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NCFM NOTE: And herein lies the problem, mothers who not only failed to protect their sons, but self-serving ideologically driven mothers who worked overtime to put them at risk…
Judith Grossman: A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast
Unsubstantiated accusations against my son by a former girlfriend landed him before a nightmarish college tribunal.
By JUDITH E. GROSSMAN
I am a feminist. I have marched at the barricades, subscribed to Ms. magazine, and knocked on many a door in support of progressive candidates committed to women's rights. Until a month ago, I would have expressed unqualified support for Title IX and for the Violence Against Women Act.
But that was before my son, a senior at a small liberal-arts college in New England, was charged—by an ex-girlfriend—with alleged acts of "nonconsensual sex" that supposedly occurred during the course of their relationship a few years earlier.
What followed was a nightmare—a fall through Alice's looking-glass into a world that I could not possibly have believed existed, least of all behind the ivy-covered walls thought to protect an ostensible dedication to enlightenment and intellectual betterment.
It began with a text of desperation. "CALL ME. URGENT. NOW."
That was how my son informed me that not only had charges been brought against him but that he was ordered to appear to answer these allegations in a matter of days. There was no preliminary inquiry on the part of anyone at the school into these accusations about behavior alleged to have taken place a few years earlier, no consideration of the possibility that jealousy or revenge might be motivating a spurned young ex-lover to lash out. Worst of all, my son would not be afforded a presumption of innocence.
In fact, Title IX, that so-called guarantor of equality between the sexes on college campuses, and as applied by a recent directive from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, has obliterated the presumption of innocence that is so foundational to our traditions of justice. On today's college campuses, neither "beyond a reasonable doubt," nor even the lesser "by clear and convincing evidence" standard of proof is required to establish guilt of sexual misconduct.
These safeguards of due process have, by order of the federal government, been replaced by what is known as "a preponderance of the evidence." What this means, in plain English, is that all my son's accuser needed to establish before a campus tribunal is that the allegations were "more likely than not" to have occurred by a margin of proof that can be as slim as 50.1% to 49.9%.
How does this campus tribunal proceed to evaluate the accusations? Upon what evidence is it able to make a judgment?
The frightening answer is that like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, the tribunal does pretty much whatever it wants, showing scant regard for fundamental fairness, due process of law, and the well-established rules and procedures that have evolved under the Constitution for citizens' protection. Who knew that American college students are required to surrender the Bill of Rights at the campus gates?
My son was given written notice of the charges against him, in the form of a letter from the campus Title IX officer. But instead of affording him the right to be fully informed, the separately listed allegations were a barrage of vague statements, rendering any defense virtually impossible. The letter lacked even the most basic information about the acts alleged to have happened years before. Nor were the allegations supported by any evidence other than the word of the ex-girlfriend.
The hearing itself was a two-hour ordeal of unabated grilling by the school's committee, during which, my son later reported, he was expressly denied his request to be represented by counsel or even to have an attorney outside the door of the room. The questioning, he said, ran far afield even from the vaguely stated allegations contained in the so-called notice. Questions from the distant past, even about unrelated matters, were flung at him with no opportunity for him to give thoughtful answers.
The many pages of written documentation that my son had put together—which were directly on point about his relationship with his accuser during the time period of his alleged wrongful conduct—were dismissed as somehow not relevant. What was relevant, however, according to the committee, was the unsworn testimony of "witnesses" deemed to have observable knowledge about the long-ago relationship between my son and his accuser.
That the recollections of these young people (made under intense peer pressure and with none of the safeguards consistent with fundamental fairness) were relevant—while records of the accuser's email and social media postings were not—made a mockery of the very term. While my son was instructed by the committee not to "discuss this matter" with any potential witnesses, these witnesses against him were not identified to him, nor was he allowed to confront or question either them or his accuser.
Thankfully, I happen to be an attorney and had the resources to provide the necessary professional assistance to my son. The charges against him were ultimately dismissed but not before he and our family had to suffer through this ordeal. I am of course relieved and most grateful for this outcome. Yet I am also keenly aware not only of how easily this all could have gone the other way—with life-altering consequences—but how all too often it does.
Across the country and with increasing frequency, innocent victims of impossible-to-substantiate charges are afforded scant rights to fundamental fairness and find themselves entrapped in a widening web of this latest surge in political correctness. Few have a lawyer for a mother, and many may not know about the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which assisted me in my research.
There are very real and horrifying instances of sexual misconduct and abuse on college campuses and elsewhere. That these offenses should be investigated and prosecuted where appropriate is not open to question. What does remain a question is how we can make the process fair for everyone.
I fear that in the current climate the goal of "women's rights," with the compliance of politically motivated government policy and the tacit complicity of college administrators, runs the risk of grounding our most cherished institutions in a veritable snake pit of injustice—not unlike the very injustices the movement itself has for so long sought to correct. Unbridled feminist orthodoxy is no more the answer than are attitudes and policies that victimize the victim.
Ms. Grossman, an attorney and mother, lives in New York City.
A version of this article appeared April 17, 2013, on page A15 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324600704578405280211043510.html


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What do you do when your smartphone needs to be charged but your charger is not at hand? A handy solution is to turn to a public charging kiosk. But what you might not be aware of is the fact that this can lead to juice jacking of your smartphone. To avoid this security threat, it's time to get a comprehensive view of what juice jacking is and how you can protect your smartphone from it.
What's juice jacking?
Regardless of the kind of smartphone you have, whether it's an Android, iPhone or BlackBerry, there is one common feature across all phones: the power supply and the data stream pass over the same cable. This setup allows for juice jacking during the charging process whereby user access is gained on your phone by leveraging the USB data/power cable to illegitimately access your phone's data and/or inject malicious code onto the device.
The attack can be as simple as an invasion of privacy, wherein your phone pairs with a computer concealed within the charging kiosk and information such as private photos and contact information are transferred to a malicious device. However, on the other hand, it can also be as invasive as an injection of malicious code directly into your phone. According to security researchers at this year's Black Hat security conference, your iPhone can be compromised within one minute of being plugged into a harmful charger.
Exposure to a malicious kiosk can also create a lingering security problem even without the immediate injection of malicious code. Once a device is paired to a computer, it can access a host of personal information on the device, including your address book, notes, photos, music, sms database, typing cache, and even initiate a full backup of your phone, all of which can be accessed wirelessly at anytime.
How do I avoid it?
The most effective precautions center around simply not charging your phone using a third-party system. Here are some tips to help you avoid using public kiosk charger:
- Keep your devices topped off: Make it a habit to charge your phone at your home and office when you're not actively using it or are just sitting at your desk working.
- Carry a personal charger: Chargers have become very small and portable, from USB cables to power banks. Get one and throw it in your bag so you can charge your phone anytime you're at the office or while on-the-go if you use a power bank.
- Carry a backup battery: If you're not keen on bringing a spare charger or power bank, you can opt to carry a full spare battery if your device has a removable battery.
- Lock your phone: When your phone is truly locked as in inaccessible without the input of a pin or equivalent passcode, your phone should not be able to be paired with the device it's connected to.
- Power the phone down: This technique only works on phones on a model-by-model basis as some phones will, despite being powered down, still power on the entire USB circuit and allow access to the flash storage in the device.
- Use power only USB cables: These cables are missing the two wires necessary for data transmission and have only the two wires for power transmission remaining. They will charge your device, but data transfer is made impossible.
Even the tiniest detail like charging your phone from a kiosk charger could affect the security of your device. While there are many substitutes to using a third-party system, ultimately the best defense against a compromised mobile device is awareness. Looking to learn more about today's security and threats? Contact us today and see how we can help.

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Two decades ago, as Wendy's was mired in a sales slump, the burger chain turned to its founder, Dave Thomas, to serve as its advertising voice.
The move proved fortuitous. After a shaky start, Thomas evolved into the folksy, self-effacing face of the company—and a beloved American character. He remained the heart of Wendy's advertising until his death in 2002.
Now the chain is trying another member of the Thomas family in commercials. This time, it's Thomas' daughter, Wendy, who was the source of the chain's name and was the model for its logo.
Wendy Thomas, now a 49-year-old mom, is featured in TV spots to promote a burger line named after her dad. The ads air in the Las Vegas; Mobile, Alabama; and Virginia Beach, Virginia, markets, where Dave's Hot 'n Juicy Cheeseburger is being tested.
The commercials aren't a gimmick. "They were done with a lot of thought," says chief marketing officer Ken Caldwell.
Wendy's, part of the Wendy's/Arby's Group, is riding a wave of new product introductions and its first successful national advertising campaign since Dave Thomas died. After all, the chain is still remembered for spots like "Where's the beef?"
The latest branding uses the tagline "You know when it's real," and hones in on the high-quality food and value that consumers identify with the Wendy's brand.
"The 'Real' campaign has been spot on," says Chris O'Cull, a Nashville, Tennessee–based restaurant industry analyst with investment firm SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Inc. "Clearly, Wendy's is about real, fresh food, and that's what the advertising reinforces."
And what could be more real than the chain's namesake?
The initial commercial for the new burger line opens with an imagined flashback of Dave Thomas telling a young Wendy about the importance of hot and juicy hamburgers. The scene dissolves to the real, adult Wendy talking about her father and burgers.
The spot is full of images that long-time customers will recognize. The girl in the ad has red hair in pigtails, just as a young Wendy appeared in the company's cameo logo that has been used since 1969, when the first restaurant opened in Columbus, Ohio.
Even the term "hot 'n juicy" is a throwback to the chain's first ad campaign in the 1970s.
The new commercials, created by Wendy's agency Kaplan Thaler Group, present Wendy Thomas as a regular person, not an actress. In reality, she's in the family business, owning—with her siblings—nearly three-dozen Wendy's units around Columbus.
Consumers view her as "genuine, authentic, and real," Caldwell says. "I've been pleasantly surprised with how much people see in Wendy what they saw in Dave."
The decision to feature Wendy Thomas—she goes by her birth name in the ads—seems inspired, experts say.
"For many consumers, seeing the real Wendy is a great way to show a look behind the curtain," says Linda Duke, chief executive of Duke Marketing in San Rafael, California. "It is a bit like [having a] celebrity, which is very popular with consumers right now."
The fact that an actual Wendy exists "fits perfectly with their ['Real'] tagline."
Tying that to a hamburger named for Dave Thomas makes sense, O'Cull says.
"People who know about Wendy's believe that Dave Thomas had a passion for burgers," he says. "Having a premium burger line goes along with that image."
The new burger, served in Single, Double, and Triple sizes, is the latest creation to emerge from the company's revitalized research and development pipeline. In recent months, Wendy's rolled out updated salads, natural cut fries with sea salt, and other items.
"We worked on every element of the hamburger to make it the best one in the industry," Caldwell says. "We're not going to use Dave Thomas' name lightly."
The patties still use a quarter pound of fresh, North American beef, but they are shaped looser, and thus thicker, to be juicier and hold more heat.
The sandwiches, which are being tested at various prices, also feature a warm, butter-toasted bun that helps the cheese melt better. Toppings include fresh crinkle-cut pickle slices, red onions, real mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomatoes.
Caldwell didn't put a timetable on the test.
Separately, Wendy's is testing another upscale burger in Dave Thomas' honor. The D.T. Double, available in Providence, Rhode Island, and Austin, Texas, has two patties, two pieces of cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, and a "signature sauce."


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Sorry about the unexpected hiatus between my last formatting post and this one, campers; I honestly did mean to follow up within two or three days. My blogging time has been a trifle more difficult to schedule since my car crash, however — I never know when someone is going to decide to pop me into an MRI machine. Or decide to cut my computer use in half.
I'm back on the job this evening, however, and raring to polish off our list of requirements for a professionally-formatted book manuscript. At the risk of repeating myself, allow me to underscore book manuscript: if you are planning to write anything else (say, a short story, article, or a tasty little tidbit for an academic journal), I would strongly urge you to look elsewhere. Different venues for publishing writing have different standards. So while I would always encourage even those writing books to check agency and small publishing house's submission guidelines — like literary contests, the individuals who evaluate submissions sometimes harbor personal preferences — a writer's best bet is always to find out how professionals submit their work to that particular venue and emulate it.
Rather than, say, do what most first-time submitters do: simply assume that presentation doesn't matter if the writing is good. In any writing venue, adhering to its expected presentation will make your work look more professional to the pros, for the exceedingly simple reason that all professional manuscripts circulated by agencies in the United States conform to standard format.
Or, to put it another way, everything that editors at major publishing houses are used to reading, will look like the pages we saw in the first post in this series' brief visual tour of a properly-formatted manuscript. So does our old pal, Millicent the agency screener.
Why are these expectations important for a writer to bear in mind while preparing a submission? Well, think about it: if editors want manuscripts in standard format (they're easier to edit that way, incidentally), a savvy agent would make sure that all of her clients' work adhered to that norm, right? It follows as night the day, then, that taking on a writer fond of formatting his work in any other manner will necessitate training him in professional formatting.
Which — are you sitting down? — pretty much everyone in publishing circles expects a writer serious about seeing his work in print to have invested the time and energy in learning before approaching an agency or publishing house. Knowing how to format a book manuscript properly is a basic professional skill for an author, after all. And arguably, it's never been easier to pick up that skill.
Of course, those who argue that typically don't spend much time trawling the Internet for tips. As I'm morally certain won't come as even a vague surprise to those of you who have discovered this post — and only this post — in the course of an web-wide search on how to format manuscripts, there's a heck of a lot of conflicting advice out there. Not all of it is equally well-informed, and an astoundingly high proportion fails to mention — as I may have pointed out fifteen or sixteen times throughout the course of this short series — that the rules the site in question is touting should not be applied to all writing, anywhere, anytime.
Why is that supposition problematic? Shall we chant our mantra, writers who have been following this series? Standard format for book manuscripts is not proper for every form of writing known to humanity, anywhere, anytime. It's for — wait for it — books.
No one is born knowing that, however, nor with the publishing experience to tell good advice from, well, the other kind. I think a excellent case could be made that since the rise of the Internet — and the concomitant rise of the expectation that everything someone new to the publishing world needs to know should be possible to locate in, if not a bullet-pointed list, then at least in a 500-word post appearing on the first page of a Google search of the phrase manuscript format — it's actually become quite a bit harder for those new to the game to learn the rules.
Understandably, then, many aspiring writers' response to the plethora of advice floating around out there has been not to seek out the most credible, or even the one that appears to be speaking to the type of books they might happen to be writing, but rather to pick and choose elements from a buffet of options. The inevitable result: Millicent's inbox has been awash in some rather odd admixtures in recent years. Mixing and matching standard format for book manuscripts, short stories, magazine articles, etc., perhaps with the piquant addition of an element or two from a published book, has become the norm in recent years, not the exception.
Am I correct in concluding that audible intake of collective breath indicates some personal experience with this phenomenon? "But Anne," buffet-lovers across the world protest, and who could blame them? "I tried to find out how to do it, but there were so many different sets of rules — and virtually all of them barked as orders, instead of explained nicely, as I notice you have tried to do in this series — I just assumed that there wasn't really a single standard. I can't be the only one who's felt this way. If so many of us are submitting our work in ways other than standard format would dictate, why doesn't Millicent just, you know, lighten up and not pay attention to anything but the writing?"
Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you? So would the overwhelming majority of writers trying to break into print. And if the publishing industry were run to please aspiring writers, Millicent might embrace your suggestion with vigor. Ditto if there were not hundreds of thousands of talented writers competing for the limited publication slots in any given book category in any given year.
Which is to say — and you might want to sit down for this one — it's very helpful to Millicent that so many submissions arrive on her desk incorrectly formatted. Trust me, if she works for a well-established agent, she already receives a few hundred well-written, perfectly-formatted submissions for every opening her boss has for a new client. So if other manuscripts' formatting allow her to draw the conclusion that their writers would be more time-consuming to represent than those who have made the effort to learn the ropes, well, can you really blame her for regarding them as less professional writing?
I sense some of you grumbling, and with some reason. "What about individual expression?" nonconformists everywhere cry, bless their ornery hearts. "How my writing appears on the page is part of my vision for my book. Why shouldn't my manuscript reflect that?"
A fine question, and one that richly deserves a direct answer: because non-standard presentation will distract Millicent. In publishing circles, formatting matters like font size, margin width, and whether a new chapter begins on a fresh page are not matters of individual preference; standard format is just that, standard. That means, in practice, that when anything else appears on a submission's pages, a professional reader's eye is going to zoom right to it.
So I ask you: which would you rather have Millicent focus upon, your unique formatting vision — or your writing?
Remember, too, that neither Millicent, her boss, the agent of your dreams, nor your future lucky acquiring editor will expect your manuscript to resemble a published book. Standard format differs in many significant respects, from being double-spaced and printed on only one side of the page to how a dash appears on the page.
That comes as a surprise to many aspiring writers: all too often, they assume that deviating from standard format in order to, say, place the first letter of a chapter in a larger font size, or to remove the indentation from its first paragraph, will make sense to Millicent, because it's sometimes done in published books. The way the manuscript is formatted for submission, they reason, will be their best chance to show their future acquiring editors how they would like to see their books appear in print.
How that reasoning plays out on the page will send a different message to Millicent, unfortunately. To her, as to anyone who reads manuscripts for a living, all such a page conveys is that the writer is not very familiar with the book publishing process. Specifically, the part in which the publishing house, not the author, gets to make the decisions about what the book looks like.
Does that glum silence mean that I've convinced you, or merely depressed you into a stupor? Both are quite normal reactions for writers hearing about all of this for the first time, or even the second or third. (Hey, there's a reason I go over this every year.)
While you're absorbing it all, let's go over the rules we've discussed so far:
(1) All manuscripts should be printed or typed in black ink and double-spaced, with one-inch margins around all edges of the page, on 20-lb or better white paper.
(2) All manuscripts should be printed on only one side of the page and unbound in any way. For submission to US-based agencies, publishing houses, and contests, the pages in question should be US-standard 8.5″ x 11″ paper.
(3) The text should be left-justified, not block-justified. By definition, manuscripts should not resemble published books in this respect.
(4) The preferred typefaces are 12-point Times, Times New Roman, Courier, or Courier New — unless you're writing screenplays, in which case you may only use Courier. For book manuscripts, pick one (and ONLY one) and use it consistently throughout your entire submission packet.
(5) The entire manuscript should be in the same font and size — no switching typefaces for any reason. Industry standard is 12-point.
(6) Do not use boldface anywhere in the manuscript but on the title page — and not even there, necessarily.
(7) Every page in the manuscript should be numbered — except the title page. The first page of text is page 1, not the title page.
(8) Each page of the manuscript (other than the title page) should have a standard slug line in the header. The page number should appear in the slug line, not anywhere else on the page.
(9) The first page of each chapter should begin a third of the way down the page. The chapter title should appear on the first line of the page, not on the line immediately above where the text begins.
(10) Contact information for the author belongs on the title page, not on page 1.
(11) Every submission should include a title page, even partial manuscripts.
(12) The beginning of every paragraph of text should be indented .5 inch. No exceptions, ever.
(13) Don't skip an extra line between paragraphs, except to indicate a section break
(14) Nothing in a book manuscript should be underlined. Titles of songs and publications, as well as words in foreign languages and those you wish to emphasize, should be italicized.
Before we move on, allow me to revisit #14, as it's one that's often misinterpreted. There are in fact forms of writing in which it is still quite proper to underline certain words under certain conditions. In a book manuscript (or a book proposal, as it happens), however, this is not acceptable.
No, no matter how much you want to emphasize a word or phrase; italics should be used for that. Ditto for any phrases you might choose to import from a foreign language — you wouldn't want the agent of your dreams to think you had misspelled a word in English, would you? — and titles of books, songs, newspapers, and magazines. If you should desire to refer to an article, a poem, or a short story, however, those titles should appear within quotation marks.
You'll find list of the rules for italics use in my last post, but as I'm a great fan of visual examples, here are those principles in action.
Minette waved the paper at him. "Honestly, Patrice, it's all here in The Anytown, U.S.A. Gazette."
He shrugged. "Chacun ? son go?t. I prefer to get my news from the moon, the stars, Bridget Jones' Diary, and 'The Road Not Taken," my sweet."
A less-than-convincing argument from a man whose idea of a first date flick had been Gore on Parade and whose most-quoted rhyme was "There Once Was a Man From Nantucket." "Oh, look, honey. The article's even called 'Stuff Patrice McStubbornhead Habitually Gets Wrong.' I think it might conceivably speak to you."
He reached for his guitar. When she was in a mood like this, nothing soothed her so fast as a quick rendition of Greensleeves.
"God, how I hate that song," she muttered.
Everyone happy with that, at least provisionally? If not, this would be a dandy time to post questions in the comments. Please don't be shy: believe me, if you have been wondering about any aspect of italics use, so have a quarter of a million of your fellow aspiring writers too shy to speak up.
Do 'em a favor: ask. While you're formulating your questions, let's move on.
(15) Numbers over 100 and those containing decimal points (like currency) or colons (like specific times) should be written as numerals. Numbers under 100 should be written out in word form. Thus, twenty-five is correct; so are 1,473, 2:47 p.m., and $15.90. Page numbers, of course, should appear as numerals.
The instinct to correct this particular set of mistakes when they appear on the submission page is universal in professional readers. That's potentially problematic for a submission. Why? Well, from that impulse to rejection is often a fairly short journey, because once the notion gee, this writer hasn't taken the time to how book writing should be presented has occurred to a professional reader, it's hard to unthink. After that, anything from a major clich? to a minor typo would just seem like corroboration of this uncharitable — and in some cases unfair — conclusion.
Translation: not presenting your numbers correctly will not help you win friends and influence people at agencies and publishing houses. Don't say I didn't warn you. This one makes our teeth grind.
It also ties in with the publishing industry's always-strong sense of its own history. Like pointing out foreign-language words with special formatting, this formatting rule was originally for the benefit of the manual typesetters. When numbers are entered as numbers, a single slip of a finger can result in an error, whereas when numbers are written out, the error has to be in the inputer's mind.
And honestly, what could a manuscript possibly gain artistically by violating this particular rule? If Millicent will be happier to read text like this:
Abbott/The Great Voyage/82
The sandwich cost $3.76.
On November 11, 1492, fifty-three scholars divided into eighteen parties in preparation for sailing to Antarctica. It took 157 rowboats ten trips apiece to load all of their books, papers, and personal effects onboard.
Rather than (stop it, teeth!) like this:
Abbott/The Great Voyage/Eighty-two
The sandwich cost three dollars and seventy-six cents, cash American.
On November eleventh, fourteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty-three scholars divided into eighteen parties in preparation for sailing to Antarctica. It took a hundred and fifty-seven rowboats ten trips apiece to load all of their books, papers, and personal effects onboard.
Why not humor her? She puts in a long day at a hard job; she doesn't have time for extra trips to the dentist.
Do I spot some hands waving in the air? "But Anne," inveterate readers of newspapers protest, "I'm accustomed to seeing numbers like 11, 53, 18, and 72 written as numerals. Does that mean that when I read, say, a magazine article with numbers under 100 depicted this way, that some industrious editor manually changed all of those numbers after the manuscript was submitted?"
No, it doesn't — although I must say, the mental picture of that poor, unfortunate soul assigned to years of searching tirelessly for those numbers and making such a nit-picky change saddens me. (Hang in there, brother!)
What we have here is yet another difference between book manuscript format and, well, every other kind of formatting out there: in journalism, they write out only numbers under 10. Yet — stop me when the song begins to sound familiar — there are many, many sources out there insisting that the over-10 rule should be applied to all forms of writing, anywhere, anytime. Yes, this is true for newspaper articles, where space is at a premium, but in a book manuscript, it is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
Did I mention it was wrong? And that my aged eyes have actually seen contest entries knocked out of finalist consideration over this issue? More than once? And within the last year?
AP style differs from standard format in several important respects, not the least being that in standard format (as in other formal presentations in the English language), the first letter of the first word after a colon should not be capitalized, since technically, it's not the beginning of a new sentence. I don't know who introduced the convention of post-colon capitalization, but believe me, I'm not the only one who read the submissions of aspiring book writers for a living that's mentally consigned that language subversive to a pit of hell that would make even Dante avert his eyes in horror.
That's the way we nit-pickers roll. We like our formatting and grammatical boundaries firm.
Heck, compared to most professional readers, my feelings on the subject are downright non-confrontational. I've been in more than one contest judging conference where tables were actually banged, modern societies deplored, and the rise of the personal computer berated to the skies.
Again, I ask you: do you really want your contest entry to be the one that engenders this reaction?
So let's all shout it together, shall we? The formatting and grammatical choices you see in newspapers will not necessarily work in manuscripts or literary contest entries.
Everyone clear on that? Good, because — are you sitting down, newspaper enthusiasts? — embracing journalistic conventions like the post-colon capital and writing out only numbers under ten will just look like mistakes to Millicent and her ilk in a book manuscript.
And no, there is no court of appeal for such decisions; proper format, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. So if you were planning to cry out, "But that's the way The New Moreford Journal-Sentinel does it!" save your breath.
Although my aforementioned heart aches for those of you who intended to protest, "But how on earth is an aspiring writer to know that the standards are different?" this is a cry that is going to fall on deaf ears as well. The sad fact is, submitters rejected for purely technical reasons are almost never aware of it. With few exceptions, the rejecters will not even take the time to scrawl, "Take a formatting class!" or "Next time, spell-check!" on the returned manuscript. If a writer is truly talented, they figure, she'll mend her ways and try again.
And that, in case any of you lovely people had been wondering, is why I revisit the topic of standard format so darned often. How can the talented mend their ways if they don't know how — or even if — their ways are broken?
(16) Dashes should be doubled — rather than using an emdash, as my blogging program forces me to do — with a space at either end. Hyphens are single and are not given extra spaces at either end, as in self-congratulatory.
Yes, yes, I know: you've probably heard that this rule is obsolete, too, gone the way of underlining, large advances for novelists, and the dodo. The usual argument for the doubled dash's demise: books no longer preserve these spaces, for reasons of printing economy, so many writing teachers tell their students just to go ahead and eliminate them. An AP-trained teacher will tell you to use the longer emdash, as will the Chicago Manual of Style.
In this, however, they are wrong, at least as far as manuscripts are concerned. But you're starting to get used to that, right?
Your word-processing program probably changes a double dash to an emdash automatically, but CHANGE IT BACK. If only as a time-saver: any agent would make you do this before agreeing to submit your manuscript to an editor, so you might as well get into this salutary habit as soon as possible.
Don't stand there and tell me that you've seen the long dash in countless published books, or that those self-same volumes have not placed a space between the dashes in question and the words on either side. None of that is relevant. Standard format is invariable upon this point: a doubled dash with a space on either end is correct; anything else is not.
And whatever you do, don't fall into the trap of doing it properly only when you think about it, or not doing a search for it before you submit your manuscript. It may seem like a minor, easily-fixable phenomenon from the writer's side of the submission envelope, but believe me, inconsistency drives people trained to spot minor errors nuts. Seriously, the pros bemoan how often they see manuscripts in which this rule is applied inconsistently: two-thirds of the dashes doubled, perhaps, sometimes with a space at either end and sometimes not, with the odd emdash and single dash dotting the text as well.
Remember, consistency is not only a hallmark of a well-developed authorial voice; it's a sign of professionalism in formatting, too. Or did you expect your future agent to invest the time in cleaning up your formatting and/or punctuation before submitting your work to editors? Even in the unlikely event that he would be willing to do it — good agents are very busy people — wouldn't that expectation mean that he could never send out any of your writing without proofreading it?
As opposed to, say, a writer who had already gotten into the professional habits of consistent dash formatting and proofreading?
I'm going to leave the consistency-haters among you — oh, I know you're out there — to ponder that one while the rest of us move on. Those who have spent the last few paragraphs resenting the necessity of going over your manuscript in this detail prior to submission will be pleased to hear that the next rule is one that will eat up very little of your time.
(17) Turn off the widow/orphan control in your Word program; leaving it on can result in pages containing varying numbers of lines.
Told you so: this is something that can be accomplished by highlighting your entire text (the shortcut for that in Word is COMMAND + A), then pulling down the FORMAT menu. Select PARAGRAPH…, then LINE AND PAGE BREAKS. Un-check the Widow/Orphan control box.
Voil? ! Every full page of text will have the same number of lines!
Oh, those of you new to the term would like to know why you did that, would you? Fair enough: as some of you clever souls may have already surmised, the widow/orphan control dictates how many lines appear on any given page. The default setting prevents the first line of a new paragraph from being left alone on a page if the rest of the paragraph is on the next (a line so left behind is called an orphan) or the last line of a paragraph begun on a previous page from appearing at the top of the next page all by itself (and that's called a widow). Thus, if the widow/orphan control is left on, lines will be stolen from one page and added to the ones before and after.
Result: some of your pages will have more lines of text on them than others. Why might that be problematic? Well, unless your pages are standardized, you can't justify estimating your word count (at # of pages x 250 in Times New Roman). Since word counts for book-length projects are expected to be estimated (you'll need to use the actual count for short stories or articles), and actual count can be as much as 20% higher than estimated, it's certainly in the best interest of anyone who tends to run a little long to estimate.
And even if your manuscript isn't over 400 pages (100,000 words, estimated) — the time-honored dividing line for Millicent to cry, "Oh, too bad; it's too long for a first novel in this book category. Next!" — she's going to dislike seeing an extra inch of white space on the bottom of some of your pages. Not necessarily enough to shout, "Next!" all by itself, but need I ask you again if this is the response you want your writing to evoke?
I thought not. Let's tackle the last rule.
(18) Adhere to the standard rules of punctuation and grammar, not what it being done on the moment in newspapers, magazines, books, or on the Internet.
In other words, "But I've seen other writers violate that rule!" is not going to fly here. Assume that Millicent graduated with honors from the best undergraduate English department in the country (or at least the fifteenth-best), taught by the grumpiest, meanest, least tolerant stickler for grammar that ever snarled at a student unfortunate enough to have made a typo, and you'll be you'll have set the level of proofreading concern just about right.
Why? Well, if you can bear yet another rhetorical question, do you really want to encourage Millicent to wonder whether you broke a rule on purpose — or if you simply were not aware of it?
Grammar aside, there's been a tendency in recent years for submissions to ape the trend of paper-saving publishers across writing types to leave only one space, rather than the standard two, after a period or colon. The rationale runs thus: printed books often do this now: the fewer the spaces on a page, the more words can be crammed onto it. Since we've all seen it done in recently-released books, some argue — and vehemently — it would be ludicrous to format a manuscript any other way.
Indeed, some insist that the single-space convention is the ONLY way to format a manuscript. A number of writing-advice websites, I notice, and even some writing teachers have been telling people that this is the wave of, if not the present, then at least the future. They aver that adhering to the two-space norm makes a manuscript look old-fashioned. Some even claim that retaining the second space is a universal instant-rejection offense.
At the risk of sounding like the harsh grammar-mongers of my youth, poppycock. Agents, very good ones, routinely submit manuscripts with doubled spaces to editors, also very good ones, all the time. Successfully. That might be due to the fact that most editors who deal with manuscripts in hard copy actively prefer it.
Truth compels me to point out, though, that there are also agents, good ones, who have embraced the single-space convention, and quite adamantly. It's become a less common preference over the last few years, but those who feel strongly about it tend to — you can see it coming, right? — feel strongly about it. In practice, the doubled space is still the norm — except amongst the minority who insist that it is not. In either case, though, it's not a common rejection criterion.
Clear as pea soup, right?
So which convention should you embrace? The answer, as it so often is, involves doing your homework about the specific agent or publisher you are planning to approach, rather than treating submissions, as so many aspiring writers do, as generic. It's always a good idea to check each and every agency's submission guidelines before tossing that manuscript in the mail, anyway .
Fortunately for aspiring writers everywhere, agents with a strong preference for the single space tend not to keep mum about it. If they actually do tell their Millicents to regard a second space as a sign of creeping obsolescence, chances are very, very good that they'll mention that fact on their websites. If you happen to be submitting to folks who specifically asks for single spaces, by all means, bow to their expressed preferences.
Sensing a pattern here?
Spoiler alert: once you get in the habit of doing that research, I suspect those of you who have heard horror stories about how everybody now positively hates the second space convention will be astonished to see how few agencies even mention it in their submission guidelines. If they don't, it's usually safe to assume that they adhere to the older convention — or don't care.
Why should that be the default option, since proponents of eliminating the second space tend to be so very vocal? Those who cling to the older tradition tend to be, if anything, a shade more vehement.
Why, you ask? Editing experience, usually. Preserving that extra space after each sentence in a manuscript makes for greater ease of reading, and thus of editing. As anyone who has ever edited a long piece of writing can tell you, the white space on the page is where the comments — grammatical changes, pointing out flow problems, asking, "Does Ambrose the Bold really need to die so peacefully?" — go.
Less white space equals less room to comment. It honestly is that simple.
And just between us, it drives traditional-minded grammar-hounds nuts to hear that time-honored standards must necessarily be jettisoned in the name of progress. "What sane human being," they ask through gritted teeth (I wasn't kidding about those trips to the dentist), "seriously believes that replacing tonight with tonite, or all right with alright constitutes betterment of the human condition? Does any literate person genuinely believe that a colon means a new sentence has begun? Dropping those letters and spaces doesn't even save significant page space!"
They have a point, you must admit. Yet as rule-seeking web-crawlers have no doubt discovered, traditionalists tend not to be nearly so well-represented online — nor so vitriolic in their condemnations — as advocates of the new. I don't think that's merely because proper grammar and spelling do not really require defense; to literate people, they just look right. I suspect that it's for the same reason that agents and editors don't habitually go online to check out what people are logging into any particular writers' forum to suggest is the current rage in formatting: if you already know the rules, why would you be looking online for them?
Then, too, there's a practical reason: until everyone in the industry makes the transition to editing in soft copy — which many of us find significantly harder and less efficient than scanning a printed page — the two-space rule is highly unlikely to change universally. Just ask a new agent immediately after the first time she's submitted to an old-school senior editor: if she lets her clients deviate from the norms, she's likely to be lectured for fifteen minutes on the great beauty of the English language and the imperative to protect its graceful strictures from the invading Goths, Visigoths, and journalists.
I sense that some of you are beginning to wring your hands and rend your garments in frustration. "I just can't win here! Most want it one way, a few another. I'm so confused about what's required that I keep switching back and forth between two spaces and one while I'm typing."
Again, you might want to sit down for this one: inconsistent formatting is likely to annoy both sides of the aisle. Whichever choice you embrace, be consistent about it throughout your manuscript; don't kid yourself that an experienced professional reader isn't going to notice if you sometimes use one format, sometimes the other.
He will. So will a veteran contest judge. Pick a convention and stick with it.
But I wouldn't fret over it too much. This honestly isn't as burning a debate amongst agents and editors as many aspiring writers seem to think — and definitely nowhere near the snarling division so many online sources were claiming it was ten yeas ago. But as always: check before you submit.
And be open to the possibility — remember, I already advised you to sit down — that you may need to submit your manuscript formatted one way for a single agent on your list, and another for the other nineteen. That needn't worry you at the querying stage, of course, but it might affect the order in which you will want to submit your work if, say, four of them ask to see your manuscript.
Hey, you're busy, too, right? And it's not as though what I've been suggesting throughout this series isn't going to require setting aside some time to tinker with your manuscript. I realize that if you already have a full manuscript formatted in any other way, the very notion of applying all of these rules may seem intimidating.
Which is, if you will excuse my saying so, an awfully good reason to get into the laudable habit of writing your manuscripts in standard format from the get-go — in the long run, it will save you time to be consistent about applying the rules. It's a very sensible long-term investment in your writing career, after all. Literally every page you will be showing to your future agent or editor will need to look like this; why not use the opportunity to practice the rules until they are imbedded into your very bones?
That, too, I shall leave you to ponder; I recognize that it's a commitment. But doesn't your good writing deserve the best possible presentation you can give it? Keep up the good work!


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The government's policies on birth control have received a great deal of visibility in recent months as part of a dispute over the Affordable Care Act's provisions requiring some religious institutions to offer birth control as part of their health insurance plans. Republican presidential candidates and Catholic leaders have criticized the provision, while President Obama has defended it, albeit while making some adjustments designed to make it more palatable to Catholic institutions.
The 44% of registered voters who say that federal government policies on birth control will be important to their vote is substantially lower than the 73% to 80% of voters who say that about the five other issues tested in the poll.
Democrats are significantly more likely than independents or Republicans to say birth control policies will be important to their vote, but even among Democrats, the issue comes in last on the list.
These partisan differences could be partly due to the gender gap in partisan identification. Women are more likely than men to identify as Democrats, and women voters, by a 20-percentage-point margin, 55% to 35%, are significantly more likely than men to rate government policies relating to birth control as important. The higher level of importance for this issue among women could reflect the fundamental facts regarding women's relationship to pregnancy and birth, as well as their reactions to the recent controversy.
The relatively low importance voters assign to government policies on birth control is accompanied by a low level of public knowledge of presidential candidates' positions on the issue. When asked if they agree or disagree with the birth control policies espoused by Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, or Rick Santorum, relatively few voters indicate they know enough to say.
More precisely, 54% of voters offer an opinion, either positive or negative, on Obama's position on birth control, 44% have an opinion on Santorum's position, and 35% an opinion on Romney's position. The slightly higher percentage who have an opinion about Santorum's compared with Romney's position on this issue may reflect the former's high-visibility campaign focus on this and other values issues. Such positions have been instrumental in gaining him support among highly religious Republican voters and in his victories in more conservative Southern state primaries so far this year.
Those who do have an opinion about Obama's position on government policies and birth control split almost evenly between agreement and disagreement. The smaller groups with an opinion on Santorum's or Romney's positions, on the other hand, are more negative than positive. This suggests that the controversy has likely hurt Republicans.
Views of Obama's position are distributed roughly equally along partisan lines, with about half of Democrats agreeing, about half of Republicans disagreeing, and independents evenly split. For the two Republican candidates, however, Republican agreement does not match Democratic and independent disagreement, yielding the overall net negative results.
In general this year, voters give values issues a low priority when contrasted with the more dominant issues relating to the economy. The finding that voters place the controversial issue of federal policies about birth control well below economic, healthcare, and international issues confirms this basic fact of political life. Family values issues may be of paramount importance to some smaller segments of the population -- one of a number of so-called niche issues -- but birth control will clearly not be voters' main focus in this campaign.
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Results for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted March 25-26, 2012, on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 901 registered voters, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of registered voters, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600 landline respondents per 1,000 national adults, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, and phone status (cell phone only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2011 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
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contains an implementation for the Fuchsia HTTP service../runners
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For the sake of this example, we will be using base_unittests
as the package we wish to install and/or execute.
Hermetic emulation
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Run on an physical device running Zedboot. Note the -d
flag, which is an alias for --device
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Run on a device paved with Fuchsia built from source.
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You will need to run the package manually on your device. In this case, run the following from your Fuchsia directory:
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If you are frequently deploying to Fuchsia built from source, you might want to add the following entry to your args.gn
default_fuchsia_build_dir_for_installation = "/path/to/fuchsia/outdir"
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flag will automatically be used whenever you run_
or install_
Fuchsia packages, making your command lines much shorter:
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(From Chromium) Install your package(s) and its symbols onto the device.
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(From Fuchsia source tree) Run the debugger.
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[zxdb] attach base_unittests.cmx
[zxdb] break base::GetDefaultJob
$ fx shell run fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/base_unittests#meta/base_unittests.cmx
.[zxdb] f ▶ 0 base::GetDefaultJob() • default_job.cc:18 1 base::$anon::LaunchChildTestProcessWithOptions(…) • test_launcher.cc:335 2 base::$anon::DoLaunchChildTestProcess(…) • test_launcher.cc:528 3 base::TestLauncher::LaunchChildGTestProcess(…) • test_launcher.cc:877 ...
inside ZXDB to see what debugger commands are available.When you build web_runner
, Chromium will automatically generate scripts for you that will automatically provision a device with Fuchsia and then install web_runner
and its dependencies.
To build and run web_runner
, follow these steps:
(Optional) Ensure that you have a device ready to boot into Fuchsia.
If you wish to have web_runner
manage the OS deployment process, then you should have the device booting into Zedboot.
Build web_runner
$ autoninja -C out/fuchsia web_runner
Install web_runner
For devices running Zedboot:
$ out/fuchsia/bin/install_web_runner -d
For devices already booted into Fuchsia:
You will need to add command line flags specifying the device's IP address and the path to the ssh_config
used by the device (located at $FUCHSIA_OUT_DIR/ssh-keys/ssh_config
$ out/fuchsia/bin/install_web_runner -d --ssh-config $PATH_TO_SSH_CONFIG
Press Alt-Esc key on your device to switch back to terminal mode or run fx shell
from the host.
Launch a webpage.
$ tiles_ctl add https://www.chromium.org/
Press Alt-Esc to switch back to graphical view if needed. The browser window should be displayed and ready to use.
You can deploy and run new versions of Chromium without needing to reboot.
First kill any running processes:
$ killall chromium.cmx; killall web_runner.cmx
Then repeat steps 1 through 6 from the installation instructions, excluding step #3 (running Tiles).
Press the Windows key to return to the terminal.
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Teammates toss Gatorade bottles back and forth, children gather bats and gloves for dads, and wives cheerfully snap pictures. But even as the team huddles in the bright sun to discuss game strategy, a dark cloud looms in the background: a plan to push players off the turf they've enjoyed for decades.
"It's hard to understand," Hughes says. "These fields have been used for 15 to 20 years. I grew up here. It brings people together in the community-- kids and adults."
A win-win situation?
The recently approved McIntire Park master plan, green-lighted in late May at City Council, includes several changes, including a new YMCA building on the site of two of the park's three existing picnic shelters. But no changes loom as large for some locals as the decision to convert the two softball fields at McIntire Park into a single, rectangular, multi-use, artificial-turf athletic field.
"Not only do the fields die, the place where Charlottesville softball began dies as well," says Beck Cohen player Chad Dillon.
City officials say they have a larger picture to consider.
"From a general use standpoint, we have more participants in football, lacrosse, field hockey, and soccer," says Charlottesville Director of Parks and Recreation Mike Svetz. "The City did a needs assessment in 2005, and-- compared to population assessments and national standards-- we identified there was a greater need for rectangular fields rather than diamonds."
Svetz says there's a move afoot to offer replacements by bringing lights to the nearby softball field at Charlottesville High School as well as lighting the three existing softball fields at Darden Towe Park, east of town.
"We want it to be a win-win situation," says Svetz, "where we meet needs with a rectangular field and maximize the use of the fields the city and county own."
Rumblings of change
As the Beck Cohen team shuffles onto the field to warm up, boys join dads in a catching drill while daughters, wives, and girlfriends wander in and out of the dugout sipping sports drinks and wiping sweat from sunglasses. When the opposing team fails to gather enough players for a game, a few Beck Cohen players genially switch sides.
The proposed changes to McIntire surfaced in a City Council meeting November 5, when a ground lease signed by the city, county, and YMCA was presented. In the months that followed, the layout of the park was the focal point of the McIntire Park advisory review team headed by Svetz. Public meetings took place March 4, April 12, May 6, and finally on May 19, when the McIntire Park Master Plan was approved by City Council.
Critics of the change say this is when participants in the softball league-- a diverse mix of over 2,000 players who belong to over 160 teams-- first heard rumblings of the impending changes.
It was ultimately City Council that decided the fate of the diamonds. But as the news of the softball fields' demise began to spread, fingers began to point at the Y. While the site of the recreation center was approved on the same night as the larger master plan, the two were actually different agenda items at May 19's Council meeting, a detail many might have misunderstood.
"It was not the Y's idea to change the fields-- that was the master plan for the active side of McIntire Park," says YMCA Board Chairman Kurt Krueger. "We don't control that land-- it's not part of our ground lease."
But Svetz indicates that accommodating cars visiting the Y was part of the reason to change the fields.
"The master plan for McIntire Park included changes that were community-driven and based on community input," Svetz says. "These changes include the fact that the YMCA is to be located in the current shelter area and that there will be an increase in parking due to city code. There's not enough room in the park to continue to use the two softball fields."
While the Y may not have directly pushed softball out of McIntire, the leasing of valuable public land to a private non-profit has raised concerns about who exactly is running the show. Indeed, the three to five acres leased at just $1 a year for 40 years are assessed by the City at $550,000 an acre.
Although the Piedmont YMCA still has to fund the construction through an ongoing capital campaign, both local governments have set aside money for the center: $2.03 million from Albemarle County as part of its 2012 capital improvement program, and $1.25 million from Charlottesville contingent on the Y including a competitive swimming pool that gives priority to the Charlottesville High School swim team. The county has agreed to allocate an additional $1.25 million if the city follows through, according to Krueger.
"It will cost around $14-15 million, and we still have to raise that money," says Krueger. "Construction will be a 12- to 14-month process, and we hope to be open before summer 2010."
In any case, City officials say that the ten existing softball light poles-- 70-footers of concrete-coated steel erected in the early 1990s-- will need to be moved or reconfigured. While the City has budgeted $875,000 in the next five years for the Park's overhaul, there will be parking lots to pave, trees to plant, artificial turf to lay, and two picnic pavilions-- donated by a Lions Club in 1955 and 1959-- to move or rebuild.
As for the cost city taxpayers will bear, Svetz was quoted in a May 7 Daily Progress article as saying that he would announce an estimated cost at the May 19 meeting. And even though no estimate was offered that night, City Council went ahead and unanimously approved the master plan with no price tag attached. Even now-- over a month later-- Svetz tells the Hook it would be "irresponsible" to guess the potential cost.
Not informed?
A recent City report determined that the softball community is 20 percent city residents, 46 percent Albemarle County residents, and 34 percent non-county residents including company teams and teams representing UVA's Law and Darden schools.
"We've done our best to inform as many different people as possible and engage them in the process," Svetz says.
However, according to several players, the lack of accessible information throughout the process and the city's ongoing conversation with swim organizations-- such as the one at CHS, which had an active voice in shaping the master plan according to its needs-- is the salt in a much larger wound.
Softball player Charles Hubbard has followed the master plan since its introduction to City Council last November. While he supports Svetz's vision for a wider-reaching McIntire Park, he disputes the city's attempt to reach out to softball members.
"When they talked about changing the layout of the YMCA, there was no specific mention of changing or eliminating the softball fields," he says.
"Quite frankly, I heard from several news outlets that when they were talking about how the new YMCA would be configured to benefit its users," Hubbard says, "efforts were made to communicate with the CHS swim team. There was no such effort from the city bureaucracy to reach organized groups or representatives of the softball community.
"They didn't want angry players who were not willing to rationally discuss the alternatives," Hubbard speculates. "I believe it was intentional that softball people were not sought out for our opinions while other groups were actively enlisted for feedback on the plans."
However, Richard Lilly, CHS athletic director and a member of the master plan advisory team, insists that the city was open and accessible with the plan.
"I don't think the community should feel slighted," Lilly says. "All these issues were brought up, and a group of people specifically addressed the question of losing the fields. There were plenty of opportunities for everyone to speak out."
Indeed, the nearby McIntire Little League claims to have been in the loop from the beginning, according to League president Bob Schotta. That League will actually gain terrain in the park's overhaul: they snagged a permanent T-ball field.
"A number of people in the parks and rec department posted information in newspapers, on websites, sent out emails," says Schotta. "Unfortunately for softball, that's just their own problem. They're stretched out in so many different areas that some individual members probably don't have a voice because they don't live in the city. With everything going on in the last year, to sit and say you didn't know what's going on in the city and didn't do anything about it-- I have a hard time believing that."
However, according to Hubbard, the attempts to advertise were meager at best.
"They can say, 'We advertised on the city's website.' But to be totally real about it, a lot of softball players are not people who are watching City Council meetings or scouring the city's website," he says. "For a community that likes to put emphasis on transparent public policies and enlisting public input, I don't feel that this was done at all with the softball community."
There's one other difference between the private and independent McIntire Little League and the City softball league: athletics supervisor Bernie Garrison. A City employee reporting to Svetz, Garrison says, "Mike Svetz sent out a mass email a few weeks ago, and we put information in along with our fall softball packet."
However, those dispatches to coaches were both sent after the May 19 City Council decision. Garrison repeatedly refused to comment on whether there were any pre-decision communications by which the City notified softball players they were facing exile from McIntire.
The nouveau riche?
Although the City's Svetz maintains that the master plan will benefit a large population of current McIntire Park users and will increase its overall use, softball is the Parks department's largest sport, with, according to Svetz's office, 162 teams for the summer season. The particular shock for the softballers is that they "were not informed and had little input," in the words of player Richard Ward.
"McIntire Park is one of the best places in town for softball," Ward says. "Now they're creating soccer fields for the nouveau riche, the upper middle class."
Indeed, hundreds of often rural, working class people like Ward use the lighted fields (which can be seen by motorists along the Route 250 bypass) almost continuously in the warmer months. Each team shells out $600 per summer for the 16-game schedule, and there are 40-plus games a week-- with tailgating often going on for hours in the adjacent parking lot.
One of the fields is a memorial to Dewey D.S. Shiflett, whose name adorns the battered scoreboard. Shiflett, who was born in humble circumstances in Albemarle, eventually became a vice president at local beer distributer J. W. Sieg & Co., as well as a softball legend.
"He was very instrumental in men's fast-pitch softball when it was an important sport in Charlottesville," recalls Downtown Athletic's David Deane.
"When he went to Albemarle High School, he loved softball so much he would hitchhike to the school in the afternoon to play, then hitchhike back afterwards," says Riverside Lunch owner and longtime friend Carroll Shifflett (no relation). "He was a leader; he kept the guys involved. He would go the extra mile to help guys out."
After Shiflett's 1986 death-- around the time the park was being reconfigured-- in his memory members of the community created the Dewey D.S. Shiflett University of Virginia Cardiology Fund and pushed the city to create a softball memorial for him.
Since then, the fields have become something akin to sacred ground for those who remember Shiflett-- as well as for those who don't.
Teenager Amanda Gough watches her father, Michael, head up to bat. "I think the decision will damage some of the spirits-- a lot of them have history here," she says quietly, as her father sprints to first. "They're good guys. It's just not cool."
"Softball gives the middle [class] man a source of recreation and exercise," Beck Cohen player Chad Dillon says. Playing alongside his twin brother, Chris, and brother-in-law Kevin Baker, Dillon credits his teammates with bringing together a diverse group of players with a united passion.
Coach Todd Haymans agrees, scribbling a batting line-up as his sons gulp Gatorade from the dugout cooler. "The team has played together for about 10 years. We all have different jobs-- if we didn't play softball together, we wouldn't know each other," he says.
As for the late Dewey Shiflett, he appears to have been omitted from the new park's planning process. In a recent interview, Svetz conceded that he was unaware of Shiflett or his contributions to the local softball scene.
As a group that admits to tailgating before and after games, softball players believe their blue-collar roots and rough-'n-tumble image might seem threatening to a master plan that might favor the crisp, clean feel of soccer and lacrosse. But they say the image is incorrect.
"It's a working man's league, with people from various aspects of life," say the Little League's Schotta, himself a softball league veteran. "Did we sit around after a game and have a few beers? Yes. Were there ever any fights or issues? No. My league is 100 yards away, and we've never had any problems."
"People drive by on the weekends when there's a tournament with teams from all over the state who are a little 'rougher' than people who typically play there," says Schotta. "I know lawyers, judges, political people who play there-- no one would accuse them of being 'rough'."
Signed, sealed, and delivered
Although the City held meetings for "stakeholders" earlier this year, by the time most folks in the softball community heard word of the impending removal of their fields from the park that opened in 1926, the deed was already done. Gathering together before their June 8 game, several Beck Cohen players say it's the first they've heard of it.
"A big concern is that prices will go up and there will be fewer spots to play, if they don't plan to build additional fields," Chad Dillon says. "The league is bursting at the seams as far as teams."
McIntire Little League coach Bill Pollard agrees. "Every weekend," he says, "the fields are filled with people playing. People travel to Charlottesville just to play softball. They stay in our hotels, eat at our restaurants-- McIntire is such a central location, they ought to leave it the way it is."
Ironically, this isn't the first time the City has been accused of fixing a park that might not be broken. In 2007, over the objections of some neighbors, the City embarked on a public-private transformation of downtown's tiny McGuffey Park that wound up costing taxpayers $400,000.
While Svetz acknowledges the angst the imminent construction will cause softball players, he emphasizes that plans to replace McIntire's two fields are in the works to maintain "current levels of service."
Svetz has proposed two potential replacements for McIntire's fields: Charlottesville High School and the jointly owned Darden Towe. Neither currently offers lights. With lights, softball diamonds can host up to four games per night, accommodating up to eight teams. Without lights, however, a field can hold only two games, leaving many teams hanging.
A $150,000 proposal to light CHS has already been approved and funded, and is scheduled to be completed in time for the 2009 spring season-- it's part of the City's Capital Improvement Program.
However, the future of Darden Towe's three softball fields has yet to be determined-- something player Hubbard calls a "real sticking point." When Towe Park was built in early '90s, the fields stayed dark because of complaints from neighborhoods about potential light pollution.
"With the softball community booted out of McIntire Park after 35 to 40 years, the next best option is Darden Towe," Hubbard says. "The softball players need to get behind this plan, give it political push, and make sure that the Darden Towe lighting takes place. The real problem," he laments, "is that it's almost a completely done deal-- signed, sealed, and delivered."
Not to Clara Belle Wheeler. An outspoken Darden Towe neighbor whose family donated the land for the city-county park, Wheeler contends that lighting is off-limits under the terms of the donation. And Wheeler maintains that lights and softball at Towe are incompatible with what she still considers a semi-rural area.
"Save money," Wheeler writes in a mass email. "Use what you have. What a novel idea!"
Despite the city's search for replacement fields, the dispersal of a cohesive group to one field here and one field there worries Charlottesville's softball community. In losing their central fields, some worry they're losing a crucial geographic link between city and county players-- possibly foreshadowing a fading of the pastime.
"McIntire Park is the focal point, the staple field for Charlottesville softball," says Chad Dillon. "Everything else, such as PVCC, is outlying."
A quiet future?
Whether the Darden Towe Park Committee-- composed of two city councilors and two Albemarle County supervisors-- votes in favor of lighting the three fields, the immediate future for Charlottesville softball is very much in the dark. As are parts of the McIntire rehab.
Svetz says the City needs to hear specifics from the YMCA before it can finish planning the Park overhaul. Meanwhile, some of the eastern side of the park-- now mostly a sand-greened golf course-- may soon get lopped off for a road called the Meadowcreek Parkway. And on June 22, a private group announced its wish to build a $12-15 million botanical garden on the eastern side.
As the Beck Cohen team defeats its briefly under-staffed opponent, optimism and love for the game fill the air, and preparations for a barbecue are under way.
"Ya'll are welcome to join us!" someone calls out. But for a team that depends on softball to keep in touch, the threat of a smaller league and less playing time-- in a future as close as next spring-- creates nervous laughter that covers up the disappointment.
"If you like soccer, this is the place for you!" jokes Hughes.
While McIntire Park awaits its still-unpriced makeover, the softball community faces an uncertain future, one a far cry from the historic fields of McIntire.
"I just feel that in the years to come, we'll look at an empty field with no one on it, instead of a field crowded with softball players and fans," says Pollard. "Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't know."
Umpire Mike Lamb
Opposing teams make post-game peace on a recent June weeknight.
Members of the coed Fresh Fire team take a moment of silence before a recent game.
Parks Director Svetz: "We want it to be a win-win situation where we meet needs with a rectangular field and maximize the use of the fields the city and county own."
The Charlottesville Host Lions Club erected three brick picnic shelters between 1955 and 1961, and two stand in the way of the YMCA.
"Softball in Charlottesville is pretty competitive. It gives us a chance to relive our childhood."--coach Todd Haymans
"McIntire is the central point of softball in the city."--player Chad Dillon
"Did we sit around after a game and have a few beers? Yes. Were there ever any fights or issues? No. My league is 100 yards away, and we've never had any problems."--Bob Schotta
What will become of McIntire's memorial to Dewey D.S. Shiflett?
The City Council-approved plan for McIntire Park lets the annual Dogwood Festival carnival remain. However, two drive-up brick picnic shelters would be replaced by three smaller gazebos, as the YMCA takes three to five acres of land. The plan envisions an expanded parking lot, at least one new pedestrian bridge, a new t-ball field, and-- most controversially-- replaces two softball fields with a single artificial-turf, multi-purpose field. If it might seem that a new field could be created from the forest behind the proposed YMCA, that terrain has been declared off-limits as a "managed conservation area." As for the east side of the park, beyond the train tracks in photo, it would lose three of the nine sand-greened holes to the planned Meadowcreek Parkway, and a private group is urging this as the site of a botannical garden.
"...lighting is off-limits under the terms of the donation." If that's the case, why are the City and County even discussing it? Are they thinking they'll just ignore that condition of the donation?
Leave it to the City of Charlottesville to cause a problem by making a boneheaded decision and then begging the County and citizens of Albemarle to bail them out. Bring all the softball to the County, and work out a deal for the traveling teams who arrive for tournaments to stay at any of the wonderful county hotels.
Part of the problem with the Charlottesville City Council (and DEFINITELY the staff) is they just don't understand what soft dollars are. They make Downtown as freaking impossible to access as they can, preventing touristas from spending as much as they could with easier access and a sane traffic and parking plan. They kick out the softball players who (1) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars over the year to play in the City and (2) do tend to spend some money while coming and going. If the City would just spend as much energy DOING something as they spend deciding which consultant to hire and ignore next!
I'm a die-hard Democrat, but this is what you get with one-party government - it doesn't matter if it's Republicans in DC or Democrats in Cville. No accountability (see O'Connell, Gary, RWSA, and the Bush Administration's Justice Department), no imagination, and absolutely no need to actually do anything worthwhile to keep their jobs.
What a fiasco. I'd love to see the "needs assessment" that Svetz is hiding behind. Who did they survey? I would say the 2,000 players on 160 teams are a pretty good indication of "need." And what other adult recreation opportunities are there? Bowling? Putt-putt? I guess all those softball player should sign up for the Y and go run on treadmills, or fight with the local high schols for pool time.
If they indeed can't light Towe, there will be no choice but to scale back softball in Charlottesville -- fewer teams, fewer games.
I just don't see how they are going to get MORE use out of a rectangular field than they currently get out of those two diamonds.
Remember, people, money is no object in Charlottesville with Overrun O'Connell instituting his cost saving ideas. Just make a fuss and the city's staff will be glad to buy more fields and light them. Simple. Forma an advocacy group, write up a proposal and present it to council after getting staff support. The staff will provide the necessary spin.
i think it is stupid to get rid of the softball fields at mcintire park they make more money on softball at 600 dollars a team than they ever will on soccer and softball is good recreational fun and excercise and those two fields have been there a long time.


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