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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Gene Wilder doesn't think he's funny -- at least not in real life.
"[People] say, 'What a comic, what a funny guy,' and I'm not -- I am really not -- except in a comedy film," said the actor, who made a rare public appearance Thursday night (June 13) at the 92Y in New York City. "I also make my wife laugh once or twice in the house, but nothing special."
It's a bit odd to hear Wilder, known for playing comedic roles in films, including "Blazing Saddles," "The Producers," and "Young Frankenstein," to say something like this. Then again, Wilder always was a dramatic actor at heart, studying at renown institutions the Old Vic, in England, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio, in New York, before earning acclaim in his now classic comedies.
Last night, Wilder spoke about his career in and outside of show business, with Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osbourne. The actor touched on everything from his early acting days to his roles in movies like "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" to why he hasn't appeared on-screen in more than 20 years, opting instead to write books.
"I like writing books," said Wilder, who is about to release his second novel, "Something to Remember You By." "I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky."
Before he became an author and celebrated actor, Wilder began his professional career in 1966, with a supporting role in the TV adaptation of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." One year later, he appeared in the crime drama "Bonnie and Clyde" as Eugene Gizzard. While that movie went on to become an American classic, it was an encounter he had soon after that that would help launch his career.
After that, Brooks cast Wilder as Leo Bloom in "The Producers," a role that ended up securing him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Wilder would work with Brooks again six years later, on the Western comedy "Blazing Saddles," and then a third time, on "Young Frankenstein." For "Saddles," Wilder played the gunslinger Jim, or "The Waco Kid." However, that wasn't the original plan.
"Saddles" marked another important turn in Wilder's career, as it was the first time he worked with Richard Pryor, who co-wrote the film. Wilder would go on to star in four movies with the comedian: "Silver Streak," "Stir Crazy," "See No Evil, Hear No Evil," and "Another You." The on-screen chemistry between the two actors was palpable. However, Pryor's drug habit off-screen made things difficult.
"'Silver Streak' was very good, we got along really swell. But when we did 'Stir Crazy,' he'd come in 15 minutes late, 30 minutes late, 45 minutes late, an hour late. [Director] Sidney [Poitier] was going nuts," Wilder said.
Unfortunately, by the late '80s, Pryor's health was in rapid decline, which was very difficult for his friend and co-star to watch.
"He had a heart [issue], and he wanted to smoke. The doctor said, 'I am telling you, if you smoke, you will die. Don't smoke.' When I went to see him, he had cigarettes and a lighter, and he couldn't walk without stumbling. He couldn't really do much, except he knew how to put the cigarette in his mouth. I didn't know what I could say to him to stop him from smoking cigarettes."
"Another You," which Wilder also starred in with Pryor, was the final movie in which Wilder appeared; his last three credits are all TV movies: "Murder in a Small Town," "Alice in Wonderland," and "The Lady in Question."
So what made him leave acting? As Wilder has previously explained, he wasn't interested in the way in which films were headed. At the 92Y, he elaborated on this -- and even left open the possibility of acting once again.
"After a while, [films] were so dirty. Once in awhile, there was a nice, good film, but not very many," Wilder said. "If something comes along and it's really good and I think I'd be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. Not too many came along. I mean, they came along, but I didn't want to do them. I didn't want to do 3D, for instance. I didn't want to do ones that were just bombing and swearing. If someone says 'Ah, go f*ck yourself,' if it came from a meaningful place, I'd understand it. But if you go to some movies, can't they just stop and talk once in awhile?"
Since Wilder seems open to it, perhaps it's time that someone came and wrote a part just for him -- one that doesn't involve unnecessary swearing, explosions, or 3D, of course. Also, it probably shouldn't be a remake, either, a trend Wilder seems less than impressed with. Take, for instance, the 2005 version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Wilder, of course, is best known for portraying chocolatier Willy Wonka in Mel Stuart's "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." But he did not mince words about Tim Burton's take on the beloved Roald Dahl tale.
"I think it's an insult. It's probably Warner Bros.' insult," Wilder said. "Johnny Depp, I think, is a good actor, but I don't care for that director. He's a talented man, but I don't care for him doing stuff like he did."
If you consider the types of films Hollywood is putting out now, it might be tough for Wilder to find the right part. Then again, he seems content on what he's doing now. In fact, earlier in the evening, Robert Osbourne had asked Wilder about his thoughts on working in Hollywood. Not surprisingly, his immediate reply was "Yuck! I don't like it."
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What a great article! I have to admit to being surprised by it, because Mr. Wilder's sentiments are exactly the same as mine. The reason why I almost never go to current movies is the trashiness of most of them. Swearing, sex, and nudity are rampant in so many of today's films. I'm glad to see someone in Hollywood actually agreeing that the trashiness has gotten out of hand.
And just so you know, Mr. Wilder, I have never seen the Willy Wonka remake. I have too many fond memories of the original to ever want to watch that.
Thanks for sharing this article, David.
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Zina Marleen Somerville
November 22, 1936 ~ September 1, 2011
Zina Marleen Somerville was born November 22, 1936 to Wayne C and Cleo Husband Rasmussen in Granger, UT. She passed away on September 1, 2011.
Marleen moved to Monticello with her family when she was ten years old.
She attended school in Monticello and graduated from Monticello High School in 1955. She married R. Kedric Somerville on July 30, 1957 in the Logan, Utah Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
They were blessed with two children, Tracy (Jerry) Walker and Kody Somerville, both of Monticello.
She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Kedric; her two children; six grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; brothers Clifton Rasmussen of Lolo, MT and Scott Rasmussen of Gilbert, AZ; and numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Caroline.
Funeral services were held at the Monticello LDS Stake Center on September 7, 2011. Bishop Steven Duke officiated. Burial was at the Monticello Cemetery.
Note of thanks
The families of Ked Somerville, Tracy Walker and Kody Somerville would like to express our gratitude and love to all who have served and offered condolences during this time of sadness.
Special thanks to the staff of San Juan Hospital, Dr. Black and Dr. Reay for their loving and kind care of our wife, mother and grandmother. Thank you to Coby Christensen and Carol Brown of Hospice of San Juan County.
Thanks to the Monticello Third Ward Relief Society for the wonderful meal they prepared and all who served it.
Words could never express our gratitude for the continual care, guidance and service of our wonderful bishop, Steven Duke, and his family.
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- Amherst victims of September 11
- Stiglitz wins Nobel
- Nothing he couldn't handle
- Keg and Bones
- Verbatim
- From the Folger
- Faculty Awards and Activities—Fall 2001 Roundup
Amherst victims of September 11
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, the college learned that three alumni had lost their lives. Several others were directly affected by the tragic events, and the campus reacted to the devastation with observances, meetings and discussions.
A search of the college's database shows that 12 alumni had given the World Trade Center as their work address. The three alumni who lost their lives were Frederick C. Rimmele III '90, a physician from Marblehead, Mass. who was aboard United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, which struck the South Tower of the Trade Center; Brock Safronoff '97, a programming analyst for the Marsh & McLennan Company on the 96th floor of the North Tower; and Maurita Tam '01, who worked at the Aon Corporation on the 99th floor of the South Tower. President Gerety, professors, coaches, classmates and friends attended memorial services held for each of the three graduates, and there were ecumenical services on campus for all the attack victims. Along with these alumni, the dead or missing also included family members of several Amherst students.
At Amherst, Rimmele, who grew up in Clifton, N.J., majored in chemistry and English, rowed crew, and graduated magna cum laude. He attended medical school at Duke University and chose to specialize in primary care. He practiced in Danvers, Mass., and taught medicine at the Beverly (Mass.) Hospital residency program. Rimmele was married to Kimberly Trudel four years ago. An Eagle Scout in high school, he was a nature enthusiast who loved bird watching, canoeing and hiking. He was flying on September 11 to attend a medical conference in California and planned, while there, to do some bird watching in Monterey. Rimmele was 32. A memorial service was held September 24 at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Marblehead.
Safronoff, who grew up in Traverse City, Mich., majored in chemistry at Amherst and was a starting pitcher in baseball. For two of his four years on the team, Safronoff led it in earned-run average and was an excellent all-around player. In his studies he originally planned to enter medicine after college but became fascinated by computer programming, which led him to the job at Marsh & McLennan. He also was studying for a master's degree at Columbia University. He and an Amherst classmate, Tara Neelakantappa '97, began dating each other at Amherst in freshman year, and they were married last August 3, only 40 days before the fatal attack. Safronoff was 26. A memorial service was held on September 29 on Staten Island.
Tam, an economics major at Amherst who sang with the Women's Chorus and the Concert Choir, grew up in New York City and took her job there after graduating from college last May. A second-generation Cantonese-American, she was involved with the Asian Students Association on campus. Tam was 22. A memorial service for her was held October 6 at the United Nations Chapel. Led by Director Mallorie Chernin, 22 members of the Choral Society attended the service and sang selections from the repertory of the overseas tour that Tam and other Amherst singers had taken last summer. The pieces included Randall Thompson's "Alleluia," Lewis Levandowsky's "Enosh," and Zoltan Kodaly's "Esti Dal." President Gerety read excerpts from an essay Tam had written about her family.
The shock of the airplane attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania spread quickly September 11 as students, staff and faculty followed the harrowing developments on campus television screens. In the first of many college-wide e-mail messages he sent over the next few days, President Gerety called a general meeting that was held at 4 that afternoon in LeFrak Gymnasium. Athletic practices were canceled and he urged that other activities "be structured, if possible, to provide solace to those members of our community who may be directly affected, particularly our students."
A crowd of nearly 1,700 filled the gymnasium to hear Gerety, professors and students share thoughts and emotions about the morning's events. Michelle Oliveros-Larsen, a senior and president of the Student Government Organization, told the gathering: "What we need now is community. We need a community to harbor us from the cruelty of what has transpired, and of an unsure future. . . . We feel targeted and unsafe. But as a community we can make a difference for one another . . . we must offer each other this place, this school, as a refuge."
The meeting was followed over the next several days by an ecumenical service in Johnson Chapel, two candlelight vigils, panel discussions, a moment of silence at the War Memorial, and separate demonstrations for nonviolence, and for patriotism, at the Keefe Campus Center. The Homecoming activities program for October 20 was rearranged to include an Interfaith Service of Remembrance attended by more than 400 alumni and others in Johnson Chapel.
In a letter mailed October 1 to alumni and parents, Gerety wrote that, "as we reflect on the horrific events of recent days and face the uncertainty of the months ahead, we are reminded of the importance of bringing people together to discuss important ideas, the value of diversity and exposure to those whose backgrounds and experiences are different from our own, and the strength that is to be found in community, especially the small, personal and intellectual community that is Amherst College."
A student-led Assembly for Patriotism on October 18 took an unexpected turn as it drew to a close outside the campus center. Organized by students, the event was a wide-ranging discussion by liberals, conservatives, radicals and pacifists of what it means to be an American. It ended with participants reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Suddenly a small group of non-Amherst students—one with a sign saying "This flag is about bigotry"—stepped forward and burned two small American flags.
In response to unconfirmed reports that at least some of the protesters were students from Hampshire College nearby, Hampshire's President Gregory S. Prince issued a statement noting that freedom of speech "means hearing things we do not like and with which we strongly disagree" but adding: "At the same time, while strongly defending the right of the protesters to express unpopular views, I object to their methods and especially to their insensitivity to the nonpolitical goals of those who organized the event . . . ."
The college did what it could to correct inaccurate news reports that suggested that the flag-burners were Amherst College students.
Meanwhile, the campus received reports of other Amherst lives touched by September 11. The New York offices of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), an investment bank founded nearly 40 years ago by Harry V. Keefe '43 and two partners, was on the 88th and 89th floors of the South Tower. Keefe, who is retired, was not there at the time. The loss, though, was devastating. The firm lost nearly a third of its employees, 67 lives.
Joseph Spalluto '81, KBW's managing director who works in the company's Hartford, Conn. office, was unable to reach its New York headquarters by telephone when he learned of the attack. He finally reached a company officer who was in midtown Manhattan. "When I was on the phone with him, the building collapsed,"Spalluto told The Hartford Courant. "And from there on, it was just a series of bad news." He said employees who survived are driven by a simple imperative: "If we don't rebuild," he said, "we're not going to serve the memory of those who died."
Donn Monroe '87, a marketing director from The Colony, Tex., was on a business trip to New York on September 11, staying at the Marriott Hotel next to the Trade Center. "I was in the shower when the first plane hit and didn't hear the announcement to evacuate," he recounted. "So I stayed in my room, ironing my clothes, packing for my trip that morning to Detroit, and hanging out until the second plane hit. Then I turned on the TV and looked out the window and saw fiery debris falling.
"Then someone was shouting in the hall, asking if anyone was left. I opened the door, and a hotel employee said I had to leave ASAP. I grabbed my luggage and ran down the stairs and out the front door, zigzagging across the street to avoid falling debris."
Russ Hanser '94 of Alexandria, Va., was driving that morning on Washington Boulevard past the Pentagon to his job in the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. "Traffic was awful," he remembers. "We inched forward. Then, I heard a very loud 'boom' and felt a shock wave coming from behind me. I instinctively whipped my head around and saw a giant fireball. The plane had struck [the Pentagon] about 400-500 feet from my car.
"In the following minutes, there was pandemonium. Traffic was bumper-to-bumper, so it was impossible to get away . . . . about a quarter or half mile ahead, there was a break in the divider, and people were crossing to the traffic-free southbound lane. I waited as we crept to that point, then turned around to drive home."
Paul Rieckhoff '98 is a second lieutenant in the 105th Infantry Battalion of New York's National Guard. He was in midtown Manhattan when he saw the second plane hit the Trade Center. He went home, put on his uniform, and got to the conflagration before Building 7 collapsed. His unit was activated and reported to the scene several hours later. It spent the next couple of weeks working first at the attack site and, later, providing security at New York-area bus and air terminals.
At ground zero, Rieckhoff said, "the first several hours were hectic, just trying to see what was going on. There was nobody in control, and you couldn't see: it was just a cloud of dust." Pieces of buildings were still falling and workers had to stop their rescue efforts and dash from the site whenever they heard a piercing three-whistle alarm. Then the New York Fire Department took charge, and "the way people came together was really incredible," he said. "I've always respected fire-fighters, but this was another whole level.
"The outpouring of civilian support was enormous; the emotion was overwhelming." Strangers seeing the uniformed workers hugged them and offered them dinner, and there was "just a deeper look in everyone's eyes," Rieckhoff said—"a little more respect, a little more honesty."
Stiglitz wins Nobel
Joseph E. Stiglitz '64, a professor at Columbia University, who has served as an Amherst Trustee since July 2000, was one of three economists awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in October. He and the others, George A. Akerlof of the University of California at Berkeley and A. Michael Spence of Stanford University, were honored for their work describing how imperfect or "asymmetric" information available to sellers and buyers can disrupt competitive equilibrium in the marketplace.
Stiglitz has cited, for example, the financial marketplace, in which people would buy corporate stock without sufficient knowledge to determine proper value if it weren't for the full disclosure requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Nobel laureates' research, conducted mostly in the 1960s and '70s, persuaded many economists that government must often play a strong, corrective role in market systems. Stiglitz told The New York Times that, in selecting this year's winners, the Nobel committee reflected "where much of mainstream economics is today, which is that competitive equilibrium is not a useful model." In making its award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three laureates' "contributions form the core of modern information economics," and that Stiglitz "is probably the most cited researcher within the information economics literature—perhaps also within a wider domain of microeconomics."
Stiglitz became a professor at Columbia earlier this year after being a member of the Stanford University faculty for 13 years. He served as a member and then as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors from 1993 to 1997, and as chief economist of the World Bank from 1997 through 1999.
One of Stiglitz's teachers at Amherst, Ralph E. Beals, Clarence Francis Professor of Economics, said his former student "ranks among the very best economists certainly of his generation and has had vastly more influence than most economists of any time."
Stiglitz is the third Amherst alumnus to win a Nobel Prize. Harold E. Varmus '61, now president and chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, was one of two scientists who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery that cancer genes in certain viruses are altered forms of normal animal genes. And the late Henry W. Kendall, who was a professor at M.I.T. and chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, was among researchers who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics for work providing the first experimental evidence for sub-nuclear particles called quarks.
Nothing he couldn't handle
David Moore, an Amherst senior and hockey player from Randolph, Mass., traveled across the country last summer—on roller blades.
Before he left Nantasket Beach near his home on May 27, he secured pledges from fellow students, friends, relatives and strangers who agreed to donate certain amounts of money for each state he crossed on the trip. He planned to raise the money for the fight against cancer—specifically, for the Cam Neely Foundation of Boston, a charity established by one of Moore's hockey heroes, the former star forward of the Boston Bruins.
Moore, who roller-bladed across 16 states and reached the Pacific Coast at San Diego on July 31, raised pledges for the foundation totaling $10,000.
He did all his publicity ahead of time; there was no ballyhoo along the way, just the compact and wiry, solitary figure under the sky pressing forward at the edge of the highway. Often the only onlookers were cows.
A boyhood friend, Andy Wood, drove ahead of Moore in a car loaded with supplies and camping equipment. Cell phones kept them in touch, with Wood driving past the horizon each day and Moore catching up. Moore says he skated eight hours a day, aver-aging 60 miles a day and 7.5 miles an hour. He had three pairs of roller blades and wore out more than 80 wheels. He kept a journal (posted for all to see at www.amherst. edu/~dnmoore/charityskate.html).
Writing his final entry on July 31, Moore admitted: "I had to fight the urge to quit a few times, but it seemed like every time I was at the end of my rope the roads got smoother, or we stayed somewhere nice on the water, or there was someone around to point me in the right direction when I was lost. There wasn't anything we couldn't handle."
Because he had to stay off superhighways, he chose smaller routes by studying bicycle road maps. But the map he remembers most is a tapestry of impressions. The worst hills were in Pennsylvania, where the highways have seven- and eight-percent grades; some of the friendliest people were farmers in Kentucky; Kansas was incredibly flat "but the wind in your face made it worse than the hills"; he "raced" a slow train in New Mexico; there were dust devils and wild boars in Arizona.
Before setting out, Moore made 15 mixed tapes of favorite songs and listened to them on his Sony Walk-man as he crossed the country. He won't mind now if he doesn't hear some of those songs ever again—such as "Higher," by the rock band Creed, with its lyrics: "Can you take me higher? . . . Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time."
"I was in the mountains," he said, "and I got sick of that one."
But he's glad he persevered. He was blessed with fair skies and good health almost from start to finish; there was only one day of rain, a blister for the first few days, and a strained leg muscle near the end. And to the Cam Neely people, he's a hero.
Keg and Bones
A pretty well authenticated [college] tradition tells of many quaint societies . . . . Of the convivial class, was the Society, whose headquarters were in the cellar of Middle (now North) College. Rooms were secretly fitted up in this underground apartment, and its culinary fixtures were said to be quite complete. The entrance was by a concealed trap door, and so secret were its proceedings, that, for years, their midnight banquets escaped the notice of vigilant officials. However, it was at last discovered, in consequence of the trap door being accidentally left open, and President Humphrey [Heman Humphrey, Amherst president, 1823 to 1845] was the first one to enter and explore the mysteries of the place. The wine kegs, chicken bones, bottles, etc., found amid the debris, told wondrous tales. It is said that this society was known as the H.E.O.T.T. Society, which motto being interpreted would read, "Ho Every One That Thirsteth!"
—from Student Life at Amherst College: Its Organizations, Their Membership and History (Amherst, 1871)
A Compilation of Recent Remarks Made at Amherst
"On this shockingly sad day, I would like us all to begin with a few moments of silence, if you will."
—President Tom Gerety, Opening an all-college convocation. LeFrak Gymnasium, September 11, 2001
"All of a sudden you feel attacked. It's horrible, because it doesn't let you grieve"
—Sahar Siddiqui '02, co-chair of Noor, the Muslim students' organization, reporting that her mosque in Washington, D.C., had been vandalized. At a campus teach-in Cole Assembly Room, October 3, 2001
"Getting rid of an Afghan government is not the most difficult thing in the world. The Soviets got rid of four. The hard part starts after the Taliban is overthrown. A stable government—that's a very hard thing to get right"
—Journalist Robert D. Kaplan, speaking on "Security Challenges for a New Age." Merrill Lecture Hall I, October 15, 2001
"What I learned more than anything else at Amherst is the inquiring spirit that you ask questions . . . . This spirit of questioning authority is at the heart of the liberal arts education and is also at the heart of democracy."
—Economist Joseph Stiglitz '64, who had received a Nobel Prize the previous week. In a campus talk as the college's McCloy Lecturer, October 17, 2001
"I rank many 'New Agers' pretty high on a scale of know-nothingism."
—Ian Hacking, University Professor in Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Lecturing at Amherst on "'True,'Values, and the Sciences," October 4, 2001
From the Folger
Scholars have managed to solve the problem of what people read in past times. Fortunately, a number of early private libraries survived more or less intact, while the contents of many others came down to us through manuscript inventories. Early wills often provide evidence of estates that included books and manuscripts. Journals and diaries, as well as school and university curricula, printers' and booksellers' business records, and even advertisements offer further testimony as to the sources of literate culture. The history of the book has been adequately, if not completely, excavated. In contrast, we know a great deal less about how the earliest generations of readers of books approached, experienced and understood that activity—that is, the actual practice of reading. Now, the Folger addresses that intriguing set of issues with its fall exhibition, "The Reader Revealed." Accompanied by a splendid volume consisting of nine essays and detailed catalogue of the works exhibited, this show explores the politics, economics, and technologies involved in producing and consuming books in the Renaissance. It is especially informative on the act of reading itself, which it approaches through analysis of marginal notes, commonplace books, and other sources. Among the many writers whose notebooks preserve passages they thought worth recording was one Sir William Drake, a man deeply influenced by Machiavelli's disillusioned views of the evils of human nature. His commonplace book offers a worldly cynicism that runs counter to the poetic miscellanies usually associated with this era.
Visitors to Washington from now to January 19, 2002 might find this show an intriguing complement to the usual museum fare. Learn more about it, and about the Folger itself, on the web at www.folger.edu.


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NBC Unearths Major Scandal: Paul Ryan May Have Washed Dishes That Were Already Clean
In a pathetic attempt to smear Republican vice presidential candidate
Paul Ryan ahead of Tuesday's second presidential debate, NBC's Today seized on a story in Monday's Washington Post
accusing Ryan and his family of washing already clean pots and pans at a
soup kitchen in Ohio for a photo-op. Co-host Matt Lauer wondered: "Would a campaign do that? We're gonna talk about it." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Following a report on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton taking
responsibility for security failures in the terrorist attack on the U.S.
consulate in Libya, political director and chief White House
correspondent Chuck Todd actually treated the supposed dishwashing
incident as if it were a scandal: "Paul Ryan is dealing with
some fallout from that weekend photo-op....something that – that the
campaign is a little nervous about because they're trying to get through
this idea of whether they're in touch or out of touch."
ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning chose not to cover dishwashing-gate.
After Todd's reporting on the manufactured controversy, Lauer turned to
former McCain advisor and MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt, again
asking: "Is it within the realm of possibility that Paul Ryan was
washing clean dishes? Would a campaign do that, Steve?" Schmidt replied:
"It is absolutely within the realm of possibility." That prompted a
roar of laughter, with Lauer adding: "I thought you were gonna say
no...Wow, okay, that's good."
In the Washington Post article, Brian Antal, president of the
Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society charity that ran the soup
kitchen, attacked the Romney campaign for having "ramrodded their way"
into the facility.
Antal claimed to be politically independent, however, the Post later updated the item to note that he had voted in Democratic primaries for the past 17 years.
Here are portions of the October 16 coverage that included the cheap shot:
MATT LAUER: We all know that campaigns are about creating images. Well,
some people are paying attention to this image right here, that's Paul
Ryan, he was washing dishes at a soup kitchen in Ohio over the weekend.
But now the charity's president says the dishes that he was washing were
already clean. Would a campaign do that? We're gonna talk about it.
CHUCK TODD: Meantime, Paul Ryan is dealing with some fallout from that
weekend photo-op. He visited a soup kitchen in Ohio, cleaned dishes.
Well now, according to the Washington Post, the charity's
president says those dishes were, in fact, already clean. Matt, it is
something that – that the campaign is a little nervous about because
they're trying to get through this idea of whether they're in touch or
out of touch.
LAUER: You've run your share of campaigns. Is it within the realm of
possibility that Paul Ryan was washing clean dishes? Would a campaign do
that, Steve?
STEVE SCHMIDT: It is absolutely within the realm of possibility.
LAUER: I thought you were gonna say no.
SCHIMDT: And those dishes are extra clean now, absolutely.
LAUER: Wow, okay, that's good.


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Enabling the Image Hover Pin Button will place a "Pin" button over top of every image inside of your content when a reader hovers their mouse over it. This makes every image on your page highly sharable to Pinterest!
Powerful Share Customization
Social Warfare is among the pioneers of customizing how your content is shared, particularly with Pinterest. The Social Warfare – Pro add-on allows you to decide exactly which image, title and description appears when your content is shared on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. This also applies to any other networks that use Open Graph data for social shares.
On top of that, you can upload a custom Pinterest image and write a custom description so that when someone clicks the pin button, the exact image you've chosen shows up with exactly the description you've written. No more hoping that your readers choose the best image and write an optimal description for you!
In addition to that, you can also write a custom tweet for when someone clicks on the Twitter button. The exact tweet you wrote will be displayed in the Twitter share box and Social Warfare will automatically add the link to your content and your @username to the end of it.
These capabilities are what professional social media marketers and bloggers have been waiting for.
Social Warfare – Pro Sharing Options, Custom Design and Placements
Customize which sharing networks you display, how your buttons look and where they show up.
You can choose from 6 different button shapes, 8 different color themes plus the ability to choose custom colors for your buttons. The design combinations are unlimited.
You will also get 6 different Click to Tweet styles and an option to create your own style via your theme's CSS.
Minimum Social Proof
If you would prefer to only show counts after a certain minimum number of shares has been met (to avoid "negative social proof"), you can do that as well. Or if you'd rather just have no counts showing at all, just turn them off altogether.
Share Recovery: Your Lost Share Counts Returned!
Have you ever changed permalink structures, domain prefixes, connection protocols (http-https) or just flat out changed domains and ended up losing all your social share counts?
We've built a tool right into Social Warfare called Share Recovery which allows you to get back your lost share counts if you've ever had to modify your permalink settings.
Social Authorship, Twitter Cards, Rich Pins and More
It's nice to have your stuff shared on social media, it's even nicer when you get mentioned in the social share! With Social Warfare you can ensure that your authorship is always in place, including:
- Facebook author and publisher attribution
- Facebook app link (advanced users)
- Twitter publisher and author attribution
- "via @username" added to the ends of tweets
- "via @username" added to the ends of pin descriptions
You can also activate Twitter Cards (Large Image Cards) so that tweets sent from your site are always media rich and much more likely to get engagement.
Our plugin also ensures that your site is Rich Pin ready so that your Pins look as good as possible.
Link Shortening, Analytics Campaign and Button-click Tracking
Shorten shared links automatically using your own Bitly credentials so you can track how many clicks are occurring on your links.
Additionally, if you're a Google Analytics user, you can set up Analytics tracking so that each shared link contains a networks specific UTM tracking code. This way you can track all inbound links that come as a direct result of Social Warfare shares.
You can also activate Event Tracking so that you can also see in Google Analytics exactly how many times your buttons are clicked.
It is without question that Social Warfare is the most powerful social sharing plugin available for WordPress. You get all these premium features while still benefitting from a super-fast, light-weight code base.
Social Warfare is by far the best social-sharing-button plugin I've ever used. I recommend it to all of my clients.
Andrew Wilder, ConsultantIt's a beautiful, super lightweight, and highly customizable plugin. I love everything about it!
Rebekah Radice, Social Media Strategist"This is BY FAR the best looking social sharing plugin I have seen on the net!"
David Foster, Online PersonalityI use Social Warfare because it's the only sharing plugin that can be customized to blend seamlessly with my branding.
Andrea Beltrami, Visual MarketerSocial Warfare has boosted social shares by 300% without slowing down my blog.
Eddie Gear – Professional BloggerAfter installing Social Warfare I straight away saw an increase in social shares and traffic.
Robert Ryan, Professional Web Designer
Este plugin provee 4 bloques.
- Click To Tweet
- Pinterest Image
- Social Warfare
- Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare
This section describes how to install the plugin.
- Upload the
directory to your/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Visit the 'Social Warfare' menu item in your admin sidebar
Preguntas frecuentes
You can sign up for an Social Warfare premium license by visiting our website and choosing the package that best suits your needs.
How do I use the shortcodes?
Shortcodes are used like so: [social_warfare]. If you would like to specify a different share URL than the page you are placing the buttons on, you can use this format: [social_warfare post_id="3″] where 3 is the ID number of the post or page you want to have shared.
Something isn't working as expected. How can I get support?
We have a growing archive of Support Articles to help you address most questions and troubleshooting. If you wish to receive email support, you will need a Pro license.
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Registro de cambios
18.104.22.168 (11 Jan 2024)
- Update SWP_Pro_Analytics_Database.php
4.4.5 (10 Jan 2024)
- Removed Google Plus integration
- Removed all instances and integrations of Google Plus from the plugin due to its discontinuation.
- This removal includes any Google Plus social sharing buttons, links, and related code.
- Security patch: Prevent XSS vulnerabilities in the plugin
- Escaped output in the
method to prevent potential XSS vulnerabilities. - Added validation and escaping in the
method to ensure input is safe from potential XSS vulnerabilities.
- Escaped output in the
- Added a new Twitter branding
- Updated Graph API endpoint to v17.0
- Changed Twitter button branding
- Mastodon Added
- Replace some characters after they are converted to html entities.
- Check for $attr key before trying to use them.
- Update verbiage on Advanced tab Frame Buster.
This update provides a nice, robust audit of the plugin. It ensures that the
plugin remains in full compliance with the latest WordPress requirements for
inclusion in the WordPress repository.
- Removed the Update Checker from Free into Pro only.
- Removed cURL calls in leiu of WordPress built in calls.
- Ensure user has permission to make AJAX calls.
- Removed <? php short tags.
- Sanitize all inputs that come from outside sources.
- Moved the CSS for jQuery UI to an internal asset.
- Removed all branded logos from the header banner.
- Removed the word WordPress from the beginning of the plugin name.
- Added capability and nonce checks to AJAX calls.
This is a major update to the Facebook share checking functionality of the plugin.
The 4.2 release was a major release that introduced a whole suite of social analytics
tools. As you might imagine with a release featuring that many new features, and
new lines of code, there were a few hiccups along the way. But we've spent the weekend
getting them all fixed right up and now here we are with 4.2.1.
- Fix for broken admin pages due to some JS errors on the analytics charts.
- Fix for division by zero errors in the social optimizer PHP file.
- Fix for a few other minor bugs and glitches.
- BRAND NEW!!! A whole suite of social analytics tools!
- Social Optimizer scores are now saved allowing for comparisons and recommendations.
- Added a check for share counts on URLs with UTM codes for Pinterest.
- Fixed a few minor CSS issues.
- Fix for line breaks in font URLs in the CSS that made the icon font not appear.
- Fixed blank settings page on some page loads.
- Cleaned up some post meta remnants.
- Clean out share counts for buttons that don't use share counts like "email" or "more"
- Added a posts column to display the social optimization score.
- BRAND NEW!!! Added a "Social Optimizer" to the Gutenberg post editor sidebar.
- Fixed a few minor CSS issues.
- Updated the post editor custom fields to be compatible with WP 5.5.
- Added Facebook authentications to core to allow for faster and more reliable share counts when authenticated.
- Added full AMP compatibility to the plugin.
- Fixed the custom CSS field on the settings page so that it saves properly now.
- Added dashboard notifications to alert users as to the state of their Facebook authentications.
- New: Added the ability to connect Social Warfare with Facebook. We use this to fetch follow counts for pages and faster, more accurate share counts for the share buttons. Go to Social Warfare -> Social Identity -> Social Network Connections to get started.
- New: Added a notice about clearing caches after updates.
- New: Added additional share count debugging to the ?swp_debug=recover debugger.
- Fixed: Fixed some CSS for the "more" share box overlay.
- Fixed: Fixed a PHP error related to user options.
- Maintenance: Adjusted the cache rebuild schedule.
- New: Added the ability to assign multiple Pinterest images with a slick overlay interface.
- New: Added a "More" button that brings up an overlay with all of the available share options.
- New: Added social follow widget with lots of styles and options.
- New: Added lots of new network buttons (Xing, VK, Viber, Blogger, Evernote)
- New: Added a print button.
- New: Added OpenShareCount API as a source for Tweet counts.
- New: Added Rebrandly as a link shortening service.
- New: Added a bunch of brand new shortcodes.
- New: Added the ability to emphasize the first one or two buttons in the panel.
- New: Added the ability to use ?swp_cache=rebuild&swp_debug=recovery to view the URL's being checked for shares.
- New: Converted all of the plugin's CSS to neatly organized SCSS/SASS.
- New: Updated a few styles in the admin options page.
- New: Updated the descriptions and image placeholders for the Social Warfare custom options in the post editor.
- New: Added an "opt-in" only "Powered by Social Warfare" that will automatically link to our site using your affiliate URL.
- New: Added an "age of post" check for shortlinks.
- New: Added the option to delay the display of share counts on new posts.
- Fixed: Fixed an extra doctype that would sometimes get added to the content.
- Fixed: Fixed some javascript/jQuery errors.
- Fixed: Fixed some PHP errors.
- Removed: Removed all instances of Google Plus.
- Maintenance: Vastly improved codebase organization and documentation.
- Updated Hover Save Pin functionality to work more globally.
- Fixed conflcit with hover pin button in Thrive Architect page builder.
- Removed the Google Plus network share button.
- Fixed an "Uncaught Error" for $ in the JS on the widgets page.
- Fixed a Twitter PHP notice.
- Updated Hover Save Pin functionality to work more globally.
- Updated how Facebook share counts are requested.
- Fixed placement of hidden pinterest image.
- Fixed double quotation marks breaking Click to Tweets.
- Fixed the hover-pin-opt out checkbox in a post editor.
- Fixed hover pin description source.
- Fixed whitespace/new HTML document being created in buttons panels.
- Fixed character encoding for tags.
- Code security audit and updates.
- Immediate security patch for 3.5.x
- Fixed tags for OG and Twitter Card.
- Fixed source of Pinterest description when pinning from Save or Pinterest button.
- Fixed empty 'via' being added to Pinterest description and Click to Tweet.
- Updated addon registration and unregistration messages.
- Updated icon font file and encoding.
- Fixed the total share displaying an incorrect value.
- Fixed PHP notices about 'undefined variable'.
- Fixed floating buttons not showing or hiding as expected.
- Fixed SWP Addon error.
- Restored Custom Color CSS being applied to the page.
- Fixed the side floating buttons not showing on some themes.
- Fixed 'operand type' notice when making cURL share count request.
- Fixed the Pinterest description sometimes being too long when pinning.
- Escaped the Pinterest description before sending to the client.
- Fixed a missing @via tag for Click to Tweets.
- Fixed the CSS selector for Gutenberg blocks.
- Updated location of Total Shares and Share Counts options.
- Updated og:image tags to include a name attribute (for LinkedIn).
- Updated the Frame Buster feature.
- Updated the pinterest button search & destroy method.
- Fixed notice when there are no inactive icons.
- Added interface for handling oAuth handshakes.
- Fixed floating bottom disappear on mobile when pro is deactivated.
- Fixed blocks disappearing after Gutenberg update.
- Fixed buttons accidentally showing up on pages created with content builders.
- Fixed JS error in Admin (
TypeError $ is not defined
) - Fixed placement of mobile floating buttons.
- Fixed breakpoint transition for mobile buttons.
- Fixed option registration when Pro is temporarily deactivated.
- Updated cURL method so API requests are faster.
- Removed references to Open Share Count.
- Props to our Warfare Community beta testers- you guys rock!
- Added support for Gutenberg blocks Social Warfare and Click To Tweet (as of Gutenberg 4.5.1)
- Added option in Advanced tab to disable Gutenberg blocks.
- Added interactive components to the Admin sidebar.
- Added a tooltip to network icons in the settings page.
- Updated JS to open share links in windows instead of tabs.
- Updated Social Warfare settings page to be mobile responsive.
- Updated the cURL request timeout duration to be shorter.
- Fixed extra whitespace when floating buttons are present on mobile.
- Fixed bug during post caching which prevented shares from updating.
- Fixed error 'invalid argument supplied foreach' regarding
objects. - Fixed 'Social Shares' total counts column in Admin view.
- Fixed Popular Posts widget from defaulting to the wrong post type.
- Fixed use of 'total' and 'totals' in the [social_warfare] shortcode.
- Fixed totals only appearing on one set of buttons.
- Fixed minor cosmetic detail on the buttons panel (removed an underline).
- Fixed tweet character encoding.
- Refactored the script.js file (frontend JavaScript)
- Fixed a line of code that caused the 'social_warfare()' function to disappear.
- Fixed the URL for post editor placeholder images.
- Fixed the Twitter Count toggle.
- Added backward compatability for swp_kilomega().
- Added compatability for mb_convert_encoding().
- Added CSS to hide buttons on print views.
- Added Mix to the Social Networks.
- Added "url" paramter to the shortcode.
- Fixed plugin compatability issue with BuddyPress.
- Fixed the decimal separator for share counts.
- Updated the option-getting mechanism (
global $swp_user_options
is now deprecated). - Updated the sidebar in the Social Warfare settings page.
- Updated the plugin file structure and organization.
- Fixed a minor DOMDocument warning that was appearing when data-pin-description was ON
- Shoutout to our Warfare Community beta testers- thank you so much!
- Created shortcode for Pinterest Image.
- Created Custom Pinterest Description on a per-image basis.
- Fixed the Total Shares icon/counts not displaying.
- Fixed many JS related issues on floating and mobile buttons.
- Fixed an issue where some buttons did not display on some posts (after 'post_updated' fires).
- Fixed the total shares missing counts from LinkedIn and Google Plus.
- Fixed floating buttons not showing until bottom of content.
- Fixed where posts were receiving false share counts from Facebook.
- Fixed the update process for addons (like Pro) so it should now receive dashboard notifications.
- Fixed sharing on Pinterest when images use relative paths instead of absolute paths.
- Fixed hidden Pinterest image from covering content "below".
- Changed the cursor from cursor to pointer for Total Shares hover state.
- Added option to add data-pin-description to all images in a post.
- Added !important tags for our Custom Color option.
- Added check for whether or not to fetch share counts (based on Button Count and Total Count settings).
- Updated the visibility of Mobile Float Location option.
- Replaced New Share Counts with Twitcount.
3.1.1 (12 JUl 2018)
- Fixed Javascript "minWidth" is undefined.
- Fixed which buttons are displayed when using Dynamic Sorting.
- Fixed "Undefined Index: post_id" error.
- Changed default "Float Before Content" from "ON" to "OFF".
- Removed excess printing of "Float Before Content" variable.
3.1.0 (09 JUl 2018)
- Fixed incompatibility with Yoast update
- Fixed side floating button fade effect.
- Fixed the shares icon CSS in the side floating buttons.
- Added option for post-specific share recovery
- Added option to show/hide buttons before content.
- Added "noopener noreferrer" to outbound links.
- Added two Pinterest image selectors.
- Added the Pinterest character counter.
- Added Google Tag Manager compatibility for Click/Event Tracking
- Removed the StumbleUpon button.
- Updated references of http to https where possible.
- Updated the Facebook share count system.
- Updated notifications to read from WarfarePlugins server.
- Major update to the metadata caching system.
- Major updates on floating buttons and mobile buttons.
- Updated the plugin update processes.
- Ensures all custom post types are showing in the "Position Share Buttons" display section.
- Fix for slow page loads on some sites.
- Added notice to warn that StumbleUpon is being removed at the end of the month.
- Fix for buttons not showing on mobile in some cases.
- Removed calls to Google Plus' and LinkedIn's API's since they no longer offer share counts.
- Fix for the Pinterest fallback image functionality.
- Fix for admin settings page not saving in some instances.
- Fix for the post_id parameter not working in the shortcodes.
- Fix for the Buffer share button showing plusses instead of spaces.
- Fix for Bitly Authentication occasionally not working.
- Fix for some undefined index errors.
- Fixed 'Undefined Index' notices.
- Fixed 'File not found' errors.
- Custom Color and Custom Color Outlines are fully functional.
- Floating bar on mobile is back to normal.
- Fixed global/post-specific setting incompatibilities.
- Total shares is responsive to the settings, shortcode, and function.
- Right floating buttons are properly positioned.
- Fixed conflict with buttons showing on Archive/Category post types.
- The shortcode and social_warfare() function behave as expected.
- Yummly and StumbleUpon buttons are back.
- Created default settings for float position, location, and size.
- Improved the migration mechanism.
- Rewrote the core mechanics of the plugin to a class based system.
- Added top floating bar for mobile.
- Added circular button option.
- Normalized variable and function naming conventions.
- Updated CSS to reflect new classnames and keys.
- Share windows now appear in the center of the browser.
- Added toggle to print/not print OG output.
- Created a custom CSS field for Click To Tweet.
- Added option for right floating buttons.
- Added size option for floating buttons.
- Added vertical placement options for floating buttons.
- Added option in to select from all post-types for the Widget.
- Fixed URL Encoding for social network links.
- URLs are no longer created for attachment or media items.
- Updated copyright dates.
- Made the buttons preview its own section in the options page.
- Moved Tweet Count registration from Registrations to Social Identity.
- Changed the Twitter counter from 140 characters to 280 characters
- Changed the WhatsApp button to also appear on desktop since their are now desktop apps for it.
- Added a hook to change the location of the menu link in the dashboard.
- Adjusted a filter to stop nonce's from being cached with certain caching plugins.
- Add filter for adjusting the share recovery URL especially on development sites.
- Refined the pin image hover button layout.
- Adjust the radius on the "Leaf on the Wind" layout's CSS.
- Force text-transform to none on icons so that the icons do not show up as text.
- Only output the cache trigger on published posts.
- Adjust the DOM loaded event to use native JS rather than jQuery.
- Various CSS and minor bugfixes.
- Update to block shortlinks on attachments
- Change the counter error message on the CTT generator.
- Fixed a CSS conflict with UI Tabs
- Changed the Twitter counter from 140 characters to 280 characters
- Changed the WhatsApp button to also appear on desktop since their are now desktop apps for it.
- Added a hook to change the location of the menu link in the dashboard.
- Adjusted a filter to stop nonce's from being cached with certain caching plugins.
- Add filter for adjusting the share recovery URL especially on development sites.
- Refined the pin image hover button layout.
- Adjust the radius on the "Leaf on the Wind" layout's CSS.
- Force text-transform to none on icons so that the icons do not show up as text.
- Only output the cache trigger on published posts.
- Adjust the DOM loaded event to use native JS rather than jQuery.
- Various CSS and minor bugfixes.
- Added "OpenShareCount.com" as an alternative source for Twitter share counts.
- Moved some functions and classes from the Pro addon into core so that they can be used by all addons.
- Updated the style of the image hover Pin button to be more consistent with the rest of the buttons.
- Fixed the UTM tracking parameters from a bug that would turn them off if they were turned on for the pin button.
- Fixed some typos in the readme.txt.
- Moved all registration functions to use the WordPress HTTP API instead of cURL.
- Setup the update checker to check for updates through Easy Digital Downloads (our store) rather than through GitHub.
- Changed the registration functions to be hookable allowing it to track multiple registration (like addons) rather than only one single registration.
- Added a hook to allow for additional URL's to be checked for share recovery functionality.
- Updated the verbiage on the readme.txt
- Fixed an error that was causing a handful of sites to lock up.
- More improvements to the registration functions.
- Fixed the shortcode parameters.
- Fixed some issues with the registration system.
- Fixed the CSS that controls the layout of the plugin logo on the options page.
- Adjusted some CSS for the options on the options page.
- Migrated the registration system from WooCommerce to EDD (THIS IS HUGE!)
- Fixed some CSS for the button icon and count alignment.
- Updated the share cache function for pin and OG stuff.
- Updated the Pinterest cache rebuild logic.
- Fixed a CSS bug on iOS mobile display.
- Updated the screen options function to return $display_boolean instead of always returning true.
- Fixed a Facebook API Javascript error.
- Updated the logic for the Popular posts widget.
- Fixed an undefined index error on the bitly cache reset.
- Modified the way the cache trigger is validated.
- Fixed the way languages are loaded.
- Fixed the way Pin image sources and pin description image sources are loaded.
- Adjusted how the Bitly functions fetch links and determine when the cache is expired.
- Set the Bitly cache to be deleted when a post is updated in case the permalink has changed.
- Fixed the way that the buttons appear on Right-to-Left direction sites.
- Adjusted how share counts are updated. They should be far more reliable now.
- Added Brazilian Portuguese to available languages
- Fixed some formatting and functionality of the email button.
- Fixed an unusual HTML issue in the OG title tag.
- Added the option to use the custom Pinterest image for the image hover pin buttons rather than the image being hovered.
- Added the option to use the custom Pinterest description for the image hover pin buttons rather than the alt text of the image.
- Added the option to turn off UTM tracking for Pinterest since Pinterest seems to tally pin counts separately when UTM is used.
- Added an option to force new shares. Normally the plugin ignores new share counts if the count is lower than the count that we previously fetched from the API's. If you activate this feature, it will go with the new count even if it is lower than previously reported by the API's.
- Fixed an issue that was affecting share counts being fetched on some sites.
- Fixed an issue that was affecting the open graph image on some sites when posts were scheduled.
- Fixed an issue that was causing some sites not to generate Bitly links on new posts.
- Added some debugging tools to make it easier to diagnose any future issues with Bitly links.
- Added a conditional to catch an undefined index warning.
- Changed the link in the head html comment to be https.
- Fixed a 500 internal server error.
- Fixed a CSS bug that would sometimes cut off the bottom pixel of the button's border.
- Added HTML Entity Decode function to ensure foreign characters are populated correctly in open graph tags.
- Added Event Tracking for Click-to-Tweets and Image Pins.
- Fixed the CSS for the total shares in non-English foreign languages.
- Fixed a notice that would sometimes appear on attachment pages.
- Fixed an error that caused share counts to not update for some users.
- Fixed a PHP warning that appeared on some user's websites: "Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Empty string supplied as input"
- Added a feature to set og:type values for all post types with individual post control via the swp_og_type custom field.
- Added information links for all options sets on the admin options page.
- Added a feature to add a Pinterest image that is picked up by the Pinterest browser extensions.
- Added better support for buttons being displayed on very tiny screens.
- Added system checks to ensure that the site is using a compatible version of PHP, WordPress, cURL, etc.
- Added a filter to remove script and style tags from meta descriptions. They will now only be text. No HTML allowed.
- Added UTM parameters to the Pinterest share links.
- Update lots of in-file code documentation.
- Updated the functionality of the ?swp_cache=rebuild URL parameter.
- Updated Facebook share link from http to https.
- Updated Italian and French translations to 100%.
- Reorganized all file and folder organization structures.
- Refactored and reorganized the code in all of the social network files.
- Fixed the no_pin class. You can now add a class of no_pin to an image to opt it out from having a Pinterest hover share button.
- Fixed a few random PHP warnings and errors.
- Fixed a misnamed function that was causing a "Call to undefined function" error when using the shortcode that specifically names which network buttons to show. For example, this was fine: [social_warfare], while this would throw the error: [social_warfare buttons="Twitter,Facebook,Google Plus,Pinterest,Total"]. This update fixes it so that it no longer throws any errors.
- Changed the widget titles from h3's to h4's to be more consistent with how other widgets work in WordPress plugins and themes.
- Removed the Pinterest character counter. Pinterest has now fixed the bug that was causing descriptions in shares to get truncated which means that once again we no longer need to count characters. In fact, longer descriptions are usually better over there so have fun!
- Add a "no_pin" class to the pin it hover button. If you add the class "no_pin" to an image, it will not get a pin hover button attached to it.
- Fixed the pin hover button. We refactored a couple of pieces of the javascript that control the hover button so it should work properly under most circumstances.
- Fixed the Really Simple SSL compatibility issue. You should now be able to use share recovery without Really Simple SSL forcing the recovery URL to be https when trying to recover from HTTP.
- Removed a description on the admin settings page that was written on there twice. Now it's only written on there once.
- Updated the information returned by the Facebook share count function.
- Renamed recursive_array_search to swp_recursive_array_search to avoid conflicts with other plugins that may have a function with the same name.
- Renamed isMobile to swp_isMobil to avoid conflicts with other plugins that may have a function with the same name.
- Fixed the Pin it hover button on legacy cache mode.
- Fixed the missing share counts on the all posts admin screen.
- Fixed the WhatsApp button.
- Fixed some invalid integer warnings that appeared in PHP 7.1
- Made it so the social shares columns only display on pages and posts admin pages.
- Fixed a conflict with Yoast open graph tags on the archives pages.
- Fixed a conflict with lazyload plugin and the pinterest image hover button.
- Fixed a padding issue on the button counts for mobile.
- Fixed the screen options tab from bumping into the header menu on our admin options page.
- Fixed an issue with button outlines.
- Social Warfare has been developed into a core free plugin with the ability to install addons for additional functionality. If you are a a premium user, you'll need to download and install the Social Warfare – Pro addon to immediately regain access to all premium features. Additional addons are currently under development and will be released in the near future.
- Refactored all of the Open Graph and Twitter Card output logic.
- Broke the meta tags into two filters. One creates the values. The second compiles them into HTML for output. This can allow people to hook in and change specific values on the fly via an add_filter() call.
- Refactored all of the cache functions.
- Added a function to clean out meta fields that are no longer used or needed.
- Added a check for invalid responses from Facebook's API
- Adjusted the default logic and fallback color system for the side custom color option.
- Refactored the Pinterest image logic.
- Add an undefined check for swpPinit to avoid JS notices in the admin area.
- Fixed an undefined index notice.
- Removed all non-public post types from the display locations settings.
- Added a homepage specific location setting.
- Added a function to make the plugin not duplicate share counts when duplicating a post via the Duplicate Post plugin.
- Consolidated some functions and files for more consistent organization.
- Fixed Google Click/Event Tracking
- Modify the hover pin so it's not created until after all images have finished loading.
- Fixed the raw share text from sometimes showing up in excerpts.
- Make the buttons not output on posts embedded into other posts (like embedded recipes).
- Patch to prevent buttons from being added to a post more than once.
- Remove the "active" index to prevent certain notices.
- Fixed custom color outlines on hover.
- Fixed an issue with double dividers on the admin options page.
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause Facebook counts to disappear.
- Fixed the http/https share recovery for pages.
- Updated how the registration check determines if it's been 30 days since the last check.
- Fixed an alignment issue with the pin hover button for Internet Explorer.
- Updated how the facebook cache rebuild works when the plugin is set to the legacy cache rebuild method.
- Fixed the "New Post" bug.
- Improved registration logic.
- Improved the cache rebuild logic.
- Fixed a CSS alignment bug for IE.
- Adjusted the debounce frequency for scroll events.
- Modified how the floating bars hide and reveal.
- Added compatibility for Grid plugin.
- Make all the link filters return modified arrays. This allows for multiple hooks to be added.
- Added the share recovery feature to the Facebook counts.
- Make the Facebook share recovery detect and filter out exact matches.
- Updated the alignment of the button icons and labels.
The 2.1.0 update fixed a ton of issues, but it also introduced a few bugs as well. We've been getting your reports and working as quickly as possible around the clock to get these fixed. This should fix almost everything that has been reported so far.
- Fixed the share count issue. We had reports that share counts were not updating on some of the sites.
- Added versioning to the admin scripts and styles. This will prevent users from having to clear browser cache when the files are modified in an update.
- Added a counter to the Pinterest description field as we've discovered that Pinterest cuts off descriptions around 140 characters on share buttons.
- Changed the hover detection method to avoid conflicts across different versions of jQuery for when users are manually declaring a version of jQuery different from what is bundled into WordPress core.
- Added a CSS rule for the aligncenter class so the hover Pinit function will keep centered images centered.
- Fixed a minor Javascript error in the cache rebuild process.
This update has been an intensely focused effort to eliminate bugs and maximize the compatibility of our plugin with all other plugins and themes. We also want to give a big shout out to Rob Neu for helping us audit through the code and make many of these improvements.
- Added an option to move the side floating buttons to the horizontal bottom floating position when the screen is too small to display the side floating buttons properly (like on mobile).
- Added a separate custom color option for the side floating buttons.
- Added nofollow to all the button links.
- Added an alt and title tag to the popular posts widget thumbnails.
- Overhauled / Improved the registration logic.
- Refactored the options page settings.
- Deprecated some unused functions .
- Added a helper function for getting the site URL.
- Cleaned up the share cache rebuild process.
- Moved the mobile detection to the client side to avoid caching collisions with the showing/hiding of the WhatsApp button.
- Removed all custom jQuery functions to avoid collisions.
- Added translation functions to the admin options page. Translations can now be added for that.
- Cleaned up some alignment issues with the side floating buttons.
- Fixed the layout of the button version of the side floating buttons.
- Changed the sizing of the buttons from JS to FlexBox.
- Changed all scale properties from JS to pure CSS.
- Minified all the admin scripts and CSS.
- Removed the fade in effect from the buttons. They are now properly sized from the start so there's no need to keep them hidden while sizing logic is adjusting them. Instead they can now be visible from page load.
- Renamed the meta box classes to avoid collisions with other plugins or themes that use the same meta box class.
- Added throttles and debounces to some of the JS events.
- Improved the JS and layout of the Image Hover Pin Button.
- Moved all asset files to a single location.
- Improved script and style loading.
- Encapsulated JS within and anonymous function to improve compatibility with other plugins and themes.
- Removed the outerHTML function.
- Cleaned up options page and click to tweet assets.
Made some more major updates in response to Facebook's API changes. We've tested this on a dozen sites and we're experiencing a 100% success rate with the fix so far. If you're experiencing inaccurate share counts, install this update, ensure that the Cache Method is set to Advanced Page Caching on the Advanced Tab of the Social Warfare option page, then wait a few hours. Within a few hours (24 at the very, very latest) all of your Facebook shares counts should be 100% fully recovered.
- Made some major updates in response to Facebook's API changes. Hopefully all the shares will count accurately once again.
- Added cross domain share recovery
- Updated the way Bitly functions shorten the URL's. Custom domain short links should now be fully supported.
- Added a metabox priority filter hook for folks who want to change the order of the metaboxes on the post editor screen.
- Fixed a couple minor PHP notices
- Made some updates to the registration function
2.0.5 (22 Aug 2016)
- Updated to Facebook's new share API
- Shortcode parameters for buttons=Ҡnow supports spaces
- Better detection of content location for some themes
- Floating buttons now ignore shortcode (to avoid wonky behavior)
- Updated floating position settings to apply to both side and horizontal instances
- Added Greek translation
- Cleaned up some outdated javascript
- URL encoding fixed for special characters in Pin button descriptions
- Fixed OG width/height output from showing when no image was uploaded
- Fixed a bug with the scale/resizing feature
- Got rid of a few minor notices
- Fixed a hover bug
- Fixed alignment issue with side floating share buttons
2.0.4 (9 August 2016)
- Image Hover Pin Button applies to linked images.
- Added minimum dimensions for Image Hover Pin Button.
- Pinterest image and Twitter handles now included in cache rebuild process.
- Social shares column to Pages tab in WordPress.
- Changing Pin button to "Save" and added Pin icon on hover.
- Yummly Category and Tags function now operational.
- PHP7 compatibility.
- Button ordering on floating buttons now able to sort dynamically again.
- Image Hover Pin Button image alignment fix.
- Cleaned out false PHP error and undefined index notices.
- Image Hover Pin Button no longer hinders image saving.
- WPML compatibility.
- Abracadabra and your invisible buttons have reappeared!
- Extra whitespace issue being seen by some sites resolved.


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When Pork and Bourbon Make Love
Depending on your culinary outlook, that either sounds vile and repulsive or intriguing and potentially even romantic. I definitely fall into the latter category, particularly when we're talking about the chemical marriage of bacon flavor and bourbon. Of late I've had this growing addiction, and I figured it was time to come out of the closet, as it were, and share what I've learned.
*This post is from guest blogger and long time friend, Dustin Cann @dustincann
But before we get to the "how" let's talk about the "why".
Let me start by saying that if you hate bourbon in its natural state, or if you're kosher or vegetarian/vegan, bacon bourbon is probably not going to be your bag. For the rest of us, combining the deep, sometimes smooth/sometimes fiery nose and throat of bourbon with the comforting, smoky and savory warm embrace of bacon can produce a borderline manic giddiness (at least for me). The first time I tried it in a meticulously mixed Manhattan, I actually giggled. Giggled. In public. In a posh San Francisco cocktail lounge. And nobody looked at me funny. Because they knew.
If you've made it this far down the post, you're probably on team bacon, so I'll wrap the pleasantries and get to the good stuff.
Fat washing is a process where alcohol strips the flavor, nay the very essence, of a fatty food and then allows you to easily remove any remaining physical animal product from said alcohol. This leaves just the alcohol you started with, plus that essence.
And it's shockingly easy.
Buy some bourbon, some bacon, and a container. Since I've been experimenting, I didn't go ridiculously expensive, though it stands to reason that better bourbon will make better bacon bourbon. I've used Makers twice, and now that I know what I'm doing I'll probably try something new next time. But Makers is up to the job. I also used some thick sliced maple smoked bacon from a local producer. Again, the better the bacon, the better the bacon bourbon. Finally, a container. After scouring the city of Memphis, I've found that the best fit for a 750ml bottle of booze are the little quart mixing tubs you get in the paint section at Home Depot or Lowes like this:
Step 2.
Make some bacon. Five slices of thick sliced bacon gives me the flavor I'm looking for with a 750ml bottle of hooch, but play around with this. I'd suggest trying it this way once and making a call. Remember, the objective is to collect the essence of bacon, not to make your bourbon taste like bacon grease. Resist the urge get ridiculous. And there will be an urge.
Do. Not. Burn. The. Bacon. Or even overcook it. We're not making bourbon and bitters in one fell swoop here. You'll also have to find a way to dispose of the cooked bacon itself, since it doesn't play a part. I've got a few suggestions for that, but I'm fairly confident you'll figure it out.
Let the bacon fat cool to the point where you can dip a finger in without crying. It needs to be hot enough to still be fluid but cool enough to keep the booze boozy (nothing would be more disappointing than cooked, nonalcoholic bacon bourbon, eh?). Pour the bourbon and the cooled bacon fat into your (CLEANED) container, give it a little stir, seal it up and set it on the counter for four or five hours. Don't worry if a few bacon bits make their way in, they can only help the process so long as they aren't burned. Resist the urge to open it up and see what's doin'- all you can do is mess it up. It doesn't need to be stirred, shaken, or molested in any way. Just let it hang tight. The alcohol is doing its job and stripping all those glorious flavors from the fat and bits of flesh floating about. This is the magic. Four or five hours at room temperature will do the trick.
Step 4.
Put it in the freezer overnight. This is doing nothing for the infusion, but it's going to make getting the fat and flesh out a piece of cake.
Yawn and stretch. Have your morning cup of coffee and a bagel. Then go see what chemistry has done for you overnight:
Looks a little nasty, but who wants to drink fat? Okay, I won't answer that for fear of making you throw up a little (because I could imagine a scenario where I'd try it). But overnight the cold has separated the fat from the bourbon and given you a nice little fat cap that can be cut off and discarded in your method of choice. At which point you can now strain the bourbon back into the bottle it came in (or something decorative, if you prefer).
Step 6.
Enjoy. A lot. In any way you see fit. My favorite so far is a bacon old fashioned. 2oz of bacon bourbon, a couple dashes of Angostura bitters (or a VERY SMALL bit of orange peel tincture if you're feeling particularly chemtastic), a bit of maple syrup (in lieu of traditional simple syrup or sugar), a splash of water and a cherry. Stir it gently and pour over a couple of ice cubes in a rocks glass. On first taste it will be very much like every other old fashioned, but when you exhale you'll get the nose.
And then you'll giggle. A least just a little bit.
Related Posts:
- The Fine Art of the Manhattan (Dustin Cann)
- Moscow Mule and Memories (Dustin Cann)
- A Mojito Kind of Night
Dustin Cann is a traveling business consultant (39 trips in the 52 weeks of 2009) who loves his work, but would rather be a rock star. He's a foodie and an appreciator of both haute cuisine and pub food. When he's home, he plays around in recording studios and relaxes on the lake with a blind pug called Honey. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his partner of eight years and almost surely needs to drink fewer Manhattans.
3 comments on "When Pork and Bourbon Make Love"
Michael Hughes I love that two things that are so distinctively Southern, bacon & bourbon, have come to together to make love all across the country. This step by step process is laid out perfectly Dustin. Cheers!


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This will likely come as a surprise to few of you but I've decided to say goodbye to book blogging. While I have loved this journey so so so much, I just don't have the same time or passion to dedicate to it anymore and I thought it was finally time to make things official.
Thank you SO much for your love and support over the years. Every comment, tweet and email has meant the world to me -- you guys are the greatest.
While I'm sad to leave this part of my life behind, I'm equal parts excited! I'm looking forward to reading books just for the sake of reading them again. I want to savour every word; to reach the last page of a new favourite book and just start again at the beginning right away. I want to start regularly using my library again
I'm going to try and start using Twitter again (I know, I'm terrible at it!) so I hope you'll come find me there :) YA has taken a backseat the past few months but I'd really like to get back into it again, even if it's not in a blogging capacity, so I'm hoping Twitter will continue to supply me with endless bookish news and love.
Once again, thank you for giving a 15 year old girl (!!!) a platform to rave about books. I appreciate your enthusiasm more than you can know <3
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PRAGUE – The lawyer for former Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas says he is a suspect in the corruption case that brought down his government.
Necas' government collapsed in June in a whirlwind of corruption and marital infidelity allegations. Those arrested included Necas' closest aide, with whom he was having an affair, and three ex-lawmakers who agreed to resign from parliament in exchange for lucrative posts in state-run companies promised them by Necas.
Necas' lawyer Josef Lzicar confirmed Tuesday that Necas is suspected of offering a bribe to the lawmakers but told Czech public radio he had no immediate details.
Necas has denied any wrongdoing, calling it a "standard political deal." A court had ruled that the lawmakers had legal immunity.
The prosecutors in charge of the case decline to comment Tuesday.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is getting a huge raise as she enters the third year of her attempt to turn around the slumping personal computer and printer maker.
Whitman's annual salary is soaring to $1.5 million from the $1 that she settled for during her first two years on the job, according a regulatory documents filed Tuesday. The raise approved last week is retroactive to Nov. 1, the beginning of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal year.
HP said the bigger paycheck will make Whiteman's salary comparable to what CEOs of similar-sized companies make. HP earned $5 billion on revenue of $112 billion during its last fiscal year.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company's annual revenue has fallen by 12 percent over the past two years as PC sales have declined amid a shift to smartphones and tablets. Whitman has been trying to counter the downturn by expanding into more profitable niches such as business software, data analysis and technology-consulting services.
Whitman is a billionaire who agreed when HP hired her as CEO in September 2011 to accept a nominal salary partly because she realized the company would have to trim its payroll to offset the drop in revenue. Not long after Whitman took control, the company set out to eliminate nearly 30,000 jobs.
HP's revenue is still falling, but the company's stock has risen by 20 percent since Whitman took over. The Standard & Poor's 500 index has climbed about 58 percent during the same period. HP's shares plunged during Whitman's first 15 months on the job, but have nearly doubled this year in a sign of increased investor confidence in her ability to get the company back on the right track.
Despite the rally, HP was dropped from the prestigious Dow Jones industrial average earlier this year, partly because its stock price remains well below where it stood just a few years ago. The shares closed Tuesday at $27.45, about 40 percent below their value in August 2010 when HP parted ways with Mark Hurd as its CEO amid questions about his relationship with a company contractor and his expense reports. Hurd is now a top executive at HP rival Oracle Corp., where he is paid an annual salary of $950,000.
Whitman could afford to forego much of the salary routinely paid to corporate CEOs. Her wealth is estimated at $1.9 billion by Forbes magazine. Most of Whitman's fortune flowed from her success running eBay Inc. during the Internet bazaar's formative years. She stepped down as eBay's CEO in 2008 and subsequently made an unsuccessful run to become California's governor.
Other billionaire CEOs who limit their salary to $1 include Google Inc.'s Larry Page and Oracle's Larry Ellison.
Despite her paltry salary, Whitman has still been richly compensated during her stint as HP CEO. Most of her pay has come in the form of stock awards designed to give her an incentive to boost HP's market value. Her initial pay packages have been valued at $15.4 million to $16.5 million, mostly because of the stock award. HP hasn't yet revealed how much stock, bonus and other perquisites that Whitman received in the last fiscal year to supplement her annual salary.
Tuesday's regulatory filing didn't discuss how Whitman's higher salary might affect the rest of her pay package for the current fiscal year.
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A New Look at Weather!
News story originally written on May 14, 2003
Figuring out what tomorrow's weather will be can be a tough job. But now scientists have made a new tool that will make it easier. It looks at the weather from above!
The tool is orbiting Earth aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. It peers through all levels of Earth's atmosphere even on a cloudy day, recording the temperature, cloudiness and the amounts of greenhouse gases.
The information will be used to create better weather predictions and track weather events such as hurricanes. It will also be essential to scientists who are trying to understand our changing climate.


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Popacular.com is hosting a Tweet counter called GigaTweet. According to it, the number of Tweets surpassed one billion recently. Sounds like a lot, but popular IM platforms handle more than this number each day. Again, this statistic makes it sound as if Twitter (and all microblogging) remains a Social Media service with narrow appeal.
But TechCrunch thinks Twitter is having its "hockey stick" moment--so called for when a site sees a sharp rise in visits and usage akin to the bend in a hockey stick. As noted by Erick Schonfeld:
Since January, Twitter has experienced a 16-fold growth in the U.S. And that is just visitors to Twitter.com. These numbers don't count all the people who send and read Tweets from other Websites, desktop apps, or their mobile phones.
I suspect TechCrunch is correct--Twitter is in the process of going mainstream--but the microblog tool has a long way to go to get there. The chart below demonstrates the number of visitors to MySpace. Facebook, and Twitter. The Twitter line is so small it's hard to see the phenomenal growth, and according to Compete.net, Twitter traffic will need to grow 1500% to equal Facebook's traffic.
Twitter fans may object to this comparison and point out--with merit--that Twitter can and is used by many people who do not visit Twitter.com. Still, with the number of Twitter users south of 3.5 million, it's clear that Twitter won't achieve mainstream status for quite some time yet. I have no doubt it (or another microblogging tool) will do so, but it may be a bit premature to tag it "mainstream."


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Tablet shipments to top laptops: Thank Nexus 7, iPad Mini
Tablet shipments in North America are on track in the fourth quarter to exceed laptops for the first time.
Tablet shipments will eclipse laptops for the first time in North America, driven by price and variety, says NPD DisplaySearch.
Popular $199 models and a wider variety of sizes will propel fourth-quarter tablet shipments to 21.5 million units, "far exceeding" the 14.6 million laptops that are expected to ship in the same period, according to a forecast today by DisplaySearch's Richard Shim.
And starting in 2013 in North America, tablet shipments are expected to exceed notebook shipments on an annual basis for the first time; 80 million tablets versus 63.8 million notebooks, he said.
"This Black Friday and the shopping season to follow will be the fuel to stoke the demand," Shim wrote. "The $199 price point has increasingly become the target to match or beat with the introductions of Google's $199 Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire 7."
The composition of the tablet market has changed from the market-defining 9.7-inch iPad in 2010 to 7-inch, 7.9-inch, 8.9-inch, 10.1-inch, and 10.6-inch tablet sizes this year, spanning iOS, Android, and Windows 8 operating systems, according to Shim.
Apple launched the 7.9-inch iPad Mini, which starts at $329, earlier this month at the same time as the latest version of the iPad. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has estimated that the bulk of first-weekend iPad sales -- 2 million to 2.5 million out of a total 3 million -- were for the smaller tablet.
In a blog post last month, Shim said of the iPad Mini: "The new low price point is expected to appeal to a wider audience and drive up demand."
Meanwhile, the Nexus 7 is selling at a clip of about one million per month, according to a recent comment from Asus, who manufacturers the tablet.
On a worldwide basis, tablet shipments aren't expected to out-ship notebooks until 2015, when 275.9 million tablets are projected to ship, as compared to 270 million notebooks.
(Note that Digitimes Research says worldwide tablet shipments will exceed laptops in 2013 on the back of a combination of branded Android tablets and an explosive white-box Android tablet market in Asia.)
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Imagine if Arne were willing to heed the advice of teachers on what they know most about--the effects of testing! From HuffPo:
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Duncan On Guns Tests In Schools: Hard To Teach Kids Scared Of Being Killed Failing or Not Graduating
WASHINGTON -- Too many students worry more about being killed by a gun tests than learning in the classroom, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Thursday, as he cautioned that firearms tests alone do not make schools better safer .
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"This was only a first step. We need a lot less children being shot dead tested. We need a lot less children living in fear," he said, urging leaders to listen to teachers.
"Right now, the overwhelming majority of teachers are saying they'd love more resources," Duncan said in wide-ranging interview about his second term as the nation's top school administrator. "They do not want – they are speaking very clearly – they are saying they do not want more guns tests in schools."
"We are not all going to agree on every issue but I think the common goal of having . . . fewer children living in fear – we have to do everything to break through," he said. "If we don't do it now, I don't know when we're going to do it."
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Yet he strongly urged leaders to listen to teachers.
"If you ask the vast majority of teachers, the vast majority of teachers don't want guns high stakes tests in the schools," Duncan said. "They want more social workers, counselors, mental-health services, after-school programs."