Bought Pioneer Woman's new cookbook "A Year of Holidays". I love her cookbooks and am using two of her recipes for Thanksgiving. Her mashed potatoes and homemade cranberry sauce.
Dave's dad arrives a week from this Thursday to spend two weeks with us and also his sister and her husband may come out for Thanksgiving as well. My sister and her family will be coming too so I am looking forward to hosting Thanksgiving for the first time since Robert was a baby. Speaking of Robert....it will be so nice to have him home from college for four days.
Thanksgiving Day was a blast! We spent it with the Reed Family (we've been doing this since 1978). All of their family was in town and we were only missing my sister and her family. It was great to visit and talk about old times. We aren't the kids anymore and it was fun to see our kids as "the kids" and watch them hangout and have fun. Here's one of my dad carving the turkey. He gave us all lessons on turkey carving. After all he is the "Meat Man"
Then on Saturday I had everyone over to our house for lunch. My sister and her kids were able to make it. Here's a picture of all our kids (only one is missing).
Photos taken with my cell phone. I haven't even looked at the ones on my camera yet.
The rest of the weekend was spent decorating, shopping and working on some house projects. More photos to come soon!
Pumpkin says Happy Thanksgiving! Have some fun today! I know....totally random blog post, but I wanted to post something and we are busy putting up the Christmas tree and outside lights today. Hope everyone has a safe a happy holiday!
Took a little (2month) blog break! Much too long! Stay tuned for catch-ups for the past two months. I am in complete Christmas mood and looking forward to a very fun Thanksgiving weekend with friends coming into town.


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One of the last sponsor units at One57 just hit the market asking $29M
Ryan Serhant is marketing the 5,129-square-foot apartment
By Konrad Putzier
One57 and Ryan Serhant
A duplex condominium at One57 is for sale for the first time ever, with a $28.5 million price tag.
Nest Seekers International's Ryan Serhant is marketing the property, dubbed "Spring Garden Residence."
The 5,129-square-foot apartment, designed by Katherine Newman Design, is one of the last units at the tower to hit the market, and was only recently completed. It includes five bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms and a 17- by 28-foot solarium with Central Park views. Its largest room is 43 feet long.
The unit, which sits on the 41st and 42nd floors, initially had a price tag of $16.75 million in the tower's 2012 condo offering plan.
Extell Development completed the 1,005-foot-tall condo and hotel tower at 157 West 57th Street in 2014 and the first apartment sales closed that year. In December 2014 a penthouse at the tower sold for $100.5 million — to this day the most expensive apartment in New York's history. The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that Michael Dell was the buyer.
Several units at the tower have recently re-sold for substantial losses, amid a dip in the luxury condo market.
Serhant, a star of the Bravo TV series "Million Dollar Listing New York," recently bought author Jonathan Safran Foer's Boerum Hill townhouse for $7.6 million.
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For 15 years, David Koch lived at the world's "richest building"
Here are NYC's 10 priciest homes of 2022
Eichner's Madison Square Park saga enters final act
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SF Giants rumors: Front office tied to Marlins OF Starling Marte
By Marc Delucchi
MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 23: Starling Marte #6 of the Miami Marlins singles on a soft ground ball in the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at loanDepot park on June 23, 2021 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images) /
PHILADELPHIA, PA – JULY 16: Starling Marte #6 of the Miami Marlins hits a two-run home run in the top of the first inning against the Philadelphia Phillies during Game Two of the doubleheader at Citizens Bank Park on July 16, 2021. The SF Giants are reportedly interested in Marte at the upcoming trade deadline. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) /
The SF Giants are "one of the key teams to watch" in trade sweepstakes for Miami Marlins outfielder Starling Marte, according to a report by Craig Mish of the Miami Herald. Marte will be a free agent at the end of the 2021 season, but the Marlins had hoped to sign him to a contract extension. However, per Mish's reporting, the two sides were unable to come to an agreement, which will likely lead Miami's front office to move Marte by the MLB trade deadline on July 31st.
Marte has been one of the most consistent outfielders in MLB since he debuted in 2012 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. By statistics like OPS and wRC+, which attempt to calculate the entirety of a player's offensive production compared to league averages, Marte has only posted one below-average season at the plate over his 10-year career. Yet, at the same time, he's rarely put together a truly exceptional campaign, a key reason why he's only been selected to one All-Star team.
The SF Giants are rumored to be interested in Marlins OF Starling Marte.
After spending the first eight years of his career in Pittsburgh, the Arizona Diamondbacks acquired Marte in a trade heading into the 2020 season. However, as the Dbacks fell further out of playoff contention last season, they opted to move on from their recent acquisition. In the middle of a playoff hunt, the Marlins parted with three players (Caleb Smith, Humberto Mejia, and Julio Frias) to bring Marte to Florida.
Marte has been as good as ever this season with the Marlins, hitting .288/.389/.447 with seven home runs and 19 stolen bases in 57 games. On the defensive side of the ball, Marte may not be the same player he was when he won back-to-back Gold Gloves in 2015-2016, but per Statcast's Outs Above Average, he remains one of the best defensive center fielders in the league.
Center field has long been a source of problems in the Giants lineup. The emergence of Steven Duggar has helped the team mightily at that position. However, despite Duggar hitting .277/.354/.463 this season, advanced Statcast metrics are skeptical that the Clemson alum will maintain this level of production. If that's the case, acquiring a player like Marte could help Duggar return to a fourth-outfielder role, more suited for his elite defensive capabilities but historically weak bat.
Obviously, the Giants would have to part with a package of prospects to bring Marte back to the National League West. However, making $12 million this season and set for free agency, his market is unlikely to yield the Marlins a significant return. In fact, given Miami's focus on returning to postseason contention quickly, the Giants might be able to use more of their upper minors and MLB depth pieces to help swing a deal.
Next. SF Giants promote OF Heliot Ramos to Triple-A
The SF Giants will have plenty of opportunities to improve their roster as the MLB trade deadline approaches. According to Craig Mish of the Miami Herald, they are rumored to be interested in Miami Marlins outfielder Starling Marte. But will they ultimately pull the trigger on a deal? Stay tuned to Around the Foghorn for the latest news and rumors.


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PennDOT will begin accepting applications for Round 1 of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Grant Program on February 24, 2023. The application period is open until 5:00 PM EST on April 6, 2023.
Funds for the PA NEVI grant program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain EV Station Infrastructure sites across Pennsylvania.
The PA NEVI grant program includes multiple rounds of funding. During Round 1, the focus will be on building out the Alternative Fuels Corridor (AFC) network along the interstates to meet the NEVI requirements.
PennDOT has created an interactive map identifying existing AFC-qualifying stations and has grouped interchanges based on priority through a gap analysis. An outline of the scoring criteria is also included listed in order of priority.
In addition, PennDOT's Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) includes instructions and information on the grant program, eligibility, scoring criteria, submission process and instructions.
All applications must be submitted electronically through PA Department of Community and Economic Development's eGrant's system at https://www.esa.dced.state.pa.us/Login.aspx by 5:00 PM EST on April 6, 2023.
Submit questions about the NOFO or how to apply to RA-PDEVCorridors@pa.gov. In addition, frequently asked questions and answers will be posted publicly online.
For more information on NEVI funds in Pennsylvania and to review PennDOT's pre-announcement resources, visit the PennDOT website.


The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2014, which was introduced in Rajya Sabha in 2014, was cleared last month.
The legislation, drafted to make Indian laws compliant with the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is seen by many, as a harbinger of change, in the way differently abled individuals are treated in the country. However, not everyone is buying into it.
Consider this: the principal beneficiaries of the law are persons with benchmark disabilities. Section 2 (r) of the Act states that a person with a benchmark disability is any person who is 40% disabled, where the percentage of disability cannot be quantified in measurable terms, and, when the percentage of the disability can be ascertained, any person with a disability.
Put differently, the provision envisages the quantification of the percentage of precisely the selfsame disabilities which it explicitly regards as not being capable of quantification.
More worryingly, this provision, instead of being an aberration, is emblematic of the logical inconsistency and inattention to detail that permeate the law.
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I'm sorry to those who were looking forward to another installment of The Life of Anne Lily.
November was a really busy month for me and I didn't get to write as much as I would have liked. This has led me to the decision to put a pause on the short story series so I can focus my attention solely on the novel that is scheduled to come out in early 2019.
I hope you will forgive me for having to stop the series after only two stories. My wish is that I'll continue the series in the future.
Please come back and visit this site occasionally. I might be posting my thoughts and other various things about my new novel.
Also look for announcements about the novel release close to the end of next year.


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Former Missouri State pitcher Ross Detwiler looks to save the season for Washington today at 3:07 p.m.
The Cardinals have one of the scariest lineups in all of baseball when they're clicking like they have been in the last two games. That's hasn't been Washington's strength this season and with their starting pitching stumbling, their inability to come up with big hits has been magnified in Games 2 and 3 and now the Cardinals look to finish off the Nationals today.
The Cardinals have scored 20 runs in the last two games and are hitting .307 with runners in scoring position in the two wins. Meanwhile Washington is batting .125 the entire series, and .067 in the two losses. Washington is drawing four walks a game, but striking out 11 times per game. The Nationals are getting guys on base, but they're not driving them in. Playoff experience from both pitching staffs is playing a key role.
The Nationals are sending Wentzville, MO. native and former Missouri State Bears pitcher Ross Detwiler to the mound. Detwiler, like Jordan Zimmerman and Edwin Jackson, faced the Cardinals late in the year and got punished. On his last start of the year, Detwiler got tagged for seven runs, three earned in 2.1 innings.
The Cardinals are countering with Kyle Lohse. Before the Atlanta game, manager Mike Matheny said Lohse was not only the most consistent pitcher on their team, but perhaps in the entire National League. Lohse will try to use his playoff experience to his advantage.


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Emotion, hands clapping - the Mayor of Menton has called on the priest, the imam from Nice and the rabbi to stand together on the steps of the Mairie. A moving moment for everyone.
Émotion, applaudissements - le maire de Menton a invité le prêtre, l'imam de Nice et le rabbin à se tenir tous ensemble sur les marches de la mairie. Un moment émouvant pour tout le monde.
The expressions on the faces speak volumes.
Terrific PJ, but it's the clarity of the woman in the sunglasses that makes the image for me.


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Uczestnik mistrzostw świata w 1993. Startował w Pucharze Świata w 1997 i 1999. Zdobył sześć medali mistrzostw Oceanii w latach 1990 - 2000. Mistrz Australii w 1992, 1998, 2000, 2001 i 2002 roku.

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Australijscy judocy
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I think we are all bewildered by recent world events. You have captured the kaleidoscope effect of trying to describe emotion. Bravo.
Confused is a good word in this context, Henrik.
again.. and after 5 years..
is my advice as free..
Mother Nature when set free..
The contrasts you have used here works so well, the cold and warm, the indoors and outdoors and the smell of pizza.. I think confusion is one of the most common feelings I have, but it's so difficult to put in language.
I like how you have drawn on the elements with trying to understand how you are feeling ~ showing a sense of confusion or bewilderment which as Bjorn has said is difficult to do. The contrasts of pizza and ice, vinegar and wine, kiss or a handshake…you said it doesn't make sense ~ but to me it does. Enjoyed ~ thank you. Smiles.
Indeed there are times when our emotions are bewildered. Powerful write.
Thanks for the positive feedback and… gracias pro decidir leer mi blog en español. El Alebrije y la Salamandra ha estado callado por un tiempo. Pero quiero revivirlo y volver a escribir. El tener una nueva seguidora es quizá la motivación que necesitaba. Gracias, de nuevo.
Love your poem, Adriana. The interesting thing with your poem is that even though it talks about confusion and not been able to exprese them, the poem sends vibration on hidden passion.
Hahaha! I love that you found passion in it. I like the idea of writing about something specific, but enabling extra meaning.


Retailers are losing out on the free space just near the entryways of their front doors! We are talking about your store's welcome area, a hot zone for small displays and dump bins that will drive sales up before consumers even fully enter your store.
The front porch and vestibule areas are where virtually all of your customers pass through. Leaving them empty is losing a crucial area that can be used to display a variety of merchandise. There are several ways retailers can utilize these spaces to show more products and bring in higher sales.
Vestibules – According to the Retail Doctor, you want to catch your customers' attention as soon as they walk through the door. These are areas that are heated and fairly protected. Vestibules are the perfect space for selling products that are fun or unique, focusing on customers' "wants" and not items they need and are already coming into the store to purchase.
Front Porch – The sidewalk space in front of your store is a great place to display seasonal outdoor items such as plants, gardening tools, or lawn furniture. While people usually expect to find discounted merchandise on the porch or sidewalk area, it is important to add in a few regular priced items to boost sales. To make the most of your outdoor space, make sure to use fixtures that have several shelf levels for an attractive merchandise presentation.
As with any merchandising strategy, there are always challenges that need to be considered, and the front porch and vestibules areas are no exception.
Limited Space – When working with limited space it is essential to cross-merchandise products that correlate with each other. Cramming too many items that don't relate will appear unappealing and overwhelm the customer.
Damaged Goods – Sometimes having items in an entrance area can mean they get handled more often, and even destroyed. To prevent damage from occurring it is essential that merchandise be placed on sturdy displays. More delicate items should be placed higher up where children are not able to reach as easily.
Potential Theft – You may hesitate to display items in the entrance or front porch areas of your store for fear of theft. There are several things you can do to limit theft while promoting sales in these areas.
Lighting – Keep all areas that pose a higher theft-risk well lit. Certain types of lighting can even highlight particular items that you are trying to showcase.
Large Items – Display items in vestibules that are large or heavy. Smaller merchandise that can be concealed into purses or pockets should be kept inside near the register.
Increase Security – Koorsen Fire and Security suggest that you can prevent theft by installing security cameras in strategic locations. If this is not financially feasible, use RFID tags for articles displayed in entrances and porches.
It is not acceptable to have product haphazardly scattered across the floor. Therefore, choosing the right display is imperative to master the effectiveness of your front-of-store space. Utilize space with focal displays that are durable and enticing to promote small or seasonal products throughout the year.
It is also essential to use fixtures that can quickly be moved around or disassembled, eliminating the challenge of rearranging areas on a regular basis.
Tiered Rounds – These small displays easily fit into little spaces while offering multiple levels for products of different sizes to be shown, and 360 degrees of shoppability.
Platforms – Small products may pose the threat of theft; however, these sturdy displays can hold heavier products and allow for an elevated appearance to traditional pallet stacks. Raised pallets also will enable you to incorporate graphics and signage to promote your brand.
Step Displays – Store fixtures that feature height variations are an excellent way to make the most of small spaces. Step displays show off merchandise in its entirety while using less floor space.
Long-handle Merchandiser – No longer does long-handled merchandise need to be displayed against back walls. Pull difficult-to-merchandise items such as rakes, tiki torches, or brooms into high-traffic areas.
High-quality displays that are both durable and easy to assemble will elevate your storefront and promote merchandise for add-on sales.
Contact SPC Retail to find a wide variety of fixtures perfect for your vestibules and front porch space. We offer a variety of sizes and can easily incorporate graphics for that extra-special touch! Let us help you to fill that free display space.


Knowing how not to quit — that's the one thing Share On Purpose CEO Terri Maxwell says all successful people have in common. From Olympic gold winners and Billboard-topping singers to Fortune 500 founders and billionaire entrepreneurs, perseverance separates the triumphant from the aspiring. It's what breeds success, a truth R'ymonda Davis, Managing Director of Promote On Purpose, learned early in life.
Naturally persistent, R'ymonda used that fighting spirit to propel her forward in life. As a child and teen, she excelled at both sports and academics and continually pushed herself to achieve more. Still, she said it wasn't until she came to work at Share On Purpose that she truly learned the power of perseverance.
"Perseverance is a spiritual force," explained R'ymonda. "To win, you can't just decide to focus harder. You have to access that force. It's within all of us, but you have to know how to access it. Working at Share taught me how to do that.
That game plan is crucial for success, said R'ymonda. Everyone accesses perseverance differently. Knowing how to tap into it purposefully increases its power.
One tool used at Share On Purpose is getting into a mindset where you can harness the power of perseverance. It's known as getting into "state".
Does the idea of unlimited potential excite you? Check out our available positions to join a team that recognizes and rewards perseverance.


Zumba fitness has quickly grown to one of the most popular group exercise classes on the planet. In fact, the Latin-dance inspired workout is reportedly performed by more than 12 million people at 110,000 sites, in 125 countries around the world.
"Ditch the Workout – Join the Party!" That's the marketing slogan for Zumba fitness, which attracts exercisers with a fun fusion of dance moves from styles like Salsa, Merengue, Reggaeton and Flamenco, and the sort of choreography you might see in a nightclub.
All of the traditional postures from Yoga are utilised to improve the bodies strength, mobility and flexibility, however there is no chanting, meditation or any of the spiritual side to the class.There are standing and seated postures with added work for flexibility stretching.
A series of 34 exercises designed by Joseph Pilates in the early 1900's to keep the spine healthy and the body moving as it naturally should. It will improve core strength to relieve back aches, improve balance and posture.
All exercises are multi level making it perfect for everyone.
Interval training- mix of punching, cardio, strength and Tone, burning fat and calories, approx. 500 cls 4000 steps!
Dance yourself Dizzy ! and get fit in the process.Its got to be worth a try hasn't it – Go on you know you want to. It will be our secret!


Discussion in 'Android Lounge' started by goodatteatude, Dec 28, 2009.
Any suggestion for me as a beginner...what type of phone which is suitable for me.
Just want to learn about Android.
Formerly using blackberry and now it comes to mind about trying this new things.
just like with fruit there's an app for that in the android market and a lot of them are free.
If you can boil down your "must have's" in a phone, how soon you want your phone (ie. can you wait 6 months?), and if you need a specific network... all of these points will get your answer for you.
What do you like about your Blackberry? What does your Blackberry not do, that you want a cell phone to do.
I do agree that a keyboard can make or break a cell phone for some. I have a myTouch 3G and I can use the keyboard just fine. But, I do not punch our emails all day with my Android phone.


The location of our three clinics, near the beautiful Moose Mountain Provincial Park, provides indoor and outdoor recreational activities. All of our clinics are mixed, serving both large and small animal clients, providing plenty of opportunity for both learning and practice of valuable technical skills. We are seeking applicants who are enthusiastic, organized, self-motivated and possess both reception and technical skills.
We have an in-house Abaxis laboratory, digital radiography and our office/veterinary software is ImproMed. Duties would include anesthesiology, radiology, dentistry, lab work, client education, patient care, secretarial and cleaning duties. We offer a competitive salary, benefits which include annual medical/dental/vision coverage, annual paid registration fees, a CE allowance and discounted veterinary coverage for your personal pets. New graduates are welcome to apply!
VETERINARIAN: A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine or Board Certified diploma is required. Duties include performing small and large animal diagnosis and surgeries, communicating with clients, and shared after hour call duties.


We carry all of the new video games for all of the popular game systems such as 3DS, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Though we don't push them on you, game pre-orders are available and appreciated. No money down is required for most pre-order items (aside from limited edition releases).
Just because a game isn't brand new doesn't mean it doesn't deserve a good home. Pre-owned games still have a lot of life in them plus they are easier on your wallet.
Most corporate stores phase out the older games as the new systems hit the market. This will never happen at Elite Games. We hold on to all of those older systems and games, because we know not everyone wants or can afford the new systems. Plus the older systems have a lot of great games you just can't get on the newest systems.
All of our pre-owned games are cleaned whether it is a disc style or a cartridge style game.
We carry an extensive variety of pre-owned games for the latest consoles through the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) which brings us to our next category.
Yes, we said vintage! We offer all of the vintage games (also known as retro) games and game consoles all the back to the NES. We don't discriminate against any game based on the size of their bits.
If you don't find the game you are looking for on the vintage wall don't worry. It may have been selected to reside behind the glass of the vintage display case. The games in the display case receive the special spa treatment and are placed in their own protectors (ok so they are plastic bags, but they look cool).
Don't worry; if you select a game from the vintage games shelf, it is still cleaned and guaranteed to work.
Repros are games that for whatever reason did not make it into production, were not released on certain systems or are games that were hacked by individuals in the gaming community.
They allow you to play games you may otherwise not be able to play on your consoles. These games require modifications to existing game boards in order to accept the new software.
We offer repros for the NES, SNES and will be adding Sega Genesis in the future. If there is a repro you are looking for, let us know. We may be able to get it for you.
Can't Find What You Really Want?
In most cases, if we don't have what you are looking for, we can order it for you the same day. It doesn't matter if it is a hot new title or a game you have been trying to find for years. Unlike online retailers, we usually have your game in our hands in a few days and you don't get stuck paying the high shipping costs. Plus you know the game will work and it comes with our 30 day guarantee.
We are a trade in friendly video game store. By that we mean you are welcome to trade in your games, consoles and personal electronics you may have for store credit or even cash. We like to think of this as recycling.
We think you will be very happy with our competitive trade in values. Keep in mind you will get a better value if you trade in your items for store credit. The cash value is about 20% less than store credit.
When it doubt, bring your items in and a store representative will let you know if your games, consoles, or accessories qualify for store credit or cash.
All trade ins for cash require a VALID PHOTO ID.


We design and deliver high quality training on the full range of people management and related leadership issues. These are delivered on-site or other location to fit your needs and tailored to address the issues and challenges relevant to your organisation.
This session will cover best practice appraisal with a clear focus on the priorities in your school improvement or business plan as well as your organisation's vision and values.
A highly interactive session to develop awareness of the expectations for teachers at each stage of the pay range using your school/academy criteria and the professional standards for teachers – a strong emphasis on individual accountability and evidence of impact.
An interactive session to facilitate the thinking around the new standards, how all Teaching Assistants contribute to good to outstanding teaching and learning. As with the session for teachers there is also a strong emphasis on high expectations, individual accountability and evidence of impact. The training session can be delivered straight to your team of Teaching Assistants or you may wish for a prior session with your SLT to facilitate some key themes and messages to be communicated as part of the wider training.
This is typically a two hour session, usually a twilight to support staff facing the prospect of restructure and possible redundancy.
The aim is to enable staff to view the change positively and to develop their pathway to where they want to be: either in a suitable position within the new structure or with the best opportunity to find their next career move.
enhanced confidence through better job/role applications and greatly improved interview skills.
High quality, interactive training at times and on subjects to suit your governors. Popular topics include: Basic Personnel Issues for Governors; Developing Strategic Pay and Appraisal Policies; The Governors' Role in Promoting Well-being at School.


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How to Send a 1099 to a Subcontractor
By: Matt McGew
Prepare a 1099 for a Contract Worker
The Internal Revenue Service requires businesses to send subcontractors a Form 1099-MISC for all tax years in which the business paid the subcontractor more than $600. The subcontractor can then use the form to prepare his taxes. Since a subcontractor is not an employee, the business will not withhold any taxes from the subcontractor's compensation, and the 1099 will only list the total compensation received by the subcontractor during the tax year.
Give the subcontractor a blank W-9 form to fill out. The subcontractor should complete the W-9 form with information about his legal name, business name, type of business, address and Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number.
Enter your business name, address and phone number in the "PAYER's name, street address, city, state, ZIP code, and telephone no." box on a blank 1099 form. Enter your business's Taxpayer Identification Number in the "PAYER's Federal Identification number" box.
Enter the subcontractor's Taxpayer Identification Number from the W-9 form in the "Recipient's Identification number" box on the 1099 form.
Enter the subcontractor's name and business name from the W-9 form in the "RECIPIENT's name" box. Enter the subcontractor's address from the W-9 form in the appropriate boxes.
Enter the total compensation paid to the subcontractor during the tax year in the "Nonemployee compensation" box.
Mail the completed 1099 form to the subcontractor. IRS regulations require you to mail the 1099 form by Jan. 31 of the following year. For example, if you want to send a 1099 form for the 2010 tax year, you must mail the form prior to Jan. 31, 2011.
IRS: 2011 Instructions for Form 1099-MISC
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Since 1992 Matt McGew has provided content for on and offline businesses and publications. Previous work has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times," Travelocity and "GQ Magazine." McGew specializes in search engine optimization and has a Master of Arts in journalism from New York University.


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Episode 46: Grammy Winner Alisha Gaddis Shares Her Life
Multi-Famous Moms Struggle Too
Postpartum Anxiety is No Joke
On Today's Podcast
Alisha Gaddis is an Emmy Award Winner (multiple nominations), multi Grammy Award Winner, writer, actress, best selling author, and producer based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Alisha has published eight books with multiple publishers to critical acclaim. Her latest, Mama's Milk & Me: A Journal for Weaning Mothers, is a best seller in the Parenting genre. As a living person, Alisha splits her time between Los Angeles and the Midwest with her husband and young daughter, Indiana Maven. She loves brie, Broadway and free samples.
Listen To Learn:
How Alisha uses BUJO (bullet journaling) to help her.
How traveling the world on tour doesn't mean you're not on edge.
How Alisha uses micro goals every day to purposefully draw happiness into her life.
How Crayola Markers might be for YOU (and not just the kids).
How and why it's so important to have grace with yourself every single day.
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Cardiology for Cats
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Mon, Thurs: 8:30AM-8PM; Tues, Weds, Fri: 8:30AM-5:30PM; Sat, Sun: CLOSED
Mon, Thurs: 8:00PM-12AM; Tues, Weds, Fri: 5:30PM-12AM; Sat, Sun, Holidays: 8:30AM-12AM
Dr. Mack S. Setser is a man who was very dear to us at Junaluska Animal Hospital. Mack was a native of Macon County, NC, and served his country as a US Marine in the Pacific theater during WWII, participating in the second wave attack on the Tarawa. Just prior to his departure for the war, he had started dating his future wife, Beulah, then a student at Brevard College. After finishing his undergraduate studies at North Carolina State University, the two had begun dating, with chaperones, of course, when the attack on Pearl Harbor changed their lives. Mack enlisted in the US Marines the day after Pearl Harbor and did not see Beulah again until after the war. They were married shortly after his return and Mack worked as an agent for the Farmers Home Administration in the mountains of western North Carolina. During that time, Mack applied to and was accepted to veterinary school at the University of Georgia, graduating in 1950. The Setsers wanted to come to Haywood county at that time, but another veterinarian, Dr. Burnsides, had started a practice here and there simply was not enough work for another vet at that time. The Setsers moved to Burnsville, NC, where Mack practiced for 3-4 months. By then, Dr. Burnsides had decided that Haywood County was not for him, and Mack purchased his fledgling practice and moved to Lake Junaluska.
In 1953, Dr. Setser's business was primarily taking care of the over 100 dairies in the county. Almost every rural family also had their own milk cow, and many draft horses and mules were still used for plowing and transportation. Mack traveled from Buncombe County west all the way to Bryson City to meet the veterinary needs of the area. For some time, he was one of only a few veterinarians west of Asheville. Dogs and cats accounted for only a small part of rural veterinary practices of the day, and Mack's original office had only a few cages. It was mainly a place to have a telephone and to re-supply the drugs in his Jeep.
In 1967, Mack finally took on a partner, Dr. Joe Howell, and they built a brand new hospital at our current location on Asheville Road. It turned out to be a wise choice of sites, being nearly dead center in the county. A short time later, Dr. Howell left Waynesville, and Mack teamed up with Dr. Frank Enloe, also a Georgia graduate (1960) and they remained partners for over 20 years.
Dr. Setser had a reputation early in his career as being a somewhat "contrary" sort, but as he aged, he mellowed considerably to the man most of us remember as big-hearted, honest, hard-working, insightful, and steady with a hefty dose of "horse sense." He was a master teller of tales with an easy laugh and a quick wit. His greatest strength, however, was probably his ability to adapt. As the county and the veterinary profession changed, Mack was eager and willing to change with it. He was, however, reluctant to give up on methods that worked, just to replace them with something that was new. Doc was always active in state and local veterinary association, and served as president of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association, in addition to being honored as North Carolina Veterinarian of the Year. Mack was also honored as being instrumental in starting the College of Veterinary Medicine at his alma mater, North Carolina State University.
Those of us who were able to work with Doc Setser count ourselves very fortunate to have been able to learn from such a great mentor and colleague. We will always adhere to the highest standards of the profession that he considered "most honorable," and we will always strive to treat our co-workers and clients like family. In 2003, just a few years before his passing, we celebrated with Mack the 50th anniversary of this hospital. He always bragged that he had "hand-picked" his successors and that we were carrying on his practice for him.
Thanks, Doc!
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Hand-Knitted Dolls-Hand Puppet 24 CM.
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Adorable little animals hand-knitted in organic cotton.
These baby animals make beautiful, collectable toys for kids. They are designed to match with our other soft toy collections, These toys also have a hanging loop at the top of the head.
They are available here in the following styles: dog, rabbit, koala, panda, cow, monkey, elephant, mouse.
They are hand-knitted in organic cotton, with Oeko-Tex certified polyester stuffing.
Each toy measures roughly 24 cm. from toe to top of the head.


To prevent things getting confused I would first like to clear out some terminology used for virtualization. For somebody working on a daily basis in virtual environments, these might be clear but can be rather confusing for others.
Guest: the system running on the host, also referred to as VM, Virtual Machine or domain.
This post has been completely reviewed and updated where needed on 08/2017 to make sure everything is still working and is correct.
As mentioned earlier, KVM offers, as VMWare, full virtualization. This means that a full system, which looks like a real physical system to the guest-OS, will be offered. Besides full virtualization, there is also such a thing as paravirtualization, as Xen can offer. Paravirtualization gives you higher performance but needs a modified guest-OS and is basically limited to *nix-systems. Full virtualization enables you to run unmodified guest-systems and thus also most proprietary systems as Windows . In order to be able to use full virtualization, you either need some virtualization-extensions on your CPU or use emulation.
When the output is 0, meaning that neither vmx or svm is found in the flags, it probably means that your CPU doesn't support those extensions and there is little you can do. When the extensions are listed, be sure to check if they are enabled in the systems BIOS since that would cause problems later on. In case your CPU doesn't support VM-extensions, you are limited to QEMU-emulation in combination with KVM, which delivers a much worse performance in comparison. For this tutorial, I'll assume that the VM-extensions are supported and enabled in the BIOS of the host-system.
For the networking part, our KVM-host will act as a router for its guests and we will need to create a bridge interface to allow the guest to communicate out of the host. Guests will use the bridge on the host to connect to the real network. To allow such type of setup it's needed to allow ip forwarding in the kernel parameters.
Basically all components are now ok but before KVM can be used it's a good idea to perform a reboot in order to load the kvm-modules and to relaod the new network settings.
If it returns something else, then you should go trough the earlier steps to check where something went wrong.
After completing the KVM installation, it's time to start using the host. First thing we need to do is to create a new domain or VM.
[jensd@kvmhost ~]$ sudo semanage fcontext -a -t virt_image_t "/vm(/.*)?"
Now, to add a new VM, we can use virt-install.
After launching the above command, you should be able to connect with VNC to the host and get on the console-display of the VM. The console displays what would normally, on a physical machine, appear on the attached monitor.
As for the networking part, we use the earlier created bridge (virbr0) to do NAT. This means that the KVM-host NAT's all our connections to the real network connected to the KVM-host. If DHCP is active on that network, it can be used in the VM. Otherwise you will have to configure a static IP in the same subnet.
As with the Windows-VM, after launching this command, you should be able to connect with VNC to the host and get on the console of the VM to complete the Debian installation.
After finishing the installation, we end up with a Linux guest running on top of our KVM-host. Which Linux distro we are using doesn't matter since we're doing full virtualization.
Considering network, the same as with the Windows VM applies here. Our connections are NATted trough the KVM-host and we can use the DHCP-server of our real network.
Besides creating VM's, it's a good thing to know some basic operations regarding VM-managent.
First we need to make sure that the guest is stopped before it can be deleted. In case you don't want the virtual disk image anymore either, you'll have to delete it manually after undefining the guest.
When rebooting your host, you probably want some or all the guests that are defined on that host to start at the same time. By default, the guest are not automatically started.
Managing KVM with the CLI is not so difficult and it can be very handy to script certain day-to-day tasks. Sometimes, you just need to keep an overview and require a little more user-friendliness. For that, you can use virt-manager, which is a graphical interface for libvirt and is mainly built for KVM. When you want to manage your guest with virt-manager, you can either do it on the host itself, by starting an X-server locally or use X11 forwarding on a headless server (more information here).
As you can see, the virt-manager interface is not very complicated and most of the basic tasks don't need any explanation.
After completing all of the above steps, basic installation and using KVM shouldn't have any secrets anymore for you. The next thing to do is experiment and test a little more with KVM and hopefully start to use it in your production environment.
This entry was posted in CentOS, Kernel, KVM, Linux, Red Hat, RHEL, Virtualization, Windows by jensd. Bookmark the permalink.
Difficult to tell you exactly what's wrong.
I suspect a authorization problem.
You can try to (temporary) turn of SELinux to make sure that isn't causing the issue.
Running into an odd issue. Wonder if you had an answer for it. The libvirtd adds 4 lines to the head of the IP Chain. It is supposed to limit it to the bridge by default according to their documentation. However, it does not limit it for me. Did you come across anything like this?
I try to connect with vnc but does not work, with vm-manager dont have any issue.
nov 05 09:47:44 hostX.local.inet systemd: Stopped IPv4 firewall with iptables.
Where is domain libvirt XML config file located?
I would like to make a windows-guest running on a host system and display there too on this video card.
The auto-start of the VM works, but I want to the video output also starts in full screen mode, so I no longer see the ubuntu.
Thanks for any response and suggestion.
This is a solution, but do I need a second VGA card and I can not install them in the industrial-PC's. Is this possible with only a VGA?
The goal is to install our standard windows-os with programs and sysprep on computers with different hardware without driver installation information.
For that I want to be a linux system that is not hardware sensitive, operating as kvm host and display on the same graphics card, the guest system – such as in virt-manager full screen mode…?
It's just a windows guest system on the computer needed, and the linux is not to be reached by the end user.
something went wrong with the preceding command (echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1″|sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-ipforward.conf).
You could try to run it again or manually create the file /etc/sysctl.d/99-ipforward.conf containing net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1.
Excellent, very informative article. Thankyou. Essential for CentOS-7 users.
> since that would problems later on.
Change "it's" to "its". "Its" is the possessive pronoun (cf hers, ours, yours, theirs – none have apostrophes).
> appear on the attache monitor.
I've corrected your remarks in the text.
Can we please make a couple corrections?
This is only the case if the –network switch is set to user or a named virtual network. If you use 'bridge' and connect to a bridged interface, then the guest will have transparent access to the hosts network and will NOT be behind a NAT created by the host. The host will only be a 'router' offering NAT if the –network switch is set to user or a named virtual network.
Bridged networking is incredibly easy to use, and does not require the entry of NAT rules or port forwards in the host to the guest as the other two guest network types do.
Please note that although you 'can' add more than one physical network adaptor to a bridge, you run the risk of creating a loop in the network if both network adaptors are plugged into the same or related network switches. This should only be done if you understand how to use spanning tree or link aggregation to prevent network storms and problems… this is a really easy way to kill an improperly setup network.
Which worked much better. Otherwise, thanks for the good tutorial!
I've followed the directions here exactly and everything works as expected.
However, my knowledge (not ability to understand) falls short when it comes time to set up the IP for the guest machine, inside the guest machine.
I have a host server running bare CentOS7 and I've installed a guest OS of ClearOS7. I connected from my home machine to the Guest server VNC connection as outlined with no problem. I am able to see the ClearOS GUI and complete the initial install.
The Guest server indicates it has a Link but no IP assigned so I assume I am to use the IP provided for virb0. Of course the guest system says IP already in use.
1) I need the host server to be able to be accessed from pubic (internet) via SSH so I can manage and maintain it. I do not necessarily need VNC, HTTP, or anything else.
2) I need the Guest OS to be able to server up HTTP, SSH and other service like a normal server and be able to get out to the internet to surf, download content etc.
3) I will be adding another Guest Server and it will also need the same access as the other guests.
I have only one IP from my ISP.
So I am not sure what the real issue is, I need some help to get this going.
Gotta say that this walk through helped me a lot.
Got me up and running quickly and started using my environments.
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to michael cooper, sorry nobody replied months ago.
you are trying to run your X related gui application and you don't have a display to run it on. You must be using ssh to get in. Either install xauth and use ssh -Y to forward your X session (you will need to edit /etc/sshd.conf to allow X11 forwarding) or you need to be sitting directly at the system with the screen attached.
hope this helps. read up on x11 forwarding. try to get xeyes working first.
2:qemu-common-2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2:qemu-system-x86-2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
It looks like you have an issue with your network or DNS configuration. the host you have as a mirror (mirror.vinahost.vn) seems to be working. Please check network connectivity in order to fix the issue.
I have learned a LOT from this article by you. THANK YOU.
4)Adding a disk ONLINE and increasing FS size.
Thanks , informative and helpful to me.


§ 1. BE it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of November next, all that part of the county of Warrick, which is included within the following boundaries, shall form and constitute a new county, which shall be known and designated by the name and style of the county of Posey: that is to say begining on the Ohio river, where the range line passing between the tenth and eleventh range strikes or intersects the said Ohio river, north with the said range line passing between the said tenth and eleventh ranges, to its intersection with the line dividing the counties of Gibson and Warrick, thence west with the said line dividing the said counties of Gibson and Warrick to the western bank of the Wabash river, thence down the western bank of the Wabash river with the line of the Illinois Territory to its junction with the Ohio river, thence up the Ohio river with the meanders thereof to the beginning.
§ 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said first day of November next, all that part of the counties of Gibson and Warrick which is included within the following boundaries, shall form and constitute another new county, which shall be known and designated by the name and style of the county of Perry; that is to say, beginning on the Ohio river where the range line passes between the fifth and sixth ranges, west of the second principal meridian where it strikes or intersects the said Ohio river, thence north with the said range line until it intersects the township line passing between township two and three, thence east with the said township line, passing between township two and three, until it intersects the second principal meridian, or line of Harrison county, thence south with the said second principal meridian until it first strikes or intersects the Ohio river, thence down the Ohio river with the meanders thereof to the beginning.
§ 3. And he it further enacted, That the said counties hereby formed and established shall severally and respectively enjoy and exereise all the rights, privileges and jurisdictions, which to seperate counties of this Territory do or may properly appertain or belong : Provided always, That all suits, pleas, plaints, actions and proceedings, which may before the first day of November next, have been commenced, instituted or depending within the present counties of Gibson and Warrick, shall be prosecuted to final judgment and execution, in the same manner as if this act had never been passed, and that the Territorial and county taxes which are now due within the boundaries of the new counties hereby established, shall be collected in the same manner and by the same oflicers, as they would have been if this act had not been passed.
§ 4. And be it further enacted, That until a court house shall be erected in the said county of Posey, sufficient for the accommodation of the court, the courts for the the said county of Posey shall be held at the house of Absalom Duckworth, in said Posey county; & that until a court house is erected in the said county of Perry, sufficient for the accommodation of the court, the courts for the said county of Perry shall be held at James M'Donald's, in said Perry county.
§ 5. And be it further enacted, That Robert W. Tevault, William Brisco, Joseph English, Adam Young and Samuel Snider, all of the county of Warrick, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to fix the seat of justice in Posey county, who shall meet at the said Absalom Duckworth's on the third Monday in November next and proceed to fix the seat of justice for the said Posey county, agreeably to the provisions of an act entitled an act, for fixing the seats of justice in all new counties hereafter to be laid off ; and that William Barker, Jesse Ammerson and James Stewart of Gibson county, Joseph Paddox and Ignatious Abell, of Harrison county, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners to fix the seat of justice in Perry county, who shall meet at James M'Donalds in said Perry county, on the third Monday in November next, and proceed to fix the seat of justice for the said county of Perry, agreeably to the provisions of an act entitled an act, for fixing the seats of justice in all new counties hereafter to be laid off.
§ 6. And be it further enacted, That the courts authorised to transact county business in the aforesaid new counties, shall as soon as convenient after their seats of justice are fixed, cause the public buildings of their respective counties to be erected thereon, as near the centre of the lands procured by the county for its seat of justice, as an eligible situation can be had, and will best promote the interest of the said new counties, and shall adjourn the courts thereto so soon as their respective court houses are built, and, prepared for the accommodation of said court.
§ 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Posey and Perry counties shall be, and they are hereby declared a part of the first circuit, and shall be and remain a part of the district for the election of councellors composed of the counties of Gibson and Warrick, and in case of vacancy for a councellor, the associate judges of said counties of Posey and Perry shall have power to carry into effect the law regulating elections.
§ 8. And be it further enacted, That no person who is either clerk or recorder, in either of the aforesaid new counties, shall be elligible to hold the appointment of agent for eitheir of the said new counties.
§ 9. And be it further enacted, That the said counties of Posey and Perry shall be entitled to one representative and no more until otherwise altered by law, and when elected his time shall expire on the first Monday in August 1816, and when the Governor issues his writ of election, as is provided in the act, entitled an act, apportioning the members of the House of Representatives of the Indiana Territory, the associate judges of the circuit courts of the said counties of Posey and Perry, shall have power to convene at the place of holding their courts, and appoint persons to conduct the election as the laws of the Territory may direct, and when the superintendants of the election shall make their returns to the clerks of each of the aforesaid counties as directed by law, the sheriff of each county shall obtain a true statement of the number of votes from the clerk, and within ten days thereafter meet at the seat of justice for Warrick county, and compare the number of votes, and give the person having the highest number, a certificate of his having been duly elected.


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Precision Phenotypic of HFPEF
In this presentation, Sanjiv Shah, MD, discusses precision pentoypic of HFPEF.
Hi, my name is Sandy Shaw and today I'll be talking about precision for genotyping of Hef Hef here. My disclosures, I like to start with this slide Which shows a paper published in 1985 by Eric Topol and colleagues on hypertensive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the elderly. This was not the first description of hefty, but one of the first and at that time we typically thought of Hef's diastolic heart failure, a thick L. V. A small LV cavity and an upward and leftward shifted and diastolic pressure volume relationship. However, as we have seen with dedicated health programs like ours and others across the country and the world, once you see all of these patients, the full spectrum of hefty if we see something different. And now in 2021 we recognize that Hef Hef is not just diastolic heart failure involving the heart. It also involves the lung, the liver, the visceral adipose tissue, the kidney and the skeletal muscle. It's truly a systemic syndrome there, of course is hypertensive remodeling and ventricular and vascular stiffening. But coupled with this is a sedentary lifestyle and poor fitness, which we know is a major risk factor for Hef. Hef, but not half ref obesity and metabolic stress are increasingly common and important in the syndrome and coupled with aging, this causes a global loss of cardiac, vascular and peripheral reserve, culminating in the Fpf syndrome. So what's our current treatment algorithm for Hef Hef. Well, first we've got a diagnosis and once we do we have to see is the patient volume overloaded If they are, we need to decrease them and I think that we should be using cameras and s guilty two inhibitors. Now, once there diaries or if they weren't falling overloaded to begin with, we have course treat their comorbidities as a way to manage the syndrome. Next we want to do heart failure education, exercise training as I'll show you. And recently we've understood that if the E. F. Is in the lower range of normal, so ef less than 55 to 60% and they have a congested genotype, they likely will benefit from ski patrol, val certain. Some patients will have persistent symptoms and heart failure, hospitalizations and in those we really need to refer to a heart failure program. We also need to reevaluate for zebras. Did we miss an atypical ideology like cardiac amyloidosis are their worsening comorbidities. And here is really where implantable hemo dynamic guided management can be very helpful and of course have passed clinical trials. So let's look at that first step of reducing congestion and heart failure, hospitalization. We know that in the overall top cat trial and especially in America's spironolactone, reduced the risk of heart failure, hospitalization and cardamom also appeared to be beneficial in these patients with a preserved ef. Now there are many ongoing trials, for example, para glide, so secure, travel certain and hospitalized transform, which is torso might versus usual care. There's three trials of cameras including a novel mra nonsteroidal mRA phenomenon in the fine arts trial and then the deliver trial as guilty two inhibitor trial. But we do have some data already on large scale s guilty two inhibitor trials. This is the soloist worsening heart failure trial which gave us the first hint that these drugs may be beneficial. So to go flossing is an S GLT 12 inhibitor And this was only in diabetics and those with worsening heart failure. But in the subgroup analysis, you can see here that if anything, those with an E. F. greater than 50% seem to benefit more from surgical flows in. And now we have the first ever large scale randomized controlled trial and half bath that met its primary endpoint and that is emperor preserved. This was nearly 6000 patients empirical closing versus placebo in patients with heart failure than E. F. Greater than 40%. Now note that about two thirds had an E. F. Greater than 50% and this primary outcome was driven by heart failure, hospitalization and there was a slight improvement in K. C. C. Q. Quality of life versus placebo at 52 weeks. The subgroup analysis, diabetics and non diabetics fared similarly, there seemed to be an attenuation as EF went up, but the interaction p value is greater than 0.1. Now, even more recently as the preserved HF trial. This was a smaller trial. Us only 324 patients capital flows in versus placebo. And look at this. This is heart failure greater than or equal to 45%. A 5.8 point improvement in case the CQ. That's the biggest improvement in quality of life ever in a heart failure trial. And there's about a 10 improvement in six minute walk test. Now, here we look at the subgroup analysis, there's absolutely no heterogeneity by ejection fraction below or above 60%. And as I said earlier, the six minute walk test also looked quite good. Now how can we compare and reconcile Emperor preserved determined preserve, which was another trial similar to preserved HF. And then of course the preserved HF trial, well preserved HF was us only it was really done at FPF and cardio metabolic heart failure centers I think therefore understanding the heart failure syndrome and that syndrome. And making sure that patients treated had the syndrome and they were more often women, about a third black individuals and more white class three much higher. BMI. In fact lower BMPs E. F. Was higher as well. And look at the difference here a much better improvement. So for us in the US, it really does seem like these s guilty two inhibitors are helpful. Step two is diet and exercise training. This is the secret trial. This is a single center trial showing an improvement with both caloric restriction and aerobic training and the combination of the two more recently, earlier this year was the optimum. Exclaim trial. And here we see that whether it was high intensity interval training or moderate continuous training in these health care of patients. They both improved that in person training at three months compared to uh guideline control. This attenuated over the next nine months where it was more telehealth and this shows us that if we're going to do exercise training, it really needs to be in person. There are also significant differences between the secret trial in this trial and that the optimistic Lynn trial were healthier patients. Nevertheless, I think this data supports the use of exercise training in our have best patients and finally, a genotype guided approach and will spend the rest of today's talk talking about why it's important to do precision genotyping to get at FF. And a guide therapy. So how can we resolve the hydrogenated half past? Well, first of all, there's something easy myocardial genotyping of half past. We know that patients have Hedgpeth have elevated filling pressures and preserved EF. But it could be a cardiac cause or an extra cardiac cause. And most patients are somewhere here in the middle. And what we've hypothesis that if we use something like abnormal strain or even ejection fraction within the normal range or tissue velocities, those with worse myocardial phenotype may respond better to cardiac specific medications. And we certainly saw that in the Paragon trial with secure patrol val certain and so we can go beyond the f when genotyping, Hedgpeth is it have pep with reduced longitudinal strength, we have a list of differential diagnosis here. But if there's preserved longitudinal strain of the LV, we start looking at other things the left atrium, the vasculature, extra cardiac volume overload or primary RV dysfunction. So it's really important to you strengthen the management of your patients. But even if you don't have strength, we can use tissue. Doppler to evaluate whether the myocardial is sick or not. Are there low S. Prime E. Prime and a prime velocities. Is there a short ejection time or prolonged ice of olympic times? Even on the G. And increased Q. R. S. T angle is indicative of a sick. My accordion. Let me show you an example. This is a 62 year old man with alcoholic liver disease, this mia and fluid overload. You can see that his ejection fraction is normal and it's 57%. But something about the myocardial looks abnormal. And here we see his strength. This train is 12.3% which is severely reduced. Anything absolute value less than 16% is abnormal. As you can see here with the reference ranges now, what I did was I increased his diuretics started carvedilol and update traded to 25 mg P. O. B. I. D. And six months later you can see a market improvement in strain values. So here the diagnosis potentially was masked alcoholic cardiomyopathy. And because he had end stage liver disease in a low SVR he had preserved ejection fraction. But strain really helped us in understanding we needed to treat him with neuro hormonal blockade. So how do we treat myocardial? Well, Paragon showed us never listen inhibition. Spironolactone may work better in these patients. We can target the metric peptide PDE nine system or the camera system Antibiotic therapy. The pirouette trial recently showed that prevented don't actually decreased the amount of interstitial myocardial fibrosis and healthcare Madison activation or inhibition and china tropes. Here's a study from David Kay's group in Australia showing that a short infusion of mill run on markedly reduced exercise, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in half of patients. How can this be? Well remember that in the heart the LV apex and the base of the heart are fixed. And so there's this micro angular interaction between the A. And the L. G. If we improve lb longitudinal function with mag metro, we can improve L. A. Reservoir function and the L. A. Can feel more easily. We can also use string patterns on speckle tracking these are the bullseye maps and so we can look at amyloid, a pickle sparing. We can look at the reverse with a pickle HCM. You might have a diffuse process with idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy and february disease may have a reduction here locally in the basal lateral wall. So here's another example, 62 year old man with a previously healthy and active. Get no other have pets risk factors and you can see on the still images from his t cardioversion that the myocardial look uniformly thick and sparkling and texture. So he was referred to me for evaluation of cardiac amyloidosis. It's significant diastolic dysfunction with an elevated E to a ratio. His tissue velocities were pretty reduced, but his strange pattern didn't look like amyloid. It looked like HCM with a reduction in the antiseptic and septum. And sure enough on cardiac MRI with late gadolinium enhancement, he had the same pattern and genetic testing showed that he had a TNT to pathogenic mutation known to cause HCM with a restrictive cardiomyopathy pattern. So we need to use these clues to understand the ideology in our patients. So, what about machine learning? Well, what we want to do here is take a heterogeneous clinical syndrome. Use unsupervised machine learning or pattern recognition and identify discrete fino groups, discrete groups that may be more therapeutically homogeneous, but that is not where we stop. We then, as clinicians develop new clinical and biological insights based on what the machine and computer told us and we do further investigation. So we've done this using echocardiography as our method of deep genotyping And what you can see here in our paper on piano mapping of health path is that each of these rows are different prototypes, mostly echocardiography and each column is one of about 400 patients of health red is increased in blue is decreased and you can see there's quite a bit of heterogeneity When we use model based clustering. We find that three groups is the most parsimonious solution. And these three groups are quite different on principle components analysis and they have markedly different outcomes. We've added show that this added prognostic value over the magic risk or BMP. We've replicated this prospectively and here we show in top cat that we see the same thing that's differential risk. And in fact, the first female group, the lowest risk group had the most response to spironolactone. This is a proof of concept that genome mapping can be used to guide therapy. So, what do these groups look like? Well, they all have a preserved ef they all have left atrial enlargement. They'll have markedly elevated plenary Catherine wedge pressure, but they're very different. The first group has the least cardiac remodeling and dysfunction and the lowest BMP. The second group has the most diabetes, the most impaired relaxation. And the third group has the most severe cardiac and electrical remodeling. RV dysfunction and renal dysfunction. So I called the first one, the BNP deficiency syndrome. The second, the extreme cardio metabolic syndrome and the third RV failure. Cardiac donald renal syndrome. So let's go through each of these. The first group is the BNP deficiency syndrome. We are now well aware that many things can cause chronic BMP deficiency, not just obesity but a lack of my party Wall Street's in some of these patients and a host of other factors. And this is present in about a third of patients with Hedgpeth. The lack of BMP results in hypertension, fluid retention and increased at a posse. And that plasma volume expansion is coupled with this para Cardell constraint causing Hedgpeth with minimal myocardial involvement. Here's an example of a lady who's morbidly obese low BNP and you can see the severe pericardial pericardial fat over the RV and a diastolic septal bounce showing ventricular interdependence and invasive human dynamic testing. It looks just like constriction with discordance at peak inspiration. However, on cardiac MRI the pericardium itself is normal and yet there's a ton of pericardial pericardial fat over the RV. So this is the classic obese low BMP patina type volume expansion and pericardial constraint. And when we treat these patients, we need to think outside the box here is an example of a very similar patients who I treated with GLP one receptor agonist. BMI went from 39 to 31. She went from new york heart association class three to Class one and she's off all diuretics and antihypertensive therapies. So in the future we can do some of these newer therapies for weight loss. We can target visceral adipose tissue induced splanchnic nasal constriction. Or we can augment B. NPR's downstream effects because they're Bmp deficient. What about fino group number two? This is the extreme cardio metabolic syndrome and this fits most with the policy paradigm for hef hef where comorbidities cause systemic inflammation that then poisons the end of helium of multiple organs and then the heart causes coronary microvascular dysfunction. Interstitial fibrosis, LV hypertrophy and passive stiffness of cardio maya sites due to changes in titan phosphor relation. So we've studied this with a dentist in Doppler coronary flow reserve of the mid to distal lady and here's what it looks like on the left preserved coronary flow reserve and a half per patient and on the right a severely reduced coronary flow reserve and a half per patient. We studied this in the prospective multi center five site trial across the world called promise Hefty and coronary microvascular dysfunction was present in 75% of patients. It was related to systemic endothelial dysfunction. As noted by albumin area, a worse for genotype with elevated BMP. And more RV dysfunction and end up at reactive hyperthermia index, which is a marker of systemic and ethereal dysfunction. Well, we then sought to understand the proteomics of this Vienna type and so we looked at 250 unique proteins and we sought to understand whether comorbidities burden works through systemic inflammation to influence abnormal cardiac structure and function and half bath. And sure enough, when we did machine learning analysis of the proteins. This weighted co expression network analysis, we see that this turquoise module is the inflammation module and it's centered on TNF are 11 of the receptors for TNF alfa and we found that in a totally separate cohort we're seeing the same pattern of this inflammation module which is very present and have path and not present in patients with comorbidities without Hedgpeth. And sure enough, this inflammation module or a cluster of proteins did mediate at least partly a third of the association between co morbidity burden and echo parameters indicative of elevated filling pressures, like my trolley velocity. And when we network rank it we see the TNF R1 is a hub and this might be what's triggering an abnormal t regulatory cell response which is causing inter social fibrosis in these patients. So further investigation of this final group were doing metabolite profiling of these patients with a multi ah mix approach to combination with proteomics. And we have two trials ongoing the satellite trial and the amateurs trial looking to inhibit proteins known to cause endothelial dysfunction. What about fino group number three, this is the RV cardio renal syndrome. So we know that in patients with RV cardio renal syndrome they have very elevated right atrial pressures and this causes splanchnic congestion and when you explain to congestion, increase the hypoxic environment in the interest sites and they become a sadistic. Well we often forget that there's a major sodium hydrogen transporter in the gut which is how the gut absorbs water. Nhe three. And if you're in Terror site is as idiotic, you're going to exchange hydrogen into the gut lumen and you're going to resort more sodium. So this becomes really prevalent in this RV failure cardio renal syndrome. And what does this do? Well the low ph in the gut increases gut permeability and inflammation susceptibility to infection sepsis and cachexia. And on the other side the increased sodium retention causes water retention, causing worsening venous congestion, renal failure, worsening heart failure and death. And so we studied this in a study called Victory. It was a pilot study of hospitalized heart failure patients versus non heart failure. Hospitalized controls. We collected stool samples and looked at exfoliated colony sites that were extracted from these with flow saitama tree. We see that cell surface and intracellular Nhe three are markedly up regulated in heart failure patients versus controls were hospitalized and that this elevation and Nhe three correlates with RV enlargement and RV. Dysfunction. So there may be something here with right heart failure and augmentation of Nhe three. So we can actually block the gut Nhe three with a drug called Klonopin or we can improve our V. Function and the stressed blood volume in the gut. We showed this in the help trial with Leviosa Mendon. And we can try unilateral greater spanking nerve ablation which also increases splanchnic venous capacitance. Remember that there are fast and slow mechanisms of congestion but slow mechanism is what we typically think about renal and dietary mechanisms but any minor precipitous that causes sympathetic activation can mobilize the splanchnic venous reservoir and rapidly increase effective circulatory volume. And if this becomes constituent lively active venus compliance goes down and we get the cardio renal syndrome. So this is really where greater splanchnic nerve ablation and leave us amended may help these patients and now matchmaking for targeted therapeutics and have faith in the future we'll take this heterogeneous syndrome and we'll do sub genotyping machine learning and hopefully use genotype specific treatment. But in the meantime we use at Northwestern an umbrella designed for Hef Hef trials where we do deep echocardiogram thick and invasive genotyping often with exercise and we assign them to one of these groups and we then target them to clinical trials. And so we've been doing this in the elevated L. A. Pressure the myopathy group with an intra atrial shunt device. Remember that abnormal mechanics is very common in half if I often like to say that Hef Hef's failure of the L. A. And have ref is failure of the LV. But abnormal mechanics can cause chronic pressure and volume overload, resulting in RV failure. And there's reduced atrial emptying which decreases exercise capacity. And what we've shown here is when we look at L. A. Reservoir strain in L. A. L. V. Global longitudinal strain we can see that there's a nice correlation but that there are some patients with an L. A. Myopathy. So they're LV global longitudinal strain is relatively preserved and the L. A reservoir strain is very bad. And these patients have the best LV diastolic and systolic function but the worst team of dynamics. So there's something here and when we did a proteomics analysis there was some overlap with a fib but many proteins are really segregating just to disproportionate ella myopathy and hef. Hef and maybe target able in the future. In the meantime we've got the creation of an SD, it was shown over 100 years ago the Luton bash, a syndrome that a congenital asd in the setting of mitral stenosis may allow decompression of the high L. A pressure into the greater reservoir of the right atrium, great veins and panic veins and help these patients. And so there are at least eight companies that are in this space and many trials are ongoing. So we eagerly await the results of these trials for this particular funeral type of health care. So I come back to the original paper, hypertensive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy of the elderly. And I highlight something in the abstract we conclude that this unique subset of hypertensive patients has a clinical syndrome that warrants recognition and tailored management and I really think that still holds true today. So Hedgpeth is a heterogeneous systemic, multi organ reserve dysfunction syndrome. Resolving hefty heterogeneity with improved classification may lead to improved outcomes in clinical trial results. Machine learning plus deep genotyping of the echo may cause re classification of health and provide new biological insights and future treatment may involve novel targets like the left atrium obesity, gut et cetera. Thank you very much.
Sanjiv Shah, MD
Stone Professor of Medicine
Director of Research Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Sanjiv J. Shah, MD is the Stone Endowed Professor; Director of Research for the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute; Director, Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Medicine in the Insitute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine; and Director ...


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Q: how do i remove first and last occurrence of the sentence in java I have a following line : |A|B|C|D|100|E|GEN|smsplus|11|11|11| and I want to remove the first and last occurrence of |.
I have to check first if the | is available at first and last
I am sure that this will bring me some down votes but really don't know how to go about.
EDIT
I also have to check for the following :
A|B|C|D|100|E|GEN|smsplus|11|11|11| and |A|B|C|D|100|E|GEN|smsplus|11|11|11 and there is no

possibilities for || that is why I did not want to give any explanation for the same.
thanks for your valuable time.

A: You can perhaps use the regex:
^\\|(.*)\\|$

And replace by $1:
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If the start and end of the string are not both |, there'll be no replacement.
EDIT: As per your last comment, if you want to remove the | if it's either at the start and/or at the end of the string, then use an OR operator (there's too many | in that question I think =P):
^\\||\\|$

Replace by nothing (empty string "")

EDIT2:
If the first regex is closer to what you need but also want to remove multiple pipes, add quantifiers:
^\\|+(.*)\\|+$

If the second regex (in first edit) is what you need but also want to remove multiple pipes, add quantifiers again!
^\\|+|\\|+$

Note that the replacement strings remain the same in both cases

A: Your comments lead me to believe that you want to do this:
String result = subject.replaceAll("^\\||\\|$", "");

This will change each of the following strings:
|A|B|C|
|A|B|C
A|B|C|
A|B|C

to the same string A|B|C.
See it on regex101.com.

A: Use indexOf() and lastIndexOf() from java.lang.String package
    String s="|A|B|C|D|100|E|GEN|smsplus|11|11|11|";
    s=s.substring(s.indexOf("|"),s.lastIndexOf("|"));
    System.out.println(s);    //Prints A|B|C|D|100|E|GEN|smsplus|11|11|11

A: Try,
String input = "|A|B|C|D|100|E|GEN|smsplus|11|11|11|";
input = input.substring(1, input.length()-1);

or use StringUtils.removeStart, removeEnd
StringUtils.removeStart(input, "|");
StringUtils.removeEnd(input, "|");

or
StringUtils.strip(input, "|");

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Great pics Mith! That one of your tropheus (I know you remember which one that is :hmm3grin2orange: ) is POTM material. Very nice!
Nice photos and nice fish too!!
Well, now that everyone's swollen my head (LOL).... I guess the only thing left to do is say thank you and that I hope you all and your loved ones have a wonderful Christmas!
Excellent pics Mith! Very healthy fish and nice camera skills. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Wow Mith, just wow, your camera skills have improved so much, and your fish look great too! Do me a favor and try and get a full tank shot, huh? I'd love to see it. Your really the only AC member I have seen the full evolution of, since the time you joined the AC and started with africans, and I can honestly say I am VERY impressed! (especially about how much and how well you care for your fish) Makes me want to start an african tank, Ive had plenty of sa/ca cichlid, tetra, discus, piranha, and so on tanks, but never africans. You have some really nice fish.
I really like your pictures do you have one of your whole tank?
Nice pics and tank. Wish I had a place for another tank, I would get Cichlids.
full tank shot looks good!
Mith do you remember how old this tropheus is, how many in your colony.
He is one of my originals when I got the tank. Immediately after purchasing the tank (or just before) I joined the forum at which time I started cycling (lady hobbs might remember hehe). Immediarely after my tank was cycled I got all the fish. So to answer ur question, he's about as old as my membership here on AC is.
My C90T is a month old.
Very nice fish you have there mith!
Great fish. W/e happened to the guppy tank.
Muy community is live and well. I just added 3 more pokadot loaches which brings my stock up to 6.


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Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini. Hosseini is first generation Afghan-American, the son of a diplomat who moved to San Jose, got an MD from UCSD and wrote his first novel, Kite Runner, in 2004 after practicing medicine for 8 years. The book is a work of fiction, but like they say, first novels are always somewhat autobigraphical. This one also ties in closely with recent current events. The book is written through the perspective of Amir, who grows up in Kabul with his best buddy Hassan and eventaully flees to Hayward, CA with his father and renturns to Afghanistan months before 9-11 to fulfill a dying man's wish. All the while he struggles with inner conflict and comes to grasps with the truth about himself, his family and his culture. A Kite Runner is one who chases down plumetting kites after their lines have been severed by the glass encrusted line of another kite.
>>Oh, this book also has gay pedophilia. Hey I just read book, I don't know why there's always gay pedophilia in them.
>On 2007-10-01,18:24:17 Kathryn wrote:
>>I still loved the book though! They're making a movie out of this book too.
>>What! I should just get netflix.
Dawn up and signal picked up. Haha here's an odd quote from Dr. Russell:
The Delta 2 rocket, fitted with nine strap-on solid-fuel boosters, safely climbed away from the Florida coastline and launch complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. "We have our time machine up and flying," said Dawn Principal Investigator Christopher Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bike got Couched
Somebody dropped a couch on my bike. The front tire which was hanging on by a thread blew up and the rim was bent. Actually it was already bent before, but having a couch with a bum sleeping on it wasn't helping. So getting the rim straightened, getting a new tube and a new tire put on came up to 38 bucks. This 10 dollar bike is a freakin money pit.
>On 2007-09-27,00:39:16 grandmasophia wrote:
>>maybe you should get bike insurance
>>Good idea, I bet the deductible would only have come out to 5 dollars.
The memmoirs of Augusten Burroughs. This guy either had a pretty crazy upbringing or a very original perception of it. Either way his childhood and the lives of those that surrounded it makes for an interesting if not criminal tale. This book also has lots of gay pedophile sex so be warned. The people on the bus or the pretty bookstore girls might look at you funny. I hear it also has a movie adaptation. If after I read this book and found out they were going to make movie about it-- I wouldn't believe it, half of it couldn't be made into a movie. Sure raises the bar for tu vida loca.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Both are really good books. Into the Wild is about a 20 something guy named Chris McCandless who right after graduated from college sells and gives away all his belonging, leaves all family and friends behind and started wandering around the US. Eventually he walks into the Alaskan bush an ends up starving to death. Really interesting book, sums up a lot of things about certain young men. Maybe don't read it if you've got the wandering bug. Either way its a good book, read it and reflect about your sense of purpose.
Mario Puzo's Godfather I read after being recommended to me. Its also a good read, even after you've watched the Godfather 100 times like I have. The differences are interesting. The characters in the book completely contradicts the whole premise of Godfather III the movie. The book also goes a lot into what is going on inside the character's heads, which isn't as obvious when you watch the movie. Tom Hagen's part, or at least his point of view is also more front and center in the book. There's also a lot more sex in the book. Finally, the characters were played very well by Al Pacino, Robert Duvall and James Caan. If I read the book first and then watched the movie, I would have thought that they got the characters down exactly, except for John Cazale's portrayal of Fredo. They made him wa more wimpy than he was in the book.
>>So weird! I just read about Sean Penn making a film about this: http://movies.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=276496
>>Hmm that'll be interesting, it'd be hard to do without completely romantizing some characters even more so than the book already did. I think oddest of all would be the homeless people he met along the way who suddenly find out someone like Susan Sarandon is going to be be playing them on big screen.
Here's Tiger Woods holding up the FedEx Cup. I guess the FedEx Cup is like the Nextel Cup in NASCAR where the driver with the most victories or points wins it for the season. So for winning the FedEx Cup, Tiger gets $10 million dollars. Not in taxable cash earning though, it goes to his PGA retirement account, which Tiger can claim when he's 60. If everything goes well, or actually even if Tiger's performance sees a drop off, read this article about how much his retirement account could be worth.
Yahoo Article
So if he sees a modest 5% on just what he won this year and collects in 28 years when he's 60, his 10 million would be worth about 40 million. Gees, I thought I was getting a good deal with my Roth IRA.
Google "Man"
If you search for "man" in images.google.com, this guy is the first hit. Who the hell is this guy?! I thought it would be Tom Brady. Anyway watch out, some naked hairy gay men were also in the results.
DAWN launch
DAWN is one of the biggest missions we currently have at UCLA Space Sciences. Its about to launch on September 26th from the Cape. Here's an article on its ion engines.
DAWN Engines
DAWN has been a long time coming. Dr. Russell's first proposal for the mission was submitted about 10 years ago. I think it was originally suppose to go to the moon first. I remember when I was still a student in 2001 many of the staff were in DC on Sept. 11, either for the final succeeding proposal or a design review. Since we are on the science end, for most of us the job hasn't started yet and really won't get rolling for another 5 years. By that time, a lot of the systems I ordered and configured for handling the data will already be obsolete, but thats ok we already budgeted for upgrades. A lot of the people who worked on the original proposals have also already retired or moved on to other jobs. For now most of the jobs will be test data and checking up on the instruments aboard.
The great thing about the ion engines on this mission is its flexibility. The mission has actually already missed its first launch opportunity but its still on schedule to hit Vesta by manipulating the output on the engines. Beyond the second rendezvous with Ceres, its also possible to route DAWN to other objects. It all depends on the fuel and whether we can convince NASA's space science office to give us more money. The picture is of the spacecraft packed in its shroud.
Ray and Val's suprise
Ray and Val had a big announcement this Labor Day. What a handsome/beautiful peanut. Details are at their website www.valeray.com
My mom broke her leg on Saturday afternoon so I spent most of Labor Day weekend at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia. She fell and broke her left femur. An orthopedic surgeon performed surgery Sunday morning to insert a titanium pin so she's recovering now from the surgery. Looks painful, but my mom felt a lot better after her pretty nurse, Michelle, stopped the morphine drip. I guess she didn't mind the titanium pin inside the femur bone as much as the drugs that were making her drowsy and giving her a headache.
24 hour Koreatown
The nurses wanted to go out on Friday so we had a late dinner at BCD Tofu House in Koreatown. Its a 24 hour Korean BBQ restaurant so it has become popular with the night shift hospital people. Sure enough it wasn't long before a set of 3 filipina nurses in scrubs came in for Korean BBQ. The odd thing though was that their ages were set equally apart. They looked like a set of grandma nurse, mother nurse and daughter nurse coming in for their midshift break. Keep it in the family.
>>Mmmm! I love BCD tofu!
>>So you've been there?! Usually I see a lot of Yong Dong Tofu. I think thats what its called.