When you hear a constant ringing in the ear, and it won't go away, more than likely, you have ear ringing tinnitus. If the sounds you hear last only for a few seconds or minutes, tinnitus is unlikely. Most people will occasionally experience occasional noise in the ear, such as a roaring, buzzing, hissing or tinkling. These ringing noises are commonly found in people older than 40 years old. Men are more prone to have buzzing ears than women. Hearing loss as you age is said to be one of the main causes of this condition. Sometimes it can be heard in both ears and it may be indicative of other ear canal disorders. How to stop ear ringing tinnitus for good:

You may or may not need medical attention. It depends on the perseverance & permanence of the ringing along with other variables such as, how extreme the ringing is and what precipitated the buzzing ears in the beginning. In most cases the ringing in the ear may be more of a nuisance than a serious problem. The good thing about it is that it is not a disease but perhaps a warning about another condition in the ear canal.

In today's noisy world it is very easy to damage the inner ear by being exposed to constant loud noise in our daily lives. It is thought that there are over thirty six million who suffer from a ringing in the ears. The condition is hard to describe as everyone will interpret the sounds differently but it can in some cases lead to insomnia. There are some who suffer with a 'chronic ringing' and some just hear mild sounds almost so low that they can sometimes block them out.

The best way to avoid damaging your ears is to always wear ear plugs when attending a loud concert or show, and be aware of the dangers they do say prevention is better than a cure.

If for an example, when you are in a sound proof booth, body noises are more noticeable, because outside sounds is diminished. There are four sections of the ear that this ringing can occur; the outer ear, the middle ear, the inner ear, and the brain. You are more aware of these ear ringing tinnitus noises when ear wax or a foreign matter blocks the background sounds from the outside.

Did you know that? Loud earphones can lead to ringing in the ear if they are played at loud levels within the ear.

An ear infection can cause buzzing ears along with fluid and infection. Loud ringing noises are one of the most common causes of ear hums as you sometimes experience at work. These loud noises in the ear may also cause damage to hearing & ear canal. In your everyday environment excessive noise, such as firearms and high intensity music, may have lasting and damaging effects to your ears.

There are some medications, especially antibiotics or large amounts of aspirin for an example that may cause ear ringing tinnitus. Also allergy, high or low blood pressure, a tumor, and a head or neck injury can generate this ringing in the ear. Most of the time ear ringing tinnitus that is sporadic or intermittent does not require medical treatment. Nevertheless you may find the best results with a homeopathic treatment for ear ringing tinnitus.

Ellen and John Currie have been advising tinnitus sufferers from the tinnitus website since 1999, we offer both email and telephonic support for sufferers to overcome their battle with ringing ears. To learn more how you too can stop ear ringing tinnitus from driving you crazy you must visit http://www.t-gone.com/ now.

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Dandruff also known seborrhea. Dandruff is a chronic scalp condition that causes scaling and flaking of the skin. The skin on our scalp sheds more than any other area. Flakes get trapped in the hair and mix with oil, causing dandruff. Dandruff is a global phenomenon and many people find that dandruff can cause social or self-esteem problems. Dry scalp is caused by a lack of moisture or natural oils on the scalp, which results in small, dry flakes, and itchiness. Dandruff is caused by the shedding of skin, which results in medium-to-large size, white, oily flakes. Dandruff has been shown to be the result of three factors First is skin oil commonly referred to as sebum or sebaceous secretions. Second is the metabolic by-products of skin micro-organisms and Third individual susceptibility. Severe cases of dandruff are caused by a disease called seborrhoeic eczema or seborrhoeic dermatitis.

Common symptoms of dandruff include white, oily-looking flakes of dead skin in your hair and on your shoulders and an itchy, scaling scalp. Dandruff is not an organism like lice. Dandruff mostly occurs after puberty, usually between the ages of 20 and 30, and affects males more than females. 50% of adults are affected by dandruff at some time or the other in their lives. Hormones may also be involved, because dandruff usually starts after puberty and is more common in men than women. Other factors contributing to this disorder are emotional tension, harsh shampoos, exposure to cold and general exhaustion. There are a lot of ways to treat dandruff. It can be controlled and prevented from increasing. External treatment includes using anti-dandruff shampoos or using anti-fungal shampoos. Nutritional dandruff treatment: Nutritional treatment includes eating good nutritious food. An intake of lot of liquids to keep your skin supple helps.

Beat two eggs and add two tablespoons of water to it. Wet the hair and apply the egg mixture over the hair. Now massage your scalp and let the mixture on for 10-15 minutes. Olive oil contains vitamin E and other essential vitamins which is good for the skin as well. Apply them to your hair and slowly massage the scalp with your fingers. Boil a handful of neem leaves in 4 teacups of water. After cooling and filtering, use for rinsing hair. Hair washed with fenugreek (methi) seed paste prevents dandruff, falling hair, baldness and dandruff keeping the hair long, healthy and black. Apply warmed coconut oil with the juice of two lemons, and leave in hair for two hours before shampooing out. Meats, sugar, strong tea or coffee, processed fruits, candies, soft drinks, pickles should be avoided.

Home Remedies For Dandruff Tips

1. Use of fenugreek seeds is one of the most important remedies in the treatment of dandruff. Two tablespoons of these seeds should be soaked overnight in water and ground into a fine paste in the morning.

2. Use of a teaspoon of fresh lime juice for the last rinse, while washing the hair, is another useful remedy.

3. The juice of snake gourd has been found beneficial in the prevention and treatment of dandruff.

4. Aloe vera dandruff cure About 10-15 minutes before you wash your hair, rub a lot of aloe vera gel into your scalp. leave it on for 10 minutes.

5. Using lime juice to wash hair.

6. Soak 2 tablespoons fenugreek seeds in water overnight. In the morning grind into a fine paste. Apply all over scalp and leave for an hour. Wash with mild shampoo.

7. Mix the olive oil with the almond oil. Leave it on about 5 min.s after it starts to burn. Rinse well to clear dandruff.

8. Massage your hair with warm coconut oil and apply the juice of 2 lemons, steam your hair and leave the oil on for about 2 hours.

9. Boil a handful of neem leaves in 4 teacups of water. After cooling and filtering, use for rinsing hair.

10. Mix 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar with 1/4 cup water. Pour this mixture into a spray bottle and spritz it on to your hair and scalp, being careful to avoid the eye and ear area.

Juliet Cohen writes articles for http://www.beauty-makeup-skincare.com and http://www.makeup-care.info

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Most interactive websites nowadays would require a user to log in into the websites system in order to provide a customized experience for the user. Once the user has logged in, the website will be able to provide a presentation that is tailored to the users preferences.

A basic login system typically contains 3 components:

1. The component that allows a user to register his preferred login id and password

2. The component that allows the system to verify and authenticate the user when he subsequently logs in

3. The component that sends the users password to his registered email address if the user forgets his password

Such a system can be easily created using PHP and MySQL.

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Component 1 Registration

Component 1 is typically implemented using a simple HTML form that contains 3 fields and 2 buttons:

1. A preferred login id field
2. A preferred password field
3. A valid email address field
4. A Submit button
5. A Reset button

Assume that such a form is coded into a file named register.html. The following HTML code excerpt is a typical example. When the user has filled in all the fields, the register.php page is called when the user clicks on the Submit button.

[form name="register" method="post" action="register.php"]

[input name="login id" type="text" value="loginid" size="20"/][br]

[input name="password" type="text" value="password" size="20"/][br]

[input name="email" type="text" value="email" size="50"/][br]

[input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/]

[input type="reset" name="reset" value="reset"/] [/form]

The following code excerpt can be used as part of register.php to process the registration. It connects to the MySQL database and inserts a line of data into the table used to store the registration information.

@mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_login", "mysql_pwd") or die("Cannot connect to DB!"); @mysql_select_db("tbl_login") or die("Cannot select DB!"); $sql="INSERT INTO login_tbl (loginid, password and email) VALUES (".$loginid.,.$password.,.$email.); $r = mysql_query($sql); if(!$r) {

$err=mysql_error();

print $err;

exit(); }

The code excerpt assumes that the MySQL table that is used to store the registration data is named tbl_login and contains 3 fields the loginid, password and email fields. The values of the $loginid, $password and $email variables are passed in from the form in register.html using the post method.

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Component 2 Verification and Authentication

A registered user will want to log into the system to access the functionality provided by the website. The user will have to provide his login id and password for the system to verify and authenticate.

This is typically done through a simple HTML form. This HTML form typically contains 2 fields and 2 buttons:

1. A login id field
2. A password field
3. A Submit button
4. A Reset button

Assume that such a form is coded into a file named authenticate.html. The following HTML code excerpt is a typical example. When the user has filled in all the fields, the authenticate.php page is called when the user clicks on the Submit button.

[form name="authenticate" method="post" action="authenticate.php"]

[input name="login id" type="text" value="loginid" size="20"/][br]

[input name="password" type="text" value="password" size="20"/][br]

[input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/]

[input type="reset" name="reset" value="reset"/] [/form]

The following code excerpt can be used as part of authenticate.php to process the login request. It connects to the MySQL database and queries the table used to store the registration information.

@mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_login", "mysql_pwd") or die("Cannot connect to DB!"); @mysql_select_db("tbl_login") or die("Cannot select DB!"); $sql="SELECT loginid FROM login_tbl WHERE loginid=".$loginid. and password=.$password.; $r = mysql_query($sql); if(!$r) {

$err=mysql_error();

print $err;

exit(); } if(mysql_affected_rows()==0){

print "no such login in the system. please try again.";

exit(); } else{

print "successfully logged into system.";

//proceed to perform websites functionality e.g. present information to the user }

As in component 1, the code excerpt assumes that the MySQL table that is used to store the registration data is named tbl_login and contains 3 fields the loginid, password and email fields. The values of the $loginid and $password variables are passed in from the form in authenticate.html using the post method.

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Component 3 Forgot Password

A registered user may forget his password to log into the websites system. In this case, the user will need to supply his loginid for the system to retrieve his password and send the password to the users registered email address.

This is typically done through a simple HTML form. This HTML form typically contains 1 field and 2 buttons:

1. A login id field
2. A Submit button
3. A Reset button

Assume that such a form is coded into a file named forgot.html. The following HTML code excerpt is a typical example. When the user has filled in all the fields, the forgot.php page is called when the user clicks on the Submit button.

[form name="forgot" method="post" action="forgot.php"]

[input name="login id" type="text" value="loginid" size="20"/][br]

[input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/]

[input type="reset" name="reset" value="reset"/] [/form]

The following code excerpt can be used as part of forgot.php to process the login request. It connects to the MySQL database and queries the table used to store the registration information.

@mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_login", "mysql_pwd") or die("Cannot connect to DB!"); @mysql_select_db("tbl_login") or die("Cannot select DB!"); $sql="SELECT password, email FROM login_tbl WHERE loginid=".$loginid.; $r = mysql_query($sql); if(!$r) {

$err=mysql_error();

print $err;

exit(); } if(mysql_affected_rows()==0){

print "no such login in the system. please try again.";

exit(); } else {

$row=mysql_fetch_array($r);

$password=$row["password"];

$email=$row["email"];

$subject="your password";

$header="from:you@yourdomain.com";

$content="your password is ".$password;

mail($email, $subject, $row, $header);

print "An email containing the password has been sent to you";

}

As in component 1, the code excerpt assumes that the MySQL table that is used to store the registration data is named tbl_login and contains 3 fields the loginid, password and email fields. The value of the $loginid variable is passed from the form in forgot.html using the post method.

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Conclusion

The above example is to illustrate how a very basic login system can be implemented. The example can be enhanced to include password encryption and additional functionality e.g. to allow users to edit their login information.

Used with the author's permission.
This article is written by John L.
John L is the Webmaster of Designer Banners (http://www.designerbanners.com).

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I grew up around dragons. No, not the mythological ones, although I think I would have liked to. (If they were anything like Draco the dragon from Dragonheart). No, I was one of the products of the 1980s the decade of Dungeons & Dragons. I have had more crazy adventures with my brothers and sister to haunt me for a lifetime! Moreover, from one D & D player to another never let your older brother be the dungeon master they always cheat!

I never really got into the whole mysticism behind the winged creatures, but my sister became the resident expert in our home. (That is, if you do not include my fire-breathing mother when she was angry!) My sister soon began to collect the small Dungeons & Dragons figurines specifically dragons. When 1994 rolled around, she got her first dragon tattoo on her upper left shoulder.

She never got a whole lot of dissension for getting a dragon, as I did when I got my fairy tattoos. One artist actually asked if I were a lesbian for getting tattoos of naked women on my legs! What the heck? Why wasnt my sister accused of the same thing, since it seems like dragons tend to be seen more on men than women? Hmm I must still have some unresolved sibling issues buried somewhere! Anyway, her reason for enjoying dragons as much as she did actually had her stumbling for an explanation.

Ive always liked the idea of dragons, and I think it all started when I saw the movie The Neverending Story. In that movie, the dragon looked like an albino golden retriever. After that, I started to like them because of their need to protect and guard treasures. I dont know I guess I just liked the idea of dragons being impervious to pain and danger. Oh, and I also liked the idea of frying my enemies to a crisp!

Dragons tended to originate, once again, from oriental backgrounds. Some believed that dragons protected the deity, Buddha, and the Buddhism religion. Impervious to fire, dragons were considered gods of water and the sea, with certain powers to influence rain and storms in general. There were four guardians in such stories one for each direction North, South, East, and West. The Northern guardian was named Genbu, a green dragon that brought winter. Suzaku, the red dragon of the South, was the bringer of summer. The Western white dragon, Byakko, brought fall to the lands. The Eastern guardian, Seiryu, was a blue dragon associated with spring.

Perhaps many love the dragon lore because it, like much of the creatures of the Orient, shrouds itself in the mysteries of life, and the values that one must adhere to in order to attain true understanding of ourselves. (Gads, I feel like Jack Handy, of Deep Thoughts, or something!) Either way, they are construed as courageous creatures that protect and stand up for what they had been given charge of. Why not ink one on?

Tattoos last forever, so you'll want to be sure you've chosen the perfect one before you get inked. Did you know there may be up to 500 different styles for the tattoo you are thinking of getting? Flipping through hundreds of tattoo parlor books can get a little tiring. Why not just browse through a web site instead? You can see 1000s of a tattoo styles, ideas and pictures by Clicking Here. You can even create your own custom tattoo!

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