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Riding in the summer heat requires a jersey that keeps you cool and comfortable. Now, take away sleeves and you're left with the Gore Bike Wear Women's Xenon 2.0 Singlet,a summer piece that is lightweight, minimalist, and made for tough rides.
Sitting close to the top of the Gore Bike Wear line, the Women's Xenon 2.0 Singlet follows in the footsteps of its sleeved sister, the Women's Xenon Jersey, in fabric technology, construction, and fit. Made for long, hot days in the saddle, the Xenon singlet utilizes Schoeller's signature Coldblack fabric, which reflects sunlight to reduce heat build-up and provide more effective UV protection. The fabric is bound together using ultrasonic seam technology instead of thread, essentially welding the fabric. The result is a tight, flat seam that doesn't cause friction against your skin where traditional seams would usually rub, and is lower in bulk and weight.
Partial mesh inserts add ventilation to the front of the jersey for riding at the peak of summer heat. Even with the minimalist design, the full length zipper adds an extra feature for dumping heat in a hurry. The semi-locking slider keeps the zipper positioned where you want it but makes it easy to adjust one handed on the go. A zip-underflap runs the full length of the singlet so undergarments and skin aren't snagged or abraded by zipper teeth. Gripper elastic on the bottom hem keeps the singlet in place so you can get into the drops without exposing your back.
The Xenon Singlet may have sacrificed sleeves for summer riding, but it kept the ample storage room of the Xenon jersey. Three back pockets, tapered on the sides for easy access, offer plenty of storage options for riding essentials during an all-day ride. Reflective print on the sides adds style and safety to the singlet. The reflective piping on the back and logo on the front and back create 360 degrees of visibility for early morning and evening rides.
The Gore Bike Wear Women's Xenon 2.0 Singlet is available in two-tone color combinations, White/black, Thai Pink/white, Citrus Green/white, and Black/white. It comes in sizes from X-Small to XX-Large.
- Coldblack fabric reflects sunlight
- Three back pockets
- Full-length zipper
- Long tail for full coverage in the cycling position
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Great breathability
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I got this jersey from a friend as a present. I don't typically wear sleeveless jersey's but since I needed to get a tan, I wasn't going to complain. The fabric is soft and doesn't itch or feel awkward against the skin. I thought the jersey fit was okay, but I felt like I could have used a small instead of a medium.
Xenon Jersey & Xenon shorts
Great reflective accents to protect you at lower light conditions.
This line ends up running true-to-size, and I wish I would have ordered one size down; just a little bit too big, especially the chamois, in this size (XXL) anyway. Will order a XL next time...For reference, I'm 5'6", and I don't want to talk about my weight! So take heart ladies, you can still have top performing bike gear, whatever your size/ability...truly working on it, gotta long way to go, I know!
(* Those are Gore's Xenon socks; I would say they are best for Spring/Fall as they are not as breezy as L.G. or the Giordana's. They have a fit/weight more like Assos' Spring/Fall socks).
What a Surprise!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
Well, after reading another reviewer regarding a great experience with the Xenon shorts, I decided to give the Xenon jersey (and the Xenon jacket) a try...what a great surprise!
So while I still love Giordana, these are just about as good...I can't believe I said that, but it's true (providing there are no quality issues down the road).
This jersey performed perfectly on a extremely hot & humid ride today.
The back of the jersey is total mesh, and so totally breathable, even with my hydration pack (loaded, as usual). At breaks on the trail, my back, under the pack area, (which gets a bit sweaty in just a small spot only), was dry in no time.
I like the pockets, totally reachable, though I don't really use them; but if you don't carry a pack, you'll find them very accessible (same goes for the ALP-X 2.0 jersey).
The zipper is easy to operate, no tugging or fumbling around.
I had no problems with the arm holes, and in fact, there was more grace in the arm holes in this jersey than with my Giordana laser jersey. Just have to order the correct size.
Gore also offers Xenon bike socks. They're great; form fit right/left foot; padded under ball of foot; high tech fabric; low cuff; white or black/grey/wt. red accents. See them on the Gore site.
Size is true to the chart.
I got the white/blk (white front, black back *but word to the wise: the white is very thin and I wish I would have ordered the black fronted jersey instead; had to order this direct from Gore) for my size; and the matching Xenon blk./white, and white Xenon jacket from B.C. on sale!...very sharp for dry summer days/evenings.
Country of Origin:
Stamp on back of product reads:
Engineered in Germany...made in China.
Will post any quality issues if they arise.
Wanted to love it, but . . .
This sleeveless jersey looked perfect . . . I liked the collar closing, with the zipper extending only til the neckline which is much more comfortable than the mandarin collars with the zipper all the way to the top of the collar. But . . . this jersey ran very small. I usually wear small in the PI jerseys (am 5'1", 105 lbs.), but this one was way too snug and clingy - not flattering. Also the armholes were tight, with elastic on the undersides - was not comfortable for me. So, had to send it back - it might have worked in a larger size, but I didn't want to chance it. I am still searching for the perfect biking sleeveless jersey!
Yea, it seems all the Gore bike clothes run small; I always go a size up. You may want to try the Gioradana line...the Forma Red is really, really nice; but the Silverline is O.K., too (and that lineup is a bit more forgiving/comfortable, both on the body, & the wallet!). The whole line is also very stylish, and that's a nice "bonus". Happy Trails...


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Predator stays behind bars
A DANGEROUS sex offender with a fetish for violent sexual fantasies will be kept behind bars because of the high risk he may reoffend.
Mark Richards Lawrence was deemed a dangerous prisoner in 2008 after a lifetime of sexual offending.
Lawrence's crimes started at a young age when he was enrolled at the Ipswich Opportunity School were he reportedly tried to rape a student.
He later went on to work at the Butter Factory, during which time he was convicted of three sex offences. He was 17.
The Attorney-General last month applied to have the Supreme Court review Lawrence's status.
But four years later he was locked away indefinitely. Justice Martin Daubney deemed Lawrence, 50, is still a danger to the community.
In a written judgment delivered on Thursday, Justice Daubney detailed Lawrence's chequered history, most of which had been spent behind bars.
By his 18th birthday, Lawrence had been before the Ipswich Court three times for the aggravated assault of children.
On Boxing Day in 1983, while he was an involuntary patient at the Wolston Park Hospital in Brisbane, Lawrence killed a female patient and was sentenced to 15 years jail for manslaughter.
At the time a psychiatrist reported the death followed Lawrence's sadistic fantasies about raping and murdering a woman and cooking her body parts in an oven.
In 2002 he was found guilty of sodomising an inmate.
When the Attorney-General appealed a court order to release Lawrence in 2008, Justice George Fryberg found his sexual sadism and antisocial personality disorder made him a high risk of reoffending.
A psychiatrist found in 2009 that if Lawrence were to reoffend on release, it would involve sadistic rape and sexual assaults on females, males and children.
During the most recent review, a psychiatrist established Lawrence's risk of reoffending was high and her opinion had not changed.
Psychiatrist Dr Donald Grant outlined Lawrence's sexual fantasies could increase to very violent offending without prediction.
"In Mr Lawrence's case there may be no externally obvious changes between a rise in sadistic fantasies and him acting on these fantasies in a very violent way," he stated in a report.
Psychiatrists also questioned Lawrence's credibility to accurately report on his fantasies due to his tendency to lie.
As a result, Justice Daubney on Thursday found Lawrence's risk of reoffending was too high to warrant his supervised release.
"I am also satisfied that the risk that the respondent will reoffend is high, and that the nature of the offence that the respondent is likely to commit is potentially life-threatening," he said.

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The Design Automation Conference is mostly about People who need People, so my Top Ten list from Day 1 in Austin here at the 50th DAC is about just that: The Luckiest People in the World.
No. 10) Rushing up to Room 18 on Level 4 of the Austin Convention Center to attend the DFM&Y Workshop at 9 am, only to find that I couldn't get in because I hadn't paid. Why is this disappointment on the list of favorites?
Because on my way back down to Level 1, I ran into Jill Jacbos who's been working overtime here in Austin on behalf of Accellera Systems Initiative (Stan Krolikoski received the 2013 Leadership Award at the 7 am breakfast today), the North American SystemC Users Group Meeting (taking place all day today on Level 3), and Jim Hogans' Hot Zone Party tonight at Austin City Limit's Moody Theater.
Jim's efforts, and those of the folks helping him, are all to raise money for his Heart of Technology charity, which is donating funds raised in Austin to CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Travis County, Texas. If you want to donate, you can do so at Jim's website.


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Sitecore CMS Helps Elsevier Business Intelligence Follow a Web First Method of Publishing
Sitecore CMS Helps Elsevier Business Intelligence Follow a Web First Method of Publishing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Nov 21, 2011) - Sitecore and Velir announced today that Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI) has launched a new website built by Velir on Sitecore's Content Management System (CMS). The new CMS provides a seamless workflow between MS Word, the Web and print worlds and the ability to search through EBI's catalog of 200,000+ articles. A subsidiary of Elsevier, EBI is a provider of healthcare information and analysis for senior executives in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries.
"EBI's clients are senior executives and thought leaders in their fields -- and they've always recognized the value of our content," said Gerry Stoia, president, Elsevier Business Intelligence. "The new website gives our clients a faster, more accurate way to find and archive the information they need."
The new site includes a streamlined look, clearer layout and a simplified navigation structure making dynamic content easier and quicker to access. Up-to-the-minute news and insightful analysis on medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and related fields are grouped dynamically, making all information easily navigable directly from the home page. Site visitors will be able to quickly access EBI's comprehensive library of articles, newsletters, conference and webinar information, E-letters, blogs, reports and subscriber services.
Sitecore's Adaptive Print Studio technology enables EBI's Web designers and marketers to utilize Sitecore's Web platform as a central hub for all Adobe InDesign content as well as all document layouts and settings. Adaptive Print Studio works as plug-in to Adobe InDesign providing online access to work queue and the ability to pull content from the CMS directly into InDesign. In addition, a Microsoft Word plug-in was developed in order to streamline the content entry into the CMS with a tool that is more familiar to authors and editors. An enterprise wide Coveo Search implementation was integrated to index more than 200,000 articles.
"The new site consolidates what used to be three different authoring environments into a single unified authoring environment using Sitecore's CMS," said Adam Ribaudo, director of analysis & user experience, Velir. "This significantly reduces the training and maintenance burden on EBI's staff. The development of a site of this scale is a testament to the powerful capabilities of Sitecore's CMS software."
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Founded in 2000, Velir Studios is a full-service web agency that delivers high-quality, complex web solutions to large non-profit organizations, universities, and private companies. Our award-winning company is one of the largest Sitecore partners in North America and we are certified Google Enterprise Professionals. Our expertise in content management, data visualization, software development, programming, engineering, and elegant user interface design enable us to create sophisticated Web-based systems that take the pain out of managing content and bring data to life by making it dynamic and compelling. For detailed case studies, please visit www.velir.com
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Sitecore redefines how organizations engage with audiences, powering compelling experiences that sense and adapt to visitors both online and in-person.
Sitecore's leading Content Management System software is the first to cohesively integrate with marketing automation, intranet portal, e-commerce, web optimization, social media and campaign management technologies. This broad choice of capabilities enable marketing professionals, business stakeholders and information technology teams to rapidly implement, measure and manage a successful website and digital business strategy. Businesses can now easily identify, serve and convert new customers with Sitecore's Digital Marketing System, part of its encompassing Customer Engagement Platform.
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Can the Olympics really promote peace and good will?
I was fortunate on Sunday morning to have turned on the TV just in time to see the last few kilometers of this year's Tour de France, the epic three-week-long cycling competition that ends on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
The first thing I saw was Bradley Wiggins out in front of the field in the yellow leader's jersey. As Wiggins had already secured the overall victory in Saturday's time trials, most of the final stage bringing the riders in to Paris was a formality, except for the eight laps around the Champs-Elysees and the final sprint. I settled in to watch what I figured would be a fitting end, with a triumphant Wiggins crossing the finish line ahead of the group, and in doing so bringing Great Britain its first-ever victory in the Tour.
As they raced closer to the finish line, it suddenly became clear that Wiggins was not going to take the glory of finishing the stage first—he instead was setting up his teammate, fellow Brit and world champion Mark Cavendish, one of the tour's best sprinters, to be able to fly to the finish line. I confess to getting a little emotional as the commentator cried out, "Bradley Wiggins is [riding] his heart out for his teammate!"
Cavendish, thanks to Wiggins' help, crossed the finish line first at the Tour's final stage for a record fourth consecutive year, in one of the most selfless acts I can recall recently witnessing in sports. As I watched the wrap-up coverage, I also saw that I had missed another touching moment earlier in the day: In a great symbol of respect the American George Hincapie, a veteran cyclist riding in his 17th and final Tour de France, was pulled to the front of the field to lead the riders down the Champs-Elysees, a privilege usually reserved for the leading team.
It's these special moments that enhance the superhuman feats, intense rivalries, and longstanding traditions of sports. We're now just a few days from the Summer Olympic Games, which open this Friday in London, sure to hold their own amazing upsets, heroic efforts, and last-second finishes. In the spirit of the Games, Pope Benedict recently spoke about his prayers that these games will promote peace and friendship.
It's not an easy message for the pontiff to deliver, at a time when war is raging in Syria, gun violence has again reared its ugly head in the U.S., and missiles sit on rooftops in London. (Similarly, last month during the Euro 2012 soccer competition, Pope Benedict issued a message talking about the important lessons of fraternity and brotherhood to be learned from sports, in the face of controversy in the host nations of Poland and Ukraine.) Sports are full of doping scandals, match fixing, racism, and, highlighted recently at Penn State, even sexual abuse. The Olympics themselves have seen plenty of incidents that make it seem like international cooperation is merely a dream.
Pope Benedict said he hoped that the "good will generated by this international sporting event may bear fruit, promoting peace and reconciliation throughout the world." It sounds idealistic and even naïve to think that what happens on the track or in the pool or on the court will really be able to impact complex international political relationships.
But, if Sunday's display at the Tour de France is any indication, we've got plenty of reason to believe that the Olympics will still be able to show us that good will is possible at the international level—at least in the realm of sports.


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The myMoleskine gallery is fast approaching the 1000 uploads.
As a gift to all the people who valuably contributed, there are now two new templates to donwload on the MSK page.
MSK is the online cut and paste tool to transfer digital content on paper and personalize the layout of your pages.


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The Department of Biological Sciences offers an exciting opportunity to Florida Gulf Coast University students who seek a career in osteopathic medicine, pharmacy or dental medicine. By agreement between the Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Arts and Sciences and the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, FGCU offers an opportunity for students to pursue a career in medicine or pharmacy in an accelerated or traditional program of study and dentistry in a traditional program of study. Qualified students with successful application into our Medical Education Program, pursue the Bachelor of Science in Biology degree at FGCU. Students who complete all program requirements can earn their baccalaureate degree and their DO or Pharm. D. degree after a minimum of seven years of study provided they continue to meet all program requirements and their baccalaureate degree and their DMD after eight years of study. The Bachelor of Science degree is conferred by FGCU after the first year of professional school.
The program provides students with a sound and rigorous baccalaureate foundation that includes an interdisciplinary curriculum in the chemical, mathematical, and physical sciences as well as a broad basis in the biological sciences preparing students for a professional curriculum. Students are provided opportunities to work closely with FGCU and LECOM faculty and are mentored in the application process, research, MCAT, PCAT, and DAT preparation, volunteering, and curriculum advising.


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Michael Hori is a native of the Northwest, spending most of his youth in Tacoma. He graduated from the University of Washington Medical School, where he also completed his Internal Medicine residency. He was Chief Resident at the Boise VA Medical Center for a year before completing his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of California-Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He practiced in Auburn for three years before moving to the Valley Medical Center community in 1993.
Dr. Hori has been in private practice for the past 19 years in the Auburn-Renton area. His practice includes comprehensive adult heathcare and the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of infectious diseases, including osteomyelitis, endocarditis, soft-tissue and wound infections, fungal and bacterial diseases, HIV and other illnesses of the immunocompromised. He is an expert in travel medicine. He is looking forward to continued care in these disciplines.
He and his wife have three sons. He enjoys family life, skiing, camping, reading, running, swimming and bicycling. He has even survived a couple of sprint triathlons.
Undergraduate: University of WashingtonMedical School: University of WashingtonResidency: University of WashingtonFellowship: University of California - Davis; Boise VA Medical Center
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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors gobbled up shares of Potbelly Corp. Friday, and the sandwich chain's shares more than doubled in their debut on the Nasdaq.
The company's initial public offering was another win for food companies going public. Shares of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. rose 123 percent in the natural and organic grocery's August IPO. Restaurant chain Noodles & Co.'s stock more than doubled in its June debut.
Potbelly's stock rose $16.77, or 120 percent, to close at $30.77, after the IPO raised $105 million — more than the company had expected.
Potbelly began in 1977 as a small antique store in Chicago. The original owner started offering sandwiches and homemade desserts to customers in an effort to boost sales.
As of September, the company had 288 sandwich shops in 18 states and the District of Columbia. Its franchisees have seven shops in the U.S. and 12 in the Middle East.
Its net income in 2012 came to $13.6 million on revenue of $274.9 million.
In the IPO, 7.5 million shares priced at $14 each, above the revised projected range of $12 to $13. The company had initially expected shares to price from $9 to $11 each. Most of the stock came from the company. Early investors also sold about 150,000. Potbelly won't receive any money from the selling stockholders.
Potbelly plans to use the money from the IPO to pay a previously declared dividend, to pay off debt and for working capital.
Its shares now trade under the "PBPB" ticker symbol.


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OSLO, Norway (AP) — When friends of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit couldn't travel to India to welcome their surrogate twins into the world, the royal stepped up, minding the couple's newborns for three days and even being mistaken by hospital staff for a nanny.
In a statement from the Royal Court, the princess described how she had flown to New Delhi on Oct. 23 after visa problems prevented the children's Norwegian parents — a same-sex couple — from arriving at the hospital in time for the birth.
"There are times in life when one finds oneself in a complex situation where there are few or no good solutions," she wrote.
"For me the core of the matter was that there were two newborn babies who lay alone in a hospital in Delhi. I was the one who was able to travel. It was important to me to help in any way I could."
She stayed to mind the babies until relatives — and eventually also the two fathers — could get to the hospital.
One of the men is an employee of the royal household and a good friend of Mette-Marit's. The twins arrived in Norway last week. Hagen did not identify the couple or give the genders of the babies.
The court said the travel was paid out of the princess' private funds.
Mette-Marit, 39, became Crown Princess of Norway and the country's future queen after she married Crown Prince Haakon in 2001. They have two children, and Mette-Marit has another child from a previous relationship.
Marianne Hagen, a spokeswoman for the Royal Court, said that despite Mette-Marit's title, her royal status does not exempt her from other countries' visa regulations and the princess was also required to seek one for her visit to India. "If a visa is required, then it's also required for a crown princess," Hagen said.
She also confirmed that staff at the Indian hospital had mistaken the royal for a nanny.
Surrogacy is illegal in Norway, but it is not illegal to seek a surrogate mother abroad and bring the child back to the Nordic country.
The loophole has sparked a debate in Norway, but the princess said her reason for traveling to India was purely personal and that her trip "was not intended to be a contribution to this debate."
Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm, Sweden, contributed to this report.


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RacketCon Recap
posted by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
We held RacketCon here at Northeastern over the past weekend, and it was a great time! Matthew Flatt consulted his magic 8-ball about the future of Racket (it involves Hawaiian shirts); Matthias Felleisen announced the upcoming Realm of Racket book; Robby Findler demoed DrRacket with online syntax checking; Ryan Culpepper taught us how to make Rackety libraries; Prabhakar Ragde explained how the University of Waterloo teaches Racket and Program by Design to 1500 students a year (and how to embed math into Scribble documents).
Danny Yoo has already blogged about his talk about his Whalesong Racket->JavaScript compiler. Hopefully other people will write more about some of the individual talks; I'll update this post to link to any that I see.
As promised, the talks were videotaped by Jeff Dlouhy of the NUACM; the videos are in post-production and should be up within a few weeks. We'll announce their availability on this blog. Slides from the individual talks will be up on the RacketCon webpage soon.


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The 10 Best RPGs Ever
Everyday you go to your job, stare at a computer screen, put up some drywall, or flip burgers, and when you come home, you want to escape the mundane and enjoy a bit of adventure. An RPG is synonymous with adventure. Some of the most compelling and epic stories ever told in video games were clad in the cloak of an RPG. They envelop you in entire worlds far flung from your own and let you live out a life you might never have known.
So snatch up a controller and one of these discs that contain a whole world for you to play. Here are the 10 best RPGs to help you escape the daily grind.
10. Persona 4
Atlus has never shied away from releasing some really strange games. Persona 4 and its predecessors were no exception. Part RPG, part simulation, part murder mystery, part anime, and part Cronenberg-esque fantasy, Persona 4 wears many hats. But, it switches between them exceedingly well and provides an always intriguing gaming experience. By day you're tasked with navigating a suburban mystery, while at night you must fight your way through the TV World. Did we mention that it has a fantastic soundtrack too?
9. Kingdom Hearts
When it was first announced that there would be a J-RPG involving Disney characters, a lot of people probably scratched their heads. What was created was one of the most unique and enjoyable games to ever come out on the PS2. With the help of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and numerous other Disney characters, you get to save multiple world from the onslaught of the Heartless with your mighty keyblade. It sounds a bit hallucinatory and nutty, but that gave it a unique charm.
8. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
If a slim and slick RPG had a baby with a voluptuously excitable shooter, the offspring would undoubtedly be Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Drawing on shooter gameplay to augment the surprisingly beefy RPG elements and outstandingly designed open world, Deus Ex stuck the perfect balance between genres. The story of bio-mechanically enhanced humans and the shady company dealings behind the scenes kept the intrigue high as you wandered cities across the world searching for clues. As with any great RPG, you have choice. You can play it almost any way you wish. Except for the bosses. You had to shoot them in the face.
7. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
It has been said that all the authors of those old "choose your own adventure" novels quit writing books and moved on over to Bioware. This may be true and it really shows in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic's size and scope. Bioware is the king of the immersive RPG and are old hands at creating worlds. They delved deeper into the Star Wars lore and kept fans entertained while introducing some memorable new characters. We all loved being called "meatbags" by a certain death dealing droid.
6. Pokemon Red & Blue
As much as we hate to admit it, the original games in this behemoth of a franchise were damn good RPG's. It had all the righ ingredients to make it completely addictive. You had random ecounters teasing at the chance to capture a rare Pokemon. The world was quirky, fun, and huge for a handheld. Of course it got frustrating when you were almost to the next town and were hammered into the ground by an overpowered monster, but that just made it challenging. Be honest with yourself. You wanted to collect them all, you know you did.
5. Chrono Trigger
As always, the world is at stake, but in no other RPG will you find a more entertaining time traveling adventure than Chrono Trigger. In addition to having one of the most engaging story lines in all of video games, the decision to keep the combat in real time and not warp to a battle map kept the action fast and flowing.
4. Final Fantasy 7
Widely hailed as the greatest of the Final Fantasy series, the seventh installment of the franchise is a classic by any definition. The story was grand, sweeping, and strangely personal. It was a game that pushed the boundaries of storytelling and imprinted itself on your brain. The struggle between Cloud and Sephiroth is like that of Link and Gannon, Mario and Bowzer. This game defined the series for many years to come. Even if it did mean that we associate it with ridiculous hair and absurdly large weaponry.
3. Super Mario RPG
The most unexpected RPG to ever be born onto the SNES, Super Mario RPG is a classic game that lets you play a Mario game any way you want. You aren't simply forced to run from left to right to save a princess. Instead, you're treated to a complex story featuring an intriguing cast of characters and a battle system that requires more strategy than simply jumping on anything in your way.
2. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda was the father of it all. It was one of the first games to introduce an open world to explore. It was one of the first games to provide you with a bunch of items to aid you on your legendary journey. A Link to the Past is the quintessential Zelda adventure that envelops you with it's engaging story and endlessly satisfying gameplay.
1. Skyrim
In terms of scope, ambition, and immersion, Skyrim is second to none. No other game offers you more. You're treated to a pulse pounding first mission to help create and define your character, then you're left to fend for yourself. You can follow the main story, explore the gorgeous land you've been let loose in, or simple head to the nearest village and set it on fire. Those peasants don't need their homes. Skyrim gives you complete freedom, which is a beautiful thing.


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Oil prices rose Monday as U.S. political leaders moved toward averting the "fiscal cliff" just hours before the deadline.
Oil prices rose Monday as U.S. political leaders moved toward averting the "fiscal cliff" just hours before the deadline.
President Barack Obama said Monday afternoon that a deal to avert the cliff — a series of automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect starting Tuesday — was in sight but not yet finalized.
Republicans and Democrats are still at an impasse over whether to put off across-the-board spending cuts and, if so, how to pay for that. There's a midnight deadline to reach a deal.
Benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.02 to finish at $91.82 per barrel in New York. Oil has wavered in recent weeks along with the ups and downs of the budget negotiations. The price of oil finished December up about 3 percent from the start of the month. It ranged from a low near $77 a barrel to high around $110 a barrel during the year.
Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, rose 49 cents to end at $111.11 a barrel.
The national average for gasoline was at $3.29 per gallon Monday, well under the average of nearly $3.40 a month ago but 2 cents higher than a year ago.
In other energy futures trading:
Natural gas fell 12 cents, or 3.4 percent, to finish at $3.35 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Wholesale gasoline rose 1 cent to $2.81 a gallon.
Heating oil was flat at $3.05 a gallon.


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NH Sen. Shaheen decries dismissal of military sexual assault conviction
March 09. 2013 9:20PM
WASHINGTON (MCT) - An Air Force general who overturned the sexual assault conviction of a fellow fighter pilot now finds himself caught in a political crossfire that could change military justice, perhaps, some fear, for the worse.
Citing the general's actions, lawmakers including Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Claire McCaskill of Missouri are pressuring the Pentagon to restrict commanding officers' power to dismiss court-martial convictions. The lawmakers are not, however, seeking to restrict their officers' corresponding power to press ahead with sexual assault cases that investigators may consider weak.
The result could be a further tilting of scales that some fear already may be swinging out of balance, as a military that once seemed oblivious to sexual assault now moves full force against it. At the least, what happens next will highlight the extraordinary clout that the military justice system grants commanding officers in sexual assault and other criminal cases.
Although the general's high-profile reversal of the sexual assault conviction is seizing attention, it's a step that's rarely taken.
Meanwhile, a McClatchy Newspapers review of nearly 70 military sexual assault cases, involving thousands of pages obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, found that commanding officers aggressively pursue sexual assault prosecutions, sometimes over the objections or concerns of investigators. Many acquittals have resulted.
Lawmakers, nonetheless, are mobilizing in the wake of Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin's Feb. 26 overturning of the aggravated sexual assault conviction of Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, an F-16 pilot who's back on active duty after his release from a military prison in Charleston, S.C.
"This is a travesty of justice," Boxer and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., wrote Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday. "At a time when the military has unequivocally stated that there is zero tolerance for sexual assault, this is not the message it should be sending."
McCaskill, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday, blasted "the arbitrary decision of one general" to reject a military conviction.
"This could be a tipping point, I think, for the American people to rise up, particularly the women, and say, 'I don't think one general should be able to overturn a jury,' " McCaskill told Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, the head of the U.S. Central Command.
All of which worries military defense attorneys and scholars, who fear a congressional overreaction.
"The senators' . statements are a danger to the fair administration of military justice, not just in the Wilkerson case, but in all pending and future military justice cases, especially those involving sexual assault," defense attorney Phil Cave cautioned in an interview.
A former Navy legal officer, Cave added that lawmakers' "specific interference" in the Wilkerson case amounted to an abuse of their authority and might amount to unlawful command influence. Wilkerson's civilian defense attorney, Frank Spinner, agreed in an interview Friday that "the senators' statements may constitute unlawful command influence and will have a chilling effect" on military officials.
The demands from Boxer and Shaheen that Hagel take immediate steps to restrict commanding officers from "unilaterally dismissing military court decisions" appears to conflict with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is written by Congress.
"It's completely inappropriate," Eugene Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale Law School, said of the senators' demands. "If they're serious about this, they should change the statute."
Boxer and Shaheen suggest that legislative changes might, in fact, be a possibility, something Fidell says could be useful if handled in a balanced fashion.
He did not, however, mean the kind of bill to be introduced Wednesday by Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., which would strip away a commander's ability to dismiss convictions.
The political hubbub over Franklin's actions, moreover, might create a misleading impression about the frequency with which commanding officers overturn convictions. Marine Corps Col. John Baker, the chief defense counsel of the Marine Corps, said in an interview that it was very rare for convictions to be dismissed. Fidell agreed in an interview that "it's rare, though it does happen."
The Uniform Code of Military Justice grants considerable clout to commanding officers, called in legal cases the "convening authority." The power is both at the front end, before trial, and at the back end, after trial. They may proceed with a prosecution or, as happened in the Wilkerson case, dismiss a conviction for what the uniform code specifies may be "for any or no reason." These pretrial and post-trial powers help balance each other.
"The pieces of the system have to hang together," Fidell said, adding that changing the post-trial power without addressing pretrial powers would "be a severe blow to the logic of the system."
This may be particularly true in a political climate where commanding officers feel pressure to prosecute sexual assault allegations. In the Marine Corps, for instance, tough talk by the commandant has complicated dozens of sexual assault cases, as defense attorneys repeatedly raise the claim of unlawful command influence.
The McClatchy review of previously unreported documents from 68 sexual assault cases at Georgia's Fort Benning, North Carolina's Camp Lejeune, California's Camp Pendleton and several other bases nationwide found commanding officers sometimes using their prosecutorial discretion to proceed with weak cases. In 30 of the 68 cases, the defendants were acquitted or were found guilty only of lesser charges.
In a number of the acquittals McClatchy reviewed, commanding officers had proceeded with prosecution despite explicit objections or serious questions raised by investigating officers.
In 2007, for instance, a soldier accused a private first class with the 1st Battalion of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning of sexually assaulting her while she was drunk. The Columbus, Ga., police department looked into it and declined to prosecute. The Army's investigating officer recommended that some charges be brought, but not rape. The Fort Benning commander, nonetheless, proceeded with a prosecution on rape and other charges.
The accused soldier was acquitted on all charges.
In 2009, a Navy petty officer first class who was temporarily stationed at Norfolk, Va., was accused of rape by a sailor. The investigating officer recommended against filing rape charges, noting "inconsistencies" in the alleged victim's story. The commanding officer's legal adviser, though ultimately recommending prosecution, likewise cited in an April 2010 memo "serious issues concerning the credibility of the alleged victim and the plausibility of her story."
But with some physical evidence supporting the alleged victim's story, the commanding officer proceeded with prosecution on rape, sodomy and other charges. In June 2010, the petty officer was acquitted on all charges.
The political focus on commanding officers' legal power will build Wednesday at a subcommittee hearing convened by a panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The chief judge advocates for all military branches have been summoned, though the hearing's tone will be set by the first panel of witnesses, a trio of veterans who say they were raped in 1987, 2000 and 2007, respectively.
The Wilkerson case isn't explicitly on the agenda, but it will be on everyone's mind.
A married, 20-year veteran of the Air Force, Wilkerson was serving as the inspector general of the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base in Italy last March when he was accused of sexual assault. A 49-year-old physician assistant alleged that she woke up after a party at Wilkerson's house to find him fondling her breasts and digitally penetrating her. Wilkerson denied it.
A panel of officers convicted Wilkerson after a weeklong trial last November, during which the woman said she was "just numb most of the time" because of being assaulted, according to an account by the independent military publication Stars and Stripes.
"I'm not myself anymore," the woman testified, according to Stars and Stripes. "I'm different."
The trial panel sentenced Wilkerson to a year in prison and dismissal from the Air Force.
Franklin, the commander of the 3rd Air Force, then reviewed the case, including information that hadn't been presented to the trial panel, as well as letters supporting Wilkerson. A spokesman said the lieutenant general had concluded that the charges hadn't been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
Speier, the California congresswoman, called the decision a "miscarriage of justice." Spinner, Wilkerson's attorney, called it entirely justified.
"These senators," Spinner said, "do not appear to be concerned with due process of law and the possibility that some women are making false claims against innocent men."
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From @lancearmstrong: Knowing I have 0 cred on the doping issue - I still can't help but think, "really Di Luca? Are you that fooking stupid??" Yup!
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The hardest element, arguably, in cycling is rhythm change. It's the last piece of the conditioning puzzle to fall into place, and it usually doesn't happen at all without racing, where rhythms are naturally stochastic and violent in a way that is elusive in training. But even at the point of peak form, it's the element that is most vulnerable because so much glycogen is deployed in those explosive moments. Starch replenishment being notoriously difficult in stage racing, ten days into it you're starting to go into a glycogen and substrate deficit. On each successive day, a little less is available for that stage. Being very careful and very judicious with efforts that exceed sustainable, steady, oxidative thresholds merely delays the onset of that baseline deficit. So you may see climbers, say, going well in the second and third weeks if, and only if, they have been protected from violent activity beforehand. What's weird-looking to me about Nibali is that his efforts, his heavy accelerations as well as his responses to those of others, day after day, don't seem to be of the slightest concern to him. There's no husbanding of energy here. There's no sense of playing anything safely, waiting for others to undo damage from attacks and so forth. The fittest 'natural' rider in a Grand Tour, however great his talent, shouldn't be able to do this, these big detonations, on more than two or three occasions in the whole race. But pretty much every day, Nibali's riding has looked to me like what a clean classics guy can just barely manage on a single Sunday. And, yeah, that time trial ...


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Carmelo Anthony tried to keep the New York Knicks in the game, even as his teammates missed shots all around him.
Once Anthony stopped making them, the Indiana Pacers had pushed the Knicks to the brink of elimination.
Anthony missed all four of his field goals in the fourth quarter and fouled out. Paul George had six points, four rebounds and two assists in the period, helping the Pacers handle the Knicks 93-82 on Tuesday night.
The Pacers took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series and would advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2004 with a win Thursday at Madison Square Garden.
Anthony scored 24 points, but finished just 9 of 23 from the field. Pacers coach Frank Vogel said it's a team effort to check the NBA's leading scorer, though George, who was voted to the NBA's All-Defensive second team this week, deserves credit.
"I'm not really sure how we're doing it other than trying our best," Vogel said. "Guys are giving great effort. Roy (Hibbert) and Ian (Mahinmi) are giving great protection at the rim, and Paul George is working his tail off to do the best he can to try to limit him."
To blame Anthony entirely for New York's offensive failures, though, would miss the point. Knicks not named Carmelo shot a combined 22 for 64 from the field Tuesday. Two starters - Kenyon Martin and Iman Shumpert - failed to score in a combined 45 minutes of play. New York had just 14 assists on 31 baskets.
"It's almost funny and kind of frustrating to keep sitting here talking about our offense and not being able to score the basketball with the weapons we have," Anthony said.
Indiana's weapons were working fine. George Hill scored 26 points, George had 18 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists and Lance Stephenson had 13 points and seven rebounds. Hibbert scored just six points, but he had 11 rebounds and three blocks and made the Knicks' drivers uncomfortable in the paint. David West added 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Indiana outrebounded the Knicks 54-36 and outscored New York 23-12 from the free throw line, indicating that the Pacers were both tougher and smarter than the Knicks, two major areas of concern from Game 3. New York committed a staggering 29 fouls, and five Knicks ended the game with at least four.
It was a far cry from what Indiana experienced a week ago in New York. Or last year at home against Miami.
Last week, the Knicks rallied from a Game 1 loss, using a 30-2 run to blow out Indiana at Madison Square Garden and even the series.
A year ago, the Pacers held a 2-1 lead over Miami but gave away Game 4 and never won again. Miami went on to win the NBA crown.
So the Pacers went into Tuesday night determined not let it happen again, certainly not with former stars Reggie Miller and Rik Smits in the house watching their old team hand it to their old rivals.
Martin played 29 minutes and J.R. Smith logged 31½ despite missing practice Sunday and Monday because they were ill. Shumpert started even with a sore and swollen left knee that had the Knicks so worried they brought an orthopedic doctor to Indy to examine it Tuesday. The doctor determined there was no structural damage.
Amare Stoudemire was called for four fouls in 11-plus minutes in his second game back since March 7 and had only four points and four rebounds.
Smith, the NBA's top sixth man, scored 19 points, most coming in a futile attempt to rally his team late.
And on a night when New York shot just 35.6 percent from the field and 28.6 percent on 3-pointers, the ugliest part may have been how the Knicks lost their composure, giving away points on technical foul calls, arguing with the refs, even smacking the press table in frustration.
New York is convinced it can get things turned around quickly after losing five of its last seven, mostly because of horrendous shooting.
"It's do or die, we got to win the next game," Anthony said. "But there's no need for anyone to hang their heads at this point. We've still got a game to play, we've still got to play basketball and we've got to do it being very confident and knowing and believing that we can do it."
West said Indiana will take its usual approach.
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Notes: The defending WNBA champion Indiana Fever were honored during a break in the game. ... Miller, the former Pacers star working the game for TNT, waved to the crowd that was chanting his name after a highlight reel from a previous Pacers-Knicks series was shown on the replay board. ... Former Indy 500 winner Mario Andretti and Colts players Robert Mathis, Cory Redding and Samson Satele all attended the game. ... Smith and Anthony were a combined 16 of 45.


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He declined, however, to provide a 2013 industry sales forecast until a deal is reached to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, a combination of federal spending cuts and steep tax increases that could tip the U.S. economy back into recession.
"Exactly how much growth we can expect next year will depend in part on how Congress and the president resolve the fiscal cliff issue," McNeil added. "Consumers hate the uncertainty, so an agreement on ways to reduce long-term federal budget deficits could remove an impediment to growth."
For November, several analysts expect the industry's overall U.S. sales of new cars and trucks to rise 11 to 13 percent, with the annual selling rate for the month finishing in the range of 14.7 million to 15.3 million vehicles.
Ford expects sales in November to rise about 10 percent, while GM sees an annual sales rate of 15.3 million to 15.5 million.
Superstorm Sandy hurt the last few days of sales in October, which finished below expectations, but many consumers simply shifted their purchases to November. In addition, the average age of cars on the road has risen to just above 11 years, and industry officials say that will continue to drive demand.
McNeil said the auto industry is clearly heading this year toward the high end of GM's forecasted range of 14 million to 14.5 million. Many analysts expect the industry to finish 2012 with 14.4 million sales, which would mark the strongest year since the 16.1 million of 2007.
TrueCar.com analyst Jesse Toprak expects U.S. auto sales to rise to 15.4 million next year. "Stable growth is really the motto of the industry."
Jonathan Browning, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, sees a continuation of a steady recovery for the economy as well as for U.S. December and early 2013 auto sales, but expressed concern about the negative impact on consumer confidence if the fiscal cliff occurs. VW brand sales rose more than 29 percent in November.
Ken Czubay, Ford's vice president of U.S. sales, agreed, saying of the talks in Washington to avoid the fiscal cliff: "The clock is kind of ticking."
Ford's November sales rose 6.5 percent to 177,673 vehicles, better than even some of the most optimistic forecasts for the No. 2 U.S. automaker. In a more positive sign for consumer demand, Ford's retail sales rose 12 percent.
The company had its strongest small-car sales for the month in 12 years. Demand for Ford's popular F-150 full-size pickup truck increased 17 percent, while GM's Chevrolet Silverado pickup saw sales drop 10 percent. GM blamed aggressive incentives by Chrysler, Nissan and Ford, and said it would focus on curtailing production of trucks rather than become trapped in a price war.
Ford's shares were unchanged at $11.45 and GM shares were down 0.9 percent at $25.65 on Monday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange.
Ford said it planned to build 750,000 vehicles in North America in the first quarter, which would be an 11 percent increase from 2012.
GM's sales rose 3 percent to 186,505 cars and trucks, below the expectations of several analysts. The company said the average price paid per vehicle rose $750 from last year.
TrueCar estimated that the industry's average vehicle selling price in November rose 1.1 percent, or $335, from last year, and rose a similar amount from October to $30,832.
Chrysler, majority-owned by Fiat SpA , said sales rose 14 percent to 122,565 cars and trucks, its strongest result since 2007 before a recession pushed the U.S. automaker and GM into bankruptcy.
Toyota's sales rose more than 17 percent to 161,695 vehicles. Honda and Nissan both reported better-than-expected results, with the former jumping about 39 percent and the latter increasing 13 percent.
Hyundai said sales increased 8 percent to the company's all-time high for the month. November marked the first sales results since the South Korean automaker and its Kia Motors Corp <000270.KS> affiliate announced they had overstated the fuel economy ratings by at least a mile per gallon on more than 1 million recently sold vehicles.
(Reporting by Ben Klayman and Bernie Woodall in Detroit; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Maureen Bavdek and Matthew Lewis)


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Objectives Edit
Obtain a power source from the most powerful construct you can find in Uldaman, and deliver it to Talvash del Kissel in Ironforge.
Description Edit
You are going to need to find some "oomph" for the necklace, and Uldaman is probably the best place for it, actually. I guess there are a lot of constructs running around in there, yeah? Well, take out the biggest, baddest construct in that place and grab its power source! I am pretty sure I can fuse that source into the necklace.
Without that power source, fixing the necklace will be impossible. Come back to me here to Ironforge when you have it, and we'll get it all fixed up for you!
Progress Edit
You didn't even stop to tidy yourself up after leaving Uldaman, did you. You just came straight here, lingering dungeon odors be damned. Well, let's hope this visit is merely an odiferous one, and not a useless one to boot.
Do you have the power source for the necklace?
Completion Edit
Well I'll be - I sure am glad to see you and this power source in one piece. It will take me a moment to magically fuse the power source with the necklace now that the gems have been reunited with it. Once it is done, however, the necklace will be yours!
You're excited, aren't you? All tingly with anticipation? Now where did I put that spell focus at...
Gains Edit
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 925 XP (or 5 70 at level 70)
Quest progression Edit
- [41] The Shattered Necklaceω τ ϖ
- [41] Lore for a Priceω τ ϖ


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Before running this installation guide you should check that your Raspberry Pi software is up to date with the latest patches. You can follow steps below, or do it in your favorite way.
First download package lists from the repositories and get information on the newest versions of packages and their dependencies.
sudo apt update
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The seemingly endless legal war over health care found an esoteric new front Thursday, as appellate judges considered where certain bills should originate.
Amid references to various 18th-century Founding Fathers, some of them obscure, skeptical-sounding judges weighed claims that the Affordable Care Act's so-called individual mandate is invalid because it violates an under-appreciated part of the Constitution called the Origination Clause.
The clause says that all bills "for raising revenue" must originate in the House of Representatives. The case pressed Thursday by the Pacific Legal Foundation, based in Sacramento, Calif., is that the health care legislation was a revenue-raising measure that effectively started in the Senate.
"Origination Clause cases," Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur acknowledged Thursday, "are very rare."
Practically speaking, the challenge heard for 30 minutes Thursday before a packed fifth-floor courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit may prove a long shot. The Supreme Court upheld the law's individual mandate nearly two years ago, and in the meantime more than 8.1 million U.S. residents have enrolled through the various health insurance exchanges. Legal theories aside, judges might think hard about trying to unwind that.
All three of the judges hearing the case were Democratic appointees, and President Barack Obama recently named two of them to the court. Their questions and observations Thursday suggested sympathy for the administration's position, including references to the congressional health care debate itself.
"It didn't occur to any House member to raise an (Origination Clause) objection," noted Judge Robert L. Wilkins, one of the Obama nominees.
Judge Judith W. Rogers added that "no one viewed this as a bill to raise revenues" when the Senate passed what's formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. If the three-judge panel agrees that the Senate didn't originate a revenue-raising bill, the conservative challenge fails.
As a thought-provoker and show of courthouse judo, though, the case is drawing national attention.
Along with others, the Pacific Legal Foundation originally sued to block the individual mandate as a violation of the Constitution's Commerce Clause. The mandate requires most individuals to buy insurance or pay a fee, a requirement that the Supreme Court majority agreed in 2012 exceeded Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.
But in an unexpected decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., the high court's 5-4 majority also concluded the mandate was acceptable under congressional taxing power. Though Congress had carefully sidestepped the politically toxic term, calling it instead a "shared responsibility payment," Roberts bluntly characterized the fee to be charged those who lack insurance as a tax.
With that, the Pacific Legal Foundation flipped the complaint filed on behalf of a Washington state small-business owner named Matt Sissell. Since it includes a revenue-raising tax, the conservative lawyers argued in their revised complaint, the individual mandate should have originated in the House instead of the Senate.
Democratic lawmakers, though, took steps to meet the Origination Clause requirements. A question for the three-judge panel is whether those steps were sufficient or merely illusory. As part of the complicated Capitol Hill maneuvering, Senate Democrats stripped out all the language from an unrelated homebuyers tax credit bill the House passed in September 2009 and replaced it with the sprawling health care legislation.
"The bill that arose in the House of Representatives was not a bill for raising revenues," Sandefur said, and then "the Senate transformed that into a bill for raising revenues."
Judge Cornelia T. L. Pillard, another Obama nominee, countered that Democratic lawmakers "were hoping it wouldn't raise any money," as the intent of the measure was to induce people to enroll in insurance programs. Among other issues, Pillard and her colleagues must decide how much judges may second-guess the Senate's amendment practices.
"The Senate can amend (legislation) as it sees fit," said Justice Department attorney Alisa B. Klein.
Previous court cases have specified that the Origination Clause requirement doesn't apply to measures that raise money for specified programs, such as the federal crime victims' fund, or those that are analogous to punitive fines.
Before the Origination Clause argument Thursday morning, the panel spent about 45 minutes dealing with separate religious objections to the law's so-called contraceptive mandate, which requires many employers to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives.
The Supreme Court, meanwhile, is expected to rule by the end of June on whether for-profit corporations may claim religious exceptions to the contraceptive mandate.


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Charles Bradley, "Victim of Love" (Dunham)
Charles Bradley is preoccupied with love on his latest album, but it's something of a stylistic leap on a handful of songs that makes his latest album stand out.
Buried at the center of the album is a small run of fuzzy songs that push Bradley into rockin' psychedelic territory and add a different dimension to the 64-year-old soul shouter's sound. More important, they should fit right in onstage, where "The Screaming Eagle of Soul" truly shines.
Bradley's Menahan Street Band opens "Love Bug Blues" with a vibrato horn solo meant to mimic the sound of a buzzing bee, then launches into a vibrant funk line that fits the former James Brown impersonator's aged voice perfectly. The band extends the run through the intermission instrumental "Dusty Blue," with its shimmery keys and breathy woodwinds.
Then Bradley and band really crank things up with "Confusion," laying down a fuzztone bass line with echoey vocals and a staccato horn line, back to back with the towering "Where Do We Go From Here" — both among their best work together.
"Victim of Love" is added proof Bradley is more than a soul revivalist. He's something special.
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." ~ Charles Evans Hughes
Disaster Ignorance
"Here's a which-is-better question for you. Suppose a New Jersey motel room rented for $125 a night prior to Hurricane Sandy's devastation. When the hurricane hits, a husband, wife and their two youngsters might seek the comfort of renting two adjoining rooms. However, when they arrive at the motel, they find that rooms now rent for $250. At that price, they might decide to make do with one room. In my book, that would be wonderful. That decision would make a room available for another family who had to evacuate Sandy's wrath. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and others condemn this as price gouging, but I ask you: Which is preferable for a family seeking shelter -- a room available at $250 or a room unavailable at the pre-hurricane price of $125? It's not the intention of the motel owner to make a room available for another family. He just sees an opportunity to earn more money. It was not the intention of the family of four who made do with just one room to make a room available for another evacuating family. They are just trying to save money. Even though it was no one's intention to make that room available, the room was made available as if intended. That's the unappreciated benefit of freely fluctuating prices. They get people to do voluntarily what's in the social interest -- conserve on goods and services that have become scarce."
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Asai Hayabusa (Aogami Super)
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Maker: Asai (click to see more by this maker)
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Blade length: 7.12 in.Total length: 12.62 in.Blade height (at heel): 1.80 in.Blade thickness (near bolster): 0.09 in.Item weight: 4.40 oz.Shipment weight: 7 oz.Blade: San mai with stainless steel and an aogami super carbon steel core, Rc 63Bolster: Pakkawood ferruleHandle: Octagonal macassar ebony
Description: Renowned bladesmith Masami Asai passed away in the summer of 2014. He will be greatly missed � as a person, an artist, and one of the truly great knifemakers of Japan. Before his passing, his apprentice, Yamamoto, was given the right to continue to make knives under the Asai name. We are working with Yamamoto-san to determine which knife lines will be continued. We regret that this means that only those knives that are in stock can be ordered at this time.
The gyuto is modeled after the French pattern chef's knife. Longer and slimmer than the santoku, it is well suited to slicing and chopping -- an ideal general purpose chef's knife. The long blade is needed for the sawing motion required to slice meats and vegetables while the tall profile give plenty of finger clearance over a cutting board.
Each of Asai's Hayabusa knives is individually hand-forged beginning with an aogami super (blue super) carbon steel core (hagane). The smaller crystalline size of this carbon steel results in superior edge holding when compared to nearly any other steel. Many knifemakers and users feel that aogami super is among the best carbon steels used on kitchen knives today. At 1.4-1.5% carbon and .3-.5% chromium, aogami super combines limited rust resistance with carbon steel performance. The central core is surrounded by two layers of stainless steel with a thin layer of nickel set in between to prevent carbon migration during forging. This time consuming process creates a knife with outstanding edge holding and a higher level of corrosion resistance than pure carbon blades. In addition, it creates a unique, attractive visual line between the layers -- which gets all the more dramatic with use. The blade is distal tapered for optimal balance and has an extremely thin, keen edge for the highest performance. Because this knife is forged from carbon steel, we recommend using camellia oil to avoid rust.The "Wa" style handle is octagon in shape and is sculpted from macassar ebony with a pakkawood ferrule. This natural, ambidextrous handle is easy to grip and lasts a lifetime. Octagonal handles are very popular among professional chefs because they are extremely comfortable even when used for hours at a time. Like other kitchen knives, this knife should not be put in a dishwasher.
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Donald Gray, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
FO 3.210 972-883-2513 [email protected]
Education and Professional Affiliations
B.A., Math, Physics, and Chemistry, Susquehanna University
M.S., Molecular Biophysics, Yale University
Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics, Yale University
Member, Biophysical Society
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member, American Chemical Society
Department Head, 1989-1995; 2004-2007
Retired: 2012
One emphasis of past research has been in biophysical studies of nucleic acids and of single-stranded DNA-binding proteins, such as the gene 5 protein of Ff bacterial viruses and the human replication protein A. Another emphasis has been to relate the nearest-neighbor, and next-nearest-neighbor, properties of DNA oligomers to the effectiveness of antisense DNA control of cellular gene expression.
Recent Publications:
H.-N. Nguyen, L. Zhao, C. W. Gray, D. M. Gray, and T. Xia. 2013. Nucleotides sequestered at different subsite loci within DNA-binding pockets of two OB-fold single-stranded DNA-binding proteins are unstacked to different extents. Biopolymers 99: 484-496.
D. M. Gray. 2012. Circular dichroism of protein-nucleic acid interactions. In: "Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy," Vol. 2 (Eds. N. Berova, P. L. Polavarapu, K. Nakanishi, and R. W. Woody) John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ.H.-N. Nguyen, L. Zhao, C. W. Gray, D. M. Gray, and T. Xia. 2011. Ultrafast fluorescence decay profiles reveal differential unstacking of 2-aminopurine from neighboring bases in single-stranded DNA-binding protein subsites. Biochemistry 50:8989-9001.
D. M. Gray, C. W. Gray, B.-H. Yoo, and T.-F. Lou. 2010. Antisense DNA parameters derived from next-nearest-neighbor analysis of experimental data. BMC Bioinformatics 11:252.
J.-H. Fan, E. Bochkareva, A. Bochkarev, and D. M. Gray. 2009. Circular dichroism spectra and electrophoretic mobility shift assays show that human replication protein A binds and melts intramolecular G-quadruplex structures. Biochemistry 48:1099-1111.
D. M. Gray, J.-D. Wen, C. W. Gray, R. Repges, C. Repges, G. Raabe, and J. Fleischhauer. 2008. Measured and calculated CD spectra of G-quartets stacked with the same or opposite polarities. Chirality 20:431-440.
T.-C. Mou, M. Shen, S. Abdalla, D. DelaMora, E. Bochkareva, A. Bochkarev, and D. M. Gray. 2006. Effects of ssDNA sequences on non-sequence-specific protein binding. Chirality 18:370-382.
J.-D. Wen, and D. M. Gray. 2004. Selection of genomic sequences that bind tightly to Ff gene 5 protein: primer-free genomic SELEX. Nucl. Acids. Res. 32:e182, pp. 1-10.
B. H. Yoo, E. Bochkareva, A. Bochkarev, T.-C. Mou, and D. M. Gray. 2004. 2'-O-methyl-modified phosphorothioate antisense oligonucleotides have reduced non-specific effects in vitro. Nucl. Acids. Res. 32:2008-2016.
W.-Q. Zou, J. Zheng, D. M. Gray, P. Gambetti, and S. G. Chen. 2004. Antibody to DNA detects scrapie but not normal prion protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 101:1380-1385.
J. D. Wen, and D. M. Gray. 2004. Ff gene 5 single-stranded DNA-binding protein assembles on nucleotides constrained by a DNA hairpin. Biochemistry 43:2622-2634.
T.-F. Lou, C. W. Gray, and D. M. Gray. 2003. The reduction of Raf-1 protein by phosphorothioate ODNs and siRNAs targeted to the same two mRNA sequences. Oligonucleotides 13:313-324.
T.-C. Mou, M. C. Shen, T. C. Terwilliger, and D. M. Gray. 2003. Binding and reversible denaturation of double-stranded DNA by Ff gene 5 protein. Biopolymers 70:637-648.
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Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox encouraged University of Alabama students to remain involved in the local community as he discussed the ties between the Capstone and the city during a town hall meeting sponsored by the UA Honors College on Monday.
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox encouraged University of Alabama students to remain involved in the local community as he discussed the ties between the Capstone and the city during a town hall meeting sponsored by the UA Honors College on Monday.
"You are important to the city," Maddox said. "I hope you will take an active and responsible role."
Maddox spoke during a hour-long forum on the relationship between the Capstone on its hometown at the Ferguson Student Center.
UA President Judy Bonner was scheduled to speak alongside Maddox but had to cancel because of a minor family emergency, according to UA Honors College Dean Shane Sharpe and the Office of Media Relations.
The mayor discussed the city's progress, its current and future challenges and a series of submitted questions from the audience of students, faculty and staff.
Maddox listed the revitalization of the city's downtown and riverfront, the expansion of the production lines at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, rebuilding efforts following the April 27, 2011, tornado, and infrastructure improvements — notably to water and sewer systems — as highlights of the city's progress in recent years.
The future will see ongoing efforts to rebuild following the tornado, infrastructure upgrades and quality of life improvements such as upgrades to parks and pedestrian walkways.
Among the audience questions were queries about what Tuscaloosa would do to better enforce residency requirements during elections and how the city planned to manage the effects of enrollment growth.
Maddox characterized improving enforcement of the residency requirement as a difficult challenge for the city, adding that it would be almost impossible to test the residency of all the city's registers voters.
The mayor noted that the city gets the final list of voters from the board of registrars about 10 days before the election, and voters must sign affidavits as part of registration affirming their addresses are correct.
"Who does it, how do you verify it, how do you get it all done?" Maddox asked.
Last week, a Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit by Kelly Horwitz challenging the results of the Aug. 27 Tuscaloosa City Board of Education election. Horwitz claimed that at least 167 of votes cast for her successful challenger Cason Kirby should have been tossed out because voters didn't meet residency requirements. The judge ruled there were not enough questionable ballots to overturn the election results.
Changes to state voter laws would have to come from state lawmakers, the mayor added.
Maddox noted the creation of the Student Rental Housing Task Force to research the housing issue and make recommendations as he discussed efforts by the city to manage the effects of enrollment growth, including the proliferation of housing complexes for students and traffic congestion. The city needs to return to a goal of concentrating future student housing growth to a core area around campus, he said.
However, ongoing growth by the university is a key part of the city's economy, he said.
UA and its students are a core part of the community and economy, according to Maddox. Students represent about 25 percent of the city's population and have roughly a $1.4 billion impact on the local economy.
"The city's partnership with the university is the most important," he said.
Maddox said he envisions a future in which the city will do a better job harnessing the "research and design" capabilities of the university to strengthen the local economy. He told the students the city was working on how to effectively harness the expertise at UA, which he called "a step we have to get to."
"You are the intellectual capital that we need to do a better job leveraging," the mayor said.
Reach Ed Enoch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 205-722-0209.


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New York: Defending champion Serena Williams slugged her way to a US Open title rematch against Victoria Azarenka as the top two seeds scored straight-set knockouts in their respective semi-finals on Friday.
World number one Williams beat fifth-seeded Li Na of China 6-0 6-3, overcoming some staunch resistance at the end, while Azarenka returned to the Flushing Meadows final with a 6-4 6-2 victory over unseeded Italian Flavia Pennetta.
After being overpowered in the opening set, Li battled valiantly in the second, saving six match points to hold serve in the eighth game before the top seed finally closed the deal on her seventh match point with and unreturned serve.
"It was a good match. It was tough at the end," Williams said. "I got a little nervous but I was able to close it out."
Williams, playing on the heels of a 6-0 6-0 quarter-final win against Spain`s Carla Suarez Navarro, stretched her dominance to 24 consecutive games against Li and later said the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd helped lift her.
"To hear constantly, `Go Serena, go Serena,` it is really a pleasure. I hear young voices and older voices and it really makes me feel so special," said Williams.
The results set up the first back-to-back finals matchup since Serena and her sister Venus battled for the crown in 2002.
It could be a historic triumph for the 31-year-old Williams, who would register her fifth US Open title and her 17th career grand slam singles crown with a victory in Sunday`s final.
She would also become the oldest women`s winner since tennis turned professional in 1968, supplanting Australian Margaret Court who was 31 years 55 days when she won in 1973.
Azarenka booked her return to the championship match by finally finding a way to hold serve in a match filled with 13 service breaks in the 18 games, eight coming against the Italian.
"I`m so excited. It`s been a long road to the final. It`s an amazing feeling, to fight for the trophy," said Azarenka, a former US Open junior champion and mixed doubles winner.
In the end, Azarenka`s power was too much for the battling Pennetta, who returned from a serious wrist injury to reach her first grand slam semi-final.
There were five service breaks in a row before Australian Open winner Azarenka held to win the first set after an intense battle where the unseeded, 31-year-old Pennetta saved five set points before the Belarussian`s final point service winner.
The second set followed a similar pattern, with three broken serves before Azarenka turned up the power, holding to go up 3-1 in the set and then breaking the 31-year-old Pennetta, ranked 83rd in the world, with a backhand winner.
Azarenka, 24, broke again for 4-1 and was on her way, ending the 94-minute match with a well-placed forehand that caused her to squeal with delight at reaching the final.
Earlier, Belarussian veteran Max Mirnyi captured his third U.S. Open mixed doubles title on Friday when he teamed up with Czech Andrea Hlavackova to beat American Abigail Spears and Mexican Santiago Gonzalez 7-6 (5) 6-3.
The 36-year-old Mirnyi`s hat trick, each with different partners, was completed 15 years after his first Flushing Meadows triumph and was the 10th major doubles crown of his career.
He partnered with Williams to win the U.S. Open mixed doubles in 1998 and triumphed with Azarenka in 2007.
"Max was unbelievable, he covered 80 percent of the court and made it easy for me to make some great returns," said Hlavackova.
Hlavackova was due back on court later on Friday, along with Serena Williams, in the women`s doubles semi-finals where Hlavackova and fellow Czech Lucie Hradecka were facing the Williams sisters.