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First off, this goes against everything I know about PCI compliance.I am working with Intuit's guest pay form. I get the form from Intuit's website with cURL, the form has some session ID's or something.The form itself uses jQuery and as soon as it is submitted jQuery writes the credit card number to a cookie in your browser.I need to replicate that with php to set the cookie with the credit card number and the use cURL to access Intuit's tolenizer URL.I can only think of two things to make this secure,1) make the cookie file name a long obscure non pronounceable name.2) .htaccess.
The site will be https.
Does anyone have any other ideas for security?
Find another way.
PCI compliance failure can kill a company. You can lose the ability to use credit card transactions for months and face fines in the millions of dollars.
@Michael Morris (or anyone), is my suspicion correct that Intuit is in violation of PCI compliance?Its right there in the live HTTP headers that show the raw credit card number being set in a cookie,Here is a copy of the headers, sdsa_cc is the actual credit card number, I changed the numbers obviously but there it is.
GET /sdsa?sysid=ipn&num=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: gwsoa2jsod.intuit.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://ipn.intuit.com/payNow/guestPay
Cookie: sdsa_cc=43516548214553296; s_vi=[CS]v1|285DE584231D1BCF-6000015874203E18[CE]; wa_cpm=h%20%5Bref%5D; mbox=check#true#1358434279|session#1358434218696-401004#1358436079; s_cc=true; c_28=h%20%5Bref%5D; ursvar=h%20%5Bref%5D; s_sq=intuitpaynetwork%3D%2526pid%253Dpaynow%25252Fguestpay%252520%25257Cspi%25253Aipn%25253Aapp%2526pidt%253D1%2526oid%253Dfunctiononclick(event)%25257BpaymentMethodChanged(this.value)%25253B%25257D%2526oidt%253D2%2526ot%253DRADIO
I have a copy locally of their credit_card_fields.js and can make it alert my credit card number.
It's being sent over https, just as anyone who would type their card into a web browser, so I don't see why this would be a violation, but you need to watch how yo handle the card on your end.
It is likely in violation because they are storing it in plain text in a cookie. You are to keep the card number secure at ALL times. That means encrypted in any storage mechanism you use, that mechanism shouldn't be easy to circumvent either, in which case, this one seems to be.
Intuit is walking a fine line on this one, and I'm terribly disappointed in what they have done, I thought they were better than this.
Doh, cookie. Didn't see that
Thank you for the input, My jaw dropped when I saw my credit card number in my cookie.The problem is that I need to replicate this behavior using cURL. I spoke with a couple of the tech people at Intuit and this was their response.
It is true that the card # is set in cookies, but is also cleared as soon as we receive a response from PCI token server. That's the advised approach to tokenize credit cards.
The Server will try to delete the cookie by setting expiration date to the past. It will work only if you create the cookie under ".intuit.com" domain, so you might need to use that domain if want to rely on server's logic.
In any case, I would strongly recommend to do your own cleaning job as soon as you received a token or an error from the server. The first thing that you need to do is to clean the cookie. Actually, consider this as a requirement, because this is what I've seen in other apps.
Basically if something goes wrong, you're credit card number will sit on a cookie.And if you do use Intuit, it's up to you to make sure your cookies are cleaned.Kinda makes me nervous.
Me too, especially since they are aware of it... :shifty:Apart from what you have mentioned, I think you are on the track that you may need to utilize. Unfortunately, I think you will have to use their cookie name and their domain (which I'm not sure that is possible, as it breaks cross-domain, but I digress, maybe with curl it would be fine with a cookie container). Just be sure to wipe out that cookie container once you are done.
Storing the credit card number on any computer with an internet connection is a breach. Since cookies only work on the internet that means that cookies cannot be used to hold credit card numbers - no matter how they might be encrypted.
The way that it ought to be done is to use a token that identifies the owner of a given credit card and pass that through the system. Once it is passed to the computer that only accepts information from the internet and which ic blocked from sending anything to the internet the token can then be looked up to obtain the credit card number.
I am amazed and disappointed that a company like Intuit uses jQuery to set the cookie in your browser with the raw card number. I loaded the payment page and turned off the wifi. Then submitted the form and there was my card in the cookie. This was not well thought out for sure.
Bottom line is that if you use Intuit to make a payment, it is up to you to delete your cookies or there is the possibility that you could be compromised (by their own words, but they just don't tell you).
My advice is to forward this conversation with Inuit along to the proper authorities. A company as large as Intuit should be able to pay a huge fine.
While waiting for Intuit to fix this major security hole I suggest you completely disable cookies for their site.
Good idea! It's incredible that a company can choose to store card numbers in cookies, be aware of it and think it is okay! Next time I'll be making an online payment I'll do it in a separate browser or another profile, and clear all cookies after the payment - just in case another reputable company comes up with such ingenious engineering...


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Speeding 68 miles an hour and plunging 162 feet at an 81-degree angle on its opening drop, Outlaw Run has drawn tourists from across the world to the Silver Dollar City amusement park in Branson, Mo., since its mid-March opening—and those entering the theme park in December will be greeted by another breathtaking sight: a 5-story-tall Christmas tree adorned with 400,000 lights.
As part of the park's annual tradition, each evening's lighting of the tree is accompanied by entertainment director Brad Schroeder reading James Allen Francis' classic, Christ-centered poem "One Solitary Life." Attendants take in the twinkling of 5 million lights as they stroll the park, listening to tunes like "Joy to the World" or the "Hallelujah" chorus. They're invited to watch the story of Christ's birth unfold through Living Nativity, an original play with an 11-member cast. And they won't want to miss the Gifts of Christmas Holiday Light Parade, the final float of which features the Christ child under a banner that reads "The Greatest Gift of All."
It's all part of "An Old Time Christmas" at the park, where each stage production includes a carol paying tribute to Christ's birth.
"When it comes to Christmas, we aren't afraid to say we're a Christmas festival," says Brad Thomas, president and general manager of the park. "We know that everyone who works here and everyone who visits here is not necessarily a Christian. We don't want to be [too] forceful ... but we do believe that we have values from which we shouldn't run."
It's no surprise that Silver Dollar City, owned and headed by Pentecostal businessmen Jack and Peter Herschend, is so bold in its presentation of the reason for the season. Yet amid the sweeping cultural onslaught to strip Christmas of any "religious messaging" that might offend, few venues are as forward with their public celebrations. Secularism continues to neuter public Christmas expression, leaving such companies standing in stark contrast to a growing opposition.
Despite this pop-culture tsunami, however, a quick look around shows the first six letters of this national holiday—Christ—still occupy a central place in millions of Americans' hearts. And this December, you'll find depictions of Jesus still appearing—intentionally and boldly—in numerous well-known venues throughout the country.
In Support of Christmas The annual candlelight processional at Walt Disney World's Epcot was conceived by Disney creative consultant Derric Johnson to tell the story of Christ with the accompaniment of a 50-piece orchestra and mass choir. Holiday evenings at the Orlando theme park include a reading of the biblical account of the virgin birth with a celebrity narrator, who in the past has included Jim Caviezel, Brian Dennehy, Susan Lucci and Marlee Matlin (in sign language).
Many Christmas attractions at the neighboring SeaWorld reflect holiday glitz, but Christian visitors have been pleasantly surprised by O Wondrous Night, a production based on the Christmas story that features more than 30 carols and includes live animals, life-size puppets and special effects.
The annual Christmas show at New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall includes a manger scene with live camels, sheep and donkeys, though the famous Rockettes and Santa Claus still headline the event. This year, audiences in Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Tampa and Nashville can enjoy the touring production.
At Tennessee's Dollywood amusement park, 300,000 are expected to experience the park's celebrated "Smoky Mountain Christmas." Its O Holy Night production, performances by southern gospel's Kingdom Heirs and the nightly "Carol of the Trees," which synchronizes thousands of lights to holiday music, are among the Christ-centered elements at the park, which recently announced a $300 million expansion.
"We embrace the Christian message of Christmas," says entertainment director Paul Couch. "That's who we are and what our guests have come to expect. We are uncompromisingly clear that the holiday is about [Christ]."
And five years ago, the Creation Museum near Cincinnati inaugurated "Christmas Town," a walk-through re-creation of a first-century village where actors portray Joseph and Mary holding the newborn Babe and an archeologist explains the circumstances surrounding His birth. The weekend productions include several other dramas, including a depiction of John the Baptist's mother, Elizabeth, describing two of history's most famous births. Crowds have more than doubled since Christmas Town's inception, often matching summer tourist season numbers.
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Driven by food (menus changed every three months) rather than by celebrity chefs, the restaurants are small enough, individually, to feel intimate, yet big enough, collectively, to centralize back-office and administrative functions.
The eight (at the time) Chow Foods stores predated the Tom Douglas and Ethan Stowell empires. They never made a big deal about being under the same ownership; their names weren't always known citywide: Edolyne Joe's, Atlas Foods, Jitterbug, The Hi-Life, Coastal Kitchen, 5-Spot, Mioposto, Lunchbox.
It all started in Portland, Ore., where Peter Levy learned the restaurant business in the McCormick & Schmick organization, working his way up to general manager. Returning to Seattle in the late 1980s, Levy found an underutilized spot on North 45th Street, an ahead-of-its-time espresso bar and gelateria named Dominic's. He added a restaurant kitchen with a regulation hood and opened it as the Beeliner, a diner with East Coast attitude (a sign said "Eat It & Beat It").
Early on, John Hinterberger of The Seattle Times showed up and wrote a favorable review. The rest, as they say, is history.
Levy added the 5-Spot (1502 Queen Anne Ave. N.) atop Queen Anne a couple of years later and took on a partner, Jeremy Hardy, who'd also been a general manager for McCormick. In 1993, they opened Coastal Kitchen (429 15th Ave. E.) on Capitol Hill, then they tilted at the windmill of downtown sandwich shops with a concept that sounded much better on paper than in practice: Luncheonette No. 1.
"But it turned out that Downtown Seattle just isn't a breakfast spot," Levy explained in a recent interview. "We lost our shirts — over a million bucks. It took 18 years, but we paid back every dime."
The Beeliner had also run out of gas and was sold, only to see the buyer default. Levy and Hardy reopened it as Jitterbug, but that didn't help much. It's now back in Levy's hands, renamed TNT Taqueria (2114 N. 45th St.).
There was also a foray into University Village with Atlas Foods.
"I thought it was like any other neighborhood, but it's not," Levy said of U-Village. "We kept it open for 10 years, though, until the lease ran out."
In 2003, they added Endolyne Joe's in West Seattle; in 2004, The Hi-Life (5425 Russell Ave. N.W.); in 2006, Mioposto (3601 S. McClellan St.); and, in 2009, the breakup. Hardy kept Mioposto (which he's planning to clone in other neighborhoods) and Coastal Kitchen; his part of the company is now called Seattle Eats.
Levy has kept the Chow Foods name and is always looking for new opportunities, new neighborhoods. He does his own design and interiors, writes his own menu copy and private placement offerings.
"I don't have any hobbies," he said.
What he does have, on the other hand, are four restaurants — all open for breakfast, lunch and dinner — and almost 200 employees.
What's going to happen if the $15 minimum wages passes? "We'll figure out how to live with it," Levy says, with an optimism you don't see in many places these days, "because that's what we do in the restaurant industry. It's downtown retail that I'd be worried about if they have to pay $15 [per hour]. How will anyone be able to compete with Amazon?"
Breakfast at the Chow Foods neighborhood restaurants (not downtown) is the most popular meal of the day, with a line out the door on weekends.
And one item that's on the menu at all of Levy's stores: a "Grand Slam" combo (pancakes, eggs, bacon) named for a restaurant critic who complained it was "just like Denny's."
Not a complaint, Levy says, but a compliment.
Other restaurant news
Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi, the couple behind Joule and Revel, are planning four new restaurants inside a 4,000-square-foot space in the restored Greenus building on Capitol Hill (at East Pike Street and Summit Avenue). One will be a Korean barbecue, one a noddle stand, one a bar and a "dessert window."
I confess that the Ampersand fad is driving me slightly nuts — you know, Brimmer & Heeltap (425 N.W. Market St.) and its rival, Brunswick & Hunt (1470 N.W. 70th St.). Which one's which, again? Both are in Ballard: One's in the former Le Gourmand space; the other's next to Delancey. One's named for a pub glass full of beer; the other's named for a painting.
It comes on the heels of Cone & Steiner (426 19th Ave. E.) on Capitol Hill, which is more of a neighborhood market that just happens to have a half-dozen craft beers on tap.
New on the menu at Mondello Ristorante (2425 33rd Ave. W.) in Magnolia is a Sicilian Fisherman's Dinner direct from Mamma Enza Sorrentino's native province of Trapani, on the island's west coast: half a lobster and clams in a rich broth, with "broken" spaghetti. The first order was served to an adventurous and enterprising guest named Jeff Bezos.
RONALD HOLDEN is a restaurant writer and consultant who blogs at Cornichon.org and Crosscut.com. To comment on this column, write to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A CHARITY dedicated to helping people through terminal illness in their own home is appealing for help from the public to help buy much-needed new equipment.
Rennie Grove Hospice Care says that medical advances mean their patients are often living longer but have more complex conditions and, coupled with the new commissioning system that gives GPs control over funding distribution, money is becoming tighter.
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Andrew.a.cunningham - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkThe more bandwidth the better! We're already seeing new IGPs get bottlenecked by 1333 and 1600MHz DDR3 today, and that'll only get worse as time goes on. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkIt's not just IGPs. Intel needs one DDR3 memory channel per two cores. Until DDR4 hits mainstream parts are going to be limited to quad core configs. Reply
yelped - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkHopefully, AMD will bundle cheap DDR4 RAM to the OEMs, so laptops with their APUs are not held back. Reply
Gauner - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkWe still need to see chipsets that support more than 1833 bus, keep in mind that even if you have 3200Mhz memory, if the APU itself cant go any higher than... let's say 2400, it will be mostly useless.
And sincerely, I dont se that happening soon, it's expensive to support such high buses and if AMD or intel wanted to do it, they could have done it by now with DDR3 at 2000-2133Mhz. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkSooner or later faster buses will be supported. 2133MHz DDR3 didn't come out right after P35, it took years. The same will happen with DDR4. It will take a few years before we will see speeds close to the maximum.
Also, there are some reports of 2133MHz support in Ivy Bridge: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Ivy-Bridge-to... Reply
iwod - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkWe either need CPU to have Tri or Quad memory channel without all the MB space ( using Laptop DRAM as standard ? ) or we need a new type of Memory.
If every node shrink means doubling of Gfx Power, the life time of memory is suppose to last 2 to 3 node shrink. and if we count 1.5x the bandwidth for doubling the Gfx power, that means we need at least 3x memory bandwidth.
Quad Channel is something CPU maker dont want to go because of the wasted Die Space.
So are we stuck for the next few years starved by memory bandwidth? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - linkMemory bandwidth is not the bottleneck. dGPUs have their own VRAM which is often faster than regular RAM. Hence the need for RAM isn't that huge and tests show that faster RAM provides no better performance
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-me... Reply
darckhart - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - linkthe speed doesn't even make sense because most ddr3 that claims to hit 1866+ are not at 1.5V. What's the whole point if you have to crank it to 1.65V or higher? especially if you intend on populating all the slots. Reply
sangyup81 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkisn't one module one channel pretty much what unganged mode does anyways? Reply
Iketh - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - linkNo, it's each channel running independently from the other so a core doesn't have to share a channel with another core. You're not limited to 2 modules when running unganged, right?......... Reply
gevorg - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkWhat about CAS latencies? Are they going to increase like they did from DDR2 to DDR3? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkSemiAccurate is claiming CL12 as the standard for 2133MHz DDR4
http://semiaccurate.com/2010/08/16/ddr4-not-expect... Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkYup. DDRN+1 is implemented primarily by doubling the bus speed and doubling the number of chips on a dimm accessed in parallel. SDR ram accessed on chip at a time. DDR1 2 chips, DDR2 4 chips, DDR3 8 chips, DDR4 will be 16 chips. I don't know if this will mean the end of 8 chip modules (especially in lower capacities), or if they'll start making chips that are functionally equivalent to dual core designs with 2 IO channels instead of only one. Reply
FaaR - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - linkDan, you're very confused.
All current PC RAM (and all past too, except DRDRAM) is accessed in parallel: all chips in one bank (one side of the DIMM) make up the full width of the data bus.
Only DRDRAM accessed memory one chip at a time, because it was a serial setup. Reply
fhaddad78 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkI'm not a hardware guru or anything and a lot of this stuff is over my head, but I kind of understand why memory architecture needs to change as processors become faster. I know there is a relationship and that is why for example Intel Core series cpus use DDR and why we don't see much benefit from memory speeds beyond DDR3 18xx. Ok, i'm rambling here...
As the subject reads: DDR5
I noticed that AMD GPUs use DDR5 and my question is why do CPUs not use DDR5 yet? Is that memory different than the DDR3 memory used in today's cpus?
Thanks for sharing some insight into this mysterious and explainable phenomenon regarding memory specifications. Reply
fhaddad78 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkNo edit button...
... cpus use DDR and ...
Should read:
... cpus use DDR3 and ... Reply
LordanSS - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkAMD (and nVidia's GPUs) use GDDR5, not DDR5. It's a completely different beast, heh. =) Reply
fhaddad78 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkAh. This definitely has an affect on my question. (: Reply
cosmoanu87 - Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - linkyep and GDDR5 is a variant of DDR3 whereas GDDR3,4 were variants of DDR2, so essentially the same base spec Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkGDDR has split from main stream DDR standards and undergoes more frequent, smaller updates. Among the advantages they have is that since the chips are soldered onto the GPUs and aren't user swappable they don't have to as extensive validation to make sure every part combination works. One major functional difference is that (in most cases) each GDDR chip is connected directly to the GPU by a dedicated instead of being glued together into dimms that share a connection to the CPU. Reply
EJ257 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkIf that is the case, does each chip or combination of chips service one single SP on the GPU specifically? If that chip goes bad, does that SP now perform more poorly because it just lost some of it's RAM? Reply
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkNo. A memory crossbar means that any unit has access to any region of RAM. And if a chip goes bad the video card is rendered inoperable; it has no way of compensating for a missing/damaged memory module. Reply
fhaddad78 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkRyan Smith.... Are you from the Matrix? Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - linkWhat, by having the surname Smith? Reply
Beenthere - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkThe current 1.35V DDR3 is good. Higher frequencies don't add any tangible performance benefit with the current bandwidth so it really matters not if it's 1600 or 2000 MHz. AMD's new Zambezi will allow the use of LV DDR3 with a default speed of 1866 MHz. Reply
FaaR - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - linkBuddy, I'm glad we have you here with us, telling us what we don't need, now or in the future. :-P
Clearly this is a standard that's supposed to last for a number of years ahead of where we are now. With integrated graphics processors in our CPUs, bandwidth will become a more and more pressing concern as time goes on. Reply
Ethaniel - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - link... not compatible with DDR3 When you think about retrocompatibility, they don´t. Reply
Andrew.a.cunningham - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkIt makes sense, really - it's hard to build a memory controller with support for a standard that doesn't exist yet. :-) Reply
cosmoanu87 - Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - linkMore like they want us to dump old stuff and buy new modules :D what better way than to make DDR3 incompatible? :) Reply
fhaddad78 - Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - linkWhy is that person holding the memory module like that? I thought it's not a good idea to put your fingers on the contact end of the chip. Clearly this violates Article 15, Section 9, Paragraph 37, Line 12 of the DDR4 handling specification.
That person is "holding it wrong." Reply
Iketh - Thursday, August 25, 2011 - linkSounds like it's about time to start referring to memory frequencies as 2.1GHz, 3.2GHz, etc. Reply
soliozuz - Saturday, September 17, 2011 - linkI'm still running a laptop that only supports DDR2 (Santa Rosa), technology is moving at such a rapid pace it's insane. Reply
DDR4 - Wednesday, November 07, 2012 - linkThey're trying to tell you that you get better rigs for less gigs. Reply


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2011 NCAA College Football – Week 12 Preview
With the season winding down, things are really starting to get tight for a lot of teams. LSU and Oklahoma State control their own destinies in the national title hunt, but there is still a lot of movement that could occur if one of those two loses. Several teams are still trying to lock up spots in their respective conference championship games while others are just trying to improve their bowl resumes.
We've had plenty of upsets in college football this year, and this week has all the signs of some more coming soon. Nine ranked teams, including five of the top 10, are going on the road against teams with .500 or better records and three ranked teams are in action Thursday or Friday night to whet your appetite for another big weekend of college football. Here are all the highlights to look for this week in the AP Top 25.


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A fun day and table top sale in Chippenham this Sunday will raise funds for Emertons Foundation and Wiltshire Community Transport.
The event at Monkton Park Golf Course will have a bouncy castle, inflatable slide, horseriding, golfathon and stalls.
From 5pm there will be a barbecue with live music from Chippenham band The Dirty Six, who formed for the Eddie Cochran Festival in 2012.
The fun day has been organised by the Hugs and Cuddles Association who, since forming in 2010, have raised over £5,000 for five different charities.
Two charities are chosen to benefit each year depending on nominations.
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I had never heard those expressions before... "Come" as a temporal connector!! Are they also very common?
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
It is possible that the main title of the report Familial Hypercholesterolemia is not the name you expected.
General Discussion
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a diagnosis which refers to individuals with very significantly elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (LDL-C) or "bad cholesterol". In heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), an individual inherits a mutation (alteration) for FH from one (affected) parent. In homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), an individual inherits a causal FH mutation from both parents. For the purposes of this report, "FH" will refer to HeFH unless otherwise stated.
FH is one of the most common genetic diseases and affects at least 1 in 500 individuals. This may be an underestimate as recent genetic studies indicate that FH may be as common as 1 in 250 in European Caucasian populations. If DNA testing is performed, most (60-80%) will be found to have a mutation in one of three relevant genes. Others may express these clinical findings for other reasons or may carry a mutation in a gene or genes that have yet to be discovered.
FH is characterized by very high levels of LDL-C, as well as of total cholesterol. The condition greatly increases the risk of hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), which can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other vascular conditions. Individuals with FH have a 20-fold increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). Untreated men have a 50% risk of a nonfatal or fatal coronary event by age 50 years; untreated women have a 30% risk by age 60 years. If one or more other risk factors for CHD are present, especially cigarette smoking or diabetes mellitus, the risk of developing symptomatic CHD is even higher.
FH is treatable and the associated cardiovascular disease is largely preventable with early and intensive treatment, using statins, additional drugs, and other means. Family members of an affected individual found through "cascade screening" or "family tracing" who have not yet exhibited symptoms and who are appropriately treated are likely to live a normal lifespan.
HoFH is very rare (~ 1 in 250,000 to 1 in 1 million). LDL-C levels are usually, though not always, > 400 mg/dl. Severe vascular disease including CHD and aortic stenosis are often seen by the teenage years. Without very aggressive treatment including LDL-C apheresis and HoFH specific medications, mortality is common before age 30.
In 1973, Joseph Goldstein and Michael Brown identified and characterized a cell membrane protein they called the LDL receptor and the mutations in the low-density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR) that interfered with its function. Normally functioning receptors lower the blood levels of LDL-C by taking up the lipoproteins that carry LDL-C in the liver. Mutations in this gene cause a decrease either in the number or function of the receptors, resulting in the extreme LDL-C elevations seen in FH. Goldstein and Brown became the first investigators to identify a mutation that caused a metabolic disorder when only a single abnormal gene was present. In 1985 they won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work. Their pioneering work and the subsequent studies of LDL-C metabolism in FH patients greatly contributed to our knowledge about the link between cholesterol and heart disease and led to the development of numerous therapeutic agents that benefit a very large number of individuals with high cholesterol. Since that time, other genes causing FH such as the apolipoprotein B-100 gene (APOB) and the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 gene (PCSK9) have been identified (see below).
Importantly, there is a great deal of evidence showing that early diagnosis and intensive treatment can prevent illness and death due to FH.
Supporting Organizations
American Heart Association
- 7272 Greenville Avenue
- Dallas, TX 75231
- Tel: (214)784-7212
- Fax: (214)784-1307
- Tel: (800)242-8721
- Email: email@example.com
- Website: http://www.heart.org
FH Foundation
- 1515 Hope Street
- Suite 204
- South Pasandena, CA 91030
- Tel: (626)465-1234
- Fax: (626)628-2146
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- Website: http://www.thefhfoundation.org
Genetic and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center
- PO Box 8126
- Gaithersburg, MD 20898-8126
- Tel: (301)251-4925
- Fax: (301)251-4911
- Tel: (888)205-2311
- Website: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/GARD/
International FH Foundation
- St. Andrews Court
- Wellington St.
- Oxfordshire, OX9 3WT
- Tel: 01235 531 203
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website: http://www.fh-foundation.org
NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
- P.O. Box 30105
- Bethesda, MD 20892-0105
- Tel: (301)592-8573
- Fax: (301)251-1223
- Email: email@example.com
- Website: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
For a Complete Report
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Mental Health
Did you know that social workers provide most of the country's mental health services? According to government sources, 60% of mental health professionals are clinically trained social workers, compared to 10% of psychiatrists, 23% of psychologists and 5% of psychiatric nurses.
Social workers provide mental health services in a variety of settings, including:
- Community mental health programs;
- Disaster relief programs;
- Employee assistance programs;
- Military and veteran services;
- Private practice;
- Hospitals and skilled nursing facilities;
- Schools; and,
- Rehabilitation programs
Social workers see people within their environment—as part of a family, an employee in an organization, or a community member. Because of this, their mental health work is multi-faceted, combining psychological, social and practical elements. They have special skills in assessing, treating, and preventing psychological, behavioral, emotional, social and environmental problems affecting individuals negatively.
Social workers provide an array of varying mental health services. In an employee assistance program a social worker may help employees with personal problems and workplace concerns. Social workers also help their clients adjust to major lifestyle changes due to the death of a loved one, disability, divorce, or loss of a job. They also provide substance abuse treatment and help people experiencing depression, anxiety, a crisis or trauma.
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, social workers were among the first on the scene providing mental health care to rescue workers, families, and others in the community. Many Americans were grappling with grief, anxiety, fear, and uncertainty; social workers, as part of the Red Cross Disaster Relief program, quickly offered assistance and counseling to families and loved ones as well as to other relief workers overcome with trauma.
Other social workers, especially those working with children, offered counseling and advice to parents and families in reaction to the attacks.
In one example, Jim, a clinical social worker, was mobilized to go to the plane crash site in Pennsylvania where he would spend days providing emotional and psychological support for emergency and recovery workers. Jim is a member of a critical incident stress management team (CISM) and is trained to provide peer support for emergency workers. Jim knows that it's important to get people to discuss what they have seen and what how they feel. If such feelings aren't adequately addressed, additional and perhaps more serious problems can arise later. Though what happened was abnormal, members of the critical incident teams determined that the feelings of stress and anxiety were very normal. Many Americans are still battling the after effects of September 11 and mental health counseling has not only been key to the recovery of emergency workers, but also vital for those directly affected by the attacks.
Using individual, group or family counseling, clinical social workers are skillful in helping people to gain an understanding of their problems and in alleviating major stresses that impact daily life. Whether it's for a child, adolescent, adult, or older individual, clinical social workers can be counted on to provide the best mental health care in the nation.
- Gibelman, M. (1995). What Social Workers Do (4th ed.).
Washington, DC. NASW Press.
- NASW (2000) Social Work Speeaks (5th ed.).
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SANFORD, Fla. - A fatal shooting near a Sanford elementary school prompted officials to put the school on lockdown.
At least two people were shot around 1:30 p.m. Thursday near Goldsboro Elementary Magnet School at 1300 West 20th Street. Two others were in custody and were being questioned, according to police. One was released as a witness.
An assault rifle and a .45-caliber handgun were recovered from the two, police said.
Sanford police were at the shooting scene, which is near West 18th Street and Peach Avenue.
One person was shot and killed, and the other shooting victim was being airlifted to a hospital, according to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office. Police were looking for a third shooting victim, who hasn't been found.
The lockdown was lifted at around 3 p.m.
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A teenager will help shape the way the country is run after being selected to advise MPs in the House of Commons.
Louise Hawkins, a pupil at Friern Barnet School in Hemington Avenue, will spend one year on the youth select committee, which is led by the British Youth Council and supported by the UK Parliament.
As part of her new role, the 14-year-old will look into lowering the voting age to 16 and discuss other issues important to young people across the country.
She will represent Barnet's young people by attending meetings in the House of Commons and lobbying key decision makers in Parliament to advance issues important to young people.
She said: "My colleagues and I recently had our first evidence at a session in the House of Commons.
"We asked questions to many different people who gave evidence and the response was amazing.
"We also heard opposing views from Andrew Slaughter MP and the Government view, which was presented by Tom Brake MP, Deputy Leader of the House of Commons."
The committee is made up of 11 members, from the ages of 14 to 18-years-old across the country and includes three Members of the Youth Parliament (MYPs) one former MYP, three councillors and a representative from the Scout Association.
Councillor Reuben Thompstone, chairman of the children, education, libraries and safeguarding committee, said: "Young people in Barnet have always been very active and knowledgeable when it comes to advancing the views of other young residents.
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Romend (noun): Meaning adult romantic friend. The term describes an unmarried male or female partner in a loving, committed relationship and replaces the labels boyfriend and girlfriend which are used to refer to a more youthful, adolescent relationship. A romend is also used in place of significant other or partner and applies to both straight and same-sex companions.
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Manhattan 56 — By George L. Petrie — February 2001
Wow Power
|Part 2: Sunseeker Manhattan 56 continued
On the main deck, the saloon offers two lounge areas. The after one has facing settees on either side of a sliding glass window wall, so the saloon can be kept in climate-controlled comfort or opened to the aft deck, forming a big indoor/outdoor entertainment center. The second lounge is forward to port, where a large, comfortable, U-shape settee wraps around a beautifully finished lacquered wood dining table. Interior furnishings and joinery are offered in a variety of textures and finishes.
Even the lower-deck galley offers versatility. Because the 56 is large enough that some owners may wish to have crew onboard while other owners may not, Sunseeker offers two options. Space adjoining the galley can be fitted as a small crew space with a single berth and separate head, or it can be used to enlarge the galley and provide additional stowage and a laundry.
Directly above the galley, the main helm station has been designed to maximize driving comfort. The wood-trimmed wheel and burl-walnut dash echo the style of a luxury sports car, with a full cluster of instruments in easy view. Large side windows and a full glass door aft provide excellent sight lines in all directions from the Besenzoni helm seat; its six-way power adjustment will let anyone find a comfortable driving position. At the base of the helm station, alongside steps to the lower deck, is a full a.c./d.c. panel, always in view behind a tinted glass door. Switches are color-coded and clearly labeled, and all the instruments are easy-to-read analog-style meters.
When you're wowed out and ready to relax, you'll appreciate the master stateroom's large centerline berth, accessible from three sides and with a large stowage space beneath. Side ports and an overhead hatch make the space light and airy. Headroom is 6'4" minimum, so even a big guy like me (I'm 6'2") has plenty of room to move around. I especially liked the fact that the shower in the master head has a little extra elbow room.
One of my favorite features on the 56 is the hydraulic swim platform. At the touch of a button, the entire platform lowers to water level, or a few inches below, so bathers can easily swim on and off without having to climb a ladder. The platform is large enough to accommodate a PWC or small tender, in which case the platform lift capability will greatly simplify watertoy launch and retrieval.
Whether you have swimmers or groceries coming aboard, you'll appreciate the centerline transom door. With the swim platform in the raised position, it makes it easy to board from dockside. From the teak-covered aft deck, glass doors lead into the saloon, teak stairs lead up to the flying bridge, and wide side decks lead forward to sunpads on the foredeck. To keep things shipshape, Sunseeker provides hidden stowage for docklines and fenders so they won't clutter the stylish exterior.
Clutter is also lacking in the engine room, which you access through a hatch in the aft deck. Forward there's six-foot headroom and easy access to all critical items. Cooling-water intakes are on centerline, in full view, and clear labeling of valves, switches, and equipment takes the guesswork out of operation and maintenance. The engines are mounted atop stout longitudinal stringers that tie into transverse structural bulkheads. They transfer load to the hull bottom, a beefy single-skin laminate with multiaxial fiber reinforcement, and hull sides, decks, and superstructure, which are balsa-cored sandwich panels with multiaxial fiber in the skins.
By the end of the day, I realized that the wow power of the Manhattan 56 was more than just a passing glance. Look a little deeper and you'll see this boat is just as impressive beneath her lovely skin. No wonder so many Sunseeker owners are saying, "Wow, I want one now!"
Sunseeker USA (954) 984-2911. Fax: (954) 984-2913.
George L. Petrie is a professor of naval architecture at the University of New Orleans and provides maritime consulting services. His Web site is www.maritimeanalysis.com.
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Maritona Health Services, Inc.
Maritona Health Services, Inc. was recognized and certified in 2006 by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as one of modern home-health care agencies which are scientifically measured and assessed to have high-quality home-health care services for promoting health and improving the quality of life. Maritona Health Services, Inc. is located at 6515 Addicks Clodine Rd Houston, TX 77083 and can be contacted via phone number (281) 933-3500. Home Health Services being offerred by Maritona Health Services, Inc. includes nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, medical social, home health aide.
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Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly surveys the quality of home health services basing on different metrics which more or less reflect the overall patients' health conditions after receving the services. This quality measures report is provided in order to help patients understand the home health services being offerred by Maritona Health Services, Inc. and to help the facilities improve their service quality for promoting health. The following quality measures are collected, compiled and publicized on Jul 12th, 2017 by CMS
Patient Experiences
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly gathers feedback information from patients (and their family or friends) about their experiences with a certain home health agency. In the survey, the patients shares their feelings about services they received, and whether they would recommend the agency to someone else. This information is also very helpful to the agency, telling the agency where to focus their improvement efforts for better health care and services.
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Thursday 9 June 2016
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Cougars coach Paul March has expressed his delight at bringing Daley Williams back to the club.
The Jamaican international has signed a one-year deal at Keighley, having had spells at Batley and Dewsbury Rams last season.
Williams left the Bulldogs due to disciplinary reasons and also departed Cougar Park under a cloud back in 2010 when Barry Eaton was in charge.
But new Keighley coach March believes the centre has put those problems behind him and can be a key player for his side in the Championship next season.
March said: "I'm really pleased to sign him. I tried to get him when I was coach at York and he was at Salford but he slipped through the net.
"He will be coming back to familiar territory and he is excited and looking forward to the challenge."
On Williams' previous issues with indiscipline, March added: "I've heard all about that but this is a clean slate as far as I'm concerned.
"He will get the same opportunity as everyone else. Daley has a chance to prove himself here and it's up to him now.
"We've had a chat and that's all in the past now. I'm confident that Cougars fans will see the best of him."
March believes Williams can be one of the Cougars' key attacking weapons next season as they aim to build on their sixth-place finish back in the game's second tier this year.
He said: "Daley is a try-scorer, he is quick and has great hands. He is also versatile – as well as centre, he can play full back and wing."
Williams will also boost the already sizeable Jamaican international contingent at Keighley.
He joins fellow new signing Ross Peltier, who has arrived from Huddersfield Giants, Richie Barnett, Jamaine Wray and Jodie Sheriffe.
Meanwhile, March is eagerly anticipating the start of pre-season training next week.
Many of the squad have already started working with club conditioner Paul Royston but the players officially start their build-up to next season with their first training session next Tuesday.
March said: "I'm really excited about getting out there again. The lads have been texting and phoning one another and we're really buzzing for it."
Supporters will get their first chance to see the new squad in action on Boxing Day when they welcome Halifax to Cougar Park for a friendly (kick-off noon).
The fixture is likely to see new Cougars recruits Paul White, James Haley and Sean Hesketh line up against their former employers.


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HEALTH campaigners say they are concerned pathology services could be moved away from Dorset County Hospital.
Organisers of the recently formed Dorset Health Campaign say they are concerned a current tendering project for the Dorchester hospital could lead to pathology services being shipped out to a private company with a loss of local jobs.
However, hospital bosses say if the current services at DCH are found to be the best, the service will stay at the hospital and that whatever happens with the process, essential pathology services will remain on site.
A report to Dorset County Council's Dorset Health Scrutiny Committee on May 23, stated that the aims of the project were: using a tender process, to compare our pathology services against other interested providers to determine if DCH is providing the best-value service and use the outcomes to inform a decision on the future provision of the service.
Out of a total of 29 interested parties, four have been selected to go forward to the next stage of procurement – these are a mixture of NHS and private organisations.
The report states: "The existing internally delivered pathology service has not tendered for this service. The trust has used the pathology staff's expertise to produce specification documents and evaluate supplier responses.
"This precludes them from bidding themselves. The internal service will be benchmarked against the service specification and costs.
"The internal service will then be compared against the best potential supplier from the tender process. This will inform the final decision."
Hospital bosses said that no decision has yet been made but if there is a new provider of pathology services, staff would be protected under employment law.
The final decision of the future of the pathology service is expected in September.
A founder member of the group, Sally Cooke, said they had questions about the future quality of the service. She said: "How do we know the public will still get a good, timely, and high quality service if the path lab should go private? And what redress is there if a private provider delivers a poor service? We are concerned about the loss of local employment and skills."
Jean O'Callaghan, chief executive of Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said that nationally there was a move towards centralising pathology services rather than having a full pathology service in every hospital.
She said: "Quality standard requirements are much higher now for laboratory services and it is difficult for smaller centres like ours to keep up with these, to invest in the latest equipment and to recruit the necessary staff.
"At the heart of this project is a commitment to ensuring our patients are receiving the very best pathology services and, whatever the outcome of this process is, essential pathology services will remain on site. The hospital could not function otherwise.
"We will use the outcome of the tender process to inform a decision on the future provision of the services. This decision will be made by the Trust Board."
She added: "If the project demonstrates that our own in-house services are the best then we will retain those services."


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Talk:1177: Time Robot
A lot of Randall's recent comics are quite poetic. It's like some kind of trend. Davidy²²[talk] 05:14, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Is this a Terminator reference? (Never seen the movies) Alpha (talk) 05:20, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, it probably is. Davidy²²[talk] 11:26, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
- And you should see them sometime. They're pretty good. (The first two.) 188.8.131.52 22:48, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Lego movie: "Come with me if you want to not die". Jacky720 (talk) 19:36, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
A similar reference has been made before(by Randall).09:22, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
- Did you mean to post the ep602 link against the previous comic 1176? DD (talk) 11:20, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
- Probably 652. Wwoods (talk) 20:53, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I've learned that death is the only certainty in life, until we develop technology to avoid that. Until that time we should just relax and enjoy the adventure, even if we find ourselves in the scary movie sometimes, as a human race we will come out fine at the end. - e-inspired 220.127.116.11 19:01, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, if we colonize in a distant star system that just happens to have an Earth-like planet before our sun dies, and even then, the universe will die, be it by the Big Rip, Big Crunch, Big Freeze, or just heat death, and even if it is revived in a Big Bounce, all of human achievement will have been lost and the short-lived activity on the skin of a tiny rock orbiting a tiny star in a tiny galaxy will have been for nothing. It really sucks, too, since we've done so much, including developing multiple theories on our ultimate fate and the possible values of certain variables that would cause each one. 220.127.116.11 00:43, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


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are lots of reasons why Joe Reed's Mast & Mallet Boatworks build
a proper custom boat. The first is him.
By Capt. Ken Kreisler — May 2001
"I worked on a skipjack when I first came to the Bay," Joe Reed
told me as I handed him half my sandwich. "My family was originally
from Indiana but moved to D.C. I didn't mind the tough deck work
but I liked to cook, so I did that, too. I also had the good fortune to
mentor with a master carpenter named Clarence Stanford. He's 80 and
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PHILADELPHIA - Trailing by 10 with under 10 minutes to play, the University of Pennyslvania football team scored twice in the final 7:27, including Billy Ragone's game-winning touchdown pass to Lyle Marsh with 50 seconds remaining to top Columbia, 24-20, at Franklin Field on Saturday afternoon.
Ragone engineered his sixth career comeback in the fourth quarter or overtime and junior Dan Wilk made the game-saving tackle at the three-yard line as time expired.
Penn improved to 2-3 overall and 2-0 in the Ivy League with its 16th straight win over Columbia - the FCS' longest active annual winning streak over an opponent. The Lions (1-4, 0-2 Ivy) have not defeated the Quakers since 1996.
But they came close for a second consecutive year. Last season, Ragone broke a 20-20 tie at Kraft Field with the seven-yard game-winning touchdown run with 25 seconds left. This year, it was an even steeper hill to climb.
The Lions went up by 10 with 10:57 remaining on a 31-yard touchdown run by Marcorous Garrett - his second of the day. But Ragone led a hurry-up offense 86 yards in just 3:30 to pull within 20-17 with 7:27 to play. The drive nearly stalled at the Columbia 35-yard line before Ragone found Marsh for 16 yards to convert a 4th-and-7. Two plays later, Ragone sailed a pass up the seam, over the Lions defense and into the hands of tight end Mitchell King for a 16-yard touchdown - the first catch of King's collegiate career.
After a pair of punts, the Lions started from their own six-yard line with 4:09 to go. But the defense forced another punt and Quakers took over at their own 38 with just 2:26 remaining and one timeout. On 3rd-and-9 from the Columbia 41, Ragone connected with Marsh again - this time for 23 yards down to the Columbia 18-yard line.
Senior Jeff Jack rushed for seven yards and Ragone hit Marsh for five yards for 1st-and-Goal at the Columbia six with one minute left. Two plays later, Ragone scrambled to his left and lofted a pass to the back corner of the end zone. Marsh was there for the catch and the Quakers led, 24-20.
Columbia wasn't done. They started from their own 25 and marched down to the Penn 19 with 12 seconds left. The Lions took two shots at the end zone. The first pass fell incomplete. On the final play of the game, Brackett was pressured and threw across the field where Hamilton Garner caught the ball at the two-yard line. The only Penn player in the area was Wilk, who wrapped Garner up and sealed the win for the Quakers.
The first half was not a precursor to the second-half drama. The teams combined for 10 punts and just nine points. After a scoreless opening quarter, senior Andrew Holland took over for a series at quarterback for the Quakers. His first play of the game was a 44-yard connection with junior wideout Ryan Mitchell and pushed the ball from Penn's 22 to Columbia's 36. The Quakers got to the Lions' 20 before being stifled, but Connor Loftus nailed a 37-yard field goal to put Penn up, 3-0, at the 10:36 mark of the second quarter.
Columbia responded on its next drive. The Lions used a good mix of ground and air to drive all the way to Penn's 10-yard line before the Quaker defense stiffened and pushed them back to the 23. However, Luke Eddy was able to knock home a 40-yard field goal that tied the score almost exactly midway through the second quarter. Eddy then gave the Lions the lead at halftime with a 38-yard field goal with just two seconds left before the break.
Penn regained the lead on the first possession of the second half. It took just six plays to go 63 yards and was capped by the first of Ragone's three second-half touchdown passes - a 13-yarder over the middle to junior wideout Conner Scott.
Columbia went up 13-10 on Garrett's first touchdown run of the game at the 6:05 mark of the third quarter. The Lions nearly struck again on their next possession, but senior captain Brandon Copeland blocked a 47-yard field goal attempt just three plays into the fourth quarter. A short while later though, Garrett's second touchdown gave the Lions a 10-point lead and set up the wild comeback from the Quakers.
Ragone, who is now 7-1 as a starter at home against the Ivy League, was 18-of-34 for 181 yards and the three second-half touchdown passes. He has gone four games and 94 pass attempts without an interception. He also led the team with 66 rushing yards on an average of 5.1 yards per carry.
Marsh was the top target of the day along with Mitchell. Both set career highs with seven receptions. Mitchell finished with a game-high 90 receiving yards and Marsh had 80.
Defensively, junior safety Sebastian Jaskowski had a team-high 10 tackles. He has reached double digit tackles in three of the team's five games this year. Wilk had a career-high nine tackles - surpassing his previous career-best with the game-saving tackle on the final play. Copeland matched a season high with eight tackles and had a sack for the third consecutive game. Senior Taylor Brown matched a career-best with six tackles and recorded his second sack of the season. Sophomore Feerooz Yacoobi recorded his first career sack with a takedown in the fourth quarter.
Senior Scott Lopano was a star on special teams again. He matched a career-high with nine punts and still averaged 45.4 yards per punt. He had a long of 60 and pinned three inside the 20. Lopano also moved into third-place all-time at Penn with 165 career punts - one short of Ryan Lazzeri (1998-2001) for second place.
Up next, the Quakers are back on national television as they take on the Yale Bulldogs at the Yale Bowl. Kickoff from New Haven, Conn., is set for noon. NBC Sports will televise the Ivy title.
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Cards' offense turns tables on O's in finale win
St. Louis delivers 17 hits, 14 singles, to stop its slide in finale
BALTIMORE -- Though he had watched the Orioles maximize hitter-friendly Oriole Park at Camden Yards by bashing their way to victories in the first two games of the series, manager Mike Matheny urged his offense on Sunday not to try for imitation.
"We're not a Home Run Derby club," Matheny said before the series finale. "That upward swing for us, in general, doesn't translate into production. I just think we have to be true to yourself, know your strengths. When you get in situations where the ball is carrying like it is [here], you're going to accidentally bump into a couple."
And so with their blue-collar approach that has come to define the Cardinals' offense all year, St. Louis used 14 singles to build a lead and then had that accidental bump with a late show of power to escape Baltimore with a win, this one an 8-3 victory in front of 27,779 in the team's final Interleague game of the year.
"We're a team that definitely grinds out games, and today showed how we play and how we want to play the game," said Kolten Wong, who contributed a four-single game and scored twice to help Lance Lynn to his 12th win. "They are a really, really good team. For us to come in here and see firsthand, what kind of team they are, we know where we stand and we know it's going to be a grind. But to take one from these guys at home is big."
After the Cardinals' offense methodically went station-to-station to score four times over the first six innings, they finally muscled their way to putting the game out of reach late. Peter Bourjos' three-run blast in the ninth offered that cushion. The 17 hits set a season high for the Cardinals.
"You put enough traffic on base," Matheny said, "and good things are eventually going to happen."
The Orioles had substantial traffic, too, though Lynn minimized the damage of nine hits against him. The key, of course, was that none left the park.
After blasting nine home runs in the first two games, the Orioles had only one extra-base hit on Sunday. It was a Nelson Cruz double in the first, and it scored leadoff hitter Nick Markakis, who matched Wong with a four-single, two-run performance.
"[There's] not a lot of room to mess with in that lineup all the way around," Matheny said. "But he's not going to scare. He's going to rise to the occasion."
Lynn did so in the first, striking out Chris Davis and Delmon Young with two in scoring position. The next time through the order, Lynn retired the same two batters with the bases full.
"It was pretty simple: I was going to throw the ball by anybody who got in the box," Lynn said of his approach. "That's it."
"He's got kind of like [Boston closer] Koji [Uehara], that same type of fastball, everybody just sits there and says, 'It's just X miles an hour and it should be easy,'" added O's manager Buck Showalter. "It's not that easy. You see that high percentage of fastballs thrown like he does, you know he's got one that people don't square up very easily."
The Cardinals staked Lynn to a two-run lead before he took the mound. Four singles and a productive out pushed a pair home against Orioles starter Kevin Gausman, who labored through a 37-pitch opening frame. He'd last only through the fifth.
Jon Jay singled home Wong in the third to bump the lead back to two. A single by Daniel Descalso, who went 5-for-7 over the weekend, plated Jay in the sixth.
"Obviously, we wanted to avoid the sweep today," Descalso said. "[Continuing to add on] was really important, especially with the offense that the Orioles have. We saw what they can do the last couple of nights. We had to keep pushing it to try and keep pace with them."
The Orioles' last chance to strike came as they chased Lynn from the game in the sixth. After holding the Orioles' bottom five hitters hitless in their first 11 at-bats, Lynn, with a 4-2 lead, allowed a pair of leadoff singles. With two out, Matheny turned to lefty specialist Randy Choate to face Markakis.
Markakis, 1-for-9 previously against Choate, snuck a single through to score one. With the run charged to Lynn, it made this his first outing since June in which he had given up more than two. It had been the same length of time since he had last failed to go six innings.
But the Orioles' single off Choate would be their only success against the St. Louis bullpen. Kevin Siegrist finished the sixth on one pitch. Then, with his bullpen "running on fumes," Matheny turned to Pat Neshek and Trevor Rosenthal to cover the final three innings.
He planned to swap one for the other midway through the eighth, but Neshek breezed through two innings with four strikeouts.
"Pat just got on a roll," Matheny said. "It was not possible to take him out when he was throwing the ball the way he was."
A well-rested Rosenthal struck out two in the ninth. With the win, the Cardinals wrap up Interleague play at 8-12.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Inside-the-park homer sinks Rockies in 10th
Tulowitzki's go-ahead shot negated by Pagan's two-run circuit
SAN FRANCISCO -- Game-ending inside-the-park home runs, like Angel Pagan's two-run job to give the Giants a 6-5, 10-inning victory over the Rockies on Saturday afternoon at AT&T Park, don't happen often.
But Rockies first baseman Todd Helton is in the unique position to say he was on the wrong end of two.
Before Saturday, the last walk-off, inside-the-park homer in a Major League game was by Tampa Bay's Rey Sanchez on June 11, 2004 -- against the Rockies, with Helton on the field watching in bewilderment.
"It's definitely a head-shaker," said Helton, who at least wasn't around long enough to see the Giants' last walk-off, inside-the-park homer, by Hall of Famer Bill Terry for the New York Giants against the Cubs on Aug. 24, 1931. "But we can do one of two things: Sit there and dwell on it, let it affect us, or come back and win a game and it'll never be thought of again."
In the grand scheme, the Rockies enter Sunday with a chance to win a second straight series over the Giants, something that hasn't happened often in recent seasons. But part of the process will be putting behind them an unforgettable ending to Saturday's game.
"It would be a lot worse if we had lost yesterday and have this on top of it," Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki said. "Yesterday was big for us. This is a tough place to play. Tomorrow, we have a chance to win a series, which hasn't happened for this organization for a while."
The Rockies had taken a one-run lead in the top of the 10th on Tulowitzki's leadoff home run off Giants closer Sergio Romo (3-2). It was the 10th homer of the season for Tulowitzki, who earlier in the contest extended his hit streak to 10 games.
The Rockies turned the game over to closer Rafael Betancourt (1-2), who had converted all 10 previous save chances but was pitching for the first time since being pulled from a game Tuesday with right groin inflammation.
Betancourt walked Brandon Crawford on five pitches to open the inning, then watched in vain as Pagan's deep fly to right-center kicked away from right fielder Michael Cuddyer. Pagan puffed around the bases for his third homer of the season.
"I'll be honest with you, I was running out of gas a little bit," Pagan said.
Rockies center fielder Dexter Fowler, who ended up with the ball, threw to second baseman DJ LeMahieu, whose throw to the plate was too late.
"It just took an awkward bounce," Fowler said. "At the end of the day, we'll be fine."
Betancourt declined interview requests.
"He's got great command, but nobody's going to be perfect in this league," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
The Giants came back from a 4-0 deficit in the late innings, but two calls by plate umpire Alfonso Marquez -- one that involved a possible run, the other at third base -- went the Rockies' way even though TV replays said otherwise.
Carlos Gonzalez began his three-hit day with a two-run homer off Giants starter Barry Zito in the top of the first. The Rockies pushed the lead to 4-0 in the fourth on Cuddyer's RBI single and Jordan Pacheco's RBI single.
Rockies starter Juan Nicasio, who was in danger of losing his spot in the rotation a couple of weeks ago, turned in his second straight competitive start. He held the Giants scoreless until the sixth and wound up yielding two runs and seven hits in five-plus innings.
"I felt great, had command of my fastball and threw it down in the zone, and my breaking ball went for strikes, too," Nicasio said.
Doubles by Buster Posey and Hunter Pence to open the sixth chased Nicasio. Josh Outman, pitching on consecutive days for the first time this season, gave up Brandon Belt's single -- a bloop that bounced off the edge of Tulowitzki's glove -- and walked pinch-hitter Andres Torres before Crawford's sacrifice fly.
Posey singled to open the Giants' seventh and scored when Torres' jam shot against Rockies left-hander Rex Brothers squirted down the third-base line for a double that put runners at second and third. But LeMahieu fielded Crawford's grounder and threw to Yorvit Torrealba at the plate to cut down Belt, who was trying to score the go-ahead run. TV replays showed Belt made it in time, but Marquez ruled otherwise.
In the eighth, Marco Scutaro tried to advance to third on Pablo Sandoval's one-out single. Gonzalez threw to third, where Arenado's tag missed but Marquez, covering third because the umpires were rotating with the play, ruled an out. Arenado thought it was possible he grazed Scutaro but replays showed daylight between glove and runner.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.