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New Year, New JCPL Website!
Welcome to the new JCPL website! Take a look around, knock some dust off the displays.
In a way a new website is kind of like moving into a new library home in the physical world. The books are the same, and a lot of the features seem familiar, but there are new paths to get used to, and new nooks and crannies to explore everywhere. Trust us when we say this is not last year's web library.
This change is a project that has been in the works for more than a year, and came in response to surveys, and to our own changing needs, and as a way for the library to set our online presence up for the future. The technospeak: This website is built using an open-source program called Drupal, and was built entirely by library staff. You can read more about it on our theme info page.
In one sense, the library website never stops changing, so we don't expect this to be the end of anything. For instance, without giving too much away, or making promises we can't keep, we can say much thought has also been given to a more mobile interface for the site.
A grand tour may not be your style, but there are some features you might want to take note of:
Our online contact form. Now, you can email us directly from the website itself. The site will no longer require you to have an email program set up on the interface you are using. In fact, if you have a question to Ask A Librarian, you can leave us a phone number as your point of contact and we will ring you!
Some new interactive features: Suggest an item for the collection. If you have something you've been wanting to see here, let us know. Share your library story with us, and let others know what you think about libraries.
We are always still looking for ways we can better serve you, so please send suggestions, thoughts, questions our way.
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So no highly toxic chemicals used in the manufacture of the internals then? That'll be a first.
Now, laptop maker Asus is well known for its willingness to bring all sorts of hi-tech compounds into the manufacture of its notebook computers, but it hasn't ignored more traditional materials. It's already released a leather-clad laptop and has now begun touting what it claims is the world's first bamboo computer. Asus …
Ahh, but you missed the point that the processor is also made out of wood - balsa. The motherboard is made out of traditional English oak. The NVidia graphics card comes in ... wait for it ... mahogany!
The only problem with this change in manufacture is that the rainforest will just have to come down
Judging by the final photograph, the bamboo cover is just a pull-off accessory - surely the manufacturing effort involved in chopping down the bamboo, feeding it through a big pulping machine, putting the pulp in a mould, forming it into mock-planks, and then cutting the resulting goo would outweigh the environmental benefits of a rottable cover?
Perhaps in the future laptop cases can be grown in vats, and ultimately perhaps the laptop's components can be grown. Right now it would probably be more environmentally friendly to make a laptop that can easily and indefinitely be upgraded to an acceptable standard of use, thus postponing its disposal; or to adopt a mindset whereby laptops are not thrown away after eighteen months because there is a newer and more attractive model available. The kind of people likely to buy a flashy bamboo-covered laptop are the kind of people who are likely to throw it away after eight months in order to buy the next latest model (perhaps grass-covered).
I think this product is a perfect demosntratino of just how facile the whole ecological movement has become. In the 50s and 60s it was about cleaning up the mess. When that was done, it was about preserving the rainforests (which seems to have worked in some places and failed in others, but at least it was tried). Then the 90s came along and people didn't btoerh saving forests; they shat on them, whilst undermining their roots, and pretended they were 'protecting the environment'. Swampy and his ilk did more damage to the world than any megalomaniac corporation. Now the very idea of being 'green' has been commercialised and exploited by the very people that the green movement used to say they were against.
Now me, I'm all for coating laptops in bamboo, mahogany, crocodile skin, human skin, kitten hearts or whatever as long as there's no pretence about motivation and a market for it (and assuming anyone would actually buy a kitten-heart encased laptop). I can't stand is this phony feel-good wankery. If you're going to coat your laptop in panda food, don't pretend you're doing it to save the environment, or to appeal to the environmentalist lifestyle, because it makes you look stupid.
Gorgeous. Way prettier than an Apple even. Makes the auld hipster's standard, the Macbook, look quite dour and utilitarian.
Oh by the way, can I just point out to those who're scathing about the inadequate eco-credentials of this machine, that it's not organic cabbage you're typing on there...
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Sheesh, so much opinion, so much ignorance.
Bamboo is one of THE most ecological materials available.
The bamboo used for cabinet making and kitchen worktops and the like is NOT the same type of bamboo grass that pandas eat. It is also extremely fast growing and therefore a marvelous renewable resource not unlike hemp.
CO2 footprint? Who cares!
It's critical that people wake up and recognise the truth before we are all paying lung exhaled CO2 tax under the blatant lie that is man made climate change.
Your reader's comments are a mixed bag of truths and misconceptions..
A woode laptop case and mouse as long as it made from certified, renewable forsts is definitely more ecological than plastic or metal alternatives... This can be measured in a number of ways, such as energy consumption in production, brominated flame retardants used in plastic, PVC's that are toxic, and so on.
However, no computer can claim to ecological unless the insides can be subject to the same or equivalent evaluation. The problem is that there are bery few ways of establishing overall econological performance. There are evaluation programmes (labels) that meadure energy preformace only (energy star) but leave out toxic substances, electromagnetic emmissions, noise, and life-extension (PC's thata re obsolete n three years can hardly be called ecological).
The only standard we have been able to identify which has overall coverage and independent (not industry-based) assessment if the European Eco-Label for PC's. This label which carried the authoritity of EC commissioned expersts has been treated with contempt by most commercial PC manufactures, who have ignored it.
MicroPro, an SME based in Dubin, committed to genuine ecological standards, has form some eays been involved in the development of a PC that meets thse standards. It is called the iameco (www.iameco.com) and is currently being tested for the comprehensive Eco-Label. When it secures it it will be the 1st computer to achieve this comprehensive standard, a true eco-computer.

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TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A New Jersey legislative panel issued 20 subpoenas Thursday for documents in its investigation of the apparent political-payback bridge lane-closure scandal.
The subpoenas were sent to three organizations and 17 individuals, said the chairman of the committee, Democratic Assemblyman John Wisnieswki. He declined to identify the recipients before they were served, CNN reported.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's ex-top aide Bridget Anne Kelly, 41, was among those likely to be subpoenaed, said state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, a Democrat from Teaneck. Kelly's eight-word August email saying "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" was followed in September by four days of gridlock at the George Washington Bridge.
Christie fired Kelly last week after emails and texts detailed she helped orchestrate the apparent revenge lane closings that created the colossal backup on the world's busiest motor-vehicle bridge, which connects Fort Lee, N.J., and New York City.
The motive for the closures was unclear. There has been speculation it was a case of political retribution against Christie's opponents, in particular Democratic Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, for not endorsing Republican Christie for re-election in last year's gubernatorial race.
Weinberg was the Democratic lieutenant governor nominee on the ticket that lost to Christie in his first win as governor in 2009. Weinberg ran with Gov. Jon Corzine, who lost to Christie and running mate Kim Guadagno.
Weinberg, expected to be chairwoman of the Senate's investigative committee, said she believed the panel's political makeup should be three Democrats and two Republicans, USA Today said.
The state Assembly, conducting a separate inquiry into the bridge scandal, was also expected to issue subpoenas Thursday, after the lower chamber votes to extend its investigation in the new legislative session, said Democratic Assemblyman John Wisniewski of Middlesex.
Wisniewski, expected to head the lower chamber's investigative panel, declined to say whether Kelly and fired Christie campaign manager and senior aide Bill Stepien, 36, would be targets of the Assembly's Thursday subpoenas.
Christie fired Stepien along with Kelly last week for what Christie said was Stepien's poor judgment in discussions about the closings as they started to become a political issue.
At one point Stepien assured David Wildstein -- a Christie appointee to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who ordered the lane closures -- the traffic havoc wasn't a real cause for concern.
"Ultimately, not an awful story," Stepien wrote.
The Port Authority runs the bridge.
Stepien has hired a lawyer to represent him in the investigation, Leon Sokol, the attorney for the Assembly transportation committee that led the initial probe of the lane closures, told the Wall Street Journal.
Former assistant U.S. Attorney Reid Schar, the federal prosecutor who helped convict former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of corruption, will advise the Assembly panel, Wisniewski said.
"There are a lot of legal issues that we need to understand and work through very carefully," he told reporters Wednesday. "We wanted to have the right guidance, and Reid Schar brings his experience as an Assistant U.S. attorney -- somebody who's been involved in complicated investigations."
No evidence points directly to Christie, Wisniewski said.
But "an investigation into the finances of the Port Authority [of New York and New Jersey] ... has now led us to the governor's office," he said.
Christie is a possible 2016 Republican presidential hopeful.
In addition to the parallel legislative investigations, the U.S. attorney's office is also probing the incident.
Democratic New Jersey state Sen. Raymond Lesniak of Elizabeth said he would ask the Manhattan district attorney in New York to investigate possible violations of New York state laws.


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Squarespace is a great website builder for those of us who don't have the time to either code our own websites or simply don't know how. I've used it for both my personal blog and my professional site, and I'm largely happy with it. (Once I find time, I'll be hand coding my own professional site, but that's not because Squarespace isn't adequate. It's because I want to code it when I can find the time, simply for the joy of coding.)
That being said, anybody who uses Squarespace knows that it was a giant pain to post anything to your site from your iPhone or iPad. Unlike CMS like Tumblr or WordPress, Squarespace's older apps were massively inconvenient. They didn't allow you to edit any posts that had images, and you couldn't write in Markdown or do any layout work. With Squarespace Blog, that all changes. Read on to find out more about the conveniences of a Squarespace blog on your iOS device.
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If you're already using Squarespace, you've likely already checked out the new app. If you haven't seen it yet, I'd say you're in for a huge improvement. Would I go so far as to call it a treat? Well, that's still a little bit of a tougher call. But for now, things are much better than they were before.
If you don't use Squarespace, but you're thinking about it, you'll be pleased to know that it's now (largely) simple to create and edit blog posts for your personal or business website straight from your iOS device. It doesn't matter if the website is a simple blog or not; if there is a blog built into your site, you can edit it with Squarespace Blog.
The app makes it easy to create or edit a new blog post. If you have multiple sites, all you have to do is choose from the navigation menu (accessible with the Hamburger button on the top left, of course).
When you create a new post, Blog automatically sets the default text editor to whatever you've set it to be on the desktop. On my personal blog, I have it set to Markdown, so I get a Markdown field right away. On my business site, I have it set for rich text, and that's what appears when I create a new blog. It's easy for me to add another field with the Plus sign, from which I can insert a Markdown or text field. I can even add a picture (with a caption).
Most of this works in a relatively simple interface, but it's not without its learning curves. Moving different fields around is a bit of a pain. Let's say you've added a picture, but you later decide you want it to be above a couple fields of text instead of below them. To move the image, you have to tap and hold on it, then drag. This works for the most part, but on some occasions, I found that the interface was slightly unresponsive. To be fair, I have this same problem with the desktop interface as well.
The other issue I have is with the View button. Instead of loading a preview of your article in an in-app web browser, it loads it in Safari. This is efficient enough, but it's distracting and it means I have to close the tab manually when I'm done. It's an extra couple steps that could all be done at once.
That whole situation is exacerbated because it doesn't seem like it should have to be that way. When you first open a post, it looks like the published deal. I checked out a variety of posts I've already published, and they appear in the app exactly how they appear on my website. But tapping View opens it in Safari again. Tapping Edit lets me actually edit a post, when I feel like I should just be able to tap any field and get to work.
This is the big problem that I have with the overall interface: sometimes, there's an extra step involved when I don't feel there shouldn't be. This is a common interface problem with most CMS interfaces I've seen — WordPress in particular suffers from this — but it feels worse with Squarespace because everything else about their service is so polished.
What's Missing
It's worth talking about what you don't get as well. This is just a blogging app. Don't expect to rearrange the pages of your site, because you can't — even though the process is pretty similar.
Also, don't expect any analytics built into the app. For most people I know with a Squarespace blog, this is irrelevant because they're using Google Analytics. But for others, that's still going to require a separate app called Squarespace Metrics. While there's nothing wrong with that approach, I'm having a hard time understanding why Squarespace couldn't have meshed both apps together. That approach would have made it more difficult to achieve the level of simplicity that Squarespace Blog has, but it's not an unsolvable UI and UX problem.
Finally, the little things that are missing are still going to drive people nuts. My primary example is adding a link to a blog post. When I do this, I like to make sure the link opens in a separate tab. I don't want my readers to lose their place or, worse, not finish reading my post (a tall order, but I always aim high). Squarespace Blog opens links in the same tab and doesn't allow you to change that. It's a shame, because I'm guessing it would only require a Settings tab in the navigation to allow people to change their defaults, but in their focus on simplicity, there are no settings (a trend that I think is worthwhile, but often foolish).
While that's a small thing, the argument I'm making is that small things eventually add up. They hold the app off from being great, so while it's much better than it was before, there's still some basic work to do.
Final Thoughts
I love Squarespace, but I've always hated the mobile apps. Squarespace Blog alleviates many of my concerns, and finally lets me write and edit posts from my iPhone or iPad. It's a huge improvement, but it doesn't come without its own flaws — specifically, the interface sometimes lags and there are some missing features compared to its desktop counterpart.
At the end of the day, though, posting to a blog from an iOS device is still a new novelty. Most developers haven't figured out how to make it seamless yet, and Squarespace comes closer to a complete solution than most. Squarespace Blog is great for current users and certainly a perk for potential users, but it's still hard to see anybody taking it into serious consideration when comparing Squarespace with the competition — it's just not quite there.
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You have the web page loaded on the canvas (Edge uses WebKit to render web pages), you have the timeline at the bottom, and on the right side you have a panel with all the HTML DOM elements from the current page. Here is a screenshot of an interactive design created with this tool:
I know there are some people who don't trust visual tools that create web pages. But I encourage you to take a look at this tool and also give us feedback to make it better (Edge was downloaded by a large number of people, a clear sign that the tool answers a need many people have). If you are not able to visualize code like Neo, a tool that helps you to code visually is simply awesome :)
There are many more things that the tool can do and as we move on towards the launch day more features will be added. If you want to check all the features that Edge supports, make sure you take a look at this page. If you prefer watching a video, here is the link. And if you want to see some cool sites created with Edge check this link or this (if this isn't enough check the Facebook page).
A simple example of a web animation
My fellow evangelist Kevin Hoyt created the Adobe logo using just CSS and DIV elements (that's right, no letters). Once the Edge preview 5 was out I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to play with the tool on some cool HTML code.
Having the page loaded in Edge, it is time to create my simple animation. The timeline features two important parts: the playhead and the pin. Using these two tools you can either animate from the current state of the DOM to a future one, or you can animate towards the current state of the DOM.
For what I want to create I have to use the second scenario: I want to animate the individual parts of the logo from "nothing" to the finished logo. To do that I will enable the pin by clicking on the third icon from the Timeline panel (see the picture below). This will add to the timeline a little blue icon.
Adobe Edge allows you to control the easing equation for your animations. If you click the fourth icon from the Timeline panel you will be able to select the equation to be used.
Once I selected the easing equation I moved the pin to the right of the playhead. This means that I will create an animation towards the current state, which means that at the end of the animation the logo will look like the one created by Kevin.
Now I am ready to be creative with the different parts of the logo. I can play with the position by dragging the DIV elements in different positions, rotate (right-click on an element and choose Add Key Frame > Rotate), and changing its opacity (right-click on the element and choose Add Key Frame > Opacity).
You can orchestrate the animations so instead of moving all elements with the same speed and at the same time you can choose to delay some of them (just select the elements on the timeline and drag to the right or left and/or compress the animation line when you want to accelerate or slow an animation). You can insert key frames along an existing animation to fine tune the whole animation. In short, you have pretty much everything you'd expect from an animation tool.
When you are ready to publish your project, all you have to do is to select File > Publish Settings (you can choose to embed some of the JavaScript files from CDNs instead of your server; this way you might speed up the loading time) and then hit File > Publish. The last command will create a folder named publish in the same folder where your HTML file is stored (all the JS files being minified). All you have to do is to copy this folder to your server and you are done. Here is a screenshot with the project folder:
So what did Edge add to the original file (remember that we started with only one file containing HTML and CSS)? Basically it added just JavaScript files (Edge libraries plus jQuery libraries). All the information needed for the animations are stored in a JavaScript file that ends with _edge.js. Edge didn't touch the original file other than including the pre-loader JavaScript file; if you open the HTML file you will see in the head section these lines:
<!–Adobe Edge Runtime–>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="Adobe-Logo-in-CSS_edgePreload.js"></script>
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You can see the final animation here.
What browsers are supported
Basically almost all browsers are supported: Chrome, Safari (including iOS and Android), Firefox, and Internet Explorer 9. For older browsers you have an option to create an image from any state of the animation and display that image.
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I hope this short introduction raised your curiosity and you'll try the product and give us feedback. As I said earlier, as we move on towards the 1.0 release it is important that people who actually build the web try this product and help us make the best tool for motion and interaction web content based on web standards – here you can find the product forum, a perfect place to share your thoughts.
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It's only five years since Tim Lincecum won his second consecutive Cy Young Award.
Now, it's no-hitters he specializes in – pitching his second in as many seasons against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday.
For Lincecum, it's a pitcher who has reinvented himself converging with a game changing so rapidly that it's as if he's returned in another era.
The difference in his two no-hitters even illustrates progress he's making since his days of merely overpowering hitters.
He threw 113 pitches Tuesday, compared with the 148 he needed in last year's no-hitter. The lone blemish on the day was a one-out walk he issued Chase Headley in the second inning.
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"It really was an artist out there," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy, who said he also thanked Lincecum for reducing the stress that came with allowing him to throw so many pitches last year.
Both no-hitters have come since the low point in his career – being relegated to the bullpen as the Giants marched through the playoffs en route to a World Series championship in 2012, a season in which Lincecum gave up more runs than anyone else in the National League.
But the power-turned-finesse pitcher, still just 10 days past his 30th birthday, is thriving again as offense declines. Nowhere is that drought more apparent than in San Diego, with the Padres batting .213 after facing Lincecum.
No team in major league history has finished a season that low.
The current major league batting average is .251, 12 points below 2008-09, when Lincecum won Cy Youngs and was in the midst of leading the NL in strikeouts three consecutive seasons.
He's not even in the Top 20 in strikeouts today after whiffing six Padres and walking just one to become the second pitcher in a week to allow just one batter to reach base.
His strikeouts per nine innings have decreased from a high of 10.5 in 2008 - the first of three consecutive seasons he led the National League in that category - to 8.4 this season.
If nothing else, he's proving dominance can take many forms.
Only a fielding error prevented Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers from a perfect game against Colorado on June 18 - a night he struck out 15 and walked none.
Lincecum's no-hitter is the third in the majors this season – after Kershaw and his L.A. teammate Josh Beckett - matching last season's total and continuing an upsurge in no-hitters that only underscores how pitchers are taking over.
There have been 22 since the beginning of 2010, a rate that's more than double the fewer than two a season (263 in 135 years) over the rest of major league baseball's history.
These past five seasons have produced no fewer than three no-hitters each year and the two highest single-season totals ever – seven in 2012 and six in 2010.
These days, it almost takes two to turn heads.
Lincecum becomes the 30th pitcher with two or more no-hitters and only the second in franchise history after Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson. Three more of the 30 are active – Homer Bailey of Cincinnati, Justin Verlander of Detroit and Mark Buehrle of Toronto.
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Summary: Inorganic H+ pyrophosphatase
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|inorganic diphosphatase
Pyrophosphatase (inorganic) hexamer, E.Coli
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In enzymology, an inorganic diphosphatase (EC 126.96.36.199) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
- diphosphate + H2O 2 phosphate
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are diphosphate and H2O, whereas its product is phosphate.[1]
This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically those acting on acid anhydrides in phosphorus-containing anhydrides. The systematic name of this enzyme class is diphosphate phosphohydrolase. This enzyme participates in oxidative phosphorylation. It employs one cofactor, metal.
- ^ Rafter GW (1960). "Pyrophosphate metabolism in liver mitochondria". J. Biol. Chem. 235: 2475–2477.
Further reading
- Bailey K; Webb EC (1944). "Purification and properties of yeast pyrophosphatase". Biochem. J. 38 (5): 394–398. PMC 1258115. PMID 16747821.
- KUNITZ M (1952). "CRYSTALLINE INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE ISOLATED FROM BAKER'S YEAST". J. Gen. Physiol. 35 (3): 423–50. doi:10.1085/jgp.35.3.423. PMC 2147340. PMID 14898026.
- Sarafian V, Kim Y, Poole RJ, Rea PA (March 1992). "Molecular cloning and sequence of cDNA encoding the pyrophosphate-energized vacuolar membrane proton pump of Arabidopsis thaliana". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89 (5): 1775–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.89.5.1775. PMC 48535. PMID 1311852.
- Drozdowicz YM, Lu YP, Patel V, Fitz-Gibbon S, Miller JH, Rea PA (November 1999). "A thermostable vacuolar-type membrane pyrophosphatase from the archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum: implications for the origins of pyrophosphate-energized pumps". FEBS Lett. 460 (3): 505–12. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(99)01404-0. PMID 10556526.
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The H+ pyrophosphatase is an transmembrane proton pump involved in establishing the H+ electrochemical potential difference between the vacuole lumen and the cell cytosol. Vacuolar-type H(+)-translocating inorganic pyrophosphatases have long been considered to be restricted to plants and to a few species of photo-trophic bacteria. However, in recent investigations, these pyrophosphatases have been found in organisms as disparate as thermophilic Archaea and parasitic protists [1].
Literature references
Drozdowicz YM, Rea PA; , Trends Plant Sci 2001;6:206-211.: Vacuolar H(+) pyrophosphatases: from the evolutionary backwaters into the mainstream. PUBMED:11335173 EPMC:11335173
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Two types of proteins that hydrolyse inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi), very different in both amino acid sequence and structure, have been characterised to date: soluble and membrane-bound proton-pumping pyrophosphatases (sPPases and H(+)-PPases, respectively). sPPases are ubiquitous proteins that hydrolyse PPi to release heat, whereas H+-PPases, so far unidentified in animal and fungal cells, couple the energy of PPi hydrolysis to proton movement across biological membranes [PUBMED:12451180, PUBMED:10523139]. The latter type is represented by this group of proteins. H+-PPases (EC) are also called vacuolar-type inorganic pyrophosphatases (V-PPase) or pyrophosphate-energised vacuolar membrane proton pumps [PUBMED:11343697]. In plants, vacuoles contain two enzymes for acidifying the interior of the vacuole, the V-ATPase and the V-PPase (V is for vacuolar) [PUBMED:10523139].
Two distinct biochemical subclasses of H+-PPases have been characterised to date: K+-stimulated and K+-insensitive [PUBMED:12451180, PUBMED:11343697].
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|inorganic diphosphatase activity (GO:0004427)
|hydrogen-translocating pyrophosphatase activity (GO:0009678)
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|proton transmembrane transport (GO:1902600)
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I can't believe how fast this week has gone by. Seems like yesterday was Monday. I've had a lot of stuff to keep me busy in the way of birth, marriage & death records with the odd obituary or marriage announcement thrown in. Let's not forget the census, because it seems like I find at least 30 of those every week. Where do they come from?
I've been using Transcript (See Thursday's post) to transcribe some newspaper articles and some really long probate records. It's been working really well and I can hardly wait to start on my grandpa Percival's letters. Actually they are letters to and from his wife. The first one I read, basically the only one I actually read from start to finish, showed a side of my grandfather that I had never seen before. The man he was in that letter surely wasn't the one I knew 40 years later.
I remember years ago, reading some letters my parents wrote to each other. Both my parents were still alive and the letters were intensely personal and I couldn't read them. I have no idea if those survived and which, if any, of my siblings have them.
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Panama City Beach, FL--it's safe to say there are a lot of folks who will be missing what's "not" happening in Panama City Beach this week.
This week the folks at the Bay Point Marina should be working hard to put the final touches on the 29th Bay Point Invitational. Instead, the Marina there this week is active with it's usual business, but not bustling with pre-tournament set up.
That's because the St. Joe Company decided to at least suspend the event this year, after ending it's contract with the company that had been managing the marina, as well as the event.
The void this week certainly being felt by Bay Point Marina Director Steve Arndt in particular.
"This early in the week there's a whole lot of preparation going on.' says Arndt. "There is electrical wire being run, there's tents being put up, there is a plethora of trash cans going out. And just when, as soon as we think we're just about getting ready, then the boats start showing up. And we start pumping fuel and the phone is ringing off the hook and everybody is going in a million directions, and hanging up banners. And it's a lot of work. And strangely I miss it, I miss it tremendously."
And if the feedback he's been getting, and continues to get, is any indication, Steve's not alone in missing the event and all that surrounded it.
"They're missing everything, really is what I'm hearing. It really was such a big event for such a long time. Two generations in Bay County grew up coming to the Invitational and that's really what they miss. It's a certain part of the year that they always knew what they were gonna be doing, they were coming to Bay Point Marina, to be part of the tournament. And with that gone, they kind of don't know what to do."
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Ken answers your questions
Robert A Modica: Ken, somewhere I read that the Red Sox believe
Diasuke Matsuzaka's injury is from being extensively used in the
baseball classic. Is there a limit in innings a pitcher can pitch, or
is it left up to the coach on how he wishes to use them? And do you
think the players are getting in the best of shape, playing in the
classic as apposed to Spring Training. Always a Yankee!!!!!
Ken Singleton: There is no real limit to the innings a pitcher can throw. Now, as opposed to the past, there is more of an effort to protect pitchers arms by monitoring their innings. I think stressful innings the WBC as opposed to the gradual getting ready in Spring Training can cause injury. Pitchers are very competitive and may try to reach back for a little extra on a fastball when they are not quite ready to do so.
Jerry Kohut from Woodbridge, N.J.: "How does Ken feel about the in-studio hosts using the term RBI instead of RBIs? "I have never heard any of the former player analysts say RBI unless it was one. Why do they insist on not using the plural? None of the Yankee announcers have said it. I've never heard Scully or Mel Allen say it when I was a kid. I grew up saying RBIs and I've never heard the singular use of this until a few years ago. This is a totally new phenomenon."
Ken Singleton: "I agree with Jerry. It is RBIs; that's the way I say it most of the time. They might do this because RBI is already plural – runs batted in. There are a lot of things in baseball that might not be quite the proper English. Jerry's right – only recently some people started saying RBI. I don't know why."
Kathleen Hannan from Tarrytown, N.Y.: "Did Ken ever think about managing?"
Ken Singleton: "Others have often asked me the same question. No, I've never thought about it. Managing does not provide much in the way of job stability. I've been broadcasting for 25 years and not many managers last that long, particularly in one job."
Chris Warbach from Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "How did Ken hook up with YES? He was an Oriole. Why doesn't he do Orioles games? Although I'm glad he's with us…."
Ken Singleton: "It's kind of a long story but the reason I don't do Orioles game is, when the opportunity arose, they picked someone else. Basically the management from MSG wanted me to work their games. They approached George Steinbrenner and told them I'd be good. Steinbrenner wasn't sure because I had never played for the Yankees; instead I had played for their rival.
He eventually said OK – Mr. Steinbrenner knew I was from Mount Vernon, N.Y., (born in Manhattan) and he gave a local guy a break. So I went with the Yankees and I've enjoyed every minute of it. At first, many Yankees fans wondered how someone who never played for the team could do the games, but I've been doing Yankees telecasts for 13 years now, counting MSG, and they've forgiven me for all the bad things I did to their team."
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Sam Cunningham 50th Anniversary Field Wrap
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The Sam Cunningham 50th Anniversary Field Wrap is a special collectible that any hardcore New England Patriots would cherish. This field wrap was used at Gillette Stadium throughout the 2009 NFL season celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the New England Patriots football club. This large 40"x47" canvas is mounted to a sturdy wood understructure and is ready to hang in your home or office. Please note that due to the size and weight of this item and additional $50 shipping charge will be applied to your order at checkout.


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Soul Searching: Abstract Watercolor Painting
Soul Searching: Abstract Watercolor Painting
6 x 9in original, one of a kind painting, watercolor and pencil on strathmore paper
signed by the artist, Pamela J. Bates
26/100 days
Creatives and artists all over the world take part in #the100dayproject, using it as a prompt to create something every day for 100 days. My focus was #100daysofheartoverhead. To loosen up in the studio, not overthink things, and paint with freedom without concerning myself with making mistakes. I entered the project hopeful for growth as an artist, and I ended it happy to have explored where my paint and paintbrush lead me and ready to explore marks and colors even more.
*International buyers should contact me prior to purchase so that shipping costs can be calculated.
**All computer monitors are calibrated differently. The colors of the actual artwork are as the artist intends. That may vary slightly from what appears on your screen as all monitors are calibrated and translate colors differently.
*** Any questions or concerns? Please reach out.
****Commissioned artwork is available. Please contact Pam to get your custom piece on the schedule.


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No longer in businessOpened: 2008-08 Closed: 2018-09
686 Linden Ave, Carpinteria
Phone: (805) 684-6666
Sly's writes: James and Annie Sly and crew spent months remodeling the charming structure located at 686 Linden Avenue in Carpinteria, making the historic 90-year old yellow brick building into one of the Central Coast's finest restaurants.
The menu features a wide selection of fishes and seafood, aged, USDA Prime hand-cut steaks, a la carte vegetables, and more than just a little bit of Chef James Sly's forty years of experience in kitchens around the world. From the crusty bread at the beginning of the meal to finely crafted desserts at the end, your food is made right at Sly's.
Sly's features old-fashioned cuisine - James likes to say he specializes in "tired old favorites" - prepared in the traditional way by an experienced kitchen crew - and served by a professional and enthusiastic service staff.
From the iced seafood towers and oysters to the steamed mussels or clams, there are some real seafood treats. Dover sole, grilled or meuniére, challenges Local Sand Dabs for the title of "most popular".
In addition to the impeccable seafood, char-grilled steaks, and daily specials like fresh local abalone and oysters Rockefeller, Sly's features some fascinating pastas - Spaghettini "Caruso" with Marsala and chicken livers, an extremely popular Spaghettini Carbonara, with chunks of bacon, onions, cream, eggs and Parmesan cheese, Linguini with fresh clams, and an ethereal Fettucine "Alfredo" made the traditional way, without a trace of cream.
Desserts are notable, and homemade, too - from the warm, tart apple crisp to the shortcake featuring fresh local berries, you're bound to find a favorite. Of course, James' famous sundae is here - "That" sundae with caramelized pecans from his aunt's recipe, homemade caramel sauce, and chocolate sauce made with Santa Barbara Chocolate Company's incomparable chocolate. In season you might be fortunate enough to find a warm Raspberry Cobbler.
Sly's offers a choice of comfortable dining areas, with the shiny varnished Douglas Fir of the bar contrasting to the exposed yellow brick & glassed-in wine cellar of the dining rooms white table cloth covered tables.
One of the most striking things about the decor at Sly's is the collection of photographer Jesse Alexander's photos on display. This artists eye and lens captured the European racing scene in the 50's and 60's. The images that fill the walls of the dining rooms at Sly's are a timeless glance at a far different world of racing.
Ann and James, and the team at Sly's look forward to your trying our cuisine, cocktails, & wine list at Sly's, and an opportunity to experience the ambiance that has made Sly's an instant classic.
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BETHESDA, Md. — NECA has announced the new ANSI/NECA/BICSI 568-2001, Installing Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling infrastructure standard. The standard is designed to weave business communication tools into a structured system to become the backbone of the global economy. It's said to be the first standard to address the importance of proper installation of telecommunications premises systems, including cabling and the associated pathways and spaces.
As an organization accredited by the American National Standards Institute, NECA provided its expertise to gain ANSI approval for the new joint publication. "The public consensus process that we go through means that NECA/BICSI 568 is a true industry standard," said NECA CEO John Grau. "We expect it to find broad acceptance among specifiers and end-users of voice/data/video networking systems."
In 1998, the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) asked BICSI, a professional telecommunications association, to jointly undertake the development of a telecommunications installation standard. Developed by members of the BICSI/NECA joint committee, this standard is unique in that it is based on BICSI's Telecommunications Cabling Installation Manual, an 800-page guide of specific tasks for cabling installers.
"This document not only covers the installation and safety requirements for telecommunications cabling, but it also focuses on criteria that aid in delivering performance levels expected by end-users," said Jay Warmke, BICSI executive director. "It will be a valuable tool for the construction industry, including architects and engineers, and especially the installers of the telecommunications cabling."
The ANSI/NECA/BICSI 568 standard covers support systems, pulling cable, firestopping, cable terminations and installation verification. Tables and figures include conduit bend radius, separation distances, suspended cable tray and wiring schemes.
ANSI/NECA/BICSI 568 may be purchased for $25 by calling NECA at (301) 215-4504 or visiting NECA's Web site at www.necanet.org


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Commercial cargo and crew developments are starting to affect larger launch market
It's still a "Field of Dreams" proposition—"if you build it, they will come." Even so, NASA's as-yet-unrealized efforts to offload routine human space access onto the private sector is beginning to ripple across the U.S. launch industry in ways that could go well beyond transporting people and their stuff into space.
Brash entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, who openly declares his intention to take over the worldwide launch industry with lower-cost launchers than the competition's, are exerting downward price pressure on traditional launch-vehicle manufacturers. And the possibility of an off-planet economy in low Earth orbit (LEO) has triggered a new round of innovative launcher designs, not all of them "paper rockets" and some of them quite different from traditional vehicles.
"We've selected the Atlas V for our test flights through the Commercial Crew Program," says John Mulholland, vice president and manager of Commercial Programs for Boeing Space Exploration. "But we will continue to maintain our design to be compatible with multiple launch vehicles so that we can competitively procure launch vehicles in the future, which is important for us to maintain best value, obviously. The launch vehicle is such a huge portion of our offer."
Mulholland's group has just completed the preliminary design review on the CST-100, Boeing's entry into the NASA-run commercial crew development competition. Two other teams have baselined the Atlas V to launch their space taxis, but Atlas-builder United Launch Alliance (ULA) is not resting on its laurels. The Boeing/Lockheed Martin joint venture is scrambling to cut costs of its Atlas V and Delta IV launcher lines to meet the anticipated competition from Musk and other startups, while stressing the demonstrated reliability of their products and working to improve them (see p. 44).
And as ULA goes after the nascent human space-flight market with the Atlas V it uses to launch big government satellites and space probes, new entrants in the commercial cargo and crew game are not pinning their hopes on the human market alone. If a launcher is reliable enough to send astronauts aloft, the argument goes, it certainly is reliable enough to handle high-value satellites and other spacecraft, and perhaps open up new space businesses such as satellite servicing and orbital tourism.
If it all works out—and that remains a pretty large "if"—NASA's commercial approach to carrying astronauts to low Earth orbit could lower the cost of space access to the point that the business cases for new LEO applications can close.
Beginning with the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program initiated by then-Administrator Michael Griffin, NASA has invested about $925 million of taxpayer seed money to help create a private human spaceflight industry. That money has attracted significant private investment, and the agency is optimistic that this can generate one or more new ways to get humans and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for less money than traditional government procurements.
The COTS program could start to pay off as early as next month, provided Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) succeeds in getting its next Dragon capsule off the ground with its Falcon 9 rocket and berthed at the ISS for the first time, carrying 1,000 lb. of food and other relatively low-value cargo. Orbital Sciences Corp., NASA's other COTS partner, also hopes to reach the station this year with its Cygnus cargo vehicle riding the company's new Antares liquid-fueled launcher.
That could be just the beginning. With the space shuttle fleet retired, NASA is paying Russia more than $60 million a seat to train and fly astronauts to the ISS in Soyuz capsules. Starting with $50 million in federal economic stimulus package funding in fiscal 2009, NASA has been seeding development of commercial space taxis under its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) and Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiatives.
The latter has attracted several different proposals for full-scale systems that would ferry ISS crews to orbit beginning as early as 2017. Funding commercial crew is contentious in Washington, and the first human flights already have been delayed a year because Congress does not want NASA to put all of its eggs in the commercial crew basket (AW&ST Dec. 19, 2011, p. 20).
At the heart of the commercial crew thrust is a change in the basic approach to spaceflight safety. Instead of costly efforts to install launch system redundancy for fail-safe reliability, the new commercial crew vehicles will rely on sophisticated escape systems to safely get away from a failing rocket.
That requires quick-response health-monitoring software in the rocket to trigger an abort. And it is driving development of cost-saving escape-propulsion systems that—unlike the escape towers NASA used in the 1960s—retain their propellant after a successful launch for orbital maneuvering. ULA won $6.7 million in the first round of CCDev awards to start developing an emergency detection system (EDS) for the Atlas V. And the company has continued testing and qualification on its own dime, in partnership with NASA, via an unfunded Space Act agreement.
"There will be a certain category of failures where you're not going to want to have any men in the loop at all," says George Sowers, ULA'S vice president of business development and advanced programs. "Failure is so imminent and the consequences are so fast that you just want the computer to make the decision and pop it off. Some warning light will come on and the astronauts will have time to clench their guts and away they go."
Other failures may develop more slowly, giving range safety officers, the ULA launch control room and even the crew itself time to decide whether to abort, based on information they will be receiving from the EDS. Essentially a software package, the system will draw on data from about 80 instruments already flying on the Atlas V—from engine rpms to tank pressure to acceleration rates and directions.
Even without the added layer of safety for crews that the EDS provides, reliability played a big role in the choice of Atlas V as a crew-launch vehicle by Blue Origin, Boeing and Sierra Nevada Corp. "They've had 29 launches on this version of the Atlas V, a 100% success rate, so for a crew transportation launch vehicle that was a clear choice for now," says Boeing's Mulholland.
Sowers says the EDS will improve Atlas V reliability for all of its payloads—manned and unmanned—because of the added insight into the rocket's performance that it affords even without hardware upgrades. As part of its unfunded commercial crew work, ULA assessed how well Atlas V stacked up against NASA's human-ratings requirements.
"We've completed that, and we don't believe there are any design modifications we have to do to the Atlas rocket to meet those requirements," he says. "We're not certified yet, and complete certification won't come until the next phase of the commercial crew program, but we did that hand-in-hand with NASA, and we feel really good about the ability of the Atlas rocket—with the addition of the emergency detection system—to meet the NASA requirements."
At SpaceX, Musk says, the company's Falcon 9 rocket was built from the ground up to meet NASA's human-rating requirements, and will be ready to carry crew to the ISS as soon as Dragon's pusher-type abort system the company is developing with CCDev-2 funding is completed. NASA astronauts have been spending a lot of time in the company's Hawthorne, Calif., plant familiarizing themselves with the Dragon capsule's systems, which Musk expects their colleagues to be operating in space as early as next month. Company engineers have been working overtime to meet NASA's stringent requirements for getting close enough to the ISS for the station crew to grapple the Dragon with a robotic arm, berth it and open it to the station environment (AW&ST Feb. 13, p. 27). The first flight will combine two milestone missions to close out the company's COTS work, and Musk says he hopes to fly at least two Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) missions before the end of this year if NASA needs the supplies they can carry.
The Dragon capsule is designed to take 6,000 kg (13,200 lb.) to the ISS and return 3,000 kg to Earth. Musk is quick to point out that the down-mass capability is not shared by its COTS competitor, Orbital Sciences. "Orbital gets almost twice as much as we do per flight, but they don't bring anything back," he says. "It's about twice the value for half the money."
Under its initial CRS contract, SpaceX will be paid $1.6 billion for 12 cargo flights to the ISS, and Orbital $1.9 billion for eight flights. The fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts each have a maximum potential value of $3.1 billion, although based on "known requirements," NASA expects to spend a total of $3.5 billion on the commercial cargo missions combined.
Ultimately, the Dragon capsule and its Falcon 9 launcher are intended to be human-rated. While the company is working under a Space Act agreement with its cargo variant, it will go to the more rigorous Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) oversight when it comes to gaining NASA's approval to fly humans.
"Eventually we will begin a certification effort that will look fairly conventional in terms of what NASA will do to ensure that we have a level of safety and mission assurance needed to fly to ISS," says Brent Jett, a two-time shuttle commander who serves as deputy manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
That approach will extend to any improvements in crew vehicle designs or launch vehicle changes. SpaceX plans to change engines after its first three commercial cargo flights, and Musk has high hopes for lowering his costs and customer prices with first- and second-stage upgrades by the time he intends to begin flying crews.
"We are aware that SpaceX does have an upgrade coming to the Falcon 9 that they intend to use for crew," Jett says. "[I]f they win CCiCap, we would see in their certification plan . . . [just] how they would get comfortable certifying that vehicle. They're going to tell us how they would certify it, and then we'll balance that against how we would certify it, and be able to understand that delta of what we would be able to do under that certification contract [which is] going to come sometime in the future."
This is an approach that will extend to all potential commercial crew transport providers. NASA is evaluating proposals it received last month under the CCiCap phase of the program, in which potential suppliers describe their overall systems, including launch vehicles, and tell NASA how they plan to meet its human-rating requirements. The agency hopes to award at least two Space Act agreements late in the summer, with a 21-month base period to push system design toward—if not past—critical design review, and to include "serious risk reduction," with no promises after that.
"The whole idea there is we have a base period and then we have an optional period," says Ed Mango, the Commercial Crew Program manager. "NASA will then decide if we want to continue on with the partners in that optional period, and that is at our discretion based on how they are performing during the base period, and also how we are doing at that point to deal with certification of a vehicle toward our requirements."
Also in the mix with the SpaceX Dragon/Falcon 9 are the Atlas-launched vehicles under development by Boeing and Blue Origin, and a lifting body in development by Sierra Nevada. Blue Origins, a secretive operation bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, builds on hydrogen-fueled vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology that NASA studied in the 1990s.
The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser is based on NASA's old HL-20 lifting-body test vehicle, and adds a pair of hybrid rocket motors burning nitrous oxide and hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) fuel—basically a kind of rubber—for abort or in-space operations. Either way, it returns to a runway landing, and that makes it reusable even with the expendable Atlas V as its lift to space, according to Mark Sirangelo, Sierra Nevada's space systems chief.
"We expect to be less expensive than the cost of the Russians right now, per seat," he says. "The other benefit in the Atlas is that if the two choices . . . made here are both Atlases, [the more Atlases produced], the lower . . . the cost."
Particularly when combined with U.S. Air Force use of the Atlas V, the commercial crew business could lower the cost of access to LEO for all comers. But Mango stresses that competition is key, particularly early on. And that will be difficult, as Congress questions the expense of keeping at least potential operators in the running while NASA slows it internal SLS development (AW&ST March 12, p. 36).
"Our overall program approach is that we are going to need more than one company in this next phase, because we are not meeting, and I quote, 'NASA's requirements,' per se, so how do you get industry to try to get close," says Mango. "You do that by having a competition. And that competition not only keeps the price down, but it also says 'hey, the other competitor is willing to meet or try to meet more of their customer needs.'"
The same would hold true during the safety certification phase, and in the actual contracting for services," Mango adds. "That will be another FAR contract kind of acquisition approach. It is similar to something like what the launch services program uses" [for unmanned NASA launches].
Even if NASA winds up with only one commercial crew contractor, it could still gain competitive prices in launch services for its robotic space probes and Earth-observation satellites. With the Delta II out of production, Orbital Sciences, SpaceX and perhaps some of the other new launch systems in the works may go head-to-head for launch contracts on that class of vehicle.
Orbital decided not to compete in the commercial crew arena after losing out in its bid for CCDev-2 funding, but it hopes to gain the same economies of scale for unmanned launches with its Antares rocket—a kerosene-fueled vehicle that can deliver 6,120 kg to LEO from its new launch facility on Wallops Island, Va. (AW&ST Feb. 27, p. 35).
For its part, NASA is seeking $830 million in fiscal 2013 to invest in commercial crew. That is comparable to the $850 million it requested for the current fiscal year. When Congress whittled that figure down to $406 million, the agency was forced to delay its estimated start of commercial flights to the ISS to 2017 from 2016.
So far, it remains to be seen if the commercial approach actually will hold down costs once NASA begins buying crew flights. Boeing says its business case closes on the NASA missions alone—essentially two flights a year. But company officials also concede that the price per seat of a ride in the CST-100 would only be "competitive" with Soyuz seats, and not a dramatic drop.
Boeing also has partnerships with Space Adventures, which brokers Soyuz rides to the ISS at a reported $30 million a trip, and with Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow already has flown prototypes of its planned inflatable space habitats to orbit, and is marking time to see what happens with the NASA effort before it begins seriously marketing its capabilities. Potential customers are industrial users and sovereign nations that lack the wherewithal to develop their own space laboratories.
Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser will not only be reusable, but also reconfigurable for different types of missions, according to Sirangelo. These could include satellite-servicing flights with space-suited astronauts, a capability pioneered on the Hubble Space Telescope and lost with the shuttle's retirement. Like the SpaceX Dragon, the Dream Chaser will be designed to return scientific samples and other cargo from orbit—another potential market. Both vehicles also would have the capability to operate autonomously as unmanned or man-tended commercial laboratories.
But at this stage of the transition to the post-shuttle era, those sorts of commercial activities remain in the "Field of Dreams" realm, and the Dream Chaser and its on-orbit competitors have a long way to go before the customers will come.
Still, even without having flown, the NASA-backed commercial crew vehicles have created a space-launch market that did not exist before.
"Our position is, as these other emerging launch vehicles actually get to demonstrated reliability, necessary to ensure crew safely, we would absolutely consider using them," says Boeing's Mulholland.


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Ever had a moment so nerdy that you needed to tell the Internet about it? Send your submissions to dorklypwnup at gmail.
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening has always been one of my favorite games, and it actually was the game that got me not only hooked on videogames. Anyway, for Christmas this past year, my girlfriend knew how much I liked the series and used ideas from the game to send me on my own "Secret Seashell Quest." I walked all around her apartment and even needed to go outside by getting clues from each shell I found, and (since she kinda knew the idea but not entirely) every 5 shells I found there was an extra little gift. In the end I received a Master Sword replica and she put the shells together in a case with the Hylian Crest for me to hang up.-Tim
I've been going to yoga classes at my gym for a few months now and every class begins with a theme to keep in mind throughout the session. Our instructor began with "Does anyone know the true definition of insanity" Instantly, I thought 'Far Cry 3', after glancing around the room for a second or two, I raised my hand and answered "Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result". They said it was an Einstein quote, so I'm glad they didn't ask where I knew it from.-Andrew
A few days ago, I went to pick up my copy of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Last week, the store had some kind of event going on where people who bought several products got a free blu-ray movie along with it. As the cashier was taking my money, she said that "Since there's a massive collection of movies that weren't given away, I'm gonna give you this one for free anyway." Of course, I was stoked, but then she gave me the movie: Mel Gibson's "The Patriot". At that point, all I could hear in my head was "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo". (For anyone who doesn't know, in the Metal Gear series you fight a shadow organization who rules the world that's called "The Patriots" with their codeword being "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo".) That was WAY too much of a coincidence.-Thomas
I used to practice Tae-Kwon-Do, and when we were ordered to throw kicks at random, a keen eye would've seen that I was quick, medium, and fierce kicking the moveset of every fighter I played back then.-Daniel
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Last week, I finished Max Payne on my phone if you've played the game, there's one part in Part III, Chapter 7, where you go down to the mainframe to destroy it to complete your goal. If you stay in the elevator, you can hear a conversation between two men, where one says to the other, "I don't like being stereotyped. I'm not a cold-blooded killer I have a wife and two boys I'm proud of, this is just my job, from 9 to 5. I'm a guard, and if someone's gonna get shot, well, then someones gonna get shot." During that whole part in the mainframe, I repeatedly failed because he's a father and I didn't want to kill him. I ended up killing 5 out the the 8 in that room, hoping to God I didn't shoot the man. I was worried, so I repeated it and I left all the men in that area alive. The reason I did this is when my father left me, all I had was the PS2 he gave me. It kinda hit home for me, because I had no father for a long time in my life. I knew what goes through your head when your father dies.-DarkKingSpyder


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Rihanna Is an Aunt! Meet Her Adorable Little Niece [PHOTOS]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Auntie Ri-Ri! Rihanna took a slight pause from feuding with TLC over the weekend to spend time with her newborn niece, posting sweet shot after sweet shot of the brand-new baby girl on Twitter. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we couldn't resist captioning some of these pics that sure to melt your heart. Check them out below!
Rihanna's shirt might say "Weird s— is happening," but the only "s—" happening here is just downright adorable.
My everything. pic.twitter.com/CcymmP88nu
— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 8, 2014
Ri-Ri's little niece is already getting a taste of the good life. Check out those midi sparklers on the singer's finger!
How we spent our last couple nights :') pic.twitter.com/seyf27U508
— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 8, 2014
"$he like it hurr," Rihanna captioned this pic of her niece lying on her. We think Auntie Ri-Ri likes her there, too!
$he like it hurr pic.twitter.com/m0yaK7h5lk
— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 9, 2014
The picture below is one of the sweetest of all, with Auntie Rihanna and her niece looking cozy and peaceful.
— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 9, 2014
Baby's first selfie!
"My auntie rule$" pic.twitter.com/w6xCkvvsQL
— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 9, 2014
"I can't get enough, I'm so in love," Rihanna captioned this last shot. We totally agree!
I can't get enough, I'm so in love pic.twitter.com/8kZj3mNJoq
— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 9, 2014
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