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Here was an Artist whose career strongly reflected the dramatic era in which he lived and worked. Paul lived in Connecticut, but when he was chairman of the Department of Interior's 'Artist in the Parks' program, Paul traveled widely throughout the West. According to Paul, "The portrayal of Western Art is not a romantic adventure, but a realistic challenge - a personal commitment to portray Americas past."
Calles magnificent art portrayed the human spirit, paying tribute to the trailblazers. Whether it was the first astronauts or those largely forgotten and unsung heroes, the North American trappers of the early 1800's. These were the men who blazed trails through mountains, navigated unnamed rivers, and trapped in lonely streams and meadows. Despite their rough existence, they carried the Bible and Shakespeare with them to read around the campfire at day's end. They lived solitary lives, and most of them died unknown, before the age of 35, with records of their exploits, discoveries and stories unrecorded. The style of Calle celebrated their quiet courage and rugged dignity amid the frontier wilderness. Not only was he able to envision how scenes from their lives might have looked, but he rendered his visions with elaborate detail and historical accuracy.
His art filled a void in our visual history. With his pencils and his oils, he captured scenes that preceded film, with results that no camera could ever duplicate. NASA recognized Calles unique ability to interpret history. In the sixties, he was commissioned to document America's early space missions. Millions witnessed those historic moments when man first set foot on the moon. They watched as shadowy black-and-white images of the astronauts bobbed across their televisions in 1969. But with his mind's eye, Calle saw the moment in color. His painting, "The Great Moment" conveys its magnitude, capturing not only the image, but the emotion as well.
He chronicled many behind the scenes space launch images and captured for posterity artistic interpretations of the events to give a human touch to the mechanical photos and video. He was the only artist allowed to shadow the Apollo 11 crew on the morning of their launch of this historic flight, resulting in a portfolio the cameras never saw.
Calle painted man in relation to his environment, moments when man pauses, alone, to consider his surroundings. "The faces tell the story," he said. Like a good book, the art of Paul Calle draws you in, to experience the moment. "My paintings convey a certain period of history. Collectors tell me that they feel that they could be there; that they could be sitting around the campfire in 'Fireside Companions' or in the scene with 'The Storyteller of the Mountains'. They're buying an emotional feeling. I convey what I see, and it attracts them to my work."
His painstaking attention to detail involved hours of research, collecting historic artifacts and retracing the footsteps of his subjects, all before committing the scene to pencil on paper or oil on panel. Still, Calle, a disciplined artist and a perfectionist, was never completely satisfied with his spectacular results.
You can view and purchase his signed Lithographs, etchings, and Giclee art at Knottywood Treasures by going to: "View and Purchase Art" .
Calles art is well known throughout the U.S. as well as in the former Soviet Union, Sweden and Poland. His work can be found in both corporate and private collections and in the permanent collections of several institutions such as The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Hes received top honors such as the Nona Jean Hulsey Buyers Choice Award at the Prix de West Invitational.
Billions of pieces of Paul's artwork have been purchased and viewed all over the world but few people know him as the artist. Paul was an internationally renowned stamp designer of many United States stamp designs. To see an illustrated listing of his stamp designs go to: "Paul Calle Stamp Designs". It's not unusual for 20 or 30 million copies of a postage stamp to be printed; therefore a stamp artist's work may be the most reproduced artwork of any kind in the world. There were 150 Billion stamps produced for his design for the 10c First Man on the Moon Stamp, Scott catalog number C76.
Calle had designed more than 30 stamps in as many years. Among this noted artists many distinctions was the First Man on the Moon stamp and later the 25th. Anniversary stamps of the Moon Landing. Other Calle stamps included those honoring Helen Keller, Clara Maass, Robert Frost, Douglas MacArthur, Pearl Buck and Frederic Remington. In addition to these, he had designed stamps depicting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the International Year of the Child in 1979 and promoting causes such as Volunteerism and encouraging early cancer detection. Calle also designed the U.S. Postal Services first twin stamp commemorating the successful Gemini Space Walk, Scott 1331-1332.
While growing up, Chris Calle, (see his Biography also on the Knottywood Treasures website), often sketched with his father, Paul, who continued to be a constant source of knowledge and inspiration for him. The two shared a studio in Connecticut. Chris inherited the talent and was continually nurtured by his father, ensuring a long tradition of the finest in American art.
As mentioned earlier, Paul designed the 10c, "First Man on the Moon stamp, Chris designed the $2.40 Priority stamp design for the 20th Anniversary of the first landing on the moon and father and son worked together on the 25th Anniversary of the Moon Landing stamp design. You can view a listing of Paul and Chris's stamp designs elsewhere on our website under stamp designers.
This father and son team of stamp designers was a philatelic event that will most likely never be repeated by any other stamp designers. Aside from stamp designs, Paul also designed first day cover cachets for the enjoyment of collectors. He designed the Fleetwood cachet for Scott C76 for instance. Knottywood Treasures has a few of these Fleetwood fdc's available signed. (See "What's a FDC?" on the Knottywood Treasures website to see an explanation of "Cachet") Knottywood Treasures also has a very limited number of both Paul and Chris's stamp and cachet designs autographed by them on first day cover available for sale. View our listing of signed covers HERE.
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Paul and Chris Calle collaborated on these brilliantly colored Apollo 11 launch commemorative
postal covers for the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11, in 1994.
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Since inception, one of the goals of the PBX in a Flash project has been to provide an install option that works reliably with thumb drives. This has become even more important as many of the newer netbooks have dropped CD/DVD drive support to conserve space and reduce cost. Just in time for summer break, we're pleased to announce that, thanks to the great work of bmore on the PIAF Forums, a new USB Flash Drive installer is now available for PBX in a Flash 18.104.22.168.2. As with the standard ISO install, you get your choice of Asterisk® and FreePBX® payloads with this new installer:
- Gold – Asterisk 184.108.40.206 with FreePBX 2.8
- Silver – Latest Asterisk 1.4 Release with FreePBX 2.8
- Bronze – Latest Asterisk 1.6 Release with FreePBX 2.8
- Purple – Latest Asterisk 1.8 Releases with FreePBX 2.8
Here's the 5-minute drill to get your bootable USB flash drive loaded with the PIAF installer. Once you get that far, follow the PIAF install steps outlined below or read The Incredible PBX installation tutorial for details on the install process.
UPDATE: We recently have released a new thumb drive installer for PBX in a Flash 2 featuring CentOS 6.2. For details, see this article.
Prerequisites. To get everything installed on your USB Flash Drive, you'll obviously need at least a 1GB Flash Drive. HINT: 2GB flash drives may actually be cheaper! And we can tell you that Kingston DataTraveler models may be problematic. Reportedly, the Corsair GT and Kingston 102 models work fine. YMMV! Please report your results in a comment below. Next you'll need to download the latest, greatest version of UNetbootin from SourceForge. There are versions for Windows and a number of flavors of Linux. Finally, you'll need to download the FlashDrive ISO of PIAF 184.108.40.206.2 from SourceForge.
Creating USB Flash Drive. Step #1 is to partition and format your USB flash drive as a FAT32 device. On Windows 7 and Vista machines, you can format the drive as a DOS device, and it will automatically format it as FAT32. Once the device is properly formatted, run UNetbootin and select the Disk Image option. Then, with the ISO on your Desktop, choose the pbxinaflash-17562-flashonly.iso from the pull-down menu. Make certain that the destination device is your USB flash drive. Then choose OK to begin. Do NOT reboot your machine when prompted to do so. You don't really want to install PIAF on this same computer! Remember to Eject the flash drive on Windows machines before removing it.
If your Windows machine happens to crash at the end of the USB Flash install process (ask us how we know 🙂 ), all may not be lost. Restart your Windows PC, insert the flash drive again, go through the Windows error fixup procedure when prompted, and then open the drive with Windows explorer. If the only file missing from the root folder is syslinux.cfg, you're in luck. Just download the file from here and copy the file into the top directory of your flash drive. Done!
Astricon 2011. Astricon 2011 will be in the Denver area beginning Tuesday, October 25, through Thursday, October 27. We hope to see many of you there. Be sure to mention you'd like a free PIAF thumb drive. We hope to have a bunch of them to pass out to our loyal supporters. Nerd Vittles readers also can save 15% on your registration by using this coupon code.
Using the USB Flash Installer. When using the new flash installer, remember that we need to boot your new machine from the thumb drive. On most newer Atom-based computers, you accomplish this by inserting the USB device, turning the machine on, and then pressing F12 during the boot sequence to choose the boot device. You'll just have to watch the screen of your new computer to see if some other key is used to pull up the boot selection screen. If all else fails, you can adjust the boot sequence in the BIOS settings to boot first from the USB device. If you change your BIOS boot sequence, just remember to remove the device when the initial install of CentOS completes and the reboot sequence is initiated. If instead you again see the initial PIAF install screen warning you that your disk is about to be erased, then remove the thumb drive and reboot the machine once again. Then choose the PIAF payload you'd like to install. Enjoy!
Originally published: Monday, June 6, 2011
Changes in PBX in a Flash Distribution. In light of the events outlined in our recent Nerd Vittles article and the issues with Asterisk 1.8.4, the PIAF Dev Team has made some changes in our distribution methodology. As many of you know, PBX in a Flash is the only distribution that compiles Asterisk from source code during the install. This has provided us enormous flexibility to distribute new releases with the latest Asterisk code. Unfortunately, Asterisk 1.8 is still a work in progress to put it charitably. We also feel some responsibility to insulate our users from show-stopping Asterisk releases. Going forward, the plan is to reserve the PIAF-Purple default install for the most stable version of Asterisk 1.8. Currently, we think the title belongs to Asterisk 188.8.131.52. Other versions of Asterisk 1.8 (newer and older) will be available through a new configuration utility which now is incorporated into the PIAF 184.108.40.206.2 ISO.
Here's how it works. Begin the install of a new PIAF system in the usual way by booting from your USB flash drive and pressing Enter to load the most current version of CentOS 5.6. When the CentOS install finishes, your system will reboot. Accept the license agreement, and choose the PIAF-Purple option to load the latest stable version of Asterisk 1.8. Or exit to the Linux CLI if you want a different version. Log into CentOS as root. Then issue a command like this: piafdl -p beta_1842 (loads Asterisk 22.214.171.124), piafdl -p beta_1841 (loads Asterisk 220.127.116.11), piafdl -p 184 (loads Asterisk 1.8.4), piafdl -p 1833 (loads Asterisk 220.127.116.11), or piafdl -p 1832 (loads Asterisk 188.8.131.52). If there should ever be an outage on one of the PBX in a Flash mirrors, you can optionally choose a different mirror for the payload download by adding piafdl -c for the .com site, piafdl -d for the .org site, or piafdl -e for the .net site. Then add the payload switch, e.g. piafdl -c -p beta_1842.
Bottom Line: If you use the piafdl utility to choose a particular version of Asterisk 1.8, you are making a conscious decision to accept the consequences of your particular choice. We would have preferred implementation of a testing methodology at Digium® before distribution of new Asterisk releases; however, that doesn't appear to be in the cards. So, as new Asterisk 1.8 releases hit the street, they will be made available through the piafdl utility until such time as our PIAF Pioneers independently establish their reliability.
Need help with Asterisk? Visit the PBX in a Flash Forum.
Or Try the New, Free PBX in a Flash Conference Bridge.
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You remember my sweet friend Taylor don't you?
Well nope...she didn't drop off the face of the Earth....She's been busy opening a dream of hers since she was a little girl.
You wouldn't be surprised to know she opened a Boutique would you?
It's truly amazing and has her NAME WRITTEN ALL OVER IT. (literally)
The store is called LizzyKay Marketplace. Taylor's good friend named Ashley and herself have used their middle names and created an adorable place.
From CLOTHING to furniture to jewelry to home goods, to children's apparel/bows to well you name it I'm sure they have it.
What's even better? Taylor herself is designing some of the clothes ...so you can get a Taylor Original...I am...check this strapless chevron print dress out....(I've got mine ordered) Hello Cutie Taylor.
(if you want one better hurry...they are selling out fast)
I couldn't be more thrilled for Taylor and just wanted to send y'all her way to take a look at their things.
I'm pretty much doing all my Christmas shopping there because their prices are amazing. Where a top I assumed would be $40 was only $19. Target can't beat that price. Better hurry and get their things...they are selling out as fast as they post them. Just comment on a photo and they can send you a paypal invoice! That simple!
Stop in at their Facebook page and Like their store....come on ...show your support to Taylor...Tell her you dropped in from my blog and take a look around at all their things.
In fact...right now if we can get these boots "liked" to 500 ppl...then they are giving a pair away free! Who doesn't love free boots?
They are still working on their Website (hey they just opened) but keep checking back for when it is up and running!
Congrats TK...I couldn't be happier for you!


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Jeff Adkins, 41, to senior VP-group account director, Omnicom's BBDO Worldwide, Chicago, from director of business development-group account director, Havas' Euro RSCG Tatham Partners, Chicago.
Joy Tashjian to VP-worldwide sales and marketing, Mainframe Entertainment, Vancouver, British Columbia. She will continue to oversee licensing and merchandising for the company.
Abigail Hirschhorn, 35, to chief marketing officer, Omnicom's DDB, New York, from chief strategic officer. Also: Paul Parton, 35, to director-planning and head of DDB Brain Cell. He had been a member of the DDB planning team.
Mike Indursky to VP-U.S. marketing, Maybelline, New York, from senior VP-strategic planning and marketing at Unilever Cosmetics International.
Jill Rudnick to chief marketing officer, Wenner Media, New York, from executive director-marketing services/creative services, interactive marketing for AOL Time Warner's America Online.
Ernest "Skip" Esch, 42, to director-sales and strategy, San Francisco, Jumpstart Digital Marketing. He will be based in Detroit. Previously, Mr. Esch was senior manager, AOL Time Warner's automotive-local partnership group, New York.
Waldo Cabrera to VP- 4Kids Entertainment's 4Kids Home Video, New York, from creative director.
Ronald Vitale to director-consumer marketing, Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco, from director-advertising, public relations, product introductions, retail channel development and field marketing, 3Com Corp.'s Internet appliance unit.
Lynn Lehmkuhl to publisher, Meredith Corp.'s Ladies' Home Journal, New York, from VP-corporate sponsorship, Sesame Workshop.


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Have You Experimented With New Techniques Lately? I've spent the last 4 days playing with a technique that I had not tried before. It's an emboss resist technique using alcohol markers for the background, stamping and embossing with clear embossing powder and then sponging a dark color over the top. The alcohol markers show beautifully… Read More »


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Disruptive Cloud Storage Startup Goes Global with Additional Funding and Launches Advisory Board with Industry Experts
SEATTLE, WA, April 25, 2012 –/BackupReview.info/– Symform today announced a Series B round of financing designed to fuel the continued growth and global expansion of the Symform Cloud Storage Network. Led by WestRiver Capital, the series also includes full participation from existing investors OVP and Longworth Venture Partners. The company has closed $8 million and reserved up to $3 million in the series to add a strategic investor in 2012, bringing the total Series B round to $11 million. As part of the investment, Erik Anderson of WestRiver Capital joins the Symform Board of Directors.
This milestone comes amid another record quarter of growth for Symform across customer accounts, global reach and data stored in the Symform cloud. Symform has active users in 138 countries, up from 46 at the end of 2011. In the first quarter of 2012, the company grew customer accounts by more than 100% quarter-over-quarter, while the number of devices and data files stored on the Symform network jumped by more than 50 percent during the same period.
Also today, Symform announced the launch of a new Advisory Board featuring industry leaders and technology experts. The board includes Jon Gacek, CEO of Quantum; Dimitris Achiloptas, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Cruz; and Grant Peterson, CTO and Vice President of Engineering at DocuSign.
Jon Gacek: Gacek is an industry veteran in the data backup and protection market. He is currently CEO of Quantum, a $1 Billion public company (NYSE: QTM). He was previously CFO and COO of Quantum, following an acquisition of Advanced Digital Information Corp, where Gacek was CFO.
Dimitris Achiloptas: Achiloptas is currently teaching computer science at UC Santa Cruz. He moved to academia after a successful career in Microsoft Research. He is a renowned expert in random formulas, algorithmic analysis and sequencing.
Grant Peterson: Currently Chief Technology Officer for DocuSign, the global leader in electronic signatures, Peterson has a proven track record of more than 15 years as a top engineering senior executive. Prior to DocuSign, he was vice president of product development for LexisNexis and director of product development for Primus Knowledge Solutions.
"Symform is a fundamentally superior way to store data in the cloud, and our continued strong growth and access to growth capital further validates that Symform is uniquely positioned to permanently disrupt the global cloud storage and backup market," said Matthew J. Schiltz, CEO, Symform. "We have an amazing team of employees, investors and advisory board members who are building Symform into a global standard for cloud storage and backup."
With its Series B funding, Symform has now raised $20 million. The company is moving aggressively toward a massive global footprint while enabling its technology to be easily embedded or attached to on-premise storage devices and other IT solutions, providing a cost-effective and seamless cloud-based data backup solution.
Symform is the first and only global peer-to-peer network for data storage, where users contribute excess local storage to the network in exchange for free or flat fee cloud storage. Analysts estimate up to 85 percent of local storage sits idle in most data centers and company networks.
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Once again, Winston Peters has failed to ignite on the launch pad. These days you have to go back almost 20 years – to the heady days of the Winebox – to find a time Peters actually delivered on his promises. This time, Peters' claim to have a 'smoking gun' loaded with sackable revelations about Justice Minister Judith Collins has turned out to be a fizzer. What Peters revealed was that Collins had certain costs met by the Chinese government on the trip during which Collins' Oravida-related business was done. Big deal. Yes, such gifts above $500 in value do need to be declared under certain conditions of travel. Some MPs readily declare them, some don't. When MPs need to but have omitted to declare such items, their returns can easily, and quite legally, be amended to record the missing details. At best, Peters' revelation was only a reminder of Collins' far more important sins of omission during the course of this scandal.
Labour must be seething. After beavering away for weeks on the Oravida issue – and putting the government on the ropes – Labour had to sit on the sidelines yesterday and watch Peters single-handedly turn the Oravida scandal into a farce. For its part, National must have been delighted by Peters' fumbling efforts. They helped to defuse the biggest problem the government has experienced to date, in election year 2014.
If his sweaty, tremulous demeanour yesterday is anything to go by, Peters could probably benefit from a bit of stress leave himself. According to Prime Minister John Key, Peters is 'barking mad' – but no, this doesn't mean that Key is therefore willing to rule out Peters as a potential partner, post election. On the Barking Mad Index, does Peters rate as a bigger concern than Conservative Party leader Colin Craig? Probably not. But yesterday was a reminder of the very strange bedfellows that National seems willing to entertain. They include poor old Jamie Whyte of the Act Party who, on RNZ this morning, still appeared stuck in an early 1980s timewarp as he preached the failed gospel that sweeping supply side tax cuts will trigger economic growth. Well, those tax cuts didn't work for Ronald Reagan, and they wouldn't work now, either. (Whyte stopped just short of raving that all taxation is theft.) These are peculiar partners, for a government that is trying to portray itself as the stable, moderate option.
Journalists & Their Beliefs
Monday's report into the Shane Taurima affair confirmed that Taurima unacceptably blurred the boundaries between his TVNZ job and his budding political career with the Labour Party. But it has also produced proposals by TVNZ to ban any of its frontline political journalists from belonging to a political party and would force other staff to disclose their political allegiances.
This is absurd overkill. It is unnecessary and undesirable for several reasons. One, Taurima's poor judgment was almost entirely to do with his misuse of TVNZ premises for party political purposes, and did not result in any discernible bias in what was broadcast. If a wider rule was needed, it should be limited to the nature of the offence: and should concern itself with rules about the use of TVNZ property, not with political affiliations.
Secondly, TVNZ have shown no faith in the professionalism of its staff. It seems to have been assumed that political journalists are unwilling and incapable of acting professionally when it comes to separating their legitimate political beliefs and associations from the work that they do. Thirdly if it is good, proper and necessary for journalists to be treated in this draconian fashion, where should it end? Should every bureaucrat running a government department or every official who gives advice to a Cabinet Minister also be banned from joining a political party? Should every public servant be required to publicly disclose their political allegiances?
Some would say that looking back over the past 30 years in New Zealand, ideologically driven behaviours have been a far bigger problem at Treasury than at TVNZ – but even so, people do have a right to join the party of their choice, to keep that choice private, and should be able to expect their professionalism will be accepted as a given by their employers, subject to the existing checks, safeguards and complaint procedures. People fought for these kinds of political freedoms; they should not be swept aside by a TVNZ hierarchy wishing to placate its political masters.
What is also objectionable is the inference that journalism is some kind of priesthood that requires political celibacy from its practitioners. It doesn't. What it requires is honesty, fairness and professionalism in the coverage of politics and other socio-economic issues. It is difficult to see how creating a staff of political eunuchs helps to further those aims. It seems far more likely to promote a climate of timidity and self-censorship.
Reflexive Country
Yes, Toby Keith readily comes across at times as a flag-waving redneck. Yet I've always had a soft spot for him, mainly because of the self- parodying video he did for his breakthrough hit "How Do You Like Me Now?" On paper, it was a simple revenge song: you were the beautiful cheerleader who totally ignored me at school, now I'm famous and your life has turned to shit – so, how do you like me now?
Yet here's the thing. In the video, the woman and her 20 years ago incarnation both think that Toby is still a total jerk – there's a beautiful eye-roll at the end between the two of them, and Keith has the wit to act throughout like a conceited, quasi-threatening bozo who entirely justifies their scorn. So is this is a song about getting revenge? Or is it saying that even if you make it big…if you were a dick back then, the chances are you'll still be a dick now and the money and the white stretch limo and the big guitar won't make a lick of difference. Who would have thought a Toby Keith video could be so profound? (And so funny.)
Mainstream country music can be downright odd at times. In the 1950s, Ferlin Husky had a string of pop country hits – "Gone", "Wings of a Dove" and further back, the "Dear John Letter." Yet in 1961 he also cut this album track called "Living in a Trance"… There's a thrumming, pre-psychedelic ghostliness to this song; it manages to make the state of romantic rejection and dislocation feel like the afterlife.


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Speed Rush is a HTML5 Racing Game.
Drive your car through the race avoiding the obstacles. Try to complete your laps in the shortest time.
Are you ready? Start your engine!
Mud slows you down, oil makes you lose control on your car and if cones will be hit you'll get slower.
This Game is ready to be exported in Intel XDK and be used with AdmobAds
AdMob is currently only officially supported with the Intel® XDK
Use the AdmobAds to add your ads' ID and start monetizing with this game!
You'll find a step by step handbook about the implementation of AdmobAds here
We can't offer any support for uses of the game in third party software.
Please read the documentation to get more info!
This game has been developed with Construct 2: https://www.scirra.com/construct2
The ZIP package contains the game at 2048×1150 resolution that automatically scales to fit current screen device and all the assets to ensure complete game customization.
The game is fully compatible with all most common mobile devices. We just can't ensure full compatibility with the audio on all devices.
- The game folder contains the Capx file that can be modified with any extended version of Construct 2.
- We can't ensure the full screen resolution on all device.
- The game contains some non-native plugins / behaviors you need to install in Construct2 if you want to modify the game.
Please refer to the documentation for a detailed list of these plugins/behaviors and their link.
- You'll find all the plugins in the game's folder, ready to be installed.
- If you want to make an app out of this game, we suggest you to reskin or at least rebrand it
This game is fully compatible with CTL Arcade A Wordpress Plugin that allows you to create a real arcade on your website.
Easy to Install
With CTL Arcade you can:
- Monetize with your games adding Ads Banners
- Promote your website with Social Share Buttons
- Improve our games with Leaderboard, and Rating Feature
=== Even if we do our best to minimize any inconvenience, we can't ensure the full compatibility of all our games on every device and every operating system update.
Thank you for the understanding. ===
- Improved game performance and compatibility
-Credits panel added
-bug fixed with ctl arcade
- Solved mobile compatibility issues
- AdMob added
- Audio settings improved
- Updated with latest Construct 2 version (R227)
- Improved game experience
- External behaviors usage avoided
- Updated with latest Construct 2 version (R233)
- Added fullscreen option
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Transports need to keep moving. But all too often, they end up stuck in traffic. That's when time slots close, delivery deadlines are missed – and customers lose patience. Logistics hubs are flashpoints for this type of negative chain reaction: The concentration of events to be managed at such hot spots means that every traffic jam and every delay quickly produces a domino effect. The same can be true at industrial sites, convention centers, ocean ports, and airports.
There is only one solution to this problem: All the goods movements in and around a logistics hub must be coordinated to ensure that transports do not get in each other's way. This can only succeed with proactive planning. And this in turn requires a coordinated process offering real-time visibility about who is picking up or dropping off what – and also when, where, and how.
It sounds simple, and it's even possible with the right IT solution. But how exactly is information on the movements of physical goods exchanged through a centralized digital hub? What is it like when those involved in a particular process meet on a cloud-based platform? When the processes of checking into and out of a logistics hub are automated?
Our expert paper answers all these questions in detail, describing where the growing challenges for logistics hubs lie and how they can be overcome with the help of state-of-the-art IT solutions.


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[Note: I originally posted this blog on Tuesday night about a video that appeared on YouTube on Monday. Little l did I know at the time but it disappeared off of YouTube on Wednesday making my words look kind of senseless. The good news? I found it disguised under another name and am going to share it below. The bad news? The only other YouTube clip of the performance has an annoying tendency to skip every 20 seconds or so. It can get on your nerves but for now it's the only way to enjoy the priceless performance online. Enjoy!]
I've seen these video dozens of times but it finally showed up on YouTube the other day and I thought it would be worth sharing. I titled this post "A Jazz Dream" because the amount of talent showcased in shortly over five minutes is simply mind-boggling. Let's watch:
Just look at the assemblage in the very first frame of the video: George Shearing soloing (Pops digging him), Gerry Mulligan, Jack Teagarden and Chubby Jackson...we're off and running! Pops makes all the introductions, a natural as ever. I The camera swings around and catches the great Lionel Hampton, backed by his entire orchestra, who stand around and let Hamp solo...isn't that how things usually went? (I kid...I love Hamp.) Hamp doubles the tempo and now we're off and swinging.
Now, have you ever had a dream where someone you'd least expect decides to pop up? Well, look no further as Pops is joined by vocalist...Jaye P. Morgan!? Did I watch a "Gong Show" marathon before having this dream? Morgan almost dislocates her elbow trying to keep time but Pops is there to save the day with a righteous scatted obbligato and a delightful turn on the tune's minor strain, which Velma Middleton always sung in live performances. (Dig the reference to "chops"...hilarious!)
Now wait a minute...who else has appeared in this dream of mine? is that Gene Krupa peering from over Armstrong's shoulder? Yessir, I believe it is. The camera cuts back to Armstrong and Morgan in a two-show, Pops scatting beautifully, even quoting W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues," which he always played in his trumpet obbligato to Velma's vocals on the tune.
Hamp then substitutes Charlie Parker's "Blues For Alice" changes (a favorite of the vibraphonists), adding a slightly modern touch for four bars and allowing Pops to get his chops together for a smoking outing. Again, in his live performances, Armstrong tended to take the tune at a rocking, medium groove and he usually had his concluding solo minted in stone. But here, at a more lively tempo, Armstrong unleashes a steady stream of swinging improvisations, sounding very strong and undeniably creative, eventually coaxing his old friend Hamp into an engaging trade.
Hampton then signals another tempo change, ushering in the aforementioned Gene Krupa, who begins a furious drum battle with the great Cozy Cole. What's a good dream without a drum battle? Hamp's orchestra begins wailing, host Gary Moore appears from out of nowhere behind a makeshift kit of drums...and WHOA! An abrupt conclusion! We're awakened from our dream by the dreaded end of the YouTube upload (it's different than being woken by a crying baby...but no less jarring).
Truthfully, the video should have lasted about 40 more seconds. The credits began to roll with Hamp's orchestra wailing, Pops joining in and soaring over the uproar, which also includes the announcer making his closing announcements. For some reason, this version doesn't including these exciting final seconds but I'm just thankful for what we have. This year, numerous writers have been knocking themselves out about 1959 being jazz's greatest year. 1958 wasn't too shabby either, eh?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
St. Louis Blues - 1958 - A Jazz Dream?
Posted by Ricky Riccardi at 6/16/2009 09:06:00 PM
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Well, that video didn't last long. Sigh...
- June 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM
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Zim in BD, 2009
Bangladesh coast to series lead
Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in the third one-day international at the Shere Bangla National Stadium to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series on Saturday. Chasing a target of 197, half-centuries from Tamim Iqbal and Mohammad Ashraful helped the Tigers get home with 9.2 overs to spare.
Opening batsman Tamim blazed 80 off 72 balls, including 10 fours and two sixes, to get the innings off to a flying start. He shared a 98-run stand with Ashraful, who struck 63 off 91 deliveries, for the second wicket before Bangladesh middle-order wobbled from 175-2 to 194-6. Skipper Shakib Al Hasan and Naeem Islam settled the nerves of the hosts and Bangladesh managed a 4 wicket win to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
Earlier, putting to bat by Bangladesh, Zimbabwe started their innings well as stand-in captain Hamilton Masakadza scored 84 to become the third man to reach 1,000 one-day runs in 2009. Masakadza, who raced to his half-century off 36 balls, received little support from his team mates, with the next highest score Charles Coventry's 29.
Bangladesh spinners again strangled the tourists and spinner Enamul Haque, who replaced Dollar Mahmud for this match grabbed 3 wickets for 45 runs, while the lone seamer Nazmul Hossain claimed 3-13.
The final two matches of the 5 match GrameenPhone series will be held in Chittagong on November 3 and 5.
Score: Zimbabwe 196 in 41.1 overs (H. Masakadza 84) v Bangladesh 198-6 in 40.4 overs (Tamim Iqbal 80, Mohammad Ashraful 63)
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This creativity started as a young child growing up in Rugby, Warwickshire where she was encouraged to paint and draw by her mother, an amateur artist and assisting her father, a keen photographer. She attended various classes in photography, screen printing, batik, pottery, Chinese brush painting and more. Lindsay studied Interior Design before going to the Far East where she lived for many years. The inspiration for her Art comes from the things she sees every day, especially on her travels.
For the past twenty years Lindsay has been using glass or mirrors as her canvas because of the reflective quality and interesting effects that can be created with the use of translucent paints. She is fascinated by the unusual perspectives that can be achieved with wonderfully shaped vases and paints on mirrors, wine glasses, candle-holders and window panes.
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UPDATE: Process Lasso version 9 renames its 'Gaming Mode' to 'Performance Mode'. Same positions, same functionality. This is so it was not confused with Windows 10 new Gaming Mode and so that it was clear it also benefited other applications where maximum performance is desired.
Performance Mode invokes the 'Bitsum Highest Performance' power plan that keeps your CPU ready to execute code at all times. Otherwise, you would cope with that extra bit of latency seen while unparking cores, or ramping up the CPU frequency, which degrades performance of bursting CPU loads – the most common type.
For a long time, Bitsum provided the knowledge and capacity for users to customize their power plans, and automate when those power plans are induced.
With ParkControl, we revealed hidden CPU settings that control core parking, and wrote about how much core parking and CPU frequency scaling can affect performance of real-world CPU loads. Put simply, these power saving technologies work well at conserving energy, but come with a trade-off.
When the CPU is down-clocked or cores parked, it is not ready to execute code, and thus some degree of ramp-up time is required when new code needs executed. This especially impacts performance of bursting CPU loads.
Process Lasso offers a power plan pre-configured for maximal performance. When in this new Bitsum Highest Performance power plan, your CPU always remains ready to execute new code. Core parking is disabled and the CPU is always running at its maximum frequency. You can automate when it is induced with Process Lasso's Performance Mode, or you can use the default application power profiles feature.
Thus, Performance Mode will induce this new highest performance power plan, and also make a few tweaks to the behavior of ProBalance – which will keep background processes from interfering with your real-time operations.
This technology is derived from our ParkControl freeware, on whose page you can get more information. A screenshot of it is below. The difference is that in Lasso, everything is already configured and automated for you.
Does this mode cause my CPU to 'burn out' and/or overheat?
NO! Despite the car analogies, a CPU is not an automotive engine. Let me explain.
There is a big difference from a utilized CPU, and one that simply hasn't been downclocked or parked.
In a high CPU use situation, the total heat dissipated would be the same under either power plan, because the processors would be scaled up and unparked.
Also, while idle, the CPU has the HLT instruction and such, which keep it cool.
All Bitsum's Highest Performance Plan can *ever* do is marginally increase the temperature from what it otherwise would have been while *idle* or in *moderate* loads – but, again, just a little.
In short, if your system has overheating problems, then you will see it with or without Bitsum's Highest Performance Plan – and your system is improperly configured and MUST be adjusted.


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One of the most stressful situations in life is dealing with creditors and debt collectors who are demanding payment for money that is owed. It is even more stressful when you owe money to several creditors. Stress and frustration results when you borrow money from a person or entity and you do not or cannot honor your financial obligations.
You are called a "debtor" if you owe money to an individual or a corporate entity. The "creditor" is the individual or corporate entity that you owe. The creditor may sue you and attempt to collect what is owed if there is a judgment against you. However, debtors have rights. Collection activity is regulated by both the state and federal government. Collectors are not allowed to harass you by engaging in unlawful practices such as the following:
· Calling at hours that are defined as unreasonable under state law.
- Threatening violence.
- Threatening criminal prosecution, unless the debtor has violated a criminal statute.
- Threatening to tell your employer and neighbors.
- Using intimidating, abusive, and offensive language.
If you believe your rights have been violated, contact an attorney immediately. You should hire a professional with legal training if you want to be successful in an unfair debt collection practice claim. Now, this does not mean that the creditor cannot sue you. It deals with the unlawful collection activity and not the debt that you may owe.
Before the creditor or collection agency files a Complaint against you, they will typically contact you by telephone and in writing in order to get you to pay. Any written notice from them should contain the following:
- The name and address of the collection agency.
- The amount of the debt, stating the original debt and a breakdown of other costs or interest.
- The name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed.
- The collection agency's account or file number and the creditor's account number, if that is the case.
- A statement that unless you dispute the debt within a certain time after you receive the notice, the creditor or collection agency will assume the debt is valid.
- A statement that, if requested within a certain time, the collector will provide the name of the original creditor, if different from the collector.
- A statement that if you dispute the debt, the creditor or collection agency will get verification of the debt and mail it to you.
If you do not believe that you are responsible for the debt, you should dispute it in writing. Some defenses include: 1) the debt has already been paid; 2) a third-party was responsible for paying the debt and you have proof; 3) it is not your debt; 4) the statute of limitations defense; and 5) the amount is incorrect because of a computational error.
If a civil lawsuit has been filed against you by the creditor or collection agency, consider hiring a lawyer. Once you have received the Summons and Complaint, it is important for you to respond within the time specified on the Summons. Should you fail to respond appropriately it is likely that judgment will be entered against you followed by post-judgment collection process proceedings to include garnishing the debtor's bank account, wages, seizing the debtor's personal property or real estate, serving the debtor with written discovery to locate assets, and even holding the debtor in contempt for any failure to comply with court orders.
A lawyer can help you protect certain kinds of property from being taken to collect a debt. A lawyer can advise you on whether Bankruptcy may be a good option. Let a trained legal professional in your area represent you so you can get on with the rest of your life.


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SUNY Downstate Geriatric Fellowship Program
Geriatric Medicine Clinical Program and Curriculum
The program and curriculum comply with HRSA and ACGME requirements. The program has received ACGME certification. Certification allowed previous fellows to become eligible for geriatric certification. These include mandatory experiences in an acute care hospital, a long-term care facility, long-term non-institutional care, ambulatory care programs, and additional clinical experience such as rehabilitation units, community care for the elderly mentally retarded, comprehensive evaluation units, home visits, and consultative services. These are described in detail below.
The specific objective of the Geriatric Medicine Program is to establish a geriatrics training program in an environment aimed at providing eldercare for an ethnically and culturally diverse population of predominantly underserved patients with emphasis on continuity, coordination and comprehensiveness of that care across the biopsychosocial spectrum in both the ambulatory and inpatient, especially nursing home, settings. In addition, we will integrate into the geriatric training program an established palliative care/hospice program run by a team of qualified palliationists. This component of the fellowship will have both in-depth and broad exposure to end of life issues and permitting eligibility for a certificate of added qualification in palliative care.
The fellowship also includes rotations in subspecialties focused on issues germane to the comprehensive practice of geriatrics including geropsychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, gerodentistry, audiology, optometry, podiatry, sleep disorders and opportunities for electives in areas such as geriatric rheumatology or orthopedics. Continuity of Care, the dominant clinical feature of the training program, will have two components - ambulatory and inpatient, especially Nursing Home.
Clinical Training - Components
1. Geriatric Medicine Ambulatory Care
The trainee will gain proficiency in evaluating, diagnosing and establishing a comprehensive care plan. The patient mix will also include many who are generally healthy and require primarily preventive health care measures. Fellows will enhance communication skills with family members of diverse cultural backgrounds and expectations and also with the members of the interdisciplinary team. Fellows will follow a panel of patients over the course of their training. Thus, when their patients are admitted to the acute care facility, the fellows will be expected to act as back-up geriatric consultants to the inpatient health care team and to participate in the plan of care including discharge plan with the interdisciplinary team and other subspecialty teams involved in the patient's management. They will become adept at using various functional assessment instruments and as team leaders, actualize a comprehensive multidisciplinary geriatric assessment. They will understand the administrative aspects of running an effective continuity clinic and learn how to utilize community resources.
Clinical sites:
Kings County Hospital Geriatric Medicine Clinic. The ethnic background of the patients is approximately 90% black, of whom half are US born African Americans and the others are African Caribbean; the remainder of patients are divided among Caucasians and Latinos. There are approximately 4,000 patient visits per year. The Kings County Hospital Geriatric Clinic is a primary care clinic staffed by geriatric fellows and attending physicians, a gerontologic nurse practitioner, along with nursing and social work services. All referral services needed in the care of this population including audiology, optometry, physical rehabilitation, podiatry, dentistry, nutrition, and pharmacy are available within the hospital campus. Geriatric Medicine fellows receive on-site precepting by attending geriatricians, and interact with other members of the health care team in developing and achieving goals for the patient, such as maintaining function and independence, obtaining health care screening, and receiving ongoing treatment of chronic and intercurrent medical problems. Geropsychiatry and dental fellows on rotation work closely with the geriatric medicine fellows who provide primary care in a longitudinal continuity care rotation. Emphasis is also placed on developing well-coordinated care and continuity of care for patients who have not previously achieved this goal. Supervision is provided by 3 board-certified geriatricians (Drs. Reid-Durant, Price, and Lawrence). All medical subspecialty consultants and clinics are readily available. This clinic was recently expanded and now includes an experienced full-time geriatrician, Dr. Marie Reid-Durant.
Brooklyn VA Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Clinic. In the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment clinic, the Geriatric Medicine fellows participate in an interdisciplinary multidimensional evaluation of frail elderly patients with geriatricians, a geropsychiatrist, a social worker, and other trainees. One geriatrician also has a Spiritual Care background. Patients, who generally have multiple geriatric syndromes or psychosocial problems, are referred from the primary care clinics for a geriatrics consultation and return to their primary physicians for follow up. Other trainees in the clinic may include geropsychiatry or dentistry fellows, psychology interns, and 4th year medical students, giving the fellows a teaching role as well. The emphasis of this experience is understanding and application of multidimensional aspects of geriatric care, including medical, functional, psychological, social, spiritual, and environmental, developing consultative skills, and working with the multidisciplinary team.
Brooklyn VA Wound Care Clinic. Focus is on management of leg and pressure ulcers, as well as skin care of ostomy sites. A Gerontologic Nurse Practitioner with special expertise in Wound Care, precepts fellows and provides formal didactic presentations during this rotation.
Homeless Program: The Bowery Residents' Committee. The Bowery Residents' Committee- (BRC) is located in lower Manhattan and operates in residential sites in Brooklyn. BRC includes a senior program funded as a nutrition program by the Department for the Aging, Food for Survival and City-Meals-On-Wheels. The center provides on-site and home-delivered meals, the latter focusing primarily on the older men who live in Bowery Lodging Houses. Members of the center are at least 60 years old. The Senior Center provides extensive case management, entitlement services, advocacy, first-aid care and access to primary health care services on-site. There is also routine outreach into the Bowery lodging houses and the Lower East Side Streets. The medical component of the service is funded through Department of Public Health Healthcare for the Homeless program and is specifically designed to serve the general medical needs of the indigent and homeless seniors served at the center. The current client population consists of the following:
BRC's residential program has a large older population, including Clyde Burton House, Glass Factory SRO, the Palace SRO, and Home Plus Supported Housing. In each of these programs, at least 50% of the tenants are over 55 years old.
Geriatric Medicine Clinic at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Geriatric fellows have ambulatory geriatrics in faculty practice setting at University Hospital, which serves a largely indigent, and minority population (90%), with 70% female. This rotation provides an experience different from the "clinic" setting at Kings County Hospital Clinic where fellows have continuity clinic( Supervisor: Dr. Everton Prospere).
2. Nursing Home and Long-Term Care
Fellows will be expected to be familiar with the range of biopsychosocial issues pertaining to each patient, gain experience in dealing with the perspectives of family members and significant others and maintain accessibility and accountability to other members of the patient's health care team. Fellows will become well acquainted with the contributions and potential of the physiotherapists, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, speech therapists, pressure ulcer clinicians and other members of the team who impact the progress of the patient. Fellows will be expected to become familiar with the mechanisms whereby the nursing home and other services the patient needs or desires are reimbursed and other financial aspects of eldercare relevant to their patients.
When one of their patients is hospitalized at any of our affiliated acute healthcare facilities, fellows will be expected to follow them, provide geriatric consultation advice when relevant, interact with the subspecialty consultants involved in the care and participate in discharge planning. If the patient requires placement on alternate level of care, the fellow will act as an interface to facilitate a smooth timely transition to the nursing home with appropriate input from the patient, family members and in-hospital interdisciplinary team.
Clinical Sites:
Lutheran Augustana Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation
This is a 240-bed extended care and rehabilitation facility with access to the sophisticated medical technology of Lutheran Medical Center by way of a connecting skyway. The Rehabilitative Services at Lutheran Augustana Center serves all facility residents and is recognized for its intensive short-term restorative rehabilitation for the treatment of complex orthopedic, neurological and other medical conditions. The Home has formal affiliations with several local health care agencies including Calvary Hospital Hospice, the Sunset Park Dialysis Center and also has numerous academic affiliations with local colleges and universities in all professional disciplines.
Susan Smith McKinney Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
The Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, is committed to provide efficient quality care to all its resident/registrants. It is a new 305-bed state of the art nursing facility located within walking distance of the medical school. Both medical and rehabilitative services are provided in spacious, tastefully decorated rooms equipped with specially designed bathrooms to accommodate the elderly. Staff includes physicians, nurses, patient care technicians, therapists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, pharmacists, and nutritionists. Together with the patient/family this team collaboratively sets treatment goals and establishes care plans resulting in measurable and achievable outcomes. The care plans include but are not limited to rehabilitation, medical, social and therapeutic services. There is immediate access to the acute care services of UHB or other hospitals elected by the patient. The Pastoral Department is available to offer spiritual counseling. The continuum of services provided includes:
Dr. Steven Kaner, a board-certified geriatrician and SUNY Downstate faculty member, is the medical director of the facility and also coordinates the activities of the fellows and medical students rotating there as part of the Primary Care Clerkship in Geriatrics. The medicine fellow works closely with professionals from a variety of disciplines during both the longitudinal and block rotations. The longitudinal experience involves primary care to a panel of 5-6 patients throughout the year, or consultation for individual patients scheduled in specialty clinics, in which the number of patients ranges from 2-6 per session. Interaction with one or more members of the team occurs either one-on-one in the care of an individual patient, in a formal interdisciplinary team or family meeting, or in committee work involving administrative aspects of nursing home care.
St. Alban's Extended Care Center. It is located 10 miles from SUNY Downstate. The center has 386 long-term and intermediate care beds, and includes a domiciliary for homeless persons. The VA Primary and Extended Care Center provides primary care and offers specialized geriatric programs, restorative rehabilitation, and palliative care. Geriatric programs also provide comprehensive evaluation and safe, effective management of elderly cognitively impaired veterans. An outpatient Adult Day Health Care Program and Home Based Primary Care Program exists and cares for physically disabled, medically-complicated elderly veterans who are at risk of nursing home placement or recurrent hospitalization. A comprehensive psychosocial rehabilitation Domiciliary program, providing incentive therapy, vocational counseling and independent living skills training for patients seeking to return to independent living, is provided at the VA Primary and Extended Care Center. The Campus also hosts an Ambulatory Care Center that provides primary care and specialty care, including optometry, podiatry, audiology and dental services. Also provided is sub-acute restorative rehabilitation for the elderly. Fellows perform consults throughout the center and also work on the Dementia Unit that is a 20-bed unit designed for the comprehensive evaluation and management of persons with cognitive deficits, and on the Geriatric Assessment Unit. The center also has an adult day care program, a home care program, and a palliative care program to which residents participate in consult. The center's population is approximately 95% male, 5% female, 45% white, 54% Afro-American, 1% Latino. Patients' mean age is 72 years. Approximately 25% of all patients have dementia. There are approximately 20 - 30 new admissions per month to the entire center, and 5 new admissions per month to the Dementia Unit. Fellows are expected to learn the following: diagnosis and assessment of patients in nursing homes, management techniques including behavioral strategies and pharmacotherapy; skills in consultation to other disciplines; family consultation and support, use of respite services such as day care; instruction in use of group and activity therapies, working with and teaching non-mental health professionals about mental health in the aged, and learning about bioethical demands of the very old. Fellows carry an average caseload of 20 patients on the Dementia Unit, and perform 10 - 15 consults per week of patients in the remainder of the center. There are two weekly case conferences. Faculty is always available for on-site consultation. Supervision is provided in the case conferences and in 1hour individual supervision with on-site faculty. Faculty consists of 1 full-time geriatric psychiatrist (former HRSA fellow in geropsychiatry), 1 half-time geriatric psychiatrist (also boarded in family practice and geriatrics), 5 internists (several with added qualifications in Geriatrics), 1 neurologist, 1 psychologist, 6 social workers, 6 activity therapists, 2 physical therapists, and 2 occupational therapists available for consultation.
3. Acute, Subacute and Alternate Level of Care and Consultation-Liaison
Fellows will be located in the acute care hospital settings as geriatrics consultants. They will learn how to do a geriatric consultation in the acute medical, surgical and psychiatric units and gain an appreciation of how to manage the complex needs of the acutely ill hospitalized older person. Interaction with the unit pharmacist will be an important feature, as well as increasing knowledge of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug interactions, problems of polypharmacy and iatrogenesis. Fellows will learn to recognize geriatric syndromes and intervene early, help prevent iatrogenic complications, maintain or improve physical function and shorten the length of hospital stay. Finally, they will come to understand the issues involved in the smooth transition from the acute care facility to subacute care to home or nursing home, help facilitate these transitions, and participate in continuity of care as the patient moves from one level of care to the next.
Clinical Sites:
Lutheran Augustana Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation. See above for site description.
Maimonides Medical Center. A 705-bed acute care teaching hospital located 3 miles from Downstate. The Division of Geriatrics is headed by Dr. Barbara Paris, a nationally recognized geriatrician with broad expertise in geriatrics and special expertise in elder abuse and end of life care. The Division of Geriatrics at Maimonides has recently begun to host students in the fourth year geriatric medicine clerkship, and SUNY Geriatric Medicine fellows now rotate through the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit as part of an exchange program, in which Maimonides geriatric medicine fellows spend a four-week rotation in the Geropsychiatry Program in the Memory Disorders and Geropsychiatry clinics at SUNY Downstate. Fellows from the dentistry program also attend a monthly conference at Maimonides. The rich ethnic diversity of this institution's patient population includes elderly Chinese, Latino, Russian, Korean, Arab, Orthodox Jewish, and many other ethnic groups. The goals of the ACE unit rotations are to enable the fellow to develop an ability to assess and treat acute illness and co-morbid conditions that increase morbidity, length of stay, and re-hospitalization rates; gain knowledge about care of the frail elderly, and participate in education of medical house-staff and students in geriatric medicine.
St Albans Extended Care Center-Consultation-liaison in long-term care setting. See above for site description.
Geroneurology Clinic at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. This clinic is situated at University Hospital of Brooklyn (SUNY Downstate Medical Center) is under the supervision of a behavioral neurologist (Dr. Howard Crystal). The clinic affords fellows the opportunity to see older persons with dementia and neurological disorders, especially persons with movement disorders. Many patients have mixed disorders that include elements of vascular, Lewy-body, Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease. Fellows also see patients with mild cognitive disorders
4. Palliative Care and End-Of-Life Treatment
Fellows will learn the principles and practice of palliative/hospice care including advance care planning, communicating bad news, whole patient assessment, pain management, end of life depression, anxiety and delirium, the goals of care, common physical symptoms amenable to symptom relief rather than cure, and issues related to withholding/withdrawing treatment and the last hours of living. Fellows will gain insights into the current gaps in providing optimum end-of-life care including the inappropriately high percentage of patients whose last days of life are spent in intensive care units, in contrast to their previously stated wishes.
Clinical Site:
Brooklyn VA Hospital (Dr. Beal). See above for site description.
Kings County Medical Hospital Center: rotation: (Dr. Pavel Shulman, Dr. Cho). See above for site description.
5. Subspeciality areas
Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. The Clinic population is approximately 75% female; 25% male; 59% white; 37% Afro-American; and 3% Latino. Patient must be age 55 or over. Diagnoses comprise the following: 57% Affective disorders, 14% schizophrenia (early or late-onset), 18% anxiety disorders, 22% personality disorders (primary or secondary), and 6% other disorders. There are approximately 50 new intakes per year, and about 100 active cases aged 55 and over. Fellows are expected to learn the following: diagnosis and evaluation of the geriatric outpatient, individual psychotherapy, family intervention, pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and consultation skills, working with medically ill patients, working with other disciplines, community resources, and bioethical concerns. The faculty are also always available for on-site consultation. Caseloads are monitored to provide an adequate mix of patients. All residents receive at least 1-1/2 hours per week of clinical supervision. Additional supervision may be provided as required. Faculty consists of 1 full-time psychiatrist with added qualifications in geriatrics (Dr. Cohen), 1 part-time geropsychiatrist (Dr. Casimir) with added qualifications in geropsychiatry, 1 part-time psychologist (Dr. Berzofsky), 2 social workers (Ms Walcott-Brown and Dr. Andreas Adams), and a certified recreation therapist with a specialty in gerontology (Dr. McKenzie-Reece). There is also an additional 5 clinical staff, from various disciplines (e.g., psychiatry, psychology, social work) who work with some of the geriatric patients and who are available for consultation.
Dementia Assessment and Treatment. Brooklyn Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Center (BADAC) at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. It is under the auspices of the SUNY Department of Psychiatry. The center, located in Central Brooklyn, has a patient composition that is comprised of 79% female, 21% male;, 17% white, 75% African American (about one half of whom are African Caribbean), and 8% Latino. The mean age is 73, although patients range from 50 - 95. All patients present with memory or other cognitive problems, and over 95% are found to have an organic condition, usually dementia of the Alzheimer's type (65%) or Vascular Dementia (25%), although probably about one-fourth may have mixed dementias. There are approximately 200 new intakes per year and about 250 patients and their caregivers are followed during the year. Fellows are expected to learn the following: assessment of cognitive disorders, management of dementias including pharmacological and behavioral strategies, to work with caregivers and other family members, home visits, community resources available to patient and families, legal and ethical issues related to dementia, research drugs, consultative skills, and to work with other disciplines. Fellows will typically see 1-2 new intakes per week and follow-up on approximately 5 - 10 patients per week. Fellows spend 1 hour per week in a case conference and 1 hour seminar for 12 weeks devoted to dementia. Fellows will also make home visits with our social worker. Supervision is provided in 1 hour case conference. Faculty is accessible for consultation and will often sit-in on evaluations. Faculty consists of 1 full-time psychiatrist with added qualifications in geriatrics (Dr. Cohen), a part-time neuropsychologist (Dr. Kelly), part-time neurologist (Dr. Crystal), and 2 social workers (Ms Walcott-Brown & Dr. Adams), recreational therapist (Dr. McKenzie-Reece) and a community educator (Dr. Adams).
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
In this experience, fellows learn to understand the categories of impairment, disability, and handicap, and to apply the principles of physical medicine and rehabilitation to the geriatric patient. They will enhance their understanding of the roles of the physiatrist, the physical therapist, the prosthetist, the orthotist and other members of the PM&R team. They will become familiar with the objectives and techniques of various therapeutic modalities, the neurological and musculoskeletal examinations, different settings for rehabilitation, learn to write an appropriate physical therapy prescription including goal setting. Rotation in the prosthetics section will familiarize the fellow with the variety of assistive devices available, their uses and their limitations. Familiarity will also be gained with the approach of the PM&R departments to hip fractures, total joint replacement, amputations, stroke, peripheral neuropathy, disuse atrophy and decreased muscle tone, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, significant cardiac impairment. The crucial role of the social support systems in effecting rehabilitative potential in such conditions will become apparent as well as the implications this may have in the case of disadvantaged minorities.
Clinical Sites:
Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. See above for facility description.
St. Albans Extended Care Center. See above for facility description.
Lutheran Augustan Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation. See above for facility description.
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Conferences and Didactic Programs
Core Lecture Series - 1st year (Fellows in Medicine, Psychiatry, Dentistry):
* Shared with psychiatry and/or dentistry
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Research Experiences
Fellows have participated in various research endeavors including: racial differences in neuropsychiatric symptoms, breast cancer treatment in older women, relationship between depression and medical illness, anxiety disorders and medical illness, communication issues between primary care doctors and psychiatrists in treating older schizophrenic patients, quality of life issues, artificial nutrition and hydration, body mass index and elderly persons, racial differences in sleep disorders, oral health in older adults with schizophrenia, oral health in dementia patients. Our setting is particularly rich for examining racial differences in various health issues.
Summary of Geriatric Medicine Clinical Rotations - Two-Year Program
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The Capitals have extended qualifying offers to restricted free agents Karl Alzner, Marcus Johansson, Tomas Kundratek, Nicolas Deschamps and Peter LeBlanc the team confirmed Tuesday.
By submitting qualifying offers, Washington retains its negotiating rights to each of those players and has the right to match any offer sheet they might sign with another team, or receive draft pick compensation should it opt not to match. Three players — Mattias Sjogren, Danick Paquette and Dustin Stevenson — did not receive qualifying offers and will become unrestricted free agents at noon Friday.
The one-year offers serve as a starting point in contract negotiations and according to the numbers available at Capgeek.com, the minimum offers were as follows: $1.27 million for Alzner, $850,500 for Johansson, $660,000 for Kundratek, $726,000 for Deschamps and $577,700 for LeBlanc. Of those players, Alzner and Deschamps have arbitration rights.
Qualifying offers are open for acceptance beginning at noon Friday and will expire automatically at 5 p.m. on July 20, but it's important to note that they're a tool in the free agency process. Negotiations between the two sides can stretch beyond that deadline, as they did last summer between the Capitals and then-RFAs Mike Green and John Carlson.
Hendricks expected to test free agent market
Caps interested in Lecavalier


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In the top Latin category, the race is anybody's guess, because all the nominees are newly emerging artists.
Best Pop Album: Miami's Jorge Moreno's Latin Grammy as last year's best new artist makes him the likely winner, though Bacilos, a folksy Miami trio, and Sin Bandera, a smooth duet from Mexico, have strong publicity pushes behind them. The daring (and deserving) choice: Argentina's Diego Torres, whose "Color Esperanza" is an uplifting anthem for a troubled Latin America.
Best Rock/Alternative Album: Colombian alt-rocker Juanes is the likely winner. He's been sweeping awards throughout Latin America and Spain with his breakthrough album "Un Dia Normal," though it's more pop than rock. Kinky, a dynamic tropical/electronica band from Mexico, made a splash with its self-titled debut, but not enough to knock off Juanes. Mexico's Mana is too banal and Sindicato Argentino del Hip Hop is a distant longshot. The deserving candidate is Orishas' "Emigrante," a gritty but beautiful blend of rap and salsa.
Best Salsa Album: In a bland year, the hands-down favorite is veteran singer Celia Cruz. But the only contender projecting the true energy, originality and spark of this dance genre is Cuba's Maraca, with his Afro-Cuban timba-salsa fusion "Tremenda Rumba."
-- Agustin Gurza


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Having a cup of tea is not only about the flavour that it imparts, but about the time taken to follow an ancient ritual. I feel it is a treat, a relaxing start to any day, to have the time to sit and enjoy a hot cup before that day begins. If I manage to get out of bed early enough in the morning I relish the pleasure of a cup siting down at the table rather than a mad dash out the door, it seems like civilized start to the day .
Lavender, camomile and mint teaMix equal parts of the followingdried lavender flowersdried chamomile flowersmint tea (I find spearmint the best)This tea keeps very well for a few months in an airtight container.
I made myself a wonderful bottle of saffron vodka. I stuffed half of a packet of saffron into a half bottle of vodka and sat back for three week, to see what would happen. It has made the most beautiful amber drink with the warm flovours of saffron and the kick of a good vodka.
Roll on the saffron Martinis, my new Christmas tipple.
I still remember vividly the first time I tasted Pedro Ximénez I was visiting a good friend in London and we wandered through Exmouth Market and found ourselves sitting at the bar in Moro. Now if any of you have tried booking a table at this restaurant you will know it is no easy task, but you can quite casually stroll in and and sit in their lovely cosy dinning room at the beaten tin counter and enjoy some tasty bar treats. We settled on a glass of Pedro Ximénez with some anchovies, fried chorizo and a lemon yogurt cake to finish.
It was all memorable and absolutely delicious but it was that Pedro Ximénez that stood out in my mind. That was a few years ago but this wonderful sherry has been a staple in my kitchen and drinks cupboard ever since.
Pedro Ximénez is one of life's great pleasures, a glass every now and then makes the world that little bit sweeter. It is called PX for short and is seen as a sherry that you drink after rater than before a meal. Pedro Ximénez is made by drying the grapes under the hot Spanish sun which concentrates the sweetness these grapes are then used to create the sweet, dark liquid with a strong taste of raisins and molasses. I like to drink it slightly chilled, but room temperature is also good.
The luscious chocolate fondants can be made in advance and kept in the fridge until you need them. Once it is time for desert pop them into a medium hot oven for 8 to 10 minutes and voilà, done. The slight bitterness of the dark chocolate is a must, milk chocolate will not work in the same way. Serve one with some PX on the side and a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream and you have a world class desert.
dark chocolate fondants served with Pedro Ximénez and vanilla ice creamI use the little glass pots that you often get yogurt in for this desert. Do not worry about them cracking, they should not, as they were created in an oven much hotter than your one at home. The fondant looks great placed on a plate with a small glass of PX on the side.100g caster sugar3 egg yolks2 egg whites average size egg125g chocolate125g butter62g plain flour12g coco powderWhisk together the sugar, yolks, and whites until nearly triple in volume.Melt the chocolate and butter then pour the melted chocolate and butter into the egg and sugar mix. Put your mixer on the lowest setting and mix gently. The paddle attachment is good for this or you can stir it in with a wooden spoon.Add the flour and cocoa powder and mix until all ingredients are combined then stop mixing other wise your mixture will become flat. Fill your pots almost to the top and put in the fridge until needed


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Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai cast head to Zurich for international sequence
The Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai family of the Star Plus show seems to have taken a break from their regular Udaipur life and are now having fun at Zurich.
The next sequence of the show is set to be shot in Switzerland.
An India.com report says that the international shoot was postponed by a few days as the show's lead actress Hina Khan, who plays the role of Akshara, was not keeping well. The actress was suffering from kidney stones and was on complete bed-rest.
The shows actors Mohsin Khan, Shivangi Joshi, Kanchi Singh and Anshul Pandey shared their fun pictures with their producer Rajan Shahi on Instagram.
#beingfree😬 #switzerlanddairies❤ A photo posted by Kanchi Singh (@kanchisingh09) on
#switzerland #zurich ❤ #inlovewithswitzerland A photo posted by Shivangi (@shivangijoshi18) on
Even the Swiss National Museum shared a picture of all the action on Instagram with the caption, "Lots of drama going on in the episode of the popular Hindi soap opera Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, being shot right now at the Swiss National Museum."
Lots of drama going on in the episode of the popular Hindi soap opera «Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai», being shot right now at the Swiss National Museum, with @visitzurich. #yehrishtakyakehlatahai #hinakhan #yehrishtakyakehlatahai #yrkkh #swiss_national_museum #dailysoap #inlovewithswitzerland A photo posted by Swiss National Museum (@swiss_national_museum) on
This is the fourth international sequence for the long-running show after they previously shot sequences in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Cape Town.
The show currently focuses on the love triangle between Kartik, Naira and Gayatri.
Updated Date: Sep 17, 2016 17:56 PM


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Big Time Rush Make It Rain in West Palm Beach
Big Time Rush gives off a cool vibe on stage during their concert at the Cruzan Amphitheatre on Friday night (August 24) in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The guys — Logan Henderson, Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow and Carlos Pena — had a blast at the show and even made it rain!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Big Time Rush
"What a crazy show tonight! Singin in the rain!!!" Logan tweeted.
James echoed his tweet, "WE MADE IT RAIN!!!"
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Phoenix, AZ – ABA Winternationals 2010: After a typically sunny Arizona Saturday, mother nature turned on the BMX crowd for the final day of the ABA Winternationals – bringin' with her cloudiness, a morning drizzle and eventually turning on the spinklers for the quarters and semi's, before really pouring it on everyone for the main events. In some slippery conditions, Team Redline decided to do the same – and poured on the power, winding up with THREE wins out of the four Elite finals.
[ above L to R: Masa, Sam, Tory and Alise – all smiles after impressive finishes in Sunday's mud. ]
JR ELITE: Canada~Redline's TORY NYHAUG was already on cloud nine after scoring a Saturday win in Jr Elite. Beating the always-tough Conner Fields will always put a smile on Tory's face, and he continued to smile on Sunday despite the change in weather and track conditions. Mud and slick turns are no stranger to this Canadian, and he was feeling as if he were back in British Columbia once the skies opened up and began creating havoc. Inspired by his fellow Canadian national hockey team, Nyhaug was shooting for Gold and out to beat the U.S. juniors – and won Sunday's finale wire to wire.
Ink him in for a Winternationals "double" – and add on some needed Olympic qualification points for Canada.
ELITE WOMEN: While more accustomed to feezing cold and snow, Minnesotan ALISE POST is also no stranger to rain and mud. After a crazy semi main that saw the No.1 contender of Shanaze Reade abruptly swerve off a double jump in to the mud and muck of the infield, Post felt she had the main event in the bag. Although still up against some tough competition – including Redline's Dutch National gal JOYCE SEESING, Post got the snap in the main and held on to the lead with Seesing holding down second. Across the finishline, it was a 1-2 finish for Redline – rounding out her weekend with an impressive 2nd and a 1st.
[ The top two rungs of the Elite Women's podium – Alise & Holland's Joyce Seesing. ]
ELITE MEN: With over 50 AA-pro contenders – and 8 of them being the Dutch National Team, competition in Phoenix was TIGHT. After a barely noticable drizzle during the motos, the track finally started getting slick in time for the quarters. And it just kept on getting worse for the semis, and then even more slick for the main events.
It was here where many of the Dutch national squad began experienceing troubles, and riders were decidingon whether to throw on Tioga Comp-X tires, or stick with their Powerblock's. Redline-USA's DENZEL STEIN stuck with the Powerblocks, and wound up going out in the semi's, while Redline-Australia's Sam Willoughby put on more knobbies and proceeded to the main.
Of all the Elite riders, though – the two who stood out to be surprisingly awesome mudder's were Japan's MASA SAMPEI and his fellow countryman Akafumi Sakamoto. Amazingly, both Japanese contingents were not only up front, but also made the big show. This was a first for Japan – having two of their own in the Elite final!
The Netherland's MARTIJN SCHERPEN was also looking strong in the Elite semi, and was in transfer position up until the last turn, where he got a nice elbow for the fourth and final transfer spot.
In Sunday's Elite mens final, Aussie Redline recruit SAM WILLOUGHBY proved he was the man to beat with a killer snap and super skills in the mud 'n crud. Meanwhile, Masa Sampei was squeezed off down the first straight and fell back to 6th place, while Willoughby lead it wire to wire – jumping everything in front of him as if it were a sunny, dry day.
Not a bad way to wrap up the weekend – with Redline atop the podiums for three of the four Elite mains!
Tune back later for photos and more details from Phoenix.


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Vargas Takes Over At Dulles Chamber
The Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce announced last week that Raul Danny Vargas, founder and president of VARCom Solutions, a marketing and public relations consulting firm, would take over as the organization's chairman next month.
Vargas succeeds Justin J. Exner, a partner at First Financial Mortgage Service, as chairman. He will be the first Hispanic to head a traditional chamber of commerce in Virginia, Vargas and the Dulles group said in a statement. The Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce represents businesses in Herndon, Sterling, Dulles, Chantilly and Centreville and has more than 880 members.
Dan Beyers
June 22, 2007; 7:21 PM ET
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Off to a caliente start
Papa Marce's feels like Baja, drinks like San Diego
Ian Anderson 4 p.m., Oct. 19
It's all pretty unusual, when you really think about it. First off, you've got this exclusive fruit (the grape) that grows only in special regions. And then, the whole time that it grows, it's fussed over and pruned around and prodded and worried about. Subsequently, every season, when this wonder fruit is finally picked, it gets crushed and sweetened and leavened, whereupon some expert in a cold basement slowly oxygenates its dead remains. After that, the strangely treated remains are sealed into bottles and shipped to rich folks who foster them further, these protected ghosts of grapes. And finally, of course! After years and years, the rich folks drink the stuff. And they claim it tastes like what? Candied cherries? Saddle leather? Smoked meat? Black licorice? Yellow flowers, flinty stones, toasted oak, and garden herbs? Is everybody serious?
Growing up, I believed that wine was simple swill: just another alcoholic beverage. Back then, I also thought that coffee was dirty water and that all beer tasted face-scrunchingly bitter. For a long time, I preferred my grape juice from Welch's.
But today I sit here realizing that I've imbibed and integrated a few of the most monumental molecules that could ever touch a tongue, and those molecules have changed me: 1982 Léoville-Las-Cases, 1988 d'Yquem, 1990 Pétrus, 1986 Cheval Blanc, 1982 Margaux, 1975 Lynch-Bages. Those molecules are mingled now with my molecules, part of my mind and my body.
So I guess you can call me a wine lover, or if you prefer the snobbier and more affected term, then you might try to pronounce oenophile. For me, it's easy: I just love the stuff — reading about it, talking about it, collecting it, imagining the tastes of some of the greatest vintages, and, of course, sitting down to drink a bottle or two. To me, wine is poetry, a private enjoyment that can become, at the same time, a communal passion. And just think of the pedigree: before stamps, coins, books, butterflies, plates, cars, dolls, knickknacks, and maybe even before dust, wine was the original collectible.
Moreover, if you have even half a palate, and good appreciation skills and some disposable income, then by now you've probably discovered that wine can help you transcend your senses. The mere act of tasting takes on dimension and weight. Perhaps I'm being over the top, but I'm not embarrassed to call the drinking of fantastic wine a religious experience.
Then we might ask, o grapes, how do you do what you do? But it's some kind of natural mystery. The fact is, grapes are almost as racially diverse as human beings. And every one of them, every varietal of grape, thick-skinned or thin-, is like a supersponge, like the best nerve endings of the earth. They soak up hints and tinges of everything in the soil where they grow. Billions of years' worth of what's been in the soil. And the sun, rain, and wind determine how well they absorb this earthy information. Grapes are just immensely sensitive. And if a person's palate's sensitive as well, then these humble grapes can bring along shells, stones, woods, spices, fruits, meats, leathers, and other echoes over the bizarre paths they shuttle from branches to bellies. It's like a literal game of grapevine, many vineyards long.
In the game there are the masters and the makers, cellars and sellers, corks and consumers. And wine also boasts dedicated missionaries, esteemed stewards of the bacchanalian faith. These attendants are usually referred to as sommeliers.Sommelier is a formal title whose etymology bears close ties to the word sumpter, which is an archaic term for the driver of a packmule or packhorse. But the respected job of today's sommeliers is more specific: to pack wine, and to guide the bottles and the knowledge directly to the consumer. To do this, sommeliers become experts in beverage-department management, wine tasting, wine theory, and practical wine applications. Most of them work in restaurants, where wine is, of course, a staple.
Although I sell wine and talk wine almost every night of the week, at the restaurant where I work, I am not officially a sommelier, not even a first-level one, because I haven't taken the test. The test to become a sommelier is itself a grueling endeavor. But more about that later. Officially, there are three levels of sommeliers, with the Master Sommelier (M.S.) diploma being the highest distinction a professional can attain in fine wine and beverage service.
In the past year, I have been lucky enough to meet and drink wine with three official sommeliers, including the original master sommelier in the United States. They are normal people, of course, these stewards of wine, except for the unusual degree to which they have pursued their passion. All sommeliers have at least two distinctions in common: an enormous base of dedicated knowledge and a thoroughly talented palate.
Another thing that my three sommelier friends have in common is they all tell wonderful stories. I don't know whether this is coincidence or if it comes with the territory. It does occur to me that, to sell wine, one has to be able to persuade people. And what an artful method of persuasion it is to spin simple narratives.
Which is to say that it's almost time, after brief introductions, to turn this wine article over to the artful words of the sommeliers themselves. But first…
Dustin Jones, 26, is the newest member of the wine fraternity. He passed the introductory-level test just a few months ago. I've waited tables for more than two years with Dustin Jones, and I think that the only accurate way to describe him is this: he's rather full of himself, but in a good way. You could err on the side of caution and grant that he's self-assured or self-possessed, but then you'd miss his essential capacity for his own personality. One time I called Jones a likable jerk, and he's really so likable that he didn't mind at all the pejorative portion of the epithet. When you meet him, you're drawn in by his confidence, by the blend of boyish enthusiasm and somewhat rakish charm. In wine terms, you'd exclaim that his youthful tannins don't conflict with his stylish fruit, and yet he's got extensive proportions of both.


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Atmosphere | Yesterday
Atmosphere and "Yesterday" from the album "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold". Just fan made , I dont own anything of the content. Lyrics:
I thought I saw you yesterday
But I didn't stop cause you was walking the opposite way
I guess I could have shouted out your name
But even if it was you I don't what I would say
We can sit and reminisce about the old school
Maybe share a cigarette because we both fools
Chop it up and compare perspectives
Life Love stress and Set backs
You could tell me how hard you had it
And you could show me all the scares to back it
And we can analyze each complaint
Break it down and explain these mistakes i make
I like to tangle up the strings of the puppetry
But you knew me back when i was a younger me
You've seen Sean in all types of life
And I've been meaning to ask you if I'm doing alright
Yesterday, was that you
Looked just like you
Strange things my imagination might do
Take a breath reflect on what we've been through
Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you
Yesterday, was that you
Looked just like you
Strange things my imagination might do
Take a breath reflect on what we've been through
Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you
I'm Shook
I know
I pushed when I should of pulled
Took it all back if I could I put that on my soul
And I would make a top notch good listener
If you could block off a little time out to give it here
Since we went our separate paths
I hits a couple of snags
That remind me of the past
I cant front I'm having a blast
But damned if I ain't afraid of how long its gonna last
Sitting here wishing we could kick it
Gimme your opinions I do miss the criticisms
I didn't mean to be distant
Make a visit
Ill wait up and keep the coffee brewing in the kitchen
But who am I jokin' with
Theres no way that you and I will ever get to re-open it
It doesn't matter this is more then love
And maybe if I'm lucky I'll see you out the conner of…
And when you left I didn't see it coming
I guess I slept it ain't like you was running
You crept out the front door slow
And I was so self-absorbed I didn't even know
And by the the time I looked up, it was booked up
You put it all behind you, the bad and the good stuff
A whole house full of dreams and steps
I think you'd be impressed with the pieces I kept
You disappeared but the history is still here
Thats why I try not to cry over split beer
I can't eve get mad that your gone
Leaving me probably the best thing you ever taught me
I'm sorry, its official
I was a fistful
I didn't keep it simple
Chip on the shoulder, anger in my veins
Had so much hatred, now it brings me to shame
Never thought about the world with out you
And I promise, I'll never say another bad word about you
I thought I saw you yesterday,
But I know it wasn't you, cause you passed away dad.
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