In accordance with the present invention, a method is provided whereby the transient voltages presented at the input to a watt-hour meter are suppressed to prevent damage to the watt-hour meter and to the electronic devices that are powered through the watt-hour meter. The system and method provides server-side control features related to resource requests for locked resources, such as establishing an expected lifetime property so that the sever may notify requesting clients as to the expected lifetime of a lock to improve client-side polling methods. The short message service message is destined for reception by a wireless device. The collecting member is arranged to cause the collected gas cooling liquid to flow into a liquid based safety valve. An additive gas source and a prescrubber may also be used to further treat the effluent. Pharmacodynamic tests have demonstrated that fluoxetine has the effects of treating depigmentation diseases especially leukotrichia and vitiligo.