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There are several places you can go to help you find a doctor if you don’t yet have one. Or if the doctor you are currently seeing is not a good fit for you. Obviously, your local phone book isn’t a bad place to start. But there are also some online resources that are worth checking out. Here are some of our favorites.

  • The American Academy of Dermatology has a ‘Find A Dermatologist’ feature that only requires you to type in your zip code and the radius in miles around your home that you want them to search. You can also pick a specialty within dermatology, and ‘Hair Disorders’ is one of the options.
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DRM protection has slowly but surely played a part in damaging and harming the PC games market. Finding new ways to hinder pirates has had the side effect of harming paying customers of the game. Read on for more on this phenomenon, detailing the impact of DRM protection on PC gaming.

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    DRM Protection In PC Gaming

    Digital Rights Management (DRM for short) is a means for developers of many commercial media products to enforce licensing and verification limiters on their property. The sphere of PC gaming has been critically affected by this faux-security system, with many games companies trying to alleviate pirating or simply making the game more secure, inherently damaging the PC game sales market as a byproduct of their actions.

    Although both stances for and against DRM protection can be morally justified, this article will try to shed light on the issue of DRM protection in PC gaming and the widespread use of DRM software to stop pirates etcetera, also trying to analysis its overall impact on the market and more importantly its players.

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    The Beginnings of DRM Protection

    Vista 007 DRM protection is a fairly recent phenomenon in PC gaming, however the roots of its nefarious nature could be pointed towards almost 7 years ago, when the Steam application was launched to coincide with the release of Half Life 2. Requiring an internet connection to use the system, for initial installation purposes, the platform was condemned by a very vocal set of players. However the widespread proliferation of internet access with broadband alleviated the problems faced with this system and many PC players soon shrugged at the malaise of aggrieving opinion shown towards Steam.

    This almost insular platform led to many companies trying to seek new forms of DRM protection, creating specific DRM software, to both limit the number of installs and verify the retail disc is being used. By 2008, DRM protection was being widely used as a deterrent to both regular customers and pirates of the games, with many notable games having huge numbers of torrented or downloaded versions available online.

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    Spore: An Example of DRM Going Too Far?

    DRM 001 One such example comes from the EA released Spore, which needs an activation and verification via the internet every 10 days, with the addition of DRM protection to limit the installations to three. Although Spore became one of the most highly pirated games of all time, companies such as EA, Ubisoft and Atari began to implement stricter controls on their products, with SecuROM and DRM software coming to the fore in many posthumous releases.

    This DRM software began to limit paying customers, impeding their experiences with a given game, causing a wave of unrest and angst towards this DRM protection progression. With a selection of games including Bioshock, Mass Effect and Spore now carrying this authentication and rigorous process of DRM protection; PC gaming enthusiasts began to splinter as to which side to ally themselves to.

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    Ubisoft & DRM Software

    While the situation was tempered throughout most of 2009, due to a relinquished state of DRM-free games from companies like Ubisoft and EA, the release of Assassin’s Creed 2 provided a hotly debated and almost hilariously suppressive DRM system. In it, the game would need a running internet connection at all times, relaying data from the players computer to Ubisoft servers.

    Also, the game would not include a fully packaged install with the disc, meaning players would be given packets of game data via there online connection to the Ubisoft servers. In effect, players were streaming portions of their game, thus initially eliminating full pirated copies of Ezio’s adventures. However the pirating community, especially when it sees a moral violation to play off, went on a crusade against Ubisoft and Assassin’s Creed 2 in particular. Cracking the game to no longer require the Ubisoft server connection.

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    Bypassing DRM Protection

    DRM 002 This showcases a key problem with DRM; it isn’t truly effective and will inevitably be bypassed. Persistent hackers and pirates will end up cracking the game and either removing or finding work-around’s for the DRM protection software in place. Even if SecuROM attempts to verify the disc, the player can just copy an image of the game CD onto a blank disc and run the software to no ill effect, curtailing the apparent impediment.

    Eventually this problem extends to real paying customers, who are forced to go through these DRM tactics without ever doing anything illegal, effectively being victimised by the developers who aren’t targeting them in the first place. A key example once again comes from Spore and its limited number of installs.

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    Are Paying Customers Being Abused Due To DRM Software?

    When the game, bought at a retail price of between $30-50 new, has only a maximum number of times the game can be installed on a different system (let alone the same one) it seems salient to point out the rather unnecessary need for this particular DRM protection.

    Basically turning the purchase of the game, of which regular customers should be entitled, into nothing more than a lease or rent for a limited install time period. Not too mention this idea having no relevance to stopping illegal downloads or other forms of piracy while hampering valid users who happen to format their hard drives on a semi-regular basis.

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    The Future of DRM Protection Software

    Backup 003 While companies are still trying to find ways to hinder both pirates and actual paying customers, the PC gaming market grows ever weaker and only games like Starcraft II or Valve developed shooters can circumvent the frustration and overall descension into mediocrity. It is an unfortunate state of affairs and one that cannot be solved easily, however to truly work towards winning the battle, publishers should learn to be savvy with their DRM protection.

    Instead of forcing legitimate players into needless tasks of authentication and proverbially making them jump through hoops, publishers could at least try and invest in their games quality as opposed to the quality of its DRM software. This is a problem that will likely envelop plenty more PC based titles in the future, with no apparent end or justifiably tangible solution in sight.

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    Further Reading

    Still looking for further topics and articles relating to the issues of video games a medium? Click the links for some further subjects and analysis across a range of topics;

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By: Martha Roberts, Attorney with the U.S. Climate Legal and Regulatory Program at EDF.

The Clean Power Plan oral argument is coming up soon. On September 27, attorneys will present their arguments in front of the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

EPA and the many supporters of the Clean Power Plan have already filed their written arguments – and so has the coalition of coal companies and their allies that are challenging the rule. (You can read all their submissionshere.) And just yesterday, the D.C. Circuit released the finalorder on the argument’s format and duration.

The Clean Power Plan is America’s first-ever nationwide program to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. It sets eminently achievable carbon emission targets that phase in gradually, in line with current power sector trends, while giving states and power companies tremendous flexibility to determine how best to meet these goals.

As we approach September 27, here are five key facts to keep in mind:

  1. The Clean Power Plan has supporters across the country.

Power companies and state and local officials in forty-one states are supporting the Clean Power Plan in court – either through their state attorney general, a local power company, or a municipality. And there are a lot more supporters as well.

The final submitted briefs reflect a wide array of important perspectives in our society. Supporters of the Clean Power Plan in court include:

  • Leading businesses. Power companies that produce about 10 percent of our nation’s electricity as well as prominent, iconic businesses including Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Google, IKEA, Mars, and Microsoft
  • States and municipalities. 18 states and 60 cities, including major cities in states that are litigating against these protections – like Houston, Grand Rapids, and Miami
  • Consumers Union and other organizations addressing the economic benefits for consumers and low income ratepayers from expansive, low cost clean energy solutions
  • 41 faith communities including the National Council of Churches and the Catholic Climate Covenant
  • Numerous renewable energy companies that are members of the Advanced Energy Economy, American Wind Energy Association, and Solar Energy Industries Association, which together represent more than 3,000 companies in the advanced energy sector, a $200 billion industry in the United States
  • 25 business associations including American Sustainable Business Council, U.S. Black Chambers, Inc., as well as state associations from West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, among others
  • Current and former members of Congress, including 36 sitting Senators and 157 sitting members of the House
  • Leading public health associations such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • National security experts including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
  1. The legal and technical foundation of the Clean Power Plan is rock solid.

The Supreme Court has affirmed EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act three times since 2007. In American Electric Power v. Connecticut (2011), the Supreme Court specifically held that section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act – the provision that underlies the Clean Power Plan – “speaks directly” to the regulation of carbon pollution from existing power plants.

EPA exhaustively analyzed the Clean Power Plan to ensure that it was based on the best available technical information and would not compromise the affordability or reliability of our electricity supply. EPA also reviewed millions of comments, received on every aspect of the proposed version.

A range of renowned experts have affirmed the robust legal and technical bases for the Clean Power Plan in amicus brief submissions to the D.C. Circuit, including:

  • The Institute for Policy Integrity — represented by New York University Law Dean Emeritus Richard Revesz
  • Former EPA Administrators William Ruckelshaus and William Reilly, who served under Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush — represented by Harvard Law School’s Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus
  • Leon Billings and Tom Jorling — the principal drafters of the 1970 Clean Air Act
  • Former state energy and environmental officials — including Larry Soward, Commissioner at the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality under Texas Governor Rick Perry
  • Premier electric grid experts, who affirmed that EPA’s approach is fully in line with on-going power sector trends
  • Top climate scientists, who articulated the latest research on observed and projected impacts from our changing climate
  1. The tremendous pace of clean energy development further reinforces the Clean Power Plan’s reasonableness.

The cost of renewable energy is falling at an extraordinary rate, spurring dramatic expansion in its use. Thecostof new wind power has dropped 60 percent — and the cost of new solar by 80 percent — since just 2009.

Renewable energy is anticipated to make up approximately 63 percent of new capacity additions in 2016. In fact, the amount of new renewable energy capacity developed in the first three months of 2016 exceeded new natural gas by a factor of more than seventy to one. Almost 100 gigawatts of additional new renewable energy resources are now projected in the United States by 2020, and annual investment in energy efficiency hasquadrupled in the last decade.

America’s powerful clean energy trends further buttress the feasibility of the Clean Power Plan’s targets. But you don’t have to take our word for it — because power companies have said so themselves.

In their Clean Power Plan filing, major power producers emphasized their strong support for the Clean Power Plan, highlighting that it “harnesses existing trends within the electricity sector” and was set “with ample margin and attention to what is practically attainable.”

As the companies noted, both they and the power sector in general have “have successfully reduced emissions within their generation portfolios without compromising reliability and will continue to do so” under the Clean Power Plan.

Dominion Resources, an owner of several large coal-fired power plants in the Mid-Atlantic, affirmed the feasibility of compliance in a lengthy amicus brief submitted in support of the Clean Power Plan.

  1. States and power companies are charging ahead.

On February 9, 2016, the Supreme Court stayed enforcement of the Clean Power Plan in an unprecedented order. Nonetheless, states and power companies are voluntarily moving ahead, in recognition of the tremendous value in following the Clean Power Plan’s flexible, sensible approach to achieving emissions reductions.

More than half of states are continuing to assess planning options under the Clean Power Plan. 14 states across the country have explicitly requested that EPA continue providing information and guidance to help them make informed decisions about potential Clean Power Plan obligations as they continue moving forward.Californiadeveloped its proposed Clean Power Plan state plan in a year and released it for public comment earlier this month. State officials across the country have voiced support for sensible continued planning — as one Wyoming state legislator put it, “Wyoming should be prepared.” (See a full compilation of state statements on the Clean Power Plan here.)

Power companies across the country have expressed similar sentiments. A representative from Mid-American Energy highlighted that they “wish” the stay hadn’t happened, because of the resulting uncertainty. American Electric Power, a major producer of coal-fired electricity, said that the Supreme Court stay “doesn’t change our focus on the diversification of our generation fleet,” and those diversification plans include more gas and renewables. Power companies are already investing in clean energy in response to the market and their customers — for these companies, any delay in planning creates needless risk and uncertainty.

  1. This record-breaking summer highlights just how urgently we need sensible climate protections.

It’s challenging to encapsulate all the extreme weather we’ve witnessed in 2016. Just in the U.S., we’ve experienced a series of dangerous heat waves, deadly floods, and extreme storms. This week’s flooding in Louisiana is just the latest heart-rending example — with lives tragically lost and upended across the state. Yesterday, NASA announced that July 2016 was the warmest month ever in 136 years of modern record-keeping. According to the World Meteorological Organization, 2016 is firmly on track to be the warmest year yet. The Weather Channel noted all of these wild weather events from the first six months of 2016 togetherhere, in a website on 2016’s “Weirdest Weather.” All these events are fully in line with the hotter, more extreme weather that’s predicted under a changing climate.

Meanwhile, new research only underscores the human health costs of climate change. Mitigating the human health impacts of climate change will add to the Clean Power Plan’s substantial health benefits from reducing soot and smog pollutants. EPA estimates that once the Clean Power Plan is fully implemented, these reductions will — every year — avoid 3,600 premature deaths, 1,700 heart attacks, 90,000 asthma attacks, and 300,000 missed workdays and schooldays.

These climate risks and essential health benefits highlight the importance of having a mandatory framework to ensure emissions reductions. Clean energy trends are already charging ahead, but investors need the certainty that the Clean Power Plan provides — and all Americans’ health and well-being are depending on it.

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Oh Canada, our home and native land
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J. Geils Band The Jewish Rolling Stones All but one of the band's members were Jewish; oddly, J. Geils was the band's lone Gentile. Todd W. Zimmerman
Jackie Gleason The Great One Gleason also had a jazz orchestra in the 50s and 60s. His theme music could be heard on both "The Honeymooners" and "The Jackie Gleason Show". Paul Bear
Jacob Olds Crouton He was eating a salad one day with the rest of the band in Atlanta, and decided that his nickname should be Crouton Heidi
jacoby shaddix coby dick  katie vibbert
Jacoby Shaddix Coby Dick  SG1200
Jacoby Shaddix Mr. Dick Possibly from his other nickname, Coby Dick. Travis
Jacoby Shaddix Jonny Vodka I'm guessing this is from his love of alcohol. Travis
Jacoby Shaddix Dakota Gold, Jonny Vodka, Coby Dick Except for Jonny Vodka, they are versions of the lead singer of Papa Roach's full name: Jacoby Dakota Shaddix. Alex
Jacoby Shaddix Coby Dick He only used this name until 2001 Travis
Jacoby Shaddix John Doe He just decided to call himself John Doe. Travis
Jacoby Shaddix Dakota Gold His middle name is Dakota. Travis
James Brown The Hardest Working Man In Show Business  Martha Hankins
James Brown Soul Brother Number One  Martha Hankins
James Brown The Godfather of Soul  SusanG
James Euringer Little Jimmy Urine He once drank his own urine on stage. Gabe x
James Shaffer Munky This nickname comes from the thing that James thinks he has a feet like monkeys do. hushabye
James Taylor Sweet Baby James From one of his hit songs. Martha Hankins
Janet Jackson Dunk A chubby kid, Janet Jackson was given the nickname "Dunk" by her late brother Michael because her size made her look like a donkey.  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Janet Jackson Dunk When she was little, her brother Mike gave her this nickname because she looked like a donkey. redsimba
Janis Joplin Pearl A native of Port Arthur, Texas, her memorabilia is featured in their Museum of the Gulf Coast. Martha Hankins
Jason White Balduducci Jason White (Green Day Backing guitarist) is belived to be Balducci from Green Day's Alias band The Network Optimsu Lime
Jason White (Green Day) Frisco Lee  He used it as a fake name for Green Day's alias band the Foxboro Hot Tubs Optimus Lime
Jay -Z Lucky Leftie  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jay-Z Jigga Jay-nigga Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jay-Z Hova Hova is short for the biblical Jehovah. dxman
Jay-Z S-dot S. Carter= Sean Carter Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jay-Z Jigga  dxman
Jay-Z Jayhova or God fo Rap  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jay-Z Joe Camel  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jay-Z Iceberg Slim  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jay-Z Jazzy  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jay-Z Jay Zeezy  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jennifer Lopez J. Lo  SusanG
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Bennifer When they were a coupe in the media... Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jermaine Jackson  Muhammed Abdul Aziz When he embraced Islam... Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jerome Fontamillas Romey  Mike C.
Jerry Butler The Iceman  Soul
Jerry Garcia Captain Trips/Mr. Trips  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jerry Lee Lewis The Killer Probably because of the way he pounded on the ivories. SusanG
Jessica Simpson Jessica Simpleton She thinks a can of Chicken of the Sea has chicken, not tuna in it. Duh! Millenium Knight
Jessica Simpson Yoko Romo From when she was with Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys!!! Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jessica Simpson Jessica Simps Coined by P!nk. Mister Bufu
Jim Morrison The Lizard King  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jim Morrison Mr. Mojo Risin An anagram of his actual name. Martha Hankins
Jim Morrison The Lizard King Originally from one of the songs by the Doors SusanG
Jimmy Page The Hammer of the Gods  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jimmy Rushing Mr. Five By Five The jazz singer's nickname comes from his short, squat build. Todd W. Zimmerman
Job For A Cowboy JFAC  Travis
Joe Cocker The Sheffield Steel  Amoriah
Joe McIntyre Joe Mac Derrived from the first three letters of his first name and the first three letters of his last name. Celeste
Joe Satriani The Boogieman  GlamRockNinjaLord
Joey Fatone Joey Fat One Nicknamed by dance instructor Kym Johnson when she and Fatone were partners on "Dancing With The Stars". boyband
John Bonham Bonzo Drummer from Led Zeppelin. Agrimorfee
john entwistle thunderfingers he was the loudest known man on stage(bill wyman) starcasediver
john entwistle the ox for his strong constitution and his ability to eat,drink and do more than the rest of the band.  staircasediver
John Flansburgh Flansy Flansy or Flans is a nickname the fans of "They Might Be Giants" gave him. Brent F
John Kriftmeyer Al Sobrante   Optimus Lime
John Lennon Dr. Winston O'Boogie He was credited by this name when collaborating on other performers' albums (particularly Harry Nilsson). Winston was his middle name at birth, from Winston Churchill. Martha Hankins
John Mellencamp John Hoosier Melonhead "Melonhead" is a laudatory appellation, an affectionate word for a cool dude in Ohio. The Djs at radio station Q-FM-96 often refer to the Hoosier rocker by this nick name. Buckeye James
John Mellencamp John Hoosier Melon Head In Ohio, "melon head" is an affectionate complementary appellation, Mellencamp is very popular here in the Midwest, and John is a Hoosier - he's from Indiana. The Columbus, Ohio radio station WLVQ -FM (Q-FM-96) DJs often refer to John by this nickname.  Buckeye Jimmy
John Mellencamp L'il Bastard He once co-produced a Mitch Ryder album with that name. June Buggs
John Paul Jones Jonesy I have seen articles where other members of Led Zeppelin had called him "Jonesy" in direct quote. Linkletter
Johnny Cash The Man in Black  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Johnny Cash Man in Black  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Johnny Cash The Man In Black  Rachel Stedman
Jon Bon Jovi Captain Kidd  JoviChick
jonas brothers JB  charlene cabisca
Jonas brothers jo hoes lol i hate the jo bros lol nicey
Jonas Brothers Jo Bros  Creedjaya
Jordan Hastings Ratbeard 'Ratbeard' replaced drummer Jesse Ingelevics in the Canadian band Alexisonfire.  julia!
Jordan Knight JordanK Short for Jordan Knight Celeste
Jordin Sparks Spanky  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jordin Sparks J Speezy or Jordin Speezy  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jordin Sparks Jo-Jo  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Jorg Michael Uncle Jorgie Lauri Porra (Stratovarius bassist, Jorg's the drummer for Stratovarius) coined the nickname on Youtube. Chandra
Josh Groban JG, J-G, or JaG All plays on his name Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Josh Groban Grobie  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Joshua Olds Fatty He was always a chubby kid growing up, so his brothers decided to nickname him Fatty! Heidi
Judas Priest Metal Gods UK Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Julia Dietze 10 On the Richter Scale Due to her role in the "Iron Sky" movie as beautiful blonde Aryan Renate Richter. Her singing part was cut from the movie. Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Junkie XL JXL He carried this name for an Elvis Presley remix because The King's estate disapproved of the word "Junkie". Tommy
Justin Bieber Justin Beaver what is "beaver" a slang word for? Then there's that voice.. Safety Dancer
Justin Bieber The Beebs/Biebs/Baby Biebs Fan nicknames Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Justin Bieber Justin Beaver He was selected in a poll as Best New WOMAN Singer of the Year. A lot of people think he's just a "sissy/ninny" anyway. Need I say more? I Love Rock-and-Roll
Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Justlena or Gober Hot teen couple combo Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Justin Timberlake J.T.  Boy
Justin Timberlake Justin Tinkerbell a referring nickname for those who think JT is a sissy. After all, he was in N*SYNC and that's pretty sucky enough right there! Wardrobe Malfunction My Foot
Justin Timberlake Trousersnake British tabloid name that baffles J.T.!!! Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Justin Timberlake Curly  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Justin Timberlake Bounce  Robert D. Arndt Jr.
Justin Timberlake Mr. Smooth  Robert D. Arndt Jr.

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Thursday, September 28th, 2017

I added a new kind of interview to the mix this season by talking with a California family and their home designer for this month’s issue of HGTV magazine. The story highlights a fresh before and after makeover of the Ueberroth family home in Costa Mesa, CA.

They revamped their slightly dark and dreary former house into a light, bright home for their vibrant family of five—with a lot of paint and without tearing down walls.

Check out their gorgeous home in the sixteen-page feature in the September 2017 issue.

You can read the full story here: A California Home Gets an Impressive New Look. But in the meantime, here’s a taste of some of that decor…

Secrets of a Real Optimist

Monday, July 6th, 2009

It’s always good to talk to someone who shares my optimistic viewpoint on life and love and everything in between. I found that when I spoke with Star Trek and House star, Jennifer Morrison for the July/August cover of Health magazine.

Here’s page one, for a taste of the article. You can read the whole interview in the July/August issue, or head to Health.com to see what she had to say.


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India's Shadow Chase

Ref:15/Article/01 of 14 January, 2015                                                               By Kalidas (Anil Selarka)

The Elections are won on rhetoric. The slogans are invented based on the current perceptions of the masses so that they can be addressed by playing them up in loops until the election process is over.

BJP led by vibrant face of Narendra Modi judged the mood of the people against corruption and scandals correctly and orchestrated national campaign of Congress hatao, desh ko bachao. (Remove Congress, Save the Nation). He galvanized the nation with his indomitable spirit reminiscent of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a renowned freedom fighter and close ally of Mahatma Gandhi. Modi used modern technology, like conveying his views through Face book, and secured massive and convincing mandate from the people by leading BJP (or Bhajap) into a single party majority in the parliament.

PM Modi, equipped with massive mandate and clean image against the backdrop of tainted politicians of Congress, had to face uphill task of dealing with the stark reality – high inflation, slow growth, high current account and bloated budget deficits. All he needed was the massive amount of money in the coffer. He recounted his election promise of bringing back into the country massive amount of black money suspected to have been stashed overseas, especially in Tax haven like Switzerland which he singled out without doing enough home work.

Narendra Modi in pensive mood

Narendra Modi in pensive mood

When a doctor wants to treat a disease, he has to diagnose it with clinical accuracy. He should have facts straight, all X rays and pathological reports on his table, have the expert colleagues endorse his diagnosis; and then only he could venture into critical surgery. Wrong facts, reports, analysis, concepts and prejudices invariably lead to wrong diagnosis that would lead to wrong medicines, thereby killing or paralyzing the patient on his operating table.

Modi is a politician, not an expert on economy. His belief backed by popular views that the lakhs of crores of black money were lying outside India was terribly wrong – I will prove it later. He did not have basic idea – why, how, when and where the black money was generated and then stored. He thought that all black money were in the form of “physical currency or electronic money” and must be in bank account, which was outrageous and wrong. He, and for that matter Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, do not have faintest idea whether or not so called money are stacked overseas in physical or electronic form or in some form of other assets. Pic10_Black Money Dr. Subramanian Swamy and his bizarre claim…. Modi was backed in his belief by so called Harvard educated economist – Dr. Subramanian Swamy of his own BJP party, who filed PIL (Public Interest Litigation) in Supreme Court to bring the black money back home, estimated to run into several lakhs of crores. He also alleged that more than 1.2 million bank accounts of the tax dodgers in India exist in foreign banks. Dr. Swamy never backed up his claim how did he acquire or arrive at the numbers. Although he proclaims to be an expert economist educated at Harvard University of United States, never did he give a single constructive suggestion to improve the core economy or any other social issues in his last 40 years of his political and parliamentary career.

Not so easy to open Foreign Bank Accounts…….
Being NRI living in United States and Hong Kong alternately, I know for sure how difficult it is to open a bank account in normal course. Most banks in United States and also in non- US countries are governed by Patriot Act (a US Law) under which banks and financial institutions are required to observe strict rules (known as KYC or Know Your Customer rules) for opening an account. They open the account only after satisfying potential customer’s full identity with a view to eliminating the possibilities of money laundering later.

Further, the banks in foreign countries usually insist on minimum balance from USD 1250 to 4000 in normal accounts and over $25,000 for premium accounts. Let us evaluate his outlandish claim of foreign bank accounts.

Not every bank account overseas held by some Indian names are tax dodgers from India. As per Government of India’s survey in 2012 <http://moia.gov.in/writereaddata/pdf/NRISPIOS-Data%2815-06-12%29new.pdf>, about 21.90 million Indians or about 5 million families live abroad known as NRI (Non Resident Indians) and PIO (Persons of Indian Origins). Most of them are poor laborers living in Malaysia, Sri Lanka and petty job earners in Middle East (See the above cited report).

However, the rich Non Resident Indians of about 5 millions live in wealthy countries like US, UK, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and other tax havens. Most of such bank balances are tax paid legal money as they pay the taxes to their host governments. Just because their names are sounding “Indian” does not mean their savings belong to tax dodgers of domestic Indians. If we presume that of alleged 1.2 million accounts overseas were held by domestic Indians with average balance of $100,000 per account (Rs 60 lakhs) – no wealthy man would open foreign account with small amount – total amount that would have been held by local residents abroad would be $120 billion ( 1.2 mil x $100,000 = $ 120,000 million) or Rs. 720,000 crores or Rs 7.20 lakh crores ($ 1 Million = Rs 6 crores @ Rs 60 per dollar). The potential tax loss to the national exchequer (Income Tax Dept.) would be 33% or Rs 2.40 lakh crores. This is absurd as proved later.

Remitting alleged money abroad via “hawala” routes… It is extremely dangerous to send the money abroad using “hawala” trades. One has to depend on the unknown hawala trader to pay honestly abroad in a bank account. Also, the cost of hawala is anywhere between 3% to 5% depending on the experience of the concerned local Indian remitter. Most hawala trades are being conducted through Dubai (60%), Hong Kong (10%), Singapore(15%) and London (15%). Advanced countries including Switzerland are rarely used since large remittances attract the attention of their respective central banks.

Ever since UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland) disclosed thousands of names of US Investors considered potential tax defaulters, major investors have started distrusting “Switzerland” as preferred destination. UBS lost over $60 billions from under its management. Once considered almost second largest bank in the word after Citibank, UBS has paled into insignificance. HSBC, Switzerland who disclosed over 628 names to Government of India will also face the same fate. No one would trust HSBC if it does not respect the privacy of the investor customers. The actions by UBS and now HSBC in Switzerland would dissuade major investors from parking the money in Switzerland. Not every local Indian can remit or would remit money using hawala trades. He does not trust even a local friend or family member with paltry sum of Rs 1 lakh. Where is the question of his trusting unknown hawala traders with Rs 60 lakhs (= US$ 100,000 @ Rs 60/$)?

Wild and absurd estimates of black money parked abroad… The estimates of the Government of India or that of Global Financial Integrity (GFI – a think tank based in Washington DC) in United States, that over $500 billions (Rs 3,000,000 or 30 lakh crores) are being held by local Indians is therefore grossly inflated and highly unrealistic. ($1 = Rs 60; $1 million = Rs 6 crores; $1 billion = Rs 6,000 crores) Money in circulation is different from total capital and revenue assets of an individual. For instance, an Individual’s total assets including home, gold, car and cash may amount to Rs 1 crore at market value, but real cash saved in bank accounts or in hard cash may not exceed Rs 10 lakhs. If an individual earns Rs 1 lakh every month, he earns Rs 12 lakhs in a year. (Monthly income x Velocity or a factor of 12 for entire year). If he saves Rs 1 lakh per year after taxes (1/12th of his gross earnings), it would take him at least 8.25 years to accumulate the savings of Rs 10 lakhs in cash.

Businesses, where most black money is generated, the money rotates 4 to 6 times a year. That is, Rs 1 crore cash/credit/bank balance could generate sales revenue of Rs 4 to 6 crores per year (based on trade credit of 3 to 2 months respectively). If his net profit margin is say 6%, his savings after personal expenses would be hardly 1% of gross revenue (sales). In other words, for Rs 1 of black money, he should have Gross Revenue of Rs 100 or 100 times the black money. If we are to believe that $500 billions have been stashed outside (Net Income) and they are all black money, then the gross business revenue would have been 100 x $500 billion or $50,000 billions or $50 trillion!

The size of entire Indian economy is not even $1.5 trillions including black and white money, then in that case, how black money alone could have been 50 times GDP of entire Indian nation? Based on above, we can only conclude that most black money are not hoarded abroad. Over 95 % black money generated in India are being held locally (and not overseas) in various forms of assets as under:

1. In Real estate where every transaction entail 60:40 (white:black) ratio. Do you want to assess how much black money is generated by “Real Estate” sector per year? consider the following. Almost every real estate transaction, be it residential, commercial or industrial property, generates (source) and applies (application or utilization) black money depending on whether one is a seller or buyer. In Metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Surat and Ahmedabad, the deal ratio is 60:40 (White: Black money).

The population of Delhi is say, 2.8 crore. Presuming average family size of 4, there may be about 70 lakh families residing in Delhi. They need 70 lakh homes. Most of lower income group (LIG) or middle income group (MIG) live in chawls or small tenements rented for years. They do not generate lot of black money, as transactions are few and far between for such homes. Only those 10 to 20 years old are recently owned. Presuming that at least 40% are owned out of 70 lakhs homes, the total newly owned homes may be about 28 lakhs.

Let us presume that annual real estate transactions rate is 10% of such homes or say about 2.8 lakhs. One may use exact numbers from the Registrar of Property. Average size of each property transacted may be Rs 80 lakhs. The black money element is 40% or say, Rs 32 lakhs per apartment or home. If there are 600,000 transactions in Delhi and Mumbai together in 2014, the amount of black money being generated (source) or applied (utilized) is 600,000 x Rs 32 lakhs (0.32 crore) = Rs 192,000 crores. (Rs 1.92 lakh crores).

In other centers, the black money generated would be Rs 50,000 crores (Ahmedabad), Rs 1 lakh crore each in Bangalore, Chennai and Surat – a city of diamond which business thrives only on black money. Even some of the names released by HSBC list are those of diamond merchants from Surat, Gujarat. A majority of diamond merchants in India are Gujaratis. These are only guesstimate. We have not considered Commercial and Industrial properties where the size of the deal is from few crores to thousands of crores.

Even chief of Sahara group is trying to sell his real estate for Rs 1,200 crores in Mumbai to get out of jail.

In other words, to arrive at reasonably correct numbers, we have to use registered value of property all over India x 2/3. Reason: If the gross value is Rs 1 crore and registered value Rs 60 lakhs, the black money portion is Rs 40 lakhs. Therefore, if we use registered value of the property as base, which is official number, the black money element is 40/60 or 2/3rd of registered value. If the Government works out the Registered value of all property on national level (including Homes, Offices and Industrial properties), it can arrive at the generation level of black money during the relevant period. (Say, 2014)

If Government extends this exercise for last 15 years at least, it will arrive at the extent of black money cumulatively generated and tied up in the real estate sector with 60 to 70% accuracy. I am 100% sure that the amount so arrived at will be several times the black money suspected in overseas bank accounts. By my rough guess, the extent of black money tied up in real estate sector over last 15 years will be not less than Rs 40 lakh crores.

Please note that the property value has risen only during last 7 years. In first 8 of last 15 years, the property value was hardly around 30% of current value. The extent of generation of black money in first 8 years may not be as much as they were in rest of 7 years.

2. In Agriculture land which is being transacted at “Ready Reckoner” value. It is just at 10% of real transaction value. The black money so generated goes into the hand of a farmer who is never investigated. The sale of agriculture land does not attract capital gain tax if the land is situated more than 8 km from the urban center or local City municipalities. Even sale of land is treated as agriculture income which is not subject to income tax. In other words, the black money is white washed once those lands are sold.

Supposing one has Rs 1 crore black money in cash. He buys agriculture land, say 10 acres, @ Rs 10 lakhs per acre. The official agreement value as per Ready Reckoner” will be just Rs 10 lakhs. Thus, his black money of Rs 90 lakhs is effectively employed. When he sells the said agriculture land for official value of Rs 50 lakhs (his cost Rs 10 lakhs), the surplus income of Rs 40 lakhs would not be taxable.

In other words, his black money to the extent of Rs 40 lakhs (out of Rs 90 lakhs originally) gets white washed officially. Call it a tax avoidance or tax planning. Most buyers of agriculture lands of large value are Doctors, Lawyers and local businessmen who receive most of their incomes without bills and pay little taxes by way of excise duty, sales tax, income tax and service tax.

Farmers too hold agriculture land, but they are “holy cow” and would not be touched even with 100 feet long pole by any government. Whereas farmers are a ”vote bank”, the black money holders are the “note bank” of any aspiring political party to fight election.

If Modi government goes all out to punish businessmen who are large black money holders, none of such businessmen would ever come forward to donate political contributions to BJP in forthcoming election in 2019. In other words, the present Modi or BJP government would lose that election hands down, and 2014-19 could prove to be last 5 years of its rule.

3. In Gold bullion, where most transactions in non urban sector (villages and towns) are in cash or mostly in black money. In large ABCD Metro cities (A = Ahmedabad, B= Bangalore and Bombay (now Mumbai), C= Chennai and D = Delhi) most gold being bought officially are in female names. A woman’s wealth is considered “untouchable” even from the powers of courts and income tax department because it is categorized as “stree dhan” or “married woman’s wealth”

India’s Net import of gold (Gross import – Gross Exports, the value added items like gold ornaments) is about $8 billion per year (Rs 48,000 crores). Gold is the destination of most businessmen’s tax avoidance money. The black money generated out of real estate or business operation gets invested largely into gold. If other sectors are “source” of black money, gold is the “application” of such money. If male folks make too much money, the very first hint goes to the lady of the house. And the very first item she wants to buy is gold. Thus, while husband generates black money, wife applies them skillfully in gold assets. After all, gold is a major gift away to loving daughter – millions of daughters marry every year.

The storage of Rs 1 crore cash needs at least two large suit cases whereas equivalent gold of 3.3 kg would take up only a small locker in a bank. This is why bank lockers are not so easily available to the public.

4. In Diamond, Whereas common men’s destination is gold, diamond is the preferred storage place or application of black money of very rich people. A diamond necklace may cost Rs 1 crore but needs very tiny place to hold it in a bank locker or safe at home. The entire diamond industry located in Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai and Surat is run and financed by black money. The diamond merchants are the largest hawala players dealing with the black money.

While diamond may be colored white, underlying money is black money.

5. In Mining, the mining sector is one of the largest creator and applicator of black money. Coal mines (biggest scam was in this sector recently), granite, marble or stone mines, (in Rajasthan, Karnataka and Andhra), mineral mines (like dolomite, alumina in Central India) , metal ore mines (aluminum, copper and iron) are the kind of industries run mainly by illiterate owners (called “angutha chhap” or thumb impressionists). Most miners are Marwaris (Rajasthan) and Gujaratis (Gujarat and Kutch) in the west; Chettiyars and Reddys in the south; Agarwals, Mehtas, Sarafs and Shroffs in the north, central and east India.

There is a light hearted joke which I heard when I was in my early college days. A growing child asked his Rajasthani mother – Maa, what is “paap“(sin) ? The mother said, ask your baap (father), he knows it too well. The son then went to his Rajasthani father and asked him same question – pitaji (father), what is sin, did you ever see it? The father adjusted his glasses, held the currency notes in his hands and replied – Kar bharna paap hai (Paying taxes is an act of “sin”). This is why the tax payments of any kind (excise, sales or income taxes) from the said mining sector and respective states is the lowest in India. This is a joke, so do not take offence.

6. Corruption, in the hands of Ministers in Central and State governments, municipalities, courts, government employees, tax collectors, public utilities, education especially in medical and engineering faculties, police and other law enforcing authorities. Since most activities are centered at State administration level, the corruption is widely prevalent and rampant in the states where federal (central) government may not have much control.

The common denominator is “power” . Where lies the power, there thrives the corruption. They are all small thieves but the sheer numbers of government and semi government employees make them one of the largest source of corruption and creator of black money. These persons ride the power and sell the “favors” for cash. (Black money)

These employees are fearless – they feel that once they are caught, their unions will fight for them and they may be transferred at the most . They never fear loss of job. Until their “job security” is threatened by decisive force, we can not stop this major source. Once these corrupt employees and ministers are caught, they should be dismissed (not suspended), their assets confiscated and all retirement benefits withdrawn. They should be booked and ruled within 3 months of concerned corruption incident.

Such corrupt government officers force the honest citizens to become corrupt as well. Say, in medical education, one needs to bribe Rs 12 to 20 lakhs to get the admission for his son or daughter. He does so by corrupting himself taking bribes in his employment or by avoiding payment of income taxes. Why should I pay the tax if the government can not assure me a clean and corruption free administration? He would argue.

We have tons of good laws to govern any kind of economic or social activity – but the efficacy lies only in honest implementation. We do not need new laws, but effective implementation of existing ones..

Are “Black Money holders” traitors? Not all of them. Only corrupt Ministers and government employees could be categorized as “traitors”. In fact, traitor is a very strong word and should be used with utmost discretion. Almost all Indians are patriots. They should not be abused as “traitors” for some innocent economic aberrations.

Most black money is generated by businessmen. They are the driving force of the economy. It is they who create employment. And in addition to their own tax payments, their engaged employees pay even more salary taxes than they do. Banish those businessmen, face multiple closure of businesses and consequent unemployment on massive scale.

We live in democracy where the majority has a right to rule. The businessmen are the largest contributors of taxes to the system. They deserve to be respected for their contributions in creating employment. However, we tend to tenderize them, abuse them, cry them wolf and make them “shaitan’ out of normal human being. We glorify the non tax payers like farmers, poor people, dalits etc. but vilify, abuse and hate tax payers who at times may be dodging some taxes. These businessmen are like “ chickens in the backyard who lay the golden eggs every morning”.

We should never kill such golden chickens. It is their money that goes into the subsidy or helping out poor, farmers, dalits etc. who never paid a paisa to the national exchequer in last 67 years of post independence. We have to understand why do they avoid taxes, and then only take bold steps to address deficiencies in the system so that they come back to tax payment mode by persuasion and not by force.

Tax avoidance is a human instinct and a natural phenomenon. It is as innocent as the stealing of pencil or rubber by a child from other student in his class. Even taking home of stapler, paper or gem clips from office also amount to “stealing” but everyone does that unconsciously. We can perhaps scold the child or an employee, but do not banish them from the society by labeling them as “chor” or “traitor”. Even Lord Krishna stole “makhhan or butter.” Don’t we worship him even then? We pardon his acts of aberration as “natkhat” only because such stealing is innocent and not accompanied by vicious mind.

Once we understand this notion, we can think of taking proper actions by not only unearthing the black money but also avoid its creation in future by installing suitable system. The taxation system has to be fair, equitable and honorable to the tax payers. How many times in last 67 years of independence did we honor, award and reward the largest tax payers in the country with titles like Padma Bhushan or Padma Vibhushan for doing exemplary service?.…. Never. We decorate dead people but forget the living legends.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is in a state of futile exercise. He can not get back enough money from overseas. The cost of recovery will far exceed the Income Tax collected, besides creating hatred and ill will amongst local businesses against BJP government. It will be a political suicide.

Most black money are lying within India right under our nose, which can be seen with naked eyes. One does not need binoculars to look thousands of miles away at Switzerland or elsewhere. We can not wield stick to get back black money. We need voluntary participation of such tax payers and infuse confidence in them that future tax system will be fair, rational, equitable, easy, vendetta less and meet the needs of large income earners.

Black Money and Black EconomyUnderstating India’s real  GDP by 30% to 40%
The belief that most black money are inactive and hoarded as cash, gold or other passive assets is terribly wrong. Black money is hyper active in Indian economy. The growth generated by such black money is not reflected in the official numbers for obvious reasons. India’s November 2014 annualized growth rate of about 5.5% is understated by at least 2.5%. India’s real growth could be anywhere between 7% to 8%.

What is Money?
The term “money” is not just the physical quantum or volume. The real money is = money (Volume) x Velocity (speed at which the volume circulates). The black money circulates faster than official or white money. For Instance, a businessman may give trade credit of 3 months for white money trades. In such cases, his Rs. 1 crore of trade credit may generate turnover of 4 crores in a year. He may also charge interest at annual rate of @ 12% to 15% depending on the creditworthiness of the buyer. The production or sales recorded in this turnover does get reflected in the official GDP numbers.

For black money related transactions, same businessman may give trade credit of 30 days. As such, his turnover in black market may record Rs 12 crores (12 x 1 crore of trade credit). The turnover so generated does not reflect in country’s GDP numbers. Further, the cost of financing is less at about 9% compared to 15% for white money trades. Most Marwaris (Rajasthanis), Gujaratis, Punjabis or Sindhis conduct such trade financing in the name of “Multani hundis” (similar to Promissory notes or Bill of Exchange for 30 days tenure). The amount is rolled over every month, where the borrower returns the money on last day and re borrows on very next day. This comforts the financier that the borrower does have outside resources or market credit to pay back his loan.

Multani Hundis or Discount Houses
Such financiers are known in the market as “Multanis” and therefore the promissory notes or hundis are known as “Multani hundis” . The cost of financing is lower because the turnover is faster, and the borrower is usually introduced by some good referees. In English, such financiers are known as “discount houses’ in South India (Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad) and in East India (Calcutta) where English is more prevalent.

Real GDP growth = Official GDP% + Unofficial GDP% (due to black money) In other words, the black money economy does not reflect in official numbers, except in electricity bills where no one can separate the electricity consumption between white or black money transactions. If the current growth rate has come down from high of 8% to 4.5% in terms of GDP, the consumption of electricity for commercial or business users have not come down, in fact it has gone up by nearly 10% nation wide, suggesting there is in fact rise, not slowness, in economic activity. The black economy is flourishing at the cost of official economy.

If one wants to know the real GDP or GDP growth rate, he has to sum up both activities – official economy and unofficial (black) economy. While the official economy numbers may be reliable, those of black economy will be just conjectural. It may be noted that all large expenses connected with the black money trades such as cost of rent, electricity, wages, salaries, transportation etc. get debited to official Profit & Loss account (white money transactions) reducing the taxable income. The income portion on black money is not included in the official accounts. The government loses on two counts – the profit is understated due to charging off expenses relating to black money trades, whereas the income generated on black money deployment is not included in the official accounts.

It raises the question – what is the real growth rate for India? Since the growth rate attributable to black economy is conjectural, the best bet is to use approximate % of official money to add up to overall growth. For instance, if the official growth rate is 5.5%, add to it 33% (1/3rd) being the contribution of black economy on conservative basis. It will give us real indicative growth rate of 5.5% + 33% of 5.5 = 5.5%+1.83% = 7.43% If the Income Taxes being collected from individuals is say Rs. 240,000 crores, the loss of income due to black money will be 33% or 1/3rd of declared taxes paid or Rs 80,000 crores. We can not include corporate sector, where large incomes can not be concealed due to compulsory audit of accounts.

Is it possible to extract black money and put them back to work into the system?
Yes, it is. I do have a comprehensive plan and strategy to extract not only more than 40 lakh crores of black money but also create innovative tax system where the honest tax payers are honored with privileges and lessen the importance of non tax payers who have contributed nothing to the nation for over 67 years.

We can achieve the target successfully in less than 18 months from the implementation of my exhaustive plan mentioned in this report that can place India on top of the world, ahead of even United States. The growth rate will return to 8% in 18 months and later over 11% in 30 months time.

Kalidas (real name,  Anil Selarka)
Aliso Viejo, California, United States dated January 14, 2015

The exhaustive plan (almost 450 pages document – I have spent months of my time) is a secret exercise which will be disclosed to the Government of India after agreeing to the terms of arrangement. “No Free Service” because my comprehensive plan will bring in additional Income Tax revenue of Rs. 10 lakh crores at marginal cost of just 2% to say the least.

I have sent this article in letter form to Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister, Rajnath Singh, Home Minister and Amit Shah, BJP President on 23/12/2014 with a copy of my book “Sub Prime Resolved”. No reply, acknowledgement  or response has been received until the time of this publication.


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Labetalol might have serious negative effects, but health care providers prescribe it if the potential benefits outweigh the potential for loss presented by these negative effects. People with certain conditions must not take labetalol. These conditions include allergy towards the drug; asthma, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema; severe heart failure, reduced heart rate (bradycardia), and heart block. People with liver disease should take labetalol with caution. People with angina who take labetalol ought not to stop taking the drug suddenly; instead, they ought to gradually taper off use during a period of up to 2 weeks. Visit hairline ink for more information.

Hair fall/ baldness can be-be extremely stressful of course if ignored can cause permanent baldness. There are several treatment procedures designed for thinning hair according to its intensity. It can cover anything from using over-the-counter anti-hair fall products to following an appropriate diet, occurring medications as well as invasive techniques like hair replacement surgeries. In 1997, hair transplant surgeons were given an alternative solution: a comparatively new absorbable suture called Monocryl. This stitch is a synthetic, monofilament suture that’s strong and easy to utilize. Additionally, Monocryl is categorized by hydrolysis (other seams require an engaged inflammatory response from the body).

Child Hair Loss And Its Causes Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:46:34 +0000 Continue reading "Child Hair Loss And Its Causes"]]> Hair loss is definitely an inevitable condition that one needs to face atleast once as part of his lifetime. Research has proved that there is a strong connection between healthier hair along with a healthy body. That is why whenever we fall sick it affects our hair too. Nutrients in blood nourish the head of hair follicles. If follicles of hair become weak, hair loses its grip or hold and results into hair fall. These nutrients are vitamins and without vitamins, hair won’t become healthy crop. So Thinning hair in ladies, specifically is quite different then that of men having different variations of thinning hair on the cranium.

What I mean by this is guys have thinning hair front throughout the temple regions & around the crown regions while women generally thinning apparent generally on the entire region over top of the cranium. Folliculitis, conversely, is inflammation from the strands of hair. This occurs when the follicles become contaminated with bacteria. The symptoms are small white spots, rashes, pustules, or small pimples round the hair follicle. Antibiotics or antifungal medications help control the infection. Folliculitis is usually responsive to treatment but reinfection also occurs. In severe infections, permanent baldness ca happen as a consequence of scarring with the scalp, visit for more information.

What exactly causes hair thinning in women; According to the America Academy of Dermatology, about 30 million American women are with all the hereditary condition which is quite common one of many nation. Normally a typical hair strand is replaced by the sized strand of hair that takes it place without delay, while women with female pattern thinning hair specifically have replacement hair follicles that are thinner & finer after a few of these replacement cycles eventually baldness occurs. The surgical treatment necessitates the elimination of areas which include more existing hair. Typically, such portions about the head include the back area as well as the side areas.

These medications help a great to re-grow the hair. Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:27:01 +0000 Continue reading "These medications help a great to re-grow the hair."]]> Hair loss is a kind of problem that numerous people experience daily worldwide according to hairlineink. Some people usually overlook it, while some just can?T accept it and are constantly on a be aware of a cure. One thing I want to mention here’s that a certain quantity of hair fall is common, it has happened to Everyone and qualifies as “hair loss” because new hair regularly replaces lost hair.

So if you visit a handful of hair breaking every time you adopt a shower or comb hair don’t get panicked and don’t get stressed over it thinking you are losing hair, the final thing for you to do becomes stressed over it then actually start losing hair due to stress. Langer-Giedion Syndrome, also called Trichorhinophalangeal Syndrome type II, is a rare contiguous gene disorder caused by the deletion or mutation of functional copies in the TRPS1 (604386) And EXT1 (608177) genes positioned on chromosome 8.

A contiguous gene syndrome is seen when deletions come about 2 or more genes which are located close to the other person on a chromosome. In this case the genes, TRPS1 & EXT1 are localized for the 8q24.11-8q24.13 the region of chromosome 8. Hair loss that faces men is recognized as Male Pattern Baldness. Male Pattern Baldness is a type of condition that’s faced by many people. Many reasons for thinning hair exist likely hereditary factors, lacking proper the Hair. By taking good care of hair in a very appropriate manner and knowing some important aspects according to the hair, the healthiness of hair may be improved.

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Pixar’s ‘Monsters’ to Fight Zombies This Weekend

This weekend is shaping up to be an interesting battleground between new arrivals Disney/Pixar’s much-awaited prequel Monsters University and Paramount’s intriguing Brad Pitt zombie movie World War Z. Pixar’s follow-up to the 2001 Monsters, Inc. has been receiving strong reviews and is expected to score about $70 million at the box office. Both Monsters U and World War Z begin their “weekend rollout,” on Thursday at 8 p.m.

Directed by Don Scanlon, Monsters University features a top-notch voice cast which includes Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Frank Oz and Helen Mirren. This 14th movie in the Pixar filmography has so far received a 77% [updated] on the Rotten Tomatoes critical overview website, which is lower than the studio’s 2012 effort Brave (78%) and Pixar’s 2010 favorite Toy Story 3 (99%), but higher than 2011′s Cars 2 (38%). Blue Umbrella, another well-reviewed short from Pixar, directed by Sachka Unseld, plays with the feature.

World War Z, which is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monster’s Ball, The Kite Runner), was the subject of some speculation after Damon Lindelof (Lost) was brought in to rewrite a new ending in the 11th hour in the film’s production. The pic features an excellent performance by Brad Pitt as a U.N. fighter and family man who races against time to contain some contagious zombies around the world. Audiences will also enjoy some fantastic 3-D visuals courtesy of production designer, art director Jon Billington and vfx supervisor Scott Farrar. ILM, Cinesite, Halon Entertainment, Moving Picture Company (MPC) and Legacy Effects are some of the key vfx houses contributing to the movie.

Both Monsters University and World War Z will also face Warner Bros. blockbuster Man of Steel, which has made over $235 million during its first week in release. However the Pixar’s film major competition arrives on July 3 in the form of Universal/Illumination’s Despicable Me 2, which has already generated a lot of good buzz and was one of the audience favorites at the recent Annecy festival.

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Aooni The Blue Monster
Ao Oni ~The Animation~ (JP)
Season: Fall 2016
Premiere Date: October 2, 2016

Ao Oni began as a freeware horror video game made with the RPG Maker XP program. Released by noprops in 2008, the game’s popularity inspired a three-volume light novel series in 2013, a manga anthology in 2014, and two live-action films in 2014 and 2015. Aooni The Blue Monster (Ao Oni ~The Animation~) is a series of comedic shorts. A 3D feature-length film based on the franchise will premiere in 2017. The original game is available to play for free in Japanese, English, and Italian.

There were rumors of a monster appearing in an abandoned mansion on the edge of town. Takuro–along with his classmates Takurō, Takeshi, and Mika–go to the mansion and are attacked by the monster, called the “Ao Oni” (lit. Blue Demon). Will the team be able to solve a multitude of mysteries and escape the mansion? Or…

Will they continue to live a hilarious and crazy life with the Ao Oni in the mansion!? The courage-testing life of four kids and their crazy antics with the Ao Oni begins.

Voice: Ryōta Ōsaka

A boy who has the aura of a protagonist and thinks scientifically. He’s always cool and calm, and is the brains of the group. However, his speed when running away is unparalleled.

Voice: Takahiro Mizushima

A boy who looks like the protagonist from his looks alone, but is in fact just a party-loving dude. Although he’s the one who sets the mood of the party, he also has a tendency to look down on others and is a bit overbearing. For some reason, he thinks that vinegar solves all of life’s problems.

Voice: Eri Kitamura

A girl who’s ranked as third cutest in her class. She agreed to participate in the test of courage despite being a coward because of her ulterior motive of wanting to get close to Takurō. She’s the self-proclaimed heroine of the group.

Voice: Shūta Morishima

The biggest coward of the group, Takeshi regrets his decision to join the test of courage. A lovable idiot who is hard to hate, even when he lashes out at the other members or makes nasty comments due to his fear.

Ao Oni

A naked, blueberry-colored giant who appears in the abandoned mansion at the edge of town.

He’s fast.

Where to Watch

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Chief Director: Toshirō Hamamura
Director: Chisei Maeda
Character Design: kichi
Series Composition/Scripts: Kanekoke
Music: Shiyu Yanagida
Sound Production: DAX Production
Animation: maxcaffy, Kagi, Poezan, Sena Makino
Original Creator: noprops
Original Character Design: Kyūta Sakai
Main Theme Song: “Kimi Koso Ao Oni” (You Are the Real Blue Demon) by Machigerita (from Book of Magic)
Animation Production: Studio DEEN

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Takahiro Mizushima as Takurō
Eri Kitamura as Mika
Shūta Morishima as Takeshi

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Soccer drills and skills

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What I Learned From the "Homeless Hotspots" Twitter Furor / by Anne Kreamer

When Emma Cookson, the Chairman of the New York branch of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), an award-winning ad agency, and her team concocted an innovative marketing program called Homeless Hotspots, they genuinely had no sense of the furor that they'd be facing when the project launched.The Homeless Hotspots program was meant to serve the needs of the super digerati who attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas. Inspired by the established model of homeless people earning money by selling homelessness-focused newspapers, BBH's idea was for homeless people, wearing T-shirts printed with their names and identifying themselves as 4G hotspots, to sell connectivity (an issue for conference attendees) by means of small handheld Wi-Fi routers.

Bad early-March weather kept the program mostly invisible until the third day of SXSW, when appalled commentary began to roil the Twitterverse. Cookson found herself in the unexpected position of having to react to a media tsunami — fast.

I sat down with her to explore what she learned from the experience, which she was able to distill into five lessons:

# 1. Comment Precedes Knowledge

As Cookson was putting her kids to bed the evening of Sunday, March 11 in her Brooklyn home, her Tweetdeck started "blinking very loudly," with her team on the ground in Austin alerting her that something alarming was going on. Individuals had begun negative tweets about Hotspots that cascaded into a cycle of news stories (See articles from ReadWriteWeb, The New York Times and Wired) and what started out as a small brush fire suddenly scaled up to a full-blown firestorm. The speed at which it all happened was unprecedented, given that it was generated by the tech community gathered at SXSW, and not some other big gathering.

With the event now solidly in her rearview mirror, what does Cookson understand about the situation that she didn't know at the time? "I don't think I realized how large the volume of comments without information could be," she says. "The overall effect during the first 24 hours was a very big and very noisy, but largely empty echo chamber. Most of the initial commentary got all of the facts wrong. Nobody knew that all the money (a daily minimum of $50 for up to six hours of work) was going to the participants themselves, nobody knew there was no sponsor or brand connected to the program, nobody knew how the participants felt — there were a number of pieces of missing information."

#2. You Get One Chance to React

On Monday morning, Cookson was looking at a voluminous and overwhelmingly negative set of public comments. "Obviously, the big question for us," Cookson says, "was how do you face that first storm? Do you just stop, exit and apologize? Or, do you carry on and try to explain? We had to make that call really early on — and it's a big call, because once you act on the decision, you can't go back. We decided that we needed to address the comments head-on."

#3. With New Facts and Openness, The Story Can Change

"The reason why I chose to continue," she says, "is because we thought there was a new perspective to bring to bear." Cookson knew, for instance, that nobody had actually heard from the homeless participants whose voices were going to be credible and powerful. Participants like Clarence Jones, a 54-year-old homeless survivor of Hurricane Katrina, or Jonathan Hill II, who reported that he liked being a hotspot better than "his usual work doing manual labor at music venues, largely because it offered him a chance to talk to some of the thousands of the attendees at the program, who normally ignore the roughly 6,000-strong homeless population in Austin."

Cookson describes a clear trajectory in the coverage and believes that, unlike some big corporation with a crisis management team, BBH's decision to talk to everyone proved helpful, finding "that in one-on-one conversations, people were almost always positive." She adds, "What started off on Sunday as primarily negative was by Tuesday hotly debated with new pieces like those on The Atlantic Wire or NPR's Talk of the Nation, where the majority of the call-in comments during the show were supportive and recognized the delicate tension between empowerment and exploitation. It was still a controversial story, but much more balanced. I'd say we made the right decision."

#4. It's Not Just What You Say, It's How You Say It

Cookson says they made a deliberate decision in the planning stages of Homeless Hotspots that they needed to make the fact that the participants were homeless apparent upfront in the name — thus, Homeless Hotspots. "But," she says, "it's not a surprise to someone who works in advertising that what people respond to is not just what you say but how you say it. I work in the communications industry — the execution, the style and the expression are a vast part of what people respond to. The T-shirt message was received very differently when stripped from its original context and broadcast as tweets."

#5. There's Real Value in Clear Leadership

One of Cookson's big lessons was in experiencing the value of her corporate culture through the prism of a crisis. There was a small team of people involved, but she was the decision-maker. "While I was facing an extremely high-volume challenge and criticism externally, I realized after a while that I wasn't facing criticism internally. When the story went big on Sunday night, I e-mailed the global leadership to tell them what was happening and what we were doing about it, but then, I was pretty much left to manage it. What I didn't have — that I think many companies would have had — was any internal challenging or questioning of my judgment." Cookson says that not having to deal with that bureaucratic operational complexity was really critical, because it was a very fast-moving situation. "If' I'd had to keep reporting back, it would have been disabling, and it would have been further disabling if I'd been distracted by a worry that I or my team was being judged internally. We talk about needing to embrace risk to do fresh, innovative stuff," she says, "and this was a living embodiment. Lots of companies talk about embracing risk but don't mean it. How we reacted was a validation that we meant it."

What Would You Do Differently Knowing What You Know Now?

Cookson says she still finds it hard to answer the question of whether she would do anything differently in hindsight, and has thought a lot about how controversy drove the story. Businesses generally don't like controversy, but to Cookson, Homeless Hotspots proved that controversy has enormous power — driving the comments, the outrage, and the conversation. "If you ever need to get a message through, controversy cuts through like nothing else." Then, of course, you have to judge the costs and benefits, deciding whether you want to endure the downside in order to get the upside.

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Jan 4, 2017

Wauseon Vendor Notice

Due to spaces selling out, Wauseon Vendor spaces will only be available by Pre-Registration for 2017.

Applications will be sent out April 1, 2017 and will need to be returned with payment no later than May 31, 2017.

No vending spaces will be sold at the gate, so make sure to secure yours in advance.

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You Can’t Recover From Anxiety Disorder When Taking Medication

Can't recover from anxiety disorder when taking medication myth

Anxiety Disorder Myth #7: Another common myth is that a person can’t recover from anxiety disorder when taking medication

This is untrue for the most part. Most people can make significant progress toward complete anxiety disorder-free success even though they are taking an anti-anxiety and/or antidepressant medication. Here’s why:

The physiological, psychological, and emotional state of anxiety is created when we behave in apprehensive ways. Problematic anxiety occurs when our apprehensive behavior interferes with a normal lifestyle. Identifying and successfully addressing the reasons that motivate the use of apprehensive behavior can eliminate issues with anxiety.

To successfully overcome problematic anxiety, we simply need to address the apprehensive behaviors and the reasons we feel motivated to use those behaviors. This work is done through education, addressing the underlying factors of anxiety using a talk therapy approach, and application. All of this can be done even while taking an anti-anxiety and/or antidepressant medication.

A person can still make good progress even when taking psychotropic medication.

There are, however, limitations as to how far a person can progress when taking medication. For example, lasting success is only achieved when you have full confidence in your recovery strategies and new behaviors. This is only attained when using healthy behaviors and without the assistance of medication. Since medication can set up a psychological dependency, this dependency can erode confidence in your new skills and abilities, which can leave you vulnerable to reaching for medication when things are difficult.

So even though you can make good progress while taking medication, lasting success is only achieved when you have full confidence in your new abilities to cope with adversity, uncertainty, and risk in healthy ways rather than anxious ways.

How can believing you can't recover when taking a medication hamper recovery?

If you are taking medication and believe you can't recover while taking it, you may discourage yourself from doing important recovery work. Not doing this work can keep you stuck in problematic anxiety.

But if you believe you can make good progress even though you are taking medication, this can move you a long way down the recovery road even though medication is a factor.

We've worked with many people who have been on medication. As they gain confidence in their recovery skills, we help them successfully taper down and discontinue medication when they are ready. Then, we support them through to lasting success.

Even though you may be taking an anti-anxiety and/or antidepressant medication, you can still make significant progress on the road to lasting anxiety disorder-free health. That is a realistic expectation.

How can believing this myth make things worse?

If you believe you can't make progress while taking a medication, you may not do anything to improve your situation. This can leave you stuck for years and undermine hope for lasting success.

Moreover, medications tend to lose their efficacy over time. This often leads to either switching to a new medication or adding another or others. Neither of these options provides meaningful or lasting relief from problematic anxiety.

Not only can this myth leave you stuck in anxiety unwellness but it can also make things worse if you become dependent on medication, require drug cocktails, and/or believe there's no hope for lasting success.

But if you believe anxiety is a behavior you can work at changing and that you don’t need medication to make full and lasting recovery, that realization alone can bring hope. Hope is an important ingredient to making and sustaining healthy change.

As you learn and adopt healthy ways of coping with adversity, uncertainty, and risk your confidence will grow and you can return to a normal lifestyle free of problematic anxiety issues.

Anxiety isn’t about something that’s ‘gone wrong’ and that you can’t correct. Anxiety is about behavior that all of us can change and control when we know how. Working with an experienced anxiety therapist, coach, or counsellor can teach you those important skills.

All of us at have experienced problematic anxiety and know how out of control it can seem. But we also know that there are many ways we can gain control over it. Getting the right information, help, and support, as well as making the appropriate behavioral changes, is all that is required to successfully treat anxiety unwellness.

There are many reasons to be optimistic. Anyone can learn and adopt less anxious ways of approaching life. Consequently, no one needs to suffer with anxiety unwellness. Life can be great again…and without the burden of problematic anxiety and the limitations and risks of long-term medication use!

The combination of good self-help information and working with an experienced anxiety disorder therapist, coach, or counselor is the most effective way to address anxiety and its many symptoms. Until the core causes of anxiety are addressed - we call these core causes the underlying factors of anxiety - a struggle with anxiety unwellness can return again and again. Dealing with the underlying factors of anxiety is the best way to address problematic anxiety.

For more information about our Anxiety Counseling option; our Available Anxiety Therapists; to Book An Appointment with one of our anxiety therapists; common Anxiety Signs and Symptoms; common Anxiety Attack Symptoms; the symptoms of panic attack disorder; anxiety Recovery Support area; information about Anxiety; and our Anxiety 101 section; or click on the appropriate link or graphic below:

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Authors: Jim Folk, Marilyn Folk, BScN. Last updated September 10, 2017. Information, support, and coaching/counseling/therapy for problematic anxiety and its sensations and symptoms, including the anxiety myth you can't recover from anxiety disorder when taking medication.


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OAA :: One Action Acceleration

OAA ia an innovative system The OAA allows to simultaneously operate both the speed system and the trimmer for optimized angle of attack at any given speed. With OAA, when using the speed system, the trimmers are released gradually according to the position of the speed bar. This allows for a larger speed range that can be fully used in one swift action of the speed bar.

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OAA On/Off positins

The "OAA" riser system runs on low friction Air Xtreme ball bearing pulleys for effortlessly progressive operation.
The pilot can choose if to activate the system or not with a simple "On/Off" setting operated with one Brummel hook connection.

By combining the design of "OAA" with our "SRS" (floating riser system) - we also achieved a riser that is clean and simple to operate.