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Obama Health Department GC to Return to Zuckerman Spaeder
The promise of Trump's presidency could roll back much of the signature policy changes Schultz worked on while at Health and Human Services.
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The legal community as a whole needs to take a stand. And it seems entirely appropriate, even essential, for the lawyers to take the lead since the president-elect has consistently expressed his disrespect for law and demonstrated his ignorance of constitutional principles.
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There is a haunting loneliness about the Australian outback it is quite magnificent. When I was a liile boy nearly 12 in 1951 mind you! My strongest
sensation was of being awake at 5am in the bathurst migrant hospital
Clear blue sky's Blackbirds warbling in the the gum trees this then little 11stone
pom new he had arrived this was his country and whoe behold any one trying to take it off me.
Your right I wish I were there.
Bon Voyage relax and enjoy give the kids a hug from me
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We had to hit the road early to make Coober Pedy before Bill's telephone interview at 1:00pm! We left by about 7:00am and headed north we drove past the roadhouse on the way back to the main road & where most of "caravan city" seemed to be just starting to stir. We had a quick fuel stop at Glendambo which is the only town between Woomera (Pimba roadhouse) & Coober Pedy had a game of tiggy then continued on our way. The landscape was again changing all the way first scrubby & red dirt then low level trees & less red then what looked like an asphalt car-park in disrepair with weeds growing through. There was a major landmark of an emergency phone & maybe 2 or so rest stops other than that NOTHING!! Passed a few road-trains heading South which rocked us about a bit but finally arrived safe & sound in Coober Pedy at 11:15ish. We checked out the 3 caravan parks and decided on the Stuart Range Family Park because it was a little out of town (after seeing a few of the locals thought it might be a bit safer!) Coober Pedy?
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There is a haunting loneliness about the Australian outback it is quite magnificent. When I was a liile boy nearly 12 in 1951 mind you! My strongest
I don't think there is anything but a pub at William Creek. You will have been there and back by the time you read this. I went up the Oodnadatta track on a motorbike and drove through town before I realised I was there. Had to turn around and come back. Also the road from there to Coober Pedy was pretty terrible so I hope theve done something about it!
Have a great time!
Can't ait to hear about Lake Eyre! You are doing well describing the countryside. We can almost feel the nothingness and see the red soil and scrub. Missing you all but keep on having a great time. Love all 4 of us - Mum, Dad, Nanna and Grandad!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Welcome to the outback! Still a long way to Darwin! Coming from Melbourne you'd never think there was that much space. And the people you meet. It's an experience. Europe has other cultures and countries. In Australia we are one country with alot of different cultures. It's only when you get there that you remember and begin to acknowledge outback time. Hi to you all,yeah wish I was there to share the journey. Enjoy the magnificent night skies. Love to you all. Pauline
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Exhibit features one-room schoolhouses
A new exhibit showcasing photographs of the schools and academies that once stood in Indiana County is now on display at the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County along Wayne Avenue in Indiana.
Between the early 1800s and 1946, Indiana County was home to more than 230 one-room schools where children attended classes from first through eighth grade, according to volunteer Maggie Pesci.
In some cases, local homes or abandoned cabins functioned as schools until money was available to build a school.
[PHOTO: Dorie Leathers, left, and Patricia Johner displayed some of the exhibits at the historical society, including a book they wrote about one-room schools in Indiana County. (Kayla Grube/Gazette photo)]
Most of the one-room schools were phased out when schools were consolidated in the mid-1900s, although a handful are still around today and serve other functions.
Thirteen academies and 20 select schools — institutions that trained teachers between 1855 and 1917 — are also included in the exhibit, Pesci said.
"We have a lot of posters of schools and pictures of people who went to the schools themselves to give you an idea of what they looked like," Pesci said.
The ongoing exhibit highlights some of the work done by local historians Dorie Leathers and Patricia Johner, who last year published a book documenting the one-room schools of Indiana County.
"A County School Primer: The One-Room Schools of Indiana County, PA" is an illustrated history including newspaper articles, souvenirs, maps, school programs and old photographs.
Leathers, of Blairsville, and Johner, of Indiana, spent two years gleaning information available at the Indiana and nearby historical societies as well as scanning photos, compiling the index and writing essays to accompany the photographs and historical documents.
The book is available only at the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County for $24.95 plus tax. All proceeds benefit the society.
Emily Weber has been a staff writer at The Indiana Gazette since February 2013. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with a degree in journalism and English writing studies. Emily can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Morning Preview: Revisiting Tech's Momentum Stocks, and Alcoa Earnings
- By Stefan Cheplick (@scheplick) editor @stocktwits |
- April 8th, 2014
In today's Tuesday morning preview we're looking at 3 stories that have been popular topics for discussion on StockTwits. We picked these 3 stories based on unique analytics available to all StockTwits users like sentiment and message volume.
1.) For the entire month of March, and now well into April, the most talked about stocks have been momentum ones. Particularly those that have seen huge sell-offs. We've been writing about this extensively, too, and there's been no better place to watch these momentum names than on StockTwits. Messages on the StockTwits FireEye ($FEYE) stream crossed 1,000 yesterday. On March 1, that number was below 100. The same thing is happening with $YELP, $NFLX, and $P:
4 of the biggest momo names and their message volume on StockTwits – $YELP $FEYE $NFLX & $P: http://stks.co/r0BnW
— stefan cheplick (@scheplick) Apr. 8 at 09:00 AM
2.) The Nasdaq-100 ($QQQ) has been under pressure all month long and we continue to see interesting reasons why. Some blame it on the overvaluation of momentum stocks as mentioned above. Others cite a clear exhaustion in the trend or a technical breakdown. This morning we've already seen 3 other potential reasons that caught our eye:
In 2000 the Nasdaq fell 25% in 2nd week of April so ppl could pay taxes following big gains in 1999. Rebounded 19% last 2 weeks April $QQQ
— 1971 Capital (@1971capital) Apr. 8 at 08:30 AM
Significant rotation continues from Growth to Value Stocks and from Cyclicals to Defensive Sectors. $SPX $DIA $QQQ $IWM
— Ben Silverberg (@silverjet2) Apr. 8 at 07:51 AM
$QQQ investors have been trained for the last 5 years to buy every dip because the next day the market ALWAYS spikes even higher. Now what?
— Brett Fromme (@BDF_NYC) Apr. 7 at 06:37 PM
3.) Alcoa ($AA) is no longer in the Dow Jones Industrial Index, but it's still a major signal for earnings season. Today, after the market close Alcoa reports earnings. Keep in mind that $AA is up 18% this year:
$AA @Alcoa to Host Webcast of First Quarter 2014 Results on Tuesday, April 8 beginning at 5:00 p.m. EDT http://stks.co/q0A3R
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French jeweller Thierry Martin has just been appointed head designer at leading Australian jewellers Fairfax & Roberts. On the eve of his trip to New Zealand he talks about his life-long affair with creating beautiful jewellery.
As a child growing up in France ... I was 5 years old when minerals and gemstones became my passion. When I was a little boy I had asthma, and when I had attacks my mother told me, "If you stay calm, I'll buy you a gemstone".
That's how my collection started. Soon after, I started asking for books about minerals and coloured stones.
My love for luxury was first ignited by ... Vogue. I discovered a new world, full of fashion, accessories and jewellery. Jewellery has always been my first love.
My early career saw me ... win the most prestigious international pearl design contest in Japan, being recognised by Poiray and Alexandre Reza, and starting to create suites for Van Cleef & Arpels.
My design philosophy is ... to find an aesthetical result according to a client's wish. To understand a woman's dream. I want to guide the customer towards truth and beauty. I hold the key to everyone's deepest wish: to have something unique, something that has never been done before.
It's like being a dream-maker. And quality is also my passion. For me and for Fairfax & Roberts, the highest level of luxury should be found equally in a simple piece of jewellery as well as in an extravagant one.
When it comes to buying stones for my jewellery I always ... search for the best of the best - well-cut gemstones, rarities and of course those that have never been treated. My knowledge of coloured gemstones (I trained in gemmology in Paris for four years) allows me to give the best advice to clients. I only buy stones I instantly fall in love with. Knowledge of stones cannot just be learned in books, a big part of it is intuition.
My favourite stones are ... With gemstones, I feel equally excited in front of a marvellous agate as I do with a coloured diamond.
Out of everything I have designed the pieces I am the most proud of are ... the collections I designed for the big names of the Place Vendome (Mauboussin, Fred, Van Cleef & Arpels, Mikimoto, Chanel) and in the United States (Tiffany, Harry Winston).
The highlight of my career has been ... to join Fairfax & Roberts, because I'm very interested in working with a high quality of craftsmanship and stones to achieve the best effects. The workshop team work in the same way as I do - we share the same passion for detail.
The lowlight of my career has been ... when other people put their names on my creations and when they won prizes for their creativity with my designs.
Many famous people have worn my jewellery including ... the late Queen of Nepal, for whom I created watches, rings, precious sets and objects. Others include the Sultan of Brunei, the Sultan of Oman, Queen Noor from Jordan, various Saudi princesses and Hollywood stars such as Helen Hunt, Sarah Jessica Parker, and more.
Personally, the jewellery I wear is ... I like lovely watches and I wear a ring in black jade from Myanmar.
When creating a piece of jewellery for a specific client I ... love to draw and bring my ideas to life in front of people.
I have just launched my first collection for Fairfax & Roberts. The inspiration for it was ... the Paris Opera House, Opera Garnier. For me it embodies the beauty of Paris: the sumptuous golden interior, the sparkling lights of the chandeliers, the details of the decor, and the magnificence of the performances.
For the second collection I have drawn inspiration from the place where my passion for jewellery was born: Cannes. This is where as a boy of 15 I saw my first jewellery exhibition and realised I could combine my two passions: coloured gems and design. I spent many holidays in Cannes, and like a lot of people, fell in love with the warmth, the vibrancy and the colours of the Riviera.
My vision for the future with Fairfax & Roberts ... is a real challenge. The passion for detail makes every piece born in the Fairfax & Roberts collection a work of art. I've accepted a contract for five years as I find the work of Fairfax & Roberts to be of equal quality with the well-known Parisian big names. It is exciting to make this house much more recognised in jewellery design.
Moving to Australia has meant ... discovering a new world, new country, new "love story", and new and interesting people. I'm passionate by nature, so it's the right place for me.
The things I miss about France are ... my family, my collection of gemstones and my jewellery books (at least 300).
My team would describe me as ... serious about my work, very passionate and sometimes a little exuberant.
What excites me about jewellery, after all these years is ... to see my creations still in the windows, sites and catalogues of big names, and in the Fairfax & Roberts windows.
It's an emotional journey to follow the making of a hand-made piece of jewellery, from a piece of metal through to the final creation. And to find a new concept is like creating for a contest.
When I'm not designing jewellery you'll find me ... thinking about jewellery or in the beautiful botanical gardens of Sydney, or exploring the streets of Sydney.
* Australian jewellers Fairfax & Roberts will be showing Thierry Martin's new range on models dressed by Liz Mitchell at an exclusive three-course lunch at Huka Lodge, Taupo on September 18. Tickets $125, to book ph (07) 378 0427.


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Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice
The past century has seen a transformation in women's legal rights, with countries in every region expanding the scope of women's legal entitlements. Nevertheless for many of the world's women the laws that exist on paper do not translate to equality and justice.
Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice looks at how the legal system can play a positive role in women accessing their rights, citing cases that have changed women's lives both at a local and at times global level. It also looks at the important role women have played and continue to play as agents for change within the legal system, as legislators, as lawyers, as community activists but also asks why, despite progress on legal reform, the justice system is still not delivering justice for all women.
The report focuses on four key areas: legal and constitutional frameworks, the justice chain, plural legal systems and conflict and post-conflict. Drawing on tangible examples of steps that have been taken to help women access justice, the report sets out ten key recommendations for policy and decision makers to act on in order to ensure every woman is able to obtain justice.
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Zimmerman Trial: Family Members Testify As Defense Opens Case
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Sanford, Fla. -- State prosecutors have rested their case in the murder trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
On Friday, Judge Debra Nelson denied a judgement for acquittal… so the defense is now presenting its case.
A calm and collected Sybrina Fulton took the stand Friday morning in the murder trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, as she testified the screams heard in the background of a 9-1-1 call were those of her son, Trayvon Martin.
At the end of the day, Zimmerman's mother listened to the same call, bowing her head as screams were heard in the background.
The defense began their case with both Zimmerman's Mother and Uncle testifying those screams belonged to George Zimmerman.
His uncle, Jorge Meza, first heard the call as it played on the news while he sat at the computer, back turned to the TV.
His testimony brought Zimmerman close to tears, a moment of emotion a stark change from his usual demeanor since the trial began two weeks ago.
The state called a total of 38 witnesses to testify over nine days.
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Parents Gone Wild: Babies in Bars
Here's what I want to know: when did parenting become entitlement to impose young children on people around you in places which were, not long ago, understood to be adult spaces?
A mom recently posted on a local listserv, called Park Slope Parents, that she's offended by a neighborhood pub with a sign on its door that bans children after 5 p.m.
"So, does anyone know if this practice is legal? Obviously kids can't order a pint, but what about a burger?" she posted.
She goes on to explain that regardless of the ban's legality, she doesn't plan on going back, and adds, in what seems to be a huffy tone, "There are many other places where my business would be welcome." Hesitant though I am to step into something that might get me flamed on this listerv, to which thousands of people subscribe, I just had to respond.
I posted:
Really, aren't there places, even in Park Slope, where people are entitled to go after work to relax without having to deal with crying/fussing babies nearby? Why is that offensive to parents? Let's face it, folks, there is a (short) period in our lives as parents when it may not be possible to go out to every place we wish we could patronize.
Truth is, lately my neighborhood, which borders Park Slope, has been turning into a place just as overrun with rug rats (which the author of another local blog unfelicitously calls "crotch fruit"), and it feels kind of annoying, even though I'm just a few years out of stroller pushing myself.
As I posted on Park Slope Parents:
Even though I'm not much of a bar-hopper myself, I am annoyed when young kids are in the rare movie that I can get out to see. I'm there (in part) for a break from my kids - why would I want to listen to someone else's crying or whining for more goldfish crackers? Likewise, I've been slightly annoyed the several recent times that I've gone out with my husband for nice, romantic, Saturday-night dates at grown-up restaurants and had to work around someone's stroller at the next table, or had to listen to them make kissy-baby noises to their newly-awakened infant.
I got a few private, and a couple of publicly posted, notes of support from other moms who evidently share my retrograde feelings.
I'm just perplexed by what seems to me to be a new sense of entitlement among some young parents, who evidently don't think that having an infant (with them) should get in the way of a late supper at a nice restaurant or a night cap at a local bar. They seem utterly unaware that their stroller and its occupant might be in the way of other patrons.
It's the kind of thing that makes Park Slope an easy mark. Well, that and the 40-ish dad I saw today wearing a Snuggli full of baby. A note to you, sir: only men under the age of 22 should wear those colorful, hand-knit Nepalese hats with the ear flaps.
I managed to do plenty when my kids were babies - I was taking an evening class on Jewish theology when my oldest was just a few weeks old - but I didn't expect to take my babies every single place I went. There were, and still are, places and parties I couldn't attend because it's not appropriate to bring young children.
I've survived, and so would the rest of you.
I'm just sick of trying to ignore preschoolers talk loudly in PG-13 and R-rated movies when all I'd like to have is the privilege of enjoying the movie I've just overpaid to see.
I fear I may be sounding a little like hoary curmudgeon Andy Rooney.
But perhaps I have more company than I know. So weigh in: what do you think?
And for those of you who write to back me up, here's a bonus tidbit for your viewing pleasure, featuring Rooney and Ali G.
Ali G. is of course is played by the inimitably hunky Sacha Baron Cohen, who I'm sure doesn't take the baby he has with actress Isla Fisher (Hate her. Kidding. Sort of.) to bars.
He probably leaves her with family members he's brought in from Kazakhtan.
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We have a bad habit of wandering into unlocked buildings in our neighborhood that have "For Rent" signs out and look remotely historic. Walking the dog through West Hollywood, it's easy to stumble upon some hidden treasures, concealed behind high hedges or imposing gates. In just a few blocks near Crescent Heights, there is a wealth of historic properties for rent, with diverse architectural influences ranging from Spanish to Moroccan to Art Deco and Streamline Moderne. Many of these are landmarked, all of these are pricey. Let's take a look.
South L.A. isn't well known for its public art, with the exception of Watts Tower. But a site-specific work about to be unveiled at the Martin Luther King Center for Public Health, the first new building to open on the rehabbed Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center campus, may change that.
Yesterday we looked at the upcoming preview for the auction of Elizabeth Taylor's famous jewelry and art collection. While La Liz was never known for her understated appreciation of baubles and bling, the upcoming auction of Norwood Young's belongings make Taylor's taste look positively prim.
Elizabeth Taylor once claimed she had three true loves in her life: husband number three, Mike Todd; husband five (and six) Richard Burton; and jewelry. Before her death from congestive heart failure at the age of 79 in the spring, she had arranged with Christie's to auction off most of her belongings, including the legendary jewelry she acquired from seven marriages.
This Saturday (today for members!) marks the opening of LACMA's exhibit California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in a Modern Way," which will painstakingly re-create Charles and Ray Eames' living room. As the centerpiece of the exhibit, the contents of the Eames' living room – all 1,864 objects – have been moved to the museum for the full-scale replica.
With all the (well-deserved) hype around Pacific Standard Time, it's easy for some of the smaller design events to get overlooked this month. But October is also L.A.'s Architecture Month and the local AIA chapter is sponsoring a slew of local architecture events throughout the month. The purpose of the events is "to celebrate the built environment and bring awareness to the importance of design to the community at large" while also bringing together a diverse group or professional and public interest groups.
L.A.-based architects Craig Hodgetts and Hsin-Ming Fung are busy prepping LACMA's Resnick Pavilion (aka the "baby Piano") for the upcoming exhibit California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in a Modern Way." The show, one of five LACMA is hosting for the Pacific Standard Time initiative, is the first major study of California midcentury modern design.
Santa Monica is about to get an eco-friendly hotel option for travelers who want a little sustainable design with their sun, surf and sand. Owned by the Farzam family and designed by architecture firm Gensler, the Shore Hotel is scheduled to begin accepting reservations for October.
Here it is at last, Top Chef winner Michael Voltaggio's long awaited ink., set to open tomorrow night in Los Angeles. While Angelenos have been enjoying Voltaggio's sandwiches next door at the more casual ink.sack for the last couple of months, this is his more upscale venture in fine dining (he previously helmed the stoves at The Bazaar and The Dining Room in The Langham in Pasadena.
It's that time of year again – when architects, urban planners, bike advocates, green activists, and more get together to celebrate park-itecture. Park[ing] Day, the annual worldwide event when parking spaces are transformed into parks, is tomorrow, Sept. 16th.


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The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication--from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ballby Ethan Mordden
From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander Woolcott, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker, Truman
From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander Woolcott, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, the Lunts and Helen Hayes presided over the town. Their books, plays, performances, speeches, dinner parties, masked balls, loves, hates, likes and dislikes became the aspirations of a nation. If you wanted to be sophisticated, you played by Manhattan's rules. If you didn't, you simply weren't on the guest list. The Heartland rebelled against Manhattan's dictum, but never prevailed. In this lively cultural history, Mordden chronicles the city's most powerful and influential era.
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Sassy celebration of the talented dames and gents who invented equal-opportunity Manhattan sophistication.
New Yorker and New York Times contributor and Broadway-musical maven Mordden (Ziegfield: The Man Who Invented Show Business, 2008, etc.) whisks readers through five crucial decades—1920s to '60s—of New York's golden era, when cultural refinement began to free itself from the shackles of aristocratic pedigree. The author writes with zesty society-page cattiness about a wide variety of characters, including Edna Ferber, Dorothy Parker and other members of the Algonquin Round Table, hedonistic mayor Jimmy Walker, journalist and cultural power broker Walter Winchell, political columnist Dorothy Thompson, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, Irving Berlin, John O'Hara and Truman Capote, among numerous others. The major thematic string tying all these pivotal figures together is Mordden's concept of "New Yorkism," whichrefers to an original multicultural melding of people and ideas—often thanks to gay, Jewish or African-American sources—whose collective exoticism helped make Manhattan into the cultural Mecca by the early to mid-20th century despite Middle America's distrustful gaze. Mordden also gives ample space to the conservative front that opposed this culturally diverse scene: Neo-Nazi aviator Charles Lindbergh, The Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley, Elsa Maxwell and others. Unfortunately, because achievement for nonaristocrats required a cutthroat ambition and ruthless self-preservation instinct, many of the author's main subjects died alienated and alone. The author obviously has a few soft spots for Capote and the lavish Manhattan soirees that gave him the social prominence his own personality couldn't, yet Mordden never considers the possibility that these indulgent parties eventually ruined Capote as a working writer. Then again, the author is more concerned with the lifestyle these artists and writers created for themselves than with the cultural products associated with their names.
Informative, racy and fun, but lacks the heft of a serious historical study.
The New York Times
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Grand Hotel: The Round Table
The revolution collected its poster children in yet another hotel, the Algonquin, just a few months after Cole Porter claimed his cozy little corner in the Ritz. Here, at 59 West Forty-fourth Street, in Frank Case's twelve-story inn of special appeal to the performing arts and literary worlds, one gazed upon a clutch of truly familyless celebrities.
Some were the offspring of people only recently settled in America after emigration from unglamorous parts of Europe. Others came from geo graphical footnotes in the midwest or a city like Pittsburgh. One was even raised on a commune modeled on the Fourier phalange. Imagine the child of such eerie utopia mixing with the Astors! But the revolution thought nothing of it; if anything, it flavored one's résumé positively. It was only old Society that feared novelty.
None of the these newcomers to the great world had any money to speak of or was ever likely to— not in the way Society understood money. As Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish put it, "We are only moderately well off ": because the Fishes had no more than "a few million dollars." Nor did this new group assemble in places thought elite—in the opera box or at Grace Church. Instead, the Algonquinites were theatregoers—especially on first nights, because many of them were theatre critics or knew a few—and essentially heathen. While society's leaders sought prominence within their set but anonymity elsewhere, the Algonquinites wanted to make their names, magnify them. The core group were all writers, but over the decade or so of its existence the Algonquin Round Table hosted actors, publishers, musicians, publicists, and sidekicks of various kinds. Achievers and the friends of achievers were welcome. Those whose achievement consisted in having great- great- grandfathers were not.
The whole thing got started by accident, in late 1919 or early 1920,* at a celebratory lunch more or less devoted to Alexander Woollcott. There were speeches, toasts, and insults both teasing and cutting, and everyone had a wonderful time. Someone said, "Why don't we do this every day?," and they began to, meeting in the Algonquin's main dining hall at a long table, with side tables attending as needed. Then, sensing an angle for publicity, manager Case moved the gang to the smaller Rose Room, seating them at a round table right in the center of every other diner's view. Some of the Round Table came often and some now and again, with wives, friends, or new talent ready to be Introduced and take the town. The also theres included actress beauties Margalo Gillmore, Peggy Wood, and Ina Claire; playwrights Robert E. Sherwood, Laurence Stallings, and Marc Connelly; novelist Edna Ferber; and comic Harpo Marx. But the Round Table proper counted a sextet:
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT, overbearing merrymaker. Best assault on Wooll cott, by Gertrude Stein, who keeps interrupting: Woollcott: "People don't dispute Woollcott." Stein: "I'm not people. I'm Gertrude Stein."
ROBERT BENCHLEY, spokesman for the Little Fellow Eternally Puzzled By Life. Characteristic observation: "I seem to be behind on my parades …"
DOROTHY PARKER, wit, lover, and occasional failed suicide. Essential first line of a Parker short story: "Please, God, let him telephone me now."
*The date of the first lunch is unknown; writers treating the Round Table blithely skate around it.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN, the fastest draw in the east in sarcasm. Typical un- Algonquinlike gallantry, in a curtain speech at the first night of Once in a Lifetime, a collaboration: "I would like the audience to know that eighty percent of this play is Moss Hart."
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS, the mentor, already famous in his late thirties when the others were more or less starting out. Another assault on Woollcott, who toys with one of his own books and sighs, "Ah, what is so rare as a Woollcott first edition?" Adams: "A Woollcott second edition."
and HEYWOOD BROUN, the one no one remembers anything about.Typical Broun line: " ."
Socially breakaway to the point of mania, the Algonquinites first of all registered their importance for not only their work but their lives. Gossip was no longer relegated to Town Topics and the like; gossip was becoming news, even history. Some of the Algonquinites are read little if at all today, yet they remain famous for their eccentricities, and for doing things that writers don't normally do. A highly theatrical bunch, they actually put on a one-night-only revue called No Sirree! (1922) at a Broadway house, the Forty-Ninth Street Theatre. They took over on a Sunday evening, when the regular tenant, the Russian potpourri Chauve- Souris, wasn't playing. Some 750 guests and their guests— no critics were asked—sat through the usual revue of spoofs and specialties, but what a cast! The opening chorus was sung by Woollcott, Benchley, Kaufman, Adams, Connelly, and John Peter Toohey. There was a goof on a recent Theatre Guild offering, Andryeyef's He Who Gets Slapped, as "He Who Gets Flapped." He was the six-foot-seven-inch Robert E. Sherwood in straw hat and cane, dwarfing a line of flappers in gingham that included Helen Hayes and Tallulah Bankhead; the girls sang lyrics by Dorothy Parker. Benchley created a comic classic in his bumbling "Treasurer's Report." ("Mr. Rossiter, unfortunately our treasurer—or rather Mr. Rossiter, our treasurer, unfortunately is confined at his home tonight… .") Opera baritone Reinald Werrenrath sang "Johnny Weaver," on writer John Van Alstyne Weaver, the Algonquin's resident Extremely Cute Boy and later Peggy Wood's husband. A. A. Milne's play Mr. Pim Passes By got the "Down with British Whimsey!" treatment. And, in a bow to Ziegfeld, Beatrice Herford took the next- to-closing* as "The Algonquin Girl."
Staged as "An anonymous entertainment by the Vicious Circle of the Hotel Algonquin," No Sirree! led to a full- fledged Broadway production, The '49ers, this time with sets, salaries, and critics. But it was still an amateur night, however full of personality. The non- participating Woollcott, who hated it, likened it to "a dinner consisting of five courses of perfectly splendid lemon meringue pie."
The '49ers bombed. Yet it is worth observing that, of its cast, Kaufman, Connelly, and Benchley all distinguished themselves later as performers on Broadway, as did Woollcott as well. The Algonquinites were showoffs, trading in eccentricity in life as well as in work, like actors who never quite made it to the wings.
For instance, wasn't Benchley always "on," always that bumbling treasurer? The word for him is "mild"; but it's the only word. It was probably Benchley more than anyone else who infused The New Yorker magazine, in its early years, with that zealotry of the trivial that has haunted its reputation ever since—that feeling that its writers seemed unaware of global cataclysm but fell to pieces when they had to change a typewriter ribbon. For Vanity Fair, the old Life, and The New Yorker, Benchley would prosper in the "casual," on problems with shoelaces or taxis or "Your Boy and His Dog." These pieces cannot even be called frivolous, because they lack the focus that, say, Noël Coward could bring to rhapsodizing about silly things. Benchley's pieces are curlicues of smoke, a way of writing without saying anything.
*The penultimate offering on a vaudeville bill, invariably taken by the top headliner or, on the small-town circuits, the least terrible act available. The last offering was known as The Chaser—something grisly, to "chase" the public out of the house, freeing seats for the next show. The next-to-closing survives in the concept of musical comedy's Eleven O'Clock Song, an exhibition piece before the last scene, reserved for the star. In old- fashioned shows it tends to the extraneous, such as Bells Are Ringing's "I'm Going Back" or, when two stars share the spotlight, DuBarry Was a Lady's "Friendship." The reconstructed musical absorbs the convention more thematically, as in Gypsy's "Rose's Turn."
Benchley in person made the whole act charming all the same. Coward's art is brittle because it's a pose; Benchley isn't faking. Nor is his good friend Dorothy Parker, whose act was Miss Helpless, always short of the carfare home. Taxis seemed to bring out extremes in this set: George S. Kaufman, who made his act out of being imperturbable even when most biting, would become choleric in his dealings with cab drivers.
Yet Kaufman handled anyone else with ease, maintaining the smoothest irony in the business. Out of town with the Hollywood spoof Merton of the Movies, co-written with Marc Connelly, Kaufman found his partner holding tight to a laugh line that got no laughs. Night after night, the line went dud as Connelly kept explaining how it couldn't miss stopping the show as the public roared in delight. "There's only one thing we can do," Kaufman finally said. "We've got to call the audience in tomorrow morning for a ten o'clock rehearsal."
Oddly, these newfangled Round Tablers with their disdain— perhaps simply disregard— for received values could be conservative in their own way. Franklin P. Adams' famous newspaper column The Conning Tower actually anticipated the Internet blog in its printing of contributions from outsiders. Post comments here. Yet Adams himself wrote in an imitation of Samuel Pepys, complete with outdated syntax and bewigged observations. Also oddly, the Jewish Algonquinites were unbelievers yet married strictly within the parish. Further, when Kaufman and his wife, Beatrice, adopted a child, they applied to a Jewish organization for the baby. But if one has no use for the religion qua se, why make a point of expanding one's family under its jurisdiction?
The outstanding conservative in the pack—and, if he had anything to say about it, its leader— was Woollcott, a figure out of a vanished age. Not the nineteenth century but the tenth: a front-parlor pasha, accusing and tiffing, now cajoling his favorites and now consigning the disobedient to an oubliette. In small-town America, Woollcott would have been chased out of the barber shop by the real men, not because he resembled a big fat owl but because he was an angry queen avant le temps, sarcastically abusive of friends and enemies alike and as eager to boost a passion as demolish a peeve.
You've met him. He's Sheridan Whiteside, the man who came to dinner in the Kaufman and Hart play. Mind you, the authors didn't write a version of Woollcott. They wrote Woollcott: domineering yet easily hurt, not only manipulative but manipulating with evil relish, exploding one's direst vulnerabilities then pretending it was a harmless jest. After taking all this in, you notice that he is, after all, innovative in one area: there are no women in his life in the romantic sense. There are the Algonquin women, of course: to play games with and fill out the dinner table. Or perhaps simply to charm the other men.
Was he homosexual? He was certainly gay: in style. But did he go for men? A rumor about some childhood disease removing him from consideration as a begetter of children was the excuse fronting his bachelorhood. But did one need an excuse? This was the age of the mariage blanc. It was almost the rage. Many a show- biz couple mated without mating—the Cole Porters, the Lunts, the Katharine Cornells. And everyone knew that, early on, the Kaufmans had stopped bundling in an open marriage without a thought of divorce. "Beatrice is always picking up these sensitive, ambitious young Jews," Kaufman told Woollcott, who promptly replied, "Sometimes she marries them."
So he's worldly, isn't he, our Woollcott? Infirmity was not likely the reason why he did not consort with women. He didn't, either, with men, though he seems to have had a very physical crush on Harpo Marx, who was not unappealing when out of his getup. Woollcott consorted, really, with himself: with his micromanaging of the getaway weekend, with his running commentary on croquet championships and poker marathons, with his grand entrance as drama critic, complete with swirling cape, Count Dracula first-nighting. And, above all, with his devotion to great traditions in the arts, the old masters or those who, like the Lunts, found new ways to make good old- fashioned theatre.
The only really new thing about Woollcott was his status as one of New York's first Famous Queens. Supplementary Algonquinites John V. A. Weaver and Peggy Wood married because they were young and beautiful and gifted. It was the kind of fairy tale that movies invent but untypical of the Algonquin circle and unavailable to Woollcott. His story was that of the Difficult Celebrity, an invention of the 1920s, of Manhattan, of the Algonquin. Here was a new format for the elite, because the Round Tablers were not only peculiar but insular and provincial— not just New Yorkers but the essence of that address. Kaufman always said that he would travel only as far as would allow him to get "back to Broadway and Forty-Fourth by midnight."
But then, the culture in general was becoming Manhattan-centric at this time. Except for cinema, the entertainment media were headquartered in New York— popular music, for example. As a business, American song lived on Tin Pan Alley, the nickname for a block of Twenty-eighth Street where most of the music publishers auditioned and signed up new ware. The acculturation of radio in the 1920s and the arrival of the talkie at de cade's end produced, for the first time, a truly national music, vitalized by the arrival of the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter. Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern had turned up somewhat earlier, leading an evolution away from, say, "Ta- Ra- Ra- Boom- De-Ay" and toward something like "Night and Day."
Thus, the first of the movies' all-sound features with song—the first Hollywood musical ever, released in early 1929— is called The Broadway Melody. It opens with overhead footage of Manhattan's skyscrapers to the strains of the kind of music they're not going to write any more, Victor Herbert's "The Streets of New York." We move thence to the Gleason Music Publishing Company, situated of course in Tin Pan Alley, and amid the cacaphony we listen for the next tune to define the age. Which will it be? A soprano tries out something on the dippy side, so that isn't it. Piano, guitar, and clarinet sample something hot for a men's singing trio, but the singing's just a little too trio. Or something. That isn't it. An ebullient sister act sways to a lively ballad—but before we can collect it, Mr. Gleason himself appears in the main hallway. (This is in fact actor James Gleason in a small unbilled role, for Gleason is famous for his wise-guy attitudes, what they call a "New York part.") Gleason's going to let our male lead, Charles King, plug a new one he calls "The Broadway Melody." You only get one chance with these things, so King instructs the pianist, "The second chorus—a little jazz, a little pep, and everything. Ya know?"
Now everyone crowds in to hear, and if the verse is restrained, the chorus immediately starts swinging. The instrumental trio from before sits in, winging it; one of the ebullient sisters, mesmerized, takes on the rhythm as if a second skin, moving within the sound. Even the dippy soprano gets with it. "No skies of gray on the Great White Way!" King exults, as the gang around him revels in the latest show- biz thing: a song to sweep the nation, stimulate and unite it. That's the Broadway melody, and "Hot dog!" King cries, buttoning the number. That's the tune of the age.
So how provincial were Kaufman and his kind, in fact, in seeing New York as an identity as well as an address? Not only the arts but the press as well was centered in Manhattan, and all of the Algonquites were journalists. Today, we think of them rehearsing their ad libs as if reserving their spots in anecdote collections. But America thought of them as newspaper and magazine bylines. They weren't reporters, of course. They were opinion makers, versed in arcane matters and, in the new Manhattan manner, "cracking wise." It was a novel style, postwar and seemingly born overnight in 1919, the year historians love to conjure with: a twelvemonth of disillusionment, experimentation, and preparation for the Jazz Age, history as fun.
Perhaps there's too much fun in the concept of a suite of hotel jokesters polishing off a piece, a play, a novel only to rush off to the real work of the day, lunch at the Round Table. Oddly, the Algonquinite's idea of a vacation was to move the Round Table to a rustic setting and thus spend one's "getaway" still being bossed around by Alexander Woollcott. Only now he was barking at everyone from a canoe. Even more oddly, a national readership envied them this life. Like Cole Porter tagging the culture with the names of the fabled great Whom You Must Know, the Round Table created for those who were interested a kind of national get- together of habitués with all New York for neighborhood. Fittingly, one of Woollcott's several radio shows was called The Town Crier, and came complete with clanging bell and "Hear ye! Hear ye!"
One wonders how these people got any writing done. Edna Ferber dropped in to lunch but seldom, because it was such a superb waste of concentration. George S. Kaufman broke up his collaboration with Marc Connelly because it was Round Tabling that thrilled Connelly, not playwrighting. The two men wrote seven Broadway titles, including two smash- hit comedies, two musicals, and Beggar on Horseback (1924), a bizarre breakaway piece to set beside The Threepenny Opera and Follies. Kaufman and Connelly were making theatre history, yet Connelly kept retreating to that Table. It was always something—a costume to be built for the next soigné masquerade, or Margalo Gillmore's cat died and I promised to help bury it. So and so's arriving from Europe; so and so's leaving for Europe. Come on, George, we've got to say Bon Voyage!
Kaufman never quit the Round Table exactly. But he didn't let it slow him up. In fact, his next writing partner was Edna Ferber, who had no use for Margalo Gillmore's cats, dead or alive. Ferber even warned more than one starstruck youngster away from equating the quipping sweepstakes with achieving. It was as if Ferber had been seized by a premonition and visualized the non-existent second act of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life.
Some in the entertainment and publishing worlds looked disdainfully on the Round Tablers, whatever they were up to, art of life or art of work. George M. Cohan, who liked his men real and his women cooking lunch instead of ordering it in a hotel, called it "a Round Table without a square man at it," and Peggy Wood's newspaperman father thought it "a collection of first-rate second-raters." Others simply resented the Algonquinite habit of praising each other in book and play review and the like, however tart they might be at Table.
What no one ever mentions is the quality of the food, which—except for a reliable pastry cart—could be called "pleasantly vacuous." The cuisine wasn't bad, but no matter what one ordered, it all tasted the same. There was a ton of it: the menu offered everything you ever heard of, but also sauerkraut juice, huckleberries, Kuroki salad, stewed rhubarb, acidophilus milk. Just the choice of potatoes is somewhat boggling: cottage fried, lyonnaise, julienne, au gratin, French fried, mashed, fried sweets, candied sweets, hash browned, hashed in cream, and "Saratoga chips," the old term for the crisps you get in a bag.
Nowadays, when the word "legendary" has been debased to mean simply "well- known in show business," one hesitates to use it when discussing anything short of the Golden Fleece. But the Algonquin Round Table has truly become legendary in its vast popular recollection, its store of riposte readily quoted, its interaction of hyper personalities, all still vivid when so much else of the twenties fame-shop inventory is forgot. Is Teapot Dome legendary? Peaches and Daddy Browning?*
What exactly was the Round Table's influence? First, its meeting of men and women on equal terms was, as I've said, unusual for the day, a kind of photo op for the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This was the one that gave women the vote, proposed on June 4, 1919 and ratified on August 26, 1920— just as the Round Table was getting organized. After it, as their freedom of movement expanded, more women went into law and politics, and the notion of the genteel Lady Novelist with her three names and fluttery attitudes began to vanish.
Then, too, there was the secular makeup of the group. They were not opposed to religion; they simply lived without it. Yet they somehow gave one the impression that the many freedoms they espoused— freedom to defy taboo, freedom to have sex without marriage, freedom to lunch— were bound up in a central freedom to giggle at convention. And religious observance, in the 1920s, was still conventional for most Americans.
This marked a break with the Ben- Hur and Billy Sunday generation, whose art was seasoned with Christian references, whether in the Biblical language of silent-movie intertitles or prayer-like utterances in fictional narratives. The Round Table was not unique in this—one thinks, for instance, of the only somewhat veiled criticism of the church that runs through Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. And Twain, remember, was a spokesman for America, quoted, popular, and beloved. Still, the suavely agnostic nature of the Algonquinite world
* Teapot Dome, Wyoming was one of two federally-owned oil fields (the other being Elk Hills, California) that were handed over for private development through payoffs to officers of Warren G. Harding's cabinet. Harding's Watergate, the scandal revealed an administration corrupt almost right the way through. It's a major piece of the American chronicle, yet the average citizen does not hear content in the words "Teapot Dome" the way he does in "Watergate." On the other matter, Daddy Browning was old and rich and Peaches was ripe; the tabloids had an outing on their affair.
Excerpted from The Guest List by Ethan Mordden.
Copyright © 2010 by Ethan Mordden.
Published in 2010 by St. Martin's Press
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Puppy meeting my dog
So I finally bring my girl home this Friday. She will be 8 weeks old. I've read several different ways to introduce the dogs. Any suggestions?? I currently have an almost 14 year old Yorkie. He doesn't act his age. He walks 1/2 mile a day but also sleeps about 20 hours a day. Should I introduce them in our front yard?? Thanks!
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Yes front yard:) much easier.
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If your senior Yorkie is territorial then I would suggest not having the first meeting in his own front yard. Perhaps neutral territory like a nearby park might help smooth things over.
Thanks guys. Ya I would say he's a little territorial. So maybe in my neighbors yard. I'm trying to avoid the park since I live in a major dog community and the pup will have only had one set of shots. I will obviously have the pup on a leash but I'm thinking maybe the Yorkie will be free without lease. He's very obedient and won't run off. I think he's more insecure when on a leash
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Can you bring the Yorkie with you to pick up the puppy and just introduce them in the car or where you're picking it up from? After seeing my puppy get sick I would really recommend avoiding the park or any place outside of your home or car to help your puppy not catch something.
We kept our puppy inside by herself for a few days and kept our chihuahua outside. When we finally let the chihuahua inside to meet the new puppy we were kinda worried cause our little guy has King Joffrey syndrome but they actually were great meeting each other. A lot of sniffing and walking around and then he ignored her and wanted to eat her food lol All she wanted to do was follow him around for a bit and then go back to her corner to sleep. Now she runs him over constantly and we hear him barking at her all the time when she gets a little too rough which is most of the time lol
I'm going to ask the breeder about this. Sounds like the best idea. No way we can make the Yorkie stay outside. He's a major wimp and it's so hot here he probably would die. Thanks! I'm hoping that the Yorkie won't be too aggressive. I don't want the ooh to be freaked out by him and later retaliate
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I think it's best to introduce two dogs on neutral territory (both on leash) walking them around together first. Since you have such a young pup and have an issue with the Yorkie being insecure on leash I think it would be best for you to go with introducing them with the puppy on leash (or in a crate) and the Yorkie off-leash outside. Try your best to stay calm when you introduce them. Good luck.
Take deep breaths!! Calm... Yes, calm. We are all looking at our poor Yorkie today feeling sorry for him. We need to change our outlook and pray they eventually get along. I feel sorry for my Yorkie but at the same time I can't allow him to rule the entire house until his death (I know that sounds terrible but we all want the dog) I'm almost wondering if I should well be introduction to take place with my husband and the kids with me not around??? Not because I'm going to be stressed out because my Yorkie Acta like more of a jerk when I'm around... However I don't let him get away with it. Thanks!
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Too cute!! How did the introduction go?
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September 2008
BeschreibungThe essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.Sue Sinclair is the director inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke: she possesses intense lyrical vision, steeped in wonder at the existence of the world, and a kind of grief at our inability to lose ourselves in it completely. Her perception is acutely focused and rigorous; and she is acutely self-aware. She is not afraid of words like "beauty" or "being," yet, because of the intensity of her vision, she never uses them as clichs. Her gift for metaphor is astonishing and may remind some readers of the young Roo Borson. You cross the heat-ridden ground, the sweet, brittle scent
of sage rising underfoot. So easy to pretend a single word
will occur to you, and that it will do all the good
anyone could hope. The earth is parched and lonely,
relies on dignity to protect it. Each thing hanging
by the thread of itself. Bleating crickets. Rustle of dry stalks.
The silence pushes you toward yourself:
It's time to walk deep into the heart of what troubles you.
from "Drought""In these poems, 'the world lifts its head/and clarity pours from its back.' The world-reading in Sue Sinclair's "Breaker," the ontology of the book, is magical and feels deeply true. All objects here exercise the power of a profound affective gravity; cities, islands, gardens and the savouring mind itself pull and accommodate the one who looks hard. Sinclair's poems shape us to be just this sort of fierce viewer. They have a moving, extraordinary facility to discern, taste, the sweet depths of things." - Tim Lilburn
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Verlag: BRICK BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum: September 2008
Seitenanzahl: 96 Seiten
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Hi Mark, > Ok so now I've added a rewrites.js file to my Couchapp root folder. In this > js file I have... > > [ > { > "method": "GET", > "from": "/home", > "to": "app/index.html", > } > ] In my couchapp rewrites.js file, I don't have any heading / in the from entry, but it could be that it works anyway. For this rewrite to work, you need an attachment to the design doc called app/index.html (or a file _attachments/app/index.html in your couchapp project). Is this the case ? Did you check you vhost entry ? database/_design/designdocname/_rewrite One very good hint to know what is going on is looking at the couch.log file, since the rewritten path is showed there, so you can understand what the rewrite engine is doing. > Also, I keep "services" open the background restart Couch after nearly > every change. When you change one of the ini's, you have to. Do you know that you can edit the config on the fly ? Either with futon http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/config.html by editing the vhosts/hostname key or with curl doing |curl -XPUT -d'"||rednecks/_design/rednecks/_rewrite"' http://admin:email@example.com:5984/_config/vhosts/rnr.couchdb:5984| Both these methods don't require a couchdb restart (reload is done automatically). Very handy ! Franck
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Bodyweight Workout: Cycle 7, Week 2, Day 1
These workouts are designed by Breaking Muscle founder Mindith Rahmat. Mindith is an RYT 500 Certified Yoga Therapist, certified CrossFit coach, and long time fitness enthusiast with extensive experience in Russian kettlebells and bodyweight exercise.
This cycle of the bodyweight workout will focus on holds, strength, and flexibility using arm balances, inversions, and deep flexibility work. You will be able to measure your progress with three attempts at a baseline test in weeks 1, 6, and 12.
You will need two blocks or paralettes, a ruler or tape measure, a stopwatch, a wall space and a yoga strap or belt.
Week 2, Day 1
Handstand Holds at Wall for 10-15 minutes
(Work through variations of holds, one leg touching wall, no wall, one leg to parallel, alternating knees to chest, etc.)
3 Rounds
30 Seconds Spiderman Push Up Right Side
30 Seconds Janda Sit Ups
30 Seconds Spiderman Push Ups Left Side
30 Seconds Janda Sit ups
3 Rounds
1 minute of Alternating Air Squat with a Kick
5 Pull Ups
20 seconds RKC Plank
3 Rounds
1 minute Burpees with alternating side jump to right and left
1 minute Abdominal Around the Worlds
1 Minute Double Raised Legs
1 Minute Each
Wall Splits to Each Side
Forward Bend 30 Seconds
Hamstring Stretch on Each Leg
30 Seconds ***of accumulated time
Tuck Hold on Blocks or Paralettes


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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Stalkers & Why They Do It.
Over 3 & a half years on, Gareth Rodger is still at it. Stalking this blog and very likely every other place his name is mentioned
A while back I exposed his recent Facebook profile.
If you look at the picture below he has been visiting using both his Entice Media Account and his User account. His company Website - Entice Media
I kept logs of his very first visits to this blog , he has a tendency NOT to read anything I say, he skips everything that would spark any humanity inside of him and focuses only on HIMSELF (as always) and what this blog could be doing to tarnish his name.
Douglas Beckstead stalks his victims in the same way.
Why do they do it?
What is it with psychopaths/narcissists? do they stalk online because of mere curiosity or just to keep tabs? I'd say both, and many more reasons.
His false self, his mask , his reputation are all at stake with every stroke of the keyboard.
"At the end of a relationship the Narcissist faces the potential exposure of his abusive behaviour, your leaving and loss of expected NS (Narcissistic Supply), ensuing divorce, financial repercussions, which can result in narcissistic injury and subsequent narcissistic rage.
His targets find themselves on the receiving end of the Narcissist's relentless continued abuse, smear campaign, endless legal battles and other creative cruelties. This narcissistic rage may be, in fact, much worse than what you experienced within the relationship." Source
Stalkers & Technology
"Technology is almost the greatest gift to a persistent stalker,"
They used to sit outside their targets' homes -- hiding in cars or bushes -- waiting to follow them.
They used to leave hastily-scrawled notes on their windshields before slashing their tires.
But now stalkers have moved into the 21st century, using modern technology to leave their terrorized victims living in fear.
If any victim is being harassed with e-mails, don't reply, and save the e-mails -- if you reply you increase the problem and it encourages the activity to continue,"
Cyber stalkers can be broadly categorized into three types. (Sometimes these categories overlap).
The obsessed cyberstalker
This is the most common type of cyberstalker and he or she usually has had a prior relationship with the victim. The stalker cannot come to terms with the fact that their relationship is over. He or she then takes a lot of trouble to coerce the victim into re-entering the relationship or has his or her revenge on the victim by inducing fear and making his or her life miserable.
One should not be misled by believing that this stalker is harmlessly in love and incapable of causing real harm.
The delusional cyberstalker
This type of stalker is usually unrelated to the intended victim. Most of the time, contact is achieved through the Internet. These stalkers suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, psychopathy, bipolar disorder, narcissism, etc. This is why, sometimes, they are severely deluded into believing that their victim is in love with them even though they may have never met. These false beliefs keep them tied to their victims. This particular condition is also known as erotomania.
A delusional stalker is often a social outcast because of his or her mental illness and this makes him or her all the more desperate for companionship. Victims often tend to be married and from high profile professions such as celebrities, doctors, teachers, etc.
The most common type of stalker from this group is the type which pursues a celebrity and this syndrome is better known as the "obsessed fan syndrome". Delusional stalkers are very difficult to shake off.
The vengeful cyber stalker
These cyber stalkers are typically disgruntled employees and ex-spouses, ex-lovers or ex-friends who are resentful towards their victim due to some reason or the other. The motive for them is the feeling that THEY were the ones who have been victimized first and that they are merely teaching their victims a lesson.
His or her actions are similar to that of the obsessional stalker but they differ in motive. He or she is usually hell-bent on inducing fear in his or her victims by blackmailing or threatening them after taking over their computers.
The following are general motivations for any cyberstalker. The more fearful cyberstalkers tend to have more than one motive.
Anonymity of the Net
As mentioned before, the very nature of anonymous communications through the Internet makes it much easier to be a cyberstalker than a stalker in the real world.
Obsession for love
It is often the case that when relationships that begin online or in real life are halted abruptly by one person, the rejected lover cannot accept the end of the relationship. This leads to the rejected one pursuing his or her ex-lover online as well as offline.
One major problem related to obsessional stalking is that since it often starts off as real romance and intimacy, much personal information is shared between both persons involved. This makes it all the easier for the cyberstalker to harass his or her victim by using personal information against him or her or publicizing them.
Obsessions may also start as pastimes or for psychological reasons. These stalkers live in their own fantasy realms, so it is usually unnecessary for the victim to have done anything to attract his or her attention in the first place. Obsessional stalkers are usually jealous, possessive and manipulative people.
Revenge & Hate
It may start of as a mere argument blown out of proportion, leading eventually to a relationship based on intense hatred and a need for revenge. The criminal behavior may also be triggered off as a result of a rude comment posted online. The offending party may regret his or her action immediately but the offended party is not that easy to shake off.
Sometimes, hate-centred cyberstalking is triggered off for no reason at all. This is another indication of the psychological instability of cyberstalkers. Death threats and vulgar messages via email or through live chat messages are a common manifestation of this type of stalking.
Some stalkers are least interested in the damage they do to or how close they get to their victims. They are only interested in the process of gaining control over their victims just to prove to themselves or their friends that they can. They do not have any grudge against their victims but are simply using them as a means to exhibit their power and control to their friends or doing it just for the challenge. The unlucky victim is usually chosen at random.
Apart from the fact that they are highly manipulative and risk-taking, these stalkers do not suffer from any mental illness. Most people who receive threats online are fooled into believing that their harasser is more than capable of carrying out their threats. In fact, more often than not, this type of stalker is a child or teenager who cannot possibly have the means of carrying out the threats made.
Cyberstalking undermines the reputation and credibility of the Internet as a platform of information and for communication.
Being stalked can be an extremely fearful experience... Receiving messages filled with hatred or obsessive desire from someone whose face they have never seen before can be extremely terrifying. This is even more so if they start thinking that they themselves had done something wrong to deserve such treatment.
The knowledge that one is being continually pursued for whatever reason in the real or in the cyberworld is not something one handle if he or she keeps his or her fear inside. A new user of the Net may be so traumatized by such an experience that he or she may be too frightened to use the Net ever again. The worst thing that could happen is that the victim is convinced by the stalker to meet him or her in the real world and is then raped or assaulted or even murdered in a secluded area.
Such incidents severely undermine the reputation and credibility of the Internet as a worldwide platform of information and for communication. - Source
Minimize What People Can Find Out About You Online
Cyberstalking A Very Real Problem
Stalkers Cause Anxiety & Stress - PTSD
Beware The Rage Of The Cyberpath When Caught
The Poor Cyberpath Feels Threatened
Another Facebook Stalker Arrested
Online Stalking Made Easy
Thanks to EOPC for the articles & links.
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