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2017 | Word(s) of the Year: Cha Cha Cha Changes & balance.
I was so inspired by Nicole from Writes Like A Girl Blog and her "Word of the Year"
approach to New Years Resolutions.
In this episode they discuss "Odyssey Planning" where you articulate of three completely different variations of the next 5 years of your life because there is not just one career or life plan for any of us.
After that you try some prototypes in each of them so you end up recognizing that there are many lives you can have and choose the one you are going to have.
Choose "the good life I am living now"
It may seem that this process would cause people to think about the things they are missing out on but they said when you lay out three ideas and articulate them to yourself you feel better about the choice you are making.
They also talk about "gravity problems" which are things that you cannot control and if you can't do anything about a problem, it is circumstance. If it is not actionable it is not a problem it is a fact.
Realizing that frees you to move on.
There is not one right job for you.
Listening to this really changed the way I was thinking about huge decisions I have coming up.
It made me even more excited for the future.
because this will be a huge transition year for me.
I am starting fashion school at FIT in NYC TOMORROW!
I have orientation for the next three days and classes start next Tuesday!
and have been applying for other positions since I need something to help me afford this transition.
It was relieving to hear other people talk about not having one job that you are suppose to do.
I am a pretty good teacher, if I do say so myself.
I am reasonable, and generally love science and talking about science.
But I am ready to learn something new and change careers.
That is why the second word I chose was "balance".
and will need to keep a balance to manage teaching, school, blogging, and personal life.
but none of them had stood out to me until this one.
I love that it will change into a lighter color when it heals, and that it was done with a shading needle so it is more like a sharpie look instead of filled in lines.
but since white ink is very testy and doesn't stay I never found an artist that wanted to try it.
and I am excited to see where this year takes me.


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Ross Blair
Updated: Nov. 8, 2008, 5 a.m.
The scene on Hwy. 204 at 1 p.m. Friday. In the forefront, County Administrator Phil Jones can be seen hooking up a chain to the car.
An accident between a car and a truck on Hwy. 204 near Morgan's Bridge, in Chatham County, resulted in a truck bursting into flames and one fatality. The accident occurred around 1 p.m. Friday.
No names had been released late Friday afternoon.
According to Judy Pal with Savannah-Chatham Metro Police, there were two people in the car and three in the truck, and the car passenger, a female, died at the scene. The other four individuals were taken to Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
Bryan County Administrator Phil Jones was driving by shortly after the collision, and he observed the carnage.
"When I got there, there were people outside of the truck and on the side of road," Jones said. "One person was trapped in the car and the truck was engulfed. The heat was so intense that you could not get near the car."
Jones hooked up chains to the car and pulled it about 25 feet away from the burning truck. He then tried to open the door, but could not. A police officer ended up breaking a window out to get the person, the driver, out of the car.
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Foreign country or company: What's the difference?
by · March 10, 2006
Apparently Fox News' Neil Cavuto has a hard time distinguishing between the two in his coverage of the Dubai company that wanted to take over control of six ports here in the United States.
Fox Hounds reports, "For somebody in charge of a business show, Neil Cavuto has a tough time understanding the difference between a foreign company and a foreign country. Moments after Dubai Ports World announced on Thursday (March 9, 2006) that it was selling its interests in the operation of six American ports to a U.S. company, Cavuto was still trying to trap people with that phony 'country profiling' concern of his.
"On 'Your World with Neil Cavuto,' Cavuto asked Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, why Democrats who opposed the DPW deal were not guilty of 'country profiling' against the United Arab Emirates since they never objected to the operation of the ports by a British company, P & O.
'No foreign government, not simply the government of Dubai, should have the ownership and control' of an American port, said Menendez, who has introduced legislation to bar such ownership. 'When it comes to the ports of our country, because of the tremendous security risks that they present to us, [I think] that ultimately we will not have them under the operational capacity or ownership of a foreign government,' he said.
"Is it possible that Cavuto never understood that DPW was owned by the UAE, while P & O was not owned by the government of Great Britain? It seems like an important distinction, that a sovereign nation would not give up control of its points of entry to another sovereign nation. Cavuto apparently never got it or he stuck stubbornly to the Bush talking points until the bitter end."
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Four Year Winning Streak by MINI at Dakar
Posted by Aaron Turpen January 22, 2015
Amazing European Car Rallies Anyone Can Do
Covering Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, the Dakar rally spans over 9,000 kilometers and is one of the most grueling offroad endurance races in the world. MINI has won the event again this year, marking a four year winning streak for the company. The MINI ALL4 Racing team crossed the finish line in Buenos Aires as the overall winners of the rally, having taken five of thirteen legs this year.
"I promised last year when I was on the podium that I'd be back to win, and now I'm here," said Al-Attiyah. "It was very hard to lead the race from the very beginning and to continue keeping this position on the long distance. Also because the race was really hard. I'm very happy about this great result and I want to thank and congratulate all mechanics and the team for the great job they have done during the two weeks. The MINI ALL4 Racing is an incredible car and it was again very nice to drive."
"Nasser Al-Attiyah winning the 2015 Dakar Rally in the MINI ALL4 Racing is continuing the success story of MINI at one of the toughest races in motorsport," said Senior Vice President MINI, Jochen Goller. "I would like to congratulate him and his team to this fantastic achievement, which the worldwide MINI community is obviously delighted about."
"We always knew there would be many unforeseeable challenges on this 9,000+ kilometer adventure across South America and that the final result remains unpredictable till the very last days of the rally," said Goller. "On the other hand we also knew that the x-raid team, the MINI ALL4 Racing and of course all MINI drivers entered the competition extremely well-prepared and for this I want to personally thank the x-raid team head Sven Quandt."
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Trade and Investment Policy Watch
Elizabeth Warren's "A Plan For Economic Patriotism"—Annotated and Explained
Monica de Bolle (PIIE) and Jeromin Zettelmeyer (PIIE)
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Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Elizabeth Warren recently published "A Plan For Economic Patriotism," a proposal laying out a broad vision for US economic policies if she were to be elected. Monica de Bolle and Jeromin Zettelmeyer write their quick reactions to her plan below in their own handwriting and discuss their comments in accompanying audio commentary.
Listen to their overall reaction
De Bolle: I felt that it was hitting the right notes on a number of issues. But I thought it fell short of exactly answering how do you really go about doing these things in a way that is substantially different from what Trump is doing. The whole economic patriotism idea sounded like a mixture—sort of a strange mixture—of economic nationalism and statism. So there are parts of this document which sounded to me like "America First."
Zettelmeyer: She takes an interventionist policy program, much of which I think can be justified in terms of basically correcting market failures and pushing surplus from big companies to workers. So there's a pretty standard left-wing agenda there. It may be over the top in some areas. But then what she does is this strange thing, that she justifies these ideas that would completely stand on their own feet as just fixing the American economy, by this notion of economic patriotism where it's suddenly about American workers winning out in some race against foreign workers. The fact that she mixes these two dimensions is confusing, and it makes you wonder, does she really mean it? Or is this just her way of selling an interventionist platform in the age of Trump? Because in many points of the document she sounds shockingly like Trump.
Listen to Zettelmeyer explain the real reasons why Germany's manufacturing sector has been more successful
Zettelmeyer: She repeatedly points to Germany as kind of the country that was most successful and did it differently. And it is true that Germany was quote-unquote more successful than the US in the sense of keeping the share of manufacturing much higher, more stable, than in the US over the same period. Now, she thinks that it's because of three things: trade policy, some sort of industrial planning or industrial policy, and possibly worker training. So on the worker training stuff, she's right, and I also think that her proposals in this area—apprenticeship programs and so forth—go in the right direction. But you have to bear in mind they are very difficult to transplant to the US because it's all about a specific form of business-government collaboration that has to be created here first.
On her other two points—trade policy and industrial policy—she's wrong. The German stability of the manufacturing share had nothing to do with the fact that we did a different trade policy than the US. Germany essentially did the same type of trade policy, and it did not have particularly active industrial policies. It certainly had nothing in any way resembling employment planning. The real difference between Germany and the US were twofold. One—Germany got lucky because at that time when China opened up, it just happened to be good at exporting specific goods that China needed during its growth phase. So it was about a different type of manufacturing specialization that enabled it to benefit from the China growth boom rather than just have China as a competitor. So that's one factor.
And then the second enormously important factor that's completely missed in this document and also in the papers that she cites is the macroeconomy. So Germany ran a trade surplus over this period mostly by really increasing saving, and consuming and investing relatively little, whereas the US went on a consumption binge. And if you go on a consumption binge, then automatically your manufacturing share declines. And the reason is that you consume tradeable and nontradeable goods, services, and so since you cannot import services, you reallocate your employment towards these services and away from manufacturing goods. It's just a mechanical thing. So it's about the US going on a consumption binge in the 2000s and using this to import lots of Chinese goods and to specialize in services.
Listen to why Warren's currency intervention plan is a flawed idea
De Bolle: She's basically speaking of actively managing the exchange rate, actively managing the dollar in order to help American companies, and in order to ultimately help American workers by doing this. And then she's citing a Policy Brief written by two people from the Peterson Institute back in 2012—Joe Gagnon and Fred Bergsten—where they were specifically talking about this issue but in a completely different context. What these authors are talking about was how you deal with active exchange rate management being done by other countries. Elizabeth Warren seems to have misunderstood that message. And she's sort of recasting [this study] as having defended the active use of the exchange rate to benefit American companies and American workers, and that's not at all what that study did.
Zettelmeyer: Unless a country is prepared to back up currency intervention by actually saving more, you cannot sustain this.
De Bolle: It would probably lead other countries to follow suit, and we could very quickly have a kind of a currency war on our hands, which is exactly what we want to avoid.
Listen to why Warren's trade and industrial policies are problematic
Zettelmeyer: She needs to come clean on trade policy. She doesn't do it in this document. So she insinuates that trade policy is a big problem and a reason—a principal reason—for the decline of manufacturing in America. I think that it is uncontroversial that international trade, particularly the opening up of China, has something to do with the decline of US manufacturing in the 2000s. It's probably not the main story. But in any case, it's unclear that a different trade policy would have had a hugely different outcome. Moreover, it's unclear what she wants now with trade policy. So if what she wants are trade agreements that protect labor standards, that's totally fine. If what she wants is Trump-style protectionism, that's not fine, and she leaves that question unanswered.
De Bolle: It tries to, in a sense, speak nicely about trade but at the same time, it very clearly wants control of trade because it sees trade as the one issue that's going to make American firms get ahead and American workers get ahead. You can't have it both ways. So it's ultimately nationalist, but she's not calling it that.
And secondly, on industrial policy, if you're going to lean more nationalist, this means you are going to prioritize some specific sectors, and you are going to use certain tools and certain policy instruments to do that. Both in the economic patriotism document but also in the accompanying document about green manufacturing, she proposes a massive government procurement plan basically to "Buy American." Buy American is a protectionist policy, and at the same time, it is very much in the vein of industrial policy that leans nationalist.
The creation of this Department for Economic Development, which would encompass ultimately USTR and Commerce, would basically be in charge of trade. And given that she has been in this document, at least, very opaque about what she means or what she wants in terms of trade policy, this could lead one to interpret that this is just recasting protectionism in a different way.
Zettelmeyer: Consolidating various agencies into one doesn't strike me as unreasonable, and indeed many advanced countries have more powerful economic ministries that combine these functions. So Germany is one, Japan is one. That's not unreasonable. What is a little strange I think is that she doesn't really seem to push this only to have greater strategic clarity and maybe more efficiency, but there is sort of this sense that you need to reign in the USTR—that the USTR, if left to its own devices, is kind of under the control of corporate lobbies. And I don't know if that's true. I think the USTR does, more or less, what the president of the United States tells it to do.
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HIV derma complications: persistent pain which needs 'mindfulness'
Skin conditions are said to be among the earliest signs of HIV and may also indicate the disease's progression. Experts suggest managing these acute skin conditions by maintaining immunity and viral load within normal limits while ensuring compliance to antiretroviral therapy is the key.
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New Delhi:At a time when there is no cure for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), antiretroviral therapy has made it a manageable disease. However, if HIV is not treated it can lead to more serious later-stage-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In between the management and treatment, over time, HIV weakens the immune system and makes it hard to fight infections and diseases. Skin reactions are one such set of complications the patients goes through.
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Speaking to ETHealthworld on the skin infections in HIV infected, Dr Neha Rastogi, Consultant-Infectious Diseases, Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, said, "Skin conditions related to HIV infections are broadly categorised into infectious, inflammatory, neoplastic, and mucosal causes. Some of these conditions occur at specific stages of HIV infection, which reflect the progression of the condition as they affect the immune system with direct and indirect skin aftereffects." The skin reactions among infectious diseases include herpes virus, molluscum contagious infections, and fungal infections. Among cancerous, kaposi sarcoma is a characteristic pathology. Psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis are also commonly associated conditions.
Herpes virus is the most common in people with HIV/AIDS. Caused by the same virus as chickenpox, herpes causes an outbreak of sores, blisters on the body, and can be treated with antiviral medications. Molluscum contagiosum is a highly contagious viral skin infection. In molluscum, there are bumps on the skin which are painless and harmless but require proper medical attention. Kaposi sarcoma is a type of skin cancer that causes patches of skin lesions. When an individual with HIV develops kaposi sarcoma, the diagnosis changes to AIDS. This condition responds to antiretroviral therapy and chemotherapy. Seborrheic dermatitis is a skin condition that causes patches of scaly skin, swelling, and itching on the person's hairline and nasolabial folds. It is common in people with immune dysfunction. Other possible skin infections include folliculitis, warts, photodermatitis, prurigo nodularis, melanoma, shingles etc.
The three stages of HIV are acute HIV infection, chronic HIV infection, and AIDS. A person is most likely to experience skin conditions during stage 1 and stage 3 of HIV. Opportunistic infections are the most common in stage 3 of the infection. Elucidating on the progression of skin conditions in HIV stages, Dr Dipu TS, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Amrita Hospital, Kochi, said, "In the first stage of acute HIV, the virus reproduces rapidly in the body, causing severe flu-like symptoms, and it may be associated with transient rashes over the body. In the second stage of chronic HIV, the virus reproduces more slowly, causing the person to not feel any symptoms so no typical skin infections are seen during this stage. In the third stage of AIDS, the immune system is severely affected by HIV with a significant fall in CD4 cell count. Fungal infections are common in the third stage."
HIV medications side effects
Skin rashes are the most common side effect of HIV drugs. According to the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)website, "A rash due to an HIV medicine is often not serious and goes away in several days to weeks without treatment. But sometimes when an HIV medicine is causing a rash, it may be necessary to switch to another HIV medicine. In rare cases, a rash caused by an HIV medicine can be a sign of a serious, life-threatening condition."
In some cases, people develop a serious, hypersensitive drug reaction called Stevens-Johnson syndrome. As a serious allergic reaction to a medicine, a hypersensitive reaction can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention. The majority of the rashes caused by HIV medications are treatable, taking antiviral medication keeps viral levels low and reduces HIV's impact on the immune system.
Importance of early diagnosis
HIV is transmissible if a person comes in direct contact with the blood, semen, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk of an HIV-infected person. However, when it comes to skin infections related to HIV, not all are contagious. Dr TS informed, "Technically though all infectious skin conditions can spread from one person to another, it's more often than not true that the skin conditions of HIV/AIDS patients are due to the weakened immune system and are limited in its transmission potential and the ability to cause symptomatic infection in normal healthy individuals." Conditions like molluscum contagiosum and herpes infections may be passed from person to person through skin-to-skin contact.
The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has changed the spectrum of skin disorders by improving host immunity. While the risk of death has been significantly reduced by the use of HAART, the quality of life for every patient is affected, so management of these complications such as skin conditions should not be overlooked. The treatment modalities differ depending on the skin condition. "With the increased availability of anti-HIV drugs, the prognosis for skin conditions associated with low CD4 counts are improving, as many will be resistant to optimal treatment without improved underlying immune function," shared Dr Ashutosh Shukla, Medical Advisor and Senior Director – Internal Medicine, Max Hospital, Gurugram.
Depending on how weak the immune system is, skin infections in HIV-infected people may take longer to heal or require more extensive treatment. The most important is adherence to antiretroviral therapy consistently and as prescribed. Eating a nutritious diet, staying hydrated, getting enough rest, and exercising regularly can be helpful for a healthy immune system. It is important to practice proper sanitisation for safety. As the immune system gets better, complications reduce.
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Volume 8, Issue No. 3, May/June 2021
Orchid Launch Stirs Up PRS Debate
The company has begun marketing to consumers its PRS-based preconception test expected to be available later this year
By Malorye Allison Branca
[Source: Maciej Frolow / Getty Images]
Startup Orchid is launching the first preconception test that the company contends predicts a couple's chances of conceiving a child with high risk of common illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, and several types of cancer. The test applies whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to a saliva sample from each partner, and is based on polygenic risk scores (PRSs), rather than the standard carrier-type of test for single-gene, or monogenic, mutation screening for hereditary disorders. The company says it plans to offer similar PRS-based WGS testing for IVF-generated embryos soon as well.
Although the seed round of financing is a modest $4.6M, the investors include high profile names, such as: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki; co-founder of Counsyl and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Balaji Srinivasan; co-founder, former CEO of Flatiron health Nat Turner; and MacArthur award-winning Stanford geneticist Carlos D. Bustamante. Notably, 23andMe paved the pathway for medically-related direct-to-consumer product approval.
This is a new angle in a thriving market. Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is set to reach more than $10 billion over the next few years, besides monogenic diseases it covers common aneuploidies. On its own, carrier testing, which typically screens just for heritable genetic diseases, is expected to exceed $1.3 billion. Most of the growth in the carrier and NIPT testing is generated by more thorough single-gene disorder testing and geographic expansion.
Orchid believes prospective parents will find value in their test that provides a "couples report" of genetic disease risk of their offspring.
Currently, carrier screening is used mostly by people with a family history of illness to find out if they have a high risk of passing on severe conditions such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, or spinal muscular atrophy. Most often carrier testing involves just one or a few tests, and is relegated to the leading rare diseases or to people, such as Ashkenazi Jews, whose ethnicity puts them at particular risk for certain inherited conditions.
But the push to offer screening for a larger number of disorders has accelerated. LabCorp's Integrated Genetics, for example, offers screening for one-to-500 heritable genetic diseases. And as these panels have expanded, a wider array of patients have started using them.
There's science supporting wider testing. For example, Myriad, through its 2018 acquisition of Counsyl, gained a foothold in expanded carrier screening (ECS). In a 2020 paper in Genetics in Medicine, Myriad researchers reported that in a study of more than 93,000 people "Self-reported ethnicity was an imperfect indicator of genetic ancestry, with 9% of individuals having more than 50% genetic ancestry from a lineage inconsistent with self-reported ethnicity. Limitations of self-reported ethnicity led to missed carriers in at-risk populations."
Myriad says its exome-based Foresight 176-condition ECS panel can identify 30% more carriers of cystic fibrosis than typical tests and offers a 99% detection rate for Alpha Thalassemia across ethnicities.
Sema4 also offers ECS based on exome sequencing. Their Sema4 ECS screen detects up to 280 diseases, with sequencing technology the company describes as "99% accurate." They also see potential for expansion. "Looking forward, we could foresee that, when applied across the whole genome, this industry could potentially realize near 95% detection rate on thousands of genes. Advances in RNA sequencing in studies of germline cancer will evolve to contribute to increased understanding in carrier screening as well," says Bridget Winders, SVP and general manager, Women's Health, Sema4.
So, for now it seems to be a numbers game, who can offer the most coverage with the greatest accuracy across the most ethnicities.
Orchid's gamble is on whether parents will pay up to take the additional step of finding out how their genetics could influence their future offspring's risk of common diseases. It also brings PRS testing, which is slowly entering the clinic, further into the already booming prenatal testing field, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 13% per year for the next few years.
"This is not for the rare genetic diseases," Noor Siddiqui, Orchid founder and CEO told Clinical OMICs. "These are the most common health conditions and we are aggregating millions of data points about every risk." The company says its test is based on six billion data points, from published studies, and those will be added to and updated as new data is gathered in the now rapidly-moving field of genetic risk score assessment.
One of the references Orchid cites is Khera, A.V. et al's 2018 Nature Genetics paper "Genome-Wide Polygenic Scores for Common Diseases Identify Individuals with Risk Equivalent to Monogenic Mutations." These authors developed and validated genome-wide polygenic scores for five common diseases. They reported that their approach identified 8.0%, 6.1%, 3.5%, 3.2% and 1.5% of the population at greater than three-fold increased risk for coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and breast cancer, respectively.
PRS in the clinic
The hope is that PRS scores will allow clinicians in to use genomic sequence information for more than just diagnosing chromosome abnormalities and rare diseases.
The key question is whether this approach is ready for application in this particular market. Specialists in PRS have expressed skepticism about healthy parents using such a tool, since these scores provide a relative risk, rather than an absolute risk score. The data sets used are so non-specific that it can be difficult to narrow down their implications, even with input from experts. A common complaint is that they are not yet large enough to cover a wide range of ethnicities, but there are other problems.
'We don't have large enough data sets to have confidence in these scores in many applications," says Nicholas Schork, Ph.D., deputy director and Distinguished Professor of Quantitative Medicine at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). "To use these properly you need to know other data, such as a patient's medical history and age." For example, someone who is elderly, has smoked all their lives, and has an elevated cholesterol level will likely have a different risk level than a much younger person with the same PRS score.
The UK Biobank, he notes, has data from more than 400,000 individuals. These include more than 20,000 cancer cases and it recently published a study showing that a PRS with family history "measurably improves prediction accuracy for most cancers, but the magnitude of this improvement varies substantially." (Kachuri, L., et al. Nature Communications, November 2020).
However, he also points to Myriad Genetics' MyRisk test for women who have a family history of breast cancer but have tested negative for BRCA1 or BRCA2. Myriad famously pioneered the first commercial test to identify carriers of mutations in these two genes, which are linked to hereditary cancer. The company's MyRisk panel was first launched in 2013 as a 25-gene panel to identify elevated risks for eight hereditary cancers. It currently includes mutations in 35 genes and is available to people of all ancestries.
Thomas Slavin, M.D., senior vice president, Oncology, Myriad Genetics
Thomas Slavin, M.D., says "Myriad is in the process of presenting data at ASCO that further validates the company's PRS in breast cancer, called riskScore, across all major ancestries." Slavin is senior vice president of Oncology at Myriad.
Another expert with reservations is, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Wojcik was a post-doc in Bustamante's lab and is the senior author on a recent (March 2021) landmark paper in Nature on improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies.
"Out-of-the-box, a lot of these scores are not as clinically useful as people think they are," says Wojcik. "I do not think carrier testing or embryo selection is the right application for PRS scores at this time." Since the calculations involve two parents, and the embryo's risk is a range, that's not very useful information, she says.
But help is on the way. Clinical trials are being pursued and the paper on PRS standards that Wojcik co-authored was a collaboration between the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen), the ComplexDisease Working Group, and the Polygenic Score (PGS) Catalogue.
That publication presents standards for PRS score reporting. The authors note that the weighted sums of allele counts used to estimate a risk of a trait or disease for a PRS can include millions of variants, so a structured format in publishing these is crucial. They point out that more than 900 publications mentioning PGS or PRS have been published in the last decade. Reporting standards, they write, could "boost predictive performance" of these scores.
At least one company, Genomic Prediction, is offering PGS-based testing for embryos. Its LifeView PGT-P test identifies an embryo's lifetime risk of developing conditions including schizophrenia, type 1 or type 2 diabetes, several causes of heart disease, and a variety of cancers including basal cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, and breast or prostate cancer. But this is clearly just the beginning for PRS in prenatal testing, and clinical use overall.
Genevieve L. Wojcik, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
It's not clear whether the Orchid test will be direct-to-consumer or, like most carrier tests, will require a physician's sign off. The company is marketing to consumers, and inviting them to join its wait list. It's notable, however, that one of Orchid's investors is Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder of 23andMe. Her company has been one of the few, if the only, that has stayed the course in getting FDA approval for direct-to-consumer medical tests.
After a flurry of DTC genomic tests were launched, FDA put the brakes on the field in 2010. But with diligence and evidence from 23andMe, by 2017 the agency announced that it had allowed that company to market the "first direct-to-consumer tests that provide genetic risk information for certain conditions." Those conditions include Parkinson's disease, late-onset Alzheimer's, celiac, Gaucher type 1, and several others.
A 23andMe spokesperson says the company's offerings include some PRS, including some wellness reports such as the Type 2 Diabetes Report within their Health Predisposition category. "These reports are developed and validated completely on 23andMe research data," the spokesperson said. "They fall under the FDA's enforcement discretion."
[Source: Visual Mozart / Getty Images]
An Orchid spokesperson says their test is, "…a patient initiated, physician ordered test, results are reviewed and released with a board certified genetic counselor." While the FDA will neither confirm nor deny if an application is in process, the Orchid spokesperson says that tests like this one are classified as laboratory developed tests (LDTs)."
Skeptics abound
While the Orchid preconception test may be attractive to patients, the company still faces many skeptics, especially for its use among healthy would-be parents.
"For prenatal testing, this is still very controversial," says Schork. "It's very unlike evaluating a 40-year-old where you have other data. And then there are a really deep set of issues relating to the whole idea of creating 'super embryos'." He adds that this is a disruptive technology and medical education will need to step up to meet the demands it creates to make it truly useful for patients.
Julian Savulescu, Ph.D., professor in Philosophy, University of Oxford
Julian Savulescu, a professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, says, "For IVF, it's reasonable to use whatever means you have to select the healthiest embryo, in fact, it can be seen as a moral obligation," he says. "Afterall, if you have only 10 embryos and are choosing one, you just have to do better than chance in making that selection." Natural reproduction, Savulescu points out is relatively inefficient. "One-out-of-five fertilized eggs go on to produce an embryo, and 5% of babies have some chance of having an abnormality."
But it is a separate question whether you should do this type of testing if you are not at risk of having any of these diseases and you are not doing IVF," he adds. "The accuracy and reliability is just not there yet."
Nonetheless, Savulescu sees the use of such tests as "Becoming more and more common." After all, he points out, "If parents want to use it, why shouldn't they?"
The Orchid Couple Report Launched
Orchid's test aims to provide even people without a family history of disease a means to determine their future offspring's likelihood of serious common ailments. The test requires only a mailed-in saliva sample from each prospective parent, and is based on genetic risk scores calculated by testing for genetic variations. Its "Couple Report" reveals if either partner is at elevated risk of passing on 10 diseases: heart disease, stroke, atrial fibrillation, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, type 2 diabetes, type 1 diabetes, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Skeptics abound, but startup Orchid believes there is a market for their pre-conception testing product for parents that uses polygenic risk scores to indicate the future risk of their children developing common ailments such as heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, and several types of cancer.
The report comprises data from both partners' whole genomes and models of how that DNA could combine in a child, providing simulations of both the lower- and higher-likelihood scenarios. If the result is a "high likelihood" for one of more conditions, there are genetic counselors on hand and advice available about how to mitigate whatever disease is involved.
Orchid's leadership emphasize that one of most prospective parents' key concerns is their children's health.
"Up until now, parents could only genetically screen for the rare events with a one-in-1,000 or even one-in-a-million chance of happening. Yet there was no way for prospective parents to measure their future child's genetic predispositions to much more common chronic, debilitating diseases based on their combined genetics alone," said Orchid advisor Jacques Cohen, Ph.D., in a press release, adding that "Orchid now makes this at-home test a reality."
Cohen is director of the ART Institute of Washington, which runs the joint National Institute of Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center IVF program. He was a founder of Reprogenetics, now called Cooper Genomics, and other reproductive science-related firms.
There is evidence supporting their claim. Over the last few years, the market for prenatal testing has grown dramatically. Further, a March 2019 survey of just over 800 pregnant women in Obstetrics and Gynecology found that when it came to prenatal testing "Respondents generally preferred to receive all categories of genetic results pertaining to medical conditions."
Noor Siddiqui, founder, Orchid
A typical preconception genetic screening, Siddiqui said, analyzes only 2% of just one partner's genome and is only capable of detecting rare genetic disorders affecting approximately 1% of the population. By contrast, Orchid analyzes the entirety of both partner's genomes and assesses genetic predispositions to diseases that affect more than 60% of the population.
For couples who find they are at elevated risk based on Orchid's test, one strategy is to elect to pursue IVF and have further analyses of their embryos. Later this year, Orchid plans to launch an Embryo Report that will provide genetic risk information related to IVF embryos.
Investors in the seed round include Refactor Capital, Village Global, Day One Ventures, Olive Capital, and Boom Capital. The round also includes participation from the founders of 23andMe, Counsyl, Clover Health, Coinbase, Eventbrite, Flatiron, Oscar Health Insurance, and Stellar.
"Having children is the most consequential choice most of us make, yet parents go into pregnancy with zero visibility into how genetic risks could impact their future child," said Siddiqui. "With Orchid's ultra-high-resolution reports, prospective parents can now conceive with confidence, prepared with information and guidance to give their children a better chance at a healthy life."
Orchid is now inviting couples to join a waitlist to get early access to Orchid's Couple Report. Each test provides a risk-analysis report for each partner as well as an estimate of their potential offspring's risk. Along with their report, couples also receive health and wellness guidance from professionals including genetic counselors and fertility experts as part of the service. That includes advice on how to prevent or mitigate any risks detected.
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ALL GOSPEL ROADS LEAD TO RADIO ONE DC'S AS SPIRIT OF PRAISE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF GOSPEL & INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC
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The Spirit of Praise Celebration, a gospel star-studded show is commemorating its 10th Anniversary at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 4:00 pm.) on Saturday, October 7th at the City of Praise Family Ministries located at 8501 Jericho City Drive, Landover, MD 20785. The gospel community is coming to the DMV to join Radio One DC's PRAISE 104.1 FM and WYCB Spirit 1340 AM, the ground breaking stations that launched the first 24-hour FM and AM gospel and inspiration stations in the DMV, in its celebration of this landmark event.
It's not often traditional, legendary, praise and worship, choir and contemporary gospel artists appear on the same program with both national award winning artists and the rising DMV gospel talent. The show is filled with video drops, special tributes and surprises to commemorate this significant time in the history of Spirit and Praise.
The Spirit of Praise Celebration will be hosted by local Praise talent, Cheryl Jackson and WYCB Morning Show Host Winston Chaney. Joining them will be nationally syndicated Praise talents, Griff, from Get Up! Mornings with Erica Campbell, Willie Moore, Jr. andDarlene McCoy, from the Nightly Spirit.
Ron Thompson, Program Director, Praise and WYCB at Radio One DC said, "There is nothing like the power of gospel music to inspire, uplift and change lives. It's been an honor to program this station for 10 years and I'm excited to have so many of gospel music greats coming to town to celebrate with us."
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Electrical Question: How can I have two power sources connected to a single pump and control each separate power source?
This is a question about a shared well in an off-the-grid community in Washington State.
There is one well with a 240Volt submersible pump in it. Currently the pump services one house, and we are exploring our options to have it serve two.
We would like to see if there is way to have both houses have separate supply and control of the pump without having to install two separate pumps down the well.
Our idea is to keep the existing pump and put a T in the supply line to serve the second home. The second house would need to have independent control of the pump – since we'd be supplying power to the pump with a generator.
So, my question is: Is there any way to have two power sources connected to a single pump in such a way to allow both homes power the pump independently and prevent the pump from melting if both homes attempt to power at the same time? My limited research in this suggests maybe a relay of some sort could do the trick.
This home electrical wiring question came from: Andrew, from Seattle, Washington.
Thanks for your electrical wiring question Andrew.
Application: Wire Two Power Sources for one Pump.
Precaution: Be Careful with Off the Grid Power Sources, Identify the source, turn it OFF and Tag it with a Note before working with the wiring or installing the 240 volt wiring.
There are a few options for controlling a submersible pump with two generators being used for separate power source and it would depend on manual or automatic operation or control.
The most practical would be to install a Double Pole / Double Throw Relay with a Common / Normally Open (NO)/ Normally Closed (NC) set of contacts.
One generator would be connected to the NO Terminals and the other generator would be connected to the NC Terminals and the submersible pump would be connected to the Common Terminals.
This would function similar the same way as a transfer switch with Two LINES in and One LOAD Out. Only one generator would power the relay coil which would toggle the power source for the pump.
You may consider that both homes will have access to the water regardless of which generator will be providing the power so this idea may require more thought, which actually gets away from the whole concept of a "Shared Community". With this in mind you may want to consider installing a storage tank which could be filled using one power source but provides water for more than one home.
As stated in the question, it would be a total waste of resources to add a second submersible pump, and the thought of two separate generators goes in this direction as well. The utilities necessary for a shared community requires a little planning but could be much more economical while providing required services for all.
I am an electrical technician, in plant and machinery.
Need help in circuit options for pump controls, submersible pumps and general pumps controls and power circuits?


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If you hear different sounds…. oh oh!
After owning it for almost 40 years and riding it once, I am recommissioning my (original) 1968 Triumph Daytona for a vintage ride in Pennsylvania. Everything you say is true, Paul. The noises, the smells, the need for sensitivity to the older machine. Which reminds me, though it's running sweetly, I've not checked the tappets…..
Yes! Nicely done, sir. You know, we can always google statistics these days; what we want is the impression of the motorcycle filtered through your personality. You and your film crew really got it, Paul. Thanks for this.
Neander, Absolutely brilliant, so glad you are back!
Neander and Opel have been two German bikes that have always escaped me. They are on my bucket list but every time I think I can afford one, they get more expensive. I appreciate the riding experience through your eyes.
Love what you said about the noises an old bike makes. The ringing, the clacking, like a song the motorcycle is singing to you. Sheer Poetry. Great editing. Love what you do.
Very, very nice, Thank you very much for making this wonderful short film.
Also a really fine story you tell, but,… why do you speak to 'someone' next to the camera, why not at me ?
That would really bring it home, and make the shrine complete .


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Where's SMSD getting funds to reinstate middle school sports?
School district has been on tight budget for several years
Updated: 7:53 AM CDT Mar 27, 2014
Micheal Mahoney
KMBC 9 News Reporter
Some Shawnee Mission School District teachers were surprised the district reinstated middle school sports. The district has been on a tight budget for several years.The school board voted Tuesday night to make the move.KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that sports were eliminated years ago from the middle schools. But the district said it has found about $290,000 to restart the programs. The district says the new money will come from its main operating budget. The head of the teachers union said she has been getting questions about it, too."I don't know the answer. I wish I could say to you, 'Well, they have the money right here, and this is where they found it.' I don't know," said Nancy Fritz of the Shawnee Mission NEA.The school district will add sports, such as cross-country running and wrestling for boys; and basketball and volleyball for both girls and boys. Football was not on the middle school list. It is more expensive than the other sports.Superintendent Jim Hinson says that another issue the district is dealing with is class size. Hinson says he expects to get a report on what to do in that area in time for the April board meeting.
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Some Shawnee Mission School District teachers were surprised the district reinstated middle school sports. The district has been on a tight budget for several years.
The school board voted Tuesday night to make the move.
KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that sports were eliminated years ago from the middle schools. But the district said it has found about $290,000 to restart the programs.
The district says the new money will come from its main operating budget.
The head of the teachers union said she has been getting questions about it, too.
"I don't know the answer. I wish I could say to you, 'Well, they have the money right here, and this is where they found it.' I don't know," said Nancy Fritz of the Shawnee Mission NEA.
The school district will add sports, such as cross-country running and wrestling for boys; and basketball and volleyball for both girls and boys. Football was not on the middle school list. It is more expensive than the other sports.
Superintendent Jim Hinson says that another issue the district is dealing with is class size. Hinson says he expects to get a report on what to do in that area in time for the April board meeting.


How many repetitions do you get from your students during a session? Principles of motor learning show that eliciting maximum repetitions is not just something that we should do, but essential to the very essence of success for our students. I'll let you in on a little secret too (okay, so it's really not a secret)… tally marks just don't quite garner the same excitement from the students as the number shown on digital data collection means. I know that it sounds silly, it certainly isn't rocket science, but let's meet our kids where they are in a digital world and make our own jobs easier in the process. Here are some helpful tips and tricks that I use to do just that!
These are so easy to use. There is something gratifying about the simple principle of pushing a little button. At a little over $1 per counter, they are cost effective as well. I use two tally counters that I line up on each finger. One is used for correct and the other incorrect. Little Tip: Use a sharpie to draw a star on the correct counter. Track productions/responses with the simple touch of a button and put your attention (and eyes) on the student so you can give them performance feedback. I don't know if the students look at me as if I am an elaborate multitasking SLP gaming ninja or just an avid data collecting SLP but they are motivated beyond belief so it works for me!
Do you have an iPad that you can use to track data during therapy? If so, this may quickly become a valuable resource as well. Percentally Pro 2 allow you to program in your students, student goals and track data either by occurrences of delineated by incorrect/correct responses as well as offering the option to capture prompted responses.


Following the kick off meeting late December where communication of LEAN project and its objectives, phases and aspired results took place, a visit made by Mr. Christian from Symbios Team in South Africa in January 2017.
He toured the new chips factory and attended a set of meetings with representatives of Production, Quality, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, Warehouses, Production Planning, Raw Material , Sales , Purchases , Costing departments, etc.. Each department provided its data for study and analysis which concluded by agreeing on keys 1,2and 3 out of the 20 Keys. The factory has been split into 13 unit to facilitate cascading tasks and jobs.
* 24th January 2017 : Symbios team; Eng. Shereen Mosallam and Eng. Niveen and Egypt Foods LEAN Champions Dr. Eman Kabil, Eng. Eslam Fekry and Eng. Amr Mandour along with the production team in new chips factory on proposed work plan by Mr. Christian. Plan was revised and agreed upon and leaders of keys 1,2 and 3 were assigned.
* 1st February 2017, Top Management represented in Mr. Mohamed Bar, Mr. Khaled Shokri, Mr. Adel Mestkawy, Dr. Eman Kabil, Eng. Eslam Fekry , Eng. Amr Mandour met with Symbios Team; Eng. Shereen Mosallam, Eng. Niveen Al Demerdash, Eng. Ammar where gap analysis report was discussed and proposed work plan as well as the names of leaders of keys 1,2 and 3 , working teams names for endorsement.
* 5th February 2017, first drill on key1 was conducted under the supervision of Eng. Ammar from Symbios to 23 trainees from the new chips factory and other factories .
* 7th February 2017, first training on key 2 led by Eng. Ammar and Eng. Niveen with a total no of attendees 26 .
* Implementation of Keys 1& 2 on sorting and organizing has resulted of better demarcation , bigger storage capacity and clear desk an easier to retrieve data.
* Overall Implementation steps: 1. Check , 2. Analyze, 3. Plan, 4. Do.
5 S in the 20 Keys programme is not something imposed on you, but something that helps you because these tools make your job simple and easy. The first step is to build company-wide common understanding and then to steadily climb from level 1 to level 5. 5S is the basis of productivity improvement as it links with the other Keys included in the programme. During the course of its implementation, you may also see improvement in the other Keys. This is due to the linkage effect between all the Keys, which in turn is an indication of adequate spreading of 5S throughout the workplace. 5S makes your work easier and more meaningful.


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In Her Element
Tatler Singapore|November 2020
Artist Jenny Saville opens the doors to her studio, where she has painted a new series for an exhibition this month at Gagosian in New York
Anny Shaw
Two years ago, a painting by Jenny Saville set a record at auction for the highest price paid for a work by a living female artist, but the British painter doesn't like to think about that too much. "I try to keep my eye firmly on the art; the painting is the same painting as it was before the auction," she says matter-of-factly when we meet in her drawing studio in Oxford.
The painting in question is the gargantuan, corpulent self-portrait, Propped, created in 1992 and one of five works by Saville to have been exhibited in the Sensation show of Young British Artists (YBAs) that caused such a stir at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1997. The seven-foot-tall canvas sold for £9.5 million.
"That's crazy money, but at the same time, compared to Jeff Koons' bunny, it's not crazy," Saville says, referring to the US artist's stainless-steel leporine sculpture, Rabbit, which fetched an eye-watering US$91.1 million at auction in 2019, making Koons the most expensive living male artist. By any standard it represents a painfully pronounced gap between the value of art made by men and women, but, as Saville notes, "The good thing is the bar has been set that bit higher for other women artists coming through."
Setting the bar high has been a constant for Saville, who has made a 30-year career out of her love for "the sensuality of flesh". She started out painting women's bodies, chiefly her own, but has also turned her gaze on men (Pablo Picasso's late biographer John Richardson often sat for her). More recently, in works such as Vis and Ramin II (2018) or Out of one, two (symposium) (2016), fluid tangles of male and female body parts merge to create non-binary figures. "I like the idea of a transgender painting where the work itself doesn't have a fixed gender," she says.
Saville's own gender has been a rich source of inspiration. She was born in Cambridge in 1970, at a time when feminism was far from mainstream. She tells me emphatically how becoming a mother had a profound effect on her practice, in particular honing her drawing (Saville's children are now 12 and 13). "When you paint, there's a lot of clearing up and I just didn't have that time. Drawing became something I could do very quickly," she says. "My body and their bodies also changed so quickly that making one image of a solid painting just didn't satisfy. Multiple lines and the ability to change became more suitable to the experience I was having in life."
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Wow! Jackie what an exciting life – running away with the circus, literally.
Great to meet you, Jackie! Your life truly IS a circus! I look forward to your novel, too. Thanks for being the hostess with the mostess, Vivian! I'm going to try this recipe with my granddaughters!
Thanks to Jackie for being such an inspiration for the aspiring author!!
Jackie, you seem like a super fun lady! Thanks for sharing the interesting tale of your life.
You really did run away and join the circus! I love the confidence you have and think this is such a fun idea. Thanks for the recipe too!
I always find that books written by people so closely connected to the subject create terrific books. With all of your circus experience, Jackie, I'm sure this books is wonderful.
I may have commented on the birthday post, but I just wanted to say yay! The book and the recipe look great!


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Ten Bank Employees Honored for Over 30 Years of Service
Front row for left to right are: Ronald Austin (former director), Kevin Manley, Rose Oswald Poels (WBA president & CEO), Janet Mueller. Back row from left to right are: Nancy Filla, Nancy Lettner, Sharon Halama, Keith Witte, Tami Eid, Nancy Berg, Kris Kabus, and Brenda Bautch.
Ten bank employees were honored with lifetime service awards by First National Bank and Trust Company Arcadia market president, Kevin Manley, along with president and CEO for the Wisconsin Bankers Association, Rose Oswald Poels, on Friday, November 12, 2021 in Arcadia, Wisconsin, for their years of service in the banking industry.
The Wisconsin Bankers Association Lifetime Service Awards recognize bankers who have served in the banking industry for 30 and 40 years. The awards are open to an active or retired officer, director or employee.
First National Bank and Trust Company employees Janet Mueller, Nancy Filla, Keith Witte, and Tami Eid were honored for 40 years of service and Nancy Lettner, Kevin Manley, Brenda Bautch, Nancy Berg, Sharon Halama, and Kris Kabus were honored for 30 years of service. Additionally, former director Ronald Austin was recognized for over 50 years of service in the banking industry.
"These individuals recognized for their many decades of service are great examples of the heart of community banking," said Wisconsin Bankers Association president and CEO Rose Oswald Poels. "In addition to their work to support the financial wellbeing of their clients, they are neighbors, friends, and volunteers who strengthen their community. I've known Kevin and his team for nearly 30 years, and it is my honor to present them with these lifetime service awards. With this day being Kevin's last full day at the bank, I want to wish him much enjoyment throughout his well-deserved retirement."
Additionally, Kevin Manley announced his retirement last month and his last day as a full-time employee was Friday, November 12. Under Manley's leadership, the State Bank of Arcadia grew into a strong community bank supporting the areas of Arcadia, Whitehall, and Independence, Wisconsin. He has held roles in operations, lending, and served 24 years as the president of State Bank of Arcadia.
His impact, leadership, and contribution to employees, the community, and colleagues will be missed. Manley's long and successful tenure with the bank and strong experience will help the bank continue its mission of strengthening local businesses and relationships in the surrounding communities.
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