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Acne is a disorder of the skin that affects adults as well as teens. It occurs when follicles, or pores, become blocked. Oils, naturally present in skin, are unable to drain and become blocked inside the follicles. Before long bacteria begins to grow.

Skin blemishes referred to as blackheads and whiteheads then begin to appear. When the oil and bacteria that is trapped remain below the skin, the blemish is referred to as a whitehead. A blackhead occurs when the oil and bacteria are partially exposed. The color of the blemish turns black due to pigmentation within the skin. Blackheads usually last far longer than whiteheads due to the fact that it takes longer to drain.

It is believed that hormones, diet, stress and vitamin deficiency may play a role in the development of acne. While acne includes both whiteheads and blackheads, there are a variety of types of acne that range in severity.

Acne Vulgaris is the most common form of acne and includes everything from whiteheads and blackheads to cysts. Acne Vulgaris may be either mild or moderate as well as severe. The mild and moderate forms of Acne Vulgaris include common pimples with inflammation apparent below the surface of the skin as well as blackheads. Small red bumps that have no ?head? may also be present and are known as papules.

Acne Vulgaris in its most severe form includes lesions that are known as nodules and cysts. These are normally much larger than mild or moderate acne and may be more painful. Nodules are usually small and hard, below the skin and do not contain pus while cysts do. Scars can appear if Acne Vulgaris is not treated correctly.

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For those that need more than a special cream like Scotty’s Face Cream, then you need to work harder to get rid of acne. Since acne is a condition that occurs from within your body and exhibits on the outside of your body, you need to,

? Attack acne from inside your body
? Attack acne from outside your body

If your acne is not to severe, all you might need is a good cream and need only to follow a few steps in my 12 step program to get you past the periods where acne is active.

If your acne is more severe, than you may have to follow my 12-step program, since acne is an expression of your whole body system and is a reflection of what is going on inside your mind, cell structure and internal organs.

Acne is an excessive toxic condition within your body, which the internal elimination organs are unable to eliminate. So your toxins are moved into your blood and excreted through your skin. It is an automatic survival mechanism your body initiates in an effort to protect the insides of your body - cells, liquid, blood, organs, and tissues.

There are 12 areas that you need to look at,

* Keep your face clean
* Using Scotty’s acne face cream or your favorite face cream
* Relive your constipation and the tree day liquid fast
* Making changes to your diet
* Get plenty of sun, air, and water
* Vitamins you need to be taking
* Minerals you should be taking
* Special supplements to take
* Herbal mixture to use or drink
* Special detoxifying drinks or supplements to take
* Brushing your skin
* Change your attitude

Step 1: Keeping your face clean

If you use face cosmetics, you need to stop. Some cosmetics irritate the skin and can cause acne by plugging up your pores on your face. The cosmetics chemicals that can cause you the most skin and pore irritation and inflammation are:

mineral oil
lanolin
parabens
propylene glycol

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It is the bane of a person’?s existence. Everybody gets it; everybody hates it. And once you have it, prepare to be tormented, embarrassed and humiliated. Such a small bump, so much at stake. So what is this little bundle of horror? What else but the dreaded pimple!

A pimple, or acne as some people calls it, is a dreaded red, swollen bump in the face. Nobody is spared from having it. Male or female, American, Chinese or Puerto Rican, they all have gotten it at some points of their lives and may even still have it. It is like a universal language; it is like a right of passage in a person’s life. Acne is a result of the hormones action on the skin’s oil glands (the sebaceous gland) which leads to clogged pores and outbreak of lesions like pimples, blemishes or acne. Acne commonly occurs in the neck, face, back, shoulders and chest because the sebaceous glands are most abundant in these locations. But the important question we should be asking to be able to avoid this dreaded ?disease? is, ?What causes this pain in the neck called acne??

Unfortunately, the causes of acne cannot really be determined (unless your parents or their parents are acne infested too then there’s a big, big chance you?ll be called acne face by your peers and classmates) thus the acne myths are born! These myths claim to be the cause of acne. We shall enumerate them here.

Acne Myth Number 1

Acne is caused by not washing your face often and not scrubbing it hard enough. Many believed that acne is caused by dirt and dust in the face and by washing your face two-three even four times a day or even by scrubbing your face hard can prevent acne. Wrong, wrong, wrong! It is true that dirt and dust is unsightly to the face and washing the face is the way to eradicate them but washing often can actually irritate the skin more. Washing should not be done more than twice a day. More than twice is enough to strip the face of its natural oils making it dry. Also, scrubbing can cause inflammations. Washing the face should be done as gently as possible with the gentlest facial scrub.
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Los Angeles, California, USA, The John Anson Ford Theatres

SEPTEMBER 2009
Culture Shock Los Angeles Dance Troupe (Fri. September 4, 2009)
Xpress Ur Self: Communication in a Hip-Hop Generation
Performance piece using hip-hop and street dance styles, visual images, music, and
spoken word.

Encuentro Jaranero de California (Sat. September 5, 2009)
Second Annual Noche Veracruzana
A music performance featuring the Son Jarocho and Huasteco traditions of Veracruz,
Mexico.

Angel City Jazz Festival* (Sun. September 6 – 7, 2009)
Angel City Jazz Festival
A Labor Day jazz festival featuring master classes and seminars during the day and
presenting a variety of cutting-edge jazz musicians in the evening.

TDRZ Productions, Inc.* (Sat. September 19, 2009)
Aloha Summer Celebration 2009
An evening showcasing the music and dance of Hawaii and other Polynesian/South
Pacific Island cultures.

Celtic Arts Center (Sun. September 20, 2009)
Celtic Arts Center Concert
Sixth annual program of traditional and contemporary Celtic music, song, and dance.

Star Entertainment & Education Group (Sat. September 26, 2009)
Fiesta Mexicana VII—Sones, Bailes y Cantares
Seventh annual variety show featuring the rich diversity of folkloric music and dance
from Mexico.

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The financial crisis means boom times for spooks-for-hire.

By Barney Gimbel, writer

Last Updated: December 8, 2008: 11:16 AM ET

NEW YORK (Fortune) — If James Bond’s “License to Kill” gets revoked, he’d have no problem finding work as a corporate spy. To the short list of sectors that stand to gain from the financial crisis, add corporate intelligence firms.

They are seeing a dramatic uptick in business from a surge of banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds that need to make sure those pesky multimillion-dollar investments they made when times were good will hold up.

Firms like Control Risks, a London-based risk consultancy staffed by ex-CIA agents, and its rival, New York-based Kroll say they have seen a 20% jump in new business over the past two months. Together the two firms control the majority of the market.

These spook outfits have long carved out a lucrative business investigating corporate fraud, performing due diligence, or simply ferreting out the things not on a balance sheet – be they a company’s shady associates in Brazil or corrupt investors in Texas.

But in the recent heady times, some fast-moving investment outlets cut corners.

Now they are hoping to save face – and money – before precarious deals fall apart altogether. “The tolerance for failure has diminished,” says Jim Brooks, who heads North American operations for Control Risks.

Already, spies-for-hire are finding a couple of embarrassing flubs.

Consider the more than $300 million that one international bank lent to a sketchy Russian magnate (we’d tell you who it was, but then we’d have to kill you). When he stopped paying his bills, the bank brought in Control Risks to find out where the money had gone. (They found the Russian could have funneled money out of the country through various, seemingly unrelated shell companies.)

Another big client, a Washington-based law firm, hired it to investigate a wealthy, if not highly leveraged, Bolivian who had been claiming poverty while secretly moving his assets to places like Poland, Switzerland and Sylvania.

Tactics range from mundane document searches to clandestine interviews with former employees, customers, or government officials. Much of the work is happening overseas, where public records don’t always exist.

For the Bond wannabes, the new business isn’t adding to the bottom line so much as replacing the business they lost when pre-deal due diligence went out the window. Still, they expect the boom times to continue.

“Companies are only beginning to deal with the situation,” says Bob Brenner, who heads Kroll’s business intelligence and investigations practice in the U.S.

It may not match the martini swilling and jet setting the real Bond gets to do, but it pays the bills, which in these times is exotic-sounding enough.

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The New Newsletter

We sent out our July newsletter earlier this week and the newsletter sports a complete overhaul from previous iterations. Not only have we changed the design, but also the complete strategy surrounding our communication via the newsletter. So at this stage, if you’re not a subscriber, you need to sign up (there’s a box on the homepage) and get the awesomeness in your inbox next month.

But we realize that e-mails & newsletters is not everyone’s cup of tea… We have thus decided that we will also publish an online version of the newsletter on the website a few days after it has gone out to subscribers (they get to read it first). You can thus access July’s newsletter here: http://woothemes.com/newsletters/july

For further reading… Read this article about the problems with e-mail newsletters, as well as our strategy with the newsletter.

By Michelle Nichols

NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Broadway producers are finding it tough to attract investors for new productions as the global financial crisis begins to take a toll on the Great White Way.

And sluggish tickets sales have caused the closure of shows, adding to the sense of gloom on Broadway.

While several shows traditionally close at the start of the year to make way for new productions ahead of the Tony Awards, more than usual are taking their final bow — 12 shows have finished and another four are due to close by Feb. 28.

The economic turmoil “certainly had an impact on my show and on a number of shows that might have made it through this coming summer,” said producer Margo Lion, whose show “Hairspray” closed on Jan. 4 after more than six years on Broadway.

Several shows could not secure the financing needed to open in the coming months — “Godspell,” “Vanities” and “For Colored Girls” — and producers blamed the economy, said Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of trade group The Broadway League.

“It’s not uncommon for shows not to get financing if they’re not sure-fire hits in tough economic times,” St. Martin said. “Even in great times, a lot of shows don’t get financed.”

“Hair” was a hit on Broadway and London’s West End in the 1960s, but Andrew Hamingson, executive director of New York’s Public Theater, which will bring “Hair” back to Broadway in March, said lining up investors for the show was difficult.

“At the time we were out looking for investors for the show it was at the same moment … when all those companies (like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch) either disappeared or they were acquired by other companies,” Hamingson said.

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