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I sorta like Sandbox. I'm a long-time UO subscriber, but I wish the skill gains were easier to get. I hate how people macro unattended to get the skills they want, but the slow gains in the game probably forces them to do it.
I never did this, but it is boring to legitimately build skills attended for hours on end and have little to show for it....
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There are other systems than "skill by use", e.g. in EVE you have "skill over real time" which also has its pros and cons.
But I agree, i never saw a game with skill by use, which was not heavily bot infested.
played: Everquest I (6 years), EVE (3 years)
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Originally posted by Kiljaedenas
Unfortunately, Empire space is completely safe now thanks to the horrible changes made by the CCCP recently. Eve is going the route of every other MMO and you will see soon that it will fail. What kept it going for so long is that it defied the typical market standards for MMOs by being a difficult, ruthless game where you were never safe, but you could make a sizeable impact on the space around you or the cyber marketplace (because its all player run). With the release of Dust, CCCP is trying to make the game more accesible to carebears and it is going to create too large of a separation between highsec and null sec. The market will spiral out of control as you suggested aand the game will meet its doom.
EVE was the best example of how to do it. No doubt about it. But they too need to update their insurance polices, pay their taxes, drive their hybrids, etc etc. I loved Eve, but when you start to themepark my MMO, I walk away... Sure, its a better option than what I'm currently playing, because contrary to the most recent hype machine GW2 is just like every other MMO i've ever played.
SWG anyone? Why can't that concept be recycled? I mean, not with Star Wars because we all know Lucas is too proud to admit SWTOR sucked balls... but, why can't someone bring back the sandbox MMO? Why wouldn't a big company see what kind of monotonous diarhea people are playing right now and offfer a different choice. Sure, TSW is different, but lets face it, without good combat or physics you have nothing. I see TSW as more of a game riddled with gimmicks rather than visionary. There is no levelling, but there is... there is no class restriction, but there is no reason to have it because no one wants to fight!
Star Wars Galaxies is still regarded as one of the best MMOs ever. We just need one company to step up and have some sack to deliver the MMO community a new choice. If I had the money, I would do it. I know themeparks can make their money back even if they suck, but thats not the goal here. The goal is to create a game with sustainability. A game where the developers get back to what the MMO was supposed to be about. A game that can give the players full control over the environment, the marketplace. Why the heck not?!
Rift, WoW, Terra, SWTOR, GW2 they are all the same game with different plusses and minuses. Eve and SWG were completely unique and amazing... someone please step up and fix this. I am soooo bored with MMOs right now and I have a feeling a lot of other people are too
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I want a themebox with some sandpark's in it.
If you disagree with my fool proof logic, go drink and come back to the forums when you can think better!
Originally posted by william0532
Perhaps if you explained that better... ?
What parts would be sandbox? What would be themepark?
Originally posted by prodigaL_son
I can't say whether or not we're going for SWG-style, but I'm on a team that is attempting a classless, skill-based game with DC Universe Online game pad-style control. Check us out....
Other than that, you're last comments about marketplace are invalidated by your earlier complaints of EVE Online's maketplace.
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every sandbox game i know of has a story blueprint , and thats ok . what iam missing in sandbox games these days is diversity.....all narrowed down to hardcore crafting ...pvp ownage & loot ...territory masterhood. In most cases this doesnt create a vibrant game envirement . Holding power must come with disadvantages also ....not only through the community but by the mere gamemechanics too.
The real reason UO got trammel was a good ammount of ppl that couldnt have fun because of total asshats who ploited the shit outta the game and low ass griefers. Dont get me wrong ...i hated trammel too ...but before that i saw things happening -boy oh boy- and it was clear they gonna do somin bout it ....well thats old stories none wants to hear that anymore.
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Originally posted by dna_mor
I was a bit hammered, and not sure what a themebox or a sandpark technically would be?
As far as your question though,
Sandbox-exploration(hidden quests, hidden dangers, things to discover that are not directly tied in to a themeparks breadcrumbed path they make you stay on). I like sandbox customization(I like seeing different looks, not like swtor, where everyone looks 100% the same), yet the players can really go crazy with "who they are in the game". I like when I'm done with a class/planet/area quest line theres other things to do, mini games, decorating your house. I like the leaps and bounds above a themepark game that a sandbox offers for socializing, they really have all the tools for community. I like mini games, I like just randomely discovering that some actions have odd consequences, or trigger other events. I like open world pvp. I like player driven economies, where you can actually create unique things(especially when it creates community by making crafters reliant on gatherers, as opposed to selling junk and what not to npc vendors, but instead selling them to crafters.
Themepark-I like a main quest line(I think sandbox's should have them), I like class stories, and stories for certain areas/planets. I like warzones when I'm bored(or battlegrounds, or arena's whatever you call them)
I really just want a complete game, where your not bored. I'm thinking with these clear cut divisions that developers and fans have created will only create games that are only half their potential. Bioware, when the created TOR used these divisions, and put everything considered sandbox on what they call a wall of crazy. Which tells you thier mind set right from the get go. Theres too much competition to launch a straight themepark or sandbox now, you need a good hybrid in my opinion. I liked TOR, but its f'ing boring, so I'll play GW2, and in six months, I'll play something else(probably repopulation or planetside 2). Until a game launches with alot of features from both, at six months they will eat crap and lose a majority of subs, like tor, and why not? Why not play something different for awhile.
My friend still plays WoW, not because its great, but because he put 3 years into it before any competition came around, so he won't start over and be patient for a new mmo to build content over the course of a couple of years, simply because hes vested so much time into that one game. None of these new games offer a long term investment, just a quick race to endgame and move on to another new mmo.
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Sandox :) is the only way for a game to keep players using all the content
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Sandbox is soo much more real. Ac1 ..... Only problem was getting the sand out of my shorts everyday.
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Played: UO, EQ, EQ2, WoW, AoC, DNDO, Aion, FFXI, LOTRO, RoM, DCUO.
I love the IDEA of a sandbox game. The problem is pulling it off correctly. They get so huge that managing everything becomes a large task. With today's F2P trend becoming the norm, it seems less and less likely that a successful sandbox can even make it in the industry anymore.
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Originally posted by Lethargic_Synapse
I think a succesful indie sandbox game should start out small and well made. Then they should slowly grow and add features. Having this daunting list of features and high expectations are what kill most games. What if a developer made a game that evolved over time? A game that actually grew along with it's playerbase?
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Originally posted by TruthXHurts
Great prospect, and if they made the game as addicting as games once were, it would keep those players around long enough for it to evolve. I think devs need to stop trying to be all things to all people, and start small like you said. Unfortunately everyone wants to be Blizzard, so I'm not sure how that'll work.
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Why did the mod Amana close the other thread "The time to bring back Sandboxes IS NOW!" and told us to go here? Here it´s sandboxes vs themepark. Rly not the same. But I do hope we get more AAA sandboxes. I threw in my themepark towel with GW2. I´m done with em. No more.
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Originally posted by Lahuzer
While I havent sifted through the 32 pages of this thread yet. Im confident that both threads are covering the same ground.
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My thoughts about this are not about the "vs" but about the "both".
What we need is a good hybrid of both sandbox and themepark. Relying on either element of the two isn't really cutting it anymore these days.
Some has really to wonder, that old games like SWG and EvE Online show how it has to be done. None of these two games have totally neglected the themepark-side. They both had the quest-content of a typical themepark and they made it so, that those only interested in the PvE and the questing actually never had to deal with the sandbox and the PvP.
ArcheAge seems to be the MMO that will take the right approach, having themepark on the two starter-islands and PvP-sandbox on the third island which is FFA.
So yeah, all of those die hard sandbox players, who think that FFA-PvP is all about... they're totally wrong and not getting the point, what makes a good and populated game.
Look at EvE Online ffs. Without the thousands of carebears doing nothing else then running missions in high-sec, or crafting and trading EvE Online would not have lasted 9 years with a steadily growing poulation.
For those interested in PvP solely, there's tons of shooters allready and for those only interested in PVE and soloing through the content there's tons of RPGs allready. And then there's sandboxes like ATITD, where it's all about the community.
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Much have been talked here about the differences between sandboxes and themeparks. I would like to add some views that i have, in my experience with mmos, about especific aspects of each type:
In General:
- Sandboxes had primarily a proposal of creating a "setting" where the players can compete by ownership of land, castles, fortress, bases, resources, political domain or even fame. The main concern of these mmos is to provide a world that simulate and allow a "realistic" and almost free interaction between the players, in a way that the fun "content" of the game comes mainly from the players interactions themselves and their social and psychological consequences and ramifications. The main content of these mmos is "emergent" from the players interactions.
-Themeparks, in the other hand, had a proposal of creating a "single-player games" like experience, where the players can enjoy a pre-set content in the company (not always obrigatory) of others players. These pre-set contents are the quests, missions and raids, provided by the developers in the form of no-human controled characters.
-Sandboxes, by try creating a "realistic" enviromnent of social interactions, use to have a pvp system with well less restrictions than the themeparks, because pvp is the main way to the players to compete for ownership, political domain or resources. The aliances and enmitys in-game are all controled by the players themselves, what demands a minimum of attention with the social skills and behavior by the players, because to have a good social network and the minimum of enemys is very important to the success in these games. PVP tends to be seem as the main form of fun and a essential part of the games life and dinamic.
- Themeparks use to have a very restrained pvp. Pvp is considered a mere option of distraction, like all the other "atractions" in the game. Almost didn't exists the need to fight by the control of resources with others players (they are provided in isolated enviroments by NPCs) and didn't exists fights by ownerships ou political domais of land, castles, bases, etc. These mmos offers single-player like experiences with guaranteed and almost always easy rewards, what make the social interaction a mere option too, with few situations where the interaction is obrigatory, and still in these situations, the interaction is fleeting, with no need of creating a social network and no giving chance to the appearance of psychologicaly meaningful rivalry/enmity. The aliances and enemitys are pre-defined and choosen in the start of the game. Social interactions and pvp out of the raids, arenas or BGs are regarded as time loss or slip stones in the way of the achievements provided by the pve content.
-Sandboxes use to put penaltys in deaths aiming to create a minimum of "realistic" view on it: as a great bad that need to be avoided at all costs by the players.
-Themeparks approach the death like the single-player games (moderns): a mere halt in the player action, being enough "restart" from the same savepoint with almost zero consequences.
- PVE in sandboxes use to be more shallow, poor and boring if compared with the themeparks. In these mmos, pve is considered a mere way to acquire resources or xp to improve the player, preparing him to the competion with others. Some regard pve as "work" in contraposition to the pvp as "fun". The boringness of the pve is seen like a extra punition to the death, because the player need to pve to recoup itens or xp.
-PVE in themeparks are the main fun content and the reason of being of these mmos. Use to be funnier and richer than the sandboxes's (even so would be poor and boring if compared to the player competion in the sandboxes). To play a themepark mmo is mainly to fight with AI-controled NPCs, with or without the help of others players, like in single-player games.
Time required.
- Sandboxes usually requires most time than themeparks. Since the competion is with other players, more time logged means more resources collected, more social networks created, more itens owned, etc. So, casual players dont have much chance to reach the top, still more if the mmo to have a very long way to the cap. In consequence, sandboxes dont have much appeal to the majority of the playerbase worldwide, that have little time ou disposition to spend in a game.
-Themeparks, in the other hand, dont have that direct competition with others players, so the little time logged represents little ou no impediment to the player "enjoy" the majority of the pve content (the reason of being of these games). However, the top content use to require much time too. But in the final, the player that have 1000 hours of improvement will not be stopped by a player with 1500 hours and eventually will can enjoy the top content. In consequence, themepark mmos have more appeal to the majority of the playerbase in the world,
Sorry by my bad grammar. English is not my main language.
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Theme park = MMO preference
Sandbox = Online Seperate server preference.
Issue with sandbox is it tends to reflect capitalism where the players on top always will be on top and the players below are practically unable to get up to the top. This can be through skills or through wealth and its just a horrible experience, particularly with open pvp leading to griefing of players, the person focusing on those who stand no chance which to me, is just pathetic. If you gank someone, gank someone who is your level with your potential at the very least. Games like minecraft (I know, why that game) show a good example of how sandbox can work, providing the ability for servers to be made and created and the playing field given an easier time for players to catch up or simply move servers and find newer places to have a shot at the top.
Sandbox can be fun, its just so much of it tends to be quite flawed. Theres a reason why sandboxes haven't taken off. Its not that they haven't been created, they simply lose interest quickly as people who call for certain things quickly leave when its not 100% what they wanted or they realize they won't ever hit the top.
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In my humble opinion, a pure themepark mmo shouldn't even be considered a mmo.


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IRVINE, Calif. - Both Cal State Northridge golf teams struggled on the final day of the Folino Invitational at Oak Creek G.C. as the Matador men slipped to sixth and the CSUN women slipped one spot to seventh. Chris Russo's 11th place finish led both squads.
Russo, who was tied for seventh just one shot off the lead after two rounds Monday, carded a final round (+4) 75 and slipped into a tie for 11th at (+5) 218. Russo finished with rounds of 71-72-75 and posted his fourth-best tournament score of the 2010-11 season. Russo's 11th-place showing is his fourth top-20 finish of the season.
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Freshman Jake Katz opened the day tied for 26th and stayed in the same spot following a final round (+5) 76. Katz posted rounds of 76-74-76 to finish at (+13) 226. Senior Nick Delio wound up tied for 26th at (+14) 227 his lowest finish of his final season. Delio, who leads the Matadors in scoring at 70.8, struggled with rounds of 75-75-77.
As a team, the Matadors dropped from third to sixth following their final round 297. Northridge had hoped to improve on its rounds of 294-292 on Monday but instead slipped three spots with a final team score of 883. Cal Poly won the team championship with a score of 867 followed by UC Irvine (870) and Cal State Fullerton (295) in the 10-team field.
After an opening round 328, the Matador women shaved eight shots off their team score on Tuesday with a 320 but still dropped from sixth to seventh with a team score of 648. Long Beach State (606) overcame UC Irvine (610) and Portland State (611) to win the women's title among eight teams competing.
Lady Samson, competing individually, finished tied for 15th for the top CSUN finish. Samson, who has played in one tournament this season, finished with a final round (+9) 81 on Tuesday after a 77 on Monday.
Junior Kylie Kimura had the best finish of the Matador team as she finished tied for 26th at (+18) 162 following back-to-back rounds of 81. Jennel Alexander had CSUN's best round on Tuesday as she followed up a rough round of 89 on Monday with a two over-par 74 on Tuesday. Alexander jumped 12 spots to tie for 29th at (+19) 163.
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The Matador men will next be in action at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate at Sandpiper G.C. on Mar 28-29. The CSUN women will have their final tuneup before the Big West Championship when the Matadors compete at the Anteater Invitational Mar. 28-29 at Dove Canyon C.C.


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Thanks for the response, you answered all my questions! I am sure that in a matter of hours, I will have more but at least temporarily my craving for information about guns has been satisfied!
Thanks for the response, you answered all my questions! I am sure that in a matter of hours, I will have more but at least temporarily my craving for information about guns has been satisfied!
Here's a simplified rear filler sized for the sgn-9 tube of 1-1/4". Its made from 1/8"x1-1/4" steel strap/bar, 3/8" inside wide/tall channel steel and a section of 1/2"x3/8" bar. There is a 0.102" thick magazine stop at the top of the mag lug slot to prevent the mag from being inserted too far up into the gun. It uses the same style of flapper mag catch as the suomi and a suomi one will fit. I'll get the mag catch drawing up in the next few days. The 3/8" inside steel channel is welded to the 1/8" top piece after the .295" mag slot is cut into it. You will need to use spacers to locate the mag catch in the center of the slot or make your mag catch wider than a suomi and narrow the top to fit inside the slot in the top piece as it will have a slight lip to it. The bottem 3/8" steel bar "fence" then can be soldered or welded to the 3/8" channel and contoured to allow some space between the "fence" and the mag catch. If you don't care about the fence, then you can simply leave it off.
I was boring out a tube to about 1.5" ID, about 6"long, but that was just how long my boring bar was, bored out the other end to 1.52 or something for 2.5" for the barrel bushing.
Thanks for the rear filler drawings! they have helped me understand the magwell area completely. Would you mind posting some pictures of the mag inside the reciever and in relation to the bolt?
Thanks for such a detailed build, it helps people like me comprehend every aspect of the weapon and its operation.
~The Fox
There is only one thing that I don't like about the SGN-9 build. A 55Rc bolt was annealed to butter soft. Butter soft I won't shoot. I do my Suomi bolt conversions by drawing down the hardness to 40/45Rc. It is more machinable and still very tough.


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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and the others will now be joined on the ballot in South Carolina by candidates from the newly-certified American Party.
The statewide grassroots movement demanding strict ethics accountability and term limits for officeholders was officially certified recently by the South Carolina Election Commission, according to a news release.
Sixteen thousand voters from each of the States 46 counties signed up to make this possible, according to party leaders Oscar Lovelace and Jim Rex.
According to Lovelace and Rex, the party will be guided by four principles:
Legislate and govern from the middle.
Increase the economic global competitiveness of the United States.
Stop Growth of Political Class and Career Politicians
Hold political parties accountable for their candidates and officeholders.
The two dominant American political parties give voters few viable options. Many feel they must choose from the lesser of two evils as they consider the choices available from a list of career politicians who have run the primary gauntlet of their respective parties by pledging allegiance to the special interests and the doctrines their bases demand for both election and re-election, the release states.
The Party is actively searching for change-agent candidates to give voters a welcomed option in local, state, and federal races in this Novembers elections.
Our two-party system is a broken political system, which spends most of its time catering to big money resources, special interests, and promoting their own re-election rather than solving our nations problems, said Lovelace.
Frank Beattie, the local representative for the American Party said its formation was necessitated after coming to the conclusion both political parties are self serving.
Beattie said the party wants to get well qualified people to run for offices.
The public is fed up with the way things are, Beattie said.
Rex and Lovelace said that the effort to gather names for the petition began just under a year ago with volunteers working across the state at various events, functions, and festivals. They said voters were very receptive to the idea of a more moderate political party.
In the weeks ahead, the American Party will be traveling across South Carolina registering new voters and recruiting candidates that will adhere to the Partys four core principles.
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Emergency Guide Biological Threat
Biological agents are bacteria, virus, or toxins that can kill or incapacitate people, livestock, and crops.
Delivery Methods
Aerosols - biological agents are dispersed into the air forming a fine mist that may drift for miles. Inhaling the agent may cause disease in humans and animals.
Animals - insects and animals such as fleas, mice, flies, mosquitoes, and livestock spread some diseases.
Food and water contamination - some pathogenic organisms and toxins may persist in food and water supplies. Most microbes are killed, and toxins deactivated, by cooking food and boiling water for three minutes.
Person-to-person - a few infectious agents, such as smallpox, plague, and the Lassa viruses, can spread through human contact.
Precautions for Known or Suspected Exposure
Move away from the agent quickly
Remove and bag contaminated clothes and items
Wash with soap and water
Contact public health authorities
Monitor local broadcast media for emergency information and instructions
Seek medical attention if symptoms appear - public health instructions may include avoiding others or quarantine
Additional information on Biological Threats is available on the following websites:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security http://www.dhs.gov/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/


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I recently attended the Hadoop Summit in San Jose. This is one of two major conferences organized around Hadoop, the other being Hadoop World. Nearly all the companies with Hadoop distributions were present along with several big users of Hadoop like Netflix, Twitter, and Linkedin.
Crossing The Chasm
If you're not deeply involved with Hadoop, attending one of these conferences a year apart can be shocking. The advancements made in just the span of a year are amazing. The conference seemed notably larger this year, and I noticed more non-tech companies in the audience. I think it's safe to say that Hadoop has crossed the chasm, at least for enterprise IT users.
Other than the type of attendees at the event, the other signal to me was the emergence of Hadoop 2.0. This second version of Hadoop focused on features that are important for users who want to run production-grade software for mission-critical systems. High-availability finally arrived for the name node (for the Open Source project, not the version Cloudera released for its distribution), a new version of Hive with more SQL-friendly features, and YARN which allows users to run just about anything on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). These types of stability and availability features tend to show up when there is a critical mass of users who want to use software for production.
Quite A YARN
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This marked a real revolution in the hotel and restaurant world, one spearheaded by the two partners, who welcomed some of the most celebrated figures of their time. On Place Vendôme culinary pleasures have always reigned supreme.


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IRVING (October 3, 2012) -- In a vote by the league's head coaches, senior post Brittney Griner was named Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year for the third consecutive season while Alexis Prince was tabbed Preseason Freshman of the Year as part of the Conference's 2012-13 Women's Basketball preseason awards. Texas Tech's Jackie Patterson was selected Preseason Newcomer of the Year. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own players.
Along with Griner, junior point guard Odyssey Sims was a preseason All-Big 12 selection, while senior forward/post Destiny Williams earned honorable mention honors.
Griner is a two-time Big 12 Player of the Year and three-time Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year recipient as well as a unanimous All-America selection the past two seasons. She was also the consensus National Player of the Year in 2012 after leading Baylor to a 40-0 record and the national championship. The 6-8 senior post has helped the Lady Bears to the last two Big 12 regular season and postseason titles. Griner topped the Big 12 with 23 points, 5.2 blocks and a .609 field goal percentage in 2011-12. She was second with 9.5 rebounds a game. The Houston, Texas, native holds the Big 12 career blocked shots record (599) and is fourth in scoring (2,425 points).
Prince was a four-year starter at Edgewater High School in Orlando, Fla. As a senior, she led the Eagles to the Florida Class 6A state title and a 28-4 record while averaging 19.7 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.6 steals, 3.1 blocks and 2.6 assists. Her honors include Parade Magazine, McDonald's and WBCA All-American as well as MVP of the McDonald's All-American game after posting 15 points and nine rebounds.
Griner and Sims were joined on the Preseason All-Big 12 team by Chelsea Poppens (Iowa State), Angel Goodrich (Kansas) and Aaryn Ellenberg (Oklahoma). Each was honored on the All-Big 12 Teams at the conclusion of 2011-12 with Griner, Sims, Poppens and Ellenberg earning first team honors while Goodrich was a second team selection.
Joining Williams as an honorable mention are Carolyn Davis (Kansas), Brittany Chambers (K-State), Whitney Hand (Oklahoma), Chassidy Fussell (Texas) and Asya Bussie (West Virginia)
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Brittney Griner, Baylor, C, 6-8, Sr., Houston, Texas/Nimitz
Preseason Newcomer of the Year
Jackie Patterson, Texas Tech, F, 6-1, Jr, Frisco, Texas/Hutchinson Community College
Preseason Freshman of the Year
Alexis Prince, Baylor, G, 6-1, Fr, Orlando, Fla./Edgewater High School
Preseason All-Big 12 (listed alphabetically by school)
Brittney Griner (Baylor), Odyssey Sims (Baylor), Chelsea Poppens (Iowa State), Angel Goodrich (Kansas), Aaryn Ellenberg (Oklahoma)
Honorable Mention (listed alphabetically by school)
Destiny Williams (Baylor), Carolyn Davis (Kansas), Brittany Chambers (K-State), Whitney Hand (Oklahoma), Chassidy Fussell (Texas), Asya Bussie (West Virginia)


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Pandemic (H1N1) Influenza Vaccine
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- Pandemic (H1N1) Influenza Vaccine
What Is Pandemic (H1N1) Influenza?
- Fever and chills
- Sore throat
- Cough
- Severe muscle aches
- Severe fatigue
- Headache
- Runny nose, nasal congestion
- Sneezing
- Watery eyes
- Stomach symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea
What Is the H1N1 Flu Vaccine?
- Shot given in the muscle—uses inactivated vaccine containing dead virus
- Nasal spray—uses live, attenuated vaccine containing weakened virus
Is the H1N1 Flu Vaccine Available?
Who Should Get Vaccinated and When?
- Pregnant women
- Anyone who lives with or cares for a child under the age of six months
- Healthcare workers and emergency medical personnel
- People aged six months to 24 years
- People aged 25-64 years with chronic medical conditions such as asthma or compromised immune systems
- People living in remote areas
- People handling pigs or poultry
- Pregnant women
- Anyone who lives with or cares for a child under the age of six months
- Healthcare workers and emergency medical personnel
- People aged six months to four years
- Children aged 5-18 years with chronic medical conditions
Who Should Not Get Vaccinated?
- Those younger than two years or older than 50 years
- Anyone with a severe chronic medical condition or weakened immune system
- Pregnant women
- Children under 18 years old taking chronic aspirin therapy
Is the H1N1 Flu Vaccine Safe?
What Other Ways Can H1N1 Be Prevented Besides Vaccination?
- Wash your hands often, especially when you come in contact with someone who is sick. Wash your hands for 15-20 seconds with soap and water. Rubbing alcohol-based cleaners on your hands is also helpful.
- Avoid close contact with people who have respiratory infections. The flu can spread starting one day before and ending seven days after symptoms appear.
- Consider using a disposable face mask if you have a high risk of severe illness from the flu and are unable to avoid crowded areas.
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw away the tissue after you use it. Coughing or sneezing into your elbow or upper sleeve is also helpful.
- Do not spit.
- Do not share drinks or personal items.
- Do not bite your nails or put your hands near your eyes, mouth, or nose.
- Keep surfaces clean by wiping them with a household disinfectant.
- Do not use products sold on the Internet claiming to prevent pandemic H1N1 flu. Talk to your doctor before using such products.
- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you or your child do not attend swine flu parties.
- Talk to your doctor about taking antiviral medications.
What Happens in the Event of an Outbreak?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov
European Commission—Health Information http://ec.europa.eu/health
European Medicines Agency http://www.emea.europa.eu
Flu.gov http://www.flu.gov
Public Health Agency of Canada http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca
United Kingdom Department of Health http://www.dh.gov.uk
World Health Organization http://www.who.int
Asthma information for patients and parents of patients. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/asthma.htm. Updated November 19, 2009. Accessed September 29, 2014.
CDC advisors make recommendations for use of vaccine against novel H1N1, July 29, 2009. Centers for Disease Control website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2009/r090729b.htm. Updated July 29, 2009. Accessed September 29, 2014.
Interim recommendations for facemask and respirator use to reduce novel influenza A (H1N1) virus transmission. Centers for Disease Control website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/masks.htm. Updated September 24, 2009. Accessed September 29, 2014.
Novel H1N1 influenza vaccine. Centers for Disease Control website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/public/vaccination%5Fqa%5Fpub.htm. Accessed September 29, 2014.
Novel H1N1 flu (swine flu) and you. Centers for Disease Control website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm. Updated February 9, 2010. Accessed September 29, 2014.
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated April 8, 2014. Accessed September 29, 2014.
United States Food and Drug Administration. Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccines questions and answers. United States Food and Drug Administration website. Available at http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/QuestionsaboutVaccines/ucm182335.htm. Updated September 15, 2009. Accessed September 29, 2014.
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In the world of sports, numbers can be a funny thing.
Certainly, statistics can tell you a lot about teams and players and scores of games. But you can't put a number on toughness, there isn't a stat for heart, and you won't find diving for loose balls in a box score. And while the 1990-91 Carroll County boys' basketball team didn't have any superstars or the flashiest record (18-9), a gritty group of young men earned its spot among the Cavaliers' all-time greatest teams by grinding through a tough schedule to become just the third team in school history to reach the Group AA state tournament.
Certainly, the 1990-91 Cavaliers had all the ingredients for a successful team, returning seven seniors. Up front, Carroll County started three of the toughest big men ever to don the silver and navy blue in center Greg Bolen and forwards Dustin Harmon and Jason Stockner. At two guard was unquestionably one of the most talented all-around athletes in school history in Matt Montgomery. And at point guard was 5-10 senior Mickey Leonard, a consummate leader and floor general.
On top of that, head coach Pat Sharp's first team at CCHS had incredible depth and size with 6-5 senior Andrew Hawks, and talented juniors coming off the bench in Jason Gallimore and Kris Richardson, who would go on to become a five-time Toughman champion. Backup guards Joey Marshall, Ben Sumner and David Johnson were all gifted players in their own right that helped give Carroll County a second five that could rival most team's starting units.
But it was those intangibles you can't measure with a ruler or a 40-yard dash that made the 1990-91 Cavaliers such a special team.
"Everybody on that team had enough heart to fill an auditorium up. Hard-nosed is a good way to put it. We may not have had the most skill in the district, but when the buzzer started we were ready to go," said Harmon, a 6-4, 195 senior on that team. "We had talent, but as much talent as we had, we had that much more heart tenfold. Anybody you wanted to stick in there, it was a pretty good exchange. We had a deep bench and all those young guys off the bench, they played their heart out. It was a joy."
It also didn't hurt that the seven seniors on that team benefitted from a pair of old-school coaches. As sophomores and juniors, the upperclassmen on the 1991 team played under the guidance of Ron Quesenberry, long known as one of the toughest coaches in the area. Sharp, who helped lead Carroll County to its only two state tournament appearances as a player in 1979 and 1980, took over prior to the 1990-91 season. Immediately, he imposed his will and toughness on the senior-heavy Cavaliers.
"A lot of that hardnosed attitude was Sharp rubbing off on us. He reminded us of Clint Eastwood with a whistle around his neck," Harmon said. "He was kind of quiet, but when it came time to get his point across, he got it across. And we had to play him in practice. He was a beast in there. We had nothing but respect for him. Coach Quesenberry was Bobby Knight, Jr. With Sharp and Quesenberry, we could have wrote the book Season on the Brink 2 and 3."
And while most players on the 1990-91 team will concede superiority to the 1978-79 Cavalier team, Sharp said the '91 squad was better in some regards.
"If anything that team had more depth than we did. They weren't as big, but we had depth at every position on that '91 team. We weren't quite that deep (in 78-79)," Sharp said. "The '91 team was very athletic, very competitive and very hard-nosed. They wouldn't back down from anybody. Greg was 6-3 and played 6-6. Dustin was 6-4, Andrew Hawks was 6-5, and Jason Stockner was 6-1 and played 6-6 or 6-7. Matt Montgomery was an all-state baseball player. And we had talented guys coming off the bench."
Indeed, perhaps the team's depth can be measured by looking at the superlatives from that season. Matt Montgomery's 23-point effort against George Wythe was the most scored by a Cavalier that season, while 12 rebounds were the most hauled in by a single Carroll player that year. Harmon led the team with a modest 12.1 points and 6.2 rebounds per game, while Montgomery scored 10.5 points a contest and Bolen netted 9.7 points and 6.4 rebounds.
"It was just a fun group of guys to be with and there wasn't any individual stuff. When we got together to play ball, that's what we got together to do, to win," said Sumner. "We were serious, we meant business and we had fun doing it. We were tough on each other in practice and we expected to win a ball game. We didn't expect to back down from anybody."
Bolen and Harmon were the enforcers on that team in the low blocks. Perhaps it's ironic both went on to pursue careers in the criminal justice field.
"Greg was so tough, especially if he could have stay in a whole game," Sumner said. "Sometimes he would get in foul trouble because he played so violently. You didn't want to get into his way."
The Beginnings
Three years before the state tournament season of 1991, several of the seniors on that team went undefeated on Carroll County Intermediate School's 9th grade team with Sharp as the coach. Of course, back then St. Paul School still went through the 9th grade, so Cana players such as Mickey Leonard didn't join forces with the rest of the Cavaliers until their sophomore seasons.
By the next season, Bolen, Harmon and Leonard were all starting on the varsity team at CCHS. Much like Ryan Gravley and Austin Horton, who suffered through a two-win season as freshmen, Bolen, Harmon and Leonard were part of a two-win team as 10th graders.
"You have to take your lumps to be successful," said Bolen, now the Chief of the Hillsville Police Department. "You really do have to learn how to win, but you have to learn how to lose first."
As juniors, the team finished 8-14, with perhaps its most memorable moment having nothing to do with basketball. Late in a New River District road game at George Wythe, tensions exploded into a benches-clearing brawl after Bolen took a hard and blatant foul after coming up with a steal.
"Somebody fouled Greg Bolen and it was a pretty blatant foul. Nobody liked it, especially Greg. And when Greg showed his displeasure with the foul, the George Wythe bench didn't like it and we jumped in," Harmon said. "It escalated from there. I remember looking up, Allen Green hit me under my chin and he was about 6-4, 230 pounds. He laid me dizzy for a minute and I staggered back to my bench. It was something."
The game was eventually called with 39 seconds left and the Cavaliers had to have a police escort out of town as even the Maroons' fans entered into the melee.
"I got pulled down from behind after I got a steal and he swung at me as we were falling. And so in my normal fashion, I retaliated" Bolen recalled. "The benches cleared, a fan came out of the stands and tackled me and things got crazy. Fans were throwing plastic bottles and trash at us in the parking lot, anything they could find. But that was just the type of loyalty we had, we took care of each other even in something like that. It was something that should have never happened in the first place, but it's competitive sports. There was no team I saw or played against that was as physical as our team my senior year. We weren't dirty, but we were the most physical team anybody was going to play."
Even though that team finished 8-14, expectations were high going into the 1990-91 campaign with seven seniors returning. And despite an early loss to George Wythe, Carroll County proved its worth early in the season in the Marion Holiday Classic with wins over Northwood, Marion and Radford. In the semifinal, the Cavaliers proved they were going to be a force to reckon with as they dismantled a Marion team by 19 points that had almost its entire squad back from the Region IV championship club of 1989-90. Carroll would go on to beat Radford 68-56 in the championship game of the Holiday Classic.
"Winning the tournament was a huge deal. Behind the scenes, three of us were playing with the flu - me, Dustin and Mickey," Bolen said. "Each game we had a different high scorer. It was because of matchups. Sharp and (assistant coach Howard) Mayo were master technicians as far as matching up players."
The Cavaliers then matched the best start to a season in school history with a 75-56 victory over Salem, earning Carroll ranks of 6th in the Timesland and 9th in the Group AA poll. In the next game against Christiansburg, Montgomery would go 0-for-7 from the floor until swishing a 40-foot bomb at the buzzer for a 50-49 victory, causing the student section to rush the floor.
"Pat and I had a very good working relationship and I said, 'Coach, I think I have something that can work.' He said, 'Take it and show it to them,'" said Mayo, who would go on to build a powerhouse girls' basketball program at CCHS before taking girls' head coaching jobs at Starmount and now Mount Airy. "We talked about a couple of people setting down screens, sending Matt and Mickey long. Matt caught it, took a dribble and let it fly, hit nothing but the bottom of net. It was a great moment for a high school game because the student section just rushed the floor and the whole team celebrated with the student section. That is what high school basketball is all about."
The Cavaliers would hammer Rural Retreat in the next game 105-61 before hitting a rough spell, losing three of their next four contests. Carroll would bounce back by winning its next three games, including a 116-40 victory over Rural Retreat in which the Cavs set school records that still stand for most points in a game and largest margin of victory in school history for a boys' or girls' game.
Carroll lost its next two games to finish second in the regular season New River District standings. The Cavs earned a Region IV berth after beating Christiansburg 60-54 in the district tournament semifinal before falling to Blacksburg in the championship. The team then advanced to the state by beating Lee High 72-60 and Tazewell 55-53 in the Region IV Tournament, but lost to Marion in the regional final in a rematch from the Holiday Classic.
Carroll drew probably the toughest possible opponent in the state tournament in defending state champion Robert E. Lee. The Cavs would keep it close, trailing by just two points at the half, before losing 75-60.
"I think Pat did a great job of having practices organized and going out and having specific goals we wanted to reach each day in practice," Mayo said. "It was a very deep team. They did a good job of pushing each other in practice. We may not have had a superstar, but you put that team together and they played well together. They were very hard to beat."
"That whole team beat off of one heartbeat. You kind of knew what everybody was going to do. Coach Sharp and Mayo had us like factory workers," Bolen said. "We knew our role. Everybody had a specific job. And our bench was so deep, we really didn't lose a step. Our next five could have started for any team in the district that year."
Then and Now
Although the Cavaliers also went to the state in 1979-80 and followed it up with an NRD title in 1981, most would consider the 1978-79 squad the best of that trio. Twelve years later, Carroll County made the state tourney again in '91. Fast forward 22 more years to 2013 and the Cavaliers are again contenders to make a deep postseason run with a 20-1 record.
Bridging that 34-year gap is Joey Marshall, an assistant on this year's varsity team. Marshall was a stellar point guard in his own right as a junior on the '91 club, coached by Sharp, giving him a unique perspective on all three eras.
"Our team was big, we were athletic and deep. You look at this year's team and it's sort of a mirror image because they are big, they are quick and athletic, and extremely deep. You look back at the history and you don't find that but about every 10 to 15 years," Marshall said. "I am around the AAU program and I don't see any team in the foreseeable future that is going to compare with the talent that is there now. It could easily be 15 to 20 more years."
Perhaps it's only natural that the current players ask Marshall constantly if he thinks the '91 team could beat the 2013 Cavs.
"As a player your pride says, 'Well, yeah.' But as a coach wanting them to succeed at the highest level, I hope we can go further than they did," Marshall said. "If you compare records, our record was not as good. But five of our losses were five points or less. But you also have to look at the teams we were losing to. Just like Pat's team, we played in a tough New River District and then our nondistrict schedule was just phenomenal. When we got beat by Robert E. Lee, they had a player named Marcus Reed, a division I player at VCU."
Everybody knows about the talents of senior guard Ryan Gravley, the returning SWD Player of the Year. But junior point guard Gunnar Beamer is also an incredibly talented player that probably doesn't get near the recognition he deserves.
"He is probably the quickest guard that I have ever seen," Marshall said. "That is why when we go to the four-wide series at the end when we are winning, it's almost impossible to beat us because of our ball-handling with Gunnar. He is just phenomenal. Me and Gunnar were mirror images. I didn't put up big numbers, but my job was to control the ball and have no turnovers. I am partial to that position because I know what kind of pressure is on Gunnar. Mickey Leonard was the same way. Without a good point guard you won't be successful."
Marshall also sees a lot of similarities in the depth of both teams. With Cody Keith, Duncan Reece, Winston Giles, Tyler Lineberry and other talented subs coming off the bench, the current team can continue to apply pressure to opponents like the '91 group did.
"When we came in and got our chance, you knew if you didn't play well you were coming out of the game. It's the same thing this year," Marshall said. "When Brad puts someone in, if they don't perform at their highest level, they go back to the bench. If you notice a lot of times the starting five is in a close game, then when the other team subs and Brad subs, the score goes to double digits."
It's hard to compare those two teams though because the 2013 team likes to press teams into submission and score in transition. Under Sharp, the Cavaliers would walk the ball up the floor and take time to set up the offense to take advantage of its size.
"We played a different style," Marshall said. "We played a Princeton-style offense compared to a UNLV style. You just can't compare those."
Bolen is a huge fan of this year's Carroll team. But idolizing and having worn the number 40 of notorious Detroit Pistons' badboy Bill Laimbeer, Bolen said he will still relish that role in comparing the teams.
"I love these guys. They are so fun to watch. I know them all personally, and watching them play I have tremendous respect for them. But we are talking about competitive pride here and history, so I definitely feel if somebody is going to be the bad guy, why not continue the tradition? Our inside game was so tough and so strong, I would give us an advantage over this year's team's inside game. We were just so physical," Bolen said. "Ryan would have definitely been hard to handle and Gunnar is an amazing ball-handler, so we would have probably had a little bit of trouble keeping them in check. I do think this year's team will go farther than we did. They play so unselfishly, they play great team ball and they have great coaching. They can only beat themselves."
And what about the 1978-79 team?
"I don't think any of the three teams would run each other out of the building, but I would have to give the advantage to the 78-79 team," Bolen said. "I would have to give a major edge to the 78-79 team, not trying to take anything away from either squad. Everybody will have pride in their own squad, but it sure would be fun to jump in the time machine."
Right now, Marshall is focused on the present. He's heard for years about the great crowds that used to pack the gym at CCHS in the late 70s/early 80s. He remembers a huge home crowd for a regional game in 1991. With Carroll County set to host the Region IV Tournament from Feb. 18-22, he hopes the community will come out to support the team in droves like it used to in the old glory days.
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As my spring semester at the Community College of Vermont (CCV) comes to a close, I thought I would take a moment to share some thoughts on an environmental topic that I learned some new information about -- the effects of plastic on the environment.
Plastic is an extremely cheap material to produce, and thus the use of plastic material has become commonplace throughout the world. The use of plastics has been imbedded in our everyday routines, especially when you consider how plastic material is a great way to package and store food items. In addition, the use of plastic grocery bags is very common among Americans -- as at least 40 percent of Americans prefer plastic to paper. One of the lesser-known environmental effects associated with plastic is the chemical pollutants and large amounts of fossil fuels that are associated with the creation of plastic. Plastic production sends toxic chemicals into the air and contributes to the greenhouse gases that accumulate in our atmosphere.
One of the major environmental issues related to plastic is how an unfortunate amount of it is carelessly disposed of (through littering) on land and makes its way into waterways. Solar radiation and oxidation degrade plastic into smaller and smaller pieces, but plastic never disappears altogether once it is exposed to our environment. Fish, birds and other water mammals confuse the plastic pieces as a food source and can die of starvation. Furthermore, approximately 1 million seabirds and marine mammals die every year due to plastic being entangled within their bodies.
Plastic accounts for nearly 86 percent of ocean debris. Though an ocean is located far away from this area, who is to say that plastic littered around here doesn't make its way to the ocean? Plastic debris that makes its way into the Mad River could end up in the Atlantic Ocean. Though we may not think about how tossing a plastic grocery bag or a plastic bottle on the side of the road could affect fish and bird populations hundreds of miles away, the reality of the matter is, it can definitely add to the accumulation of plastic in waterways. Furthermore, animal species living in our area are more than likely to be affected by our plastic waste in much of the same ways that marine species are affected, either by entanglement or starvation from a stomach full of plastic pieces that they unknowingly substituted as a food source.
With Green Up Day fast approaching it seemed appropriate to place an emphasis on the importance of cleaning up all the plastic waste that litters our area. The Mad River Valley is generally a clean and beautiful area. I believe many people recognize the importance of contributing their time to clean-up efforts. However, recently I have noticed two areas that are covered with plastic waste and lie in close proximity to the Mad River. The tennis courts located behind the Moretown School have a considerable amount of plastic waste and Route 100 seemed to have a lot of plastic waste as well.
It is important that we clean up the Mad River Valley, but it is even more important that residents and visitors consider how their individual choices can reduce the amount of plastic that ends up on our land. Plastic is impossible to completely eliminate from our lives, but we can choose to make positive choices, such as recycling what is recyclable, reusing plastic bags or containers whenever possible and, more importantly, developing an awareness of how impactful plastic is on environments near and far, if it is not disposed of properly. Even the smallest amount of plastic waste can affect our environment.
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The Medeba of the Bible is today Madaba, 'the City of Mosaics', most famous for its spectacular Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics from the 5th to 7th centuries, which are scattered throughout the town's homes and churches. Located just 19 miles (30km) south of Amman, Madaba is also home to the famous 6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land, in which Jerusalem and its surrounding regions are depicted. One of the town's most beautiful mosaics covers the floor of the Byzantine Church of the Apostles, and the Archaeological Park features an impressive collection of mosaic collages, where a series of ramps has been built over excavated mosaics to allow people to view them from above. Madaba is also known for its hand-woven carpets and tapestries and it is possible to see them being made in several shops around town.
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By Ann Quinn Todd : January 23, 2013 : Updated: February 4, 2013 1:43pm
Photo By Courtesy of AHAAnn Quinn Todd is the former director of the Eddy Scurlock Stroke Center at The Methodist Hospital, a member of the Texas Council on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, and a member of the American Heart Association s Texas State Advocacy Committee.
Photo By Marc SwendnerA health care worker performs a pulse oximetry test on a newborn at Seton Medical Center in Austin.
Photo By Marc SwendnerA health care worker performs a Pulse Oximetry test to a newborn at Seton Medical Center in Austin.
More than 14,000 children are born in Texas each year with some heart condition or congenital irregularity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cardiac defects account for nearly 30 percent of infant deaths.
Texas lawmakers have an opportunity during the 83rd legislative session - with Senate Bill 253 - to save newborn lives by requiring screening for congenital heart disease at all birth facilities throughout Texas.
In the past, lawmakers have had the foresight to create a newborn-health-screening panel, and recent studies have demonstrated the need for pulse oximetry as a tool to help identify heart disease, a logical progression of diagnosing newborn health.
When a baby is born, hospitals routinely perform hearing, sight and reflex tests to ease parents' anxiety. Adding pulse oximetry, a noninvasive test, to this program would check newborn production of oxygen and hemoglobin.
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The results, determined within minutes, estimate the percentage of hemoglobin in blood that is saturated with oxygen and determine whether there are low levels of oxygen - a sign that there could be congenital heart disease and more testing or physician consultation needs to take place. If not administered, parents and children could be surprised days, months or years down the road to be informed of a fatal defect that could have been identified on day one.
Congenital heart defects range in severity. Some can cause life-threatening symptoms that require intervention within the first days of life. Many babies born with a heart defect appear healthy at first and can be sent home with their families before their heart defect is detected.
An estimated 300 infants with an unrecognized congenital heart defect are discharged each year from newborn nurseries in the U.S. These babies are at risk for serious complications within the first few days or weeks of life and often require emergency care.
Why is the American Heart Association advocating for this legislation? Of all infant deaths caused by birth defects, nearly one in three is because of a congenital heart defect that could be identified at birth via this simple test.
The 83rd Texas Legislature could make a significant impact on heart disease, the No. 1 killer of Texans, by embracing Senate Bill 253 and sending it to Gov. Rick Perry for his signature. Thousands of lives would be impacted, and these Texas babies could go on to lead productive, healthy lives as the next generation of teachers, nurses, doctors and parents, the future of Texas.
As a retired nurse, member of the American Heart Association's State Advocacy Committee and longtime volunteer, I encourage our Texas lawmakers to save these tiny lives and enact this legislation during the 83rd session.
To find out more about this advocacy effort and how you can assist the American Heart Association during the current legislative session, visit www.heart.org.