Rash

A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture.

A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, chapped, dry, cracked or blistered, swell, and may be painful.

The causes, and therefore treatments for rashes, vary widely. Diagnosis must take into account such things as the appearance of the rash, other symptoms, what the patient may have been exposed to, occupation, and occurrence in family members. Rash can last 5 to 20 days, the diagnosis may confirm any number of conditions.

The presence of a rash may aid diagnosis; associated signs and symptoms are diagnostic of certain diseases. For example, the rash in measles is an erythematous, morbilliform, maculopapular rash that begins a few days after the fever starts. It classically starts at the head, and spreads downwards.

Differential diagnosis

Common causes of rashes include:

Tsukasa Hojo

Tsukasa Hojo (北条 司, Hōjō Tsukasa, born on March 5, 1959, in Kokura, Kitakyushu, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He studied technical design while still at Kyushu Sangyo University, where he began to draw manga. He worked on several one-shot stories before releasing his serialized works: Cat's Eye, City Hunter and Angel Heart.

After the success of Cat's Eye and City Hunter, Hojo went on to work on other series such as Family Compo. His current ongoing series is Angel Heart, a spinoff of City Hunter set in an alternate universe. It has been serialized in the Weekly Comic Bunch since 2001 and 30 collected volumes has been published so far.

Tsukasa Hojo is Takehiko Inoue's mentor. Inoue worked as an assistant to Hojo during the production of City Hunter. Hojo is also a long-time acquaintance of Fist of the North Star illustrator Tetsuo Hara, who was also one of the founders of Coamix. Hojo contributed to the production Fist of the North Star: The Legends of the True Savior film series by designing the character of Reina.

Rash (film)

Rash, written RASH, is a 2005 Australian documentary film, directed by Nicholas Hansen. Its subject is contemporary urban Australia and the artists who are making it a host for illegal street art. With the tagline 'Scratch it and it spreads', Rash explores the cultural value of unsanctioned public art and the ways that street art and graffiti contribute to public dialogue.

Directed by Nicholas Hansen and Mutiny Media, Rash was three years in the making and includes interviews with many of Melbourne’s inspired street art and graffiti artists as well as visitors who came to Melbourne and leave their mark. Rash is the first feature-length documentary in Australia to focus on the new art form of street art.

Filming began in 2002 on this documentary, which conveys the commitment, ideals and beliefs demonstrated in Melbourne street art. Artists use a variety of approaches including bill posters, stencils, and performance art put the artwork right in the public eye.

The film was made in the lead up to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Before the games local councils were juggling the need to present a clean and safe city for visitors against the enthusiastic activities of street and graffiti artists. A similar response was later observed in the lead up to the London 2012 Summer Olympics

List of Battletoads characters

The Battletoads video game franchise, developed by Rare and published by Tradewest and Electronic Arts, deals with the Battletoads (Pimple, Rash and Zitz), as they fight the evil Dark Queen and her henchmen.

Battletoads

Villains

Dark Queen

Silas Volkmire

Silas Volkmire is a major villain in the Battletoads series, although he has only ever appeared in only one game. According to the Nintendo Power comic story, Silas was the chief programmer at Psicone who was jealous over the Battletoads and their human "players", Dave, Morgan, and George, whereas he was stuck working behind the scenes. One of the levels in the original Battletoads game, "Volkmire's Inferno", is supposedly named after Silas.

Late one night, while adjusting a few lines of code, Silas was contacted by the Dark Queen, who revealed that the so-called "game world" that Psicone created was actually her own universe, which she had ruled mercilessly until the Battletoads were created and began to oppose her. Under her suggestion, Silas sabotaged the virtual reality game generator, which led to Dave, Morgan, and George getting zapped into the Battletoads and trapped in the Dark Queen's world. Though it would have appeared that Silas did it to gain favor with the Queen, it is not revealed exactly how.

Rash (disambiguation)

A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture.

Rash may also refer to:

See also

Rash (novel)

Rash is a 2006 novel written by Pete Hautman. It is set in the year 2074, in a futuristic United States, now called the United Safer States of America, that has become obsessed with safety and security. Nearly every potentially unsafe action has been criminalized, to the point that 24% of the population is incarceraed. Ironically, this large criminal population also provides the manpower that fuels the large corporations that now dominate the country.

Kirkus Reviews calls the book "a winner", saying that it is "bitingly funny and unexpectedly heartwarming". "In a starred review, PW called this dystopian fantasy of a futuristic nation wracked by litigiousness and terrorism "intelligent and darkly comic."

Other notes

Hautman's intent in writing Rash was to consider the consequences of the current trend toward increased safety and security that we see in the United States today. He says that the book could perhaps be called "2084", due to themes similar to those present in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.