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his week: The Gay App, IRVA Conference, Badda Bing!’s 2nd Anniversary and Monti Rock III’s Birthday, Sex & the City 2 Bombs, Prince of Persia, Mother & Child, Remote Viewing and Applied Intuition 4-Day Pre-Conference Workshop, and more…

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Remote Viewing and Applied Intuition 4-Day Pre-Conference Workshop. Stephan Schwartz and Marty Rosenblatt will be running a pre-conference workshop from June 15 to June 18 at the Green Valley Ranch and Resort, Las Vegas.

The workshop, which will run from Tuesday afternoon thru Friday morning to permit attendance at the IRVA Conference, will offer hands-on training using real world applications. Stephan, who is one of the founders of the technique for opening to that part of yourself not limited by space-time that we know today as remote viewing, will share with you nearly 40 years of research and experience as he guides you to open to the non-local aspect of your own consciousness. You will develop the ability to describe persons, places, or events shielded from the normal senses by reason of time or space, or both. These techniques, grounded in laboratory research, produce tangible results. For example, with teams of RVers, Stephan has found previously unknown archaeological locations all over the world.

Marty will teach you how to apply Remote Viewing to the world of investing and wagering, which includes financial markets and sports betting. Using your intuition, you can invest in your intuitive self. Gaming is a fun way to practice and apply intuitive investing, and we will be using the casino to do just that. Also, we will teach you how to transition from betting to investing in the stock and futures markets. Together we will apply these skills to predict, place and obtain an outcome for a trade in the S&P500 futures market. This workshop offers something special for those who want to learn to use their intuition in real world applications.

Stephan and Marty believe that spirit is at the core of remote viewing and many of the presentations will involve related topics, e.g., Science of Spirit; Science, Art and Technology of Non-Local Awareness; and Physics Approaches Spirituality. The fun and learning starts on Tuesday afternoon at the beautiful Green Valley Ranch Spa and Casino with welcome and introductions. See entire list of presentations and schedule.

The workshop will be meeting in the Tuscany Suite to permit a comfortable setting conducive to learning and applying remote viewing. The maximum number of participants is 15, so sign up early. The Four Day Workshop Registration is $395 before June 1, 2010. Register Now.

The International Remote Viewing Association is pleased to announce their 2010 Conference. The Conference will be held June 18th–20th at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ll be there and will report on the Conference.

The Green Valley Ranch Resort, is only minutes away from McCarran International Airport and the Las Vegas Strip.

Jim Channon will be IRVA’s Keynote speaker. At 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening IRVA’s Keynote Speaker is dynamic Jim Channon, Lt. Colonel, US Army (Ret.). Jim is our dear friend, total charismatic charmer, and was the lead futurist and educational technologist for the U.S. Army. He created the First Earth Battalion manual. He also created advanced visual AVL and the virtual reality exercise VRX. (www.firstearthbattalion.com/)

Movies This Week. Sex and the City 2 (NO), Prince of Persia (NO), Mother and Child (YES).

SEX AND THE CITY 2. In a coma on life-support. Not sexy, no story, ugly clothes, the women look horribly aged, but Max Ryan is sex in the desert. Insults a Muslim culture.

Carrie Bradshaw Preston (Sarah Jessica Parker) has been married to Big (Chris Noth—looking terrific!) for two years. He adores her and has given up his player lifestyle. He likes to stay home and watch old movies. He hates going out. Big likes being a castrated married man. Carrie and Big do want any children but she seems really upset about it—it is all she talks about. For Carrie, being married to Big is so dull!

Writer, producer, director Michael Patrick King has killed The Golden Goose.

I hated everything about it. Where do I begin?

If you wonder why I have not reviewed the movie’s story or the main characters “arc,” the reason is, to quote Gertrude Stein (in reference to Oakland, California) there is no there there.

Carrie’s new book on marriage is coming out and she is bored, Miranda’s (Cynthia Nixon) high-powered job is stressful since her boss hates her, Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is a Suzanne Somers anti-menopause diet fanatic, and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) hates being a mother to two children, one being a constantly crying toddler. She does have a full-time, big-breasted young Danish nanny who goes bra-less! How they all suffer!

King must be a Suzanne Somers devotee. Her book is trotted out through SEX AND THE CITY 2. Samantha holds it up as if doing commercials for it.

Carrie decides to take two days away from Big when he buys her a flat screen TV for their bedroom for her birthday. What? No jewelry? So why is Carrie upset when Big thinks two days apart every week is a good idea? She initiated it!

With Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte speeding toward decrepitude, they join Samantha on a week-long, all expenses paid vacation to opulent, extravagant Abu Dhabi.

The Muslim country of Abu Dhabi is liberate-minded, but the women, especially Samantha, insist on insulting the culture and mocking the decency of the women behind veils.

I have traveled to many Muslim countries in Africa and the Middle East. I love the culture and the call to prayer. I’ve been to Morocco (where the movie was filmed) and the women have taken the headscarf and made it a masterpiece of fashion. The headscarf has become an architectural feat. Every woman wears the headscarf as a fashion statement of superiority and individuality. The women cloaked all in black are fascinating. I brought several niqabs and veils in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Didn’t famed costume designer Patricia Field notice anything while in Morocco? Field could have brought the sensational headscarf to America! Instead, Field puts Carrie in a garbage can hat. The clothes may be expensive couture, but they are ugly. It looks like Field rummaged through hospital thrift stores (where people donate their recently deceased grandmother’s clothes).

(I’m not knocking it—I once found a great vintage top and a sweater covered with antique beads).

The women of SEX AND THE CITY 2 are boorish snobs. It can finally be revealed—Michael Patrick King hates women and this movie proves it.

King also hates the gays. But Liza Minnelli is fabulous singing “Single Ladies.”

In a souk, Carrie runs right into Aiden (John Corbett) who is happily married with three small boys. At the end of a dinner, they kiss! Oh, the horror! Remember the good old days when it would have been a blazing, taboo affair right under Big’s prominent nose?

The women sing karaoke to “I Am Woman.” Is there anything else I can complain about? Oh, yes indeed!

Parker is the undisputed star and also an Executive Producer. So why does she allow the cinematographer, John Thomas, to cruelly film her as an aged anorexic? Did the makeup people intentionally shade her nose so it looks twice the size? Thomas photographed Parker, Nixon, and Cattrall under Third Degree interrogation lighting.

I must mention casting director Bernard Telsey who found, with Cattrall’s approval, Max Ryan. He is the sexiest thing in the movie and gives SEX AND THE CITY 2 a much-needed jolt of—in Carrie-speak—erotic “sparkle.”

Badda Bing’s 2nd Anniversary and Monti Rock III’s Birthday. It was a very VIP party (with even a wedding ceremony performed by the Reverend Monti Rock lll) and, following Monti’s lead, I overdressed (but no one can top Monti except Liberace himself!).

The party celebrating Badda Bing!’s second anniversary and Monti Rock’s birthday had a gourmet buffet dinner from Badda Bing!’s restaurant, not the standard hors d’oeuvres fare! Badda Bing! owner Rick Belcastro’s special treat for press and their guests was an open bar all evening.

Thanks to uber-publicist Bobbie Katz for organizing a perfect evening.

Badda Bing!, Las Vegas’ only 5-Diamond Gentlemen’s Club is gorgeous and a luxurious mansion. At 15,000-square-feet, every square inch of the décor is elegant. The décor is Henry the VIIl Goes Vegas (and Steve Wynn would be impressed with the eye for detail).

There are 10 special VIP packages starting from the $40 Drink Package (One Person) which includes front-of-line VIP admission, and a $30 drink card.

The packages, which can be reserved on Badda Bing!’s Web site, goes all the way up to the Super Deluxe Platinum Package for $800. So what does $800 get you?

The Super Deluxe Platinum Package includes front-of-line VIP admission for up to ten people, two premium bottles with mixers, VIP booth or main-floor seating.

All the packages provide complimentary limo or party bus transportation from your hotel. Please call (702) 541-7000 after 4 p.m. to arrange transportation. Limo driver tip suggested. This offer only valid with Badda Bing transportation. Server gratuity not included.

Owner Rick Belcastro (pictured between Bobbie Katz and Monti Rock) told me that the Couples Package was very popular since they get many couples at Badda Bing!s. The Couples Package includes transportation to & from, admission, VIP Salon on the main floor, a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label and chocolate-covered strawberries. This package runs for two hours.

The friendly and talkative Rick, 39 years old, is a devoted family man and a dedicated 7-days a week, hands-on owner. He is a Las Vegas native and the youngest adult club owner in the city. He feels that everyone who works for him is family and his work ethic is this: once in the club, everything is done to keep the guest enthroned in a pleasant, intimate environment. There is a private-access elevator, a fine restaurant on the premises, and for bachelorette parties, male strippers. Belcastro prides himself in treating every guest like a VIP and he says “we don’t take advantage of our clientele.” (Photos by Nikki Artale) (www.baddabinglv.com)

By the way, you can get married at Badda Bing! for $799.99! Call 626-488-6353 for wedding reservation or information.