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  • Natural Hair Loss Remedies & Treatment

    We all lose hair on a regular basis, but unfortunately rapid hair loss accompanied by non-growth of new hair coming in to replace it results in thinning hair and gradually lead to baldness.

    The causes of hair loss can be many, the main cause of Hair Loss being due to improper care of your hair, or unhealthy lifestyle. Hereditary can also be attributed to the cause of hair loss. Hair loss can be treated by either of the following,

    • Drugs based approach.

    • Use of commercial products approach.

    • Natural remedy approach.

    • Nutritional approach.

    • Cleanliness approach.

    Drug based approach is ideal for people who are willing to take strong medications. It is strongly recommended that you consult a dermatologist before the consumption of any drugs.

    Although a variety of commercial products are available in stores, yet all may not prove as a solution to your problem. An extensive research is what can help you in choosing the proper product to prevent your hair loss. Commercial products based on natural ingredients are preferred and have proved useful too in preventing hair loss.

    Nowadays people are increasingly getting more and more inclined to natural hair loss remedies to combat hair loss. Some natural remedies have proved as an effective treatment towards hair loss.

    It is an eminent factor that poor nutrition and unhealthy lifestyles can have a bad effect on your health as well as your hair. A well-balanced and improved nutrition can help you achieve a healthy hair. Try eating sufficient amounts of protein, proper levels of useful carbohydrates and achieving a healthy balance of dietary fats. Eat more fruits in the morning and more vegetable for lunch and dinner.

    Scalp cleanliness plays one integral role in preventing hair loss. If you have dandruff, you need to get rid of it immediately. Dandruff can be a prime cause of hair loss when it combines with dirt, shampoo chemicals, excess sebum follicle oil.

    With time these chemicals can create a film on your scalp that hardens and start to plug up your hair follicles. Once plugged, your follicles cannot support hair growth.

    Here are a few hair loss remedies that can help you maintain what you now have and save losing your hair.

    • Getting proper nutrition is essential for healthy hair.

    • Water, protein, biotin, vitamins A, B6, B12, C, copper, iron, omega 3 fatty acids, zinc, calcium, folic acid, and magnesium all contribute to a healthy scalp and hair.

    • Massaging your scalp with the help of your fingertips enhances the scalp blood circulation, which contributes to your hair growth.

    • Prolonged exposure to sun, wind and heat can result in hair loss, therefore avoid doing so. If it is really required, make sure you have protected your hair with a scarf or hat.

    • Excessive use of hair dryers, hot showers, and curling irons on your hair can also cause hair loss, thus try avoiding them as much as possible.

    • Stress is a major reason why you can experience hair loss. Therefore, start reducing the extra stress at once by taking some time out of your daily schedule to relax. Also get enough sleep. You can also start supplementing your diet with a good hair loss nutritional supplement.

    • Hair coloring damages your hair and therefore you must try to color it less frequently.

    The hair loss treatments suggested here cannot provide perfect cures for all hair loss conditions, but have proved helpful under many conditions. You can thus, try them as the potential solutions to hair loss.

    Donna Summer is a renowned Hair Specialist and focuses on Hair Loss Remedy and authored a book on Hair Loss Products

  • The greenest and cleanest family on a pursuit to have a garbage-free 2010

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    Maybe you don’t look at your trash can with a twinkle in your eye, but the Strauss family sure do! The garbage sticking out of this trashcan is the amount of waste the family produced in one year. And they haven’t achieved this by digging up their lawn to hide all their waste. The Strauss family recycles. These folks have produced an average of just 2oz of garbage a week. The family has disposed of its garbage wisely by using it as compost and landfill. That’s not all; they have even burnt up their old wooden toilet seat in the living room fireplace. They have been growing some of their own food, reusing shopping bags and have stopped receiving junk mail. Next year, the family aims to produce no garbage at all.

    This pursuit to cleanliness began 18 months ago when the family, 53 year old Richard Strauss, his wife Rachelle, 37, and their eight year old daughter Verona, came across an article on the effects of plastic waste on marine life. Their dwelling place, a three bedroom house in Longhope, Gloucestershire is heated using a wooden burner and is partially
    powered up using solar energy. The Strauss family sure has created an example that everyone should learn from.

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  • The HB-SIA, a plane powered completely by solar energy

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    Solar energy is being used for various purposes all over the globe today with the rise in technology. The sun is being squeezed of its juice to power up homes, cars and even cell phones. The newest application for solar energy is to power up airplanes. Known as the HB-SIA and built by a Swiss team, it completed its first test run in Zurich this December. The plane flew 350 meters at an altitude of one meter and will have its next test run in 2010. Chairman of Sun Impulse and co-founder of this project, Bertrand Piccard, hope’s that this airplane will circle the globe in 20 days by the year 2012. He managed to draw in €40 million of the total €70 million needed from investors like Semper, Deutsche Bank, Toyota and a few others.

    This project aims at promoting the use of alternate forms of energy. Piccard hopes that the Chinese solar technology firm, SunTech will present the solar cells required. To circle the globe, the HB-SIA requires around 12000 solar cells that need to be attached to the planes wings and fuselage. These will help store 14 hours of energy. With a wingspan as long as an Airbus 340 and the weight of a car, it can soar up to 8500km with an average speed of 70kmph. When completed, this plane is sure to pave the way for a cleaner and greener aviation industry.

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  • OPTi Shows: When You Can’t Compete In The Market, You Sue For Patent Infringement

    Reader BakaYaro points us to this article about OPTi, the company that recently won a $21.7 million patent ruling against Apple, where the company’s CEO insists it’s not a patent troll because it’s only suing over patents that it got itself. It seems that Bernie Marren is trying to redefine what a “patent troll” is to mean just someone who buys patents and sues. But the real story shows that OPTi is yet another example of patents harming, not helping, innovation. The company used to produce products, but other companies eventually caught up, and OPTi couldn’t compete. Now, in a true capitalistic society, the companies that can’t compete, go out of business. And that’s a good thing. Failure is important for free markets to work. But, thanks to the very un-capitalistic concept of government granted monopolies, known as patents, tech companies never need to fail and go out of business. They can just sue over patent infringement. So, OPTi went from a 235-person company producing products and adding value to the market, to a 3-person company that just sues and extracts money from the companies who actually provide value on the market. So OPTi went from providing value to sucking value out of the market. It might not be a troll, but it’s difficult to see how it’s good for the economy or for innovation.

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  • 1up get a life magnet

    1up is of course you favorite Nintendo Character and that is why you of course can’t have a life without this magnet.

    The 1up get a life magnet is great for the office or your fridge.

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  • The shakes and just felt weak

    Got up this afternoon (I work night shift) and started moving some furniture with my wife. All of a sudden, I felt the shakes coming on and just felt really weak. I knew my BG was dropping. I have previously just gotten back on my meds (stupid story) so my #’s are getting back to where they should be after being in the 200-300’s for quite awhile. I went downstairs and took my reading. It was 93. Normally that should be okay right? All I could think of is since my #’s have been extremely high the past month or so, since the meds have kicked in, is it my body adjusting to this? I ate something and within about 20 min or so I felt fine again.
  • Should this sub-forum be re-purposed?

    As one of the original diabuddies guys with Brion Hartigan, I think this forum should be re-purposed into, perhaps an area the diabetics can link up and meet up and share information.. Just be ‘buddies’.

    The Diabuddies.com site has stagnated – Brion has not logged in since last Jan, nor has he logged in here in a year. THe new code for the lifescan meter tracking I wrote was never put in place.. anyhoo, just a ‘push’ to reclass this section.

    -Shane

  • AT&T asks FCC to phase out landline regulations

    A day without landline phones? Some may say that’s inevitable, but it looks like AT&T is now starting to try to speed things up a bit, with it recently responding to an FCC request for comments with a 32-page filing that details its position on the matter. That more or less boils down to two major requests: that the FCC eliminate the regulatory requirements that it support a landline network, and that it provide a firm deadline for phasing it out. To back up that request, AT&T has provided the FCC with a whole host of statistics that paint a bleak picture for landlines, including the fact that less than 20% of Americans rely exclusively on switched-access lines for voice service (though plenty more still use them as their primary voice service), that at least 18 million homes now use a VoIP service, and that those two numbers are fast growing in opposite directions. Needless to say, such a change would have a broad range of regulatory implications, and AT&T isn’t providing answers for everything — like exactly how it expects that last mile of users to transition away from landlines, or how to deal with issues of public safety or those with disabilities.

    AT&T asks FCC to phase out landline regulations originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Los mejores grupos musicales 2009… criterio personal

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    A las clásicas listas de “lo mejor de 2009 según xxx” se pueden añadir las listas “agregadas” entre la población y las personales, los mejores grupos musicales 2009 según el perfil en Last.fm de cada uno. Aunque pasó a ser de pago (servidor es usuario suscriptor del servicio), el scrobbling sigue siendo gratis y otros servicios musicales como Spotify lo integran.

    Este año alternan clásicos de siempre, Los Planetas, Wilco, Radiohead, con escuchas sobre todo de discos antiguos, con algunos de los grupos que he ido incorporando en los últimos meses: Francisco Nixon, Niños Mutantes y The Jayhawks. Después de seis años utilizando Last.fm, resulta curioso observar como hay grupos “efervescentes”, que copan las escuchas durante un periodo de tiempo para luego desaparecer y otros músicos cuyas canciones no pasan y te siguen acompañando. Os dejo con uno de estos últimos, Wilco y su Sky Blue Sky,


  • Top 10 moments in social media in 2009 [Voices]

    By Mark Mllian, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

    This year was certainly significant in the world of online social media. Facebook surpassed 350 million users — more than the U.S. population — and Twitter’s short blogging service skyrocketed in popularity, led by celebs, tech lovers and top companies.

    Here’s a look back at 2009’s biggest events in which social media played a major role.

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  • YouTube’s Quest to Suggest More [Voices]

    By Miguel Helft, Reporter, New York Times

    YouTube, the video site owned by Google (GOOG), is about 10 times more popular than its nearest competitor. But Hunter Walk still thinks of it as an underdog. For Mr. Walk, director of product management at YouTube, the competition is not other Web sites: it’s TV.

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  • Life on the List [Voices]

    By Anil Dash, VP, Six Apart

    In the time it takes you to read this sentence, I’ll have gained another follower or two on Twitter. Within an hour, I’ll have added more followers than 99% of Twitter users ever have. On a typical day, I’ll have averaged 100 new followers every hour. It’s not that I’m great at writing tweets or because of any effort or merit on my part; It’s because I’m part of Twitter’s list of suggested users.

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  • Is Facebook Spying on My E-Mail? [Voices]

    By Farhad Manjoo

    Facebook had a watershed year as both the young and old flocked to the site. Many users, however—even veteran early adopters—have found themselves puzzled over the site’s rapidly growing complexity. In a column that debuted in October, Slate’s tech columnist, Farhad Manjoo, recently fielded some of the most common reader questions about social networking and other staples of online life.

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  • Eco-friendly Olympics – Chico News & Review

    Eco-friendly Olympics
    Chico News & Review
    If successful, the games will have offset enough carbon emissions to equal taking nearly 50000 passenger cars off the road.

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  • The Tragedy of One Laptop Per Child [Voices]

    By Michael Gartenberg, Contributor, Slashgear

    It didn’t come as much as a surprise, but the good folks working on the One Laptop Per Child Project announced that the that the OLPC XO-2 concept had been shelved and in what appears to be bowing to the hype of tablet form factors, they’ve announced the new XO-3. Yawn. Feels like we’ve been here before and you know why?

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  • Tobacco plant leaves can be used to make efficient biofuel – Times of India

    Tobacco plant leaves can be used to make efficient biofuelTimes of India“Tobacco is very attractive as a biofuel because the idea is to use plants that aren't used in food production,” Dr. Andrianov said. …Tobacco could be biofuel of vehicles…


  • College Students Pursue ‘Clean Energy’ Careers

    College Students Pursue ‘Clean Energy’ Careers

    Nowadays students are not oblivious to the hazards of global warming. They are quite keen on pursuing a ‘clean energy’ career. Now the concern about climate change is stimulating more undergraduate students to show interest in science and engineering. We can watch the trend of the rising interest in renewable energy. As leaders from […]
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  • 2009 Browser Market Shares Based on Softpedia Web Traffic Stats

    As 2009 comes to an end, our news editors are busy putting together all sorts of roundups and tops. I was curious to see how the main web browsers fared this year in terms of market share. On Softpedia, of course! We checked our 2009 web traffic analytics info and think the data is pretty interesting, so we’re going to share it with you fellow webmasters or regular readers. As a bonus, we’ve added the top 5 screen resolutions used by Softpedia visitors. Don’t forget to check out the shiny charts!

    To kick things off, while the blue slice tells us that Internet Explorer is still in the lead with 44.45%, Firefox has continued its chase and has come dangerously close, at 38.75%.

    With the upcoming release of Firefox 3.7 and other browsers nibbling at IE’s share, the 6% distance will probably decrease even more in 2010. The latest Internet Explorer  version (IE8) does not seem to pack what’s needed to sway users back, despite Microsoft’s efforts to innovate and also provide a much more standards compliant browser.

    However, there’s a new rising star on the web browser market and it’s one we definitely cannot ignore if we look at the share trends over the course of 2009. Google’s Chrome stands at 4.66% overall (3rd place), but h… (read more)

  • 5 Healthy Snacks In Less Than Five Minutes

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    Have you ever found yourself purposely eating very little during the day just so you could eat whatever you want at your dinner party? Well, when it comes to “saving your calories” for one meal, just don’t do it! It’s certainly a great way to slow down your metabolism and a sure fire way to increase your appetite. You will likely end up eating more than you would have, if you just ate sensibly throughout the day and had a light snack before going out.

    Snacking is a great way to keep your fat-burning engines revving high, your blood sugar balanced and mindless eating far out of sight. I always have a light snack before I go out to a restaurant or dinner party, so I can be sure that my taste buds don’t get carried away, and I don’t end up eating more calories than I mean to.

    I believe it’s important to treat yourself once in a while and not always feel that you need to be under strict control of your eating habits, but choosing healthy snacks is a great way to have control with ease. Snacking is a great way to get your cravings under control.

    My top 5 power snacks after the jump…

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  • Tendremos un Subaru eléctrico para el 2013

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    Poco a poco, casi todos los fabricantes van sacando sus modelos eléctricos. Hay planes y proyectos en marcha que convertirán nuestras calles y carreteras en un muestrario muy diverso de modelos eléctricos para dentro de unos años, cuando el segmento esté consolidado.

    Mientras tanto, una de esas marcas en hacer su próxima entrada al mundo de los eléctricos, será Subaru, que pondrá en el mercado un eléctrico para el año 2013, según se rumorea. El nuevo vehículo sería una mejora del prototipo Stella o bien un nuevo modelo basado en el Stella.

    Durante la primera fase, un número determinado de clientes recibirán a modo de prueba el primer eléctrico de Subaru. La plataforma del Stella es un pequeño polivalente que se vende en Japón desde el año 2004 y ha resultado ser una excelente plataforma de lanzamiento para el eléctrico de la marca.

    Si las características del Stella eléctrico presentado el año pasado en la cumbre del G8 en Japón, siguen siendo las mismas en cuanto a autonomía y capacidad de recarga, tendremos un hueso duro de roer por la competencia, intentando mejorar los magros resultados de autonomía logrados hasta ahora.

    Vía | Autoblog Italia