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Extra-tropical cyclone Sandy left a path of devastation across the entire coastline of New Jersey.
Here is an update as of February 2, 2013...
Island Beach State Park (IBSP), with terrapin nesting habitat, has sustained damage, but it is indicative of barrier island function. Sands have washed out in some places west into the back dunes and maritime forest areas. However, despite the shift west, the Park staff and volunteers have been doing a tremendous job in making area accessible once again. Volunteers and staff have found terrapin carapaces, and are sharing stories of finding dead terrapins as clean-up efforts continue. We will keep track of these accounts and will continue to support the clean-up and recovery efforts along marshes, bay beaches, and creeks that serve as critical terrapin habitat.
Our study sites along the mainland part of Barnegat Bay (Forsythe Refuge) have held up well. The same is true for North Sedge Island (destruction to the docks), but the structures held up okay.
Reports from Kathy Lacey state that northern parts of LBI (Barnegat Light and High Bar Harbor) have also withstood the devastation, but the amount of debris on the nesting areas is substantial.
Despite the devastation, IBSP is open to Bath House 1 for visitors and we will continue to clean-up our coastal habitats. We will also be studying the "post-Sandy" effects on populations and nesting ecology. Stay tuned as we are joining together researchers, students and volunteers to help us with this effort.
25 Şubat 2013 Pazartesi
I'm On The Huffington Post!
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photo: aaronyoungphotography.com
Although it’s been a while since Iblogged here, I have been busy writing. One of my goals for this year was to have a posting published on TheHuffington Post and I’m thrilled to say that this month I became a blogger inthe Weddings Section!
The post is titled: The Two Most Common Lies Couples Buy Into When Planning Their Wedding
Enjoy!
I recently met with a couple tofinalize their ceremony. When I askedhow they were doing, Meredith, the bride, sighed, “Well, we’re not as happy as when we first met you. We’re just so tired of dealing withpeople––we want it to be over!”
You don’t need me to tell you thatplanning a wedding is a wild, wacky emotional roller coaster ride. But here’s the thing about emotions. Emotions can either allow us to react topeople and situations in a healthy way OR they can trip us up and cause us tosabotage our relationships and plans.
What we “think” influences what we “feel.”
Emotions that prevent us fromacting in a way that is in our own best interest are grounded in some veryirrational thoughts—lies––we play so often in our heads that we simply acceptthem as true, even though they’re not.
There are two common “lies” couplestell themselves while stressing with wedding planning. Buy into them and your emotions quickly getout of whack.Continue reading. . .
photo: aaronyoungphotography.comAlthough it’s been a while since Iblogged here, I have been busy writing. One of my goals for this year was to have a posting published on TheHuffington Post and I’m thrilled to say that this month I became a blogger inthe Weddings Section!
The post is titled: The Two Most Common Lies Couples Buy Into When Planning Their Wedding
Enjoy!
I recently met with a couple tofinalize their ceremony. When I askedhow they were doing, Meredith, the bride, sighed, “Well, we’re not as happy as when we first met you. We’re just so tired of dealing withpeople––we want it to be over!”
You don’t need me to tell you thatplanning a wedding is a wild, wacky emotional roller coaster ride. But here’s the thing about emotions. Emotions can either allow us to react topeople and situations in a healthy way OR they can trip us up and cause us tosabotage our relationships and plans.
What we “think” influences what we “feel.”
Emotions that prevent us fromacting in a way that is in our own best interest are grounded in some veryirrational thoughts—lies––we play so often in our heads that we simply acceptthem as true, even though they’re not.
There are two common “lies” couplestell themselves while stressing with wedding planning. Buy into them and your emotions quickly getout of whack.Continue reading. . .
Just Published! My 3rd E-Book: "How To Keep The 'I' in 'I Do'"
To contact us Click HERE
“I love my mother, but she’s driving me crazy”
“The stress is toomuch; I’m ready to elope to Vegas”
“I’m trying to pleaseeveryone, but. . .”
“Whatever she wants isfine with me. I’m staying out of it”
“I’m worried that itwon’t be perfect”
Ask any bride or groom and chancesare they’ll tell you that at some point in planning for their wedding, theyuttered one or more of the above phrases.
Parents have black belts in the artof emotional blackmail. Family andfriends will flame toss accusations that come from nowhere—or from a“forgotten” moment five years before. And you will be bombarded with the unforeseen costs—financial andemotional.
While planning for a wedding, thequality of communication between a couple decreases as stress increases.
My new e- book, How To Keep The ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!is for couples overwhelmed with the demands of planning their wedding. It’s based in the belief that clear, honest,healthy communication goes a long way to reducing stress by cutting throughmisunderstanding and misperception.
Through the examples of real lifewedding stories (all names changed!), I offer you simple, easy to usecommunication tips and techniques to help you get heard and understood, witheach other, with family members and with vendors. These strategies allow you to stay sane byreplacing mind games with effective tools for bringing their wedding dream toreality.
In addition to being a non-denominationalwedding officiant I’m also a corporate communications coach and trainer. On a daily basis, I help people learn smart,healthy communication skills so they can form satisfying relationships—bothprofessional and personal.
Throughout the book, I draw on myexperiences as a wedding officiant and a communications coach. At once humorous, practical and romantic, exercises,self-assessments, checklists and real life stories of couples who made thewedding planning journey will demonstrate dozens of surefire communicationskills, tips, and techniques for navigating the wackiness of wedding planningwith a minimum of stress.
My hope is that while reading thebook you’ll be able to think to your selves: · We’re notalone· We neverthought of that before· There ishope
This book helps you plan yourwedding as a couple and so turn yourwedding dream into a reality.
For more info, CLICK: How To Keep the ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!
“I love my mother, but she’s driving me crazy”“The stress is toomuch; I’m ready to elope to Vegas”
“I’m trying to pleaseeveryone, but. . .”
“Whatever she wants isfine with me. I’m staying out of it”
“I’m worried that itwon’t be perfect”
Ask any bride or groom and chancesare they’ll tell you that at some point in planning for their wedding, theyuttered one or more of the above phrases.
Parents have black belts in the artof emotional blackmail. Family andfriends will flame toss accusations that come from nowhere—or from a“forgotten” moment five years before. And you will be bombarded with the unforeseen costs—financial andemotional.
While planning for a wedding, thequality of communication between a couple decreases as stress increases.
My new e- book, How To Keep The ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!is for couples overwhelmed with the demands of planning their wedding. It’s based in the belief that clear, honest,healthy communication goes a long way to reducing stress by cutting throughmisunderstanding and misperception.
Through the examples of real lifewedding stories (all names changed!), I offer you simple, easy to usecommunication tips and techniques to help you get heard and understood, witheach other, with family members and with vendors. These strategies allow you to stay sane byreplacing mind games with effective tools for bringing their wedding dream toreality.
In addition to being a non-denominationalwedding officiant I’m also a corporate communications coach and trainer. On a daily basis, I help people learn smart,healthy communication skills so they can form satisfying relationships—bothprofessional and personal.
Throughout the book, I draw on myexperiences as a wedding officiant and a communications coach. At once humorous, practical and romantic, exercises,self-assessments, checklists and real life stories of couples who made thewedding planning journey will demonstrate dozens of surefire communicationskills, tips, and techniques for navigating the wackiness of wedding planningwith a minimum of stress.
My hope is that while reading thebook you’ll be able to think to your selves: · We’re notalone· We neverthought of that before· There ishope
This book helps you plan yourwedding as a couple and so turn yourwedding dream into a reality.
For more info, CLICK: How To Keep the ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!
Choosing the Right Beach Portrait Photographer (Long Beach Island's portrait photographer Rob Wilson)
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Here are some tips how to choose the right beach portrait photographer for your multiple generation portrait session. First you have to be honest with how important your family portrait is to you. One of the things that took me a long time to realize is that a beautiful family portrait isn’t something that is very important to everyone. Often a potential client wants a decent picture but it doesn’t have to be the best. I had to equate that with services or items that I spend money on. For instance, I need a new BBQ Grill, although I like to cook I don’t grill as much as I would like to since I am at the beach photographing families every evening in the summer. Instead of buying a 600.00 dollar grill I will probably purchase a grill around 300.00 and it will be “good enough”. The best grill isn’t something that is very important to me. My friend who is a Chef has a different attitude when purchasing a grill, he wants the best and he buys the best. However, if there was something wrong with my Kidneys I would go across the river to Manhattan and go to the best Doctor available. One of the things that I’ve been always able to do is attract the right clients, the ones who understand the value in what I do and hire me because their extended family portrait is something that is important to them. That doesn’t mean that everyone who inquires about a family portrait session is the right fit and I can usually detect that right away by the first question they ask. Typically it’s either the first time that everyone is together or it’s the last time that everyone will be together. Think about that, imagine that all your brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews living all over the world and it’s most likely that during your vacation at Long Beach Island that for different reasons this will be the last time that everyone is together. From experience I know that this portrait session is most likely is going to be important to someone in that situation. When choosing your family portraitphotographer always make sure that the photographer has a lot of examples of large groups. You will find that most portrait photographer’s web sites, especially beach portrait photographers don’t have many examples of large group portraits if any at all. There is a reason for that, it takes years for a photographer to get good at composing a group of fifteen, twenty, orthirty or more people. It took me ten years to develop my constancy posing my large groups neatly, cleanly and more importantly quickly. The fact that most of these portraits are taken on the beach makes everything even more challenging. You are dealing with wind, cranky kids, cranky fathers, and to get twenty or more people looking fantastic is an art in its own. This summer if you are staying at Long Beach Island or any other beach at the Jersey Shore then make sure you call me now at (800) 757-3491 or email me at rob@rwilsonphotography.com. Take a look at some of my multiple generationportraits that I took over the years.
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24 Şubat 2013 Pazar
I'm On The Huffington Post!
To contact us Click HERE
photo: aaronyoungphotography.com
Although it’s been a while since Iblogged here, I have been busy writing. One of my goals for this year was to have a posting published on TheHuffington Post and I’m thrilled to say that this month I became a blogger inthe Weddings Section!
The post is titled: The Two Most Common Lies Couples Buy Into When Planning Their Wedding
Enjoy!
I recently met with a couple tofinalize their ceremony. When I askedhow they were doing, Meredith, the bride, sighed, “Well, we’re not as happy as when we first met you. We’re just so tired of dealing withpeople––we want it to be over!”
You don’t need me to tell you thatplanning a wedding is a wild, wacky emotional roller coaster ride. But here’s the thing about emotions. Emotions can either allow us to react topeople and situations in a healthy way OR they can trip us up and cause us tosabotage our relationships and plans.
What we “think” influences what we “feel.”
Emotions that prevent us fromacting in a way that is in our own best interest are grounded in some veryirrational thoughts—lies––we play so often in our heads that we simply acceptthem as true, even though they’re not.
There are two common “lies” couplestell themselves while stressing with wedding planning. Buy into them and your emotions quickly getout of whack.Continue reading. . .
photo: aaronyoungphotography.comAlthough it’s been a while since Iblogged here, I have been busy writing. One of my goals for this year was to have a posting published on TheHuffington Post and I’m thrilled to say that this month I became a blogger inthe Weddings Section!
The post is titled: The Two Most Common Lies Couples Buy Into When Planning Their Wedding
Enjoy!
I recently met with a couple tofinalize their ceremony. When I askedhow they were doing, Meredith, the bride, sighed, “Well, we’re not as happy as when we first met you. We’re just so tired of dealing withpeople––we want it to be over!”
You don’t need me to tell you thatplanning a wedding is a wild, wacky emotional roller coaster ride. But here’s the thing about emotions. Emotions can either allow us to react topeople and situations in a healthy way OR they can trip us up and cause us tosabotage our relationships and plans.
What we “think” influences what we “feel.”
Emotions that prevent us fromacting in a way that is in our own best interest are grounded in some veryirrational thoughts—lies––we play so often in our heads that we simply acceptthem as true, even though they’re not.
There are two common “lies” couplestell themselves while stressing with wedding planning. Buy into them and your emotions quickly getout of whack.Continue reading. . .
Just Published! My 3rd E-Book: "How To Keep The 'I' in 'I Do'"
To contact us Click HERE
“I love my mother, but she’s driving me crazy”
“The stress is toomuch; I’m ready to elope to Vegas”
“I’m trying to pleaseeveryone, but. . .”
“Whatever she wants isfine with me. I’m staying out of it”
“I’m worried that itwon’t be perfect”
Ask any bride or groom and chancesare they’ll tell you that at some point in planning for their wedding, theyuttered one or more of the above phrases.
Parents have black belts in the artof emotional blackmail. Family andfriends will flame toss accusations that come from nowhere—or from a“forgotten” moment five years before. And you will be bombarded with the unforeseen costs—financial andemotional.
While planning for a wedding, thequality of communication between a couple decreases as stress increases.
My new e- book, How To Keep The ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!is for couples overwhelmed with the demands of planning their wedding. It’s based in the belief that clear, honest,healthy communication goes a long way to reducing stress by cutting throughmisunderstanding and misperception.
Through the examples of real lifewedding stories (all names changed!), I offer you simple, easy to usecommunication tips and techniques to help you get heard and understood, witheach other, with family members and with vendors. These strategies allow you to stay sane byreplacing mind games with effective tools for bringing their wedding dream toreality.
In addition to being a non-denominationalwedding officiant I’m also a corporate communications coach and trainer. On a daily basis, I help people learn smart,healthy communication skills so they can form satisfying relationships—bothprofessional and personal.
Throughout the book, I draw on myexperiences as a wedding officiant and a communications coach. At once humorous, practical and romantic, exercises,self-assessments, checklists and real life stories of couples who made thewedding planning journey will demonstrate dozens of surefire communicationskills, tips, and techniques for navigating the wackiness of wedding planningwith a minimum of stress.
My hope is that while reading thebook you’ll be able to think to your selves: · We’re notalone· We neverthought of that before· There ishope
This book helps you plan yourwedding as a couple and so turn yourwedding dream into a reality.
For more info, CLICK: How To Keep the ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!
“I love my mother, but she’s driving me crazy”“The stress is toomuch; I’m ready to elope to Vegas”
“I’m trying to pleaseeveryone, but. . .”
“Whatever she wants isfine with me. I’m staying out of it”
“I’m worried that itwon’t be perfect”
Ask any bride or groom and chancesare they’ll tell you that at some point in planning for their wedding, theyuttered one or more of the above phrases.
Parents have black belts in the artof emotional blackmail. Family andfriends will flame toss accusations that come from nowhere—or from a“forgotten” moment five years before. And you will be bombarded with the unforeseen costs—financial andemotional.
While planning for a wedding, thequality of communication between a couple decreases as stress increases.
My new e- book, How To Keep The ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!is for couples overwhelmed with the demands of planning their wedding. It’s based in the belief that clear, honest,healthy communication goes a long way to reducing stress by cutting throughmisunderstanding and misperception.
Through the examples of real lifewedding stories (all names changed!), I offer you simple, easy to usecommunication tips and techniques to help you get heard and understood, witheach other, with family members and with vendors. These strategies allow you to stay sane byreplacing mind games with effective tools for bringing their wedding dream toreality.
In addition to being a non-denominationalwedding officiant I’m also a corporate communications coach and trainer. On a daily basis, I help people learn smart,healthy communication skills so they can form satisfying relationships—bothprofessional and personal.
Throughout the book, I draw on myexperiences as a wedding officiant and a communications coach. At once humorous, practical and romantic, exercises,self-assessments, checklists and real life stories of couples who made thewedding planning journey will demonstrate dozens of surefire communicationskills, tips, and techniques for navigating the wackiness of wedding planningwith a minimum of stress.
My hope is that while reading thebook you’ll be able to think to your selves: · We’re notalone· We neverthought of that before· There ishope
This book helps you plan yourwedding as a couple and so turn yourwedding dream into a reality.
For more info, CLICK: How To Keep the ‘I’ In ‘I Do’: GetHeard, Stay Sane. Commonsense Ways To Communicate With Your Partner WhilePlanning Your Wedding—and beyond!
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head!
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The Lighthouse Center in Waretown, NJ has recently been hit with several substantial rainstorms. During the most recent storm, there was quite a bit of flooding and a tree actually toppled over on to the roof of the dining hall! The fearless groundskeeper, Pola Galie, snapped a few pictures of the damage. Although our summer home may not be in perfect condition right now, I have no doubt we will be back in business by mid-June and completely ready for our first Earthwatch team!
The Lighthouse Center in Waretown, NJ has recently been hit with several substantial rainstorms. During the most recent storm, there was quite a bit of flooding and a tree actually toppled over on to the roof of the dining hall! The fearless groundskeeper, Pola Galie, snapped a few pictures of the damage. Although our summer home may not be in perfect condition right now, I have no doubt we will be back in business by mid-June and completely ready for our first Earthwatch team!
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