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Cain's Presidential Bid was Asinine-Nine-Nineby GDN Shared Post December 5, 2011
Herman Cain's asinine campaign to become president of the United States is now toast. Not just toast – burnt toast. He officially flamed out Saturday on the heels – or, shall we say, high heels – of yet another woman accusing him of sexual misconduct.
The latest of five female accusers, Ginger White, claimed she and Cain had a 13-year affair and produced telephone bills and text messages proving that she and Cain had been in constant communication, sometimes at 4 a.m. Moreover, she said, Cain had lavished her with money and gifts and flew her to cities across the country where they rendezvoused at posh hotels.
"It wasn't a love affair. It was a sexual affair, as hard as that is for me to say and as hard as it is for people to hear it," White said in an interview with MSNBC.
Cain fought back against Sharon Bialek, the first woman to go public with allegations of sexual harassment. Cain supporters tried to contain the damage by asserting it was simply a case of "he said, she said." But a second woman Karen Kraushaar, came forward and before it was over, the total was five women and counting. "He said, she said," quickly became he said, she said, she said, she said, she said and she said.
After the initial story was published by Politico, Cain vehemently denied the two allegations of sexual harassment; he also subsequently denied two more charges and the assertion of a long-term extramarital affair with an Atlanta woman. But much of the public remained skeptical, remembering New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's week-long denial last summer and later confession that he had used his twitter account to send a nude photo to a woman who was not his wife.
Sex scandals are nothing new to politicians, including Weiner, President Bill Clinton, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey, United States Senators Gary Hart, Bob Packwood, David Vitter and John Edwards, and Congressman Gary Condit.
A recent poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that 46 percent of those interviewed said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who had an extramarital affair in the past, compared to 49 percent who said it wouldn't matter and 2 percent who said they would be more likely to vote for the flawed candidate. A majority of Republicans – 57 percent – said they would be less inclined to vote for an unfaithful candidate.
While slightly more than half of the public expressed forgiveness toward infidelity, the problem becomes magnified for conservative candidates campaigning on family values and morality. And that goes double for someone such as Cain, an ordained minister.
Although it was White, the lone Black accuser, who sealed Cain's political fate, Cain's quixotic campaign had been fading for weeks, largely because his explanations became less believable by voters and his failure, in some cases, to directly deny the specific charges.
Politico broke the story on Oct. 30 that at least two females who were employed by the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, a period when Cain was president, had filed sexual harassment claims against him. In an appearance at the National Press Club on Halloween, Cain said he was "unaware of any settlement" with the women.
Later that day, however, he said he recalled one complaint in which a woman was given the equivalent of three months' salary. The following day, he said on CNN that the payout had been "somewhere in the vicinity of three to six months." The New York Times subsequently reported that the two women were awarded a year's salary after filing complaints against Cain.
In a Republican presidential field known for flip-flopping, Cain proved he can switch positions with the best of them. On CNN, he said that in the case of rape, a woman should make the decision about whether to have an abortion. But in an interview on CBS, he took a contrary position, objecting to abortion in all cases, including rape, incest or when the life of the mother is threatened.
Cain ran an unorthodox campaign to win the Republican nomination for president. When his competitors were crisscrossing Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – the first states to hold Republican primaries or caucuses – Cain was promoting his new book in Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Texas and Indiana. In the week leading up to his withdrawal, Cain campaigned in Ohio, which has next to the last primary in the nation.
In addition to having a third-rate political operation, Caine simply wasn't ready for prime time. He was a male Sarah Palin. In debates, his 9-9-9 tax plan seemed to be his answer to every question. He blamed the media, Democrats and Republicans for his various missteps. He pointed fingers everywhere except where they belonged – at himself.
Even when his camp tried to blunt the sexual harassment charges by presenting his wife, Gloria, for a television interview, Cain overshadowed the story line by inviting himself to an editorial board meeting in Wisconsin – another state that does not vote early – and showing appalling ignorance about Libya, which was prominent in the news at the time.
At an editorial board meeting at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Cain was asked a simple question: Do you agree or disagree with President Obama on Libya?
A videotape of the interview shows Cain, leaning back in his chair, staring at the ceiling and asking whether Obama had supported the removal of Moammar Gaddafi. After saying he disagreed with Obama, he said, "Um, nope that's a different one." Looking at the ceiling again, he said, "I gotta go back, see, got all this stuff twirling around in my head."
Evidently stuff was twirling around in Cain's head during his visit to a Cuban restaurant in Miami. When asked how he liked his snack, Cain asked, "How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?" Of course, Cubans speak Spanish. There is no such language as Cuban.
Ironically, the candidate who sought to minimize the impact of racial discrimination in the U.S. said he was disliked by Democrats and the media because he was an "authentic" Black candidate. Cain said African-Americans were brain-washed into voting for Democrats. He predicted that he would receive one-third of the Black vote, proving that if Cain isn't brainwashed, he's brain-dead.
What Cain failed to realize was that conservatives weren't so much interested in supporting him as they were ABM – Anybody But Mitt. First, there was flirting by Donald Trump and, to a less extent, Sarah Palin. After the rapid rise and fall of Michelle Bachman, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Cain, Newt Gingrich, who has so much baggage that even Southwest Airlines charges him a baggage fee, is the flavor of the month. And much of Gingrich's rise has been at the expense of Cain, who will probably endorse him.
A month ago, a poll by the Des Moines Register showed Cain was favored by 23 percent of Republicans in Iowa. By the time the darling of the Tea Party exited the contest, his support had fallen to only 8 percent.
Similarly, support for the Tea Party has also taken a nose dive.
A Pew Research Center for the People and the Press poll taken last month shows that since the 2010 midterm elections, the Tea Party has not only lost support nationally, but in the 60 congressional districts represented by members of the House Tea Party Caucus.
More Americans (27 percent) say they disagree with the Tea Party movement than agree (20 percent). A year ago, amid large GOP gains, 27 percent agreed and 22 percent disagreed. According to Pew, support for the Tea Party ran high in Tea Party districts throughout 2010. Now, however, 25 percent of the voters in those districts agree with the Tea Party and 23 percent disagree.
The Republican Party has also taken a beating in those districts, according to the poll. As recently as March, voters in Tea Party districts favored Republicans over Democrats by a margin of 55 percent to 40 percent. Today, Democrats have almost pulled even in those districts, with the GOP enjoying a slight 41 percent to 39 percent edge over Democrats.
Cain may have gotten out of the race at just the right time.
It was hard to take Cain seriously. His ever-present fedora hat made Herman Cain, the presidential candidate, look like Big Daddy Kane, the rapper. And some say his political journey was all about promoting the Herman Cain brand, which was non-existent before he entered the presidential race last May. He sold many books while pretending to be a serious presidential candidate. Getting out now, before he embarrassed himself in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina allows him to exit the stage without facing certain defeat at the polls. Closing one door at this time opens up other doors for yet more books, high-paying speeches and perhaps a network show on Fox.
That's not as asinine as you may think. Eliot Spitzer had a short-lived program on CNN and far more women have implicated Cain than the former New York governor. If that happens, it might not be the last time we hear Cain's trademark, "Awwww, Shucky Ducky Now!"


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I have never been happy with the "app store" concept. As usual, immoral, inefficient, and ineffective.
(this is, as readers of my blog will know, my standard meme for gripes. Stuff that's immoral is always wrong. Ineffective is does it work. Inefficient is it easy and cheap.)
The "app store" concept is;
~ "immoral" in that it transfers control from the "buyer" to the "seller"
~ "ineffective" in that problems are insoluble; support is non-existent
~ "inefficient" in that it doesn't work flawlessly
My current gripe is the GMAIL icon has disappeared from the front screen, but is running in the background. I get alert messages on new email.
Double clicking start does not show it in the task list.
A hard restart or a soft restart doesn't recover it.
App store thinks it is installed.
I have had problems with app store in the past that were never solved.
Argh squared!!
Loss of control of my device annoys me.

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The new year should be about getting a fresh start, but even though this is the January 2009 issue, Glamour still hasn't finished judging other women for all the grievous sins they committed in 2008.
And the mag has some punishments to dole out as well! Are you one of those "loose women" who have sex on the first date? May you have bad sex forever! Too poor to afford the various products Glamour is shilling? You are sentenced to wearing mismatched outfits cobbled together from the crap in the back of your closet. And as penance for her "crazy year" Britney must study a graph charting her downfall and think long and hard about how she's going to make it up to us. Below, we rewrite Glamour's cover lines to more accurately reflect the shamings contained within.


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Firefighters were cautiously optimistic Thursday evening as they began to gain an upper hand on a fast-moving wildfire in the Glendora foothills, where at least five homes have been destroyed by flames.
Dubbed the Colby Fire, the blaze may have been sparked by an illegal campfire that raged out of control. Three men were arrested in connection with the fire, which was reported at 6 a.m. and quickly grew to consume 1,700 acres.
It sent thick smoke that could be seen throughout the Los Angeles region.
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Some 1,000 homes had to be evacuated as flames approached neighborhoods, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department's online incident report. Many of those residents were allowed to return to their homes at 6 p.m.
By mid-afternoon, the forward spread of the fire had been stopped and the risk to neighboring community began to subside, Deputy Chief John Tripp, with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said at a 4:30 p.m. news conference.
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Crews will remain in the foothills overnight to battle the blaze. Earlier in the day, wind gusts up to 30 mph spread embers but as night fell, the wind died down – something firefighters attributed to helping them gain the upper hand in the firefight.
At least five homes were destroyed and 17 other buildings were damaged, authorities said. Two firefighters and a civilian have been hurt.
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The fire burned amid thick, dry brush during a stretch of hot, dry and windy weather in Southern California. Temperatures near 90 degrees are expected in the area Friday, when Red Flag warnings are expected to remain in effect.
"Due to the dry vegetation and summer-like conditions we've had, our department was over-staffed today," said LA County Fire Chief Daryl Osby. "Because of that preparation, we were able to save hundreds, if not thousands, of homes."
The warnings come after the driest year on record in California and what could be the driest January in the state. The all-time low rainfall record in January occurred in 1984, when just 0.3 inches of rain fell across California.
The firefighting arsenal includes SuperScooper air tankers, water-dropping helicopters and at least 700 personnel.


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President Barack Obama gets a hug from his daughter Malia as wife Michelle and daughter Sasha looks on in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2013.
President Barack Obama was officially sworn in Sunday for his second term as president of the United States, ahead of Monday's public events.
In a small and succinct ceremony at the White House, Obama recited the constitutionally mandated oath of office for the third of four expected times during his time in office.
Embracing his children after the oath, his younger daughter Sasha was heard to whisper "good job, Daddy!"
"I did it!" he responded, before she observed "You didn't mess up."
Sunday's official swearing-in, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, was the 57th inauguration of a president in American history.
This time, President Obama and Justice Roberts got the words right. The oath took 32 seconds inside the White House. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
Wearing a dark suit and blue tie, Obama repeated the directive to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." He was joined by First Lady Michelle Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia.
After thanking Roberts and waving to cameras, Obama and the first family left the White House's Blue Room. He will deliver his public inaugural address Monday on the west front of the United States Capitol.
During the brief swearing-in Sunday, the first lady -- who wore a dark blue dress -- held the family Bible upon which Obama laid his hand to swear the oath. According to inaugural officials, the Bible was a gift from Mrs. Obama's father to his mother in 1958.
When Obama first took the oath of office on Jan. 20 four years ago, he and Chief Justice John Roberts tripped up over the wording, raising concerns about whether the constitutional requirements were fulfilled to the letter of the law. Roberts went to the White House the next day and administered it again in full.
The short Sunday ceremony was held because the constitutionally mandated inauguration date of Jan. 20 falls on a Sunday, so Obama will take the oath a fourth and final time on Monday before hundreds of thousands of observers on the National Mall.
America may be politically divided, but most Americans report really liking Michelle Obama, who counts helping military families among her key initiatives. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
The Monday ceremonies will include the president's inaugural address, a luncheon with the president and members of Congress and the traditional inaugural parade and balls.
Ahead of the ceremony, the Obama family attended church at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington , a historic place of worship that also hosted pre-inaugural services for former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Albert Gore.
Vice President Joe Biden was officially sworn in at about 8:20 a.m. ET Sunday.
The small weekend ceremonies for both men are a bit of a historical quirk, although today's swearing-in was the seventh in history to take place on a Sunday. The last instance occurred in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan was formally sworn in for his second term in office.
Beginning with the second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, new presidents and vice presidents have been sworn in on Jan. 20 due to the changes laid out in the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.
(Before that, inaugurations were typically held on March 4, as directed by the 12th Amendment. But controversy over the length of the lame duck period forced that ceremony to be moved up by law).
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Festivities for President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
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In addition, eight vice presidents have been administered the oath of office upon the death of a president. The hastily planned ceremonies have taken place in hotels, homes and -- famously, after the death of John F. Kennedy -- aboard Air Force One.
The oath of office for the president is set out in the Constitution.
Article II, Section 1, states as follows "Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: -- "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Traditionally, two minor changes are made. First, the president taking the oath says his name after the first word ("I, Barack Hussein Obama"). And second, the phrase "so help me God" is added at the end.
NBC's Pete Williams and Shawna Thomas contributed to this report.


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First of all I would I like to say dat I have gathered a great deal of confidence by reading the questions and answers given by people in general and experts as well.
Well, now my problem. I am a 21 yr old graduate student. I had a -3.00 number in both the eyes. I went thru a LASIK surgery on 20th July, 2007 to remove the numbers i had. I have a small amount of haze under my left eye. My right eye is perfectly fine with perfect vision. My doctor says I have DLK/sands of sahara/epithelial growth watever you may wana call it. I realized there was something wrong after the 3rd day of the surgery. The doctor acknowledged this and lifted the flap and tried to clean it but in vain. After a few days the doctor again examined me. However, he says he does not want to lift the flap again as this might rather increase the haze instead of cleaning it. He said since I have a rather good vision (which is still not perfect), let the DLK remain. He said the DLK will clear itself but will take "months to many months". The problem still persists and this is the 9th week after my surgery. I realize my doctor has handled the situation intelligently, but its so disheartening to know the DLK is still there. Its exact in the line of vision of my left eye. Whenever I try to see with both my eyes I have only slight problem. But when I see with only my left eye, it makes me really sad.
I just want to know whether the DLK will itself clear itself in a few months or should I see another cornea specialist to get the flap lifted and do a surgery ??? Is there any hope of the DLK getting cleared by itself??? Are there any such cases where people have experienced DLK getting cleared by itself ??? Experts and people in general please help me out. Thanks


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Before you get down on your knees and start scrubbing away at that annoying stain, there's a few things you should know. All floors require proper care and that is why your manufacturer gave you a list of recommendations on how to clean your floor.
In case you don't remember, here's a few thing you should never attempt when cleaning your floors:
What Not to Do
- Forgetting furniture protectors: always remember to protect your furniture when you're moving it, tile will crack or chip if it is hit by something.
- Using bleach: I know you really want to remove that ugly stain but bleach might end up doing more harm than good. Bleach and other ammonia-based cleaners will discolor grout lines on your tiles over time. Let's not even mention what it does to wood floor. Instead, find what your manufacturer suggests or another mild cleaner and you still get excellent results. Remember, you should never use any type of cleaner directly on your floor, apply it on a cloth and use that on your floor.
- Using scrubbing materials: never use steel wool or other abrasive material when cleaning your floors. Both tiles and wood have a finish that protects and seals the actual material. When you scrub that away, water could seep in and rot wood or damage the tile.
- Let spills sit: liquid stains seep into the wood or tile and discolor the grout or wood; they literally leave a mark on your floor. It is crucial to wipe off stains immediately with a damp non-abrasive cloth. Cleaning up spills is such an easy thing, but for some reason so many people just don't do it. Hear are some practical ways you can protect your wood floors from spills: http://www.creativehomemaking.com/cleaning/wood-floors.shtml
- Over-wetting the tile: you need water to clean up floor but excess water may seep between the planks of a timber floor causing them to bulge and that will cause permanent damage. Tiles floors don't like excessive water either, the minerals in tap water may cause discoloration. Use a properly wrung mop or just dry the floor afterwards.
- Exposing your floors to the sun: areas exposed to the sun fade and become uneven from the rest of the floor. Remember to close the curtains when sunlight becomes too much.
- Placing flower pots directly on the floor: it's not always dangerous but could be. Cracks on the pots leak water and it can't be spotted quickly because it's hidden. It's better if you move the plants higher but if you can't, remember place a pad under the pot. The same applies to pet food and water dishes.
- Get any mop or vacuum: the mop needs to be damp but should not slather extra water on the floors. Also, when you're shopping for a vacuum, find one without a beater bar or brush roll or alternatively one that turn off these parts as they may scratch your floor and remove the protective finish making your floor dull. This one is a biggie. You can learn more about hardwood floor vacuums from The Home Floor Experts.
- Forget the doormat: prevent entry of dust early by using a doormat before it gets on your floor. Dust particles are abrasive and would scratch your floor gradually.
- Forget about caulking and sealing: finally, regular maintenance will protect your floor for longer. Sealing protects your tiles from stains, remember not to use chemical wax because it eventually turns to a black spot.
By now you might be thinking it's too complicated but it's impossible to do all the above mistakes, it's why I wrote a 'not to do' list because the 'to do' would be lengthier.


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The official Canadian unveiling of Campagnolo's Electronic Power Shift (EPS) takes place tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, January 7th) at La Bicicletta in Toronto on the Pinarello Dogma2, however, Canadian Cyclist got a quick preview today. Here is a quick video look at the system and some closeup photos. La Bicicletta has two samples (a 51 cm and a 56 cm), but it looks like both are already sold. But, talk to Heath, and for $21,000 he can probably scrounge one up for you...
Everyone is welcome to test ride the Dogma2 Super Record 11 EPS electronic bike and discover how intuitive, customizable, and race-ready it is. Pinarello staff will be on hand to answer all technical questions. Espresso will be brewed on-site by Cafe Domestique, and snacks will be provided.
Location of the event:
La Bicicletta
1180 Castlefield Avenue, Toronto, ON
January 7th, 3-5pm
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We talked to Aimadi Zhang and Haoyue Jia from China, the young winners of the Under 21 Latin championships at Blackpool 2018. They are also known as Mardy and Alissia. Their coach Andy Siyuan Liang helped with translation during the interview.
[Alissia]: Yes, of course we are very happy
[Alissia]: I started at eleven years old in a dance club. In China we have a special education, we go to the dancing school to learn how to become a professional dancer. I went to the dancing school in 2010. Mardy and I started to dance together in 2014. Before that we were in different schools.
[Alissia]: Yes, of course, I had a lot of partners. Actually, this is my fourth time in Blackpool, but the first time I was with another partner. With Mardy, this is our third time in Blackpool. When we came here for the first time we got to the top 48 in Under 21.
[Alissia]: But the second time we came, it was last year, we made the semi-final. It gave us a big confidence boost, it proved that our partnership worked. But this year, I cannot even believe it (laughing)! Unbelievable… It still feels like a dream.
[Alissia]: He can be serious. But once we start talking about dancing he can talk for hours. You know, China is very big, and the train journey from Beijing to Shanghai takes 4 or 5 hours. Mardy can talk for the entire time about one dance action! He is very serious about dancing.
[Alissia]: He is very positive person. I used to be quite negative, pessimistic about my dancing, but he is always helping. He helped me a lot, also my coach helped.
[Mardy]: First of all, the reason we won the competition is that I have a beautiful, wonderful partner. It was a fantastic result. Last year it was a semi-final, two years ago we did the top 48, and this year we won. We honestly did not expect it. It is an unbelievable result.
[Mardy]: I was about nine. I went to one of the big, major dance schools and it was a boarding school where kids get lessons and dance training in the same place. Normally you change partners a lot, but I only had one or two partners before Alissia.
[Mardy]: There were only 2 Chinese couples in the quarterfinal and we started to feel the pressure. But, on the other hand, also excited. We wanted to get to the final, so we needed to push even harder for it. I honestly felt we could challenge for the final this year, even before we came here to Blackpool. So when we were called to the final, when it happened, I had only one thought: let's show the best of ourselves. We were not thinking about the result at that point, we wanted to enjoy our performance as much as possible and show it to the audience. To share the feeling, the emotions with everybody in the audience.
[Mardy]: She is a very straightforward girl and that means she doesn't think twice about things… Everything is simple for her. And she is a bit lazy with dancing (laughing). I would prefer her to be more active, more serious about practise. She can be moody as well.
[Mardy]: Oh, yes. And a little bit crazy as well! That makes her different to many other Chinese girls. She is unique (laughing).
[Alissia]: Yes, we are.
[Alissia]: That's true. In private life he is a very caring person. He really cares about me, like, he brings me breakfast every day. But… in dancing he is totally different person. He is very tough for me, very demanding, very apodictic. I cannot talk to people during practice, it must be work, work, work. He is very business-like.
[Mardy]: When we practise I want both of us to take it seriously.
[Alissia]: I like to change things, but once we have a routine Mardy wants us to stick to what was agreed. Actually, he agrees I change it as long as I keep the same timing, the same distance, the same position (laughing).
[Alissia]: I am (laughing). We have a totally different dynamics in private life.
[Alissia]: No. We both live at the school.
[Alissia]: Yes, totally, what else can I say in front of our teacher (laughing)! It is actually beneficial for our education.
[Alissia]: Not often, they are far away. We come from different parts of the country. Mardy is from Liaoning, the east of China and I am from the central. Last year I stayed with my family for six days only. But Mardy can see his mother every day, she is one of the teachers (laughing). Not a dance teacher, she teaches something else.
[Alissia]: I could do a lot of things! I would love to be an actress, or a singer even if I don't sing (laughing). I could be a business woman and run my own coffee shop. Or run a club…
[Alissia]: No, if I was not dancing I wouldn't want anything to do with dancing.
[Mardy]: I cannot imagine I could do anything else. Dancing is very important to me. I love it.
[Mardy]: We have a normal school education.
[Alissia]: We have classes in other forms of dancing as well like ballet and modern...
[Alissia]: I spend a lot of time on my phone. Playing games. My favourite is Candy Crush and I am past the level 2000 (laughing).
[Mardy]: I like motorbikes. She doesn't let me buy my own but my friend has one. But I don't have that much time. After school, and after practise, we need to work out in the gym…
[Mardy]: Whenever we are in the UK, we spend a lot of time watching YouTube or on Facebook. In China it doesn't work.
[Alissia]: Of course. I've searched for our photos and there are not many of us.
[Alissia]: Yes, no problem.
[Mardy]: Only dancesportinfo.
[Mardy]: We do not have anything like that about dancing.
[Mardy]: There were a lot of private sites with some information but nothing like, say, formal organisation. We have WeChat…
[Mardy]: Yes, you can pay, even small money, with it, you can send money. You can talk, exchange information in it.
[Alissia]: Food!
[Mardy]: Definitely food.
[Alissia]: And drinking water with ice. In China we drink hot water. Every day.
[Mardy]: Chinese medicine says we should not be taking drinks which lower the human body temperature. We drink warm water which is closest to the body temperature.
[Mardy]: I do not drink alcohol. I don't like it. And I do not smoke.
[Alissia]: Always cold… Chinese food is always hot and smells good. Have you ever eaten Chinese hot pot? If I could I would eat it every day (laughing). I like spicy foods.
[Mardy]: Yes, it is very different.
[Mardy]: Her home town in Shaanxi province... It is the ancient capital of China, Xi'an, from where the Qin dynasty ruled. One king from that dynasty is the first ruler who united China, because before that there were many different states. It was over 2,000 years ago.
[Alissia]: I still have to finish my education. I have 2 years left.
[Alissia]: Yes, we are students. After that we think we will stay and teach in our school.
[Alissia]: I want my family to move to Beijing. Better life, better perspectives.
[Alissia]: I would love to travel
[Mardy]: Yes, I also would like to travel and see around the world. If I have time and money (laughing)
[Mardy]: First of all dancing must remain an art. But many dancers think about it as a sport. Dancing allows me to express myself, my emotions. And it should invoke emotions. Just like art is supposed to do. I love the older generation dancers. There is feeling, there is emotion, and they dance from their heart. From them dancing is not just a movement, not just a sport.
[Mardy]: Not the most important thing. Anyway, I cannot control the results. Results come from the judges. I can control myself, my own performance. I feel that the result doesn't necessarily always reflect the quality of your performance. You might be placed second, but you are still a great dancer. The audience still loves you.
[Mardy]: Audience
[Alissia]: We care of how much we can touch the audience, how much we share with them.
[Mardy]: When we dance the competition we do not even check who the judges are. We see the judges standing on the floor, but we do not check the names.
[Alissia]: Of course technique is important because you need it to support your performance. But for me, the true, honest, from the bottom of your heart performance is what I am looking for. I want to feel your passion. When I watch you dancing, I want to feel I am taken by you.
[Mardy]: Obviously both artistic performance and technical ability are important. The dancer is an artist on the stage and the performance must be strong. So you need to show your artistic interpretation, but be strong technically as well.
[Mardy]: Within 5 minutes (laughing).
[Mardy]: People could watch the DSI TV live if they wanted to.
[Alissia]: It was already morning in China.
[Alissia]: My mother and father did not want to disturb me. But in that week we won the competition it was my mother's birthday.


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The Dallas Charter Didn't Invent Victims' Services
In Philadelphia, we have two grand jury reports and — in the eyes of the public — two failed attempts to get things right. I have been engaged in victim assistance work for 30 years, and I have never seen as much pain as I have in the last four months. It's emanating from the victims' experience, the added pain of failing to get it right, and Catholics' feeling of confusion and betrayal.
While I cannot address any specific cases, my tenure at the archdiocese has provided some insight into how the Church provides victim assistance and how those services could be improved.
Society is still grappling with the sexual abuse of children. The Church is dealing with an issue that the larger society doesn't do well. The first time I arrived to help with victims' services in 2006, I walked into a place that remains, in essence, a private institution, and that makes it insular. The Church is grappling with a societal struggle without enough expertise and competency in the area of victim assistance.
The Dallas Charter and the Church did not invent victims' assistance. That competency exists in the broader community in established victim-assistance programs and coalitions at the local, state and national levels, and we should have been learning from it.
We made efforts to learn before the Dallas Charter: Victims in the Philadelphia Archdiocese reported allegations to the Office for Clergy. Then we changed that to the victim-assistance coordinator. That created the situation where the victim-assistance coordinator was providing services and facilitating the investigation of the allegation of sexual abuse.
But the problem of combining victims' services and investigations is that you can't do both well. They are different skill sets. Now, the archdiocese's delegate for investigations, a former deputy district attorney, makes sure the allegations have substance and go to the appropriate law-enforcement authorities. His perspective and experience makes that position powerful. A civil attorney is not doing this job.
The charter came along and mandated that people be available to work with victims. But not everyone who met with victims had a background in victims' assistance. To address the problem of limited expertise, the Church needs one foot on the inside and one on the outside. In various dioceses, outsiders now provide training, dioceses contract out for victim services, or, as we are looking to do here in Philadelphia, a hybrid is created. Meanwhile, the strength of diocesan-based victims' services is that we can address the faith issue that many outside agencies cannot easily do.
The competency necessary to address victim assistance and the overall sexual-abuse issue is like a multifaceted diamond, including management of priests, victims' needs, and a systematic response across the board. Every facet must be victim-centered. Otherwise, the victims don't come forward, begin to trust again, and see some hope for change.
The Dallas Charter is a wonderful start and speaks about the need for reaching out to adult survivors of child sexual abuse. But now we need some model standards of service. What does "outreach" mean? What is the purpose of the meeting? How do you provide services and confidentiality? How do you make services accessible to victims? The answers to these questions are easily addressed by reaching out to the secular victim-assistance network. Of course, we are not going to adopt anything contrary to Church teaching, but 98% of the standards are adoptable.
Victim-assistance programs in the Church based upon the charter are less than a decade old. The Church is blazing a new trail internally, but we must take the best existing standards in the secular world and infuse them with our Catholic faith. Victims deserve no less than our complete compassion, dedication and commitment to getting it right.
Editor's note: Mary Achilles advocates a victim-centered response to the clergy-abuse crisis and argues that the Church must learn from experts in the field. The first victim advocate for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Achilles worked from 2006-2008 advising Cardinal Justin Rigali on how best to respond to victims in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. She has 30 years of experience working with victims' services at the local, state and national levels. Just prior to the second Philadelphia grand jury report, she was rehired in January 2011 to review and improve the archdiocese's victims' services and develop a communications strategy for the archdiocese.
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- You knew what you were doing. You knew that shock and indecency creates a buzz that moves market share and lines your pockets.
- "Blame Game Over TV Indecency", CBS News
- Confronting then Viacom CEO Mel Karmazin over the Janet Jackson Superbowl half-time show incident at a hearing on Capitol Hill, February 12 2004.


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An American man detained in North Korea apologized for his actions during the Korean War, according to the country's state-run news agency.
Merrill Newman, 85, has been held in North Korea for more than 30 days after attempting to board a flight from Pyongyang to Beijing. The Palo Alto, Calif. resident allegedly released a statement Sunday, according to KCNA.
"After I killed so many civilians and (North Korean) soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the DPRK during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the DPRK government and Korean people," the Korean War veteran said.
Newman visited North Korea as a part of a tourist group in October, and then allegedly "perpetrated acts of infringing upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and slandering its socialist system."
U.S. officials said they were "deeply concerned" about Newman and another detained American citizen. "Given Mr. Newman's advanced age and health conditions, we urge (North Korea) to release Mr. Newman so he may return home and reunite with his family," said a National Security Council spokesperson.
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In a fundamental sense, technology is deeply non-human. While we might apply a humanist logic to the function and workings of technological systems, and view technological objects as extensions of the human body and its capacity for adaptive prosthesis, the very purpose of technology is to be that which the human is not or to achieve that which the human could not otherwise do. As such, technology exists beyond the humanist understanding of the individual, the body, and the subject, particularly in contemporary network culture in which technology is in part transformed from concrete and material objects into molecular, adaptive, and often invisible systems. Much as with the animal world, technology seems to suggest a mode of communication and media beyond that of human language, a mode of being or becoming that exceeds our own.
In Insect Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2010),1 Jussi Parikka traces an archaeology of non-human media. More specifically, he is interested in the relationship between animal and machine, and the unique history of the insect as a technological model from the late 19th century through to the present. While insects are often viewed as models for contemporary media practices such as swarming, smart mobs, and collaborative forms of production, Parikka makes insects the object of his media historical project, transforming "media as insects," into "insects as media."


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Minerva Parks Barclay, after the disappearance of her husband John Barclay, remarried to Charles Buchwald on the 19th of June 1886 in Los Angeles, California.
I ponder what it might have been like for Minerva. What happened, did John just disappear or did the marriage end, was there foul play and he was killed? At this point we do not know.
The following is taken from Wikipedia:
Several criteria affect declaring someone dead by assumption:
- A person's being missing from their home or usual residence for, typically, seven years (the period varies from state to state)
- Such absences being continuous and without explanation
- Such absences being accompanied by a lack of long-distance communication with those most likely to hear from them
- Diligent but unsuccessful search for that person and inquiry into their whereabouts.
Apparently a missing person requires to be missing 7 years in California and it is called Presumption of death. In the affidavits written by John, Ellen and Sarah Agnes Blinn they mention a diligent search was performed. Boy would I love to know what that all meant. I am assuming that the divorce Minerva obtained was probably "desertion."
In any event, the John Barclay born about 1835-36 in Scotland, disappeared. His wife Minerva Parks remarried and she lived the remainder of her life in California in the San Francisco area. She died 30 June 1926 and is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Find A Grave does not have her listed at this time.
Minerva is alone in the 1880 U.S. Census in Sonoma County, California where we find her with her two children, I have posted about this before but feel it is important to repeat it for consistency sake.
Line 20 ___,186 Barkley, Lulu W, F, 31, married, house keepr, born New York, parents born Penn. Barkley, John W, M, 13, son, at home, born Wisconsin, father born Scotland, mother born New York. Barkley, Ella, W, F, 11, daughter, born Wisconsin, father born Scotland, mother born New York.
Source: Lulu Barkley Family, 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Sonoma, Sonoma Co., California,pg. 27, Dist. No. 3rd, ED #120, 16th of June, 1880, A. Drahnis, #14
We move forward to 1900 and she is married and living with her family in San Francisco. It looks like she had more children with Charles: Mable, Maggie and Godfrey however, she would be 43 years old when Mable was born? The interesting part is the her mother, Louisa, is living with them.
Line 83, 227, 191, 196, Buchwald, Charles, Head, W, M, March 1857, 43, M, 14, born Ohio, parents Germany. Buchwald, [Mary], wife, W, F, April 1850, 50, M, 14, 5, 2, born PA. Steadman, Raymond, grandson, W, M, May 1884, 16, S, born California. Parks, Louisa, mother in law, W, F, July 1826, 72, W, 1, 1, born PA, Buchwald, Mabel, daughter, W, F, ____1893, 7, S, born California.
Line 88, 27, 192, 197, Buchwald, Maggie, Head, W, F, June 1890, 20, S, born Ohio. 193, 198 Buchwald, Godfrey, Brother, W, M, Oct, 1891 19, S, born Ohio.
Source: Charles Buchwald Family, 1900 U.S. Federal Census, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California SD#1, ED#141, Sheet #[10], 36th assembly district, enumerated 8 June 1900, by Henry D. [Faumey].
1910 Census for the Charles Buchwald family.
Flood St.- Line 95, 324, 158, 170, Buchwald, Chaley F. Head, M, W, 56, M1, 24, born Ohio, father born Germany, mother born Germany, English, Cook, Restaurant, W, No, O, yes, yes, yes, O, Ti, H.
Buckwald, Lulu, wife, F, W, 62, M2, 24, 5, 2, born PA, parents born PA, English, None, yes, yes, no.
Buckwald, Mable, daughter, F, W, 17, S, born California, Father Ohio, Mother PA, English, none.
Buckwald, Violet, Daughter, F, W, 9, born California, father born Ohio, mother PA, English, none.
Barclay, John A. Boarder, M, W, 42, D, born Minnesota, father Scotland, mother PA, English, Carpenter, House, W, no, 5, yes, yes, no.
Steadman, Raymond, Boarder, M, W, 25, S, born California, father born Germany, mother Minnesota, English, carpenter, House, W, no, 0, yes, yes, no.
Source: 1910 U.S. Federal Census, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California, 33 District, SD#4, ED# 71, Sht#7, enumerated on 30 April 1910 by C.A. Parker.
It is interesting that John Barclay is with his mother and Violet is listed as a Buckwald, I thought she was John and Harriette's child? It seems I need to look for several divorces to learn what is happening with this family and do more digging.
1920 Census they are still living on Flood street.
Line 12 Flood Ave., 324, 4, 4, Buchwald, Charles, Head, O, M, M, W, 62, M, yes, yes, born Ohio, born Germany, parents born Germany, speaks German, yes, cook, restaurant, W 954.
Buchwald, Mevia, wife, F, W, 68, M, yes, yes, New York, parents born New York, none.
Buchwald, Violet, 18, S, yes, yes, California, father born Ohio, mother New York, sales lady, store, W, 791.
Barclay, John, boarder, M, W., 51, D, yes, yes, Minnesota, father born Scotland, mother New York, carpenter, house, w, 148.
Line 16, 318, 5, 5, Steadman, Raymond, Head, O, M, M, W, 35 M, yes, yes, California, parents born US, boiler maker, shipyards, W, 140. Steadman, Lucille, wife, F, W, 27, M, yes, yes, California, parents born Ireland, none.
Source: Charles Buchwald Family, 1920 U.S. Federal Census, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California, Distr. 24, Precinct 42, SD #4, ED #323, Sht#12A, 8 January 1920, Grace E.Cahill.
Minerva Parks Barclay Buchwald died in 1926. The fate of Charles her husband is unknown at this time.
Funeral of Minerva Buchwald, 346 Flood Ave, Charged to Chas. Buchwald, 346 Flood Ave, DOD June 30, 1926, DOB April 20, 1850, Age 76 years 2 Mos. 10 days. Place of death 346 Flood Ave (San Francisco) Cause of Death Chronic Modalities, Dr. F. W. Lowe. Occupation at home, married, POB New York, Name of Father A.D. Parks, BP New York, Maiden Name of mother unknown, BP New York. At place of death 21 years, Resided in California 50 years, Date of funeral July 3, 1926, Chapel, 3 pm. Rev. Feix, Interment in Mt. Olivet.
Funeral Notice – Buchwald – In this city, June 30, 1926 Minerva Buchwald, beloved wife of Charles Buchwald, loving mother of John A. Barclay, Mrs. Ella Sears, Mrs. Mabel Bishop, Mrs. Violet Broman, devoted grandmother of Raymond Steadman a native of New York. Aged 70 years 2 months 10 days. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services today (Saturday: at 3 pm, at the chapel of H.F. Suer Co. 2910 Mission St., near 25th St.) Interment private.
Source: Funeral Record for Minerva Buchwald, June 30, 1926 in California.
After studying all the information about John Barclay and Minerva Parks, and their two children John Avery and Sarah Ellen (Helen), I have to say it has been a challenge to find the documents and sources and make sense of the information because the information was not always consistent from source to source. There are so many questions yet to find answers to regarding this family and the descendants. I thank my cousin LeeAnn for her help and for sharing with me.


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'I never wanted to be James Bond," Daniel Craig says brusquely. Other people may have had that fantasy growing up, he says; all power to them, but he never did. So there is no point asking him how it feels to be living that dream.
"I don't know how that feels. What I do onscreen is a total invention, a totally made-up thing. It's as far from me as anything is possible to be. That's the acting challenge: that I have to pretend to be this super-spy, when … I'm a kid from Liverpool."
Skyfall is Daniel Craig's third outing as 007. It is also his best, which cements his standing as the best Bond since Sean Connery defined the role in the 1960s. Together with director Sam Mendes, the notable English theatre director – whose last film before Skyfall was the witty indie comedy Away We Go, also about as far from Bond as it's possible for anything to be – Craig pushed for more lightness this time around than he had been able to play in Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace, with a few more of the flip ripostes and bad puns that used to be Bond's hallmarks. Mendes has also brought back a version of Q (Ben Wishaw), the "quartermaster" whose predecessors provided generations of Bonds with fun spying gadgets.
In Skyfall, spymaster M (Judi Dench) is being targeted along with her colleagues at MI6. Cyber-security breaches at the organisation have led to the identity of NATO's spies (who are embedded in terrorist organisations) falling into the hands of a mysterious and vengeful foe (Javier Bardem).
At the same time, however, Skyfall gives Bond a tragic backstory. He is also more emotionally expressive than in any of the previous 22 official James Bond films. Craig's Bond already has all of Craig's own intensity, which means no matter what he's doing – even when he's sparring with the geeky new Q (Ben Whishaw) – there is a melancholy about him that no other Bond had. You just know he goes back to his sun-lounger in the Bahamas and broods.
"I don't analyse the differences between him and Pierce [Brosnan] or him and Sean," says Mendes, who is a long-standing friend of Craig's. "I think those other Bonds were products of their time and were asked to do different things. Pierce could have played it differently. So could Roger Moore. For me, Daniel is exciting because there is a friction between who he is and who Bond is. Two plus two equals five, in a way. It's a bit of magic."
One of the emotions Bond experiences this time round is bitterness; he senses that spies are getting a little old in this high-tech world. So is Bond – Craig is now 44. "Sucks, doesn't it?" Craig says bluntly. "But what are you going to do? You can't stop it. But I'm not going to get defensive about it. Bond's hurt very badly in this movie and it's less about the ageing than it is about the clash of worlds. It's not getting political, but governments are far happier sending in spy satellites and drones than putting people in the field; their excuse is that it's less dangerous, although I think it's probably an economic reason as well. Bond's part of the old school, that you've got to go and look people in the eye. He's like me in that respect, I suppose."
Craig's old-school attitude is one reason he never responded to the outpouring of fury when he was announced as the next 007: he doesn't do social media. "I don't blog, I don't go on Twitter and I'm not on Facebook," he growls. "And I never f—ing will be … That's just not my way." Nor is it his way to smile for the paparazzi, which has earned him a reputation as permanently angry. "I challenge anybody to f—ing smile," he argued recently. "I'm just not that person. I'm never going to arrive at an airport after a 12-hour flight and go, 'Oh, hi everyone, it's so great to see you!' I can't do it."
The Englishman lives in New York with Rachel Weisz, whom he married in June last year. Nothing could prepare you for blockbuster celebrity, he says, but he still manages to meet friends in public: "People have got more important things to worry about in New York than James Bond being in the bar."
Still, he is the face now on every billboard; you wonder how often people sidle up to ask if his drink is shaken or stirred. Not that he would give them the opportunity, of course. Kids from Liverpool drink beer.
The top five 007 films
Goldfinger (1964)
The early Bond films didn't just defy credibility; they shook it, stirred it and put it in a leopard-skin bikini. Guy Hamilton's first film for the franchise boasts a cracking lesbian Bond girl in Pussy Galore, the iconic golden corpse, henchman Oddjob's lethal steel-brimmed bowler, and sleek Sean Connery, who wears a diving suit with a plastic duck on his head. Mad, fairly bad and absolutely fab.
Casino Royale (2006)
Rebooting Bond without (many) gadgets or parlour badinage, director Martin Campbell and a ferocious Daniel Craig match other modern thrillers, disguising some of the series' most bizarre plotting – MI6 and the CIA choosing to defeat their man at poker rather than just take him out – as stylish action.
From Russia with Love (1963)
Memorable for its Cold War atmosphere, the second Bond established much of the template – the title sequence, Q, Blofeld as head of SPECTRE – with the bonus of the scarily neutered Rosa Klebb, played by the great Lotte Lenya. Note: all the best Bonds have a strong whiff of sexual perversion.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
George Lazenby, once dismissed as Connery's unworthy successor, is undergoing reappraisal among aficionados: he looked like Bond, fought as balletically as any Bond and fell in love with the flawless Diana Rigg, his equal in wit and style.
GoldenEye (1995)
Nobody understands the lethal-satellite-provokes-war plot, but it doesn't matter: Pierce Brosnan's first film introduces the most charming of the Bonds as well as Judi Dench's severe M, the dazzling black-widow villain Xenia Onatopp and the theme of betrayal from inside M's ranks.
GENRE A James Bond film.
CRITICAL BUZZ Although the Connery Bonds remain enshrined as holy writ, this is universally agreed to be the best Bond anyone can remember: "a supremely enjoyable 50th-anniversary outing," to quote one review among many. Skyfall is No.1 at the box office in 25 countries.
STARS Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Berenice Marlohe.
DIRECTOR Sam Mendes.
RELEASE Thursday.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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Her life was spinning out of control. A mix of anger and emptiness defined her. Desperate for true peace, she headed to a place of rest - the healing sands.
Ryan Coe feels lost - her marriage is over, her kids are living with their dad, her God-life is silent, and her patience is practically non-existent. To top it off, her once exciting job as a photojournalist has been reduced to taking pictures of enchilada festivals and B-level actors. But when she arrives at the scene of a crime and sees her son's face through her zoom lens, her world crashes. Her only mission - to find out who really did this and why they framed her.
But before she can help anyone. Ryan's got to get her anger in check. She turns to Sullivan Crisp's Healing Choices clinic, but even that doesn't go according to plan. Quirky and unusual don't even begin to describe Sully and she soon realizes that he isn't thequick-fix therapist she was hoping for. Between his unorthodox counseling and a group of women who are the first real friends she's had in a long time, Ryan begins to realize it's not control she's for, but something much more powerful.
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New Microsoft Ads Win Most Improved Award (It Wasn't Hard Though)
Here are videos of three of the new "I'm a PC" ads from Microsoft's next phase of its Vista-doesn't-bite advertising campaign.
You can decide if you like them or not. But BoomTown is declaring them a vast improvement on the quirky initial commercials that featured Microsoft Founder Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Microsoft has insisted that those three ads, which attracted a chorus of critics, were just a "teaser" to this second phase of a $300 million ad campaign, in which the software giant seems to be returning from its short visit in hipville to a more normal marketing message.
And these new Microsoft (MSFT) ads are definitely normal and more clear, having an it's-a-small-world-after-all panoply of people declare that they are all PCs.
The message is aimed at attacking the more elitist message of Apple (AAPL) ads, which have effectively mocked PC guy relentlessly over the years as an oaf.
In Microsoft's ads, its own PC guy complains at the start of each that "I've been made into a stereotype."
The ads proceed to show regular folk with some celebrities mixed in (including Gates, TV hottie Eva Longoria and feel-good author Deepak Chopra), all proudly declaring their PC affiliation.
While the ads feel like they are tapping a little too much into that uneasy red-state-blue-state vibe–as if we need more of that–they're also nicely done, thankfully, although not particularly new or innovative.
Which, after the Gates/Seinfeld oddity, is a good thing.
Here are three of the new ads (click them all at once for an even better experience!):


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Don't Take Drag and Drop for Granted
Accordance offers tremendous advantages over other Bible programs—speed, flexibility, powerful features and valuable resources found nowhere else. Yet sometimes, in focusing on those big advantages, we lose sight of the many smaller advantages we all tend to take for granted. Recently, a reviewer was evaluating Accordance and pointed out an advantage that hadn't really occurred to us: the ability to drag and drop text and images.
As this reviewer was working with Accordance, he arranged his screen so that Accordance was side-by-side with the word processor he uses to compose his sermons. When he wanted to copy text out of Accordance, he simply selected it, then dragged it and dropped it onto his word processor. It's the kind of functionality Mac users don't even think about, so to us it seemed like no big deal. Yet surprisingly, this simple action is simply not possible with some other Mac Bible programs.
This reviewer didn't mention images, but you can also drag image thumbnails from an Accordance tool window to copy the full-size image into another program. For example, if you're putting together a bulletin in Pages or a slide show in Keynote, you can drag the thumbnail from Accordance onto an image placeholder in the other program.
Doing so will copy the image to that placeholder, keeping any borders or custom formatting which were applied to that placeholder.
Again, this simple functionality makes getting images out of Accordance incredibly easy, and apparently, it's not something to be taken for granted!


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Archive for December 8th, 2007
The Revolutionaries of the American Civil War
[Note: This post continues a series on The Civil War as Revolution which is available at the following links: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, The Revolutionaries of the American Civil War, and Cogitating on Abraham Lincoln as Revolutionary.]
All revolutions require revolutionaries. If the American Civil War was, in fact, a second American Revolution, who were its revolutionaries?
Emory Thomas in his work The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience suggests that Southern "fire-eaters" should be included on the roll call of revolutionaries because they "used radical means to achieve conservative ends and therefore began [my emphasis] the Confederate revolutionary experience. Their role was reactionary – to preserve the Southern way of life. Yet in pursuit of this goal, the fire-eaters acted in ways commonly associated with revolutionaries." [i] First on the list would be the triumvirate whose voices for southern unity, independence, and succession were the loudest and of longest duration: Robert Barnwell Rhett (dubbed the father of succession), William Lowndes Yancey (secession's orator), and Edmund Ruffin. All had connections to South Carolina which proved the hottest bed of Southern revolutionary thought. But, points out Thomas, "fire-eaters cut a broad swatch across many professions and every state in the antebellum South." [ii] Influential clergymen like James H. Thornwell and Benjamin M. Palmer used their pulpits and pamphlets to "deepen the sentiment of resistance in the Southern mind."[iii] Men with control of the editorial content of widely read publications added their voices including: James D. B. DeBow (DeBow's Review), Roger A. Pryor, editor of the Richmond Enquirer newspaper, William Gilmore Simms (editor of the Southern Quarterly Review), and various editors of the Southern Literary Messenger. <[iv] Teachers in the classrooms of schools and colleges taught "Southern Nationalism" and impressed on the minds of students the "standard 'line' on the issues of slavery, politics, and economics."[v] The system also expunged itself of faculty members who dissented. Taken in the aggregated, these activities resulted in what Thomas rightly labels an "intellectual blockade" as the Southern rights mantra came to dominate press, pulpit, and classroom."[vi] Was this revolution or defending Southern institutions? The line between the two is admittedly a fine one. [vii]
It can also be argued that some from the Southern political elite, while advocates for Southern rights, did their advocating within the Union and so are not so easily labeled revolutionaries. Jefferson Davis falls into this camp as does Calhoun, Alexander H. Stephens and R. M. T Hunter. [viii] These men moved into the secessionist camp once it was a "fait accompli." Were they, along with many of those who would take up arms on behalf of the South, thus revolutionaries or were they simply caught up in the fray? Jefferson Davis considered the use of the label revolution "an abuse of language."[ix] "'Ours is not a revolution.' We left the Union 'to save ourselves from a revolution' that threatened to make 'property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless…Our struggle is for inherited rights.'"[x]
The Black Republicans were the real revolutionaries, southerners insisted, "a motley throng of Sans culottes…Infidels and freelovers, interspersed by Bloomer women, fugitive slaves, and amalgamationists…active and bristling with terrible designs and as ready for bloody and forcible realities as ever characterized the ideas of the French Revolution." Secession was therefore a "political revolution,: explained a Georgian in 1860, to forestall the "social revolution" sure to come if the South remained in the Union.[xi]
Can Northerners be assigned the label of revolutionist? Certainly extremists like James Brown [photo to right], who resorted to violent acts to try to force social change, qualify as radicals. Harriet Beecher Stowe influenced social change by reaching hundreds of thousands with abolitionist sentiments through the power of popular literature. See an excellent summary of her writings here.
Representative James A. Garfield and contemporary William H. Seward considered the rise of the Republican Party to be a "revolution."[xii] Garfield studied the French Revolution and found striking parallels with mid-19th century America. He became an ardent voice of revolution and "one of the most radical of the radical Republicans."[xiii]
Abolitionist Wendell Phillips was considered by historian James McPherson to be "the most articulate spokesman for a revolutionary policy," pegging Civil War as social revolution and calling for the "taking to pieces" of the whole social system of the Gulf States.[xiv] Similarly, Thaddeus Stevens, a leader of radical Republicans in the House, asserted that "'we must treat this [war] as a radical revolution…and free every slave–slay every traitor–burn every rebel mansion, if these things be necessary to preserve' the nation."[xv]
Activists from both the South and the North could agree that secession was a counterrevolution to the revolution of 1776. But their frames of referenced were completely opposite. Secessionists saw it as a counterrevolution against the anticipated revolutionary threat of slavery.[xvi] Northerners saw secession as "not a just revolution, but an unjust counterrevolution."[xvii]
For consideration of Abraham Lincoln as "revolutionary," please see my previous post "Cogitating on Abraham Lincoln on Revolutionary."
Copyright © 2007 Rene Tyree
[i] Emory M. Thomas, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience. (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1971), 24., [ii] Ibid., 30., [iii] Ibid., [iv] Ibid., 35., [v] Ibid., 34., [vi] Ibid., [vii] Ibid., [viii] Ibid., 32.,
[ix] James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, (New York: Oxford University Press), 26. [x] Ibid., 26., [xi] 3., [xiii] Ibid., 4., [xiv] Ibid., 5-6., [xv] Ibid., 30., [xvi] Ibid., 27., [xvii] Ibid., 28.


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Contains the language-specific defines for your new tool; the filename of the language file must be the same as the filename of the tool itself.
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$za_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_TOOLS_NEW_TOOL, 'link' => zen_href_link(FILENAME_NEW_TOOL, '', 'SSL'));
if (!defined('IS_ADMIN_FLAG')) { die('Illegal Access'); } //---- // If the installation supports admin-page registration (i.e. v1.5.0 and later), then // register the New Tools tool into the admin menu structure. // // NOTES: // 1) Once this file has run once and you see the Tools->New Tool link in the admin // menu structure, it is safe to delete this file (unless you have other functions that // are initialized in the file). // 2) If you have multiple items to add to the admin-level menus, then you should register each // of the pages here, just make sure that the "page key" is unique or a debug-log will be // generated! // if (function_exists('zen_register_admin_page')) { if (!zen_page_key_exists('toolsNewTool')) { zen_register_admin_page('toolsNewTool', 'BOX_TOOLS_NEW_TOOL', 'FILENAME_NEW_TOOL','' , 'tools', 'Y', 20); } }
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739: Malamanteau
Title text: The article has twenty-three citations, one of which is an obscure manuscript from the 1490s and the other twenty-two are arguments on LanguageLog.
Malamanteau when in language, someone combines two words to create another different word. Perhaps, the most famous example of this is "misunderestimate" which was used by former US President George W. Bush.
However, "misunderestimate" might be more of a malapropism as it references in the comic because it was said as a mistake rather than a purposeful combination of two words. At least I hope it was a mistake...
Neologism is also defined as a new word that is created by combining two different words.
However, the word Malamanteau is itself a malamanteau because it is a neologism and a portmanteau. Which points then to the extreme confusion in the supposed Wikipedia article that this comic is showing.
Randall was not the first to invent the term "Malamaneau", but this comment spurred the controversial creation of an actual Wikipedia page with the text as shown in this comic. Curiously, the argument over the legitimacy and notoriety of the word by Wikipedia editors drew enough interest from non-Wikipedians that enough articles were written about the word (and examples of malamanteaux were identified and noted as such by linguists) it actually gained the notoriety necessary to get included in Wikipedia.
Contrary to the image text, as of August 27, 2012, the Wikipedia page has just 21 citations, the oldest of which is 2007, and only 4 of which are from Language Log.
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- A malamanteau is a neologism for a portmanteau created by incorrectly combining a malapropism with a neologism. It is itself a portmanteau of ((... the article cuts off.))
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- Ever notice how Wikipedia has a few words it *really* likes?
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Neologism isn't properly defined in the explanation. A neologism can be any new word; it doesn't have to be made through a combination of other words. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malamanteau redirects to xkcd's page last I checked. Wiktionary's page on it was deleted almost 3 years ago. Additionally, the description is missing an explanation for the image text (and maybe the word "portmanteau" should get a definition included). 18.104.22.168 22:03, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
- Now that you mention that the page redirects to xkcd, it's interesting to see the Revision history on it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malamanteau&action=history&year=2013) Saibot84 (talk) 03:24, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
- <12:44, 26 April 2013> Amalthea (Protected Malamanteau: Repeatedly recreated ([Edit=Block all non-admin users] (indefinite) [Move=Block all non-admin users] (indefinite)))
- <12:43, 26 April 2013> Amalthea (-130) (Revert to revision by Amalthea)
- <11:34, 26 April 2013> IP_77... (+130) (Undid revision by Amalthea, restored the content)
- <13:25, 20 April 2013> Amalthea (-130) (In the absence of new reliable sources that can bring this beyond a dictionary entry, I think the consensus from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malamanteau still holds.)
- <13:07, 20 April 2013> IP_87... (+130) (restored the content from the comic)
- <22:07, 27 September 2012 Scottywong (+18) (redirect to xkcd)
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I have a feeling that the main point of this comic was that the words "portmanteau" and "neologism" (and maybe even "malapropism") appear disproportionately more on Wikipedia than other references. I certainly would agree with that sentiment. --Quicksilver (talk) 02:19, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
The page is still redirecting to the wikipedia page on xkcd, how long do you think it will be before the original content is restored? Whiskey07 (talk) 11:37, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
- Never. The page has now been fully, indefinitely protected. Good thing too. NealCruco (talk) 21:45, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
I tend to agree with Quicksilver's comment: not only is the comic poking fun at Wikipedia's propensity for using these words, but Randall's comic has created a page relying on almost no content _except_ these sorts of words. 220.127.116.11 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
"and a malapropism of "portmanteau"." I'm a little confused on how that is a malapropism.--126.96.36.199 09:42, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


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Could he have just said "Sorry, I was out sick"? Of course. Did he. Hell no!
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ApesWillRise.com launched today, and it consists entirely of a home page and a four second clip of a very serious looking ape glancing menacingly to his right. We can only assume that this is Caesar (Andy Serkis), the ape who incites the rebellion.
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Last week the film, which stars James Franco, received its fourth title, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," and now they've launched the shortest clip in promotional history. Has the marketing of this film been brilliant or moronic? Seeing as we're talking about it, probably the latter.
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We gotta admit, once you get past how maddeningly short this "apes" clip is, it looks great. The movie opens Aug. 5.


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