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How Synthetic Biology Could Save the World and Simultaneously Destroy It
Winner of the University of Gloucestershire Biosciences Essay Competition 2020 and a £1000 cash prize, this short read article was written by sixth-former Matt Gray.
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Winner of the University of Gloucestershire Biosciences Essay Competition 2020 with a £1000 cash prize, this short read article was written by sixth-former Matt Gray.
Imagine a world where meat is environmentally friendly, where plastic is green and microbes suck all those pesky greenhouse gases out of the sky. I concede that it is a ridiculously far-fetched scenario. Or is it? The relatively new field of synthetic biology has outlandishly claimed that all of this is not just possible, but probable.
The lines between synthetic biology and other closely related fields such as genetic engineering are truly blurred which means defining synthetic biology is challenging. However, for the purposes of this essay I will use a definition drafted by a consensus of European experts which states that "Synthetic biology is the engineering of biology: the synthesis of complex, biologically based (or inspired) systems, which display functions that do not exist in nature" (1). Effectively, synthetic biology seeks to design new systems and life processes that provide a valuable function to humans.
One of the biggest problems facing the world today is food security. By 2050 the UN predicts food production will need to increase 70% from 2013 levels to feed the growing population (2). But with 90% of fish stocks having been used up (3), land degradation and the unsustainable demand for meat (4) how is this possible without devastating ecological impact? Synthetic biology may hold the answer. Fish feed is the biggest cost of the $232 billion dollar fish farming industry and one of the biggest causes of overfishing for small fish such as anchovies which are ground up to make the feed (5). What if you could engineer microbes that would make the fish feed from greenhouse gases rather than fish. Novonutrients, a Californian company, has used synthetic biology to do exactly that. They have successfully engineered microbes to absorb carbon dioxide and create protein as their product (6). Does synthetic biology also hold the answer to the unsustainable demand for meat (7)? Synthetic biology allowed the now ubiquitous impossible burger to achieve its "meaty" taste by taking the DNA from soy plants and inserting it into modified yeast cells (8). These yeast cells then serve as mini factories producing heme, the magic molecule responsible for the taste. With lab grown eggs (9) and foie-gras (10) already in production synthetic biology is a genuine way to keep "meat" as part of our diets long into the future.
What about pollution? In 2016 researchers discovered two enzymes that allowed bacteria to feed on PET plastic (11) – most commonly used for plastic water bottles – and since then researchers have been feverishly working to improve their effectiveness. In 2020 researchers at a synthetic biology lab at the University of Plymouth identified that when two separate enzymes PEThase and METhase were combined they could degrade PET 6 times faster than before (12). Currently PET is recycled by heating it to a whopping 270C which – aside from being expensive – releases volatile organic compounds which exacerbate air pollution. Although enzymes like these are not yet commercially viable in the near future they could provide a cleaner, safer and less energy intensive solution to recycling plastic. But why stop there? Currently plastics are manufactured from crude oil – a substance so environmentally notorious it needs no introduction – but what if we could create them from a different material. Newlight Technologies has created an enzyme which combines methane – the 2nd most abundant greenhouse gas (13) – and air to form a plastic-like biomaterial (14). With plastics made from greenhouse gases and recycled by supercharged enzymes a whole new industry of green materials could form.
That's how I believe synthetic biology could save the world by repurposing greenhouse gases, creating green materials and ensuring food security, but how might it destroy it?
In 2002 researchers created the first ever synthetic virus, based on polio (15) and in 2017 Canadian researchers published a study about how they had used mail order genetic components to synthesise horsepox, one of smallpox's closest cousins (16). The potential for smallpox to be synthesised and unleashed upon the unvaccinated modern world is horrifyingly real and although organizations have taken action to minimise the risk of bioterrorism, for example the CDC in America retains copies of smallpox vaccines, its potential in the hands of a rogue state is frightening. Synthetic biology's ethical quandaries don't end with bioterrorism. Fears of scientists playing god, designer babies and the potential for too much power to fall into far too few hands also loom over the field.
Yet it is irrefutable that the age of synthetic biology is here and it will affect all of our lives. I therefore believe there has never been a more important time to be a biologist to ensure that the opportunities presented by synthetic biology are used for prosperity and progress rather than pandemics and predatory politics.
1. Synthetic biology: promises and challenges. Serrano, Luis. 1, s.l. : Molecular Systems Biology, 2007, Vol. 3.
2. World must sustainably produce 70 per cent more food by mid-century – UN report. UN News. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://news.un.org/en/story/2013/12/456912.
3. Kituyi, Mukhisa. UNCTAD. https://unctad.org/news/90-fish-stocks-are-used-fisheries-subsidies-must-stop. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://unctad.org/news/90-fish-stocks-are-used-fisheries-subsidies-must-stop.
4. Saving the Planet The Market for Sustainable Meat Alternatives. Joshi, Indira, et al. 2, s.l. : Applied Innovation Review, 2016.
5. Scottish Fish Farming and Aquaculture Industry. British Sea Fishing. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://britishseafishing.co.uk/fish-farming-and-processing/.
6. https://www.novonutrients.com/. Inc. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://www.inc.com/magazine/201905/jeff-bercovici/synbio-novonutrients-bioeconomy-sustainable-food-industry-carbon-bioengineering.html.
7. The Meat Industry is Unsustainable. IDTechEx. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://www.idtechex.com/en/research-article/the-meat-industry-is-unsustainable/20231.
8. HEME + THE SCIENCE BEHIND IMPOSSIBLE. Impossible Foods. [Online] [Cited: 06 12, 2020.] https://impossiblefoods.com/heme/.
9. Clara Foods. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://www.clarafoods.com/.
10. Mission. Gourmey. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] http://gourmey.com/en/#mission.
11. A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate). Yoshida, Shosuke, et al. 6278, s.l. : Science, 2016, Vol. 351.
12. Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization. s.l. : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020.
13. Importance of Methane. United States Environmental Protection Agency. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane.
14. AIRCARBON. Newlight. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://www.newlight.com/aircarbon.
15. Active Poliovirus Baked From Scratch. Couzin, Jennifer. 5579, s.l. : Science, 2002, Vol. 297.
16. How Canadian researchers reconstituted an extinct poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA . Science. [Online] [Cited: 12 06, 2020.] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/how-canadian-researchers-reconstituted-extinct-poxvirus-100000-using-mail-order-dna.
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As a result of being defeated in World War I and World War II, Germany lost large areas of land. After World War II, many ethnic Germans fled from lost territories and East European countries to what remained of Germany. About 8 million refugees fled from East Prussia, the Czech Sudetenland, and the region between the Oder and Neisse rivers in Poland. About another 3 million ethnic Germans fled from Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, and other parts of Eastern Europe. Most of these ethnic Germans had lived for centuries in Eastern Europe. However, during and after the wars they were driven out, often violently, with the loss of an estimated 2 million German lives. This process began with the collapse of the German Empire (see German Unification) and Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the establishment of East European countries such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. The failed attempt of the Nazi Party to reconquer and expand German ethnic dominance by force led to the final flight and expulsion of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe.
Once they arrived from their trek to East and West Germany, these millions of ethnic German refugees were rapidly integrated into German society. Many refugees continued to move from rural to urban areas, and from east to west as 2.5 million East Germans fled to West Germany before the Berlin Wall was built in 1961.
A second great population movement began in the 1950s as the rapidly expanding West German economy demanded a larger labor supply. To meet this demand, West Germany looked outside the country to fill labor needs. From 1955, under bilateral treaties with various countries that had underemployment, West Germany brought in thousands of so-called guest workers on limited-term contracts to work for a few years.
When Germany's economic growth slowed in the early 1970s, West Germany stopped foreign recruitment and expected the guest workers to return to their home countries. However, most of them—including large numbers of workers from Turkey and Yugoslavia—did not leave. In addition, many workers had brought their families with them to share in Germany's opportunities, living standards, and welfare benefits.
During the 1980s and 1990s Germany continued to experience waves of migration. The disintegration of Eastern European Communist regimes led ethnic Germans from as far away as Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, and Romania to seek a new life in Germany, where the Basic Law offers them instant citizenship even if they do not speak the language. The crumbling of Communist rule in East Germany was also accompanied by a massive migration of East Germans to West Germany. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people a year from Sri Lanka, Lebanon, West Africa, and other regions sought refuge in Germany under Article 16 of the Basic Law, which provides asylum for victims of political persecution.
Some Germans have not welcomed these immigrants; many believe that the immigrants came only to participate in Germany's high living standards. Official responses to these different kinds of immigration challenges have been varied and at times inconsistent, especially since Germany is a federal country and different states and cities have widely varying labor needs and problems. Ethnic German "resettlers" and East German migrants encountered prejudice even though they are German citizens. Asylum-seekers were kept in hostels all over the country, barred from jobs and social integration while individual cases for political asylum were examined. This process sometimes took years and resulted in large numbers of people being turned away. Restrictive immigration procedures adopted in the early 1990s reduced the number of annual asylum-seekers by two-thirds. With the expansion of the EU in 2004 to include new eastern European members, limits were placed on the right of EU nationals to seek employment in Germany. But German immigration laws were loosened in 2005 to attract skilled workers from non-EU countries. The great influx of foreigners in the early 1990s, especially illegal aliens and asylum-seekers, coincided with the collapse of the East German Communist regime.


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75 Republicans Sign On to Gay-Marriage Push
By Josh Voorhees
Feb 26, 201310:04 AM
Many well-known Republicans have reversed their stance on gay marriage
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Dozens of prominent Republicans have signed a legal brief being sent to the Supreme Court this week arguing that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry—a position that is not only a direct challenge to House Republicans, who are defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act to the high court, but also a complete reversal for many of the signees.
The New York Times, which was given an early look at the brief, with the details:
The Proposition 8 case already has a powerful conservative supporter: Theodore B. Olson, the former solicitor general under Mr. Bush and one of the suit's two lead lawyers. The amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief is being filed with Mr. Olson's blessing. It argues, as he does, that same-sex marriage promotes family values by allowing children of gay couples to grow up in two-parent homes, and that it advances conservative values of "limited government and maximizing individual freedom."
Legal analysts said the brief had the potential to sway conservative justices as much for the prominent names attached to it as for its legal arguments. The list of signers includes a string of Republican officials and influential thinkers — 75 as of Monday evening — who are not ordinarily associated with gay rights advocacy, including some who are speaking out for the first time and others who have changed their previous positions.
Among the most well-known Republicans on the list are: Meg Whitman, who supported Prop 8 during her California gubernatorial run; Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who opposed same-sex marriage (but favored civil unions) during his bid to become the 2012 GOP presidential nominee; Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Richard Hanna of New York; former governors Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, and William Weld and Jane Swift of Massachusetts; along with a handful of former members of the George W. Bush administration, including Carlos Gutierrez and James Comey.
The brief is still a work-in-progress and other Republicans could still sign on, but for now it has a few noticeable absences, including Laura Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, who all publicly favor same-sex marriage. The high court is slated to hear back-to-back arguments in March on the legal challenge to Prop 8 and DOMA.

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Q: Need help to write an Teradata SQL to validate mutiple date ranges combined from more than one SCD type2 tables I wanted to validate a view that is being derived from more than one SCD type2 tables. So, I have to create a date ranges based on the combination of dates available in the two(or more) tables. see the example below.
Table 1:
hid     h1name            h1_strt_dttm                  h1_end_dttm

5        value5          2/17/2008  18:19:50    2/16/2009 23:59:59:59

5       value5-upd1     2/17/2009  00:00:00    4/11/2011 23:59:59

5       value5-upd2     4/12/2011  00:00:00    3/5/2012 23:59:59

5       value5-upd3     3/6/2012   00:00:00    11/11/2012 23:59:59

5       value5-upd4     11/12/2012 00:00:00    12/31/9999 23:59:59

Table 2:
hid  h2name        h2_strt_dttm           h2_end_dttm

5   name5          3/7/2008 8:14:44     7/17/2010 23:59:59

5  name5-upd1     7/18/2010 0:00:00     1/1/2011 23:59:59

5  name5-upd2     1/2/2011 0:00:00     3/5/2013 23:59:59

5  name5-upd3     3/6/2013 0:00:00     12/31/9999 23:59:59

Result Set :
    id   strt_dttm               end_dttm            h1name      h2name

    5   2/17/2008 18:19:50    3/7/2008 8:14:43       value5       null

    5   3/7/2008 8:14:44        2/16/2009 23:59:59   value5       name5

    5   2/17/2009 00:00:00    7/17/2010 23:59:59   value5-upd1    name5

    5   7/18/2010 00:00:00    1/1/2011 23:59:59     value5-upd1   name5-upd1

    5   1/2/2011 00:00:00      4/11/2011 23:59:59   value5-upd1   name5-upd2

    5   4/12/2011 00:00:00    3/5/2012 23:59:59     value5-upd2   name5-upd2

    5   3/6/2012 00:00:00      11/11/2012 23:59:59   value5-upd3  name5-upd2

    5   11/12/2012 00:00:00  3/5/2013 23:59:59       value5-upd4  name5-upd2

    5   3/6/2013 00:00:00      1/1/9999 00:00:00     value5-upd4  name5-upd3

Steps to achieve this : My approach:
1) Take a union of all the available STRT_DTTM field values in the two(or more) tables.
2) Distribute/recreate the date ranges from the above dates available in step 1. (as start date and and end date)
3) Then try to identify the CDC fields(h1name & h2name ) with in the newly created date ranges and put them in the result set.
Queries :
Step 1:
sel h1.hid hid , h1_strt_dttm dtm

from  HIST1_DAR h1

union

sel h2.hid hid ,h2_strt_dttm dtm

from  HIST2_DAR h2

Step 2:
/***************  Step 2 ********************/

WITH ALL_DATE_CTE (hid,dttm,strt_dttm,end_dttm) AS (

sel hid,

dtm+INTERVAL '0.000001' SECOND  as dttm ,

dttm-INTERVAL '0.000001' SECOND as strt_dttm,

coalesce(min(strt_dttm-INTERVAL '1' SECOND) over (partition by hid

order by dttm  ROWS BETWEEN 1 following

AND 1 following ), cast('9999-01-01 00:00:00.000000' as timestamp(6)) ) as end_dttm

from

(

/***************  Step 1 ********************/

sel h1.hid hid , h1_strt_dttm dtm

from  DBNAME.HIST1_DAR h1

union

sel h2.hid hid ,h2_strt_dttm dtm

from  DBNAME.HIST2_DAR h2

/***************  Step 1 ********************/  ) a

order by 1,2  )

/**************** Step 2********************/

Step 3:
/**************** Step 3********************/

sel

h1.hid id,

cte.strt_dttm,

cte.end_dttm,

h1.h1name,

h1_strt_dttm , h1_end_dttm,

h2.h2name,

h2_strt_dttm,h2_end_dttm

from DBNAME.HIST1_DAR h1

inner join ALL_DATE_CTE cte

on h1.hid = cte.hid

and cte.dttm between h1_strt_dttm and h1_end_dttm

inner join DBNAME.HIST2_DAR h2

on cte.hid = h2.hid

and cte.dttm between h2_strt_dttm and h2_end_dttm

where h1.hid = 5;

/**************** Step 3********************/

Now the issue is with Step 2: I'm unable to use order by in sub query as well as in CTE. with out ordering the start date I'm unable to get the date ranges listed properly.
Can anyone please guide me for a solution or an other simple approach. Please note as I'm a QA I don't have create table access on most of the databases. So, any suggestion using select would be more appreciable.
 I have included the DDL & DML that I have used for the table creation.
create table DBNAME. hist1_dar ( hid integer , h1name varchar(20),  h1_strt_dttm timestamp(6),  h1_end_dttm timestamp(6));

create table DBNAME. hist2_dar ( hid integer , h2name varchar(20),  h2_strt_dttm timestamp(6),  h2_end_dttm timestamp(6));

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (1, 'value1' , '1987-07-02 08:30:00.000000',  '1989-12-02 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (2, 'value2' , '1997-09-12 05:20:10.000000' ,  '1999-12-12 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (3, 'value3' , '2000-06-30 07:10:50.000000',  '2001-02-10 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (4, 'value4' , '2006-05-23 23:32:13.000000',  '2007-07-03 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (5, 'value5' , '2009-02-17 18:19:50.000000',  '2011-04-11 11:09:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (1, 'value1-upd1' , '1990-01-01 01:01:01.000000',  '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (2, 'value2-upd1' , '2000-01-01 01:01:01.000000' ,  '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (3, 'value3-upd1' ,  '2001-02-11 01:01:01.000000',  '2002-07-12 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (3, 'value3-upd2' ,  '2002-07-13 01:01:01.000000',  '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (4, 'value4-upd1' ,  '2007-07-03 01:01:01.000000' ,  '2007-10-17 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (4, 'value4-upd2' ,  '2007-10-18 01:01:01.000000' ,  '2007-12-23 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (4, 'value4-upd3' ,  '2007-12-24 01:01:01.000000' , '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (5, 'value5-upd1' , '2009-02-17 01:01:01.000000',  '2011-04-11 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (5, 'value5-upd2' ,  '2011-04-11 01:01:01.000000', '2012-03-05 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (5, 'value5-upd3' ,   '2012-03-05 01:01:01.000000', '2012-11-11 23:59:59.000000'  );

ins  DBNAME. hist1_dar (5, 'value5-upd4' ,   '2012-11-12 01:01:01.000000' , '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (1, 'name1' , '1988-08-12 18:20:10.000000',  '1990-03-02 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (2, 'name2' ,  '1993-05-19 15:12:30.000000', '1999-11-01 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (3, 'name3' , '2002-09-20 17:19:57.000000',  '2003-04-10 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (4, 'name4' , '2004-04-18 13:38:23.000000' , '2005-07-28 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (5, 'name5' , '2008-03-07 08:14:44.000000',  '2010-07-17 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (1, 'name1-upd1' ,  '1990-03-03 01:01:01.000000',  '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (2, 'name2-upd1' ,   '1999-11-02 01:01:01.000000',  '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (3, 'name3-upd1' ,  '2003-04-11 01:01:01.000000' ,  '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000');

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (4, 'name4-upd1' , '2005-07-28 21:28:56.000000' ,  '2008-08-19 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (4, 'name4-upd2' ,  '2008-08-20 01:01:01.000000' ,  '2007-12-23 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (5, 'name5-upd1' , '2010-07-18 01:01:01.000000',  '2011-01-01 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (5, 'name5-upd2' ,  '2011-01-02 01:01:01.000000', '2013-03-05 23:59:59.000000' );

ins  DBNAME. hist2_dar (5, 'name5-upd3' ,   '2013-03-06 01:01:01.000000',  '9999-12-31 23:59:59.000000'  );

A: Your INSERTs don't match your example.
If your step #2 returns the correct data you can simply add a LAST_VALUE:
WITH cte (
    hid
    ,strt_dttm
    ,end_dttm
    ,h1name
    ,h2name
    )
AS (
    SELECT hid
        ,dttm
        ,coalesce(min(dttm - INTERVAL '1' SECOND) OVER (
                PARTITION BY hid ORDER BY dttm ROWS BETWEEN 1 following
                        AND 1 following
                ), TIMESTAMP '9999-01-01 00:00:00') AS end_dttm
        ,h1name
        ,h2name
    FROM (
        /***************  Step 1 ********************/
        SELECT h1.hid hid
            ,h1_strt_dttm dttm
            ,h1name
            ,cast(NULL AS VARCHAR(20)) AS h2name
        FROM HIST1_DAR h1

        UNION ALL

        SELECT h2.hid hid
            ,h2_strt_dttm dttm
            ,cast(NULL AS VARCHAR(20))
            ,h2name
        FROM HIST2_DAR h2
            /***************  Step 1 ********************/
        ) a
        --order by 1,2
    )
SELECT hid
    ,strt_dttm
    ,end_dttm
    ,last_value(h1name ignore nulls) OVER (
        PARTITION BY hid ORDER BY strt_dttm
        )
    ,last_value(h2name ignore nulls) OVER (
        PARTITION BY hid ORDER BY strt_dttm
        )
FROM cte

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another as God has forgiven you in Christ.
everything else are also God's creation.
EXCERPTED FROM "THICH NHAT HANH: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS"
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An Italian research team confirmed that the scoring system for Wilson's disease (WD) provides good diagnostic accuracy with 93% positive and 92% negative predictive values, respectively in children with mild liver disease. In asymptomatic children, a urinary copper excretion above 40 μg/24 hours was suggestive of WD, however the penicillamine challenge test (PCT) did not provide an accurate diagnosis in this patient subset. Results of the study appear in the December issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
WD is a rare genetic disorder where excessive amounts of copper accumulate in the liver, kidneys, brain, and eyes (cornea). Patients may experience a brown ring (Kayser-Fleischer ring) around the cornea of the eye, various liver diseases, slurred speech, and tremors, with symptoms appearing between the ages of 5 to 35. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) approximately one in 40,000 individuals develop WD, which affects men and women equally.
A prompt diagnosis of WD is vital to avoid rapid progression of liver and neurological damage. "Unfortunately, diagnosis of WD is a challenging task, especially in childhood, because conventional criteria established for adults are not always appropriate for children," explained Raffaele Iorio, M.D., of the University Federico II in Italy and lead author of the study.
In order to evaluate the current standard diagnostic criteria and WD scoring system, the research team collected data on 40 children with WD and 58 children with liver disease other than WD, ranging in age from 1 to 21 years of age. Both groups were symptom-free with the predominant sign of liver disease being elevated aminotransferases (higher levels of enzymes from liver cells that when released into the blood, signify liver disease). Molecular analysis and liver copper content test were also performed to confirm the WD diagnosis.
Results showed the optimal urinary copper diagnostic was 40μg/24h which had a sensitivity of 79% and specificity of 88%. Researchers found no significant difference in urinary copper after PCT in either WD patients or control subjects. "The data found by Iorio et al. demonstrates that the current AASLD guideline approach to the diagnosis of WD — obtaining a slit lamp exam, a serum ceruloplasmin and a 24-hour urine copper followed by a liver biopsy in some patients — is useful even in young, clinically asymptomatic children," confirmed Dr. Michael Schilsky, Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Yale University Medical Center, in his and Dr. Rosencrantz's editorial also publishing this month in Hepatology.
Article: "Re-Evaluation of the Diagnostic Criteria for Wilson Disease in Children with Mild Liver Disease." Emanuele Nicastro, Giusy Ranucci, Pietro Vajro, Angela Vegnente, Raffaele Iorio. Hepatology; Published Online: October 21, 2010 (DOI: 10.1002/hep.23910); Print Issue Date: December 2010. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hep.23910.
Editorial: "Mining for a Diagnosis of Wilson Disease in Children: Genetics, Score and Ore." Richard A. Rosencrantz and Michael L. Schilsky. Hepatology; Published Online: November 23, 2010 (DOI: 10.1002/hep.24054); Print Issue Date: December 2010. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/hep.24054.
These studies are published in Hepatology. Media wishing to receive a PDF of the articles may contact [email protected].
Hepatology is the premier publication in the field of liver disease, publishing original, peer-reviewed articles concerning all aspects of liver structure, function and disease. Each month, the distinguished Editorial Board monitors and selects only the best articles on subjects such as immunology, chronic hepatitis, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, genetic and metabolic liver diseases and their complications, liver cancer, and drug metabolism. Hepatology is published on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). For more information, please visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1527-3350.


TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Investors are counting on the Bank of England to cut interest rates to a record low 0.25 percent later on Thursday to support an economy that has slumped since the Brexit vote.
The British pound traded at $1.3325, keeping some distance from its three-decade low of $1.2798 hit almost a month ago, although currency markets may be somewhat ambivalent over how to react to the BoE decision – buy sterling if the BoE cuts, sell if it doesn't, or vice versa?
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.3 percent in early trade, led by gains in resource shares, recouping some of its 1.5 percent losses on Wednesday.
Japan's Nikkei rose 0.6 percent from Wednesday's three-week lows.
Brent crude futures rose 1.0 percent on Thursday to $43.55 per barrel, extending its recovery from Monday's four-month low of $41.41 while U.S. crude futures gained 1.2 percent to $41.33 per barrel.
The dollar bounced back a bit from Monday's five-week low against a basket of six major currencies as investors looked to Friday's payrolls data.
The dollar index stood at 95.544 , having recovered from Monday's low of 95.003, though it is still far below a 4 1/2-month peak of 97.569 hit last week.
The euro dipped to $1.1149, slipping from 5-week high of $1.1234 touched on Monday.
Against the yen, the dollar traded at 101.32 yen, not far from Monday's low of 100.68 yen.
The 10-year JGB yield rose 2 basis points to minus 0.070 percent.


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Q: BigCommerce API - Undefined Resource Property - Banners :: item_id I am working with the BigCommerce API for the Banners resource, but I do not know the usage/definition for one of the properties - specifically: item_id
The usage documentation shows the following as the JSON response:
 {
    "id": "1",
    "name": "Grand Closing Sale",
    "page": "home_page",
    "content": "Thanks for shopping with us.",
    "date_to": "1393218000",
    "item_id": "0",
    "visible": "0",
    "location": "top",
    "date_from": "1391576400",
    "date_type": "custom",
    "date_created": "1392073898"
  },

The property documentation however makes no reference to item_id (and also has other various typos and unlinked properties).
What is item_id?
Is it maybe supposed to be catorbrandid, which says "ID for the brand or category."
Thanks in advance!


This is the first case of melioidosis in the newborn. The clinical course was indistinguishable from other types of neonatal sepsis. Autopsy findings were similar to those of acute melioidosis in adults. There was no clinical response to antibiotic therapy despite evidence of in vitro sensitivity of the organism.


Enterprise social network vendor Yammer was a large and fast growing player when Microsoft acquired it in late 2012. Yammer has users in more than 150 countries, and the interface is localized into more than 20 languages.
Over the years, Yammer's functional services have expanded a bit to include the ability to express praise for co-workers, create polls, share documents and provision smaller discussion groups. In practice, however, some of those supplementary services aren't as rich or well-integrated into SharePoint as you might find in competing products.
And you can find a lot of competing products: from collaboration suites that offer tightly integrated social networking services to supplemental "social layer" offerings that compete directly with Yammer.
For this reason, it would be good to ask this question: Is Yammer truly the best social layer for your enterprise?
When Microsoft acquired Yammer shortly before releasing SharePoint 2013, the deal sent shock waves through the marketplace. Soon Microsoft started recommending that you hide SharePoint's native social services in SharePoint and use Yammer instead.
Microsoft now promotes Yammer as a social layer over all your Microsoft systems, especially Office 365. Yammer usage can explode within an enterprise that heretofore offered no micro-blogging services, let alone any enterprise social network. People happily check in and often find new or long-lost colleagues in the first few days and weeks.
Yammer boasts a huge customer community. Customers get access to the quite sizable Yammer Community Network, where licensees share their successes, problems, questions and tips with the community as a whole. A small but growing apps marketplace rounds out the picture of a vibrant ecosystem around Yammer.
Smaller departments use Yammer to stay in touch, but enterprise-wide conversations typically decrease. Usage also drops off when employees struggle to place the service within the regular flow of their daily work. Yammer becomes yet another place you have to go, rather than a service you exploit as part of your regular workflow.
In a mobile environment, Yammer and SharePoint usage entails at least two separate native clients.
Yammer has key application: social questions and answers. When a user starts to type a question, Yammer uses a real-time search to auto-suggest already asked questions. That is useful and helps to eliminate duplication in content.
However, there are no ratings for answers and the original questioner cannot declare an authoritative answer. Search is not really ideal, so as answers build, they become harder to leverage, especially given the scarcity of curation services. Yammer works less for knowledge management and more for really simple, quick responses to simple questions.
Another Yammer key social application: communities of practice. Groups are either public or private. You might also have separate groups in Exchange and SharePoint (via Delve), as well as Communities in SharePoint.
There is single sign-on to Yammer with Office 365.
Larger enterprises find Yammer better suited as a supplement to formal collaboration and social networking efforts rather than as the center. Its simplistic handling of files and limited search facilities limit Yammer's ability to serve as much more than a simple micro-blogging service.
If you are looking for pure micro-blogging services to communicate across your enterprise and are not looking for ready-to-use applications tailored for specific goals and processes, Yammer offers an obvious alternative to consider, especially for those whose SharePoint plans rest primarily on the Office 365 edition.
Galaxy Consulting has experience with all versions of SharePoint and with Yammer. Please contact us today for a free consultation.


Addiction describes the physical and/or psychological dependency on a drug that has been taken regularly over a period of time. The results can be devastating to personal, professional, home and family life and friends and family of the sufferer are often desperate to find a cure.
It is important to deal with the psychological addiction as successful recovery depends on the state of mind of the addict. External physical treatment will be less effective if the addict still believes they need the drug. Treatment through the complementary health route relies on helping the addict to understand why they feel the need to take a substance that is so destructive to them and strengthening their sense of self so they can feel in control of their own life without the need for artificial mood altering drugs.
Physical addiction requires a gradual reduction of the drug as sudden withdrawal tends to lead to symptoms that are very difficult to cope with.
We are all different so we don't all respond to the same treatments but dependency is never going to help a person to live life to the full. There will be an answer and with determination the sufferer can be free from crippling addictions. Often the best therapists were addicts themselves once and so have a real understanding of the struggle faced by addicts.


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'No one knows' when Boeing 737 MAX really will return, United CEO says
Ben Mutzabaugh
Airlines that fly the Boeing 737 MAX have had to repeatedly shuffle their schedules thanks to the ongoing grounding of the aircraft.
All three U.S. airlines that fly the plane have changed their schedules numerous times since the MAX was first grounded in March. Now, American, Southwest and United each have pushed the planned restart of the MAX into next year, but it's not completely clear when the jet might actually fly again.
United announced its latest update to its MAX schedule just last week, saying it would extend its MAX cancellations until Jan. 6. Previously, United had projected a Dec. 19 return.
But United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz acknowledged some uncertainty about that date Wednesday during an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box." CNBC host Phil LeBeau pressed Munoz on the issue, saying "there is increasingly less confidence that this will be certified and returning to service by the end of the year. … Do you really have confidence in that early January start date?"
Related: Here's what the 737 MAX groundings mean for your holiday travel
"No one knows," Munoz replied. "We've been doing this for seven months. The important part is that it's returned safely."
When asked to assess the impact of the grounding for United, Munoz said "clearly it hurts."
"I think at this point we would have 80 to 100 flights that would be in the air," he added. "But, again, it's just — the important part about that conversation is that aircraft will return safely. And that's all we really care about. So, we await the FAA and the regulators to do their thing."
Featured by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
Ben Mutzabaugh is the Senior Aviation Editor and heads TPG's airline coverage. Ben joined The Points Guy in March 2019 after nearly 19 years at USA Today, where he launched the long-running, industry-leading Today in the Sky blog in 2002.


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Supreme Court, Criminal Term, New York County
Local ADA Info
Court Tours
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Specialized Departments
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100 Centre Street is one block north of Worth Street (between Hogan Place and White Street). The building is approximately three blocks south of Canal Street.
111 Centre Street is on the southwest corner of Centre and White Streets.
Building Rules
No smoking, radio playing, tape recorders or cameras.
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A public access library is available at 80 Centre Street. Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Telephone number 646-386-3891.
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Coordinators are available to answer questions from the public regarding access to our courts by persons with disabilities. Please call 646-386-3900.
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November 27, 2022 3:50 pm GMT+0530
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin Review: Adam Devine Returns For Lackluster Spin-Off
The series is currently streaming on Peacock
Peacock's Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin follows the story of Bumper Allen (Adam DeVine) heading off to Germany to launch his solo music career. The first major opinion on him shared by music producer Thea (Lera Abova) is "backpfeifengesicht — a face that is deserving of a slap." But Bumper is not dismayed and says it's due to his round face, coupled with his entire personality. Indeed, those traits and his eventual growth was made us form a love-hate relationship with him. But how did his new venture go?
Bumper in Berlin Review
Not good. That's the short definition for Bumper in Berlin. The six-episode comedy series has made sure to include all the things that led to the success of Pitch Perfect – groups of people pursuing the same goal, rivalries, and lots of singing. However, the show still failed to have the same effect as the movies. While the movies were women-oriented, the series is about men's singing. Bumper is seen in Barden University, chasing his dream by performing alongside the Tonehangers.
However, Bumper receives a call from Pieter Krämer (Flula Borg), who was first seen in Pitch Perfect 2. Krämer lets him know that he is famous in Berlin thanks to his mashup of "99 Luftballons" and "Take on Me" becoming a TikTok sensation. He asks Bumper to come to Berlin, promising to be his manager and helping him become a superstar. The rest of the story follows them meeting new characters.
Why it didn't succeed
The main problem is while Bumper has charm and charisma, he did not have a lot of depth to get a show of his own. Even his attempts to appear sentimental and serious fail due to this. Bumper in Berlin is mainly a comedy, but the jokes are worse than the heartfelt moments. However, some supporting characters Abova and Sarah Hyland, do their jobs well and make the show better. And finally, the music was not standout either. In conclusion, Bumper in Berlin just lacks inspiration in general and did not have to be made.
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Katy Perry performed at the Byron Allen Oscar Party on Sunday, wearing a Juicy Couture Fall 2018 Jumpsuit (not available online) and a pair of Proenza Schouler Metallic Cap Toe Boot ($995.00, Black).
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Coming out of the dark
Mar./Apr. 2006 California Country magazine
By Jim Morris
Humble beginnings for this Rio Vista endive grower.
Entrepreneur shines spotlight on Belgian endive
Multi-tasking has its benefits. For example, Rich Collins was washing dishes at a Sacramento restaurant when he overhead the owner grousing about the high cost of Belgian endive. The enterprising 18-year-old didn't just resume scouring and rinsing. He set out on a quest to grow endive. That decisive evening marked a circuitous, quarter-century ride that has earned Collins the distinction of being America's largest--and only--Belgian endive grower.
Collins' endive production had a humble and largely unsuccessful beginning. He bought a package of seeds from a local nursery and planted the endive in his family's vegetable garden. Then, to help the plants to mature as they should in the dark, he stored them in his parents' closet. Because the experiment didn't achieve his desired result, Collins determined that he needed to travel to Europe to see how the pros grew endive. A yearlong immersion on farms in France, Holland, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium helped get him on the right track, although no one had given him a fighting chance at succeeding.
"When we first started the farm, the company back in the early '80s was called Rebel Farms," he said. "Most everybody I talked to, whether it was in Europe or America, said that endive could not be produced here."
Today, Collins is a part owner and chief operator of California Vegetable Specialties in the Solano County town of Rio Vista. The nondescript exterior of the 30,000-square-foot production facility is deceptive. Inside is a company as unconventional as the vegetable is to many American consumers.
Endive--which can be pronounced either "EN-dive" or "on-DEEV"--is a slightly bitter vegetable most often used in salads and appetizers. Growing it for the masses takes a depth of knowledge and ingenuity.
"We've had a bumpy journey along the way," Collins said. "For about 10 years, we had a lot of learning to do and issues to deal with, not only in production but marketing as well. Luckily I have committed, patient partners who think long term."
California Vegetable Specialties endive starts with chicory plants grown on 300 acres of Northern California farmland. After five months in the field, roots are harvested in the fall and early winter and put in cold storage in the Solano County facility for up to 11 months.
The roots are awakened from their winter slumber and take three to four weeks to produce endive, or second growth of the bud. The growing process borrows a page from the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," as thousands of budding roots stacked 22 feet high emerge from cellar-like conditions.
A new product that has an equally eerie appearance is a dandelion variety which, like the company's bread-and-butter product, starts in the field and is then grown to maturity in the dark. The end product is a forced white dandelion that the French call "pissenlit." It is often blanched, braised and served on salads in upscale restaurants.
A year-round work force of 60 packs the endive, which is shipped throughout the United States and to the Pacific Rim. Each year the company produces about 25 million heads of endive weighing about 4 million pounds, which is about 1 percent of the amount grown globally. Endive consumption in the United States has more than doubled since Collins began raising it. The average of about six leaves per year eaten by American consumers pales in comparison, however, to per-capita consumption of about 8 pounds annually in France and 18 pounds in Belgium.
Collins hopes to gain customers through a consumer-oriented Web site (www.endive.com) and by establishing relationships with chefs.
"Chefs are an absolute linchpin of what we do," he said. "Almost from day one, our focus was not only on the production aspects of endive, but on the chefs as well. A chef using our product becomes an ambassador for consumers, showing them what can be done with endive and how versatile it is."
One chef who prepares endive in a variety of dishes is Biba Caggiano of Biba restaurant in Sacramento. She uses the vegetable in sauces, in salads and as a side dish.
"It's important that it's grown close by," Caggiano said. "When we order from a supplier, it's with the understanding that they are going to give us the best of what they have or I will send it back. The only way my restaurant will stay on top is by using the freshest, best and most beautiful ingredients."
Collins said he hopes to oversee continued expansion of business in the decades ahead.
"We think that, as American diets and palates change, there is a great opportunity for increased endive consumption," he said. "Endive is a great, healthy, versatile vegetable. We have doubled our business a couple of times since we started, and we would love to double our business again within the next four to six years."
In the meantime, many of those who know endive enjoy it. Endive salad is a favorite of actor Brad Pitt, and Martha Stewart considers it a must-have item for preparing appetizers.
Plenty of growth potential remains for the vegetable, because millions of Americans have never tried it and probably would find it a baffler in a trivia match.
"Endive was the subject of a question on the television show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,'" Collins said. "The poor guy used two 'lifelines' and still got it wrong!"
Jim Morris is a reporter/photographer in Sacramento. He can be reached at info@californiabountiful.com.
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I have taught economics for the Women's Leadership Program (WLP) at The George Washington University for six years, first as a graduate teaching assistant and this academic year as the Adjunct Professor of Economics and Coordinator of the Globalization, Economics, and Business cohort. WLP is a selective living and learning program for first-year women. The program combines vigorous academic training with mentoring, leadership training, and out-of-classroom experiences. The relationships I have built with my students over the years have been the highlight of my graduate teaching experience.
WLP's Globalization, Economics, and Business cohort 2017-18.
Symposium outing at the museum.
Celebrating women writers. With students after attending Danai Gurira's Familiar play at Wolly Mammoth Theatre.
WLP's Globalization, Economics, and Business cohort 2015-16.
After a performance at the Kennedy Center.
After attending a talk with the World Bank's CEO Kristalina Georgieva.
WLP's Globalization, Economics, and Business cohort 2016-17.


Meditation is a holistic subject by which the listener tries to get further than the reflexive, "thinking" intelligence into a deeper situation of relaxation or awareness. Meditation is a component of many religions, and has been practiced since antiquity. It is also practiced outside religious traditions. Eastern meditation techniques have been adapted and increasingly practiced in Western culture.. Meditation music includes music played with or listened to during meditation, music the performance of which is a meditation, or music which is meditative. Music may distract from or enhance meditation, and meditation may involve music making. Meditation music should be simple and soothing. There is an esoteric branch of yoga called Nada yoga, in which it is said that advance meditators hear divine "unstruck" sounds that arise from within the heart. Some of the sounds heard in meditation are said to be in nature or have been duplicated by human beings. Some of the classical sounds include the rumble or thunder, the buzzing of bees and the deep sound of the waves. Some of the instruments that are inducive to meditation are the tamboura, tibetan singing bowl, the flute and the sitar. Musical training is similar to meditation and musicians may study meditation for the benefits during performance, such as deep breathing and concentration. Some composers have combined meditation and music.
Suitable for meditation and healing therapies.
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Free from Preconception - Music for the "Background of Life".
Mantras carry in their sound the magical ability to protect, liberate, vitalize, open the heart, relax emotions and mind, and support the healing of body and soul.
Sacred Music Series - Om Tara Tutare Ture Soha.
These Mantras are intended for long periods of chanting.
Two long mantras for life-long health and immortality.
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The beautiful music on Namasté is ideal for contemplation and introspection. In attuning yourself to the spirit of this ancient greeting, you can open the portals to your own radiant beauty.
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This is a powerful method for centering one's energy in the hara - the area just below the navel. It is based on a Sufi technique of movements for awareness and integration of the body.
Sufi whirling is one of the most ancient techniques, one of the most forceful. It is so deep that even a single experience can make you totally different. Whirl with open eyes, just like small children go on twirling, as if your inner being has become a center and your whole body has become a wheel, moving, a potter�s wheel, moving.
The Musical Journey of a Tibetan Nomad.
A magical meditiational journey to the blessed isle.
Does peace have a rhythm of its own? Join Nawang Khechog, master of the Tibetan bamboo flute, as he creates mystical textures and spaces that evoke the tranquility and inner freedom that are the essence of peace. With didgeridoo, gongs, bells and drums.
Releasing Negative Karma, Creating Blessings and Abundance.
Your voice is a healing force.
Caroline Myss invites you to experience the music that has taken her to �mystical altitudes� - the soaring voices of the acclaimed Bellissima Opera.
Ideal for contemplating a gentler way of life.