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a second degree felony. The trial court permitted the State to amend the indictment to aggravated assault, in violation of R.C. 2903.12, a fourth degree felony. On March 20, 2009, A
[Cite as State v. Lopez, 2011-Ohio-6743.] COURT OF APPEALS STARK COUNTY, OHIO FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT STATE OF OHIO Plaintiff-Appellee -vsFRANCISCO LOPEZ Defendant-Appellant : : : : : : : : : : : JUDGES: Hon. William B. Hoffman, P.J. Hon. John W. Wise, J. Hon. Patricia A. Delaney, J. Case No. 2011CA00040 OPINION CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING: Appeal from the Stark County Court of Common Pleas Case No. 2008CR2234C JUDGMENT: Affirmed DATE OF JUDGMENT ENTRY: December 27, 2011 APPEARANCES: For Plaintiff-Appellee: For Defendant-Appellant: JOHN D. FERRERO PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, STARK COUNTY, OHIO JONATHAN A. BARTELL 700 W. St. Clair Ave., Suite 214 Cleveland, Ohio 44113 By: KATHLEEN O. TATARSKY Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Appellate Section 110 Central Plaza South, Suite 510 Canton, Ohio 44702-1413 [Cite as State v. Lopez, 2011-Ohio-6743.] Hoffman, P.J. {¶1} On February 20, 2009, the Stark County Grand Jury indicted Appellant, Francisco Lopez, on one count of felonious assault, in violation of R.C. 2903.11(A)(1), a second degree felony. The trial court permitted the State to amend the indictment to aggravated assault, in violation of R.C. 2903.12, a fourth degree felony. On March 20, 2009, Appellant pled guilty as charged in the amended indictment. Thereafter, the trial court accepted the plea and sentenced Appellant to 6 months in prison. Appellant did not file a direct appeal. {¶2} On November 19, 2010, Appellant filed a motion to vacate his guilty plea. On January 19, 2011, the trial court denied the motion without hearing. {¶3} It is from that decision Appellant prosecutes this appeal assigning as {¶4} I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY DENYING A HEARING FOR MR. error:1 LOPEZ S MOTION TO VACATE GUILTY PLEA WHEN AT THE TIME OF THE PLEA THE COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE THE ADVISORY LANGUAGE PURUSANT TO O.R.C. §2943.031 THAT THE GUILTY PLEA MAY RESULT IN ADVERSE IMMIGRATION STATUS CHANGE. {¶5} II. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THAT UNDER THE SUPREME COURT S HOLDING IN PADILLA V. KENTUCKY A DECISION MAY BE VACATED BECAUSE OF INEFFECTIVE LEGAL ASSISTANCE. {¶6} III. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHEN DEFENDANT S ORIGINAL COUNSEL WAS 1 While Appellant lists nine assignments of error on p. 4 of his Brief, he lists and argues only the three cited infra in his ARGUMENT section. Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 3 SIMULTANEOUSLY REPRESENTING THE OTHER CO-DEFENDANTS WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT. I. {¶7} Crim. R. 32.1 governs the withdrawal of a guilty plea and states [a] motion to withdraw a plea of guilty or no contest may be made only before sentence is imposed; but to correct manifest injustice the court after sentence may set aside the judgment of conviction and permit the defendant to withdraw his or her plea. {¶8} An appellate court reviews a trial court s decision on a motion to withdraw a plea under an abuse of discretion standard. State v. Francis, 104 Ohio St.3d 490, 820 N.E.2d 355, 2004-Ohio-6894, ¶ 32. (Citations omitted.) {¶9} A hearing on a postsentence motion to withdraw a plea is not required if the facts, as alleged by the defendant and accepted as true by the court, would not require that the guilty plea be withdrawn. State v. Wilkey, 5th Dist. No. CT2005-0050, 2006-Ohio-3276, at ¶26 (citing State v. Patterson, 5th Dist. No. 2003CA00135, 2004Ohio-1569). {¶10} Appellant was born in Mexico and his first language is Spanish. Appellant was legally in the United States, but is not a United States citizen. He was represented in the underlying case by attorney Jose Iborra, who also represented co-defendant Sergio Bera Belmudes. Appellant signed a guilty plea form, which stated, in part: I understand the consequences of a conviction upon me if I am not a U.S. Citizen. {¶11} A transcript of the plea and sentencing hearing is provided in the record. The following portions are relevent to this appeal: Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 4 {¶12} MR. IBORRA: Your Honor, if it pleases the Court, on behalf of each Mr. Belmudes and Mr. Lopez, I would indicate to the Court that I ve had plenty of time to talk with each independently about the status of this case and the discussions that we ve had and also the state s amended [sic], each of them, I ve reviewed the plea forms with them. {¶13} Mr. Belmudes, just for the record, pretty much conversational in English. {¶14} Mr. Lopez understands a significant amount of English, but prefers that everything just be reaffirmed in Spanish. {¶15} I did review everything with them in Spanish; they each executed this form. {¶16} I believe we re prepared to go forward. {¶17} If the Court approves, I ll just translate to each of them as we go, making sure that there is no problems. {¶18} THE COURT: And you feel comfortable with that arrangement and you ve been able to communicate fully? {¶19} MR. IBORRA: Yeah, there has been no problem with communication. {¶20} Ah, I ve explained to Mr. Lopez, who at one time in this case was set for trial, explained to him that, you know, an interpreter would be necessary, because I m just way too distracted trying, during the trial to do that, but he understands that I m serving as both counsel and interpreter for purposes of this plea and he consented to that. March 20, 2009 T. at 4-5. {¶21} Thereafter, the trial court engaged in a Crim. R. 11 colloquy with the defendants, with Mr. Iborra translating for the defendants in Spanish the words spoken Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 5 in English by the court. Mr. Iborra responded in English to the court s questioning, however, the transcript at most points does not indicate that the defendants verbally responded in either English or Spanish to the court s questioning after Attorney Iborra s translation. In addition, several responses by Mr. Iborra in the colloquy were collective conclusions such as, they understand . {¶22} Near the conclusion of the colloquy, the court stated: {¶23} THE COURT: The Court is going to issue a sentence - - well, there is one other thing I need to do. I need to make sure they both understand this. Because both Mr. Lopez and Mr. Belmudes are legally in the United States, but neither are U.S. citizens. {¶24} MR. IBORRA: That s correct. {¶25} THE COURT: Correct? Let me then also, I do need to warn you that, both of you - {¶26} - - - - - - - {¶27} (Thereupon, Attorney Iborra translated for the defendants in Spanish the words spoken by the Court.) {¶28} - - - - - -{¶29} THE COURT: -- if you are not a citizen of the United States, you are hereby advised that the conviction of this particular criminal offense by pleading guilty this could have consequences of being deported or being excluded from admission to the United States or denial of naturalization pursuant to the law of the United States. {¶30} Do you both understand that? {¶31} MR. IBORRA (after translation): They both understand. Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 6 {¶32} THE COURT: And I would indicate Mr. Belmudes said, Yes, and Mr. Lopez said, Yes. Does that in any way change either of your, ah, intentions or either of you wanting to plead guility? {¶33} MR. IBORRA (after translation): No - {¶34} THE COURT: No? {¶35} MR. IBORRA: - - To Mr. Belmudes. No to Mr. Lopez. {¶36} THE COURT: Thank you. So therefore, Mr. Belmudes, your plea of guilty is still guilty; is that correct? {¶37} DEFENDANT BELMUDES: Yes. {¶38} THE COURT: Thank you. And Mr. Lopez, you still wish to plead guilty? {¶39} DEFENDANT LOPEZ: Yes. {¶40} THE COURT: Thank you. The Court will accept those. March 20, 2009 T. at 22-25. {¶41} Appellant s November 19, 2010 motion to withdraw the guilty plea sets forth the following reasons for his request: {¶42} (1) A conflict of interest was created when the criminal defense attorney represented the two co-defendants in the case without the proper informed consent; {¶43} (2) the criminal attorney improperly served as both legal representative and the interpreter at the time the plea was taken; {¶44} (3) the defendant did not receive the statutory advisement language as set forth in R.C. 2943.031(A) in Spanish; and {¶45} (4) the defendant was denied the effective assistance of counsel as counsel did not inform him the plea may carry immigration consequences. Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 7 {¶46} The trial court denied the motion to withdraw the plea without hearing, stating: It is clear from the review of the record that the defendant was adequately represented and fully understood the nature of the proceedings and was fully advised concerning the potential for deportation. (Emphasis added.) January 19, 2011 Judgment Entry. {¶47} On appeal, Appellant s assignments of errors collectively challenge the manner in which the underlying plea was taken, namely the issues of meaningful translation and adequacy of legal representation as to the consequences of exclusion. After serving his jail sentence, Appellant apparently travelled to Mexico and learned upon his return that he is subject to exclusion from the United States because of his conviction. Appellant states that exclusion, as opposed to deportation, means a legal permanent resident traveling abroad may not reenter without being placed in formal removal proceedings. Deportation, on the other hand, triggers certain procedural constitutional safeguards and occurs without the person having left the United States. Appellant contends the trial court sole focus on the term deportation demonstrates a misunderstanding as to the immigration consequences faced by the Appellant as a result of the plea. {¶48} At the outset, we note this appeal implicates both R.C. 2943.0312, which supplies the language a trial court accepting a plea of guilty or no contest is to use to 2 R.C. 2943.031 states: Except as provided in division (B) of this section, prior to accepting a plea of guilty or a plea of no contest to an indictment, information, or complaint charging a felony * * *, the court shall address the defendant personally, provide the following advisement to the defendant that shall be entered in the record of the court, and determine that the defendant understands the advisement: If you are not a citizen of the United States you are hereby advised that conviction of the offense to which you are pleading guilty * * * may have the consequences of deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States, or denial of naturalization pursuant to the laws of the United States. Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 8 warn a noncitizen criminal defendant of the possible consequences (deportation, exclusion, or denial of naturalization) of a criminal conviction, and the full and proper translation of this statutory requirement to a defendant who is limited English proficient. {¶49} In this case, the trial court relied upon Mr. Iborra to function as a translator, apparently with the consent [albeit unconfirmed] of the Appellant. The record is devoid of any indication that Mr. Iborra is a certified court interpreter or possesses the skills, knowledge, and ability to serve as a court interpreter. {¶50} The State finds State v. Mota, 6th Dist. App. No. L-04-1354, 2006-Ohio3800 instructive for the proposition it is not error for defense counsel to act as an interpreter even when there was no indication on the record he was certified. We find the underlying rationale in Mota persuasive even though in Mota, the trial court engaged the defendant in a direct conversation about his understanding and command of the English language and his ability to understand his counsel and the defendant conceded his counsel spoke fluent Spanish both of which are absent in the case sub judice. The Sixth District Court of Appeals found no due process violation because [a] qualified attorney who is expert in foreign language will guarantee his client due process better than an interpreter ignorant in the law. Id. at ¶ 24. {¶51} Since Mota, the Ohio Supreme Court has issued guidelines for the judiciary to establish interpreter qualifications and the necessity of interpreter services. See, The Supreme Court of Ohio, Interpreters in the Judicial System: A Handbook for Ohio Judges. In addition, Rules 80 to 87 the Ohio Rules of Superintendence were promulgated in January 1, 2010, to establish certification for foreign language interpreters. See also, City of Columbus v. Lopez-Antonio, 153 Ohio Misc.2d 4, 914 Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 9 N.E.2d 464, 2009-Ohio-4892, for summary of a defendant s constitutional, procedural and statutory rights to an interpreter. {¶52} Based upon the record noted supra, we do not find the trial court abused its discretion in finding no manifest injustice is evident from the record and a hearing was not necessary. Contrary to his claim, the record reflects Appellant was advised of the possibility of exclusion.3 Appellant s argument is premised on inconvenience, not innocence, and does not rise to the level of manifest injustice. {¶53} Appellant s first assignment of error is overruled. II {¶54} Herein Appellant asserts the record does not reflect his counsel fully translated the advisory language in R.C. 2943.031. Appellant does not identify where in the record the alleged incomplete translation can be found. As noted in our discussion of his first assignment of error, the record supports the conclusion he was advised of the possibility of exclusion. {¶55} Appellant s reliance on Padilla v. Kentucky, ____U.S. ______, 130 S.Ct. 1473 (2010) is misplaced as Padilla is significantly distinguishable.4 In Padilla, the defendant s attorney advised him he did not have to worry about immigration status despite the fact the charge against him required mandatory deportation. No such improper advice has been shown in this case. {¶56} Appellant s second assignment of error is overruled. 3 We note Appellant s self-serving affidavit and that of his wife were not filed with his motion to vacate his plea. 4 See the Court s opinion in State v. Gallegos-Martinez for a similar discussion and distinguishment of Padilla. Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 10 III {¶57} Herein Appellant claims the trial court erred by not recognizing his counsel had a conflict of interest because he also represented Appellant s codefendant, Sergio Bera Belmudes. {¶58} There is no demonstration in this record either Appellant or his codefendant had conflicting defenses available or statements were made by Belmudes implicating Appellant. {¶59} Furthermore, it would appear this issue could have been raised on direct appeal and is therefore barred by res judicata. We find the mere allegation of a conflict of interest insufficient to demonstrate a manifest justice sufficient to require the withdrawal of Appellant s plea. {¶60} Appellant s third assignment of error is overruled. {¶61} The judgment of the trial court is affirmed. By: Hoffman, P.J. Wise, J. concurs, Delaney, J. dissents s/ William B. Hoffman HON. WILLIAM B. HOFFMAN s/ John W. Wise HON. JOHN W. WISE HON. PATRICIA A. DELANEY Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 11 Delaney, J., dissenting {¶62} I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion. {¶63} I do not find persuasive the decision of the Sixth District in State v. Mota, 6th Dist. No. App. No. L-04-1354, 2006-Ohio-3800, particularly in light of the Ohio Supreme Court s recent issuance of guidelines for the judiciary to establish interpreter qualification and the necessity of interpreter services. {¶64} Furthermore, R.C. 2311.14(A)(1) states: Whenever because of a hearing, speech or other impairment a party to or witness in a legal proceeding cannot readily understand or communicate, the court shall appoint a qualified interpreter to assist such person. {¶65} The need for a qualified interpreter in felony cases is constitutionally required by Crim.R. 11(C) which requires a trial court to determine that the defendant understands the nature of the charge, the maximum penalty involved, and the effect of the plea. (Emphasis added.) {¶66} In this case, the trial court did not directly address Appellant in regards to his ability to understand English and to understand his counsel, nor does the record reflect the interpreter qualifications of Mr. Iborra. {¶67} Because the possibility of a manifest injustice is evident from the record, I would find a hearing, as requested, would be necessary to address the assertions in support of the motion to withdraw the plea. Stark County, Case No. 2011CA00040 12 {¶68} Given the serious impact of exclusion as a consequence of the criminal plea upon the defendant and his family lawfully living in this country, I would sustain Appellant s first Assignment of Error and remand this case to the trial court for an oral hearing. s/ Patricia A. Delaney _________________ JUDGE PATRICIA A. DELANEY [Cite as State v. Lopez, 2011-Ohio-6743.] IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR STARK COUNTY, OHIO FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT STATE OF OHIO Plaintiff-Appellee -vsFRANCISCO LOPEZ Defendant-Appellant : : : : : : : : : : : JUDGMENT ENTRY Case No. 2011CA00040 For the reasons stated in our accompanying Opinion, the judgment of the Stark County Court of Common Pleas is affirmed. Costs assessed to Appellant. s/ William B. Hoffman ________________ HON. WILLIAM B. HOFFMAN s/ John W. Wise ____________________ HON. JOHN W. WISE _________________________________ HON. PATRICIA A. DELANEY
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t(9;14)(q33;q32) IGH::LHX2
Written 2013-11 Nathalie Nadal, Elise Chapiro
Laboratoire d'hematologie, CHU Hopital Nord, F-42055 St Etienne cedex 2, France (NN); Service d'Hematologie Biologique, Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, APHP, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, France (EC)
ICD-Topo C420,C421,C424 BLOOD, BONE MARROW, & HEMATOPOIETIC SYS
ICD-Morpho 9975/3 Chronic myelogenous leukaemia, BCR-ABL1 positive; Myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable; Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable
Atlas_Id 1659
A. Conventional karyotype: partial R and G-banded karyotype. The derivative chromosomes of translocations t(9;14)(q33;q32) and t(9;22)(q34;q11) are denoted by solid and dotted arrows, respectively.
B. FISH: representative metaphase hybridized with dual color break-apart IGH probe (Abbott, Rungis, France). A fusion signal is seen on normal chromosome 14 (large arrows), a red signal on derivative chromosome 14 (small solid arrows) and a green signal on derivative chromosome 9 (small dotted arrows).
C. FISH: representative metaphase hybridized with a BCR/ABL ES probe (Abbott). A green signal is seen on a normal chromosome 22 (large arrows), and two fusion signals on derivative chromosomes 9 and 22 (small dotted arrows), confirming the BCR-ABL1 rearrangement with a breakpoint in the mBCR region. A red signal is observed on derivative chromosome 14 (small solid arrows), indicating that the breakpoint of t(9;14) was centromeric to the ABL1 gene in chromosome 9.
Clinics and Pathology
Disease Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in B-cell lymphoid blast crisis
Phenotype / cell stem origin B cell phenotype (CD19, CD10) with 2 aberrant myeloid markers (CD13 and CD33).
Etiology Unknown.
Epidemiology Only one case to date, a 10-year-old male patient (Nadal et al., 2012).
Clinics Lymphadenopathies, enlarged spleen and liver. Central nervous system involvement.
Cytology High WBC with blast cells (44%), myelemia, eosinophilia and basophilia. Bone marrow aspiration showed 60% of undifferentiated blast cells with persistence of the granulocytic lineage.
Treatment The patient was treated according to the European protocol ESPHALL (imatinib, asparaginase, vincristine, vindesine, daunorubicin, aracytine, VP16, ifosfamide, and methotrexate, followed by an allograft).
Evolution After induction, minimal residual disease (MRD) detection by CMF and by molecular analysis was negative, whereas RT-PCR for BCR-ABL1 transcript was still positive. Chromosomal examination showed the presence of one metaphase out of 30 with only the t(9;22)(q34;q11), suggesting that the t(9;14) translocation was a secondary chromosomal abnormality.
Thus, the chemotherapy had eradicated the lymphoblast cells but a CML clone persisted, further supporting the diagnosis of CML in BC.
By 7 months after diagnosis, the patient underwent allogenic stem cell transplantation from his HLA-matched sister. At 2 years post-transplantation, the patient was alive and well. BCR-ABL1 transcript was undetectable (<0.001%).
Additional anomalies The t(9;14)(q33;q32) translocation appears as a secondary abnormality occurring at acutisation of a CML with the usual t(9;22)(q34;q11) with a breakpoint in the mBCR region. The latest is usually observed in BCR-ABL1+ de novo acute lymphoblastic leukemia but is rare in CML.
i(7)(q10), present in 2 out of the 20 metaphases analyzed using conventional karyotype, and in 3/100 metaphases using FISH (7q22/7q36 Dual-Color probe, Kreatech Diagnostics).
Genes involved and Proteins
Gene Name LHX2 (LIM homeobox 2)
Location 9q33.3
Note LIM homeobox gene LHX2 is a member of the LIM homeobox family of transcription factors characterized by a DNA binding homeodomain and a cystein-rich LIM-domain. LHX2, initially identified as an early marker in B-lymphocyte differentiation (Xu et al., 1993), is involved in the neurogenesis, hair follicle, and hematopoietic development (Porter et al., 1997).
Gene Name IGH (Immunoglobulin Heavy)
Location 14q32.33
Result of the chromosomal anomaly
Hybrid gene
Note The translocation links sequence located 148 kb centromeric of LHX2 on chromosome 9 to JH6 segment on chromosome 14.
Fusion Protein
Note No fusion protein.
Oncogenesis LHX2 juxtaposition with the IGH locus results in strong over-expression of LHX2, which may have contributed to the rapid progression in the blastic phase. It has been shown that over-expression of LHX2 in murine hematopoietic precursors leads to the development of chronic myeloproliferative disorders (Richter et al., 2003). Thus, transcriptional deregulation of LHX2 plays a recurrent role in leukemogenesis.
To be noted
Additional cases are needed to delineate the epidemiology of this rare entity:
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LHX2 deregulation by juxtaposition with the IGH locus in a pediatric case of chronic myeloid leukemia in B-cell lymphoid blast crisis.
Nadal N, Chapiro E, Flandrin-Gresta P, Thouvenin S, Vasselon C, Beldjord K, Fenneteau O, Bernard O, Campos L, Nguyen-Khac F.
Leuk Res. 2012 Sep;36(9):e195-8. doi: 10.1016/j.leukres.2012.05.013. Epub 2012 Jun 22.
Lhx2, a LIM homeobox gene, is required for eye, forebrain, and definitive erythrocyte development.
Porter FD, Drago J, Xu Y, Cheema SS, Wassif C, Huang SP, Lee E, Grinberg A, Massalas JS, Bodine D, Alt F, Westphal H.
Development. 1997 Aug;124(15):2935-44.
Lhx2 expression in hematopoietic progenitor/stem cells in vivo causes a chronic myeloproliferative disorder and altered globin expression.
Richter K, Pinto do O P, Hagglund AC, Wahlin A, Carlsson L.
Haematologica. 2003 Dec;88(12):1336-47.
Identification of a human LIM-Hox gene, hLH-2, aberrantly expressed in chronic myelogenous leukaemia and located on 9q33-34.1.
Wu HK, Heng HH, Siderovski DP, Dong WF, Okuno Y, Shi XM, Tsui LC, Minden MD.
Oncogene. 1996 Mar 21;12(6):1205-12.
LH-2: a LIM/homeodomain gene expressed in developing lymphocytes and neural cells.
Xu Y, Baldassare M, Fisher P, Rathbun G, Oltz EM, Yancopoulos GD, Jessell TM, Alt FW.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1993 Jan 1;90(1):227-31.
Nadal, N ; Chapiro, E
t(9;14)(q33;q32) IGH/LHX2
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Translocations implicated (Data extracted from papers in the Atlas)
Mitelman database t(9;14)(q33;q32)
arrayMap (UZH-SIB Zurich) Topo ( C42) Morph ( 9975/3) - [auto + random 100 samples .. if exist ] [tabulated segments]
IGH (14q32.33) LHX2 (9q33.3)
Mitelman database IGH::LHX2 [MCList] IGH (14q32.33) LHX2 (9q33.3)
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August 29, 2021 Dianne Rose
This led us to test the antiviral activity of a panel of chloroquine derivatives, and we found that none of these had activity against SARS-CoV-2 in Calu-3 cells (Figure?3B), although these compounds are active in both Vero cells and Huh7
This led us to test the antiviral activity of a panel of chloroquine derivatives, and we found that none of these had activity against SARS-CoV-2 in Calu-3 cells (Figure?3B), although these compounds are active in both Vero cells and Huh7.5 cells (Figure?3C). Huh7.5 cells requires low pH and triggering by acid-dependent endosomal proteases. Moreover, we find nine drugs are antiviral in respiratory cells, seven of which have been used in humans, and three are US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved, including cyclosporine. We find that the antiviral activity of cyclosporine is targeting Cyclophilin rather than calcineurin, revealing essential host targets that have the potential for rapid clinical implementation. studies have found that these drugs are also active against coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (Liu et?al., 2020; Wang et?al., 2020). This led to early adoption of these agents to treat COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection); however, little efficacy of these agents has been TES-1025 demonstrated in subsequent clinical trials (Boulware et?al., 2020). It remains unclear why these agents have not been more active in humans. There are currently more than 3,000?US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs, as well as many others that have been tested in humans. We created an in-house library of 3,059 drugs, including 1,000 FDA-approved drugs and 2,100 drug-like molecules against defined molecular targets with validated pharmacological activity. In addition, we purchased drugs with reported anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity (e.g., remdesivir, lopinavir, azithromycin, etc.). Viruses encode unique proteins essential for infection, and most approved antivirals target these virally encoded essential targets. This class of antivirals has been RPD3L1 termed direct-acting antivirals. Viruses are also dependent on host cellular machineries for successful infection, and drugs that block these activities are host-targeted antivirals. Given our dearth of effective treatments, we developed a screening platform that would allow us to identify both direct-acting and host-targeted antivirals that can be potentially repurposed for use against SARS-CoV-2 (Ashburn and Thor, 2004). We developed a specific and sensitive assay to quantify viral infection using a cell-based high-content approach. We began our studies in African green monkey (and have been used to explore the role of TMPRSS2 in infection. Perhaps surprisingly, although we found remdesivir was antiviral in respiratory Calu-3 cells, hydroxychloroquine was not. Because a panel of quinolines had no activity in Calu-3 cells, these data suggest that entry in these lung epithelial cells is independent of low-pH processing in the endosomal compartment. In contrast, the TMPRSS2 inhibitor camostat was highly active in Calu-3 cells but inactive in Vero and Huh7.5 cells. These data demonstrate distinct modes of entry in respiratory cells and are further supported by our studies using human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived respiratory cells (Letko et?al., 2020). Further, these data suggest that there may be other fundamentally different cellular requirements in different cell types. We screened our 23 validated candidates from Huh7.5 cells in Calu-3 cells and found only 9 drugs showed favorable activity, including 3 FDA-approved drugs: cyclosporine, dacomitinib, and salinomycin. In additional studies, we found that cyclosporine analogs that target Cyclophilin A were active against SARS-CoV-2, but not compounds that target calcineurin. Identifying antivirals active in the respiratory tract is essential to move forward with clinical treatments for SARS-CoV-2. Results Vero cells are permissive to infection and can be used for antiviral screening for direct-acting antivirals SARS-CoV-2 is routinely propagated in Vero E6 cells (Harcourt et?al., 2020; Hoffmann et?al., 2020; Sheahan et?al., 2020). When growing the virus in either Vero E6 or Vero CCL81 cells, two different strains of Vero cells from ATCC, we observed that SARS-CoV-2 (Isolate USA-WA1/2020) is TES-1025 cytopathic in Vero E6, but not in Vero CCL81 (data not shown) (Harcourt et?al., 2020). Moreover, viral stocks propagated from either of these cells produced similar titers of virus (1? 107 plaque-forming units [PFUs]/mL) suggesting that viral replication and cytotoxicity are separable. Therefore, we set out to develop a quantitative microscopy-based assay to measure the level of replication of SARS-CoV-2 more directly in infected cells. We chose Vero CCL81 to uncouple toxicity from infection and quantified infection 30?h postinfection (hpi) to focus TES-1025 our assay on inhibitors active within the first cycle of infection. We first validated that our antibodies could detect infection of SARS-CoV-2. We used an antibody to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and to SARS-CoV-2 Spike (Figure?1 A) (Bonin et?al., 2000; Tian et?al., 2020). Open in a separate window Figure?1 High-throughput screening in Vero cells to identify antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 (A) Schematic of the screening strategy. Vero cells were plated in 384-well plates, drugs were added, and the cells were infected with SARS-CoV-2 (MOI?= 1). 30?hpi TES-1025 cells were stained for viral infection.
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Some sufferers using a clinical phenotype suggestive of autoimmune lymphoproliferative symptoms (ALPS) have an elevated proportion of increase detrimental T cells23
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Ilse remembered that day for the rest of her life as the day her life changed. Noises woke her, not the bumbling clash of swordfights because the prince, many thought she was destined to marry him but she'd known even at that age that other things were intended for her, had injured himself the previous night and the court healers had enforced bedrest and bloodlettings. As the prince's best friend, they had let her into the boy's room, standing beside her father, the wall at their back. She'd needed her father's hand while she watched the prince's skin sicken to turn bone white.
No, Ilse woke to thrumming voices, low bass rumbles like thunder rolling up the stairs or bumblebees alighting on flowers. The latter probably explained why for the rest of her life Ilse remembered that day through an amber haze. Sleep glazing her eyes, wearing only her nightgown, she sought the sounds, rising from her father's workrooms, encompassing the entire floor of the room below them.
On the workroom's threshold, stone ground against stone and Ilse gazed upwards at the slab falling towards her like a solid portcullis. Later, they would say it was the gods' and goddesses' will for her to attend, but her heart beat like a butterfly captured in her hands and she shrank into the shadows.
Her father stood within a circle of men, they all wore flowing robes like her father's court magician robes. A man with a twining beard held a finger-sized dragon in his hands. Fingers pinched the tail and the front paws. Rainbow shades of color mostly reds and purples shimmered across the scales. Her father mirrored the man's bow holding forward a blue and purple dragon. At the bottom of the bow, the man's eyes watching each other, the dragons leapt from their hands.
Light swirled through the room. Smoke puffed as dragon chased dragon circling between the candle mounted chandeliers and weaving along the walls and over the floor as bright scales burned black with ash. The other man's dragon, the red one, had fled at first, but now turned and the jaws caught the tail of her father's dragon. Blue tail twitching from its mouth.
The red dragon belched a smoke ring after chomping the tail. It's claws scratched along the floor as leather wings launched it in pursuit. The mouth unhinged as it flew forward to swallow the her father's dragon whole.
The man with the twined beard crouched to lift the dragon, the form now motionless. In the silence that emerged with the end of the battle, she heard the man's robes rustling. With a flick of the wrist, the dragon disappeared. Ilse couldn't tell where it had disappeared. The man turned to her father, bowed deeply and presented a flask with a cloudy yellow liquid in the base of it. Then the wizards in the room disappeared in columns of smoke leaving her father. Ilse coughed, breathing the smoke.
"Ilsebet!" Her father only used that name when he was angry. The bridge of his nose pinched with pain. The slab behind her groaned as it rose and she fell without the support. "You must forget everything."
She shrank from his extended hands, an intuition that they came not to help but to soften the memories leaving them wisps of dreams. "Are you okay?" Ilse's voice shook.
"You mean the dragons. You must forget what you saw. It was only a ritual form of greeting and I told you too much, but you must realize there is nothing to worry about."
"No..." She meant the frightened way he looked with his eyes dashing to and fro like the dragons that had fled about the room.
"Don't worry about the dragon. I owe Mage Connolly a favor and if he has need of me he will release my dragon and it will come to me and I will know his need. He has provided a potion that will heal the prince unlike the childish healers that do nothing but weaken him." He moved his hands towards her again. "You must forget."
"No." Ilse raised a finger, flattening the folds of flash creasing her father's face. "I want to learn what you do."
"It is not the world for you."
Ilse felt her blood buzzing in her hands and she opened her palm flat and a bee appeared and buzzed around her father's head. "I think it's chosen me now."
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Stephen April 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM
Hi there Aidan -- I'm liking these little dragons. You can't go wrong with dragons. Nicely rounded out tale, and like the fact there is 'business' going on between Llse and her father, about whether she gets to do the magic, as well as the basic spectacle of things. St.
John Xero April 9, 2011 at 12:31 AM
Hi Aidan, another great fragment of a new world (or is this a part of the 'illusions' world?).
It's kind of sweet that, despite the dragons, Ilse's first illusion is a bumblebee. =)
John Wiswell April 9, 2011 at 9:02 PM
Very musky and magical. Is this an entirely new world or part of one you've been working on? It feels like a fragment of something you've been playing with, but I'm just a reader.
Steve Green April 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Very rich writing Aidan, I really like the concept of these tiny dragons too.
trev April 10, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Here I was, all caught up in the dragons and wizards, and you turn it into a family affair. Nice, effective bit of distraction & reveal.
AidanF April 10, 2011 at 1:19 PM
@StephenH, intriguing that you used the word business, since that is what spawned this tale.
@JohnX, This is part of a new world. I'm looking at a classical Medieval world with the dragon's being not quite illusory.
@JohnW, it's the first fragment from this world, but a number of conversations and items began percolating the idea this last week. In particular a long conversation I had with a coworker over beers regarding respect. (Beer being the proper refreshment for such discussions ;)
@SteveG, thanks, I'm sure they will get another guest appearance in the future.
@Trev, I'm guessing that family affairs get quite entangled when you add wizards and dragons. :)
Genevieve Jack April 10, 2011 at 5:46 PM
Dragons! Very nice world building here. I hope the rest is as good as this little snippet.
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“Concert for Charlottesville” Video Earns National Awards
A music video collaboration by musicians from Charlottesville High School and Metro Nashville public schools has earned 2018 Advocacy in Action Awards from the music education non-profit organization, Music for All. The musical remake of Bebe and CeCe Winans’ song, “Right Now (We Need One Another),” was recorded by Charlottesville High School and Metro Nashville Public Schools musicians last year in response to the events of August 11-12 in Charlottesville. The music video features 50 CHS orchestra students and 30 members of the CHS choir, along with Nashville’s Fab 5, a group of student singers that attend different schools at MNPS. “It was ...
Highlights and News November 2018
A Word from Superintendent Dr. Rosa Atkins Dear families – As we look ahead to our second Community Forum on Equity on November 27 at 7:30 p.m. at CHS, I wanted to give you a few updates. Thanks to all of you who came to our first forum in October. With more than 400 community members, employees, and students present, along with many following along on Facebook, we were able to hear valuable feedback on issues of equity and achievement in our schools. We also gathered hundreds of responses from our online surveys and have made that data available to you at www.charlottesvilleschools.org/NYT. ...
“Heathers The Musical” opens this Thursday at CHS
Charlottesville High School will present “Heathers The Musical (High School Edition)” Thursday, December 6 through Saturday, December 8 at 7 p.m. at the CHS Black Box Theatre. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults. Order tickets online here. The play is a new adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the 1990s cult classic movie. It follows the story of Veronica Sawyer – a brainy teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. But before she can get comfortable, she falls for the wrong boy and finds herself ostracized by ...
School Board passes dress code resolution
In November 2018, the Charlottesville City Schools School Board unanimously passed a resolution that bans students from wearing clothing that depicts symbols “associated with racial hatred and violence.” Citing the events of August 11-12, 2017 in Charlottesville, board members resolved that “student dress that is disruptive of the learning environment, that contains language or images that are discriminatory, or that promotes violent conduct or contains threats includes, but not limited to, clothing that depicts Confederate imagery or the Nazi swastika or contains images and language associated with the Ku Klux Klan and other White Nationalist groups, is prohibited and will not be ...
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A Word from Superintendent Dr. Rosa Atkins Dear families — “Every Learner. Every day. Everyone.” These words embody our mission – that at Charlottesville City Schools, we want to support all of our learners. How are we doing on that? By some measures, we’re doing great. Our graduation rate rose to 92.6%, and for black students, that rate has risen 25 points since 2006. Data shows that as students move through our schools, they show strong growth. As we’ve emphasized social-emotional learning and added supports for positive behaviors, our suspensions have dropped significantly. However, by other measures, we still have work to do. On Virginia’s ...
VA Sec. of Ed visits as division celebrates VA Farm to School, Healthy Schools Week, and Buford Fall Harvest Festival
Charlottesville City Schools, in partnership with City Schoolyard Garden, celebrated a week of garden activities, visits from farm animals, and made-from-scratch lunches made with local ingredients provided by area farmers through Local Food Hub. During Charlottesville Healthy Schools Week and VA Farm to School Week students sampled a variety of healthy foods including farmer’s market salsa and vegetable soup while also taste-testing local goat cheese, pears, and apples. On Thursday, Charlottesville City Schools hosted special guest Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni at Venable School. Secretary Qarni and members of his staff joined students for lunch, visited the garden to see goats ...
Graduation Rates Rise; Community Forum on Equity Scheduled for 10/23
Continuing a pattern of growth, the Charlottesville High School on-time graduation rate rose to 92.6 percent for the class of 2018, which exceeds the state’s overall rate. The drop-out rate fell to 4.8 percent, also superior to the state’s rate. The on-time graduation rate also rose for African-American students in Charlottesville, hitting 88.3 percent. Since 2006, this rate for Charlottesville’s black students has risen almost 25 points. “We are so proud of our students and the staff who support them. The growth in our black students’ graduation rates in the last twelve years is tremendous,” noted Dr. Rosa Atkins, superintendent. “Even so, ...
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Charlottesville Schools Ranked #7 in Virginia
The 2021 Niche.com K-12 rankings are out, and Charlottesville City Schools earned an A , placing #7 overall among Virginia school districts. Niche ranks nearly 100,000 schools and districts based on statistics and millions of opinions from students and parents. Additional recognition for CCS from a variety of Niche categories include: #2 of 132 – Most Diverse School Divisions in Virginia #5 of 132 – Best Places to Teach in Virginia #9 of 132 – Districts with the Best Teachers in Virginia. #18 of 11,822 -Most Diverse School Districts in America A+ ranking in College Prep and Diversity categories and A in Teachers. We’re proud of the ...
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Romeo, world's loneliest frog, finally scores a date
Jan. 15 (UPI) — The world’s loneliest frog, single for a decade, is finally getting a date.
For the last ten years, Romeo, a rare Sehuencas water frog, has lived in isolation at Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny in Bolivia. He’s known only the company of biologists and museum visitors.
Last year, researchers set up an online dating profile to draw attention to Romeo’s plight. This year, they have a better gift, female frogs.
Recently, scientists discovered five Sehuencas water frogs in a remote Bolivian cloud forest. The frogs, including two females, were safely captured and brought to the museum.
Currently, the valuable captives are getting used to their artificial habitat. Their confines are designed to mimic their natural habitat, but scientists want to give the frogs time to adjust. Soon, scientists will introduce Romeo to the female closest to his age, with hopes that the two will mate.
If the newly energized Sehuencas water frog breeding program is successful, future generations of the rare species will be reintroduced to the wild.
Romeo hasn’t had much practice socializing, let alone courting, while his soon-to-be companion, Juliet, is quite outgoing.
“Romeo is really calm and relaxed and doesn’t move a whole lot. He’s healthy and likes to eat, but he is kind of shy and slow,” Teresa Camacho Badani, chief of herpetology at the museum, told BBC News. “She’s really energetic, she swims a lot and she eats a lot and sometimes she tries to escape.”
The Sequences water frog is one of many amphibians in Bolivia facing threats of extinction. Habitat destruction, pollution and climate change have shrunk the populations of many vulnerable species.
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PSG soccer star Angel di Maria’s family held hostage, burglarized during game
March 15 (UPI) -- Soccer stars Angel di Maria and Marquinhos each had family homes burglarized during Paris Saint-Germain's 2-1 loss to Nantes. Sources told the BBC, ESPN and RMC Sport that intruders held di Maria's family hostage during the incident Sunday near Paris. Marquino's parents also were present when their home was burglarized Sunday near Paris. Advertisement Marquinhos posted a statement about the incident Sunday on social media. He said no one was hurt during the burglary. Di Maria has not provided an update on the health of his family. "The home of the player's parents was the target of the action of the bandits," Marquinhos' statement said. "Family members of the Brazilian were in the residence, but they suffered nothing and are all well, recovering from the scare. "The Fre...
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Students use social media to stay connected, or overshare?
Lifestyle, Lifestyle March 12, 2018 Victoria Paul
People use social media for many different things —personal expression, entertainment, social interaction or simply to pass the time, to name a few.
Some argue posting all of this content for the world to see is not needed or bothersome, but others enjoy seeing their personal expression come to life through different posts.
With more than 1.5 billion people on Facebook, 800 million active users on Instagram, 158 million sending Snapchats and 330 million users on Twitter, it is safe to say social media has taken over as a mode of self-expression and a way to be heard.
Most college students would agree that social media has changed the way they perceive the world as well as other people, but not everyone would agree this change is for the better.
“I personally do not care about social media that much,” said Evan Schneider, senior criminal justice major. “I don’t like to go on and see what you had for dinner that day because that isn’t important. I would rather see the big – life events because that is what is important, not your outfit today.”
Not everyone feels that people on social media share too much, but rather enjoy seeing personal details.
“I don’t think people share too much on social media,” said Sam Shroll, junior theater major. “I love scrolling through Instagram because I like to know what all my friends are up to. It is so cool to see all the fun places people go and see how different people live their lives so it doesn’t bother me at all.”
Some feel posting every thought on social media can make things uncomfortable and put a strain on personal relationships.
“I’m all for free expression and the ability to share how you feel but it gets messy when people begin to post things that bring others down,” said Giorgia Catalano, senior early childhood studies major.“Like when people get into political debates and begin to tear others down. Conversations like that are best said in – person or over private – messaging.”
At the end of the day, social media is personalized to you and your likes, so you can use it however you wish.
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Southern California’s Apple Fire burns across San Bernardino forest
Local, News, Top Stories August 5, 2020November 22, 2021 Elijah Hickman
Luc Stringer | Banner | Smoke billows across the mountainside as the fire rages through Cherry Valley.
Three fires merged into one massive blaze on July 31, and the resulting Apple Fire has consumed 26,850 acres in the San Gorgonio Wilderness. No injuries have been reported.
Cal Fire reported on Aug. 4 that the wildfire, caused by a malfunctioning diesel engine that spat out materials near Oakland Road in Cherry Valley, was 15% contained.
Lisa Cox, fire information officer for the San Bernardino National Forest, said the vehicle’s exhaust malfunctioned in the afternoon, when it is the hottest.
Cox said the Apple Fire is not close to being contained, especially with the wind picking up.
“It is a little too early to have a containment date, as right now we do not have one for this fire,” Cox said. “With no rain in sight — and the temperate not going down much — and with high humidity, the fire is not really stoppable.”
As the fire grew, officials ordered about 7,800 people to evacuate their homes. The Red Cross quickly stepped in to help with shelters for families. With Covid-19 also posing a significant threat, the Red Cross had to figure out how to shelter evacuees while also maintaining the state’s safety guidelines.
“Because of the coronavirus we can not have the normal amount of people we would have in a shelter that close together,” said Ken Rieger, a shelter supervisor for the Red Cross. “Our main objectives are the safety of clients and volunteers, so we elected to go with a hotel for as long as we can.”
As the Red Cross provides shelter, the fire continues to rage through the areas surrounding Cherry Valley, including Beaumont, where an Incident Command Post was established at Noble Creek Park.
The command post helps coordinate information among first responders while giving them a chance to take a break.
Luc Stringer | CBU Banner Luc Stringer | Banner | View of the fire from the command center.
To help support and feed first responders, World Central Kitchen, an organization that helps feed people in need after natural or man-made disasters, set up shop at the command post.
Jason Collis, a chef at World Central Kitchen and director of procurement, said they were glad to do their share and help the community.
“Thank goodness the evacuation is not too high, and we were able to come here and boost morale for the firefighters,” Collis said.
Firefighters are continuing to battle the wildfire that has caused thousands to evacuate while also keeping everyone in the community safe. An evacuation center was set up at Beaumont High School, which is also employing temperature screenings, masks and distancing measures.
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The Global Education and Skills Forum 2018 is bringing together highest potential educational technology start-ups targeting emerging markets together with Ministers, policymakers, investors, donors, charities and educationalists from around the world, to meet and discuss how technology can improve the future of education. ‘Tomorrow’ is a new summit within the Global Education and Skills Forum in 2018, where solutions to tomorrow’s problems are addressed and resolved. Join us to be a part of that change.
‘Tomorrow’ will host the inaugural Next Billion EdTech Prize. Judged by a panel of experts and education ministers, select education technology start-ups in emerging markets can pitch their ideas against others for a money-can’t buy prize - a chance to pilot out the technology in schools and with ministries of education in up to three partner countries, as well as a share of a prize fund.
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Soon 100,000+ 5G sites as China goes commercial. Headed over 1,000,000
Until today, China's 5G was officially "non-commercial" but building rapidly. The country is set to pass the entire Western world before the previous Oct.1 launch date. See 90,000-150,000 Chinese 5G sites go live Octoberfor an earlier report.* Probably for political reasons, Minister Miao Wei just moved up the date. China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom will build rapidly. They will be joined on the China Railway Towers by China's Radio and Television cable systems.
China Tower has 2.2 million sites and expects the carriers to upgrade most of them in the next few years. Towers and backhaul are in place. The upgrade will only require new radios, usually less than 15% of the cost.
Huawei, ZTE, and now Datang are ready with as many radios as the companies want to install. My guess is that the government will make available money to speed the build. The likely limiting factor will probably be the time required to train an army of engineers.
Equipment is in plentiful supply. Huawei has shipped 100,000 base stations already and does not need U.S. parts except perhaps for the phones. ZTE is selling around the world. The U.S. dominates the production of FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays,) used to replace several chips in a design. When sales volume goes past ~10,000, FPGAs are normally replaced by custom chips; Huawei is at that level. Where that's not practical, FPGA's can be replaced by a group of chips. In routers and other network equipment, there's room for an additional circuit board.
A revitalized Datang will be China's 3rd 5G supplier. It was a pioneer in 3G TD-SCDMA but fell behind in 4G. (The company's TDD patents are foundational for 5G.) The government in 2018 merged Datang with Fiberhome, one of the world's largest producers of fibre equipment, which is showcasing the new Datang gear around the world.
*CWW has a figure of 70,000 this year, Nomura 172,000. The 90-150,000 estimate comes from China Mobile & ZTE, via China Daily.
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Crocodile (?) Killer
Yoichi, Tsubaki, Akane
Tsubaki is apparently ready to be a genuine. Like all students, she is to face off against a dangerous beast within Kirigakure’s arena.
"Crocodile (?) Killer"
Kirigakure
Leave it to the wielder of the Kiba blades to come up with a time for a Genin Exam to throw its taker off. Tsubaki would've been sent a missive only hours ago informing her to be at the arena at this time, almost 2AM when most sane people wouldn't be training, much less risking their life fighting some creature from the depths of Hell, otherwise known as the deepest parts of the Blood Marsh. A giant cage sits in front of the dam, currently surrounded by a flowing wall of water to keep one from completely make out the enormous creature that sits inside it, though once in a while a hideous growl and the banging of its body and tail hitting the cage in impatience to get out can be heard ringing out behind the muffling of the water.
Standing atop the cage as he awaits the arrival of the competitor in thus brutal contest, Yoichi has his arms folded over his chest. Soulless crimson eyes stare out into the arena below as he waits. At least the village management was kind enough to assign a medic to be this one's Proctor, though whether his orders are to save her or let her perish if she gets in trouble may be in question.
Akane had on her usual clothing, her glasses set on her head rather than her face for the moment and came accompaned by a child… in a fluffy dress with lace and frills in white. The child had long black hair and big golden eyes and cleaarly toook after Ishino in the way she dressed in the western fashions. Right down to the mary jane shooes and the big bow in her hair. The medic led the child to the front row of the stands and lifted her up so she could sit on the wall of the stands, leaning against the railing to be sure she did not fall. "See? There's Tsubaki-chan." The child nodded as Akane pointed to her.
Tsubaki is no stranger to getting woken up at odd times. The girl is roused, and she snaps out of the haze of sleep very easily despite being tired from training rather hard the day before this. She gets dressed in her actual student clothes, which she hasn't done in a while, and heads to the arena. As she comes in, the girl would look around, green eyes searching for the reason why she was summoned here. Did she do something wrong, or… The banging of the cage is enough to break her out of her thoughts, and she stares up at the creature that is several times her size.
"… I suppose this is all something important…" she comments softly, noticing the crowd gathered in the stands. "Though a public execution doesn't make sense…" She glances upwards, noticing a familiar face in Kit. It took a moment for the girl to recognize her, but it was fairly easy upon noticing her style of dress. She doesn't quite acknowledge Kit, as she isn't sure how to handle herself, but at least she knows a few people there.
As Tsubaki enters the arena, Yoichi narrows his eyes, waiting for her to approach before he finally speaks. "Shirayuki Tsubaki, you have been nominated for promotion to Genin. As you should expect, there is a strenuous test you must pass… Simply put, you must kill this creature with your own might. Do so, and you will have earned your hitai-ate. Fail… and you'll probably have been eaten." He then brings his hands together in a seal, causing the wall of water to drop down from around the cage to flow out into the arena with little regard for if she defends herself from it. After all, one who couldn't handle a little wave wouldn't be ready for this…
What is revealed is something rather scary, an enormous alligator that rejoiced in its ablity to kick open the door of the unlocked cage. Even odder about this thing compared even to its size is that it stands up much higher than its cousins, seeming to be perhaps the only survivor of a long-extinct breed of this creature that has mutated and grown even more powerful in the heart of the Blood Marsh. Its muscles are more equivalent to a far different creature than normal, one able to move at much higher speeds. A vicious roar parts its enormous jaws, spewing saliva along with a powerful wind from its throat at her to begin the battle.
Tsubaki looks over when she hears her name, Yoichi getting her full attention for the time being. When he mentions that she's going to be promoted for genin, her eyes widen a bit in surprise. She wasn't expecting that… The girl quickly gets ready, though, chakra focusing steadily as she prepares to face off against the creature. She idly wonders who her opponent is going to be when the cage drops, and a large alligator comes out. The water buffets against her small figure, but she stays where she is with a bit of chakra to keep her feet in place. "… Huh… I wonder how they find these creatures…" She murmurs, tensing a bit in her spot as she waits for the first attack to come for her. She didn't want to charge head on just yet… She didn't know what she was facing.
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) Headbutt vs Tsubaki from 20 to 40 and get(s) a 36. - Rolled by: Yoichi
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) Tail Swipe vs Tsubaki from 20 to 40 and get(s) a 25. - Rolled by: Yoichi
RPCOMBAT: Tsubaki defends against with a ICE-CLONE…44
RPCOMBAT: Tsubaki counters with ICE-CLONE…24
RPCOMBAT: Tsubaki took 221 damage.
The creature doesn't seem to care much about Tsubaki's preparation. It's only hungry and ready to destroy something and consume it. It was likely kept hungry for this version reason, so it'd fight harder. Charging directly at Tsubaki, it goes to ram its head into her then spins around rapidly to swipe its tail at her with intent to crush her small frame and send her spiraling into the arena wall.
COMBAT: Tsubaki attacks target 1 with WATER-CLAMP with a roll of: 20
COMBAT: Tsubaki attacks target 1 with WIND-SHARP with a roll of: 29
COMBAT: Tsubaki attacks target 1 with HIDDEN-MIST-TECHNIQUE with a roll of: 22
When the creature comes at her, the head would simply ram into a clone made of pure ice, the girl making her way towards the other side of the giant… crocodile/alligator/dinosaur/thing. Sadly, she wasn't expecting the tail to come at her, and she ends up getting knocked to the side and hits the side of the arena. She winces a bit, rubbing where she got injured. No blood, but a lot of pain… The girl frowns, eyeing the gator for a moment before going through some handseals, water forming to clamp around the gator to keep it in place. She was using the terrain to her advantage. A kunai is drawn and thrown at the gator, then, before she fades from its sight, hopefully. A thick mist has started to coat the arena, though it was likely a few could see her moving around.
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) Step Through from 15 to 35 and get(s) a 18. - Rolled by: Yoichi
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) Gator Perception from 15 to 35 and get(s) a 32. - Rolled by: Yoichi
With the clamp going around its foot, the giant creature is caused to stumble, which allows the kunai to strike its underbelly and leave a large gash. This seems to only anger it further, as another feral roar bellows out as the monster moves itself up to its feet once more. Despite the mist, its killing instinct seems to be on point, as it charges forth through the mist without hindrance with intent to clamp its jaws around the girl and then bash her into the wall.
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) Gator Chomp from 20 to 40 and get(s) a 24. - Rolled by: Yoichi
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) Gator Bash from 20 to 40 and get(s) a 22. - Rolled by: Yoichi
RPCOMBAT: Tsubaki defends against with a WATER-RIBBONS…35
COMBAT: Tsubaki attacks target 1 with ICE-CLONE with a roll of: 32
Kit suddenly gasped, a tiny sound of air, no voice and covered her mouth as the croc roared, moving closer to Akane as she watched. She'd wanted to be here for Tsubaki and Akane had agreed to bring her. Mostly because this would give the girl a chance to see what shinobi were like. She fully intended to give Kit the chance to choose between being a normal girl and being a shinobi. Akane stroked the child's hair and soothed her, promising that those creatures did not come into the village, she was safe with Ishino and her.
Water rises up to block the jaws enough so that Tsubaki can dance backwards away from the hungry alligator. She skids a bit across the wet surface of the arena, green eyes deadlocked on the beast she was facing. When it comes in to bash her into a wall, a clone made of pure ice appears again, arms outreached and 'sharpened' to be much like a spear so that the gator might get a head injury if it's not careful. The Shirayuki leaves the clone to disappear, another clone forming near the belly of the gator to strike again with sharp edges of ice.
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) Step Leap from 15 to 35 and get(s) a 25. - Rolled by: Yoichi
When his attempt to get a bite to eat ends in a flurry of ice shards, the giant creature tries to leap out of the only, only to be heady by another flurry from the next clone. He roars out in pain as he rolls over, blood leaking from his wounds still as he stands back up and leaps to try and crush her with his full weight and then crush down on her with his jaws once more.
[NPC System]: Gator roll(s) GATOR CRUSH!!!! from 24 to 40 and get(s) a 30. - Rolled by: Yoichi
Tsubaki scrambles to try and get away from the creature, but she ends up getting smashed into! The girl ends up stuck underneath the giant creature for a time, struggling to remember how to breathe as her entire world just went a bit fuzzy from the single hit. As it rears back up, she regains her senses and is able to replace herself with a clone made of ice, this one not as spiky as the others. The girl feels her wounds are… not too bad, but not the greatest. She focuses her chakra once again and forms two more clones of pure ice, and both charge in at the large gator, icy shards piercing through the creature's hide.
Despite its attempts to leap away, the gator is pierced by each of the clones. It bellows out a giant roar of pain as more and more blood pours from its wounds until at last it falls over dead with a thunderous crash. That crash echoes throughout the arena, a loud and clear signal of the Shirayuki girl's victory over this monster. A true sign of her victory comes as, a moment later, Yoichi would appear in front of the girl and nod to her. "Congratulations," he says as he withdraws a piece of cloth from his coat, opening it reveal a brand new hitai-ate that he presents to her. "Shirayuki Tsubaki, you are officially promoted to the rank of Genin."
As Yoichi announced that Tsubaki had passed suddenly there was enthusiastic applause from the little girl in lolita dress sitting by Akane. She grinned big and happy, clapping for all she was worth and then some. Akane chuckled and smiled, holding around Kit's waist lest she slip in her enthusiasm.
Tsubaki looks at the creature, looking about ready to attack again when it's declared dead by Yoichi in a more official manner. The girl doesn't quite get out of her tense state until Yoichi actual says that she's graduated, half-thinking this is all a trick. But the hitai-ate looks real enough… The Shirayuki eventually relaxes a bit and reaches out to take the forehead protector, holding it in her hand and absent-mindedly rubbing the spot where the gator fell on her. "… Arigatou," she says with a small bow towards Yoichi. Then her gaze falls onto the girl up above that's started clapping. She offers a small smile in her direction.
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Pixel Scroll 10/6/16 Have Fun Storming The Pixels!
Posted on October 6, 2016 by Mike Glyer
(1) MCCARTY REMEMBERS HARRISON. Dave McCarty pays tribute to his friend Howard Harrison, who passed away October 5, by retelling the experience of running the 1999 Capricon.
…I asked what if we weren’t actually throwing *Capricon*? What if instead, we were holding the annual meeting of the International Order of Villains? We treat the whole convention like it is some *other* event? Tracy asked me why that would be and then I hit her with the nefarious money plan. You see, if it’s a conference like that, when folks sign up, they would tell the convention organizers which kind of villain they were…be it henchmen, lackey, minion, mad scientist, Igor, etc. We could badge each of those groups differently so you’d know who was who. The kicker was that you could also choose to register as an Evil Overlord, but this would be a premium membership for which you would need to pay more money. If you wanted to be an Evil Overlord, you had to pay. We could work out getting them some tokens and souvenirs for it, but as long as we only spent a couple bucks on that, we were still helping the convention. The idea excited me and it excited Tracy, so we shared it with a few other folks and it universally got folks excited and worked up….
From that point on we were in a world we’d never anticipated. We got no small number of people to pay us extra money to be an Evil Overlord and boy howdy did that help us, but holy hell did it make for a convention that’s hard to forget. See, quite a number of the Evil Overlords were going around the convention recruiting minions, henchmen, and lackeys to their cause. Even more brilliantly, Howard Harrison was spending almost all of the time he wasn’t in the filk room going around and organizing the Union of Minions, Henchmen, and Lackeys Local 302. When I asked him why, he told me (in his best Chicago Superfan imitation) “You see, I know that I am going to die in a fiery explosion, or be thrown into a volcano, or just act as fodder for my bosses escape. I need to know what’s going to happen for my family!“. These conversations and all the recruiting brought me to freaking tears. Our whole convention was a LARP and almost everyone was playing and nobody was having a bad time or feeling pressured to participate. Howard even invented the UMHL salute. Take your right hand and make a tight thumbs-up, then flip it upside down (thumbs down). Now, place your knuckles against your temple in salute fashion. There you go, union salute! Howard then took his unionized brothers and sisters and started approaching the Evil Overlords to inquire about benefits and insurance and post-death family care to get his folks the best deal he could….
…At the time, I told him how brilliant he was…but over the years, his playfulness that weekend grew to mean a lot more to me and I don’t think I ever really got to tell him what that grew into for me. I’m sad that I can’t do that with him now, but I *can* share this story with all of you so that you know what a special guy he was.
(2) MAGIC IN SNORE-TH AMERICA. If you bet against J.K. Rowling writing magical history that’s as dusty and dull as regular history is reputed to be – you lost. New at Pottermore, “The Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA)”.
The Magical Congress of the United States of America, known to American witches and wizards by the abbreviation MACUSA (commonly pronounced as: Mah – cooz – ah) was created in 1693, following the introduction of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. Wizards worldwide had reached a tipping point, suspecting that they could lead freer and happier lives if they built an underground community that offered its own support and had its own structures. This feeling was particularly strong in America, due to the recent Salem Witch Trials.
MACUSA was modeled on the Wizards’ Council of Great Britain, which predated the Ministry of Magic. Representatives from magical communities all over North America were elected to MACUSA to create laws that both policed and protected American wizardkind…
(3) SURVIVING HOSTILITY. Angelica Jade Bastién, in an article for New Republic, says “For Women of Color, the Price of Fandom Can Be Too High”.
I’m open to criticism and discussing my writing with those who respectfully don’t agree with my opinion, but in covering comic properties, I’ve dealt with everything from people accusing me of not reading comics as if I had no idea what I was talking about to being told I was race baiting by acknowledging certain issues in the film. The worst were the very pointed attacks calling me an “idiot” or a “bitch” and far worse epithets from people I blocked. I won’t even go into the Reddit threads about my article that I was once tauntingly sent screenshots of. It’s something I’ve grown almost numb to as a critic. But what was more interesting to me was the level of hurt coming from these men and their routine way of doubting my comic knowledge—a dynamic other female journalists get time and time again.
I’ve watched all of the Star Trek series more times than I can count, and I often whip out Klingon when I’m nervous.
I have been reading comics obsessively since I was about ten years old. I can probably quote from John Ostrander’s original Suicide Squad run in my sleep, I’ve watched all of the Star Trek series more times than I can count, and I often whip out Klingon when I’m nervous. But I’ve found that the love and knowledge I have on these subjects never seems to be good enough for the people who grow furious at a black woman writing about these properties. White male fans often don’t want to face how their beloved properties often have troubling racial and gender politics. (Just peruse the comments on my review of X-Men: Apocalypse for RogerEbert.com: “The author feels like the X-Men series in general has failed its female characters—ignoring the fact that Mystique is elevated to a leadership and relevance level well above the source material.” Many didn’t want to face a critique coming from a woman, and a fan, who knows them better than they do.) You can only delete emails and block people on Twitter for so long until you feel burnt out. The reason why we don’t see more black women writing about these subjects with such visibility isn’t because we haven’t been interested in them, it’s that publications rarely give us the opportunity, and when we do write, we often find ourselves facing personal scrutiny that has little to do with the actual writing. At times, I’ve been left to wonder, why do I love these stories so much when they rarely care about people who look like me?
(4) HOLD ON TO THE LIGHT. At Magical Words, “100+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors Blog About Suicide, Depression, PTSD—a #HoldOnToTheLight Update by Gail Z. Martin” includes links to the first 40 posts authors have written around the theme.
More than 100 authors are now part of the #HoldOnToTheLight conversation! Our authors span the globe, from the US to the UK to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Even more exciting is that as the campaign picks up traction and visibility, more authors want to join, meaning a growing, vibrant dialog about mental wellness and coping with mental illness.
#HoldOnToTheLight is a blog campaign encompassing blog posts by fantasy and science fiction authors around the world in an effort to raise awareness around treatment for depression, suicide prevention, domestic violence intervention, PTSD initiatives, bullying prevention and other mental health-related issues. We believe fandom should be supportive, welcoming and inclusive, in the long tradition of fandom taking care of its own. We encourage readers and fans to seek the help they or their loved ones need without shame or embarrassment.
(5) MUSEUM OF SF KICKSTARTER FOR A WOMEN IN SF ANTHOLOGY. The Museum of Science Fiction has opened a Kickstarter appeal to fund Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers, a “take-home exhibit” featuring short science fiction works by and about the women of the genre.
This anthology will showcase how they—as readers, as writers, and as characters—have engaged with and influenced science fiction for more than a century….
The cover of Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers will feature original artwork by the Hugo winning artist Julie Dillon. Award-winning authors Eleanor Arnason, Catherine Asaro, N.K. Jemisin, Nancy Kress, Naomi Kritzer, Karen Lord, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Pinsker, Kiini IburaSalaam, Carrie Vaughn, Jane Yolen, and Sarah Zettel have already agreed to contribute work to the exhibit.
Upon reaching the minimum funding target, the Museum will open submissions until December 1, 2016. The public will be able to submit original work that fits the take-home exhibit’s theme. Authors of original fiction published in Catalysts, Explorers, & Secret Keepers will receive the SFWA-standard pro-rate ofUS $0.06 per word, while authors of solicited reprints will receive US $0.03 per word. All authors featured in this exhibit will be invited to discuss their work as presenters and panelists in 2017 at Escape Velocity, the Museum of Science Fiction’s annual celebration of all things science fiction.
The appeal has raised $6,068 of its $8,500 goal with 26 days to go.
(6) TOR.COM REOPENING FOR NOVELLAS. Tor.com publishing will take unsolicited novella submissions for three months beginning October 12.
Lee Harris and Carl Engle-Laird will be reading and evaluating original novellas submitted by hopeful authors to http://submissions.tor.com/tornovellas/. You can find full guidelines here, and we highly recommend you read the guidelines before submitting. We will be open for three months, beginning on October 12th around 9:00 AM EDT (UTC-4:00) and ending on January 12th around 9:00 AM EST (UTC-5:00). We may extend this period depending on how many submissions we receive over the course of the open period.
(7) TAKE US TO YOUR CHIEF. From CBC Radio, “Drew Hayden Taylor on why we need Indigenous science fiction”.
Science fiction is meant to take us to places we’ve never been — this is what writer Drew Hayden Taylor is aiming to do with his new collection of short stories, Take Us to Your Chief.
Taylor’s new book filters famous sci-fi tropes such as aliens, time travel and government spying through the lens and perspective of Indigenous people. For him, he is simply taking these familiar stories and putting “some hot sauce on them.” …
“I pictured myself as a 12-year-old kid back on the reserve, reading science fiction or reading books and not seeing our experiences in this book,” he explains. “I was just taking certain touchstones that we were all familiar with and then using them to take them out of the reserve environment into the larger sci-fi environment, and giving it that sort of resonance.”
(8) POSTSCRIPT TO NATIONAL FINISH-YOUR-BOOK DAY. Camestros Felapton reports there was third sf novel finished yesterday – Timothy the Talking Cat’s The Confusing Walrus. According to Camestros,
I’ve read his ‘manuscript’ and it says “Copy whatever John Scalzi has written but use find/replace on the words ‘space’, ‘galaxy’, ‘star’ and ‘planet’ with the word ‘walrus’”
(9) INTERVIEW WITHOUT A VAMPIRE. Masters of Horror held a get-acquainted session with Horror Writers of America President Lisa Morton.
Interview With Lisa Morton By David Kempf
When did you first become interested in writing?
I’ve been writing almost as long as I’ve been reading – my first poem was published when I was 5! – but I didn’t seriously consider making a living out of it until I saw The Exorcist at the age of 15. Seeing the astonishing impact that film had on audiences during its initial release made me realize I wanted to do that, too.
How did you make this a full time job?
Well, it’s not my full time job now. I tried that for a while, back when I was making a fair amount of money as a screenwriter, and it didn’t work for me at all. I know most writers dream of being able to leave their day job and pursue writing all the time, but for me it was too isolating. Plus, I really love being a bookseller.
How did you become President of the Horror Writers Association?
By attrition, sadly. I was serving as Vice President when the President, Rocky Wood, passed away. Before that I’d held a variety of positions within the organization. I do find it satisfying to work with other writers and promote a genre that I love….
(10) NEXT BLADE RUNNER. The Verge reports “The Blade Runner sequel is officially titled Blade Runner 2049”.
2049 is just one year away.#BladeRunner 2049 – in theaters October 6, 2017. pic.twitter.com/DDJ752HXvd
— #BladeRunner 2049 (@bladerunner) October 6, 2016
(11) BROOKS ON WILDER AND FRANKENSTEIN. Mel Brooks got emotional before a screening last night.
Mel Brooks introduced one of the funniest movies ever made, Young Frankenstein, on Wednesday night. But the director couldn’t hold back tears.
Brooks paid homage to Gene Wilder, the star and co-writer of his 1974 classic comedy, before showing Young Frankenstein on the 20th Century Fox lot.
The live event was beamed to theaters around the country and turned into a tribute to Wilder, who died Aug. 29 at age 83. An encore presentation with Brooks’ introduction will screen in theaters Oct. 18.
“I get just a little overcome,” said Brooks, 90, from the stage, dabbing his eyes as he discussed Wilder. “I’ve had a few great memories in my life. But, honestly, I think making Young Frankenstein is my best year.”
(12) SWEET SWILL. ‘Tis the season for Deadworld Zombie Soda! (Turn the sound down when you click on this site.) The sodas come in 12 flavors, with label art created by comic book artists based on the characters and events that take place in Deadworld comic book universe.
ORANGE – Orange Roamer
CHERRY COLA – Goon Biters
BLACK CHERRY – Royal Rotter
CREAM SODA – Brain Sap
COTTON CANDY – Zeek Cocktail
VANILLA CREAM SODA – Geek Juice
GRAPE – Grisly Swill
VANILLA ROOT BEER – Slow Decay
STRAWBERRY – Rot Berry
ROOT BEER – Twilight Shuffler
GREEN APPLE – Morbid Mix
GINGER ALE – Graveyard Delight
Deadworld is the award winning, long running cult hit comic book series published by Caliber Comics that first exploded on the comic scene in 1986. With over 1 million copies in print and over 100 comics & graphic novels released to date, Deadworld is not your typical “zombie comic book or story”.
A supernatural plague has been unleashed on the world. The dead return to walk the earth…but this is no standard zombie story. The dead are just foot soldiers for those who have crossed the ‘Gateway’ from another dimension. There are leader zombies who are intelligent, sadistic, and in addition to having a hankering for flesh, enjoy the tortuous ordeals they put the surviving humans through.
(13) EERIE OUTFITTER. Tim Burton’s costume designer Colleen Atwood interviewed by NPR (with comments on Miss Peregrine’s…):
From Hannibal Lecter’s mask to Edward Scissorhands’, well, scissor hands, Oscar-winning costumer Colleen Atwood has pretty much designed it all.
Working steadily since the 1980s, she’s dressed characters from the past and the future — the Middle Ages for Into the Woods, the Civil War for Little Women all the way to Gattaca and the 2001 Planet of the Apes. Her latest movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, is her eleventh with Tim Burton. It travels back in time to Wales during World War II….
(14) SLOW DOWN, YOU MOVE TOO FAST. The BBC sums up interstellar travel:
Science fiction writers and moviemakers have shown us countless visions of humanity spread out across the Universe, so you might be forgiven for thinking that we’ve already got this in the bag. Unfortunately, we still have more than a few technical limitations to overcome – like the laws of physics as we understand them – before we can start colonising new worlds beyond our Solar System and galaxy.
That said, several privately funded or volunteer initiatives such as the Tau Zero Foundation, Project Icarus and Breakthrough Starshot have emerged in recent years, each hoping to bring us a little bit closer to reaching across the cosmos. The discovery in August of an Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest star has also raised fresh hopes about visiting an alien world.
Interstellar spacecraft will be one of the topics discussed at BBC Future’s World-Changing Ideas Summit in Sydney in November. Is travelling to other galaxies possible? And if so, what kinds of spacecraft might we need to achieve it? Read on to get up to (warp) speed: …
(15) TREK BEYOND BLOOPERS. CinemaBlend has the story and the video — “Chris Pine Does His Best Shatner Impression In Hysterical Star Trek Beyond Gag Reel”.
As professional as the actors all are on the set of a Star Trek movie, the final cut of the film adds effects and music to the experience which help transport you to the fictional world. Without that, you’re just a guy standing on a set spouting Star Trek gibberish. This becomes all the more clear when an actor trips over their lines, and suddenly everybody remembers that they’re acting again. The best part, though, is when Chris Pine calls for “Full impulse, Mr. Suliu” and John Cho stops to say that he sounds like he’s doing a William Shatner impression. Pine does add a bit of a classic Shatner pause to the line, so it does sound a bit like him to us. As much as we love William Shatner, we hope this doesn’t become a habit.
(16) THAT’S APPERTAINMENT. IanP unleashed this instant classic in a comment on File 770 today.
With apologies to Paul Weller
A pixeled car and a screaming siren
A shuggoth trail and ripped up books
A walrus wailing and stray pup howling
The place of fifths and tea drinking
That’s appertainment, that’s appertainment
A file of scrolls and a rumble of boots
A wretched hive and a bracket ‘head cloth
Ink splattered walls and the award of a rocket
Time machine appears and spews out pizza
That’s appertainment, that’s appertainment.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Chip Hitchcock, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Darrah Chavey.]
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95 thoughts on “Pixel Scroll 10/6/16 Have Fun Storming The Pixels!”
Lis Carey on October 7, 2016 at 9:36 am said:
It is sadly true that behavior from women doesn’t get the same response from men as the same behavior from other men. It’s why helpfully-intended advice to women to address the pay gap by negotiating more aggressively is bad advice.
Advice to women to respond aggressively to aggressive men is dangerous advice. Sadly. Even though a relatively small, slight man may know from experience that it works very well for him, and be suggesting it based on his experience in a genuine attempt to help.
I’ll also note, however, that Steve Davidson asked it as a question, and in phrasing that to me pretty clearly indicated he was prepared to find out he’d overlooked or misunderstood something.
On the third paw, I’ll note that so much of this advice, whether well-intended and thoughtful, or smug mainslpaining, after a while sounds like “it’s easy, just be someone totally other than your natural temperament, experience, and social training have made you. What’s hard about that?”
Chip Hitchcock on October 7, 2016 at 9:38 am said:
@Greg: as an former light-plane pilot who has been watching various developments, I argue that energy is the least of the problems with flying cars. Larger problems include that there are no roads in the sky, that there is nothing under a flyer to keep it from rolling over if the driver mistakes the cloud in the distance for the horizon, and that a flyer can’t just pull over when breakage, exhaustion, or bad weather make continuing a bad idea. (A helicopter can do something like pulling over — but a copter is even harder to fly than a fixed-wing plane and needs a lot more energy.)
Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little on October 7, 2016 at 9:55 am said:
@Robert Reynolds: Thus your options are to let them live in your head, rent free, or simply go on about your life, enjoying what you like while minimizing their impact. That’s why there are blocking functions on various social media. (emphasis mine)
Angelica Jade Bastién, in the article to which this is a direct response (well, indirect; it was a response to a response to the direct response), in the very excerpt quoted here, has already addressed this: “You can only delete emails and block people on Twitter for so long until you feel burnt out.”
The fact that you have faced meatspace harassment, intimidation, and violence, still does not give you the experience of being a woman of color facing constant harassment for the “crime” of having opinions on the internet.
There are a whole host of reasons you got the sort of responses you’ve gotten. What follows is not an exhaustive list.
1. You come across as claiming your experience gives you better insight into what Bastién is facing than anyone arguing with you, because your experience was in meatspace…
2. …which, further, makes it seem that you’re ignoring that harassment against women on the internet, especially women of color, always carries the threat of taking it to meatspace (cf. doxxing, rape and death threats, photos of the victim’s front door, photos of the victim’s children at school).
3. You also come across as implying that the threats you have experienced are more serious than those Bastién is talking about – that, compared to your experiences, hers are mere pocket change and not worth whining about.
4. In the quote excerpted above, you present a point which Bastién had already addressed, which makes it look like you didn’t bother reading past the first paragraph of the excerpt–or, if you did, you dismissed her comments about getting “burnt out” as mere whining not worth acknowledging.
5. You describe your initial comments as seeming to you as “an innocuous response,” which strikes me as completely disingenuous. You began with a great big *SIGH* and ended with ” Enjoy what you like and to hell with the screaming howler monkeys,” giving me, at least, the impression that you were exasperated with having to read yet another tale of someone whining about trolls when it was, you assert, within their power to simply say “to hell with them” and go on their merry way. Your initial comment struck me as contemptuous and dismissive, not innocuous at all.
Seriously, what did you think you were adding to the conversation with that comment? Helpful advice? If so…
6. …you do realize women get to hear men explaining this to us all the time? Lecturing us about how very simple it is if only we’d let it be that simple. Telling us that if we’d only deal with the harassment the way they advise, we’d have it so much better. Such advice universally fails to take into account our own experience (of being burnt out, of feeling marginalized, of the trolls being not simply a hoard of stupid people but a symptom of our social marginalization, of being legitimately afraid for our lives), mostly because wen we recount our experience (as Bastién does), such men don’t seem to listen, or they seem far too ready to dismiss as unimportant factors which we feel as tremendously vital (as, I dare say, you seem to). After experiencing this time and time again (cf. microaggressions), our patience gets very short.
That we get this from men all the damn time, you cannot help. But you can damn well control whether you yourself add yet another damn instance of the same to the load, or whether you refrain from doing so.
And I’m speaking from the point of view of a white women. Women of color get it so. Much. Worse. And they get it from white women, too, not just from men (of any color), which is especially disappointing (cf. how white feminism fails women of color).
I am sure others in the community can point out nuances my own response lacks. These are just the reasons off the top of my head. Maybe it will help contextualize for you the tenor of the responses you got, and hopefully make it less surprising next time, or even avoidable.
Petréa Mitchell on October 7, 2016 at 9:56 am said:
(2) I came to realize when Pottermore started publishing the magical history of the rest of the world that I outgrew the Potterverse some time ago. I’m still working on the part where I put enough psychological distance between it and myself to maintain a healthy apathy about it. But I read the Scroll last night and managed to not comment on the latest installment until now, so that’s something.
So the part that really trips me up is the first council being attended in 1693 by “wizards from all over North America”. Why the whole continent? Or why just the continent and not the rest of the Americas, since presumably there were many of the same issues being thought over elsewhere? And if it’s the whole continent, why was it convened in a poky little English-speaking backwater rather than down in Mexico City where the real action was at the time? If it had to be within the future USA for story purposes, why not at least pick a more stable and less conflicted polity to hold it in, like say the Iroquois Confederacy? If it was really just for colonial wizards, why was it just about the relations between them and England and not the other colonial powers which held significant territories in North America at the time? And why how what aaaaaaargh [spontaneously combusts]
Heather Rose Jones on October 7, 2016 at 9:59 am said:
@ steve davidson
Of course, it may also be that male assholes will respect a male with a bat, but not a woman with a bat…and that meeting aggression with aggression will make things worse?
Others have analyzed this, probably better than I could. But I just wanted to emphasize that our world is filled with examples of people responding very differently to the exact same stimulus from different categories of people. (*cough* Black lives matter *cough*) If you want to know what sort of calculations women make around responding to male aggression, do a search on news stories about women being murdered for responding negatively to street harassment from complete strangers.
One simply cannot solve the issue of gendered harassment by suggesting that women react like men, because if their harassers reacted identically to the same behavior from men and women, there would be no gendered harassment to be responding to in the first place.
Peer on October 7, 2016 at 10:45 am said:
I clearly cant scroll this pixel in front of me!
TYP on October 7, 2016 at 11:02 am said:
@Steve Davidson
I think you have it surrounded when it comes to some aspects of male on male reaction; I just think there’s a whole load of male on female dynamics that are present, dangerous, and poorly addressed. After all, we’ve already had one person flounce off when those were brought up already.
Mallory on October 7, 2016 at 11:08 am said:
@Nicole. Well said and I can’t add anything else to that.
@Steve Davidson. I’ll also add to the chorus of remarks saying that men respond differently to women being aggressive vs. men being aggressive. In the scenario, you described there are at least 2 points that differ from the internet.
1) Confronting a group of bullies makes the bullying stop. It doesn’t stop on the internet for women (especially of color) who make the mistake of having opinions. There isn’t any group that they can confront that will stop anything.
2) Dealing aggressively with a man or group of men with few or no witnesses around is drastically different than doing it with witnesses. The former has a much higher chance of escalating into violence based on my anecdotal experience and those of women I know. As someone described above, women can be murdered or assaulted for responding to catcalls negatively. These types of men have real issues dealing with women who aren’t quiet.
Bruce Arthurs on October 7, 2016 at 11:13 am said:
If a guy mouths off to or threatens another guy, and things turn physical, and the mouthy guys gets his ass whupped, or threatened strongly enough he thinks he might get his ass whupped and backs off, he’s been beaten.
If a guy mouths off to or threatens a woman, and things turn physical, and the mouthy guys gets his ass whupped, or threatened strongly enough he thinks he might get his ass whupped and backs off, he’s been humiliated.
In the first instance, since the altercation is between “equals” (even if there’s a physical disparity), the mouthy guy can usually deal with it and move on. The odds he’ll come back later with a bat or a gun for another round are pretty low.
If the mouthy guy has been beaten or intimidated by a woman (who, even if she’s bigger or stronger than the guy, is the “inferior” sex), that’s a contest between unequals. Being beaten in a “fair fight” or argument is acceptable; being beaten or humiliated by someone who’s supposed to always be “weaker” than you isn’t. That can’t be dropped; that can’t be let go. That fight has to be continued at all costs until the man triumphs.
That’s the dynamic I see in a lot of cases, from Internet trolls to women being murdered for denying the dominance of men. (Spurning their affections, breaking off a relationship, asking for a divorce, etc.)
I don’t have any good answers or solutions. It feels like society at large is (slowly) moving away from this perceived disparity and more towards a true equalitarianism, but that doesn’t do much for those individuals who have to deal with the die-hard dicks and trolls who see strong women as a personal challenge to their manly macho manliness. I think the number of Manly Macho Men is shrinking, but, wow, they can sure make a fuss when they’re riled. (“screaming howler monkeys”; good description.)
(When I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s, there were occasional times when I thought to myself, “Oh, why couldn’t I have been born a girl instead? Girls have it so-o-o-o easy.” With a half-century’s additional perspective, sometimes I feel like I dodged a bullet. Thanks, random Dad sperm!)
Greg Hullender on October 7, 2016 at 12:44 pm said:
Rob Thornton@
Here’s a link to a 2015 Smithsonian article about the state of the art in hibernation studies:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-are-trying-figure-out-if-humans-can-hibernate-180955018/?no-ist
Thanks! That was a good article, even if it was a little discouraging.
Something I didn’t see there (or elsewhere) was whether hibernation actually increased the life expectancy of the creatures who do it. That is, if a mouse hibernates for a few months per year, does it live longer than one that doesn’t hibernate, or is it just sleeping part of its life away?
@Bruce Arthurs
I’ve been told that the same dynamic applies with gay men, but, fortunately, I’ve never encountered it personally. Now that I think about it, I’m a bit surprised that the alt-right bullies don’t go after gay men the same way they go after women. What’s with that?
Darren Garrison on October 7, 2016 at 1:08 pm said:
I came to realize when Pottermore started publishing the magical history of the rest of the world that I outgrew the Potterverse some time ago.
I think that a more universal issue is that J.K. Rowling outgrew the Potterverse some time ago. She seems to no longer have much interest in the whole thing, just occasionally tossing out there a few poorly-researched, poorly-written crumbs to keep the income rolling in, along with the sporadic Twitter comment with a tidbit of Lucasian retconned worldbuilding that she has just thought up (“BTW, Dobbsy the House Elf was a Mormon who did his missionary work in eastern Niger. I hope that came through in my writing.”) She should realize that she already has all the money that she needs to live very well for the rest of her life and let Harry Potter go if she doesn’t care about it any more.
Hampus Eckerman on October 7, 2016 at 1:10 pm said:
“Now that I think about it, I’m a bit surprised that the alt-right bullies don’t go after gay men the same way they go after women. What’s with that?”
Milo Yiannopoulos, I guess.
Greg Hullender on October 7, 2016 at 1:24 pm said:
@Hampus Eckerman
I think that begs the question. 🙂
Nigel on October 7, 2016 at 1:35 pm said:
I File The Scroll Pixelated.
I Scroll the Pixel Electric
Johan P on October 7, 2016 at 2:02 pm said:
Bruce Arthurs:
Being beaten in a “fair fight” or argument is acceptable; being beaten or humiliated by someone who’s supposed to always be “weaker” than you isn’t.
On the other hand, beating someone who is obviously weaker than you is not usually seen as anything to brag about either. I think it’s odd that the traditional rule about “don’t hit girls”, as well as the male’s ingrained desire to look good to females, don’t have more of an effect on the online monkey crowd.
In my experience, it’s generally easier for a woman to defuse a situation involving angry men, than it is for another man. For example, the student club when I was a university had a mostly-female bouncer staff, and had less trouble with violent guests than most other clubs in town. When a woman asked a rowdy guest to tone it down, or said something to the effect of “you’re acting a bit like an idiot, you don’t really want that, do you?” the drunk complied – while if a guy asked the same there was more of a chance the drunk would see that as a challenge.
For those who have read Scalzi’s Zoe’s Tale, there’s a scene where Zoe and her friend break up an almost-fight between two groups of boys by basically shaming them. While the scene as written is a bit over-the-top, I don’t think it is completely unrealistic. (Except for taking place on a faster-than-light space ship, of course.)
I suppose there are differences here between being part of the conflict from the beginning and stepping in to defuse it, and between seeing eye to eye and shouting at each other on Twitter. But I still think it’s odd that so many men seem to think they gain “man points” by being aggressive towards women online.
IanP on October 7, 2016 at 2:12 pm said:
I first heard this story on Radio 4 this evening:
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/296421/chicken-cross-road-escape-dundee-police/
Along with the obvious foul puns…
Cheryl S. on October 7, 2016 at 2:52 pm said:
@steve Davidson – I have experienced a fair number of women, in “male preserves” defending themselves against abuse in an aggressive manner and, while the guys will go off and mutter among themselves about what a bitch and dyke she was, they did back off.
Please trust me when I say that what men do to and around women who are alone is very different than what they do when other men are around. I suspect there is some lizard brain component that does not come into play in regards to the internet, in that no matter how large the crowd of male commenters it does not act as a deterrent to targeting women for even the most extreme abuse, while the presence of even one man in meatspace makes a material difference.
And: Here’s what I think I was getting at: part of the male intimidation game is responding to perceptions of weakness. Publicly stating “these threats scare me” fans the flames. Going to the police, re-locating are all perceived as a win in the “game”. I’m wondering if perhaps a change in the language used in responding might not be an effective tool. Unless that’s perceived as change that plays into the whole thing.
You’re trying to solve a problem, right? Because it is a problem deserving of a solution? That’s great, except you haven’t properly defined what the problem is. You seem to think it is a question of the correct response to aggression, when the actual problem is that there is no correct response that women can make to aggression and hatefulness from men if the desired outcome is to make it stop.
How many white people understand that it’s a risky activity to walk while being black? Even if you think you really get it, you don’t, because you’ve never experienced the perils of doing so. If you do get it, it’s because you’re black and you know that the solution isn’t to unblack yourself, it is to change the culture so much that it is no longer an act of bravery for a black person to walk around a majority white neighborhood.
In a similar vein, there is no effective response that women can make to male aggression, not meekness, not capitulation, not equivalent aggression, because we can’t unwoman ourselves. The correct solution, once you understand the actual problem, is to change the culture.
John Lorentz on October 7, 2016 at 3:07 pm said:
I think that a more universal issue is that J.K. Rowling outgrew the Potterverse some time ago.
At this point, I would much rather read a new Cormoran Strike book than something set in the Potterverse…
Lee on October 7, 2016 at 4:22 pm said:
@ Steve D.: I had a much longer response here, but you’ve rendered it irrelevant. I do want to point out, though, that I think Cheryl has the key. The minute a woman tries to respond to aggression with aggression, all the brakes come off and it’s Katy bar the door, and they will treat her (verbally AND physically) far worse than they’d ever treat a man doing the same thing. Make it a woman of color, and you’ve added a nasty layer of racism to all of the above. The word “uppity” describes their perception and response perfectly.
Heather Rose Jones on October 7, 2016 at 4:24 pm said:
@ Johan P
The rule about “don’t hit girls” only ever applied to lady-like girls who know their place and didn’t get uppity. Even the most chivalric Arthurian knight knew it was ok to beat up on witches, female dwarfs, and one’s own lady if she got out of line. [citations can be provided on request]
@ Chip: On the topic of flying cars, my first response is always, “You want to have to deal with all the stupid things people already do on the roads, in 3D and with no lane markings? Not just no, but HELL NO!”
Kendall on October 7, 2016 at 5:04 pm said:
@Mark (kitteh): Thanks for the Tor.com winter releases link! I was already eyeing Cornell’s Chalk and McDermott’s The Fortress at the End of Time, and now I see Emma Newman has one coming out, Brother’s Ruin, which sounds interesting. I hadn’t heard of Ruthanna Emrys’s previous story; was it any good? (I found it at Tor.com but don’t have time to read it right now.)
Kip W on October 7, 2016 at 5:44 pm said:
I think the thing about flying cars comes down to people wanting one, but not wanting everyone else to have one.
JJ on October 7, 2016 at 6:06 pm said:
Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little and Cheryl S.:
Thank you for articulating so beautifully why responses which work in real life vs. online, for men vs. women, for whites vs. non-whites, are not “one size fits all, it worked for me, so why shouldn’t it work for you?”, and why “you think you’ve got it bad, look what I had to go through, so what you’re dealing with is trivial by comparison, get over it” is not a useful response.
We need to spend a lot more time on curing the societal disease, than on telling people they should just adjust to the symptoms. 😐
lurkertype on October 7, 2016 at 9:53 pm said:
Women run and hide because they know it’s the safest strategy. Fighting back escalates the trouble. They’ve known that for untold millennia. Short of rewiring men to actually be logical and rational (which will take overhauling all the social systems of the entire world), it’s… the logical and rational response.
/cosign Nicole and Cheryl’s comments.
@TYP: Doesn’t Massachusetts still call itself a Commonwealth?
I also found it exceedingly odd that the US would so strictly require permits for wands when Britain doesn’t. Since they’re analogous to guns and the American wizards were more in danger from others, you’d think it’d be the other way around. Especially in the Wild West. Just more not thinking it through, like having cities appear years before they did and conflating all the Native tribes. Lazy work.
Bruce Arthurs on October 7, 2016 at 11:24 pm said:
re: flying cars: With self-driving cars looking to become common in the foreseeable future, would self-flying cars be doable? (Like drones and cruise missiles, with strong crash-avoidance programming.)
And, hey Mike, I noticed this thread is tagged “In Passing” rather than “Pixel Scroll”. Means it doesn’t show up if you click for a screenful of Scroll posts. Took an extra minute or so to find.
Mark on October 7, 2016 at 11:35 pm said:
@Kendall
If post-Lovecraft stories are your cup of tea then Emrys is well worth a read.
Hampus Eckerman on October 8, 2016 at 12:06 am said:
“Women run and hide because they know it’s the safest strategy. Fighting back escalates the trouble. They’ve known that for untold millennia. “
It is absolutely the safest strategy for men also. Just wish more people understood that. A simple check on the statistics of men-to-men violence should make that obvious.
JJ on October 8, 2016 at 12:43 am said:
Hampus Eckerman: It is absolutely the safest strategy for men also. Just wish more people understood that. A simple check on the statistics of men-to-men violence should make that obvious.
Yeah, the men who brag “I stood up to the men who were threatening me, and look how well that worked!” are in total denial about the fact that they, and anyone who was with them, could have very well ended up injured or dead — and the fact that they didn’t was down to luck, not to their masculine prowess. 🙄
Tom Galloway on October 8, 2016 at 12:59 am said:
“One of the things I like most about the DC TV universe (beyond the fact that the shows are a whole lot of fun) are the many multiracial and same sex couples and the fact that hardly anybody ever remarks on it. I also like that these shows have a lot of “colourblind” casting (James Olsen, Iris and Wally West, J’onn J’onnz, Hawkgirl and Firestorm are all white in the comics”
Not quite. Wally (well, one of them. Iris now has two nephews, one named Wallace and one named Walter) is black, but that was in response to the tv show. I’m not sure there is a Hawkgirl at the moment (DC’s shifted its continuity twice in the last 4-5 years), but the last one was hispanic. J’onn was shown for a while to have multiple civilian identities, some of which were black and asian, and was retconned into being a black farmhand for Jonathan Kent keeping a discreet eye on young Kal-El. Firestorm had a fairly long period where part of him/one of him (the 4 year ago reboot had multiple Firestorms as individual rather than merged entities) was black Jason Rusch and the Firestorm id appeared black. A few months ago the status quo reverted to Ron Raymond and Martin Stein as Firestorm, with Jason as what looks to amount to support crew.
As for not being a fan of Barry/Iris on Flash, have to confess I preferred Barry with Patty Spivot in that they had a lot more in common. Iris, if I’m recalling correctly, has pretty much dismissed every geeky interest of Barry’s, including science. In some ways, Iris is a legacy of Barry and her’s creation in the late 50s where pairing Barry up with a fellow scientist probably wasn’t felt as an option, while successful reporter was a more likely at the time occupation that allowed for a strong character, which comics Iris usually was. She was also introduced as in an ongoing relationship with Barry, so you initially viewed them as a couple rather than having to build up to why these two are in a relationship.
junego on October 8, 2016 at 1:40 am said:
I wanted to add my appreciation for Nicole and Cheryl’s comments wrt online WoC harrassment and some of the Filer solutions offered. They expressed my feelings and thoughts more eloquently than I could when I tried to draft a response.
But the discussion re Rowling and her abuse of Usaian history made me think, “Hmmmm, maybe this is a teeny, tiny, itty, bitty bit like some folks feel when their culture is appropriated.” (Cf. earlier discussion at the File). Anyway, a small light came on in my head with the word ’empathy’ etched on it. (not that I think they are equal ‘affronts’, just that my irritation may have given me a little insight into the feelings of others.)
TYP on October 8, 2016 at 2:33 pm said:
@Lurkertype
It does along with several others. Rhode Island is still, officially, the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. (They had a vote about changing the last part a few years ago. They kept it because, ironically, the Quakers who founded the Providence Plantations half were die hard abolitionists from the word go.)
@Mark: I’m occasionally interested in that sort of thing – not really into horror, but I have a soft spot in board games for Cthulhu-esque stuff 😉 so I’ll check out the story. Thanks.
Chip Hitchcock on October 8, 2016 at 5:11 pm said:
@Bruce Arthurs:
Despite the snarky quote, flying cards colliding with other flying cars is not the main issue (IMNSHO); the problem is colliding with weather and/or physics. (Camestros had an indirect point about energy: planes are built much less sturdily than cars so that they can fly without requiring huge amounts of power.)
junego: what we’ve been talking about here (as opposed to previous flares about (e.g.) “skinwalkers”) isn’t lazy use of stereotypes but failure to check basic, widely available facts. People who don’t learn about less-known \cultures/ before writing about them are offensive; people who don’t read incipient-dominant history before writing it are just not doing their job. (That’s being polite.)
Tasha Turner on October 8, 2016 at 8:12 pm said:
Thank you Liz, Nicole, Bruce, Cheryl, and Heather Rose for your comments on harassment and responding to abuse. I think you and a few others I missed made all the points I wanted to more eloquently than I could.
I hope it will amuse someone else as much as it did me, in the midst of all this, that I read Tasha’s comment as “I think you and a few others missed all the points I wanted to more eloquently than I could.” Twice.
Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little on October 8, 2016 at 10:05 pm said:
“Missing points eloquently since 1976.” I like it. 😉
@Chip Hitchcock
people who don’t read incipient-dominant history before writing it are just not doing their job.
Such people aren’t doing their job if they don’t educate themselves about any other people they’re writing about.
But my point wasn’t primarily about Rowling, it was about the slight feeling of offense I felt that she didn’t check to get the facts of my country’s history correct before writing about it. From examining my feeling, I grokked more empathy for people who feel upset/offended/angry when portions of their culture are misused/misrepresented/monetized by someone else.
Kendall on October 9, 2016 at 8:40 am said:
/historical(god)stalk
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Lee on October 9, 2016 at 11:03 am said:
@ junego: Exactly, the same way that taking a French Lit class in the original gave me more empathy for people who can’t read English as easily as I can. After struggling thru 2 pages in the time it would normally take me to read a chapter or more, I found myself thinking, “If reading English was this hard for me, I wouldn’t be doing much of it either.”
ETA: And I’m reasonably reading-fluent in French, and was more so back then when it was fresher. But that’s “sign-reading fluent”, not “lit-reading fluent”.
Tasha Turner on October 9, 2016 at 11:16 am said:
@Kip W
I laughed at your interpretation. LOL. I meant I may have missed naming a few people in my thanks.
Jubal on October 10, 2016 at 5:47 am said:
@Robert Reynolds —
‘Tis a lovely straw man you have there, sir, ‘twould be a pity someone would set a fire to it.
Anyway, a short reply, to not waste too much of your precious time:
• on-line and off-line interaction are not different, neither is an imagined fantasy world, no matter how you would like to think it true; yours is not the only point of view on that matter,
• let me guess, you have never been a target of a prolonged on-line hate campaign that spills all over the off-line elements of your life, have you now?
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Cockyloo
In the barnyard a gray hen sat on her nest, feeling very happy because it was time for her eggs to hatch, and she hoped to have a fine brood of chickens. Presently crack, crack, went the shells, “Peep, peep!” cried the chicks; “Cluck, cluck!” called the hen; and out came ten downy little things one after the other, all ready to run and eat and scratch,–for chickens are not like babies, and don’t have to be tended at all.
There were eight little hens and two little cockerels, one black and one as white as snow, with yellow legs, bright eyes, and a tiny red comb on his head. This was Cockyloo, the good chick; but the black one was named Peck, and was a quarrelsome bad fowl, as we shall see.
Mrs. Partlet, the mamma, was very proud of her fine family; for the eight little daughters were all white and very pretty. She led them out into the farmyard, clucking and scratching busily; for all were hungry, and ran chirping round her to pick up the worms and seeds she found for them. Cocky soon began to help take care of his sisters; and when a nice corn or a fat bug was found, he would step back and let little Downy or Snowball have it. But Peck would run and push them away, and gobble up the food greedily. He chased them away from the pan where the meal was, and picked the down off their necks if they tried to get their share. His mother scolded him when the little ones ran to hide under her wings; but he didn’t care, and was very naughty. Cocky began to crow when he was very young, and had such a fine voice that people liked to hear his loud, clear “Cock-a-doodle-doo!” early in the morning; for he woke before the sun was up, and began his song. Peck used to grumble at being roused at dawn, for he was lazy; but the hens bustled up, and were glad to get out of the hen-house.
The father cock had been killed by a dog; so they made Cocky king of the farmyard, and Peck was very jealous of him.
“I came out of the shell first, and I am the oldest; so I ought to be king,” he said.
“But we don’t like you, because you are selfish, cross, and lazy. We want Cocky; he is so lively, kind, and brave. He will make a splendid bird, and he must be our king,” answered the hens; and Peck had to mind, or they would have pulled every feather out of his little tail.
He resolved to do some harm to his good brother, and plagued him all he could. One day, when Cocky was swinging with three of his sisters on a bush that hung over the brook, Peck asked a stupid donkey feeding near to come and put his heavy foot on the bush. He did it, and crack went the branch, splash went the poor chicks into the water, and all were drowned but Cocky, who flew across and was saved. Poor little Hop, Chirp, and Downy went floating down the brook like balls of white foam, and were never seen again. All the hens mourned for them, and put a black feather in their heads to show how sorry they were. Mamma Partlet was heart-broken to lose three darlings at once; but Cocky comforted her, and never told how it happened, because he was ashamed to have people know what a bad bird Peck was.
A butterfly saw it all, and he told Granny Cockletop about it; and the hens were so angry that they turned Peck out of the barnyard, and he had to go and live in the woods alone. He said he didn’t care; but he did, and was very unhappy, and used to go and peep into the pleasant field where the fowls scratched and talked together. He dared not show himself, for they would have driven him out. But kind Cocky saw him, and would run with some nice bit and creep through the fence into the wood, saying,–“Poor brother, I’m sorry for you, and I’ll come and play with you, and tell you the news.”
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About Gameday
We finally launched brand-new Gameday 2007 last week with the debut of Mexican League Games. Despite the last minute rush, we dare say it was much more smooth sailing than we anticipated. This past Thursday March 29, Gameday moved on to Spring Training. There are still a few wrinkles to iron out, but for those of you who want a sneak-peek of the new Gameday before the season opener, be on the lookout for Gameday icons appearing on the Homepage and Scoreboard page in the next few days. We may even have 3D pitch data available for the Freeway Series Games (LA Angels vs LA Dodgers).
This season we have incorporated many of the changes suggested in the comments received so far from last year’s Postseason Games. This includes: merging of "Classic" mode and "Enhanced" mode together so you don’t have to switch between modes to see core game information; adding pitch number in the 3D area; improving and expanding the user interface of Game Archive; improving visibility of scoreboard design; expanding camera angle options; and modifying the break calculation to better represent baseball fan’s definition of breaks (more on this later). You may also notice a new statistics captured — the pFX number. In the next few months we will be providing more information about these new statistics as well as tidbits about Gameday you might enjoy.
While we try to make the application as robust as possible, there are always inevitable bugs here and there. If you are experiencing problems with Gameday 2007, feel free to report it in the comments section.
Written by mlblogsgameday1 Posted in Dailies
March 30, 2007 - 3:37 pm grade_a_282@yahoo.com
why cant you change back to original gameday, its either this or box score, which is just plain bad, bring back classic gameday, or at least make it available in additon to this new version
March 30, 2007 - 6:13 pm malvanman@hotmail.com
One of the big features that is missing this year is the option to see what the batters did in their previous at bats. You used to be able to roll over their picture and it would say “1st Inning: Groundout 3rd Inning: Strikeout” or something along those lines. I know that it is available by clicking on the pitch sequence images below the batter’s picture, but then it takes you out of live gameplay.
Also, you know what would be great?! It would probably be a lot of work on your end, but the option to delay the gameday action to be in sync with the gameday audio. I was on the gameday and gameday audio watching the Dodgers yesterday, and gameday would show the pitch result before the Dodgers radio announcers would even announce that the ball was thrown. So if at all possible, maybe you can add in a feature that allows you to delay the gameday action in 1 second intervals from 0 seconds to 60 seconds. That would be a huuuuge plus!
March 30, 2007 - 9:13 pm rgerrond@yahoo.com
I too am a big fan of the classic Gameday.
Sometimes this new version just has too many things going on at once to be able to quickly assess what is going on in the game.
March 30, 2007 - 10:14 pm btimmermann@gmail.com
So just how much RAM are you supposed to have to run this? This application just ate up my 2-year old Mac and spit it back out like it was a watermelon seed.
The application has way too much information. It stalls even more than the Classic version did when there are lineup changes and I really just want to know how the game is going on not the degree of break on Jason Schmidt’s pitches.
March 30, 2007 - 10:43 pm mlb@zappala.org
Free advice for your software developers: dump Flash. It’s too slow, you can’t middle-click to open links in tabs, and the mouse responds poorly under high load. Gameday is way too heavy.
Go spend a month at Google and learn how to develop fast and light apps that use Ajax instead of Flash.
March 31, 2007 - 1:05 am bokonon42@hotmail.com
What a bunch of cry babies! I for one embrace the bloat. Any chance of getting a stock ticker and weather bug built in to next year’s game day? And maybe an RSS reader? OH! I’ve got it! It could be an RSS reader that only picks up Bill Gurnick articles! You throw in some way for Gameday to spoof my paypal account and sell me ED pills, it won’t matter that I don’t have any RAM left, what else would I do with it?! I’d have everything in one unresizable window!
Oh, hang on, I’m driving off a pier. Save me Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan!
March 31, 2007 - 9:12 am grade_a_282@yahoo.com
this is ridiculous, why try to fix something that isnt broken, your trying too hard mlb
March 31, 2007 - 10:30 am jetsman31200@yahoo.com
Please mlb.com please put in the feature where you can switch back and forth between the enhanced verison and the classic version. The classic version is much more simple and easier to use. PLEASE put this feature in. The classic is much better then the new version and should still be available for everyone. Please!
March 31, 2007 - 10:44 am gautierm2@scranton.edu
I don’t want to add to the negativity, but my this new gameday is worthless. It freezes for 15 minutes and then speeds through everything you missed before immediatly freezing again. Lame
March 31, 2007 - 11:27 am plarnell@yahoo.com
I miss old gameday please bring it back I bet on all the games and get so excited when the phrase “run-scoring play” would come up. I will do anything to get the old version no matter how much it costs. I like old gameday way better than this version please bring it back!
please bring back old gameday I am watching this new version now and it is awful please mlb make the change back. I will buy subscriptions for everything if you bring it back!
March 31, 2007 - 1:40 pm jetsman31200@yahoo.com
PLEASE MLB.COM BRING BACK THE CLASSIC VERSION!!! ITS MUCH BETTER THEN THE NEW PLEASE!!!!
March 31, 2007 - 1:55 pm greggrules18@yahoo.com
r the chat rooms gonna be the same as they were in the regular season last year?
March 31, 2007 - 1:55 pm twinsfan5777@yahoo.com
I’d prefer to have the Regular Gameday back from last season. This year I watched one game for the Spring Training games and the Gameday is huge and I cannot see the actual score and the players stats.. i’d prefer the reg gameday. thanks.
March 31, 2007 - 2:18 pm brassmonkey38@yahoo.com
put up the live team chats right now mlb.com newb officials sit
yea i really want the chats up
You also need to have a BLOCK button on the chats or a guy named “Siouxdome” will spam every room 24-7. Thank You.
ya what that guy said^^^
March 31, 2007 - 2:32 pm omghr@yahoo.com
i agree with these two young lads. the chat rooms do need a block button because some silly willys just like to spam and get the clan all wiled up and angry
March 31, 2007 - 2:33 pm chyi9999@gmail.com
i think we could have a 1024*768 gameday windows.
and the boxscore at right could height 2 times, it’s too short now.
wish you to improve it, thank you.
March 31, 2007 - 2:35 pm sitnewbtytyomgnhr@yahoo.com
Sir please stop talking, Ty, Sit.
sir do not talk to me like that or i will be forced to take a **** on u
Sir, I do not tolerate Vulgar language.
March 31, 2007 - 6:34 pm dxmachina@aol.com
My goodness, new “improved” Gameday 2007 is awful. The lineup/boxscore section appears much shorter than it used to be, no doubt so that extra large, annoying Opening Day ad. I have no objection to ads. I do object to ads that use continuously rotating “hey, look at me!” images. Did we learn nothing from all those web sites that used the blink tag?
As for the rest, I’m sure there are a few people who will pore over the 3D breakinformation from two innings ago, but frankly it’s way too much information to sift through for me. And like the commenter above, I do miss being able to easily see what the batter did last time up. You show where the pitches were, but knowing whether the little blue dot was a hit or an out is far more useful.
If I had to hazard a guess, I’d suggest your programmers aren’t fans, because they seem to be far more interested in showing us the supercool stuff rather than the stuff we actually want.
Give us a Classic option.
April 1, 2007 - 2:33 pm sitnewbtytyomgnhr@yahoo.com
Excuse me, I would like the old Gameday back Please, Sir, TYTY
April 1, 2007 - 3:06 pm omghr@yahoo.com
yea me 2 sir. this gameday is too large for my screen. plus u cant even see wut the guy did last few ABs. please change to old gameday. it really owned this one. tyty and take a seat sir
dude what the heck, why arent the mlb chats opened this *****
April 1, 2007 - 4:13 pm greggrules18@yahoo.com
yea come on. why arent the team chat rooms opened?
April 1, 2007 - 4:30 pm benfica356@yahoo.com
yea, where are the chat rooms?
April 1, 2007 - 5:12 pm benwhite@dennis-bros.com
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I really hate the new Gameday. It’s just awful. I don’t need gradients; I don’t need graphical depictions of the path of the pitch; I don’t need scrolling collapsable batter info. (Seriously.) There was nothing wrong with the Classic version: The plain black text on a white background, divided into a pitch-by-pitch window and a play-by-play window, plus the simple pitch location graphic, was all that was required to easily follow a game. It was easy to read and understand. The so-called enhanced version has so much info presented so confusingly that you can’t find any of it. Please give us back the Classic version (or at least make it an option).
April 1, 2007 - 5:19 pm nyjetslg8@aol.com
Please mlb.com give us back classic gameday!!!
mlb.com please have the team chats in. That is the very least you can do to satisfy us.
April 2, 2007 - 10:25 am brentesh@hotmail.com
return the previous at-bat option and remove the big ad
April 2, 2007 - 10:30 am mbrewer@surs.com
The new Gameday blows as much as your audio feed media player does. Do us all a favor bring back the old version of Gameday and fix the media player so I can have audio without opening up windows media player and opening the URL for the feed.
April 2, 2007 - 11:07 am bokonon42@hotmail.com
You’re disappearing blog posts now? What are you, new? Did you take a job on John Edwards’ campaign blog?
Lame. So, so lame.
April 2, 2007 - 11:09 am scruffz@hotmail.com
I’m loving the new gameday. But my pitch speed and break won’t work
April 2, 2007 - 11:26 am josiahlynch1@msn.com
I dont care much for the new gamday. Its frozen half the time and way to complicated. The classic was so much better!!! All we want is to be able to revert back to the Classic. PLEASE bring it Back!
April 2, 2007 - 12:00 pm dlocapo@aol.com
There’s WAAAAAAY too much unnecessary stuff going on in the latest version of GameDay. All the bells and whistles are taking away from the content. For instance, it’s not really necessary to change the view of the batter, is it? And the play-by-play option keeps automatically scrolling back to new updates when I’m trying to catch up on the inning. Remember: Keep It Simple Stupid. Also, the big advertisment really, really, really stinks.
April 2, 2007 - 12:21 pm g1@georgehenik.com
Please bring back Classic. This new version is too large, it’s completely slowing down my system to where I couldn’t even login here because it would time out. Classic did the job effectively and efficiently.
As a sidenote I hate the ads for MLBTV since while I would love to buy it I’m in a ‘blackout zone.’
April 2, 2007 - 12:21 pm mdj@nycap.rr.com
I actually like the new gameday, though I’d like to have “classic” available for times when I’m on a low-bandwidth connection. One question, though: what does “PFX” mean as a pitch description? BRK and SPD are pretty obvious….
April 2, 2007 - 1:09 pm pittsports87@yahoo.com
Come on, this is stupid, I like the new look and everything, but I do not know if this will work on my computer, and where is the chat? it is the only reason I use gameday. Does anyone know how to get on the chat?
April 2, 2007 - 1:47 pm plarnell@yahoo.com
How many people do you need to tell you that this new gameday is sorry. I used to watch two or three games a day on old game day. I loved when the little blue circle came up and said run-scoring play. I think mlb has a lot of lazy tech people working for them!
April 2, 2007 - 1:50 pm mlb@cscott.net
I hate the new gameday.
Too busy, I can’t see the important stuff easy, and way too big! The whole point of gameday is to be able to keep one eye on the game while doing other work; that’s completely impossible now: the window takes up the whole dang screen, and all the flashiness makes it really really hard to just glance up and see what just happened. Either bring back classic gameday, or bring back the option from a couple of years ago of shrinking to an abbreviated vertical column of info.
April 2, 2007 - 1:59 pm sergeante@gmail.com
The scoreboard should be a priority que with the ongoing games first, then upcoming games, then finals (or finals then upcoming).
Also, I think the automatic scrolling between scoreboard lines should be optional, not the default, or at least the app should remember the state of the pause/play button when the user chooses to see the full gameday view for a different game than the one he/she is currently watching.
Mlb.com can you please get to it. Cmon bring back the old classic gameday. Look at all these comments. Everyone is hating the new one. PLEASE bring us back the classic one!!! Its horrible you have to scroll down to see how the pitchers did and one of the teams hitting stats. It should be simple and all in one screen. The classic version does this. PLEASE bring it back!!
April 2, 2007 - 2:02 pm xxx@x.com
What is the pFX factor?
I like this new version a lot, but I hear others are displeased with it, so I propose having a toggle between this and the classic version. Otherwise, please keep this and don’t turn it totally back to the classic.
Oh, and one more thing. How about adding the pitcher, catcher, and batter’s box into the main view?
Otherwise, great improvements!
April 2, 2007 - 2:35 pm aaatwood@sbcglobal.net
I prefer the classic version. Especially, I could see more of the box score and game log without scrolling. Let me access classic!
April 2, 2007 - 3:01 pm zeker@anet.com
I would much prefer that you either give us the option to use the old Gameday, or configure the screen to allow us to use it with a screen area of 800×600. I use this often at work, where I need these screen dimensions. However, the new Gameday does not fit using these dimensions. Wouldn’t there be a way to add scrollbars to the application, so that I could scroll up and back?
In the classic version, if you run your mouse over the present batter or pitcher, it shows a few of their stats. It’s not desperate, but it would be all the better if you could add this into the new version. Great work!
Could you note if it’s a diving play, leaping catch etc?
April 2, 2007 - 3:35 pm grade_a_282@yahoo.com
this is HORRIBLE, CHANGE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What happened to live chat?
April 2, 2007 - 4:01 pm tfp81367@yahoo.com
GameDay Mini would be nice to have again. I don’t like the fact that this is forcing me to take up so much of my monitor’s real estate.
April 2, 2007 - 4:14 pm mrx@springfield.net
Hey what happened here?!?! Baseball is a sport where less is more. Give us back the option to have last year’s gameday. I don’t like the pitch animation or the batter ghosting. Frankly, the pitch location is harder to see now. I really liked it when it was a colored circle with the number inside on the white background. This is the evolution you’ve brought us to ??? People used to gather in an auditorium and watch wooden figures be moved around on a board and messages were received by telegraph. Look at a baseball scorecard. Less is more in baseball.
April 2, 2007 - 4:51 pm lalana0520@gmail.com
what’s pFX?
April 2, 2007 - 5:58 pm payson@employeefiduciary.com
AAAGH! Please offer classic view Gameday. This is way too busy. Also mlb audio feed cut out with bases loaded tonight. Please simplify. This is the equivalent of replacing a baseball diamond with a moped track, adding five simultaneous pitchers, etc.
April 2, 2007 - 6:22 pm lcmyers@chartertn.net
If you really want feedback, please read all the comments wanting the old gameday option back. Or are you going into Iraq regardless of what everyone else thinks and not listen to us?
April 2, 2007 - 7:08 pm cartz_is_well_wicked@hotmail.com
I love the new gameday!! It runs perfectly on my cpu! Thanks heaps for the new version mlb.com
April 2, 2007 - 7:53 pm msubuckley22@yahoo.com
what is pfx
come on someone tell me what pfx is
April 2, 2007 - 9:04 pm elmerwabbitfudd@yahoo.com
The new gameday is a CPU hog! The browser (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) takes up over 95% of the CPU’s usage when I fire up the new gameday and yes the computer meets the minimum requirements on mlb.com.
April 3, 2007 - 10:15 am rlm@scareduck.com
Slow, huge, and frankly too much. Bring back the old Gameday, or at least let us have a choice in the matter.
April 3, 2007 - 12:26 pm pepsiford2003@aol.com
Is that annoying huge ad in the bottom right corner staying there the whole time?
The whole idea is rediculous.
Bring back classic.
April 3, 2007 - 12:47 pm plarnell@yahoo.com
I would give my left nut to get classic gameday back.
MLB PLEASE BRING BACK CLASSIC GAMEDAY!
MLB.COM WAKE UP!!! LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THE NEW GAMEDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!! HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU NEED TO HEAR??? PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!
April 3, 2007 - 3:35 pm michael@mwila.com
One more vote against the new Gameday. It really is unreadable, unwatchable, unbearable. The Classic Gameday was one of the best applications on the web. Compact, lots of information in a small space, very little scrolling, easy to read. Honestly, I haven’t seen anything so nice to look at and so pleasing to use (especially the ESPN Gamecast, which got too bloated last year).
Please bring back Classic, as the new version has all the annoyances that just make you want to turn it off entirely.
April 3, 2007 - 4:30 pm rara44@comcast.net
I love gameday…especially while I’m in the office… but….. it is so slow to update. I have new computer with plenty of ram and it should be no problem. Who ever was inputing info for today’s Giants game was awful. Updates were long in coming and sometimes whole innnings were missed. Never had that happen with the old version.
April 3, 2007 - 4:43 pm jelizabeth1978@yahoo.co.uk
i love the new gameday. Just wondering when the chatrooms will be added as i cant see the link to them anywhere.
April 3, 2007 - 8:37 pm arjaitheoriginal@yahoo.com
I haven’t counted the number of people that have requested the Classic version of Gameday, but I feel it is the majority among the posters. I have to agree with the majority. I am not entirely sure what is causing the delays in batter info but, The game I watched tonight, Twins vs. Baltimore, was waaaay behind. Last year’s version was not two to three batters behind the live game.
Granted there are some people here that like the new version. I also know that many times change can be good. However, the options and the speed of the options, i.e. scrooling between lineups and pitchers, is very slow and not what a person with a broadband conection, like me, is happy with.
In my small part of the world, I personally prefer the, somewhat simpler, Classic versoin. Please allow the majority to have it.
Thanks, I hope you care about us.
April 4, 2007 - 10:13 am greggrules18@yahoo.com
ok this gameday is really not working for me. it just doesnt update and idk y. i go to a gameday and nothing happens. it just sits there. this new gameday is garbage. please bring classic back
April 4, 2007 - 10:38 am uppitycrackerbitch@yahoo.com
all in all, the old one was good enough. i don’t feel like i’m getting information i couldn’t fathom in classic mode. a radar gun would be awesome. the real reason to use mlb instead of sportsline or some other version is the chat. bring back chat. block spammers. happy fans.
April 4, 2007 - 11:17 am benwhite@dennis-bros.com
The pitch tracker animation is just silly. Not until I was forced to watch an entire game with it on (I had only seen it briefly last year) did I realize just how unnecessary it is. It’s just a bunch of curved lines that all look the same! There’s no relevant data to be discerned here! And it takes up so much space, it completely obscures the only important thing to know: where the pitch crosses the plate (and thus whether it’s a ball, strike, or in play). Unfortunately, the plate area has been severly reduced in size, and the numbers are barely readable. Please do away with this animation, or make it where we can turn it off in order that we may enlarge the strike zone part of the graphic back to the size it was. In other words, bring back Classic.
April 4, 2007 - 11:52 am plarnell@yahoo.com
HELLO, MLB ANYBODY HOME, IT WAS CALLED CLASSIC GAMEDAY FOR A REASON IT DIDN’T NEED TO BE CHANGED! PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
April 4, 2007 - 12:16 pm uppitycrackerbitch@yahoo.com
i posted that a radar gun would be cool. it wasn’t until after watching gameday for a while that i realized there is a radar gun. that’s how jumbled the screen is. simplify a little. allow us to minimize or maximize what we want to see maybe? chatrooms up. spammers out.
April 4, 2007 - 12:21 pm trish_brc@yahoo.com
Happy New Year! Thank you for the effort you made to produce the fancy animations, but please let us turn them off if we choose. Please let us toggle back to Classic Gameday.
There is too much information on the new Gameday display. It’s like having a TV set on my desk when what I really want to have is a radio. A game on the radio can be enjoyed in the background when one is at work, while a TV set would be too distracting.
Meanwhile, does anyone know what the little brown squares in the outfield map of Cellular Field mean? They were there last year, too, and they’re not on other ballparks.
April 4, 2007 - 12:59 pm fearoliver@sympatico.ca
The pitch animations add nothing. The degree of the tilt means absolutely nothing to me…and all the images are indestinguishable. A simple: curveball, change-up, fastball description with the mph and location would be a lot more informative. Especially if you could compare pitch sequence histories or an archive from previous games ie: 0-2 = 20% Fast, 40% change up, 40% curvball…Similar set-up could be used to describe location by dividing the strike zone into quadrants. This would all be possible in a gameday without unrealistic computing power requirements.
April 4, 2007 - 1:37 pm mets3454@aol.com
please bring back classic gameday i hate the new one its so hard to follow and it gives me headaches looking at those players BRING BACK THE OLD GAMEDAY IT WAS SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE EVERYONE HATES IT THE NEW ONE
April 4, 2007 - 2:06 pm casaboutros@optonline.net
Classic Gameday must return in some way, shape or form
this gameday blows. it never updates for me
April 4, 2007 - 5:51 pm jopell333@hotmail.com
Why don’t you guys fix the box score feature? Scrolling through the box is slow and non-responsive. Why do we have to scroll at all? Can’t we just view the whole box score completely at a glance. Otherwise, I would have left Gameday as it was two years ago. Camera control is just a gimick. Useless!!! Sorry for the candor but you asked for it.
John from Marlborough, MA
April 4, 2007 - 8:39 pm cwilson2@hotmail.com
Please return classic gameday. This new one is ridiculously slow. It’s not my computer or the software, it’s just the program. Classic gameday was money.
Suddenly the pitch tracker stopped working. How do I start it up again?
April 5, 2007 - 10:02 am mo00se@hotmail.com
I like the new Gameday. I have no problems with freezing or lagging or anything like that. One feature I did like last post season was the 3D representation of the field, and the raised bases if someone was on it.
I’ve watched three games this season and have yet to see any pitch tracking. Is there something wrong or do some stadiums have it and some do not? no break is shown in the game archive either.
I would also like to see the ability to see batters previous at-bats.
nevermind about the previous at bats, the current display is fine….but i am still curious why the pitch tracking never works for me.
April 5, 2007 - 11:00 am mj2009@gmail.com
1.Why the big black box in the lower right corner? Is it just me? It would be great to use that space, say, to see both lineups at the same time.
2.Wasn’t there a 3D display of pitches in the 06 postseason or something? With the break and the speed? That would be awesome.
3.Even better would be to have an option to make it animated, so that the batter swings, the pitcher winds up etc.
4.The pitch list is somewhat hard to keep an eye on. Why doesn’t the last pitch thrown stick to the top of the batter view? It seems to me it only stays there for a couple seconds.
Thanks and keep up the good work
April 5, 2007 - 12:03 pm arizona_andy@hotmail.com
BRING BACK CLASSIC GAMEDAY. The new one is bad on so many levels I don’t see how this was ever released.
The interface is a step backward. Unbelievably slow, less intuitive, useless features added and valuable features removed.
Why was the popup that shows what the hitter has done in his previous at-bats removed? This feature was very useful and there is simply no reason it should have been removed.
Also, the large ad at the bottom-right of the screen absolutely has to go. It covers up far too much of the box score section. If you want an ad, place a banner at the top. Talk about terrible interface design.
The multiple camera angles are also completely useless, as pitch movement is not shown.
And why is the pitch speed not shown? I still don’t understand how this information isn’t displayed, clearly the data is available.
If you won’t revert back to Classic Gameday, then at least give us the option to choose from Classic Gameday or the new Gameday.
I forgot to mention the “Pitch-by-Pitch” list. This section is also much worse than before. You no longer have the ability to see the current pitches and the outcomes of the previous at bats at the same time.
Again, very poor interface design.
I am a professional software developer and interface designer, and to me these changes are incomprehensible.
April 5, 2007 - 12:17 pm bob.johnston@meineke.com
TOO MUCH PACKED INTO LIMITED SPACE: Sometimes “simpler” is better, which is definitely the case with last year’s Gameday version. The 2007 version includes so much **** that it’s a chore to follow the game….even to navigate from one feature to the next. It’s not just a matter of climbing the learning curve, this 2007 Gameday rendition is legitimately confusing, frustrating, and wholly unappealing. Go Back!
April 5, 2007 - 12:31 pm mj2009@gmail.com
Also, it would be nice to see the outcome of each AB under the “previous ABs” section for the batters.
April 5, 2007 - 1:07 pm phil.nathan@gmail.com
Way too much going on. The reason I used MLB’s version in the past (the “Classic” one) is because it didn’t bog down like ESPN/Yahoo/every other one. You could easily click around and find out what’s going on. This one is completely unworkable unless you’re using the newest system on the market.
Bring back classic, or at least leave it as an option!
April 5, 2007 - 1:17 pm munnlete@yahoo.com
Another vote for Classic Gameday to return. Simpler is indeed better.
April 5, 2007 - 5:50 pm vterinexile@yahoo.com
Holy ****! You ruined a great thing! The new version is way to cluttered, and the fonts are unreadable. Revert to the last version! Until then i’m going to use the (even slower and generally inferior, but entirely readable) CNN-SI game ticker.
ANYBODY KNO WHEN TEAM CHATS ARE GONNA OPEN?
April 5, 2007 - 9:18 pm fontana@fontanafirm.com
Hi. I like the Enhanced Gameday. It just needs a few tweaks to add all the features of the Classic Gameday, but it’s a step in the right direction. I realize it’s still a work in progress, but am confident that in time it will surpass Classic Gameday.
The only suggestion I have is to add animation and sound. Make it look like a video game. Have the batter swing and we hear the crack of the bat. Then let’s see the ball in play and the fielder making the play. That would be great, but I realize it’s a lot of work.
Anyway, thanks for Advanced Gameday.
Dom Fontana
April 5, 2007 - 10:17 pm danmerqury@yahoo.com
I like the information and the layout of this new Gameday, but it eats up waaaaay too much RAM. I have a 1 GB of RAM and Gameday sometimes gets so laggy that the animations are running at around 2 frames per second, or worse.
April 6, 2007 - 9:31 am patriotacts425@comcast.net
The new gamedays *****.
I would prefer that, like in the playoffs last year, there would be an option to revert back to classic gameday. The classic gameday wasn’t anything near the bloatware that it is now. ****, I’ve got a gig of ram and the **** thing still slows my system down. Further, Gameday is now so wide that it takes up my entire screen. I am not in the least bit impressed.
April 6, 2007 - 10:01 am omghr@yahoo.com
WHEN ARE TEAM CHATS GONNA OPEN? SOMEONE ANSWER ME
I notice that there are now some options, but it’s NOT good enough. Why, for example, is the only 2D view available from the *batter’s* point of view? When you watch on TV, it’s always from the pitcher’s point of view, just like in the Classic Gameday. Please make the 2D version be from the pitcher’s point of view, at least as an option. Better yet, give us the only option we really want: BRING BACK CLASSIC GAMEDAY.
April 6, 2007 - 11:31 am powderguy@comcast.net
Yes, put an option to switch back to classic gameday.
April 6, 2007 - 12:30 pm painey@gmail.com
i’ve never seen a man eat so many chicken wings
April 6, 2007 - 12:36 pm powderguy@comcast.net
BRING BACK CLASSIC!!!
April 6, 2007 - 12:39 pm bizmark59@hotmail.com
New gameday is awesome,
i like it… i like being able to drill down on pitch information (where available)…
Just bring back the drill down on the player picture who’s at bat so i can see their season stats quicker.
April 6, 2007 - 12:50 pm nyjetslg8@aol.com
Mlb.com do you even read any of these comments?? Look at all the people who would like that option to switch back and forth between enhanced gameday and the classic gameday. It is slowing many of our computers down. Please BRING BACK CLASSIC!!! PLEASE!!!
April 6, 2007 - 4:52 pm lojo88@yahoo.com
I love the new gameday – awesome. Would it be possible to add just the name when there is an injury delay? It drives you crazy wondering who is being attended to.
April 6, 2007 - 6:35 pm trish_brc@yahoo.com
I still hope that they’ll bring back Classic as an option.
Today I noticed the “options” green button in the upper-right corner. Setting it to 2-D helps a little. Hitting “pause” on the rolling scoreboard helps a lot.
The game summary sometimes gets stuck on an inning and clicking on the current inning gets it moving again. It did that last year, too.
I miss being able to click on the name or face of the pitcher and batter.
If you click a name in the lineup, their baseball card pops up and there’s a link called “spray chart”… wowee, that’s a database one could wander through all day!
April 6, 2007 - 6:38 pm gldb66@yahoo.com
I noticed that the last two days pitch animation and pitch info has been turned off. It hasn’t made gameday any better in terms of speed. Still dead slow and hogging resources on my computer.
For example, St Louis vs Houston, bottom of the 4th, according to both the gameday archive section and the animation, Wainwright was throwing to Ausmus. Trouble is there were already 3 outs in the inning. Turning off gameday and going back in didn’t change things. After 5 minutes it suddenly jumped to the top of the 5th with 2 outs already. Inaccurate and slow. And this is typical, not a one off situation.
A real problem with style over substance. It looks pretty but it doesn’t work properly and the pretty bits don’t give baseball fans much extra info. If you don’t want to listen to fans and switch back to classic gameday, at least make this new version functional. Until you can make it work I’ll have to use the ESPN service which isn’t good but is accurate, up to date, and doesn’t slow my system.
April 6, 2007 - 7:04 pm jsmith@gm.com
1. What’s pFX?
2. New Gameday is good. Keep it. But apparantly some people like old Gameday. So make them both, and have it so you can switch, like the end of last year.
April 6, 2007 - 7:13 pm arizona_andy@hotmail.com
BRING BACK CLASSIC GAMEDAY. My previous posts have explained all the reasons the new version is inferior.
I will be posting this everyday until the classic version is made available again. I am not asking you to delete the new one, simply make both available. Listen to your fans.
I like the new gameday, but where did the chat go?
I say we give MLB.com until Monday to add the chat and give us an option to use the classic gameday. Then, if they do not give us what we want, we boycott MLB.com and use ESPN.com, sportsline.com, and even yahoo.com. We can have 1 person check each day to see if they give us what we want, and they can post a comment on here and tell us when they give us what we want. Just check back on this each day to see if the person checking sees that they gave us what we want. Who is with me?
I am with you. I have posted about ten times asking very nicely for them to give us back the option of classic gameday and they do not seem to listen. Please Mlb.com Wake up!!!
MLB.com, I am giving you until Monday, and if you do not give us our demands, we will no longer be using your services until you change gameday. I will be using sportsline.com until this changes.
Everyone, if you decide to boycott, do not use ESPN.com because they are assosiated with MLB.com, use yahoo or sportsline
April 6, 2007 - 8:32 pm mbrittb00@gmail.com
PLEASE, what does PFX represent?
April 6, 2007 - 10:02 pm gldb66@yahoo.com
sportsline is good. I’m using it to watch the bottom of the 9th in the LAD SFO game. Gameday is stuck at the first pitch in the top of the 9th.
April 7, 2007 - 9:44 am nyynyynyynyy@hotmail.com
Looks pretty good to me. I’ve had it set to 2D and it runs amazingly well. I don’t see what all the fuss is about, it’s not all that different from last year’s gameday. Would like to know what PFX is though.
April 7, 2007 - 9:46 am powderguy@comcast.net
I’m going to boycott on Monday too.
But I will still post this message every day:
BRING BACK CLASSIC GAMEDAY!!!
BRING IT BACK!!
April 7, 2007 - 10:16 am pittsports87@yahoo.com
Here is what I want from gameday before I start to use it again:
1. I want the chat rooms to be open, that is the main reason I use this.
2. Give us the option to use classic gameday, this one can be slow at times.
3. Give us an option to use mini mode, that is very convenient
4. I will still use it if this is not added, but I thought it would be cool to add sound to gameday, that could be very convenient.
MLB.com, please listen to the users of your site, a lot of people are unhappy with these changes.
April 7, 2007 - 11:00 am ekozie@gmail.com
I really like the pitch views, but I have a couple of suggestions…
-Be able to choose defaults, such as that the scrolling games at the top can be paused when Gameday opens, have Play-by-Play in the Game Summary by default, etc…
-Be able to choose certain players to have highlighted in the Boxscores and Lineups
-Option for integration of all games into one flash module, so it takes longer to load initially, but switching between games is much more intuitive
-List of the 3 batters due up in the next half inning
Also, if it was possible to highlight the current batter in the boxscore and have an option for the bating team’s boxscore to be displayed by default, that would be cool (and an option for Gameday classic).
Why not even let us pick the stats we want to see? That would be good, also get rid of that ad, that space could be used for other things like to have both box scores or linups up, put the ad as abanner at the top or bottom or dont even have it at all
April 7, 2007 - 2:00 pm thethomases@earthlink.net
Folks, the advertisements pay the bills. If you don’t want the ad on the page, then be prepared to get your checkbook out and pay for Gameday. The people who provide this service aren’t volunteers.
* a mini mode would be cool, as others have suggested.
* In the “game summary” portion of the page, there are three columns, labeled “SPD,” “BRK” AND “PFX”. There are no data in these columns. What are they supposed to do?
* Under “options,” the 3D view for the batter area promises “three-dimensional pitch trajectories for selected games.” How do we know WHICH games? And how do you select among the various “multiple viewing angles” that are promised?
* The pitcher-batter confrontation is the heart of the game, so it makes sense to put the “batter’s view” window at center stage, and to make it large enough so that you can see slight variations in the location of pitches. But there’s a lot of unused space in that window. For a RH batter, for example, just about the entire right side of the window goes unused. It’s wasted space. The converse is true for a LH batter. There’s a lot of, literally, blue sky in that window, as well as a lot of space behind the batter’s back that goes unused. Seems you could design a much more economical space for that kind of pitch-location information. You don’t need to see a batter, really; you need to see a good-sized strike zone, the location of each pitch, and to know whether the batter on one side of the plate or the other. You could do a lot with the space you gain.
Otherwise, the site is cool.
April 7, 2007 - 3:45 pm ekozie@gmail.com
Those three columns show data when the 3D view is enabled, which, today, was 2 or 3 games out of 6 or 7 that I checked out. That is also when the animation is enabled. Pretty mediocre to have only some games fully-featured, eh? Oh, and so true about the subscription service. We all know it’s inevitable, but I know that I personally don’t want to say it.
Ah ha. I see. Thanks. I just jumped over to a game in which the 3D view was enabled. When you use the “camera angle” tool in the central window, then the graphics consume a greater share of the space in that window. So far, I like the view from the pitcher’s mount best. But, no matter what angle you choose, there’s still a lot of empty space around the batter in that frame.
And yeah, it would be nice to make the feature available for all games. Maybe they need some in-stadium equipment to make it happen or something and don’t have enough for all the games every day.
April 7, 2007 - 4:21 pm maw7667@hotmail.com
BRING BACK CLASSIC!!!!
April 8, 2007 - 11:22 am jacobupham@yahoo.com
This new gameday is awful. Too big and clunky. Last year’s was perfect. The action was right in the center and I never had to look around to find out what was going on. I don’t need 6 different camera angles and I don’t care how the pitcher worked the two previous hitters.
CHANGE IT BACK.
April 8, 2007 - 11:51 am arizona_andy@hotmail.com
April 8, 2007 - 1:26 pm itsanonymouse@gmail.com
Classic is clearly better so how many Right Guards do we need to buy to get it back. But if you MUST keep this version then here’s my complaint list:
1) Slow. Much slower than classic.
2) Window doesnt fit the box info. Scrolling the mouse wheel moves the window rather than just the box area.
3) The ad shouldnt be with the boxscore. Thats important info that already doesnt have enough space.
4) Bloated. 3D. Angles. Whatever. The old version had it all so change is unecessary.
April 8, 2007 - 3:20 pm jzzznsixzzz@yahoo.com
It seems to me that pFX is the amount the a pitch moves in the horizontal direction, and break measured is pFY, or the amount a pitch moves in the vertical direction. Can anyone confirm? If you look at a ton of pitches though, it makes sense, especially if you compare a pitch where pFX is 0 and another where it’s 14 or something.
– Jjjsixsix
the option to use less graphics and 2D the view should appease some people. it’s the sloooooooowness that is the problem. i will be at the twins-yankees tonight and compare the real time to gameday. wouldn’t be surprised if it’s half an inning behind. chatrooms!!!!!!
April 9, 2007 - 1:25 pm slgs@verizon.net
The old (classic) version was MUCH, MUCH better. This version doesnt fit my screen. It has way too much garbage information. Sorry, I for one dont need a view of the ball and the number of inches on the break. You also have a right guard ad in the bottom right of the screen instaed of the home team box. It is very annoying to have to scroll for every bit of info. BRING BACK THE OLD VERSION.
I am # 134. The previous 133 bloggers have already stated what I wrote. How about giving your customers an answer to our complaints?
Will you fix any or all of the problems cited?
April 9, 2007 - 2:13 pm akrabbyguy@yahoo.com
While I understand there are bugs to work out, I am not pleased with the new system. The number of times there is incorrect information posted is frustrating. Maybe your trying to do too much. As an example, if you I would recommend that you look at the craziness that occurred online in the bottom 9th inning of the Astro’s vs Cubs game on 4/9. Murton led of the bottom againsts the Astros. However, whoever the tech person was that entered the data changed it four different times to four differnt persons. They even had Carlos Lee (An Astro) batting against Astro pitching.
If you can’t get it right, then get out of the business.
April 9, 2007 - 3:03 pm rlm@scareduck.com
For those who like old gameday …
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hey everyone, can you do me a favor? please go to this website and vote for her, it is very important, she needs every vote she can get, if it does not come on the comment as a link, please copy and paste it into the address box, heres the link:
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April 9, 2007 - 7:07 pm ggn6396@saintjoe.com
why can i not see the pitch speeds ands tuff for toronto games like i can with other teams? big toronto fan and would really like to see this! thanks
April 10, 2007 - 1:06 pm mem191919@hotmail.com
You really need to give people an option to switch back to classic gameday. The new build is not intuitive, and it runs much slower than the classic version. Your new version is unpopular and has too much worthless info. Please give people the option of switching back.
April 11, 2007 - 9:15 am omghr@yahoo.com
MLB IS A JOKE! THEY DONT EVEN LISTEN TO US. THERES BEEN OVER 130 MESSAGES IN HERE AND THEY STILL ARENT EVEN DOING ANYTING ABOUT IT. F U MLB. GO F URSELF! JERKS
April 11, 2007 - 10:42 am gamedayfan@hotmail.com
CLASSIC GAMEDAY HAS BEEN HERE ALL ALONG! HOORAY!! Okay, here’s what you do to get to it:
1. Figure out what the link to the game you want to watch is (browsers will either display this information or you can find it in the page properties). For example, http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/y2007/gd.html?2007_04_11_slnmlb_pitmlb_1 (which would be the game on April 11, 2007, St. Louis at Pittsburg (if it was the second game of a doubleheader, the 1 at the end would be a 2)).
2. Change /y2007/ in the link to /y2006/. In our example, the new link is http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/y2006/gd.html?2007_04_11_slnmlb_pitmlb_1
3. Enjoy.
NOTE: AS OF RIGHT NOW THE CHAT WILL NOT WORK. A lot of the links at the top will not work or will be missing information. You may have to find other ways to connect to MLB.TV and Gameday Audio. But that’s a small price to pay for being able to experience our beloved Classic Gameday. In fact, I’m following that game I linked to above live, and it works just like I hoped!!
April 11, 2007 - 1:47 pm tytrain@gmail.com
I want classic gameday back. This one is poorly designed and a headache. There’s a fine line between informative and useless trivia machine. Please provide classic gameday as an option.
April 11, 2007 - 2:08 pm gamedayfan@hotmail.com
If you want to use the Classic Gameday, please follow the instructions I posted two comments ago. (Chat does not work.)
April 11, 2007 - 3:15 pm nyjetslg8@aol.com
will the scoreboard for all the games on the top be fixed or will we just have to deal without seeing which game is which
April 11, 2007 - 4:22 pm jeffyboz@yahoo.com
What a bummer… I was all psyched up to to watch the giro ball in three-d, but it’s not working… No doubt you’re perfecting a way for us to pay for it before it becomes a permanent feature. You guys ****!!
RE: “will the scoreboard for all the games on the top be fixed or will we just have to deal without seeing which game is which”
We’ll just have to deal with it. The fix to make Classic Gameday work actually just loads last year’s version of Gameday. (Notice the title bar reads “Gameday 2006”.) This year’s data from other games around the leagues is apparently in a different format from last year, and thus the information doesn’t show up correctly?but what’s important is that all the core Classic Gameday features work. That means that the game you’re watching will look correct.
NOTE: I’ll say again: Even though there are links for live chat on last year’s Gameday, the chat DOES NOT work at this time.
April 11, 2007 - 5:38 pm jperry@nd.edu
Please provide a link so that we can return to Classic. I’m a huge fan of Gameday, but until you bring back the Classic, I’m just going to use the Yahoo Gamechannel (which is a big step down!). The new game day is overwheleming with info, it’s a far too “busy” screen, and worst of all, it often will not automatically update for me. The beauty of baseball is that the game CAN be simplified–this new Enhanced loses that beautiful simplicity.
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE LOOKING FOR CLASSIC GAMEDAY please read all my comments above. I have told you how to find it already. (Essentially, change /y2007/ in the URL to /y2006/ and it will work. Chat still does NOT work.)
April 11, 2007 - 7:57 pm corey_white@hotmail.com
hey guys I just wanted to say fantastic job on the new gameday. its 100 times better than last year. and to all you haters: classic ***** and if you’re computer cant run the new one then it’s time for you to upgrade your **** computer.
April 12, 2007 - 11:48 am omghr@yahoo.com
yea i got the link for ur classic gameday but how do i go to todays games? i tried going to cleveland and los angeles and it wasnt working
April 12, 2007 - 12:02 pm mem191919@hotmail.com
Apparently mlb did a “fix”, so that we can no longer change the 2007 to 2006 and watch classic gameday. Face it people, mlb does not want us watching classic anymore, or else they’d give us the option too. I think it has a lot to do with them advertising and lining their pockets. The new gameday is an abomination, I used to love following in games in classic, but i’ll now be switching to yahoo to follow games. Heh, i wonder if mlb even reads this, it’s apparent everyone hates the new gameday, yet they say nothing.
The 2006 Classic Gameday is still working for me. Did you *only* change /y2007/ to /y2006/? Everything else should stay the same.
For example, the link to today’s Angels?Indians game was: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/y2006/gd.html?2007_04_12_anamlb_clemlb_1
April 13, 2007 - 10:27 am jvm_246@yahoo.ca
mlb they fired don imus. you should fire your marketing directer for this blunder. as you can tell a majority of gameday fans want the old version back. ty
April 16, 2007 - 10:42 am m_g_titan@hotmail.com
i really need some help…I have a windows Xp in my room. I try to follow the gamedays but it is very difficult. I cannot see everything. It is too big and goes outside the screen size on the right side and on the bottom. On my partents windows 98 this doesnt happen. Can anyone give me any advice?
Go red sox
April 17, 2007 - 5:08 pm tjplourde03@msn.com
Since none of you know how to use google…
http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/625724.html
April 19, 2007 - 12:54 pm jeffyboz@yahoo.com
Can somebody please pass a message along to the MLB marketing folks for me? If I swear on a stack of Bibles, I will buy Right Guard Sport, and only Right Guard Sport deodorant, for the rest of my life–can they please make the billboard smaller? (Maybe use that space to let us know who’s warming up in the bullpen.) I’d be really psyched–probably get more women, too–they love the smell of Right Guard Sport deodorant!!
April 28, 2007 - 10:57 am rick.stone3@verizon.net
How can a pitch that look head high be a called strike then two pitches later, one in nearly the same spot is in the dirt?
must. buy. right. guard.
Ok, I bought some Right Guard. Can you make the adds stop now?
P L E A S E ?!?!?!?!?
April 13, 2008 - 6:51 pm royjen@pioneerwireless.net
I can open gameday but it will not continue to play the next frame. It just freezes on the first play. Can anyone help it didn’t do this last year.
Royjen
May 9, 2008 - 5:22 pm timquirk@qscpa.com
I like game day but i need a glossary of terms. PFX. Break, Degrees what do these mean and measure and why. You do a great job of adding but there is no explanation.
I want he glossary button right next to box or prview so I can get to it. I won’t hunt for info hidden deep in some blog. A blog entry said “break, now pfx, is..” but you have pfx and break.
To appreciate the information you need to know what it means and that secrete should not be hidden.
tim Quirk
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TThe Pennine Way: The path, the people, the journey by Andrew McCloy (Cicerone Press, 2016)
Judy Brown
This article is from Signpost 52, Autumn 2016
This book gives you far more than an account of one man’s 268-mile trek from Edale to Kirk Yetholm. As you’d expect, there’s the scenery he saw, the places he stayed, the people he met along the way. But these observations grow into conversations on the history, geology, ecology and philosophy of the Pennine Way, so you feel you are getting to know the path in all its moods and meanings: it becomes your travelling companion as well as your trail.
We meet notable personalities of the Pennine Way, including its creator Tom Stephenson and its early chronicler Alfred Wainwright. From the start, Stephenson saw the Pennine Way as more than a long green path: besides promoting ‘the physical and spiritual wellbeing of the Youth of Britain’ it was part of the campaign for access to mountains and moorland. Even so, planning and securing the route took nearly 30 vexatious years.
These days the main challenges to the path include the need for ongoing maintenance. Whether you see Pennine peat bogs as a symbol of the wild, a challenge to your stamina or an endless slough of despond, they are an endangered environment. Peat has vital ecological importance as a carbon store, but overuse erodes its surface and destroys vegetation. Mr McCloy argues that paving the wettest stretches with recycled stone slabs may offend purists, but proves a sustainable way to protect fragile moorland while enabling walkers to enjoy it.
People walk the Pennine Way for different reasons, as the author discovered from talking to fellow-travellers. Some take it on chiefly as a challenge – physical and mental. Others seek solitude and time for contemplation. Some see it as a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage; a few return again and again, finding new delights each time. Mr McCloy sees it also as testament to ‘our basic need to have access to natural and uncluttered spaces where we can be challenged like this’. ndoubtedly it has encouraged thousands to explore and appreciate the northern hills, and has fostered a network of walking trails, hostels, B&Bs and teashops.
In the final miles, we return to Tom Stephenson in the setting he loved best, the Cheviot Hills, to honour ‘a lifetime spent campaigning for the public’s right to access the hills and the protection of wild places’.
Thoughtful, thought provoking and compellingly readable, this book reveals the Pennine Way in many lights. ‘The Pennine Way story is tightly bound up with the long fight for access and landscape, the National Parks Act 1949 and all that went with it. It chronicles our outdoor heritage, the protection of special landscapes, and above all how common people asserted the right to walk among their own hills.’
And in personal terms: Andrew McCloy completed his journey with sore knees but a warm sense of fulfilment: ‘the Pennine hills were mine, because I had walked over them, and they were now part of me and nothing could ever take that away.’
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China making example of jailed Wuhan Covid journalist, says lawyer
The detention of Zhang Zhan, the Chinese journalist jailed after reporting on the Covid pandemic in Wuhan, is intended as a “warning to others”, her former lawyer has said, as calls grow for her emergency release on medical grounds.
Hundreds of Chinese human rights lawyers and citizens have put their names to an open letter calling for immediate medical care for Zhang, who her family fear is close to death. Zhang has been on a hunger strike for more than a year in protest at her persecution for reporting on the Wuhan lockdown in early 2020.
Her reports challenged official claims about the Wuhan lockdown and the outbreak, which authorities had attempted to cover-up. On Thursday she was awarded the Reporters Without Borders’ 2021 Press Freedom award for courage.
Zhang, a 38-year-old former lawyer, was sentenced in December last year to four years in jail on charges of disseminating false information in her video and blog reports from Wuhan and in interviews with foreign press. She was first arrested in May of that year, accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – an accusation commonly used against dissidents, activists and journalists.
Ren Quanniu, whose legal licence was revoked after he represented Zhang and members of the Hong Kong 12, said it was possible Zhang’s severe punishment was “retaliation” against citizen journalists trying to cover the Wuhan outbreak, aimed at sending a message to others given her initial arrest was so widely covered by international media.
“The virus issue is indeed very sensitive, including where it came from and what is the situation in Wuhan,” he said. “She went there to do some on-site interviews, and was in contact with Radio Free Asia and the Epoch Times for interviews. Both are viewed by Chinese officials as hostile media.”
Ren said the conviction was also the manifestation of China’s strict control over journalism, public opinion, and freedom of speech. “No matter if you are citizen journalists or independent media, things that are so-called ‘sensitive’ and do not conform to the calibre of propaganda are not allowed to be said. If you make these things public, you may encounter similar results like Zhang Zhan. This is a warning to others.”
While human rights observers, legal groups, and media organisations maintain she should never have been convicted in the first place, an international campaign is urgently calling for her release on any grounds possible, to save her life.
Family, friends and legal contacts have said they have tried to get Zhang to end the strike but she could not be convinced. Shortly before her sentencing, Zhang’s lawyer at the time, Zhang Keke, reported she was being restrained and force-fed via a tube.
Attempts by the family to petition authorities for emergency care appear to have stalled, with Covid restrictions stating the paperwork must wait 48 hours to be disinfected before it can be given to prison administrators.
An application by the family to the Shanghai Prison Administration Bureau said they understood the case was sensitive but doctors had said it was highly likely she could die without treatment and they were willing to cooperate with the demands of authorities to secure her release.
An open letter signed by at least 163 lawyers and citizens has urged authorities to release her into medical care.
“She is hanging by a thread, we are very worried,” said an English translation of the letter. “In order to prevent a tragedy, we think it is necessary to write a letter to you expressing our common wish: that is to conduct a comprehensive physical examination of Zhang Zhan and give her emergency treatment.”
The letter said Zhang was innocent and praised her work in the early months of the outbreak when little was known about the dangers of the virus and Chinese authorities were attempting to cover it up.
“When many people fled Wuhan in fear, Zhang went in alone. This kind of courage is rare,” it said. “[This] is behaviour a modern government should encourage. It not only contributes to disaster relief, but creates an atmosphere of mutual assistance and friendship … It is unjust to use criminal means to punish Zhang Zhan’s actions, which were not only harmless but helpful.”
Last week the US state department criticised the “arbitrary” detention, and called for her immediate and unconditional release.
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