London riots

Two nights of rioting in London's Tottenham neighborhood erupted following protests over the shooting death by police of a local man, Mark Duggan. Police were arresting him when the shooting occurred. Over 170 people were arrested over the two nights of rioting, and fires gutted several stores, buildings, and cars. The disorder spread to other neighborhoods as well, with shops being looted in the chaos. Collected here are images from the rioting and the aftermath. -- Lane Turner (26 photos total)

Fire fighters and riot police survey the area as fire rages through a building in Tottenham, north London on Aug. 7, 2011. A demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set ablaze. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP)

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A rioter throws a burning wooden plank at police in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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Mounted police officers chase rioters on the streets in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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Riot police officers face off with protesters in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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A masked protester hurls an object toward riot police officers in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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A policeman in riot gear stands guard in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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A double decker bus burns as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham on August 6, 2011. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Police officers detain a man in Enfield, north London August 7, 2011. Police said they were called to Enfield, a few miles north of Tottenham, where youths had smashed two shop windows and damaged a police car. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters) #

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Fire rages through a building in Tottenham on Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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Riot police officers escort an injured man after arresting him in Tottenham on Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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A protester faces off with riot police officers on the streets in Tottenham on Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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Police officers make their way on the streets in Tottenham on Aug. 7, 2011. (Lewis Whyld/PA/AP) #

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Buildings burn on Tottenham High Road in London during protests on August 6, 2011. (Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images) #

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Protestors face off against riot police lines on Tottenham High Road on August 6, 2011 in London. (Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images) #

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Police officers detain a man in Tottenham on August 7, 2011. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters) #

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Police officers in riot gear walk past a burning building in Tottenham on August 7, 2011. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters) #

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A shop and police car burn as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham on August 6, 2011. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A woman walks through the debris with two children as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham on August 6 2011. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A policeman walks past a damaged jewelery shop in Enfield, north London on August 7, 2011. (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters) #

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A police officer patrols as firemen continue to dowse buildings set alight during riots in Tottenham on August 7, 2011. (Luke MacGregor/Reuters) #

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Police cordon off an area on August 7, 2011 during unrest in Enfield. (Karel Prinsloo/AP) #

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Animals are taken from a pet store after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #

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Aaron Biber, 89, assesses the damage to his hairdressing salon after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #

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Burnt out cars lie in the road after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #

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A man stands next to a burnt out van after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011 . (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #

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Residents watch as a building burns after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #

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Useful Sun Safety Tips

This is a matter of protecting your skin from the sun's damaging rays which is crucial for a number of important health reasons. From the personal point of view a lot of farm work involves working much longer hours outdoors when the sun is intense and if these are repeatedly done on a daily basis then after sometime your body will develop some health problems which including lip cancer, eye damage, skin cancer, aging, wrinkling, and drying out of the skin.

Mostly affected are light skinned people though the ultraviolet rays from the sun can also affect people who have dark hair and dark skin. And if you thought that it is only the sun that can affect you can skin then you should also put in mind that you can get sun burns even on a cloudy day. So for one to be on the safe side there are a few steps for you to take to protect even the little ones who mostly play in the sun.

Steps to protect you and your family are as follows:

The ultraviolet rays are immense during daytime around 10:00 am and 3:00 pm, these the time one has to protect his skin from the sun.

Always try to limit yourself from staying in the sun for longer time especially for those who work in the farm, but if it is a must for you to work the whole day and you really need to protect your body from the hostile climate then you will have to take some breaks indoors. You can try to get shade hourly this will help you a great deal and if not try to apply sunscreen lotion your body parts that are exposed directly to the sunlight like the face, hands and the other parts you think are. Since longer hours outdoors can affect your eye sight then before you leave your home put on the sunglasses that filter out at least 90% of the ultraviolet rays from the sun.

We should also have the right cloth to ware depending on the climate condition and be aware that light weight, tightly-woven shirts and long pants will actually reduce the amount of sun rays entering the body. Under hot summer conditions it is advisable to put on light colored cotton and something else you consider is the hat that covers the temples, ears, face and the back of your neck.

You should remember to teach your kids about the sun safety and keeping the newborn babies away from the sun to protect their future. Another step you can try is making sure you get right vitamin D for you and your family from green vegetables and carrots which have a lot of vitamins. That will be protecting them from the eye sight problem and other related diseases.

The step that you should know is learning or being able to scrutinize skin problems so that it can be handled at earlier stage before it materializes into something more serious like cancer. Know that following the above steps is protecting the skin and the eyes against the sun is one of the important things you can do to secure your future health and especially for the young ones.

 

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Useful Information about Birth Control Pill Effects

Lots of women take pills for birth control and they're very happy in avoiding unplanned pregnancy although they're blaming the oral type of contraceptives in gaining weight and retain fluid too. Well, its an undeniable truth, pills are causing women some weight problem, although its not the main cause for weight gain to every woman.

In a research done on a low estrogen or low dosage pills indicates that there's a small change. An added pound when you're taking a pill can happen in just few and not necessarily in such an alarming status. Researchers already points out, a five to ten percent of women who added several pounds when they take pills, however there's the same number on women who gains weight, although its not dependent on a pill. Gaining of weight can be because of retention of fluid in their body and fat deposit.

Is it possible for users of birth control pill to gain weight?

It has been argued upon that an oral contraceptive, most especially the higher dosages, which is more than thirty microgram, causes gaining of weight than the birth control injections including Depo Provera. Research reveals that a woman who uses a high dosage pills gains up to 5.3 pounds per year as compared to those who takes Depo Provera and they gain up to 6.6 pounds within a year. But, researchers found out that 7% of women taking the pills increase up to 10% in weight. However those who takes shots of Depo Provera, there's 25% people who gained up to 10% in weight. If you're comparing 5.3 pounds gaining of weight on pills with a 6.6 pounds gain of weight because of injections, you'll notice, its not only a woman who keeps on using pills are getting less weight than the injection methods, it's a risk of less gain of weight.

Moreover the recent research on a low estrogen based pill, its of 30 micrograms or lesser, they've shown loss of weight or it doesn't change when its taken for one year.

Are those pills causing retention of fluids, is it right?

You really cannot deny that a pill contains high dosage of estrogens and might cause retention of fluid in your body, most especially if this pill contains 50 microgram of estrogen. How does it happen? With a high dosage of an estrogen, there are chances of stimulation of kidney substances including rennin-angiotensin, its responsible in retention of water, which results or causes retention of sodium or salt and ultimately can cause gaining of weight. Research on a different level on estrogen pills shows that a pill having less 20 microgram can reduce your weight, a 30 microgram of pill are not making differences on weights or small loses on your weight on the other hand a 50 microgram of pills can cause retention of fluid and gaining of weight.

When people uses birth control pills and they experience greater than five percent gaining of weight on a yearly basis, it might be because of the person's reaction on insulin or an abnormal glucose metabolisms.

 

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What's your ultimate me time indulgence

With the high demands of work and household running nowadays, it's easy to get stressed. That's why when the going gets tough, it's important to have a little bit of time to relax and unwind so that you can face the next day feeling refreshed.

What's your favorite thing to do when it comes to giving yourself some "me-time"? Do you love going to the spa for a soothing massage, or do you prefer staying at home and indulging in your very own foot spa? Perhaps you go all out and splurge on a solo weekend getaway, or maybe you just like curling up in bed and reading a good book. Do you treat yourself with a trip to the movie theater, or do you cook yourself a gourmet dinner for one? No matter what kind of activity you indulge in, we'd love to hear all about it!

Female Network wants to know:

What's your ultimate "me-time" indulgence?

Leave us a comment to let us know!

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Working Your Way Out of Lactose Intolerance

Ohh, sorry but I cannot eat that! I have lactose intolerance. Are there lots of times already that you've declined eating a dessert in the fear of getting diarrhea or being bloated? You thought that you have allergy with dairy products, so you keep on losing an important nutrient in foods with milk and avoids them. Do not stop first your yummy delights like halo-halo, leche flan, and a lot more, there is something you can do for lactose intolerance.

Actually lactose intolerance isn't allergy of milk. Having a milk allergy is not too common as you might expect. A true allergy has a reaction of itchiness, rashes or breathing problems. At the mean time, lactose intolerance is due to deficiency in lactase.

Lactose, it's a complex type of carbohydrate present in every types of milk. During process of digestion, lactose was broken down in 2 simpler forms of sugar, the galactose and glucose, possible to be broken down by our body. The lactase, it's an enzyme needed to do the process. A person who doesn't have sufficient lactase can have problems in digesting products with milk and its related products.

If the lactose isn't digested, it will just stay in your intestine. Typically, our intestine will absorb waters you're taking in. But, if there's the presence of lactose, the water will be pulled-out in your tissues and go to your digestive organ and straight for bowel and gives you a diarrheic type of stool. And, this water which will not pass in your intestinal wall can cause feeling of being bloated as well as uncomfortable.

So, if you have lactose intolerance its main symptom is discomfort in abdomen, diarrhea, wind and feeling of bloated. But because it can also be felt by patients with other sickness types, it's important that you test if you've got it just for safety measures.

Tests for lactose intolerance

If you've got a serious symptom, a special test is available, and BHT or breath hydrogen test as best testing for lactose intolerance. It detects hydrogen, byproducts of a bacteria fermented carbohydrate in your breath. Another test will be BGT OR Blood Glucose test measuring blood sugar level after you take some lactose. Due to the fact that this test needs to extract blood from you, there are many people who don't like this type of test.

A simple way will be to maintain levels of lactose in your weekly diet and take a look if it gets better. When those symptoms came back and lactose had been reintroduced into diet, it's probably correct already.

Several people take about ten grams a day, of lactose with no problems. So stopping lactose totally will not really be required, you just need to become conscious of not overdoing it. Foods which have higher levels of lactose includes: regular milk, yogurt, creamed cheese, and ice cream. The foods and some of the milk derivatives surely can make you go to a restroom if you take them in too much.

 

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Why Should You Eat Colorful Fruits and Calories Vegetables

There are many people who are very concerned in monitoring their nutrition and dietary needs, in almost all countries, for their needs and families too.

Millions of people around the world are concerned about keeping track of diet and nutrition needs for them and their families. In this busy world you do not have enough time to spend time reading article after article about nutrients provided by different kinds of vegetables and fruits. But there is an easy and practical way to do it – you can Eat Well by Color.

Every fruit and vegetable colors are carrying traits as well as some basic knowledge about it, helping in keeping yourself & family health too. We're calling it nutrition and diet via colors.

Nutrition and Diet via Colors

Red colored contains vitamins, phytochemicals like anthocyanins and lycopene, as well as vitamins, it helps in preventing neurological, aging and cancer diseases, enhances health of our heart as well as on diabetes.

Some samples of red colored veggies and fruits are:

• Cherries, rhubarb, red plums, red grapes, red onions, pomegranates, kidney bean, beets, cranberries, red apples, pink grapefruit, red apple and raspberries.

Yellow and orange contains phytochemicals, vitamins and fibers like that of carotenoids, it assist in your mucous membranes health, preventing disease of the heart, vision, strengthening of immune system and cancer.

Some samples of yellow and orange veggies and fruits are:

• Butternut squash, corn, mangoes, orange bell pepper, peaches, apricots, cantaloupe, carrots, mandarins, nectarines, oranges, papayas, pears, sweat potato , yellow summer squash and rutabaga.
Tan and white, they contain vitamins, phytochemicals and fibers, they are excellent contributors of cholesterol, to lower blood pressure as well as lowering the chance of heart diseases and cancer of the stomach.

Some samples of tan and white veggies and fruits are:

• Bok choy, celery root, leeks, parsnips, potatoes, water chestnuts, white peaches, bananas, cauliflower, fennel, mushrooms, plantains, turnips, and white asparagus.

Green, do contain vitamins, phytochemicals and fibers like lutein, it helps for a healthier vision, prevention of heart disease and birth defects and cancer. They are making your teeth as well as bones stronger, boosts up immune system due to the fact that its commonly high on vitamin C and vitamin A as well as lower fats, calories, higher in dietary fibers, iron, calcium, calories, as well as in phytochemicals like folic acid and folic acid.

Some excellent samples of green veggies and fruits are:

Asparagus, broccoli, cucumbers, green beans, green tea, kiwifruit, limes, snow peas, sugar snap pea, watercress, artichokes, avocados, celery, endive, green peas, honeydew melon, lettuce, peas, spinach, Swiss chard, and zucchini.

Purple and blue contains vitamins, fibers and a lot more which also contains flavanoids and anthocyanins, they do prevent cancer, loss of memory, heart diseases, stroke, and they are promoting boost up of immunity and health in urinary system.

Here are some of the veggies and fruits in purple and blue colors:
Black tea, blueberries, figs, purple kale, prunes, black currants, blackberries, eggplants, purple grapes, purple potatoes and raisins.

Make sure that your family's meals are colorful. It's not very appealing to look at, however, it's easier satisfying your nutrition and diet needs.

 

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Winter beauty treatments for sensitive skin

In winter we encounter a series of problems that we should not neglect. Our beauty will require a special care and cannot be neglected even for one day. Find out below what you should keep in mind and what treatments you have to do this season for a beautiful skin!

Once you start noticing areas where your skin peels off, it means that skin's moisture level is low. Follow the beauty tips we offer you below but also be careful with proper hydration. Drink at least 2 liters of water per day (it does not matter that it is not summer and you don't sweat as much).

Replace care products with more nutrient-rich oilsMake a powerful hydrating skin maskDo not forget the day and night cream for faceSpecial treatments at the salon, customized for your skinTry sugar-scrub, homemade fro  honey and sugarFollow a natural antioxidant treatment and use cosmetic products for intense tissue repair.

The difference in temperature can affect the skin and in this case you have to use some soothing treatments. Chamomile and green tea soothes redness and restores its suppleness.

Calming facial masksSteam baths with chamomile, lavender and / or green tea

Besides external factors that affect your body, stress and the need to cover it from head to toe leads to a specific irritation and the need for proper and intense care during cold months.

Use the clothes that will not irritate your skinDo not neglect the most important step in skin care – moisturize after every showerUse body lotions or creams rich in natural oils. Olive oil is usually the one that meets all your skin needs.An effective scrub can "delete" dead skin cells. Try a honey-based oneA salon treatment for skin hydration and smoothing, made every two weeks, may be a source of beauty for your skinDo not use strong methods of hair removal when you use.Tags: beautiful skin, Beauty, beauty in cold weather, beauty tips, beauty tips for sensitive skin, beauty treatments, body dehydrating, cold weather, drink water, dry skin, dry skin treatments, hair removal, how to treat sensitive skin, how to treat skin in winter, hydrating creams, itchy skin, moisture, redness, salon skin treatments, scrub, sensitive skin in winter time, sensitive skin tips, winter beauty, winter beauty 2010, winter beauty tips, winter beauty treatments

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Useful Information about Eyes You Should Know

Eyes are the most precious part of our body. They are our gateway to the outside world, this beautiful planet that we live in, its flora and fauna, the stars, the moon and the light. It is through our eyes that we grasp the first feelings of how things look around us. We may touch things, sense things but without the power to actually see them, the real feel of them is incomplete. So we must take good care of our eyes and protect them from any harmful effects. They are the greatest gift of nature and we must do everything possible to preserve them.

Now moving on to some interesting facts and information related to our eyes, we should know that,

Eyes are the most complex body organs that we possess except for the brain, and they are composed of more than two million working parts. Moreover, eyes can process 36,000 bits of information every hour i.e. a speed of 10 bits per second. Under the right conditions, they can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles. Coming to the knowledge that we gain throughout our lives, eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge. They utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain, so we can imagine the reason for their amazingly high efficiency in transmitting and receiving signals from the brain. Also, eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body, so it is not just the brain that they have control over, but the rest of the body too.

In a normal life-span, the eyes will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you (imagine looking out for that many number of images on the internet, and then storing them in your local hard disk, all this and more is given to us by our eyes for free!).

The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be. Now that is nature's way of telling us the importance of this particular organ in our body, and the amount of resources that go into maintaining its working.

The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Out of its total surface area, only one-sixth is exposed i.e. the front portion, the remaining part forming the rear portion of the eye is involved in the image processing work based on the input received by the frontal portion.

The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes themselves "never" need rest. But this doesn't mean that you take undue advantage of the fact, because the external muscles and the lubrication of the eyes are the main driving force behind this organ that gives us the sense of vision. So if you want to persist it for long, please rest your eyes!

Eyes are your most precious sense. Care for them properly!

 

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Useful Sleep Help Tips

Inadequate sleep as well as bad sleeping habits create constrains to keep your body and mind healthy. With the changing lifestyle the number of people suffering from sleepless nights is increasing day by day. There are many reasons that contribute to sleeplessness like depression, fatigue, obesity and the list goes on and on. Given below are some sleep help tips to help you get back your sleep.

• Regular exercising will help you to get good sleep. No need to strain yourself, just about thirty minutes of physical activity every day is more than enough. Again, these thirty minutes can be divided into three ten minute sessions. Exercises can include brisk walking, jogging or even cycling.

• Avoid short napping during the day. Some people have the habit of taking a short nap in the afternoons, but still they enjoy a good night sleep. If you are suffering from insomnia, then the best thing to do is to avoid taking short naps. If you are very sleepy in the afternoon and cannot resist it, then try having a cup of tea, this will help in keeping you awake. Even if tea does not help you from feeling drowsy then take a nap in the early afternoon, but ensure that you do not take rest for more than 30 minutes. This is one of the most common sleep help tip.

• Avoid caffeine, alcohol and smoking, as all these three are major culprits to reduce the quality of sleep. Most of them are under the misconception that alcohol puts them to sleep, this is not true. Alcohol actually makes you sleep faster, but diminishes the quality of sleep, so it is better to avoid alcohol hours before bedtime. Even caffeine will keep you active for several hours a day, so after lunch avoid intake caffeine. Same thing goes with smoking, the nicotine that is present in the cigarettes actually disrupt your sleep.

The above are some of the sleep help tips that are really effective. There are many more sleep help tips and home remedies of lack of sleep that are available to help you in getting adequate and quality sleep. These sleep help tips have to be followed for some time to see the results, one day of exercising or avoiding naps will not get you good sleep. Even after trying these sleep help methods if you are still facing insomnia, then it is advised to consult a doctor, who would be in a better position to help you fight out sleeplessness.

 

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Types and Causes of Aging

What is the cause of aging, how does one slow it down? Modern days also lead to quick treatment for so many diseases. But how about the aging processes, what is the excellent cure for this?

Aging has 2 types. It can be due to extrinsic or the external type of aging, it's influenced by environment and intrinsic or internal type which is genetically acquired.

The internal type of aging is popularly known as the natural, it starts during 20-30 years of age. The individual's skin collagen is slowly produced. The Elastin, which is a substance allowing our skin to return to its place is losing spring. The dead skin cell doesn't shed quickly like before and the turnover of a newer skin decreased slightly.

The external type of aging is due to another packaging of extrinsic factor, among them are:

1. Sun – even for a few moments in a daily basis with no protection from the sun causes premature type of aging. Aging spots, freckles, leathery and rough type of skin, spider vein in your face and fine wrinkles which disappears when the skin is loosed, stretchy, it can also cause skin cancer and blotchy type of complexion. The photo aging amounts, the dermatologist's term used for extrinsic aging type, which is dependent on:

i. Color the skin
ii. The history of a person's exposure to the sun. A mestiza having a fair skin and got history of sun's exposure will develop photoaging. For those with morena type of skin, signs of photoaging will commonly be limited to finer wrinkles.

2. Exercises for the Face – are you performing exercises for your face, always reminded that it helps in maintaining younger looks? It won't. A lot of facial exercises lead to a wrinkle and fine line. When the skin ages, it also loses elasticity. It also stops returning to a non-line free states and becoming totally etched on your face as a wrinkle.

3. The Gravity – it constantly pull down your bodies. Gravity causes tips of nose to sag, elongated ears, fall down of eyelids, disappear of your upper lip and pronounced lower lips.

4. Position as we sleep – when we sleep and its on a similar position in every night for a year, it will lead to a sagging of your skins surface. Try to sleep with your head relaxed.

5. Quit Smoking – it's really bad for one's health, it's the main cause of creases or aging. An individual who keeps on smoking ten plus per day will more likely develop a deep wrinkled skin. A person who smokes a lot tends to acquire unhealthy skin complexion.

Steps for younger looking skin

a. Prevention – you can't slow down or stop the internal type of aging, however taking good care of our skin slows down the premature type of aging.
i. Avoid too much tanning
ii. Do not expose yourself on the sun when the ray of the sun is very strong.
iii. Make use of umbrella or wide brimmed hat when you go out.

 

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What are They Hiding Calif. Assembly Won't Reveal Budgets

A veil of secrecy hangs over the California Assembly as far as its members' budgets are concerned. Assembly leaders will not reveal those numbers to the public, and one Assemblyman says he knows why -- leaders don't want the public to know they punish disobedient members by slashing their budgets.

According to a report in The Sacramento Bee, Assemblyman Anthony Portantino said leaders from his own party cut his budget after he was the only Democrat to vote against this year's state budget.

Portantino was joined by several media outlets in filing Legislative Open Records Act requests in an effort to see the budgets of every member to see if those budgets had changed based on votes.

On Monday leaders rejected the requests, saying the records are protected by law, writing:

Therefore, records relating to budgets and changes to budgets of the members of the Assembly and Assembly Committees are not subject to mandatory production.

Portantino said he will propose legislation that would "force the books to be opened."

"I'm going to challenge my colleagues," Portantino said. "Do they stand for transparency or behind secrecy?"

The Bee reports that Assembly documents obtained from a "confidential source" show that Portantino was budgeted for $518,000 and was projected to spend $585,179 this year.

Portantino said the numbers are meaningless because the Assembly Rules Committee can change them whenever it wants, creating the illusion of overspending.

"There's no doubt in my mind that the punishment was because I didn't vote the way (Assembly Speaker John Pérez) wanted," Portantino said.

However Assembly officials tell a very different story, saying Portantino was repeatedly warned of overspending but did nothing about it. 

"It was about Anthony Portantino being incapable or unwilling to balance his own office budget," Pérez's spokeswoman Robin Swanson said. "He's been reckless with his spending, so that's what this is about."

 

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