Training In Medical Aesthetics Treatments

by Lucy Cho

People who desire to start a career in medical aesthetics (may also be spelled esthetics) should consider the possible downsides and benefits of such a career. Applying at an aesthetics school can be a smart way to begin or to help further a beauty career. But, this is not the best career path for everyone. Some states demand a medical degree before students may even begin learning about certain medical aesthetics treatments. You should first learn about your local education regulations to determine if you need prerequisites like a medical certificate or degree. Then, if you've determined that this path is right for you, you should consider the various treatments below (and others) that you might learn.

To start, we'll consider cosmetic injections that medical aesthetics students can learn all about. Next, we will examine esthetic laser education and how it might be a helpful part of a vocation in esthetics. At last, we will address how medical esthetician students often want to learn about chemical peel treatments.

Training at an aesthetics school may include studying injection treatments that utilize drugs and dermal fillers such as Botox. Dermal fillers may be used in solutions to eradicate wrinkles and fine lines. Dermal filler products and services like Radiesse and Juvederm can be complex to use and can result in serious medical problems if used improperly. Hence, many medical esthetician training programs require medical degrees before aesthetic treatments can be practiced. Botox and other drugs have both medical and esthetic uses that might be part of the training, too.

Cosmetic laser treatments are often part of what many medical estheticians want to offer to their clientele. People who undergo cosmetic laser education may come to comprehend how to offer an extensive selection of cosmetic laser treatments. They may figure out how to master procedures including laser skin resurfacing, laser skin tightening, and laser hair removal. These are a number of the treatments that these students may find out about for their patients or clients.

Yet another type of solutions that students could find out about in a medical aesthetics course at a beauty school is chemical peels. Chemical peels can be an alternative to laser facial treatments. They're usually more affordable. This can be a rather quick way to remove freckles, small scars, fine lines, age spots, and dead skin cells. This treatment is usually done on the face, but can be performed on the neck or chest, also. These solutions differ in intensity, and might even require a doctor at the highest intensity.

Medical aesthetics can be quite a costly and complicated career path, but there have been many aesthetics school graduates that have had rewarding careers through being able to perform a wide range of cosmetic treatments.



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Flight Car Fast Tracks Collaborative Travel by Car Sharing

A rising star called FlightCar is going up against Avis, Enterprise and Hertz in the $11 billion airport car rental industry. Since February, it’s been offering car-share rentals at 50%-70% off conventional rental prices and giving car owners ecological and financial incentives to share.
The collaborative travel and car sharing trends the service represents could be good news for travelers.
Backed by the founder of Airbnb and Ryan Seacrest, FlightCar is the first full-service, peer-to-peer car sharing company to focus on travelers. All travelers have to do is make reservations to either park (“list”) or rent a car with a few clicks online at FlightCar.com , and just show up.
It works especially well  for peak travel times, red-eyes, odd-hour and very late flights, FlightCar is open 24/7 and located just minutes from the airport in San Francisco and Boston. They’ve added complimentary VIP touches, like premium town car service pickup and drop-off at the terminal, express checkout via iPad in minutes, no up-selling and free GPS and car seats for renters.
Car owners taking off,  leave their cars with FlightCar,  get free secure parking, town car service right to their terminals, and help with bags.  Savings could amount to $18 to $40 a day in airport parking and time saved. Meanwhile, FlightCar tries to rent out the traveler's car.
Upon return, there's a pick up and the car is waiting up front , freshly washed and vacuumed. If the car was rented while you were away, there's a check waiting. Could be  $10-$20 for each day the car was rented, with luxury car brands and newer cars earning the higher amount.
TIP:  Car owners or renters, must make sure to include flight number in their online reservation or call when  landing at the airport, so FlightCar can have a driver waiting outside, curbside.
Ultimately, FlightCar could save travelers time and money, putting a premium back on service in the travel industry.
“This is a baby step into sharing for a lot of people,” says CEO Rujul Zaparde . “Even if you’re hesitant to share your car because it seems like a hassle, you can start by renting someone else’s car and see how it’s either no different and actually better than convention car rental. Then you might park and share your own car on your next trip.”
The company is rolling out a new  new program FlightCar Monthly , which works when travelers are not traveling,  or are away for extended periods.
A  new video explains the service .

What are customers and users saying? Check out the reviews,  news (and promotions) on Twitter and  Facebook , and Yelp

Why Microsoft .Net failed

Microsoft tried, but it couldn't win the hearts and minds of developers who weren't already indoctrinated -- and it alienated others along the way

Recently, I've been airing Java's dirty laundry. Some folks took my position that Java was trailing .Net technically to mean that I thought .Net was winning. Nothing of the kind -- in a number of important ways, .Net is a failure.
Think back a decade or so ago. As you may recall, .Net was supposed to be much more than just the next version of Windows DNA or COM+ or COM. It was supposed to destroy Java, extend the Windows platform, and secure the Microsoft monopoly for another decade or two.
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Microsoft did many things right. It hired the smartest experts on language design, compilers, and virtual machines. But it also did some things terribly wrong.
Let's start with marketing. Microsoft overextended the .Net brand and stamped it on everything. At one point Windows Server was going to have .Net emblazoned on it, which led many people to wonder what the heck .Net was supposed to mean anyway.
At first, Microsoft made .Net an optional download. People were as excited to download the fat .Net VM full of delicious, possibly conflicting DLLs as they were to download a gigantic Java virtual machine.
Embrace, extend, flop
Like many Microsoft "innovations," .Net was a copy (embrace) and improvement (extend) of someone else's technology -- in this case, Java. Microsoft sought to extinguish Java by being a better Java; in a number of ways, it succeeded. C# cleaned up some Java mistakes, such as checked exceptions, the need to create an accessor, and mutator methods. The .Net VM had a cleaner bytecode setup.
Plus, .Net solved Microsoft's problems. At the time, Microsoft developers were dealing with more than one flavor of Windows and multiple versions, but .Net gave them a common way to code and less to worry about.
Unfortunately, .Net also cannibalized Microsoft's most successful corporate IT development environment, Visual Basic. Look at Indeed's Job Trends, Tiobe, and so on, and you'll notice that .Net's rise is all about Visual Basic's decline. There isn't a lot of correlation between .Net trends and Java's bumps and bends.
Visual Basic .Net didn't have much to recommend it. There wasn't enough documentation, so you had to learn C# anyhow. The API was the same between them, so why not just stick with C#? The corollary was that once you figured out C#, you also knew Java.
Sure, .Net stopped the bleeding for folks looking to develop Internet applications on Windows (away from tools that Microsoft controlled), but it didn't do what it was supposed to.
Instead of .Net propping up Windows, the greater Windows ecosystem propped up .Net. People coded to .Net because they were coding for SharePoint or BizTalk. If you delve deep into .Net jobs, you'll notice they tend to be legacy or related to SharePoint and friends.
Off to legacy land
Now it's too late for .Net. As we move from IaaS to PaaS and SaaS, folks are simply unlikely to care about operating systems. If you don't care about operating systems, why not code as if you don't care about operating systems and code for the cloud? We've seen recently that Azure isn't lighting the world on fire. Why would we expect that to change?
Even if you believe that most companies will continue to build their own data centers to care and feed, while ignoring the cloud, the desktop monopoly is also dying. Consumers are net information consumers. If you don't work in tech, publishing, or entertainment, then you probably take in more media than you produce. With the iPad, Android, and such, writing .Net isn't a viable business option. Miguel de Icaza can create all the companies that begin with "x" that he likes, but people will continue to care less about Mono or be scared off by its patent ambiguity.
As users move from the desktop to the tablet and set top to view their pornography, cat pictures, and Netflix movies, the economics that caused folks to "target" Windows are abating. This results in a downward spiral for 'Softies hoping that writing to .Net is enough.
I could theorize about how Microsoft could extend .Net -- but why should it? .Net was about extending Windows. In a cloudy BYOD, tablet-oriented, Internet-standards-driven world, there may no longer be room for Microsoft, let alone .Net. The .Net initiative failed, and if you were part of it, I hope you hedged your bets by learning a few other tricks along the way.
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IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers l

Following an Oracle practice, IBM starts to restrict hardware patches to holders of maintenance contracts

 

Following through on a policy change announced in 2012, IBM has started restricting availability of hardware patches to paying customers, spurring at least one advocacy group to accuse the company of anticompetitive practices.
IBM "is getting to the spot where the customer has no choice but to buy an IBM maintenance agreement, or lose access to patches and changes," said Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of the DRTR (Digital Right to Repair), a coalition for championing the rights of digital equipment owners.
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Such a practice could dampen the market for support service of IBM equipment from non-IBM contractors, and could diminish the resale value of IBM equipment, DRTR charged.
On Aug. 11, IBM began requiring visitors of the IBM Fix Central website to provide a serial number in order to download a patch or update. According to DRTR, IBM uses the serial number to check to see if the machine being repaired was under a current IBM maintenance contract, or under an IBM hardware warranty.
"IBM will take the serial number, validate it against its maintenance contract database, and allow [user ] to proceed or not," Gordon-Byrne explained.
Traditionally, IBM has freely provided machine code patches and updates as a matter of quality control, Gordon-Byrne said. The company left it to the owner to decide how to maintain the equipment, either through the help of IBM, a third-party service-provider, or by itself.
This benevolent practice is starting to change, according to DRTR.
In April 2012, IBM started requiring customers to sign a license in order to access machine code updates. Then, in October of that year, the company announced that machine code updates would only be available for those customers with IBM equipment that was either under warranty or covered by an IBM maintenance agreement.
"Fix Central downloads are available only for IBM clients with hardware or software under warranty, maintenance contracts, or subscription and support," stated the Fix Central site documentation.
Nor would IBM offer the fixes on a time-and-material contract, in which customers can go through a special bid process to buy annual access to machine code.
The company didn't immediately start enforcing this entitlement comparison policy however -- until earlier this month. "Until August, it didn't appear that IBM had the capability," Gordon-Byrne said. "We were wondering when they were going to do that step."
The policy seems to apply to all IBM mainframes, servers and storage systems, with IBM X system servers being one known exception. Customer complaints forced IBM to halt the practice for X servers, according to Gordon-Byrne.
This practice is problematic to IBM customers for a number of reasons, DRTR asserted.
Such a practice limits the resale of hardware, because any prospective owner of used equipment would have to purchase a support contract from IBM if it wanted its newly acquired machine updated.
And this could be expensive. IBM also announced last year it would start charging a "re-establishment fee" for equipment owners wishing to sign a new maintenance contract for equipment with lapsed IBM support coverage. The fee could be as high as 150 percent of the yearly maintenance fee itself, according to DRTR.
IBM could also use the maintenance contracts as a way to generate more sales
f IBM decides it wants to jack the maintenance price in order to make a new machine sale, they can do it because there is no competition," Gordon-Byrne said.
IBM is not the first major hardware firm to use this tactic to generate more after-market sales, according to Gordon-Byrne. Oracle adopted a similar practice for its servers after it acquired Sun Microsystems, and its considerable line of hardware, in 2010.
The Service Industry Association -- which focuses on helping the computer, medical and business products service industries-- created DRTR in January 2013 to fight against encroaching after-market control of hardware manufacturers. The SIA itself protested Oracle's move away from free patches as well.
DRTR is actively tracking a number of similar cases involving after-market control of hardware, such as an Avaya antitrust trial due to start Sept. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
IBM declined to comment for this story.
Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @Joab_Jackson. Joab's e-mail address is Joab_Jackson@idg.com

 

Sources: Syria strike due in days, West tells opposition

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Shelling Syria: Western forces have told Syrian opposition to expect a strike against Assad regime in days. (File photo: Reuters)

Reuters, Amman

Western powers told the Syrian opposition to expect a strike against President Bashar al-Assad's forces within days, according to sources who attended a meeting between envoys and the Syrian National Coalition in Istanbul.

“The opposition was told in clear terms that action to deter further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime could come as early as in the next few days, and that they should still prepare for peace talks at Geneva,” one of the sources who was at the meeting on Monday told Reuters.

The meeting at a hotel in downtown Istanbul was between senior figures of the Syrian National Coalition, including its president Ahmad Jarba, and envoys from 11 core “Friends of Syria” alliance members, that included U.S. envoy Robert Ford, the top U.S. official handling the Syria file, the sources said.

Facing Russian and Chinese disapproval that could dampen prospects for proposed peace talks in Geneva, Assad's foes have vowed to punish a poison gas attack in some rebel-held districts of Damascus on Aug. 21 that killed hundreds.

U.N. experts trying to establish what exactly happened in the attack were finally able to cross the front line on Monday to see survivors - despite being shot at in government-held territory. But they put off a second visit until Wednesday.