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Vitamin D to the Rescue
The sunshine vitamin helps bones, hearts, minds, moods
Once relegated to a plain-jane role as calcium's helper in building strong bones, vitamin D has blossomed into a superhero among vitamins. The sunshine vitamin can boost the body's ability to ward off infections, contribute to a strong and healthy heart, help prevent several forms of cancer and protect against autoimmune diseases and diabetes.
But to reap these benefits older adults must have sufficient levels of vitamin D, and scientists caution that most don't get enough of this nutrient.
See also: Tell Your Doctor What Supplements You're Taking — They Might Interfere With Your Prescription Meds.
Why? With age, it becomes harder for the body to make vitamin D from sunlight, plus older adults stay inside more during daylight hours and protect themselves more from the sun. Often they fail to eat vitamin D-rich foods or take vitamin D pills. Judicious sun exposure, the right foods and adequate supplements can bring levels up to where they should be.
Here is some recent research that underscores the importance of vitamin D.
- Protect your mind
A new British study found that low levels of vitamin D can cause problems with memory, attention and logic. The researchers looked at data from more than 3,000 adults and found that those who were severely vitamin D-deficient were nearly four times more likely to perform poorly on tests of memory and attention.
Another British study had similar results. Compared with men and women who had sufficient levels of vitamin D, those who were severely deficient experienced a substantial decline in thinking and in the ability to organize thoughts, make decisions and plan ahead.
- Guard against heart disease
Research has targeted low levels of vitamin D as an independent risk factor for heart attack, stroke and congestive heart failure even after accounting for age, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, says Johns Hopkins University cardiologist Erin Michos, M.D.
Two recent studies from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Utah show that correcting the deficiency may reduce the risk. In the first study, the researchers examined more than 9,000 people whose blood tests revealed low levels of vitamin D and who had a repeat test within a year. At that time nearly half of them had raised their vitamin D levels to what's considered normal. This group had much less heart disease than those whose levels were still below normal.
In the second study, the researchers divided the records of more than 40,000 people into three categories based on vitamin D levels: normal, moderately deficient and severely deficient. As expected, patients with severe deficiency were most likely to have been diagnosed with heart disease or stroke.
"The critical question now is whether vitamin D can actually prevent heart disease," says Michos. "We don't have a definitive answer yet."
- Ward off Parkinson's
In the first long-term analysis of the relationship between vitamin D and Parkinson's, Finnish researchers found that low levels of vitamin D increased the risk and high levels protected against the disease.
They tested blood levels of vitamin D in more than 3,000 men and women ages 50 to 79 who were free of the disease from 1978 to 1980 when the study began. Over the next 29 years, 50 in the group were diagnosed with Parkinson's. Those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were three times more likely to develop the disease than those with the highest.
- Bone up on bone health
A position paper of the International Osteoporosis Foundation says vitamin D can improve bone strength, reduce the risk of falling and help prevent fractures. "Supplementing with vitamin D is safe, well-tolerated and inexpensive," says Tufts University's Bess Dawson-Hughes, M.D., lead author of the paper.
- Chase the blues away
The National Institute of Aging in Baltimore found women with low vitamin D levels experienced more mood declines compared with women who had sufficient D. And women with too little vitamin D who were not depressed at the start of the study were twice as likely to become depressed as those who had healthy levels.
- Stay active
Researchers at Wake Forest University measured levels of vitamin D of more than 2,600 older adults. Four years later the team found physical abilities — such as at how quickly each participant could walk a short distance, rise from a chair five times or maintain balance — remained significantly better among those who had the highest vitamin D levels at the beginning of the study.
Nissa Simon, a health writer, lives in New Haven, Conn.
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Victorians can look forward to more summer heat tomorrow, with temperatures expected to reach the high 30s across much of the state.
But unlike the scorcher on Thursday last week, a cool change will sweep through in the afternoon providing relief and a decent night's sleep.
Melbourne is expected to reach 37 degrees tomorrow, with Mildura and Swan Hill getting to 38 and Horsham 36.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Gary Missen said the cool change would sweep the state from east to west and reach Melbourne in late afternoon.
"We haven't put a time on it, we're just saying late afternoon. Probably any time after three or four o'clock," he said.
"It will be quite gusty, a cool and gusty change. It could quite easily drop 10 degrees in an hour after the change."
The change will be accompanied by showers with a small chance of a thunderstorm, he said.
Saturday's hot spell will be followed by temperatures in the low 20s on Sunday and Monday –part of a trend of up-and-down temperatures that caused snowfalls on the Victorian Alps earlier this week. Mr Missen said the snow had melted by now.
The Country Fire Authority will advise on regions of total fire ban late this afternoon.
In Warrnambool – which suffered a fire at the Telstra exchange on November 22 – most landlines and internet services are on track to be restored by this weekend, said Telstra's corporate affairs manager James Howe.
Mr Howe said the 200 customers still missing broadband internet would have it restored by the end of the day.
He said the 2000 customers missing landline connections should have them restored today, although some may have to wait until the weekend.
All mobiles services have been restored.
The fire knocked out 65,000 landlines, 15,000 broadband connections and more than 80 mobile phone towers.
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5 comments:
- Bob D said...
None of the other Philly teams seem to be very competitive. Maybe the Eagles will rebound - they do have some potential.
Oh Yeah - GO PIRATES!
- September 29, 2013 9:18 AM
- Morak99 said...
I'd love a Pirates win in the series, although I'd be alright with the Reds too. I don't want the Braves to win because they are rivals, I don't want the Cardinals to win because I will never forgive them for 2011, and I don't want the Dodgers to win because that would encourage GMs to act recklessly.
- September 29, 2013 9:45 AM
- GM-Carson said...
The Phillies have played their worst baseball of the season since switching Sandberg from interim to official manager.
- September 29, 2013 2:37 PM
- Beer-a-Thon said...
What a turd of a season. Get to work Amaro!
- September 29, 2013 8:03 PM
- Bob D said...
Time to think outside the box and make some drastic changes
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I replaced the carpet in my dining room and linoleum in the halls and kitchen with a beautiful handscraped golden teak 3/4" x 4 3/4". My Ryobi 10" portable table saw was an indispensable tool that provided me with the professional results that I desired. I planned on a 3 day install, but ended up taking 12 days off of work to complete the floor. It was challenging, but I have a real sense of satisfaction as it came out absolutely beautiful. I only ruined one piece of flooring (easily replaced) by sliding the refrigerator over it. Having the right tools for this job made all the difference in the world. I could not have done the clean rips and accurate cross cuts required without my Ryobi table saw. I cant wait to use it on another project.
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Last year at this time, our area fire departments had been kept busy putting out several rural fires. The lack of rain and the wind were their enemies during a stretch of a few weeks.
Last year at this time, our area fire departments had been kept busy putting out several rural fires. The lack of rain and the wind were their enemies during a stretch of a few weeks.
One fire in particular I remember was the field just to the east of the Hormel plant north of town.
The wind was blowing terribly and the extreme dry ground was like kindling. This particular fire, the New Ulm fire department was called in for assistance. Blowing from the south, the wind pushed the smoke and flames toward the gravel and a standing field of corn across the road. If it had reached the field, the outcome wouldn't have been a positive one and someone could have lost everything.
Next week is fire prevention week... do you have an escape plan should a fire break out in your home? Would you know what to do if a grease fire started on your stove? I certainly hope your answer is NOT, put water on it! WRONG! Adding water to a grease fire is just like adding gasoline to an open flame. Calmly and quickly slide a metal lid across the pan to cover the flames. Do NOT attempt to carry the pan outside which can cause the burning grease to spill and spread the fire. The best fire prevention in the kitchen is to stay in the kitchen while you are cooking.
Kids are taught to STOP, DROP and ROLL if their clothing catches on fire. Adults should remember those simple words as well.
While September was I believe the third dryest on record, Brown County is once again in a RED FLAG warning along with West Central and Southwestern Minnesota, meaning the conditions of high winds and low relative humidity are prime for fires. These dangerous elements along with warm temperature will create explosive fire growth potential.
Be safe, be cautions but most importantly, do NOT be careless. Open fires or throwing a lit cigarette out a car window could set the tiniest elements a fire.
Thought for the week: Traditional thinkers say, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it." But breakthrough thinkers say, "Fix it before it breaks." – Gerald Nadler.


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Also in October, Acer reported a third-quarter profit of about $2.32 million, missing analysts' expectations by a landslide. The Taiwanese PC maker, at the time, pointed to Microsoft's Windows 8 software as a beacon of hope for future growth. But some analysts, like the NPD Group, don't think Microsoft's new OS is rejuvenating the PC market as vendors like Acer had hoped.


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Good bowler, thoroughly merited etc
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Good bowler, thoroughly merited etc
..... still a **** mind
RIP Philip Hughes - 1988-2014
The Wheel of Mediocrity | Compton, Root, Carberry, Robson, Trott, Lyth, Moeen, Hales, Duckett, Hameed, Jennings | The wheel is forever
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Second greatest cricketer I've ever seen. What a man.
What a ****.
Thoroughly deserved though.
Forever 63* at the SCG
Well deserved. Is one of the best fast bowlers I've ever seen, if not the best.
R.I.P Craigos, you were a champion bloke. One of the best
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Yup second best fast bowler for mine !!!
Cause Slifer said so.........!!!!
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I can remember watching him in his first test and thinking he looked average at best. Don't think it is possible to be more wrong about a player.
You just know Kallis would have a blank face showing no emotion or delight as she goes down on him.
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Sheriff's deputies arrested a man on multiple charges, including possession of a controlled substance, after a search of the suspect's residence turned up more than 30 grams of methamphetamine and other illegal items, reports the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's deputies arrested an Orange resident on Saturday, Oct. 18, after busting him with more than 5 grams of methamphetamine during a traffic stop.
Police in Orange arrested two people Thursday, June 13, after a disturbance led them to discover more than a gram of what is believed to be methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth.
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Shane Doan still is dealing with a scary sickness with a weird name, but the Phoenix Coyotes captain's condition has improved to the point that he worked out with teammates on Friday.
"It's awful good to see him, especially when he comes in with a smiling face," coach Dave Tippett said. "He's starting to look a little more like himself. It's certainly a positive sign."
Tippett said there is no timetable in place for Doan's return.
"We're in uncharted waters here," Tippett said when asked when he thinks Doan could return. "Hopefully soon."
Doan has 23 points in 27 games but hasn't played since Dec. 4. He's taking medication to treat his Rocky Mountain spotted fever and should make a full recovery.
It's probably time to learn something about what he's dealing with, though: it's a tick-borne illness "that can be fatal in the first eight days of symptoms if not treated correctly, even in previously healthy people," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
That's a particular problem, given that it's difficult to diagnose and that the initial symptoms are fairly generic, including fever, headache, nausea and vomiting.
The disease affects the cells in the lining of blood vessels, making the vessels leak. This can eventually cause serious damage to internal organs, particularly the kidneys. It also causes a spotted rash; hence, the name.
About 2,000 people in the United States were diagnosed in 2010; incidents have generally been on the rise since 2000, which saw about 500 diagnoses.
In Arizona, roughly 140 cases were reported between 2003 and 2010, and approximately 10 percent of the people who were diagnosed with the disease died.
The tick responsible for transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Arizona is the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus), which is found on dogs and around people's homes. Almost all of the cases occurred within communities with a large number of free-roaming dogs, according to the CDC.
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Bees Attack my SonJuly 29th, 2008 , by Melissa
On Sunday my son got attacked by bees. Though these were definitely bees, fuzzy head and body, fuzzy bee-like legs, etc., but they were very agressive and stung him five times total. (After his father disturbed them while clearing the deck) We caught two of them, one who had definitely stung him, and they both appear to still have their stingers intact (as they sit frozen in the freezer). They stung him once on the lip, twice on the forehead, and one flew into his shirt and he had two small stings (or bites?) on his chest.
He calmed down pretty quickly after the pain subsided and I put baking soda glop on the stings. I checked his skin for stingers but there were none (though they could have been brushed off when they took off his shirt). I also gave him two doses of benadryl. 90 minutes later one side of his face started swelling, and his skin turned an angry red color, so I took him into the instacare doctor. She checked for signs of breathing problems and whatnot, then gave him a dose of zyrtec. He was totally himself, personality-wise, all this time. She wrote out a prescription for prednisone ("Pediapred" how's that for a drug name? Kind of funny considering the problems with prednisone and how I feel about that drug). After seeing the zyrtec work to bring down the swelling and redness she said he probably didn't need the prednisone unless he started getting worse again.
I continued giving him benadry and zyrtec, and went to the health food store yesterday for more advice. His eyes were very puffy the day after, and we were still concerned about him. They recommended a few things including bromelain, quercetin, vitamin C, a homeopathic remedy, and mixing Bach Rescue Remedy with lotion or skin oil, and rubbing it on the affected skin. Of all the advice, and after as much of anything I could get him to take internally, the Rescue Remedy seemed to make the biggest difference. When I rubbed it on his face, with an olive oil-based baby oil, his color changed instantly, almost alarmingly, away from pale to blushed, and then within a couple hours the swelling had gone down further, and his color became normal...not too pale, but also not too red. I will keep some Bach Rescue Remedy in my medicine cabinet and first aid kit from now on!
He's not allergic to the stings, as this was his first exposure and a pretty normal reaction for the number and location of the stings. I will probably get him tested sometime for allergies after this abrupt first exposure. Those bees couldn't have been more confused, as he's the last person in the world to want to hurt them...he's friends with all creatures, even though he does have a healthy respect for all. He's pretty much over the shock of it now, and now has an imaginary friend that is a pet bee who follows him around.
I'm glad my 2 year old didn't go out with him and get stung too, though I wish I'd been the one to take the stings in his place.
Diet? no. Meal Plans? yes! (Gatherer)July 14th, 2008 , by Melissa
I decided to finally give it my best shot by trying the meal plans from the genotypediet website. I've glanced at them before and tried a few recipes that looked good, but now I'm going all out at it...sort of.
I printed out 3 days worth, and did the shopping for them. Of course, plans change and events come up, but I'll get these 3 days worth done within a week I'm sure. So many of my meals for the first three days involve cooked sliced turkey breast that I decided to just cook and slice an actual turkey breast, rather than skirt the avoids in storebought ones. I also made up a few of my lunches and snacks ahead of time on Sunday afternoon. That meal was a hit, as I made mashed potatoes and gravy for everyone else (potatoes are an avoid for all of us, but I didn't think they'd appreciate having braised fennel and quinoa tabouleh as the only sides, and I didn't touch them or the gravy...well I touched the gravy a tiny bit).
I'm allowing myself a little wiggle room, even though I haven't earned black dots yet, I find that allowing myself to have a tiny bit when I feel like a treat does help keep me out of outright toxin territory. The nice thing about the black dots is that some of them don't trigger the craving spirals that outright toxins do. Last night I had one small scoop of goat milk ice cream, with lots of raspberries. That hit the spot and kept me from craving worse. If you need to cheat or have a little treat, you can be smart about it.
That brings me to the other benefit of using the meal plans...I always have food and plans on hand so I never get hungry enough to really stray from the diet. I still have to be creative, and don't always stick to the plan. For instance, I've really been craving rye bread lately, so this morning I made flax focaccia with some teff, molasses, and caraway seeds in it. It turned out really well, so I pulled out the lingonberry jam and spread some on. I've heard that lingonberry jam is very good on rye bread but I've never tried it...I have to agree that it is an amazing combination. I didn't even feel the need to sweeten my herbal tea. The jam has a little sugar in it, but was the best choice I could find in the lingonberry jam department.
I also whipped up some flax cranberry muffins, since I had all my baking stuff out already. I'll have to ration all these goodies, of course, it's mostly flax and egg so the only bad thing about eating too much is the possiblity of eating too much fiber. It's almost time to pull those out of the oven.
My sister and I are planning the meal for a large family gathering this weekend, it's a fun job as my sister is also gluten free and low carb, so we're planning everything to be healthy (and yummy). Ah, I love the power of planning a meal...even if it does mean a bit of work. Usually my mom would do the work, and she does a great job of it, but this party is for her and my dad, so we are trying to spare her the work. We'll probably have chili, lots of fruits and vegetables, and some stuff for the carb-eaters, like cornbread or baked potatoes. I better get to planning, as soon as I pull these muffins out...
Compliant Chocolate fix forTrail mixJuly 10th, 2008 , by Melissa
For my trip last month I bought some raw power berry trail mix (Navita, I think). It was expensive, but better than the toxins I would have eaten without it. It had dried goji berries, dried mulberries (not rated, but more tasty than I expected), dried aztec berries (not rated on the diet, and not my favorite), cashews, and cocoa nibs. I pawned off the cashews to my family for the most part.
What excited me about this was how good the cocoa nibs are in a trail mix! They work really well, with no sugar or other toxins, like chocolate chips have, and they won't melt in the heat. I don't like them by themselves, but when eaten with a handful of slightly sweet dried fruit, they really hit the spot. Their crunch is also a nice contrast to chewy dried fruit.
If you make your own trail mix (and chocolate is allowed for your type), try it with cocoa nibs. You can easily crush the whole cocoa beans into nibs, if needed. I've since made it with just goji berries, pecans, and cocoa nibs. Even though it's not a chocolate bar, it really satisfies.
Turkey MeatloafJuly 7th, 2008 , by Melissa
I had planned to make Turkey Meatloaf last week, but was intimidated by the idea. My egg-free beef meatloaf is nothing to shout about, so how could a turkey meatloaf be any better (my son is allergic to eggs). I found a recipe at epicurious that I could adapt to use up some of the ingredients I needed to use up in my refrigerator, so I went for it.
1 1/2 cups finely chopped onion
1 tablespoon minced garlic (I only had dried garlic, which I crushed and added in with the carrots)
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 medium carrot, cut into 1/8-inch dice (gatherer black dot, could sub zucchini or perhaps bell peppers depending on type)
3/4 lb cremini mushrooms, trimmed and very finely chopped in a food processor (I only had button mushrooms, but I think cremini are neutral for more types)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper (I used crushed onion seeds instead)
1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce (I used 1/2 tsp marmite + 1 teaspoon ume plum vinegar + 1/4 tsp seaweed flakes)
1/3 cup finely chopped fresh parsley (I had none, so left it out)
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon ketchup (Organicville, or homemade)
1 cup fine fresh bread crumbs (from 2 slices firm white sandwich bread) I used rice bread, full of gatherer black dots and toxins, but for a GF bread it worked well...will think of a better substitute next time
1/3 cup 1% milk (rice milk)
1 whole large egg, lightly beaten + 1 large egg white, lightly beaten (I used 1/4 cup boiling water and 2 T flax meal, let sit to gel)
1 1/4 lb ground turkey (mix of dark and light meat)
"Preheat oven to 400°F.
Cook onion and garlic in oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until onion is softened, about 2 minutes. Add carrot and cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid mushrooms give off is evaporated and they are very tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in Worcestershire sauce, parsley, and 3 tablespoons ketchup, then transfer vegetables to a large bowl and cool.
Stir together bread crumbs and milk in a small bowl and let stand 5 minutes. Stir in egg and egg white, then add to vegetables. Add turkey and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper to vegetable mixture and mix well with your hands. (Mixture will be very moist.)
Form into a 9- by 5-inch oval loaf in a lightly oiled 13- by 9- by 2-inch metal baking pan and brush meatloaf evenly with remaining 2 tablespoons ketchup. Bake in middle of oven until thermometer inserted into meatloaf registers 170°F, 50 to 55 minutes.
Let meatloaf stand 5 minutes before serving."
I thought the worchestershire substitute worked out well, though I'm no worchestershire connoisseur. My husband and 2 year old loved the results. It was lot of work, but worth it. It will be easier the next time around.
CurrantsJuly 5th, 2008 , by Melissa
I made it out to visit my parents during the beginning of currant season (it should be in full production mode now). I found a few handfuls of wild currants and dried them while there. They were mostly pest free, despite being completely wild and organic. I only tossed out a coupld weird looking ones. They would be easier to harvest after they're all ripe, only a fraction of the berries on the bushes were ripe yet last week when I was picking.
They definitely have some bite, flavor-wise, unlike the mislabeled dried zante/corinth grapes often sold as dried currents. They have a bit of cranberry and tomato flavor to them, in my opinion. Perhaps a bit of noni flavor, though far more palatable than noni juice. I need to use them in some baking and post my results.


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When McDonogh's Sammie Burgess, Casey Black, Maggie Preas and Posey Valis play in the eighth annual Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic on Saturday at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium, they won't care so much about winning.
They won every game of their high school lacrosse careers as the Eagles finished the 2013 season with their 91st consecutive win, their fifth straight Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference championship and their fourth straight national No. 1 ranking.
Now, the girls are happy to leave that pressure behind.
"I don't think anyone goes into a game like this thinking, 'We have to win,' " Black said. "It's more of an honor and a showcase type of thing. You want to represent Baltimore lacrosse and all of the South, but I really don't feel any pressure to win. It's more about fun."
The South has beaten the North only twice, but last year's South team set the bar pretty high with a record-breaking 25-13 win — led by McDonogh graduates Taylor Cummings, who set a record with eight points, and Corinne Etchison, who had a record five assists.
The Eagles have more girls than any other team in an event that includes the top 44 seniors in the country. The four girls have played in underclassmen games over the past three years and have looked forward to the possibility of earning a roster spot in the senior game.
"It's awesome," Preas said. "It's something I've thought about for most of my high school career. Watching Taylor and Corinne and Liz [Bannatine] play last year, I was thinking it would be so awesome if I could do that."
All four look forward to playing with girls they know from around Baltimore — 13 of the 22 South players are from the area — as well as some of their future college teammates. Preas and Valis are headed to Virginia, which has three other recruits on the South team, including Severn's Kelly Reese. Burgess is headed to Florida, along with Century's Haley Bordner. Black is headed to Duke, and one of her future teammates will play for the North.
"It's really nice because you go in and you know everybody on the team, but you don't necessarily know them face-to-face," Burgess said, "so it's nice to have three people that I'm pretty close with there. I think it will help all of us to play better. I'm so excited to play with them one more time."
For Burgess, the All-America game marks the transition from high school to college, something for which she's ready. Like her Eagles teammates, she didn't pick a college based on the potential to keep winning every game.
"It was amazing, the streak and playing for McDonogh for four years, but it's time to move on, and regardless of whether we go undefeated at Florida, I picked Florida because I absolutely loved it. I'm excited to play with a whole new group of people. I'm from Harford County, and I didn't know people from McDonogh until I got there. I'm all about branching out and meeting people and opening myself up to new things," Burgess said.
As they look forward, the McDonogh girls are also starting to realize the uniqueness of their high school experiences. Only a handful of classes have gone through local high schools without suffering a loss in girls lacrosse. Loch Raven and Mount Hebron, which each won 103 straight games, also had girls who did.
Megan Bosica never lost a game at Mount Hebron, and she said the significance of the accomplishment grows as time passes.
"At the time, I knew it was special, but I never really acknowledged it. I never really wanted to tell people we never lost and we were the No. 1 team in the nation," Bosica said. "Looking back, it really is something to be proud of. People ask me, 'Where did you go to high school?' and when you talk about it, they are fascinated by it. At the time, you just think it's cool, and they should be really proud of that feeling."
Bosica, who went on to play at North Carolina, played in the first Under-Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic in 2006 and remembers losing that game. She also remembers that it didn't matter.
"I thought the [Under Armour] game was going to be a lot of fun, and it was,' the 25-year-old said. "I hope the [McDonogh] girls take it as a fun game. For me, I had so much pressure that entire [senior] season that, once I graduated, I was relieved for it to be over. I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders, and I realized I should have more fun with it."
The McDonogh girls also said the pressure to continue their streak bothered them a little more than they wanted to admit at the time.
"I think it would be a complete lie if we said it never got to us," Valis said, with a laugh. "Every team gave us their best shot. That's as much pressure as trying to keep the streak. When you always have a winning season, a loss is going to come eventually. You just try to put it off as long as possible."
After losing a lot of talent from the Class of 2012, the Eagles realized that few outside their ranks thought the streak could continue through this past season. The Eagles wondered at moments, too — on a season-opening trip to Florida, for example, where they trailed Vero Beach (Fla.) and Milton (Ga.) before rallying to win.
On that trip, the Eagles — especially the 17 seniors — learned that it wasn't going to be easy, and that it would take leadership from all the veterans, not just the captains, to pull through a 22-0 season. The program that hasn't lost since April 2009 finished off another perfect season with a comeback 11-8 win over St. Paul's in the IAAM A Conference final on May 13.
"I think the reason it meant so much to the senior class is because a lot of people doubted whether we could continue the streak," Burgess said. "I feel like the doubt almost fueled us. We had so many seniors and so many leaders, and we didn't want to let anybody down. We wanted to prove we could do it. I think it's amazing that we could."
Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic
When: Saturday
Time: Girls at 5 p.m.; boys at 8 p.m.
Location: Johnny Unitas Stadium, Towson University
Tickets: $30 (premium); $15 (general admission); $10 (student)*
TV: Boys game on ESPNU
More information: UnderArmourLacrosse.com
* All tickets will be assessed a $1 surcharge for parking.


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Academy Awards mean Academic Awards at RIT
This is the time of year when we review prospective freshmen academic records and award thousands of merit scholarships. This has been going on for a couple of weeks and we hope to wrap things up by the end of the week. So, that means lots of letters will be going out this week! These scholarships include the Presidential, Achievement, National Merit, National Achievement, National Hispanic Scholars, National Co-op, Project Lead The Way, and SAE Engineering.
Each applicant accepted by RIT is evaluated for a merit scholarship. In general, we look at SAT scores, rank in class and demonstrated special talents or abilities. Congratulations to all of you who are awarded a merit scholarship by RIT!
At the same time, we are getting ready to send financial aid awards to FAFSA filers. We've been busy getting print materials ready to enclose with financial aid awards, loading FAFSAs, and testing software to be sure that awards are calculated correctly. Late last week, we received the Federal Pell grant amounts based on the new stimulus bill. The maximum Pell grant will increase to $5,350 from $4,710. This is really good news for our Pell eligible students.
And, we're still assisting our current students. Although, this is break week we're still helping our students get ready for spring quarter and reapply for financial aid for the upcoming year which begins with the summer quarter.


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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (November 21, 2012) – Nominations for a pair of closing day graded turf stakes at Calder Casino & Race Course have been released with 23 horses listed as potential starters for the Grade 3 Tropical Turf Handicap and 16 fillies and mares made eligible for a possible appearance in the Grade 3 La Prevoyante.
Melnyk Racing Stables, Inc.'s James Street was nominated to the Tropical Turf by conditioner Josie Carroll. A two-time graded stakes winner on Polytrack at Woodbine, the son of El Prado exits a triumphant run in that track's Grade 2 Autumn Stakes on Nov. 10.
Trainer Dave Fawkes has nominated Larry Fugate's Cash Rules to the Tropical Turf. A five-time stakes winner at Calder this year, including victories in the Grade 3 Spend A Buck and the $150,000 Carl G. Rose Classic, the son of Peace Rules has been on grass just once in his career, finishing third in a Gulfstream Park turf allowance in April.
Graham Motion, who won the Tropical Turf in 2006 and 2007 with Ballast, nominated Mrs. S. K. Johnston, Jr.'s Hoofit to the 2012 running, while Ian Black has the multiple stakes winning millionaire Stormy Lord nominated to the race.
Cheyenne Stables, LLC's Mystical Star, who was nominated to and bypassed the My Charmer Handicap, tops the list of horses nominated to the 12-furlong La Prevoyante. Trained by Christophe Clement, who is a four-time winner of the La Prevoyante having captured the 1992, 1993, 1998, and 1999 editions, the daughter of Ghostzapper won the Grade 2 New York Handicap and was recently third in the Grade 3 Long Island Handicap.
Clement has also nominated James Wigan's Group 3 winner Havant and Moyglare Stud Farm, Ltd.'s Group 3 winner Sense of Purpose to the race.
Trainer Shug McGaughey, who won the 2011 running of the La Prevoyante, has nominated Phipps Stable's Abaco, a winner of three straight, to this year's renewal, while 2009 race-winner Tom Albertrani has recent Belmont Park allowance winner Centring nominated to the race.
Both the Grade 3 Tropical Turf Handicap and the Grade 3 La Prevoyante Handicap will be run Friday, Nov. 30, as part of the closing day program at Calder.
Calder will offer a nine-race Thanksgiving Day program on Thursday with a special holiday first race post time of 11 a.m.
The feature race of the afternoon is the Grade 3 My Charmer, restricted to fillies and mares and run at the distance of 1 1/8 miles over the local grass course. The 5-2 morning-line favorite for the race is Edward A. Cox, Jr.'s Naples Bay, winner of the Grade 3 Noble Damsel Stakes in September.
The My Charmer will go as the eighth race of the day with an approximate post time of 2:32 p.m.


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The EU can't formally legislate on what companies are allowed to do in the US market, but in practical terms, we're talking about a global market for IT products and (especially) Internet-based services. If vendors wanted to apply a different set of openness and interoperability standards in the US than in the EU, they would have to make a lot of efforts to keep the markets separated. They can do it, such as by refusing connections from certain sets of IP addresses, but it would be a major hassle. If many vendors did so, lawmakers in the US would also take a closer look and might consider a similar initiative to benefit customers in their own country.
Concerning Microsoft, the new law isn't even needed for them because they were already subjected to two antitrust proceedings in the EU on the grounds of being found dominant. More importantly, I'm not aware of them treating the US market any differently concerning interoperability with Samba than they treat the EU, even though it was only a European ruling.
The biggest benefit of the envisioned new EU law is that similar rules would also have to be respected by companies who may just not be close enough to a monopolist so that antitrust law can deal with them, but who are powerful enough (such as Apple, Adobe etc.) that it's a problem if they get away with too closed an approach. I don't mean to blame those companies for simply trying to maximize shareholder value or for adhering to certain closed philosophies -- but if antitrust law can't change their behavior, a new instrument is needed.
Apple's customers already do.
Apple's formats:
Audio: AAC (open)
Video: H.264 (open)
Address book: vcard (open)
Calendar: ics (open) (and Apple provide open source calendar server and address book servers based on WebDAV)
Office apps: documented XML, similar to Open Office's format (very easy and non-DMCA/non-illegal etc to write a converter, lots of documentation on how the format works, unlike
Screenshot format: png (open)
Networking protocols: NFS, SMB, AFP, Bonjour (Zeroconf), FTP, sFTP
HTML engine: Webkit (open)
Disk drive format: HFS+ (open)
OS core: Darwin, default shell is bash (open).
Printing system: CUPS, postscript, PDF
And while it't not open, Snow Leopard supports Exchange servers out of the box, if you want to play in a Windows environment.
While the Apple experience is very vertically integrated, if you really want to move your data in or out, you can do so very easily. For example, if you decided that you wanted to change all your documents to Open Office formats you could do so. If you no longer wanted to use Mail.app for your email all your messages are in
I know it is heresy to even suggest it on slashdot, but as an Apple user you already enjoy a lot of openness and interoperability on the desktop. All the faff about the iPhone and iPad masks that, it seems.
screenshot default is
Command+Shift+3, I just pressed it. PNG file dropped on desktop.
It's a png default in 10.5 and 10.6. In 10.4 I believe it was PDF briefly (since it just gave you whatever was in the Quartz Composer, since it all works via pdf behind the scenes), and early on in OS X's life it was tiff.
Will the customers of Apple and Microsoft in the USA also benefit from openness and interoperability?
No idea... but employees at Google will. (sorry couldn't help it)
Do the various "services" have to be able to communicate with any kind of "IT product"?
Do the various "services" have to be able to communicate with any kind of "IT product"?
I haven't asked the commissioner but even without doing so I have no doubt that she meant this both ways. Interoperability goes both ways. The only problem is that obviously some companies in the industry want it as a one-way street: others have to open up, they stay closed. I can't imagine a piece of legislation would be one-way. Even if some companies tried to lobby for one-way rules, I don't think they'd get very far.
What's more likely is that the rules may only apply to certain segments of the diverse I
Software Defined Radio. [wikipedia.org]
It is the future.
They're just trying to make sure that when Skynet is launched, the GPS in your iPhone can activated so you can be properly located. You know, so they can replace your faulty antenna.
You call that an antenna?
"Any kind of IT product should be able to communicate with any type of service in the future."
What does that even mean?
It means they either don't know what they are talking about or want wording sufficiently vague that they can make any demand they feel like. Probably a little of both in my opinion actually.
where were you 5 years ago?
Voting for Harry Browne, because Tweddledee and Tweedledum (Bush and Kerry) sucked.
That's never going to happen. If that is what they mean by interoperability...
So, I assume that if that is the case, the EU will also force Ford to sell Chrysler's cars on their lots, and force Nike to sell Adidas in the Nike store.
I'm against DRM in general, but the reality of my situation is that I have a ton of DRM'ed songs and videos bought from iTMS.
I would willingly pay $30 to get a Linux-based player for this content.
I wonder if that could happen under this plan?
I'm against DRM in general, but the reality of my situation is that I have a ton of DRM'ed songs and videos bought from iTMS.
I would willingly pay $30 to get a Linux-based player for this content.
I wonder if that could happen under this plan?
My understanding is that the Apple iTunes Store can remove DRM from old 128 kbps purchases if you upgrade them to the 256 kbps versions currently being sold. I don't think Apple is selling songs with DRM any more.
Perpenso Calc [perpenso.com] for iPhone. Classic Scientific and HEX functionality plus RPN, fractions, complex numbers, dotted quads, 32/64-bit signed/unsigned bitwise operations, UTF-8, IEEE FP decode, and RGB decode with color preview.
My understanding is that the Apple iTunes Store can remove DRM from old 128 kbps purchases if you upgrade them to the 256 kbps versions currently being sold.
Wow, if that's true, that's wonderful. Do you know if there's a way to tell iTunes that you want to purchase, in one fell swoop, a non-DRM version of every one of the songs for which you only have a DRM'ed version?
At least for the songs, you should be pay iTunes (again) to get the songs with DRM removed. I think it's like $.49/song which, if you have a ton of songs, is probably well over $30 but it would mean that you would have a Linux player for that content today.
If this ends up being applied to device drivers, it could be great news for the hard working FOSS coders working on drivers for graphics cards and other hardware under Linux and the other open OSes.
Forcing companies to open up their proprietary protocols while certainly a step in the right direction, probably isn't enough and will almost certainly be abused...
Consider this, a company brings out product using a proprietary protocol or format...
They are forced to release the documentation, but they do so slowly, once the documentation is out the format is (intentionally) extremely complex and takes a long time for anyone else to get very far in implementing it.. Eventually flaws in the documentation ar
The government shouldn't force a company to support certain standards by making other formats illegal, what they should do is impose certain open formats/standards on government IT operations, and then companies can choose whether or not to support those standards, and then as a result of that support be able to sell their product to the government.
Governments are generally large enough customers that by adopting something internally, it will create a significant incentive for the market to follow.
EU is a very big market, bigger then US in fact. It's not something that is easy to dismiss for any multinational corp.
It's hilarious how many see this as an "attack on free market".
Let me run a few facts down through your skulls:
1. There is no free market for IT goods referred to in the statement. The market that exists is heavily controlled and regulated, essentially being a monopoly market on per-product basis, or interconnected market where vendor uses monopoly control over one aspect of the market to openly destroy freeness in another market.
2. Neelie Kroes is probably the most pro-free market person you will find in EU. It's more of her life's philosophy then just a law enforcement on some level.
3. Suggestions include OPENING the CLOSED MARKET, to make it... that's right, more OPEN!
So do share, in what way is this "evil EU abusing US companies by closing free market"? I can see this being "good EU abusing evil US companies who like to close market to competition by forcing them to actually compete", but to actually claim the exact opposite, you have to either be ignorant, stupid, or have a deep vested interest in status quo.
This is good news and it goes to the heart of the treaty of Rome - that competition is a fundamental part of the EU, and the EU will move mountains to promote it. I suspect this will be in the form of a very long winded piece of guidance regulation that sits in parallel with Art 81. As someone who has read, reread and read again EU competition regulations and their directives from an academic point of view and professional one, it is mightily refreshing to finally see the EU do what I was told it did well... fight concerted practice and actively promote competition where the market fails.
this version will be a binary abacus, and Bull Group will offer it as an upgrade to its now-outlawed mainframes and servers.
this is envisioned to be the last generation of "computational" equipment availiable in the EU.
Loose bits sink chips.


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What REALLY Happens in the Delivery Room
By Colleen Dunn Bates
One thing any decent journalist knows how to do is research. So when I was pregnant for the first time, I researched like crazy. I read every book. I grilled my friends who'd been through it. I wrote down questions for my obstetrician so I wouldn't forget them.
I researched all the childbirth classes and carefully debated the options (Lamaze? Bradley? Home birth?). I interviewed pediatricians. And then my water broke, and I was hit with one surprise after another. Not for one minute did labor and delivery go as I expected. I felt totally unprepared. I felt like an idiot. But after talking to doulas, doctors, midwives, childbirth educators, and parents, I found out that I was hardly an idiot. It turns out that pretty much everyone faces some sort of surprise in the delivery room. Here are the most common ones.»
What Due Date?
Even though doctors, doulas, and midwives continually stress that a due date is just a best guess, we moms-to-be can't help but plan our lives around that date. Unfortunately, our bodies don't check the calendar on our Palm Pilots. "My husband and I had a fish-and-chips lunch before my routine doctor's appointment," says Claire Glidden, a California entertainment executive and mother of a toddler son, Ford.
It was three weeks before her due date, and the couple had yet to buy a car seat or stroller, let alone pack a bag for the hospital. "At my appointment, they found that I had preeclampsia, which called for an emergency C-section, with fish and chips still in my stomach," she says. "From that point on, nothing was in my control." Now expecting her second child, she feels more ready to accept whatever happens.
It Hurts!
"Almost 100 percent of the time, the women I work with are surprised by the pain," says Susan Moray, CPM, LM, a midwife in Portland, Oregon, who specializes in home births. Something about the self-protective instinct of human nature leads women to think that they'll be the lucky ones for whom pain is no big deal. "We don't mince words in our childbirth classes and during prenatal care, but almost everyone thinks it will be different for them—they think it's mind over matter, and pain won't happen to them."
One way to prepare, says Chris Pearson, M.D., a longtime baby-deliverer at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, is to accept it, not fight it. "Many women are used to controlling everything in their lives," he says, "then they go into labor and are surprised to find that they've got about as much control over the process, and the pain, as a rafter has in the whitewater." Sure, you have some tools, just like a rafter has paddles, but in general you're going along for the ride—wherever the whitewater takes you.


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Working in conjunction with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Vancouver Aquarium, and the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the Seattle Aquarium is distributing Seafood Watch pocket guides. The Seattle Aquarium is also working with local restaurants and retail suppliers to encourage sustainable seafood choices in the products they sell. (Click here to see our sustainable seafood partners.)
Click here to access the Seafood Watch Chart. The West Coast consumer wallet card, produced by the Seafood Watch program, identifies 58 of the most popular seafood items found in restaurants and markets throughout the region. Sustainable seafood partners agree to sell only "Best Choice" or "Good Alternatives" products and replace "Avoid" items.
The Seattle Aquarium distributes the pocket guide to help raise consumer awareness about ocean conservation issues, and to direct consumers toward sustainable seafood choices. The card is updated frequently to reflect new information and changes in the market. New versions are available through partner institutions and online. In addition to the Seafood Watch program there is a new Seafood Information Center, an independent database that acts as a clearinghouse for background scientific information about wild-caught and farmed seafood.
The Aquarium collaborates with the following partners to increase public awareness of sustainable seafoods and the Seafood Watch program.
In addition, we encouraged you to ask for Marine Stewardship Council certified seafoods at your favorite seafood retailer.
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Freshman Goalie Gets Conference Honor
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Nick Maricic, a freshman goalie for the Yale men's hockey team, was named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week after helping the Bulldogs tie No. 7 Wisconsin in last night's Badger Hockey Showdown Championship Game.
Maricic, an Alta Loma, Calif., native who played for the USHL Tri-City (Nebraska) Storm, made 20 saves in the 2-2 overtime tie against the Badgers. He stopped five of six UW man-advantages, including a 5-on-3, and held the nation's No. 2 scoring team to a pair of tallies before a large crowd on an emotional night for folks at the Kohl Center. The host Badgers took the tournament title by winning the shootout (2-1) in the last scheduled Badger Hockey Showdown.
The Yale rookie owns a 2.41 goals against average, a .909 save percentage and a 3-1-2 record sharing time with three other Bulldog netminders. His conference honor is Yale's first ECAC rookie award this winter.
The 8-3-3 Bulldogs, No. 6 in today's USA Today/American Hockey Magazine rankings, are off until Sunday's 4 p.m. game at Dartmouth.
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2013 Perfect Game High School Baseball Preview Index
From where Tomball (Texas) High School baseball coach Doug Rush stands in the third base coach's box at the Cougars' home field, he can gaze out over a vast urban complex officially identified as the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Metropolitan Area.
It's the fifth largest metropolitan area in the country by population (6.1 million) and the largest metro area in Texas. The 10-county region also boasts the state's largest concentration of top-level high school baseball prospects and is home to seven of the top-45 teams in the 2013 Perfect Game National High School Preseason Team Rankings.
"I think the talent around here is as good as anywhere in the country," Rush said in a telephone interview with PG late last week. "Houston-area baseball is just as good as it can be and that just helps the kids get better. First of all, we have good weather down here so they can play all the time, and with the competitive atmosphere it makes the kids work even harder in the offseason.
"With the competition around the Houston-area … just getting out of (here) and making it to the state tournament is just as tough as it can be."
Despite a strong presence in the PG National High School Rankings, none of the Houston-area schools are ranked higher than No. 13 Dulles High School, located in Sugar Land. The Woodlands (Texas) High School comes in at No. 15; Rush's Tomball team is No. 21; Pearland (Texas) High School comes in at No. 37; Cypress Ranch High School (Houston) is No. 39; Cypress Woods High School (Cypress, Texas) is No. 41; and Seven Lakes High School (Katy, Texas) is No. 45.
In PG's state of Texas prospect rankings, nine of the top 15 2013s (11 of the top 20) and eight of the top 15 2014s (10 of the top 20) come from Houston-area schools.
One thought on why it might be difficult for a Houston-area school to break into the top-10 is that even though there is a decided proliferation of talent in the region, very few of the elite guys attend the same high school. Ten of the 11 highest ranked 2013 Houston-area prospects attend different high schools, as do all 10 of the highest-ranked 2014 Houston-area prospects.
Metropolitan Houston high schools produced four 2012 Perfect Game All-Americans, and all four attend different high schools: national No. 6-ranked RHP Kohl Stewart lives in Tomball and attends St. Pius X in Houston; No. 18 third baseman Cavan Biggio lives in Houston and attends hometown St. Thomas; right-hander Kacy Clemens is a senior at his hometown Houston Memorial; and outfielder Nicholas Banks lives in Tomball and plays for Rush at Tomball High.
Stewart's St. Pius X team beat Biggio's St. Thomas team, 4-0, in the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Class 5A state championship in 2012.
Those players and other highly ranked prospects give the Houston metropolitan high schools the highest concentration of talent in the entire Perfect Game Texahoma Region which, as the name suggests, includes all the high schools in Texas and Oklahoma.
These prospects do get to play alongside each other during the summer for powerhouse travel ball organizations like the Houston Banditos and the Houston Heat, and Marucci Elite recently relocated to the Houston-area from its former base in Baton Rouge, La.
Banditos founder and head coach Ray DeLeon has watched his teams at every age level enjoy phenomenal success at PG tournaments over the past several years by bringing players together from dozens of high schools in the metro area.
"There is so much talent and it's just spread all over the place," DeLeon told PG last week. "Every year you get different classes that are top-heavy and some that are not so good, but anybody from around here could actually win (a Texas state championship). … There's just so much talent out here with the baseball in Houston, that's why a lot of (travel ball) organizations are moving down here.
"I don't have to go out and shop from far away," he added. "Right here within 30 miles I can pick from the best and I don't have to recruit; it's all in my backyard."
Six of Rush's Tomball High School players were on the Houston Banditos team that won the PG WWBA 2013 Grads or 17u National Championship in Marietta, Ga., last summer, including Banks (a Texas A&M signee), 2013 No. 373-ranked outfielder Ishmael Edwards and 2014 No. 349 right-hander Braden Holub. Tomball 2013 right-hander Bryce Welborn, a Texas Tech signee ranked 231st nationally, also plays with the Banditos.
"I like it. I don't have a problem with it at all," Rush said of his players putting on travel ball uniforms during the summer and fall. "Most of my kids play for the Banditos, and they know all the other kids around and they're friends with them. It's a competitive atmosphere but it's a friendly atmosphere down here, too."
PG All-Americans Stewart (Texas A&M for football) and Clemens (Texas), the son of Roger Clemens, played with the Banditos 17u squad in 2012. Top 2014 prospects like outfielder Stone Garrett (George Ranch HS), shortstop Justin Twine (Hemphill HS), right-hander Jake Jarvis (Klein Collins HS) and catcher Cole Bedford (Deer Park HS) played for the Banditos' 16u team last summer.
PG All-American Biggio, the son of Craig Biggio, was the marquee name playing for the Houston Heat's 17u team in 2012.
DeLeon said he has little problem getting the players from so many high schools to play together with cohesion during the summer. As huge as the Houston metropolitan area is, the high school baseball community is relatively tight-knit.
"With social media being so big these days, a lot of these kids already know each other anyway, especially here in the Houston area," he said. "They love to play together, and whenever you can find three, four, five, six elite players and get them together, everybody else wants to play with them. You put them all on the same team and it all works itself it out."
All of these top prospects have been the recipients of outstanding coaching throughout their developmental years, including in high school. DeLeon credits the efforts of head coach John Pope in leading Cypress Ranch to the Texas Class 5A state championship in 2012, and all the efforts of all the other coaches from across the Metro.
"To me, it's all in the coaching down here," he said. "Cy-Ranch was one of the biggest sleepers (in the 5A tournament field), but after looking at it, you know why they won? Their coach teaches the game of baseball and he knows what he's doing. When you've got (coaches) that know what they're doing it doesn't matter if you have a stacked team or not, you're going to find a way to win."
Speaking with direct knowledge of each school's personnel, DeLeon likes Cy-Ranch's chances at repeating as Texas 5A champion; he also likes Cy-Wood with 2013 right-hander Casey Meisner (Texas Tech) and 2014 righty Mark Hammel leading the way.
Dulles returns standout 2013 outfielder Darryn Sheppard (Baylor); The Woodlands is buoyed by the return of 2013s third baseman Carter Hope (Oklahoma State) and left-hander Ryan Burnett (Texas Christian); and Seven Lakes welcomes back 2013 shortstop Ryne Birk (Texas A&M).
Tomball plays in Texas Class 4A, and with the return of Banks, Welborn, Edwards and Holub, will be among the favorites in that class.
"We're really excited about this group; they can do anything they want to do as long as they perform," Rush said. "It's a special group; we've got 17 seniors on (the roster) and most of them could play for just about anybody and we've got a few very talented underclassmen."
Rush was particularly generous in his praise of Banks, who PG ranks as the No. 162 overall prospect in June's MLB amateur draft.
"He's an awesome ballplayer," Rush said. "He's one of those kids that work hard at the game and he's a good kid; when the lights are turned on, he turns on everything. He's real competitive and he's one of those guys I call a 'gamer.' He really performs under pressure well."
If DeLeon's enthusiasm for his younger age-group teams is any indication, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Metropolitan Area will continue to crank-out elite talent along the lines of Stewart, Biggio, Clemens and Banks well into the foreseeable future. Four of the top-five ranked Texas prospects in the Class of 2015 – including national No. 5-ranked catcher Michael Hickman from Seven Lakes – attend Houston-area high schools.
High school coaches like Rush and Pope, and travel ball guys like DeLeon can only sit back and smile.
"The pipeline is unbelievable," DeLeon said. "The players down here are developed at a very early age."


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Not only might they surprise, they might even be supportive!
If they aren't, then at least one has learned that you'll want to alter enough things so they won't succeed in complaining. (Or loses could be cut now before time is invested...)
Either answer they give is a win.
PS: Document attempts to contact in case they don't respond, at least you can show a good faith attempt.
Gosh, you are trying to code Duke Nukem Forewer on your own ????
It's really annoying when they moderate something as insightful, when really it's informative. I really question Slashdot mods these days.
I very much agree. If you want to remake the game I can only assume that you enjoy playing it and have some respect for the game. Show the original authors that respect and contact them; the game represents a great deal of effort on their part and deserves a dialog. From your description of the situation in you journal entry, the author would probably enjoy hearing of your interest and you could ask them what the position of the copyright holder is on the subject and discuss options.
Contact the owners and ask them if they mind. You might be surprised.
I'd add talking to an IP lawyer as the law can get quite complex. The original owners may not even own the rights anymore; so it's important to figure out who really owns them.
If you do this try to get permissions that cannot be revoked. I've read a story or two here about plugs on indie projects getting pulled because the copyright owner gave permission and then changed their mind.
Ah, here we go. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/01/0546238/8-Year-Fan-Made-Game-Project-Shut-Down-By-Activision [slashdot.org]
Vivendi granted a non-commercial license for development of a Kings Quest game, Activision acquired Vivendi and revoked the permission. Just make sure this doesn't happen to you. Tell them you want to ensure the viability of your project on the off chance that Activation acquires them.
Make your new game. Don't use any exact names or words from the original. By all means select your names so that people know this is a successor to the original.
After all, open office exists along side microsoft office. Afterstep came after nextstep. You need a name like "afterstep" so that people know what you are on about.
Also don't reuse any designs, whether level or character (or whatever else populates that particular gameworld).
After all, open office exists along side microsoft office.
And there's OpenOffice.org [openoffice.org], which is a completely different product from Open Office. Which brings us right back to copyrights and all that...
If he's trying to recreate a game from the 1980s, any relevant patents would have already expired by now.
Not necessarily. It depends on the issue date of the patent.
In particular, if issuance of the patent was delayed, it may be issued for longer than 20 years.
For instance, if the patent was filed for in 1994 and issued in 2000, it could be 7 more years before it will expire, PLUS a number of additional years, according to the issuance delay.
Also, some special types of patents (as in gov' patents) can get terms much longer than 20 years.
Assuming is not good here, unless you have looked up the patent
What about copyright? You might rapidly discover that `abandonware` is a meaningless term legally; not only that, but that a company owns the rights to the game and will come after you for a lot of money should your game before profitable for them to do so.
Or more practically, when there's no value in the company the rest is sold off to some liquidation company that has liquidated all the asset (like down to furniture and office supplies) and don't know or/and don't care that they got any IP rights. I imagine someone would put up 1$ for the remaining assets and the bankruptcy board will "have to" take it rather than 0$, if not it might be a good business model. You don't need much of a hit rate to earn a little net.
As long as it isn't covered by a dreaded software patent, you should be fine. Software patents need to die in a fire.
The gamer-geek will be pursuing other game assets which may be independently licensed and legally protected: character designs and props, background art, music and audio effects, story, script, dialog, vocal performance, and so on.
I've heard music composed and performed for the LucasArts adventures used in Disney television animation.
I can second talking to other projects that have done similar things, such as the team behind UQM* or OpenTTD**.
* http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
** http://www.openttd.org/en/ [openttd.org]
UQM is different in that it was an actual open-sourcing of the code to Star Control 2.
The code is open source, the assets are free-as-in-beer (as in free to distribute with the game but not free to modify)
Only things they cant use are some music tracks and cinematics they dont own the rights to plus the actual "Star Control" name (which the publisher owns)
Warzone 2100 is different because it was the people who owned the copyright who released the code first for other people to work on, not other people asking the owners to release the copyright.
You're right about the remake being good though. It was one of my favourite games back in the day, and I was incredibly surprised to find I could download it and now play it on my mac without any hitches, probably smoother than the original ran in windows.
Yeah, but if I remember correctly, at one point Pumpkin studio's (or the new company that bought them) released all the source once the community asked for it. All they kept was things like in-game movies etc... which were owned by third parties so could not be open sourced.
And I also have to agree that the remake is good. Not only is it more stable than the original, but they have made improvements to gameplay. It was one of my favourite games back in the day as well, and it's cool now that I can play it
No. No no no no no. Do you know how many hours of my life I have lost to that game? You son of a bitch! Why would you do this to me?! T_T
What would 3DRealms do if someone just went ahead and wrote / released an open source version of Duke Nukem Forever.
Duke Sue'em Forever
What would 3DRealms do if someone just went ahead and wrote / released an open source version of Duke Nukem Forever.
Make them an offer?
... It would never come out and I'm out of gum..
What would 3DRealms do if someone just went ahead and wrote / released an open source version of Duke Nukem Forever.
They would probably announce that they'll sue you soon if you don't stop this. However, the actual sue date would be shifted to the future indefinitely.
I don't understand why you want to create an exact port of the original game.
If you want to preserve the original game, then use an emulator like DOSBox on the original executables. It will save you a load of time.
If you want to popularize the game, then contact the owners to see if they'll sell it to you or put it under an open license. That way you can redistribute the game for use on emulators without legal worries.
If you want to make something new, then you should really put your energies into a new game inspired by the old one.
By the way, I once made a game that was a clone of a game on a portable system (with the intent of adding Internet play). It was an unexpectedly massive undertaking and by the end I was wondering why I was pouring so much energy into a derivative project that I might have to worry about lawsuits over when I finished it. It's really not worth it. You'll feel better in the end if you spend that time making something new that you can proudly take credit for.
I'd imagine he wants to make an exact replica of the game for the same reason people build Warhammer battlefields, model train sets, etc. by hand.
Yeah sure, there's something out there you can already buy and get working, but I bet I could make a really good (if not 1:1) replica by myself!
If you want to preserve the original game, then use an emulator like DOSBox on the original executables. It will save you a load of time.
Emulation has its limits.
The LucasArts adventure The Dig was to have been "high defintition" for its day - until budget cuts ruled that out.
The game has a magnificent sound track and solid vocal performances.
The background art is elegant and effective. Less so when scaled up to the 21" wide screen.
The low res sprite animation was a disappoint from Day One.
The game was s
I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but...
But nothing. You're asking a legal question, you need to go to a legal expert. Slashdotters are not legal experts, they just think they are, and their advice is worse than useless.
I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but...
But nothing. You're asking a legal question, you need to go to a legal expert. Slashdotters are not legal experts, they just think they are, and their advice is worse than useless.
As a supposed legal expert (yes, IAAL), I can advise that if it cannot be positively determined that copyright is not in force (and after only 18 years it seems impossible that it would not be) then yes, without permission you could be sued, very likely successfully-- but then, the copyright holder may not wish to sue, and as another post noted, even be supportive. Be sure to get that expression of support in writing. (And be sure the author and copyright holder are one and the same.)
How does one find the copyright owner?
For example, who owns copyright in the video game Zero Wing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_registration [wikipedia.org]
Is the registry kept up to date ? E.g. if a company gets bought by another and that company then decides to sell part of its IP, etc. A lot of old game companies from back in the 80's went through that dance several times.
You have to track what happened to the original copyright holder. By the way, you don't have to register to have a copyright-- that just makes it easier to prove you created the work and when. A copyright attaches by law as soon as you create the work.
That does mean, if there is no registration, you are in a murky area-- never knowing if someone will come out of the woodwork and offer evidence he created the work before you took over. You're much better off finding out there is a registered owner.
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Zero+Wing&Search_Code=TALL&PID=T5I32hDmtQlC8vGJrqqzQ4M&SEQ=20100313121910&CNT=25&HIST=1 [loc.gov]
Wow, the Federal Government is actually pretty on-the-ball with this. I'm impressed.
You can even get a list of all the works copyrighted by that corporation in the US: http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Toaplan%20Company%2C%20Ltd.&PID=TMgAaxP2Z2dDvBeDvaZQzQYU&BROWSE=1&HC=19&SID=2 [loc.gov]
The registration on all those works is out of date because Toaplan broke up in 1994 [wikipedia.org]. Who owns the copyright in a work whose copyright is registered to a company that no longer exists?
Then the copyright devolves to the successors in interest of the company, e.g the individual partners or shareholders. Much more likely there will be a purchaser or an entitled creditor, though, than either of the former.
Then the copyright devolves
Which is why copyright registration records are next to useless to prospective licensees: by the time you need them, they're out of date.
But nothing. You're asking a legal question, you need to go to a legal expert. Slashdotters are not legal experts, they just think they are, and their advice is worse than useless.
Goes to show what you know! We think we're experts at EVERYTHING, not just law. And we're pedantic and petty! We know it better than you do and your spelling sux and your mother ate worms! And we're abusive. I'll demonstrate: Get it right, loser!
(Anyone who mods this as anything other than humour is a complete moron).
(Anyone who mods this as anything other than humour is a complete moron).
First you give us that delicious bit of irony, then you go and spoil it!
Legal experts usually have little knowledge with such things, however. They very often unnecessarily advise caution to hide their lack of expertise.
I know there are legal implications to certain decisions I might make, but...
But nothing. You're asking a legal question, you need to go to a legal expert. Slashdotters are not legal experts, they just think they are, and their advice is worse than useless.
Slashdotters think that they can logically guess the way the law works and/or that the law works the way it ought (logically) to work despite the fact that the only way to know how the law works is... to actually find out how the law works, and that it isn't always logical or consistent.
The other thing I've come across is that when you point out the law doesn't work in that idealised way, it'll be assumed that you endorse the (arguably) illogical, inconsistent and/or faulty way it *does* work. (*)
Not at all
You're right on all counts. But you've overlooked the biggest reason people get into trouble: they're just plain out of their depth. Law is full of complicated principles and concepts that take years to master. Even if you know the basics--and many folks who think they do are just full of it--you're still not prepared for most legal issues.
It's like those people who learn a little math and decide they can prove that pi is a rational number. Except it seems to be a lot easier to get away with bogus law
Whether or not you think the copyright "no longer matters" is irrelevant. If you do not get legal permission it is breaking the law pure and simple.
See the case of "Alien Abuse", an iPhone port of Abuse by defunct Crack.com. The authors released the code and graphics as public domain, but the whole game (including SFX) was redistributed without legal permission. This resulted in a nasty dispute with former Crack.com founder Dave T. Taylor, and the game being removed from the iPhone app store.
The lesson I
The authors released the code and graphics as public domain, but the whole game (including SFX) was redistributed without legal permission. This resulted in a nasty dispute with former Crack.com founder Dave T. Taylor, and the game being removed from the iPhone app store.
That sounds a bit ambiguous. Do you mean the original game author released it as PD, or the remake authors? If the former, then the original author can go jump off a cliff. If the latter, then that makes a whole lot more sense.
That sounds a bit ambiguous. Do you mean the original game author released it as PD, or the remake authors? If the former, then the original author can go jump off a cliff. If the latter, then that makes a whole lot more sense.
You emphasized the wrong bits, and therefore seem to have missed the point. Here, allow me...
The authors released the code and graphics as public domain, but the whole game (including SFX) was redistributed without legal permission.
Now do you understand why there was a problem?
Should I approach the copyright holder and purchase a license, or attempt to buy the rights outright and transfer them to the open source project/myself/the original creator?
If the game company has gone bankrupt it might be a situation where the company was liquidated and its assets sold. If that is that case then the company no longer owns the copyright.
In any case I doubt it is worth purchasing the copyright. You state that you will be remaking this game from scratch which means purchasing someone else's
imo instead of bionic commando it should be bionic fartmando. instead of having a bionic arm you eat cans of super beans and fart to kill enemies. you also fart to jump, so the amount of beans you eat means that your jumps are limited. so to clear levels in the best way you have to conserve your farts and figure out how to do the least jumping. anyway bionic fartmando. code it up and i'll buy it. also i'll buy a second copy for my son marticock.
Never before have alcohol and an Internet connection come together to make something this funny.
I'll give away my e-mail address when they invent a pill that cures OCD or the bar is lowered by everyone else steppin' up the crazy.
But Bionic Commando can't jump!
The people you want to talk to, by the way, are the publishers, not the developers. In some rare cases the developers own the copyright, but in 99.9% of cases games are works for hire and the publisher owns the copyright.
Now, as to what they'll do? Well who knows? There have been varied results. You may well find them very amenable to the idea and they may want little or no money. You may find they flat out say "No," or don't even respond. However you don't know until you try.
A recent example of a success in that regard is Stardock just got the license to distribute and update Total Annihilation. The CEO is a big fan of it and talked to Atari and got the rights to sell it on Impulse, as well as the rights to update it with new features. So this sort of thing can happen.
However there have been failures too. In one case, Xcom I think, it turned out the original source code had been lost so the publisher couldn't license it out, even if they wanted to since they didn't have it.
You don't know until you try what will happen. However, do be prepared that they may blow you off. One thing that may improve your chances is if you have a solid plan for what you intend to do with it. Show them a business plan, more or less, that shows you have seriously thought out how you'd improve it and so on. They may be more likley to deal with someone they believe will make something rather than someone they think might just be playing around.
How about coding yours so that it loads resources it needs from a copy of the original game which you leave it up to the end-user to acquire? This is how Quake reimplementations work and ID don't seem to have complained about it.
As someone pointed out, Quake opensourced the engine, not the content. More importantly, if the new game relied on the old game to load textures, etc., then you would have to be distributing the OLD game. This would likely violate the copyright, and open you up for even more lawsuits. Direct distribution of copyright content is worse than making your own version of it (which is often perfectly legal).
As someone pointed out, Quake opensourced the engine, not the content.
Indeed - which is why nQuake and others want you to provide pak1.pak from the full game to get textures and other content.
And if you haven't bought the game, it is considered piracy. If you are sending it with your new game, it is considered copyright infringement. Not a good idea for a method of distributing your new game.
And if you haven't bought the game, it is considered piracy. If you are sending it with your new game, it is considered copyright infringement. Not a good idea for a method of distributing your new game.
You don't get it. The people who make games based on the Quake engine don't distribute the pak files with their release. Getting the pak file is left entirely up to the user, if they want to pirate it, buy it or whatever. The person distributing the game is not responsible for the choice of the end user, and
I get it perfectly. The guy who is NOW trying to recreate a game can't exactly expect people to go provide their own *pak file, the game is abandoned, thus not available. The point isn't "who is liable", the point it, "it is illegal regardless of how you do it".
Remember, just because they haven't "done anything" with their copyright over the last 30 years, that doesn't mean they don't still have copyright. Or more importantly, that SOMEONE could still have the copyright, and that they might not be very nice.
Writing any code on the basis of "they probably won't care" isn't a great idea, and other projects have been burned by that in the past.
As said elsewhere in the comments, contact the owner or creator first. If it really is abandonware then he probable won't min
Or more importantly, that SOMEONE could still have the copyright, and that they might not be very nice.
Then how does one go about locating this SOMEONE if the game's original publisher is defunct?
With difficulty, unfortunately. Asking the game's creators might be a good start, as they might have an idea of what happened to the rights- their company was bought by A, that company was bought by B, etc.
If you try looking and after a reasonable amount of effort still can't locate anyone, then maybe just go for broke and press on with the project. At least you tried though.
If you try looking and after a reasonable amount of effort still can't locate anyone, then maybe just go for broke and press on with the project. At least you tried though.
Admitting that you tried (but failed) to not break a law is not a good defence.
"I tried to find somewhere to pay for the laptop before I finally just walked out of the shop with it under my arm" is equivalent to saying "Yes, I stole it."
PS for the anti-IP brigade, I am not equating copyright breach with theft. It is an analogy.
The main trouble you might run into and which many other projects have run into are naming conflicts. Publishers like to protect their trademarks, so any name that is a little to close to the original will give you a cease&desist, but those are mostly harmless, as you just need to change your project name then.
Taking over gameplay ideas and concepts is however a non-issue, lots of games do that, even commercial ones.
If you want to create a pixel-perfect replica using original artwork and stuff you shoul
First thing I did was emailed a few of the principal owners of the game, and told them about my intent, and asked about who holds the copyright and trademarks. I got the go ahead, with the caveat that another company owned the trademark to this particular game.
I also searched the web to look at other projects based on remakes. It seems that the best way to handle remakes of abandownare games is to not to bother the company that made it (especially if they're big like EA or Activision). The unwritten rule seems to be if you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Otherwise, they'll just say no and might put the kibosh on the project.
This should also be obvious, but don't sell the game. Just don't.
I never finished the game I was remaking since writing the tools to make it got laboriously time consuming.
IANAL, but this is a subject I've looked into. Limited liability can help greatly when you have acted in good faith, but it is unlikely to shield you if you have shown malice or willful blindness. This is especially true for very small companies that are effectively a vehicle for the acts of one person.
Rather than sending this to "Ask Slashdot", you ought to send it to "Ask a Lawyer" (prepare to pay).
At least try to contact people you think might own the copyright and the original authors. Save a copy of anything you send and any response. If you're sued, then you can prove you don't have any malicious intent and you actually tried to do right.
To create an "open source game", you're giving your customers a license but you would be given them a license for something you KNOW you don't own. You're setting yourself up for a world of hurt. Not only can the original copyright and/or patent holders come after you, but every single one of YOUR licensees could come after you for damages as well. Whether or not you charge a fee has absolutely no bearing on the matter. The real question you need to ask is not whether you'd be in the right or wrong but
Video game design is an art. So look for a nonprofit lawyers for the arts organization in your state.
They will almost certainly be able to give you more informed legal advice than you will find on
http://www.vlany.org/resources/vladirectory.php [vlany.org]
(Btw, based on the handful of such organizations I've contacted, it seems that calling is often necessar
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