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BY: Ashley Hamer | Aug 6, 2013
"Are you training for anything right now?" In any other context, this sentence might have been considered small talk. But I had just walked into Universal Sole, a specialty running store in downtown Chicago, where such a detail could turn out to be crucial in choosing your perfect running shoe. Asking the question was Universal Sole event coordinator and five-year retail veteran Ryan Dolan, who represents one of the best reasons to visit a specialty running store over a standard shoe store: the staff can typically assess dozens of physical factors to determine which shoe is right for you. Ryan has other ways to evaluate a runner besides asking questions, particularly when it comes to your gait—the unique way in which your foot strikes the ground. Among the brightly colored running shoes, stylish athletic apparel, and novel training accessories sits a treadmill, which Ryan uses to analyze each customer's running style. Before I got my turn, Ryan fitted me with a shoe that was pretty close to the ones I owned, making sure the sole was flexible so the shoe wouldn't hide any oddities in my running pattern. I hopped onto the treadmill, he turned on a video camera behind me, and I started to run. The Three Stages of a Step When I finished, we both watched the recording, slowed down to 1/8 speed. This was new to me—I've run on shoe-store treadmills in the past but have always been at the mercy of the expert's analysis, which was sometimes difficult to understand. When I watched myself run, Ryan's words made sense, since I could see the angle and position of my feet on screen. As we watched, he divided my foot strike into three stages. The first stage, when the foot touches the ground, is known as the initial point of contact. Oddly enough, each of my feet lands differently at this stage. On my right foot, I land on the outer portion of my heel—a very common pattern, according to Ryan. But on my left, I land closer to the middle of my foot. The second stage, where the foot is firmly on the ground, is known as mid-stance. Here, foot position is crucial, since the force exerted at this point is three to five times the body's weight. The inside wall of the shoe should keep a perpendicular angle to the ground during mid-stance—bend any further, and you're verging into overpronation. That's where stability shoes can help, since their structure forces the foot outward. The angles of both my feet were spot on, but I couldn't celebrate just yet. Ryan could see the toes of my right foot peeking out from behind my heel ever so slightly. He attributed this to a weakness up the "kinetic chain," or the sequence of muscles moving up from the foot to the ankle, lower leg, knee, upper leg, and hip. Guilty as charged: my hip muscles are pretty feeble. He had a feeling. "With a lot of runners, unfortunately, since we're only running in the sagittal plane—the front to back—these lateral muscles can weaken." He suggested a few strength exercises to get my muscles back in shape. The final stage of the foot-strike cycle is known as the late-stage push-off. "You should be able to draw a straight line from the outside of your calf to the back of the shoe," Ryan said, gesturing. If the heel veers out further, it's known as late-stage pronation, a condition usually caused by tightness in the calf muscle or a lack of support in the mid-foot. Good shoes can help here, too. Finding the Right Fit Once Ryan determined the best stability level for my feet—neutral, just as I thought—the next step was to fit me with a variety of brands, a process that presents a whole new set of questions. For example, how much room should you have in the front of the shoe? "The recommended amount is to have a half-inch or a thumb's width, maybe even a little bit more if you're training for a longer-distance event," Ryan said. In the end, it depends on what you feel best in. He's seen some people go for pairs that fit like a glove, others who swear by wearing two sizes up. Whatever the size, Ryan stressed that the shoe should be snug around the mid-foot and heel with extra room around the forefoot to let the toes splay naturally. I tried a few pairs on the treadmill. One felt too loose in the heel, another placed its arch support a few millimeters short of where my arches were. Another was just too small, even though the size on the box was the same as the other brands. But finally, I found my pair. The Mizuno Wave Rider, in my favorite color ("The number-one rule with getting a running shoe is not picking a shoe based on color," Ryan chided). My last shoes were also Mizunos, so these just felt right—not too cushy, not too constricting. I was afraid my love of my old shoes might be creating an unfair bias, but Ryan said this was a good thing: "Not changing too many variables is important. If you get a good pair of shoes in the beginning of your marathon training season, don't change it up halfway through." There was one more step to the selection process before I handed over my credit card: the outdoor test. Because running on a treadmill can feel unnatural for many runners, Universal Sole lets its customers try out their new kicks on a run around the block. I was very glad I did: the squeaking plastic of the treadmill was nothing like the trusty thud of the pavement, and the shoes suddenly felt firmer and springier as I jogged along the sidewalk. I was sold. Photo: © Michelle Klosinski, Groupon
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Ashley Hamer is a musician, marathon runner, and science lover. She writes about science for Mad Art Lab.


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Both types of silicon wafer above are known as the first generation of solar cells that have a thickness in the range of 180 to 240 micro meters. Earlier research and has long been done by researchers to make silicon-based solar cells has become a growing technology and is dominated by researchers and industry. This solar cell device in its development has been able to reach 25 years of active age.
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Congratulations Ensi Habibi on her Animal Biology Graduate Group summer fellowship, and Amanda Coen and Ann Holmes on their Jastro Shields Fellowship. Great job folks! Ann Holmes also won special funding for Graduate Group in Ecology students.
GVL is looking to hire an undergraduate to assist with sample archive
The GVL is looking for a mature, responsible undergraduate student with some lab experience and excellent attention to detail to help us enter sampling information from the GVL's tissue and DNA collection into archiving software. We are looking for someone able to start this summer and continue until the archiving is completed (fall or winter quarters). Please check out our job posting on Aggie Job Link for more information. Job ID 839427
Congratulations, Matt Thorstensen, MS!
Matt turned in his thesis today and is officially a Master of Science! Congratulations, Matt! Keep an eye out for his paper, soon to be submitted to Conservation Genetics, entitled "To breed or not to breed? Maintaining genetic diversity in white sturgeon supplementation programs."
Aviva Fiske receives honorable mention for NSF GRF proposal!
Congratulations to Aviva for receiving an honorable mention on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship proposal! This is a notable achievement as thousands of students from around the US apply each year and only the very best proposals are recognized with funding or an honorable mention. Excellent work!
When Every Fish Counts – GVL research featured in UC Davis news
Benjamin et al. (2018) research about detecting hybrids and backcrosses between Wakasagi, Delta Smelt, and Longfin Smelt featured in UC Davis news!
Matt Thorstensen receives International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship!
Masters student and Marine Mammal Center volunteer extraordinaire, Matt Thorstensen, received the International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship at the University of Manitoba! Matt will be moving to U Manitoba in April to begin a PhD with Dr. Ken Jeffries. Congratulations, Matt!
Congratulations Aviva Fiske!
PhD student Shannon Kieran wins Jastro Shields Award
Shannon Kieran, a PhD student in the GVL won the Jastro Shields award for her proposal to look at Branchiopod cysts in the soil bank to further understand Branchiopod population genetics and ecology. Congratulations Shannon!
GVL welcomes two new PhD students!
Welcome Shannon Joslin and Ensieh Habibi to the Genomic Variation Lab! Shannon comes from the world of humans to work on the assembly and annotation of the Delta Smelt genome, as well as examining Ne in historical samples and searching for a sex marker. Ensie comes to us from Berlin and Iran, and will be studying domestication in the hatchery population of Delta Smelt.
San Francisco March for Science
Shannon Kieran and Rachel Struch participated in the San Francisco March for Science on April 22, 2017.
GVL awarded grant to develop reintroduction plan for Delta Smelt
GVL members Andrea Schreier, Mandi Finger, and Daphne Gille (in collaboration with Cramer Fish Sciences) were awarded a grant by California Department of Water Resources to bring stakeholders to the table to develop a reintroduction plan for Delta Smelt. The is the first step in coming to terms with the fact that we may need to use hatchery fish to supplement/reinforce the wild population while restoration projects are underway.
Paiute cutthroat trout restoration
One of my favorite projects over the years is the very first project I worked on – the reintroduction of the Paiute cutthroat trout (PCT) to its native habitat in Lower Silver King Creek (SKC), California.
The PCT has the narrowest range of any native trout subspecies in the world. It is endemic to a ~10 mile stretch of stream above a fish barrier in SKC. Lower SKC's upstream barrier is a waterfall called Llewellyn Falls. SKC is a headwater tributary to the East Fork Carson River. PCT are notable for their near complete lack of spots:
I decided it would be a good time to provide an update about the project, as I just visited SKC to help out with electrofishing sampling.
First some history: if we go back to 1912, some PCT were moved above a fish barrier (Llewellyn Falls) by a Basque sheepherder. This is fortunate, because subsequently multiple stockings of various trout species occurred in Lower SKC during what can be considered the fish stocking heydey of the 20th century. Being an isolated subspecies with no natural competitors, the PCT was quickly outcompeted in Lower SKC, leaving a few refuge populations of genetically pure PCT above Llewellyn Falls. Without this inadvertent "rescue" the PCT might be extinct.
I'm going to leave out a lot of history of chemical treatments and restocking efforts here. Please see this page for some sources of more information.
Fast forward to the early 2000s. Having long recognized that the PCT was threatened yet has high potential for recovery and restoration, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Forest Service, and US Fish and Wildlife Service planned on chemically treating Lower SKC to remove nonnative fish. After a number of legal battles that fought to stop the chemical treatment, in 2005 everybody was all set to go and begin the treatment the following morning. However at the very last minute a judge blocked the treatment, sending hikers out with headlamps in the middle of the night to ensure that agency biologists knew that they could not proceed. This was a bit rude given that the biologists had already received word of the judge's orders via radio. It was not a happy night.
2006 is when I began working on the project. First designing assays to detect hybridization so that we could assess the Lower SKC population. Second I wrote a paper in collaboration with Eric Anderson at NOAA that examined this population further, and showed variability in hybridization amongst the various markers. In 2013 I wrote a Genetic Management Plan for the reintroduction efforts. In the meantime CDFW and the rest of the project team had finally gotten the green light to begin the chemical treatment in 2013. Treatment was conducted in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Lower SKC is now fishless, save PCT getting washed downstream.
At present we are waiting on eDNA results, snorkel surveys, and the lower fish barrier assessment to make 100% sure that the lower fish barrier is intact and there are no rainbow trout in Lower SKC. This is critically important – if any rainbow trout are left behind in Lower SKC, the monumental efforts to chemically treat are likely to have been wasted. We would be back at square one.
Enter the historic California drought from 2012-present, and the latest surveys of the extant refuge populations. The refuge populations in Upper SKC have been regularly surveyed every few years for decades using electrofishing. The first year I worked on the project (2006) I visited SKC and watch the Wild Trout Crew shock Upper and Lower SKC. It was incredible how many fish we found. The populations were healthy and thriving.
Over the past few years coinciding with the drought, the census numbers have dropped precipitously in Upper Silver King, Four Mile Canyon Creek, and Corral Valley Creek. As there is plenty of water in the basin (it's largely decomposed granite, which acts as a sponge), the prevailing theory is that the drought has resulted in an absence of insulating snowpack, causing the formation of anchor ice, further resulting in winter fish kills. Whatever the cause, the outlook is not good, and we are now left with two known healthy populations in-basin (Coyote Creek and Fly Valley Creek), four populations known to be struggling (Upper SKC, Four Mile Canyon Creek, North Fork Cottonwood Creek (an out of basin population in the White Mountains), and Corral Valley Creek), and at least three whose the status is unknown due to access difficulties.
The whole situation is sadly ironic; it was environmental groups that fought the chemical treatment back in 2005 (pushing back against the use of rotenone, the use of gas-powered equipment in a wilderness area, and what they thought was an insufficient EIS), and now we are worried about the extinction of an iconic trout subspecies. If the PCT had been reintroduced in 2006, their habitat are would have been significantly expanded, and we might not be so worried. At this point we are concerned about whether or not there are enough fish to take from the refuge populations to introduce in lower SKC. It would be a mistake to take so many fish from depleted refuge populations.
What we can do now is wait for the final confirmation that lower SKC no longer has rainbow trout. PCT will be washing downstream into Lower SKC either way. Ideally we would reintroduce a number of fish from the various refuge populations to ensure maximum genetic diversity. Conservation is rarely so straightforward. We must work with what we've got, and remember that doing nothing is also a choice.
This is a unique project. Very few areas are able to utilize chemical treatments safely and successfully to remove fish. The PCT is native to a small area, we still have genetically pure individuals, and the reason for their decline is removed when the nonnative fish are removed. We still have hope that the restoration will be successful.
Below are some movies from the latest trip.
New annoucements
We have three new graduate students entering in 2016: Ann Holmes (PhD, GGE), Aviva Fiske (MS, GGE), Matt Thorstenson (MS, GGE). Welcome to the GVL!
Amanda Coen and Shannon Kieran were recently awarded a Jastro Shields grant and Natural Reserve System grant, respectively, to cover a portion of their research expenses. Amanda has also received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention which is a high honor coming from such a prestigious funding program. Way to go, Amanda and Shannon!
Sturgeon Serendipity: The Spurious Discovery of Sturgeon Spontaneous Autopolyploidy
by Andrea Schreier
Sometimes scientific discoveries occur by pure chance – a scientist stumbles upon a new phenomenon without even trying. The discovery of spontaneous autopolyploidy, or abnormally increased genome size, in white sturgeon provides a perfect example.
When I began my PhD work in 2006, I was tasked with helping a senior graduate student develop new microsatellite markers for green and white sturgeon. Once polymorphic markers were identified, my first dissertation chapter focused on how these markers were inherited in white sturgeon. This may sound like a very pedestrian study but white sturgeon are ancient octoploids, meaning each individual possesses eight genome copies. It was unknown at the time how their genome was structured and I needed to confirm that microsatellite markers were transmitted in a Mendelian fashion before I could use them to answer genetic questions in that species. To accomplish this, I examined transmission of microsatellite alleles from parents to offspring in 15 half-sibling families produced at a local caviar farm. When examining the genotype data, I noticed right away that one of the female parents (Y192) had more alleles than she should have (>8) at several microsatellite loci. Interestingly, several of her offspring also had >8 alleles at one or more loci. While a normal octoploid should transmit only four gene copies to its offspring, Y192 transmitted >4 gene copies per locus. What could be going on?
The first thought that came to mind was potential contamination. Perhaps my DNA extracts or PCR reactions for Y192 contained DNA from more than one individual. The fact that the progeny of Y192 had >8 alleles suggested that I was observing a legitimate biological phenomenon rather than an error made at the lab bench. To be certain, I re-extracted DNA from Y192 and re-genotyped her at eight microsatellite loci using new reagents. As expected, I got the same results: >8 alleles at several loci. The only possible explanation for this result was that Y192 wasn't octoploid but had a higher ploidy level. But how could I test this hypothesis?
It was around that time that I first met Daphne Gille, a PhD student from another lab who was looking to collaborate with the GVL. It just so happened that Daphne was an expert in flow cytometry, a technique that uses fluorescent dye to measure the DNA content of living cells. Now all we needed to test the hypothesis that Y192 had abnormal ploidy was a sample of her blood and access to a flow cytometer. We learned that UC Davis had a flow cytometry core facility. We were ready to go!
It wasn't possible initially to collect blood from Y192 but Daphne and I decided to randomly sample a small number of white sturgeon at the farm just to validate our flow cytometry protocol and collect some preliminary data. Out of the six individuals we happened to sample, two had elevated ploidy! These abnormal individuals had a genome size 1.25x the normal octoploid (8n) genome size suggesting they where decaploid (10n). Subsequent sampling events at the caviar farm identified individuals that were dodecaploid (12n).
We inferred that Y192 was 12n and when crossed with an 8n male, produced 10n offspring that naturally possessed >8 alleles at each locus. Because the increase in genome size from 8n to 12n occurs spontaneously (no human intervention), we refer to this phenomenon as spontaneous autopolyploidy. The spurious discovery spontaneous autopolyploidy lead to a whole new line of research for me that continues to this day. Stay tuned for future posts about our investigations into the labile genome of sturgeon…
Environmental DNA
by Shannon Kieran
The GVL works on several environmental DNA projects. Environmental DNA is an emerging field in biology and ecology. Generally, eDNA is any genetic material found in the environment, rather than harvested from tissue, including poop on the trail, tufts of fur caught on a bush, the water a fish swam through, or the twigs a bird nested in. It's used in ecology to monitor the presence and absence of species of concern.
Recently, GVL members have teamed up with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop eDNA protocols to monitor a number of vernal pool organisms. Vernal pools are temporary, seasonal ponds and contain specially-adapted plants and animals, many of which can live in no other environment. The GVL protocol involves filtering water from these pools and extracting DNA from that water to determine if vulnerable vernal pool species are present in that body of water.
Among the species GVL is monitoring is the Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp, Lepidurus packardi:
The vernal pool tadpole shrimp is an endangered branchiopod in the order notostraca. Despite living in a variable, rapidly-changing environment, is has remained noticeably unchanged by evolution for the last 250 million years (which is about 200 million years older than Tyrannosaurus rex).
GVL is also monitoring three species of fairy shrimp which are endemic to California vernal pools (meaning they live nowhere else in the world): The Midvalley Fairy Shrimp, the Conservatory Fairy Shrimp and the Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp, Branchinecta mesovallensis, conservatio and lynchi respectively:
These endangered fairy shrimp are, like all fairy shrimp, in the order anostraca. They are important food sources for migratory birds
Finally, GVL is monitoring the presence of the California Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma californiensis, which is facing habitat fragmentation and is threatened by climate change:
These are California Tiger Salamander larvae at various stagse of development, all found in the same pool near Merced, CA.
To validate our protocol, California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists come with us and we dipnet each pool, which is the current standard protocol for monitoring. Here is the team hard at work:
Dipnetting is a process of moving a large, fine mesh net through a pool in order to visually count and identify the creatures found in it. Along with fairy shrimp and salamanders, we often find the water flea daphnia, the tiny, bright red copepods in the vernal pools.
Unusual Inheritance in Salmonid Males
by Bernie May, Research Professor, Department of Animal Science
The lineage that gave rise to current day salmonid fishes (salmon, trout, whitefish, grayling, and char) went through a polyploid event 30-50 million years ago that doubled their number of chromosomes. This phenomenon meant there were four copies of each chromosome (tetraploid) instead of the normal two copies that most organisms, including humans, have (diploid). Since that polyploidy event occurred, the salmonid genome has continued to evolve such that there are now only two copies of each chromosome, with some having residual tetrasomic regions on the ends of the chromosomes (telomeric regions) reflective of their polyploid origin. These residual tetrasomic regions allow normally disomic chromosomes to pair multivalently in salmonid males that upon gametic segregation give rise to residual tetrasomy for these telomeric loci and in some cases to pseudolinkage where loci on different chromosomes appear to be linked, although the segregation shows an excess of recombinant types over parental types. This change from a tetrasomic to a primarily disomic genome has provided the salmonids with more loci that have been able to evolve more specialized functions in metabolic pathways. The unusual meiotic pairing and gametic segregation of these telomeric regions in male salmonids is reviewed and explained in a recent paper by Bernie May (GVL founder) and Mary Delany (CAES Executive Associate Dean), a topic they studied together over 35 years ago when they first met at The Pennsylvania State University.
A little fish in a big city: conservation genetics of the Arroyo chub
By Alyssa Benjamin
The Arroyo chub (Gila orcuttii) is a small omnivorous fish native to Southern California coastal streams whose existence has been severely impacted by human development. Because their range overlaps with the densely populated greater Los Angeles area, many streams and rivers once rife with habitat have now been paved over, fragmented, or eliminated completely. The recent decline of Arroyo chub has prompted an urgent need to better understand the remaining populations.
In our study, newly published in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, we used genetic information as a way to understand the Arroyo chub populations and determine appropriate conservation strategies. Genetic data is especially valuable because it can provide important clues as to the current and historical relationships and status of populations that may not be apparent by simple outward inspection of fish.
For this study, we analyzed over 200 Arroyo chub collected at different sites from six native watersheds and genotyped them using microsatellites. Microsatellites are regions in the genome, generally in non-coding areas, that have a repeating sequence of nucleotides (e.g. ACTGACTGACTG…). The number of repeated units varies greatly between individuals which makes microsatellites useful for looking at population level differentiation.
Our analysis of the genetic data revealed two main points. First, we found a high degree of fragmentation between populations. Essentially, every sampled watershed had a unique Arroyo chub population and some watersheds even had multiple unique populations within the same river. This genetic differentiation is consistent with the overall isolation of fish as a result of human development, habitat loss, the current drought, and flood control measures.
The second finding was that most of the Arroyo chub populations, despite fragmentation and isolation, have managed to retain a lot of genetic diversity thus far. When populations show higher levels of genetic diversity, they are generally better able to adapt to environmental changes and are considered "healthier" populations. However, the fact that most of the Arroyo chub populations are small and fragmented means they have a higher risk of losing genetic diversity in the future. While we did recommend some possible strategies for conservation in the article, habitat restoration will ultimately be most essential to securing the future of the Arroyo chub.
Reference: Alyssa Benjamin, Bernie May, John O'Brien & Amanda J. Finger (2016) "Conservation Genetics of an Urban Desert Fish, the Arroyo Chub." Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 145:2, 277-286. DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2015.1121925
Should I stay or should I go? Epigenetic modifications may help explain migration-related differences in rainbow trout
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The molecular mechanisms underlying an animal's "decision" to migrate are poorly understood, yet essential to unraveling the mystery of migration in many diverse species. Our new study, published as part of an upcoming Molecular Ecology special issue, 'Epigenetic Studies in Ecology and Evolution," offers a potential mechanism: epigenetics. Epigenetic modification, in this case DNA methylation, can alter the expression of genes without modifying the underlying DNA sequence. This type of regulation may provide an important link between external environmental migratory cues and the outward physical and behavioral appearance of a fish, producing rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) individuals with one of two very different alternative life history strategies from the same population: smolts or residents (see figure at right).
To explore this potential link, we quantitatively measured genome-scale DNA methylation in fin tissue using a reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (mRRBS) technique on fish produced from crosses of non-migratory steelhead and migratory resident rainbow trout clonal lines. We found 57 differentially methylated regions between smolt and resident juveniles and identified several molecular categories of genes, including some with clear associations with migration, such as the circadian rhythm pathways.
This study provides the first evidence of a relationship between epigenetic variation and life history divergence associated with migration-related traits in any species and demonstrates the power of large-scale epigenotyping in ecological studies. For conservation purposes, resident and migratory rainbow trout are often managed separately based on their environmental and genetic variation. Careful consideration should also be given to the mechanisms by which these factors may interact to produce observable traits in this and other species.
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Reference: Melinda R. Baerwald, Mariah H. Meek, Molly R. Stephens, Raman P. Nagarajan, Alisha M. Goodbla, Katharine M.H. Tomalty, Gary H. Thorgaard, Bernie May, and Krista M. Nichols. 2015. "Migration-related phenotypic divergence is associated with epigenetic modifications in rainbow trout." Molecular Ecology. doi:10.1111/mec.13231


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The artist Anna Utopia Giordano has updated famous paintings of Venuses by adapting them to modern standards of beauty.
From The Birth of Venus by Botticelli to The Sleeping Venus by Gentileschi, via the Venus Anadyomene by Ingres, the young Italian artist demonstrates the evolution of society, from the Renaissance to the modern day where "to be accepted, you have to change your appearance" she explains.
The idea of this transformation came upon her last May. "I was retouching some photographs from a shoot for a friend's book and while I was playing with the skin tones and using corrective brush strokes, I was reflecting on society, social networks and the need to be accepted". She decided to work on the image of Venus in particular, the ultimate icon of beauty.
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Week day mornings start pretty early around here. So one of the reasons I always look forward to weekends is that I have time to make special breakfasts, like these Southwest Breakfast Quesadillas.
Serving breakfast in a tortilla has always gone over well with my hungry boys, whether it's a burrito, breakfast enchilada or taco. And this tasty, southwest inspired breakfast recipe was no exception.
In fact, my family loves these so much, I often make them for dinner!
One of the great things about this recipe is that it's easily adapted to use up what you have in your refrigerator.
Think odds and ends of cheese, veggies that almost past their prime, or the handful of tortillas left over from last night's dinner.
It's a lot like making an omelet with whatever you have on hand, with the addition of the tortilla to hold it all together.
These quesadillas get their Tex-Mex flair from the peppers and cilantro, and if your family likes beans (I do, but my boys don't) black beans would be a great addition.
And so would some thawed frozen corn. If you really like things spicy, leave some seeds in your jalapeno when you dice it. And you can always spice things up by serving a hot salsa on the side.
We like to serve this hearty breakfast with sour cream and salsa verde, but guacamole would be delicious too!
Like I said, this recipe is extremely versatile, so don't be afraid to adapt it to suit your tastes and use up what you have in the fridge!
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Southwest Breakfast Quesadillas
Scrambled eggs, cheese, jalepeno and cilantro, served quesadilla style in soft flour tortillas.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1 red pepper, diced
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and diced
- 8 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2-3 green onions, chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 6-8 small (taco sized) flour tortillas
- 1 1/2 cups shredded pepper jack cheese
- Heat oil in a large, non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add the onions and peppers and cook until vegetables are just soft, about 5 minutes.
- Add the eggs to the skillet, along with the salt and pepper, and cook, stirring frequently, until eggs are scrambled and just done. Stir in the green onions and cilantro. Remove pan from heat.
- Spoon the egg mixture onto half of each tortilla, then sprinkle with cheese. Fold tortillas in half.
- Spray a grill pan with non-stick cooking spray and heat over medium-high heat. Add quesadilla to pan, 2-3 at a time, and cook until golden, 1-2 minutes per side. Alternately, quesadillas can be baked in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
- Serve warm with salsa, sour cream and guacamole, if desired.
- Serving Size: 4
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Hello sweeties! Today is my two years anniversary with my love!!! I feel so happy that we made it so far with lots of love, hugs and laughs!!! I treasure every day with my love and hope that there will be many many more like these to come! So this week's moodboard is filled with happy thoughts and happy gorgeous items from my team mates! Enjoy!!!
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Once your customers have entered your site, will they stay? Are the previously set goals met, including contacts, views of a certain page, purchase transactions or page shares? Is your online service easy to use? Does your online store communicate with other systems without any problems? If you answered "no" to any one of these questions, your web service needs to be developed. The ultimate goal of development measures is, of course, to increase sales. Omni's strength as a technological partner lies in an understanding of all areas of online business.
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Ultimately, web service development of course aims for increased online sales.
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- Content first: Web service management and content production should be as easy as possible to admins. The platform itself is not most important, but instead the content which is published and spread with the help of the platform.
- Data and measurement: All decisions regarding web service development should have solid justifications. Presenting reasons within the digital world is, thankfully, easy, as everything can be measured, and decision-making is supported by such a quantity of data that it exceeds human understanding.
- Personification: Different technologies enable tailoring the web service and its different views for different users, based on their interests.
- Automation: Features that are repeated often, such as reportage, backup copying and different maintenance procedures can be automated, which enables significant resource savings for the company.
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In terms of web service development, we offer assistance for our clients in the following areas:
- Surveying the current state of the web service entails looking at visitor statistics, conversions, search engine as well as other online visibility, technical quality and usability testing. We also find out what is currently measured what is not. Based on the survey, we define what else should to be measured and what data is needed.
- We create a new web service or online store from scratch. Omni does smaller implementations with its own team; in larger-scale projects, we can rely on Omni's subsidiary Nord Software, if necessary.
- In CMS migration projects the client's content management system is switched into a more usable alternative.
- We help clients in deploying Google Analytics and Tag Manager, tailor them to the client's needs and provide training in using them.
- In deploying and tailoring third-party applications, Omni acts as an interpreter between the client and third party. We also provide training in using the applications. The Nosto marketing solution is a good example of a third party application.
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- Does the web service work seamlessly in mobile devices, too? If not, the service should be made responsive.
Large companies should naturally make sure that the above-mentioned factors are in order. If resources allow it, also the following are worth investing in:
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So this is a slightly different review than normal. As you can probably tell it's not really a gadget that you can stuff a couple of batteries into or connect your smartphone to but the BeerBro is awesome! Developed by two guys over in Manhattan, NY is really answering one of Man's most needed issues. How to open a cold bottle of beer and look good whilst doing it?
At the time of writing this blog, Mike and Dave are well into their Kickstarter campaign with around 2 weeks left to go and have already hit their target of $5000 which goes to show that this is certainly going to be a popular product! They were really kind and shipped me a very fetching silver BeerBro to the UK my Carrier Pigeon so I could write this blog!! Cheers guys 😀
Now you maybe thinking why? Well let me tell you fellow Geeks! The Waiter's Friend above is horrible, struggles to pop a cap in one fell swoop, and always gets lost in the bottom of your bag etc! If you've got some dainty digits then it's also going to cut deep. The BeerBro, while it can't open a bottle of wine (Who drinks that stuff anyway?) certainly aids in the opening of your preferred tipple. It looks good, feels great and the best is yet to come!! In other words, it's gonna look good just sat on your kitchen top and like my good friend Dan says, it's a piece of art and not just purposeful!
For all you metal geeks out there, the BeerBro has an 6061-T6 aluminum frame, sports a stainless steel 304 insert, and rocks two neodymium cap-catching magnets. This beast will take a Velociraptor on and win! The key is in the magnets, once you've popped, your cap is going to stick to the opener and stop it bouncing off into the wild to never be seen for at least 5 years! The magnets will allow you to catch around 4-5 caps at which point you can grab em and bin em!
I love a good bit of metal and this opener seems that it's going to live longer than I will and hopefully be looking just as good in a 1000 years time, this can't be said for many of those flimsy plastic openers! I gave it a good old bend test and I got nothing, not even a hint of a bend which can't be said for the iPhone 6+ :p
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At this year's Japan Camping Car Show in Tokyo, Honda has unveiled a two-piece concept that takes the kei car camping. Based on Honda's popular N-Box that was released in 2012 and following on from other N-Box-based concepts on display at the 2015 Tokyo Auto Salon, the N-Truck looks like a micro semi-articulated truck and couples with the N-Camp, a pint-sized caravan/trailer… Continue Reading Honda goes kei camping with N-Truck and N-Camp concepts
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Hi, everyone! I know that a lot of the "check out my comic" posts have art to go with them. As of this moment I don't, but it is on the way! At any rate, I thought I would sum up my story for the time being. FYI, since I have the space to do it, this is a lot longer than an "elevator" pitch, although I am capable of summing it up faster if need be!
It is set in the 22nd Century. Most of the world has been ravaged by a zombie virus (created, as we learn in the prologue, as a biological weapon during the Vietnam War). In the US, they were able to avert the crisis when it hit the West Coast by keeping people back with brute military force while the government slowly built a "quarantine wall" to hold the infected back. (I swear, this was HALF A DECADE before Trump started talking about HIS wall.)
Over time, the West Coast becomes a lawless land where survivor groups fight over land, supplies, and just about anything else. One of these groups is led by a woman named Molly Burroughs, who is about as fierce as they come. Molly and her group look around their hometown (Springvale, California) for other survivors to add to their team. (They look for people who are solo or small in numbers, figuring such people would be grateful for protection and not likely to betray them.)
During one of these rescue missions, they come across a couple named Harry and Maggie. The woman is eight months pregnant. Due to an unfortunate series of events, she gets bitten. They figure this means the baby will turn as well. Molly's second-in-command (a man known only as Doc) defies her orders to destroy the baby and delivers it, finding out it is a boy...and human.
Over the first few days of the baby's life, Doc suspects that the baby did indeed contract the zombie virus, but he seems to be fighting it off. If he is immune, then he could save humankind.
But how do they prove it? And if he is, how do they manufacture an antidote? And if they do, how do they distribute it?
These three questions drive the bulk of the story. I say it's "zombie fiction meets Dungeons and Dragons" because there is a group of heroes who head out on a quest, much like a lengthy D&D campaign. This consists of many side adventure that the group encounters while in pursuit of their main objective. Last but not least, the team is built along the same lines as a D&D group, with a mix of character "classes" and "races," although in the case of the story it means people who have different jobs and ethnicities. Example:
Molly, caucasian female, strong in hand-to-hand/melee/firearm combat ("Knight")
Doc, caucasian male, doctor ("Cleric")
Ted, African American, computer expert (no exact correlation here)
Jackson, Chinese (with a name like that...most likely adopted), mechanic (since he specializes in hotwiring cars, his class correlation would be "Thief")
And so on. I wanted this story to be to zombie fiction what KILL BILL was to kung fu movies. By that I mean I took everything I love about the genre and threw it into a blender. What emerged may seem similar to things you have read or seen before in that it revisits similar tropes, but hopefully I created something that has my own voice and isn't just a blatant ripoff. I think I accomplished my goal. Whether others agree is up to them.
I'm very excited to get it out there not just for the story itself, but because I think it could create some interesting results in the future, like if I open the universe up to other creative teams. For example, let's say someone wishes we knew more about Jackson. Well, if a writer and artist want to create a comic dealing with his backstory, I'm all for it!
At any rate, that's what I've been up to. Forgive the long-winded nature, but what can I say? I am excited about this story...and if you can't get this worked up over your own creation, why bother with it?
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There are many definitions of health disparities, but my favorite is disparities are differences that should not exist. This definition reflects the social injustice in how some races and ethnicities suffer more from cancer than others.
I like this definition of disparities (or health inequity, as many people are calling it) because it can motivate us to fix the problem – the social, economic, cultural, and political barriers that keep some racial and ethnic minorities from getting cancer prevention, early detection, and state-of-the-art cancer treatment. This obviously can be harmful to racial and ethnic minorities.
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This is the place where you can read about games that I released so far as well the progress on the new games. I recently released a battle card strategy Gods of Sparta and now I plan to try to make my first Android game.
Update: I never managed to start this, but Ludum Dare October Challenge is here, and this is enough to finally get me going. Initially, this was supposed to be a Create Android game in 21 days challenge for me, but I got some more time because Ludum Dare ends by November 1st.read more... Tweet to @bigosaur Tweet Bigosaur, 2013-09-12
Creating a complete Android game from scratch in one month >>


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Jolly Rancher Green apple pie shot
Mary Wells
My friend, Jennifer came up with the ingredients because most, if not all of us, love Fireball. I simply put them together. We found some like these less strong and the rest like them at full strength. I make 2 batches to accommodate everyone's taste. So far, we have gotten great reviews on the Green Apple Pie Shots. They love the tartness of the green apple gelatin with the sweet heat of the Fireball cinnamon whiskey.
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can serve up to 8 with each getting 2 shots
10 Min
1 boxjolly rancher green apple gelatin
1/2 or 1 cfireball brand cinnamon whiskey
1 or 1/2 cwater
How to Make Jolly Rancher Green apple pie shot
- Pour gelatin into a medium bowl.
- Add I cup boiling water to gelatin and stir until all the gelatin has dissolved.
- Add 1/2 cup well chilled Fireball to gelatin mix plus 1/2 cup well chilled water. For stronger flavor use 1 cup of well chilled Fireball.
- Using a measuring spoon, spoon gelatin mix into 2 oz plastic containers and place them on a tray. Put a plastic cover on each one then refrigerate until set; about 4 hours.
About Jolly Rancher Green apple pie shot
Course/Dish: Other Drinks
Main Ingredient: Alcohol
Regional Style: American
Other Tag: Quick & Easy


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An item about a fish and chip shop decorated with all the trimmings of Queen Victoria's days.
British Pathé
Foods of the World feast - pizza, hot dog, fish and chips & caviar, all served in the same room.
Fish and chip shop with sign "Bring your own newspaper", Board "No papers".
Henry Macroy's mobile fish and chip shop is popular with land girls. Sidcup, Kent.
Frank Lincoln serves fish and chips to pensioners at 1914 prices. Hayes, Middlesex.


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"Since 2004, as part of its background checks for all potential firearms purchasers, the NICS has searched a file containing a list of known or suspected terrorists that is exported by the Terrorist Screening Center from the TSDB into the FBI's National Crime Information Center database."
The FBI has been publicly asking Congress for authorization to do this program for more than ten years. Guess what? They've been doing it anyway!


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- Jason Whitlock calls Kobe Bryant a fraudulent celebrity athlete 'Watch'
- Jason Heyward Bees Attack Delays Cubs-Mariners Game "Watch"
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Eagles Player Accused Of Assault – Details
- Updated: June 11, 2016
Eagles player Nelson Agholor has been accused of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old employee at the Cheerleaders Gentlemen's Club, according to a report from Philadelphia Magazine. The incident allegedly took place after the Eagles' final minicamp practice on Thursday.
Philadelphia magazine reports a 27-year-old dancer told police she was raped inside the club at 3 p.m. on Thursday. The report also states Agholor visited the club with teammates Connor Barwin and Fletcher Cox.
The alleged victim reported claims about Agholor in person at Philadelphia's 3rd District last night at 9 p.m.
"We are aware of the police investigation involving Nelson Agholor," an Eagles spokesman said in a statement. "The organization has been in contact with Nelson and with the proper authorities in Philadelphia. Because of the legal nature of this matter, we will have no further comment."
Police commissioner Richard Ross told Philadelphia magazine that detectives are trying to find video footage from the club and Agholor is expected to be interviewed soon.
"There was an allegation made against one of the [Eagles] players of a sexual assault that was reported by one of the female dancers," Ross said to Philadelphia magazine. "Our Special Victims Unit is actively running on the investigation."
After being named in the report, Barwin and Cox released separate statements.
"As a result of my name being mentioned in conjunction with this alleged incident, I would like to clarify that I was only present at the establishment for a very short period of time and have no knowledge about anything that happened after I left the establishment," Barwin said. "I stopped by there for about a half hour to meet my teammates, and left at around 2:30 p.m."
"Although I was at the establishment with my teammates on Thursday, I want to make it clear I had no involvement in the alleged incident," Cox said.
Agholor, 23, is entering his second NFL season after being taken by the team in the first round of last year's draft.
The team finished its mandatory minicamp on Thursday afternoon, shortly before the alleged sexual assault occurred at Cheerleeders on Front Street in South Philadelphia.


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On Tuesday of the first week, you will begin your hands-on work at the hospital. Each of the tasks you carry out will be responsive to the immediate needs of the children and the hospital so it is not possible to provide an exact schedule in advance. However, your activities will include assisting with daily speech and posture exercises, caring for the children, socialising with them and playing games.


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Trends and Opportunities in the Indian Packaging Industry 2017: Analysis of changing packaging trends in the Food, Cosmetics and Toiletries, Beverages and Other Industries – Research and Markets
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Trends
and Opportunities in the Indian Packaging Industry: Analysis of changing
packaging trends in the Food, Cosmetics and Toiletries, Beverages and
Other Industries" report to their offering.
Indian packaging industry will see notable growth over 2016-2021,
growing at a CAGR of 9.2% as compared to 6.2% during 2011-2016.
The growth of the Indian packaging industry will be heavily influenced
by changing demographics such as growing urbanization and the rising
proportion of middle class consumers. These changes drive the need for
new packaging formats, such as different sizes, materials, and strength.
During the period 2016-2021, the Soft Drinks and Food industries will be
the highest packaging market share gainers (by units) with share growth
of 3.4% and 1.3% respectively. The growing organized retail sector has
been a significant driver of the growth of the Food & Beverage
industries, which in turn drives the growth of Indian packaging
industry. In addition, innovations in the packaging industry, such as
the development of lighter packaging with better barrier properties, add
to the growth of packaging industry. In terms of packaging material,
Glass and Rigid Plastics will be among the major share gainers, with
share growth of 0.7% and 0.6% respectively during 2016-2021.
Flexible Packaging is the leading pack type in the Indian packaging
industry and will grow at a healthy CAGR of 8.9% during 2016-2021, with
major contributions from the Food, Household Care, and Cosmetics &
Toiletries industries. This growth is largely driven by its low cost and
flexibility to suit multiple shapes and sizes, convenience (zip-locks,
plastic closures), and low-carbon foot print on the environment as
compared to Rigid Plastics. In addition, the increasing prominence of
low-density flexible packs in high protein foods is expected to drive
the growth in the future.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Executive Summary
2. Market Overview
3. Growth Analysis by Pack Material and Industry
4. Growth Analysis of Pack Material by Industry and Sector
5. Analysis by Pack Material (Rigid Plastic, Flexible Packaging, Glass,
Paper & Board and Rigid Metal)
6. Appendix
For more information about this report visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c5ff8z/trends_and
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"The situation in South Sudan is not an easy one. The war that continues since 2013 shows no sign of ending. Nobody respects the outcomes of the peace talks, neither the government and nor the rebels. There is fighting in the streets, in villages and in cities." Msgr. Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, President of the Bishops' Conference of South Sudan, gave an overview of the situation in the Country. The prelate was in the Italian city of Bolzano a few days ago to meet with the Director of the Diocesan Missionary Office, Wolfgang Penn. On that occasion he shared a reflection on the situation in the martyred African Country with the diocesan weekly "Il Segno" and with SIR. "The population is experiencing deep suffering, they are those who suffer the most in this war – said Msgr. Hiiboro Kussala -. Many were forced to flee. They took shelter in the refugee camps set up in neighbouring Countries: Uganda Kenya, Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic. There are displaced persons also in South Sudan, people forced to abandon their homes and villages to seek shelter from the warfare in other areas of the Country."
"It's dangerous to go out on the streets and the economy is on its last legs."
In the diocese of Yambio, where Msgr. Hiiboro Kussala serves as bishop, five parish churches were shut down as a result of the hostilities. People fleeing the villages found refuge near churches. But it's a situation of constant danger. "Going out on the streets is extremely dangerous – underlined Msgr. Hiiboro Kussala –armed rebels are everywhere and people risk falling victims of the shootings. This is coupled by a dramatic economic situation. There is very little money are there is no food. Foodstuffs sold in markets are extremely expensive and people can't afford to buy them. Agriculture and rearing are at critical levels as a result of the war. In some areas of the Country food is brought in by plane and distributed to the population. But it's a solution that cannot last much longer. I'm afraid that if this state of affairs should continue many people will die of hunger, especially children."
"There is a shortage of medicines, including those for the most common infections"
Then there is the problem of medicines. There is a shortage of medicines, and the war further worsens this problem – he said – many children die in the first years of life because there are no medicines to treat the most common infections. Schools, hospitals and water supply systems – fundamental for the local population – cease operating because ever more often the government stops paying the workers."
The efforts of the Church in the area of education…
"Educational structures – from kindergartens to Universities – are present in the diocese", said the President of the Bishops' Conference of South Sudan. We have the Catholic University in Juba, that we can keep open also thanks to 8-per-thousand tax devolvement funds allocated by the Italian Bishops' Conference. We consider the education of the young generations in the Country of fundamental importance; it is necessary to ensure the formation of the new future leaders. We developed humanitarian programs to support the population, also thanks to the efforts of Caritas Internationalis. We received funds also from Pope Francis, that we made available to missionaries so they may purchase foodstuffs and medicines for the population."
… and healthcare
A strong commitment also in the area of healthcare: "Hospitals are important points of reference – added Msgr. Hiiboro Kussala -. But our attention is geared not only at healing the wounds of the body but also those of the soul. Major efforts are placed in the reintegration of former child soldiers: we try to help them overcome the traumas they experienced and we place them in technical schools to make them study and give them the tools to enter the job market."
"It is necessary to resume the peace talks"
Mons. Kussala pointed out that the present political situation is the result of a lack of confidence between the government and the rebels. "They have too many interests at stake – he remarked – they think they can win by using weapons. On the contrary, I am convinced they should come together and resume the peace talks. This requires an external negotiator. In this respect the bordering Countries are of little help. UN special forces will be arriving to protect the population. But not even this is a solution. First we must find a way to ensure peaceful coexistence. Only then will it be possible to start considering the options for the control of the territory that ensure long-lasting peace."
"With Muslims we work for dialogue and peace"
"The Church – he went on – seeks to give her contribution to the dialogue of peace, and everyone has faith in the Church. We promote dialogue and peace also with the Muslim community, we seek to bring the groups to meet and to promote reconciliation between the different communities. This is also done through our radio network that brings the message of peace throughout South Sudan, equally shared by Muslims and Catholics. The Radio is a precious tool to speak about peace and bring hope to the population."
Thousands of displaced persons in refugee camps
In this moment, when hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of South Sudan are displaced to neighbouring countries, the commitment of the Church includes bringing support in the refugee camps. In this regard a lot has been done over the past weeks by the Italian diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone . "The missionary diocesan office has helped us a lot in the past, and it continues doing so also in this moment of difficulty. I am grateful for your help and your support."
"I dream a future of peace for my Country"
There is always room for hope, even in a dramatic situation. "For my Country – said Mons. Hiiboro Kussala – I dream a future of peace, where the problems and difficulties of the past will be overcome. I dream a great Country where young people grow up with the desire to build the present as if they belonged to big family, without conflicts and class divisions, nor divisions between ethnic groups".