text: Not sure why but I've had 2 clear bells ring and do the animations that a Ho-oh is going to appear then it just stops and nothing spawns. I will need a spawn or just a replacement Clear bell since I'm not sure it will ring again because it is bugged. Thank You!


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**Special Saturday Edition**
Before seeing its trailer, we were quite excited about Coco Avant Chanel, Anne Fontaine's biopic of the legendary French designer. But the sight of Audrey Tautou playing Coco kind of bummed us out a little. Tautou is as marvelous a French actress as any, but replacing CC's image with a fake just isn't right, even if it is only for a 120 minutes.
Much much more excitement-worthy is Mademoiselle–Coco Chanel/ Summer 62 (Steidl), a new book featuring images of the icon at work that is out this August. We were fortunate enough to get advance pages of the book last week and have already made classic Coco screensavers with most of the book's 100-plus images.
Back in 1962, photographer Douglas Kirkland was sent on assignment by Look magazine to photograph the designer in Paris and managed to capture every facet of her badassness in a disarming, intimate and spontaneous way. Karl Lagerfeld's touching foreword fits these images into the larger context of Chanel's life: Kirkland shot these photographs almost a decade before her death, but as Lagerfeld tells it, they almost mark the designer's last golden summer as the reigning queen of fashion. Swinging '60s micro minis were on their way in, and Chanel's suited brand of French chic would have to take a backseat, at least for a while. Chanel was almost 80 years old when these pictures were taken, but with all the charming smiles, moody Gauloise-smoking moments and monochrome executive realness, she remains forever vital and young.

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For Wine Enthusiast's 100 best Wine Restaurants issue, we asked our readers to share their favorite dining destinations to win foodie fame and a set of Triumph stemware Wine glasses, Wine enthusiast's exclusive new line of break-resistant glassware. And the entries poured in! While we were inundated with notes from passionate wine lovers nationwide, Peggy Terry and John Terry of benicia, cA, won the prize, waxing poetic on las vegas's smith & Wollensky (smithandwollensky.com).
"Not only are they one of the best steak houses," wrote the Terrys, "but their wine list includes the priciest to the most humble of wines. The Terry's were surprised to learn that their favorite small, napa valley wines were on offer—a rarity even in restaurants closer to their home (near napa). And to please diners who like to byo, the corkage fees at smith & Wollensky are waived if the bottles are not already on the wine list.
"For us, that's huge," the Terrys wrote. "It makes it a very friendly place to try new wines."


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Scientists cite as a major driver of climate change the large amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere that's created by the burning of fossil fuels. They spend day after day trying to figure out a way to generate power for the world's populations, but at the same time leave a smaller carbon footprint.
Now, researchers at the University of Georgia say they've hit upon a way to take the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and turn it into useable industrial products. The impact of such a discovery is potentially huge.
The goal is to remove the CO2 directly from the air and turn it into biofuel -- not only helping power the world, but hopefully taking down global temperatures at the same time.
The researchers essentially have created a microorganism that acts like a plant that removes the carbon dioxide from the air and turns it into something we can use. During photosynthesis, plants utilize sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide from the air to create their food source. This would behave in a similar fashion.
"What this discovery means is that we can remove plants as the middleman," Michael Adams, a member of the University's Bioenergy Systems Research Institute, and co-author of the stud, said in a statement. "We can take carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere and turn it into useful products like fuels and chemicals without having to go through the inefficient process of growing plants and extracting sugars from biomass."
The scientists are able to use a microorganism called a "rushing fireball," or "Pyrococcus furious." The fireball typically feeds on carbohydrates in the super-heated ocean waters near geothermal vents, but researchers were able to create a version of the organism that feeds off of carbon dioxide at a much lower temperature.
They then were able to create a 3-hydroxypropionic acid by using hydrogen gas to create a chemical reaction with the fireball. Researchers believe that this reaction will set the stage for more useful industrial products, including fuel to be produced from carbon dioxide.
"This is an important first step that has great promise as an efficient and cost-effective method of producing fuels," Adams said in the statement. "In the future we will refine the process and begin testing it on larger scales."
This story originally appeared on CBSNews.com.


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From a technology standpoint, the various flavours of next generation networks connecting the home have pretty clear distinctions: FTTH, FTTB, FTTC, etc. may sound barbaric to the layman but they have exact definitions. From a marketing standpoint though, it no longer holds true. Everyone, in virtually every market, has been labeling and selling all of the above (and more) as "fiber".
The French government last week made official a position destined to clarify these things for consumers. As regards to FTTx, it essentially changes two things:
- whenever download speed is mentioned in an advert, upload speed will have to be mentioned as well;
- if the network doesn't actually connect the home with fiber, this will have to be specified in adverts.
SFR/Numéricable is going ballistic over this decision. The company passes millions of homes in multi-dwelling units with a hybric fiber coaxial network. Their last amplifier is in the building basement, so they have been (successfully so far) arguing for years that it was technically identical to FTTB and therefore fiber.
The company's spokespeople (including its new CEO) have come out in force saying that:
- the new position is commercially impractical,
- that their service is just as good as any other variant of fiber based networking,
- that this debate exists only in France.
That last one is easy to debunk: I've seen this debate happen everywhere in Europe, with advertising authorities, competition authorities and their ilk involved in Britain, Netherlands, Turkey and many other places. It is by no means a consideration unique to France.
The real question of course is "does it matter ?" I've heard it argued many a time that customers didn't care what technology they were connected to, as long as the service was good and what they wanted. I think that's the kind of arrogant position from marketers who despise their customers. Also, it's largely untrue, at least in mature markets. Customers care about what they're getting but also how they're getting it. And even if customers didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it, if you're going to use a technology to sell your product, it should be accurate. That's how customers educate themselves. There's a reason we don't have "meat" on food labels instead of "beef" or "pork". There's also a reason why horsemeat Lasagna were a big scandal in Europe: it's not that they were improper for consumption, it's that when you buy beef, you should get beef.
I think cable and FTTC providers have had it way too easy on this particular count in the past, mostly because advertising and competition authorities weren't savvy enough to understand the differences between the different networking solutions. It's time for the marketers to clarify and sell what they advertise.
Of course, it's also factually untrue to argue that it makes no difference: a point to multipoint fiber to the home technology is today capable of delivering much more upload (and download, but maybe not for too long with Docsis 3.1 coming in). The fact that the limits may not be commercially available today is irrelevant. There is a difference in that signing up today with an FTTH solution is a guarantee that you'll get the highest possible technological vector for years to come. It's also a guarantee in some markets that you can switch providers over the same fiber. That is certainly the case in France (at least on paper).
Finally, coming back to France, as Orange is rumored to be looking into G.Fast for last meters connections to accelerate deployment, it will be subject to the same ruling. This may be in part about competitors whining that they are deploying the more expensive network without being able to advertise the difference, but it's also, and primarily about clarity for consumers. After all, if the name "fiber" didn't make a difference, cable operators wouldn't be using it.


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Florida Yacht Brokers Association has a new name
The Florida Yacht Brokers Association, the group that co-owns Yachts Miami Beach, rebranded itself as the International Yacht Brokers Association to reflect its global membership.
"When we mapped out the FYBA membership, it reinforced what we already knew — that FYBA is truly an international organization with members operating in popular yachting areas, not just in Florida but around the globe," FYBA executive director Cindy Sailor said in a statement. "Our new name, 'International Yacht Brokers Association', better reflects who we are — the largest and most prestigious group of professional yacht and charter brokers in the world."
Founded nearly 30 years ago, the International Yacht Brokers Association said it has more than 1,350 individual members representing more than 400 businesses.
The group said its members are responsible for 20 percent of all international yacht sales, as well as 50 percent of all U.S. domestic yacht sales and 80 percent of all yacht sales transactions in the state of Florida.
The IYBA said its ongoing mission is to raise the standard of professionalism among its members, as well as within the international yacht and charter brokerage industries. The IYBA Public Affairs Committee, with the support of the membership, also continues to influence U.S. and Florida legislation for the benefit of the yachting industry as a whole.
"As we go into the 2016 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, an event that also started out as Florida-specific and grew into the world's largest in-water boat show, our new brand positioning will help IYBA members to command the respect from our domestic and international colleagues that they deserve," Sailor said.


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If you've spent any time living in La La Land, you've surely been dragged to at least one insufferably earnest one-woman show of the kind that all but crushes Emma Stone's character, wide-eyed wannabe Mia Dolan, in "La La Land." It's one of the gifts of Damien Chazelle's musical bauble that he spares us the actual content of Mia's non-equity theater debacle. And it's the genius of L.A. improv comic Jimmy Fowlie that he's gone out of his way to imagine what "So Long Boulder City" might have been, treating the opportunity to gently poke fun at the divisive best picture nominee (the movie, not the actress, who comes away unscathed).
In "La La Land," Mia rents a theater — barely larger than the Lex, where Fowlie's show is playing — and pours her heart out on stage, but hardly anyone comes, not even her suddenly-successful boyfriend Sebastian (Ryan Gosling). It's the final straw, after which the would-be actress packs her Prius and heads back to Boulder City. (In a nice touch, one of the chairs in the 64-seat house is reserved for Sebastian, who never shows.)
So, just how bad was the play that forced Mia to quit not only her dreams, but her day job as well? To answer that question, Fowlie, a veteran of the Groundlings comedy troupe, watched "La La Land" ad nauseam, scouring the film for clues both to Mia's backstory and the kind of show she might have written, presenting a spot-on parody of L.A. solipsism that runs a tight 60 minutes, skipping over the assumed "90 minutes of questions about our relationship" her audience had to endure.
More than likely, in the movie, "Goodbye Boulder City" was a thinly veiled autobiography about a small-town girl named Genevieve (the character identified in her script) who escapes Nevada to travel the world, but Fowlie is wise to treat the show as even more narcissistic than that. If Mia were played by anyone other than Stone, she'd be just another dime-a-dozen actress whose lack of self-awareness wouldn't be nearly as endearing. Of course, in this particular production, she is played by someone else, and those shortcomings become the joke.
Walking out straight-backed and stiff-shouldered — as Stone herself did — in a white blouse and black pencil skirt, Fowlie's Mia is a cute, kinda oblivious college drop-out from Boise State who splits an $8,200/month Hancock Park apartment with three white girls (technically, one was played by Japanese-born Sonoya Mizuno in the movie) and works as a barista on the Warner Bros. lot. She parks wherever she pleases and chases after unavailable guys, winning them over with her adorable dance moves.
That's the fun-lovin' gal her friends know and love, but the play is her chance to be vulnerable, as Mia recounts her relatively privileged childhood, alludes to problems with drugs and bulimia ("that's a story for another one-woman show"), and describes the humiliation of being passed over for the college musical ("I wasn't even in the ensemble, which is the place they put the untalented people with good bodies").
Surely one of Fowlie's fellow Groundlings does a better Emma Stone impersonation, but that isn't really what he's going for here, offering more of a meta-commentary on a self-involved L.A. actress looking to be discovered. There's a certain poignancy in the fact that the stunt could bring Fowlie (who's previously best known for his "Go-Go Boy Interrupted" web series) the kind of attention that Mia so desperately craved. It takes a certain fearlessness to go out and embarrass oneself in front of a crowd, and Fowlie milks the awkwardness, especially in the show's climactic moment, when Mia calls Sebastian on stage, and then proceeds to perform one half of a choreographed two-person dance routine by herself, trying to hold back the tears to the impossibly upbeat sound of "Electric Boogie."
It's the closest thing to a musical number you'll find in "So Long Boulder City," which samples bits of the "La La Land" score but otherwise privileges jokes above lyrics — as when Mia announces, "I'd love to share the story with you in a song … but I won't because I hate singing" (just one of many Amy Schumer-style lines, in which a dramatic pause delays an irreverent twist). It's all in the delivery, and Fowlie's comic timing is impeccable, not just with dialogue, but also in two outrageously long costume changes and a sequence in which he takes forever to rearrange the set.
Props glimpsed on stage in the film lend another level of absurdity, as Fowlie invents uses for such strange objects as a top hat, lampshade and globe. He even concocts an elaborate bit to justify the guy Mia overhears backstage asking, "And that whole window thing? What was that?" (though the heckler was probably talking about the Eiffel Tower backdrop). If the goal here is to make real the humiliation merely alluded to in the film, Fowlie and co-writer/director Jordan Black have done so without diminishing Mia's sense of heartbreak — which just goes to show that amid the absurdity, they've actually made us care about the character.


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When one considers the full effects of the Nazis' Final Solution, it is easy to assume a uniformly efficient and orderly method to their ideologically driven madness. Yet, in Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men, we instead see a side of the Holocaust marked by fits of doubt, tears, vomit, and drunken stupor. That this perspective lacks the utterly depersonalized and mechanized nature of murder seen elsewhere in Nazi bureaucracy is not to suggest its outcome was any different, only that the perpetrator was often not afforded any distance between his actions and their consequences. Accordingly, Browning's book, which focuses on the Reserve Police Battalion 101, offers a thorough examination of the dynamics of genocide on an individual, actively participatory level. Further, it seeks to explore how ordinary men not only assented to participation in such travesties but could transform so radically into murderers capable of killing innocent men, women and children alike.
To do so, Browning undertakes a largely chronological history of the battalion that relies heavily on documents produced and collected by German federal investigators during the 1960s. Pre-trial interviews conducted with former officers provide the basis for his analysis, which remains steadfastly focused on the firsthand experiences of the officers within the larger context of their group's heinous crimes. It is not until the book's final chapter, however, that Browning attempts any extended evaluation of the men's motivations; there he places incorporates the work of Phillip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram, researchers responsible for two of the 20th century's most famous psychological experiments on power dynamics and obedience/conformity respectively. Despite reserving lengthy discussion of these subjects for the end, they are implicit in the history he presents in the preceding chapters.
In those chapters, and at the core of Browning's book, is the repetitious process of killing that—after the first hurdle—worked to continually inure German officers to the gravity of their collective actions. A self-sustaining and fulfilling process, he writes, "brutalization was not the cause but the effect of these men's behavior."[1] Though this explains their later crimes—in fact the bulk of them—it notably fails to account for the initial behavior responsible for setting the cycle in motion. Recognizing the importance of that first incident, then, Browning structures his book around the buildup and fallout of the Józefów Massacre, the battalion's first call to real action and the point that marked most officers' transition into willful killers. The mission, to round up 1,800 Jews from an eastern Polish town, forged a group consensus to proceed with their assignment despite hesitations shared even by Major Trapp.
To understand how such a consensus became possible, Browning first establishes the group dynamics that governed Battalion 101. A ragtag collective, the battalion comprised many conscripted men who were largely middle-aged, from similar lower socioeconomic strata in Hamburg, and inexperienced in matters of war. [2] By most measures they appeared particularly ill-suited for the mission of killing, with Browning going so far as to characterize them as "the 'dregs' of the manpower pool at that stage of the war."[3] That the group became "increasingly calloused and efficient executioners" over time is testament not to their unique capacity for violence but rather their ability to band together in a common pursuit.[4] This unity came early with Browning noting the quick development of a strong provincial ethos amongst the Hamburg contingent that made even neighboring Germans feel like outsiders. Once removed from Germany onto foreign soil and engrained with an "us vs. them" mindset that at the very least positioned the Jews amongst Germany's enemies, it is not difficult to see how these bonds were further strengthened amongst the men as time wore on. Despite being tasked with explicitly ideological assignments, then, their carrying out of such directives evidenced more a responsibility to the group than any shared ideological fervor. So, in understanding the dynamics of mass murder, Browning foremost grapples with the dynamics of the responsible group.
Significantly, as Browning spends much time discussing, there was not total agreement amongst the reserve officers. When Major Trapp offered reprieve for any not willing to kill—directly, at least—a dozen or so stepped aside from the onset. Even more men conveniently went missing when it came time for the executions, which called for the policemen to be paired off "face to face" with their victims in the Józefów woods.[5] With limited exceptions, though, the dissenters' objections stemmed not from political or ethical reasons but aversion to the physical act of killing. Regardless of reason, however, none of the objectors faced any punishment for their stance, only reassignment on the days required. While this lack of consequence ought to have invited more dissenters, Browning writes that the suddenness of their Józefów assignment afforded few men the luxury of self-reflection and instead pushed most to simply conform with the group, lest they be labeled "'too weak' or 'cowardly'."[6] The fact that Buchmann, an officer outspokenly against the group's Jewish assignments, was tolerated more by Major Trapp than many of his own subordinates who "looked down their noses at [him]" speaks especially to the pressure to conform within the group and contribute to its directives.[7]
Generally, however, those that did kill did not do so without great psychological burden. Yet their participation in the abrupt Józefów executions marked a point of no return. The men had followed unthinkable orders and battalion officials could now adjust their procedures to make subsequent missions more palatable, if even more deadly. Part of this amelioration process included the employ of Hiwis, or captured foreign volunteers, as the primary future executioners. Another "innovation" included the depersonalization of the actual killing act away from previous face-to-face encounters to rotating shifts. At Łomazy, where even more were killed than at Józefów, the officers recalled relief at having largely been spared the killing duties. Even those Germans ordered to shoot—Major Trapp advertised no similar reprieve this time—hardly recalled the same horror present at Józefów. By removing the seeming "burden of choice", Browning argues, the men felt less internal conflict with their decision to go along with the group. He writes succinctly of the second massacre, "Like much else, killing was something one could get used to."[8]
Following Łomazy, the officers' assignments varied over time. Initially, they served to round up and deport Jews to work and extermination camps. Though the result of such actions was no different from the gruesome scenes in the Polish woods, the burden of direct responsibility had shifted away from the men, rendering the task more easily bearable. "Jew hunts," on the contrary, required again a very personal nature of execution. By that point, though, hardened volunteers were more than willing to take the place of the squeamish and later share crass jokes about their action over lunch.[9] The battalion reached the height, or perhaps nadir, of its efforts during the Erntefest massacre in Majdanek and Poniatowa. There, the entire group was required to contribute in all phases to the death of at least 30,500 Jews. An astounding sum, Browning nonetheless is sure to highlight the conspicuous lack of significant outrage over the group's most deadly of actions. Again, most simply had grown accustomed to the horrors they had repeatedly partaken in. Following Erntefest, the Reserve Police Battalion 101 made no further contributions to the Final Solution.
When considered individually, the path taken by each of the policemen over the course of the war seems unlikely. By any measure, that only 10-20 percent rejected participating in outright murder is staggering. Yet, Browning argues, the men's actions make better sense when considered collectively as consequences of peer group pressure under the most intense of circumstances. Conformity was easier and preferable to the alternative. Further, with a collective mission, the men could divest themselves of personal responsibility. This cleansing of conscience became even more evident when the "dirty work" was taken care of by Hiwis or in a camp out of sight. Still, as time wore on, the men's capacity to commit atrocity only increased through sheer desensitization given the work they simply could not avoid doing themselves. As Browning rightly concludes, the implications of the battalion's story are nothing less than "deeply disturbing."[10] For when one attempts to unpack the dynamics of mass murder, revealed are simple group dynamics far more commonplace and universal than we might care to admit.
Note: This paper was originally submit as an assignment for HIST 735 @ Queens College in the Spring '17 semester.


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For 2017 Acura created an all-new hybrid system by mixing and matching parts from the NSX and RLX with an new 3.0L V6 engine resulting in the most efficient MDX ever made. Can the new hybrid system eliminate the minor complaints we had about the 2017 MDX? And more importantly, can Acura's new hybrid crossover beat Lexus at their own game? All that and more in this video.
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MLS has decided not to proceed with the statewide ProQuest license for the Massachusetts Newsstand, online newspapers. We thank members who responded to our request to make a commitment to cover part of the cost of this online content. Unfortunately we were unable to raise enough money to make the purchase. About 4% of member libraries (73) pledged to participate. 14 libraries informed us that they were unable to pay a portion this year, but are willing to pay next year. With this announcement, we inform you that MLS will not ask any library to pay on its pledge for the ProQuest project. This is not the end of MLS's efforts to expand access to online content. It is just the beginning.
MLS released a new strategic plan for 2013-2015 recently. It establishes a strategic objective to: Play a leading role in expanding access to online content and its discovery by Massachusetts library users.
Our next steps are as follows:
Meet with MLS's Online Content Advisory Committee to
- Debrief on the online newspaper pledge process
- Determine how best to determine member libraries' needs and capacity to fund collaborative purchases for online content
The Committee will explore the potential for a pledge or assessment methodology that will allow MLS to license statewide content that will be available statewide through geolocation on any computer or handheld device. Statewide access is likely to be the most cost effective in terms of dollar per user. It also offers the advantage of efficient bookkeeping for vendors and MLS.
We will also investigate the best way for members who have specific needs to purchase online content cost effectively. Some members currently use third party aggregators such as WALDO and LYRASIS that work with very large groups of libraries to provide discount prices. We'll consider jumping on these coattails too.
It is likely that we will call on members to provide information about their online content needs and budget projections. I urge you to respond to any call for information or participation that will help MLS prioritize our activities to meet your needs.
Please contact MLS with your questions or suggestions.


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OpenStack client packages have a long history. It begins in November 2009 when Rackspace Cloud Servers package started. It provided a Python API (the cloudservers module) and a command-line script (cloudservers). Initially, the script was just a stub, but it became a useful CLI utility able to launch, stop, and resize virtual machines.
cloudservers package introduced a library architecture that is used till now. All entities can be split into five groups.
- Resources, e.g., a flavor, a server, or an image. Technically, a resource is a Python object and its class is a descendant of the
- Managers – they provide operations on resources, for example, "list all flavors" or "delete an image". So, we have a flavor manager, an image manager, and so on. As you may guess, manager's classes are descendants of the
- HTTP client provides a convenient interface for managers that send HTTP requests to the server. The HTTP client is also responsible for authentication process that changed a lot after introducing a new Keystone service, so, the newer HTTP clients are a bit more complicated.
- Exceptions are normal Python exceptions raised by HTTP client for HTTP error codes. This is a more or less rich hierarchy with exceptions such as
BadRequest, or
- Client (not to be confused with HTTP client!) puts HTTP client and various managers together (using class composition: HTTP client and managers are members of a client). As a user, you create a client and can immediately perform any API calls:
# this is the client client = Client(USERNAME, PASSWORD, PROJECT_ID, AUTH_URL) # client.flavors is a manager all_flavors = client.flavors.list() # and all_flavors is a list of resources print all_flavors
The oldest of currently alive clients (
novaclient) was born in January 2011 as a fork of Rackspace Cloud Servers package. Since that time,
cloudservers library and CLI script were renamed to
novaclient. They support new Nova API that was growing all the time, but these two main functions (a Python API and a command line client) remain unchanged.
About a year later, a new OpenStack client project called keystoneclient was started. It was a flesh of novaclient's flesh with almost the same architecture with a small difference: client was a child class of HTTP client thus using inheritance, not composition. And, of course, keystoneclient has its own managers and resources (tenant, user, etc.).
Al lot of code required in the new client package was already written in novaclient (the base
Resource and
Manager and HTTP client). But this code was copied, not imported in keystoneclient. On the one hand, it made these packages independent: you haven't to install novaclient if you would like to use keystoneclient. On the other hand, the story of duplicated classes diverged and they gained different features available in one package and absent in another.
glanceclient used the same copying approach with the same benefits and pitfalls. However, quantumclient and swiftclient are completely different and I won't discuss them here.
So, what do we have now?
- Keystone server provides tokens with limited time to live. So, that's natural to obtain an "Unauthorized" error after a series of successful calls. Nova and Keystone clients handle this situation correctly: they do one call to obtain a new fresh token and repeat the fallen query. glanceclient just raises an exception.
- Keystone server supports two ways of authentication on a tenant: with user name and password and with an unscoped token. As a response to successful authentication, it returns a scoped token and a catalog of all OpenStack service endpoints (nova, glance, keystone, swift etc.). So, keystoneclient supports both authentication ways while novaclient handles only authentication with user name and password. glanceclient is even less prompt: it requires a scoped token and a Glance server endpoint. It knows nothing about clever Keystone service and you have to do the dirty job. By the way, glanceclient's shell uses keystoneclient to issue this initial call to Keystone.
- All client constructors use different parameters. For example, the thing that is called
passwordin keystoneclient is an
api_keyin novaclient for historical reasons: it was called
apikey(without underscore!) in cloudservices three years ago.
- clients have not only different constructors but also diverse behavior: keystoneclient authenticates immediately when you create the client object while novaclient does it lazily during first API call.
- Often you would like to make calls to different services. A dashboard or a common command line tool usually requests tenant list from Keystone, image list from Glance, and sends a "launch an instance" command to Nova. With current clients it's different to share the same token and service endpoint catalog. A simple ways could be just to use a common HTTP client object, but it's impossible because of incompatible architectures in different client packages.
To solve these problems, we could move the common code to a separate library that would be imported in all three clients. The common library would contain:
- the base
- the base
- a rich Exceptions hierarchy;
- a feature rich HTTP client that supports all ways of authentication, handles outdated token faults, and saves the whole service catalog returned by Keystone;
- the base client class that contains an instance of HTTP client as a member: this way, several clients (e.g., a client for Nova and a client for Keystone) can share the same HTTP client.
I developed a sample implementation of this library and called it
python-openstackclient-base. The library is used in Altai Private Cloud, a project of Grid Dynamics.
python-openstackclient-base is easy to use:
from openstackclient_base.client import HttpClient http_client = HttpClient(username="...", password="...", tenant_name="...", auth_uri="...") # Nova Compute API client from openstackclient_base.nova.client import ComputeClient # create a client class and use servers manager print ComputeClient(http_client).servers.list() # Identity (Keystone) Public API client from openstackclient_base.keystone.client import IdentityPublicClient # use the same HTTP client as above print IdentityPublicClient(http_client).tenants.list()
Now I'm going to put this library to oslo-incubator project and use it in all three clients. When oslo-incubator will be mature, it will be imported in OpenStack projects as I want, but now its code will be just copied literally to other projects. However, it's also quite satisfiable since it will reach all the goals mentioned above.


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AASL Recruitment: Alliance Air Recruitment for various post has been started. Applications for 35 Trainee, Station Manager, More Vacancies in AASL Recruitment 2018-19. Candidates who possess the eligibility criteria as laid down by the exam conducting body can fill the application form the direct link to fill the form is also provided below. Candidates can check details like application process, Eligibility criteria, Vacancy details and more details from here.
AASL Recruitment for Station Manager, Cabin Crew & Other Post Application Form 2018
The application process for AASL recruitment for various posts has been started. The applicants need to download the format of application and submit it before the last date as mentioned below.
Vacancy details
Details like place of posting, salary vacancies and other details are given in the image below.
Application form
Candidates who wish to apply, are advised to log on to Careers page of Website http://www.airindia.in, download and fill in the Application Format and send the application by Post or Speed post or courier at following address in an envelope that must be superscribed with the post. If any candidate wants to apply for more than one post, he/she should submit separate applications for each post along with separate demand drafts (if, applicable.)
- To Download Application form – Click Here
Application form along with documents must be sent before on or before March 23, 2018, to the address mentioned below
Alliance Air
Personnel Department
Alliance Bhawan,
Terminal -18, IGI Airport,
New Delhi – 110037
Applications rec.eived late I incomplete I mutilated or without any of the supporting documents with regard to eligibility criteria, Demand Draft (if applicable), wiil be rejected. Alliance Air will not be responsible for any postal delay/ loss of any document during transit.
Document to be submitted along with the Application form
- A recent passport size photograph pasted in the space provided in the Application Format
- One set of photocopies of supporting testimonials for date of birth, caste, qualification, experience etc will be required to be submitted with application. Original certificates will be required at the time of Interview.
- A Demand Draft for an amount of Rs.1,500/- (Rupees One Thousand Five hundred only) payable to Airline Allied Services Limited, payable at New Delhi (Not Applicable for SC I ST).
Applicable for SC I ST I OBC Candidates Only: Caste Certificate in the prescribed proforma issued by the appropriate authority. Candidates belonging to OBC Category will be required to attach the Caste Certiticate in the proforma meant for Central Government employment." Candidates belonging to OBC category ,the category certificate should be in the prescribed format including the "Non -Creamy layer clause" issued by the Competent Authority for employment under Government of India and should be as per the Central list of OBC's published by Government of India. Please also note that the validity of "Non – Creamy layer" Certificate should not be older than 06 (Six) months from the date of eligibility criteria."
Eligibility Criteria
Education Qualification –
- Dy. Chief Financial Officer: Qualified Associate Chartered Accountant from ICAI
- Chief of IT: BE I 8.tech in Computer Engineering/ Electronics/ Communication Engineering/ Electrical Engineering/ Information Technology OR Masters of Computer Application
- Synthetic Flight Instructor (SFI): All eligibility conditions, experience and training requirement as stipulated in CAR and amended by DGCA from time to time would be applicable.
- Station Managers(Manager Grade): Graduate
- Instructor Technical: First Class Engineering Graduate from Recognized University in Mechanical I Electronics &Communication Engg. I Aeronautical OR Approved Ground instructors (Tech I Performance) approved by DGCA or Air force preferably on ATR 72-600 aircraft
Age Criteria –
- Dy. Chief Financial Officer, Chief of IT: Maximum 45 years (as on 01.03.2018) (Upper age limit is relaxable by 5 Years for SC/ST & 3 Years for OBC Candidates. Ex-Servicemen will be given age relaxation as per rules).
- Synthetic Flight Instructor (SFI): Maximum 70 years (as on 01.03.2018)
- Station Managers(Manager Grade): Maximum 40 years (as on 01.03.2018) (Upper age limit is relaxable by 5 Years for SC/ST & 3 Years for OBC Candidates. Ex-Servicemen will be given age relaxation as per rules).
- Instructor Technical: Maximum 50 years (as on 01.03.2018) (Upper age limit is. relaxable by 5 Years for SC/ST & 3 Years for OBC Candidates. Ex-Servicemen will be given age relaxation as per rules)
Experience Required –
- Dy. Chief Financial Officer: Should have minimum 05 years of Aviation experience in Handling Finance I Accounts functions
- Chief of IT: Minimum 5 years experience, preferably in the aviation field and
Hands- on technical knowledge in the area of an airlines Passenger Service System (Reservation I DCS) and E-Commerce is essential and
Hands on technical knowledge in the area of Revenue Optimization, Cargo Reservation System, ERP, Crew Management software (Crew scheduling), Network & Data -center Management is desirable
- Station Managers(Manager Grade): Should have 05 years of Aviation experience in Airport handling or Sales and Marketing
- Instructor Technical: Should have minimum 02 years of experience in Aircraft Maintenance I Operations I Flight Safety in airline of repute
Benefits & Employment Agreements
All the Selected candidates will be appointed on a Fixed Term Employment Agreement for a period of 05 (Five) years (except for the post of Synthetic Flight Instructor which is 3 years). The Fixed Term Employment Agreement is extendable subject to satisfactory performance.
Benefits – Free I CQncessional Air Passages: The Employee will be entitled for Concessional air passages, Medical Insurance for self and family as per company policy. In addition all the above posts also carries other benefits such as Provident Fund, Gratuity etc., as per rules.
TADA Reimbursement to ST I SC candidates: Candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe categories will be entitled for reimbursement of second class return rail/bus fare from the nearest railway station i.e. from the address given in the application to Delhi I New Delhi on production of railway receipt/ticket, as per rules at the time of Interview only.
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Learning From Other Lawyers
May 16, 2017
BY: Domhnall O'Cathain
When researching a medical issue some time ago, I stumbled on the website of a very well regarded personal injury attorney, Patrick Malone. I recognized his name as an attorney who gave a very good CLE (Continuing Legal Education) class on a telephone conference that I heard in recent years.
Patrick Malone's website contained some trial transcripts of opening and closing statements from cases he tried successfully. Always eager to learn from other attorneys, I read through some of those arguments as nighttime reading last week. And thanks to those transcripts, I remembered something I had nearly forgotten, and I learned something new!
What I Almost Forgot
When I first practiced as an attorney, I worked for a very talented trial attorney who defended doctors. One of the great techniques he used at a trial (and a reason he was so successful) was flipping the case so that the jury was more focused on what the injured plaintiff did or didn't do, instead of the doctor's negligence.
For example:
- "Mrs. Smith, isn't it true that you missed the appointment scheduled in January 2013?"
- "Mrs. Smith, isn't it true that you never thought of getting a second opinion?"
How would a good plaintiff trial attorney deal with that in closing?
- "Mr. Defense Attorney asked my client, Mrs. Smith, about a second opinion and also asked her why she missed the appointment 1 year after the surgery in which everything went wrong. Not one instruction from the judge will discuss a second opinion or a requirement to go to an appointment 1 year later. The standard is not whether you should go back to the doctor who injured you one year later. This case is about, and what you must decide, is whether or not the doctor did what he was supposed to do for his patient"
What I Learned
In a case where Patrick Malone represented the family of a man (Richard) who died from a delay in diagnosing cancer, Mr. Malone brought himself back to the day before Richard learned of the cancer and imagined this conversation.
I never saw this approach before:
- "Richard, you're going to see the doctor tomorrow, and he's going to find something on your back that's been there for a long time. It should've been removed before but now you're going to find out that it is too late. Now there's nothing we can do about it, except to make up for it later on down the road. And your girls… you'll get to the high school graduation, but you won't get to the college graduation. You won't get to the wedding aisle …"
The jury found in favor of Richard and his family and I was reminded of a valuable lesson:
You're never too old to learn something new.


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Laura is 21. I met Laura 6 years ago. I can't believe she is now able to drink and about to graduate from Texas A&M University. I am so proud of the woman that she has become. Laura is Keith's middle sister and my sister-in-law!
A couple of months ago, Laura and her friend Kira asked me to make their cake for their 21st Birthdays! Of course, I said yes. They wanted a purple, black and white cake. Any flavor but carrot! 🙂
I made a 3 tier cake in the colors they requested. The bottom tier is Pina Colada Cake, the middle tier is Guinness Chocolate Cake and the top tier is Margarita Cake.
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Juvenile Repatriation Practices at Border
Patrol Sectors on the Southwest Border
Report Number I-2001-010
September 2001
During our visit to the El Centro Border Patrol Sector, we did not observe overcrowding, any indication of substandard detention conditions, or maltreatment of juveniles. We interviewed the one unaccompanied Mexican juvenile that was in custody on Sunday, July 15. The juvenile was apprehended on Saturday, July 14, and subsequently repatriated on Monday, July 16. The El Centro and Calexico Border Patrol Station staffs expressed concern for the welfare of juveniles and stated that all possible measures were taken for their safety and comfort within the constraints of the available resources. Border Patrol Station staffs told us that unaccompanied juveniles are segregated from adults in the holding cells and that female juveniles are also segregated from male juveniles. The stations have designated juvenile holding cells for this purpose. If these cells become crowded, the juveniles could be moved to a larger cell (and kept segregated from adults). The El Centro SPC provides lunches and hot meals for the juveniles. Milk, juice, and water are also provided. If a juvenile needs clothing, the station staff contacts the El Centro SPC. Juveniles at both locations must sleep on the floor of the holding cells. The holding cells do not have beds or bathing facilities because they were built for temporary confinement only. The stations do not have provisions for juveniles to bathe. Not all of the holding cells have seating for the detainees.
Sector Juvenile Repatriation Procedures
The El Centro Border Patrol Sector detains unaccompanied Mexican juveniles for extended confinement in its holding cells.
Our review of the electronic form I-213, obtained from the INS's ENFORCE system, and manifests from March 1 through May 31, 2001, showed that the El Centro Border Patrol Sector does not always repatriate Mexican juveniles to Mexico within hours of apprehension. During the period March through May 2001, the Sector repatriated 591 unaccompanied Mexican juveniles to Mexico. Forty-two juveniles were not promptly repatriated. The Border Patrol does not have a standard for the maximum length of time that a juvenile may be held in its holding cells prior to repatriation. For our review, we devised an arbitrary standard and considered confinement of unaccompanied Mexican juveniles that spanned more than two days to be extended confinement.
We could not determine the specific amount of time it took to repatriate some juveniles because of incomplete Sector record keeping (discussed in a later section, Sector Juvenile Repatriation Records). All 42 incidents involved detaining juveniles over a weekend, with five instances of extended confinement beginning as early as Thursday. In all cases, the juveniles were held at the Border Patrol stations in regular holding cells, which were built for temporary confinement only. The results of our document review are summarized in the following table.
Table 1 - Unaccompanied Mexican Juveniles Held For Extended Confinement
|Day of Apprehension/Day of Repatriation
|El Centro
|Source: Unaccompanied Mexican Juveniles Manifests, March 1 - May 31, 2001.
The Border Patrol supervisors and agents we interviewed were fully aware that they confined juveniles for two or three days. They stated that "their hands are tied" because they are bound by three local agreements with the Mexican Consulate in Calexico, California. 2 These agreements are:
These agreements stipulate that Mexican juveniles will not be repatriated without first being interviewed by the Mexican Consulate. The Border Patrol supervisors and agents told us that the required interviews with the juveniles by a Mexican consular officer prior to repatriation occurs in one of four ways at the two stations:
The El Centro Border Patrol Sector usually transports apprehended juveniles to the Mexican Consulate in Calexico. Mexican officials interview the juveniles to determine whether they are Mexican nationals. If the juveniles are determined to be Mexican nationals, the Mexican officials take custody of the juveniles and repatriate them. Although both Border Patrol stations are able to conduct interviews with the Mexican Consulate using video teleconferencing, Border Patrol staff said use of the system ranged from not at all to frequent.
The Sector staff told us that the Mexican Consulate is not usually available on the weekends to conduct juvenile interviews. Therefore, Mexican juveniles apprehended on weekends usually have to wait until Monday morning for their interviews and repatriation leading to extended detention time in the station holding cells. Our interviews with the Sector supervisors and managers indicated an awareness of the problem and concerns about detaining juveniles in holding cells over the weekend.
Station staff described different repatriation practices at the El Centro and Calexico Border Patrol Stations. El Centro Border Patrol Station supervisors told us that the Mexican Consulate in Calexico is available to interview juveniles until 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. Juveniles apprehended before 2:00 p.m. can be repatriated on Saturday but juveniles apprehended after 2:00 p.m. must wait until the following Monday for their interviews and repatriation.
Station staff described four different weekend juvenile repatriation practices at the Calexico Border Patrol Station. They were:
The Chief Patrol Agent stated that the repatriation problem lies with Mexican social services, Desarrollo Integral de la Familia (DIF), which takes physical custody of the juveniles from the Mexican Consulate because the DIF does not have resources to respond Saturday afternoons or Sundays. The Chief Patrol Agent said this issue has been discussed, though not yet resolved, at the local Migratory and Consular Affairs Working Group, which is composed of U.S. and Mexican government officials who meet to discuss and resolve local border issues. The El Centro Border Patrol Sector and representatives from the San Diego District are members of this group. The Chief Patrol Agent stated that the Mexican Consulate is aware of the problem but states it does not have the power to correct the situation.
For reasons which we were not able to determine, the El Centro Border Patrol Sector did not inform either the Western Region or the San Diego District about its problem with juvenile repatriation. The Western Region and the San Diego District officials we interviewed told us that they were unaware of the problem. The Western Region officials discussed a number of possible solutions with us, ranging from providing the Sector with a suitable facility for detaining juveniles on the weekends to bringing additional pressure on Mexican authorities to interview and repatriate juveniles on weekends.
Sector Juvenile Repatriation Policy
The El Centro Border Patrol Sector policy for juvenile repatriation is not comprehensive, is not readily available to the Sector staff, and is not consistent with agreements with the Mexican Consulate.
The Sector juvenile repatriation policy is composed of three internal policy memoranda generated by the Chief Patrol Agent and directed to Sector staff. They are the:
In order to fully comply with Sector policy, supervisors and Border Patrol agents need access to all three of the policy memoranda. The policy memoranda have some overlap in that they provide similar general instructions. For example, all memoranda require the completion of the manifest. However, some contain unique instructions. For example, the Juvenile Voluntary Returns/Voluntary Return Verification Procedure policy provides instructions to supervisors to ensure only unaccompanied juveniles are voluntarily returned to Mexico.
The 1987 and 1997 policy memoranda state that if the Mexican Consulate is not available to interview the juveniles, the juveniles may be turned over to a Mexican immigration official. This is contrary to the current agreements with the Mexican Consulate, which require the Consulate to interview all juveniles prior to repatriation.
The local policy memoranda do not require the escorting Border Patrol agent or detention enforcement officer to record the time of the transfer of custody to Mexican authorities. Without this information, there is no way to know when the repatriation occurred. Also, the local policy memoranda do not provide guidance for special treatment or services that should be provided to juveniles who are going to be detained for extended periods of time.
Sector Juvenile Repatriation Records
The El Centro Border Patrol Sector does not always complete repatriation records.
The 1987 and 1997 policy memoranda specify record keeping requirements. These requirements include recording:
We found that information frequently was not recorded on the manifest. For example, we reviewed 66 manifests at the Calexico Border Patrol Station and found the following omissions:
A detention enforcement officer told us that the detention enforcement officers who transport juveniles to the Mexican consular office for the interview and repatriation are responsible for ensuring that the manifest was completely filled out, including data regarding the Mexican consular official.
The Juvenile Voluntary Returns/Voluntary Return Verification Procedure policy memorandum requires that Sector staff document and report incidents of problems with repatriation. It does not specify how to report or to whom to report. While Sector staff recorded in a logbook several incidents when the Mexican Consulate could not be contacted, we could not find any evidence that these problems were reported to Western Region officials.
INS Juvenile Repatriation Policy
The INS Juvenile Affairs Division does not include policies and procedures for detaining and repatriating voluntarily returned juveniles.
The INS Juvenile Affairs Division establishes requirements for appropriate treatment of certain unaccompanied juveniles. The program addresses juveniles that have been apprehended, will be detained by the INS for more than 72 hours, and will be placed into formal immigration hearings. The INS Juvenile Affairs Division is managed from INS headquarters, through the regions, and to the districts.
The INS Juvenile Affairs Division does not provide guidelines or procedures for detaining and repatriating Mexican juveniles. The INS does not include this group of juveniles because it assumes that, with a few exceptions, Mexican juveniles are voluntarily returned to Mexico in a matter of hours, are not placed in immigration proceedings, and are not in INS custody for an extended time. Despite the large number of Mexican juveniles the Border Patrol apprehends and voluntarily returns, no national guidance exists that states what the Border Patrol's responsibilities are when these juveniles are in prolonged custody prior to repatriation and for repatriating the juveniles. The individual sectors develop policies and procedures and resolve problems on their own.


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By: Elena Grace Flores
The Liberal Party has mastered the art of telling lies. That's what we call media propaganda today. Despite the desperate works of their media cronies, they cannot have a strong impact anymore as when they make false corruption charges against Vice President Jejomar Binay to grab him of his chances to become president. They tried it with President Rodrigo Duterte as well using "extra-judicial killing" accusations but Duterte, knowing their tactics already continues to play with the media. He boasts many exaggerated killing stories with no evidence of truth – just to give it back to the media later on that they do not research or investigate their stories. Bongbong Marcos even has a very interesting story to tell.
Youtube video by; Elena Grace Flores
[VIDEO]: Bongbong Marcos outgrows the lie of their enemies that the real son of the late President is already dead.
Bongbong Marcos is Dead – and what you see now is a Replacement
How ridiculous can a detractor be spreading rumors that the Bongbong Marcos we see now is just a clone? Fortunately, DNA testing is already available at this period. This is actually not needed anymore because Marcos Jr is exactly a replica of Marcos Sr. not just physically but also mentally and perhaps also emotionally. Watch the video for the full story from Bongbong Marcos himself.
The Corruption Dramas against Binay ended up in his Libel Case Win
Former Vice President Jejomar Binay's term has already ended. Only the media announced that cases are already filed. As expected, they can't go anywhere because no evidence can stand in court. His winning the libel case against their witness, ex-Vice Mayor Mercado and acting prosecuting Senator Trillanes only made him richer.
President Rodrigo Duterte is Enjoying the Media Startle
Phone Protection: NQ Mobile Security 2 years or NQ Mobile Security 1 year
Believer of Lies must Wake Up
It's already 2017 and the Philippines must be ready for a big change very soon. Rumors have it that Bongbong Marcos will be the new Vice President. However, many analysts are also speculating that he will be the new President. Whatever it is, all Filipinos must come to terms to his destiny.


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Contact:Tania Weinkle, Communications Dir.
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Contact:Bob Deuel, Sr. Dir. Media Relations
t: (949) 706-5309
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OMGOC Digital, Radio and Social Ad Campaign Launches
Today in San Francisco Encouraging Visits to the OC
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. (Nov. 1, 2016) - A new integrated marketing campaign, OMGOC, launched today by a consortium of Orange County (OC), California Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) targeting the San Francisco market to promote tourism to sunny Orange County. The first-ever campaign went live with a series of digital ad banners and video
segments, promoting the participating Orange County partners including Visit Anaheim, Visit Huntington Beach, Visit Newport Beach, Destination Irvine, Visit Laguna Beach, Travel Costa Mesa and South Coast Plaza.
The campaign, OMGOC, challenges Northern Californians on what they truly know about Orange County with the goal of blowing their minds and showing them there is so much more to Orange County than they may have thought. The county's beauty, adventure, quirkiness, distinctive neighborhoods, hidden enclaves and the incredibly varied experiences the OC has to offer will leave travelers with nothing left to say but, "OMG OC"! San Diego-based marketing and advertising agency, Greehaus, created the forward-thinking campaign that will run through Dec. 10, 2016.
"Orange County is just a short plane ride or road trip away from the Bay Area and offers so many different and surprising vacation experiences," said Kelly Miller, chairman, Orange County Visitors Association, and president & CEO of Visit Huntington Beach. "The idea for this campaign came about because we knew there is strength in numbers and by pooling our resources to enter the San Francisco market, we could make an impact. Together we could inspire a whole new audience to 'GO OC Now'."
OMGOC Campaign Details
OMGOC will become the rallying cry of Orange County during this special Bay Area initiative, encapsulating the happiness, energy and excitement of the region. The campaign's creative highlights key dynamic visuals from all the participating destinations and partners tagged
with the unifying OMGOC logo graphic and tagline "GO OC Now." The creative ads will rotate and feature one DMO or partner's unique logo and graphics exclusively.
To view elements from the campaign's creative, please visit: www.OmgGoOC.com.
Additional campaign elements set to launch through December include:
- Digital, Radio, Social, PR
- GuerrillaMarketing (PR/Out-of-Home Takeover)
- Custom Content
- Digital Programming
- Campaign Microsite
- Promotional Sweepstakes
For more information on the OMGOC campaign, please visit: www.OmgGoOC.com.
About Orange County Visitors Association
The Orange County Visitors Association (OCVA) represents more than 700 members of
Orange County, California's tourism community and is the leading resource for visitor information about the county's 34 cities. OCVA serves as steward of The OC brand, recognized worldwide as the home of world-famous theme parks, unparalleled shopping, 42 miles of pristine coastline, renowned beachfront resorts, and innumerable activities ranging from watersports to world-class
performing arts. OCVA promotes the destination both domestically and internationally, with tourism offices in four international cities. Orange County is located in the heart of Southern California and provides easy access to all the attractions the region offers. For more information, go to www.VisitTheOC.com or call the California Welcome Center at (714) 523-3441.
Follow OCVA on Facebook (VisitTheOC) and Twitter (@VisitTheOC).


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Abstract: Create a simple REST client step-by-step using a blog feed in this tutorial video from Marco Cantù
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There are many works that are loved and being played from von Koch's music. Let us show you a few.
Here you find what is published at Gehrmans'
A few suggestions:
For the single musician there are his Monologs.
Being a choir you find many tunes.
Here you can read more about von Koch and his music.
One of his most performed and played orchestral work is Capriccio Nordico.
Here you can buy the score, and below you can listen on Spotify to
the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Per Hammarström.
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Adblock Plus, the maker of the popular ad-blocking tool for desktop web browsers is taking a major step today in offering similar services on mobile devices.
The company releases Adblock Browser for Android, which blocks ads while also offering features like the ability to block adware, boost browsing speed and save data and battery life.
Adblock Browser for Android is powered by the same popular ad-blocking tool that has been downloaded over 400 million times. The company claims that by blocking the annoying elements - which includes ads among other annoyances - it is able to speed up browsing as well as save data usage.
The company also touts the browser's built-in safe browsing feature. Do note that ads are what keeps many websites you read and enjoy on the web floating. While we understand that there are websites that offer intrusive and annoying ads, there are a plenty of them that bestow rather acceptable adverts.
Adblock is offering you the ability to let those run on the websites you like by simply tapping the Menu icon > Settings > Acceptable Ads.
Adblock's release on Android - though still as a beta - is a big deal for a number of reasons. Until now, it has been incredibly difficult to block ads on Android devices. For that, users had to use tools that typically require them to root their devices. Adblock Browser doesn't involve such modifications.
"A complete Android browser app is a natural progression for us. In addition to blocking adware and obnoxious ads, we can offer faster browsing speeds, more efficient data use and even longer battery life. It's a win-win for users across the globe", says Till Faida, co-founder of Adblock Plus.
You can download the app from Google Play Store (opens in new tab). The link should work for you in a couple of minutes. Alternatively, you can also join the Adblock Browser beta Google+ (opens in new tab) community and sign up as a beta tester to get the app and faster updates from the company.


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Holy Land Experience in Orlando announces free day
Holy Land Experience has set a date for its annual free day.
The Bible-themed attraction in Orlando will waive its admission fees on Feb. 24, according to a post on its Facebook page. Parking will also be free.
Admission to the park on the free day is first-come, first-served. The park can hold 2,000 people. The park will be open on Feb. 24 from 10 a.m to 6 p.m.
?The annual free day is one of the park's busiest days of the year, typically attracting thousands of guests and jamming the roads around the park.
The Holy Land Experience, owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network, is required under Florida law to offer one free day of admission in order to retain its property-tax exemption as a religious institution.
Regular admission to the Holy Land Experience is $50.


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St. George's Square, Shifted, a photo by Aidan M.D. Ware on Flickr.
Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement. ~ Aldous Huxley
There's a slogan attached to Guelph that suggests we "make a difference." What does this mean in our lives? What does it take to make a difference? Do I make a difference?
Change creates difference. Movement creates change.
Today I post photos about movement in order to think about how we can all make a difference. About how we do make a difference. How we can push and pull, leap in faith, transport and free ourselves - as we create and cause, drive and devour, all the differences and changes in the ebb and flow of our city.
And while on the topic of movement, the Festival of Moving Media kicks off today with a terrific line-up, starting with tonight's 6:30pm Hidden Histories: Secret Places at Ed Video. I hope to see you there.
Also, planning is under way for November's Fourth Friday which is the 25th. Some of the photos from October's Fourth Friday Photo Mob I have featured on this post. If you have creative energy and want to make some change, please join the Fourth Friday brigade!
And don't forget : move, create, change. We all make a difference.


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Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I've done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with a great t-shirt is a prime candidate to have a great product also. Click here to see the series.
If you'd like your t-shirt reviewed, flick me an email to arrange things. The judges decision is, of course, final and very little correspondence will be entered into (perhaps).
I picked my Boomi T shirt up at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco at the start of 2008. Boomi have moved away from the more traditional black or white shirts and instead have gone with a blue crew neck. The front logo makes one look like they're a chemistry student which may, or may not, be a good thing
- I kind of like the atom logo
- Boomi is kind of a cool name
- It's a change from black or white
- Too much gratuitous use of a logo
- Made in Haiti – Gotta love those heavy metal laden waterways


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Product versions: Desktop Intelligence , WebIntelligence 6.5, XIr2, XIr2 SP2, XI3.0, XI3.1, XI3.1 SP2
Important: details collected through the community. Not validated or endorsed by SAP Product management.
Web Intelligence features that Desktop Intelligence does not have
Interactive Viewing Over the Web (sort, filter, formula & variable creation, etc.. All editing 40+ features related to the edition of the report benefiting to all of interactive users)
Track Data Changes
Server Side Ranking as a Query Filter
Synchronized Data Providers is much easier to use
Drill over the Web
Significant Performance Benefits
Improved Prompting
Support for SAP data sources
Format Painter
Extended function set (interpolation, relativeValue, query&prompt&filter summary functions)
Input Controls (from XI3.1 SP2)
Features covered in Convincing Reasons to Move to Web Intelligence
Query prompt sequence
Query prompt properties
Optional Prompt
Duplicate query
Report filters
Complex report filters
Custom sorts
Change query universe
Synchronized drill-down
Interactivity over the web (HTML and dHTML (Interactive Viewer))
Additional resources
Managing the Conversion from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence
Desktop Intelligence features added to WebIntelligence
the feature exists
the feature exists partially or has workarounds
the feature does not exist
Each of the feature should be pondered by the frequency of use and the type of users.
Deski Features
XIr2 SP2
Synchronized Data Providers
Edit SQL
Offline Capability
Embedded images
Server Value function
Query on Query
Non-Universe Data Providers
Stored Procedures
XML Data Provider
Personal Data Providers
Free-hand SQL
(see note 1 below)
(see note 1 below)
(see note 1 below)
(see note 1 below)
(see note 1 below)
Visual Basic Data Provider
(see note 2 below)
Fold/Unfold Horizontal
Fold/Unfold Vertical
Complex Block Filters
Value-based breaks
Multiple level breaks
Hide/Show Object
Multicube() function
NoFilter() function
Custom Grouping
Data Ranking Support (Top N)
User Defined Hierarchies
Find within a Report
Export as XML
VB Customization
Multiple VBA Macros
Find within a Universe
Series Charts
Custom function
Note 1: The new report wizard option "Others->Free-hand SQL" is not available in WebI but you can overcome this by editing the SQL of a dummy universe object and / or using a derived table. The details of this workaround are discussed on this forum post : http://www.forumtopics.com/busobj/viewtopic.php?t=126518&highlight=fhs.
Note 2: This can be achived by using the Custom Data Provider Plug-in which provides a framework to develop your own data provider, therefore allows you to consume potentially any data provider into Web Intelligence. The Developer Guide posted at http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31SP2/en/xi31_sp2_cdp_dev_en.pdf goes in more details. Essentially this should allow Visual Basic Data Providers developed for Deski to be re-used in Webi.
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This list is not up-to-date (SAP BI 4.1 SP5 missing), I kindly suggest updating this or maybe even removing this


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Was Shimon Peres a Man of Peace?
If Israel is on the verge of a moral abyss, then Peres had a part in that. If it's a country en route to apartheid, he was a founding partner. The truth must be told: Shimon Peres wanted peace, but never saw Palestinians as equal to Jews.
He was my private political instructor for four years, day and night. He didn't act like a teacher, but I learned a lot from him, about what to do, but also what not to do. I was very young, and he was already Shimon Peres. We parted with mixed feelings.
- Shimon Peres, the 93-year-old Who Died With His Boots on
- The Countless Contradictions of Shimon Peres
- Drop the Kitsch: Shimon Peres Had a Dark Side, Too
He was the last of the old-time Israelis. What's "Israeli" to you? Once it was Shimon Peres. Now Miri Regev represents Israeliness much more than he does. But when Israel still wanted to be portrayed as a peace-seeking nation, it had Peres.
Read more on Shimon Peres: Peres pursued peace for sake of Israel's values, and Palestinians' dignity | Hawk to dove, pro-settlements to pro-peace: Shimon Peres was it all | The countless contradictions of the late and great Shimon Peres | Obama, world leaders mourn Peres | Shimon Peres, the eternal immigrant | Peres' quixotic battle for Israeli-Palestinian peace | Drop the kitsch: Shimon Peres had a dark side, too | Peres, 1923-2016: an interactive timeline
When it was still important for it to be accepted – Peres. When saying one had been a shepherd was still respectable – Peres. When speaking of books was still admired – Peres. When at least a semblance of enlightenment and modesty was still important – Peres. It was a different country. He died yesterday, but that Israel died long ago. It's not certain that it was as lovely as we tend to describe it.
His Israel was a country of great achievements, but also of shadows and lies. One cannot crown him a wondrous figure, as the whole world is doing now, without also describing his country. If Peres was a hero of peace, then the State of Israel is a peace-seeking country. Is anybody buying that? One cannot call it an occupier, a dispossessor, a pariah, while calling Peres a giant of peace.
If Israel is on the verge of a moral abyss, then Peres had a part in that. If it's a country en route to apartheid, he was a founding partner.
The state was Peres and Peres was the state, at least to some extent. He was a fixture of the landscape for all those years and in all those positions. Look at him and you see us.
We so want peace but are doing so little to achieve it. He was the country's pretty face but also misleading. Israelis are remembering him fondly now; how wonderful it is that we had such a man. Those world leaders who will be coming to his funeral tomorrow will also effusively praise his contribution to peace.
But what peace? The man gave us the Dimona reactor and the 1956 Sinai Operation, Upper Nazareth and Ofra, Israel Military Industries and Israel Aerospace Industries – so how much peace (and justice) did he really bring, and how much occupation and settlements?
There's no doubt that he wanted peace and worked for it. But he stopped halfway by ignoring the settlement issue during the Oslo process, and there are no half-paths to peace. It's not just the right that's responsible for that failure.
He was an impressive man. His span of knowledge was broader than most of his contemporaries, as was his personal charm. We never had a more curious and stylish politician, nor a better conversationalist. I'll go further; he was also an honest man, certainly no less than his colleagues. And no one could talk about peace the way he did; even Mahatma Ghandi spoke about it less.
Back in the late 1970s, Peres was already saying in every speech, "It's impossible to rule over another people against its will." It moved me then. But during the ensuing decades when he was at the helm, that sentence remained in party speeches. What did he do to end the occupation? He contributed a great deal to Israel – to its security, to its prosperity – but not to its justice. So just don't say he was a man of peace.
He wanted peace. Who doesn't? But the truth must be told, even in difficult moments; he never perceived the Palestinians as equal to Jews, and certainly not as having equal rights.
After years in the company of David Ben-Gurion perhaps it was too difficult to formulate a different approach. Human rights and international law didn't interest him, and Palestinian suffering didn't move him.
When U.S. President Barack Obama praises him tomorrow as a man of peace, one will get the sneaking suspicion that he may be Peres' spitting image. How pleasant it is to praise Peres.
Because above all else, Peres was the champion of the Israeli desire to "go with and feel without." Of saying how terrific we are. Now there isn't even anyone left to say it.


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Expanded Service Payments for the Elderly and Disabled (Ex-SPED) Program
The Expanded-SPED program pays for in-home and community-based services for people who would otherwise receive care in a licensed basic care facility.
Covered Services Include
- Adult Family Foster Care - Provides a safe, supervised family living environment, 24 -hours per day in a state-licensed setting
- Case Management - Assesses needs, helps with care planning, provider selection, referrals, and service monitoring
- Chore Service - Includes snow removal and heavy cleaning
- Emergency Response System (Lifeline) - Provides telephone emergency response
- Environmental Modifications (Limited) - Modifies the home to enhance client independence (e.g. install safety rails)
- Family Home Care - Reimburses a family caregiver who meets the relationship requirements defined by state law and resides in a client's home 24-hours per day
- Homemaker - Provides house cleaning, laundry, and/or meal preparation services
- Respite Care - Provides temporary relief to the full-time caregiver
Eligibility Requirements
- Receives or is eligible for Medicaid, and
- Receives or is eligible for Social Security Income (SSI), and
- Is not severely impaired in the Activities of Daily Living of toileting, transferring, eating, and
- Is impaired in three of four Instrumental Activities of daily Living: meal preparation, housework, laundry, or taking medications OR
- Has health, welfare, or safety needs, including supervision or structured environment, otherwise requiring care in a basic care facility, and
- Is not living in an institution or dormitory, and
- Has needs within the scope of covered services
Seeking Services
For information about services in your area, contact your County Social Service Office.


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Michael Gladis and Beth Behrs Have a Little Domestic Dispute
When you think of Michael Gladis, you probably think 'Mad Men' more than Funny or Die. But the actor teamed up with '2 Broke Girls' star Beth Behrs for this NSFW action video about a couple who gets into an argument that quickly gets out of hand. BONUS: Cat Jesus vs. Regular Jesus.


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TIKRIT: Iraqi security forces on Friday hunted for dozens of al Qaeda-linked inmates who escaped during an attack on a prison in the city of Tikrit that left at least 13 policemen dead, officials said.
The violence at the prison comes after al Qaeda's Iraqi front group announced a campaign to regain territory and said it aimed to help its jailed members escape.
"Security forces were able to detain 33 of the escaped inmates, and there are still about 75 others" at large, Mohammed Hassan Attiya, the head of the Salaheddin provincial council security committee, told AFP, adding that "operations to pursue them are continuing."
"All of these inmates are Iraqi and members of the al Qaeda organisation," he said, and most have been sentenced to death. Attiya said police were responsible for the incident, blaming "their weakness and their corruption."
Salaheddin deputy governor Ahmed Abdul Jabbar told AFP that the Tikrit prison had been retaken from militants who seized it on Thursday night, but that 83 prisoners escaped.
A hospital official in Tikrit, the ancestral home of now-executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said 13 police were killed and 34 wounded in the violence.
A source in the Salaheddin police command said, meanwhile, that 15 policemen and seven prisoners were killed, and put the number of escaped prisoners at about 100.
"We took control of the prison, and the gunmen handed over their weapons," the official said.
A source in the Salaheddin governor's office said that the provincial police chief was to be sacked over the incident.
Accounts differed on the specifics of the unrest, but it appears militants attacked from outside the prison, while inmates may have seized weapons from guards inside.
A police lieutenant colonel said Thursday that a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at the gate of the prison, after which it was assaulted by gunmen.
And a traffic police lieutenant colonel who was near the scene of the attack said militants blew up part of the prison fence, and between 30 and 40 inmates were able to escape.
A police colonel said a riot broke out in the prison, while witnesses said inmates seized the guards' weapons, and that more than 100 of them escaped and fought security forces in the surrounding area.
The tactics reportedly employed in the assault were reminiscent of those used in attacks in July and August.
Gunmen attempted to use bombs to breach a prison gate in Taji, north of Baghdad, on August 1, after using similar tactics on the anti-terrorism directorate in the capital the day before in an attack the interior ministry said was an attempt to free inmates.
al Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq said in July that it was launching a "new military campaign aimed at recovering territory." An earlier message posted on jihadist forums said the ISI would begin targeting judges and prosecutors, and try to help its prisoners break out of jails.
While insurgents opposed to the Baghdad government are regarded as weaker than in past years, they have shown they can strike at even the most highly secure sites in Iraq.
In addition to the prisons in Tikrit and Taji and the anti-terrorism directorate, targets in recent months have included a police station, a military base and an entrance to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, where the government is headquartered.


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While the media was focusing on the drama over the Republican tax bill, last week the new Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board issued five decisions overturning precedents: UPMC, Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, The Boeing Company, Raytheon Company, and PCC Structurals, Inc. Sharon Block has provided a short summary of each of these cases here. While each decision was substantively flawed, the substance of the decisions was not a surprise. But, as Block has observed, what was genuinely shocking was the speed with which they were issued and the flouting of procedural norms. The message that was delivered, like the message delivered last year when Republicans in the Senate refused to even consider President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, is that the Republicans play to win.
The Chamber of Commerce and Republicans in Congress often criticized the Obama NLRB for overturning precedent. But even if employers ended up on the losing side, they had no cause to claim that they were denied a fair hearing. Time and again, before the Obama Board overturned precedents, it first issued invitations to interested parties to file briefs addressing the matters under consideration. The Board, in turn, responded to the arguments raised in those briefs when it eventually issued its decisions. By contrast, the five decisions issued last week came out of the blue, with no notice to the public. In fact, in three of the cases, no party had even challenged the existing precedent. And in a fourth case, the Board took a dispute involving welders at a factory and used it to announce a new rule for cases involving non-acute health care facilities.
The two Trump appointees to the NLRB, Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel, took office in August and September, respectively. Prior to assuming office, Member Kaplan had never practiced labor law. Thus, he had no experience in the practical application of the issues confronting the NLRB. In a written statement submitted to the Senate at his confirmation hearing, Kaplan pledged that he would "approach each case impartially, respect longstanding precedent, stay true to the tenets of statutory construction, endeavor to bridge the divisions at the NLRB, [and] seek public input when appropriate." At his confirmation hearing, Kaplan promised under oath that he would decide cases "based on the facts before me," and that he would not prejudge an issue. It's hard to see how he could square that promise with his actions in these cases.
In the Hy-Brand case, the three Republican Board members overturned Browning-Ferris Industries of California, and announced a new standard for deciding when two entities are joint employers even though there were no facts before the Board that implicated the issues where the new Trump Board differed from the Obama Board. Likewise, in Boeing, the Board took a case involving a rule prohibiting workers from taking photographs and used that to announce that it will always uphold "rules requiring employees to abide by basic standards of civility" regardless of the potential adverse impact on rights protected by the NLRA. Even if you're not offended by that conclusion, you might agree that it would have been good form to at least wait until the issue was presented before announcing the new rule. For years, Board Members have not so subtly indicated that they were willing to consider overturning certain precedents by dropping footnotes indicating that they do not "pass" on the validity of a particular case. At other times, the Board has explained that it was relying upon a particular precedent only because no party had challenged that precedent. But, the guiding principle has generally been, in the words of Chief Justice Roberts, that "if it is not necessary to decide more to a case, then … it is necessary not to decide more to a case." While it can be helpful for the Board to use adjudication to lay out broad rules, until now the understanding has been that it will at least wait until the issue is clearly presented.
The only apparent justification for the rush to release these five decisions is that Chairman Miscimarra's term ended on Saturday. But, President Trump will have an opportunity to name a successor, so even on purely partisan grounds, there is no excuse for the rush to judgment.
Without any apparent irony, in the Boeing case, the Republican majority justified overturning a thirteen year-old decision (a decision by the Bush Board) by referring to the Board's responsibility to "promote labor relations stability." These cases will have the exact opposite effect not just in the short term, but also because now future Democratic-majority Boards will no longer feel bound by procedural norms that have acted as a check on further abrupt swings from one administration to the next. Unions had a long list of anti-worker Board decisions that they wanted the Obama NLRB to overturn. But many of those precedents are still on the books because the issues were never presented to the Board. If the circuit courts allow the Trump Board to reach out and decide questions that are not squarely presented, then we can expect a series of head-spinning reversals as soon as there is a Democratic majority on the Board.


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Green smoothies are all the rage nowadays. I remember peering skeptically at my first one-- how could a green drink actually taste good? It just doesn't look as appetizing as a nice bright pink drink.
But, what I was forgetting is that you can throw in lots of yummy white foods to sweeten the green ones, and it still qualifies. Pears, bananas, and apples are all sweet and help give your smoothie body and flavor.
Green smoothies are full of fiber, and because all the veggies are smashed up already, your body has no trouble absorbing them! All those great vitamins and minerals go right into your body. Forget what vitamins come from which fruits and vegetables?
Have you heard of Kris Carr and her book Crazy Sexy Diet? Her story is truly amazing-- she was diagnosed with cancer and then decided she was going to change her life and diet, and she cured it. She made green juices and smoothies famous and crazy, sexy cool.
Once you get the hang of how to make a green smoothie, you can make the recipe up on your own.
First, select any of these greens...
Then add a combination of fruits...
Then blend with a watery vegetable, a little juice, ice, nondairy milk, or water.
I could go on and on. There's really nothing that can't be added into a green smoothie, and you don't need to follow a recipe for it to be delicious and packed with plant nutrition.
One thing that's really helpful is to have a great blender. I love my Vitamix blender because it pulverizes everything within 15 seconds, but if you can find one that will crush ice, you will be fine. If you're looking for a good deal on a Vitamix, check out their certified reconditioned machines. They are used machines but fixed up to be as good as new, and they carry the Vitamix guarantee.
2-3 fruits
1-2 watery vegetables like cucumber, celery, or squash
1 large bunch of greens
Blend fruits first, then add watery vegetables and then greens. You can add ice if you have a great mixer, or some cold water to thin the smoothie.
Serves 2-3.
1-2 carrots
1 orange
1 ripe banana
1 c. spinach or swiss chard
1/3 c. ice
Blend orange and banana, then add carrots and ice. This won't come out completely green, but it's so sweet and smooth that it's a great place to start.
Serves 2.
2 mangoes
1 bunch parsley
1/3 c. ice
Blend mangoes, then add parsley and ice.
Serves 2.
2 pears
2 mangoes
1 c. blueberries
1 c. greens
1/3 c. ice
Blend pears and mangoes, then add blueberries, greens, and ice. In the VitaMix, just add everything together at once and blend!
Serves 2-3.
3 pears
1/2 c. raspberries
5 leaves of kale
1/3 c. ice
Blend pears and raspberries, then add kale and ice. In the VitaMix, just add everything together at once and blend!
Serves 2-3.
I'm an affiliate for Vitamix, which means if you buy through my link, you can save money and I get a commission. I only recommend products that I absolutely love and use daily and that I recommend to my best friends and family, so you can be sure I'm sincere in my reviews.


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Are you frustrated with patches of dry skin that seem relentless? Do you feel like your skin is always itchy, no matter what you try or how much you moisturize? Seeking the help of a dermatologist could make all the difference for you! Contact us today at the Dermatology Center of the Rockies to schedule a consultation! We proudly serve you from Estes Park, CO, and Longmont, CO!
What Is Eczema?
Eczema is a skin condition that results in patches of dry, itchy skin. The most common form of this skin condition is atopic dermatitis, and, while this condition is chronic and incurable, there are options available to help lessen the effects and symptoms such as:
Bumps that are red in color and raised from the skin
Common symptoms of eczema include:
- Dry skin
- Frequent and severe itching
- Patches that are red to brownish-gray in color on areas of the body like the ankles, bends of elbows and knees, chest, eyelids, face, feet, hands, neck, upper chest, or wrists
- Skin that is sensitive or swollen from scratching
- Thickened or cracked scalp
Symptoms of eczema vary for each person, and flares of the condition may manifest themselves differently.
What Affects Eczema?
Eczema is a skin condition that can be easily affected both positively and negatively.
Some of the triggers of eczema flares include:
- Animal dander or saliva
- Cough, cold, or flu symptoms
- Dust
- Excessive sweating
While there are various things that can irritate this skin condition, there are also several ways to help prevent skin from becoming dry and itchy. Some at-home self-care steps include:
- Avoiding triggers and irritants as much as possible
- Drying carefully after bathing
- Moisturizing regularly and at least twice a day
- Taking shorter showers or baths
- Using only gentle soaps and cleaning products
Eczema itself is caused by a variety of factors. Common influences are allergies, asthma, and genetic history. Location can also affect this condition as residents of cities or polluted areas tend to show symptoms more often.
Can I Treat Eczema?
Eczema cannot be cured, but many people outgrow this skin condition as they get older. If it persists, eczema can be controlled. A consultation with a member of our team in Colorado is the best way to learn the best way to treat your symptoms. Some possible treatment options available include antihistamines, oral antibiotics, or topical corticosteroid medications. These treatments should help reduce the effects of eczema, but results will vary.
Schedule Your Consultation!
If you have more questions or concerns about eczema, contact us today at the Dermatology Center of the Rockies! We invite you to schedule a consultation with our team in either of our offices in Estes Park or Longmont, Colorado, to learn more about skin conditions. Contact us today!