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Queen'splatekitten is a potential favourite in Sunday's Queen's Plate, but it's time to pause and reflect on 'the other kitten' that will leave the starting gate for a shot at the million-dollar prize - - the Joe Woodard trained Maple Leaf Kitten.
Woodard is a high-percentage trainer (235-78-40-29) saddling winners at a 33% clip, and his 78 wins in 2011 is good for ninth overall in North America. Woodard may not get the attention that other trainers in this win range (Baffert 74 wins, Maker 76) receive, but his talents are much appreciated by Maple Leaf Kitten's owner, Billy Hays.
"Joe is the best kept secret in the country," said Hays. "About five years ago we got on a streak at Churchill Downs and we won ten races in a row which was a Churchill Downs record and a major track record. We really weren't dropping horses to win. We had some long shots in there and were wining everything. We didn't even realize it was a streak until we got to five or six."
The streak started on May 13, 2005 when Woodard sent Lehigh Grad to victory. Over the next few weeks, Woodard recorded victories with Funky Pirate, Soaring with Eagles, Term in Office, Dayton Flyer, Mean Kisser, Cowboy Hardware, Native Bull, and Quick Blend.
"We won ten over a two week period and we actually had the eleventh race won and had a three-length lead coming down to the wire and lost by a nose," recalls Hays. "That would have made eleven and then we won three more in a row after that. By the time it was in the newspaper level we could have entered a donkey and been even money."
It was a special moment for the trainer.
"It was a fun run for us," Woodard said in a Thoroughbred Times interview. "I hope it was great for the racing fans. It sure was for us. We hate to see it end, but all things come to an end sooner or later."
The fun with Maple Leaf Kitten, however, is just beginning. Hays and Woodard claimed the chestnut son of Kitten's Joy for $75,000 from owner/breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey out of a Gulfstream turf race in March.
"I like the Kitten's Joy horses and most of them are runners," said Hays. "I felt like taking a shot and jumped in there and claimed him. Most of Mr. Ramsey's horses are good horses and we figured he had his good string at Gulfstream. I'm pleased. I think he's a good horse."
Handicappers can toss Maple Leaf Kitten's opening race lines into the litter box due to a combination of illness and inexperience.
"He ran green his first race or two. He had a lung infection the race we snatched him out of," explains Hays.
It seems the horse was also in need of a, 'time out'.
"He's a little rambunctious," said Woodard. "He's a big strapping, strong thing and when he rolls out in the mornings he likes to introduce himself to everyone at the track. He's a little wound up but he's settled down a bit now."
The conditioner took his time with the colt giving Maple Leaf Kitten a two-month break from racing.
"When we first got him up here, he was a handful and we backed off of him a little bit and taught him a few new things to get him to settle down a little bit," explained Woodard. "We've got some small paddocks out here so we gave him a little afternoon paddock time and just let him come down a little bit."
Maple Leaf Kitten returned to the races on Kentucky Derby day and had a troubled trip finishing fifth, beaten three and a half lengths.
"We ran him on Kentucky Derby day and the jockey (Corey Lanerie) said this horse will really like to stretch out. He got a terrible trip that day and got in all kinds of trouble," said Hays of the routing effort in Louisville. "He tried to go down the rail and then he tried to swing him out and he still only got beat three lengths".
Maple Leaf Kitten stretched out to nine furlongs on May 28 at Churchill Downs and put in a game effort rallying from off the pace to narrowly miss against a top Al Stall trainee, Shrill. The horse was supposed to race with blinkers on that afternoon, but a clerical error meant the horse had to race without the shades.
In his final Queen's Plate prep, Maple Leaf Kitten had blinkers on for a turf tilt at Indiana Downs and the equipment change was a major catalyst. Off to a slow start sitting tenth, eleven lengths in arrears at first call, Maple Leaf Kitten overcame traffic trouble with a strong outside rally to win by a head in a time of 1:37 and four. He earned a 71 Beyer in that effort.
"We came back with blinkers in the Indiana race and it worked out good," understated Woodard. "I'd of liked to have more distance for him than the mile but it turned out."
With the maiden score taken care of, the versatile 'kitten' is now preparing to try a new surface - - Woodbine's polytrack. The turf-to-poly angle was meant to be in double-effect for the Queen's Plate with Maple Leaf Kitten skedded to have a public turf workout at River Downs this past Sunday, but rain forced a new plan.
"They asked us to back out because of the weather," said Hays. "The turf course got real soft and the training centre I have is polytrack so we just decided to stay home and do it on the polytrack. He had a little half-mile blowout in 51 and 2 just to get a little air in him. He doesn't need a whole lot off of that last race."
Woodard is not too concerned with questions regarding surface or distance for Sunday's million-dollar event.
"It looks like he can run on anything. I don't think the polytrack will be a problem at all, he sure trains over it nicely at the training centre," said Woodard. "I think he's begging for the added distance. The further this horse goes, the better he's going to get."
The other notable tidbit on Maple Leaf Kitten's past performance sheet is that the horse will meet his sixth new rider in six lifetime starts as 2010 Eclipse Award winning apprentice Omar Moreno takes over from Ben Creed. Omar Moreno, currently sixth in the Woodbine jockey standings with 24 wins through Sunday, is a tough competitor and provides a welcome local edge.
With Queen'splatekitten likely to go to post at odds of less than 3-1 on Sunday, it stands to reason that the other son of Kitten's Joy deserves a second look at likely double-digit odds.
Queen'splatekitten is out of the Wild Again mare Iteration. Wild Again won the inaugural Breeders' Cup Classic and earned more than $2M in a 28-race career. Our other 'kitten' is out of the E Dubai mare Time to Indulge. E Dubai won the G2 Suburban Handicap traveling the classic distance to go along with a pair of second-place efforts in the G1 Travers and Super Derby.
Maple Leaf Kitten would need to jump more than ten points on his career-high Beyer speed figure of 71 to compete with Queen'splatekitten who consistently runs an 80+ Beyer number. But the horse is definitely one worth giving some extra consideration when the fur flies on Sunday.
"We've won races in nine states already this year at 12 different tracks," said Hays. "It would be nice to make it nine states and Canada."
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For more info on Joe Woodard, please visit his excellent website.
The annual Queen's Plate Barbecue was held in the Woodbine walking ring on Monday. It was a chance for local media to meet some of the contenders and their connections for Sunday's Queen's Plate. Below are some photos from the event.
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A swish of the tail from Budweiser Woodbine Oaks winner Inglorious
CTV interviews Josie Carroll
Many punters are sold on Check Your Soul
Winter book favourite Inglorious enjoys the sunshine
Will Hipploytus will unleash a mighty stretch run on Sunday?
A kiss for Curgone
Catherine Day Phillips is in charge of Head Honcho
The connections of Okiyama, which is Japanese for 'Big Mountain', hope their horse will peak in the Plate
Will One Big Gator say 'see you later' to the Queen's Plate field?
Put a bird on it
Silky smooth..
John Mattine and wife Joanne enjoy the festivities
Pender Harbour will try and keep the competition at bay
All signs point to Ojibway Signal enjoying the added distance of the Plate
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As always, keep track of the latest goings on in the world of horse racing by clicking into TripleDeadHeat's Woodbine News page or join in on the conversation by following TripleDeadHeat on Twitter.
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Back in 2004, I wrote about using a blog as an inexpensive content management system for your church and/or charity. Seeing how we measure technology in dog years, that article might as well have been written 42 Years ago.
Meaning, blogging systems such as MoveableType, ExpressionEngine, Blogger and WordPress have all matured from snot-nosed little kids into mature adults.
No better proof of that is the upcoming May 1 release of WordPress 3.0 which among its many new features, included are some considerable content management capabilities such as Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Easy Menu Management and WPMU Multi-site Capabilities.
Here are some examples of 4 big-boy features to bring this home:
WPMU Multi-site Capabilities
I've long been a proponent of microsites. Back when I ran the site for Redland from 1998-2004, I employed MoveableType mostly because it allowed me to quickly launch new sites under a subdomain that I could manage from a single admin panel. These included:
- Seasonal microsites, such as one for Advent, one for Christmas.
- Group microsites, such as for your youth group, or the adult choir.
Put in the parlance of an overworked and under-appreciated volunteer, it means you can go nuts with a micro-site strategy to presenting the various campaigns and groups within your organization.
As a coder with a healthy background in applications framework architecture and product management, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the ability to deploy once and reuse often. Even for a small enterprise, this capability offers big-league returns in deployment turn-around with higher overall quality.
Think of the WPMU capabilities in terms of a black box – that with this single install, you can take a more 'factory' approach to supporting your organization's web presence by taking a weekend to:
- offer a set of stock themes
- add multiple-language support
- run a single set of plug-ins across all sites
- take better control over your analytics
- install tools such as jQuery once, in one place
- enforce policy across the entire enterprise
- employ more effective caching strategies for media
And presto, you're cranking out sites faster than an errors in early season Orioles game.
Oh, it also means some of you brave souls can experiment shooting your foot clean off with converting WordPress into a social network via BuddyPress.
How this will all work with plug-ins that allow single-sign-on via FaceBook is still something I've yet to determine, but more on that particular technology path in an future post.
Custom Taxonomies
Traditionally categories, and to some degree tags, were the only way to identify the "genre" in which a post or set of posts belonged.
This was fine for managing the posts … but managing the actual categories and tags was a real pain in the posterior.
What Custom Taxonomies does is allow administrators greater flexibility and scaleability in managing their information hierarchy.
Put another way, you can now think of all your content in nice, deep outlines if you like … and they don't have to focus solely on content. Some of these outlines can include groups people within your organization.
Easy Menu Management
Before, if you wanted custom navigation, you had to get into the individual themes and edit the code. A logistical nightmare if you wanted switch themes and/or manage multiple sites.
The only other way around this was to find plug-ins that allowed you to filter down menus on categories, but this band-aid approach added a level of complexity that often would fail a site once it changed webmasters or needed to expand.
With the integration of custom taxonomies comes a need to better manage navigation through said information outlines.
Now, you can create menu schemes ahead of time, that if well named, can provide navigational clarity to the user based on context … and help you with creating effective conversion campaign funnels.
Custom Post Types
In earlier versions of WordPress, you had a wide variety of content options – so long as you only wanted to field content in the form of a page or a post.
Now you can create a contextual segments. Some that quickly come to mind are:
- Sermons
- Galleries
- Swag (think e-store)
My point being …
… WordPress isn't just a pimply little blogging tool anymore.
Instead, with judicious use of the above features coupled the right plug-ins, WordPress can become a light-weight yet powerful means of managing your organizations web presence without having to indulge the expense of a large, inflexible IT shop.
Put another way, WordPress 3.0 still nicely addresses the here-and-now while also providing you a basis for ever changing and/or emerging needs and trends … quickly … without forfeiting your future for a bowl of soup.
Still not convinced? Well ask yourself, is your resource-constrained IT infrastructure capable of managing your current backlog while remaining flexible enough to expand to whatever the heck social media and the web looks like in 2015? For those HYCW cult members who followed my advice in 2004, the answer to that question is yes!
Additional Reading
Don't take my word for it, here are some other articles on the upcoming release of WordPress 3.0 you may find informative and useful:


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America Ferrera took time out from promoting her film, "The Dry Land," at Sundance to give some interesting (potentially devastating) hints as to the future of her character on "Ugly Betty."
"As we kind of near the end of the fourth season," Ferrera tells ABC News. "A lot of things that have been anticipated in Betty's storyline are going to come to fruition."
Ferrera talks about the physical changes, but we already know that, braces, yada, yada. Here's the juicy part:
"New relationships," she adds. "Or old relationships that become new and kind of change a little bit."
When asked if previous love interests are going to come back, Ferrera answered: "I think it's more that the characters that are there, their relationships are going to transform or grow."
That definitely sounds like she's talking about "Project Detty," the much rumored scenario in which Betty and Daniel get romantically involved!
We thought there was hope for a nice romantic turn for Betty after Zap2it got confirmation that "Mad Men's" Rich Sommer was to guest as a possible recurring love interest for her. That could be just another complicated romantic misdirect before the big "Detty" reveal.
Here's what bothers us about the "Detty" hook-up. Daniel and Betty have become such good friends, almost like siblings. So, the idea of them getting together? It makes our skin crawl a bit.
Second, the original "Betty la Fea" series from Columbia ended with Betty hooking up with their "Daniel" character (and the fans went hysterical with anger, may we add). Does that mean "Ugly Betty" is preparing for this season to be its last or just "jumping the shark"?
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Managing flares
AS seems to have times when it flares up or worsens and times when it seems more manageable or settled. So, we have put together some advice on managing flares.
Talk to your rheumatologist or your GP about how you can adjust your usual medications if your AS flares. Find out the maximum dose to which you can safely increase your usual medications. Ask which other medications you can safely add.
So, if you are on an anti inflammatory such as naproxen, be clear about the maximum daily dose and know what dose of paracetamol you can safely add.
Write down the information you are given and keep it somewhere safe so you can refer to it when needed.
Make sure you have the medication you need and if you are travelling don't forget to pack it in your hand luggage. There's more information on travelling on the NASS website.
Avoid high impact exercise such as running if you are having a flare or feel you may have one coming on.
Talk to your physiotherapist about the type of gentle stretching exercises that would be most suitable for you during a flare.
There are suggested stretching exercises in our Back to Action exercise guide.
Practical measures
Take the time to write down a list of the things that you know make you feel better when your AS is worse and pin it up somewhere in your home.
That way you have some helpful pointers ready for if you do flare. Some things that people have told us make them feel better include:
A long, hot bath
Gently stretching in a long hot shower
Using an electric under-blanket in bed
Alternating between hot water bottles or wheat bags and ice packs
Watching your favourite DVD or playing your favourite music. Try keeping a special mood busting play list on your iPod for when you really feel down and stressed with your AS
Burn-out in AS - fact or fiction?
Some people with AS were told by their rheumatologist that their AS might 'burn out' eventually. By 'burn out' rheumatologists meant that the inflammation will stop along with most of the pain, tiredness and stiffness.
There are surprisingly few real facts about whether burn out does actually happen in AS. This is partly because measuring inflammation in the spine has been and remains a pretty inexact science.
Current thinking is that AS probably does burn out and become inactive for a few but we can't predict in who or when this might happen. Much more often burn out simply means that people are now able to tolerate symptoms which may have been ongoing for many years.


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APPLICATIONS OF ESTIMATION AND DETECTION THEORY IN DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS by Gautam Thatte A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Gautam Thatte
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Title | Applications of estimation and detection theory in decentralized networks |
Author | Thatte, Gautam |
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Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
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Degree program | Electrical Engineering |
School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
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Date published | 2010-09-16 |
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Narayanan, Shrikanth S. Sha, Fei |
Abstract | We explore three applications of decentralized networks in increasingly complex detection frameworks: unconstrained binary detection in computer networks, constrained binary detection in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and M-ary detection in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In each of these applications, the goal is to investigate the interactions between the estimation and detection components, as well as any constrained resources.; In the first application, parametric models for anomaly detection in computer networks are developed, wherein only aggregate traffic statistics are analyzed in order to detect network anomalies. Both synthetic and real attacks are used to validate our methods, and we find that simulated attacks as low as 12% can be detected in live traffic in just a few seconds. The effect of the smart adversary, wherein attack packet-sizes are chosen to match a percentage of background traffic packet-sizes, is investigated; the proposed method is able to detect attacks with up to 71% matched traffic.; The optimal allocation of transmission power, for the estimation of a scalar parameter in a wireless sensor network, given an overall power budget constraint, is then considered. The simple star topology is first considered, after which the results are extended to the branch, tree and linear topologies, and finally these topologies' applicability to the generalized topology case is presented. The optimal allocation policies are a function of measurement and channel noises, and evolve from sensor selection, to waterfilling, and finally to channel equalization.; The third application is activity-detection via heterogeneous sensors in a wireless body-area network. In particular, the number of samples allocated to each sensor is optimized to minimize the probability of misclassification. Using experimental data from overweight adolescent subjects, it is found that allocating a greater proportion of samples to sensors which better discriminate between certain activity-levels can result in either a lower probability of error or energy-savings ranging from 18% to 22%, in comparison to equal allocation of samples. The current activity of the subject and the performance requirements do not significantly affect the optimal allocation, but employing personalized models results in improved energy-efficiency. Furthermore, an alternate vector optimization is derived which significantly reduces the computational complexity of the original combinatorial optimization.; Finally, future directions for the work described in this dissertation are presented. |
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My 1 Year and 8 Months Son Has MG05/25/2010 |
He is diagnosed with MG, with this disease will he be able to live a normal life? he is taking mestinon 60mg tablet cut into half and half of it will be dissolve in 50ml sterile water. Only 1ml of it will be given 4x a day...I am so worried about him and he cant still walk at his age..
Diagnosing MG at a very young age is challenging, so my first recommendation would be to seek confirmation at the best possible center that you can get to.You really need to see a neuropediatrician who specializes in neuromuscular disorders (and those individuals can be very hard to find). Brenda Wong is such a person who works at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
I believe that the foundation of good care is an accurate diagnosis. In very young patients when the diagnosis of MG is considered, one must always think about congenital myasthenic syndromes. These diseases can share features with MG but have different treatments and prognoses.
I hope this helps. Best of luck with your son.
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I had a sudden influx of new followers yesterday thanks to some shared circle magic going on somewhere in Google+land. Excellent. I did my best to look through and follow back the majority of followers even though I'm well aware that the majority of that majority simply clicked to follow the shared circle blindly, trusting that the person sharing hadn't added some truly terrible people for a laugh (note to self: must do that) and I didn't even mind that some of the people weren't people I'd normally follow as I figured variety is the spice of life and I could remove them afterwards when I realised just how irritating their updates were.
However, it did get a bit crazy and I think I'm going to have to lay down a few ground rules – along with my reasoning – for following from now on:
1. If you're just resharing other people's content without even adding a line explaining why you're resharing it… then no.
Reason: you might just be trying to get the attention of people you're following for your own ego.
2. If you've got thousands of followers but are following hardly anybody… then definitely no.
Reason: you are almost certainly an egotistical little twunt who follows people, waits for a follow back, then removes in order to boost your fictional popularity.
3. If you've got no public posts at all… then no.
Reason: privacy is good, but it's impossible to get to know somebody without something out there.
4. If you've got the default avatar… then probably no.
Reason: it just looks awful. I have the aesthetics of my following badge to think about after all.
5. If you've not even attempted to fill out your profile… then probably no.
Reason: same as #3.
6. If you're hiding the people you follow or who follow you… then no.
Reason: I'd like to know if you're following me simply because, well, you're following everyone on the planet. I'd also like to know if everybody hates you and won't follow back.
7. If you post anything that's even remotely NSFW… then no.
Reason: I have no problem with NSFW when I'm not actually at W but when I am at W then the NSF bit is problematic and I can't risk you in my public stream.
I may think of some other reasons as time passes.
UPDATE: As with all rules, these are listed so that they may be broken as I see fit.
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Hurt/comfort is a fan fiction genre that involves the physical pain or emotional distress of one character, who is cared for by another character. The injury, sickness or other kind of hurt allows an exploration of the characters and their relationship.
Hurt/comfort may be abbreviated as H/C. If the emphasis is on the hurt aspect of the story, then H/c may be used instead. If there is absolutely no comfort and a lot of hurt, then the term Hurt/Hurt has been used. The amount of hurt portrayed may edge into torture, another sub-genre of Hurt/comfort.[1] Though not all character torture fans think of it as a h/c subgenre as the "comfort" part may not be important at all in some torture fic, and the point is not to hurt the character for an equal (or surpassing) comfort "pay off" as is the case with much h/c fic. (see the Talk page for discussion of the subgenre question)
Depending on the fandom and/or the author, H/C stories may also encompass BDSM elements to varying degrees.
The term whumping (or whump) refers to a form of H/C that is heavy on the hurt and often focuses on gen stories; it is similar to Muldertorture in X-Files fandom.
Brief History: Began as a "Get'em"
Hurt/comfort is one of the earliest genres of fan fiction. Originally, they were called "get" stories -- "get Spock", "get Kirk". The first "get" stories had no sexual content and were often light on the comfort.[2]
The Star Trek zine Contact contained both 'Get-' style and 'Hurt/comfort' style stories, as well as friendship stories between Kirk and Spock. An early example of the intermixed relationship between the 'Get-' style story and the 'Hurt/comfort' style is in the editorial for Contact #4 (1977), which used both of the terms interchangeably: "CONTACT seems to have become known as the 'get-em' zine of fandom. It abounds with pain and the hurt/comfort syndrome. This was never our original intention. Granted, we all have that masochistic streak that loves to see our heroes suffer…but four issues of ONLY this may have run its course."
By 1979 when "This Deadly Innocence (The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome)"[3] by Leslie Fish was produced, the term 'Get-' had fallen out of use and the term Hurt/Comfort was primarily being used. As one of the first Kirk/Spock stories ever published to make the leap from Gen to Slash[4], the tropes of Hurt/Comfort were well recognized.
Why the Appeal?
|The popularity and appeal of hurt/comfort is oft-discussed.
A fan in 1981 speculates on the popularity of H/C:A fan writes of how media has, in the past, let her down:A very simple reason lies in our social culture, where males are not supposed to show feelings, and homosexual relationships are frowned upon as unnatural and perverted. So, when is it acceptable to show emotions? Well, when someone is hurt, it is unkind to be unfeeling, so then real emotions can be shown, possibly pent-up ones saved from other times. I agree that most h/c stories are a bit overdone. I mean, if I were sick or wounded, I certainly wouldn't feel like expressing my undying love and devotion right then; I'd probably just lie there and suffer silently. Seriously wounded people are generally justifiably self-centered, unless they have some great responsibility for the safety of others, and then some can get up and keep on going. As for the rescuer, he is gonna be scared and out of breath and won't have much time for telling the hurt one how much he loves him, either. I've seen so much of that kind of thing in the ST stories that unless it is extremely emotional and well- written, it is rather unbelievable. Of course, they'll have time to talk when the injured person is recovering, but not right at the time of torture, shooting, beating, stabbing, etc. [5]
Like many fannish folk, I can remember, from earliest childhood, watching TV shows in search of -- something in the way of relationship between characters. I can also remember being generally disappointed. Jess Harper (a stunning young Robert Fuller) in Laramie, got shot or beaten up a lot. But his partner, Slim Sherman (John Smith), was almost never around to take care of him. On The Lawman, Peter Brown's character (handsome young deputy) was once kidnapped, beat up, and tied to a bed, and I think we got some concern from John Russell. I remember an episode of The Tall Man in which Billy the Kid (Clu Gulager, also very young and attractive) had been drugged, but Pat Garrett (Barry Sullivan) didn't do too much to help him. I did like it when Adam accidentally shot Little Joe on Bonanza, but then he went off into a guilt trip and a side plot involving a woman in whom he was interested. Which establishes in my mind the truism that hurt without comfort isn't really satisfying! The general procedure seemed to be endangerment, rescue, and fade to black, with absolutely no gratuitous touching or caring allowed. [6]
The Eroticization of Nurturance: H/C as a Trope Played Out in Slash Stories
Hurt/comfort often plays a specific role in the plot of slash. Hurt in first time slash stories generally exists to make one the caretaker of the other (often isolating the two of them together), which breaks down both physical and mental boundaries between them, which leads to realizations about each other, which leads to slash. (see also: Magical Healing Cock) Joanna Russ has said about these types of stories that:
Another fan sees the trope as disturbing:The nurturance in these stories is quite unreal, just as the misunderstandings, the scrupulousnesses, and the worries that keep the lovers from declaring themselves, are pure ritual, manufactured for the occasion. By "unreal" I don't mean simply glamorized or idealized but TOTALLY UNLIKE REALITY; if your beloved appears at your door bleeding and battered in real life, you probably don't feel a rush of erotic tendresse. In fact, once you've called for an ambulance, covered said beloved with a blanket, made sure the patient's head is lower than the patient's feet, and administered what medical help you can, you are far more likely to go into your bathroom and throw up. The nurturance in these tales is like Bette Davis's resolution in Jezebel to care for Henry Fond, who has yellow fever, while she looks heavenward (in a very becoming gown) and the sweetness of a thousand violins swells up on the sound-track. Nowhere do you see, for example, Fonda vomiting blood or Davis ugly with lack of sleep or resentful of her never-ending, grueling contact with such romantic objects as full bedpans.[7]
... the best that I have ever read in K/S is "This Deadly Innocence" by Leslie Fish. Its themes continue to impress their importance upon me. I thought of it when I read [C P's] letter in "Observation Deck". She says that she can't abide cruelty, but loves hurt/comfort stories. It seems to me that the underlying implication of h/c, as brilliantly shown by Leslie Fish, is extremely cruel. In these stories Kirk & Spock must be punished for loving each other. They can't show they care without paying the price of pain & anguish. [8]
To the dismay of fans who feel it is poor characterization, over time in many slash pairings the 'smaller guy' (usually the more popular character in a pairing) becomes more and more likely to be the one hurt, to the point that he actually seems to be shrinking in the descriptions used for him in fanfic.[9] H/C written in a well-established slash fandom often goes to one of two extremes: either the littler character is routinely getting hurt over and over in ways that would kill normal people, or perhaps worse, he overreacts to the application of paper cuts, and must be saved/cured by his all powerful partner.[10] This dynamic is larger than hurt/comfort, but is definitely related to it.
H/C as a Trope Played Out in Gen Stories
Close body contact tropes that don't lead to sex.
- Medicinal Snuggling: hypothermia, one sleeping bag and thou
- Gen Bed Sharing: slide on over, buddy, the bed's big enough for two
- Gen Bathing: showers, baths and, well, more showers and baths
H/C in Gen as a Substitute for Sex?
Some fans believe that the intimacy of close body contact and comfort in H/C gen stories can be a substitute for sex. Others disagree.
A fan in 1984 wrote:A fan in 1987 wrote:
A 2006 comment:Heavy friendship" fans seem to rely on hurt/comfort situations as the means for K and S to express their feelings for each other. I do still enjoy some h/c stories, but once I accepted K/S, I found most h/c situations to be incredibly masochistic. In essence, h/c stories say, "You are unlovable unless you're in pain." K/S is much healthier; they don't need excuses to love each other. [12]
In 2011, a fan cited This Deadly Innocence, Or The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome as groundbreaking meta:
A 2012 comment:I first read this story in 1979, and it's just as delightful today as it was then.Meta and fic go so well together, don't they? As soon as fans started writing fic, they began analyzing tropes, speculating and debating characterization, and commenting on the "why" of it all. Rereading "This Deadly Innocence" now reminded me of how often fic is used as part of the fannish debate. Back in the 70s, there was a lot of meta written about hurt/comfort As more and more Trek zines were published, so were more and more h/c stories (originally called get stories, i.e., "Get Spock", "Get Kirk", etc.) Along with this was lots of analysis and psychoanalysis as to what the appeal of h/c meant. Fans observed that many of these stories were written in order to get Spock (or Kirk) to show vulnerability, particularly emotional vulnerability. As the 70s continued, h/c stories became more and more extreme. Fans commented there seemed to be "more and more pain to reach that one moment of emotional confession/pay off." K/S had emerged from its early 1970s underground by 1976. A new concept was introduced into the fannish debate - that slash was a natural substitute for h/c – that sex should, and would, replace violence. "This Deadly Innocence or The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome" by Leslie Fish was written specifically to prove this point. In the author's words, in her interview in Jenna Sinclair's Legacy # 5 fanzine: ""This Deadly Innocence" was originally subtitled "The End of the Hurt-Comfort Syndrome" because, as many fans had been considering for years, the H-CS was indeed a euphemism for sex; a way for the characters to physically express powerful love for each other without venturing into dangerous' sexual territory. I got to thinking about just how dangerous the H-CS could become, and decided to expose it -- to the characters, and to the reading audience."
(It didn't work out that way – h/c didn't exactly go away; it is a genre all its own, both apart from slash and concurrent with slash.) [14]
... how I moved from gen to slash. I was reading all this gen Kirk&Spock h/c (yes, smarm, although I didn't know that word then) and I noticed a trend: the stories were getting more and more violent and traumatic to get the same effect (no, I had not read Leslie Fish's The Hurt/Comfort Syndrome, but I know what she was parodying.) It was squicking me. I discovered that by stepping over to the gay side, I could find fic with just as much emotional impact with much fewer missing limbs, avulsed eyeballs, etc. For a while I had to engage my suspension of disbelief as to whether Kirk and Spock would 'really' have a relationship, but I got used to that. [15]
Gen H/C and Sex as Discussed by Some Starsky and Hutch Fans
There was much discussion about this topic in Starsky and Hutch fandom in the letterzine S and H during 1981-82:
The incredible flood of hurt/comfort stories are so tantalizingly close to being sexual that it's almost painful (and funny). These writers turn out page after page of lovingly detailed torture and humiliation, loaded— albeit unconsciously--with sexual symbolism, solely for the purpose of flinging S&H into each other's arms and having them gasp: 'I love you...buddy.' 'I love you too, babe,' chaste kiss, fadeout. [16]
Mohave Crossing', 'Solitaire,' 'Wilderness', 'Bomb Scare,' and Copkiller [all Starsky and Hutch zine stories or zines] seem to fit your pattern ('page after page of lovingly detailed torture and humiliation...solely for the purpose of flinging S&H into each other's arms and having them gasp: 'I love you...buddy, I love you too, babe, chaste kiss, fade out.'). For that matter, so do "Shootout," "Coffin," "Survival," "Bloodbath," "Fix," and numerous other aired episodes... Perhaps I took your comments wrong, but they seem to imply that those of us who don't particularly care for the S/H theme are just kidding ourselves about latent sexual overtones present in the hurt/comfort (or get'em) genre. I believe you were saying that those of us who read and enjoy hurt/comfort instead of S/H aren't willing to admit that certain sexual connotations are present within the stories and aren't sophisticated enough to take it the final 'inevitable' step—S&H in bed together. I agree that hurt/comfort has its basis in sexual gratification but I'm not a psychologist so I can't explain why some of us stop short at hurt/comfort and others go on to S/H. I do know that most of us obtain a modicum of sexual pleasure from this kind of story. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. I really wish someone would do a study of it. As a child I got tummy twinges from seeing Little Joe Cartwright (among others) "get it" (as he so often did); as an adult...well, suffice it to say, I enjoy stories and TV shows offering this kind of fare immensely. [17]
I have to leap in on the discussion [J C] began last time, continued by [J W] and others--hurt/comfort and S/H. Many moons ago, before I knew fandom existed, my partner and I were writing all kinds of S&H. You name it, we wrote it—not particularly well, perhaps, but that's beside the point. And rarely did a tale get by without a good hefty dose of h/c. When you're gonna dent em, dent 'em good, was our motto—no way is Hutch going to cuddle him if he just tears a hangnail. Or vice versa. So Kick Hutch Week was followed by Stomp Starsky Week, and they and we got our jollies without any qualms of conscience on either side. Suddenly along came the Brave New World of Fandom, and we discovered there was a name for all this stuff. And we read 'Mojave Crossing,' and stopped writing h/c for a while, because we knew we couldn't top that. There from arose a problem—if no one gets dented, what happens to the emotional bits we love to write? So we were forced to stop and reexamine what we were writing and why, and the result of that was a step forward in the evolution of our writing. One thing, you might say, lead to another. Natural progression—h/c to S/H.And I bet someone is now going to jump on me for that... [18]
As in any genre, there are degrees of quality. I don't believe that the next step, or rather, the missing step in h/c is the bedroom. Compare a story like Mojave Crossing in which the love (and I emphatically do not mean sexual love) between the two characters is conveyed so well, with some of the lurid mutilation/humiliation scenes- that allow the characters to sob, 'I love you' only when death is moments away (presumably). What I meant to imply, what I will say now, is that scenes like these are very unhealthy ways of dealing with the emotions that occur between S&H. I perceive a sexual tension between the two men. I believe that the writers who deal almost exclusively (obsessively?) with h/c perceive that same tension, unconsciously, and are attempting to transmute it into more socially acceptable forms. What could become a sexual situation is neatly transformed into non-threatening titillation—no Mary Sues, no Other Women and no hint of homosexuality...at least most of the time. The unconscious sexual symbolism that I mentioned doesn't exist in all get'ems, but I can think of a few examples right off the bat. [19]
It is a matter of taste and preference, not of sophistication; and S/H is not a natural sequel to h/c. S/H and h/c fans tend to separate into distinct and mutually exclusive groups. S/H readers don't much care for h/c—as a friend of mine observed, 'There are better things to do with those glorious bodies than mangle them' --and vice versa; S/H writers don't do h/c stories and vice versa. Exceptions are quite rare. [20]
This story includes agony that runs the gamut from sexual assault (the beautiful blond gets it in this one, but details are mercifully left out) to Starsky being beaten with a tree branch (see page 23 if you think I jest). What I want to know is why do this to characters that you love? Why hurt them like this in order to get them to touch one another? [21]
[It's] something I've been wanting to say about h/c for a long time, and this from an S/H person -- is h/c really all that bad? Okay, I agree, when that's the only reason for a story, then h/c is being done in excess. And I must confess, when I first got into S&H I really got off on h/c, but after awhile I got so sick of that being the only reason for them to touch, be emotional, cuddle, be sensitive to each other, etc. S/H is a lot more fun, alot more satisfying and is a lot more realistic. [22]
I don't know WHY I am attracted to the male/male relationship and I am not that turned off by the lesbian relationship. All I know is that it gives me a funny feeling in the throat, or the stomach or somewhere when I read the scenes. Similar to the good h/c scenes only more so, but it also depends on how well the explicit sexual scenes are done. [23]
Hurt/Comfort as Manifestation of Friendship
In a 2014 review of the 1977 Starsky & Hutch zine "Zebra Three #1", a fan says "friendship is something lots of people value deeply but culturally don't know how to express very well...hurt/comfort unearths the depth and extent of a friendship by making the characters prove it." The essay goes on to describe the difficulties with writing good hurt/comfort, and describes a scene from the gen story "Mojave Crossing" as an example of the power of well-written hurt/comfort in articulating the emotional bonds of a beloved fictional friendship:
...nowadays, it's hard to do it in a hurt/comfort scene because hurt/comfort fanfic is so...well...overdone. No1curr if you threaten the character's life or not, because everyone's seen it all before. Not just in S&H fandom, but in all fandom, everywhere. Doesn't mean brilliant hurt/comfort isn't possible, but that luminous, suspended sublime moment is hard to write if you have too much of the 287573 other hurt/comfort fics you've previously read for these particular characters floating in your mind, because it's very hard to be caught off guard by it – to be caught off-guard, the writer has to be unique in how they write it, not just what they write... ...Hutch is slowly bleeding to death from a bullet wound, Starsky is blinded and trying to comfort him, both of them are stranded in the desert, weak with exhaustion and exposure and dehydration, waiting for help to arrive before they die. And everything else is stripped away to show the extent of their adoration of and tenderness for each other, of the suffering from their injuries and strain and trauma, of the even worse suffering of not being able to save their best friend, and of the terror and desolation of knowing their partner is going to die....[the h/c is] very controlled and restrained...Incredibly tender, very harsh, and very bold. One of my biggest frustrations with h/c is how mediocre h/c is so static and unsurprising -- "Oh noes, he's hurt!"/"Oh good, he's okay!" and that's all she wrote. Blah, blah, tell us something we don't know. This fic is not just h/c. It contains the "oh noes! He's hurt!" gut-punch factor, but that's just the red herring, not the main point. Other stuff, all interrelated, is going on, but the main point of the story is the illumination and revelation of how much love and selflessness they are capable of, how entwined they are, how intense the link between them is, how much pain a loved one's death causes...slow, sweet, dark, ruthless, and aching with love being ripped cruelly away by death. Their interaction reaches a fever pitch of emotional torque where it becomes, like I said before, luminous and hushed and delicately suspended in a little pocket universe ...[24]
Hurt/Comfort as a Tension and Release, as a Way to Fill in the Blanks
From a 2016 conversation:[thesnadger.tumblr]: Hurt/Comfort is such an interesting thing. It's basically an entire genre of fanfiction. I'd argue it satisfies a very basic, vital need–the same way that horror satisfies the basic need to be scared in a safe, controllable space.And yet it doesn't really have an equivalent outside of fan culture. "Tearjerkers" can sometimes come close, they're probably the closest thing to a mainstream hurt/comfort genre that there is. But those types of books and movies don't usually focus on the "comfort" aspect in the same way, and don't make use of tension and release. I think every good hurt/comfort fic makes use of tension and release just as horror does, whether the writer is consciously aware of it or not. Though of course the tension and release in h/c comes from different sources than in horror. Instead of anticipating something frightening, you anticipate the intimacy and/or validation that comes from the "comfort" part you know is eventually coming. That's what provides release of the tension built up during the "hurt" scenes.
I could write a goddamned essay about this it's so fascinating.
[response by fandomisreality.tumblr.]: This is a great definition/analysis of it! I've been interested in this too. It's always been my favorite fanfiction genre. It's to the point where reading just angst is not enough, there is something left unfulfilled if the character does not have the 'tension and release' and just remains under whatever stressor at the end. I think part of the reason I like it so much, is often in mainstream media characters DO NOT have that 'healing moment', shall we say. Too often, there may be a sad/traumatic/stressful event and the character is shown to just pick themselves up from it and move on like nothing happened. Which is not realistic as we all know, so I think the hurt/comfort genre in fanfiction is a kind of a response to that. The "filling in the blanks" of when a character needs a moment of healing or validation to continue onward, because that in a sense is more relatable then the "super hero" character who can move through it like nothing damaged them. [25]
Getting the Balance Right
How much h/c is too much? Many fans have a line of comfort.
A fan in 2004 comments on a Due South story:One of the things I love about this story is the perfect balance of h/c. Yes, Ray is hurt. And yes, Fraser takes care of him. But it's a regular bar fight he was in, and while he might be sore and cranky, he's really not seriously hurt, which I love. I like my guys getting a little beat up, but I don't want them on like, feeding tubes or anything. The h/c in this story serves it's purpose, which is to indicate some of the growing physical attraction between Fraser and Ray, and also demonstrate the closeness between the two of them. [26]
Changes Over the Years?
Some fans feel that hurt/comfort fanfic is more of an old-school fandom trope. [need examples], and that "modern" fanfiction relies less upon it. It is difficult to know if this is true, or if the trope has simply become more refined and/or sophisticated in its application.
In 2002, a fan attributed this change to fiction's platform, though this fan's perception of a shift may have had more to do with the fanfiction's delivery system than in content:I remember in the old days of zines there were stories people tended to call 'get 'em's' where it seemed the whole purpose was to see how much a character could suffer. When I write hurt/comfort, I tend to be working toward the comfort part of the equation, whether it's just the quiet support of a friend or more intense support. The comfort part for me is the affirmation of the friendship and loyalty, and when I write it, that affirmation is the purpose. The hurt part is just a way to get to that point. I somehow don't think h/c means quite the same thing in online fanfic than it used to mean in the old style zines. [27]
Gallery with Examples of H/C Fanart
Spock and Bones, art from T-Negative #15, Jackie Franke (1972)
inside art from Interphase #1, art by Connie Faddis (1975)
Kirk and Spock on the cover of Contact 4, art by Russ Volker (1977)
Starsky and Hutch in Promises to Keep, art by Paulie (1979)
classic hurt/comfort art with Spock comforting a badly whipped Kirk. Art by Michael Verina from Starborne (1979)
Kirk and Spock in Precessional, artist unknown (1980)
Chewbacca and Han in Kessel Slave (1984)
Doyle and Bodie, inside art by Kate in Discovered on a Rooftop (1985)
inside pages from Finish the Story, art by S.C. Hall shows A.J. Simon looking pretty happy about some h/c (1985)
Harlequin Airs interior artwork by Suzan Lovett showing a bound and gagged Doyle being kissed by Bodie. This is felt by some to be one of the best examples of h/c slash artwork. (1993)
the cover of The Plain and Simple Zine #4, Bashir comforts Garak, artist is TACS (1995)
two real ghostbusters on the cover of Tasks of the Chosen, art by Marty Siegrist (1995)
Peter Caine and his dad in Bitter Blood, art by TACS (1996)
interior of No Beach to Walk On, by Gamin Davis (2000)
cover of Ouch!, a zine series specializing in H/C fiction (2001)
Han and Leia, by Laura Quilles, in Imperium (2003)
Jim and Blair in Conflicted and Assuaged, art by Lorraine Brevig (2005)
Sam and Dean in You'll Thank Me When It's Wednesday! (2008)
Walk Away Victorious, Merlin/Arthur fanart by novemberlite (2011)
Digital art by deviantartist Hootsweets of a sick Frank Iero and worried Gerard Way (2012)
Specific H/C Tropes in Fanfic
Not all stories with these elements are H/C, but they can frequently be found in H/C stories.
- Amnesia: Usually including the partner's pain in being forgotten or unappreciated.
- Disability fic: Includes blindness, amputation, paralysis, and other permanent injury.
- Brain damage: Sometimes seen as a subset of disability fic, these are stories where one BSO is made permanently child-like. Examples include: Gentle on My Mind and sequels in The Professionals, the Highlander "Teddy Bear" stories, "Changes" in The Sentinel, "Goodbye to Dreams" in SG-1. Since these stories often include sex, some people have said they fulfill the same needs as chanslash in other fandoms. There are however also brain damage stories in which the BSO does not end up child-like, but with other effects from a brain injury, such as aphasia[28], seizures[29], partial paralysis, etc.
- Coma: One of the partners is in a coma for a brief or extended period of time. Example: Distant Shores, an epic Starsky & Hutch slash novel by April Valentine, wherein Hutch is kidnapped, presumed dead by Starsky and everyone else, but actually has been in a coma in Australia for several years.
- Death stories: Sometimes written as all hurt, no comfort; sometimes the comfort is aimed at the BSO who didn't die.
- Presumed Dead: Deathfic with a happy ending, when the dead character turns out to be alive.
- Attempted Suicide: Subgenre of suicide fic where one of the characters attempts to commit suicide but is either prevented by another character and/or comforted after the attempt by one or more other characters.
- Rape recovery: Rapefic stories that concentrate much more on the recovery than the rape itself. Examples include Being an Anchor by Lanning Cook in Sports Night.
- Snifflefic: Stories with very minor hurt, in which the point was the comfort: putting them to bed, making them tea, seeing them cossetted. First used in reference to The Professionals story, Fever, by Pam Rose.
- Degenerative illness: Stories where the author's woobie develops cancer, AIDS, or other lingering, long-term degenerative illness. Examples include Dancing on Glass by Em Brunson in Sports Night, PuddleJumper Estates and ZPM Enterprises in SGA, possibly Helpless in Sherlock (BBC).
- Torture: Injuring the character over and over again using extreme measures. Very popular in Highlander fandom, as the main characters were immortal and regenerated.
- Amateur Surgery: When one character, usually not a doctor, has to perform a life-saving surgical procedure on another character. A variation has him or her assisting in a primitive field surgery.
Common H/C Types by Fandom
- Age of Sail: Disability fic, primarily amputation.
- Blake's 7: According to executrix, "A lot of Blakes7 stories are referred to as BUARA (Beat Up and Rape Avon), which I believe is the B7 equivalent of a "Get-Spock" story." The term is defined at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site as "used for slash stories where Avon suffers terribly, but almost invariably without any permanent damage." [30]
- Highlander: Methostorture, featuring works by Barb G, Juxian Tang, Maygra, and Mairead Triste.
- The Lord of the Rings/FPF: In hobbit fic, Frodo is the character who is most often sick or injured. His suffering may be related to his ordeal on the Quest and the loss of the Ring. Frodo tends to be cared for lovingly and well by all the other characters, including many original characters from the Houses of Healing. The FrodoHealers Yahoo! group, which allows only gen stories, had 3754 posts between June 1, 2002, and May 31, 2003.[31] PippinHealers is a smaller but still consistently active group. See also Hurt/Comfort recs at lotr_fic_recs.
- Original Slash: Manna Francis's Administration series and maculategiraffe's slavefic The Slave Breakers are both examples of original slash darkfic.
- The Phantom Menace: Soulbonding, with a side of BDSM.
- The Sentinel: Smarm bridged the gap between slash and gen, and a lot of Hurt/comfort writers were drawn to it, such as Martha. Ordeal, Snake Oil, and Cake is a series of H/C stories by Martha focused on Blair as the woobie, while The Dragon by Mairead Triste focused more on Jim. Kitty and Martha's Beach, 78 chapters of "platonic" h/c, may still be the paradigmatic smarm story. [32]
- Starsky & Hutch: Elspethdixon said: "My general memory/impression is that pretty much all Starsky & Hutch fic of reasonable length is h/c of the old school variety." [33]
- The X-Files: See Muldertorture.
- Dragon Age: slavefic, especially of the "Magister A/U" subgenre.
Fannish Essays and Meta About H/C: Further Reading
- A Medical View of Hurt/Comfort by Vonne Shepard (1996)
- We Always Hurt the Ones We Love by Lucy Gillam (1999)
- We Always Hurt the One We Love ... and then turn him into a sorry-ass, emasculated, mentally unstable, whiny, co-dependent tag-along by Helena Handbasket [34] (1999)
- Fanfic Content Intensity Ratings: Rating the Pain and Smarm in a Story, Archived version by Kitty Woldow (late 1990s? early 2000s?)
- Hurt/Comfort: A Confession and a Celebration by Renae (2000)
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Characters by Lucy Gillam (2000)
- Why Does Obi-Wan Get All the Pain in TPM H/C Fic? by Alias Solo
- The Overuse of H/C by delle (2000)
- The Less Than Legendary Journeys: Apology Fic II: The Mission, Archived version (2005)
- H/c and me: An autoethnographic account of a troubled love affair (2011)
H/C in Academic Writing About Fandom
Camille Bacon-Smith, famously, decided that h/c was the secret cornerstone of fanfiction in Enterprising Women.[35]
In "Queering Popular Culture", Susanne Jung says, Mirna Cicioni discusses similar instances of comforting in her analysis of the "hurt/comfort" genre which she characterizes as an "eroticization of nurturance." With one partner satisfying a basic need of the other - providing warmth, food or emotional reassurance - elements like warmth or food, "although not specifically sexual in themselves [. . .] are eroticised because they give a physical dimension to the closeness of the bond between the partners and lead to, or become a part of, an intimacy that also has a sexual component". [36][37]
In her essay, "Women Reading Men," feminist film critic Christine Gledhill discusses the figure of "The Wounded Man," who "may cross over the gender divide, playing to a fantasy of similarity and rapproachment." Gledhill further notes that: "one attraction to this figure is its capacity to redress the power balance between the sexes--to force the male into the position of the woman. In so doing the wounding of the man, whether physical or psychological, makes the male figure accessible to the female imagination." [38]
- ↑ Rosa's Hurtin' For Comfort rec page circa April 2002 (via Wayback Machine) Accessed October 12, 2008
- ↑ The outrageous "Revenge", written by Dee L. Meuser (Warp 9 1), and the early stories of Jennifer Guttridge (published in Tricorder Readings) are prime examples of the type.
- ↑ The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome by Leslie Fish on the K/S Archive, originally in Naked Times #3
- ↑ epic recs on This Deadly Innocence
- ↑ from S and H #21
- ↑ from Frienz #25
- ↑ Russ, Joanna in the essay Pornography, by women, for women in Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts
- ↑ from Not Tonight Spock! #10
- ↑ Rana Eros, Travel Size for Your Convenience. Hosted at the Fanfic Symposium, 21 January 2002, accessed 20 October 2008.
- ↑ Lorelei Jones, The Damsel in Distress Syndrome. Hosted at the Fanfic Symposium, 17 November 1999, accessed 20 October 2008.
- ↑ from Not Tonight, Spock! #4 (1984)
- ↑ from SocioTrek #3 (1987)
- ↑ comment by p.r. zed at Nothing Left to Lose by Jane and Madelaine Ingram; archive link, review at CI5hq
- ↑ from a fan in 2011, The K/S Press #174
- ↑ Memories; WebCite; archive link, vass, discusses slash, kinks, and RPF and chan shunning (April 5, 2012)
- ↑ from S and H #19 (March 1981)
- ↑ from S and H #20 (April 1981)
- ↑ from S and H #20 (April 1981)
- ↑ from S and H #20 (April 1981)
- ↑ from S and H #20 (April 1981)
- ↑ from S and H #29 (January 1982), from a review of Judge and Jury
- ↑ from S and H #29 (January 1982)
- ↑ from S and H #29 (January 1982), this is a fan's reaction to drawerfic as the only slash Starsky and Hutch zine printed at that point in time was the non-explicit Forever Autumn
- ↑ Reading a 1977 zine in 2014: Zebra Three #1, Archived version
- ↑ Fans Talking about Fandom, Archived version
- ↑ 2004 rec for The Better Angels at Crack Van
- ↑ Sheila Paulson at Gen Fic Crit, September 2002
- ↑ For example, SGA fics Rebuilding Babel [1] by fiercelydreamed and the aphasic John series by busaikko.
- ↑ For example, SGA fic Wear a Rainbow by busaikko.
- ↑ Blake's 7 Fanzine terminology (Accessed October 16, 2008)
- ↑ FrodoHealers Yahoo! group. Accessed Oct. 27, 2008.
- ↑ Lucy Gillam. The Death of Smarm. Posted 26 September 1999. (Accessed 21 October 2008)
- ↑ On wickedwords' journal
- ↑ We Always Hurt the One We Love... and then turn him into a sorry-ass, emasculated, mentally unstable, whiny, co-dependent tag-along (Accessed 27 October 2008); Webcite.
- ↑ Bacon-Smith, Camille. Enterprising Women. Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1992.
- ↑ Queering Popular Culture: Female Spectators and the Appeal of Writing Slash Fan Fiction, by Susanne Jung, University of Tübingen, Germany
- ↑ Cicioni, Mirna. "Male Pair-Bonds and Female Desire in Fan Slash Writing." Theorizing Fandom. Fans, Subculture, and Identity. Ed. Cheryl Harris and Alison Alexander. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 1998. 153-77.
- ↑ Christine Gledhill, "Women Reading Men," Me Jane: Masculinity, Movies, and Women, ed. Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumen. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.) 86-7.


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The Great Washington Motorcycle Loop: The Holy Visit to Walking Man Brewing
Well, in about 2 hours we officially disembark on our 2010 great motorcycle ride. This is the 2nd Annual version of our ride, which includes four of my closest friends and required cowboy camping (sleeping bag only). Needless to say – I am excited.
Our journey has been described as a "Great Washington Loop" and can essentially be any looping motion around a portion of the State of Washington. Last year, the inaugural ride involved a ride along Washington's State Highway 101, starting in Seattle, heading west to Port Angeles, out to Forks, through the Hoh Rain Forest, down to Aberdeen and back up to Seattle. So, the goal is to never touch the same road twice – a loop.
This year's version had to include an epic brewery visit. It just had to. Along with me will be Mark Leavens, a contributor here at Beer Blotter and former assistant brewer for the cult classic, Gilligan's Brewing. This gave me a little bit of beer support to let the group know that we would not be riding, sans brewery stop.
There was really only one place in Washington that I have yet to visit – the Columbia Gorge. Wouldn't you know it? There is one brewery I have died to visit since moving here over 3 years ago – Walking Man Brewing in the Columbia Gorge.
So, we decided on this loop, South to Mt. St. Helens, further South to the Columbia Gorge, East to Yakima Valley, and North back through Mt. Rainier. You can check out our route by following this link.
Walking Man is a damn good brewer, offering such classics as Black Cherry Stout (our editor's favorite beer), Homo Erectus Imperial IPA, Jaywalker Imperial Stout and Old Stumblefoot Barleywine.
Each of Walking Man's beers are hand-crafted, meticulously refined and dang it, delicious. Their beer is probably the best received on Rate Beer, of any Washington brewer. On top of that, Walking Man offers a brewpub with some pretty impressive food options. We will stop by tomorrow afternoon and check it out.
After that, I hope to make a stop in Yakima to find some Yakima Craft Brewing ales on tap. I tend to remember a place downtown on 3rd Street that poured many of their ales. But, this one is for you readers – anyone know where to find their beer on tap? Please let me know, by sending a comment below.
The trip is going to be one hell of a ride. The weather is looking up at 85-90 the entire time with zero rain in sight (crossed fingers). If you are free this weekend, it would be a great time to get out and do a beer trip!
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You'll love the herby fragrance that rosemary gives to these deliciously different apricot loaves as they're baking, assures Audrey Thibodeau of Mesa, Arizona.
84 Lemon Recipes from Tart to Sweet
- 1-1/2 cups apricot nectar
- 1-1/2 cups chopped pitted dates
- 1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1-1/4 teaspoons dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup evaporated milk
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- In a saucepan, combine apricot nectar, dates and apricots. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in orange peel and rosemary; cook for 10-15 minutes. In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and milk. Combine flour and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with date mixture, beating just until combined. Pour into two greased and floured 8-in. x 4-in. loaf pans. Bake at 375° for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Yield: 2 loaves.
Originally published as Rosemary Apricot Loaves in Country Woman
January/February 1999, p41
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A police officer involved in a weekend standoff that left a 107-year-old Arkansas man dead has been placed on paid leave, authorities said Tuesday.
Pine Bluff Police Sgt. David DeFoor said the officer was placed on administrative leave immediately after he shot at Monroe Isadore, who opened fire on authorities.
"That is department policy when there's an officer-involved shooting that they're put on admin leave until the investigation is completed," DeFoor said.
Police would not identify the officer, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing. DeFoor said he believed the officer placed on leave was the only one who fired at Isadore.
Authorities have said they tried using a camera, negotiating tactics, and gas before shooting Isadore. But that hasn't answered questions from residents in Pine Bluff, a community of about 50,000 people some 45 miles southeast of Little Rock. Some are struggling to make sense of how someone known as a pleasant, churchgoing man who was hard of hearing and sometimes used a cane could die in such an explosive confrontation.
The fatal shooting happened Saturday after police said they were called to a domestic disturbance at the house where Isadore was staying.
Laurie Barlow, 48, of Lonoke, told officers she had gone to the house where Isadore was living temporarily to help him move to a new home, according to a police report. She said Isadore had previously been excited about the move but that when she arrived Isadore barricaded himself in a room.
"Ms. Barlow stated his granddaughter finally got him to open the door and she went around to speak with Mr. Isadore, at that time she stated Mr. Isadore raised his arm and pointed a gun at her and stated `You better stop breaking in to my house,'" the report said.
After police moved Barlow and the granddaughter across the street, Isadore fired at a door moments after police tried to contact him. A SWAT team, called out when negotiations failed, maneuvered a camera into the house to see how Isadore was armed, then stormed inside after deploying gas and a distraction device, the report said. When Isadore fired, the entry team fired back.
It's not clear why authorities moved into the home when they did.
"I don't know what was going at the scene that would make them go ahead and go in," DeFoor said. "When shots are fired, it changes the whole idea of let's sit out here and wait."
Prosecutors are expected to review the case as early as this week.
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By Chris Kieffer
Daily Journal
BOONEVILLE – Booneville Middle School students received laptops on Tuesday night as part of the school district's new one-to-one technology initiative.
Each of the 1,300 kindergarten through 12th-graders in the district will receive personal technology under the initiative. That includes iPad Minis for kindergartners and first-graders, and Chromebook laptops for those in grades two and above.
"We are wanting to give them real-world experiences," said Superintendent Todd English. "Our goal is to prepare our students to be able to compete globally upon graduating from the Booneville School District. If our kids can't compete globally, we've failed."
The initiative is funded by a $1.2 million grant the school district received from Gov. Phil Bryant's budget for the current year, English said. The district had pitched it to Bryant as a pilot to show the cost savings of using digital textbooks, English said. The biggest barrier was the up-front cost of the technology.
He said C Spire Wireless will expand wireless Internet access in all of the district's school buildings.
"I said the cost savings are phenomenal, if you can get over the device hurdle," English said. "I said, if you allow us to do it, it will be implemented correctly."
Hattiesburg Middle also received a similar grant, English said.
The high school students have already received their computers and begun using them. Technology to other students will be distributed soon.
Those in fifth through 12th grade will take the technology home, while a decision is still being made for second- to fourth-graders. The kindergarten and first-grade students will use them in their classroom.
Other Northeast Mississippi school districts are implementing new computer initiatives, including Corinth, which also announced one recently.