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When Should a Do It Yourself Inventor Seek Patent Assistance?
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Over the past several months I have received a number of inquiries from inventors who set out to draft their own patent applications. The inquiry typically goes something like this: "I have a draft patent application and I would like to get an attorney to review and make any necessary changes before I file." This is quite a reasonable request, and in fact a very good idea. I have encouraged this myself on numerous occasions, but now find that a bit of clarification might be useful.
It is certainly true that once you file a nonprovisional patent application your ability to make additions to the application has largely ceased (although you can add claims if the original filing describes what you seek to add). Even if you are filing a provisional patent application, while you could always file another provisional patent application to correct mistakes, the first filing is only as good as what is disclosed. Taking the first filed patent application seriously and making sure it has all the necessary disclosure is absolutely critical. Therefore, having a professional review your patent application before you file is definitely wise. The question, however, is when do you seek the assistance? Frequently many inventors wait too long before they seek help, which means much of what they have done is unusable and various levels of difficult (or impossible) to work with.
It is important for inventors to understand that there is a point at which the work they do on their own ceases to make the entire process cheaper. In fact, if inventors do too much on their own they may find out that it is quite expensive to obtain assistance to work with what has been drafted. Sometimes a draft by an inventor cannot realistically be edited and improved upon with a reasonable amount of attorney time, which means that the attorney might as well start over. That means no savings whatsoever for all the work done and your project timeline unexpectedly grows.
In at least several situations I have been provided draft patent applications of upwards of 40 pages single spaced. Just reading such a document and figuring out what the invention is will take time, at least several hours, perhaps more. This doesn't include the time that will be spent reviewing whatever prior art search has already been done and reading the relevant patents. By taking the time to create a 40 page draft patent application and already having a prior art search many inventors think that they will be able to pay an attorney for 1, 2 or maybe 3 hours to review everything and put it in condition for filing, including drafting claims for the invention. I can understand why that would be desirable, but it is simply unrealistic. Let me explain.
For our firm I am the one that is primarily in charge of the patent search phase. I typically spend quite a bit of time on the patent search phase because by doing so we really get to understand the core invention. We also learn what the prior art covers and then collaboratively work together (i.e., me and the client) to identify what is missing in the prior art and how best to characterize the invention so as to capture the broadest coverage possible. By doing this I am in a position to help the inventor determine whether the likely available patent claims are worth pursuing given the time, money and energy required.
This patent search process takes time, and without the assistance of a willing inventor the cost would be quite high because essentially I engage in a mini patent mapping project. So when an inventor appears with a patent search and a draft patent application none of that effort has been undertaken to appreciate the invention and what the prior art will allow. To meaningfully assist in a patent application I then have to spend the hours necessary to find the space available before ever starting to edit and supplement a draft patent application.
Once we have a good understanding of what the invention is and what the prior art covers we can identify what space is available. By doing this we can then articulate what features we think will be necessary in order to have a realistic possibility of obtaining a patent claim. This basic feature set becomes the textual description of what will be turned into claim 1, the broadest claim we think we can reasonable seek and obtain. Once we have that then we know how to write the patent application, what to focus on and what other features need to be disclosed as permissive, but not mandatory. In essence, the time spent with the prior art and understanding the intricacies of the invention identify claim 1 and once that is accomplished you now have a road-map to the patent application.
Without the effort to thoroughly understand the intricacies of the invention and the prior art what happens is you just start writing and describing the invention as if everything is equally important. The truth is not everything is equally important. Writing page after page about things that are well known to exist is a waste. No matter how many well known things you try and combine the patent examiner is going to issue an obviousness rejection. This is true now more than ever given that so many patent examiners throw around "common sense" rejections without a whole lot of analysis or substance.
I am not trying to disparage patent examiners, but not honestly appreciating the way that obviousness rejections are handled in the first instance leads to bad decisions. Indeed, patent examiners take their queue from the Federal Circuit, which has been known to say Patent 1 shows X, Patent 2 shows Y, therefore it would be common sense to combine X and Y. Of course it would be helpful if they explained why, but there was no such explanation in Wyers v. Master Lock. The Federal Circuit has also been known to say Patent 1 shows X, Patent 2 shows Y-Y, therefore it would be common sense to combine X and Y. In Tokai v. Easton this was done without any logically satisfying reasoning. So merely combining all kinds of functions and features known to exist doesn't get the job done any more. There needs to be some kernel that is unique. Finding and describing that kernel of uniqueness takes time.
In my experience, an inventor typically manages to create a 40+ page single spaced draft patent application by describing a good number of things that are largely irrelevant, or which are not likely to help distinguish the invention over the prior art. So having such a long draft patent application that meanders and doesn't provide the critical information can actually raise the cost of filing a patent application. First time is spent reading a lot of superfluous things and then the project needs to largely start over from scratch.
Certainly there are times when I see a draft patent application from an inventor and it is a good start. Early on in the drafting process is really when the largest amount of useful and economical assistance can be provided. Before you have a gargantuan draft consider paying a patent attorney for an hour or two to take a look at what you are doing so they can point you in the right direction. It will save a lot of unnecessary time on your part and let you focus on providing the work that is necessary on the key areas required. That is how you save money in the drafting process.
I have created something I call the Invent & Patent System, which allows inventors to create a draft patent application, minus claims, so it is many times best used to prepare a provisional patent application because claims are not required. There are 10 questions and the user is given a suggested answer template to fill in the blank on each question, as well as information about how the answer to the question will be used and an illustrative model answer from a variety of different technologies. The answers are then intended to be put into a patent template, smoothed out so that the document flows, and text added describing what the drawings show. When inventors do this they create a very good early draft patent application. At this point it would be perfect to have a patent attorney look over the document to provide feedback and guidance. When I am asked to do that I can typically spend an hour and provide quite pointed feedback. However, in some cases the inventor will take that simple draft patent application and start to add all kinds of superfluous information. The result is the same problem as described above.
At the end of the day the inventor knows the invention best. The question is how do you leverage that information you have in a collaborative fashion so that the cost of preparing and filing a patent application is as economical as possible. If you are not in a position to just hire a patent attorney to do everything from start to finish then you absolutely have to do a little work, get a little help, do a little more work, get a little more help and so on. Frequent touches by a patent attorney to give you direction will keep you on track and make your contributions more likely relevant.
The moral of the story is this: When setting out on a new endeavor it is not wise to pursue a path to the end and then ask whether what you did was correct. You should seek help along the way to make sure you are doing what is required. Otherwise you are likely to get to a point where the most economical solution is simply to start over.
Happy inventing.
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Gene Quinn is a US Patent Attorney, law professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. He is also a principal lecturer in the top patent bar review course in the nation, which helps aspiring patent attorneys and patent agents prepare themselves to pass the patent bar exam. Gene started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site has had many millions of unique visitors. Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, USA Today, CNN Money, NPR and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide. He represents individuals, small businesses and start-up corporations. As an electrical engineer with a computer engineering focus his specialty is electronic and computer devices, Internet applications, software and business methods.
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Ron Hilton
October 30th, 2011 12:24 pm
I have been given to understand that the USPTO considers it unethical for a registered patent agent or attorney to ghost write an application for a pro-se applicant. I called the OED about it once and they confirmed that. However, as an independent patent agent, I routinely write applications and other filings for IP law firms which get filed under a lead attorney's name, which I understand is kosher as long as the client is aware of the fact. My question is, at what point does one cross an ethical line from reviewing, to editing, to ghost-writing?
Gene Quinn
October 30th, 2011 12:51 pm
There is no ethical prohibition against ghost writing, although OED has always wanted there to be such a prohibition. To constitute an ethical violation there needs to be a rule that addresses the situation and there is no rule that makes ghost writing a violation. The fact that OED wishes it were true does not make it true.
OED really ought to spend its time going after those openly engaging in the unauthorized practice of law rather than scaring attorneys from providing legal advice.
Ron Hilton
October 30th, 2011 1:10 pm
My understanding of OED's concern was that by ghost-writing a pro-se application, the applicant would be made to appear more sophisticated to the examiner than was actually the case, perhaps causing the examiner to provide less guidance to such and applicant than they might otherwise have done. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with that, it's just what I was told. Regarding ghost-writing by one registered agent or attorney for another, they cited the rules about fee-splitting to say that ghost-writing was okay in that case as long as the client was aware and had no objection, although even seems to be one step removed from the actual rule. They also reasoned that the concern regarding the difference in expertise between the writer and applicant would not be as problematic as in the pro-se scenario. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with any of this, just conveying how I understood the feedback I got from OED, for whatever it's worth.
Ron Hilton
October 30th, 2011 1:19 pm
P.S. In my post above maybe I should have used the term "filer" rather than "applicant" since the latter can include both the filer and the inventor, pro-se or not.
Alan Stewart
October 31st, 2011 10:06 am
I was given the same impression at one point, that I could provide guidance and general comments, maybe minor edits, for a pro se applicant and the person could then file the application over his/her own signature. If I provide more than nominal help, the application should be filed over my signature. I never went and looked for a rule to support this idea but I do use it as a tool to enforce that I really don't want to get too deep into assisting an inventor with the drafting of an application. If they want my help, I would prefer, like you describe above, to be involved enough to feel that I have a good grasp of the invention and how it is presented. By the time I get up to speed on this and get substantive work done on the application, we have probably spent as much time (and therefore money) as if I had drafted it myself.
Gene Quinn
October 31st, 2011 11:52 am
Ron & Alan-
You guys are not out in left field on this. Harry Moatz did tell my firm at one point that it violated the ethical rules to ghost write. Harry was not able to point to any particular rule that would be violated, so it was more of an aspirational thing. Out of an abundance of caution, and not knowing how the USPTO would interpret the then new 11.5(b) would be interpreted, we decided not to do any ghost writing. I also dramatically cut back on the review services I provided.
The USPTO has never used 11.5(b) to stop those openly engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, who themselves are not admitted to the patent bar and who provide ghost writing and filing services. Since 11.5(b) is a paper tiger at best, and since there is no rule that prohibits doing legal work for a client, I have no problem reviewing patent application and/or providing ghost writing services. I don't do ghost writing any more myself though.
The USPTO cannot through a non-existent rule require patent attorneys and patent agents from engaging in the practice of law. It is well established in both the USPTO ethical rules and State ethical rules that the attorney or agent needs to follow the requests of the client and zealously represent. There is absolutely nothing wrong with limited scope representation. In fact, the only place in the law where there are ever limited scope representation issues is in workers compensation. Those cases revolve around only taking the workers comp portion of the case and never mentioning the possibility of a third-party action.


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Brendan O'Connell is a perfect example of an artist who allowed his art to guide him. Brendan set out to be a novelist. That was his dream and that was where he saw himself headed. He was writing a story in which a character taught himself to paint. Brendan thought it would be interesting to personally experience that process so that he could more accurately capture it in his writing, so he decided to teach himself to paint. And that decision made all of the difference. From that point on his art set the direction and Brendan followed. Not every artist would have heard, listened or taken heed. Brendan is now a renowned fine artist who was recently profiled in the New Yorker, is appearing on The Colbert Report this evening and will soon be featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in People magazine.
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Ticonderoga looks pretty good for being technically scrapped.
I took these pictures in December 2013, earlier this week.
Check Auke's link: she was built in Baltimore in 1954 and had sailed as Socony 9, Mobil 9, and Exxon's Ticonderoga–her name when she ran aground and sank in 1992.
. .. that gray vessel on the Jersey side just north of the Outerbridge, we know what it is, and
that's Vulcan III at its stern, but what is it doing in the Arthur Kill portion of the sixth boro? Just curious if anyone out there knows . . . Here and here are more sites on IX 514.
And this from l'amiga . . . Frances pushing north and Captain D pushing south . . .
kind of a reminder me of a Dr. Doolittle character . . . pushmi-pullyu . .
I hope a reader can clarify above vessel and procedure.
The first two fotos come compliments of Tony Acabono, and the last two by l'amiga, both of whom I'm grateful to for passing them along.
And to paraphrase the former vizier of defense, there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns . . . as in these two additional fotos from l'amiga.
I know this is Grey Shark, but will the trucks onboard come back? What if anything is in them? If they return, will they be empty?
Any answers to any questions would be quite satisfactory.
Over six years ago, here was the last time I used this title. At 09:23 this morning, E. R. Denver was at Howland Hook as an outbound tanker eased by. E. R. seems to have been created by erasure from MaERsk.
. . . nine seconds later, it's
Mount Everest.
This is serious, precision navigating,
with even less tolerance of errors because of the channel work, and
surrounding traffic, like Kristy Ann Reinauer and Paul Andrew and dredge units.
This short stretch of Arthur Kill, where serious dredging is enlarging the channel, were featured here and here (a blast!!) back last October. I'm not given to playing video games or using simulators, but if such a thing were available, I can imagine spending time playing "games" imitating professionals piloting different types of vessels through ports of the world in every sort of conditions. Hats off to the professionals.
All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.
It's been over a year since I've used this title . . . I worry sometimes that someone I catch in the act of working might feel intruded upon. Such is the farthest thing from my intention. I'm certainly not the first or last to state there's dignity in labor, whether it's performed indoors or out.
Here Doubleskin 37 approaches NYK Rumina (named for the goddess of breast-feeding mothers!!!) as
the bunker tanks; Coral Coast (1970, McDermott, and attractive) in pushgear.
Green Bay shuttles between dredge and
shore, throaty as she pushes water.
Paul Andrew seems headed for a shore base as well,
as Sarah Ann heads for Newark Bay
Scott Turecamo pushes New Hampshire into the interior of Arthur Kill land.
And Maria J moves a crane barge in
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who's mindful that for every member of the crew outside, there are possibly four inside.
For a bit more context than yesterday's post . . . I visited the AK twice yesterday . . . before my "shift" started and at a break eight hours later. Doubleclick enlarges fotos.
At 0651, I caught my first glimpse of Bayonne's new landmark.
I know about the "green flash" at dawn and dusk; I don't know if there's a counterpart term for this yellow spear pointing to the sun's track.
The foto below of Howland Hook was taken less than a minute after the one above; looking southwest v. east makes an amazing difference. And this difference is much more noticeable on fotos than to naked eye. I like the pink clouds in the orange morning.
Watching this diving bird (grebe) was part of my prep for a long work day.
At 1442, I took a break, and headed down the street to revisit the AK. Marie J Turecamo (1968, ex-Traveller) was southbound on the Kill as Matthew Scott headed for the dredge.
And another type of orange flowed onto the scene . . . 830′ x 144′.
Eagle Beaumont, escorted by Bruce A. McAllister (1974, ex-Ellen F. McAllister) and McAllister Responder.
Thirty-six feet of her below the surface of the AK,
regally she passed, a huge cistern
By this point, I was about halfway through my break. More tomorrow.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Call this a 4000+ word post. Arthur Kill is the complement of the much referred-to KVK, and it's gorgeous, here at sunrise, just before 7 am.
I hope you agree what they say about the picture-word number correspondence. If so, this post has about 4,058 words.
Here's a dismal afternoon, 14:45 brightened by Eagle Beaumont.
For a walking lunch, the crescent along the Elizabethport side of Arthur Kill 's northeast end tip satifies. It's no picnic, but many worse places come to mind.
Yesterday I arrived, sandwich in hand, at 1:07, to catch Evening Tide headed for Newark Bay following
By 1:32 I had reached the end of the park and glanced at Mariner's, where Maryland lay.Pegasus rounded the bend at the east end of Shooter's and passed me at 1:36
(1:41) Gramma Lee T were returning from a ship assist I must have missed.
1:43 Meanwhile, Patapsco and McAllister Responder headed southbound into the Kill. 1:44
McCrews, which I've never seen before, headed into Newark Bay. 1:44
All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp. Now I mentioned the "crescent" earlier because this "park" where I walked was once a shipyard. Crescent Shipyard made submarines; fotos here. It went by other names before and after, but of them all, now there is no trace. Seems a shame.
From Howland Hook to the parking lot at my job takes about 10 minutes. On a clear morning, a quick stop across from the port gives me ballast I need for whatever I might face at work. What I wrote about dawn here a year and a half ago still holds. The ship here is NYK Rigel, which I wrote about here last year. It departed the sixth boro last night after the "tornado." It spent about a day in Howland Hook after having left Qingdao, Ningbo, and Shanghai … in mid -August. Today, those containers are starting to fan out across the eastern US via truck and rail.
The gantry operator has a fantastic vantage point but a schedule that prevents him from stopping to enjoy it.
I linger across the Kill and watch the light play first here, then there, on
countless surfaces. Differing areas light up almost like the
sounds made by fingers crawling around the keyboard of a piano.
Even later in the day, reduced light is not a deprivation; darkened or even bleached out
light invokes magic.
Here's a light post from last spring.
All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.
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Thanks to Jeff Schurr and Dave Boone, behold Bloxom in her better days, in this case during her life as a Pennsylvania RailRoad tug. Bloxom has been on this blog here and here and other places. Anyone else know Bloxom PRR fotos?
Also thanks to Jeff and Dave, Ned Moran below in work mode compared with a foto of the vessel (scroll down to the last one) I took a few months back. I have to say there's so little left of the vessel now that it's hard to corroborate their being the same vessel.
Mighty Joe (ex-Maria) in the Hughes Marine portion of Erie Basin yesterday.
This is my first ever sighting of Marquette's Layla Renee, defying a current trend as a Gulf boat working up here.
When I last posted a foto of a Marquette boat, I also included one of Colleen McAllister. Yesterday she looked powerful pulling a deepladen dredge scow.
Last three fotos here taken by Will Van Dorp, last week. The next two come from Cheryl, an important friend from way back. Both were taken in Holland, Michigan. First, it's James Harris, one of 10 Army STs built in the first half of 1943 in Sturgeon Bay, WI; and
Haskal, about which I can find no info. The design of Haskal looks older than that of James Harris. Anyone help out?
Again, thanks to Cheryl, Jeff, and Dave for contributing fotos.
Unrelated: I've added a new link to my "resources" a list of all (maybe) US-flag operators of tug and tow boats.
Thank you all for reading and commenting. Let me pass along some of what I've learned. Also, check out frogma's latest.
Below, from Jeff S: "The passenger vessel with the lifeboat on deck is the famous New Bedford built at Bethlehem-Quincy in 1928. See hull # 1417. She was loaned to Britain in WW 2 and served as a hospital ship at Normandy landings."
Guess the total number of ships/boats of all kinds involved in Operation Neptune, the Channel-crossing component of Operation Overlord.
According to the link above, Op Neptune involved more than 6000 vessels. It's interesting to imagine the fate of all those 6000. Here's a Normandy crossing tug I wrote about in 2007. I wonder if any Brooklyn-built boats have remained in France? Jeff goes on to say, "Earlier in the war New Bedford participated in "decoy" convoy RB-1. I think she has been at Wittes since about 1967. "
Here's another fabulous story: YOG-64 was delivered to the US Navy in May 1945, arrived in the Pacific just after the end of the "9th inning," served in various capacities at Bikini Atoll during Operation Sandstone, judged decontaminated and decommissioned, spent two decades hauling fuel as M/T Francis Reinauer, and has rested here since the mid-1980's. Anyone know of a foto of Francis Reinauer?
An as-yet unidentified tug whose upper portion of the house has now slumped back into eternal oblivion.
A very strange comment I got by email asked why I had sunk the red tugboat in yesterday's post. I'm innocent. Nor did I have anything to do with with sinking.
A mile or so south of Witte's yard is another graveyard aka tidal reef. Most prominent there is this ferry: Astoria, sister of Ferry Maj. General Wm. H. Hart, formerly docked at South Street Seaport. Here's a foto of Astoria I took last summer.
Here frogma documents entropy.
Here's a favorite quote from a Rebecca Solnit essay: "To erase decay …and ruin is to erase the understanding of the unfolding relation between all things. To imagine [creation and destruction] together is to see their kinship in the common ground of change, abrupt and gradual, beautiful and disastrous, to see the generative richness of ruins and the ruinous nature of all change. … Ruins stand as reminders. Memory is always incomplete, always imperfect, always falling into ruin; but the ruins themselves, like other traces, are treasures; our links to what came before. … A city without ruins or traces of age is like a mind without memories."
Serendipitous during our paddle "north" was a glimpse of W. O. Decker headed "south." We debated calling them but decided that we would cross paths if that was intended. By the way, if the identification of Ned Moran in Graveyard 1 is correct, then Decker and Ned Moran date from the same year! Maintenance IS everything.
On our return, we saw Decker waiting (haulout?) at the yard in Tottenville. Decker is older than Bloxom and Hila and fortunate to have staved off ruin, traces of aging, and entropy as well as it has. May she bob and pitch for many more years.
I wish I'd taken the profile of this vessel . . . . From this frontal shot, it looks a lot like Day Peckinpaugh. Jeff identified it as "canal tanker Michigan. Built by McDougal Duluth S B in 1921 as Interwaterways Line Incorporated 105, shortened to ILI-105 in 1935 before becoming Michigan. She carried caustic soda, vegetable oil , liquid sugar and such on the Erie and Welland canals. Twin screw." For the record, Day-Peckinpaugh was ILI-101–the prototype–built in the same year. Thanks much, Jeff. See an image of ILI-105 in her prime here.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Some links to check: ForgottenNY and Undercity and somehow I missed –if traces of it are still there–Fireboat Abram Hewitt thanks to Opacity.
Rossville itself has an interesting history spanning Raritan Indians, Ross Castle, Blazing Star tavern, and the Underground Railroad.


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The Woman is a film that had already gained notoriety long before it became available recently via VOD services. Sundance premiere freak out notwithstanding (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, click here), it has played to many a film festival and has elicited strong reactions from both hardcore horror fans and Joe Friday movie goers alike. It's on my short list of films I didn't get to see last year and I'm glad I finally got to just a few days ago. But I'm not sure where I sit with this film as its swirled around inside my noggin' these past few days. Visceral, brutal and ultimately strange, The Woman is without a doubt a film that will stay with you long after the credits roll.
The beginning of our film sees us introduced to two people with completely disparate lives. We watch as a woman, muddied and loin cloth clad, running through a wooded area, through a brook and catching that day's meal with a knife. We see her later on as she retires, curled up and taking shelter in a cave. We are then greeted by the presence of a family man, a man who promises to give a friend a good price on her home with a wink and a nod. He has three children: a young daughter and two teens, both son and daughter. Following him in subservient fashion on his life's journey, is his meek and spineless wife (played by the always fantastic Angela Bettis).
As you can probably infer from my previous sentence, it's not long before we begin to see the cracks in this family. Teenage daughter is quiet, reserved and stays out of the way. But it becomes obvious she's hiding a secret. Teenage son is vengeful, envious and destructive, and almost psychopathic. Young daughter almost seems oblivious to it all, and like most young kids who know they have a rotten home life, makes up a life for herself. And mom, well, she just takes the orders that are barked at her. In the center of all of this is one son of a bitch father. Completely controlling and utterly contemptible.
One day while out hunting around the same wooded area where our feral woman was spotted, he comes across her. He follows her and eventually strikes her down, capturing and dragging her back to his home. Under the guise of rehabillitation and acclimation, he forces it upon his family to accept her and care for her. At first, of course, they are fearful. Each one interacts with her in different ways and eventually, they get used to her presence. With dad being as narcissistic as he is, you know that it's only a matter of time before he takes advantage of her as she's strung up by some pretty strong cable wires.
Things come to a head in our story when the teenage daughter doesn't show for school and we learn that she is pregnant. Her teacher comes knocking to see how she is but at the most inopportune time. You see mom, after scolding the son for spending some time with our locked up Shenan The Barbarian, takes a full on beat down at the hands of the father after she comes down on the son hard. At the risk of exposing them, the father and son take 'care' of the teacher and we are shown a deep, dark secret the family has long kept hidden. A vicious bloodbath ensues with the captive woman being released and all hell breaking loose.
The problem I have with the film is two-fold. 1. The real impetus behind the father capturing the feral woman and bringing her home to assimilate her is never fully known nor does it feel completely natural. 2. The ending leaves things open to interpretation but my tiny pea brain has now come up with it's own. I don't want to share my thoughts because I don't want to spoil your film watching experience.
I will definitively say that it is worthy of your time and attention. For those of you that have seen it, what say yous?
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6 comments:
- Emily said...
I liked this film well enough the first go around--big McKee fan and HUGE KEtchum fan--but the more I thought about it and when we talked it out on a special Girls On Film episode, I found A LOT of problems. Love the performances of all the female characters, but the men are so one-note. I think it would've been a thousand times more interesting if, at least with the dad, there was a little more layers. Especially when--
The dad just runs away as the kid's being attacked. Just SUCH an easy villainous action, and it made the film far too black and white. Men are BAD! Woman are VICTIMIZED! I expect more from both McKee and Ketchum.
- February 9, 2012 at 6:17 PM
- StraightToVideo said...
In the given situation, men were bad and the women were victimized. I see what you are saying, but I think it works with the story.
Enjoyed the woman btw, but liked Lucky's other films better.
Great site btw.
- February 10, 2012 at 12:06 PM
- Emily said...
I'm not saying it doesn't pay to make a movie about men abusing women; I just think the film would have been so much more interesting and complex if the men weren't such evil caricatures.
- February 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM
- Planet of Terror said...
Emily, I didn't feel the film was as black and white as you say. Yes, the men are bad, women are victimized angle was there but I thought it did a great job slowly revealing and peeling back the layers to show that yes, this father was one despicable piece of shit. I respectfully disagree, I don't think he was a caricature at all. And the way the son evolved from being mischievous to an all out psychopath, holy crap!
Straight to Video, I agree. All in all ***Spoiler Alert*** I think the film did a good job of painting the remaining children as being much better off with this wild and feral woman.
The more I think about it, the more I like it.
Thanks for the kind words. And thanks for the comment.
- February 11, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Emily said...
Man, I WISH I agreed! But the very first thing we see the dad do is speak to his wife like a slave at the barbeque. I do think they attempted to show the other side of him by making him so liked in his profession, but he always came off as so smarmy that I always suspected he had ulterior motives in his job as well as at home. I don't know how much was deliberate and/or how much was just my reading, but I just didn't see a single moment in his actions that made me see him as anything but evil.
- February 11, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- Mike Snoonian said...
Emily-The way he spoke to his wife during the opening BBQ was a quick way to show him asserting his dominance-just the way he'd bark out her name when addressing her without even bothering to turn around and face her put her in her place. I understand what you're saying about how he was professionally respected. I actually found that a realistic aspect of his character. He was able to easily compartmentalize his home life from his work life and "social activities" in the basement because he was so self assured in his actions.
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Eat to Compete in High School
Heading off to high school is a big step. You're no longer the big fish at middle school. The classes in high school are tougher, and the sports are definitely more challenging. You no doubt played recreational sports growing up, but that was one or maybe two practices a week and a game on the weekends. The physical commitment to high school sports is in another league altogether. There may be daily practices - sometimes in the morning and afternoons, separate weight-training workouts, and one or even two competitions in a week depending upon the sport.
Gone are the days of orange slices at half-time and a glazed doughnut as the post-game snack. Many teenage athletes get hit with this stark reality the first week of the preseason. You drag yourself home after 6 or 7 periods of class and an exhausting practice, and you can barely find the energy to make it through dinner, let alone tackle a night of homework. Sound familiar?
As a teenage athlete, you face the challenge of keeping pace with the nutritional demands of your sport, while also consuming the nutrients required to fully grow and develop. In this article, you'll learn what you need nutritionally to be healthy and to support the growth spurt that is transforming your body. You'll also gain expertise on the key principles of sports nutrition and how to apply them so that you can be at your best when training and competing.
You're not just competing, you're growing
During your teen years, you're growing at an incredible rate. Girls sprout an average of 10 inches (25 cm) and gain 53 lbs (24 kg) during the growth spurt. Boys tack on an average of 11 inches ((28 cm) and pack 70 lbs (32 kg) onto their frames.
The exact timing of when you'll grow and what height you have the potential to reach has lots to do with your genetics - something you don't have any control over. But you can only achieve your full growth potential if you consume adequate amounts of the many different nutrients your body needs to develop and stay healthy - and that's something you do control!
Which foods to eat and why
To reach your full growth potential and to compete successfully in high school athletics, you need a host of essential nutrients and dietary factors. Included on the list are adequate calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber, water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, and trace minerals.
With a nutrient list this long, it stands to reason that you're not going to get the full gamut of what you need from a few foods or even by popping dietary supplements. Yes, it sounds like a cliché, but the recommendation to eat a wide variety of foods has a purpose. It's that wide variety that's going to ensure that you get all the nutritional factors you need to develop your full potential.
The following foods are the foundation of healthy eating, and healthy eating is what all athletes need to do in order to perform at their best:
Fruits, vegetables, and grains are your dietary staples. They should make up three-fourths of every meal. These foods provide carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are your primary fuel source when you're working hard at practice, and you only have a very limited supply of these carbohydrate fuel reserves in your body. That means you need to replace on a daily basis what you use up during exercise. If you don't, you'll be dragging at every practice and workout, and failing to deliver during competitions. These foods are also storehouses for essential vitamins and minerals, as well as fiber. Consume at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day:
- Fruits include apples, bananas, oranges, tangerines, berries, melons, and so on. Whole fruits are preferred over fruit juice
- Vegetables include carrots, celery, lettuce, salads, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, green beans, peas, corn, and so on
- When it comes to grains, choose them whole when you can: whole-grain and multi-grain breads and cereals, oatmeal, and brown rice. A whole grain, ready-to-eat breakfast cereal is a great start to the day or as a high-carbohydrate snack anytime
Grab 2 or 3 pieces of fruit and a bag of whole grain crackers on your way out the door in the morning, and make these your snacks. And a word to the wise: Choose fresh fruit and vegetables over more processed varieties for the most health benefits.
Protein foods should make up the other fourth of your meals. Healthy protein foods are lean meats, chicken, turkey, fish, nuts, beans, and tofu. Protein foods provide amino acids, which are the building blocks your body uses to make all kinds of different proteins, including muscle tissue. Protein foods like meat are also good sources of iron, which is an important mineral you need to maintain your energy level. Contrary to popular opinion, most athletes get plenty of protein, and eating more than you need won't make you any stronger or bigger. But timing your protein intake in relation to your practices and workouts is something to pay attention to, and we'll cover that more a bit later. A good, practical way to get healthy protein sources is to bring a couple of sandwiches to school to eat during breaks and at lunchtime. Peanut butter and jam, chicken, tuna, and meat sandwiches all fit the bill. A bag of nuts with dried fruit also makes for a munchable snack, and the fats in nuts are particularly healthful.
Recommendations for dairy foods are to have 3-4 servings a day. Dairy foods include milk, yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, and ice cream. Choose lower-fat versions. Dairy foods provide high quality protein and often some carbs, and are also great sources of calcium and vitamin D. During your teenage growth spurt, you'll be adding nearly 40% of the total amount of bone you will have as an adult. If you don't bone up as a teenager, there's no catching up later. In fact, you'll live with the bone health consequences the rest of your life. Calcium is a key mineral that gives bones their strength, and vitamin D helps your body to absorb calcium. To get the calcium and vitamin D you need every day, try to drink milk with your meals, have cheese in your sandwiches, and make yogurt with fruit a regular snack. If you can't consume dairy products, consider calcium and vitamin D fortified foods and beverages or a calcium and vitamin D dietary supplement to ensure an adequate intake of these important nutrients.
Fat is the primary muscle fuel you use during low-intensity activities. Realistically, fats will be second only to carbohydrates in terms of the calorie contributors in your diet. So when you eat them, try to steer clear of the unhealthy versions and towards those that can make you healthier. Butter, the fat in and around meat, the fats in most restaurant fried foods, and the fat in dairy products are high in either saturated fat or trans fat. Long-term, when consumed in excess, these fat sources can be harmful to the heart. Healthy fats are the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats found in fish, such as salmon; and a variety of plant sources, such as nuts, avocados, and vegetable oils. So where it's practical for you, try olive oil or another vegetable oil in place of butter, select low-fat or nonfat versions of dairy products, limit your intake of restaurant fried foods, choose lean cuts of meat, and trim the fat off meat and the skin off poultry.
Not on the list is most of what you find in convenience stores, coffee shops, and vending machines. Surprise! A 16 fl oz energy drink and a bag of chips doesn't make the cut, and they won't help you make the cut, either. An occasional treat is fine but should not be the mainstay of your diet plan.
You need extra energy
Playing sports boosts your need for calories. A typical teenage boy requires a base level of about 2,100-2,400 calories daily, while a typical girl needs around 1700 calories. Throwing sports into the mix changes the calorie score. Girls need an extra 750 calories daily to meet the energy demands of training and competing, while boys need an extra 900 calories. Somehow you're supposed to get all these extra calories from healthy food sources while going to classes, attending practices, getting your homework done, and getting enough sleep. Granted, it's not always easy, but short-changing calories while you're training hard is asking for trouble. Too few calories will cause your performance to suffer, you'll get sick more frequently, and for you girls, it can negatively impact your hormone balance, leading to devastating long-term consequences on bone health.
So you need those extra calories. Enlist the help of parents in buying the essential groceries you'll need for lunches and snacks. Help them by making a grocery list. Plan ahead and get into the habit of packing a lunch and snacks for the school day. Eat frequently during the day, like at each break, and choose from the healthy options outlined above. You've heard the phrase garbage in, garbage out. Don't let that be you!
Sports nutrition for training and competitions
Now we turn to the nuts and bolts of sports nutrition. How you prepare nutritionally prior to practicing, working out, or competing, how you hydrate and fuel during exercise, and what you do afterwards to promote recovery can have a significant impact on the gains you make from training and on your performance during competitions.
There are 3 basic principles of sports nutrition:
- Hydration: Start exercise fully hydrated and rehydrate as needed during exercise
- Fueling: Start exercise fully fueled and refuel as needed during exercise
- Recovery: Promote full recovery after exercise
The single largest contributor to fatigue during exercise in high school athletes is dehydration. Allowed to progress unchecked, dehydration can also lead to serious adverse health consequences. Your muscles generate heat during exercise, and sweating helps to cool you off. Sweat is primarily composed of water and dissolved minerals known as electrolytes. The mineral found in highest concentration in sweat is sodium. Large sweat losses deplete your body of the fluids and sodium needed to keep you cool. When this occurs, your internal body temperature rises, your heart rate increases, and it's much harder to exercise. Dehydration is negatively affecting your ability to exercise when you lose just 2% of your body weight due to fluid loss. For a 150-lb (68-kg) athlete, a 2% weight loss equates to just 3 pounds (about 1.4 kg). It's easy to lose this much fluid during a long practice or competition, especially in the heat or humidity. And don't be lulled into thinking that thirst will signal you to consume the fluids you need. It won't! Thirst during exercise doesn't kick in until well after you're dehydrated and your performance is already suffering the consequences. Fortunately, dehydration can be avoided, but it requires that you stick to a disciplined hydration plan before, during, and after exercise.
Carbohydrates and fat are your primary muscle fuels when training and competing. Fat stores we all have plenty of, but the same can't be said about our carbohydrate reserves. Carbohydrate stores get significantly depleted during long, strenuous practices day after day, and they need to be replenished for you to continue to be at your best athletically. The key is to start exercise with your carbohydrate fuel stores fully loaded. For long practices and competitions, refueling with carbs may be needed during exercise or during breaks.
Training and competing whittle away at your reserves of carbohydrate fuel. Exercise causes damage to muscle tissue, which requires repair. During training, your muscles are being stimulated to adapt to the workload you're imposing. And finally, you lose fluids and the key electrolyte sodium due to sweating during exercise. Recovery is the process of reloading depleted carbohydrate fuel stores, repairing and building new muscle tissue, and rehydrating after exercise. It's during recovery that you make the gains from your training and prepare for your next exercise session. Your body is ready to begin recovery as soon as you finish exercising, but the process doesnt begin until you provide the necessary nutritional components.
Practical Sports Nutrition Strategies for Teen Athletes
Fortunately, there are practical sports nutrition strategies that can help you to successfully implement the basic principles of sports nutrition.
Start exercise fully hydrated
- Bring a water bottle to school and take frequent sips throughout the day
- Consume 14-20 ounces (400-600 ml) of water or sports drink 2-4 hours before you train or compete
- Keep hydrating as needed during warm-ups by drinking another 8 oz (240 ml) of fluid, especially if conditions are hot or humid
- Check your urine color before exercise to monitor your hydration status. A light-yellow color is consistent with adequate hydration. A darker color, like the color of apple juice, is typically a sign that more fluids are needed before you start training or competing
Start exercise fully fueled
- When possible, consume a meal 2-4 hours before training or competing. Choose familiar high-carb foods and beverages, and include a moderate amount of lean protein as well. Avoid slow-to-digest, fatty foods during the pre-exercise meal. Take a look at the table below for examples of pre-exercise meals
- Have an easy-to-digest carbohydrate snack if you're hungry in the hour before exercise. See the table below for snack ideas
- If you have an early-morning practice or competition, consume your pre-exercise meal the evening before and have a carbohydrate snack on your way out the door in the morning
- If your stomach is in a knot before a competition, try a liquid carbohydrate source (e.g., fruit smoothie or a meal-replacement drink) in place of solid foods
- Trial your pre-exercise meals before practices so that you know you will be comfortable with these foods on competition days
Rehydrate and refuel as needed during exercise
- Plain water is generally fine for exercise lasting less than 1 hour in moderate weather conditions
- Consume a sports drink instead of plain water if you're exercising vigorously for an hour or more, or any time you're exercising in hot or humid conditions:
- The flavor, sodium, and carbohydrates in a sports drink can help to optimize fluid intake and retention during exercise
- While high school sports generally don't fully deplete carbohydrate muscle fuel reserves in a single training session or competition, the carbohydrates in a sports drink can help to sustain blood glucose levels during longer exercise sessions
- Consume fluids at a rate that closely matches your sweat rate during exercise. This generally requires something on the order of 13-26 fl oz (400-800 ml) every hour of exercise, preferably in smaller amounts taken frequently, such as 3-7 fl oz (100-200 ml) every 15 minutes or so
- Drink from your own sport bottle so you can track your fluid intake
- Fluid needs can vary considerably from athlete to athlete, and in different weather conditions. Therefore, you may want to calculate your sweat rate for the conditions in which you practice or compete. For a step-by-step guide to calculate your sweat rate and to obtain a personalized plan to meet your unique hydration needs, use the Sweat Rate Calculator at PowerBar.com
- To refuel, to ward off hunger, and to rehydrate between events during meets or between matches or games during tournaments, consume familiar, easy-to-digest carbohydrate snacks along with water or a sports drink. See the table below for snack ideas
- Trial your rehydration and refueling strategies during practices before implementing them during competitions
Promote full recovery after exercise
- After a long training session or an extended competition, consume 0.5 grams of carbohydrates per lb (1.1 grams per kg) body weight within 30 minutes of finishing exercise
- Repeat this again within 2 hours or transition to high-carbohydrate snacks and meals
- For a 150-lb (68-kg) athlete, this equates to about 75 grams of carbohydrates immediately after playing, and then again 2 hours later
- Consume some protein as soon as possible after exercise
- After a long practice, a strength-training workout, or an extended competition, consume 15-25 grams of protein as soon as possible after exercise
- See the table below for ideas on what you can eat and drink after exercise to promote rapid recovery
- Weigh yourself before and after exercise to gauge your net loss of fluids. To replace this fluid, gradually drink 16-24 fl oz (475-700 ml) of sports drink, recovery beverage, or water for every 1 lb of weight lost. Consume sodium sources along with your fluids for more effective rehydration
- If your loss of fluids consistently exceeds 2% of your body weight, try to increase your fluid intake during subsequent
How to Use PowerBar Sports Nutrition Products Effectively
PowerBar sports nutrition products are specifically designed to address your nutrition needs before, during, and after exercise. They provide the carbohydrates, protein, fluids, and sodium your body needs, using ingredients that are optimal for absorption, and the products are easy and convenient to use. So you don't have to wonder whether you're eating the right thing in the right amounts at the right time.
A sports drink is designed to provide fluids and sodium for hydration and carbohydrates to help sustain your energy levels. Use PowerBar® Endurance sports drink during extended exercise sessions and whenever conditions are hot or humid.
An energy gel provides readily absorbed carbohydrates and sodium in an easy-to-swallow gel form. You provide the fluids. Use a PowerBar® Gel along with a source of fluids before and during exercise.
Energy bars and bites provide easy-to-absorb carbohydrates and moderate amounts of healthful protein. Use PowerBar® Performance Energy bars and PowerBar® Energy Bites as an energizing snack before exercise, and during exercise if it is feasible to chew. For longer, more intense exercise, you should avoid high-fat, high-fiber bars due to potential GI upset. Energy chews provide easy-to-absorb carbohydrates.
PowerBar® Gel Blasts™ energy chews can be used as energizing snacks before exercise and during exercise when there are breaks in the action. Recovery beverages and bars are designed to provide the nutrients you need to help jumpstart recovery after exercise.
PowerBar® Recovery beverage is perfect when you want something light to promote rapid recovery. PowerBar® Recovery bar is the right choice when you want something tasty and solid post-exercise. For more information on sports nutrition and other PowerBar sports nutrition products, go to PowerBar.com
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Information presented by PowerBar is intended to impart general sports nutrition and training information. PowerBar is not engaged in rendering medical advice or services. Be sure to consult your doctor as needed, including when undertaking a new diet or training program. Advance consultation with your doctor is particularly important if you are under eighteen (18), pregnant, breastfeeding, or have health problems. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on PowerBar's site.


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