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In OPAL, Daemon's long lost twin brother Dawson has finally returned. That would be great and a reason to celebrate and all, were there not the teeny tiny complication of his girlfriend still being held captive by the Department of Defense.
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Beth, Dawson's girlfriend, whom we got to know as incredibly powerful and so awesome, that the DOD has trouble catching her whenever she escapes, is now in need of rescue. Yeah, because she couldn't free herself, our group of beloved alien and non-alien heroes has to put themselves through a terrible, terrible form of torture to be able to save her.
Yet again, I have no idea how Armentrout is able to fill four hundred pages with this. It took me probably more than two weeks to finally get through this novel because it was just so hard to read and simply not entertaining me in the slightest. The plot seemed rather predictable and not very creative to me. From long forgotten characters who used to be plot devices, to random side characters, everyone returns to get a piece of Katy.
It's a certainty by this point that everyone who turns badside and has the nerve to put up with Katy, whether she's alone or with the Luxen, WILL die. Yeah, she can take about everything when she's on her own, maybe suffers a few injuries that aren't dramatic anyways if youy boyfriend is an intergalactic healer, but when in company, Katy morphs into a baby kitten.
Yawn, Yawn, Yawn, Heroine
I've said it once and I'm going to say it again: I'd rather have read about Daemon's sister Dee. Who, by the way, has about three scenes of dialogue in OPAL. She's so interesting and their friendship was actually fun and nothing like the forced plot-relationship that is Katy's and Carissa's. Or was that Lesa? I don't even know who is who, that's how much I don't care about her filler school friends.
Because Armentrout dragged this novel so much I found myself contemplating to just stop reading and forget book 3 ever happened. I loved the first book, the second one was alright, but this one is just ... ugh. But in the end, Armentrout made it by inserting a really intense cliffhanger end scene that makes it impossible for me to stop. I still don't care about 70% of the people in this novel but somehow, I'm longing for this to change. There are five books for a reason, aren't there?
Overall: Do I Recommend?
Honestly, if you were as into the Lux Series as I was in the beginning, the answer is kind of obvious.
By this point it feels like an obligation to continue, even if it gets insanely bad. I still think that the Lux Series is worth reading even though it gets worse book by book.
By this point it feels like an obligation to continue, even if it gets insanely bad. I still think that the Lux Series is worth reading even though it gets worse book by book.
"After everything, I'm no longer the same Katy. I'm different...
And I'm not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I'm capable of.
The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won't turn back.
Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever. Together we're stronger... and they know it"


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It looks more and more like unrestricted free-agent tailback BenJarvus Green-Ellis will not return to the reigning AFC champion New England Patriots. According to reports, New England's leading rusher is starting to gather interest and will meet with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Green-Ellis was part of a rotation in New England. The Patriots drafted two running backs last year (Stevan Ridley and Shane Vereen) and won't overpay to bring Green-Ellis back. He can get more money elsewhere.
The Bengals, who made the playoffs last season, are looking for a primary ball carrier to replace unrestricted free agent Cedric Benson. Green-Ellis led the Patriots in rushing last season with 667 yards and 11 touchdowns. But perhaps what's most impressive is he's never fumbled in his four-year career.
Here are some additional AFC East notes on Day 2 of free agency:
Former Houston Texans defensive end Mario Williams remains in Buffalo Wednesday, where he underwent a physical. Good sign for the Bills?
In more Patriots news, they agreed to a three-year contract with defensive lineman Jonathan Fanene.
The New York Jets have re-signed kicker Nick Folk, the team announced.
The Miami Dolphins are hosting former Cleveland Browns guard and offensive tackle Artis Hicks.

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Seaweed, Mud, Hunger and Other Luxuries
By MICHAEL SPECTER
Published: May 29, 1992
LENOX, Mass.— WE survived the endless orientation tour, with its detailed explanations of exfoliation facials, herbal therapy and aroma wraps. We had been fully briefed on aerobics classes (aqua, funk, step and hi-lo combo), the stress-reduction workshops, nutrition management seminars and, of course, the special Canyon Ranch diet ("Instead of prices our menus list calories and grams of fat next to every dish").
Vats of gel and raw seaweed were waiting should we wish to marinate in them. Gleaming rows of Stairmasters, Lifecycles and treadmills beckoned silently. A team of experts in hypnosis and biofeedback stood ready to serve. Wild things with mud had been planned.
But first, we had to get past the nurse.
"What are you hoping to get out of your stay at Canyon Ranch?" she asked, as she took my blood pressure and measured my heart rate.
"The usual," I replied. "Weight loss, a sense of inner serenity, personal fulfillment and the ability to avoid stress."
"If you want all that -- and you really should," she said ominously, "I have just one bit of advice for you. Get in the moment. Right now you're not in the moment. That much is clear. You're in the past, you're in the future, you are all over the place. But you are not in the moment. And if you're not in the moment you are simply not alive."
She had a point. The moment I was in right then, as she wrapped the blood pressure cuff around my throbbing arm, was the one that had occurred about an hour earlier, as we slipped into the misty foothills of the Berkshires.
That was when my wife informed me that she couldn't move her neck without excruciating pain. Suddenly, without warning, she had developed P.S.D. -- psychosomatic spa disorder -- a rare but disabling illness that seemed to worsen as we approached the gates of the renowned health facility.
I was so afraid she would feel obliged to spend four days immobilized with the VCR in our room that I hardly winced when she signed up for 13 massages, facials and pedicures within 45 minutes of our arrival. After all, the Ranch hands may deprive you of sugar, fat, alcohol, nicotine and artificial sweeteners (my wife did manage to smuggle in one pitiful packet of Sweet'n Low), but it was supposed to be a sybaritically spartan sort of place. And it was.
Founded in Tucson, Ariz., during the waning days of the Me Decade, the Canyon Ranch quickly developed a reputation as the spa most likely to help the aging hipsters of both Coasts through the shaky transition from Dom Perignon to Poland Spring. Ten years later, in 1989, the owners purchased one of Lenox's most spectacular 19th-century mansions to establish a foothold only a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Manhattan.
The Canyon Ranch approach to rejuvenation is fairly simple: mix three parts vigorously planned and carefully selected exercise, two parts good, nutritious food prepared in rationed doses by excellent chefs and one healthy measure of holistic, life-affirming pap. Entering the Environment
New arrivals are met at the gate of Bellefontaine, the mansion that dominates the 120-acre complex, by a guard who directs them toward the main entrance a quarter-mile away. By the time you arrive, the guard has radioed ahead and the staff has quietly begun to prepare its greeting.
Once inside, guests rarely leave the grounds -- or even the building -- until they check out, usually three or four days later. But sometimes people (truly rich people) stay for weeks. If Albert Brooks had included a health club scene in "Defending Your Life," his movie about the shadow world between Earth and the next place, it surely would have been the Canyon Ranch. Everyone is immediately issued a robe, a water bottle and a little booklet (a physical fitness version of a Filofax) to keep track of calorie consumption, fat content and spa appointments. Most people spend the first day or so wandering around half-dressed, clutching their bottle and wondering what has become of them.
The well-prepared instructors display the same evenly temperate attitude about all problems. (Though in low-impact aerobics class one day, Rich, a teacher plainly exasperated by the sloth of his students, got so tired of hearing two dozen women complain of hunger pangs that he blurted out, "I guess if I had a few blintzes right now I'd be a millionaire.")
The rooms are connected to the spa area and exercise gyms and restaurant by a long hallway. Wall posters etched in inspirational pastels over scenes of gently breaking waves and inviting mountains help guide the wanderer. ("A journey of 1,000 miles begins with but one single step," "Nurture yourself from the inside out," and "Mission possible," were among the more original. "Balance Matters" -- the most frequently repeated -- ran like the 11th commandment through the corridors.) So Many Choices, So Few Calories
There are many specific choices one must make each day at Canyon Ranch ("Do I take that 7 A.M. pole hike into the woods today? Will 'Lift and Learn' at 11 ruin me for 'Moving Your Inner Child' two hours later?"). But once you get the hang of it the routine needn't vary.


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Without knowing the method to their madness, it's difficult to justify the words and the actions of the Kansas City Chiefs when it comes to their offensive line. Here's what coach Andy Reid said last year shortly after they drafted offensive tackle Eric Fisher with the first overall pick.
"You can't have enough good offensive linemen," Reid said then. "You can't win without offensive linemen. You can't win without defensive linemen. That's just the way the game works. You've got to be strong in those positions. I understand the importance of that. That's what we need here."
That's a fine philosophy. Championships have been won by teams that embraced it.
But the Chiefs are 31st among the NFL's 32 teams in salary-cap spending on their offensive line. When it comes to cash spending, or money teams are doling out to offensive linemen this year alone, the Chiefs are 32nd and last. They're spending $7.9 million this year on their offensive linemen.
I wasn't among those predicting gloom and doom for the Chiefs when they lost three offensive linemen to free agency. They've spent a lot of their draft picks in recent years building depth on their offensive line to better withstand this type of hit.
I also believe you get what you pay for and right now, at least, the Chiefs are paying very little for their linemen. Part of that is the result of going with younger players on the offensive line. Four of the five starters are in the contracts they signed as rookies. The other starting spot is up for grabs but could be given to a developmental player such as Rishaw Johnson, who is making the minimum salary.
Teams can't spend lavishly at all positions. The Chiefs this year are spending much higher than the league average at wide receiver and, as we will see in a subsequent post, linebacker and defensive back.
If they're going to do that, they have to spend less than the average at other positions. For the Chiefs, the offensive line positions are among them.
The only way Reid's words make sense in this context is if the Chiefs' continue to use a high pick or two each year on offensive linemen. That way, they can keep a supply of talented but lower-paid linemen and save money for other positions.
So don't sleep on the possibility of the Chiefs drafting an offensive lineman in an early or middle round this year. It makes sense from both need and financial perspectives.


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Network anonymisation firm TOR has posted a strange piece of commentary on reports that some of the anonymous servers it routes to have completely disappeared from its network in the last two days.
ìAround midnight on August 4th, we were notified by a few people that a large number of hidden service addresses have completely disappeared from the Tor Network,î the post read.
ìThere are a variety of rumors about a hosting company for hidden services, that it is suddenly offline, has been breached, or attackers have placed a javascript exploit on their web siteî.
As it explores the rumors, the post goes on to name an entity called Freedom Hosting, and to vigorously dissociate TOR from the organization.
Distancing TOR from Freedom seems a fine idea given numerous reports, such as this from The Irish Examiner, suggesting that its founder Eric Marques has been arrested because the FBI believes he facilitated the distribution of child porn using TOR. The FBI now wants to extradite Marques to the U.S.
For now, TOR still isn't quite sure if the arrest and the disappearance of some nodes is linked, but is saying ìsomeone has exploited the software behind Freedom Hosting in a way that it injects some sort of javascript exploit in the web pages delivered to users.î
That payload results in malware reaching users' PCs, possibly thanks to ìpotential bugs in Firefox 17 ESR, on which our TOR Browser is based,î the past warned.
TOR is ìinvestigating these bugs and will fix them if we can,î it said. Various forums online, however, report that the malware has spread beyond sites hosted by Freedom. Some suggest TORmail, TOR's secure email service, may also have been compromised, or that the attack means TOR is no longer able to mask users' IP addresses.
TOR's post says it's not sure what's really happening and that it will update users once it learns more.
In other internet security news
On many levels, Edward Snowdenís revelations about the activities of the various security organizations in the U.S. have not come as a real surprise, yet they still were a wake-up call on how the overview of our own personal data security has changed in the past year, and it's mostly caused by the mobile segment.
Multiple devices and increased mobility have meant that we have looked for new methods to ensure that we have access to our data wherever and whenever.
It's also increasingly uncommon to find a homogeneous household in terms of manufacturer or operating system. It's now fairly common to find Windows, OS X, Android, iOS and even Linux devices all within a single household. Throw in digital cameras and a couple of smart TVs, and it's no wonder that we have a situation that makes data sharing in a secure fashion more and more problematic for the average person.
So file-syncing and sharing products such as Dropbox, SkyDrive and GoogleDrive are pretty much inevitable consequences of this. The everage user now has a broad selection of these services-- some are free and some paid for, but pretty much all of them are insecure. In fact, some are even a whole lot worse than you'd expect.
Of course, it would be nice if the operating system manufacturers could agree on a standard which included encryption of data in-flight and at rest with a simple and easy-to-use key-sharing mechanism.
But even with that, we would probably still not trust it any more, but it might at least provide us an initial level of defence, for what it's worth anyway.
Some of us have already started to look at several ways of adding encryption to the various cloud services they use. In the past, some used TrueCrypt, but it's not seamless and can be complex for nothing. But this is becoming more feasible as apps such as Cryptonite and DiskDecipher are appearing for mobile devices.
Recently, we started to play with BoxCryptor and EncFS. BoxCryptor seems nice and easy to use, certainly on the desktop. It supports multiple cloud providers, although the free version only supports a single cloud provider ó if you want to encrypt your multiple cloud stores, you will have to pay.
There are also alternatives such as Cloudfogger, but development for BoxCryptor seems to be ongoing. There is also perhaps the option of building your own "sync and share" service.
Another new service called 'Transporter' recently successfully launched and looks good, while another one called 'Plug' is in the process of getting launched as well.
Similarly, Synology Devices has Cloud Station, and QNAP has myQNAPcloud. Or, you can go totally build your own and use ownCloud.
And of course, in the enterprise segment you have a multitude of options as well. The main thing is, you need not store your data in the cloud in an insecure manner. You have lots of options now, from keeping it local to using a cloud service provider.
Encryption is still not as user friendly as it could be, but it has got easier. We'll update you soon on this and other topics.
In other internet security news
The same security research team that discovered significant internet security vulnerabilties in more than a dozen home wireless Wi-Fi routers adds even more devices to that list at Defcon 21 - 2013.
More and more major brand-name Wi-Fi router security vulnerabilities continue to be discovered by the team, and continue to go unpatched, a security researcher has revealed.
Jake Holcomb, a security researcher at the Baltimore-based security firm Independent Security Evaluators and the lead researcher into Wi-Fi router vulnerabilities, said that the issues are far worse than when ISE released its original findings in April of this year.
The latest study continues to reveal that the small office and home office Wi-Fi routers are "very vulnerable to attack," Holcomb added.
"They're not a means to protect your network and your digital assets," he cautioned. Holcomb is a relatively young researcher, in his mid-20s, who turned his lifelong interest in computer security into a professional career only in the past year.
Previously, he was doing network security for a school district in Ohio. The new report details no less than fifty-six new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, or CVEs, that Holcomb and the other ISE researchers have discovered in popular routers.
Those include the Asus RT-AC-66U router, the D-Link DIR-865L, and the TrendNet TEW-812-DRU router, for which Holcomb plans on demonstrating security vulnerabilities at Defcon today.
Additional requests for comment from the affected vendors were not immediately returned. We will update this story when we hear from them.
You might not think that the router security flaws could affect you, or would be easy to exploit, but Holcomb explained that because the security vulnerabilities appear to affect most routers, and are difficult to repair, these could put nearly every user who connects to a vulnerable router at great risk.
And the scenario he explained was a very common one. Small-business and home Wi-Fi router administration often employs weak passwords, or static passwords that are the same across multiple stores, like a Starbucks.
All an attacker has to do is go to his favorite coffee spot, buy a coffee and get the establishment's Wi-Fi password. Then, equipped with access to the Wi-Fi network, all that attacker would have to do is use one of the exploits that ISE has uncovered.
The wireless router would then be compromised, including all the Web traffic flowing through it. Holcomb compared the problem of fixing routers to traditional PCs. "In most cases, automatic updates are enabled for Windows and Mac," he said.
But, he added, "even if a router manufacturer were to implement a similar feature, most people don't log into their routers, and that's the core of the whole problem."
Basically, and because people have been trained to think of the router as a set-it-and-forget-it device, and one without security holes, it's nearly impossible to get them to update router firmware.
And the fix won't be an easy one either, at least not logistically. "I think the solution is for wireless routers to automatically update themselves, and offer users the ability to opt out of it," Holcomb said.
However, given the great reluctance of some major router manufacturers to address these security issues, those exploits could exist unpatched in the wild for several years to come.
Holcomb said that while TP-Link fixed all the security vulnerabilities that ISE reported to it, D-Link has never responded. And Linksys, he said, chose not to repair many of the vulnerabilities reported to it.
In the case of the Linksys EA-6500, someone can place their own code in the router's configuration file and then overwrite it as much as they can!
"It's an attack that relies heavily on social engineering," said Holcomb, "but it's an example of the vendors not resolving a security vulnerability. Why not, I still don't know."
Under the guidelines of responsible disclosure, Holcomb says that ISE notified all wireless router manufacturers of the security vulnerabilities discovered before going public with them, giving them a chance to fix them.
Holcomb will be demonstrating how to take control of three different routers using a different security vulnerability in each.
For the aforementioned Asus router, he plans to demonstrate a buffer overflow exploit. For the D-Link, he plans to use Web-based and symlink directory traversal exploits. He will then attack the TrendNet Wi-Fi router using a cross-site scripting forgery and command injection exploit.
"All three give us a root shell," he said, meaning access to the router's lowest levels of code, and that's a very big issue.
Holcomb will be speaking at Defcon's Wall of Sheep Speaker Workshop at the conference's Wireless Village today, August 4.
In other internet security news
The official Twitter account of the Reuters news agency has apparently become a direct conduit for pro-Assad propaganda yesterday after the account was hacked into by attackers from the new very infamous Syrian Electronic Army.
Updates supportive of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad spewed from @thomsonreuters before stability was somewhat restored and the news agency regained control of the hacked account.
The compromised Twitter account was then used to place a series of various propaganda messages and cartoons in support of President Assad's government.
Since March 2011, Syria has been embroiled in a very bloody and messy civil war. Uprisings against the Assad government have resulted in numerous clashes between rebels and the regime's forces, which are supported by the terrorist group Hezbollah.
According to some security and human rights researchers, including InfoWar Monitor, the SEA has also been tasked with hacking and otherwise disrupting opposition websites within Syria itself.
Syrian citizens' access to the Web has been cut off twice in the past two years-- once in the second month of the civil war, and most recently as rebel forces fought their way into the capital city of Damascus at the end of 2012.
Reuters is the latest in a long line of well-known media organizations perceived to be pro-rebel or against the Assad regime. Previous victims include The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera and The Onion.
An attack on the Associated Press in April was used to falsely claim that the White House had been bombed and President Barack Obama severely wounded, leading to a temporary dip in U.S. and global stock exchanges.
The group's main stock-in-trade involves multi-stage phishing attacks ultimately aimed at taking over email accounts associated with social media profiles of targeted organizations.
Unconfirmed reports also suggest that the SEA managed to take over three personal email accounts of White House employees. These compromised accounts were used to send secondary phishing emails, disguised as BBC or CNN articles, to other workers.
Prospective marks who clicked on these links were directed towards fake Gmail or Twitter login screens in a ruse aimed at harvesting login credentials.
The hacktivists said that, although their ultimate aim to compromise the White House website had failed, they have managed to compromise Twitter account passwords.
Twitter has suspended the group's official account ó @Official_SEA12 ó following the SEA's latest run of attacks on websites associated with VoIP apps Viber and Tango three weeks ago.
In other internet security news
Last Thrusday, two Russians arrested over their suspected involvement in the largest online fraud in U.S. history were simply tracked down by analyzing photographs that they posted previously to social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. All that police had to do after that was to simply track down the location of one suspect's mobile phone.
Overall, four Russians and a Ukrainian national were named as suspects in a credit card hacking scam investigation involving no less than 160 million credit cards and victimizing big organisations including the Nasdaq stock exchange, 7-Eleven, Carrefour, JC Penney, Hannaford, Heartland, Euronet and Global Payments in an indictment unsealed on Thursday.
The criminal group allegedly acted as wholesale suppliers of stolen credit card data to carding forums resulting in losses of more than $300 million to just three of the organizations they targeted. The investigation is ongoing.
Two of the suspects, alleged moneyman Dmitriy Smilianets, 29, and alleged hacker Vladimir Drinkman, 32, both from Moscow, were arrested in the Netherlands in June 2012.
Smilianets has already been deported to the U.S., while Drinkman continues to fight against expulsion. Three other suspects still remain at large, however.
Alexandr Kalinin, 26, of Saint Petersburg, allegedly worked with Drinkman in breaking into the systems of targeted organizations, normally employing SQL injection attack techniques.
The group subsequently planted trojans and various virusses to harvest and extract credit card numbers and personal information from compromised computers.
Investigators say that Smilianets and Drinkman worked with notorious double-dealing cybercrime kingpin Albert Gonzalez in the famous 2009 hacking of Heartland Payment Systems.
The indictment alleged that Roman Kotov, 32, also from Moscow, specialized in mining the data networks allegedly compromised by Drinkman and Kalinin to steal valuable information.
Smilianets allegedly acted as a high-tech fence by selling stolen credit details through underground forums. The fifth suspect, Mikhail Rytikov, 26, of Odessa, Ukraine, provided the hosting services to the group, the indictment claims.
Smilianets kept a relatively high profile in Russia and an active presence on social networking sites, which was how they easily tracked him down.
He founded an electronic gaming team called Moscow 5 that travelled the world for competitions. In that role, Smilianets used a variety of online nicknames including Dima Brave and Dima Bold.
U.S. Secret Service agents received information that Smilianets was travelling to Europe last year along with Drinkman. Investigators quickly realized that Drinkman was one of several people suspected of collaborating with Gonzalez.
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The Frogs did little wrong in the big win that moved head football coach Gary Patterson into the top position as TCU's all-time winningest coach.
As we've done for several seasons, we take a look at how each unit performed and grade them on it. This is based solely the opinion of HornedFrogBlitz.com. With that said, let's take a look!
Game review: The Frogs passing game can be described with one word...perfection. Casey Pachall and Trevone Boykin put the ball exactly where they needed to on all of their attempts which allowed the receivers to haul in each catch with ease. They broke an NCAA record for most completions without an incompletion, so it wasn't too hard to grade out this group.
Pachall looked in mid-season form in only one half of work. His 21-yard touchdown pass will without a doubt catch the eye of pro scouts, it was an absolute dart. His 16-yard completion to Cam White was yet another "thread the needle" type throw. To show that he has touch, Pachall's best throw of the night might've been his 30-yard completion to Waymon James when he laid it where only James could make a catch.
As for Boykin, we all saw what kind of potential he has; and we still haven't see his arm unleashed. His 34-yard TD in the third quarter was one of the best runs you'll ever see a TCU QB make. He finished with 57 yards on five carries.
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Strong back muscles contribute to good posture and skeletal support. Osteoporosis, being a metabolic bone disease, should not affect muscle strength. In this study we were interested in comparing the back extensor strength (BES) of osteoporotic and normal women. Fifty-five women ages 40–85 years who had a documented diagnosis of osteoporosis and were referred for initiation of proper exercise programs were included in our study after meeting the inclusion criteria. They all had evaluation of their posture, back and upper extremity strength, and physical activity score through our Rehabilitation of Osteoporosis Program -Exercise (ROPE). In addition, to avoid the interference of pain on application of maximal effort, we did not include subjects with acute back pain or those who experienced back pain with maximal effort during the testing trial. BES for osteoporotic women ranged from 16 to 65 lb (mean ± SD, 36.5±15.5) for ages 40–59 years, 9 to 55 lb (mean ± SD, 29.9±10.6) for ages 60–69 years, 6 to 52 lb (mean ± SD, 24.3±10.2) for ages 70–79 years, and 17 to 27 lb (mean ± SD, 21.2±4.2) for ages 80 years or older. Comparison of these data with the BES of 25 normal women, with statistical adjustment for age, demonstrated that the osteoporotic women had significantly lower BES than the normal women. A longitudinal study of a larger group of women would be of great interest for clarifying whether the weakness of back extensors precedes and, indeed, contributes to compression fractures of the spine.
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The Supreme Court of the United States is the court with the highest level of federal judicial authority in the United States. Also informally called "SCOTUS," it was established in 1789 by Article III of the Constitution. It is the only court that the Constitution specifically establishes, and its jurisdiction and function are outlined by the Constitution and further clarified by Constitutional amendments, such as the Eleventh Amendment.
- The Supreme Court did not have a permanent building to operate in until 1935.
- The architect of New York City's Woolworth Building, Cass Gilbert, was also the architect of the Supreme Court building.
- The final cost of the completed Supreme Court building was $9,395,566.
- On the fifth floor of the Supreme Court building, there is an indoor basketball court, which is often referred to as "the highest court in the land."
- There have been six justices born in countries other than the United States.
- There are no requirements, either legal or constitutional, that a justice must have a law degree.
The function of the Supreme Court is to serve as the court of last resort when it comes to appealing legal decisions handed down by lower courts. In addition, the court has the power to assert jurisdiction over some cases. This means that the Supreme Court may hear certain cases without having to wait for them to go through lower courts first. Examples of such cases include those that involve disputes between states or between the federal government and a state government or involve diplomats. Its most well-known function is to judge the constitutionality of a given law, which means to decide whether a law in question is valid according to the court's interpretation of the Constitution. This is because the Constitution is by definition the supreme law of the land. As it is the highest of all federal courts, a decision handed down by the Supreme Court is final, and no other court in the country may contradict it.
The Supreme Court was designed by the founding fathers to be a part of a system of checks and balances, or separation of powers. The major government powers in question are defined as branches, known as the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The legislative branch, Congress, passes bills, while the executive branch, headed by the president, signs the bills to turn them into laws. The Supreme Court is the head of the judiciary branch and decides whether these laws are acceptable according to the Constitution.
- John Jay was appointed by George Washington as the first chief justice of the Supreme Court.
- The chief justice had an annual salary of $4,000 in 1789, and associate justices made roughly $500 less. As of 2015, the salaries are $258,100 for the chief justice and $246,800 for the associate justices.
- John Marshall served for 34 years, from 1801 to 1835, as the chief justice. His tenure as Chief Justice was the longest in history but was the fourth longest-serving justice.
- The justice who served the longest term was William O. Douglas, whose tenure lasted 36 years.
- The only president to also serve on the Supreme Court was William Howard Taft, who became chief justice eight years after his presidency.
- Since 1869, there have been nine justices on the Supreme Court; however, in 1789, the Judiciary Act called for only six.
- George Washington appointed ten justices to the Supreme Court, more than any other president in U.S. history.
The president of the United States has the power to nominate a judge or other qualified individual for the position of Supreme Court justice; however, the Senate has the power to confirm this nomination or block it, again preserving the balance of the three major powers of government. Once the Senate confirms a nominee to the Supreme Court, the appointed justice holds this position for life or until they die, resign, or are impeached and removed.
A case that reaches the Supreme Court typically comes as an appeal from a lower court, either a state court or a federal appeals court. The term "petitioner" refers to someone who appeals to the Supreme Court, and the opposing party is called the "respondent." The petitioner and respondent in an accepted case typically have half an hour to make their case before the Supreme Court, and they may be asked by the justices to answer questions during their presentation. A simple majority vote of the justices who are present is necessary for an official legal decision, although a justice may abstain. In this case, there is the possibility of a tied vote, in which case the lower court's decision will stand. If the court refuses to hear a case, this also leaves the lower court's decision as final. The decisions made by the justices of the Supreme Court are deliberated on in secret, and when deliberations are complete, the court will issue a majority opinion and a dissenting opinion. The majority opinion is written by a single justice, usually either the chief justice if they are part of the majority or the most senior jurist in the majority group. Any one of the justices may write a dissenting opinion. Sometimes a justice may issue a concurring opinion, which may agree partially with the majority opinion while disagreeing with other parts of the court's decision. The majority opinion is the Supreme Court's final and binding decision on a given legal dispute. The Supreme Court cannot enforce its own rulings, however, and it relies on law enforcement to uphold its decisions.
The Supreme Court is made up of eight associate justices and a chief justice, who is the leader of the tribunal. Chief Justice John G. Roberts has presided since 2005. The associate justices of the Roberts Court include Samuel A. Alito, Sonia M. Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Anthony M. Kennedy, Elena Kagan, and Ruth B. Ginsberg. Justice Antonin G. Scalia died on Feb. 13, 2016, leaving one seat open. His death has necessitated the selection of a replacement by President Barack Obama.
- Articles of impeachment were filed against Samuel Chase in 1804; however, he was acquitted in March 1805.
- Annually, the Supreme Court hears roughly 85 court cases out of 10,000 or more petitions it receives.
- The Judges' Bill, which is also known as the Judiciary Act of 1925, allows the court to decide whether they want to hear a case.
- The public may view oral arguments, but they are not present during the decision-making process and no cameras are allowed in the courtroom.
- Two justices shared the same name: John Marshall Harlan served from 1877-1911, and his grandson of the same name was a justice from 1955-71.
- The first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice was Sandra Day O'Connor, who was appointed in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan.
- In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American justice.
- In May 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was chosen to become the third female and the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
The Supreme Court has had a major impact on American history through many of its decisions. One of the most controversial early decisions it issued was the Dred Scott decision in 1857, which determined that people of African descent were not citizens of the United States. Plessy v. Ferguson, decided in 1896, declared that racial segregation was acceptable under the Constitution, and Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963 affirmed the Constitutional right to legal representation in a criminal case. Other landmark cases include Loving v. Virginia in 1967, which made interracial marriage legal across the country, and Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Other notable cases include the Citizens United case of 2010, which opened the doors to increased corporate funding of elections; Bush v. Gore, which decided the presidential election in 2000; the Arver v. United States decision of 1918, which preserved military conscription; and the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that upheld the right to have an abortion.
- The Supreme Court in the American System of Government
- Introduction to the Federal Court System
- The Supreme Court
- The U.S. Supreme Court: How it Works
- Clarence Thomas
- Fast Facts: John G. Roberts
- Anthony M. Kennedy
- A Brief Biography of Justice Ginsburg
- Ten Things You Didn't Know About Stephen Breyer
- None to the Right of Samuel Alito
- Elena Kagan Biography
- Introduction and History of the Supreme Court
- Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court: Roe v. Wade
- Significant Supreme Court Cases in American History
- Which History in Obergefell v. Hodges?
- From Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education: The Supreme Court Rules on School Desegregation
- The Citizens United Case
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Cohort differences in disease and disability in the young-old: findings from the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC-CFAS)
Projections of health and social care need are highly sensitive to assumptions about cohort trends in health and disability. We use a repeated population-based cross-sectional study from the Cambridgeshire centre of the UK Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study to investigate trends in the health of the young-old UK population
Non-overlapping cohorts of men and women aged 65–69 years in 1991/2 (n = 689) and 1996/7 (n = 687) were compared on: self-reported diseases and conditions; self-rated health; mobility limitation; disability by logistic regression and four-year survival by Cox Proportional Hazards Regression models, with adjustments for differences in socio-economic and lifestyle factors.
Survival was similar between cohorts (HR: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.62 to 1.32). There was a significant increase in the number of conditions reported between cohorts, with more participants reporting 3 or more conditions in the new cohort (14.2% vs. 10.1%). When individual conditions were considered, there was a 10% increase in the reporting of arthritis and a significant increase in the reporting of chronic airways obstruction (OR: 1.36, 95% CI: 1.04 to 1.78).
This study provides evidence of rising levels of ill-health, as measured by the prevalence of self-reported chronic conditions, in the newer cohorts of the young-old. Though changes in diagnosis or reporting of disease cannot, as yet, be excluded, to better understand whether our findings reflect real increases in ill-health, investment should be made into improved population-based databases, linking self-report and objective measures of health and function, and including those in long-term care.
Projections of health and social care need are highly sensitive to assumptions about trends in health and disability, particularly whether life expectancy is increasing slower than healthy life expectancy
When placed alongside the gains in life expectancy almost universally observed, it appears that all three possible scenarios of compression of morbidity (Fries
Thus the evidence from the UK of possibly worsening health at older ages remains unclear, especially as it is expressed through global self-reported measures such as self-rated health and self-reported longstanding illness. As many studies, including the General Household Survey
To further elucidate trends in morbidity in the older population in the UK, we analysed representative samples of those aged 65–69 years in 1991/2 and 1996/7, including those in institutions, at a single centre (East Cambridgeshire) of the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing study (MRC CFAS) to investigate changes in prevalence of disability, self-rated health and a range of self-reported diseases and impairments.
A full description of the six-centre MRC CFAS study design can be found elsewhere
For the initial screen, random samples of people aged 65 years or over were selected from the National Health Service primary care lists held by the Family Health Service Authority. Identical procedures were repeated in 1996–1997 for the new cohort aged 65–69 years and geographic boundaries remained the same. Individuals provided written consent to participate in the study and all CFAS interviewing was covered by local and multi-centre ethical approval (LREC 95/116 and P93/74). Ascertainment of individuals aged 65–69 years and interviewing was undertaken over a two year time period for each cohort. The exact dates of birth used to generate the sample were
▪ 1991–1992 base cohort
Year 1 1/10/1921 to 30/9/1926 ascertained 30/9/91
Year 2 1/10/1922 to 30/9/1927 ascertained 30/9/92
▪ 1996–1997 new cohort
Year 1 1/10/1926 to 30/9/1931 ascertained 30/9/96
Year 2 1/10/1927 to 30/9/1932 ascertained 30/9/97
All participants were interviewed at their place of residence, including the few in long-term care during 1991–1994 (for the 91/92 cohort) and 1996–1998 (for the new cohort) by trained interviewers who followed a computerised structured interview enquiring about socio-demography, general health (including chronic conditions), cognition, smoking, and physical function. In only 2 cases, one in each cohort, were interviews conducted with a proxy. Death information was provided on all participants who were interviewed from the Office of National Statistics and was complete to 31st December 2004.
Our underlying conceptual framework for defining health was the disablement process, beginning with disease/pathology, through functional limitation to disability
Participants were asked if they had ever suffered from heart attack, asthma, chronic bronchitis, arthritis, Parkinson's disease or thyroid problems. Those who had suffered from chronic bronchitis or asthma, (excluding childhood asthma) were classified as having chronic airways obstruction. Diagnostic scales were used for angina and intermittent claudication
Cognitive function was assessed using the Mini-Mental State Examination
A score was created of the number of chronic conditions suffered out of 10 possible conditions (stroke, CHD, intermittent claudication, hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, chronic airways obstruction, underactive thyroid, Parkinson's disease and moderate/severe cognitive impairment).
Functional limitation
Participants were considered to have hearing or eyesight problems if they reported suffering from poor hearing or eyesight (with or without aids) that interfered with day to day living, or the interviewer observed problems that interfered to a marked extent with the interview process. People with negative self-report but interviewer observed sensory limitations were rare (n = 6 with eyesight and n = 10 with hearing limitations).
Mobility limitation was assessed as participants self-report of requiring help with stairs and interviewer rating of permanently chairfast or bedfast.
The interviews included items from the modified Townsend activities of daily living scale
Using information on the hierarchy of ADL/IADL
Statistical methods
Logistic regression models were fitted with disease as the outcome to explore differences between cohorts, adjusting for age and gender (Tables
Table 2
Prevalence of chronic conditions and physical limitations in those aged 65–69 years in 1991/92 and those aged 65–69 years in 1996/97
Old Cohort (1991/92)
New Cohort (1996/97)
n (%)
n (%)
OR a (95% CI)
Chronic Conditions
Number of chronic conditions
1.40 (1.15 to 1.71)b
195 (28.6)
146 (21.4)
248 (36.4)
253 (37.0)
170 (24.9)
188 (27.5)
69 (10.1)
97 (14.2)
28 (4.0)
33 (4.8)
1.22 (0.72 to 2.05)
97 (14.2)
96 (14.0)
1.20 (0.87 to 1.65)
Intermittent claudication
18 (2.6)
11 (1.6)
0.61 (0.28 to 1.30)
174 (25.3)
194 (28.3)
1.16 (0.91 to 1.48)
302 (43.8)
367 (53.4)
1.46 (1.18 to 1.82)
< 0.001
31 (4.5)
33 (4.8)
1.07 (0.64 to 1.77)
Chronic airways obstruction
124 (18.0)
158 (23.0)
1.36 (1.04 to 1.78)
Underactive thyroid
32 (4.6)
37 (5.4)
1.13 (0.69 to 1.85)
3 (0.4)
2 (0.3)
0.67 (0.11 to 4.01)
Cognitive impairment (MMSE 0–21)
30 (4.4)
22 (3.2)
0.71 (0.40 to 1.26)
Functional Limitations
Hearing problems
111 (16.1)
90 (13.1)
0.79 (0.58 to 1.08)
Eyesight problems
40 (5.8)
30 (4.4)
0.73 (0.44 to 1.19)
Mobility limitation
135 (19.6)
161 (23.4)
1.25 (0.96 to 1.62)
1.34 (0.98 to 1.83)b
605 (87.9)
579 (84.4)
49 (7.1)
63 (9.2)
34 (4.9)
44 (6.4)
Self Rated Health
Fair/poor vs. Excellent/good
165 (24.0)
197 (28.9)
1.28 (1.00 to 1.63)
a Adjusted for gender and age b Ordered logistic regression
Table 3
Relative risk (95% confidence intervals) of reporting disease by cohort and by socio-demographic factors, adjusted for all other variables in the model
Model 1: Number of chronic conditions
Model 2: Arthritis
Model 3: Chronic airways obstruction
1996/7 vs. 1991/2
1.35 (1.10 to 1.65)
1.42 (1.14 to 1.78)
1.35 (1.02 to 1.77)
1.39 (1.12 to 1.72)
1.87 (1.47 to 2.37)
1.07 (0.80 to 1.43)
Age (1 year increase)
1.11 (1.04 to 1.20)
1.08 (1.00 to 1.17)
1.02 (0.93 to 1.12)
Living status
Lives alone
Lives with spouse
1.16 (0.90 to 1.49)
1.05 (0.79 to 1.39)
1.09 (0.77 to 1.54)
Lives with others
0.91 (0.60 to 1.38)
1.05 (0.66 to 1.67)
0.91 (0.51 to 1.63)
12+ years
10 – 11 years
0.68 (0.47 to 0.97)
0.77 (0.51 to 1.14)
0.77 (0.46 to 1.27)
0 – 9 years
1.21 (0.88 to 1.67)
1.16 (0.82 to 1.66)
1.00 (0.64 to 1.54)
Social class*
1.13 (0.89 to 1.44)
1.05 (0.86 to 1.37)
1.20 (0.85 to 1.68)
1.30 (0.97 to 1.74)
1.03 (0.75 to 1.43)
1.53 (1.03 to 2.26)
Armed forces/missing
1.23 (0.63 to 2.39)
1.14 (0.52 to 2.48)
1.58 (0.64 to 3.87)
Smoking status
Never smoker
Current smoker
1.39 (1.09 to 1.76)
1.16 (0.88 to 1.51)
1.51 (1.08 to 2.10)
0.93 (0.70 to 1.24)
0.94 (0.68 to 1.30)
1.28 (0.85 to 1.92)
*I & II: Professional & managerial or technical; III: Manual & non-manual; IV & V: Partly & unskilled
There were 897 individuals aged 65–69 years ascertained on the sample date in the base cohort and 971 in 1996/7. There was a single exclusion due to language ineligibility (first language not English) in the new cohort and 3 in the base cohort with a further 8 in the new cohort not traced. A total of 108 in 1996/7 were sampled from the National Health Service primary care list but never approached because response rates exceeded those projected in the sample size calculation. The response rate improved, from 691 of the 892 (78%) ascertained and eligible individuals in 1991/2 to 688 out of 854 (81%) by 1996/97. The improvement is due to a reduction in refusals, from 175 (20%) in the base cohort to 138(16%) in the new cohort. The study was well known by the time of the new cohort, but protocols for study recruitment, interviewing and training of interviewers were unchanged. A small number (28, 3%, in each cohort) were lost due to death or removal before interview. There were 2 individuals in the base cohort and 1 in the new cohort who cooperated but provided no valid information, and were excluded. For both cohorts, the age and gender distributions of the non-responders and those interviewed were similar (data not shown).
The greater access to education that has occurred was reflected in the higher proportion in the new cohort who had 12 or more years of education (Table
Table 1
MRC-CFAS Cambridge 65–69 years cohorts 1991/2 and 1996/7: Sociodemography
1991/92 n (%)
1996/97 n (%)
689 (100)
687 (100)
343 (49.8)
325 (47.3)
346 (50.2)
362 (52.7)
17 (2.5)
26 (3.8)
137 (19.9)
140 (20.4)
150 (21.8)
131 (19.1)
133 (19.3)
131 (19.1)
139 (20.2)
145 (21.1)
101 (14.7)
111 (16.2)
12 (1.7)
3 (0.4)
Living status
155 (22.5)
138 (20.1)
With spouse
475 (68.9)
495 (72.1)
With others
55 (8.0)
51 (7.4)
4 (0.6)
3 (0.4)
Marital status
495 (71.8)
522 (76.0)
44 (6.4)
42 (6.1)
122 (17.7)
96 (14.0)
28 (4.1)
27 (3.9)
12+ years
72 (10.5)
104 (15.2)
10 – 11 years
151 (22.0)
123 (18.0)
0 – 9 years
465 (67.6)
457 (66.8)
Social class
244 (35.4)
204 (27.7)
285 (41.4)
302 (44.0)
145 (21.0)
166 (24.2)
Armed forces/missing
15 (2.2)
14 (2.0)
Smoking status
Never smoker
189 (27.5)
241 (35.1)
Ex smoker
333 (48.4)
325 (47.3)
Current smoker
166 (24.1)
121 (17.6)
*I & II: Professional & managerial or technical; III: Manual & non-manual; IV & V: Partly & unskilled
Amongst those interviewed in the new cohort, 92.3% (634/687) survived four years after interview, compared with 90.9% (626/689) of those interviewed in 1991/2. There was no significant difference in survival comparing the new with the old cohort (hazard ratio: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.62 to 1.32) after adjustment for age, gender, marital status, education, social class and smoking status or after adjusting for age and gender alone (hazard ratio: 0.85, 95% CI: 0.59 to 1.23).
Disease, Functioning and disability
There was a significant difference in the number of conditions reported between cohorts (Table
The higher prevalence of disease in the newer cohort was mirrored in the borderline significant increase in reporting of poor or fair self-rated health in the new cohort (Table
This study provides evidence of rising levels of reported ill-health, as measured by the prevalence of chronic diseases and conditions and, to some extent, in poorer self-rated health, in the newer cohorts of the young-old. These did not appear to be reflected in greater functional limitation or disability although there were small increases in mobility limitation and IADL/ADL disability in the new cohort.
The major contributors to the increase in the number of chronic conditions reported were arthritis and chronic obstructive airways disease, the latter despite lower levels of smoking in the newer cohort. There are few cohort studies of changes in the prevalence of disease and where these exist, findings are equivocal. Newer male cohorts in Sweden were less likely to report no diseases but more likely to report no symptoms
In support that the observed increase in the prevalence of chronic conditions is real, other countries have shown increased prevalence to be also reflected in higher rates of mortality especially from lung cancer, COPD and IHD in Danish, Dutch and Norwegian men
A limitation of our study is that the majority of information on chronic conditions was self-report and therefore our findings, as many of the other studies, may be due to increased awareness and reporting of symptoms in newer cohorts. Although arthritis has already been shown to be an important predictor of moderate to severe disability onset in MRC-CFAS, including the base cohort here
Our findings of increased ill-health appeared to be accompanied by a small non-significant increase in mobility limitations and ADL disability in later cohorts, since our sample had low statistical power to detect even moderate differences and the five-year interval between cross-sections is fairly short. Cohort differences in impairments, functional limitations and disability have been confined mostly to the US and Scandinavia. Studies from the US have pointed to a decline in both ADL and IADL in recent decades
Although our study is from a rural area in East England, with a predominately white population, and a larger than average life expectancy compared with England and Wales, a strength is that the population is stable. Both cohorts had more than 70% of those interviewed resident in the area for more than 20 years and almost 10% who had been resident for 5 years or less, the new immigrants being broadly comparable in self-rated health, educational level, cognitive function, and level of disability albeit a somewhat higher proportion of new arrivals were classified as social classes 1 & 2 in 1996/7 compared with 1991/2. Comparisons of healthy life expectancy found significant differences between the five centres included in the original MRC CFAS study
The need to determine whether we are living longer healthier lives is imperative for all countries to plan for appropriate levels of health and social care for our expanding older population. There are therefore an increasing numbers of reports in the international literature of cohort or pseudo-cohort studies to answer this important question. That findings are mixed is not unsurprising
The cohorts in our study were born between the two World Wars and are therefore amongst the youngest to be studied to date. Although many of the cohort differences found are not large, in the majority of diseases and conditions, change is in the same direction with increased prevalence of diseases and trends of worsening functioning and disability at milder levels. The lack of evidence of any marked improvement in population health at these ages, casts doubt over the more optimistic scenarios that have been promulgated for future development of health and health services in the UK
Our study suggests that the new cohorts of the young-old do not seem to be experiencing longer, healthier lives but report an increased prevalence of chronic conditions, particularly arthritis and chronic airways obstruction.
Competing interests
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
CJ drafted the manuscript and is guarantor for the paper. RJM undertook the final analysis and helped draft the manuscript. NS undertook the original analysis. FEM contributed to the analysis and helped draft the manuscript. CB conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination and helped draft the manuscript. JN participated in coordination of the study. ESP and FAH participated in the design and coordination of the study and helped draft the manuscript. All authors have seen and agreed the final draft. MRC CFAS is a collaborative study and researchers are acknowledged using corporate authorship.
We are grateful for the co-operation of the Family Health Service Authorities local general practitioners and their staff and indebted to Roz McKenzie for clerical support. Also thanks to Tony Johnson for comments on the draft. Thanks are due to the residents of East Cambridgeshire, for their participation in the study. The study was funded by a Regional Health Authority R&D PHORAC grant.
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The Disablement Process
Self-administration of a questionnaire on chest pain and intermittent claudication
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Cohort differences in disability and disease presence
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That was the case for the Brown men's basketball team Friday night. The Bears started slow in both the first and second halves of their game against Cornell. As a result, they lost to the Big Red 69-63.
Just under 10 minutes into the game, Cornell raced out to a 26-10 lead thanks in part to freshman Shonn Miller who scored 9 of his 17 points during that stretch.
The Bears cut the deficit to 11 at the break 42-31. But Cornell extended that lead to 17 just over 3 minutes into the second half at 53-36.
Brown fought back but would get no closer than the 6-point margin they ended up losing by.
"We had a bad start to both halves," said Brown coach Jesse Agel. "Our bigs weren't getting the job done which gave them a chance to score 16 second chance points and we turned it over against their press. Once Dockery (Walker) went in there, we settled down and started to get back into it."
Walker was sensational for the Bears scoring a career-high 23 points to go along with a career-high 17 rebounds. Walker was 10 of 11 shooting from the field.
Not to be outdone was Cornell senior Chris Wroblewski. The guard had 24 points and 11 rebounds for the Big Red who has now won 12 straight games against the Bears.
Brown junior Matt Sullivan registered his 8th consecutive game in double figures with 13 points and 5 rebounds. Earlier in the week, Sullivan was named an Academic All-American for his work in the classroom where he carries a 4.0 grade point average at the University.
The loss drops Brown's record to (7-21) overall and (1-10) in the Ivy League.
The Bears host Columbia Saturday night at 6pm at the Pizzatola Sports Center.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Cornell put four players in double figures, led by senior Chris Wroblewski's third career double-double, and the Big Red held on late to claim a 69-63 victory over Brown on Friday evening at the Pizzitola Sports Center. The win improved the Big Red to 11-14 (6-5 Ivy), while the Bears slipped to 7-21 (1-10 Ivy).
Wroblewski, who was named a third team Capital One Academic All-American earlier in the week, posted 24 points, a career-high 11 rebounds and three assists to lead Cornell. His three assists move him with five of the school's career record. Shonn Miller chipped in 17 points, nine rebounds and two steals, Drew Ferry hit for 14 points and Johnathan Gray scored 12. Eitan Chemerinski was held scoreless, but had six of his seven rebounds on the offensive glass and added three assists. Cornell limited the Bears to 36 percent shooting from the floor and 18 percent from beyond the arc in the victory.
Brown's Dockery Walker was credited with 23 points and 17 rebounds, hitting 10-of-11 shots from the floor in the loss. Matt Sullivan, who like Wroblewski was named a third-team Academic All-American, was the only other Brown player in double figures with 13 points. He also added five rebounds. Brown had 16 offensive boards as the two teams each had 41 rebounds.
Cornel lled by as many as 17 points in the second half before holding on late. Wroblewski hit a dagger 3-pointer with 1:41 left as Brown was making a desperation comeback. Brown went on a 21-10 run after the Big Red went up 53-36 on a Wroblewski jumper three minutes into the second half. Cornell went through an extended offensive drought, going more than six minutes without a field goal and nearly 10 minutes with just one as the home team clawed back. A pair of free throws by Dwight Tarwater all but sealed hte contest with less than a minute to play.
The Big Red went into the break leading 42-31, then came out quickly. Miller scored on a layup, and after blocking a shot on the other end, Gray ended the sequence with a short jumper. Consecutive jumpers by Wroblewski, including a trey, pushed the lead to 17.
Brown scored the first two points of the game and then took a 4-2 lead before the Big Red took over with 12 straight points, including a pair of 3-pointers by Ferry in the span of 15 seconds. Consecutive baskets by Walker got Brown within 14-8, but that lead was nearly as quickly up to 16 as Cornell went on a 12-2 run to make it 26-10 on consecutive baskets by Miller to force a Brown timeout. The lead never dipped below double figures the rest of the half.
Cornell will look for a season sweep of Yale tomorrow at 7 p.m. when the two teams meet in the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
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Providence, Rhode Island - Brown dropped a 69-63 Ivy League decision to Cornell at the Pizzitola Sports Center Friday evening, despite a getting 23 points and 17 rebounds, both career highs, from sophomore forward Dockery Walker. The loss drops the Bears to 7-21 overall and 1-10 in the Ivy League, while Cornell extends its record to 11-14, 6-5 in Ivy play.
Walker scored a career high 23 points on phenomenal 10 of 11 shooting from the field, and completed the double-double with a career high 17 rebounds. Junior guard Matt Sullivan also scored in double figures for the Bears with 13 points.
Cornell's All-Ivy senior point guard Chris Wroblewski also put together a double-double, with a game high 24 points, while pulling down 11 rebounds. Shonn Miller chipped in with 17 points and 9 rebounds, while Drew Ferry added 14 points behind 4 of 9 shooting from behind the three-point arc.
Trailing 42-31 at intermission, as by as many as 16 points in the second half, 55-39, the Bears made a run at the Big Red and pulled to within six points, 63-57, after a free throw by junior Steve Albrecht with 2:47 left in the game.
The Big Red answered with a trey by Ferry following an offensive rebound by Eitan Chemerski, to extend the Big Red lead to 66-57, with just 1:41 remaining in the game.
Cornell jumped out to an early 14-4 lead after forcing five Brown turnovers in the opening six minutes. The Big Red led by as many as 16 points in the half, 26-10, following a jump shot by Miller with 10:38 left.
Brown was able to cut the Big Red lead to 11 points at the half, 42-31, after two Andrew McCarthy free thrown in the waning moments of the half.
The Bears stayed in the game behind Walker's terrific effort, scoring 14 points on 6 of 7 shooting, and grabbing six rebounds, in the first half alone.
Brown plays it final home game of the season Saturday evening, hosting Columbia at the Pizzitola Sports center, starting at 6:00 p.m.


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Bachelor parties about catering to groom-to-be, getting friends and family in one spot
From "Bachelor Party" to "The Hangover," bachelor parties have been dramatized as being as pagan as it gets, but in reality the key elements of a bachelor party have more to do with preference than bacchanalian tradition.
George Beck and Ricky Dunkailo are both married men. Each celebrated his bachelor party in a way that was memorable. Beck said the secret to a good bachelor party is in the formula, and Dunkailo had his bachelor party tailored to his specific interests.
Beck, an Exeter native who now lives in Frederick, Maryland, experienced his own bachelor party as well as several of his buddies.
"There's been one overall theme," Beck said. "Have a blast."
Beck's party was in Baltimore. A group of 15 friends played football during the day.
"Other ones that I've held, we've gone paint balling in the day," Beck said. "We've gone go carting in the day. You do things like when you were young."
Beck said the point is to gather one's best friends, have fun in whatever way suits the groom-to-be, have a good meal and some drinks, taking leave of one's adult and professional life for a night. Beck's bachelor dinner was at a Brazilian steakhouse called Fogo de Chao.
Beck's group made a brief stop at a gentleman's club, but he said it's more of a novelty.
"The gentleman's club is not the end of the night thing," Beck said. "It's the, 'we're just going to do it for tradition, but we're not staying here.'"
Ricky Dunkailo of Scranton travelled to Boston to play disc golf with two friends and his brother.
A disc golf enthusiast who travels to Boston frequently on business, Dunkailo knew a professional course was located in Leicester, Massachusetts.
"It's Maple Hill, and it's one of the best courses I've played in my entire life," Dunkailo said.
Dunkailo's party played all day and into the night before returning to their hotel, where he was surprised by the arrival of his father who joined the boys for a night on the town.
Throughout the day, the group drank aged beers they had cellared, and that continued into dinner when they went to Lord Hobo, a craft beer bar and restaurant in Cambridge.
"The whole trip was about drinking great beer and disk golf," Dunkailo said.
Dunkailo said a similar experience can be had locally by disk golfing at Villas Crossing in Tamaqua and travelling back to Exeter to Sabatini's Bottleshop & Bar.
Course manager at Villas Crossing, Tara Vandeneynde said bachelor parties are not uncommon at their course.
"We had one couple — he was a ball golfer and she was a disc golfer — and they did a joint bachelor/bachelorette party," Vandeneynde said.
Tom Ahearn, the proprietor of Black Tie Luxury Limosine in West Pittson, said bachelor party groups often just go to their three of four favorite local establishments.
"One of the main destinations is our local casino, the Mohegan Sun," Ahearn said. "Rarely do we get Atlantic City calls anymore, because we have a local facility."
While Mohegan Sun Pocono does not offer VIP packages at this time, director of marketing campaign management Paul Toennes said bachelor and bachelorette parties are welcome to discuss lodging options with Mohegan Sun Pocono's hotel team.
"We are excited that we are becoming a popular spot in the area, because there are so many experiences to have here, whether it's dining, nightlife, gaming, live racing, or experiencing our luxury spas," Toennes said. "We are continuing to explore more opportunities and other services we can offer to our guests to enhance their experiences."
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Problem: Everyone wants to help, but a crowded kitchen makes you crazy.
Solution: Move as many activities out of the kitchen as possible.
- Put all the glasses, ice, and beverages in the living room. Save an easy task, like serving drinks, for guests who simply must help, says McDonagh.
- Prepare for those who want to put finishing touches on the dishes they've brought by clearing a small area of a counter or setting up a small table just outside the kitchen. Set out anything that might be needed, like serving dishes and spoons.
- It's also perfectly OK to ask your guests to bring only dishes that can be served either cold or at room temperature so they won't need to use the oven or the stovetop during those last, busy minutes, says McDonagh.
Problem: The turkey took forever to cook, and now all the side dishes are cold.
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- A cooler, which will also retain heat, can hold covered pots and stacked foil dishes.
- An insulated ice bucket or a Crock-Pot can keep rice or mashed potatoes warm. (You can set a Crock-Pot to low for longer periods.)
- A thermos will guarantee that the gravy stays piping hot.
- A heating pad inside a soft-sided insulated food carrier is a good way to keep a casserole steamy.
- A barbecue gas grill can double as a warming oven. Put it on low heat, place a pot or two inside, and close the lid.


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This is my Norwegian Reef Tank.
I study most of the year in Poland, so I only get to look after it during vacations.
This is the opposite of what most reefers are doing; being much more away from the tank then with it.
The biggest vacation is in the summer where I can play with it from beginning of July until some time in September.
Then I don't get back to Norway before Christmas. Christmas vacation is usually 1.5-2 weeks.
If I'm lucky, like this year, I have winter break for a couple of weeks around this part of year.
And lastly, if we are lucky, we get about one week Easter break in April.
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I've only been here a short while but I'm already going insane. This Wiki is about 99% complete as it is, there's simply not much more that needs to be done. But behind-the-scenes, where everybody talks to each other about editing and writing, it's an absolute mess! Just an incredible mish-mash of "we should do something!" "should we do something?" "we should do something!" "should we... DO something?" "we should DO something!"
The Answers page is even worse. I can't believe I actually love the FAQ page on SPstudios a lot more by comparison.
So I'm quitting. Sorry if I started to make myself look like I was going to help you guys for a long time, but from now on I think I'll just sit back and enjoy South Park. Not crawl into its skin and document every single thing about it. I'll still visit the site for information.
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Last evening, about 200 Mormon women stood in line for the Priesthood session of the General Conference of the LDS Church. Currently, the Priesthood is only given to men in the church. A group of women is advocating for women to also receive the priesthood. These women stood in line without any signs or chanting. They were denied entrance despite there being empty seats. They were also denied entrance in the overflow area even though men were admitted there last week for the women's-only meeting. At one point, a garbage truck was used to block the entrance even though the women were not pushing to get in. The women were later denied rolls at a local restaurant because the restaurant was saving them for the men.
I am a Mormon feminist. What happened last night was really heartbreaking for me. I guess I am just looking for some support. I would also love to hear people's opinion about this from an outside perspective.


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how wonderful...he really is adorable...on a charity table top sale i brought a donkey like that but without the clockwork pieces~ my daughter stuck a drawing of a tail on him like Eeyore's ;0)ReplyDelete
Such a clever girl to give him a new lease of life. xxxReplyDelete
love it ;0)ReplyDelete
Wonderful and so nice to see her working too xxReplyDelete
So sweet, worth the wait!ReplyDelete
Wow! Now you can do surgery as well! Is there no ends to your talents!ReplyDelete
I am in awe! X
Such dedication to your little elephant. A labour of love. XReplyDelete
Nice see something being fixed instead of being chucked out and replaced replaced by a new one. Well done. Regards SharonReplyDelete
Wonderful. The clip reminded me so much of Bagpuss from years ago. Whata treasure. Well done xReplyDelete
This is what chaplaincy (what I do) is all about!. Taking end of life people and helping them get ready for new life, to be loved again!! I do this with old furniture, too, and you have done this with this lovely little elephant. It is surely ready to be loved again and thus has a new life. Good on you...well done!!!ReplyDelete
dear little thing.ReplyDelete
She even looks like she's happy! Great job :) And how very very cute she is <3ReplyDelete
Ahh this is the cutest!ReplyDelete
Very, very sweet... thank you so much for saving, restoring and most of all loving her... hugs Cass xReplyDelete
Really love to see such care for a small otherwise discarded objectReplyDelete
Your heart and values are exactly in the right place. Love everything about this!ReplyDelete
Aww I love the little video clip at the end! So lovely. I love elephants!ReplyDelete
So cute!ReplyDelete
You are seriously a superwomen! That elephant is probably one of the best things I've seen, well done for keeping it alive!ReplyDelete
Awww. this made my morning...ReplyDelete
she's one hell of a lucky donkey..
Does she have a name..?
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her name is Elephant! ??? xDelete
So gorgeous, what a lovely story :-)ReplyDelete