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Monday, April 30, 2018

May is Declared Ultraviolet (UV) Awareness Month by Prevent Blindness to Educate Public on Harmful UV Effects on Eyes

Prevent Blindness, the nation's oldest eye health and safety organization, has declared May as Ultraviolet (UV) Awareness Month to help educate the public on the dangers that UV exposure may have on vision. UV damage may cause immediate effects, such as a corneal sunburn (photokeratitis). Long hours on the water, for example, without proper eye protection can cause this problem.

UV damage has been linked to the development of macular degeneration, cataract, pterygium (a growth on the white part of the eye) and cancer. According to the World Health Organization, different forms of eye cancer may be associated with life-long exposure to the sun. Melanoma is the most frequent malignant cancer of the eyeball, and a common location for basal cell carcinoma is on the eyelids.

Adults and children are at risk from UV damag e. however, the risk of sun related eye problems is higher for people who:

When purchasing sunglasses, Prevent Blindness recommends consumers always read labels carefully and only buy sunglasses that clearly state that they block 99 to 100 percent of UV-A and UV-B rays. Sunglasses should be worn in conjunction with a brimmed hat. Wrap-around sunglasses are best.

For those participating in outdoor sports activities, Prevent Blindness recommends consulting with an eye care professional on eye protection that both blocks UV as well as protects eyes from injury.

"Consistently wearing effective UV eye protection is a habit that we should practice year-round, not just in the warm-weather months. By wearing UV-blocking sunglasses and a visor, we can help protect our vision today and for years to come," said Jeff Todd, president and CEO of P revent Blindness.

For more information on the dangers of UV exposure and how to choose the best UV protection, please visit the Prevent Blindness dedicated Web page at http://www.preventblindness.org/protect-your-eyes-sun or call (800) 331-2020.

About Prevent Blindness
Founded in 1908, Prevent Blindness is the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. Focused on promoting a continuum of vision care, Prevent Blindness touches the lives of millions of people each year through public and professional education, advocacy, certified vision screening and training, community and patient service programs and research. These services are made possible through the generous support of the American public. Together with a network of affiliates, Prevent Blindness is committed to eliminating preventable blindness in America. For more information, or to make a contribution to the sight-saving fund, call 1-800-331-2020. Or, visit us on the Web at preventblindness.org or facebook.com/preventblindness.

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$25 Million Backed Colored Diamonds Crypto Launches Blockchain

Argyle Coin launches its main block chain, One of the largest South Florida colored diamond wholesalers, Jose A. Aman in partnership with developers, Ideofuzion have created a token that promises a platform for the trading of Investment grade colored diamonds.

The concept is to develop an asset-backed cryptocurrency and platform built on Ethereum utilizing Smart Contracts. Argyle has developed a system that assures token holders of the veracity of the backing via an insurance performance bond. The platform verified by Veracode®, promises to be the future of diamond trading.

http://www.argylecoin.com

Meet the App that Lets Anyone Launch Marketo Campaigns, At Scale, With Zero Risk

Marketers who want to launch more Marketo campaigns faster finally have a solution to quickly and easily scale marketing operations without any risk or complexity. Jeto, a web form-to-Marketo app created by MarTech consulting firm Perkuto, allows businesses to delegate campaign creation and launch activities to any team member, including non-technical users without prior experience. Perkuto will be presenting demos of the app at Booth 441 at the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco.

INTIMO LINGERIE GROWS DATABASE FROM 0 TO 50,000 CUSTOMERS WITH JETO
At Intimo Lingerie, an Australia-based direct-selling company wi th over 2000 self-employed fitting specialists organizing 1500 monthly in-home sales events and lingerie fittings per month, Jeto has effectively grown the email database from nothing to more than 50,000 customers in mere months.

"Using Jeto, we can let our fitting specialists easily create and deploy large marketing campaigns," said Matt Varone, Intimo's Digital Marketing Manager. "Intuitive and easy to use, an independent fitting specialist can simply enter event information into an external form, which will trigger a series of automated campaigns that our in-house Sales team has generated, intended to build consumer demand before and after a sales event. And Jeto supports hundreds of users, so we could quickly deploy it to all of our fitting specialists without having to worry about a steep learning curve or other issues that typically come along with adopting new technology. They just had to fill out a form."

Intimo's results with Jeto have been stellar. "Even I couldn't have imagined what was going to come out if it," said Varone. "We're ramping up and building scale at the level that is unprecedented and unexpected." Intimo's marketable database has grown from zero customers to 50,000 customers in months and is estimated to be at 80,000 before the end of 2018.

BENEFITS OF JETO
Jeto has a number of benefits for marketing teams interested in leveraging the power of Marketo without the complexity and risk associated with allowing non-technical users to have access. Jeto provides a structure in which to scale marketing operations, allowing more people to run more high-quality, error-free campaigns, without requiring additional support and resources from the marketing ops team. This scalable structure—more people executing more campaigns—ultimately leads to more revenue, another und eniable benefit. And because campaigns can be created and launched faster, and by people at all levels of the organization—including those whose pay rates fall at the lower end of the scale—campaign production fees and associated costs can be reduced, saving money.

With Jeto, anyone can fill out a form and launch a beautiful campaign within minutes, allowing the marketing team to give access in total confidence to field marketers, HR, support or product teams or even partners outside your organization.

"Over the years, many of our clients have told us that Marketo is simply too powerful for them to hand over to beginners, independent reps or even certain teams without worrying about major setbacks occurring, which is a reasonable concern," said Alexandre Pelletier, CEO of Perkuto, makers of Jeto. "We created Jeto to make marketing automation accessible to anyone, to bridge the gap between marketing automation and having enough information and knowledge to put together a campaign without needing to know all of the mechanics behind it."

HOW JETO WORKS
In Jeto, users are able to choose from a pre-set list of available campaigns, including emails, events, webinars and even SMS campaigns. Once a user selects a campaign, they fill out a simple web form with the information necessary to populate their campaign. Jeto then uses the Marketo API to launch the campaign in the business' Marketo instance, all without ever giving the user access to Marketo.

ABOUT JETO
With a simplified user interface and structured validation/approbation workflow, Jeto helps marketing teams scale campaign execution by enabling non-technical people to create and launch marketing campaigns without ever needing to step foot inside their marketing automation software. Visit jeto.io to learn more.

ABOUT PERKUTO
Perkuto helps marketing leaders who feel frus trated with not having a bigger impact on revenue. As a Marketo Platinum Partner, our team of experienced consultants create impactful strategies, optimize marketing operations, simplify MarTech and execute on day-to-day campaigns. We assist marketing leaders in exceeding their goals and rising to the top. Visit perkuto.com to learn more.

Perkuto and the Perkuto and the Jeto logo are trademarks of Perkuto. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Serving One’s Country While Being in the Closet

Author Lee Klein's longtime service in the US Navy took him from World War II as an enlisted man through the Korean and Vietnam eras as a commissioned officer. In "Two Journeys to One Wondrous Life," he shares his story of being a closeted gay man in the military and his life moving forward.

In the aftermath of repealing "Don't ask, don't tell," the book offers a fascinating look into the past and what it was like for a gay man to serve in the military.

"The book is the sharing of blocks of time in my life revealing how I had to live two separate lifestyles, so I could keep my security clearance and keep my gay life in the closet for most of my adult life," said Klein. "I also hope to influence young gay men and women by letting them know that it gets better."

"Two Journeys to One Wondrous Life" shares the personal narrative of a gay man who is a veteran of a decades-long military career, recalling his experiences of a life wel l lived.

"Two Journeys to One Wondrous Life"
By Lee Klein
ISBN: 9781532037412 (softcover); 9781532037429 (eBook)
Available at the iUniverse Online Bookstore, Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the author
The seventh of eight children, Lee Klein was born in 1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska. During his military career, he served in naval bases from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to the North and Baltic Seas, and he worked as a carrier pilot during the Cold War. Klein also worked in the restaurant business, opening his first restaurant in 1972, in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California. His life has been an incredible, wonder-filled, surprisingly serendipitous, happy life of two journeys. To learn more, please visit http://www.leekleinauthor.com.

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Japan’s Second Largest Mobile Carrier KDDI Migrates Over 5k GoToMyPC Customers to Splashtop Business

The KDDI Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan), Japan's second largest mobile carrier, recently selected Splashtop to be their new remote access provider and migrated over 5,000 GoToMyPC customers to Splashtop. The KDDI Corporation recently announced to their customers that they would cease offering GoToMyPC after three years and instead began offering Splashtop Business.

KDDI, with a customer base of more than 50 million subscribers, offers mobile cellular services and ISP network and solution services to their worldwide customer base. In 2013 KDDI began offering GoToMyPC to their customers to give them a way to remotely access computers without needing to build a server, purchase hardware, or change network policy. However, after getting customer feedback and additional product assessment, KDDI selected Splashtop Business to replace GoToMyPC in early 2017.

Splashtop Business is a best-in-class remote access solution that is known for being an industry leader in reliability, speed, and security. By offering Splashtop Business, KDDI has given their customers the ability to access their work computers from any other device, from anywhere in the world, in real-time with fast connections and high definition quality and sound. Splashtop is also known for a reliable global infrastructure that is easily scalable, which is why mobile carriers prefer Splashtop when looking for a remote access solution for their customers.

The inclusion of Splashtop Business in KDDI's product offerings has ensured KDDI can deliver reliable remote access to their customers. KDDI has migrated their former GoToMyPC customers to Splashtop and will continue to offer Splashtop Business to new c ustomers in the future.

About Splashtop
Splashtop Inc. delivers the best-in-class cross-screen productivity, support, and collaboration experience. Splashtop remote desktop services enable people to access their apps and data from any device, anywhere. Splashtop remote support services enable IT and MSP to support computers, mobile, industrial equipment, and Internet of things (IoT). Splashtop collaboration services, including Mirroring360 and Classroom, enable effective screen sharing 1-to-many across devices. More than 25 million users enjoy Splashtop products today, and manufacturing partners including Acer, ASUS, Dell, Epson, HP, InFocus, Intel, Lenovo, LG, Panasonic, Promethean, Sharp, Toshiba, and others have bundled Splashtop on more than 100 million devices. Learn more at https://www.splashtop.com.

High Rate of Diagnostic Error Prompts Research Funding

Failure to promptly and accurately diagnose a patient's condition is a significant problem. Experts agree that the number of missed, wrong, and delayed diagnoses is significantly higher than what the claims data shows. The recently published Coverys'Dose of Insight report names diagnosis-related events the single largest root cause of medical professional liability claims.

Coverys, through the Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation, Inc. ("Foundation"), is taking steps to address this challenge. With its recently released Request for Proposals: Improving Diagnostic Accuracy, the Foundation is reaching out to healthcare stakeholders offering to support focused research and projects that demonstrate the role and effectiveness that new approaches, new models and innovative thinking can have on consistently making accurate, prompt and complete diagnoses.

"When opportunities are identified that can lead to better patient outcomes, it is a call to action," said Donna M. Norris, MD., Coverys board member and chair of the Coverys Charitable Giving Committee. "That is why the Foundation has set aside funding to support research and projects to improve the diagnostic journey."

"Coverys has a wealth of data that we have utilized to outline the challenge. Through the Request for Proposals, the Foundation hopes to inspire research projects that will demonstrate new approaches that have the greatest potential to produce replicable processes for achieving prompt and accurate diagnoses," said Robert Hanscom, Coverys Vice President of Business Analytics.

Preferred proposals include the application of research, process changes, and education directly transferable to the clinical setting. Grant-funded initiatives are open to any clinical discipline.

Total funding of up to $3 million for this initiative is available through the Foundation with each approved submission capped at $300,000. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2018. Grants will be announced by November 1, 2018.

To review the Request for Proposals, visit http://www.coverys.com.

About Coverys
Coverys is a leading provider of medical professional liability ins urance for medical practitioners and health systems. Coverys provides a full range of healthcare liability insurance options, advanced risk analytics, and best-in-class risk mitigation and education resources to help clients anticipate, identify, and manage risk to reduce errors and improve outcomes.

About Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation, Inc.
The Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation, Inc. provides grant funding and donations to organizations and innovative programs that improve patient care and safety, promote healthy lifestyles, support individuals and organizations providing healthcare services, and those in which Coverys employees and board members are involved. The development of the Foundation exemplifies Coverys' dedication to being an affirmative and active corporate citizen in the healthcare community and the communities in which it operates.

First-of-Kind App Simpatico It’s A Small World Launches Android Version Providing In-Person Connections Within 10-Mile Radius Based on Shared Experiences

Android users can now enjoy getting to know more people in-person who are located around them within a 10-mile radius and share their common interests and experiences. Simpatico Small World LLC announced today the launch of the Android version of its first-of-kind mobile app Simpatico It's A Small World. The app is designed to be a powerful supplement to existing social media sites. Simpatico allows people to increase their frequency of in-person connections, at no charge, with those nearby sharing similar interests and life experiences. This makes it easy for users to identify an individual near them with whom they share a common bond and the app is meant to bring to mind the refrain "It's a Small World."

Originally designed as an iOS app, through crowd sourcing the easy-to-use app now provides Android users with the ability to populate certain attributes and individual interests within their profile. Simpatico will then show other users, within the same 10-mile radius, which have commonalities such as a hometown, school, organizations, sports, hobbies, events, weddings, historic events or even survivors of tragedies. Simpatico lets its users move beyond the keyboard and create meaningful, in-person relationships with others with whom they share a common bond. It fills a social void by connecting people who may have crossed paths for weeks, months and even years – without ever knowing it.

Simpatico It's A Small World's user experience is streamlined and easy. Users create a profile and include their attri butes, interests and experiences. Connections are by invitation only via notification when users share one or more of the same interests and are located within a 10-mile radius. Once connected, users can communicate with each other through the texting feature. Texting within the app is done without revealing a user's phone number. For added security, Simpatico does not capture or pinpoint where app users are on a map, but rather it provides a distance range between 0 up to 10 miles.

Simpatico will continue to evolve to provide users with the best experience possible. This includes introductions of new categories, based on users' requests, which will allow people to connect more easily. The new categories will be in the areas of Mentoring, Travel, Fitness and Philanthropy. Users will receive update notifications when new categories are added, so be sure to download Simpatico today.

Visit http://simpatico-online.com/ for more information or to download Simpatico It's A Small World for Android go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=simpatico.com

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