.

A group of college kids is at the amusement park dressed as though they have just come from a dance, boys in suits and ties, girls in fluffy prom dresses with lots of mysterious and impenetrable layers of chiffon. At dances they have cards with numbers followed by blank spaces for each of the dances and you have to fill in a girl’s name in every space. You have to. You don’t want to have a blank space, no partner for a dance because then you have to stand alone on the side and not put your hands in your pockets while everyone else dances and they all can see you don’t have a partner. Maybe you can’t get a partner. Maybe all the girls say “no.” And the hard part for the girls there are always more girls than boys. They try to keep the numbers equal so no one gets left out, so everyone has a partner but it never works out that way. Sometimes even when you start out with pairs, like socks, you still end up with one or two that don’t match any others so you just tuck them in the side of the drawer and hope someday the mate will show up. It rarely does, but you don’t want to throw it away. You wait and hope. So, you don’t want to be the one standing on the side with nothing to hold onto but your dance card with a blank space on it.

Some of the college kids, mostly the girls in their puffy formal gowns, sit along the outer edge of the spinner, ready to jump off when it begins to rotate. When it does, they land lightly on their feet, dismounting with pointed toe as though from a royal carriage, smiling, smoothing their dresses, looking back at those still sitting on the spinning disc.  It is enough for them to say they had ridden the spinner, had a little thrill, not too risky, not too fast. They know it is good to land on your feet even if the ride is short. They know it is better to be safe than sorry. Falling down hurts. Others sit further up the disc, mostly the boys. A few adventurous girls peer out above little chiffon mounds with legs stretched out in front, trying to stay balanced while holding down their dresses so boys can’t see their panties. Boys are always trying to see their panties, another thrill of the ride for the boys. As the spinner winds up, they start to slide. Not straight the way their feet are pointed but sideways too. Centrifugal force is like that. It’s not straight ahead. It bends. Engineers know that. Scientists know that. And so they fall sideways and slide out towards the edge, some laughing, arms and legs flying, some holding hands, some holding dresses. They come off the ride much faster and with less grace, stumbling to catch their footing. Sometimes an outstretched hand steadies them, sometimes not. Sometimes they just bump into the people on the edges. One or two go to their knees, but get up right away. They smile and laugh with the outsiders assuring each other that it’s ok. Yeah, that was fun. Gee whiz! Suits are straightened, dresses patted back into place as they glance back at the remaining riders.

The platter spins even faster so only a few are still left near the center. A boy and girl cling to the center post. But the designer made this ride so you can’t hold on even when you climb all the way to the center. It won’t stop spinning until the ride is over and no one is left, so it just spins faster and faster. You can climb to the center or near the center but once you start to slip there is no going back. Flail and claw and kick. A boy reaches out to rescue a girl and she just drags him outward with her, both of them tumbling to the edge. The longer you hold on, the faster it goes and the harder you slam into those gathered along the rim. The higher you climb and the further you slide, the more centrifugal force. It’s just science. It’s just physics, the way the universe works. So, now the kids are coming off the spinner fast, like the fighter pilots must feel when their airplanes loop in the sky, flying out with great force and speed. But they don’t land on their feet anymore. They land roughly, awkwardly, falling. People try to catch them but it’s too much. Their faces look surprised, eyes wide. They had to know it would come to this. Didn’t they watch what happened to others before them? Why are they surprised? No one stays on the spinner till the end of the ride. The designer made it like that.

The last one on the spinner is a young man, holding on with all his strength as though he had to prove something, maybe to himself, maybe to his friends. Both hands wrapped around the center post. He glances over his shoulder and sees he’s the only one left. Maybe he thinks about a blank space on his dance card. Maybe is remembering gripping the handlebars with cinders flying out from beneath the wheels of his bicycle.  His jaw seems to relax a bit, perhaps a trace of a smile in the second before he lets go. He slides faster than all the others. After all the others. Sorted out from all the others. Somehow he rolls his body with the centrifugal force, sensing its bends and using it to keep his feet pointed towards the edge so when he flies off the spinner he is already running fast, his body pitched forward like a sprinter and he runs through an opening in the crowd.  The designer must have known there would be people like him, people who would try to hold onto the center. People who could feel the subtle twists within the science and the power of centrifugal force and sense what it can do, how it can move things apart or push them together so hard that you can’t hold on until the end of the ride. He must have known there are people who can keep their feet pointed outward and hold on until they are all alone and, only then, choose to let go.

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The Unexpectant Father

Expectant dads and moms usually have months in which to mentally prepare and collect endless pearls of child-rearing wisdom from well-meaning friends and relatives. I had forty-eight hours.

For two years my wife and I had repeatedly played the fertility lotto, and lost, trying increasingly ingenious and unromantic ways to accomplish what seemed to happen so easily for others. One morning, after another such failure, we ran into our family doctor and exchanged a muzzy-headed word or two. So focused on the latest disappointment we hardly acknowledged that he offered to place us on an adoption list. We promptly forgot that conversation and shortly became immersed in another fascinating cycle of intrusive science experiments in the mysterious laboratory that used to be my wife. If you had trouble dissecting frogs in school, advanced fertility is not for you.

On a Monday night the phone rang. It was the doctor and he said he had our baby. Our baby? I had never even been in the pink and blue aisle in Wal-Mart and suddenly I had a baby. Wednesday at noon the nurse placed my daughter in my arms for the first time. We were so unprepared—my daughter spent her first evening in her new home perched on the table between boxes of stir fry and the sum gum. I was tempted to call her Takeout.

It didn’t take long for me to figure out that all free and friendly child-rearing advice is worth exactly what you paid for it. Every child is different and figuring out what works for you is a matter of trial and error. Mainly error.  A case in point: experts almost unanimously recommend timeouts to correct the recalcitrant child. Timeout is a mainstay in the arsenal of parental discipline.

When my daughter was around three years old she experienced a full category three meltdown, pummeling me in the chest with her tiny elfin feet as I hoisted her up and marched toward her room. When I placed her on the bed and turned to leave, she went from a category three to a five, and the tone of her voice, something to which all parents are finely attuned, had changed from frustration to terror. Twice I quietly explained I would return to check on her after a five minute timeout and attempted to leave. Her wails began to eclipse the town’s fire sirens. Timeout wasn’t working. Her childhood emotions were so completely overwhelming—a full body immersion in feelings she could neither understand nor control—that leaving her alone with them was as frightening as being left to drown. I sat down next to her and put my arm around her shaking little body. I assured her I would stay until she calmed herself. Within minutes she stopped crying and never had a tantrum again.

Almost all parents at one time or another near a breaking point when that sweet little bundle turned Tasmanian devil really tests our emotional limits. When that happens, step back and take a breath or two. Remember it’s not personal and it’s not about you. If you’re stressed, give yourself that timeout. It’s better for both of you.

Be warned that I’m not your typical dad so that my take on being a father is about as useful as those free offers you get in the mail. Results may vary. I’m a home school dad who put my career on hold to raise my daughter. I started out as just a stay-at-home dad trying to figure out what to do with a baby when she wasn’t napping. Plunking her in front of the television for hours to watch a purple dinosaur made me want to go extinct.

We read books, cut out shapes, learned animals and the alphabet. By the time she went to preschool she had read a hundred books or so. I take no credit for that. She absorbed information like a sponge. All I did was expose her to it. When the time came to enroll in school she didn’t make the cutoff date for her age, so I had to decide whether to make her repeat kindergarten and first grade or continue on our own. Almost seven years later my daughter entered public school and still does things her own unique way.

Being a dad is doing things you never imagined doing and discovering newness in an ordinary world, and I don’t just mean finding the broccoli you thought she ate hidden in your jacket pocket. There are no definitive one-size-fits-all answers to crucial parenting questions like how many Webkinz can be safely stuffed in a backpack. Last time I dared to peek in my daughter’s room her bed was stacked with more wildlife than the Amazon rainforest. So, I’m probably not qualified for advice about setting limits.

Every day may not have memorable moments, but each one is a treasure, like the first time I played dress up with my little girl. Sometimes you just have to break down some barriers and live a little. But, just ask yourself, would you take advice from a guy who answered the door in a tiara and a pink tutu? Right, neither would my mailman. Ah, the memories.

John F. Gibbons Memoirs – Preface

This is the story of my life.  It is a very ordinary life, but lived through very extraordinary times. I am writing about it only to record it for my children; who I was and what I did and what I thought was important in life. If you are reading this and you become bored, which will undoubtedly occur sooner for some than for others, put it down and don’t read further. The only remarkable thing about my life was that it occurred in a period that Tom Brokaw refers to as the “Greatest Generation.” This generation was composed of ordinary people leading ordinary lives under extraordinary conditions.  Life was tough back then, but not insurmountable, and this is the story about how one family surmounted it.

These memoirs were precipitated by my son, Jeffrey. One day he said “Dad, you have all these stories you have told us about when you were a boy. Wouldn’t it be a good idea for you to write them down?” Little did he realize how much the kernel of his idea would proliferate.

I have selected incidents to write about from memory. I think I have treated the subjects honestly. If anyone was treated unfairly I apologize; that was not my intention.

I am most deeply indebted to the forbearance and understanding of my dear wife who permitted me to abandon husbandly duties over an extended period and toil relentlessly with an uncooperative word processor that I still do not know how to use.  Secondly, this document would not exist in its present form without the inspiration and hard work of my son who was my editor-in-chief. Whatever you find good in this document must be his work; for that which is poorly worded or just plain wrong, I take full responsibility.

I thank my granddaughter, Megan, for permission to include her award-winning summary of the life of Colonel Joseph Christmas Ives. I also thank my bother, Ed, who permitted me to include his riveting account of his exploits in the jungles of New Guinea during World War II. Lastly, I am indebted to all the people mentioned in this work for being part of my life and providing me with their time, guidance and material to fill the rich fabric of my life.

John F. Gibbons


 

Memoirs of John F. Gibbons – Foreword

My mother and father were discussing how to divide their possessions among their children and asked me if there was anything specific I wanted. Somehow the unsettling talk of heirs and assets led me to think of these wonderful but perishable tales. I confess to asking my father to write down some of the colorful stories of his childhood.  However, all credit for their arrival in print is due to the perseverance of my father.  I merely pointed out that there was a tree in his yard which, with only a bit of water and judicious pruning, could produce wonderful fruit.

My father’s tales of growing up in Pittsburgh are a remarkably clear and detailed series of vignettes tinged with the humor and sadness of a resilient young man in a difficult time.  They make no claim on history other than having been a small part of it.  To my generation, they serve not only as a window into a former era, but as a reminder of the great debt we owe to his generation for the peace and prosperity we enjoy today.  While enduring the suffering of the Great Depression and sacrifices of World War II the men and women of his generation maintained an optimism and faith in their country and in their children.

Here is the fruit of that tree, his tree.  It is a generous father’s gift and a parable of childhood that encourages us to look for answers to our prayers not in what we wish but in what we become.

Jeffrey Gibbons

April 20, 2000

Teacher Chronicles – Chapter One

August 27th

The children call me Señor Agua. I tell them they are my little flowers and they must come to class every day so I can water them to help them grow tall and strong, but that is not entirely true. They would grow even without me. It is they who keep me strong and give me hope.

I am writing this at my old oak desk although it is only mine in the sense that the villagers let me use it to store my papers and lessons. Its spacious top is a constant reminder of their openness and generosity. Except that it is oak, it could have been my father’s and perhaps that familiarity calms my heart and focuses my thoughts in the morning sun. In the yellow shadowed light I admire its honestly earned dings and cracks, the creaky and often sticky drawers, as much as I love the people of this village, this country. It reminds me of my home, of imperfections. How these poor folks acquired a huge desk and hauled it to a remote village I do not know, but it probably was brought here by someone from my country in the early days when you could still take possessions with you. When I leave I cannot take it with me. I know that. But someday I will have to go away. It is only a matter of time until someone will speak of the American teacher while visiting the city and arouse official curiosity, and that will be all. I will have to be gone because I cannot bear to visit that world upon the lives of these innocent people.

I did not always want to be a teacher but teaching comes to me as naturally as flight to a bird. My childhood dreams contained drama and adventure, great discoveries and inventions. School was simply the vehicle that would propel me to greater heights. I never pictured myself returning to academia on the other side of the desk. Teachers were old and boring and dressed poorly. Encountering one of my teachers outside of school was as strange as finding a trout flopping down the middle of the boulevard. To most of us, teachers were as much a part of the school building as the desks and chalk boards. We felt our daily arrival breathed life into them and when the final bell rang, they lay about their rooms like half deflated globes until the next day.

I have to begin with an apology for the nature of what follows for it is only now that I have time to write again and am able to sort through the events and people that brought me here. If it were a string of beads the thread has snapped and I am sure that many have gone missing. At this point this cannot be called a book and it is certainly not a diary though it may resemble one. Now I wish that I had kept one. It is not so much a memoir as a series of recollections. I hope that you will forgive if I forget important people or jumble the order of things. I am not sure I can even remember how it all began, when the world began to tilt. Even though we all perceive things differently it is important to record what we can of our history however flawed by the retelling and not allow it to simply be erased. History created at such terrible cost should not be lost. This tale has heroes and villains alike, but mostly people filled with noble ideas and intentions who were both. After all, what separates a misguided hero from a villain? For each person who gained something, countless others lost everything, at least everything that means anything. Yet, if someone tells me they have lost everything I say “You still have your life. Is that nothing?” It is for them I am writing this. Perhaps it is for me as a way to make sense of these last few years and preserve a belief that my life was not for nothing.

Well, I must take this up later as I hear the chirping voices of my brightly colored little flowers arriving to breathe life into their old deflated teacher. At last.

Tribute

Sleep did not come easily. I went to bed at midnight and awoke around three. After lying awake for a couple hours I decided to work on my note to her. Just after sunrise I drove the empty streets to her house to slip the note in the door. His son’s green Chevy was parked in the driveway. I could not tell if anyone was awake inside but I could see lights in the window. It was a hard night for them, too.

For a long time I stood at the end of the driveway looking across the street into the woods beyond. This time of year the trees are bare so the interstate was clearly visible a few hundred yards beyond the woods, on the far side of a creek. A narrow grassy strip led through the low bramble into the open wood. A light mist rose from the creek and fingered between the trees.  There were no leaves to soften the crooked shadows or dampen the constant rush of highway traffic.  The forest floor still wet from the night’s rain muffled my footsteps.  On a sandbar in the creek bed stood the ruined foundation of a house and a lone green picnic table, its painting scaling off.  A fallen birch provided the only access to the strange little island.

As I crested the bank above the creek a sudden puff of warm air struck my face, filled with the rich smell of dampness and decay. I stopped in midstep, but it was gone. I found myself looking around to see where it came from. The air stilled and cooled. The only sounds were the chatter of birds and the constant whoosh of cars and
trucks heading east and west.

I thought for a moment that if he had only waited to see this exquisite dawn he would have changed his mind.

I did not ask her to show me the tree where he chose to die but she had described it to me.  Before he arrived home he had made the decision.  He had known she was coming home soon so he had wasted no time only pausing briefly in the kitchen to leave his wallet, watch, keys and a short note which simply read “I’m sorry.”

He would have chosen a large tree so the bullet would not be a danger to anyone else. He would not have bothered to go far from the path but steered away from usual direction of his walks with her in the hope that she would not be the one to find him.  With the noise of the highway to cover the shot he did not have to walk far.  He would have faced the creek if he could, but not on the slope so his body would not tumble down into the
mud. A few yards downstream I spied a large oak.  I did not see any blood and felt twinge of gratitude for the rainfall.  I dug a hole at the base with a stick and dropped in a shining medal from my pocket, still warm with the memory of that lucky day when I was the one who made the fewest mistakes. I filled the hole with black dirt and smooth river stones. I had thought this moment would be difficult but I felt surprisingly peaceful. The things I had thought of saying did not seem necessary.  Besides, I knew he was gone and I was alone.  I had done what I came to do.

The sky was beginning to pale above the branches and the mist had burned off. I took a last look around at the empty wood, so close to filling with the green of springtime. It was time to go home to my family.

The Burgs

Fifteen thousand years ago, the retreating glaciers clawed a south pointing thumb into the shale of eastern Pennsylvania providing a jagged course for the Delaware River through the Water Gap and  beyond.  If the Dutch and Germans who settled here had not been refugees from generations of desperate slavery and starvation, they may have simply kept moving west rather than trying to coax crops from its rocky soil. Abandoned stone fence rows in the new growth forests stand in cold testament to the labor required to clear even a single field for planting. Then again, maybe those settlers stopped here because travel was difficult and perilous without highways. America still had frontiers. This was a frontier which became a gateway to the frontier. Now, it’s another highway turnstile called the burgs.

The burgs was the kind of place where people lived generation after unquestioning generation, at least until interstate highways began to rope themselves across America, slicing apart and erasing places like the burgs. Pre-interstate maps showed only a few spidery threads behind the colorful names of local hills and streams, a land alive with uniqueness and character. As the interstates expanded, local landmarks began to fade behind a dull background of pastels divided by bold red, blue, green and yellow lines. One of those lines coiled itself around three sides of the burgs. The only remaining opening faces north.

Both highways and drug dealers promise escape to a better life. Highways represent energetic commerce and easy travel, but at the price of cultural decline and economic stagnation as better paying jobs lure away the best and brightest. At first, newcomers saw the region’s culture as quaint, even somewhat appealing, but eventually the local younger generation was shamed by their sophisticated new friends into abandoning customs. The burgs lost their innocence to false dream and now lie as weathered addicts, backs pressed against the stony hills, dependent on the thing that is sucking out their lives.

In this land, I am a newcomer, untethered by family or history, here by circumstance not choice. I am often asked by lifers–those who have lived here all their lives or for generations–if I like it here. I say that everywhere I have lived I found things I like to do and people with whom I like to spend time. Otherwise I would be a miserable person. I think the deeper question they want to ask is if they have made the right choice by spending a lifetime in one place. That question I cannot answer. I cannot say what is right or good for them. Moving always exacts steep price, lost relationships and unrealized opportunities. I sometimes wonder what my life might have been had I grown from child to adulthood in the same town.  In many ways I admire the continuity in their lives and the core of knowledge and friendships that grows from deep roots in a community. I don’t have that. Friends have faded in the distance or simply vanished over the years and there is no single place I think of as home. The places I have lived in the past hold no particular attraction for me as they are now without the friends who once make them special, or tolerable.

The Wedding

It was hot. The humidity rose in a thick curtain from the field between the stone rows. The wedding guests shifted restlessly trying to unstick themselves from their white plastic folding chairs and gazed enviously at the single oak tree that dappled the wedding party with a bit of shade. The guests soft pine path had claimed a few high heeled shoes which were now kicked beneath the seats. One grandmother had to be carried down like a flower sack after her walker lodged under a pine root. Bridesmaids struggled to resist using their bouquets to swat at the gnats and mosquitoes clouded around the bridesmaids’ bare shoulders.

The nearby fire pond lay parched and cracked by a dry summer, but mosquitoes don’t need much, and what the pond lacked in water, it made up for in mud and thick green algae.

The guests fidgeted and leaned forward, straining to hear the vows over the steady murmur of wind in the trees and the nearby brook. The bride and groom had mimed their way through the welcome ceremony when the first dog appeared. There were two. Large Labradors, named Beetle and Juice, originally brown and black, but it was hard to tell because they had discovered the fire pond. The groom’s soon to be ex-best friend had thought it was a good idea to bring his dogs to share in the celebration. A wedding in a field at a farm is, after all, a perfect place for dogs.

Beetle’s first pass was a perfect strafing run down the front row of guests. About a hundred pounds of dog and fifty pounds of splattering mud and slime. People leaped to their feet in an undulating horrified wave as he passed spraying muck. There were shouts, screams, chairs flying. Juice followed hot on his heels mopping up anybody that Beetle might have missed. Excited by the commotion, Beetle cut a quick circle for a second pass. One stone faced woman glared at Beetle, planted her feet, and drew back a her cane to give him a good whack, but she put a little too much effort on the backswing, lost her footing and went over in a flurry of kicking feet.

Juice, right on Beetle’s heels and not wanting to miss the fun, jigged right to avoid a tossed high heel shoe and slammed straight into bridesmaid number one. Juice was the smaller dog, but 80 pounds of exuberant canine at flanking speed will flat take you off your feet. Especially if your four inch heels are stuck like tent stakes into the dirt. Bridesmaid number one was airborn and shoeless when she smacked into bridesmaid number two, and they went down like dominoes. The groom snatched his gaping bride aside just in time, like a true hero, right into the minister who was trying to occupy that same space. The table went over, rings, wine glasses and all. It took a full half hour to find the rings.

The bride’s father headed up the path stiff-legged and head down probably going for the Mossberg 12 gauge in his trunk. The genius who brought the dogs disappeared through a barbed wire fence because as any dog owner knows, they will give you up.

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Miyerkules, Oktubre 28, 2015

Glowing Production

Rob is busy working on a voice over in the control room of our recording studio for a NJ consulting company. Always a glowing production!

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Lunes, Oktubre 26, 2015

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Huwebes, Oktubre 22, 2015

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Martes, Oktubre 20, 2015

Congratulations Kat and Tom!

FB_IMG_1445196327674_20151020213314353Congratulations! From your friends at Legacy Wedding Video.

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Pocono Mountain Harley Davidson

Great weather and fun times capturing the staff of Pocono Mountain Harley Davidson for a music video!

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Huwebes, Oktubre 15, 2015

Put Robert K. Ace Construction to Work for You

Take that first step and call us, so we can help you realize your dream of living in a home that fits your lifestyle and meets your unique needs. We will assist you in picking a pre-designed home plan or customizing a plan to suit your specifications. We can help you build your home on an existing lot or help you find the perfect location for your new home.  We can also help you renovate a current house to make it the custom home you’ve always wanted.  So call us today 570-420-9908.

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Miyerkules, Oktubre 14, 2015

Logo Designer East Stroudsburg PA

Identify Yourself

When shopping for a logo designer in East Stroudsburg PA, be aware that your logo is the number one visual identifying mark of your business.It is the keystone for effectively marketing your business and it ties your business to your cards, your website, and to all your printed media including packaging and shipping.

A Reflection on You

Your logo needs to reflect positively on the character of your business and its professionalism. A poorly conceived logo raises negative questions in the minds of potential customers in East Stroudsburg, PA 18102 and sends them elsewhere for the goods and services they seek. Plainly put, if your logo designer creates a bad logo, which may have appeared to be quite a bargain, it will cost you serious money in lost business. A well-designed logo will repay your investment many times over.

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Did your local East Stroudsburg, PA logo designer intend it only for use on a website? Does it translate well across media to a card or even a billboard in the East Stroudsburg, PA area? Most bargain logos are created to be used in only one application with no consideration as to how they will look when attempting to adapt them to other media forms. For example, a bitmap logo will only work well in its original size and will look fuzzy when blown up to poster, banner, or billboard size.
Conversely, shrinking a larger but carelessly designed logo to a business card can result an illegible and expensive disaster.

Further Considerations

Does your logo have a full color (4 color) design? If you decide to use it in offset printing and want to reduce your production cost by using two colors, do you have the original artwork from your logo designer for that? Without it you are stuck because you cannot simply remove half the colors. If you desaturate a full color artwork to grayscale you lose all color and the results are usually quite visually unappealing and commercially unacceptable.

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Hunter Graphics, serving East Stroudsburg, PA area may be able to redraw your logo so it will work in different media. I use a vector graphic application like Adobe Illustrator, so it is completely scalable to any size from business cards to billboards. The colors can be adjusted as needed. There is no need to create a new design for each application. My Logo Identity Package includes color call-outs with attention to how and where the logo will be used. For example, you may need one color arrangement of your logo for packaging, another for print marketing, and a third for invoicing. The fonts, color call-outs, and end usage will be included with the Identity Package and worked out in consultation with you beforehand.

Get What You Pay For

While you may be tempted to avoid the cost of hiring an East Stroudsburg, PA logo designer by purchasing logo designer software or even using logo designer freeware, you will never achieve the same results as an experienced professional. Quick logo designers, logo generators and free online logo designers are toys, not resources for professionals.
While you may see ads for cheap logos in East Stroudsburg, PA, 18301, 18302 be aware that you get what you pay for, and a bargain logo can cost you far more in lost customers than you saved. Serious business owners realize the value or representing themselves and their companies to the public in positive and memorable ways. A custom logo for your business pays you back again and again.


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Huwebes, Oktubre 8, 2015

Great Job! #HumanPeaceSign

We Salute all who participated in the Human Peace Sign tribute to John Lennon in NYC today by listing some of our favorite Beatles Love Songs: Imagine, All You Need is Love, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Something, and P.S. I love You. How about you…what’s your favorite Beatles Love Song?

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Miyerkules, Oktubre 7, 2015

Happy Birthday John Lennon

We remember John Lennon this week as he would have celebrated his 75th birthday! Give Peace a Chance.

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ExpressWrite: Say it the Right Way

Expresswrite offers copywriting services resource for companies across the country. We provide clear and compelling writing of all kinds and in styles customized to fit to individual businesses and crafted to emphasize their unique attributes. Expresswrite is a one-stop shop for:   Web content Advertising Articles Descriptions Pamphlets Slogans Documentation Letters Brochures Scripts Press releases […]

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Martes, Oktubre 6, 2015

Website Designer Allentown pa

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When shopping for a website designer in Allentown PA, be aware that your website design is what shapes your online business. Website design and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the new yellow pages. Website design is the keystone for effectively promoting your online business and it integrates your business marketing; business cards, and to all your printed media including packaging and shipping.

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Your website design needs to reflect positively on the character of your business and its professionalism. Unattractive website design can have a negative effect, raising  questions in the minds of potential customers in Allentown, PA  and sending them elsewhere for the goods and services they seek. Plainly put, if your website designer creates a poorly functioning and visually unpleasant design, which may have appeared to be a bargain, it will cost you  serious money in lost calls and business. A well-designed website design will repay your investment time and time again.

Be sure  that your website design is mobile ready because Google takes into account your text, images, whether your website is mobile ready and much more in order to list your website. The quality of the website effects your page ranking.

Hunter Graphics serves  Allentown, PA and the surrounding areas with graphic design, logo design, website design and consulting needs, and may be able to save revenue to  that poorly marketed business. Contact Hunter Graphics today for your graphic design needs and to help you integrate your marketing.

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Martes, Setyembre 29, 2015

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Hors d’ouvres last the day, flowers for a few but a professional wedding video will last a lifetime. Legacy Wedding Video will capture the a living memory of the most important day of your life so you can share it and relive it again and again. Visit Legacy Wedding Video today by clicking here.

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Biyernes, Setyembre 25, 2015

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Welcome to Small Biz Websites – Already Built, Fully Loaded, Low Cost. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start adding your content!

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Custom Home Builder in the Poconos

RKA Construction is the builder you can trust to build your new custom home. We can work with you to design a home that meets all of your lifestyle needs and luxury desires.From the planning phase to the final day of finishing, we know you will be pleased with the quality of our work and our timely trustworthy professionalism. We can fit your plans into the landscape of your plot and we can work with you to make sure that every detail is attended to and you are 100% satisfied with your new home. Please visit our website to learn more about the way we can serve you as the premier custom home builder in the Poconos.

Martes, Setyembre 22, 2015

Web Ready Sites that Work

The first thing you need to know about these sites is they are ready to go. Everything you need is already done. Add your text & pictures and Publish. It’s so easy your mom could do it. These are true CMS WordPress sites, not a DIY site building tool. Easy Contact forms, Home page, Gallery, Sliders, […]

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Lunes, Setyembre 21, 2015

Child Support Legal Advice

Child Support Legal Advice

Enforcing the obligation to pay child support is a national priority. Federal and state laws have been enacted to make enforcement and collection of child support easier.

http://www.pocono-lawyers.com/family-law/child-support

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Sabado, Setyembre 19, 2015

ExpressWrite Launches Pre-Built New Websites

ExpressWrite.net has teamed with 1stSmallBizWeb to introduce a groundbreaking concept in website design, sites that come completely built including extra features that other providers sell as expensive add-ons. For more information follow this link.

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Biyernes, Setyembre 18, 2015

Amazing Custom Pocono Homes by Robert Ace Construction

Amazing Custom Pocono Homes by Robert Ace Construction

Summer’s end is the ideal time to start planning and building your amazing new Pocono custom home. Imagine realizing your perfect plan, without the hassles. Your home designed and built by Robert Ace Construction.
Learn more at http://rkaconstruction.com

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Linggo, Setyembre 13, 2015

7 Reasons Why You Need to Invest in SEO

If you are still wondering what’s all the buzz about Search Engine Optimization, this article from highly respected Forbes magazine will make it very clear why you need to contact us today! http://www.1stseoweb.com/ Forbes.com – 7 Reasons Why Your Business Should Invest in SEO
7 Reasons Why You Need 1st SEO

7 Reasons Why You Need 1st SEO

Sabado, Setyembre 12, 2015

Pocono Custom Homes by Builder Robert K Ace

At Wilson Slate, we’re roofers and roofers only, so we don’t do other home improvements. If you’re looking for a general contractor for custom home building projects in the Poconos, take a look at RKA Construction – http://rkaconstruction.com. With more than 10 years of experience building custom homes, RKA Construction offers a vast array of custom designs and options to meet Pocono area clients full service contractor needs. When working with Robert Ace, the sky is the limit. Featuring full luxury custom homes, modular homes, log homes, ranch homes – the possibilities are endless. RKA offers beautiful and compelling new home designs ranging from small to large suited to your budget.And we’ll of course be glad to add your new slate roof to your new home.

Huwebes, Setyembre 10, 2015

Custom Dream Homes Become Reality

We can help you take your dream home from the first sketch to the final product. Give us a call today 570.420.9908 to start making your custom dream home come true. http://rkaconstruction.com/
Make your Dream Home a Reality Today

Make your Dream Home a Reality Today

Thank You Ark II Preschool Staff

We want to take this Labor Day opportunity to thank our teachers and staff who put their hearts into their labor of love at Ark II. We are also excited to welcome our new Director “Ms. Sarah” Raley. Many thanks to “Ms. Kim” Kryman who served as Director and is now taking her education degree specializing in early childhood literacy back into the classroom to focus on the labor she loves – giving our students the highest quality pre-school education in a Christian setting. http://www.ark2preschool.com/
"Ms. Sarah" Raley Director Ark II Preschool

“Ms. Sarah” Raley Director Ark II Preschool

Martes, Setyembre 8, 2015

First Day of School at Ark II Preschool

Dear Lord, We lift to you our teachers and students as they start their first day today. May you guide them and give them the inspiration of your Holy Spirit as they learn and grow and make new friends. Give your peace to our parents as they assuredly leave their Precious Treasures in our care knowing they are exactly where you have willed them to be for a strong educational and faith foundation. In Christ’s Name we pray – Amen
http://www.ark2preschool.com/
Ark II Preschool First Day of School Prayer

Back-to-School at Ark II Preschool