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#70) My friends have recently been dropping the show ["Friendship is Magic] and I feel kind of left out. Also, my boyfriend is a non-Brony and completely detests the show. I fear telling him that I like the show purely because he is unpredictable. I want to stay with him but I fear losing him.
Answer: First of all, let's approach the issue with your boyfriend. If he doesn't like the show that's fair enough, but he has no right to govern the kind of entertainment that you watch, and neither should you fear telling him such a trivial thing. Strong relationships are built on acceptance and mutual respect; he doesn't have to like the show, but he shouldn't be in any position to make you feel bad for being into it. You can have different interests to the person you're in a relationship with (in some cases those different interests can strengthen a relationship and broaden your own interests) and you should feel comfortable enough with this person to share the fact that you like a TV show.
"Friendship is Magic" is, after all, just a TV show. I don't care if your boyfriend is unpredictable what right does he have to make you feel guilty about something utterly harmless? You should have the strength to tell him that you're into it, and, if you truly do fear what he might do because he's 'unpredictable', you might want to question why you're in a relationship with this person in the first place. What kind of a boyfriend would break up with you based on you mentioning 'losing him' because you like watching a show and engaging with a fandom based on it? It doesn't say much about his character, nor your relationship, if he'd break up with you over something so ridiculous.
With your friends, it's important to remember that people change and a lot of interests change with that. You can't expect people to linger in the same place for too long, and, just as with your boyfriend, you need to learn to be more independent. You don't necessarily need to have friends who are into the show in order to enjoy it; you should be confident enough in your own interests and opinions to like things regardless of whether other people like them. If your friends are drifting, you may benefit from trying to make some friends in the fandom. If you don't have many at the moment, it's not hard to make some a lot of the DA brony community are kind and welcoming people.
Don't neglect your existing friends, though, and be sure to keep other interests yourself. If your friends are moving away from MLP, chances are they've found something else that they enjoy. You may find that you enjoy whatever that may be as well. Don't change for the sake of others, but don't be afraid to give a variety of things a shot. Your friends, if they're real friends, won't fall out with you just because you have this one tiny interest that differs from their own, and I'd like to think your boyfriend, if he's a half-decent person, wouldn't either.
#71) I have been reading My Little Pony fanfiction for a while now and some contains implicit or explicit depictions of sex. I don't do this as a way to get off or receive sexual stimulation, but rather value the quality of the writing and relationship-building. What is your position on the so-called 'clopfics' and other similar sensual fiction? Is it as bad as the outright r34 image porn, or have a legitimate place within the appropriate 'niches'?
p.s. What stories I am referring are 'the good stuff', i.e. well written and developed stories that contain sex, as compared to the short and shallow 'and then they fucked' shipping stories
Answer: Another Brony Advice, another porn-related question. Good job old Mexican stand-off Parasprite is up there at the top of the page to shoot any pony rustlers who get a little too horny. Yeehaw!
The gist of your comment seems to be that you don't masturbate to stories containing sex, but you do deem them to be useful tools in character-building. Sex is featured in all sorts of excellent films, TV shows and literature, and it's not exactly a bad thing. It can definitely make writing a lot more interesting and adds an element to a story that might not have been there without it. It's not always necessary some TV shows take it too far for no real reason (A Game of Thrones?) - but it's not necessarily damaging. Now, you've asked a bunch of questions that each require a different sort of argument. Firstly, I'll engage with your question about it being as bad as rule 34 images of ponies.
Personally, I don't think that it is, and we can use a real-life example here to enforce why. When Fifty Shades of Grey was selling in the bucket-loads over the summer, I saw it being sold in supermarkets in front of everyone literally the moment you walked into the shop. I saw parents buying it for their young daughters, and I saw nothing in the way of a mature warning on the book or the stand that the book was being sold on. While I personally lamented how an erotic novel was being sold without any form of boundary, it did prove a point people don't react the same way to erotic literature as they do to images. I imagine if a picture of a woman performing oral sex on a chap was put up in the shop, people would be far quicker to object.
There are surely a lot of reasons for why literature isn't deemed as damaging as images. I'd say that in terms of sheltering kids, most youngsters wouldn't bother reading a long bit of fanfiction, because they either wouldn't understand it or wouldn't have the patience for it. Literature requires a lot of imagination and the ability to visualise based on what you already know if a seven year old read about oral sex, they probably wouldn't really be able to picture it, nor understand its application or purpose, and therefore wouldn't really think much of it.
With an image, however, the vision is put into your mind instantly. You don't have to draw on something in your head it's already there, and it's much more immediate. Therefore, in terms of 'bad' as being gauged by how much damage it could cause, I'd suggest that images and art of the erotic nature are certainly capable of making a more obvious impression upon people, and would therefore, in your words, be worse.
Now, as for my opinion on clop-fics, I again follow the same sort of argument, although I would point out that just because one (images) is worse than the other (clop-fiction), doesn't in any way make either of them good it just makes one the lesser of two evils. I have no interest in clop-fiction, but I would draw a line between mature fiction with sexual themes and clop. There's a deliberate style employed in the writing of erotic fiction that quite clearly tips the reader off about its content. An example of clop 'language' would be:
'He gripped his throbbing _____ and shoved it into her ____, making her scream in ____, _____ her arms about as he took deeper _____ into her _____ until he ____ in a shower of ____'
It's all very descriptive, largely unrealistic and overblown, and designed to throw as many adjectives in there as possible to describe what is essentially a fairly routine and basic series of actions. It's written in this way because a lot of these words are tags that arouse a reader interested in that sort of thing. Compare that to something more akin to mature fiction, and you'll find that, while sex can still be present, it isn't described in that over-the-top kind of way, and is usually a more subtle affair.
Clop, as it's collectively known now, isn't fine literature, and it isn't ever going to win an award for being edgy and intelligent it's written largely by horny individuals who are catering for other horny individuals with the sole purpose of getting them to orgasm. Some may attempt to have detailed storylines, but when the over-stuffed adjectives and ridiculous euphemisms enter the mix, it sacrifices its general quality and prestige. Note that I'm not suggesting that sex in any way ruins a text; I'm merely pointing out that erotica written as erotica has a very common and easily-identified style (as emulated above) that doesn't really ignite the fires of literary genius.
#72) I love the fandom and consider myself a brony but I don't really like the show. I haven't seen many of the episodes [of "Friendship is Magic"] but I write a lot of fanfiction and draw pictures of the characters. Is this normal or do most bronies like the show?
Answer: I'd imagine that most bronies like the show. I'm not saying that they all worship the ground that it walks on and sit around in front of the TV just waiting for the next episode to come out, but it's fairly reasonable to assume that most bronies keep up-to-date with it, for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it allows them to keep track of what new characters are being introduced and how existing characters may be developing. Secondly, it saves them from falling behind when others will be discussing it around them. And thirdly, y'know, it's a pretty good show.
That said, while many like the show, I'm sure there are a lot who would consider the fandom to be the real thrill of "Friendship is Magic", and so you're undoubtedly not alone in saying that when it comes to the show VS. the fandom, you'd keep the fandom (not that both are mutually exclusive). I would say that you should make sure that in the fiction you write that you at least understand how the characters act in the show (one episode would be enough to give you a pretty decent glimpse into that) so that your fiction seems more realistic. For images, you can easily get away with seeing the characters on Google or DA and then drawing them you don't have to watch the show to be able to draw characters from it, especially as the internet is full of references.
It's slightly unorthodox to not watch the show that the fandom is built around, but it's definitely not unheard of I personally don't much care about Season 3 coming out or the future of the show, and instead involve myself on the outskirts of the fandom because it's informative and interesting. I don't claim to be a brony, but I definitely spend a lot of time investigating into the fandom; that includes familiarising myself with the show and its followers. For you, if you're having fun just being part of the fandom, then go ahead you've surely made some good friends and enjoy your time as part of it, so the mere fact that you aren't a huge fan of the show shouldn't change that.


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text: America's coolest new dinersBy Christine Ajudua, Travel + LeisureUpdated 7:14 AM ET, Wed October 3, 2012America's coolest new diners 9 photosThe Skillet Diner – The Skillet Diner is a restaurant-sized extension of Skillet Street Food's Josh Henderson's pork-belly-and-eggs flavors.Hide Caption 1 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosBowery Diner – Chef Mathieu Palombino's Bowery Diner draws a large late-night crowd thanks to its nostalgic menu and stainless-steel and leather aesthetic.Hide Caption 2 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosAu Cheval – Au Cheval is both refined and comforting with "finer diner" designs and honey-friend recipes.Hide Caption 3 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosDock & Roll Diner – The Dock & Roll Diner is housed in a 1957 Airstream Flying Cloud "food trailer" that samples global flavors.Hide Caption 4 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosFremont Diner – The Fremont, serving a menu based on the Slow Food approach, is a retro establishment in a diner body.Hide Caption 5 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosCafé de La Esquina at Wythe Diner – The Cafe de la Esquina at Wythe Diner was launched in a defunct diner. Its aesthetic reflects this vintage history.Hide Caption 6 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosRoll On Sushi Diner – The Roll On Sushi Diner embraces "counter culture," with its mish-mash of flavors in a single dish.Hide Caption 7 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosHopscotch – New to Oakland, Hopscotch mixes American staples with Japanese and East Bay touches.Hide Caption 8 of 9America's coolest new diners 9 photosM. Wells Dinette – A cafeteria-style "dinette," M. Wells offers a rotating menu that includes oatmeal with foie grass to spaghetti and meatballs.Hide Caption 9 of 9Story highlightsCritically-acclaimed chefs are turning their tastes to classic dishesThe 24/7 diner is going gourmet and updating designs and menusMany restaurants are mixing the old and the new when it comes to foodAt chef Patrick Acuña's diner, patrons sit elbow-to-elbow on stools along the bright-red Formica bar. While the setup is familiar, the menu pushes the boundaries of diner food — serving fried chicken in a sushi roll.Roll On Sushi Diner is doing its part to keep Austin, Texas, weird and has won over locals since opening in 2011. It's just one example of the evolution of the diner, which began as a prefab stainless-steel dining car (circa 1872 in Providence, Rhode Island) serving burgers and blue-plate specials and was immortalized by painter Edward Hopper as a late-night refuge. These days, the diner is going gourmet, as critically acclaimed chefs spice up classic American dishes with Asian, Mexican, and other artisanal flavors. An anything-goes attitude, and 24/7 service, draws folks out of bars and into the leather booths of the Bowery Diner on New York's Lower East Side. The signature burger comes with pastrami that's brined and smoked in house. Purists will balk at some of these fancy touches and the higher-than-Denny's prices. But a round of the Bowery Diner's habit-forming milk shakes — in creative flavors like cheesecake and lemon meringue, spiked, and topped with cream — should brighten the mood.All quibbling aside, everyone loves a good diner, whether greasy spoon or gourmet. Here are our picks for the coolest old-meets-new diners.Travel + Leisure: New York's top restaurantsSkillet Diner, Seattle, WashingtonCIA-schooled chef Josh Henderson, of Seattle's Skillet Street Food Airstream trailers, recently launched this brick-and-mortar restaurant with swivel counter stools and green vinyl booths. While the chalkboard specials change daily, you can count on an order of cornmeal waffles with maple-braised pork belly and fried eggs any day or night.Don't miss: "Henderson's Skillet Cookbook: A Street Food Manifesto" (Sasquatch Books) and a jar of his beloved bacon jam on the way out.Bowery Diner, New York City, New YorkChef Mathieu Palombino — mastermind of the city's gourmet Motorino pizzerias — has launched this haute-retro version on the Lower East Side, next door to the New Museum. It's open 24/7, in true diner style, and draws a late-night crowd spilling out of local bars and into the burgundy leather booths surrounded by mirrored stainless-steel walls. The varied menu leans nostalgic with dishes like Reuben sandwiches, twice-baked mac 'n' cheese, and a double-patty burger with béarnaise sauce.Don't miss: Milk shakes topped with whipped cream that come spiked and in creative flavors; New York cheesecake is especially appropriate.Au Cheval, Chicago, IllinoisYou might call Au Cheval a "finer diner," given its tufted leather booths, milk-glass pendant lighting fixtures, long zinc bar, and root beer (plus craft brews) on tap. Since it opened in the up-and-coming West Loop district in February 2012, chef Brendan Sodikoff has been dishing out a global mishmash of comfort foods. To wit: his General Tso's chicken is honey-fried with sesame, chile, and cilantro, while an entire menu section is devoted to dishes with eggs, such as crispy frites with garlic aioli and Mornay sauce and Mexican-style chilaquiles, available only after midnight. After all, the restaurant's name comes from the culinary slang for adding a fried one (literally, "on horseback").Don't miss: A reinvented bologna sandwich, with house-made mortadella, sharp American cheese, Dijon mayo, and pickles on a toasted brioche bun — fried egg optional.Travel + Leisure: America's best new hotel restaurantsDock & Roll Diner, Austin, TexasThree twentysomethings brought the diner back to its mobile roots in Summer 2011 with the opening of this retrofitted 1957 Airstream Flying Cloud "food trailer." They dish out globally inspired sandwiches — lobster rolls, banh mi, po' boys — with "Po-taters" and other old-school sides out of a lot in South Austin. Expect picnic benches in lieu of counter service; the trailer is only 19 feet long. They plan to open a second location in the suburb of Lakeway in late 2012, compete with a few seats inside.Don't miss: The Real B.L.T., with chicken fried bacon, lobster, and tomato.Fremont Diner, Sonoma, CaliforniaWith its reclaimed-wood bar, vintage metal stools, and screened-in wraparound porch, The Fremont (open only for breakfast and lunch) adds retro style to the diner concept. Owner and pit master Chad Harris takes a Slow Food approach, sourcing ingredients from local farms — including the one out back — for southern-inspired fare like shrimp and grits with house-made sausages and poached eggs, or smoked Marin County whole-hog sandwiches.Don't miss: A piece of fried pie and a glass of white from the surrounding vineyards.Café de La Esquina at Wythe Diner, Brooklyn, New YorkThe team behind SoHo's La Esquina — the cult-favorite taqueria and underground tequila bar in an old corner deli — launched its latest hot spot within a formerly defunct Williamsburg diner. Original vinyl-topped bar stools and leather banquettes date back to the 1950s, while the upscale Mexican street food (like scallops with coconut horchata and fried almonds, or Mexican truffle quesadillas with Oaxacan queso and roasted corn) bring the setting up to date.Don't miss: Tacos, tortas, and house-made cocktails like the blood-orange margarita in the outdoor garden.Roll On Sushi Diner, Austin, TexasThis diner-slash-sushi-joint, from brothers Chip and Chad Reed, is all about "counter culture." Grab a stool at the bright-red Formica bar that wraps around the central kitchen, where you can witness chef Patrick Acuña busy at work. The menu does its part to Keep Austin Weird with the likes of a chicken fried steak Cholesta Roll. Traditionalists, fear not — there's also a list of American-style favorites, California rolls and house-made ramen among them.Don't miss: Tempura-fried ice cream for dessert.Travel + Leisure: Chef's favorite U.S. restaurantsHopscotch, Oakland, CaliforniaNew to Oakland's burgeoning Uptown District, Hopscotch reinterprets classic American dishes using East Bay ingredients and a Japanese touch courtesy of chef and co-owner Kyle Itani (of Yoshi's in San Francisco and New York's The Meatball Shop). On the menu: a braised pork belly hash with slow-cooked onsen eggs and a yuzu meringue pie to be washed down with local beers, wines, and small-batch spirits. As for the interiors, between the Midcentury Modern Carrara marble bar and the checkerboard cork floors, you'll feel like you're eating in a diner circa 1950.Don't miss: Duck-fat potato chips with miso dip.M. Wells Dinette, Queens, New YorkWhen chef Hugue Dufour (of Montreal's famed Au Pied de Cochon) and his wife, Sarah Obraitis, opened M. Wells in July 2010, they turned a forgotten 1950s dining car into a veritable pilgrimage for foodies — until lease issues forced its close. The diner reopens in late summer 2012 as a cafeteria-style "dinette" with metal trays and bento boxes inside MoMA PS1. The rotating menu is as diverse as the original, featuring everything from oatmeal with foie gras to spaghetti and meatballs served in a can, and all concocted in the open kitchen, framed by cabinets of curiosities from the former diner and beyond.Don't miss: The Russian Breakfast (a blini crêpe with hard-boiled eggs, smoked sturgeon, pickled vegetables, crème fraîche, and chive oil), an old M. Wells favorite.Little Goat, Chicago, IllinoisTop Chef season-four winner Stephanie Izard is prepping to open a retro diner in October 2012 next to her critically acclaimed Girl & the Goat in the West Loop. 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When my daughter was born, I knew that I wanted to do things differently than my parents and I wanted to teach my own children the value of helping around the house. Children are capable of doing simple chores and most of the time they are willing to help. Giving your child small chores or tasks can help them learn life skills while teaching them responsibility. Children want to feel needed and wanted; in fact, children who help with household chores are likely to feel as needed because they are contributing to the household chores.
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Ron is the head of Airship 27, publisher of fine pulp fiction. Ron sent me the following info on their latest releases:
"GREEN LAMA - UNBOUND is a brand new novel by Adam Lance Garcia, and follows the adventures of this classic pulp hero. The cover and interior art art are by Mike Fyles."
"GIDEON CAIN is an American puritan soldier done in the same vein as Robert E.Howard's classic swordsman Salomon Kane. Edited by yours truly and Van Allen Plexico is contains seven new stories of this demon hunter and features an introduction by comic pro, Kurt Busiek. Cover and interiors on this one are by my partner, Rob Davis."
Both books are available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble on-line.
One of the great things about going to these conventions is that while you may originally meet someone due to a common business interest, many times you end up being friends. I'd like to think that Ron is one of these people.
3 comments:
- Deka Black said...
Gideon Cain seems the type of character who i like.
- August 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Ron Scheer said...
So true. I tell students, pick a career with people in it you like. You'll come to resemble them. If you don't, you'll end up being somebody you don't like. And you don't want that to happen.
- August 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Derek said...
Hi There
I think it is great to find good websites devoted to Pulp; sites like yours and Ron Fortier's are terrific.
I am hoping that the rapid growth of E-Books will help to start a new Pulp revival; hopefully the cheap E-Books will become the equivalent of the cheap paper Pulp that proliferated in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. Sure those Pulp books were heavily criticized and ridiculed, but as Mickey Spillane apparently said "If the public likes it, you're good". (I think he must have known what he was talking about as he sold over 220 million books).
My new book is now completed and was published last month. The book follows the best traditions of the vintage 'Pulp novels'. The similes and metaphors are outrageous; the language is clipped and colloquial. The men are men and the women are damn glad of it.
Needless to say, the women are fast and dangerous, and the hero is a two-fisted man of action.
The book is aimed at the adult male market; the book provides a means for males to escape to some harmless, male orientated entertainment without being made to feel guilty about doing so.
Come Here… and I'll Show You" is an adventure-thriller. It is not graphic. It is often amusing, often surprising and always entertaining. The action takes place in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. The book is available as an E-Book on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
At the risk of sounding corny, I would describe the book as a 'rattling good read for real men.'
Let us hope that a revival of the genre is coming.
Derek Lantin - December 1, 2010 at 4:09 AM


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10:10 PM ET, August 27, 2013
Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
SEATTLE -- Ian Kinsler did everything he could to lead the Texas Rangers to another win. At the biggest moment of the game, all he had to do was stroll home.
Kinsler scored the go-ahead run on Danny Farquhar's balk in the 10th inning, handing Texas a 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.
"Any time you win a hard-fought game, it adds to the confidence of your club and adds to the toughness of your club," Kinsler said.
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Kinsler started the winning rally with a one-out single against Farquhar (0-2) for his fourth hit. He advanced on Adrian Beltre's single and then swiped third. After A.J. Pierzynski fouled out, plate umpire CB Bucknor called a balk on Farquhar with Alex Rios at the plate, allowing Kinsler to come home.
"It was a balk. Very minor, but it was a balk," Farquhar said. "I had to go back and look at the video to see it, because at the time I had no idea. It was the slightest flinch."
Texas manager Ron Washington gave Kinsler credit for noticing Farquhar was using a high leg kick and then stealing third to be in position to score on the balk -- a violation Washington didn't notice.
"I just saw CB yelling balk and started smiling," Washington said.
Tanner Scheppers (6-2) wiggled out of a jam in the ninth to get the win and Joe Nathan finished for his 38th save in 40 chances as the AL West-leading Rangers won for the sixth time in eight games.
"Scheppers was dynamic tonight," Washington said. "He just overpowered them, and we certainly needed that right there."
A day after coming off the disabled list, Franklin Gutierrez homered for the first time since June 22 for Seattle, which has lost five straight.
All the runs prior to the odd 10th inning came when both starters ran into trouble early before settling down, turning a tie game over to the bullpens after six innings.
Texas starter Derek Holland allowed three runs and six hits, walked four, and struck out five. The left-hander is unbeaten in his past six starts, with five no-decisions in that stretch.
Holland walked two of his first three batters, setting up Kendrys Morales' run-scoring double and Justin Smoak's sacrifice fly.
Holland credited Kinsler for coming over in the dugout after the first inning and helping get him back on track.
"Saying a few things to me to get me back in my groove and calm me down," Holland said. "I got a little frustrated, let my emotions eat me up a little bit, but after that, I felt like I settled down and got stronger as the game went on."
Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma struck out the side in the first but ran into trouble of his own in the second, allowing three runs on four hits, including RBI singles by Mitch Moreland, David Murphy and Elvis Andrus.
Iwakuma needed 55 pitches to get through those first two innings but cruised through his last four, allowing only a pair of singles after the second. The Japanese right-hander yielded seven hits, struck out seven and walked one.
Gutierrez tied it at 3 with a leadoff drive to center in the third. Gutierrez, who missed much of the season with hamstring issues, has six home runs in 69 at-bats.
The Mariners looked ready to close out the game in the ninth but were unable to score after a promising start to the inning.
Michael Saunders led off with a single, and Dustin Ackley followed with a bunt. The ball popped off his bat to the pitcher's mound, but reliever Neal Cotts had rushed in and the ball went over his head, giving Ackley a single.
Scheppers then came in and escaped the threat. Humberto Quintero also popped up his bunt, which was caught this time by first baseman Moreland. Pinch hitter Nick Franklin and second baseman Brad Miller struck out to send the game to extra innings.
"My job is just to go out there and minimize the damage," Scheppers said. "You've just got to go out there and do the job."
Game notes
Seattle C Mike Zunino, who has been on the disabled list since July 26 with a broken bone in his left wrist, started a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma. "He'll be down there the rest of the week, and we'll see where we're at," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said. ... The Mariners closed the clubhouse before the game for a team meeting. "I just wanted to talk to them," Wedge said. "What I'm seeing is not what we're about. Not that they're playing bad baseball, they haven't, but we just haven't scored any runs." ... Beltre's 10th-inning single extended his 12-game hitting streak against the Mariners. ... Holland has not lost in his past 11 road starts, the third-longest streak in team history.
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Scoring Summary
1st | K Morales doubled to right, B Miller scored, K Seager to third. | 0 | 1 | |
1st | J Smoak hit sacrifice fly to center, K Seager scored. | 0 | 2 | |
2nd | M Moreland singled to left center, A Rios scored. | 1 | 2 | |
2nd | D Murphy singled to right, M Moreland scored, J Profar to second. | 2 | 2 | |
2nd | E Andrus singled to right center, J Profar scored, D Murphy to second. | 3 | 2 | |
3rd | F Gutierrez homered to center. | 3 | 3 | |
10th | I Kinsler scored, A Beltre to second on balk by D Farquhar. | 4 | 3 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Safeco Field, Seattle, WA |
Attendance | 15,115 (31.8% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 3:35 |
Weather | indoors |
Umpires | Home Plate - CB Bucknor, First Base - Dale Scott, Second Base - Bill Miller, Third Base - Todd Tichenor |
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What can I do if I dont want to install IIS? Thanks for answers, please, use basic english, because I m from the Czech Republic.
Welcome to WebmasterWorld!
What else changed Friday night before this problem?
Did you upgrade anything else? If you did not upgrade or change any other software, this might be a hardware problem. If you did upgrade other software, then that may be the cause.
I installed IIS, for see what can happen but it is the same: in my firewall I see, that http port between browser and IIS is opened but it is all. IIS does not respond.
I tried PHPTriad with Apache1.3. It s the only one, who go, but I want to return to good old Apache2.0.
Which hardware problems you mean?
I'd suggest uninstalling Apache and IIS, and then deleting or renaming the Apache directory to remove all traces of the old install.
What happens? It is same for both Firefox and IE. "Web site found" and it begin to load the page. And it stay so for ever. I can close the window normally or, if I want to see "Cannot find the server", I can stop the Apache service in the Apache Monitor.
NOD32 vs Apache: but I tried to uninstall NOD32 completely, even I deleted the files in the NOD32's directory. So, how can so dead program stop the server? It is possible that some libraries stayed in WINNT's directory?
if you mean httpd.conf, always when I reinstalled Apache, I kept to it his own, new, freshly created httpd.conf.
My good old httpd.conf I have zipped somewhere.


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Rahm Emanuel controversy: White House fights image of turmoil
Is White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a shrewd tactician or an official who should get the boot? The competing story lines have spun out in the press. Now, his name is also coming up in the mess involving just-resigned Rep. Eric Massa.
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The media have long been fascinated by Rahm Emanuel.
Whether as a young but senior staffer in the Clinton White House, a member of the House leadership, and now chief of staff in the Obama White House, Mr. Emanuel has always been the take-no-prisoners politico about whom no story seems too far-fetched.
Enter Eric Massa, the just-resigned Democratic member of Congress who claimed, on his way out the door, that Emanuel confronted him in the shower at the House gym for not supporting President Obama's policies. Mr. Massa also claimed that Democratic leaders forced him out of Congress because he opposed healthcare reform. House majority leader Steny Hoyer called Massa's accusation "absurd." (For more on Massa's departure, click here.)
On Fox News's "Glenn Beck" show late Tuesday afternoon, Massa said that, in fact, he was not "forced out." He said he "forced himself out." "I failed," he said. "I didn't live up to my own codes."
The White House broke its silence on the matter Tuesday morning, when spokesman Robert Gibbs declared on ABC that "the whole story is ridiculous."
According to The Washington Post, allegations against Massa that he sexually harassed a male staffer verbally now include alleged physical harassment of multiple male staffers. In his Fox appearance, Massa described tickle fights with staffers but said he "did nothing sexual."


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Here's my response to this New York Times article about the "fiscal cliff" negotiations between Obama and Boehner:
Senryu For Obama:
Can't muster votes. Give me more.
Don't be fooled again.
Political haiku for a change of pace:
Hurricane's over,
but the political storm
is never-ending.
(More storm haiku here.)
Mitt Romney, who continues to lie about covering pre-existing conditions, seems to live in a fact-free universe. Here's what he told the Columbus Dispatch yesterday:
We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance.
Well, if 26,100 deaths per year is the same as zero deaths, then Romney's correct:
More than 26,000 working-age adults die prematurely in the United States each year because they lack health insurance, according to a study published ahead of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.
The study, released on Wednesday by the consumer advocacy group Families USA, estimates that a record high of 26,100 people aged 25 to 64 died for lack of health coverage in 2010, up from 20,350 in 2005 and 18,000 in 2000.
That makes for a rate of about 72 deaths per day, or three per hour.
The nonprofit group based its findings on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a 2002 Institute of Medicine study that showed the uninsured face a 25 percent higher risk of death than those with coverage.
Romney's Fact-Free Universe Isn't Healthy (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Mitt Romney says nobody dies
For lack of insurance. He lies!
Three work-age adults
Die per hour — the results
Of no health plan. With Mitt that will rise.
Political Haiku of the Day:
The debate's on soon.
I'm sure hoping Joe Biden's
less nervous than I.
Can't help wondering
why some who have "seen the light"
keep spreading darkness.
(Written in response to a haiku prompt for the word light.)
Patrons pepper-spray
their fellow store customers.
Emulating cops?
(Yes this really happened at Wal-Mart.)
I watch Washington,
Observe Republican pols—
Heart and hope erode.
(Prompted by Three Word Wednesday to use erode, heart, and observe in a poem.)
I didn't think I could do it. But I've summed up the Republicans' radical (Paul Ryan-authored) budget plan in a single haiku:
Republican plan:
End entitlements, send wealth
to entitled rich.
UPDATE: Prompted by a poetry site to include this trio of words in a poem (adamant, fabricate, peculiar) I challenged myself to fit them all into a single haiku:
Republican pols —
peculiarly adamant
White House and Congress
bought and managed by donors —
puppet theater.
An epidemic —
political hypocrites —
Today's GOP.
Unlimited cash
from corporations to pols —
democracy dies.
Economic growth
still not translating to jobs —
Republicans shrug.
Republican cuts
to budget sure to kill jobs —
Boehner: "So be it."
destroying economy
seemed unthinkable.
No longer a silly thought —
GOP election goal.
Author's Note: These haiku and tanka were inspired in part by the following prompts: puppet, epidemic, unlimited, growth, and silly.
Styrofoam is back.
"Green the Capitol" is gone.
Job, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs?
Rotund Rush Limbaugh
says Michelle Obama's fat—
that's hard to swallow.
Freedom from taxes
demanded by those who crave
what taxes give them.
The mental midget
mentioned an affinity
with Rush — no surprise.
Showing up to vote—
a yearly exercise in
unrequited hope.
(More political haiku here. And more Rush Limbaugh humor here.)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under scrutiny these days for conflicts of interest related to the Koch Brothers, the Federalist Society, and the Citizens United case.
But today's limerick and haiku will focus, instead, on the fact that Thomas hasn't asked a single appellate hearing question in five years.
For the record, I did quite a bit of litigation work during my lawyering years. And believe me, his failure to speak throughout five years of hearings is peculiar and reflects very poorly on his judicial skills.
That brings me to my Clarence Thomas limerick:
Limerick Ode To Clarence Thomas
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I'm mindful that Thomas can talk,
But at queries for hearings he'll balk.
He's been silent for years–
Five in all. I'm all ears.
If he asks one sharp question, I'll gawk.
And here's my Clarence Thomas haiku:
The Sup Court's Thomas–
Too ill-informed for queries?
Or just too lazy?
UPDATE: It's been nearly two years since I wrote this limerick and haiku. So in fairness, I must announce that Justice Thomas has finally broken his silence.
Now mind you, he didn't ask a sharp question … or, indeed, any question: He merely made a mildly amusing four-word (or so) remark about lawyers who went to Yale.
Still … it's a start.
Today I'm posting four political haiku which, I fear, are all more cynical than witty. (I've added a 5th about Egypt's revolution which is uplifting, rather than cynical.)
Technically each of these is a senryu, though most people would label them haiku. What the heck's a senryu, and how does it differ from haiku? I explain it all here and, believe it or not, use a three-verse limerick to illustrate the distinctions.
Politicians strive
to make a good impression
without doing good.
The economy's
either looking up or down.
Depends on your stance.
Commenters bicker,
thrusting political barbs,
changing no one's mind.
How did we get here?
"Pragmatic" subjugation
of our Dem ideals.
A revolution
In Egypt transforms, uplifts,
Giving hope to all.
Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has announced that he won't be running for a 5th term. And that means I won't have Joe Lieberman to kick around much longer.
That brings me to my latest Joe Lieberman limerick and haiku:
Finally, Joementum In the Right Direction
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Dear Joe, glad to hear that you're leaving.
This Democrat sure won't be grieving.
I know you've no shame,
So you won't accept blame
For aiding the right in their thieving.
I'll never tire
Of the phrase "Joe Lieberman
Is retiring."
President Obama has been getting most of the credit for this week's lame-duck Congress legislative achievements:
* Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell
* Ratification of the New START nuclear weapons treaty with Russia
* The 9/11 First Responders Health and Compensation Act
* Food-Safety Bill
But I think Majority Leader Harry Reid deserves much of the credit. Why? Because he finally figured out that the way to pass stuff is to treat Republicans like children and refuse to let them go home.
My haiku explains everything:
How to run Senate:
Tell GOP "No TV
Till your homework's done."
The Dems cave and give Joe Lieberman a meaningless punishment. What a surprise!
Democrats hand Joe
A tiny slap on the wrist.
Thumbs down to the Dems.
Cool news! Nearly 4000 people submitted haiku to the McPalin Haiku Hysteria contest held by People For The American Way and The Nation Magazine. And I'm one of the twelve finalists!!! So I'd really appreciate your voting for my haiku here. The three winning haiku will be published in The Nation.
We were allowed to submit up to three haiku, and here are the three I submitted. (The first one is the haiku that made the finals.)
Palin knows nothing
About the Constitution.
Puppets don't have to.
An anti-choice veep
Who opposes free rape kits?
Thanks, John, but no thanks.
Would Palin court picks
Destroy the Constitution?
You betcha! Wink, wink.
Here's my latest haiku (senryu) about the Wall Street meltdown and the $700 billion (or much more) Bush-Cheney-Paulson-Bernanke rip-off-the-taxpayers bailout plan:
Financial vultures
First gobble up our assets,
Then demand dessert.
The primary's done.
But the election's far from
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John McCain has been having a tough time raising campaign money lately. So I thought I'd help out with a McCain campaign slogan haiku — gratis. Aren't I generous?
Remember Bush's
Humble foreign policy?
Vote McCain for more. [tags]Senator McCain, Presidential Campaign Verse[/tags]
Wow! Even Don "McCain Worshipper" Imus can't stand it any more. I just heard Imus tell Craig Crawford:
If he says "my friends" one more time, I'm gonna kill myself.
I think it's time for a haiku:
A candidate
Who can't stop saying "my friends,"
Doesn't have any.


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At Union Confab, Foley Changes His Tune
by Melissa Bailey | Jun 16, 2014 2:36 pm
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GOP gubernatorial hopeful Tom Foley charged back into unfriendly territory Monday to the chorus of a newly acquired musical running mate—the man they call The Boss.
Less than a month ago, on May 18, Foley told the Independent he wasn't into The Boss, aka Bruce Springsteen, the Jersey-born rocker whom Ronald Reagan and other Republicans have tried to claim for their own.
He changed that tune Monday, cuing up Springsteen's classic hit "Born To Run" as he climbed the stage to make a campaign pitch.
Foley had a reason: He was heading into The Boss's base, a hall of union members and union leaders. People who didn't like Tom Foley's song when he ran for governor four years ago. Four years later Foley's running for governor again, against the man who beat him last time, Democrat Dannel P. Malloy. And while labor leaders remain solidly against him, some of the rank and file might be up for grabs.
The union members assembled Monday at the Omni Hotel for the first day of a political convention of AFL-CIO Connecticut, which represents 200,000 workers across the state, most of them state and municipal government employees. The union heard from Foley and Malloy, the Republican and Democratic party-endorsed candidates, on Monday and plans to endorse a candidate for governor Tuesday. (Jonathan Pelto, who's running as an independent, said the convention organizers refused to let him speak.) Foley has no chance of winning the endorsement; instead he is hoping to win the hearts of some rank-and-file delegates.
Malloy beat Foley in 2010 in part due to the strong support of organized labor. Now Malloy has alienated some rank-and-file union members due to concessions the governor forced to labor agreements, and remarks he made about tenure that enraged teachers. Foley, who lost by just 6,404 votes in 2010, is hoping to capitalize on that alienation to defeat Malloy in November.
In a speech Monday on the convention floor, Foley sought to clarify a recent call he made for a "Wisconsin moment" in Connecticut. In doing so, he sought to dispel fears that he would dismantle collective bargaining. One Democratic observer called his remarks "savvy," while delegates laughed and snickered at his remarks.
Foley arrived at the convention shortly past 11 a.m., accompanied by a sergeant in arms—and by Springsteen's "Born To Run." He sat and took a sip from a glass of water. Then he rose to address a skeptical audience.
Foley, a millionaire Greenwich businessman who was George W. Bush's ambassador to Ireland, began his speech by trying to tap into some of the working-class cred that Springsteen has become known for through his songs about every-day Americans.
Foley recounted how, at age 17, he dropped out of school. He "headed West with fifty dollars" and his parents' blessing. He ended up in Colorado. He got a job—a union job, he noted—on a construction site, building a bridge. Then he worked in factory making soda and beer cans—another union job. He didn't like that job as much, he recalled, because the supervisor was "a bit of a bully."
"I'll never forget that work experience," Foley said.
Foley went on to explain how he'd be the working man's ally in the governor's seat. He vowed to hold state spending flat for two years—but not by reopening state workers' contracts.
"A deal is a deal," he said of the contracts. He said he could "bring back jobs" by making Connecticut easier to do business with.
"I can fix the budget without layoffs," he further pledged. "I make that commitment to you today."
Then he explained why he has called for a "Wisconsin moment" in Connecticut.
"Looking for a Wisconsin moment in Connecticut, which I've talked about repeatedly, means that I am hoping we go away from one-party rule to more balanced government, as Wisconsin did in 2010," Foley said.
He said Democrats have misconstrued what he meant: "It does not mean I will change the way collective bargaining works in our state."
Delegates laughed out loud at Foley's explanation.
"Did I say something funny?" Foley asked, sounding earnest. He later asked a reporter the same question.
Foley was referring to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who in 2011 settled a budget crisis by ending workers' rights to collective bargaining. Walker led a Republican takeover of the governor's mansion in 2010, at a time when Democrats had controlled the executive and legislative branches of government. During a dramatic showdown in 2011 between Walker and the Democrat-controlled state house, Walker became a national figure lauded by fiscal conservatives and vilified by union advocates.
Foley parised Walker for ending Democratic one-party rule; he didn't mention that Walker replaced that by one-party rule by Republicans.
Ned Lamont (second from right), a Democrat who addressed the same convention when he ran for governor in 2010, returned Monday to observe the proceedings. He said he wanted to see Malloy speak; he showed up hours early to see Foley as well.
Lamont declared Foley a "much savvier candidate" in 2014 than in 2010.
"He knew exactly why this crowd turned out in spades opposed to him four years ago," Lamont said. Foley had previously pledged to rein in the cost of government by lowering the costs of state pensions and health benefits, Lamont recalled.
"Four years ago, labor was convinced he was going to be Scott Walker in Wisconsin," Lamont said. He said in Foley's appearance Monday, Foley sought to "disabuse people of that" notion.
"I don't think they quite thought that he was credible," Lamont said.
Bob Parziale, an AFSCME Council 4 service representative who lives in Waterbury, agreed. Parziale said he was one of the people who vocally rejected Foley's explanation of his "Wisconsin moment" explanation.
"I snickered," Parziale confessed. "I don't trust a wolf in sheep's clothing."
"I believe he would destroy collective bargaining in this state," he said of Foley. "That's exactly what the 'Wisconsin moment' means. The 'Wisconsin moment' destroyed collective bargaining for the state of Wisconsin."
Parziale, who has been a member of a union since age 16, called Bruce Springsteen "one of my favorite artists." Springsteen speaks to the heart of the "blue-collar, hard-working" experience of people in places like Waterbury.
Parziale was outraged that Foley chose a Springsteen tune as his entrance song.
"He said something in May" about not being a Springsteen fan, "and then he literally changed his tune a month later?" Parziale asked incredulously.
On May 18, Foley was asked about Ronald Reagan's 1984 assertion that "America's future ... rests in the message of hope" in the songs of Springsteen. "I'm not familiar enough with Bruce Springsteen's music to know whether that's the case or not," Foley replied. Foley said he missed the Springsteen craze. "I sort of skipped from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones" to "more modern stuff" like U2, Maroon 5, Train, and Coldplay.
Foley was asked Monday why he chose to enter the room to Springsteen.
Foley said convention organizers asked his campaign which song he'd like to walk into, and "someone in my campaign chose that song."
He was asked about his remarks one month ago that he isn't a Springsteen fan.
"I was today," Foley replied.
He quickly elaborated: "I didn't say I wasn't a Bruce fan. I said that in that period of my life, I wasn't listening to as much music as I did before and I have since."
Cue To Petty
Malloy walked into the convention Monday afternoon to the tune of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down." Delegates rose to their feet to applaud him. Malloy motioned them to sit back down.
He instantly referenced Foley's "Wisconsin moment" remark.
"We're going to have a Connecticut moment," he declared.
Foley's call for a "Wisconsin moment," Malloy charged, is all about attacking unions.
"There are people who call a 'Wisconsin moment'" a "movement to eat more cheese," Malloy said. "Let's call it what it is."
Foley "knew what it meant" when he said it, Malloy later elaborated. "You can't backtrack from it."
"What he was talking about was going after organized labor, which I equate to going after the middle class of the United States," Malloy said.
Delegates didn't snicker or laugh at Malloy. The got on their feet and clapped when he touted work Connecticut has done to raise the minimum wage. He also touted a new law that guarantees workers paid sick days. And he told his own working-class union narrative—this one about his mother, who worked as a school nurse and organized a union of her coworkers. That union is now part of AFSCME, which is part of the AFL-CIO, Malloy noted.
"I stand with labor," Malloy declared to delegates. "I always have. I always will."
Tags: Tom Foley, Dannel P. Malloy, Bruce Springsteen, AFL-CIO, governor's race
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posted by: Noteworthy on June 16, 2014 3:39pm
Outrage and Union Notes:
1. "Parziale was outraged…" over a song. Really? Out of all the things one can be outraged about, Parziale chooses an old Springsteen song used by a candidate. Pitiful. He should join Blumenthal, Murphy et al on Fridays and Mondays. Those are the official outrage days.
2. Collective bargaining will be destroyed? In CT? From Parziale's lips to God's ears - there is as much hope or remote reality to that as a pig flying across the sky. This is a really blue state. Wisconsin is not. It's far more purple and people there are mid-westerners - they're a lot more practical. They don't wear blinders. Back here, such a thing would have to get through the gerrymandered legislature. Not happening.
3. Maybe the union could snicker the next time Dan or Dannel Malloy says that he's balanced the state budget, followed GAAP, or grew jobs; or that he stands for transparency in government not suppression; or that he stands for clean elections. The snickers from the union should actually be over something about which to snicker. Then we could all have a good laugh.
posted by: Burbel on June 16, 2014 4:09pm
Who is managing this fool? He is one the record advocating the destruction of collective bargaining, and now he is on the record saying the exact opposite.
Tom Foley, friend of the working man? Tom Foley made his fortune cashing in the equity built in companies by working people, leaving them with no pensions no health care, nothing except blighted industrial sites and neighborhoods that looked like Flint, Michigan.
This man can't be trusted. He has no principles and will say anything to get what he wants.
posted by: Brutus2011 on June 16, 2014 4:15pm
I have voted Democratic for my entire voting life.
No more.
Malloy, DeStefano, Finch, Pryor, and all those who count on blind allegiance at voting time—guess what?
No more.
And union management who continue to sell out their rank and file—guess what?
No more.
Mark my prophetic words:
Dan Malloy,
No more.
posted by: Threefifths on June 16, 2014 4:28pm
"I snickered," Parziale confessed. "I don't trust a wolf in sheep's clothing."
Speaking of wolf in sheep's clothing.How about the wolf in Sheep's clothing in the union heads of the AFL-CIO who Allow this.
AFL-CIO Refuses To Allow Pelto to address Political Endorsing Convention
posted by: JustAnotherTaxPayer on June 16, 2014 7:12pm
being part of half truths, public opinion molded by television (not news, as most shows that say they are news shows are far away from being that, as facts, the who, what , where, when, how, and why, have gone the way of the television antenna on the roof.), internet nonsense, is uncomfortable.
I am hoping that some day soon we see a Republican President, and a complete Republican Congress, a greater majority of Republican appointed supreme court judges, a Republican in every Governor's seat, and Republican controlled state legislatures.
Then and only then will it become clear to the complete American Public what their message is. And then and only then will the public be able to finally make an enlightened decision as to what they want.
posted by: cupojoe on June 16, 2014 8:57pm
Ha! Malloy will stand with anyone who will vote for him. Which means anyone he can buy - his CT moment is (WAS) Harp!
Unions need to explain very concretely why we, the TAX PAYERS need to pay them anything at all.
No free lunch folks. Sorry. Detroit, booming metropolis - now a .... urban farm. Just saying.
posted by: cwhig on June 16, 2014 11:01pm
Et tu, Brutus2011?
posted by: robn on June 17, 2014 7:36am
Just so it doesn't fall completely down the memory hole, in 1984, Springsteen asked Ronald Reagan to stop using his music during the campaign…mainly because the meaning of "Born in the USA" was not "Morning in America".
posted by: cwhig on June 17, 2014 5:07pm
Thank you, robn. If I hadn't posted my wiseass comment, that would have been the point I would have made.


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