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Welcome to our patient portal!
We implemented the patient portal to allow you, our patient, secure access to your personal information 24 hours a day but that is not all you have available to you! When you sign up to the portal, you have the ability to:
- Make changes to your personal information, ie. address, phone, insurance, medications, etc.
- View lab results which come via. one of our lab interfaces.
- Schedule and reschedule appointments at a time which is convenient to you in our scheduling system without having to speak to anyone.
- Request a prescription refill when you recognize you need to do so….not when the office is open.
- Portal a secure message to our staff with your questions or concerns 24 hours a day! (Of course non-urgent messages only) Urgent concerns should continue to be called.
We encourage you to use the portal whenever possible. It's as easy as writing an email! Your portal messages will be delivered to the appropriate staff members who will reply in a timely manner. That portal message and response now becomes a permanent part of your chart with our practice. This is a great way to communicate with us in a secure manner where we can easily read your request or concern and respond with our recommendations/ instructions.
How many times have you spoken with someone, hung up the phone and then asked yourself….what did they say I was to do?? With the portal, you have the ability to view the response as many times as needed to ensure you have the exact directions our doctor's wish for you.
We are extremely happy to be able to deliver this type of cutting edge service to you and hope that you will find the patient portal a great benefit for your healthcare needs.
Thank you for your cooperation. We hope you enjoy the patient portal and will take advantage of the ability to reach out to us when it is convenient to you. Remember….the portal is for non-urgent messages only! If you have any questions or need help accessing the portal, please feel free to call our office. We are happy to assist you!


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Mauritz Minny is an accomplished entrepreneur with a distinctive track record of success in the leisure and travel industries.
Over the past two decades he established and grew some of the country's leading tour agencies specialising in the fields of educational, heritage and sports travels to and from South Africa.
In his youth he excelled in a range of competitive sports gaining national colours in both wrestling and cross country. He took this dedication and commitment to excellence into the business environment when he entered the travel industry in 1999 after completing a B Com-degree in Sports Management at the University of Pretoria.
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Mauritz's most recent enterprise, Time Travel Global, was established in 2019. In addition to the regular range of educational tours it offers youth groups abroad opportunities to participate in social responsibility activities within communities in South Africa.


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The possibility of Kyushu being hit by a magnitude 6.8 or stronger temblor within 30 years is between 30 to 42 percent under newly revised criteria, a recent report by the government's earthquake research panel shows.
The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion under the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry released the report Friday. It outlined quake scenarios based on major active faults in Kyushu under the stricter criteria.
When looking at specific areas, the report said northern Kyushu faces a 7 to 13 percent chance of being hit by a magnitude 6.8 or stronger quake in 30 years' time, whereas central Kyushu faces an 18 to 27 percent chance and southern Kyushu a 7 to 18 percent possibility.
In 2010, the government changed the criteria for calculating earthquake probability based on active faults after a deadly 2007 magnitude 6.8 temblor hit Niigata Prefecture.
The old criteria only looked into active faults longer than 20 km, which could cause a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, but the new guideline requires that the government check those longer than 15 km that could cause a magnitude 6.8 quake.
The new criteria also include active seabed faults, while the old criteria only considered those on land. The criteria were revised because even under 7.0 can cause serious damage, as was the case when the magnitude 6.8 quake hit the Niigata area.
This is the first time the research panel released a report based on the new criteria.
The report also looked at the active Nishiyama fault zone that runs from central Fukuoka Prefecture to about 40 km offshore, noting it has the potential to cause a magnitude 7.9 to 8.2 temblor.
There are about 28 active faults that might cause a 6.8 quake, the report showed. An earlier estimate pointed to only eight active faults in Kyushu that posed a 7.0-plus quake threat.


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Just in time for Earth Month, our yearly CodeGreen Challenge gets team members even more involved in the community than usual, providing opportunities to support CodeGreen and give back to local causes. This year, we've challenged properties to create a CodeGreen cocktail made of local and sustainable ingredients.
Here's what Harrah's New Orleans has planned for 2017:
Key Local Priorities:
Rebuilding Homes
Harrah's New Orleans HERO volunteers partner with Rebuilding Together on renovating at least two homes per year. Harrah's actively seeks out homes that need an eco-conscious upgrade, like energy efficient windows.
Addressing Coastal Erosion
According to Michael Ruffin, Community Relations Manager and CodeGreen Leader, "As Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, coastal erosion is a major environmental issue on the Gulf Coast. HERO has partnered with groups like the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation to plant native marsh grasses in the bayous and wetlands."
He continued, "We've joined a national fight to protect our wetlands utilizing our most invaluable asset, people. Through our HERO program, we continue to develop strong partnerships with leading organizations to help alleviate environmental challenges. We have a long way to go, but we continue to make progress."
Secret to Last Year's Success: Last year, to build interest in national parks, Harrah's New Orleans introduced a costumed character, Olly the Oak Tree, from Bayou Segnette State Park. Olly made a special appearance in the team member cafeteria to spread the word about Nature Deficit Disorder, which can be cured with a visit to a national park.
2017 Plans: Like many Caesars Entertainment locations, Harrah's participated in last month's Earth Hour with guests and employees.
On March 31, the location's HERO volunteers worked with Caesars Foundation and the National Park Trust to chaperone 110 fourth graders from Chalmette Elementary on a trip to Jean Lafitte National Historical Park.
According to Michael, "Exposure is a major key to success. It's important that we explore the history, arts, culture and landmarks with our youth. Those volunteering had an opportunity to teach, learn and most importantly, be of service to the next generation."
CodeGreen Cocktail: The Bourbon Street Old Fashioned is made of southern whiskey and local citrus. Louisiana's own Crystal Hot Sauce serves as a stand-in for the traditional bitters. Of the drink, Michael says, "This creative drink is a reflection of New Orleans' vibrant culture. It's also a delicious way to share the message of environmental conservation with both locals and visitors. We debuted it at our pop-up at the annual French Quarter Festival last weekend!"


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Topolino 94 – "evolved collection"
The Topolino from the ROLF Spectacles evolved collection has won the renowned GOOD DESIGN Award. The model's design is reminiscent of the Italian classic car which is its namesake. The original Topolino was one of the smallest cars in the world at the time of its production. "Topolino" translates to "little mouse" and is also the Italian name for Mickey Mouse. This model features the unique ROLF wooden hinge and special lens-glazing system. The evolved collection combines the finest natural materials, excellent design and high-quality production with ROLF's consistently rigorous craftsmanship. The Topolino is available in four types of wood combinations: smoked eucalyptus, bog oak/maple/bog oak, bog oak/walnut and the award-winning walnut variety.
GOOD DESIGN is the oldest and the most prestigious Awards Program organized worldwide. Founded in Chicago in 1950, GOOD DESIGN honors the yearly achievements of the best industrial and graphic designers and world manufacturers for their pursuit of extraordinary design excellence.


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METRO VANCOUVER - On a good day, Paul Sparrow can make it to work in an hour.
If he's driving, that is.
On public transit, it would take Sparrow closer to two-and-a-half hours to make the trip from his Newton home to his job in North Vancouver — and likely longer on the way home.
"Obviously it's not even close to being efficient," Sparrow said. "I would give up my car if it was more convenient."
Despite a decade of big investment in public transit, most Metro Vancouver residents are clinging to their vehicles as the top commuting choice, according to Statistics Canada's latest National Household survey, which replaces the long-form census.
Of the estimated 1.2 million Metro Vancouver residents who commute to and from work each day, the 2011 survey suggests about 66 per cent still get behind the wheel each morning and every night, compared with 20 per cent who take transit. And many, like Sparrow, are driving alone.
The reason?
"It takes half the time," said Prof. Larry Frank of the University of B.C.'s School of Community and Regional Planning. "Right now, as it stands, we still have a ways to go to make transit travel times faster and more convenient."
Indeed, even with relentless gridlock on most routes during rush hour, the survey suggests Metro Vancouver commuters in private vehicles can get to work in an average 26.4 minutes, compared with 40.9 minutes for public transit and 23.8 minutes by bicycle.
But it all depends on where a person lives. Residents of Maple Ridge and Port Coquitlam, for instance, endure the longest commutes, at about 35 minutes each way, while those on the North Shore and in Richmond and Vancouver can get to work within 24 to 26 minutes.
Ken Peacock, chief economist and vice-president of the Business Council of B.C., said he hasn't crunched the numbers but noted the car is highly convenient for two-parent working families, or those working later shifts in retail.
And as the traffic patterns continue to change, from a traditional east-west line to a spider web across the region, there aren't always the proper transit connections to get people where they want to go, such as between Maple Ridge and White Rock.
Vancouver commuters, for instance, spend on average just five minutes less on the road than those in areas like Surrey and Langley.
"There are people going in all directions in the Lower Mainland; it's no longer the suburbs going into the downtown core," Peacock said. "People are coming from downtown Vancouver into places like Burnaby and that makes it more difficult for the transit system to deal with.
"In a lot of instances it's still faster even if there's congestion and gridlock."
Langley's Jeannine Bornais can attest to that.
She starts her day at the crack of dawn, winding her way from Langley to Richmond — where she drops off her husband — to Vancouver. She can usually get to work or back home within an hour and a half, she said, but notes something as simple as a stalled car on the highway can trap her in traffic.
"There's been a couple of times when we've been stopped in the tunnel, which is kind of a nightmare," said Bornais, 41, who works as a creative coordinator for Bell Media. "In the morning it's fine, but at night it's pretty bad. Getting into Richmond, at Alderbridge and Garden City, it gets really jammed up.
"I love Langley, I just wish we didn't have to do the commute. It's just that three hours a day we're spending commuting, it's a drag."
It's also hard on the wallet, she said, noting that the couple has to gas up every four days and get an oil change every six weeks instead of six months. And there's no way they can make an early dinner with friends or catch an early movie.
Sometimes it's even hard to get in a long run or walk the dogs before dinner.
But Bornais said it's better than the alternative: her husband once considered taking a bus to Surrey SkyTrain and then to Richmond during a snowstorm but it would have taken him three hours.
"The closest SkyTrain station is in Surrey at King George and it's a half-hour drive in perfect traffic," she said. "In the morning going down Fraser Highway to the Surrey station would take forever."
Sparrow, too, said it's not worth the headache, especially when he can be alone in his car rather than "squished" into transit.
UBC's Frank maintains the Stats Can numbers aren't surprising, noting they directly correlate to the investments made in various transit modes, like roads, transit and pedestrian and bicycle connections. "What it shows is you get what you pay for," he said. "The more you provide supply, the more demand you have."
Roads, for instance, often take about a third of the province's transportation budget, he said, compared with about 20 per cent for transit.
And while the new South Fraser Perimeter Road was touted to boost goods movement, it also increased reliance among commuters who prefer to drive.
For commuters like Surrey's Simon Cunningham, the driving time allows him to have a coffee, listen to music and make some work calls. "It takes me just as long to take a bus and SkyTrain as it does to drive to Metrotown," said Cunningham, a public relations officer at Metro Vancouver. "If it was easier and a shorter time, I'd do it for sure."
TransLink's officials say the system has gone through one of its most extensive transit and transportation expansions in the past decade, in which it added buses, SeaBuses, the Canada Line and the Golden Ears Bridge, although public affairs didn't know Wednesday how much money had been spent.
The Evergreen Line is the next major expansion.
Spokesman Derek Zabel noted that while transit ridership has increased by 84 per cent over the past decade — with 109 million more trips in 2012 than in 2002 — more work must be done.
Zabel said the transportation authority is in the midst of consulting the public on its long-range plan to determine where transit services need to go to meet the changing traffic patterns.
"Right now we're not in a position where we can expand the system, but we can go into service optimization … to see where we can get more people on the transit system by offering better use of our resources," he said.
UBC's Frank suggests TransLink is on the right track in supporting the regional mayors' council in pushing for road pricing measures, such as tolls on bridges and tunnels to a charge per distance travelled, to generate more money to pay for transit as well as bike and walking connections.
"We have to get into road pricing, not just on the bridges but the whole system," he said, "and to use those funds to make improvements for non-motorized infrastructure so we can have competitive alternatives to driving."


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Background and study aims
Soil-transmitted helminthes, such as hookworm and whipworm (intestinal worms that are spread via contaminated soil) are a serious health concern in South-East Asia, Africa and South America, especially in school-age children. The standard treatment, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), is use of preventive chemotherapy drugs albendazole and mebendazole. However, overuse of these drugs increases the chance that the worms will become resistant to their effects. To be prepared for this situation new drugs have to be identified to replace the old ones. Tribendimidine (a general anti-worms drug) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of soil-transmitted helminthes (STH) and could act as albendazole/mebendazole replacement in case of resistance. Additionally, none of the current drugs used to treat STH are particularly effective against whipworm, except the new drug oxantel pamoate. The aim of this study is to investigate the most effective combination of albendazole plus oxantel pamaote for the treatment of STH infections.
Who can participate?
Patients aged between 15 and 18 years old with hookworm eggs in their stool, who are otherwise healthy.
What does the study involve?
Participants are randomly allocated to one of four groups who receive a single dose of medication on day one of the study. Those in the first group receive a dose of tribendimidine (400mg) plus oxantel pamoate (25mg/kg); those in the second group receive a dose of tribendimidine (400mg) plus ivermectin (200µg/kg); those in the third group receive a dose of tribendimidine (400mg) plus placebo (dummy pill); and those in the fourth groups receive a dose of albendazole (400mg) plus oxantel pamoate (25mg/kg). At the start of the study and then after 14-21 days, participants provide stool samples on two consecutive days so that the amount of STH eggs can be counted to find out the efficacy of the medications.
What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
All participants enrolled in the study will benefit from a treatment against STHs. Very few negative side effects have been reported for the medications used in this study, however there is a small risk of abdominal (tummy) cramps, fever, nausea and headache, and vertigo (spinning sensation).
Where is the study run from?
1. Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri (Tanzania)
2. Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (Côte d'Ivoire)
When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
February 2015 to May 2017
Who is funding the study?
Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland)
Who is the main contact?
Professor Jennifer Keiser
Trial website
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
Study information
Scientific title
Efficacy and safety of tribendimidine plus oxantel, tribendimidine plus ivermectin, albendazole plus oxantel pamoate and tribendimidine alone against hookworm and concomitant soil-transmitted helminth infections: a randomised controlled multi-country trial
Study hypothesis
The aim of this study is to provide evidence that tribendimidine in combination with oxantel pamoate or ivermectin could serve as an alternative to the currently most efficacious combination albendazole-oxantel against soil-transmitted helminth infections in Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania.
Ethics approval
1. Ethikkommission Nordwest-und Zentralschweiz EKNZ, 25/06/2015, ref: EKNZ UBE 15/35 (Switzerland)
2. Zanzibar Medical Research and Ethics Committee ZAMREC, 11/07/2016, ref: ZAMREC /0001/July/016 (Tanzania)
3. Comité National d'Ethique pour la Recherche CNER, 09/09/2016, ref : 083/MSHP/CNER-kp
Study design
Single-blinded randomized interventional study
Primary study design
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Trial type
Patient information sheet
Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Hookworm infection
Study participants eligible for treatment will be randomly assigned to one of the four treatment arms using a computer-generated stratified block randomization code. The random allocation sequence with varying random blocks of four or eight will be provided by a statistician.
Group 1: One single dose of tribendimidine (400mg) plus oxantel pamoate (25mg/kg)
Group 2: One single dose of tribendimidine (400mg) plus ivermectin (200µg/kg)
Group 3: One single dose of tribendimidine (400mg) plus placebo
Group 4: One single dose of albendazole (400mg) plus oxantel pamoate (25mg/kg)
At follow-up (after 14-21 days) participants will be asked to provide a second time two stool samples on two consecutive days.
Intervention type
Drug names
1. Tribendimidine
2. Oxantel pamoate
3. Ivermectin
4. Albendazole
Primary outcome measure
Egg-reduction rates against hookworm are measured calculating the mean reduction in egg-counts at follow-up (after 14-21 days) compared to baseline (based on quadruplicated Kato-Katz thick smears).
Secondary outcome measures
1. Cure rate (CR) against hookworm is the percentage of children egg negative calculated at follow-up (14-21 days post treatment) based on a quadruplicated Kato-Katz thick smear
2. Cure rate (CR) and egg-reduction rate (ERR) against A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura are egg free children at follow-up (14-21 days post treatment based on a quadruplicated Kato-Katz thick smear) or the mean reduction in egg-counts at follow-up (after 14-21 days) compared to baseline (based on quadruplicated Kato-Katz thick smear)
3. Pharmacokinetic parameters are determined based on concentration of the different drugs measured
4. Safety is measured based on number of children reporting adverse events at the time points 3 and 24 hours post treatment using a standardized questionnaire
Overall trial start date
Overall trial end date
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Written informed consent signed by parents and/or legal guardian; and assent by children
2. Able and willing to be examined by a study physician at the beginning of the study
3. Able and willing to provide two stool samples at the beginning (baseline) and approximately three weeks after treatment (follow-up)
4. Positive for hookworm eggs in the stool
5. Absence of major systemic illnesses (e.g. diabetes, anemia) as assessed by a medical doctor, upon initial clinical assessment
6. No known or reported history of chronical illness as cancer, diabetes, chronic heart, liver or renal disease
7. No recent anthelminthic treatment (within past 4 weeks)
8. No known allergy to study medications (e.g. albendazole, mebendazole)
9. Aged 15-18 years
Participant type
Age group
Target number of participants
640 (400 in Tanzania, 240 in Côte d'Ivoire)
Participant exclusion criteria
1. No written informed consent by parents and/or legal guardian and assent for children
2. Presence of major systemic illnesses (e.g. diabetes, anemia) as assessed by a medical doctor, upon initial clinical assessment
3. History of acute or severe chronic disease
4. Recent use of anthelminthic drug (within past 4 weeks)
5. Attending other clinical trials during the study
6. Negative diagnostic result for hookworm eggs in the stool
Recruitment start date
Recruitment end date
Countries of recruitment
Cote d'Ivoire, Tanzania
Trial participating centre
Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri
Trial participating centre
Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire
Cote d'Ivoire
Sponsor information
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Sponsor details
Socinstrasse 57
Sponsor type
Funder type
Research organisation
Funder name
Swiss National Science Foundation
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Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
The final results of this study will be published in a scientific journal and presented at scientific conferences. All results from this investigation are considered confidential and shall not be made available to any third part by any member of the investigating team before publication
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Stored in repository
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2017 results in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28864027


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Tata Young Recounts Thailand's Military Takeover
MTV News caught up with Tata Young and asked the Thailand born singer about the recent military takeover in Bangkok in September, and ask how she handled it. "I was doing a live show, and they were just about to take over the whole station," Young explained. "And I flipped…! (The cameraman) was shooting me, and listening to (the radio) at the same time and when we cut and went from commercial break, he was like 'Oh did you know that the troops are coming here?' I'm like, 'What do you mean? What are you listening to?!'." After getting wind of the situation, "I said 'forget it! Lets say goodbye to the audience.' I got to the car and I drove home as fast as I can! I got so freaked out and called all my friends and yelled 'GO HOME! Stop going to gay clubs!'"
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Five years ago, Arthur Laffer — creator of the Laffer curve and a member of President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board from 1981-89 — wrote an op-ed article. It was a grab bag of his pet peeves: opposition to Federal Reserve policies in response to the financial crisis and concern about the "unfunded liabilities of federal programs," including Social Security and Medicare. And, of course, he decried deficits, which in large part are the result of his thesis that tax cuts often increase revenue. As it turns out, for the most part, they don't.
The article he penned on June 11, 2009? "Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates." "Alas," he wrote "I doubt very much that the Fed will do what is necessary to guard against future inflation and higher interest rates."
At the time, the yield on the 10-year Treasury was 3.86%, and we were in a crisis-driven deflationary environment of negative 1.4% inflation. Today, the 10-year yields 2.65% and inflation is running at less than 2%.
Inflation wasn't the only thing Laffer whiffed on. He projected a budget deficit of 13% of gross domestic product and warned that it was going to get worse. Instead, the deficit fell dramatically during the next five years and last year it was less than 5% of GDP.
Pretty much every single warning, every data point, every item Laffer complained about was wrong.
Why does this happen, and why are there no penalties for being so inaccurate?
This isn't about economics, it's about politics. Unfortunately, the dismal science has become the vehicle of choice for those who seek to further their own political agenda.
Social Security is a perfect example. Why make misleading claims about unfunded liabilities while ignoring the revenue that will accompany those liabilities? To push for Social Security's dissolution or to confuse the public?
If you have an issue with Social Security, then fix it. The regressive taxes to fund retirement benefits top out at about $117,000 in 2014. Why not simply raise that to $250,000 next year and $500,000 during the next 20 years. Congratulations, you just made Social Security solvent for the next century.
But these forecasts of doom are never about fixing things; they are about refighting the battles that were lost long ago. The U.S. doesn't provide the sort of cradle-to-grave welfare benefits that Europeans have insisted upon, but rather a minimum safety net. A large majority of Americans support these programs. The folks who argue against them — like Laffer — have to resort to arguments and forecasts that have consistently turned out to be inaccurate.
We would do well to heed the words of Cambridge economist Joan Robinson, who observed "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
The deceptions need to end.


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Mali: emergency aid for people displaced in centre of country
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 24, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Some 7,000 Malians (people displaced by fighting in the Diabali area and families hosting them) are today receiving emergency supplies of food and other basic necessities in the towns of Niono, Kala Seguida and Mariko, in the central part of the country. The aid is being distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Mali Red Cross.
"These people are in the utmost distress," said Abrao Cunga, an ICRC delegate in Mopti. "Most of them arrived without money, clothing or food, and they have no place to sleep. How to get food is one of their biggest worries. Some of them fled on motorcycles, others on donkeys, in carts or even on foot. One family of six arrived on a single motorcycle."
The displaced are benefiting above all from residents' willingness to help them by sharing their meagre resources and, when they can, by taking them in. The aid distributions are providing each displaced family with rice, millet, beans, salt and cooking oil, and with blankets, mosquito nets, clothing, kitchen utensils and other basic necessities. Food aid is also being provided for the host families.
The conflict is causing new displacement. According to assessments carried out by the ICRC and the Mali Red Cross, people have fled the fighting in and around the city of Konna. There are almost 1,000 displaced people in Mopti and Sévaré, and some 5,000 further east, in the towns of Badiangara and Bankass. Preparations are under way to provide them with support.
"It is very difficult to have a precise idea of the number of displaced people. Some families leave their homes in search of safety, then they return, then they leave again," said Jean-Nicolas Marti, the head of the ICRC regional delegation for Mali and Niger. "We're doing everything we can to reach all areas, especially those closest to the fighting."
There have been worrying reports of large displacements of people in the Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu areas, in the north of the country. People are said to be leaving the urban centres because they fear the fighting is approaching. The ICRC and the Mali Red Cross are going to assess the situation in the coming days.
Since the conflict in Mali began one year ago, the ICRC and the Mali Red Cross have provided food and other essentials for more than 780,000 people in the Mopti, Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu areas. The most recent distribution of aid took place in December.


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La Vera Wood Oven Pizzeria, 16 Martineau Place, Birmingham B2 4UB Tel 0121 233 1988.
Just like it's hard to get really good fish and chips, it's not easy to find a proper pizza – especially when some businesses try to do the two things together.
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For years after it opened in the late 1990s, Passage Charter School in western Colorado's Montrose County had a waiting list for the 24 spots it offered teen parents. Last year the school had only two students and closed at the end of the term.
Louis Winkler, a Montrose doctor who was a member of the Passage board, gives much of the credit to a state program that made the most effective birth control methods widely and affordably available across Colorado.
Teen pregnancy rates have been falling nationwide, but more sharply in Colorado. Nationally, the birthrate for women aged 15 to 19 dropped from 41.5 per 1,000 in 2007 to 24.2 in 2014. In Colorado, the drop was from 40.2 to 19.4.
Nationally and historically the teen birthrate in rural counties such as Montrose has been higher than in cities and suburbs, and falling more slowly. Colorado's success in addressing teen pregnancy has included strides in rural counties. Only Colorado and Connecticut saw decreases of 50 percent or more in rural teen birthrates between 2007 and 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The State of Rural Health Care
"There are a lot of preconceived beliefs and notions about what happens in rural areas as opposed to more urban areas," says Bill Albert, chief innovation officer at Power to Decide. His national think tank, which was not involved in Colorado's birth control project, works to prevent unplanned pregnancies and ensure young people can get good information about sexual health and a full range of contraceptive methods.
Are rural parents less likely to talk to their teens about birth control? Are people marrying and having children earlier in the country? Power to Decide researchers set out to test such assumptions. In a 2015 report based on a review of county-by-county birthrates and other statistics, they found that the same issues contributed to teenagers having babies in rural and urban areas – chiefly lack of economic opportunity and of hospitals and clinics and the nurses and doctors to staff them. It's not that the people or the culture differed radically. It's that poverty, joblessness, poor education prospects and inadequate health care are more prevalent outside cities.
Power to Decide concluded the higher rates of unprotected sex and childbearing among rural teens are "predominantly a function of the everyday difficulties that communities face in making services and opportunities available to young people."
In Montrose, Winkler said that in addition to ensuring teens with children got their diplomas, a dedicated school staff helped them get scholarships for cosmetology, dental and other vocational programs and saw some go to college. One graduate became a teacher, and another became a police officer. Winkler says the schools' founders reasoned if they could help young mothers succeed, "we could maybe break the cycle of poverty and pregnancy."
Studies have shown having babies early hurts the health of the mothers and the children, and keeps young women from achieving personal, educational and professional goals.
In 2008, a $27 million, multiyear grant from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation allowed the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment to distribute intrauterine devices and hormonal implants at little or no cost. The state used a network of publicly funded family health clinics that largely served low-income women to distribute the devices known as long-acting reversible contraceptives, or LARCs, which provide no-fuss contraception for years after insertion. LARCs are more effective than pills or condoms and have higher up-front costs.
"It was just about making LARC devices available," says Jody Camp, who manages the state health department's Family Planning Unit. "Put them on the shelf and women choose them."
After the national private grant ran out in 2015, a dozen Colorado foundations provided bridge funding and in 2016 the state legislature voted to increase family planning spending. The 2010 Affordable Care Act and subsequent Medicaid expansion in Colorado also helped more women obtain LARCs and put clinics on firmer financial footing.
Kinsey Hasstedt, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, is as admiring of Colorado's achievements as she is anxious about the future for it and other states. Hasstedt, whose 50-year-old Washington, D.C.-based think tank focuses on population issues, said the Trump administration has targeted not only the Affordable Care Act but the federal Title X program, which since 1970 has funded family planning clinics like the ones on which the Colorado program depended for its success.
"Anything that seeks to undermine women's access to a full range of (contraceptive) options is unacceptable," Hasstedt says, adding the extent of any threat would only be clear once the budget process in Washington yields details.
Along with providing the contraceptive devices, which more than 36,000 women had received under the project by 2015, Colorado stepped up health care workers' training on LARC insertion and removal and on how to talk about family planning. A public awareness campaign included a Web site and social media advertising – Power to Decide researchers had found rural teens were just as digitally connected as their city cousins – designed to get Coloradans talking about reproductive health and choices ranging from abstinence to IUDs.
In southwestern Huerfano County, clinic manager Debbie Channel says the campaign prompted her neighbors to speak more openly about their concerns for the future of teens who have kids.
"They started having the conversation in public and that I think helped," she says. "Especially in small rural communities, we need to watch out for each other's children."
In the early days, the initiative's two coordinators traveled the state. They learned of wait lists for expensive contraceptive devices in rural areas like Huerfano as well as at urban clinics, evidence of a pent-up demand regardless of geography. Coordinator Ellen Marshall and her partner also found rural health care providers ready to take the lead in potentially controversial areas such as providing contraceptive services in school-based clinics.
Health workers at school clinics, the only clinics in some rural areas, "understood the 'this is basic health care' argument earlier," Marshall says.
Public health nurse Megan Coatney was born, raised and now works in Morgan County in the wheat, corn and cattle country of the eastern Colorado plains. She is still in touch with a friend who had a baby in middle school and another who had one in high school.
"There's just so much that they didn't know," she says. "They have both struggled."
When Coatney started work in 2011, the nurse who trained her pointed to a half dozen IUDs in a cabinet, all the clinic budget would allow. When Coatney spoke in a recent interview, she had a stock of more than 100 LARCs.
Coatney talks to young people about LARC and other options at a round table in a clinic office.
"I don't want them to feel they're in a doctor's office being lectured to. We just talk," she says. "I want to give them the education to help them take charge."
Tags: Colorado, pregnancy, teen pregnancy, birth rate, birth control, economy, health care, health care reform, Medicaid, education.


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Sending a link in email isn't that difficult, but guaranteeing that everyone who gets it can just click on it is impossible.
I am having trouble discovering how to send a hyperlink in an email so that the email recipient can simply click on and open the hyperlink from the email message. Additionally, I'd like to be able to place hyperlinks in a word document so I can click on it and have it open from the word document.
You're asking a question that email newsletter publishers have been asking in frustration for a long time. The problem is that 90% of the time it's simple and it just works.
The other 10% of the time has us pulling our hair out.
The problem is that it all depends on the email program that's used to read the email.
The 90% Case
In plain-text formatted email, all you need to do most of the time is include the full URL in your email. For example:
Visit http://ask-leo.com to get your tech questions answered.
Will, when displayed by most email clients automatically notice that there's a URL beginning with "http://" and make it clickable:
Visit http://ask-leo.com to get your tech questions answered.
In otherwords, you need do nothing special.
In HTML email most of the time all you need do is include the HTML for a link. So you might include in your HTML:
Visit http://ask-leo.com to get your tech questions answered.
And the recipient of the email will usually see:
Visit http://ask-leo.com to get your tech questions answered.
Now, the "caveat" here is that depending on what email program you are using to compose your email, you may or may not be able to enter the HTML directly as I've shown above. You'll need to check. In most cases if you can't edit the raw HTML, but the email program will provide an "insert link" function instead which will do the same thing.
The 10% Hair-loss Case
Everything I've described so far can fail for a number of reasons, all of which depend on the capabilities of your recipient. In other words it's nothing you have control over.
Some email programs don't automatically hight URLs in plain text emails, or users can turn off that feature.
Some email programs display HTML formatted email as plain text, turning off all of the features of HTML including links.
Some email programs disable clickable links from unknown sources. Adding the sender to the recipient's "trusted" list or address book can sometimes resolve this.
Some email programs react to a different delimiter to identify a link. For example, AOL was notorious for not recognizing "http://ask-leo.com", but rather "<http://ask-leo.com>". Unfortunately the later would not be recognized by other mail programs, so publishers often included both.
The list goes on.
There's no 100% solution. Someone, somewhere will not be able to "just click" on a link and have it work. The best we can hope for is to get it to work for most people.
The approach I use in my newsletter is three-fold:
Links are included in HTML.
Below the HTML link, the link is included again as if it were in plain text.
So a link to an article might look like this:
Read More: Internet Safety: How do I keep my computer safe on the internet?
I believe that puts me in the 95% bucket.
The "third" way is simply that folks who view my email newsletter in plain text get a different message altogether:
If you're seeing this, your email program is configured to view only
"plain text" emails, or prefer the "plain text" versions of email.
You can view this weeks newsletter either:
- by switching to an HTML view in your email program
- visiting http://ask-leo.com/currentnewsletter.html which will have the
this week's newsletter, ready for you to view.
Needless to say when they visit the archived copy of the newsletter on the web, the links all work.
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The way I have found around this is to add a character to the beginning of the address (such as a 1) and then paste the address. I add instructions to remove the 1 and then it works just fine, Just variation of the plain text but, I have it yet to fail. Just my 2 cents.
Hello Leo,
You have a highly informative newsletter.
I have a question, I recently signed up for a windows live hotmail account and cannot understand why I cannot make a right click on the editing area so I can copy and paste a url or a link which I would like to send to a friend. What is also strange is that the icon where you are supposed to insert a link is greyed out, which means you cannot even insert a link using this facility!
I would appreciate your input.
If you want to send a webpage link like yours you can open it in your browser and just right click on it and there should be an option to send the page link by mail.
I use Opera and right-clicking gives me the option 'Send Link by mail' which automatically opens up the integrated email client with th link formated as http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_send_a_link_in_email.html > . I guess how it comes out on the other end is always debatable.
So, in the first plain text example, how did you prevent the HTTP URL string from being automatically converted into a clickable LINK by Outlook Express? And, why did you make me ask (you old tease?)
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This is a web page, not an email viewed in Outlook Express. So I just coded it
in HTML, and your web browser did what it was told.
Or am I missing something about your question.
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32)
Here's my two pence worth.
If you use Outlook with Word as your email editor, right-clicking any section of your email (a word, sentence, embedded picture, whatever) gives an add Hyperlink... option - so you can add a hyperlink to anything.
You can't do this with Outlook's own HTML editor.
I know Leo will tell me using Word as email editor in Outlook is overkill but this very useful tool is one of the reasons I do.
Zap, Leeds, UK
usually i just go to the top address bar, highlight it, copy it and paste it into the email
Ow! I must have been half asleep. I apologize--thanks for replying and not kissing me off.
please tell me how to send data by send link
Hi Leo, I've got an article that might expand on this. If you want to email a hyperlink to a local file on your computer or a file on a network drive it can be a real pain. This brief post explains how to do it. More... > http://metaweb.com.au/home/how-to-insert-a-hyperlink-into-an-email-in-outlook
i am sending out numerous links and the people on the opposing end are not able to open it without copy and paste.
It could be a problem with the email program you use. Thunderbird generally does a good job in creating links from a url. Most webmails also do it automatically.
Removing the Quotes will solve your problem ;)
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In the history of Indian freedom struggle, we come across numerous names that have inked their mark on the history of India. Their deeds were dedicated to the same goal, to get the nation free from the clutches of slavery and for the restoration of its prosperity.
Mangal Pandey is the name of one such valiant amongst men, who roared just once to carve an immortal niche in history. He was a brave soldier, who gave the first skirmish in the 1857 revolution.
Early Life of Mangal Pandey
Mangal Pandey was born on 19th July 1827 in a Brahmin family in Nagwa, a village of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh. Not much is known about his parents except the fact that he was an upper caste Brahmin. Poverty had struck his family and there were mounting debts on his family became burdensome.
Mangal sought to remove the shackles of poverty that surrounded his family. He was aware of his hot temperament and wanted a job that suited him. Probably his education was average but he possessed a very sharp wisdom. He was also brave and courageous.
His family professed strong Hindu beliefs. As a result, Mangal vowed to follow and maintain Kshatriya Dharma for the rest of his life, enrolled himself as a Sepoy under the British government. By the year 1857, the roots of the reign of the British Government that had been long established, had penetrated deep.
All the Kings were reduced to mere dummies, running their government in proxy while the upper-hand was being maintained by the East India Company.
British Dominance and the Growing Resentment
The British dominance had begun to be established after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, but the real challenge for the Britishers was to lay down a solid foundation across the length and breadth of a vast country that India is and given its diversity of population and ways of living.
For this the Britishers adopted every possible trick of deceit, treachery and scheming.
While doing this, they not only gave up all the human considerations, but also behaved very brutally with Indians treating them all no less than an animal.
Before the arrival of Britishers, India was a prosperous nation. Villages form the heart of India. Each village was self-sufficient and self-reliant. There had been no necessity to export any goods from the outside.
All were organised based on the cooperation and good behaviour that villagers had for each other. A class or group existed for each profession. The farmers used to work in agricultural fields and only a part of the produce went out of the village in the form of state-tax.
There were carpenters and iron-smiths that made agricultural equipment and other tools. The Brahmins performed priestly and other education related duties. Weavers wove clothes, masons made houses, barbers, washer men; goldsmiths all performed their duties well.
Every village had a well-knit community. Britishers observed and took into account the fact that it won't be easy to establish supremacy in India. The system was strong enough to meet the requirements of everyone.
Mutual unity and cooperation were the strengths of Indians which tied them in spite of difference of castes and religions. Therefore, the Britishers began to put in place, a number of repressive policies on the pretext of modern reforms so as to achieve their nasty motive.
Because of the British interference, the strength and income of the Indian kings and Nawabs got highly diminished. They lost their earlier influence and were reduced to mere symbolic kings.
The farmers were refrained from using good seeds, fertilizers and organic techniques. They couldn't manage their own farms in accordance with their wishes. Land revenue was enhanced manifold and instead of grains, hard cash was demanded as land revenue.
Hence, farmers were forced to grow crops that could easily be sold in the market instead of crops that they really needed. The farmers who couldn't pay the revenue were forcibly deprived of their plough, bullocks, land, seeds and grains. The providers and perpetrators of food grains ironically, were deprived of their own food.
Great atrocities were laid down on weavers too. The weavers were vehemently forced to weave type of cloth that British wanted and also to sell it to the British traders only. They were annulled to sell it to any other trader and if one secretly tried to do so, his spinning wheel and cloth was burnt down to ashes by the Sepoy's.
There was a time when Indian cloth was in high demand in the international market but following such forcible vigilance and no due reward of their labour, many weavers had cut off their own thumbs to save themselves of such dire tyranny of the British.
There was considerable hatred brewing up among the peaceful Indians who regularly used to complaint against the policies and rights to implement administration over them by an alien rule. But none was voicing their opinions. The extent of the barbarity was crossed when the Britishers sought to hurt the religious sentiments of its own sepoys by whose power it used to curb the common men of India by their own fellow brethren.
The Britishers introduced greased cartridges. The grease was made from fat of cow and pig meat. The cartridges had to be bitten off to remove the cover, an act which was detested by both Hindus and Muslims because for Hindus, cow was sacred while for Muslims, even the touch of pig meat was haram.
The First Upsurge from the Regiment
The first notable issue of a revolt came from inside the British's very own Bengal Presidency Army. The 34th native infantry regiment of the Army was the most anxious to start the rebellion. The regiment was stationed at Barrackpore, Wazir Ali Khan who stayed near Calcutta had bound the whole regiment by Oaths in favour of the uprising. Some sepoys of the 34th regiment had brought the whole 19th regiment under their influence of the revolt against greased cartridges.
The British hardly had any idea of this and decided to issue the greased cartridges first to the 19th regiment on an experiment basis. But this regiment boldly refused the use of new cartridges to preserve the pride of their religious merit. They made it clear to the British of their intention of drawing their weapons out, if necessary. The British had to quietly swallow their insult as there were hardly any white troops available in the province of Bengal to suppress the sepoys.
Consequently, white troops were moved from Burma and other places to Calcutta and orders were issued for the disbandment of the 19th regiment at Barakpore for 28th March 1857's Parade. But the 34th regiment was in mood to see the 19th regiment being disbanded on the parade ground. For this, they patiently waited for a month and fixed a date for their upsurge against their foreign bosses.
But ferocious Mangal Pandey's sword couldn't keep waiting in the sheath for long. The love for his religion and country had entered his very blood and electrified him. He was immensely disturbed by the fact that his own fellow brethren would be insulted before him on the Parade ground.
On the very fateful day, he consumed cannabis(bhang) and opium and under the influence of intoxication, the young and valiant soldier's spirit became uncontrollable. He seized the opportunity and loaded his musket and began pacing on the parade ground, shouting "Rise brethren Rise! Why do you hold back? Come, Rise and bind yourselves with the oath of your religion".
With such words, he began calling upon his fellow soldiers to follow him. English Major Sergeant reached the ground and ordered Jemadar Ishwari Prasad, the Indian officer in command of the quarter-guard to arrest Pandey. Ishwari Prasad denied stating ferociously, "No sepoy shall even touch Pandey".
Sergeant Major Hughson was taken aback since none of the sepoys even moved to arrest Pandey at his order. A single shot from Pandey's weapon killed Hughson. Furious at Pandey's nuisance on the parade ground, General Baugh buckled himself and came in riding a horse with a sword and a pistol.
Pandey, seeing Baugh riding towards him, shot from his musket, the bullet missed Baugh but it struck the prancing horse. Both Baugh and his horse fell on the ground, Baugh immediately disentangled himself, all this while, Pandey was busy in reloading his musket to fire another shot. Immediately Baugh fired at him from his pistol but the bullet missed Pandey.
Both now drew their respective swords and marched towards each other. Meanwhile, a white soldier came pacing towards Pandey in order to attack but an Indian sepoy smashed his head. A shout rose among the sepoys, "Don't touch Mangal Pandey".
Colonel Wheeler was then summoned to the scene. He too ordered an arrest of Pandey to the guards. Another shout rose in chorus from among the sepoys, "We will not touch the hair of this Brahmin". Colonel Wheeler helpless at the sight of blood of a white man and being a witness of the sepoys' mood immediately paced towards General Hearsay's residence.
A vivid illustration of a mutiny, breaking on the parade ground reached the ears of the then, commanding officer, General Hearsay who galloped to the ground along with his two officer sons. Pandey continued waving his hands and was shouting, "Rise brethren, Rise".
General Hearsay at this juncture hurriedly collected white soldiers and officers and rode hastily towards Pandey. General began to threaten the guards on the Parade ground.
He took out his pistol and aimed it on one of the guards saying, 'Arrest Pandey' while warning to kill any guard who disobeyed him. The guards gave in to Hearsay's commands and began marching with the British soldiers towards him.
Pandey on seeing he falling into the clutches of the white men, put the muzzle of the musket on his chest preferring death over being imprisoned by the whites. He got badly wounded, got overpowered and was taken to a nearby hospital. After he was treated, and started recuperating, a date for his trial was set, 18th of April.
Aftermath and Martyrdom
The 34th regiment of Bengal Presidency Army was disbanded on the context of Mangal Pandey's mutiny and the failure of Sepoy and quarter-guard to follow orders.
It appeared that Pandey acted without considering other men of his regiment because none was participating as actively as was he alone but the Britishers realized that there must be a growing antipathy in the regiment for the Sepoy turned into mere spectators and none cared to arrest Pandey when commanded to do so.
Pandey was tried at the court of law and was condemned to be hanged. During the enquiry, he utterly refused to reveal the name of conspirators while even denying the consumption of alcohol, opium or cannabis.
While he made it clear to the court that all he did was to safeguard his religious merits and that he had no ill-will towards the officers that he had killed. His sword came out of his sheath to defend his religion and for the honour of his country.
On the morning of fated, 8th April 1857, Mangal Pandey was brought to the scaffold and given an ultimatum to tell the name of conspirators else face hanging.
He retorted them by denying them the names, the moose dropped and the great valiant rebellion was hanged till death. What a plight would have been drawn upon those who loved him dearly and followed him with all his heart!
This was the first skirmish that led to the Revolt of 1857. Mangal Pandey was gone but his undaunted spirit spread throughout the ranks of Bengal Presidency Army, Barrackpore to Ambala, Multan and Peshawar. He gave up not only his life but also left his name for the rebellion.
According to Lord Roberts, "Pandey's name was the origin of sepoys who joined the First War of Independence in 1857, calling themselves, 'Pandeys'". What happened on 29th March was followed by an upsurge in the regiments stationed at Meerut on 10th May. Pandey's rising against the torture act as a catalyst that inspired the ones sharing the feelings of hatred towards the British for their atrocities.
Film, stage, literature and commemoration
A film based on Mangal Pandey's life, starring Amir Khan was released in 2005, entitled 'Mangal Pandey: An Uprising'. However, the sequences of the mutiny were all based on true incidences, the film portrayed Mangal's character in a negative light, by displaying him of having an affair and being alcoholic.
It was an utter disgrace on the director's part to infiltrate the life of a heroic figure. Veer Savarkar remarked on Mangal Pandey, "Mangal Pandey was pure in private life and undaunted on the battlefield".
Besides a movie, Mangal Pandey's life was carved into a stage play entitled, "A Roti Rebellion" that received accolades from all over the fraternity. Also, had been published a novel entitle, "White Teeth" portraying Mangal's life and character and the influence he had over the author.
The Government of India commemorated Mangal Pandey, the forgotten hero, by issuing a postage stamp bearing his image on 5th October 1984. A park named Shaheed Mangal Pandey Udayan had been constructed to commemorate Mangal Pandey for his contributions, at the place where he first attacked the Britishers and where he was hanged later at Barrackpore.


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Case Findings: A 40 year old man with a history of diabetes presents with a rash and 4 days of itching and an intermittent sharp sensation around his right eye. One day ago, he noticed the onset of warmth, swelling, and a rash in the same area, which seemed to start after he put in his contact lenses in the morning. He has tried using warm compresses and has taken some of his friend's antibiotics, but has not noticed any improvement in the appearance of the rash. He notes that he has been under increased stress at work and that he has had the flu recently.
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Herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) is a recurrence of the varicella-zoster virus in the distribution of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve (VI). Classically, this reactivation occurs in healthy patients in or beyond their sixth decade. HZO is also more common in debilitated patients due to illness, trauma, stress, or immunosuppression (secondary to chemotherapy, HIV, radiation, malignancy, etc). Early symptoms can begin as dysesthesias of the forehead and brow. A vesicular rash that respects the midline can then develop, involving the forehead, brow, eyelids, and, at times, the conjunctiva. Involvement of the tip of the nose (Hutchinson sign) increases the chances of ocular involvement. The rash can be quite severe or mild enough to be mistaken for acne. A red eye on the involved side indicates ocular involvement. HZO often causes conjunctivitis and can involve other structures of the eye, causing a dendritic keratitis, uveitis, and, less commonly, retinitis.
Once the acute phase of HZO has healed, a chronic inflammatory course with frequent exacerbations can persist, causing progressive corneal scarring and neurotrophic keratoconjunctivitis. Chronic recurrent HZO (long after the rash has healed) can be very difficult to treat and may lead to corneal scarring and neovascularization. Post herpetic neuralgia can also be a very difficult situation for both patients and physicians to deal with. Cerebrovascular accidents have been associated with zoster.What To Look For:
One of the most striking features of primary HZO is the blistering rash in the distribution of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve. The rash will respect the midline following the course of V1. In patients with severe immunosuppression, the rash can be multidermatomal. The vesicular rash may involve the eyelids and conjunctiva causing conjunctivitis. Close inspection of the cornea may show a dendritic keratitis very similar to that seen in HSV keratitis, but the dendrites do not have the classical "terminal bulbs" as is seen in HSV. A second type of dendritiform lesion can be seen in HZO. This lesion is called a "pseudodendrite" and is a mucous plaque-like lesion in the shape of a dendrite "stuck on" the epithelium of the cornea. HZO is also known to cause uveitis and iris transillumination defects in a sectoral pattern. Dilated fundus exam is very important in HZO as, rarely, a necrotizing retinitis can develop.To see images of Herpes zoster ophthalmicus with variations of disease, the differential diagnosis, management pearls and therapy options, sign into your account.
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Crowdfunding, is a way to raise funds from small amounts to large amounts from a large number of people, and has not only become a source for raising money, but for public relations as well. Crowdfunding sites have become a great way to raise funds while telling stories that connect with people.
Allowing companies to post videos, to not only explain the product or services that they are trying to fund, but to tell stories that engage people and leverage the power of social media, can become a powerful public relations tool. Posting videos and fund request pages to various social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and other social media websites, gives future users of the product or service a way to create a personal connection with the project and creates new funding avenues. It gets people that believe in their product or service spreading the word to their social networks as well. And we all know that word of mouth is the best type of public relations that can be generated.
Kickstarter is probably the most popular crowdfunding site. It depends on a funding goal being met, in order for the funds to be transferred to a company. If the goal is not met, the donations are refunded to the individuals that have donated money. If the funding goal is met, it charges a 5% fee along with a 3% to 5% processing fee.
Indiegogo.com is the second most popular crowdfunding site. It works wth two separate funding models. The companies still create a video, but they can choose to follow a fixed or flexible funding model. The fixed model, works very similar to kickstarter's of getting the goal met or refunding the money. They charge a 4% fee and 3% processing fee + $25 for every non-US wire transfer fee for non-US campaigns. The flexible model charges 4% is the goal is met and 9% if it is not, and 3% processing fee + $25 for every non-US wire transfer fee for non US campaigns. The difference is that if the goal is not met, then the company can keep what funds have been already donated.
Other notable crowdfunding sites are as follows:
Rockethub.com uses a funding model similar to the flexible model of indiegogo.com, and it partnered with A&E for the potential to reach a broader audience when combined with social media.
Crowdrise.com, which was started by actor Ed Norton, funds charities and follows a flexible funding model as well.
Gofundme.com follows a flexible funding model too.
At the end of the day, funding your startup has never been easier. Through crowdfunding, you can reach more people to raise funds, and build a brand that truly connects with human beings.
Click the logos below for videos that explain how some of these crowdfunding sites work:


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FENG¹, RJ et al. Cloning and expression analysis of rubredoxin from cold-treated banana leaves. Phyton (B. Aires) [online]. 2010, vol.79, n.2, pp.163-168. ISSN 1851-5657.
A banana (Musa AAA, Cavendish subgroup cv. Brazil) cDNA encoding a putative rubredoxin-like protein (MaRd1) was obtained from total RNA isolated from cold-treated banana leaves using rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) technique. MaRd1 cDNA contained 597 nucleotides encoding 198 amino acids in the open reading frame. MaRd1 protein showed 56% amino acid identity with that of Pyrococcus furiosus rubredoxin (P24297). A chloroplast transit peptide and a transmembrane region were detected at the N-terminus and the C-terminus, respectively, of the deduced amino acid sequence of MaRd1 gene. Southern blotting revealed the occurrence of at least two copies of MaRd1 in the banana genome. Real time quantitative RT-PCR analysis revealed that the expression of MaRd1 gene was mainly in leaves, pseudo-stems and immature fruits, while it was barely detectable in roots and flowers. Cold and salt stresses induced higher levels of MaRd1 transcript accumulation in leaves. This finding indicated a role of MaRd1 in the response to these abiotic stresses.
Palabras clave : Rubredoxin; Expression; Banana; Stress response.


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Over New Year, I flew out to Northern Ireland to stay with a close friend and her family. It was the first time, travelling alone, since being diagnosed with gastroparesis and Addison's Disease so there was a fair amount of anxiety on my behalf and a lot of anxiety on my mum's behalf.
Travelling with chronic illnesses, or any long term conditions can be challenging and requires a great deal of organisation. Gone are the days of booking a flight and jumping on a plane for an adventure (I never did that anyway). So, here are my top tips to make travelling with a chronic illnesses a bit easier.
- Get medical proof. Because I was going to be travelling with anti-sickness injections and emergency steroid injections, I needed a letter from my GP to explain why I had needles and what the slightly suspicious white power was that I was carrying. Travelling out of England, security were very cautious with my medication and closely examined the various elements of it, which leads me onto my next point…
- Leave extra time. But don't do what I did and take the extra time to a whole new level and arrive at the airport two hours before bag drop even opens, because you honestly will lose the will to live. The extra time will allow for any additional cautiousness from airport security staff and will mean that you're not rushing around, trying to find the right departure gate.
- Pay for hold luggage. Whilst I don't regret paying to check my luggage in, I really resent having to pay £50 for a 21kg bag. I didn't have a choice in checking in my bag, I was travelling with 14+ bottles of nutritional supplement drinks and they would have taken up all of my hand luggage allowance. And that's not even considering getting all that liquid through security. Price aside, I can't stress enough how much easier it was, getting through the airport and being on the plane, not having to consider having luggage with me. Pulling luggage around can really hurt my joints, so I was able to reduce the risk of dislocations or additional pain.
- Make sure you have "friendly food" with you. I use the term "friendly food" because some people, like me, have a restrictive diet and finding food in an airport that I'm able to eat can be challenging. Unless you're able to eat chocolate and crisps or fast food, having your own food with you makes life much easier.
- Carry more medication than is normal. My outgoing and return flights were both delayed and I don't even want to consider trying to battle through traveling without sufficient pain meds.
- Consider special assistance in the airport. Personally, special assistance isn't something that I feel that I need at the moment and I hate the idea of relying on a member of staff in the airport to get me places. However, airports have a system whereby people with invisible illnesses or disabilities can get a lanyard with daisies on. This alerts airport staff that you might need assistance or help, without you having to go into a spoken essay about the reasons why.
- Talk to cabin crew. Although I was on a very short flight, my body doesn't respond very well to flying, which when combined with anxiety, means that flying isn't an enjoyable experience for me. I had my first asthma attack on a plane and cabin crew knew what was happening and how to help, but going into an adrenal crisis is less common, so simply saying to the cabin crew that I have Addison's, my medication is in my bag and what they should do, made me feel much calmer.
- Book flights at sensible times. This might mean paying slightly more, to fly at a civilised time, but it's kinder on my body and let's be honest, no one wants to be leaving the house at 4.30am to transfer to the airport.
Let me know if you have any tips to make travelling easier.


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The arrector pili muscle, is the small, smooth muscle responsible for producing goose bumps on the skin, also called goose pimples or goose flesh. These small, fan-shaped smooth muscles are located on the side of each hair follicle and contract when exposed to cold, which stimulates the skin to pucker around the pore. The purpose of this, in mammals, is to cause the hairs to stand erect thus providing insulation. The contraction of the muscle may also squeeze the oil gland so that sebum coats the hair shaft, protecting it from the environment. The muscles are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system and, in addition to cold, can also be caused to contract by emotional stimuli such as fear, excitement or other strong emotions.
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The worldwide gaming industry is waiting eagerly for several big releases for the start of the holiday season this year. Microsoft's XBox One and Sony's Playstation 4 are both currently being pre-ordered for delivery in November. Within games, Take-Two Interactive recently released "Grand Theft Auto V." Analysts estimate that the game will generate $1.5 billion in revenues. But even keeping the new releases aside, the video game industry has seen a recent surprising surge. According to NPD, video game sales in the country grew 1.0% to $521.0 million in August this year. Growth was driven by software sales, which reported a 21% increase to $293.4 million. Hardware sales were down 40% over the year to $90.8 million, and accessories sales grew 7% to $136.7 million in August 2013.
Electronic Arts' Financials
Electronic Arts' (NASDAQ: EA) Q1 revenues remained flat over the year at $495 million but were significantly ahead of the Street's expectations of $453 million. Loss per share of $0.40 for the quarter was also ahead of the market's projections of a loss of $0.60 per share.
By segment, digital revenues grew from $324 million a year ago to $378 million. Publishing and packaged revenues fell 30% over the year to $102 million. Distribution packaged goods revenues fell 29% over the year to $15 million.
By region, revenues from North America grew 11% over the year to $205 million and international revenues fell 5% to $290 million
For the current quarter, EA projects revenues of $975 million with EPS of $0.12, compared with the market projections of revenues of $980 million with EPS of $0.12. EA expects to end the year with revenues of $4 billion and EPS of $1.20, compared with Street projections of revenues of $4 billion and EPS of $1.21.
EA's Asian Expansion
EA is focused on tapping the international gaming market, especially that of Asia. Last December, they announced a partnership with Nexon in Korea to deliver the beta version of "FIFA Online 3" in the country. The partnership has helped EA's FIFA Online 3 become the leading online sports game in Korea and the second biggest game overall in the country. The company also recently announced a partnership with Chinese publisher, TenCent. As part of that agreement, TenCent will help bring FIFA Online 3 to the Chinese market. EA plans to tap into the fast-growing Chinese online gaming market, which according to market researcher, Niko Partners, is projected to grow to $11.9 billion this year from $9 billion a year ago.
EA's Mobile Success
Meanwhile, EA remains focused on the mobile gaming segment and continues to offer its latest releases in mobile versions. It recently released the latest "FIFA 14" and "Madden NFL 25" games on mobile. The biggest success though, has been the sequel to "Plants vs Zombies." "Plants vs Zombies 2" is said to be doing even better than King.com's "Candy Crush Saga." Within a week of its launch, the game has become the leading downloadable app on iTunes store. EA has also realized the importance of the freemium model to the mobile gaming segment. Unlike its predecessor, "Plants vs Zombies 2" is free to download, with additional features and upgrades available for sale through in-app purchases. The game has received strong positive reviews and also extends EA's franchising capabilities with its animated characters that are being sold as plush toys and T-shirt logos.
EA's stock is trading at $26.60 with market capitalization of $8.16 billion. It touched a 52-week high of $28.13 last month.


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Privacy fencing provides yard artists a secure area in which to create and display yard art projects that might not otherwise be ready for a full front-yard showing. As the photograph above demonstrates, alley fencing is an especially good canvas for experimenting with art styles and subjects that might be considered a bit too fishy by the neighbors... The art in the photograph above perfectly illustrates how alley fence art separates the good from the bad. In this backyard, an area typically used for playgrounds and clutter, the yard artist has pushed the limits of available materials and skill level to create a yard-art assemblage that is so bad that it has to be good.
The choice of colors and found objects suggests that the sculpture hanging from the tree is a rare species of shark-chicken. The modeling of the mammals on the fence mural indicates these creatures are obese humpback whales, or foil-wrapped burritos with fins.
Below, the tangled webs of back alley fence art... Hundreds of feet of beaded neck chain are used to decorate the alley fence picture above. The rusting chains seem to indicate that this may be an ongoing project that has been added to over the course of many seasons -- a fence art confession of lost time and entanglements. Below, colored balls are used to get the party started... The decorative balls that are used to festoon the alley fence pictured above are the sign of a gracious host. While the privacy fence creates a barrier of separation, the orbital ornamentation successfully brighten the lives of both invited and uninvited guests. Below, a sensitive fence makes room for a rock pile and a tree... Trees often grow around chain-link fences. The tree in the photograph above looks like it has grown around a wooden alley fence. However, similar fence cuts around the hand-made stone barbecue suggest that this fence was sensitively built around preexisting features.
More from our Kenny Be/Comics archive: "Designer fences create beautiful personal boundaries: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology."
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Repairing 32-year-old campus landmark could cost up to $60,000
By Mary Boone
Arson destroyed the top tier of the Thompson Hall fountain on Oct. 3, causing as much as $60,000 in damage.
Todd Badham, director of security services, says the fire was reported at 8:45 p.m. and Tacoma firefighters responded shortly thereafter. Badham says the fountain's pool, which had been drained for the winter, was filled with an undetermined accelerant; flames reportedly shot six to eight feet above the fountain's highest tier.
The Tacoma Police and Fire departments are aggressively investigating the crime. Badham says a hotline set up to take anonymous tips about the fire has been very active.
In addition to destroying the pinnacle of the fountain, the fire melted plumbing and cracked the stone pool walls.
Jon Robins, director of facilities services, says his department is exploring repair options, which range from a true replication to using synthetic materials. The fountain's original blueprints no longer exist, so an architect must produce new drawings before bids can be taken. Robins says the fountain originally included lighting, so one of the options may include recreating that effect.
The fountain, which measures 74 feet across, has been a campus focal point for more than three decades. Former university President Robert Franklin Thompson wrote a letter to architects Nelson, Krona and Zeigler of Tacoma in 1966, saying that he'd like to have a fountain constructed on the campus. He wrote: "I have in mind something like the Frosh Pond at the University of Washington or, more specifically, a fountain such as found in Trafalgar Square in London. I have pictures of the fountain there, which is very simple, but it puts a very great spray of water out and has lights that play on it from below."
The fountain was designed by Silas Nelson after a basic design of one in the plaza of Zurich, Switzerland. It was officially named the Harry Brown Family Fountain at an April 1968 dedication.
Robins anticipates that repairs will be completed in time for the fountain's usual start-up in March.


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I feel very accomplished because I replaced the grout between two rows of tiles in my shower. I have never done such a thing before! This was a task I would have, in the past, handed over to a handyman. But because I'm economizing, I did this myself.
This left me feeling self-sufficient and proud.
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P67 - Policies to expand access to health scientific journals in Latin America and the Caribbean
A brief definition and use of the concept of policy throughout time is presented to introduce the Recommendations for a cooperative development policy for scientific journal collections in Latin America and the Caribbean proposed by BIREME. The text of the policy was copied (http://secs.bvs.br Desenvolvimento de coleções na BVS / Política Regional da América Latina Development of collections in VHL / Latin America Regional Policy) and its main issues are highlighted. A recent policy of Open Access of the US National Institutes of Health is analyzed and the main common issues of these policies are emphasized. The indicators of works carried out for collection cooperative development by the Network of Latin American and the Caribbean Libraries on Health Sciences Information, were gathered through data searched in the Portal of Journals and Collective Catalogue SeCS - of the Virtual Health Library VHL. They are shown in graphs, as well as the number and categories of open access journals, and special emphasis is given to SciELO. It also presents the objectives and current results of access to HINARI program, which is financed by the World Health Organization to enable free access to Health scientific journals for poor countries, and to the Portal CAPES Periódicos [CAPES Portal of Journals] in Brazil and Argentina, which is financed by the governments of these countries for the Higher Education institutions. In conclusion is emphasized the need to adopt and comply with this Policy by the authors, producers and intermediaries in the field of information, in order to expand open and/or shared access to Health scientific journals in Latin America and the Caribbean.


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Interplanetary 3
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Interplanetary 3 is a two-player platform game. An another exciting chapter is now accessible! Get ready to travel a planet where is covered with ice and lots of dangerous aliens. Get the aliens and collect the precious stones and proceed the space shuttle to go another planets. This chapter, there is another thing that you must do. It is that you need to collect stars and put them in boxes. Then you can pass the next level. Let's begin!
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Federal authorities wiretapped phone lines of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, and intercepted at least one call between a Cohen line and the White House, NBC News reported Thursday.
It is not known when the wiretap on Cohen was authorized, but it was in place in the weeks before the April 9 raid on his New York City home, hotel room and office by FBI agents, according to NBC News. Read more.


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Slam Magazine reported that the Big Baller Brand has scrapped the original ZO2 Prime original design and have redesigned the sneaker. Keep in mind that customers have already payed $495 on the original ZO2 Prime which are expected to hit customers hands this upcoming November 24th. Specs on the sneaker has yet to be released but Lonzo Ball Himself has proclaimed the ZO2 "Remix" version to be the lightest basketball sneaker ever. Keep in mind that the adidas Crazy light 3 weighted in at 9.5 ounces(size 9). Big Baller Brand has said that dissatisfied customers will be able to get their back if desired. What are your thoughts on the Big Baller Brand? Do you approve of some of the head scratching decisions made by Brand? Will you be coppin this sneaker? Shots below via Slam Magazine. Continue reading ZO2 Prime "remixed"
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- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, finely grated
- ½ cup cranberry or navy beans, soaked overnight, drained
- ½ cup dried chickpeas, soaked overnight, drained
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- ½ cup green lentils, rinsed
- 5 ounces baby spinach (about 7 cups), chopped
- 1 cup chopped cilantro leaves with tender stems
- 1 cup chopped parsley
- ½ cup chopped dill
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Kosher salt; freshly ground pepper
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
- 1 large onion, very thinly sliced
- ⅓ cup whole-milk Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup buttermilk
- Kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons dried ground mint
Recipe Preparation
Heat oil in a large pot over medium. Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown and soft, 6–8 minutes. Add garlic, cranberry beans, chickpeas, and turmeric and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add 8 cups cold water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, bring to a simmer, and cook, stirring occasionally, until beans are halfway cooked (they should still be very al dente), 25–35 minutes. Add lentils and cook, stirring occasionally, until beans are creamy but still hold their shape, and lentils are tender, 25–35 minutes (the soup may look a bit thick, but don't fret; the greens will release liquid when they're added, thinning the soup out a bit).
Add spinach, cilantro, parsley, and dill and cook until greens are just wilted and have slightly darkened, 4–6 minutes. Stir in lemon juice; season with salt and pepper.
While soup is simmering, heat 3 Tbsp. oil in a medium skillet over medium-high. Add onion and cook, stirring often, until golden, 6–8 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are slightly charred and crisp, 14–16 minutes; season with salt. Transfer onions to a plate; cover with foil to keep warm.
Meanwhile, mix yogurt and buttermilk in a small bowl; season with salt. (The mixture should have the consistency of heavy cream.)
Wipe out skillet and heat remaining 3 Tbsp. oil over medium. Add mint and cook, stirring often, until mint oil is fragrant and slightly darkened, about 1 minute. Transfer to a small bowl or measuring cup.
Divide soup among bowls and pour yogurt mixture over soup. Drizzle mint oil over soup, then top with fried onions.