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More Lunch Punch fun happening with the new Sweet set!
So you've seen the gumball machine, ice cream cones, and cupcake sandwiches in action... that leaves the birthday cake! :)
This Sweet lunch consists of a bologna sandwich, deconstructed s'mores, and raspberries. My sandwich got a little lopsided. This cutter actually cuts the sandwich in half, and that wavy line is where the sandwich gets cut through.
The deconstructed s'mores are a mix of Teddy Grahams, mini marshmallows and mini chocolate chips. I'd have preferred to use regular chocolate chips (easier to pick up!), but I only had minis.
This birthday cake Lunch Punch bento was packed in an EasyLunchboxes and was lunch for my husband. It just so happens to also be his birthday. What a coinkidink! :)
There is only one day left to enter the giveaway for the Sweet Lunch Punch sets! Don't miss it! Two winners will be chosen at random tomorrow night!
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Lunch Punch bento: one Sweet EasyLunchboxes lunch
Posted by Melissa at 7:46 PM
Labels: bento4grown-ups, EasyLunchboxes, Lunch Punch
6 comments:
- aud1inok said... [Reply to comment]
Lovin' this set!
- November 19, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Giggly Girls said... [Reply to comment]
Happy Birthday!!
- November 19, 2011 at 8:06 PM
- Jessica @ Quirky Bookworm said... [Reply to comment]
I eat deconstructed s'mores all the time! (My perfect 200 calorie sweet snack). Nice to see I'm not the only one. :)
- November 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
It's just so fun to say it's "deconstructed". I've probably been watching too much Top Chef! :p
- November 19, 2011 at 8:48 PM
- Melanie said... [Reply to comment]
love the deconstructed smores idea - my girls would loev it too. :)
- November 19, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Bentomonsters said... [Reply to comment]
Love this set! :)
- November 21, 2011 at 4:07 AM
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A 1-month-old puppy is safe after it fell through cracks in the ground created by the hot, dry summer.
Ten-year-old Ketrick Sanders got the puppy on Wednesday. But when he came out to check on him Thursday morning, the dog was missing from his outdoor cage.
"I hear something like a baby whining and walk back and listened with my ears and realized that was the puppy," said his mother, Fredricka Simon. "My son was bawling. He was on his knees walking around asking everyone if they could help."
Three Garland Animal Control officers came out to the house. Using their hands, a hammer and a shovel, the officers managed to break up the dry, drought-stricken dirt.
After about 40 minutes of frantic digging, the puppy was free.
"I thought he was going to die," Ketrick said.
A veterinarian recommended the traumatized puppy return to live with his mother until he's stronger.
Ketrick said he plans to name the puppy Lucky, Blessed or Miracle when he gets the dog back.

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November 22, 2007, 1:00 am
Land grab in Boulder: 3 letters
Re: "Lawyers awarded property next door," Nov. 18 news story.
Unbelievable! Is it any wonder that Americans are disgusted with politicians and lawyers? That former Boulder mayor and ex-judge Richard McLean and his lawyer wife Edith Stevens are attempting to take someone else's property only reinforces my disgust with our legal system. Wait until Bill O'Reilly gets hold of this one. Colorado will be, and should be, embarrassed. Read more…


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Christmas is great, so it may seem
I bet some of you still long for Halloween
Don't fret and don't panic
Here's some yule tide songs to make you go manic!
Its called The Creeps of Christmas
And as you can see
The creeps celebrate the season rather differently
Krampus catches naughty kids
and brings them to his lair
Wolfman is jealous of Santa
He may have more hair!
The Bumble tries to eat Rudolph
Though he's too slow and dumb
Frankenstein is very festive
Putting up the mistle thumb!
Dracula will suck egg nog
From a jugular I bet
This gift is for the Headless Horseman
Its a severed head in a basket!
The Purple People Eater can still rock and roll
The Ghost of Christmas Future is for whom the bell tolls
The Gremlins always cause such a clatter
Jack Skellington creeps in to see what's the matter
The Grinch just hates Christmas
The whole damn season
Boris Karloff suggests
No one quite knows the reason
And Jacob Marley sits tortured in his heavy shackles
He'll cheer up when he listens to some Kandy Coated Kackles
1. Stocking Stuffer
2. It's A Monster's Holiday- Buck Owens
3. What's This?- Danny Elfman
4. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch- Thurl Ravenscroft
5. Santa & The Purple People Eater- Sheb Wooley
6. Chainsaw for Christmas- Zombina & The Skeletones
7. Stocking Stuffer
8. Halloween on Xmas- Coffin Caddies
9. Here Comes Krampus- Huizenga
10. Stocking Stuffer
11. Christmas Rap- The Crypt Keeper
12. I Found the Brains of Santa Claus- Jason & The Strap- Tones
13. Stocking Stuffer
14. Shot My Baby For Christmas- The Vaudvilles
15. I Killed Santa Claus- The Creeping Cruds
16. Merry Monster Christmas- Len Maxwell
17. Stocking Stuffer
18. Abominable Snowman in the Market- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
19. Making Christmas- Danny Elfman
20. Christmas with Krampus- Les Barons
21. Glory Amen- Those Poor Bastards
22. Stocking Stuffer
23. Silent Night, Deadly Night- The White Coffin Terror
24. New Years Eve in a Haunted House- Raymond Scott
25. The Bite Before Christmas- The Cool Ghoul
26. Santa Claus is Coming to Town- Alice Cooper
27. Stocking Stuffer
28. Monster's Holiday- Bobby (Boris) Pickett & The Crypt Kickers
29. We Wish You A Scary Christmas- Disney's Haunted Mansion Holiday
Merry Christmas to all you ghouls out there!
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Here are some photos from our first meeting, Ricky bought us all breakfast. I don't remember the context of the 2nd picture, but it makes me laugh, haha. And then some art I did for him including my guest strip for his comic 1930 Nightmare Theater.


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Reducing data centers' physical footprint does not address the duplication and complexity of data and applications
The use of the word management has been never been so widely used and abused. Put a prefix of just about anything before management and you get a whole new discipline: asset, data, expectation, financial, information, knowledge, risk, etc. Yet, when it comes to information technology, we never seem to get our arms around the whole problem. We seem content with partial solutions. Let me offer a more holistic term: reality management. Reality management has special relevance to the information technology world because all too often people and organizations manage the technology instead of the information. Reality consists of the concrete and tangible as well as the abstract and intangible. The tangibles engage our senses: We can see, hear, smell, touch, taste and feel them. The intangibles engage our minds: we can create, evaluate and think about them.
But the tangibles and the intangibles cannot be managed the same way. There are good reasons behind the sayings "out of sight, out of mind" and "a place for everything and everything in its place." These aphorisms explain human behavior: The concrete tangibles of what we can see, touch or sense gets our attention. The abstract intangibles do not. The current crazes in server consolidation and virtualization, data center rationalization, wattage-per-square-meter reduction and so forth all point in this direction. We can see that a room full of server racks that handle the same workload once handled by a server farm, extending as far as the eye can see, appears to be an improvement in efficiency. Shrinking the hardware footprint directly reduces the number of data centers and their wattage consumption. This is clearly the low hanging fruit and quick-win everyone strives for. Such exercises also dovetail nicely with how money is spent. When the technology budget-investment absorbs most of annual spending, everyone rightly focuses on that. However, here's the glaring paradox: Although virtualization reduces server, data center and wattage counts on the technology side of the business, it does little or nothing about managing the information residing therein. Shrinking 10,000 servers in five data centers that use 1,000,000 watts into 1,000 rack-servers in one data center that uses 50,000 watts sounds really impressive. But shrinking the tangible footprint does nothing to disentangle the quantity, duplication, complexity, non-standardized, siloed information and applications sitting in those servers. The virtualization paradox is subtle. The virtual by definition is not real. It is an illusion. Yet it misses entirely the purpose of the managing the information of IT. When file systems, relational database systems and applications duplicate (but not exactly) the information they use, such abstract intangibles seldom get the attention they need. For example, perhaps over 100,000 applications exist in the U.S. federal government dealing with people: their names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mails, dates-of-birth, countries-of-birth, countries-of-citizenship, relationships to others, their status, etc. Every major cabinet department, including the State, Defense, Treasury, Justice, Commerce, Energy, Transportation, Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services departments, and separate agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission have applications dealing with people. Often, such applications are mandated by law or regulation. Since America is such an immigrant–based country, identifying people by country-of-birth or citizenship is necessary. With only 192 countries in the United Nations, one would think sharing of country codes, for instance, should be easy. After all, we don't have to own a code to use it. Yet, in most large organizations, most applications are still being developed in server-centric mode: If it resides on a server, all the data is packaged with it. Applications owners always want total control of everything on their machines. The reasons aren't hard to understand. Before the Internet, when computers did not have to communicate with other computers and bandwidth was expensive, this was a given. Once the Internet spread and bandwidth prices dropped, the connections became cheap and easy, but connecting the applications and sharing the data proved enormously difficult. Except for the Internet Protocol (IP), connecting any two random applications created so much friction because each interface was unique to that connection. What IP brought together, the application interfaces tore asunder. The vendors were happy: every point of friction was another revenue stream to the bottom line. Complexity skyrocketed. If we plot the cost-per-business function of adopting computers during the first 25-30 years of their use, the trend would track downward. Given how much revenues of the IT industry have jumped since the widespread use of the Internet, it would not be surprising to find that much of that leap was due to an increase in cost-per-business function, as a result of all that complexity.
It is time that both vendors and customers get real about managing IT: Managing the invisible and intangible, not just the visible and tangible, is where huge payoff will be.
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One can just imagine the future "Jeopardy" TV quiz show answer: The name of the international conference that took place in early December of 2012 that critics universally panned for accomplishing little despite overwhelming evidence of a global ecological catastrophe on the horizon.
"Alex, what is the Doha Climate Change Conference?" would be the winning question and surely worth a lot to the right contestant. After all, the planet is already in "double jeopardy" — not only from climate change but from the continuing failure of the wealthiest nations to do much about it.
As President Barack Obama is looking to come up with $60-to-$80 billion to offset the worst effects of Hurricane Sandy, a storm that practically shut down New York City, the world's media center, one would think the call to avoid more such costly catastrophes in the future would be deafening. After all, $60 billion is pocket change compared to what global warming could do to the U.S. and other countries from rising sea levels and harsher weather events alone.
It's certainly not a question of uncertainty in the scientific community. The evidence of record-high carbon dioxide levels is overwhelming. It's not just that climate change exists, the studies point out that it's getting worse far faster than previously anticipated.
Yet only the most Pollyannaish of diplomats could see United Nations climate negotiations as producing anything of more lasting consequence than hot air. What emerged from Doha, Qatar was little more than another round of promises — to stick to Kyoto Protocol and to do more in the future (without providing many specifics).
It's not even clear whether developed countries will do anything to help poorer nations in this regard. The U.S. wasn't ready to pledge a definite amount of financial aid. But then that wasn't shocking considering the uncertain state of the nation's finances in the midst of "fiscal cliff" talks.
But aren't most nations in their own fiscal dilemmas? Europeans have been climate change leaders in the past, but they are still trying to get a handle on their own debt crisis. Some of the worst polluters like China and India are not exactly champing at the bit to raise energy costs or potentially limit economic growth.
We would be willing to accept any of these rationales if we seriously thought that meaningful climate change solutions were just around the corner. But if not now, when would the stars be aligned? Would they ever? How perfect that the conference was held in Qatar, the country that produces the largest per-capita volume of greenhouse gases in the world but obviously has a less well-developed sense of irony.
That's not to suggest that all is lost, at least not quite yet. Investment in renewable energy is on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere. The growing abundance of natural gas — while hardly an environmental ideal given the uncertainties of "fracking" on the water supply — has reduced the burning of coal, the greatest single source of greenhouse gases.
What's needed now is an extra incentive for change, or at least a fair accounting of the cost of pollution. The U.S. and other nations must either institute a tax on carbon or offer emissions "cap and trade" systems to create an economic incentive for alternatives like conservation and non-polluting "green" energy like solar and wind power.
Admittedly, this is a challenging issue. These policies inevitably produce winners and losers. Coal-producing communities are upset while those invested in renewable energy prosper. Foreign aid never wins a popularity contest at the polls. But the difficulty and complexity of the challenge can't be used as an excuse for inaction. How many Hurricane Sandy-like storms of unusual strength and disastrous consequence will be required to convince leaders that current energy policies are a threat to our national security?
Doha is history, but it doesn't require a UN full of negotiators for the U.S. and other countries to take more forceful action. President Obama can lead the charge by revisiting the nation's energy policies in 2013. The people who went to the polls last month knew which candidate favored stronger action in this arena and voted for him. A line needs to be drawn in the sand — even if that wasn't possible in Qatar.


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Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Preview
Windows 8's vision, oddly enough, sprouted from smart phones. Before smart phones became commonplace, people thought of computers as deskbound workhorses. For decades, people sat down at a computer because they wanted to create something: They'd write documents, for example, or crunch numbers, punching keys inside their office cubicle.
When smart phones arrived, though, people began keeping a computer in their pocket, ready for 24-hour access. Smartphone programs — apps — grew in power, letting people instantly read e-mails, call up maps when lost, or quickly find the best restaurant in a new town.
People no longer relied upon computers simply to create things. Now, computers helped people consume information while away from the desktop.
Apple, ever the innovator, packaged the smart phone concept into a new product with a bigger screen, the iPad. A huge seller, the iPad brings a new level of comfort to couch-top computing.
But Microsoft missed the revolution when computers transformed from deskbound machines of creation to handheld gadgets for consumption. And now, with Windows 8, Microsoft's trying hard to catch up.
With the Windows 8 Release Preview, Microsoft is giving Windows 8 one last shakedown test before releasing the final version later this year. Thousands of people are running this early version of Windows 8; most either love it or hate it, leaving little middle ground.
The controversy boils down to this: With Windows 8, Microsoft has created one operating system that does it all. By contrast, Apple's iPads run one operating system, while the iPad runs a completely different one. You can't take an iPad app and run it on your Apple laptop, or vice versa.
Windows 8, by contrast, runs on desktop PCs, laptops, smart phones, and tablets. When you learn Windows 8 on one device, and you'll know how to use it on all of them. Likewise, when programmers write an app for Windows 8, a few minor tweaks let that app run on your Windows 8 laptop, tablet, phone, and desktop PC.
With Windows 8, Microsoft says people can have the best of both worlds: Windows 8's new Start screen works well for travel, serving up informational tidbits you need while away from work. And when it's time to work, open Windows 8's Desktop app, and the full Windows desktop appears, effectively turning your tablet into a desktop PC.
With Windows 8's "two computers in one" approach, people no longer need to lug around two computers: a tablet for on-the-go computing, and a laptop for when real work beckons. Now, Microsoft says, one tablet really can do it all.
Note: At the time of this writing, Microsoft hadn't yet completed Windows 8. Some of these details could change when Microsoft releases Windows 8 later this year.


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Kate Moss is getting nude to celebrate not only her upcoming 40th birthday, but also commemorate Playboy's diamond anniversary.
The British supermodel, who turns the big 4-0 on January 16, will grace the cover of the iconic men's magazine's December issue, which will take a look back at Playboy's sixty years in the business of showcasing female beauty (and let's not forget the great articles too!).
"She's a worldwide celebrity and iconic and crosses the boundaries from sexual imagry to upscale modeling," Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told the Los Angeles Times, which broke the story on Tuesday.
Giving past Playboy bunnies a run for their money in the sex symbol department--not to mention Marilyn Monroe who was the first Playmate way back in December 1953--Moss will strip down to her birthday suit for a full-frontal spread that will be shot by fashion photographers Marcus Pigott and Mert Atlas.
NEWS: Kate Moss talks tan lines in Allure
Per the paper, the pictorial will also find the catwalker sporting the magazine's signature velveteen bunny ears as well as wearing French cuffs, silk stockings and an alluring "come-hither smile."
Moss, who shot to fame in the early '90s as the poster child for the "heroin chic" look thanks to her waif-like frame, is one of the top-earning models in the business, taking home nearly $20 million in 2012. She's also been the face of high profile campaigns by the likes of such designers as Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, and Bulgari among many others.
Johnny Depp's ex also regularly poses with celebrities, including most recently Rihanna in a super sexy photo shoot for V Magazine.
PHOTOS: How to look hot like Kate Moss


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Sony Xperia L is a stylish mid-range device that stands out primarily with photographic skills. There's an 8MP camera on its back with an Exmor RS sensor that enables cool features like HDR mode while shooting photos or video, just like on the Xperia Z flagship. In addition, you get a dedicated shutter key that can snap a photo in under a second straight from the lock screen. Other than that, the Sony Xperia L is your typical mid-range device. It is powered by a dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus SoC - the Qualcomm MSM8230 running at 1GHz. The 4.3-inch screen has a resolution of 854 by 480 pixels so it isn't quite HD, although it should meet the needs of the average consumer. You can have the smartphone in any color, as long as it is black, white, or red. The exact capacity of the Xperia L battery has not been disclosed, but it should be capable of delivering up to 8 hours and 30 minutes of continuous talk time, or 7 hours and 36 minutes of video playback. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean comes out of the box, sprinkled with a number of interface tweaks on top.


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MPSF Swimming Championships
Feb. 15-18, 2012
at East Los Angeles College (Monterey Park, Calif.)
MPSF Diving Championships
Feb. 16-18
at US Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
• Swimmers Take Your Marks
UCSB's women swimmers will head south for the second Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship this Wednesday through Saturday. The 2012 Gaucho team consists of the core group that finished second last season with 629 points and won six total events, including two relays.
• Diving In
In Colorado, UCSB will be represented by freshman divers Caila Baltas and Noelle Provenzano at the diving championships, which run Thursday through Saturday. Baltas has the top score by a Gaucho this season on both the one-meter (236.91) and the three-meter (232.88) boards.
• We Are the (Defending) Champions
Several Gauchos will be looking to defend their event titles this weekend. Andrea Ward won both the 500 free and the 100 fly at the 2011 Championships while Allie Knight is the reigning league title-holder in the 200 backstroke and Paige Bradley is the defending champion in the 200 butterfly. UCSB will also be defending its titles in the 200 free relay and 200 medley relay.
• Sophomoric Swimmers
The Gauchos will be led in large part this week by its strong sophomore class, specifically Ward, Sophia Yamauchi and Knight. Ward swam the conference's top-times this year in the 100 fly, 200 fly and 500 free. Yamauchi, meanwhile, holds the top mark in the 200 individual medley. She also went undefeated in individual events during the Gauchos' dual meet season. Knight currently holds the league's top-time in the 400 IM. UCSB has posted the top-times in the 200, 400 and 800 free relays as well as the 400 medley relay.
• Follow Live
Live results for the MPSF Championships will be available online by clicking here. A live broadcast is available here.


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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Pitchers and Catchers report Feb 14 2008
It's Valentines Day and the Phillies that will be one of the main ingredients to a winning season are reporting to Spring Training today. The though of Spring Training brings a new sense of hope and optimism to every major league team out there. The Phillies have a title to defend and the Mets have raised the bar again, with what on paper looks to be great moves.
The Phillies haven't made all that many moves in the offseason. A tweak here, and a tweak there but nothing that really makes you say .. "mmmmmmm." The pitching staff was the area that the Phillies needed to do the most with. They didn't land any real big fish, but they got Brad Lidge who was coming off a somewhat of a tough season in Houston. Lidge's numbers last year 5-3 with a 3.36 era. Lidge is an all-star and the most important acquisition of the offseason by the Fightins. He has postseason experience should help to solidify the bullpen, and freeing up Brett Myers to get back into the rotation and give Hamels a run for his money as the ace of the Phillies staff.
The Phillies just acquired Kris Benson who is trying to bounce back from injury and get back into a starting rotation. The deal is for a minor league contract at the moment. Benson was supposed to be a superstar, he got on a couple bad teams and still posted good numbers. The wrap on him is that his wife tries to steal some of his thunder and by her picture we posted here on the blog you can see why! Welcome aboard Anna and Kris.
Happy Valentines, and welcome back Phils to Spring Training!
Rich Baxter / Fightin' Phils 2008 Audio Blog
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Pentagon to enslave shark-kind
Uncle Sam mobilises remote control fish
Sinister news has leaked out of the US Department of Defence, where plans are afoot to implant mind control devices into sharks in the hope of using them for underwater espionage.
The DoD engineer-designed implant (developed in lab experiments on rats) will be deployed to harness a squad of shark spies, it was revealed at a meeting in Hawaii last week. Until now, applications for the controversial technology have centred on regaining movement in paralysis sufferers.
Sharks' stealthy movement through water makes them perfect candidates for underwater snooping, able to follow ships and submarines without detection. They are one of nature's most successful predators, having been on the oceanic block for 400m years in a relatively unchanging form.
New Scientist reports that a group at Boston University is already using probes in the lab to steer dogfish, a close shark relative. As the dogfish meanders about, researchers take control by beaming a radio signal from a laptop to an antenna attached to the fish.
DoD hopes that as well as controlling the shark's movements, operators could get feedback on what it is feeling. Their amazing sensory powers can follow chemical trails through the sea and detect electromagnetic fields.
If it comes to fruition, the project would cut out hassle for the military; the long standing teams of dolphin mine-seekers used by the US Navy have to be carefully trained, which costs valuable time and fish. ®
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Last week, Toyota said it expects to sell 16,000 or more 2012 Prius Plug-In Hybrid models in the U.S. next year, once the car is launched (in June or before).
For all intents and purposes, it's a standard Toyota Prius hybrid with a larger battery pack that uses lithium-ion cells. The car can be plugged into a wall outlet to recharge the battery on grid electricity.
Still, we wonder whether the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In may be the car that gets U.S. car buyers more comfortable with plugging in their cars?
There's a huge amount of familiarity with the Prius brand--it's why Toyota is expanding it to encompass multiple models, including the 2012 Toyota Prius V wagon.
So it may be that consumers will be more comfortable with a Prius that plugs in more than they might be with the less familiar all-electric Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt.
A volume of 16,000 Prius plug-ins over less than a full year equals the projected U.S. sales rate for Nissan Leafs next year, though it's lower than expected sales for the 2012 Volt.
$3K to $5K more than which Prius?
We think two factors will play a role in answering that question. The first one is price; Toyota has said the plug-in Prius will sell for $3,000 to $5,000 more than a standard Prius.
But the company hasn't said whether that amount is on top of the price of a base Prius Two model, which starts at $23,520, or a much higher-spec model like the Prius Five, at $28,790.
As the Union of Concerned Scientists has noted, hybrid makers usually add lots of features to their cars, making them comparable not to base models but to the highest trim levels of gasoline cars.
If Toyota bases the Prius Plug-In on its highest-spec model, that could price the car within a couple of thousand dollars of the 2012 Nissan Leaf, which starts at a base price of $35,200.
Toyota also will have to modify its claim that it would sell the least expensive plug-in car in the country; the 2012 Mitsubishi 'i' electric minicar costs $27,990, a level Toyota seems likely to surpass. They may have the cheapest "plug-in hybrid," however.
9 to 13 not-always-electric miles
The second factor is electric range. Toyota claims up to 13 miles of electric range, but it may not be continuous. The Prius Plug-In still switches on its gasoline engine to power the vehicle under high demand, even if it hasn't depleted the battery.
That's different from the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, a range-extended electric car, which runs only on electric power for 25 to 40 miles no matter how hard you thrash it.
After that, the Volt's range-extending gas engine switches on, but only to power a generator that sends electricity to the electric motor that actually moves the car.
Over a long weekend driving test in cold upstate New York last November, we only managed to get 9 or 10 indicated electric miles. Like all electric car batteries, the Prius Plug-In's lithium-ion pack is sensitive to cold.
We wonder whether drivers will think it's worth plugging in the car for such a relatively low electric range.
EPA rating: 60 mpg?
A final factor will be EPA gas-mileage rating. When the battery pack is depleted, the 2012 Prius Plug-In reverts to behaving like a regular, 50-mpg Prius hybrid.
The upcoming 2012 Prius V will be rated at 40 mpg; a standard 2011 Prius gets 50 mpg. Wouldn't it be tidy if the Prius Plug-In were rated at 60 mpg? We got 54 mpg on our test, but we had few around-town miles, so we didn't take advantage of electric running as much as many drivers will.
We've now driven prototypes of the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid not once, not twice, but three separate times. For more background, read our drive reports here:
- 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In: Driven (March 2011)
- 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Prototype: Drive Report (November 2010)
- First Drive: 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid (April 2010)
But what do you think? Is the Prius Plug-In the way to get U.S car buyers over the hump and comfortable with plugging in? Or has it already been passed by the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, which provide much more electric range--albeit at a higher price?
Leave us your thoughts in the Comments below.
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Ivory Coast: The Deteriorating Humanitarian Situation (Report)
(HN, March 17, 2011) -- Life for the people of the Ivory Coast is getting increasingly worse. The three-month campaign of organized violence by security forces under the control of Laurent Gbagbo and militias that support him gives every indication of amounting to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
The crisis has escalated since the end of February 2011, with clashes between armed forces loyal to Gbagbo and Ouattara in the western and central regions of the country, as well as in Abidjan, the financial capital.
With around 400,000 displaced persons and the deaths of almost 400 civilians documented by the United Nations the vast majority killed by pro-Gbagbo forces in circumstances not connected with the armed conflict and with no apparent provocation - the attacks appear to be widespread.
On the Ouattara side, armed fighters have begun a pattern of extrajudicial executions against alleged pro-Gbagbo combatants detained in Ouattara territory since the Forces Nouvelles ("New Forces" or FN) gained effective control of the Abobo neighborhood and Anyama village around February 26.
"The time is long overdue for the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Gbagbo and his allies directly implicated in the grave abuses of the post-election period," said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "The international community should also send a clear message to Ouattara's camp that reprisal killings will place them next on the list."
Armed fighters loyal to Alassane Ouattara clashed with the pro-Gbagbo security forces yesterday in several areas including Yopougon and Attecoube, while foreigners and ethnic groups viewed as pro-Ouattara are repeatedly harassed.
Fierce fighting and gun battles in the cities of Abobo, Abidjan and Williamsville have seen the most bloodshed.
Although there is no reference whatsoever on state TV of the ongoing battles in the streets life for much of the population has become very bleak.
Many shops in these cities have been looted and those that have not have been closed as well as most banks.
Doctors without Borders is reporting that in the city of Abobo only one hospital remains open and in the last two weeks doctors there have treated 129 patients 89 of which have come in with either knife or gun shot wounds.
UNICEF has said that the nation is on the verge of collapse with 1.5 million people at risk from epidemics. Reports of cholera have begun in Abidjan as rubbish lies uncollected and there have been 10's of deaths reported in rural areas as a result of yellow fever.
In the north schools are closed leaving 800,000 children out of school and although the situation is better in the southern part of the country there are schools closed there as well.
Crime levels are up and armed youth roam the streets with impunity.
As the situation in the Ivory Cost continues to intensify and the country plunges further into economic decay there is real worry that shortages of basic needs will not be able to be met – electricity blackouts and water cuts are among the things people are most concerned about.
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According to Human Rights Watch residents from Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Niger have given detailed accounts of daily attacks by pro-Gbagbo security forces and armed militias, who beat foreign residents to death with bricks, clubs, and sticks, or doused them with gas and burned them alive.
A Malian man interviewed by Human Rights Watch described how he and six other West Africans were forced into two vehicles by armed militiamen and taken into the basement of an abandoned building. More youths were waiting, who then executed five of the captured West Africans at point-blank range. The homes, stores, and mosques of hundreds of other West Africans have been burned, or they have been chased out of their neighborhoods en masse under threat of death at the hands of pro-Gbagbo militias.
The brunt of these attacks came immediately after Gbagbo's "youth minister," Charles Blé Goudé, called publicly on February 25 for "real" Ivoirians to set up roadblocks in their neighborhoods and "denounce" foreigners.
The situation threatens to worsen further, as a March 7 letter addressed to the Burkina Faso ambassador by a militant pro-Gbagbo group warned. The letter threatened to "cut the umbilical cord" of the Burkina Faso nationals in Côte d'Ivoire unless they left the country by March 22.
U.N. officials say the political crisis has also driven more than 75,000 Ivorian civilians across the border into Liberia, with half that total arriving in just the last two weeks. Aid officials in Liberia's Toe Town say they are struggling to keep up. Augustine Nugba is the local program coordinator for the Catholic charity Caritas.
"As soon as the place is given and we receive the government's okay, we will start to construct a camp and to remove everyone from here," said Nugba.
Food shortages, overcrowding, and inadequate sanitation have brought cases of diarrhea and malaria for refugees, including Victorine Tohogninon.
Tohogninon says that since the refugees came to Liberia, the children and the elderly are getting sick.
If the political crisis is not resolved soon, refugee Charles-Camille Kpehia says there will be no one left in Ivory Coast to govern.
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South Africa backs the African Union in recognizing Alassane Ouattara as the winner of Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
Zuma said in reply to a question in parliament that South Africa backed the AU's position.
"South Africa fully supports the position taken by the African Union on the 10th of March, namely that Mr. Ouattara is recognised as the winner, which is a reaffirmation of the position of ECOWAS," Zuma said, referring to the West African regional grouping.
He said South Africa supported the AU's attempts to find a peaceful solution to the Ivory Coast crisis. Zuma and officials in his foreign ministry had previously given the impression they thought there were doubts over the vote, suggesting they did not back the tougher line taken by West African leaders on Gbagbo.
"We are all of one mind on the way forward towards a sustainable political solution."
According to the BBC, shells have been fired at a district of Abidjan opposed to disputed Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, with reports of at least 10 dead.
Two shell landed in a busy market in the Abobo area, residents said.
Some 370,000 people have fled recent clashes in Abidjan - many from Abobo, which backs the man widely recognised as the winner of last year's elections.
The African Union has given Mr Gbagbo until 24 March to organise a handover of power but he shows no signs of stepping down.


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The men caught a rare great white shark less than a mile and a half off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Tuesday afternoon.
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crystal structure of oxalate decarboxylase formate complex
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crystal structure of yxag, a dioxygenase from Bacillus subtilis
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crystal structure of protein ylba from E. coli, pfam duf861
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x-ray crystal structure of protein so0799 from Shewanella oneidensis. northeast structural genomics consortium target sor12.
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The cupin superfamily is a diverse superfamily of proteins named after its conserved barrel domain (cupa being the Latin term for a small barrel). The superfamily includes a wide variety of enzymes as well as non-enzymatic seed storage proteins.[1][2]
Members of the superfamily play a role in allergy, especially seed storage proteins like 7S and 11S globulins, also known as vicilins and legumins, respectively. These proteins can be found at high concentrations in seeds of both mono- and dicotyledonous plants and are an important component of the normal human diet.
Thomas Burr Osborne at the end of the 19th century was the first person to systematically study seed storage proteins by their solubility characteristics. He established 4 classes of proteins: water-soluble albumins; salt soluble globulins: vicilin—typically having sedimentation coefficients, S values (a measure of the protein mass determined by sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation) of about 7 Svedberg units (hence the common name 7S globulin) and legumin (11S); alcohol/water-soluble—cereal—prolamines; and a fourth class, glutelins, of difficultly soluble proteins no longer recognized and now considered low solubility prolamin or globulin storage proteins . Gluten consists of a mixture of prolamins: 'glutenin' and 'gliadin'. Osborne and his Yale colleague Lafayette Mendel are considered the 'founders' of the modern science of nutrition.
Earlier, the fungi Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) deBary was the first oxalic acid (oxalate), secreting organism to be described as early as 1886 in Botan. Z. by A. de Barry. However, since oxalate secreting fungi are not a major threat to crop cereals no studies of this interaction were made for almost 100 years. In the early 1980s a protein dubbed 'germin' was identified in germinating wheat embryos; and in the early 1990s (1992) it was found to be an enzyme having oxalate oxidase (OXO) activity converting an oxalate substrate into carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide. This latter-day discovery of 'germin' was soon followed by the discovery of the 'cupin superfamily' of proteins.
Legumin and vicilin share a common evolutionary ancestor, namely, a vicilin-like protein in a fern-spore which also exhibits some characteristics of legumin. Each of these proteins contains equivalent 'subunits' indicating an evolution from a single-gene ancestor which has been duplicated during evolution. It was suggested that "germin" , {first found and only known to occur in the "true cereals": barley, corn, oat, rice, and wheat} a plant enzyme, oxalate oxidase 'one-very-tough-little- protein' as such an ancestor. This hypothesis stimulated a search for the evolutionary roots of the seed storage globulins which include such food proteins as the legume soy protein—the gold standard for plant-based proteins—due to its balanced content of 7S and 11S globulin protein, other beans, the pseudocereals buckwheat, & quinoa, pumpkin seeds, cocoa, coffee, nuts, and the two cereals oats and rice.
This search turned up a new realm: that seed storage globulin proteins (7S & 11S), as well as many other non-storage plant proteins {notably germins (G-OXOs), germin-like proteins (GLPs)} and microbial proteins belong to a vast superfamily of proteins dubbed the 'cupin superfamily' of proteins, named on the basis of a conserved beta-barrel fold (cupa the Latin term for a small barrel) originally discovered within germin and germin-like proteins from higher plants. Germin is a monocupin and 7S & 11S are each bicupins. It is a large and functionally immensely diverse 'superfamily' of proteins, numbering in the thousands, that have a common origin and whose evolution can be followed from bacteria to eukaryotes including animals and higher plants. "Cupins" are the most functionally diverse protein superfamily occurring in all spermatophytes (seed bearing plants). " GLPs, moreover, are now known to be ubiquitous plant proteins, no longer linked only to cereal germination, but involved in plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress.[3] "G-OXOs and GLPs are plant do-all proteins."[4]
Germin of the "true cereals" is known as the 'archetypal' member of the cupin superfamily, however it is not to be considered an empty cask or barrel but a 'jellyroll' jelly roll fold in which six monomer subunits are wrapped in three dimensions to form a barrel shape. This structure accounts for its astonishing 'refractory' nature toward various 'denaturing' agents: all germins share a remarkable stability when subjected to heat, detergents, extreme pH and resistance to broad specificity proteolytic (digestive) enzymes. Seed storage proteins of grasses and cereals belong to the eponymous prolamin superfamily which also includes plant albumins(2S). Prolamin seed storage proteins so characteristic of cereals and grasses is not considered very nutritious because of its high content of the amino acid proline which it shares with gelatin and its low content of lysine, a vital amino acid.
Germin was initially identified in the early stages of wheat seed germination, thus its name. Domesticated cereals most notably 'hexaploid' bread wheat ( pasta wheat is tetraploid) was selected by humans for its resistance to fungal pathogens. Many years later it was found to have oxalate oxidase activity generating 'antimicrobial' hydrogen peroxide from a substrate of the double-acid, oxalic acid, secreted by an invading fungus or other microbe. A reaction between oxalate and the calcium cation makes calcium oxalate, a type of 'kidney stone' in humans. Amazingly, oxalate is a metabolite of ascorbate (vitamin C), and it is worth emphasizing that ascorbate is a direct precursor of oxalate in plants.
The 'sweetest' outcome from our knowledge of germin biochemistry is that the wheat-germin gene is the obvious candidate for insertion into the American chestnut for producing a transgenic American chestnut. This tree called the "perfect tree" has no resistance to Cryphonectria parasitica, the chestnut blight fungus.[5] The fungal mycelium produce oxalic acid which eats away at the tree's bark giving it a portal into the underlying growing tissue. The xylem vessels carrying water become plugged through the chelation of calcium cations by oxalate just as in the kidney. Death is by strangulation as a canker encircles and girdles the trunk.
Transgenic American chestnut seedlings have been produced and field tested carrying the wheat germin gene for oxalate oxidase which breaks down oxalic acid the caustic chemical excreted by the invasive chestnut blight fungus.
Soybean Protein Nomenclature: Aprogress.[6] Effects of ionic strength on the ultracentrifuge pattern for water-extractable soybean proteins at pH 7.6. The terminology used most extensively in the past.
- ^ Dunwell JM (1998). "Cupins: a new superfamily of functionally diverse proteins that include germins and plant storage proteins". Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews. 15: 1–32. doi:10.1080/02648725.1998.10647950. PMID 9573603.
- ^ Dunwell JM, Purvis A, Khuri S (January 2004). "Cupins: the most functionally diverse protein superfamily?". Phytochemistry. 65 (1): 7–17. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2003.08.016. PMID 14697267.
- ^ Dunwell J, Gibbings JG, Mahmood T, Saqlan Naqvi S (2008-09-01). "Germin and Germin-like Proteins: Evolution, Structure, and Function". Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 27 (5): 342–375. doi:10.1080/07352680802333938.
- ^ "Germins and germin-like proteins: Plant do-all proteins. But what do they do exactly?". Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 39: 545–554. doi:10.1016/S0981-9428(01)01285-2.
- ^ "American Chestnut". www.susanfreinkel.com. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
- ^ "Download from National Agricultural Library Digital Collections". naldc.nal.usda.gov. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
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The JmjN and JmjC domains are two non-adjacent domains which have been identified in the jumonji family of transcription factors. Although it was originally suggested that the JmjN and JmjC domains always co-occur and might form a single functional unit within the folded protein, the JmjC domain was later found without the JmjN domain in organisms from bacteria to human [PUBMED:10838566, PUBMED:11165500].
Proteins containing JmjC domain are predicted to be metalloenzymes that adopt the cupin fold and are candidates for enzymes that regulate chromatin remodelling [PUBMED:11165500]. The cupin fold is a flattened beta-barrel structure containing two sheets of five antiparallel beta strands that form the walls of a zinc-binding cleft. Based on the crystal structure of JmjC domain containing protein FIH and JHDM3A/JMJD2A, the JmjC domain forms an enzymatically active pocket that coordinates Fe(III) and alphaKG. Three amino-acid residues within the JmjC domain bind to the Fe(II) cofactor and two additional residues bind to alphaKG [PUBMED:16983801].
JmjC domains were identified in numerous eukaryotic proteins containing domains typical of transcription factors, such as PHD, C2H2, ARID/BRIGHT and zinc fingers [PUBMED:11165500, PUBMED:12446723]. The JmjC has been shown to function in a histone demethylation mechanism that is conserved from yeast to human [PUBMED:16362057]. JmjC domain proteins may be protein hydroxylases that catalyse a novel histone modification [PUBMED:15809658]. The human JmjC protein named Tyw5p unexpectedly acts in the biosynthesis of a hypermodified nucleoside, hydroxy-wybutosine, in tRNA-Phe by catalysing hydroxylation [PUBMED:20739293].
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This family is a member of clan Cupin (CL0029), which has the following description:
This clan represents the conserved barrel domain of the 'cupin' superfamily [1] ('cupa' is the Latin term for a small barrel). The cupin fold is found in a wide variety of enzymes, but notably contains the non-enzymatic seed storage proteins also.
The clan contains the following 65 members:2OG-Fe_Oxy_2 2OG-FeII_Oxy 2OG-FeII_Oxy_2 2OG-FeII_Oxy_3 2OG-FeII_Oxy_4 2OG-FeII_Oxy_5 3-HAO AIM24 AraC_binding AraC_binding_2 AraC_N ARD Asp_Arg_Hydrox AUDH_Cupin Auxin_BP CDO_I CENP-C_C cNMP_binding CsiD Cupin_1 Cupin_2 Cupin_3 Cupin_4 Cupin_5 Cupin_6 Cupin_7 Cupin_8 DIOX_N DMSP_lyase dTDP_sugar_isom DUF1479 DUF1971 DUF386 DUF4437 DUF4867 DUF5070 Ectoine_synth ERG2_Sigma1R EutQ FdtA FTO_NTD GPI HgmA HutD JmjC JmjN KduI Lyx_isomer MannoseP_isomer Ofd1_CTDD Oxygenase-NA PCO_ADO PhyH Pirin Pirin_C Pirin_C_2 PMI_typeI Popeye Pox_C4_C10 Ppnp TauD Tet_JBP Ureidogly_lyase VIT VIT_2
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|280.10 aa
|Average identity of full alignment:
|22 %
|Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:
|62.40 %
HMM information
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This visualisation provides a simple graphical representation of the distribution of this family across species. You can find the original interactive tree in the adjacent tab. More...
This chart is a modified "sunburst" visualisation of the species tree for this family. It shows each node in the tree as a separate arc, arranged radially with the superkingdoms at the centre and the species arrayed around the outermost ring.
How the sunburst is generated
The tree is built by considering the taxonomic lineage of each sequence that has a match to this family. For each node in the resulting tree, we draw an arc in the sunburst. The radius of the arc, its distance from the root node at the centre of the sunburst, shows the taxonomic level ("superkingdom", "kingdom", etc). The length of the arc represents either the number of sequences represented at a given level, or the number of species that are found beneath the node in the tree. The weighting scheme can be changed using the sunburst controls.
In order to reduce the complexity of the representation, we reduce the number of taxonomic levels that we show. We consider only the following eight major taxonomic levels:
- superkingdom
- kingdom
- phylum
- class
- order
- family
- genus
- species
Colouring and labels
Segments of the tree are coloured approximately according to their superkingdom. For example, archeal branches are coloured with shades of orange, eukaryotes in shades of purple, etc. The colour assignments are shown under the sunburst controls. Where space allows, the name of the taxonomic level will be written on the arc itself.
As you move your mouse across the sunburst, the current node will be highlighted. In the top section of the controls panel we show a summary of the lineage of the currently highlighed node. If you pause over an arc, a tooltip will be shown, giving the name of the taxonomic level in the title and a summary of the number of sequences and species below that node in the tree.
Anomalies in the taxonomy tree
There are some situations that the sunburst tree cannot easily handle and for which we have work-arounds in place.
Missing taxonomic levels
Some species in the taxonomic tree may not have one or more of the main eight levels that we display. For example, Bos taurus is not assigned an order in the NCBI taxonomic tree. In such cases we mark the omitted level with, for example, "No order", in both the tooltip and the lineage summary.
Unmapped species names
The tree is built by looking at each sequence in the full alignment for the family. We take the name of the species given by UniProt and try to map that to the full taxonomic tree from NCBI. In some cases, the name chosen by UniProt does not map to any node in the NCBI tree, perhaps because the chosen name is listed as a synonym or a misspelling in the NCBI taxonomy.
So that these nodes are not simply omitted from the sunburst tree, we group them together in a separate branch (or segment of the sunburst tree). Since we cannot determine the lineage for these unmapped species, we show all levels between the superkingdom and the species as "uncategorised".
Since we reduce the species tree to only the eight main taxonomic levels, sequences that are mapped to the sub-species level in the tree would not normally be shown. Rather than leave out these species, we map them instead to their parent species. So, for example, for sequences belonging to one of the Vibrio cholerae sub-species in the NCBI taxonomy, we show them instead as belonging to the species Vibrio cholerae.
Too many species/sequences
For large species trees, you may see blank regions in the outer layers of the sunburst. These occur when there are large numbers of arcs to be drawn in a small space. If an arc is less than approximately one pixel wide, it will not be drawn and the space will be left blank. You may still be able to get some information about the species in that region by moving your mouse across the area, but since each arc will be very small, it will be difficult to accurately locate a particular species.
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The tree shows the occurrence of this domain across different species. More...
Species trees
We show the species tree in one of two ways. For smaller trees we try to show an interactive representation, which allows you to select specific nodes in the tree and view them as an alignment or as a set of Pfam domain graphics.
Unfortunately we have found that there are problems viewing the interactive tree when the it becomes larger than a certain limit. Furthermore, we have found that Internet Explorer can become unresponsive when viewing some trees, regardless of their size. We therefore show a text representation of the species tree when the size is above a certain limit or if you are using Internet Explorer to view the site.
If you are using IE you can still load the interactive tree by clicking the "Generate interactive tree" button, but please be aware of the potential problems that the interactive species tree can cause.
Interactive tree
For all of the domain matches in a full alignment, we count the number that are found on all sequences in the alignment. This total is shown in the purple box.
We also count the number of unique sequences on which each domain is found, which is shown in green. Note that a domain may appear multiple times on the same sequence, leading to the difference between these two numbers.
Finally, we group sequences from the same organism according to the NCBI code that is assigned by UniProt, allowing us to count the number of distinct sequences on which the domain is found. This value is shown in the pink boxes.
We use the NCBI species tree to group organisms according to their taxonomy and this forms the structure of the displayed tree. Note that in some cases the trees are too large (have too many nodes) to allow us to build an interactive tree, but in most cases you can still view the tree in a plain text, non-interactive representation. Those species which are represented in the seed alignment for this domain are highlighted.
You can use the tree controls to manipulate how the interactive tree is displayed:
- show/hide the summary boxes
- highlight species that are represented in the seed alignment
- expand/collapse the tree or expand it to a given depth
- select a sub-tree or a set of species within the tree and view them graphically or as an alignment
- save a plain text representation of the tree
Please note: for large trees this can take some time. While the tree is loading, you can safely switch away from this tab but if you browse away from the family page entirely, the tree will not be loaded.
There is 1 interaction for this family. More...
We determine these interactions using iPfam, which considers the interactions between residues in three-dimensional protein structures and maps those interactions back to Pfam families. You can find more information about the iPfam algorithm in the journal article that accompanies the website.
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Cupin_4 domain has been found. There are 46 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein sequence.
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16th June, 2019Back to top
Swim: 1,9 km in the Mosel
Bike: 90 km through scenic terrain
Run: 21,1 km in Remich at the MoselBack to top
Cut-off times IRONMAN 70.3:
Swim: 1 hours 10 minutes + a further 10 minutes from the swim cut off to start the bike
Bike: 5 hours 20 minutes (after you cross the swim start timing mat) + a further 10 minutes from the bike cut off to start the run
Run: 8 hours 30 minutes (after you cross the swim start timing mat)Back to top
Entries are open to any individuals who wish to participate in one of the world's great sporting challenges. Entries are taken online with payment by debit or credit card. No other payment option is available. Capacity is limited.
Click here to register for IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg.
Once the entry process is completed and payment processed, you will receive a confirmation email which details your race entry. If you do not receive this please check your junk mail. If you need your confirmation resent please email us at .Back to top
Please see REGISTRATIONBack to top
The entry fee includes:
• All the Race Organisation required for IRONMAN including transition area, swim course, swim safety cover, traffic management for road closures, stewards and volunteers
• Entry to Award Ceremony
• Race day nutrition at the aid stations
• Athlete Backpack
• Finisher T-Shirt
• Finisher-Medal
• Athlete Village post-race food
• Free Massages after the raceBack to top
• Log into https://myevents.active.com
• Scroll through list of registered events
• Choose "View my registration"Back to top
You can find the startlist under the tab athletes and startlist. The startlist will be updated every four weeks.Back to top
No, we do not have a waiting list.Back to top
• Log into https://myevents.active.com
• Scroll through list of registered events
• Choose "Edit Registration Information"
• Make changes to custom questions etc.
• Save changes
If you need to change your email, email us at and we can make the changes for you.Back to top
Yes, athletes must be 18 on race day.Back to top
You will compete as the age you are on 31st December in the year of the race. For example, if you turned 25 in October, you would be in the 25-29 age group for all races in that year even though you may only be 24 on race day.Back to top
Yes, RONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg will have a relay race.Back to top
• Relays are teams with 3 or at least 2 members
• Every discipline (swim, bike and run) needs to be done of the relay athletes. It is not possible to skip one of those 3 legs.
• All members of the Relay team must have registered and filled out their information 10 days prior to race day. If failed to do so, IRONMAN holds the rights to deny the team participation, giving no compensation. The change of a team member can be done until 10 days prior to race day. No changes will be accepted past this deadline.
See the Relay tab under Athletes for all Relay InformationBack to top
Event Location: Esplanade / Place Fr. Fernand Kons, 5533 Remich, LuxembourgBack to top
Under the tab athletes and travel & accommodation you can find all information about accommodations in the area. You can also find our official partner hotels there.Back to top
On race week, you will need to:
• Attend one compulsory race briefing '
• Register onsite prior to race day
• Rack your bike and kit bags the day before race day
For the race week schedule, click here.Back to top
All athletes must register in person at the event prior to race day to collect their race packs. Nothing gets sent out in the post! In order to register you will NEED:
• Your BIB number (which will be uploaded around 3 weeks prior to race day)
• Photo Identification (passport or driving license)
• Triathlon Race License. If you do not have a one a day license can bought onsite (WITH CASH ONLY).
You MUST attend registration yourself in order to race. Under NO circumstance will we give your information to another person even with authorisation. You also MUST check-in your bike in person.
The Race Office is located in the Merchandise Store near the transition 2. See get your starter kit tab for more information.Back to top
No, the athlete racing MUST register and rack their own bike/bags. Photo ID will be requested in registration. Racking must be done the day before race day as per the race week schedule timings. On the day racking is not permitted.Back to top
No, the athlete racing MUST collect these personally. Wristbands will be checked upon entry and items will be checked against your wristband and race numbers when leaving.Back to top
The IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg operates a clean transition. NO equipment can be placed on the floor, in or box or otherwise around your bike. Helmets can be placed on your bike or in your bag. Anything left will be removed. You will be given coloured bags when you register for your bike and run gear.
• Blue Bag: Bike Gear, put all the kit you need for your cycle in this bag, including your helmet (DON'T forget your race number) if it's not on your bike. You will enter the blue bag marquee upon exiting the swim, here - at the change tents - you will change and then head to collect your bike.
• Red Bag: Run Gear, put all the kit you need for your run in this bag. Once you have left your bike you will enter the red bag marquee (at the change tents), here you will change and head to the run course.
• White Bag: this bag is for your dry clothing that you require after the race. The white bags will be in the Athletes Garden and available to collect as soon as you finish the race
All bikes and transition bags must be racked on Saturday. Please see the Race Week Schedule for times
• When you come to rack, your bike, helmet and bags must have your race numbers securely applied to them. You must have your helmet on with the strap fastened and be wearing your race number.
• You will have access to your blue and red bags on race morning and you can access your bike to place your drinks bottles and nutrition.
• You must have your helmet fastened before removing your bike from the rack and keep it fastened until you have placed your bike back on the rack having finished the course.
• You must hand in your bike and blue and red bag in transition 1 on the Saturday before race day
See the event schedule for racking times.Back to top
• Wetsuits are allowed up to a water temperature of 24.5°C (pros 21,9°C). In case it is forbidden to swim a wetsuit, it is also forbidden to swim any kind of swim suit with percentage of rubber and/or neoprene. The final ruling will be announced in the pre race briefing.
• All athletes must wear the official swim cap provided
• Athletes will line up according to their realistic predicted swim time (self-seeding) and within a certain time interval, we will send out five athletes. It will take approximately 60 minutes to get the entire field across the swim start line (subject to change). We will have a Rolling Start. You can find a map here .
• To officially enter the race athletes must enter the pre-start-area through the big "Swim Arch" (inflatable). Only then you`ll be timed. Entering the lake by any other means, will automatically result in a DNS (Did Not Start)! NOT GOING THROUGH THE "SWIM-ARCH" = NO TIMING!
• The course is given by buoys and is counterclockwise clocked.
• The cut off time to complete the swim is 1 hours 10 minutes after you cross the swim start timing mat
• Additional to the cut off time of the swim with 1 hours 10 minutes athletes have additional 10 minutes time to finish their transfer and leave transition 1.Back to top
There is no practice swim for the swim course for the IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg. Moreover, it is prohibited by law to swim in the Mosel before the official swim start on race day.Back to top
You can warm up in the swiminpool Remich. An on land warm up is recommended.Back to top
If you feel the need, please turn on your back and raise an arm in the air to attract attention from the swim safety crew. Note that a triathlon wetsuit provides buoyancy and you would be able to float with minimal effort should you need to take a few seconds to regain your composure.Back to top
• The IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg bike course travels through spectacular scenery around Remich. Approximately 580 meters of climbing add up during the lap
• The course will start and finish in Remich.
• iPods, MP3 players, phones, video cameras etc. are not permitted on the course
• Your race number must be worn on your back
Note that athletes must be able to repair a puncture without assistance and should carry spare inner tubes and tools. IRONMAN will provide mobile and static support for other issues that athletes cannot fix themselves but these staff are not on call and we cannot guarantee that they will be available to assist with a problem. A Bike-Service-Team will be present at the Expo, in the transition zone and on the bike course. From Friday at the Expo on there will be a special service station which sells spare parts, helmets and on Saturday in the transition zone 1. The Bike Service is chargeable.Back to top
• We don´t want to give a special recommendation, but the course profile of the IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg allows all kinds of triathlon bikes with aero position.
• No, your bike must be a road bike or a time trial bike,
• If you have further questions about this please email us at with your bike make and a photo and we will be able to help you.Back to top
Disc brakes are currently legal to use during IRONMAN races however we are subject to UCI rules and we are subject to any change they make.Back to top
No, drafting is absolutely forbidden. It will result in a time penalty of 5 minutes. The referee will signal the athlete and show the blue card. The athlete must then stop at the next penalty box, report his card and serve his penalty. There are 2 penalty boxes on the bike course and one additional penalty box in T2. These are clearly marked (tent with print). A third penalty for drafting leads to disqualification. Any kind of a third penalty (card of any colour) leads to disqualification.Back to top
More information on our Bike Day can be found hereBack to top
• IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg is a 3 lap run course in Remich at the Mosel
• Your race number must be worn on your front
• iPods, MP3 players, phones, video cameras etc. are not permitted on the courseBack to top
Our onsite nutrition will be from ENERVIT
For more information click here for nutritionBack to top
On the race day there will be three shuttle busses, which bring the spectators to the most attractive places at the course. You can find more information hereBack to top
No. Any athlete who crosses the finish line with a spectator will be disqualified. It is a safety risk to the athlete, the spectator(s), other athletes and staff to have non-competitors running down the finish line. It may also hinder other athletes achieving their personal goals or have their treasured finish line photo obstructed by spectators on the finish line.Back to top
It is a kind of chill-out zone for all athletes, directly next to the outdoor swimming pool in Remich (approx. 200m from Finish Line). Here you can find refreshments, a place to relax and hang out. You´ll get your IRONMAN Finisher Shirt there as well. Only athletes and medical staff as well as the organisation team will have access to the Athlete's Garden. The whole place is intended to create a beautiful and quiet atmosphere to help you relax and recover from a great day of hard "racework".Back to top
Yes we have some side events. Starting with the Iron Girl on Friday at 7:30 pm and the IRONKIDS event on Saturday at 11:00 am. For more information and to register see the SIDEEVENTS tab.Back to top
• IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg has 50 slots for the 2019 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Nice, France.
• A minimum of one slot will be provisionally allocated to each Age Group category based on the start list (both male and female).
• Final slot allocation will be determined on race day based on the number of official starters.
• Final slot allocation shall be representative of the actual number of Age Group starters in each category in the race.Back to top
• Athletes MUST claim their slot in-person at the qualifying race during the Awards ceremony after the race
• After all automatic qualifiers have been announced any unclaimed slots within an Age Group will be rolled down to the next eligible finisher within that Age Group. If an athlete chooses not to take the slot, does not attend the Roll Down ceremony or has already qualified, the next eligible finisher in that Age Group may claim the qualifying slot.
• Following Roll Down any unclaimed slots within an Age Group will be reallocated to another Age Group within the gender based on the athletes-to-slots ratio.
• The Age Group within the gender with the largest athletes-to-slots ratio will receive the first reallocated slot, followed by the next largest ratio receiving the second re-allocated slot (if applicable), and so on.Back to top
Option 1: Transfer
• Athletes may be able to transfer their race entry 45 days prior to race day to another IRONMAN race in Europe, Middle East and Africa and if the race they would like to transfer to is not sold out.
• You can only transfer to an IRONMAN race within the same year (2019).
• This is according to the "Race Transfer Policy" and you can read them here
• To proceed with this complete the online Transfer form (link).
Option 2.: Cancellation
• If you need to withdraw from IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg, please note the following deadlines for your refund: until 4 months prior to race day – 16th February, 2019 - 50% refund of the entry fee
until 45 days prior to race day – 2nd May, 2019 - 25% refund of the entry fee
after 45 days to race day - no refund
• This policy is final and is not dependant on circumstances.
• If you need to withdraw from the race please complete the online form which will be processed within five working days.
• Special products such as extra tickets, photos & medal engraving will be refunded until 2 month prior race day. After this date special products are not refundable.
• It is NOT possible to defer your entry to another year or another athlete. • The Active fee is non-refundable.
• Your withdrawal will be confirmed via email and can take up to 5 days to process.
• Refunds are credited back to the card which you originally paid with or to your bank account.Back to top
FinisherPix is proud to be selected as the Official Photo Service of IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg. FinisherPix will have several photographers working at the swim exit, on the bike course, on the run course, and of course, at the Finish Line! In addition, FinisherPix will have photographers positioned after the finish where you can have a photo taken after you receive your medal. These images will be available online after the event here: https://www.finisherpix.com/home.html If you would like to take advantage of their offer and purchase all images before the event you can do so by:
• Log into https://myevents.active.com • Scroll through list of registered events
• Choose "Purchase Additional Merchandise"
• Checkout & Complete You can also change your included T-size as well here.Back to top
Yes, of course, also beginners/first timers who have never done any IRONMAN or any other long distance triathlon are very welcome.Back to top
To sign up as a volunteer please see our Volunteer tab hereBack to top
Lost and found equioemnt are collected during the race and the race week at the Info-Point. There you can pick them up. The opening hours for the Info-Point are: Friday to Sunday 10 am to 7 pm.
After the race we will bring the lost and found equipment to the awards ceremony and you can pick up your stuff there. If you do not pick up your belongings at the race, we will contact you after the race (if we can connect the lost and found stuff to you). We will ship them to you and charge you a shipping fee from your credit card initially you paid with.
We will ship finisher shirts and medals without any costs if you have finished the race and didn't get one.Back to top
Yes, by email: .Back to top
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