Hair starring John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly DAngelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright

One Heck Of A Musical Memoir That Is Brighter, Sharper And More Insightful Than Most The Age of Aquarius is brought to life by the filmmaker who made Amadeus a household word. Milos Forman directed this version of James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermots landmark musical in 1979 between his Oscar-winning films One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Amadeus. With mixed reviews (Gene Siskel named it that years best film) and lukewarm box-office grosses, the film all but disappeared from the collective consciousness. Yet the film beautifully delivers on its promise to bring the 60s back to life. Hair re-creates a colorful world of counterculture finding an anvil to pound on: the Vietnam War. Forman and his design team allow the film to wash over you, starting at the free-flowing opening in which masses of hippies, police, and even their horses eagerly groove to the familiar beat of Aquarius. In the best work of his career, Treat Williams makes his leading- man debut as Berger, the leader of the Central Park troop who takes draftee Claude (John Savage) under his wing on his trip through New York City and the apex of what the 60s was. The new recording of the music is quite fine, with Chicago band member Don Dacuss rendition of the title song a highlight. As Bergers pièce de résistance number says, Ive Got Life; so does the film, right down to its poignant declaration to let the sunshine in. --Doug Thomas Hair is easily one of the most evocative movie musicals Ive ever seen. The acting is terrific; the choreography is outstanding and the cinematography by Twyla Tharp works wonders for the film. The songs are incredibly catchy, too. The casting is exceptionally well done and overall this stuns me even if the two original authors James Rado and Gerome Ragni didnt like Milos Formans adaptation of their stage play to the big screen. In addition, the quality of the print is very good. When the action starts, we meet Claude Bukowski (John Savage) who has been drafted into the Vietnam War; he leaves his native Oklahoma to go to New York City for his physical exam and initial induction into the military. Once Claude gets to Manhattan, however, his plan for two days of sightseeing rapidly goes in another direction when he sees a beautiful young woman horseback riding in Central Park and meets a group of free thinking, loving hippies who hang out in Central Park. Despite Claudes initial resistance, he soon takes a liking to the hippies (although Lord knows the hippies and Claude dont seem to have that much in common) and the hippies like Claude, too. The hippie group includes George Berger (Treat Williams) who is essentially their leader, the colorful Jeannie (Annie Golden), Hud aka Lafayette (Dorsey Wright), Woof (Don Dacus) and, at times, a few others singing and dancing their way along for the ride. To spice things up, there are all sorts of antics, like the hippies hiding Sheilas clothing when she impulsively skinny dips in a Central Park lake with Claude; and there are the predictable yet very well done scenes of the hippies doing drugs and asking for a little spare change so they can rent a horse and show off a bit when they next encounter Sheila and her snooty horseback riding friends. Berger, the hippies and Claude even wind up crashing a party in Sheilas honor so that Claude can see Sheila once more before hes drafted. But Hair gives us so much more. Its a fond, fun and nostalgic look back at the latter half of the 1960s, a time when quite a few young people sincerely believed that they could change the world by protesting, questioning authority and leading their lives free of the typical social norms and mores of society. Hippies honestly believed that taking certain drugs was a relaxing experience that led to better self-understanding; some psychotherapists even encouraged their patients to take LSD for better group therapy experiences at a time when LSD was actually still legal. (LSD was legal until 1967.) Unfortunately, the hippies were unable to change the governments mind about the war in Vietnam. They simply lacked the power to change the governments policy on Vietnam. Since the latter part of the 1960s there has never been such a hopeful time for so many young Americans. The DVD comes with a widescreen version on one side and the standard fullscreen version on the other side. There extras are a bit disappointing; we get a stills gallery of what is basically advertising for the movie along with the original theatrical trailer. I would have liked at least a directors commentary; and another commentary by Treat Williams would have been awesome. Hair remains one of the best musicals ever--its current Broadway revival forty years after the original production proves this is both powerful and memorable. I highly recommend this movie for people interested in an era when young Americans had much less cynicism and so much more hope for the future than they do in our times; and people who like high quality control movie musicals will not be disappointed.

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Hair Musical

 Hair was conceived by actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni. The main characters were autobiographical, with Rado's Claude being a pensive romantic and Ragni's Berger an extrovert. Rado explained, "We were great friends. Rado described the inspiration for Hair as "a combination of some characters we met in the streets, people we knew and our own imaginations. Many cast members (Shelley Plimpton in particular) were recruited right off the street. Rado and Ragni came from different artistic backgrounds. In college, Rado wrote musical revues and aspired to be a Broadway composer in the Rodgers and Hammerstein tradition. Ragni, on the other hand, was an active member of The Open Theater, one of several groups, mostly Off-off Broadway, that were developing experimental theatre techniques. He introduced Rado to the modern theatre styles and methods being developed at The Open Theater. In 1966, while the two were developing Hair, Ragni performed in The Open Theater's production of Megan Terry's play, Viet Rock, a story about young men being deployed to the Vietnam War. In addition to the war theme, Viet Rock employed the improvisational exercises being used in the experimental theatre scene and later used in the development of Hair. Rado and Ragni brought their drafts of the show to producer Eric Blau who, through common friend Nat Shapiro, connected the two with Canadian composer Galt MacDermot.[12] MacDermot had won a Grammy Award in 1961 for his composition "African Waltz" (recorded by Cannonball Adderley).The composer's lifestyle was in marked contrast to his co-creators: "I had short hair, a wife, and, at that point, four children, and I lived on Staten Island." "I never even heard of a hippie when I met Rado and Ragni.""We work independently," explained MacDermot in May 1968.

James Rado is at the heart and root of the origin.  After graduation, followed by two years in the U.S.Navy, he returned to school in Washington, D.C. for graduate work at Catholic University, where he co-authored a musical revue called "CROSS YOUR FINGERS."  Looking to see the name of it,  Jim Rado said to Jerry Ragni, "What an odd title for a painting...Hair."  HAIR's world debut was in New York City in October 1967, off-Broadway, on the heels of the Summer of Love. Jerry and I had written HAIR for the uptown big theatre audiences. It was designed to invade Broadway territory, but we couldn't get a tumble from any of the Broadway producers. The old Astor Library, gutted and under fresh construction, became The New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, and the producer Joseph Papp chose HAIR to be the premiere presentation in his experimental space, the Anspacher Theater. (Papp had produced free Shakespeare in Central Park for years, but was now branching out, to embrace the excitement of the avant garde theater movement.) As directed by Gerald Freedman, with choreography by Anna Sokolow, the "Public" proved to be a perfect "out-of-town tryout."

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Hair Loss Overview

The loss of hair (alopecia) is a natural phenomenon in all hair-baring animals that normally occurs during the hair growth cycle. It is estimated that most individuals (assuming they have a full head of hair) lose about 100 scalp hairs over a 24-hour period. Hair loss can become a cosmetic problem when it occurs in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong individual. True hair loss should be distinguished from damage to the hair shaft, which may cause breakage close to the scalp. This sort of damage is most often caused by exogenous chemicals used to alter the physical characteristics of the hair shaft (hair dye, etc.), but certain genetic diseases can alter its strength and durability.

• Physicians divide cosmetically significant hair loss into two categories.
1. Scarring alopecia: This sort of irreversible hair loss is characterized by damage to the underlying skin which results in scarring that destroys the hair follicle and its potential for regeneration. A simple visual examination is usually sufficient to diagnose this problem, although occasionally a biopsy may be necessary. Certain skin diseases as well as physical trauma produce this sort of damage. 2. Non-scarring alopecia: This potentially reversible type of hair loss is very common and can be due to many causes, including certain diseases, drugs, aging, diet, as well as a genetic predisposition for hair loss called androgenetic alopecia (common balding).
• There are three cycles of hair growth: growing (80% of follicles), resting, and shedding. In human hair, each follicle cycles at its own individual rate as opposed to most animals, where these cycles change with the season, and all hairs are in the same part of the cycle at the same time. This is why animals grow a thicker coat in the fall and shed most in the spring and why human beings do not shed.
• Unlike most animals, in humans, each hair has its own pattern of growing, resting, and shedding.
• Each person sheds hair and regrows hair every day.
• When this balance is disturbed and more hairs are shed than are regrown, alopecia or hair loss results.

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Dry Cough Home Remedies: Easy Breathing Exercises (Over 90% Success Rate)

Common causes of dry cough
A dry cough does not produce sputum. This is the reason why it is sometimes called nonproductive cough. A dry cough often develops at the end of a cold (infection). It can be a reaction to an irritant, such as dust or smoke. Numerous chemicals are used in medical research to trigger cough in experimental animals.
In humans, there are several causes of a dry nonproductive cough, such as:
- viral infection (such cough may last more than 2-3 weeks and the symptoms often get worse at night)
- bronchospasm (a dry cough, particularly at night, leads to additional CO2 losses and cause spasms in the bronchial tubes (bronchospasm) due to hypocapnia or low CO2 in the airways)
- allergic triggers (due to pollen, dust, fumes, perfume, various other chemicals and so forth)
- some medical drugs, e.g., ACE inhibitors which contain captopril, lisinopril, and enalapril maleate
- asthma (due to chronic inflammation in airways with accompanying wheezing, shortness of breath, and a feeling of tightness in the chest
- blockage of the airways by an object, such as food, powder, or a pill
Why could dry cough become chronic?
There many negative effects due to chronic coughing or coughing attacks. It reduces boxy oxygen levels due to losses of CO2 in the arterial blood. Traditional coughing (through the mouth) is a form of hyperventilation. As a result, low CO2 levels in the lungs causes more problems with oxygen delivery. Indeed, according to the laws of physiology, when we breathe more air at rest, we get less oxygen in body cells. In addition, low CO2 in the airways causes over-excited states of urge-to-cough receptors since CO2 is a powerful calmative and sedative of nerve cells. High or normal CO2 levels keep nerve cells calm, while low CO2 levels makes them irritable. This means that CO2 losses due to coughing cause more coughing.
Dry cough home remedies
There are several dry cough home remedies (or breathing exercises) invented by Russian medical doctors practicing the Buteyko breathing technique. These exercises have been successfully tested on thousands of asthmatics and other cough-sufferers.
Home Remedy No. 1. Learn how to cough only through your nose (i.e., with your mouth being closed all the time). This exercise will help you to reduce inflammation of airways and bronchospasm, and increase oxygen levels in the brain and body cells.
Home Remedy No. 2. After your mastered the first exercise, learn how to cough with both, your mouth and nose closed. How could this be done? When you get an urge to cough, keep your mouth closed and your nose pinched. You will get more CO2 in airways and increase your body and brain oxygen levels.
Most people can reduce duration of coughing attacks due to these 2 exercises. However, you can achieve even more success, if you use the most effective anti-coughing home remedy that is called "reduced breathing".
Home Remedy No. 3. Sit down in a comfortable position. While having the bout of coughing, relax and at the end of your usual exhalation, pinch your nose and hold your breath (your mouth should be closed all the time) but until you experience mild distress (or air hunger).
After this breath hold, when you get a mild air hunger, take only a small (or short) inhalation (one small sniff) and do it only through the nose. After this small inhalation, you need to focus on relaxation of all body muscles, especially in the upper chest and shoulders. Do not exhale air forcefully. You need to relax the muscles in order to exhale slowly.
If coughing is present, your goal is to restrict the gas exchange to very small inhalations followed by natural and easy exhalations. Then take another short inhalation (a small sniff of air) and again completely relax for the exhalation.
You should maintain medium level of air hunger while relaxing all body muscles. Your breathing pattern can be quite frequent during this reduced breathing exercise (frequent short inhalations and short exhalations), and this is normal.
If you do this exercise correctly, you will breathe about 25-40% less air, while being totally relaxed, and you will notice 2 positive signs:
- Your arms and feet will get warmer in about 1 minutes after starting this exercise (due to improved circulation)
- Your nasal passages will become more open and moist within 1-2 minutes.
This dry cough home remedy can also be used during night sleep since it will help you, in addition, to fall asleep much faster. Just remember to avoid supine sleep: sleeping on one's back is worst for coughing, asthma, heart disease, children, elderly people, pregnant women, and all other situations and conditions tested in clinical trials. In order to achieve success, sleep on your chest or the left side.
Permanent remedies for persistent dry cough
After testing thousands of their sick patients, these Russian medical doctors found that dry cough is possible only in those people who have less than 20 seconds for the body oxygen test. As a result, the permanent remedy for dry cough is to slow down the unconscious or automatic breathing pattern and get more than 20 seconds for the body oxygen test. Oxygen Remedy, Amazing DIY breathing device, and Frolov respiratory device are some of the options to get more oxygen in body cells.

Resources - Web pages from Normalbreathing.com
Cough: Causes and Most Natural Treatment (Over 90% Success)
CO2: Best Natural Cough Suppressant - How and why this "waste" gas can suppress chronic coughing.
NormalBreathing.com has hundreds of medical references and quotes, graphs, charts and tables, analysis of numerous respiratory techniques, results of clinical trials, free breathing exercises with lifestyle modules, manuals and techniques, and other resources to augment brain and body oxygen levels and improve health.

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Stop Failing Diets

SHOCKING! You may not have failed your diets. Your diets may have failed you!

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If you are asking what is the best way to lose weight, then you may or may not know that the glycemic index has been used by people with diabetes and insulin resistance to monitor their calorie, carbohydrate and protein intake for years......but did you also know that research has shown it is the "better weight management plan" and can be the easiest way to lose weight for anyone who wants to learn how to lose weight and keep it off? 

Just listen to Dr. Cyril Kendall of the University of Toronto talk about the largest clinical trial of Low Glycemic Index Diet, and make sure you listen to the last 17 seconds (of the 77 seconds video).:

 Largest Trial of Low Glycemic Index Diet

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What Exactly is the Glycemic Index?

Dr. David Jenkins of the University of Toronto, credited with developing the concept of the glycemic index, talks about the glycemic index (remember it was initially nothing to do with weight loss!):  

Dr. David Jenkins on the Glycemic Index

The glycemic index, also known as GI, generally ranks carbohydrates on a scale from 1 to 100 according
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Glycemic Index Ranking
High	70 and greater
Medium	56 to 69
Low	55 and less

Foods with a high GI score are those that are rapidly digested and absorbed and that results in
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Feel Good Meditation - Learn to meditate!

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