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"Usagi Yojimbo" #144 is the final half of a two-part tale and as such is freed up to rocket through the story, giving you more than your money's worth in entertainment. Usagi Yojimbo has strolled into a new town and is protecting a local soy producer from a rival. Usagi slices his way to justice in a thrilling and amazing exploration of comics' high potential.
The opening scene builds tension as a night guard pokes about the soy factory with his spotlight. Everything mounts up until one panel finally breaks the tension and we are left to cut away without knowing how bad it's going to be. Stan Sakai drops a few pages of chatty exposition, then draws the two elements together as Usagi and his new friend find the guard right before he dies. This story has stakes and they just got very high.
Usagi is angry and ready to make things right no matter what the cost, proving he's the hero of the book. He goes to Officer Wada and some very funny moments occur which break up the harsh beats even while sharing panel borders with them. Wada hams it up in the background like a callow buffoon while Usagi slices throats open and sends his blade through the middle of a lady assassin's skull. The violence might not be gratuitous or colorful but it's still harsh in its unrelenting ability to verify the tenacity of our lead and the battles he faces.
Sakai's cartooning skills are exemplary. His eponymous rabbit captures so much emotion and story in his simple face. The anger is pure and the exclamations are sublime. Whenever there is action (and this issue contains much) the dynamic flow of the blades and muscles make you feel invested in the operatic battles. You go back and forth with each steel swing, caring deeply about how Usagi will rectify the situation.
"Usagi Yojimbo" is the perennial all-ages book: a great entry level for kids and yet wholly engrossing for adults decades later in life. This issue gives us a true Ronin tale -- in fact, most of the plot and dialogue could have easily been repurposed for a human crime tale. Sakai's commitment to his rabbit leads only shows us the beauty of the long form possibilities seeing the wandering rabbit Ronin grow and continue to be a draw for fans of all demographics.


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Remueve la cubierta inferior para acceder a los componentes internos de tu Mac mini de mediados de 2011.
No se especificaron herramientas.
Posiciona tus dedos en las depresiones marcadas en la cubierta inferior.
Rota la cubierta inferior en sentido contrario a las agujas del reloj hasta el el punto blanco pintado en la parte inferior esté alineado con el anillo inscripto en la carcasa exterior.
I accidentally broke the little things that hold the cover to the case. Is there a cheap replacement to the cover? Those clips are held onto it very weakly.
I think it depends, I have seen some that are very difficult to open and some super easy. But I see them everyday. I wish there was a tool that fit in the holes.
When seating the bottom RAM chip you may have to apply a little extra side force to get it to seat properly. I put in the new RAM and just got a beeping sound upon starting. I then put the old RAM back in and got the same result.
Here is the solution I found on the Apple discussion board.
"Take a small flat head screwdriver and after you put the memory in slot 0, put the screwdriver between the top of the mac mini and the memory then turn the screwdriver a little to exert pressure on the memory into the slot. Do it on both sides of the memory."
This worked for me.
I remember this when I was changing my memory ... I realized (after opening) that more you push, more force it take to open the cover. As you push down you force the cover "to rub" the casing and possibly other things inside. If you "lightly" hold the cover it comes right off ... Remember: less is more! :-)
Have fun!
Use your whole palm to twist it, with maybe a thumb in one of the recesses, applying slight downward pressure. Thewatchseries
Inclina la mini lo suficiente para permitir que la parte inferior se separe de la carcasa externa.
Remueve la cubierta inferior y déjala separada a un lado.
I have a late 2012 Mac mini, but it must be an earlier version than this late 2012 Mac mini in this description, because removing the hard drive is much more complicated than described here. Please see this YouTube video if you have trouble removing your hard drive with these directions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmuQIZP... There is a longer process you've got to go through. It can be done, it just takes much longer. (3-4 hours for me)
This applied to me as well. The iFixit article was good and lots of helpful information in the comments but my mini was different and required more dismantling. The video sandyfacebook posted was very helpful in taking me the rest of the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmuQIZP...
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Dream Cocktail
1/3 Curacao. (3/4 oz Cointreau)
2/3 Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Maison Surrenne Petite Champagne Cognac)
1 Dash Absinthe. (Dash Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
Shake (Stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
I'd read this recipe yesterday, and made it from memory. Ended up Accidentally subbing Cointreau in for Curacao. It is already plenty sweet, so I'm not sure I entirely regret the accident.
I've made so many Gin cocktails with Absinthe, it's very interesting to see how it reacts to the Brandy. With Gin the synergy is almost always around the anise flavors of the Absinthe and Gin. With Brandy, different flavors come out. I'd call this a a very flowery cocktail. It reminds me of orange blossoms.
However, in the absence of any other mitigating elements, the combination of Brandy and Cointreau is a little harsh. I would guess Grand Marnier or Curacao with the Brandy would be a bit smoother.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Skip to comments.How government makes things worse
Posted on 03/09/2008 9:25:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
WHAT DO ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences - and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by the state to exacerbate the harms they were meant to solve.
Take ethanol, the much-hyped biofuel made (primarily) from corn. Ethanol has been touted as a weapon in the fashionable crusade against climate change, because when mixed with gasoline, it modestly reduces emissions of carbon dioxide. Reasoning that if a little ethanol is good, a lot must be better, Congress and the Bush administration recently mandated a sextupling of ethanol production, from the 6 billion gallons produced last year to 36 billion by 2022.
But now comes word that expanding ethanol use is likely to mean not less CO{-2} in the atmosphere, but more. Instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline by 20 percent - the estimate Congress relied on in requiring the huge increase in production - ethanol use will cause such emissions to nearly double over the next 30 years.
The problem, laid out in two new studies in the journal Science, is that it takes a lot of land to grow biofuel feedstocks such as corn, and as forests or grasslands are cleared for crops, large amounts of CO{-2} are released. Diverting land in this fashion also eliminates "carbon sinks," which absorb atmospheric CO{-2}. Bottom line: The government's ethanol mandate will generate a "carbon debt" that will take decades, maybe centuries, to pay off.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
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The Boston Globe??
Do you have a link to that thread?
Just how does Jeff Jacoby survive day to day? I'd pay money to see someone do a documentary of his roamings about the Boston Globe offices. He must endure slings, arrows, brickbats and scowls, the likes of what we can only imagine at every turn in that Godforsaken land of Liberal Fascism!
Government makes things worse—so let's turn our healthare over as well.
"The problem, laid out in two new studies in the journal Science, is that it takes a lot of land to grow biofuel feedstocks such as corn, and as forests or grasslands are cleared for crops"
An outright lie. Cropland has always been cropland. There is little to no land being used for crop production that hasn't already been used for crops before.
There is more CO2 being emitted from lack of proper forest management, allowing tens of millions of acres of vegetated land to burn rampantly. Wild fires are a total mismanagement of timber resources that could effectively reduce CO2 naturally. Burning off the forests makes no sense. But the environmental freakos can overlook wildfires.
Yet they are crying about some cropland that produces corn that is processed into ethanol, and high protein corn feed byproducts.
What a crock of BS.
Dumb move on their part. There are a lot of reasons to be against ethanol. Yet, they always seem to focus on imaginary reasons.
Thanks for the link. It was an interesting read.
Anybody want to buy some carbon credits? Almost got em printed up.
A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can't Fill
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Repeal the Bradley Amendment
Human Events Online | 2-27-06 | Phyllis Schlafly
Posted on 02/28/2006 3:22:02 AM EST by Orlando
"...A prime example is the 1986 federal Bradley Amendment, which mandates that a child support debt cannot be retroactively reduced or forgiven even if the debtor is unemployed, hospitalized, in prison, sent to war, dead, proved to not be the father, never allowed to see his children, or loses his job or suffers a pay cut."
Realize he is up to his neck with the WOT, but he needs to keep some focus on domestic issues as well, other than working on providing amnesty for illegals and opening borders for all.
Hey Jorge, wake up and smell the gasoline fumes, for before long, we won't have any to smell.
They make life worse just by showing up for work every day.
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i dont know. cant remember what it said, too long ago.
either way, the only way kobe deserves to be on that sig, is if he's tying jordans shoelaces
i apologize, i probably read it the wrong way
you need to wipe the sand out of ur vagina, buddy, i was trying to have a simple basketball debate, thats what i thought people did on this site. no need to get offensive and snippy. no ones attacking you. enjoy your smog.
Kobe missed the playoffs one year, and were ousted in the first round twice. i clearly remember him quitting on his team game seven, the same way people say lebron quit in game six (check it out, im pretty sure there were articles written), except lebron had a triple double the next game. then he started crying he wanted to go to chicago, and even told a bunch of fans, on camera amd under contract, that they "better get their bulls jerseys guys". the difference being, A) kobe was in LA, no disrespect at all, every city has its own charm, but its a lil easier to tough it out in LA than CLE B) Jerry West pulled off the most lopsided and crooked trade in NBA history, by basically awarding the Lakers an elite, if not THE elite big man in the NBA. dont u think ur giving kobe way too much credit?
ok bro sorry to ask you a dumb noob question but how do i use sig. i mean how do put on on my page?
Here ya go bud.
Can i ask something about ur sig, i understand jordan, but KOBE? You got Kobe and jordan together in a pic like they both did it the same way.
Kobe had shaq in his prime, and then sucked *** for 2 yrs until Jerry West traded Kwame Brown for ****ing Pau Gasol to go along with Odom (the player the got back for shaq), their top ten pick center, and last year added Ron Artest. doesnt that seem like Kobe's on a STACKED team with 3 seven footers?
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These are the UCLA basketball team's physical wounds: Larry Drew II has a tight Achilles tendon; Shabazz Muhammad has a sore groin.
These are marks against the Bruins' pride: an offense that shows none of the potency it had a month earlier; a defense freshly gashed by a team that, six weeks ago, took and missed 13 3-pointers at Pauley Pavilion; a blowout loss on ESPN2 that saw the gap grow as large as 28 points.
Cal – a team that UCLA beat by 14 in early January – thoroughly embarrassed the visiting Bruins on Thursday in the conference rematch. The Bears shot over 58 percent in the first half while holding the Bruins to 30 percent, dominating UCLA from start to finish.
UCLA (18-7, 8-4) never led after the first three minutes, and never closed to within single digits after the first 10.
"It was fueled by again not performing well offensively," coach Ben Howland said. "They both go hand in hand."
With six games left in the regular season, the Bruins are scrambling for answers. They rode what looked like a transformed fast-break offense to a 10-game win streak that stretched across New Year's Day – averaging nearly 80 points along the way.
Now, four of their five worst shooting performances of the season have come in the past five games.
A tough trip to Stanford (15-10, 6-6) allows little breathing room, that game tipping off at 1 p.m. today – again on ESPN2. The Cardinal are coming off a one-point loss to USC, but forward Dwight Powell is averaging 17.8 points and 10.8 rebounds in his last five games.
These days, it seems any big man with a pulse can have his way with the Bruins down low. Cal's sophomore forward David Kravish scored a career-high 18 points against UCLA on Thursday on just 11 shots, grabbing 13 boards for good measure.
"They really came out and jumped on us, took advantage," Howland said of the Bears. "The crowd was great. I thought we got a little flustered by that and started pressing offensively instead of slowing down and being patient."


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A recent Rhode Island decision, State v. Gaspar, reversed a BDSM assault conviction on evidentiary grounds that related in part to the issue of consent. While the court did not discuss the issue of consent with any specificity, the decision contains the following assessment of the central issue in the case:
The evidence adduced at the trial of this criminal case included testimony concerning a multitude of unconventional sexual practices but ultimately presented only one question for the jury's determination: did the events of the night in question constitute a mutually consensual sexual encounter between two adults or a brutal sexual assault?
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CafeStation cannot connect with some of the workstations. What's wrong?
First, make sure that the computers are visible in local network. Try pinging unconnected workstations from main computer:
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If ping command fails, it means that there is something wrong with network setup. If other workstations are connected successfully, please verify that the TCP/IP protocol settings in LAN connection properties are correct. Usually network is set to obtain an IP address automatically, but if you're using static IP numbers, make sure that the default gateway and subnet mask match settings on the computers that connect properly.
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If you were at the San Diego Comic-Con, you may have already seen this clip! Since you probably weren't, though, here's your first look at the unveiling of killer droid HK-51 in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Note this is HK-51, and not everybody's favourite meatbag killer HK-47, from classic RPG Knights of the Old Republic. But hey, seeing as they were originally cut as part of a quest from the unfinished KOTOR 2 (where HK-47 would help destroy them), it's close enough.
If you're asking why BioWare would go and have a fancy cinematic trailer made for a game that's been out for months, well...that's a very good question. Still, Blur's Star Wars clips have been some of the best Star Wars content we've had in years, so I'm not going to be the one to ask them to stop.


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Science Community Center at Modesto Junior College is opening soon. Most of the first floor will be devoted to the vastly enlarged Great Valley Museum along with a planetarium and an observatory. One of the aspects of my involvement has been in developing an exhibit of California's state symbols. What today is a few pictures on a wall in the present museum will in a few weeks be a complete display with a full skeleton of a sabertooth cat (our state fossil), a gold specimen (our state mineral), a big chunk of beautifully glossy serpentine (our state rock; yes I know it's called serpentinite, but the legislature was unaware of this) and some of others like our state grass, bird, and flower.
Today I got to take a really close look at our state gemstone, which is one of the most obscure such designations in the United States! Can you say what this beautiful blue mineral is called?
Benitoite crystallizes in the hexagonal crystal class, but forms a rare triangular type of crystal within the class. It is a beautiful blue color, but is a bit on the soft side (6-6.5) for extensive use in jewelry. It is also known for fluorescing in ultraviolet light. The matrix in which it is found is called natrolite, and sometimes elongated crystals of neptunite are associated with the benitoite.
It's a beautiful specimen that we'll have on display. Don't miss it if you are ever in Modesto!
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I went to the California State Mine a few years back to try to get some samples myself, and did end up with a few pieces. Nothing as nice as the piece in your photos though! Beautiful stone.
- May 4, 2013 at 1:23 PM
- Gaelyn said...
I'll bet there will be a grand rock & mineral display.
- May 4, 2013 at 6:27 PM
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My husband found a benitoite and neptunite hand sample for sale at auction, and bought it for me. It's my greatest treasure.
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Road to Mac OS X Leopard Server: Collaborative Info Sharing ServicesLeopard sports a series of changes both under the hood and in its user interface that improve the performance and usability of the Mac desktop for individual users, and combine to deliver new collaborative server features for networked machines in office settings. Servers and shared services are also moving into the home; here's a look at what's new in Leopard and Leopard Server related to file sharing and collaborative information services, and where the plumbing inside Mac OS X comes from.
This report goes to great lengths to explore the origins, history, and maturity of servers. For those readers with limited time or who are only interested in what's due in Leopard Server, you can skip to page 3 of this report.
The Origins of Servers
Back when computers were as big as a room, users didn't share files between computers, they shared the computer itself. In the mid 60s, General Electric and AT&T Bell Labs began work with MIT to develop an early time-sharing computer system called Multics, short for the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service. The goal was to create an operating system that could support multiple users sharing the same expensive system at once.
It ended up that the project couldn't support the number of users initially envisioned, making Multics commercially impractical because the GE computer it ran on was prohibitively expensive to operate and maintain. Ken Thompson wrote a video game for the system called Space Travel, but running it cost $75 in CPU time. AT&T decided to pull out of the Multics project by 1969.
Thompson and team of developers who had been working on Multics, including Dennis Ritchie, Doug McIlroy, and J. F. Ossanna, requested a computer they could continue their work on, but management was wary of investing in another failed project on the order of Multics. They found their way to get access to a PDP-7 minicomputer from Digital, which at around $72,000, was considered an reasonably affordable system.
Thompson ported his Multics Space Travel game to run on the new system, and developed underlying system software to support it. Those system utilities came to be called "Unics" as a word play for being an emasculated version of Multics. It was later spelled Unix. The system proved to be commercially useful within AT&T, allowing Thompson and his group lead by Ritchie to later acquire a fancier PDP-11 minicomputer (below, with Ritchie standing and Thompson seated) to continue their work.
Why Unix Worked
On the earlier PDP-7 system, Thompson had developed a programing language called B, based on the existing BCPL. For the new PDP-11, he wrote a new systems language designed to abstract the software from the hardware it ran on, so that the upper layers of UNIX could be reused to run on other systems. The 'New B' was named C, and Thompson began work rewriting Unix in C.
Unix developers at AT&T developed a design philosophy behind the system that organized components into clear and understandable functions that were easy to understand. Simple functions could be piped together to create complex workflows. Ritchie and later McIlroy also managed extensive documentation for Unix that was detailed and brutally honest, even outlining flaws in the system. This survives in man, the online manual pages in Unix that describe how functions work, frequently offering examples on how to use commands and occasionally even noting known bugs.
In 1976, Thompson took a sabbatical to teach at the Computer Science Department at the University of California-Berkeley, where his presentation of Unix operating system technology generated an enthusiastic response. Students and professors at Berkeley contributed additional software for use with Unix--in particular networking code--under a liberal license agreement called the Berkeley Standard Distribution. Among the contributors to BSD were Bill Joy, who later left to found Sun Microsystems. Sun sold server hardware running the SunOS, based on Unix licensed from AT&T and BSD.
The open accessibility and large community of contributors to Unix--particularly in academia--made the system so popular that many customers of Digital's affordable VAX minicomputers (the 32-bit descendant of the PDP-11) installed AT&T's Unix to run on the system, along with BSD's networking code, in place of Digital's own VMS operating system.
The Personal Computer Creates a New Market Underneath Unix
When the market for home microcomputers erupted in the late 70s, individual manufacturers commonly wrote their own simple system and utility software. Word processors, spreadsheets, and other programs supplied most of their core functionality--such as printing and file management—themselves. Simple disk operating systems, such as CP/M and Apple DOS, only handled basic drive support. In 1979, Microsoft licensed Unix from AT&T for sale on microcomputers under then name XENIX, but found a limited market for it.
Apple began developing its own operating systems, starting with SOS (Sophisticated Operating System), which made use of extensible device drivers. SOS failed to save the ill fated Apple III it was designed for in 1980, but was later adapted for use on new Apple II models under the name ProDOS. SOS also influenced file system development in the system software for the Lisa and Macintosh. Those systems expanded the concept of System Software beyond a simple DOS to include an entire graphical operating environment that managed printing, graphics drawing, type rendering, and other functions historically performed by individual apps themselves.
While Microsoft only found tepid sales of XENIX, it was launched into the DOS market after it acquired a CP/M clone and licensed it for sale with IBM's 1981 PC. Microsoft continued development of DOS with IBM through the mid 90s, and continued selling it as the foundation of its consumer systems until Windows ME in 2000. In 1985, IBM and Microsoft began work on the new OS/2 as a replacement to the simplistic MS-DOS, and Microsoft subsequently sold off its XENIX product to SCO, which ported it to the 386 PC and started a Unix business on PCs.
The existing DOS PC market offered little in terms of server or networking sophistication. That problem was addressed by Novell, which introduced NetWare in 1983 as a file sharing solution for DOS PC users. NetWare was commonly referred to as a "Network Operating System."
The Windows PC Arrives
In 1990, Microsoft abandoned its OS/2 partnership with IBM after it found that it could duplicate Apple's Mac user environment on top of DOS and license the result profitably under the name Windows 3.0. Microsoft was intimately familiar with the architecture of Apple's system, as it had been an early Mac developer with inside access since 1982. While intentionally different in superficial ways, the core architecture of the Windows graphical environment and its drawing engine were patterned directly after the Macintosh.
Microsoft subsequently announced plans to replace the MS-DOS underpinnings of Windows by rolling out a new modern operating system of its own with Unix-like features under the name NT. After hiring a core team of OS developers from Digital, Microsoft shipped Windows NT in 1993 as its new DOS replacement, but its heavy system requirements made it unable to sell to consumer PC users. NT shared many core OS features in common with Digital's VMS, which rivaled AT&T's Unix in the workstation and minicomputer market.
Meanwhile, Apple licensed Unix from AT&T and by the late 80s was selling it under the name A/UX. As noted in the article Steve Jobs and 20 Years of Apple Servers, after Apple management balked at porting its Mac desktop to Unix directly, Jobs left the company and started NeXT. There, NeXTSTEP surfaced as an advanced development and operating environment on top of a core OS based on code licensed from AT&T and BSD. That powerful combination led to pioneering third party server developments including the WorldWideWeb in 1990.
Unix Haves vs Unix Have Nots
In 1990, while NeXT was standing on the shoulders of giants to deliver Unix as the proven core operating system technology in its NeXTSTEP, Apple was still working to retrofit its classic Mac System Software. Unlike Unix, the classic Mac System was hard coded to run on specific hardware, making it difficult to port and problematic to maintain. Apple investigated porting its code to the PC in the Star Trek project, but abandoned the plans because of the effort required to rewrite Mac application software; like the operating system, Mac apps of the time had never been designed with the potential to run on different hardware.
Apple continued to struggle with maintaing its Mac software until its plans fell apart entirely in 1995 with the failure of Copland, as described in The Secrets of Pink, Taligent and Copland. Along the way, efforts to deliver serious server products were stymied by the weak underpinnings of its Mac operating system. The company experimented with selling MAS and MAE, which put the Mac user interface on top of Unix workstations from Sun and HP. It also integrated the Mac interface on top of A/UX 3 on Mac hardware in 1992 (below), but the company never delivered strong server sales, largely because it had limited itself to a niche market of graphic designers and other creative users.
Jean-Louis Gassée, who replaced Jobs as the Mac product manager after his departure, left Apple in 1990 to develop the BeBox. It ran an entirely new operating system called the BeOS. While delivering some impressive technical features, it too was limited by its unique design, which drew upon principles from Unix without maintaining code compatibility. That meant the BeOS couldn't easily incorporate modern work being done on Unix.
On page 2 of 3: The Unix Wars; A Unix Peace; Prelude to Mac OS X Server; and Mac OS X Server Releases (Mac OS X Server 10.2 Jaguar, Mac OS X Panther Server 10.3, and Mac OS X Tiger Server 10.4).


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My friends had some stuff they had to take care of over the first half of this week, and since I haven't have a good sadomasochistic torture session in a while love them, I agreed to take their girls for three nights so they could focus on whatever it is they're doing.
This morning, they woke up (which is on its own way more than I am used to) (My 13 year old son woke up at 12:17:46 pm today) (I know because I heard his eyeroll all the way in my office) (which is the kitchen table during summer vacation) (dear god, let school start) they woke up and were like, "Auntie Mr Lady! What are we! Going! to do! Today!" because what no one told me is that young girls of school age insert! exclamations! everywhere!
So I started to make breakfast and the three girls (because mirth is contagious, and I skipped that vaccine in my daughter) were like Katy! Perry! Face! Book! Justin! Bieb....and I was like this has gone far enough! Get dressed so we can eat lunch and...um...buy webkinz?
When I recovered hearing in both ears, I realized that I'd blown the best bargaining chip in my pocket on the first morning of the first day and resigned myself to just being fucked for the rest of the week, so I took them all to lunch.
That was fun.
No, really, it was. Only one kid spilled a drink and only one kid didn't like their food and those were the same kid. Only two of them are riddled with teenaged hormones rendering them nigh incapable of human interaction 98% of the time, and absolutely beyond fucking hilarious the other 2%. The other two are blond, in every sense of the word.
So we come back home and the boys get on the XBox to play Left 4 Dead, which they convinced me involved killing Nazis (because I, being all for the swift and painful removal of all Nazis -fictitious or no -would not deny their little German hearts any change to right the wrongs of their ancestors, and they know that) but does not, in fact, involve killing Nazis but does involve the rather disturbingly violent disembowelment of every living thing you've ever seen, ever, in four-part harmony.
Meanwhile, the girls go upstairs to get their Webkinz set up online and I get to work. And I hear the moans of the dying out of my left ear and out of my right ear, I hear my daughter say, "Girl A! Girl A2! I'm counting to 100!" and I hear Girl A and Girl A2 reply, "I know! Isn't counting so much fun?"
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How do I kill a giant?
What is the best approach to taking down giants in the game?
I am currently level 23, high smithing levels which nets me some great heavy armor, etc. I'm also quite skilled with single hand, and archery.
Currently what I try is to use the landscape (high places, etc;) and shoot till dead (I make my companion wait out of sight so that they don't engage) the giants.
This sometimes works (if I find good cover, etc), however its annoying and time consuming. Is killing giants something best left for later levels? Or are they just that hard to kill? I mean I can take down dragons easily, but Giants get one 'wallop' in on me and I go flying off the map.
I've had success casting Oakskin too, (to some extent, until the 2nd giant killed me -- spell probly wore off)


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I seem to be recovering well. The best part is that I could walk right away. Normally, with 101 blisters, I'm not walking very well. The one blister is just amazing; I've never had one blister.
My calves are probably giving me the most pain. They look and feel like a large cement brick; they are very tight. I try to massage them, I use a rolling pin on them (I think I may order the STICK from zombierunner.com), and they are still stiff. I probably should have immersed myself in a tub of cold water after the race but forgot about that.
I've been forgetting about many things.
It seems that after a 100 miler, or very tough effort, my brain is out of it for a while. I forgot that Tyler had a make up baseball game last night, I forgot that I was working the concession stands, I forgot to pay the first of the month bills, I forgot to take 3 days of birth control pills, yikes! Luckily I remembered all of the preceding before we were late and all was well.
Last night I joined the others at Run Club. I was feeling pretty good, so though I could jog slowly with the others. Ha. I began to move and my inner thighs said NO, slow down! I only jogged maybe 1/2 mile and began to walk. It felt good to stretch out by walking, I joined Kevin and we walked 30 minutes.
There is a group of Run Club members running Grandmas in 1.5 weeks. Curt is planning on running 3:45; that's what I need to qualify for Boston. I don't know; on Monday I was thinking I might not even run Grandma's, but it is the 30th, it was my first and I have run it each year since. I think I've run 6 Grandma's now. I'll be there. I may even try running a 3:45..or not. I certainly couldn't do it this weekend, I'll find out what kind of difference a week makes.
Last night I worked the concession stand at the baseball games. I was stuck grilling hamburgers and hotdogs. I haven't had much of an appetite this week and those greasy burgers about did me in!
OH..I havae less than one week of work left and then I am off for 8 WEEKS! WooHoo!
Thursday, June 08, 2006
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Sounds like what you'd expect after running 117 miles! I'm sure your body will recover next week, although you may not be ready for a peak marathon performance. You'll know when it gets closer. Its not too late for cold water bath soakings and also go get a professional sports massage. And walk lots, at least 30-40 mins per day. Drink lots too so your system can flush everything out as it re-builds. Listen to me, I'm such an advice-giver! And I haven't even run a 100 miler yet :)
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Ooooo, the Stick. I love mine. Love it. Good luck getting ready for Grandma's.
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Dehydrating does not improve the quality of fruits or vegetables. Therefore, when selecting produce to dry, be sure it is of high quality and at the desired stage of ripeness. Before drying produce, sort it; use that of inferior quality in a manner other than preserving. Carefully follow directions for preparing and treating produce to maintain quality. For more information on drying foods, see MU Extension publication GH1562, Introducing Food Dehydration.
Fruits should be ripe or just ready to eat for best quality when dried. Fruits with high water content, such as citrus fruits, are not suitable for drying. Do not use underripe produce. Fruits to be used in leathers can be overripe as long as they are not spoiled.
Prepare only as much food as you can dry at one time. Refer to Table 1 for notes on specific types of fruits. Wash fruit in cold running water to remove dirt, insect larvae and any surface microorganisms. Trim away bruises or soft spots. Remove stems, cores and pits. In some cases, skins should be removed because they will become tough or brittle when dried (Table 1). Slice fruits uniformly, about ¼ to ½ inch thick, for even drying, shorter drying time and more nutritious, better-quality food.
Prepare a holding solution when slicing large amounts of fruits that tend to brown. This step is not necessary if only a small amount of fruit is being prepared.
Use 1½ tablespoons of pure, crystalline ascorbic acid per quart of water. Or use a commercial antioxidant such as Fruit Fresh; follow label directions for cut fruit. Hold fruit in solution no longer than an hour because the fruit will absorb moisture and take longer to dry.
Fruits such as apples, pears, peaches, nectarines and apricots require sulfur treatments to prevent browning during the drying process. Sulfur treatments protect vitamins A and C during drying and storage, help retain fresh fruit flavor and increase the shelf life of the fruit. Sulfur treatments destroy thiamin, but most fruits are not good sources of thiamin, so this is not a great concern.
Two types of sulfur treatments are used: sulfuring and sulfite dipping, or sulfiting.
Sulfuring is the most effective sulfur treatment and results in a minimal loss of water-soluble nutrients; however, it is not very practical. The fumes irritate eyes and breathing passages, so it must be done outside. It is used primarily for fruits that are going to be sun-dried, because sulfured fruits should not be dried inside. Sulfuring is more expensive, more time-consuming and more complicated than using sulfite dips.
Sulfite dips can be prepared and used in the kitchen, and sulfite-dipped fruits can be dried indoors. However, sulfite dips have several disadvantages. Penetration of sulfite may be uneven, resulting in uneven color retention. The loss of water-soluble nutrients is greater than in sulfured fruit. And, finally, the fruit may absorb water, which will result in a longer drying time.
Soaking times vary with the type of fruit and thickness of slices (Table 1). Dissolve ¾ to 1½ teaspoons sodium bisulfate per quart of water. (If using sodium sulfite, use 1½ to 3 teaspoons. If using sodium metabisulfite, use 1 to 2 tablespoons.) Place the prepared fruit in the mixture, and soak 5 minutes for slices, 15 minutes for halves. Remove fruit, rinse lightly under cold water and place on drying trays. (This solution can be used only once. Make a new one for the next batch.) These chemicals must be of food-grade quality and usually are available at winemaking supply stores, natural foods stores, and pharmacies. Prices vary considerably.
Recent research indicates that certain people with asthma may react adversely to sulfites. People who are sensitive to sulfites should avoid preparing or eating sulfite-treated foods. Sulfite fumes will be given off during the drying process; also, if sodium bisulfite is added to water for steam blanchings, fumes will escape with the steam.
Ascorbic acid mixtures
Ascorbic acid mixtures are a mixture of ascorbic acid and sugar, sold for use on fresh fruits and in canning or freezing. They are more expensive and not as effective as using pure ascorbic acid.
Directions for use: Mix 1½ tablespoons of ascorbic acid mixture with 1 quart of water. Place the fruit in the mixture, and soak for 3 to 5 minutes. Drain the fruit well, and place on dryer trays. After this solution is used twice, add more ascorbic acid mixture.
Honey dip
Many store-bought dried fruits have been dipped in a honey solution. A similar dip can be made at home. Honey-dipped fruit is much higher in calories.
Directions for use: Mix 1½ cup sugar with 1½ cups boiling water. Cool until lukewarm, and add ½ cup honey. Place fruit in dip, and soak for 3 to 5 minutes. Remove fruit, drain well and place on dryer trays.
Syrup blanching
Blanching fruit in syrup helps it retain color fairly well during drying and storage. The resulting product is similar to candied fruit. Fruits that can be syrup blanched include apples, apricots, figs, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums and prunes.
Combine 1 cup sugar, 1 cup light corn syrup and 2 cups water in a pot. Bring to a boil. Add 1 pound of prepared fruit and simmer 10 minutes. Remove from heat; let fruit stand in hot syrup for 30 minutes. Lift fruit out of syrup, rinse lightly in cold water, drain on paper towels and place on dryer racks.
Steam blanching
Steam blanching also helps retain color and slow oxidation. However, it changes the flavor and texture of the fruit.
Place several inches of water in a large pot with a tight-fitting lid. Heat to boiling. Place fruit, no more than 2 inches deep, in a steamer pan or wire basket over the boiling water. Cover tightly with lid, and begin timing immediately. See Table 1 for blanching times. Check for even blanching halfway through the blanching time. Some fruit may need to be stirred. When done, remove excess moisture using paper towels and place on dryer trays.
Cherries, grapes and small, dark plums that are dried whole may require a short heat treatment, called checking, to crack the skins and to remove a naturally occurring waxy coating. Checking speeds up drying by allowing interior moisture to evaporate. If checking is not done, there is a greater chance of case hardening, which is the formation of a hard shell on the outside with moisture trapped within the fruit. Case hardening may occur more readily when fruit is dried in an oven rather than a dehydrator.
Fruit to be checked should be immersed in briskly boiling water for 30 to 60 seconds and then dunked in cold water and drained on paper towels. Treatment time depends on the thickness of skins. Checking can be done in a microwave oven by heating on high about 20 to 30 seconds, and then chilling. Some flavor loss may result from the checking process.
A variety of fruits can be used for leathers. Some favorites include apples, apricots, bananas, peaches, pears and plums. They can be used singly or in combinations. Spices such as cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and mint add extra flavor. Fruits are naturally sweet, so it is usually unnecessary to add sweetener.
Making fruit leather is a snap
Use a blender or food processor to puree about 1 cup of fruit chunks at a time. To keep light-colored fruits from turning dark, add 2 teaspoons lemon juice or 1/8 teaspoon ascorbic acid per 2 cups of fruit. Puree fruit.
Thicken juicy puree to shorten the drying time. Place pureed fruit in a deep, heavy saucepan, and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Remove from heat and cool.
To sweeten, use ¼ to ½ cup corn syrup, honey or sugar for each 2 cups of fruit. Corn syrup or honey is best for longer storage because both prevent crystals. Sugar is fine for immediate use or short storage. Saccharin-based sweeteners could also be used to reduce tartness without adding calories. Aspartame sweeteners may lose sweetness during drying.
Drying concentrates flavors, making the fruit leather taste sweeter than the puree. For extra flavor, add ¼ teaspoon cinnamon or a dash of nutmeg per quart of puree.
To dry fruit in an electric dehydrator, line the plastic dryer trays with liners designed especially for that purpose or with plastic wrap. Be careful not to allow leakage.
For drying in the oven, a 13-by-15-inch cookie pan with short raised edges works well. Line the pan with a nonstick material, being careful to smooth out wrinkles. Electric dryer tray liners that can be cut to fit your pan, available from several online sources, can be used. Silicone nonstick baking mats can also be used to line the cookie pan. Do not use waxed paper or aluminum foil.
Fruit leathers can be poured into a single large pan (13-by-15 inches) or into several smaller pans. Spread puree evenly, about 1/8 inch thick, onto a drying tray. Avoid pouring puree too close to the edge of the pan. Larger fruit leathers take longer to dry. Approximate drying times are 6 to 8 hours in a dehydrator, up to 18 hours in an oven, and 1 to 2 days in the sun.
Dry fruit leathers at 140 degrees F. Leather dries from the outside edge toward the center. Test for dryness by touching the center of the leather; no indentation should be evident. While leathers are warm, peel from plastic and roll. Allow to cool, and rewrap the roll in plastic. Cookie cutters can be used to cut out shapes that children will enjoy. Roll, and wrap in plastic.
Chances are the fruit leather will not last long enough for storage. If it does, it will keep up to 1 month at room temperature. For storage up to 1 year, place tightly wrapped rolls in the freezer.
Most vegetables need to be blanched before drying to stop enzyme activity. If enzymes are not destroyed, they will produce off-flavors and the vegetables will turn brown during the drying process as well as during storage. Blanching kills some spoilage organisms, shortens the drying time of some foods, and protects vitamins C and A during storage. Blanching also causes the loss of some water-soluble nutrients.
Blanching times vary with vegetables and thickness of slices (Table 2.) For boiling-water blanching, immerse no more than 1 pound of vegetables per gallon of boiling water.
Start blanching time as soon as the water returns to a boil. If it takes longer than 1 minute for the water to come back to boiling, too many vegetables were added. Reduce the amount in the next batch.
Milk, milk products and eggs are not recommended for home drying because of the high risk of food poisoning. Commercially dried milk and egg products are processed rapidly at temperatures high enough to prevent bacterial contamination. Home dryers cannot duplicate this process, and the safety of home-dried milk and egg products cannot be guaranteed.
Use lean cuts of meat such as flank or round steak. The leaner the meat, the better the product. Cut partially frozen meat into slices no thicker than ¼ inch. Uniform slices will shorten drying time.
The thickness of the meat strips will make a difference in the safety of the methods recommended. Trim and discard all fat from meat because it becomes rancid quickly. If a chewy jerky is desired, slice with the grain. Slice across the grain if a tenderer, brittle jerky is preferred. A tenderizer can be used according to package directions, if desired. The meat can be marinated for flavor and tenderness. Marinade recipes may include oil, salt, spices and acid ingredients such as vinegar, lemon juice, teriyaki or soy sauce, or wine.
Jerky marinade
For 1½ to 2 pounds lean meat (beef, pork or venison):
¼ cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
¼ teaspoon black pepper
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon hickory smoke flavored salt
Combine all ingredients. Place strips of meat in a shallow pan, and cover with marinade. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours, or overnight. Products marinated for several hours may be more salty than some people prefer. If you choose to heat the meat before drying, do so at the end of the marinating time to decrease the risk of foodborne illness. To heat, bring strips and marinade to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes, drain and dry. If strips are more than ¼ inch thick, the length of time may need to be increased.
Remove meat strips from the marinade, and drain on clean, absorbent towels. Arrange strips on dehydrator trays, or on cake racks placed on baking sheets for oven drying. Place the strips close together, but not touching or overlapping. Place the racks in a dehydrator or oven preheated to 140 degrees F. Dry until a test piece cracks but does not break when it is bent. Samples not heated in marinade may take 10 to 24 hours to dry; samples heated in marinade will dry faster. Begin checking samples after 3 hours. Once drying is completed, pat off any beads of oil with clean, absorbent towels, and cool. Remove strips from the racks. Cool. Package in glass jars or heavy-duty plastic food storage bags. Vacuum packaging is also a good option.
If the strips were not heated in marinade before drying, they can be heated in an oven after drying as an added safety measure. Place strips on a baking sheet, close together, but not touching or overlapping. For strips originally cut ¼ inch thick or less, heat 10 minutes in an oven preheated to 275 degrees F.
Table 1
A guide to home drying of fruits for portable dehydrators, with temperature set to 140 degrees F.
Whole: Dip in boiling water 30 seconds to crack skin (10 seconds for sour cherries).
Cut and pitted: No treatment is necessary.
Table 2
A guide to home drying of vegetables for portable dehydrators, set temperature at 140 degrees F for best results.
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One possible problem in this issue's Electrical Troubleshooting Quiz is an isolated ground (IG).
- Some equipment manufacturers "require" an IG receptacle.
- Someone may install an IG to solve power quality problems.
- Often, IG installations are wired incorrectly and produce new problems without solving the old ones.
One IG miswiring scheme involves running the IG equipment grounding conductor (EGC) to a separate ground rod. Because this electrode isn't wired to the EGC of the source (service or derived system), it creates a potentially lethal difference of potential.
If your IG is wired "with separate ground" and you plug a copier into it, you could have several hundred volts between the copier and a nearby metallic object. What happens if someone grabs a metal partition frame with one hand and touches the copier frame with the other?
An IG receptacle is one in which the grounding terminal is insulated from the receptacle mounting means. Although the EGC for this receptacle can pass through panelboards without a connection to the panelboard grounding terminal, you must eventually connect it to the EGC terminal of the source [250.146(D)].


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For those that might be interested, Kris is starting to work on creating a blog for the first time (supposed to be working on our website :? ). Have a long way to go, partly because I'm behind in putting together the photo collages. Wish I could help more with the blog part of it, but I'm lucky to figure out how to turn the computer on :lol:


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Welcome to Alfano Lab Center for Plant Science Innovation
and the Department of Plant Pathology
The Alfano lab is associated with the Department of Plant Pathology and the Center for Plant Science Innovation at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Members of our research team study the strategies bacterial pathogens employ to cause diseases on plants. As a model system we study the gram-negative bacterial plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae and its interactions with plants. An important feature that P. syringae has that allows it to grow in plants and sooner or later cause disease is a protein secretion system called the type III protein secretion system. This protein secretion system is found in many gram-negative bacterial pathogens of both plants and animals and other bacteria in close associations with eukaryotic organisms. The truly remarkable characteristic of type III systems is that they not only secrete proteins from the bacterial cell, but they also inject or translocate bacterial proteins into eukaryotic cells.
Our main research focus is to understand how type III secretion works and to determine what the translocated proteins (known as type III effectors) are doing inside the plant cell to favor parasitism. Relatively recently, we and others have found that type III effectors suppress plant innate immunity and, therefore, several of our projects are focused on how these proteins are capable of suppressing plant innate immune responses. We expect that this line of research will identify new components of plant immunity some of which might not be discovered using conventional approaches. Therefore, we view type III effectors as tools to explore the plant innate immune system.
News and Events
December, 2017 - Panya Kim successfully defended her PhD!
November, 2016 - Panya Kim passed her PhD comprehensive exam and now is All But Defense (ABD)!
July, 2016 - Alfano and members of the Alfano lab went to the IS-MPMI meeting in Portland, Oregon.
June, 2016 - Alfano was co-PI on a $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant to study maize roots and maize root microbiomes.
April, 2016 - Microbiology major Sam Eastman (in tie) with his lab mentor Guangyong Li presented a poster at the UNL Undergrad Poster Session.
March, 2016 - Alfano presented a seminar at Virginia Tech University.
March, 2016 - Alfano lab hosted Alan Collmer for seminar in the Plant Pathology Dept. As part of his visit some members of the lab took him and his wife Candace to see the Sandhill Crane migration on the Platte River near Grand Island NE.
January, 2016 - Alfano reserach group publishes high profile paper on the type III effector HopE1 in Cell Host & Microbe.
August, 2015 - NW Ag & Forestry Univ (China) undergrad and UNL summer res Mu-chun Li at UNL Res Symposium. G Li, Muchun, & Alfano.
August, 2015 - Univ MIssouri-KC undergrad and UNL summer researcher Hayley Massey at UNL Res Symposium. Alfano, Hayley, & Ming Guo.
August, 2015 - Alfano presented a talk at the International Congress of Plant Biotic Interactions in Nanjing, China.
June, 2015 - Alfano gave a talk at the Pseudomonas syringae and related pathogens meeting in Malaga, Spain. Pictured at a restaurant. Good food and spirits. dguttman, surt_lab, harryinashed, and RobWJackson.
May, 2015 - Alfano presented at an International Meeting "Communication in Plants and their Responses to the Environment" in Halle, Germany.
December, 2014 - Tania Toruno's PhD graduation and also Mike McConnell's congratulations cake. One half of the cake shows a diseased Arabidopsis plant and a diploma representing Tania's PhD graduation studying plant immunity. The other half of the cake shows algae – Mike studies algae and he left UNL to work in a biotech company in Florida.
December, 2014 - Tania Toruno and Jim Alfano in academic regalia after her PhD graduation from the University of Nebraska.
December, 2014 - The "official" handshake between Jim Alfano and Tania Toruno marking a job well done by Tania in her PhD defense.
December, 2014 - Champagne celebration in the hallway outside the Alfano lab after Tania Toruno successfully defended her PhD thesis. Pictured from left to right are Tom Clemente, Jim Alfano, Gilles Basset, Rich Wilson, Tania Toruno, and Tania's mother her made the trip from Nicaragua to support her daughter.
December, 2014 - Still more questions about the science after the PhD defense? Jim Alfano talking to Tania Toruno after her PhD defense.
August, 2014 - Saying goodbye to 2014 NSF REU Bioenergy and Redox students: PSI's Jim Alfano and student Christina Zarek.
August, 2014 - Marking a good summer res exp in the Alfano lab for Christina Zarek (3rd from left) a student from Hastings College.
July, 2014 - Dr. Alfano during the Plant Science Workshop for high school students held at UNL.
May, 2014 - Congratulations to Dr. Anna Joe for coming back from her postdoc to go through the PhD hooding graduation ceremony with Jim Alfano at UNL.
February, 2014 - The Alfano lab participated in the 16th Annual Nebraska Women in Science Conference, February 22, 2014. This conference is sponsored by Nebraska's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and the UNL Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education. (photo)
February, 2014 - Congratulations to Anna Joe for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis on Friday, Feb 14th. She will start her postdoc in Pam Ronald's research group at UC Davis in March. Sad to see her leave but we are very excited to follow her research and career in the future.
December, 2013 - The 2012-2013 UNL Office of Research Annual Report featured an article on the research in the Alfano lab. Bolstering Plants' Defenses
September, 2013 - Jim Alfano received a 3 year research grant from the Plant-associated Microorganisms and Plant-Microbe Interactions program within the USDA/NIFA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.
August, 2013 - Jim Alfano and Ming Guo at undergraduate researchers Will Becker's and Ernest Bile's poster at the Nebraska Summer Research Symposium.
July, 2013 - The Alfano lab members gathered for a photo in front of the George W. Beadle Center at the University of Nebraska.
May, 2013 - Alfano visited with Lionel Navarro at The Institute of Biology at the École Normale Supérieure (IBENS) in Paris. This is the university that Pasteur did much of his work.
April, 2013 - Alfano presented a seminar at the John Innes Centre/The Sainsbury lab in Norwich, England.
February, 2013 - Participants at the Women in Science Conference. Tobacco plants for everybody!
January, 2013 - Congratulations to Anna Joe and the rest of the authors for the publication of her first co-author paper in EMBO J.
December, 2012 - Alfano lab Christmas Lunch Party at La Mexicana Restaurant.
December, 2012 - Alfano is given an Omtvedt Innovation Teaching Award by UNL for establishing an undergraduate program/major in microbiology at UNL.
October, 2012 - Farewell party for Anna Block at Lazlo's microbrewery. She joined G. Basset's research group here at UNL.
October, 2012 - Alfano elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contribution to our understanding of the bacterial type III protein secretion system.
September, 2012 - Research Assistant Professors Guangyong Li and Ming Guo attended the New Phytologist Symposium on Immunomodulation by plant-associated organisms, which was held at Fallen Leaf Lake near South Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
September, 2012 - Farewell (Crabcake) party for Emerson. He leaves Lincoln to join Craig Roy's animal pathogen research group at Yale University.
August, 2012 - Ph.D. student Anna Joe gives a talk at the Biennial Molecular Biology of Soybean meeting held in Des Moines, IA.
July, 2012 - Alfano lab members attend the MPMI meeting in Kyoto, Japan.
July, 2012 - Congratulations to Emerson Crabill for passing his Ph.D defense.
July, 2012 - Anna Joe passed her Ph.D. comprehensive exam. She is now ABD (all but defense).
July, 2012 - Tania Toruno passed her Ph.D. comprehensive exam. Now ABD (all but defense).
May, 2012 - Undergraduate researchers Ian Rochford and Nicole Stanton graduate from UNL.
February, 2012 - Ph.D. student Anna Joe (far left) showing two participants the basics in the lab at the Women In Science Conference.
December, 2011 - Members of the Alfano lab participated in the Holiday Bowling Party. Jordan Westengaard won the pot of money for the best 3 game average.
November, 2011 - Ming Guo and Jim Alfano went on an extended trip to China. Jim gave talks at National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences - Institute of Plant Protection, Beijing and at the 2nd International Conference on Biotic Plant Interactions in Kunming, China. Ming gave a talk at Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China. Both Ming and Jim had excellent trips. See photo of Ming and Jim on the Great Wall of China.
August, 2011 - Jim Alfano became a Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) at the 2011 APS meeting held in Honolulu, Hawaii.
August, 2011 -Members of the Alfano lab wished farewell to two undergraduates that were in the lab for the summer Lexi Paspalof, a Redox biology REU student, and Megan Smith, an NIH INBRE REU student.
August, 2011 - Jim Alfano and PhD students Anna Joe and Tania Toruno attended the the 6th Utrecht PhD Summerschool on Environmental Signaling held at Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
June, 2011 - Alfano lab hosted Professor Dorothee Staiger from the University of Beleifeld, Germany. She presented a seminar on "Postranscriptional control in biological timing".
May, 2011 - The lab bids farewell to BJ Jeong whom left the lab in May to become a senior research associate at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. Good luck BJ!
May, 2011 - Undergrad researcher Jessica Ryba graduates. And we just recently learned she was accepted in Med School at the University of Iowa. Best wishes in the future!
April, 2011 - Graduate student Tanja Toruno gave a talk at the regional ASM meeting held in Lincoln.
April, 2011 - Alfano participates in a graduate student course on innate immunity held at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
April 2011 - Graduate student Emerson Crabill gave a talk at a regional ASPB meeting held in West Lafayette, Indiana.
March, 2011 - Akane Kamigaki short research visit in the lab comes to an end. She will continue as a postdoc back in Japan. Best of luck to her!
March, 2011 - Alfano lab members Emerson Crabill, Anna Joe, and Tania Toruno participated in an outreach activity where Lincoln East High School students toured several labs in the Beadle Center.
March, 2011 - The lab hosts Dr. Mary Beth Mudgett from Stanford University. She presented a seminar in the Biotechnology Seminar Series on Xanthomonas type III effectors and also went with us on a lab outing to see the migration of the Sandhill Cranes near Grand Island, Nebraska.
March, 2011 - Emerson Crabill passed his PhD comprehensive exams. He's now ABD. Way to go EC!
Feb, 2011 - Alfano presented a seminar in the Biochemistry Department at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
Feb, 2011 - The lab hosts Dr. Bing Yang from Iowa State University. He gave a seminar on Xanthomonas transcription activator-like type III effectors.
Feb, 2011 - Alfano was the guest speaker for the 7th annual Gary Ogden Memorial Lecture at Moorpark Community College in Moorpark, California. This was the first college Alfano attended and Gary Ogden taught the first biology class he took in college.
Feb, 2011 - Alfano lab members Anna Block, Anna Joe, and Tania Toruno participate in the Women in Science Conference. As part of the conference, attendees spend a few hours in several labs and learn about research.
Dec, 2010 - Alfano gave a talk at the Current Challenges in Plant Biology - Biotic Stress Signaling held in Helsinki, Finland.
Nov, 2010 - Postdoc Guangyong Li and wife welcome the birth of their daughter Nina. Congratulations! GL you are not only productive you're reproductive!
Oct, 2010 - César Turjillo from Adriana Bernal's research group at the Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia visited the lab for a few weeks to learn plant immune suppression assays.
Oct, 2010 - Graduate student Anna Joe gave a talk at the UNL Plant Science Retreat held in Nebraska City.
Sep, 2010 - Alfano and Postdoc Anna Block attend the P. syringae and related pathogens meeting in Oxford, England.
June, 2010 - Alfano gave a talk at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany.
May, 2010 - Undergrad researcher Ashley Gutwein graduates. She will attend medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Best wishes in the future!
May, 2010 - Congratulations to Fang "Tina" Tian! She defended her PhD thesis and graduated with a PhD. She recently accepted a job as an Assistant Investigator at the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, China.
February, 2010 - The Alfano group welcomes Laura Masini from Wageningen University in Holland and Christin Korneli from the University of Bielefeld in Germany, both of whom will be visiting the lab for several months. We hope they enjoy their stays.
November, 2009 - Congratulations to Anna Block and the rest of the co-authors for their paper on the HopG1 effector that was accepted for publication in Cellular Microbiology.
November, 2009 - Alfano wrote a review entitled "Roadmap for future research on plant pathogen effectors" which was published in the November issue (Vol. 10, Issue 6) of Molecular Plant Pathology. This issue commemorates the 25th aniversity of the cloning of a type III effector gene and there are several excellent reviews in this issue.
October, 2009 - Alfano visited Dorothee Staiger's research group and gave a departmental Seminar at the Molecular Cell Physiology Department, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
October, 2009 - Alfano gave an invited talk at the Bacterial Cell Envelope: Structure, function, and infection interface meeting held in Blaubeuren, Germany.
September, 2009 - Alfano gave an invited talk at the 22nd New Phytologist Symposium Effectors in plant microbe interactions at the INRA Versailles Research Centre, Paris, France.
September, 2009 - The Alfano lab had a lab retreat at Mahoney State Park. Guest attendees were Drs. Bin Yu and Chi Zhang.
July, 2009 - Jim Alfano along with Karin van Dijk (Creighton University) received an NSF grant to study chromatin remodeling in response to Pseudomonas syringae.
July 2009 - Jim Alfano and other members of the lab (Anna Block, BJ Jeong, Tania Toruno, Emerson Crabill, and Anna Joe) attended the MPMI meeting in Quebec City, Canada.


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Frequently we are emailed by Instructors, Personal Trainers, Health Care Providers and asked about water fitness problems and other subjects that they do not have an immediate answer to provide to their participants. We would like to share a few of these questions and answers with you. WaterART has created a full interactive system to help you. Check out our WaterART Message Board. If you have never posted on the message board you do have to create an account. If you are a WP member you will have privileged sections. Here's some information on how a message board works or how to get started with message board.
From: Cathy Dixon Sent: To: WaterART Fitness
Subject: Best Triceps Exercise?
At our pool, the YMCA inIrmo,S.C., the instructors use the foam dumbbells.
What do you think is the best triceps exercise to target the "giggly underarm" using the dumbbells?
Thank you!!
Cathy Dixon
P.S. I have begun teaching a deep & shallow water class back to back and am absolutely having the best time! Loved your salsa video - going to try it in my class tomorrow! Thank you!!
Dear Cathy,
There are literally thousands of exercises for every major muscle group. The "best" exercise is one that the person may perform in good posture with good technique (as our muscles are trained on our posture)
Since everyone has different skills, fitness levels, muscle fibre types and goals - there are many variables.
With every piece of equipment you have to analyze the joint action. The Triceps Muscles ( there are 3 ) extend the elbow and also assist in shoulder extension.
With dumbbells you can only do dips because triceps extensions (would literally rip the shoulder out of the socket if you let buoyancy assist the upward motion (or take the move beyond normal range)which would be very easy with the traditional triceps extension.
Ideally with the triceps you need 3 actions for water training
1) dips which are pushing the dumbbells or noodles down ( front, side or behind the body)
2) triceps extension with mitts, paddles, boxers (resistive equipment) or noodles ( buoyant equipment). Start with the arm in front and extend the elbow and push the water down for resistance and through for range of motion.
3) overhead triceps extension with a band or tubing
The more ways you may train the muscles – they stronger they are! So ideally utilize as many exercises for the major muscles as you know. And yes, regular strength training is the only way for results. In other words, you have to progressively overload the muscle to reach a training effect and strengthen or hypertrophy the muscle....
P.S. Muscle & fat are separate entities (so patrons need good
nutrition too!)
Julie Twynham
Educational Director
WaterART Fitness International Inc.,
Dear Drusilla: A student recently asked me a question: "How many calories per cardio session of water fitness do you burn?" I generally teach 45 to 50 minutes of cardio for my conditioned population. I know that water fitness gives resistance of 12 to 14x's more than on land but I haven't a clue about calories. I attempted looking it up, but I was unsuccessful. Can you please help me out? I am sure this is in one of my many books and I should know this, but I have never even thought of it. I am not a calorie counting advocate. I believe in moderation and portion control. Laura C. Florida. Dear Laura: Calculating the number of calories that you would burn during one water training session depends on a lot of factors - the biggest one being; How hard are you working? Lots of people get in the water and just bob around for the whole time and expend very little energy whereas another person in the same class will use the water's resistance and work as hard as he/she can so that they reach 8 on the 1-10 RPE scale indicating they are working hard. A second factor to consider is body composition. What is the person's ratio of fat to muscle? You need muscle to move effectively through the water to create speed and more resistance. "Muscle moves whereas fat floats". That is why we work on building muscle in the water prior to performing high intensity cardiovascular intensity. You need strong muscles to work at a higher intensity cardiovascular fitness. What depth of water are you working in? You can move faster in shallow water because you dont have as much resistance. As you move deeper it becomes progressively harder to push the water at the same speed as the shallower water. Are you maintaining an acceptable speed through good ROM? Or are you doing short quick movements, which give the illusion of hard work? Little moves will produce little muscles and little work. What are you doing to create more resistive work? Are you using aquatic mitts, resistive equipment such as paddles, or buoyant equipment, such as the barbells or noodles? Which working position do you use the most? Extended working position? – this will allow you to stand tall and not require much energy. Are you doing vigorous rebound to lift the body up out of the water or "momentum rebound" which is essentially bouncing? There is a great difference with the amount of energy required between the former and the latter example. A neutral working position or keeping the shoulders under the water, will force you to use a lot more water for resistance and core work while providing protection for the submerged joints. Lastly, a suspended position requires great skill to maintain ROM and good body alignment as well as providing maximum energy expenditure. Eating – yes, that can be a factor too. If the person is dieting extensively the body will probably drop in metabolism for burning calories since the body will not let you starve yourself. We have some references in several of the WaterART Manuals which refer to gaining muscle and burning calories. "If you gain 1KG (2.2lb) of muscle you will burn approximately 40-50 calories more per day just by breathing. This is your basal metabolism rate. This amounts to 280 calories per week and 1120 calories per month. Adding exercise to a day will account for a higher number of calories being burned as well as your metabolism will be given an extra jolt. The factors affecting just how many calories can be expended by additional muscle mass and exercise is controlled by individual metabolism, genetic make-up and the individual's level of fitness. In the personal trainer manual, we itemize caloric expenditure dependent on MET level. Each water session is approximately 400 kcal of energy expenditure –however, a lot is dependent on MET level or the intensity you are working at. You must be working at about 4.2 METS of energy to reach that goal. This is approximately equivalent to a very briskly walk or light jog. Therefore, I think all you can tell your participant is: to eat right, exercise often and enjoy life. Instead of constantly stepping on the scales – take a body measurement - if you do add some muscle the chances are you can weight more - but your measurements show you looking a lot trimmer and– you will feel a whole lot better about yourself. Stop worrying about calories, dieting etc. and enjoy each day for what you get out of it - you dont get a second chance. Remember that, "Yesterday is History Tomorrow is a Mystery Today is a gift - that's why we call it the present." DrusillaDear Julie: Hello, I just want to know if there are any contraindications for me doing aquatic fitness classes while being pregnant. This is my third pregnancy with two previous miscarriages. I am a bit more cautious but would like to remain fit. Please advise me on proper form and about exercises that I should stay away from. Thank you, Ingrid R. Ontario Dear Ingrid, We know that water fitness (when done properly) is helpful for healthy expectant moms but you are a high-risk situation who will require careful monitoring. You definitely need to get your Physician's and OBGYN's approval and recommendations before you join any exercise program. If they do approve you, I recommend more aquatic personal training because you should be closely monitored throughout each exercise session. We are fitness professionals, not doctors, and we must not step outside the bounds of our profession. We can design exercises appropriate for healthy expectant moms and work with instructors to help them be more knowledgeable about safe exercises. But you and your Instructor will require specific guidelines to get you through the next few months. Pregnancy is a condition that has specific contraindications to exercise and it is one of the most difficult conditions to program. You and the baby want to be healthy but many moves, such as bouncing, twisting, lateral movement may over stimulate the abdominals, and are generally bad for both you and the baby. Exercise can help with a shorter labor and safe delivery but this is NO easy task. I am sending a short article to read and some information on our program to take to your doctor. Please realize, you should accept the decision the doctor makes regarding an exercise program, as your health history is very high risk. I really hope this advice helps you. GOOD LUCK and keep me posted. Julie Dear Julie Where can I look for a job? Rosalie
There are always more aquatic fitness jobs - than instructors; however, the nature of the industry is such that things keep changing ie. schedules, directors, etcSo your best bet is to check out who is in charge at the center and who is the decision maker. Even if you cant get a regular class - they always need substitutes. When you perform a quality service -the patrons -will ask for you. So here are some leads..... to check out..... • All community centers, condominiums, private health clubs, YMCA's, YWCA's, Schools, Spas and Golf clubs that have fitness facilities and pools offer job opportunities. • See what type of programs they have ( or don't have). • Write a proposal to a facility if they are not running a program. • Speak directly to other instructors and see if they need more instructors or substitute instructors. • Attend classes so that you gain a feel of the environment. • Check website listings for vacation centers, hotels, and cruise ships • Check out our Job Postings section on out website If I have more than one WaterART certification do I have to renew each one separately? No. You need only renew the HIGHEST level of certification. If you have lesser certifications these are automatically renewed for the same time period. If you advance to an even higher level of certification - your renewal date will automatically become 2 years from the date of that certification. Do I need to become certified before I start teaching? Definitely – but become certified for the type of fitness you will be teaching. For instance: if you are only interested in group instruction for healthy people then a general certification may be adequate. If you plan to advance to teach in a specialized area such as for an Arthritis or Rehabilitation Program, or decide to offer personal training then you need to upgrade your certification for that specific area. Never claim to be knowledgeable in an area of fitness for which you have not received certification. If you have fitness questions you would like answered in our newsletter email us in to: and we will do our best to answer in print. If you have any comments or feedback , we would love to hear from you.
Here's Drusilla's 70th Birthday VIDEO surpirse - yes, she has been in the industry over 35 years!