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I Am APatient / CaregiverDiseases & ConditionsHyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome (Juvenile)
Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome (HIDS) / Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency (MKD)
HIDS / MKD is a genetic disease caused by an abnormality in a gene that codes a protein called mevalonate kinase (MVK).
Symptoms typically start in infancy and include recurring episodes of fever, rash, abdominal pain, diarrhea, joint pain, mouth sores, and swelling of lymph glands, lasting 4 days and recurring on a monthly basis. Episodes are often triggered by vaccines.
New biologic treatments may ease the disease for the majority of patients. The long-term outcome is usually good.
HIDS / MKD tends to ease over time and often resolves by adulthood.
Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency (MKD), formerly known as Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome, is a rare disease. The disease is mostly found in Western Europe, especially in the Netherlands and France, but has been described in all ethnic groups. Boys and girls are affected equally. Symptoms usually start in early childhood, most commonly in the first year of life.
What Is Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency/Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome?
Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MVK), formerly called hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome (HIDS) is a genetic syndrome that results in episodes of high fever with skin rash, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, mouth sores, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and joint pain with swelling. Most patients have high amounts of proteins called immunoglobulins (especially D and A), which normally are used by the immune system to fight infections. The most severe form of this disease starts at birth and is called mevalonic aciduria. These patients also have severe neurologic (nervous system) disease and poor growth.
Fevers are the main symptom, usually lasting 3-7 days, and may recur every 2-12 weeks. The episodes begin suddenly, often with shaking chills. Headache, abdominal pain, loss of appetite and flu-like symptoms are common. Most patients experience nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. Skin rashes on all parts of the body—Including the hands and feet and painful sores in the mouth – may occur. One of the most striking features is swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck or other parts of the body. Patients may develop joint and muscle pain as well as joint swelling in small and large joints. Childhood vaccines are a common trigger of episodes in these patients.
What Causes It?
Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency/ Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome (MKD/HIDS) is a genetic disease. The gene defect results in abnormalities in a protein called mevalonate kinase (MVK). MVK is a protein that facilitates a chemical reaction in the body (an enzyme) involved in the process of making cholesterol. Thus, Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency may be considered a "metabolic" disease.
It is not known why the gene defect causes fever, but it appears that the gene defect causes a decrease in the number of certain molecules that participate in the control of the process of inflammation. Episodes can be triggered by events that stimulate the immune system such as infection, stress, trauma, surgery and especially by vaccinations. Episodes can also occur without any obvious trigger.
MKD/HIDS is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner, meaning that the child receives two mutated genes, one from the mother and the other from the father. The parents are then called carriers, and may not be ill at all. Often, someone in the extended family has the disease. If one child has the disease and the parents are carriers, there is a 25 percent chance another child will get MKD/ HIDS.
How Is Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency/Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome Diagnosed?
It usually takes a physician expert in this disease to diagnose MVK/HIDS. Blood tests during an episode usually show signs of inflammation. Most have elevated levels of immunoglobulins D and A. During episodes, a urine test for organic acids will show high levels of mevalonic acid. The diagnosis will be confirmed by a genetic test finding the defect in the MVK gene.
How Is Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency/Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome Treated?
Because MKD/HIDS is a genetic disorder, it cannot be cured, but its symptoms can be controlled. During an episode, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (like ibuprofen and naproxen) or steroids may help. Biologic treatments that block inflammatory proteins such as interleukin-1 or tumor-necrosis-factor may prevent or decrease the frequency of attacks in most patients. Anakinra (Kineret), one of the interleukin-1 blockers, may be used "on-demand" at the start of an episode. Canakinumab (Ilaris), also an interleukin-1 blocker and etanercept (Enbrel), a tumor-necrosis factor blocker may be used regularly to prevent attacks in patients with more severe disease. Researchers continue to search for more effective treatments.
Living with Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency/Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome
MKD/HIDS is a lifelong disorder, but episodes usually get milder and less frequent over time. Children with the condition may miss many days of school due to episodes. It is important to stress that the fever of MKD/HIDS is not contagious.
Patients may rarely develop a complication of inflammation called amyloidosis. In children with chronic inflammatory disease, amyloid is a protein that can deposit in the major organs. The most common organ involved is the kidney, but amyloid can deposit in the intestines, skin, and heart. Eventually, amyloid causes a loss of function, especially of the kidneys. Fortunately, this complication is extremely rare in the United States, and may be prevented by appropriate therapy.
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At the end of August we were invited to SLC to take part in a Mini-Documentary about The Jackson Family. The Jackson Family are the ones who set up A Good Grief website and raised the money to pay for Gabriel's headstone. Enjoy the video!
This is so amazing! My good friend in AZ is friends with the Jacksons and I followed them thru their loss of little Lucy. How wonderful that I actually watched the video via her blog and when I saw you and your husband I just started bawling! I had no idea. Thank you for sharing this....and for all you do. You are such an inspiration of hope, faith and pure love to everyone around you. Simply amazing!!!!
WOw! How amazing! I have tears in my eyes and goosebumps all over my body! What wonderful people to have in your lives!
Amy- I'm so sorry to hear about your perfect little Gabe. What a beautiful little boy. I wish I would have known of your story and struggles earlier, but I just wanted to let you know that since seeing a flyer about Gabe's story/book drive you have been in my thoughts and prayers.
Remember death leaves a heartache no one can heal, but love leaves a memory no one can steal. Gabe leaves behind perfect memories that can never be forgotten.


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Empiricus Research is a company that sells information through newsletters. As a partner with The Agora, an American company, it currently has 180,000 subscribers for its newsletters.
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Empiricus made a video called "O Fim de Brasil" (The End of Brazil, in 2014). This film predicted a disastrous outcome for the national Brazilian economy while attacking the policies of Dilma Roussef's government. This film was a Brazilian version of the American play, "The End of America" from American Stransberry Research, owned by the Agora Group, a shareholder.
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President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2018, has been a huge issue for many Americans who own as little as 10% of a small overseas business. Caught up in a clumsy legislative effort aimed at such large multi-national American companies as Google and Apple, these small business owners are, as has been frequently reported by this media organization and others, being forced to pay a 17.5% transition tax on income from their small business entities that dates back as far as the 1980s.
GILTI tax webinar on Thursday to feature tax lawyer Silver
Monte Silver, a well-known expert on – and critic of – President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and the so-called GILTI tax it contains, will host a live webinar on that controversial legislation next Thursday.
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Campaigners for fairer treatment for American citizens abroad are claiming a victory this morning, as news emerged that the U.S. Treasury had finally cut owners of small businesses located abroad some slack yesterday, by enabling such individuals to choose to be treated like a corporation for tax purposes, and thus reduce their tax burden.
Liz Zitzow: U.S. Treasury expected to unveil 'good news' for overseas small-biz taxpayers over GILTI, Section 965
Liz Zitzow, an American resident in London who runs a tax advice business for American expats, says the U.S. Treasury plans to announce "some good news on Monday" with respect to the recently-introduced global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) tax, which has been causing major problems for many Americans who own small businesses outside of the U.S.
Treasury official reported to hint at plans to address GILTI concerns
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is planning to address a much-criticised aspect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that currently would see individual American taxpayers facing potentially higher taxes on their overseas income, a report published on Thursday said, citing a Treasury official.
Ever since President Trump unveiled his so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act just before Christmas in 2017, tax experts familiar with the complex way American expatriates are taxed have been sounding the alarm about what were initially assumed to be the unintended consequences of that legislation on American small-business owners overseas.


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Eric Trump, the second son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, came out to defend statements made by his father about the family of a U.S. army captain killed in Iraq, saying that the comments had been blown out of proportion.
On "CBS This Morning," the younger Trump also defended his father's plan to take on radical Islamic terrorism.
"I mean, you see anybody who dies for their nation, dies for the three of us at this table, made the ultimate sacrifice, but you know for my father, in terms of the Kahn family, it's not about a soldier—who's an amazing guy. My father even said that during the interview, sounds like he's a really amazing guy," Eric Trump said.
Eric Trump focused on his father's plan to take on radical terror in the wake of the Orlando and San Bernardino terror attacks, as well as international incidents, including the Nice truck attack and the killing of a priest at a church in Normandy, France.
Khizr Khan, the father of Army captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004, slammed Donald Trump in an emotional speech during the Democratic National Convention. Khan said Donald Trump had "sacrificed nothing and no one" and also questioned whether Donald Trump had ever read the constitution.
In the interview on CBS This Morning, Eric Trump said his father had apologized to the family already.
The whole situation, he said, got "blown out of proportion," saying Trump doesn't want to see any more Americans killed. Trump added that his father's focus has been on security issues, illegal immigration, and Syrian refugees entering the United States.
"This story is not about Mr. Khan, who is all over the place doing interviews, but rather RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and the U.S. Get smart!" his father tweeted on Monday.
"I mean my father's a great patriot, he doesn't want to see more Americans dead and he's seeing what's happening around the country and quite frankly, he's shaking his head," he told CBS.
Trump also asked why Pat Smith, whose son was killed in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, didn't receive the same amount of media coverage even though she spoke at the Republican National Convention. "Between all the news networks, she got 70 seconds of airtime. The Kahn family has gotten hours and hours of airtime, and what's ironic about that was Hillary was the one that left them on the roof in Benghazi. It was Hillary's policy that crippled Libya and Syria and Iraq," he said.


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Took some time off insta the last couple of days for some much needed R&R. What's the point of living in paradise if you don't experience it?
How do you guys switch off?
Going from long distance relationship to straight into living together and then travelling 24/7 together all in under a year... whoa!
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What's it like to live in Las Vegas, NV?
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Las Vegas has a reputation as an adults-only playground thanks to an iconic stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard. However, just beyond the Strip, residents enjoy pleasant suburban communities, world-class restaurants and beautiful parks undisturbed by the glare of neon lights. Cultural institutions like the Smith Center for the Performing Arts and numerous museums offer quiet alternatives to the Strip, while nearby state and national parks – including Lake Mead, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Spring Mountain Ranch State Park and Valley of Fire State Park – offer ample opportunities to enjoy the outdoors.
It seems like there is always something happening in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Food and Wine Festival, along with the myriad celebrity chef restaurants on the Strip, keep foodies busy, while bibliophiles gravitate toward the annual Vegas Valley Book Festival.
For better or worse, Las Vegas' popularity as a tourist destination, combined with its recent population growth, can give the metro area a revolving-door feel. Many Las Vegans are not native to the area, and recent economic growth means that new people are continually moving here.
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Many Las Vegas residents choose to get around by car. Although traffic can be heavy at the "spaghetti bowl" interchange (where Interstate 15 intersects with U.S. Route 95) in the heart of the metro area, congestion eases at night, except on the Strip. Both downtown and in the suburbs, many streets feature separate bike lanes, and cyclists will find bike-friendly trails to help guide them safely through the valley.
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) offers bus service throughout the Las Vegas valley, including Las Vegas proper and the neighboring city of Henderson. On the Strip, residents and tourists alike can take the Las Vegas Monorail from one end of the Strip to the other. Meanwhile, the smaller Aria Express Tram makes several stops near CityCenter. And thanks to Las Vegas' popularity as a tourist destination, cabs are plentiful (though you can't hail them from the street).
McCarran International Airport serves 30 airlines and is one of North America's busiest airports. Amtrak no longer serves the area by rail, but a Greyhound bus station is located in downtown Las Vegas.
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Who lives in Las Vegas, NV?
Thanks to its mild winters and ample sunshine, Las Vegas appeals to a variety of age groups, from retirees to millennials. Despite its reputation as Sin City, Las Vegas encompasses many neighborhoods that are surprisingly family-friendly, particularly in the master-planned community of Summerlin and in the nearby town of Henderson. Meanwhile, more than half of Las Vegans are not married.
Las Vegas residents are more religious than some might expect given its nickname of Sin City, with roughly 36% of the metro area claiming affiliation. The majority of religious residents are Catholic or Evangelical Protestant.
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Residents of Las Vegas get to experience the best of both worlds: They can enjoy the larger-than-life personality of the Strip, or they can retreat to the more subdued parts of town.
While some people might balk at the idea of raising children in Las Vegas, there are plenty of kid-friendly activities available to keep families busy. For instance, Springs Preserve offers family-friendly events, in addition to its museum exhibits, botanical gardens and unique, desert-themed playground.
For residents who crave cooler temperatures and snow, the Lee Canyon ski and snowboard area in the Spring Mountains near Mount Charleston (where temperatures are roughly 20 degrees cooler) is a just over an hour's drive from downtown Las Vegas.
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March's Extraordinary Athlete is Matthew Lee, a 16 year old sophomore at Highland Park High School. Matthew joined us here at CrossFit Odyssey last August. It is amazing to see how much he has changed in just those few months! I recently heard one of the dads say, "Man I wish we had a picture of him when he first started!" That is because he has gained at least 25lbs of muscle since he began!
What makes Matthew our extraordinary athlete is not his sheer strength or ability, but his dedication to and mastery of form and technique. Matthew is not a terribly verbose kid. He tends to sit back quietly and listen. He pays close attention to all of the cues we are giving to all of you and he tries very hard to follow those cues to the "T". His squats are deep and back on his heels with a straight back. His Olympic lifting still starts somewhat light, but his technique is almost flawless and his weight is regularly increasing. His pullups, which were non-existent when he began, are now strong both in strict and kipping and he is quickly gaining mastery of handstand pushups. And for all of you struggling with Double Unders (where the jump rope passes under the feet twice for each jump)… yeah he got them the first time he tried them. But before you all go get your jump ropes and throw them in the trash – you should know he practiced jumping rope every single day after the workout – no matter how tired he was, and that's how he got really good at them.
What Matthew has done is listen to the one thing we stress more than any other – FORM AND TECHNIQUE OVER SPEED AND WEIGHT. No one is going to get really good at moving heavy weight if they start heavy. It is impossible to focus on the details in the technique if you are concentrating on just not dying under the weight. No one is going to get good at pullups or Double Unders without practicing them. Matthew has taken the time to focus on the little details so that he can get really good at the big stuff.
To top it all off, Matthew is competing in The CrossFit Open 2017. Signing up for something like this is an undertaking in itself for a young man. He also has befriended a lot of the fellow CrossFitters in the gym and even welcomed, helped and encouraged some of the new people. That is what makes a true CrossFitter. Our community here at CrossFit Odyssey is full of amazing people who want to get better and help each other get better. Matthew stands out as one of the best, and for a 16 year old young man, I would say he is definitely on an incredible Journey to Extraordinary!


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Justin Amash (L-MI) has joined the Libertarian Party as a member, according to a report by Detroit News and a … More, President Donald Trump does not seem to be a fan of beards, according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during a … More. There is a party at the house of screenwriter Paul Schrader. John has more life than all the rest of us put together.". It's too bad John Milius has fizzled out at 76. Such is the case with Amanda Milius, whose father is legendary writer and director John Milius, the man behind "Dirty Harry," "Red Dawn," and much more. See more of John Milius on Facebook This is mine: It is the mid 1980s. While possibly true, the impression that viewers might take away from the studio members interviewed is that profit was the key to his banishment. (1AMDC Productions) The daughter of a legendary right-wing Hollywood filmmaker calmly documents an all-American cliffhanger. Helpful. They run off to the mountains, sleep under the stars, play football, eat Rice Krispies for dinner, and draw up sorties in the dirt as if they were Hail Mary passes. Milius is not only a documentary worthy of its subject, but it also shows how the older generation of liberal filmmakers, unlike their younger counterparts today, could separate their disagreements from talent. When the sun sets, I can sing 'My Way' with Elvis, Frank Sinatra, and Richard Nixon. John Milius. Read more. I'd take the Wolverines from Colorado over a small circle of friends from Harvard Square in any revolutionary situation I can imagine. Comment Report abuse. Wanting to be Hemingway at an early age, Milius drifted into film after watching John Ford and Howard Hawks (two equally colorful movie makers) and attended the famous University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television along with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. Lisez des commentaires honnêtes et non … Victoria University academic Alfio Leotta has written a book on the … He's only noticed when conservatives require a public face for the NRA or need an example of how right-wingers are blacklisted in Hollywood (Milius hasn't worked steady since the 1990s). Elegiac, evocative, excessive, "Big Wednesday" was a box-office wipeout, but since when is that a demerit? John Milius wrote that line. But when he goes, an era will go down with him, too. Milius' father, the screenwriter of such classics as Apocalypse Now and Dirty Harry, is such a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood that he has inspired characters in at least two films: The Big Lebowski (played by John Goodman) and Zeroville (Seth Rogen). Thanks to her father she has had long running relationships with some of the most well-known people in the industry, and had a lot of opportunities to work on films of all sizes before starting her career. As the Wolverines are about to execute a prisoner of war, one teenage guerilla asks, "What's the difference between us and them?" To which the leader of the pack responds, "We live here." The line might just as well have been spoken by a boy in Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq or wherever else imperialist superpowers alight. But when he goes, an era will go down with him, too. Quentin Tarantino has been doing just that, unearthing a 1982 interview he, then a 20-year-old on the fringes of the industry, conducted with the filmmaker John Milius. Genius filmmaker John Milius talks about cinema and politics. A manda Milius thought she would follow the footsteps of her father, the legendary screenwriter John Milius. Total anti-war movie. Sign up for our newsletter below! Writer-Director John Milius has had a long and eventful career thus far in Hollywood. He penned the first two Dirty Harry films (1971 and 1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. We intend to accomplish this by informing and educating our readers on our core principles of free markets, limited government, traditional values, and personal freedom. Though personally close to the Midasian trio of Spielberg, Lucas, and Coppola, his firearm-based antics (such as bringing a loaded .45 to a meeting with a studio executive), as much as the masculine rite-of-passage motifs in his films, seemed to place him in that unpledged fraternity of directors with decidedly non-liberal politics: Michael Cimino, Walter Hill, Ron Maxwell, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Oliver Stone. John Milius is a screenwriter and director who came to prominence in the 1970s, when he was associated with Francis Ford Coppola and the pre-Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) George Lucas. Milius is the daughter of legendary screenwriter-director John Milius and a State Department alum whose film is based on Lee Smith's 2019 best-seller of the same name. to find out more, read our. Want to stay in the loop with our latest updates and get some interesting reads straight to your inbox? But when he goes, an era will go down with him, too. Guess the critics forgot a little movie called Apocalypse Now. BBC 'MOVING PICTURES' feature on John Milius and his contribution to JAWS and APOCALYPSE NOW Outspoken conservative John Milius is not your average Hollywood screenwriter. Of course, you really do need to know about John Milius to appreciate this excellent documentary. Milius' humor-free heroes and his message promoting the erotic possibilities of violence may have made him box office poison as much as any conservative views; Francis Ford Coppola was aghast at Milius' original ending for Apocalypse Now in which Kurtz and Willard join forces to repel a Cong invasion merely because "it feels good" and changed it. He was a writer for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbarian, and Red Dawn. Annihilation Movie Review: Has the Left Officially Ruined Science Fiction? In 1971, Milius became the first writer to command a six-figure advance after his script for the western, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, sparked a ferocious bidding war. And hell, I haven't even mentioned "Geronimo," "The Wind and the Lion," or "Conan the Barbarian.". Commentary By John Milius 2 Featurettes - The Hero Cop: Yesterday And Today And A Moral Right: The Politics Of Dirty Harry Trailer Gallery "The Enforcer" (1976, ダーティハリー3) Commentary By James Fargo 2 Featurettes He's only noticed when conservatives require a public face for the NRA or need an example of how right-wingers are blacklisted in Hollywood (Milius hasn't worked steady since the 1990s). 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The PunchOut2Go team recently traveled to sunny San Francisco to sponsor and attend the 2018 Coupa Inspire conference. The event brought over 2,000 finance and procurement professionals together at The Fairmont Hotel for three days of information-packed sessions focused around business spend management.
PunchOut2Go, a CoupaLink certified partner, continues to be a proud sponsor year after year of one of the fastest growing spend management events in the world. With renowned speakers and thousands of attendees from around the world, the sixth annual Coupa Inspire trade show reached new heights in 2018.
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Q: Jquery simplemodal call another simplemodal I want to call another simplemodal from a link in existing modal.
I'm using the OSX modal.
How can I do this ?

A: SimpleModal only supports one modal open at a time.
Instead of opening a new one, you could get the content you want and replace the existing content with it.

A: $('#myModal').modal.update();

I think that should instead be $.modal.update(); There's only ever one modal dialog so you don't have to specify which one.

A: There are too many ways to accomplish that. I will show you one of them:
a) Let's say that you are "simpleModal-ing" a div with id "myDisplay":

b) You, first, loaded the contents for the form in that page (div)

 <form ............>
  <input this>
  <input that>
  <submit onClick='updateMyDisplay'>
 </form>

c) Somewhere between the  of your page, put the updating script:
 //again : could/should have only one of this

...... The best way to implement such a thing (multiple displays with single modal) is to use the jQuery load():
on the main page or on the page of the script, create an empty hidden div:

then, populate that div with offline (non content in the same page) html pages
the form ....... in the myForm.html file
the thanking ... in the thankyou.html file
using jquery (for me the easiest thing out there):
 .......
  $('#myModal').load('myForm.html');
  $('#myModal').height('650px');
  $('#myModal').modal();
 .......
  // on completion of the form:
  $('#myModal').load('thankyou.html');
  $('#myModal').modal.update(); // (Eric Martin, himself, sent me this tip through Twitter)
 .......

Anyways, if you are a "code borrower" ... like I am, you might have troubles undertanding the above but, in any case, I hope I have helped you.

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A Helping Hand: Charity Art Auction
by Jordan J. Ballor • October 13, 2006
"Rest on the Flight to Egypt," from the Matthaus Evangelium. From the collection
of Edward and Diane Knippers. By Otto Dix.
Five Talents International, a ministry which aims to "to fight poverty, create jobs and transform lives by empowering the poor in developing countries using innovative savings and microcredit programs, business training and spiritual development," is sponsoring an art auction beginning this coming Monday, Oct. 16.
"A Helping Hand: Artists' Exhibition and Sale," is an online silent art auction, with the proceeds devoted toward the creation of the Knippers Eduation Fund. The newly established fund will "provide scholarships for the next generation of church leaders, missionaries and poor entrepreneurs, who are living or working in developing countries, with business and management tools needed to transform their communities and churches."
The fund is named in memory of Diane Knippers, a Five Talents founding board member who coined the organization's name and president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Time magazine named Diane one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in the United States in 2005.
Here's the agenda for the auction:
Starting Monday, Oct. 16, bids for paintings, sculptures and original prints will be accepted online at www.fivetalents.org. Featured art will include the works of nationally recognized artists such as Sandra Bowden; Tim Botts; Tanja Butler; Bruce Herman; Ed Knippers; Dean Larson; Nathaniel Mather; Dorsey McHugh; Sam Nash; John Olsen; Ted Prescott; Karen Swenholt; and David Zuck, among others. Works by Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, and a page from the Nuremberg Chronicle will also be included.
The online auction will close at 5 p.m. EST on Friday, Nov. 10 and culminate with a silent auction and reception on Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Foxhall Gallery, 3301 New Mexico Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. The auction and reception will be from 5:30 to 9 p.m.
More details are available here.
Jordan J. Ballor
Jordan J. Ballor (Dr. theol., University of Zurich; Ph.D., Calvin Theological Seminary) is director of research at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, an initiative of the First Liberty Institute. He has previously held research positions at the Acton Institute and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and has authored multiple books, including a forthcoming introduction to the public theology of Abraham Kuyper. Working with Lexham Press, he served as a general editor for the 12 volume Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology series, and his research can be found in publications including Journal of Markets & Morality, Journal of Religion, Scottish Journal of Theology, Reformation & Renaissance Review, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Faith & Economics, and Calvin Theological Journal. He is also associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary and the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity & Politics at Calvin University.
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Clearing the air: Using GBD to understand the impact of pollution on health
Acid mine drainage from the Lousal Mine in the Setúbal District of Portugal. Photo by: Gustavo Veríssimo from Setúbal, Portugal
How do we quantify the health impacts of a risk factor such as pollution, which is pervasive, difficult to detect, and often underreported?
Richard Fuller, environmentalist and President of Pure Earth, is taking on the challenge. He is the co-chair, with Dr. Phil Landrigan, of the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, which brought together 50 researchers worldwide in an effort to quantify the health and economic costs of pollution. The Commission uses data from the Global Burden of Disease to harness the evidence on the diseases caused by pollution and the accompanying health care costs.
Before the Global Burden of Disease, Fuller said, there was minimal data on pollution and its effects. It was not until the Commission released its report in October 2017 that the magnitude of diseases from all types of pollution was revealed.
"When we first ran the numbers, I thought, it can't be," Fuller said. "I was stunned."
The study revealed that diseases caused by pollution were responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, the equivalent of one in six deaths. The vast majority of these deaths, 92%, occurred in low- and middle-income countries. Most of these deaths were due to non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with air pollution contributing the most to pollution-related deaths.
GBD has provided a way to put numbers to these staggering health impacts. "It's the single most powerful tool in public health," Fuller said. The authors were also able to measure the economic costs of pollution through willingness to pay studies, finding that welfare losses from pollution have totaled up to US$4.6 trillion per year (6.2% of global economic output).
Fuller said that some types of pollution have been easier to put a number to than others.
"We're lucky with air pollution because we have satellites," Fuller said, explaining that satellites allow us to track air pollution in extraordinary detail. But for many other types of pollution, such as soil contamination, measurement of pollution is costly and time-intensive, he added. As a result, we have minimal data on the impact of chromium, mercury, pesticides, and brominated flame retardants.
"The biggest challenge is how you calculate exposure data in a world of far from perfect information and no satellite capacity," Fuller said.
Scientists and researchers are increasingly using innovative forms of data collection to measure potential exposure to contaminants, which has the potential to change existing GBD estimates. Fuller offered that sometimes these data can come from unexpected places.
In some places, mercury inventory reports revealed large amounts of elemental mercury being imported, despite sparse evidence of mercury use in the gold mining industry. In reviewing dental records, researchers found that the numbers of dental amalgams – or fillings using mercury – were off the charts. If all of this mercury was going to dentistry, each person living in these areas would have had to have their teeth filled 150 times per year for the numbers to add up. Reviewing an unusual source like dental records allowed researchers to uncover that the mining industry was actually using this mercury, Fuller explained. Use of mercury in artisanal gold mining can lead to serious health issues, contaminate the water supply, rise into the atmosphere, and act as a neurotoxin that works its way up the food chain through bioaccumulation.
In addition to disentangling true pollution exposure rates, Fuller added that advocacy efforts will be integral to elevating the conversation about the impact of pollution and developing effective mitigation solutions.
Current advocacy efforts include the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, a prominent collaborative that brings together diverse groups to reveal the environmental impacts of pollution in low- and middle-income countries. In addition, Fuller's own organization, Pure Earth, identifies and cleans up toxic sites in some of the poorest communities around the world.
Learn more about Pure Earth and the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, and read the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health's report here.
GBD is the most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. It is the product of a global research collaborative and qua...
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