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Get Rid of Musty Smell's with Wet & Forget Indoor
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The EU will decide at the end of next week whether a Brexit deal is going to be possible, French President Emmanuel Macron has told Boris Johnson.
He said talks should proceed swiftly in coming days to see if anything can be agreed that "respects" EU principles.
Mr Johnson, who set out his proposals last week, says the EU should not be "lured" into thinking there will be a delay to Brexit on 31 October.
However, a law requires him to request one if no deal is agreed by 19 October.
As part of a weekend talking to EU leaders, the UK prime minister told Mr Macron over the phone that he believes a deal can be achieved, but that the EU must match compromises made by the UK.
An Elysee official said: "The President told [Mr Johnson] that the negotiations should continue swiftly with Michel Barnier's team in coming days, in order to evaluate at the end of the week whether a deal is possible that respects European Union principles."
The comments come ahead of a crunch few days of negotiations as both parties try to find a new agreement in time for a summit of European leaders on 17 and 18 October.
On Monday, Mr Johnson's Europe adviser, David Frost, will hold further discussions with the European Commission, while Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay will visit EU capitals.
Arrangements for preventing a hard border on the island of Ireland continue to be a sticking point, with the EU calling for "fundamental changes" to the UK's latest proposals.
A senior Number 10 source said: "The UK has made a big, important offer but it's time for the Commission to show a willingness to compromise too. If not the UK will leave with no deal."
Under the Benn Act, passed last month, the prime minister must write to the EU requesting a Brexit extension if no deal is signed off by Parliament by 19 October, unless MPs agree to a no-deal Brexit.
Government papers submitted to a Scottish court said that Mr Johnson will comply, despite his assertion that there will be "no more dither or delay".
The No 10 source called the legislation a "surrender act" and said its authors were "undermining negotiations".
"If EU leaders are betting that it will prevent no deal, that would be a historic misunderstanding," they said.
Analysis – By Iain Watson, political correspondent
It's good to talk.
But was there a meeting of minds between the prime minister and the French president?
Boris Johnson's aim was to disavow President Macron of any suspicion that parliament simply wouldn't allow the UK to leave the EU at the end of the month without a deal.
So this really could be the 'final opportunity' to seal one.
The prime minister will deliver a similar message to other EU leaders.
So far, though, Mr Johnson's proposals are yet to open the door to more intensive negotiations.
From the Elysee Palace's account of the call, Macron's message to the PM seemed to be: First, work through the EU negotiator, Michel Barnier – don't work on individual leaders.
And second, if you don't move a bit more towards the EU's position by the end of the week, then it's no deal.
So far, then, any talks seem to resemble the denouement of Reservoir Dogs – more stand-off than mutual understanding.
Mr Johnson has claimed his plans have gained support in Parliament.
Writing in the Sun on Sunday and the Sunday Express, he said his untested plan to use technology to eliminate customs border checks would take the UK out of EU trade rules while respecting the Northern Ireland peace process.
"I say to our European friends: grasp the opportunity our new proposal provides. Join us at the negotiating table in a spirit of compromise and co-operation," he said.
He claimed MPs from "every wing of the Conservative Party", Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party and from Labour have said "our proposed deal looks like one they can get behind".
Earlier, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he believed a deal was possible but said the current proposals could not yet "form the basis for deeper negotiations".
Meanwhile, speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said talks were under way with Labour and other opposition MPs aimed at securing their support for a new deal.
He said ministers were "considering" the idea of putting the PM's proposals to a vote in Parliament to test support for them ahead of the EU summit.
What are the PM's border plans?
Under Mr Johnson's proposals, which he calls a "broad landing zone" for a new deal with the EU:
- Northern Ireland would leave the EU's customs union alongside the rest of the UK, at the start of 2021
- But Northern Ireland would continue to apply EU legislation relating to agricultural and other products, if the Northern Ireland Assembly approves
- This arrangement could, in theory, continue indefinitely, but the consent of Northern Ireland's politicians would have to be sought every four years
- Customs checks on goods traded between the UK and EU would be "decentralised", with paperwork submitted electronically and only a "very small number" of physical checks
- These checks should take place away from the border itself, at business premises or at "other points in the supply chain"
- What is 'no-deal Brexit'?
Also on the Andrew Marr show, Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti said the prime minister "speaks with forked tongue" on the possibility of asking for an extension, adding he "seems to think he is above the law".
She insisted there were no loopholes in the legislation, adding that the conditions under which the PM must ask for another Brexit delay were "explicit and specific".

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Delusion to Delusion to Delusion: How I Wrote a Movie and Then Got it Made
If I were to write a screenplay of what my life looked like when I set out to write my first screenplay, it would probably go something like this:
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int. brooklyn apartment. winter, 2010. day.
Halley lies in bed, looking at the ceiling, crying. Or maybe not crying, since she just actually feels numb and lifeless. She opens her laptop, and Googles herself. She cries (or doesn't cry) some more. She closes her laptop. She cries (or doesn't cry) some more.
fade out.
the end.
In other words, I wasn't doing great.
I am an actress and a playwright, and I had been really lucky—and pretty delusional—up to this point. I grew up with artist parents, one of whom was a hugely accomplished multi-hyphenate: cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, children's book author. I think it's safe to say that it truly never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to achieve the same level of success that my father had—that massive worldwide acclaim on multiple platforms wouldn't just be handed to me by the age of, oh, say, 27. Sure I would have to do some "work" in order to get these things that I was more or less positive were my birthright. But like, mostly, I was fairly sure I would just get everything. I wanted. Ever. Like, pretty soon. I mean, I'm kidding—but not really. It never really dawned on me that there would be dry spells, periods of intense discouragement, bouts of crippling envy, months of self-doubt.
This lovely bubble of self-delusion had been propped up by years of good fortune. I had realized what I wanted to do very young, and, having grown up in New York City, was able to get an agent and start auditioning when I was a kid. Since then, I had been able to work steadily in theater—and occasionally appear in indie films and TV guest-spots. I had also started writing plays in high school, and as a result of winning the Young Playwrights National Playwriting Competition as a teenager, I had the rare experience of seeing my play produced off-Broadway during my freshman year of college. I'd commuted from Connecticut to the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan for half of every week during my first semester to work on my show. I loved not being at college and pretending I was an off-Broadway superstar so much that I continued to travel into the city every other week or so to audition and just be generally fabulous. People at school thought I had transferred, since I was there so seldom. And I didn't care—I was a success! I was on the right path! Fuck you losers, "going" to "college"! Sure, I only had like three friends at all of Wesleyan University, but whatever—I was living the dream! There was no stopping me, now! And, perhaps to my eventual detriment, I continued to work steadily and harden this entitled attitude for the next several years to come.
But then: fast forward to the winter of 2010. I was three years out of college, and the work had stopped. It had been barren for months. The movie I had shot a year and a half prior—and on which I was secretly pinning all my hopes and dreams of global notoriety—had come out recently and bombed. I had no jobs lined up. I kept auditioning for all kinds of projects, and kept feeling like I was falling flat on my face. Callbacks were rare, booking a job felt impossible, and while I tried to find solace in my playwriting, I couldn't help succumbing to despair in that arena as well, as I felt more and more like I literally couldn't pay anyone to read my plays. I woke up every freezing morning that winter with a stinging, gnawing knowledge that I may not, in fact, emerge as the billionaire 27-year-old entertainment mogul that I had more or less assumed I would become. And, most mornings, sickened by this realization, I went right back to bed.
I spent a great deal of time that winter indulging in this sort of narcissistic self-pity—feasting on it, almost. I felt so depressed about my current state of affairs and the infertile future I foresaw that I was barring myself from changing my luck in any way. Picking myself up and dusting myself off felt nearly impossible—a much easier feat would be to lie in bed feeling sorry for myself and crying, so that is what I did.
So when my friend Ryan Spahn called me up that winter and announced that he, too, had a fair amount of free time on his hands by dint of also being an unemployed actor, and then asked if I might want to try to co-write a screenplay with him, I almost laughed—I probably would have laughed, if I had had the energy (most of that energy had been sucked clean out of me by the crying and self-pitying). Sure, I had ideas for screenplays, but who cares? I'd been sending my plays out to everyone I knew who had ever even set footin a theater, and, judging from the response I had received (or lack thereof) it felt like I might as well just be sending them all to a big trash can. So how in the world would Ryan and I ever get a movie produced? You would have to be delusional to think that was possible.
I also couldn't fathom successfully co-writing anything with anyone—not even Ryan, one of the sweetest, smartest, funniest people I know. I am extremely particular and strongly opinionated when it comes to playwriting, and I did not want to endanger Ryan's and my relationship with my bullheadedness as writer. At the same time, I knew I was in a desperate way. If I didn't seize the opportunity to coauthor something with Ryan, I would spend the rest of that winter in bed, getting a lot more crying and self-pitying done, but probably not too much else. And a screenplay did seem to be the perfect collaborative form: I had absolutely no reason to be precious about writing a screenplay, since I had never written one before and felt pretty convinced that I couldn't ever write one in the first place.
Reluctantly—and pretty hopelessly—I pitched Ryan an idea I had been toying with for the last year. And, to my utter shock, he said: "That's funny. I think we should write it. Come over." And amazingly, Ryan's endorsement of my half-baked idea was all I needed that day to get myself out of bed, throw my soiled tissues away, take off my pajama pants and put on pants that only mildly resembled pajamas, throw my laptop in my bag without even sneaking in one self-defeating Google search of myself, and get moving.
I began to take the long subway ride from Park Slope to Ryan's apartment in Hell's Kitchen two to three times a week, and every time I got on the subway, I thought: "This is going to be terrible. This is not going to work. There is no way Ryan and I can write a screenplay. I've never written a screenplay. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS AND I SHOULD JUST GIVE UP NOW."
And yet—thank God—there was a tiny, very quiet voice that kept saying: "Stay on the subway. Go over to Ryan's. You don't have to finish the screenplay today. All you have to do is write with Ryan for three hours. You can do that, can't you? No, you can't? Okay, how 'bout this: you can order some of those insane french fries they have at the restaurant right next to Ryan's building. They have Parmesan cheese on them and chives and truffle oil and they come with an aioli dipping sauce. You like aioli dipping sauce, don't you? Go write with Ryan." And that's how we got our movie written.
And to my further shock, I found that, more and more, I did, in fact, kind of know how to do this. The years I had spent working in theater both as an actor and a playwright had taught me enough about the universal elements of good storytelling that I was able to overcome my insecurities about my capabilities as a screenwriter and realize that I was a writer, and that the form did not matter so much as the content. Moreover, the years I had spent working off-Broadway had taught me the value of, well, working really really really hard for, like, no money. And loving it. And letting the work save you—letting it be the reason you are getting up every day, and not contemplating your life any further than the work you are setting out to do that day—of not Googling yourself, of throwing out your tissues and putting on your real-pants-that-don't-double-as-pajamas, and of showing up, and working.
To my massive surprise, writing the movie with Ryan changed that entire winter for me—the creativity and inherent joy of collaborative screenwriting was the elixir I needed to pull me out of my depression and carry me to a place of excitement, hopefulness, even, dare I say, optimism. And I continued, and continue now, to be carried by that optimism I got from our collaboration. Because, I soon realized, you cannot make a movie—well, you really cannotmake anything, I think—without optimism. A huge amount of optimism. An insane amount of optimism. An amount of optimism that could be called, well, delusional. And thank God. It beats delusional entitlement and delusional depression any day of the week.
The film Halley and Ryan co-wrote is He's Way More Famous Than You, directed by Michael Urie, featuring Halley, Ryan, Michael, and New York theater staples Michael Chernus, Tracee Chimo, Mamie Gummer, Natasha Lyonne, Austin Pendleton, Jesse Eisenberg, Vanessa Williams, as well as Ralph Macchio and Ben Stiller. The film is available now from Gravitas Ventures and Warner Bros. Digital in a pre-theatrical VOD release (iTunes, Amazon Video, and On Demand), and will be in theaters in 15 cities starrting May 10. For more info, please visit heswaymorefamousthanyou.com.
ContributorHalley Feiffer
Donna Masini's 4:30 MovieBy Tony Leuzzi
SEPT 2018 | Books
Some movies allow us to escape the otherwise inescapable realities of our lives. Others remind or inform us of experiences removed from our own. Still others provide a language and imagery that help articulate personal struggle. While all of these functions are evidenced in Donna Masinis resonant new collection 4:30 Movie, the last is most central to the poets conception.
Why Does Class Matter?By Peter St. Clair
JUNE 2018 | Field Notes
Does class matter? Steve Fraser answers with a "Duh" in the introduction to his new book, Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion.
Steel Stillman: Black PointBy Taylor Dafoe
JUL-AUG 2018 | Art Books
The pictures in Black Point—culled from a larger body of work called Enlargements—began as old point-and-shoot photos taken by the artist from 1979 to 2014.
Rehearsing a Self: David Adjmi on Lot Six, A New Memoir and An Outsider's AnthemBy Sarah Lunnie
OCT 2020 | Theater
Award-winning playwright David Adjmi (Stunning, Marie Antoinette) has gifted the literary and theatrical communities with a bracing new memoir rich with insights into not so much his creative process, but instead a more personal one: the process of unraveling and restitching his tapestry of selfhood. Dramaturg Sarah Lunnie interviews her peer in this honest recount of what it took to craft a memoir over ten years.


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WeddingWire.com Publishes Marcello's Latest, "7 Ways to Bring The Wow & Have The Best Wedding Reception Ever!" on Wedding Aces
I'm honored and delighted that the Wedding industry mega-site, WeddingWire.com, has featured my latest article "7 Ways to Bring The Wow and Have The Best Wedding Reception Ever!" in their exclusive Wedding Aces portfolio.
The WeddingWire network reaches over 8 million people each month via their impressive online social network that includes; Martha Stewart Weddings, Wedding Bee, and Project Wedding.
Wedding Aces is an online community that offers advice and tips for engaged couples via articles and blogs from experts in the Wedding industry.
The 7 Ways article highlights some of the best Wedding professionals in the New York City metro Area as well as several unique ideas that can make your event an exceptional experience. I wrote the article for engaged couples that are like many of MMP's clients who feel that the entertainment, ambiance and hospitality are a priority. They demand dramatically different results from what they've seen and they are willing to invest accordingly.
A high resolution pdf of the original article can be viewed & downloaded here.
If I can be of service in anyway to help you Bring The Wow and Have The Best Wedding Reception Ever!, please call 973-366-9776, text 732-547-1677 or e-mail email@example.com to schedule a design session. Best wishes!
Special thanks to the Wedding industry rock stars who gave me permission to interview them for the piece and to share their excellence with the world. Jason Jani, Peter Merry, Martin Hardy, Greg Lassik, John Arcara, Jim Cerone, Alan Berg, Mike Walter & Andy Ebon.
And to Sonny and Jeffra from WeddingWire.com, my sincere gratitude for including my work on their incredible site.
Wedding Pros Go 'All In' at EPMEN
I don't mind being inside when it's cold and rainy outside. Especially when some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the wedding industry are sharing techniques to improve what you're passionate about and philosophies that can help you earn loyalty for life from your clients. EPMEN 2012 was on.
SCE 's Jason Jani, struck a nerve with a lot of the attendees when he said that "75% of the people on this earth aren't doing what they love everyday… That sucks." "Don't just chase the dollar, chase the dream… Don't settle…" It was clear why artists like Jay Z and Kanye West call on Jani when they are on tour. His passion for "doing cool things for cool people" is currently unmatched in the mobile entertainment and event production field. I loved the way his question, "Are you making excuses or are you all in?" came up in conversation and on twitter the rest of the day. As I said on my Twitter… "I'm all in JJ!"
Lorenzo Araneo, host of Rockstar Podcast and devout Twitter fan, shared some heart-felt personal stories about why he and his family are loyal to particular brands in his Art of Social Marketing presentation. After he and a few others in the audience got a little choked up, his points were easily made and accepted. I really liked how Lorenzo wasn't shy about sharing his affection and respect for his Italian heritage. Araneo tells it like it is.
Always a crowd favorite, Elite's Mike Walter, brought his usual dose of well-prepared wit and wisdom in a seminar called, 10 Things You Can Do To Have A Better Day. In addition to stressing the importance of waking up early, exercising and eliminating distractions… he earned a tweet-worthy moment with "Health and fitness IS a time management solution." Amen Michael! Neen James would be proud.
Many of us got to meet WedLock's Jayne Hallock for the first time and picked up a few nuggets from her seminar on Blogging. One in particular was the Yoast SEO Plugin recommendation for Word Press users. Another was how to use Pinterest as a source for content and inspiration. Jane also had some heads nodding when she said, "Your website is your business card; your blog is your personality." And, when you are blogging, "sometimes about 100 words is enough." (-maybe next time. ) Hallock and seemingly everyone else in the entire world except me was dialed-in to Instagram too. (Some of the cool filters that app offers was the inspiration for this entry's photos).
Up and coming stars of the photography and cinematography world, Vanessa Joy and Rob Adams, offered some great tips for capturing event footage and testimonials with the latest DSLR equipment, software and technology. Since MMP still uses a video camera from 1997 to record comments from our clients at the end of events, this seminar was extremely informative and timely. We'll be taking their advice soon and upgrading to a DSLR camera with a 50mm 1.4 lens and a manfrotto 561bhdv-monopod. Rob and Vanessa also shared ways to offer instant gratification to your clients. This dynamic duo is making quite an impression on the workshop circuit.
If you were interested in Creating an Exceptional Customer Experience before the actual sale, Alan Berg had you covered. Alan has a remarkable ability to take anything you do or say and within 5 minutes advise you how to do it and say it 10 times better. On top of that, he knows how to take whatever you are currently doing for your prospects and rethink everything– from the way you contact them initially to the way you respond to them when they call you back after shopping around. Mr. Berg has some serious skills.
The country's most lovable Emcee, Sean "Big Daddy" Mckee, took a day out of his '8 gigs a week' schedule to host the festivities. Show producer, Adam Skuba, deserves major kudos for the caliber of Monday's line up and the over-all production; especially considering that this was only his sophomore effort. Special thanks to Adam, the EPMEN team, and all the sponsors (NJ Wedding, Bride Live, Elegant Bridal, Hurricane Productions, Screaming Lunatic, NJDJN, Sherman Specialty, NAME and ADJA) for their hospitality and support.
See ya next year!
Pure, Unadulterated Exuberance: The 2011 Wedding MBA Features Luxury, Greatness, and a 1.4 Billion Dollar Supermodel-Mogul
After presenting at last year's Wedding MBA conference and seeing the amount of content and connections assembled under one roof, returning this year to the Las Vegas Convention Center as an attendee hungry for more was a no-brainer. (Already bought my pass for 2012.)
The 2011 Wedding Merchant Business Academy, produced by the Hegarty family, once again featured the A-listers of the wedding professional community.
Seminars were presented and private events were hosted by industry notables like Carley Roney, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Knot; Sonny Ganguly, SMO of WeddingWire; Tammy Elliot, President of The Perfect Wedding Guide, Sasha Souza, celebrity wedding planner and founder of Wish Upon A Wedding; Amy Wilkens, publisher of Martha Stewart Weddings; Peter Merry, author of The Best Wedding Reception Ever and director of the The W.E.D Guild; Susan Southerland, celebrity wedding planner and author of The Susan Southerland Secret; Andy Ebon, The Wedding Marketing Authority; Alan Berg, producer of the Wedding Industry Leaders Conference; and Kathy Ireland, CEO and chief designer from Weddings by 2be and Kathy Ireland Worldwide.
Among the 10 new wedding trends that Carley Roney revealed was "a return to luxury and classic elegance." She sees a lot more black-tie events on the horizon but was quick to add that "formal can still have personality." Roney said that brides are seeking "pure, unadulterated exuberance" on their wedding day. They want pleasant "surprises" and "ways to wow" their guests like a having bakery-styled food truck outside the venue so family and friends can enjoy a late-night snack on the way home from the reception or an early treat with the morning paper the next day. Another trend that Carley mentioned was something my wife and I did for our Wedding back in 2005. For the non-traditional couples who don't mind seeing each other before the ceremony, Roney presented the option of taking your portraits and family photos before the ceremony. This allows newlyweds to enjoy and not miss any of the cocktail hour festivities (typically one of the best parts of the entire celebration due the abundance of cuisine and mixology, visiting opportunities and relaxed atmosphere). As a Wedding Entertainment Director and Event Producer, I can help facilitate the timing of this desirable alternative with the planner, executive chef, venue principal, photographer, cinematographer and of course, your preferred sources of entertainment.
Andy Ebon, in his usual forthright-reality check-way reminded everyone that "just because you are unique, it doesn't mean that you are useful." And, "Don't idolize, become inspired." And, "You need to have 360 degree awareness." He also reminded business owners that in a complimentary fashion to facebook and twitter, "blogging is still one of the most important things you can do for your business" to allow clients to discover the 'online soul' of your product or service. Ebon, who helped me create the MMP Blog back in 2008, featured photographer Jazmine Star and Marilla Cupcakes as stellar blogs. He subscribes to the same philosophy of Sonny Ganguly who said that "social media allows you to humanize your business." Speaking of Sonny, I really loved what he had to say in reference to Wayne Gretsky's famous quote about being "where the puck is." He said, "I'm not a huge fan of hockey, but I am a huge fan of greatness." Well said, sir. As always, the Wedding Wire guys entertained the crowd and encouraged us to go further with mobile technology. They even offered a free QR code for their clients.
Susan Southerland, who is one of the most dialed-in wedding professionals I know, shared her knowledge about how to manage client expectations of the personality-driven bride and how to deliver an experience that goes above and beyond simply helping a couple's fairytale come true. After interviewing numerous brides and asking how things went before their big day, Susan determined that wedding professionals who were great listeners, solution-oriented, respectful, humble and genuinely excited about their client's celebration were swiftly chosen over their equally qualified contemporary. The classic staples like work quality and professionalism were mentioned as well.
Southerland is the Wedding Expert for Tammy Elliot's firm, The Perfect Wedding Guide. Tammy did a great job of making all the attendees identify their current strengths and weaknesses as well as future opportunities. Elliot also discussed the goal of being "consciously competent," being able to duplicate your success at will. It was pretty deep and definitely made the gears start spinning.
The Knot offered up a few tech and social nuggets that had people checking their Klout score, looking into Qwiki and Uber– and then considering a Facebook business page view upgrade with Flipboard… which was just mentioned in Vanity Fair magazine. The Knot also recognized a few companies in their annual "Best Of" awards which recognizes excellence in marketing, branding and social media. The honorees included; Amy Zaroff, Michael Will Photography, The McNamara Alumni Center and Desiree Spinner. (I love her little messages: laugh. play. celebrate and dream. love. wed.)
Like many high school kids back in the day, The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was a highly anticipated annual highlight. One of my favorite supermodels was Kathy Ireland. Over the years, as my company progressed and I kept tabs on anyone who had a contagious entrepreneurial spirit, Ireland always stayed on my professional radar because the ability to utilize her brains and spirited work ethic as well as her stunning beauty became more and more apparent. Fast forward to 2011 at the Wedding MBA in Las Vegas… Ireland took a few hours out of her busy schedule to make a special guest appearance and share her journey from running a paper route as a little girl to running a 1.4 billion dollar enterprise. The 2000+ attendees, among whom included business owners from all over the U.S, Canada, Brazil, and New Zealand, were treated to personal stories of character building, photos of recently-launched Kathy Ireland 2be designs, (check out the gorgeous shots below) and some impressive video clips of her philanthropic efforts.
When I had the chance to chat with Kathy after her presentation, I told her that she had some of the most tweet-worthy moments of the conference yet when she said things like, "Its never been done- doesn't mean it can't be done" and "I never had a family business, but now I have a business family," and "When it comes to someone's wedding day, it's got to be the best… you can't mess it up." That last one really hit home because it accurately describes the tremendous pressure we experience every time we're given the honor and responsibility of playing a major role in someone's wedding day.
Editor's Note: I'm sure you can tell from the photo that, yes,… Ireland is still stunning. *One of the funniest moments of the conference was when Ireland gave out her phone number so attendees could contact her for professional guidance, inspiration or business collaboration opportunities. I've never seen men find a pen and paper so quickly to write something down! Including me…. 'cuz I don't know about you, but having a supermodel giving out her number isn't exactly a common occurrence. 🙂
It was a pleasure connecting with fabulous professionals and making some new friends this year: Jane & Patrick Kelly from iDoAppointments, Keri Macana from TPC Las Vegas, Jennifer Fox from Perfect Planning, Gabrielle Lennartz from Black Swan, Charese Feliciano from CFD Floral, Chandra, Dawn and Bea from Mira Bridal Couture, Christy Schimpf from Bride and Groom Planner, Barbie Howard from Rocky Mountain Bridal Show, Sheila Dunn from Wedding Guide Bridal Extravaganza, artist extraordinaire- Sam Day & my mate from New Zealand, Nick Logan.
Special thanks to Jodi Harris and her husband Pat, from Sight and Sound, for always making me feel so welcome when I'm in Vegas. On the last night before returning home, they took me and my good friend, Ron Brown, to the Blueberry Hill Diner for what they said were the best pancakes in the country. I won't argue that. They were pretty awesome. I'll keep working out just so I can treat myself to meals like this every now and then.
See you next year! -mp
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From Allentown, NJ, for the Ashford Estate tasting- to Allentown, Pennsylvania, for the EPMEN Wedding Entertainment Conference; this week is all about making Brides & Grooms happy and learning how to help them plan the reception of their dreams.
Some big names in the wedding industry were there to share their expertise with the attendees. I brought back 3 pages of new ideas and reception enhancement techniques to implement into our upcoming events.
Special thanks and kudos to Adam Skuba and the EPMEN crew for all of their hard work and hospitality. -mp
The Knot Brings A Touch Of Elegance To The Palace At Somerset Park
I thought I was competitive… Then I met Carley Roney, editor in chief and co-founder of The Knot and realized that I need to step up my game. After proudly listing about 10 things that The Knot was #1 at during her brief presentation (like wedding websites & iPhone apps) etc., Carley proceeded to tell the packed room the only area where The Knot is number #2 and said, "this is the only thing we're not number 1 at…. YET!" Love it. 🙂
This competitive spirit is part of the reason why out of the 45,000 weddings that are happening in NJ for 2010, The Knot had 44,000 brides register with their network. The other 1000 are out of state brides getting married in NJ! Even if your not a bride who is checking out the blog today… as a business owner or entrepreneur, you have to respect and appreciate that impressive stat. So whether you are a consumer or a professional, it's no exaggeration that Carley and her team have a wedding planning resource and go-to bridal network for the industry that is second to none.
Last night, I was a guest of my good friend Alan Berg, Vice President of local client solutions for The Knot. Both he and Carley were among the bridal-rockstars who were speaking last week at the Wedding MBA in Las Vegas. The Knot hosted a comfortably-chic networking soiree for some of NJ's finest wedding professionals in the Palace at Somerset Park.
Among the notables were Lisa and Michael Plociniak from A Touch of Elegance who supplied the gorgeous decor and floral arrangements. I also reconnected with in-demand wedding planners, Kathi Evans, from All the Best and Rachael Citron & Heather Balczarek from Glass Slipper Weddings– who made it out to Vegas last week also.
A quick mention of photographer Jeff Tisman who Kathi introduced me to during the cocktail hour. After a cool exchange about "putting your trust in the professionals you hire" he handed me one of his eye-catching over-sized business cards.
I loved the photo he featured on the back-side. Jeff said he was working with a stunning bride, Stephanie Sarmiento, in the city when they came across this construction site and decided to capture some images. I've seen a lot of great wedding photos in my career and you know from reading this blog that I get to work with some of the area's finest… this shot makes my top ten list of all time. Joy, beauty and spontaneity. That's what an artist can capture. Great stuff.
The North Jersey Chapter of ISES was also represented by the lovely Jacqueline Marco, President, Christine Brower, President Elect and Altair Rasco, Director of Administrative History. The chapter has a fantastic Halloween-themed event coming up on October 13th at the Lambert Castle called "Nightmare on Event Street." $35 for members and $45 for non members.
I chatted briefly with Christine and Jackie about possibly setting up an encore performance here in New Jersey of the Take Care Of Yourself seminar that Mike Walter and I presented last week at the Wedding MBA in Vegas. As always, I'll keep you posted.
Not only was The Knot event a great networking opportunity and a fun-filled evening, I was also able to do a site survey at the venue for an upcoming Signature Event.
Pomptonian Food Services, in conjunction with the New Jersey School Board Association has contracted us to provide the entertainment, multi-media features and lightscaping for their convention gala on October 19th at the Palace. It is sure to be an exceptional evening.
Special thanks to Carley, Alan and The Knot Team for their hospitality. I'm looking forward to a future collaboration. -mp


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Yoga, meditation and/or overall health can be the focus of any wellness retreat. Although there are usually classes scheduled each day they are intended to be restorative and more importantly, optional. The intention is more to provide a space where you can focus on your own needs rather than follow a strict schedule of activities.
Going on a retreat for the first time can be a life changer. Even a short retreat can be enough to create a lasting impression.
Re-entering the "real world" after going on retreat is a fascinating phenomenon. On the one hand the over stimulation can be a bit of a shock to your system, on the other hand you feel re-energized and ready to take on the world.
At the first retreat I ever attended on the north shore of Oahu, our host, Jennifer Reuter explained something to us that would stick with me forever. She explained the difference between a vacation and a retreat.
Vacations can be a blast. They are often highly anticipated, packed full of fun activities and designed to take you out of your normal day-to-day routine. I have learned so much from vacations I have taken over the years. I've traveled to new places, learned about different cultures and tried new foods. They are the perfect time to bond with friends and family or reignite the spark between you and your partner.
The downfall of all of this fun and excitement however is the fact that there is often a lot of energy that has to be put into these occasions. There is a lot of planning that goes into them. You may need to travel on multiple planes or do a lot of driving, you have to be mindful of other peoples schedules, personalities and needs and work around them. There is usually a tendency to over indulge on rich foods and alcohol and stay up much later than your usual bedtime. There could be hours of sightseeing packed into each day or schedules to stick to. It can be mentally and physically exhausting.
When it is all over, and I'm sure many of us have said this in our lives, we need a vacation from our vacation. We come home and go back to work more tired than before we left. We are thrown back into our worlds starting off on our back foot trying to play catch up with life, our energy and getting back into our daily routines.
Vacations are joyful events but they can also be extremely depleting.
Wellness retreats
A retreat lives up to its name. It is a time to pull back and withdraw from all external commotion. Instead of accommodating others, you focus on yourself and your own needs. It is a time to fill your cup back up. To look inside and see what it is you really need in order to become re-energized.
On retreat you have all the time you need to relax and just be. Time to reflect and be quiet. The food that is served is designed to be nourishing, cleansing and to take no effort on your part.
Activities can include things like yoga, nature hikes and swimming. They are intended to cause you to reconnect with your body and move in a way that makes you feel good.
There are no substances or events that are depleting, only ones that are replenishing. It is a time to meditate, read, journal, reflect, move your body in a restorative way, hydrate, nourish and re-energize.
When you return from a retreat to the "real world" it is common to feel more focused and full of energy.
There are many life-changing events that can occur on retreat but the real take-away is always how you feel afterward. You feel like a new person – inspired, motivated and like your cup has been filled back up. This is the importance of wellness retreats.
Want to know more about the retreat I went to on the north shore? Click this link for more information about Jennifer Reuter wellness retreats.
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NEW BRITAIN - Charlie Hickey wasn't even back in New Britain for 72 hours when it was time to get back out on the road again.
 The Central Connecticut State baseball team had just returned from its NCAA regional in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and its best finish in program history. But for the Blue Devils' head coach, there was also work to be done and potential recruits to scout.
After coming off its first-ever NCAA Tournament win when it beat California-Berkley last Saturday, and second conference championship in three years just to reach regional play, Hickey and CCSU are looking to build on and maintain that success in the coming seasons.
"I know it can't hurt," Hickey said of the benefits of the 7-4 win over the Golden Bears and playing TCU close before losing 9-5 last Sunday in an elimination game. "I've been seeing and hearing people talk about us. It certainly helped that we played late into the weekend and have been there twice in three seasons. I plan on utilizing that for the next couple of years."
For a small Division I school like CCSU out of the Northeast Conference, it's easy to see why. It was a special season for the Blue Devils that saw plenty of top moments, especially late in the year.
CCSU won 12 of its final 15 games entering the Regional, including three straight to come out of the losers' bracket to beat Bryant twice and win their sixth Northeast Conference Tournament championship and the NEC's automatic bid. But no moment, other than the conference title for Hickey, was bigger than the win over Cal.
The Blue Devils rallied multiple times throughout that game to snap the coach's 0-10 streak in regional play. The closest the program had been to winning a regional game before that was a 6-5 loss to Dallas Baptist in 2017.
It also proved to be just the second win for the NEC in NCAA regional games. The conference was a staggering 1-45 before CCSU arrived in Fayetteville, the lone win by Bryant in 2013.
Third baseman Buddy Dewaine and outfielder Dave Matthews were later named to the Fayetteville Regional All-Tournament Team. Dewaine hit .385 (5-for-13) with a double, triple, home run, three runs scored and two runs batted in. Matthews also hit .385 (5-for-13) and led the Blue Devils with five RBI in three games.
"What we experienced down there was memorable," Hickey said. "When we played Friday [against No. 5 Arkansas] at 1 p.m., it was in front of 10,000 people. The kids embraced it and the fans were great, then to go out and to beat a top-25 team in the country was exceptional. It was only the second time a team from the NEC has been able to win at regionals. It was indicative of us having grown through the season."
That was important for Hickey, whose team had to rely on its pitching staff early with its lineup relatively inexperienced and in flux. First baseman T.T. Bowens missed the first 25 games of the season while recovering from offseason knee surgery. Matthews was coming off a redshirt season after sitting out due to transfer rules. But the season began to turn in CCSU's favor during its series against Mount St. Mary's.
At the time of the late-April series, the Blue Devils were just 15-16 and struggled to score runs to help their pitchers like Mike Appel, Bristol's Tom Curtin and Berlin's Jared Gallagher.
"When we went out there, we stole Game 2 and came back to sweep the series," Hickey said. "That gave us momentum going forward. That started us. Then we went down to Wagner, who's always a top four team in the conference, and took three games. I remember we started to pitch very consistently, but more importantly, our offense started to get better. We started to score runs."
In the second game of Mount St. Mary's series, CCSU rallied twice for a 9-8 win, scoring four runs in the top of the eighth inning and three more in the top of the ninth. After that, the Blue Devils scored three or more runs in all but two of their final 20 games, including at least five in each of their three games in the Fayetteville Regional, the only team to do so.
Hickey expects that role to be reversed next season, meaning that as the pitching staff tries to assemble a rhythm and consistency, the offense will have to carry some of the pressure.
"The guys we have leaving [Appel, Curtin, Gallagher and Patrick Mitchell] were immensely consistent," Hickey said. "Every time out there, they pitched multiple innings and we're going to miss that and have to replace that. We have some guys in the program that we believe will be able to step up and some guys coming in as well. Hopefully next year, we're not going to be struggling to score six runs a game. We're going to need our offense."
For now, though, Hickey still has other things to worry about.
"It was a great year," Hickey said. "That was some great baseball. That whole experience was great. As a coach, you want the kids to enjoy it, I want to enjoy it, but it's a continuous process."
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Last year the team volunteered at the soup kitchen, located at Trumbell and Martin Luther King Blvd, and helped serve about 200 needy people. The team also raised a few hundred dollars and gave a donation to the church.
This year, the Moose is also holding a coat drive and will deliver the coats to needy people at the charity event. Moose players and family members will volunteer at the church from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Moose player/doctor Zach Lewis helped organize the event along with Captain Derek Fowler.
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Fodors' Contributor's Death Left A Virtual Absence
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All this week, we're remembering some of those who died this year. Today, the story of Robespierre, not the French revolutionary, but a regular and opinionated contributor to the online travel site Fodors.com. He never posted under his real name, just Robespierre, until this past summer, when his posts simply stopped. He had died of cancer.
Close to 200 people responded when his obituary was announced in September, some who followed his posts religiously, some who disagreed with him vehemently.
Essayist Henry Alford offers this meditation on what it means to lose someone you didn't really know.
Mr. HENRY ALFORD (Essayist): In the perpetual present tense of the Internet, sometimes, finality rears its ugly head.
Unidentified Man #1: It was a shocker. It leaves a hole. It definitely leaves a hole.
Mr. ALFORD: He's talking about Thomas Pappas, who since 2004 had been posting under the name Robespierre on the travel website Fodors.com.
Unidentified Man #1: Yes, Robespierre, the man, the myth, the legend.
Unidentified Woman #1: He was a colorful character.
Unidentified Man #2: And he was also a very blunt person.
Unidentified Man #3: He was better than I at the terse response.
Mr. ALFORD: He once said make your point if you have one.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Unidentified Man #2: And he did not suffer a fool gladly.
Mr. ALFORD: Robespierre's fellow Fodors.com members, also known as Fodorites, endured his occasional haughtiness because to do so was to find gold.
Unidentified Woman #2: Robespierre saved me a lot of money.
Mr. ALFORD: The Fodorites sought him out for all technical questions from computers to cell phones, at home and abroad. He knew the London bus system. He knew restaurants in Taipei. He loved the beach in Nice and the Marriott in Zurich. Traveling with a bike from Charles de Gaulle?
Unidentified Man #5: You will need this kind of train pass for this and this zone, and you will need this in order to get your bike aboard, and here's a good place to rent bikes.
Unidentified Man #6: He called it the law of watching value. If you don't opt to stay in the city center, like Paris or London or Berlin and so on, you get a much better deal on hotels by going outside, out at the suburbs.
Unidentified Woman #3: I did take a bus that he told me about, which was a lot cheaper than the big tour bus that he hated so much.
Unidentified Man #7: He gave good, solid, detailed advice.
Mr. ALFORD: Robespierre's posts to the Fodors Web site stopped abruptly this past July. Questions started arising.
Mr. REX BICKERS (Member, Fodors.com): As they often do for many old-timers or veterans, like has anybody heard from so-and-so lately?
Mr. ALFORD: Member Rex Bickers, who'd once spoken to Robespierre on the phone, made a call.
Mr. BICKERS: I spoke to his wife, and I said: We haven't heard from your husband for a while, and I wonder if I know what that means. She said, I think you do. But it was one of those things that I felt like I knew before I called.
Mr. ALFORD: When Bickers posted the news of Robespierre's death on the Web site, there was an outpouring of grief. They'd never laid eyes on him other than to see the photo of a mustachioed, middle-aged man on his member's profile. Sure, if they'd been reading his posts carefully over the years, they'd know that Robes, as they called him, was agnostic and married and owned a pump-action shotgun and used to be a systems analyst for American Airlines. But in the timeless ether of the Internet, they never imagined that one day, he'd be gone.
Mr. BICKERS: He was one of us. We are a community. And when one of us is gone, we'll miss him.
Mr. ALFORD: Robespierre's posts and member's profile remain up on the site, the somewhat eerie evidence of a life force that's been stilled or a lovely reminder that his friends didn't have to meet him to know that they loved him.
SIEGEL: That story was produced by Wendy Dorr. We heard recollections of Robespierre from Rex Bickers, Chris Little(ph), Pam Moore(ph) and Stuart Tower.
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A heat dome will bring days of record-challenging temperatures to portions of the West this week, exactly the opposite of what the wildfire-stricken region needs.
The latest outlook from the United States Drought Monitor shows that 92% of the western United States is suffering from some extent of dryness, with over 50% in the severe to exceptional drought category. These conditions are likely to only worsen heading into early October, with no signs of rain on the way.
A see-saw pattern in the jet stream featuring a northward bulge in the West and a southward plunge in the central and eastern U.S. will bring a tale of two seasons across the country this week. As November-like air chills portions of the Midwest and Northeast, hot and dry weather will make it feel more like summer in the West.
"Even though it has gone from summer to fall and the calendar is about to flip from September to October, summer heat is not yet over in the West," AccuWeather Meteorologist Ryan Adamson said.
High temperatures will be on the order of 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit above average for the end of September and beginning of October, with widespread 80s and 90s. Across the deserts, lower 100s are likely.
"Heat will be the story throughout the week with an offshore wind at the surface and a large dome of high pressure overhead," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist and western U.S. blogger Brian Thompson said. These high pressure systems that bring days of high temperatures are sometimes referred to as heat domes.
In some cases, the heat will surge into near-record territory. Medford, Oregon; Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada; and Fresno, Sacramento, Palm Springs and downtown Los Angeles, California, are among the cities that could come close to tying or breaking daily records on one or more occasions this week.
"The Los Angeles area will have temperatures rise to near the 100-degree mark around midweek, which is pretty typical with an offshore wind this time of year," Thompson said.
"Even toward San Diego, highs will rise to near 90 with inland areas closer to 100 later in the week," Thompson said.
Around San Francisco, the peak of the heat will occur on Monday as strong offshore winds push temperatures into the middle to upper 90s. These same gusty winds are wrecking havoc on the wildfire situation across Northern California. Beyond Monday, the wind will change direction and blow in more from the Pacific Ocean, causing temperatures to fall back into the 80s in the Bay Area.
In Las Vegas, there have been 96 days with a high temperature at or above 100 thus far, making it the second most triple-digit days in a single year. The record is 100 days in 1947. Highs are likely to near the 100-degree mark in the city beginning Wednesday and lasting into the weekend.
Phoenix experienced its 130th day of 100-degree heat on Sunday, beating out 2003 for the second-most triple-digit days in a single year. The all-time record is 143 days in 1989. This city has already had 53 days at or above 110 this year, smashing the previous record of 33 days in 2011. Many more 100-degree days are expected to be tacked on to the city's tally into the weekend, though temperatures are not forecast to reach 110.
Residents and visitors alike are reminded to avoid strenuous outdoor activities during the hottest times of the day to lessen the risk of heat-related illnesses. Those who must work outside should be mindful to take frequent breaks in the shade and drink plenty of water or sports beverages.
Even with winds lessening overall across the West this week, the fire danger will remain elevated given the high heat, low humidity levels and continued dry weather. Thus, precautions will still need to be taken when using any type of power equipment or open flames outside.


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I think it's all OK but would value your beekeeping opinion on my concerns. In summary:
I found the marked Queen (she's 3 years old now)
Brood: There were eggs, larvae and capped brood in both the lower and upper brood boxes – approx 4 frames
Stores: Most of the stores is now 80% uncapped – approx. 6 frames; plenty of pollen stores
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The rhetoric of "castration" marks insane Bob Corker as a Trump hater and enemy of all Deplorables.
Of course, as the insane Bob Corker attacks the Trump administration with the vilest rhetoric possible, the media labels him, as the Washington Post put it, "the silver-haired, sober-minded chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee." Donald Trump's rhetoric is used against him but Bob Corker is treated like a hero of the resistance, even though he repeatedly refers to castration.
These people have been wrong about the Trump Administration before. We have no reason to believe that Tillerson and Trump are at odds.
The Washington Post reports, "Bob Corker on Trump's biggest problem: The 'castration' of Rex Tillerson."
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"You cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice," Corker told me in a phone interview Friday. "The tweets — yes, you raise tension in the region [and] it's very irresponsible. But it's the first part" — the "castration" of Tillerson — "that I am most exercised about."
Tillerson gets low marks from many in Washington, both inside and outside the State Department, who think he has cooperated with Trump's attempt to strip U.S. diplomacy of resources, authority and public profile. But as Corker sees it, Tillerson has been instrumental in opening a path away from confrontation with North Korea through quiet diplomacy with China.
"The greatest diplomatic activities we have are with China, and the most important, and they have come a long, long way," Corker said. "Some of the things we are talking about are phenomenal."
The problem, he suggested, is Trump's tweets and other statements implying that there is no deal to be made with North Korea and that Tillerson "is wasting his time," as one tweet put it. Such comments are causing the Chinese to back away from what has been an incipient willingness to bring serious pressure to bear on Pyongyang.
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It's no secret that physical intimacy and emotional intimacy are closely related. But, HOW do you build an emotional connection in marriage that enables you to be sexually connected. In this article, we'll cover 5 Tips that are sure to improve your connection…
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This article is based on scientific evidence and clinical experience, written by a licensed professional and fact-checked by experts. Josh Spurlock, MA, LPC, CST is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Therapists with over 10,000 hours of clinical experience. Josh specializes in Marriage Counseling and Sex Therapy. You can schedule an appointment with Josh for online counseling.
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Sex is an emotional experience.
God designed sexual desire to lead a woman into an emotionally intimate relationship and to enjoy sexual expression in the context of an emotionally safe and connected relationship- i.e. Marriage. If a woman's marriage doesn't feel safe or if she doesn't feel emotionally connected to her husband, she's probably not going to feel a desire to be sexually vulnerable with him. Being disconnected doesn't necessarily mean you have a bad relationship. Couples who love each other very much and are safe with each other can get emotionally disconnected just from the busyness of life getting in the way. If we've been too busy to nurture the relationship, then we're probably emotionally disconnected. If we do have serious communication difficulties or breaches of trust in the relationship, it's unlikely that we will ever have a healthy, passionate, sexual relationship until this is addressed.
5 Tips for Staying Emotionally Connected
1) Be Friends
If you and your husband aren't friends – you're probably not going to be very good as lovers. You need to cultivate a relationship with each other outside of roles as parents or roommates who share domestic responsibilities.
Friends hangout. As married people, we like to call this "dating" your spouse. You keep them like you caught them. If you stop putting yourself together and going out as a couple, the flame will dwindle.
Share Experiences
Doing things…together…is important. Even if it's just binging on Netflix next to each other on the couch, have shared experiences in your week. If you live completely separate lives you're not going to be very connected with each other.
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To a sunny beach in an exotic location or to the grocery store without children – whatever the budget allows. Building memories together is an important part of deepening a relationship. Having adventures together, even tragic sagas, accumulate shared experiences that weave our stories together.
2) Make-Out in the Kitchen
The kitchen, elevator, park bench, a deserted hallway at church – wherever [won't get you arrested]. Non-genital physical affection is important to the emotional connection in your relationship. If the only time you two touch is when one of you is initiating sex, you're not going to be very emotionally connected and the sex is going to be more scarce as well. Make time to snuggle, cuddle, hold hands, sit with an arm around your spouse, back scratchy, and lean up against the counter with your arms around each other. The more it grosses out your kids, the better.
3) Learn to Fight
A lot of couples are no good at fighting. Not for lack of practice, but the form is terrible. The best at communication turn conflict into greater closeness, instead of allowing it to drive a wedge between them (yes this is possible). If you tear each other down when you fight, leaving the other feeling hurt, uncared about, and unsafe in the relationship this will get in the way of a healthy sex life. Sure, makeup sex can be fun because of the intense hormones flowing through our veins when we fight. However, if we don't know how to navigate conflict in a way that feels like a win for us both, resentment will eventually choke out our affection for each other.
4) Talk before Sex
Most women need lots of verbal intercourse before the other kind. No, I'm not talking about oral sex – I'm talking about communication [if you're still confused check Webster's Dictionary]. The former may be helpful as well, but that's another article. Sharing about each other's day and feeling like we care about what's happening in each other's life helps women feel emotionally connected to their husbands. Don't come home late from work and commence to groping your wife – it probably won't go over very well. Try having a conversation (not a fight about points of conflict) with her before you lead into flirting. I know it sounds crazy men, but you might even try texting or calling your wife during the day.
5) Resolve Conflict
If you have a habit of sweeping things under the rug, the awkward pile that forms over time can really get in the way of your sex life. Unresolved conflict leads to resentment, which chokes the life out of passion. If there have been betrayals of trust, hurts, wrongs that have never been addressed, or ongoing disputes that are not worked through- make cleaning these messes up a priority. If you don't know how, get professional help. You're not the only couple to ever face these sorts of challenges. There are books and counselors who can help you work through these things so they don't keep you from a passionate relationship you love.
- Johnson, S., & Zuccarini, D. (2010). Integrating sex and attachment in emotionally focused couple therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 36(4), 431-445.
- Yoo, H., Bartle-Haring, S., Day, R. D., & Gangamma, R. (2014). Couple communication, emotional and sexual intimacy, and relationship satisfaction. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 40(4), 275-293.
- Talmadge, L. D., & Talmadge, W. C. (1986). Relational sexuality: An understanding of low sexual desire. Journal of sex & marital therapy, 12(1), 3-21.
- The Three Kinds of Sex – Dr. Sue Johnson [4]
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Report NEP-EUR-2016-11-20This is the archive for NEP-EUR, a report on new working papers in the area of Microeconomic European Issues. Giuseppe Marotta issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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- Barbieri, Laura & Piva, Mariacristina & Vivarelli, Marco, 2016. "R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata," IZA Discussion Papers 10354, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Anna Rosso, 2016. "Skill Transferability and Immigrant-Native Wage Gaps," Development Working Papers 405, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano, revised 21 Oct 2016.
- Cahuc, Pierre & Charlot, Olivier & Malherbet, Franck & Benghalem, Helène & Limon, Emeline, 2016. "Taxation of Temporary Jobs: Good Intentions with Bad Outcomes?," IZA Discussion Papers 10352, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Kunz, Johannes S. & Staub, Kevin E., 2016. "Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education," IZA Discussion Papers 10344, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Fasani, Francesco, 2016. "Immigrant Crime and Legal Status: Evidence from Repeated Amnesty Programs," CEPR Discussion Papers 11603, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Clément Bonnet, 2016. "Measuring Knowledge with Patent Data: an Application to Low Carbon Energy Technologies," EconomiX Working Papers 2016-37, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
- Emanuele Forlani & Elisabetta Lodigiani & Concetta Mendolicchio, 2016. "Natives and Migrants in Home Production: The Case of Germany," Development Working Papers 404, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano, revised 21 Oct 2016.
- Hartung, Benjamin & Jung, Philip & Kuhn, Moritz, 2016. "Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man: Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016," IZA Discussion Papers 10341, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Marina Bertolini & Chiara D'Alpaos & Michele Moretto, 2016. "Investing in Photovoltaics: Timing, Plant Sizing and Smart Grids Flexibility," Working Papers 2016.60, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
- Bertoni, Marco & Brunello, Giorgio & Mazzarella, Gianluca, 2016. "Does postponing minimum retirement age improve healthy behaviours before retirement? Evidence from middle-aged Italian workers," ROA Research Memorandum 007, Maastricht University, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA).
- Petra Marotzke & Robert Anderton & Ana Bairrao & Clémence Berson & Peter Tóth, 2016. "Wage adjustment and employment in Europe," Discussion Papers 2016-19, University of Nottingham, GEP.
- Constant, Amelie F. & Krause, Annabelle & Rinne, Ulf & Zimmermann, Klaus F., 2016. "Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants," MERIT Working Papers 2016-050, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
- Disney, Richard & Gathergood, John, 2016. "House prices, wealth effects and labour supply," CFS Working Paper Series 556, Center for Financial Studies (CFS).
- Inhoffen, Justus & Siemroth, Christoph & Zahn, Philipp, 2016. "Does social interaction make bad policies even worse? Evidence from renewable energy subsidies," Working Papers 16-09, University of Mannheim, Department of Economics.
- Gamberoni, Elisa & Gradeva, Katerina & Weber, Sebastian, 2016. "Firm responses to employment subsidies: a regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 Spanish labour market reform," Working Paper Series 1970, European Central Bank.
- Cecilia Jona Lasinio & Stefano Manzocchi & Valentina Meliciani, 2016. "Intangible Assets and Participation in Global Value Chains: An Analysis on a Sample of European Countries," Working Papers LuissLab 16129, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, LUISS Guido Carli.
- Hall, Caroline & Kotakorpi, Kaisa & Liljeberg, Linus & Pirttilä, Jukka, 2016. "Screening through activation: differential effects of a youth activation programme," Working Paper Series 2016:15, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
- Barbara Engels & Johannes Geyer & Peter Haan, 2016. "Pension Incentives and Early Retirement," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1617, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
- Valentin Bertsch & Hyland, Marie & Mahony, Michael, 2016. "What Drives People's Opinions of Electricity Infrastructure? Empirical Evidence from Ireland," Papers WP545, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
- Stancanelli, Elena G. F., 2016. "Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France," IZA Discussion Papers 10322, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Sonja Avlijas, 2016. "Vicious and virtuous cycles of female labour force participation in post-socialist Eastern Europe," LEQS – LSE 'Europe in Question' Discussion Paper Series 119, European Institute, LSE.
- Baumöhl, Eduard & Výrostová, Eva, 2016. "Do people gamble more in good times? Evidence from 27 European countries," MPRA Paper 75013, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Gustavo De Santis & Valentina Tocchioni & Chiara Seghieri & Sabina Nuti, 2016. "Women's satisfaction during pregnancy and at delivery in Tuscany (Italy)," Econometrics Working Papers Archive 2016_08, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti".
- Damián Tojeiro-Rivero & Rosina Moreno & Erika Badillo, 2016. ""Breakthrough innovations: The impact of foreign acquisition of knowledge"," IREA Working Papers 201614, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Nov 2016.
- Javier Changoluisa & Michael Fritsch, 2016. "New Business Formation and Incumbents' Perception of Competitive Pressure," Jena Economic Research Papers 2016-019, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
- Bertola, Giuseppe, 2016. "France's Almost Public Private Schools," CEPR Discussion Papers 11605, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.


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As Phoenix Temperatures Reach 115, Where Are The Monsoon Rains?
If you're wondering where this year's monsoon rains are, you're not alone.
While Phoenix-area temperatures this week are expected to approach 115, there don't seem to be any storms in sight, at least not for the next few days.
With no sustainable rain this monsoon cycle, the benefits of last winter's rain and snow are dwindling.
"We're already seeing rainfall deficits around the state beginning to build," said meteorologist Mark O'Malley. "And some of the drought indicators are indicating that drought's starting to reemerge across Arizona."
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Oil futures did dip early in trading, moving down closer to the $67 per barrel mark as investors decided to make a quick buck on the recent upwards trend. Also helping to ease supply fears is the fact that Nigeria has picked up production again and should return to their normal output sometime next month. OPEC's Edmund Daukoru also said that 1) there is a 1.9 million barrel surplus of oil a day, 2) that there are no plans to curtail the current production level and 3) that he favors the mid $50 oil prices over the mid $60 that we are currently seeing.
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