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The "Money Question" and today's besetting political problems.Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
An idea for your consideration: During the 19th century, the commanding issue of financial politics in the United States was the interrelation of the money supply with a national bank. Andrew Jackson, for one, hated the idea of a national bank.
It's hard for us to understand today how seriously this issue was taken, how deeply it divided American politicians, and how long it lasted. Party platforms were built around this, and whole sessions of Congress debated it at length and with great bitterness.
The issue lasted for three-quarters of a century, such that seventy years after Jackson rose to the White House, William Jennings Bryan could campaign on the still-controversial issue of a bimetallic currency.
And then came the creation of the Federal Reserve. At which point the issue dried up altogether. Poof.
Not everything works that way. The other great question of the 19th century in U.S. politics — slavery — was even larger, and it was only solved via the bloodiest conflict this hemisphere has ever seen. So I don't want to suggest that every political issue has such a straightforward solution.
But it's worth considering: what's the piece of policy that would erase Issue X, Issue Y, or Issue Z as a bone of contention within U.S. politics? Or within international affairs?
Please, ladle your thoughts upon me in the comment thread.


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Whether fleshing out their collection of customized mythological creatures*, or building up an army fit for Aslan's How*, builders have used several methods to build centaurs.
Below are instructions on one possible way of modifying a horse body to make a centaur.Here's a preview of the final result:
To begin, you first separate the horse halves. The two halves are very tightly joined (by a friction non-glued fit). I typically pry them apart by working on the legs first (you can get your fingers around the legs to pull them apart). I then use some sort of blunt, non-sharp, non-marring tool to continue separating the pieces by prying them apart little by little. The trick here is to be very careful and slow otherwise you'll put dents or scratches in the edges of the horse bodies. Armothe notes that "heating up the horse with a blow dryer or in a pot of hot water helps immensely in separating the pieces."
Then, remove the horse head and carefully cut out the front posts (which serve to attach the horse head). Note the areas marked with black ink in the pics below.
One must be careful not to "force cut" the posts to remove them but to either use a small fine-tooth saw or whittle away a little bit at a time using a sharp knife.
Otherwise you run the risk of cracking the horse body (especially at the corner of the gap provided for the horse's saddle).
To get the closest fit of the minifig torso to the horse body, it may be helpful also the "excavate" the reinforcement at the bottom of the cavity left by the horsehead. Note areas marked with black ink:
Here is a comparison between a modified horse body (in white) and a horse body that has not yet been modified (in brown):
It may be worth gluing the front part of the horse before you reassemble the halves. I've found that if I did not glue this area, the fit of the bricks that fill the gap is not tight enough to keep together. I only applied glue to the area marked with black marker in the pics below. I used superglue, but I imagine you could use any kind of plastic model glue.
Use two curved slopes and a plate to "fill in" the hole left by excavating the horse head and front posts, and then attach an "old" torso to the 1x1 plate. The "old torso" is necessary because it does not block the stud like the newer torsos do. Although, one can "modify" newer torsos to accept a stud.
The 1-brick width of the curved slopes allows for a "friction fit" that holds the two slopes together while creating a "curved" transition from the minifig torso to the horse body. I first superglued the two curved slopes together, but found that it was not necessary to do so because the slightly tight fit kept the two slopes together just fine. The friction fit also allows for the centaur to be posed in a "rampant" position because one can move the new "neck" forward. Note that the torso itself can pivot because it rests on the 1x1 plate's stud. One can remove the 1x1 plate so that the torso fits closer to the horse body, but that removes a bit of "pose-ability".
When putting on barding, some changes needed to be made. Basically you need to "build up" the area that "fills in" the hole so that you can put the curved slope in the front to close the gap in the front of the barding. To do this, "raise" the barding by one plate. Thus, the centaur is a plate taller in barding. The addition of the front curved slope reduces the 'mobility' of the centaur's trunk (formerly the horse's neck), but I like the look of it better.
Overall, I was happy with the results of this method. The finished product looks relatively clean, and the curves of the horse body fit relatively well with the curved slopes. I also like the "scale" of the centaur using this method - as it makes the centaur's body the same size as a regular horse. Most of the brick-built centaurs end up having a much smaller scale (see the "brickbuilt juvenile centaur" below for comparison).
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"Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University
ON THE OCCASSION OF THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BALKAN WARS
(65 years Institute for National History)
(4-5 November 2013, Skopje)
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Dragi Gorgiev, PhD
Prof. Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska, PhD
Prof. Irena Stefoska, PhD
Prof. Ljubica Jancheva, PhD
Secretary: Lidija Gjurkovska, PhD, (Assistant professor)
4.11.2013 Monday
Rector`s Office of University of "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje
9,30 -10,00 Formal opening
9,30 Speech by Dragi Gjorgiev – director of the Institute of National History
9,45 Speach by Velimir Stojkovski – rector at University of "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje
Hall 1, section 1, 10.00 -11.25
Moderators: Irena Stefoska, Mitko Panov
Katerina Mladenovska
Politics of War and Peace: Perdiccas II and the Peloponnesian War.
Aneta Shukarova
"Polemos panton men pater esti": Macedonian-Roman Wars
Darko Stojanov
From the Balkans to Barbarikum and Back, Ransom of Prisoners of War in the 5th Century
Dragan Zajkovski
The Thessaloniki Vicarage in the 5th Century through the "Prism" of Correspondence with the Pope
Mitko Panov
The Byzantine Idea of Enemies in Early Medieval Macedonia
Irena Stefoska
Scenes of Terror: Slavic Invasions and the Local Population in Macedonia
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Hall 1, Section 2 from 11.40 to 12.45
Moderators: Milan Boshkovski, Boris Stojkovski
Dragan Gjalevski
Threatening as a Diplomatic Tool in the Balkan Policy of Vasil II
Milan Boshkovski
Who was the First Macedonian Tsar in the Middle Ages: Tsar Samuil or David
Petar Stevkovski
Macedonia between East and West: the First Crusade and Its Impact on Macedonian Territory
Borche Miloshevski
Jovan Oliver`s Position in the Hierarchy of Feudal Rulers in the Macedonian Area during the Reign of Stephan Dushan (1331 – 1355)
Dragi Gjorgiev
Ottoman Conquest of Macedonian Cities: Manner and Methods
Boris Stojkovski
Between Habsburgs and Ottomans-Jovan Nenad Movement in 1526-1527
Hall 1, section 3 from 14.00 to 15.00
Moderators: Nadine Akhund, Todor Chepreganov
Nadine Akhund
The Carnegie Report of 1913: New Views and Interpretations
Todor Chepreganov
The Macedonian Question from San Stefano to Bucharest
Demeter Gábor
Microsocial Strategies of Survival and Coexistence in Macedonia (1903-1912). Examples on Family and Community Level Social Conflicts and Government Repressions
Nada Boshkovska
Identities in the Fruit Salad: Ethnic Labelling and Self-designations in Macedonia in the First Quarter of the 20th Century
Ema Miljkovich
Ottomanism and Nationalism during the Shortest Century of the Empire
Hall 2, section 1 10.00 to 11.25
Moderators: Kristina Popova, Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska
Kristina Popova
Against the Enemy or against the War? Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 – 1878 and the Early Peace Movement: Memories of the Austrian Novelist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bertha von Suttner / 1843 – 1914 /
Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska
Reflection of Russian-Ottoman War 1877-1878 in the Macedonian Memory
Mariana Piskova
The image of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878 in the Weekly Newsreels and TV Broadcasts of the Bulgarian National Television
Otar Gogoloshvili
Russo-Ottoman War 1877-1878 and Georgia
Anastasia Pashova, Petar Vodenicharov
Focus of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus during the Russian-Ottoman War 1877-1878 / by "Kavkazki eparhialni vedomosti/
Tamaz Phutkaradze
Different Geopolitical Orientation and Perspectives of Regional Cooperation on the Caucasus
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Hall 2, section 2 from 11.40 to 12.35
Moderators: Boris Gombach, Makedonka Mitrova
Boris Gombach
Italian Imperialism in the Balkans in the 19th Century
Zoran Todorovski
The Behavior of Macedonian Revolutionary Intellectual Forces in the Balkan Wars
Makedonka Mitrova
Jovan Cvijikj`s Scientific Elaboration of Ottoman Macedonia and Its Population
Gabor Demetar, Bottlik, Zsolt
Maps on the Ethnic Pattern of Macedonia and Albania Based on Austrian Archival Sources
Dimitar Ljorovski
Phases of Greek – Macedonian Irredentism Towards Ottoman Macedonia
LUNCH BREAK 13.00 to 14.00
Hall 2, section 3 from 14.00 to 15.25
Moderators: Bojan Balkovac, Lidija Gjurkovska
Bojan Balkovac
The Balkan Wars among the Slovenes
Milica Denkovska
The Image of Macedonia under the Influence of Turbulent Changes in the Balkans Reflected through the West-European Prism: Macedonia in the German Language Travelogues from the 19th Century untill Today
Dragan Batanchev
Captain Leshi and Miss Stone: Cinematic Representation of the War History
Bogdan Trifunovich
War, Memory and the Politics of Remembrance: Vardar in the poetry of Serbia and Bulgaria 1912-1918
Jasmina Mojsieva-Gusheva
Apocalyptic Visions of Human Destinies in World War I in the Works of Macedonian Writers
Lidija Gjurkovska
The Economic Consequences of the Balkan Wars and World War I on the Industry in Vardar Macedonia
Hall 3, section 1 10.00 to 11.25
Moderators: Vera Gosheva, Vladan Virijevich
Aleksandar Trajanovski
The Massacre in Lipovo at St.Peter day – On the Occasion of 100 Years of the Event
Vladan Virijevich
The Destany of Serbian War Prisoners in the Ottoman Empire during World War I
Vera Gosheva
The days of violenceː Strumica during June-August 1913
Risto Damjanovski
Gotse Delchev`s Contribution in the Development of the Military Organization TMORO and preparation of the uprising
Dragan Gjorgiev
Prosecuting Act of 1913 (the Fate of the Fighters from Vasil Chekalarov`s Band)
Petar Todorov
An Aspect of Inter-community Relationship in Skopje (1890-1908)
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Hall 3, section 2 from 11.40 to 12.35
Moderators: Husnija Kamberovich, Dragica Popovska
Husnija Kamberovich
The Calculation of the War Enemies – Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1945 and Repression of War Losers
Mirjana P. Mirchevska
Balkan Roads of Diversity: The Otherness in the Public Discourse of Macedonia or: the Other through Stereotypes
Magdalena Najbar-Agichich
Historical Researches of WWII in Yugoslavia – the Situation in Croatia in a Broader Yugoslav Context
Ana Petrov
The Balkans to the Balkan People': Evolutionism, Racism and Colonialism in Serbian 'Scholarly' Discourses before World War II
Dragica Popovska
Ideology of one period through the Memorials from World War II
Sonja Nikolova
Metodija Shatorov Sharlo in Macedonian Historiography
LUNCH BREAK 13.00 to 14.00
Hall 3, section 3 from 14.00 to 15.25
Moderators: Snjezhana Koren, Andrej Radulovich
Snjezhana Koren
To Preserve the Lasting Memory for Young Generations": School Names and the Politics of Remembrance in post-1945 Yugoslavia
Zlatko Buka, Goran Dzurdzevich
Discourse Analysis of Croatian History Textbooks: Representation of National Minorities in the Croatian Educational System
Andrej Radulovich
Cultural Heritage in Former Yugoslavia: Its Condition and Changes in Different Circumstances from the Late 19th Century Onwards
Svetozar Boshkov
Military History of Ancient World in Serbian School in 19th Century – Between Hubsburg and Ottomans
Ana Aleksieva
The Heroes of Bulgarian National Movement in the "Grand Narrative" during the Socialist Epoch
Dimitar Atanassov
History and Ideology: Grand Narative Narration Strategies of Bulgarian Medieval History during the Communist Period
Roundtable Hall 1 15:30
Macedonia through historical milestones (1878-1913-2001) – organized by Balkans deparment
Hall 1, section 1 10.00 to 11.25
Moderators: Stoica Lascu, Zekir Ramchilovich
Stoica Lascu
The Settled of Balkan Vlachs in Southern Dobrudja, after 1913 – Causes, Circumstances, Effects
Recep Shkrijelj
Macedonia and the Muhadzirite Bosniak (1912-1915)
Natalya Lapaeva
Russian Emigrants from the First Wave in Macedonia: the Portraits on the Background History
Milos Damjanovich
The Jewish Presence in Kosovo and Metohia during the Balkan Wars and WWI
Zekir Ramchilovich
Migration of Bosniaks in Macedonia after the Second World War
Sergey Vuchkov
The Muslim Population in West Rhodope Mountain in the Second World War and the Beginning of the Cold War
Marjan Ivanovski
Macedonian Immigrant Political Organizations in Western Europe (1956-1990)
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Hall 1, section 2 from 11.40 to 12.35
Moderators: Jure Gombach, Katerina Mirchevska
Liliana Panevska
The Yugoslav Support of the Democratic Army of Greece 1946-1949
Jure Gombach
Children Refugees from Greece in Slovenia 1948-1952.
Katerina Mirchevska
The Roots and the fatherland: Macedonian Refugees from Aegean Macedonia in PR / SR Macedonia (1945-1960)
Jana Kocevska
The Concept of Liminality in Case of Exile during the Civil War in Greece (1946-1949)
Aleksandar Manojlovski
The Issue of Macedonian Refugees from Aegean Macedonia to Bulgaria and their Acceptance in PR Macedonia 1944-1952
Aleksandar Litovski
Macedonians from the Aegean Part of Macedonia and Greece in 1945
LUNCH BREAK 13.00 to 14.00
Hall 1, section 3 from 14.00 to 15.15
Moderators: Bozo Repe, Biljana Vuchetich
Bozo Repe
The Impact of Balkan Wars on Yugoslavism in Slovene Lands
Biljana Vuchetic
The Balkans in the American Public Opinion (1912 – 1913)
Kerec Darja
Balkan Wars and charitable activities in Slovene Lands
Maja Nikolova
Children in War – Serbian Schools in Thessaloniki
Denada Shpuza
If We Want to Create a Constant Peace, We Must Begin from Children
Strasko Stojanovski, Jovan Ananiev
Balkan Wars-Hundred Years Later: The Use of History for the Political Mobilization in the Balkans
Hall 2, section 1 10.00 to 11.25
Moderators: Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska, Ljubica Janceva
Biljana Vankovska
(Im)Possibility of Reconciliation Process in the Balkans
Ljubica Janceva
Arrangement for a Peaceful Solution: Hague Peace Conference for Yugoslavia (1991
Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska
Serbian and Croatian Perception of the "Operation Storm" – August, 1995
Arsiola Dyrmishi
Collective Security in International Peace: Threat or Guarantee?
Sergej Cvetkoski, Goran Zendelovski
Missions of Military Crisis Management of the EU in the Western Balkans: A Guarantee of Peace Agreements and Conflict Resolution
Jovan Bliznakovski
Languages in Conflict: Reflections on the 2001 Armed Conflict in Macedonia
Dora Komnenovich
Anti-War Activism in Yugoslavia in the Early Nineties: An Example of Grassroots Engagement
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Hall 2, section 2 from 11.40 to 12.25
Moderators: Maja Angelevska Panova, Valentina Bozhinovska
Teon Cingo
Macedonian Catholic League
Maja Angelevska Panova
The Phenomenon of Religion versus Religious Fundamentalism
Vlatko Janev
Midrash – a Creative Interpretation of the Bible
Oksana Mykytenko
The Verbal Code of the Recruit Ritual and Seeing-off to the Army: Observation of Text Dynamics
Valentina Bozhinovska
Interreligious and Interconfessional Life in Macedonia
Jasmina Ristovska-Pilichkova
The Wars in Macedonia in the First Half of the 20th Century, Their Impact and the Changes that Occurred in Macedonian Traditional Costume
LUNCH BREAK 13.00 to 14.00
Hall 3, section 1 10.00 to 11.15
Moderators: Silvana Sidorovska-Chupovska, Igor Despot
Cosmin – Constantin Ionita
Imperial Russia and the Balkans at the Edge of the Great War. The Eastern Gambit
Biljana Poposka, Ivanka Dodovska
The Diplomacy of the Balkan States toward the Ottoman Empire in the Beginning of the Balkan Wars
Igor Despot
The Influence of the National Movements of the Balkan Peoples on the Disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Monarch
Silvana Sidorovska-Chupovska
Europe and Macedonia 1913-1919
Bíró, László
Yugoslav Integration and Macedonia (1918–1939)
Jędrzej Paszkiewicz
The Pan-Balkan Cooperation Concept within the Greek Security Policy
during the Period 1930-1934
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Hall 3, section 2 from 11.40 to 12.25
Moderators: Katerina Todorovska, Virgil Coman
Sali Kadria
Conference of Ambassadors of Great Powers in London 1912 – 1913, a Story of Hope or a Disappointment for the Albanians
Katerina Todorovska
The Macedonian-Albanian Cooperation 1878-1913
Albina Drangoli
The Albanian Question in the Secret Treaty of London
Virgil Coman
Documents about Romania's Military Campaign in 1913
Selim Berezaj
Albanian Uprising of September 1913 and the Impact Of Austro-Hungary
Isamedin Azizi
Serbian-Italian Interest for Albania
Hall 3, section 3 14.00-15,25
Moderators: Marko Fuchek, Rubin Zemon
Marko Fuchek
Youth and Violence in Postwar Yugoslavia: Case Study of Delnice Boarding School in 1948
Dejan Donev
Contemporary Ethics and the Question of Peace
Rubin Zemon
100 years after Bucharest Treaty: Politics of Recognition of Identities and Minority Rights in the Balkan States
Miso Netkovski
Journalists and Their Influence in the Creation of Collective Memory through Electronic Media
Neven Radicheski
Some Important Determinants in the Completion of the Macedonian Cultural and National Identity in the Period between 1960 and 1970
Aleksndar Simonovski
The National Liberation Movement vis-a-vis the Ravna Gora Movement regarding the Macedonian people
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In this study we use surface velocities recorded by GPS measurements and block modeling to investigate the active deformation of the Adriatic region, a component of the zone of distributed deformation between the African and Eurasian plates. The region includes the relatively stable Adriatic area (Po Valley, Adriatic Sea and Apulia), surrounded on the eastern, northern and western margins by a mountain belt which includes the Albanides, the Dinarides, the Alps and the Apennines. The southern margin of the Adriatic region, representing the boundary with the African plate, is still undefined. This study was prompted by a need to resolve the uncertainty surrounding the tectonic representation of this area, alternatively viewed as a promontory of North Africa or as a microplate within the Africa-Eurasia plate boundary.
The absence or low level of seismic activity in the Adriatic Sea indicates that its behavior is that of a relatively rigid plate within a deforming region. The bulk motion of the plate can be described as rigid rotation about an Euler pole in North Italy. Fault plane solutions suggest that the motions at the boundaries of the Adriatic area may not reflect directly Africa-Eurasia convergence. Some authors question the existence of an independent Adriatic plate, suggesting that a counterclockwise rotation of the Adriatic block, driven by impingement of the Africa plate against the Calabrian Arc, may explain the major tectonic events in the region, such as the opening of the Tyrrhenian basin, the evolution of the Appennic-Maghrebian chain, the extension in the northern Ionian basin, and the shortening process along the Alps-Dinarides-Ellenides. On order to test the competing tectonic models proposed, we plan to develop a block model of regional deformation. This approach incorporates the secular velocities from GPS, fault geometry estimates and elastic-strain accumulation, making possible to determine how different tectonic hypothesis are compatible with geodetic data.
We employ publicly available GPS observations made at 30 stations of the European Reference Permanent Network (EUREF) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) continuous GPS networks to estimate deformation in the Adriatic region (Figure 31.1). We analyze the data using the GAMIT/GLOBK software in a three step approach described by (McCluski et al, 2000). To improve the realization of a stable reference frame for the velocity solution, additional sites from the International GPS Service (IGS) and EUREF networks are included through the publicly available global regional loosely constrained solutions performed by the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC). Given the small velocities (from 2 to 5 mm/yr) recorded along the Italian peninsula, the choice of the appropriate definition of a stable Eurasian frame of reference may be critical.
The velocities shown in Figure 1 are referenced to the stable Eurasian frame, based on 15 stable sites in Europe and Asia (McCluski et al., 2000). All together, our solution includes data spanning 4 years from 138 stations, including 45 in the Mediterranean area. We incorporate 50 additional sites from publicly available solutions (McCluski et al., 2000) to resolve the deformation in the Eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus. To better assess the real uncertainties of the GPS solutions, we scale the covariances of the daily and monthly average to be consistent with the internal residual scatter of their combinations (i.e., chi-square statistics are approximately 1). These scalings do not compensate for systematic reference frame biases, possible non-Gaussian errors or possible correlations between solutions. Monthly combinations of daily solutions, which tests suggest have white-noise characteristics, provide sufficient observations to obtain robust chi-square statistics on the residuals about the linear trends to properly weight the velocities. We compute velocity solutions using the monthly combinations, and scale the formal errors by the square root of chi-square of the solution. We allow a random walk of 1 mm/yr to take into account possible monument instability.
The active deformation in the Adriatic region (Figure 31.1) is highly variable with velocities decreasing from south (5 mm/yr) to north (2 mm/yr). Preliminary motion estimates (1999-2002) for stations located on the northern edge of the African plate (RABT, LAMP, NOTO, MATR, HELW and MEST) show a north-westward motion (N 232 W) at 61 mm/yr. Sites in Corsica (AJAC) and North-western Italy (ELBA, GENO, TORI, NOVA, UNPG) show no significant deformation, while the stations on the Italian peninsula close to the Adriatic sea (VOLT, VENE, CAME, TREM, ANGE, MATE, SPEC) are characterized by a north-eastward motion (N 293 E) at 51 mm/yr. Stations located on the eastern edge of the Adriatic Sea (GSR1, DUBR, SRJV) move in the same direction (N 237 E) at a somewhat slower rate (31 mm/yr). The northward displacement (N 34 E at 31 mm/yr) of sites in the southern Italian peninsula (TGRC, VLUC) may reflect a transition between the African plate and the Adriatic region.
This work has been partially funded by the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Udine, Italy.
McCluski et al., Global Positioning Constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus, J. Geophys. Res.,105, 5695, 2000.
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Wolves hunting Caribou - Planet Earth - BBC wildlife
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Wolves. For them, finding food on the plains is an even greater challenge.
Not only is their prey seasonal, it's also hard to find.
They've been searching for days without a sign.
Somewhere in this immense landscape, there is food for them.
This is it - Caribou.
Travelling 30 miles a day, they can cover nearly 2,000 miles during the summer months.
The wolves will starve if they don't find the caribou, but it's no easy task to locate prey that never stops traveling.
Biting flies and the quest for new pasture drives the migration ever onwards.
A wolf has finally picked up the trail.
The caribou are close.
At last, a chance.
The hunt is on.
The wolf panics the herd, and the weak and young are singled out.
A calf is separated from it's mother.


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In an effort to squeeze in a little more language learning time, I downloaded many of my Pimsleur lessons into my I-Pod. I listen to them when I walk to campus, the bus or just take one of the babies out for a walk. I also listen to these lessons when I am working out in the gym. When you are short on time, you must think of creative ways of utilizing your time.
If you are not familiar with the Pimsleur method, it is an organic language learning method. I will get into it a little more in another post.
So, on my I-pod I have Korean, Chinese, Italian and Russian. The Italian lessons are too easy, I will be deleting them and looking for something more advanced. Chinese, Korean and Russian will remain.
Korean is a beautiful language in my book. Korean is descended from Proto-Korean, Old Korean, Middle Korean and Modern Korean. There are some arguments as to whether or not it is an Altaic Language. I think it is a lovely language.
As you read more of this blog, you will see that I simply included a series of pictures of the Korean Alphabet and some Korean Words. I know many of you prefer looking at the images rather than reading my boring language diatribes. :--)
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Dr. Kalfas is extremely knowledgeable, caring , and understanding. In my opinion and experiences he is the leading addiction specialist and family doctor in the area. He is a doctor that treats the whole package addressing my on going health issues, mental stability, and addiction issues. He comprehends addictive behavior realizing the distrust often displayed by addicts seeking to truly defeat their demons. Many times addicts are treated poorly and often by the medical professionals they are desperately needing assistance from. Upon my return to him, Dr. Kalfas established that trust not only as family doc but as my potential addition specialist.I was not seeing him for my addiction at that time. Thankfully he had room within a few weeks to do so as I quickly realized he was who should be. I have known Dr. Kalfas since marching band in high school. Funny how God works, I had no ideal he would be the man that saved my life. I thank God daily For people like Dr, Kalfas
Dr Kalfas is a caring and knowledgeable Dr. I really appreciate the fact that he takes the time to listen to what I have to say. He is always very thorough and I can usually get my problem taken care of with 1 visit. I would reccommend him to anyone!
Dr. Kalfas is a wonderful, caring doctor. Since the first time I saw him (which he spent 2 hours with me . . . in the room with me and sincerely interested in me), I have recommended him to everyone. He has an extended knowledge of addiction medicine and has aided in my fight against addiction. He truly cares and doesn't treat me as I've been treated by others, like the typical alcoholic/addict sterotype. If you have a friend or family member battling addiction, he is THE BEST!!!
Dr. Kalfas is a straitshooter that actually is a "care"giver. He not only is my doctor but he really cares for me. He is a very intellegent man that explains the details so the common guy can understand them. He is also a favorite guitar player of mine to boot. I highly recommend him!
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I'm at the halfway point of my reading goal for the year! I wanted to read 40 books by the end of 2014, and I'm at the 20-books point.
One of the best outcomes of this goal so far has been a re-introduction to my local library. When I get sucked in to a book, I generally blast through 200-300 pg books in a couple of days, so getting it from the library vs. buying it is a must both for my pocketbook and my already stuffed bookshelves.
If you're not interested in getting some book recommendations, feel free to skip the rest of this post, otherwise here are a few of my favorite books so far this year (in no particular order):
"The Godfather" by Mario Puzo
I haven't seen the movie, but this dark and intense narrative was a lot of fun to read. It was my first book of 2014, finished on the plane ride back from visiting my parents in Florida. I haven't seen any of the movies yet, which is another reason why I think I enjoyed it so much. Who doesn't like Italian Gangsters? :) It was long enough to last an entire trip, but enough happened in the book that I stayed interested. The only downside of this book is trying to track down the movie now... you'd think someone would own even the VHS of it...
"Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer
This book is the first in a trilogy, and it's one of the more intriguing books I've read this year. I've been on a big post-apocalyptic kick for awhile now, and at least half of the ones I've read of the genre are pretty formulaic (or even just bad). This one is completely different- it takes place in the future United States, but it's pretty vague on a lot of the details about the outside world. It instead focuses on "Area X" and a team of women that are venturing in to record data about the previous failed expeditions and the reason that Area X is quarantined. It does a great job telling the story while keeping the reader in the dark about a lot of pertinent information. The moment I finished it, I jumped online to put my name on the list for the second book, which apparently tells the story from a completely different perspective, and I'm pretty excited for it to come in.
If you like post-apocalyptic fiction, definitely give this one a shot. It's completely different than anything I've read so far- in a good way. :)
"Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith
When the Olympic games took place in Russia, I sought out a fiction book written about the country. This is one of two I got through, and definitely worth the read. Despite the fact that it was 480 pages, I slammed through it in less than a week. It's fast-paced, letting the reader see Russia behind the iron curtain while weaving in a horrific murder investigation in the process. The descriptions of Stalin's Russia are unnerving, chilling, and really make you wonder how much if it is true to fact. Of the murder-mystery books I've read so far, this is by far one of my favorite.
"The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance" by Laurie Garrett
After watching the movie Contagion, I did a little research on disease outbreaks and the unnerving truths of our vulnerability to plagues. This book was at the top of every "to read" list about the topic, so I grabbed this 750-page behemoth from the library. And it. was. AMAZING. I was completely sucked in to the history of plagues and outbreaks, from Yellow Fever to Lassa to the upcoming possibility of super germs that defeat our modern antibiotics. While it's not exactly a great topic to discuss with others all the time (Scott got very sick of hearing about the "disease of the day" that I would be excited to share with him), it's fascinating nonetheless. If you're even mildly curious about the subject, READ IT.
"From the Dragon's Mouth: Ten True Stories that Unveil the Real China" by Ana Fuentes
This was another book that was triggered by the Olympic games back in February. I realized that I didn't know a whole lot about China, and when this book showed up on the "New Arrival" shelf at the library, I thought it would be an intriguing introduction to a country that I really don't know much about. The short-story format is the perfect way to show ten completely different facets of China- it had everything from a teenage social blogger to a migrant work living in a basement in Beijing. Comparing one story to the next is part of the genius of this book, and Fuentes tells it in such an informative yet captivating manner that you're never bored.
"Hyperbole and a Half" by Allie Brosch
I've read Allie Brosch's online comics before, and her simple drawings coupled with hilarious life situations have had me in tears before from laughing so hard (this story in particular had me barely breathing I was laughing so hard). When she finally came out with a book, I was please to see that it contained some of my favorite comics as well as a whole bunch of brand new stories. She does great telling funny stories alongside of tackling hard issues, like her own fight with depression. All the stories are illustrated, and I had a great night reading through them.
Halfway through.
If you have any suggestions for me, let me know in the comments below! Otherwise I'm plowing onward... :)


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The Overload Shuffle starting positions are the same as the Deweyville Shuffle with the exception of the feeder. The feeder will start in the ballside low post. In this variation of the Overload Shuffle we use the movement of the Deweyville Shuffle for the second cutter, you could use the movement of the Drake Shuffle for the second cutter as well.
Diagram 112: Shows the initial alignment of the Overload Shuffle. On the pass to the point by the first cutter, the feeder moves from block to block and then pops out as he does in the Deweyville Shuffle. The point will swing the ball to the feeder.
Diagram 113: The first cutter cuts off the screen set by the post, through the lane and to the second cutter position. The second cutter moves up to his position beside the post.
Diagram 114: After the first cutter clears the post screen the second cutter uses the post screen and cuts to the post position on ballside.
Diagram 115: After the second cutter clears the post's screen the point moves down to screen for the post. The post will cut off the point's screen and move to the point position. After the post clears the point's screen the point rolls to the ballside low post position/
Diagram 116: We are now set to run the shuffle back to the other side of the court.


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Couple of outtakes from my recent photoshoot with little Miss Vi - I like to think in this photo she is trying to say something along the lines of 'I love you Auntie Penny!' (although it is probably more like 'Ooh! Shiny camera!'
In this photo I was thinking a little pile of bibs in the background could look cool and natural and a bit arty. Hmm. (In reality it is just the pile of dribbled on bibs. Yes, aspiring models, if you dribble on the clothes and accessories you get to keep them!)
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Posted by Penny on Monday, September 10, 2012
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- Holli said...
Very gorgeous baby in some very gorgeous dribble bibs. We are a fan at my house! I have more than enough washing with teething twins so dribble bibs are a huge help!
- September 10, 2012 11:25 am
Still look good, with or without dribble!
- September 23, 2012 12:13 am
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SYNOPSIS: Welcome to the Death Race, where hardened convicts and smoking-hot navigators race tricked-out cars in the most twisted spectator sport on Earth! Sentenced to the world's most dangerous prison for a murder he did not commit, Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) has only one chance to get out alive – win the ultimate race to the death. Also starring Tyrese Gibson, Death Race is a "supercharged, sick and satisfying" (Nathan Lee, The New York Times) ride that will keep you pinned to your seat all the way to its insane, metal-crushing end!
Theatrical Studio: Universal
Theatrical Release: 8/22/2008
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Street Date: June 25, 2013
1 Hour 51 Minutes
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Many parents dealing with teens' extreme behaviors feel they're at the end of their rope.
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Many parents dread the holiday season as they struggle with troubled teens who tune them out and engage in dangerous activities, leaving the parents worried and isolated. Rather than celebrating the holiday season, parents are concerned about teens abusing drugs and alcohol, committing crimes, dropping-out and running away from home.
Marcia Stein PHR said, "The holiday season brings out unrealistic expectations about family life and can be painful for parents dealing with troubled teens. It's easy to feel isolated, that you're a failure as a parent, but the truth is that many parents dealing with teens' extreme behaviors feel they're at the end of their rope. Some problems can be managed with improved parenting skills and others require professional help."
"Many teens have such severe issues they literally do not have any family ties. It's heartbreaking for families." Stein said. "We have to work on the problems by first shedding light on them and then working through the issues when we can. Not all teens and parents can find an immediate cure, sometimes the teen needs to make his or her mistakes and grow from them. Parents need information and resources and have to find a way to be patient and cope."
The author of a recently published book, Strained Relations: Help for Struggling Parents of Troubled Teens, Stein interviewed parents and professionals, obtaining stories, resources and information for parents and those in the role of parents. Stein created a blog with resources and observations about parenting difficult teens, and the community is invited to contribute. A sample of the book is available for download at http://www.tellmeaboutyourself.info/index_files/Strained_Relations.htm.
About Marcia Stein, PHR
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This recipe well…I have done so many ways that the recipe changes each time. I think I will continue to try to perfect it as I go and maybe update or do a new post if I find an even better way to make this. This version is tasty and also not loaded with all the heavy cream some other recipes have (not that I see anything wrong with that- I mean look at my blog) Instead you are using chicken broth and flour as a thickening agent.
Anyway, these enchiladas were introduced to me by my sister Janine, so I kind of took it upon myself to make some changes and adjustments. The recipe is quick and can also be made with things in your pantry and fridge by substituting some ingredients
- 10 soft flour tortillas*
- 2 cups cooked shredded chicken (I used a rotisserie chicken)
- 2 cups shredded cheese (I used the Mexican blend)
- 1 tomato diced
- 1 can hominy drained
- 1/4 cup cilantro roughly chopped
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup sour cream (you could sub for Greek yogurt as well)
- 1 (4 ounce) can diced green chilies
- salt and pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×13 pan.
- Mix chicken and 1 cup cheese, tomatoes, cilantro (reserve some for topping if you would like) and hominy in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- In a sauce pan, melt butter, stir in flour and cook 1 minute. Add broth and whisk until smooth. Heat over medium heat until thick and bubbly.
- In the meantime fill your tortillas with the mix and place into a baking pan nice and tight so the tortillas don't open up during the cooking process
- Back to your liquid- stir in sour cream and chilies. Do not get your liquid too hot as the sour cream can curdle
- Pour over enchiladas and top with the rest of the cheese.
- Bake 22 min and then under high broil for 3 min to brown the cheese.
*Side note- Tortillas- wheat, multi-grain, corn up to you, corn is a bit more difficult to maneuver. Size is also up to you I use the medium burrito size and I use La Favorita because they are locally owned which I love, and I think they make a great product.
I made extra filling so I ended up freezing it and using it later on. I suggest not freezing the sauce as it doesn't have a great consistency after reheating. I also had a little avocado and Cholula to add some heat and flavor!
Hope you enjoy. Salud!


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Derived from NASA satellite data, the new service provides daily online access to reports on six water quality parameters at 250-meter to 1-kilometer spatial resolution.
This daily service is offered to the organizations rwho are esponsible for monitoring and maintaining the condition of coastal and offshore waters—environmental agencies, energy producers, desalination operators, marine engineering firms, and dredging companies.
"We can further improve the accuracy of the standard NASA data by calibrating each data set to local water conditions," said Proteus CEO David Critchley. "The easy-to-read reports are available online or can be delivered in PDF formats via email. If an offshore infrastructure construction project is responsible for excessive water turbidity, the engineering company has to remediate the problem quickly,. Likewise, desalination and power plants need to take precautionary actions if too much suspended sediment or sudden algal blooms are spotted near their operations. "The sensors typically provide water quality details to a depth of three meters, depending on water column clarity."
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Nevada Department of Public Safety has issued a series of tips for
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Appeal reported recently.
a phone survey conducted earlier this year, the department found
that while the majority of Nevada residents think truckdrivers are
safe drivers, most feel anxiety when driving near a truck, the newspaper
of the tips stressed trucks' many blind spots, as well as the larger
distance they need to stop in emergency situations.
July 1 through Oct. 26, the department will carry out a safety campaign
titled "Keep Nevada Trucking: Avoid the No-Zone." The effort
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Archive for May, 2012
Campaign spending illustration
Here's an illustration I did for Bloomberg Businessweek re. Obama and Romney's campaign spending.
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(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)
This is an idea that has been floating around in my head for a few months, and for obvious reasons, I got around to realising it this weekend.
Each dot represents one word of the song. The colours represent who is saying that word.
Sometimes, I'm asked if there are prints of my work available; I don't normally do that sort of thing, but on the off-chance that you would like a print of this graphic, I'm providing a hi-res TIFF (254 x 321 mm / 10 x 12.6 inches; zipped file; 18.1MB) that you can download and have printed.
You don't have to pay for it—-I certainly don't want to profit from it-—but if you do want to download and print it, it would be nice if you would consider donating something to a cancer charity.
Here are some links to cancer charities in different countries.
If your home country is not listed, and you want to donate, just do some Googlin',
and do it that way (and if you do do that, please email me (craig AT flipflopflyin DOT com)
and let me know which charity you used, and I can add it to the list.)
Canada: cancer.ca
Germany: kinderkrebsstiftung.de
Mexico: amlcc.org
UK: cancerresearchuk.org
USA: cancer.org
Here's the Mediafire link to the hi-res file: fightforyourright.zip
Chris Brown is
Chris Brown is so sexyy
Chris brown is fucking sexy.
Chris Brown is so damn sexy!
Chris brown is tooo damn sexy …
Chris brown is sooo hot
Chris Brown is so fuckin hot
Chris Brown is Soo Hot<3 Chris Brown is pretty hot. chris brown is so fineeeeee! Chris Brown is fiiiinnneeeee as hell Chris Brown is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodamn fine :) Chris Brown Is Some Fine Caramel!! Chris Brown is in the building Chris brown is in the building Chris Brown is on the building! chris brown is in the boulding. Chris Brown is the king of Pop. Chris Brown is the prince of RnB!! Chris Brown is a really good dancer Chris Brown is like jesus to me. chris brown is a singer Chris brown is perfecto! <3 Chris Brown is oh so soothing Chris Brown is a modern day Sisqo Chris Brown is my idol. Chris Brown is my role model Chris brown is really an inspiration. Chris Brown is the master of my soul! Chris Brown is a worthless fucking scumbag All lines from this poem culled from searching "Chris Brown is" on Twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/search/chris%20brown%20is
Note: it feels like picking low-hanging fruit to do a Twitter search poem of the things said about Chris Brown. He's a moderately talented musician, a pretty good dancer, and, it would seem, a hideous human being. But he has a lot of fans, many of whom are more than willing to overlook his failings as a person simply because he is physically attractive.
More Twitter search poems here.
Pigging out
pigging out on Moroccan food
Pigging out on Cambodian
pigging out on Mexican
pigging out on Indian!!
pigging out on a burrito
Pigging out on pizza
Pigging out on noodles
pigging out on fajitas
pigging out on brownies
Pigging out on Chinese
Pigging out on strawberrys
Pigging out on some Portuguese cheese
pigging out on Wendy's
Pigging out on burger King
Pigging out on Mcdonalds
pigging out on buffalo wings
pigging out on porfiteroles
pigging out on cupcakes
pigging out on oreos
Pigging out on chocolate and milkshake
pigging out on spagetti on toast!
pigging out on subway
pigging out on Mac and Cheese
pigging out at a buffet
Pigging out on mangoes!
Pigging out on fruit
pigging out on cereal
pigging out on froot loops
Pigging out on leftovers
Pigging out on sushi
pigging out on a huge cheese plate
pigging out on KFC!
pigging out on curry
pigging out on pizza hut
pigging out on bacon
pigging out on donuts
pigging out on nacho's!
pigging out on apple pie
pigging out on cheesy puffs
pigging out on french fries
Pigging out on pickled onions.
pigging out on soda
pigging out on dim sum
pigging out on the sofa.
More Twitter search poems here.
You know what's awesome?
You know what's awesome? Cheese.
You know what's awesome? Leaving work early.
You know what's awesome? Being a virgin.
You know what's awesome? Elbow sweat.
you know what's awesome? jello shots.
You know what's awesome? Magical unicorns.
You know what's awesome? Earth Wind & Fire.
You know what's not awesome? A papercut on your knuckle.
You know what's awesome? My mom
You know what's awesome? My new phone
You know what's awesome? My spider-man blanket
You know what's awesome? Nothing.
you know what's awesome? Mustaches.
you know what's awesome? DINNER.
You know what's awesome? Lightsabers.
You know what's awesome? Kicking dudes.
you know what's awesome? life
you know what's awesome? kitties.
You know what's awesome? Nothing.
you know what's awesome? Me!
Poem edited from searching for the above term on three separate dates: 4th August 2010, 17th May 2011, and 7th May 2012.
More Twitter search poems here.
Rubik's Cube
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A little GIF
Sad news. Here's a little pixel-y animated GIF I made in 2004, of a part of the "Ch-Check it Out" video.
Bored bird board beard braid brand bread breed bride broad brood
I like this house
There's something very appealing about old futuristic houses that are in a less-than-perfect, slightly crumbly, state of repair. This is in Puebla, Mexico.
TV announcer for the Tampa Bay Rays was reading my book on the telly last night. I is prouds.
Two quick reviews of concerts
Radiohead, Foro Sol, 18 April 2012.
It was good to hear There There, but aside from that, they were average. They need to get out of their arses and realise the glitchy songs don't really have a place when you're playing to a jillion thousand people in a baseball stadium. But then, I thought their last album was shit, and they played a bunch of songs off it, so, y'know. I got drunk, though, so that was good.
Pulp, Palacio de Los Deportes, 23 April 2012
Way way way better than Radiohead. First time they've ever played in Mexico. Crowd so into it. And it's rare I feel any patriotic pride for my home nation, but there was something so amazing about hearing songs with lyrics about things which seem so local, so British – woodchip on the wall, for example – being sung by 10,000 Mexicans. I got drunk again.


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by Pamela Foster, DowntonAbbeyCooks.comThe end of Downton is near…of Season 3 that is. There is only one episode left so this will be my last installment of The Weekly Downton Dish. Season 4 will return sometime in 2014, but there are plenty of books about the show/this era to help give you comfort during "Downton Downtime". If you love to cook, feel free to keep in touch at www.downtonabbeycooks.com. I continue to offer a new recipe each week. 'Tis the season for garden parties, and wouldn't it be lovely to add a touch of Downton charm to your gathering?
We were treated this past week to an extra helping of delicious Downton drama. Mr. Bates is finally freed from prison, and he and Anna have set up house together as a happily married couple. Thomas, the cat with nine lives, manages to survive yet another crisis with help from Mr. Bates. The impulsive Lady Rose comes to visit, and there is a hint that Mary and Matthew may soon be expecting a child of their own. The Dowager successfully manages to reunite Ethel with her son Charlie, rid the Crawley house of scandal, and put Isobel's nose out of joint all with one clever plan. Jarvis quits, leaving an opening for Tom to replace him as land agent. Tom and Matthew can now work together to revitalize the running of Downton operations. Eventually Robert comes around to their way of thinking. It only takes Tom's speech on pooling talents, and the annual cricket match, to bring him round.
During Downton Downtime our minds will likely wander to thoughts about Season 4. If you follow casting news you know that some characters will not be returning, and new characters will be introduced. I tend to agree with Elizabeth McGovern (Cora) about spoilers. She put it this way in a recent interview: we know what is going to happen to Hamlet, but we still enjoy coming out to see the play. If you don't follow the spoilers, you can still use history as your guide. We know that Downton will have to learn to cope with the new world order. The 1920s was an era of great change. World War I helped seal the fate of the British Empire, and privileged aristocratic ways of thinking. Increased taxation and the collapse of land values meant this generation was more likely to live in the city than country. Women worked during the war, and then, were given the right to vote, thus gaining more independence. Traditional dreams that parents had for their daughters suddenly did not match the reality of their lives. The world was theirs to discover.
Of course, we are all rooting for Matthew's plans to succeed which will ensure financial security for the Crawley family, while other aristocratic families around them are forced to sell. I hope Edith will embrace her career and give up on her silly quest for marriage just to fit in. I would hate to see Daisy leave Downton, but is life in service really in her best interest as a young woman in a new world filled with opportunity? At least Mr. Mason's farm is her Plan B. I do hope that John Bates will stay at Downton, perchance to start a family with Anna. A new generation of privileged Crawleys may very well grow up untouched by the new world in their protective Downton bubble, but the outside world does have a way of creeping in. In the end, the fate of our beloved characters resides with Julian Fellowes, the show's creator.
The final episode of the season will feature a family trip to the Scottish Highlands. This week's Downton Dish is Cullen Skink, a traditional Scottish soup which would have been served in the servant's hall. Enjoy.
This Week's Downton Dish: Cullen Skink
Cullen Skink is a quick milk based soup, named for Cullen, a town in Northern Scotland. Originally it was a broth made from beef shins, but converted to smoked haddock in the 1890s as Cullen Harbour had become the thriving centre of herring fishing, and the village started specializing in the production of smoked haddock. Affordable and plentiful.
- 4 fillets of smoked haddock, cut or torn into small pieces
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 7 cups of milk (skim will have lower fat)
- 4 tbsp. of non fat plain strained yoghurt
- 1 tbsp. butter or oil
- 2 tsp. cornstarch
- 4 medium potatoes (peeled, partly boiled and diced)
- fresh chives, chopped to garnish
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan, add the onion and smoked haddock and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Add the potatoes and milk, and bring to a boil.
- Mix the cornstarch with the yoghurt and mix into the pot.
- Cook for 2 or 3 minutes until thoroughly combined and heated through.
- Garnish with the chives and serve.
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An A2Aadenosine receptor agonist, ATL313, reduces inflammation and improves survival in murine sepsis models
© Moore et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008
- Received: 09 June 2008
- Accepted: 20 October 2008
- Published: 20 October 2008
The pathophysiology of sepsis is due in part to early systemic inflammation. Here we describe molecular and cellular responses, as well as survival, in A2A adenosine receptor (AR) agonist treated and untreated animals during experimental sepsis.
Sepsis was induced in mice by intraperitoneal inoculation of live bacteria (Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Mice inoculated with live bacteria were treated with an A2A AR agonist (ATL313) or phosphate buffered saline (PBS), with or without the addition of a dose of ceftriaxone. LPS inoculated mice were treated with ATL313 or PBS. Serum cytokines and chemokines were measured sequentially at 1, 2, 4, 8, and 24 hours after LPS was administered. In survival studies, mice were followed until death or for 7 days.
There was a significant survival benefit in mice infected with live E. coli (100% vs. 20%, p = 0.013) or S. aureus (60% vs. 20%, p = 0.02) when treated with ATL313 in conjunction with an antibiotic versus antibiotic alone. ATL313 also improved survival from endotoxic shock when compared to PBS treatment (90% vs. 40%, p = 0.005). The serum concentrations of TNF-α, MIP-1α, MCP-1, IFN-γ, and IL-17 were decreased by ATL313 after LPS injection (p < 0.05). Additionally, ATL313 increased the concentration of IL-10 under the same conditions (p < 0.05). Circulating white blood cell concentrations were higher in ATL313 treated animals (p < 0.01).
Further studies are warranted to determine the clinical utility of ATL313 as a novel treatment for sepsis.
- Ceftriaxone
- Adenosine Receptor
- Experimental Sepsis
- Endotoxemic Mouse
- A2AAR Agonist
Approximately 900,000 cases of sepsis occur annually in the United States, causing roughly 210,000 deaths and costing almost 17 billion dollars [1]. The overwhelming inflammation that occurs along with infection during sepsis has been the target of several therapeutic interventions [2]. Unfortunately, despite successful treatment in animal models, antibody neutralization of individual components of this inflammation has not proved beneficial for the majority of patients in clinical sepsis trials [3].
Tissue hypoxia, as occurs in sepsis, enhances breakdown of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to adenosine monophosphate (AMP), which is then dephosphorylated by the cytosolic 5'nucloeotidase to adenosine [4]. Adenosine can bind to four G protein coupled receptors, A1, A2A, A2B, and A3. The A2A adenosine receptor (AR) is present on inflammatory cells including neutrophils, mast cells, monocytes, macrophages, eosinophils, platelets, and T-cells, and is involved in anti-inflammatory activities [5]. Activation of A2A ARs results in an increase in cyclic AMP concentration in inflammatory cells which is increased further by concurrent type IV phosphodiesterase inhibitors. A2AAR agonists decrease superoxide production in neutrophils, degranulation of neutrophils, TNF-α production by monocytes and macrophages, and neutrophil-endothelial cell adherence [6]. Death occurs in mice deficient for Adora2a, the A2A AR gene, after exposure to Concanavalin A liver injury within 8 hours compared to complete survival in wild-type mice. Pro-inflammatory cytokines are present in higher concentrations in Adora2a -/- mice when compared to wild-type mice. Similar findings are observed in experimental animals exposed to LPS [7].
To assess the broad applicability of A2A AR agonists, specifically ATL313, in the treatment of experimental sepsis due to different infections we contrasted survival results in mice challenged with a gram-negative (Escherichia coli) vs. gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) pathogen or purified LPS. T cells are increasingly recognized as important in the pathogenesis of experimental and clinical sepsis [8]. Cytokine expression, inflammation, and therefore outcomes may differ during experimental sepsis depending upon the mouse strain and its T cell repertoire. This may have implications for sepsis therapy including ATL313. Therefore, we used a mouse strain, C57BL/6, with a predominantly Th1 phenotype and a mouse strain, Balb/C, with a predominantly Th2 phenotype to see if there were differences in outcomes based on underlying T cell phenotypes [9].
Sepsis starts as a process of intravascular inflammation mediated by pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines including TNF-α, MIP-1α, MCP-1, IFN-γ, and IL-17 as well as anti-inflammatory cytokines, e.g. IL-10 [10]. Therefore, to better understand the underlying protective effect of A2A AR agonists, we evaluated cytokines in animals undergoing experimental sepsis with and without the addition of ATL313. ATL313 is a hundred fold more selective for the A2A AR than for the A1 AR and twenty fold more selective than for the A3 AR. Furthermore, ATL313 is more selective and has a longer half-life (approximately 30 minutes in rodents) than its A2A AR agonist predecessors. The A2A AR agonists are potentially useful therapeutic agents because, unlike nonspecific AR agonists, A2A AR agonists do not induce hypotension [11]. We also studied the peripheral blood of the animals to assess the impact of an A2A AR agonist on circulating white blood cell concentrations.
Female C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice (≅20 g; Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, ME) were housed at 68–72°F with a 12 h light/dark cycle, fed standard laboratory food and water ad libitum, and were kept under specific pathogen-free conditions. The protocol used in this study was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of Virginia.
Reagents and drugs
LPS (E. coli O111:B4) was purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO). The A2A AR agonist, ATL313, (4-{3-(6-amino-9-(5-cyclopropylcarbamoyl-3,4-dihydroxytetrahydrofuran-2-yl)-9H-purin-2-yl)prop-2-ynyl}piperidine-1-carboxylic acid methyl ester) was supplied by Adenosine Therapeutics, LLC (Charlottesville, VA). Ketamine and xylazine were purchased from Vedco, Inc., (St. Joseph, MO). In all cases vehicle used was phosphate buffered saline (PBS).
Dose effect
The appropriate dose of ATL313 for survival studies was determined by a dose response curve where increasing doses of ATL313 (5–200 μg/kg) were administered every 6 hours to female BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice after the intraperitoneal (IP) injection of a lethal dose of O111:B4 LPS (20 mg/kg). A similar dose response curve was used to determine the optimal dose of LPS for BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice.
Survival studies
Female C57BL/6 mice were inoculated with 1 × 108 colony forming units (CFU) live K12, O26:B6 E. coli or 8 × 108 CFU S. aureus at t = 0 and inoculated with the A2A AR agonist, ATL313 (5 μg/kg), or PBS, at t = 8, and then every 6 hours spanning 48 hours. To determine an optimal dosing interval, ATL313 was administered every 12 hours spanning 48 hours for S. aureus inoculated mice. A dose of ceftriaxone (25 mg/kg; t = 8) was given to a subset of treated and control mice to create a total of four experimental groups (bacterial infection + PBS; bacterial infection + ATL313; bacterial infection + Ceftriaxone; bacterial infection + ATL313 + Ceftriaxone). Female BALB/c mice were also tested in the E. coli model (data not shown). Female BALB/c mice undergoing endotoxemia were injected IP with LPS one half hour prior to injection with ATL313 (5 μg/kg) or PBS which occurred at t = 0 and every 6 hrs thereafter, for a total of eight doses spanning 48 hours (N = 20–29 per group). To provide equal fluid resuscitation in the setting of sepsis, all injections were I mL in volume. Moribund mice were anesthetized using ketamine and xylazine and euthanized via cervical dislocation.
Time course studies
Female C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice were injected intraperitoneally (IP) with O111:B4 LPS and ATL313 or PBS as described above. Experimental and control animals were sequentially sacrificed at times 1, 2, 4, 8, and 24 hours after LPS injection. The mice were anesthetized with ketamine and xylazine and killed by cervical dislocation. Immediately prior to sacrifice the animal underwent cardiac puncture and ventricular blood was aspirated for white blood cell analysis via the Hemavet 850 veterinary multi-species hematology system (Drew Scientific, Inc., Oxford, CT) and future cytokine analysis.
Cytokine quantification
Cytokine investigations were carried out using a protein bead-based multiplex immunoassay system (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA). With this system we are able to measure IL-1α and β, TNF-α, IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-3, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12 p40 and p70, IL-17, KC, MIP-1α, and RANTES through use of pre-packaged bead arrays. This panel allows for evaluation of early and late appearing as well as pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines.
Statistical analysis
Statistical comparisons of cytokine values were done by a 2 tailed Student's t-Test (Microsoft Excel software, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA). Survival data were plotted and the survival curves compared with a log-rank test (GraphPad PRISM software, San Diego, CA). Data are displayed as means ± SEM unless otherwise stated. Differences were considered significant at p < 0.05.
ATL313 improves survival in three sepsis models
ATL313 influences circulating cytokine concentrations after LPS challenge
ATL313 increases peripheral white blood cell concentrations in endotoxemic mice
This study documents: 1) a survival benefit with administration of ATL313 during live E. coli and S. aureus sepsis (in conjunction with an antibiotic) and in LPS-induced sepsis; 2) a decrease of TNF-α, MIP-1α, MCP-1, IFN-γ, and IL-17 blood concentrations in animals receiving A2A AR agonists with a concordant increase in IL-10 concentrations; and 3) a relative increase in circulating peripheral blood leukocyte concentrations in mice receiving ATL313 when compared to controls. The first observation bears on the generalizability of our observations to different etiologies of sepsis, including both gram positive and gram negative infections, while the latter two emphasize the mechanism(s) of protection. While these results are encouraging, further work is needed to prove the efficacy of these compounds in clinical sepsis and other models of sepsis including cecal ligation and puncture.
In our murine model of LPS-induced sepsis, TNF-α blood concentrations rise rapidly and are profoundly decreased by the co-administration of an A2A AR agonist, ATL313. We have previously shown that the administration of an A2A AR agonist up to 24 hours after LPS challenge is still protective (i.e. improved survival) when TNF-α concentrations in blood have returned to baseline; therefore the benefit cannot be attributed to effects on TNF-α alone [12]. Given the same argument, it is unlikely that the decrease in MIP-1α, MCP-1, IFN-γ or IL-17 completely explains the protective efficacy of A2A AR agonists in experimental murine sepsis. However, the effect of A2A AR agonists on multiple cytokines is encouraging, since the clinical presentation of sepsis in humans is highly variable with regard to the cytokine cascade, but other as yet undetermined targets may play a role as well.
Inoculation of experimental animals with TNF-α alone reproduces many of the fundamental pathophysiologic alterations typical of sepsis [13]. In vivo, TNF-α alters endothelium and is a potent chemoattractant for neutrophils which contributes to the pathology of venous thromboses, arteriosclerosis, vasculitis, and disseminated intravascular coagulation [14, 15]. By decreasing TNF-α expression, A2A AR agonists may decrease neutrophil recruitment and therefore inflammatory damage to the endothelium. This conjecture is bolstered by the increased number of neutrophils in the circulation of mice treated with ATL313 after LPS challenge. Our findings are mirrored by in vitro and in vivo work which revealed that A2A AR agonists decreased neutrophil extravasation and their release of oxidative and non-oxidative products in experimental gram negative bacterial meningitis and S. aureus septic arthritis [16, 17].
Cytokines can cause inflammation via upregulation of other pro-inflammatory cytokines in the case of TNF-α, MIP-1α and IL-17, modulation of T-cells by IFN-γ, and activation of monocytes by MCP-1 [18–21]. These pro-inflammatory mechanisms result in recruitment and activation of neutrophils, NK cells, and macrophages which produce deleterious reactive oxygen species and lysosomal enzymes [22–25]. TNF-α, MIP-1α, MCP-1, and IFN-γ have been measured in patients with sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome and are correlated with poor outcomes [14, 26, 27]. Antibodies to MIP-1α, IL-17, and IFN-γ have ameliorative in vivo effects in animal sepsis studies [28–32]. As in the case of TNF-α, A2A AR agonists down-regulate the expression of MIP-1α, MCP-1, IFN-γ, and IL-17 with a concurrent survival benefit.
While pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α, MIP-1α, MCP-1, IFN-γ, and IL-17 increase the inflammatory response, anti-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-10 temper this response. IL-10 is produced primarily by Th-2 cells and decreases concentrations of TNF-α by degrading cytokine mRNA [33]. IFN-γ production is thought to be inhibited by IL-10 in a more indirect manner through the suppression of IL-12 production [34].
IL-10 reduces the release of TNF-α into the circulation which hinders the development of a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and this correlates with an increase in survival [35–38]. We have found that elevated IL-10 and decreased TNF in the first few hours of experimental sepsis is correlated with increased survival. It is possible that the decrease in pro-inflammatory cytokines occurs as a direct result of the increase in IL-10 when an animal is treated with ATL313. Given the changes in IL-10 expression in endotoxemic mice after treatment with an A2A AR agonist in C57BL/6 mice, we studied survival in a predominantly Th2 T-lymphocyte populated mouse, e.g. BALB/c. Again, we showed a significant survival benefit in these animals treated with an A2A AR agonist after live E. coli or LPS O111:B4 injection.
Therefore, the benefit of ATL313 in these sepsis models is equally beneficial in mice with a Th1 or Th2 phenotype, perhaps implying that ATL313 and similar compounds exert their anti-inflammatory effect through modification of the innate immune system. We are actively pursuing this line of investigation. Additionally, targeting individual cytokines alone has not been clinically successful, but a more pluripotent approach such as is offered by A2A AR agonists may be more successful. The influence of A2A AR agonists on late mediators including triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM-1) and High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) should be investigated and is the subject of our ongoing research efforts.
Collectively, we have shown that the effect of A2A AR agonists spans different mouse strains, different LPS preparations, as well as different formulations of A2A AR agonists. We also investigated a model of S. aureus sepsis and saw a survival benefit after treatment with ATL313 and ceftriaxone when compared to ceftriaxone alone. A2A AR agonists provide an avenue to study the inflammation due to sepsis and should be considered for clinical interventions in septic patients. Ultimately, it will be important to delineate which cytokines and cells are the effectors of this anti-inflammatory effect.
This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants 1K08AI65461-01A1, AI13685-02, R44 A13685-02, and R42 AI46852-02
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Example: The company gives experienced employees very high salaries.
4. perk / pɜrk / (n.) – an additional benefit or privilege
Example: Free lunch is one of the company's perks.
5. passionate / ˈpæʃ ə nɪt / (adj.) – having strong feelings for and interest in something
Example: She worked hard to be a musician because she is very passionate about music.
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Google ranked number one on Business Insider's list of the 50 best companies to work for in the United States.
The business news website teamed up with PayScale Inc., a website specializing in gathering information on compensation and salary, and ranked companies from the 2015 Fortune 500 based on six criteria. The Fortune 500 is a list of the 500 highest-earning companies in the United States.
The six criteria include high job satisfaction rates, low work stress levels, employees' ability to work from home, job meaning or the company's impact on the world, average salary for experienced staff, and salary appropriateness.
Google emerged at the top of the list because of the several perks it offers to its employees. The giant tech company offers employees several perks that boost their level of satisfaction, including long vacation leaves, free fitness classes, and even free gourmet food. The company also allows its employees to use 20% of their time to work on projects that they are passionate about.
Aside from Google, the list also included 13 other tech companies. Among these is last year's number one company, Facebook, which dropped to the fifth spot this year. However, Facebook still remains as the company with the highest score in job satisfaction rates, with 97% of its employees reporting high satisfaction with their job.
Aside from tech companies, several health and pharmaceutical companies also made it to the list, with three of them in the top 10. Among these is second-placer Bristol-Myers Squibb, which manufactures drugs for illnesses like cancer and HIV/AIDS.
Employees of pharmaceutical companies reported that they perceive their job as very meaningful. Pharmaceutical employees also receive great health benefits from their companies.
【Viewpoint Discussion】
Enjoy a discussion with your tutor.
Discussion A
· What is the importance of being satisfied with the company you work in? Discuss.
· Is it necessary for an employee to share the same vision as his/her company? Explain.
Discussion B
· What do you think is the most important factor in employee retention?
· What are the possible factors that might make an employee want to leave a company?


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