Swedish Skin Care's Razor Burn Freedom for Women Wins Members' Choice Award at ICMAD's 2012 CITY Awards

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Swedish Skin Care's RAZOR BURN FREEDOM for Women won in its category at the prestigious Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers & Distributors (ICMAD) seventh annual Cosmetic Innovators of the Year (CITY) Awards. The award was announced at the ICMAD CITY Awards Ceremony in New York on June 20.

Swedish Skin Care's Razor Burn Freedom for Women was one of 15 entries under the Members' Choice: Bath, Body & Hair category. A panel of industry experts voted on beauty brands in 14 categories based on innovative products, packaging, and advertising/marketing concepts from 2011. http://www.icmad.org/innovators/index.asp?cid=19

"We are elated to receive this validation," explained Swedish Skin Care CEO Bengt Johansson. "We created Razor Burn Freedom for Women because nothing else on the market effectively helped women with post hair-removal skin symptoms, such as razor burn, ingrown hair and skin irritation. All of our research and testing was worth it. Users and industry experts agree - it works."

"This product is amazing! I have never seen anything like it in my 30+ years in the beauty industry," explained Jazz Moreno, beauty products distributor and owner of JAZZ-Z Beauty Products.

"This Awards program showcases the growth that cosmetic and personal care products have made over the years," stated Pam Busiek, ICMAD president and CEO. "Innovative products such as Swedish Skin Care's Razor Burn Freedom provide the public with the quality and choice they deserve."

About RAZOR BURN FREEDOM for Women Doctor developed in Sweden, this patented, triple-action formula is (the company believes) the first treatment of its kind formulated exclusively for women and their specific post hair-removal skin needs. The product is not limited to razor burn symptoms. Formulated without paraben and fragrances, it produces great results after waxing, electrolysis, threading, tweezing, and laser hair removal.

Razor Burn Freedom for Women is offered in a 3.38 fl oz /100 ml pump spray bottle for $30. This and Swedish Skin Care's other products are available at http://www.SwedishSkinCare.com and include a 60-day satisfaction guarantee. info@SwedishSkinCare.com, 888.658.7546 (SKIN).

Swedish Skin Care also offers products for anti aging and dry skin.

Media contact: Jason Sherman, http://www.shermancm.com, Public Relations Firm, 888.658.7546

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U.S., EU raise concerns over media freedom in Sri Lanka

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COLOMBO (Reuters) - The United States and European Union have raised concerns over media freedom in Sri Lanka after police shut down two anti-government news websites, a move press groups said was intended to intimidate critics of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka is already under heavy pressure to address rights issues after a U.S.-backed U.N. resolution was passed in March urging the ...

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Will you sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom?

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In advance of Independence Day, a host of groups and individuals have launched the Declaration of Internet Freedom, fighting for a free and open Internet.

Do you believe the Internet needs protection against censorship and other threats? If so, then you may want to join in on the new Declaration of Internet Freedom.

Launched by a large coalition of privacy groups, Web sites, and individuals, the Declaration of Internet Freedom is the start of a process striving to keep the Internet free and open. The organizations and people who kicked off this process are looking for other Internet users to discuss the ideas, share their own thoughts, and sign the declaration.

"We've seen how the Internet has been under attack from various directions, and we recognize that it's time to make that stop," said TechDirt, one of the Web sites involved in the new movement. "The Internet is an incredible platform that we want to grow and to thrive, and thus, a very large coalition got together to produce the following document as a starting point, hoping to kick off a much larger discussion which we hope you'll join in."

At this point, the Declaration of Internet Freedom advocates five basic principles:

People who want to sign the petition or share their opinions can do so at any number of Web sites, including TechDirt, Freepress, Accessnow, and the declaration's own site.

For now, the declaration and its principles are still in the discussion stage, inviting people to debate the issues and offer their own opinions.

But the groups behind this cause are clearly hoping the power of Internet users and Web sites can have an effect on Washington, especially in light of the defeat of the SOPA bill earlier this year.

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This Declaration of Internet Freedom Is Vague

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As a reaction to SOPA and other complex legislative efforts to regulate the Internet, online activists have created a Declaration of Internet Freedom, which consists of five very broad principles to keep the Internet free and open. At fewer than 100 words, compared to the convoluted anti-piracy bills it's a response to, the declaration's length seems itself to be an attack on the anti-Internet ...

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Environmental protection to take centre stage in upcoming Eco Expo Asia

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by Chai Li Tiing, chailitiing@theborneopost.com. Posted on July 3, 2012, Tuesday

ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS: Photo shows the opening ceremony at last years Eco Expo Asia. (From left) Song Xiao Zhi, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Environmental Protection; the Honourable Edward Yau, Secretary for the Environment; and Fred Lam, executive director of the HKTDC are pictured officiating the ceremony for the Expo.

KUCHING: The growing environmental protection industry will be front and centre at the Hong Kong Trade Development Councils (HKTDC) upcoming Eco Expo Asia, to be held from Oct 27 to 30 with support from the HKSARG Environment Bureau.

According to a HKTDC representation during an interview with The Borneo Post, The Eco Expo Asia is the only trade fair on environmental protection in Hong Kong promoting environmental protection at all levels, including Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer exchange as well as Business-to-Government interaction.

Apart from marketing the capabilities, product and technologies available in the environmental protection sector, Eco Expo Asia also presents business opportunities and investment projects of Asia and especially the Chinese Mainland, in particular the neighbouring Pearl River Delta. The environmental protection sector had been increasing in importance within China as it was recognised as one of the pillar industries in Chinas 12th Five-Year Programme.

The total investment was estimated to be over US$473 billion during the five-year period and the market was expected to grow at an annual compound rate of 15 to 20 per cent with an industry output value of US$773 billion by 2015.

The mainland envisages that an investment of RMB3.4 trillion will be needed for new environmental protection projects to be implemented during 2011 to 2015.

In particular, priority is given to projects in eight areas that will require as much as RMB1.5 trillion investments in the period. With Hong Kongs close connections with the mainland, its comprehensive financial system, its well-established rule of law and legal regime on intellectual property rights protection, the representative believed that Hong Kong could provide an ideal platform for foreign green service and product providers to enter the market.

As such, the representative noted that the outlook for the environmental protection market in Hong Kong is good.

With the subsequent launch of energy efficiency and carbon reduction measures, demand for eco technologies in the Chinese mainland is on the rise.

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MPI to Display Efficient, Eco-Friendly Equipment at IMTS 2012

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Highland, MI - Magnetic Products, Inc. (MPI), a worldwide provider of both magnetic and non-magnetic material handling solutions, will display a number of inventive products at IMTS in Chicago from September 10 - 15, 2012. Products to be featured in MPI booth #E5803 include:

Eco-Mag The award-winning Eco-Mag is a high-intensity magnetic filter which significantly improves filtration efficiency over conventional systems. The Eco-Mag uses high-power neodymium rare earth magnets to remove ferrous and para-magnetic contamination from fluids and is particularly effective with machine tool oils, coolants and hydraulic fluid machinery systems. The environmentally friendly Eco-Mag does not use filter consumables.

Beltless Magnetic Conveyor (BLM) MPI's beltless magnetic conveyors (BLM), available in a variety of models, provide positive control of ferrous metal materials, such as stampings, turnings, chips, fasteners and scrap. Powerful permanent magnets are conveyed below a nonmagnetic stainless steel slider bed to move and convey ferrous metal objects. The liquid-tight sealed conveyor housing can be completely submerged in machine reservoir tanks, while the internal self-adjusting take-up system eliminates the need for maintenance.

Magnetic Extreme Coolant Cleaner (XCC) MPI's magnetic coolant cleaner boasts a significant improvement in ferrous swarf capture rate as compared to comparable machinery. The XCC features an extremely durable stainless steel cleaning surface that will not wear out. Magnetic technology is green, and substantially reduces the need to buy costly consumables and the downtime required to change paper filters.

Oil Skimmers MPI provides a full line of compact, portable oil skimmers used to capture tramp oil on the surface of process fluids. A self-regulating tilting skimmer glides over the surface to collect oil while a pump ensures that unwanted fluids do not return to the tank.

For further information, contact MPI at 800-544-5930 or visit http://www.mpimagnet.com.

About Magnetic Products, Inc.: Magnetic Products Inc. (MPI), based in southeastern Michigan, is a worldwide provider of both magnetic and non-magnetic material handling solutions. MPI leads the industry by continually engineering inventive magnetic equipment and advancing customer education through significant investments in research and development and proactive product training. For over 30 years, MPI has implemented a business model that combines technologically superior equipment with industry-leading customer service. MPI interacts closely with its customers and expands its offerings to meet the changes of a dynamic marketplace. Visit http://www.mpimagnet.com.

Limit, safety machine guarding, emergency cable-pull, magnetic position, foot, pushbutton and belt-alignment switches for ATEX, IEC Ex, IP69K, high or low temperature, salt water, high impact, or IP 68 sealed applications.

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Newest Chabord High-Performance Exhaust System Certified on Cessna 172 models

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Epagny, France: CHABORD Exhaust Systems has just earned EASA certification for its new stainless steel / Inconel* eco exhaust system for the Cessna 172R and -S models; the company has filed for reciprocal certification with the FAA, and We expect no surprises, according to company President, Alain Chabord.

The STC includes everything the customer needs. Using the customers exhaust gaskets, all-new materials and hardware carry exhaust through the collector to the heat muff and special muffler [with replaceable packing], and to the exhaust tip. All necessary brackets and detailed instructions are also included.

The Chabord Eco Exhaust system combines meticulous craftsmanship with a design that enhances engine performance while lowering noise emissions. The entire system, from the flanges at the head to the tip of the exhaust, is designed to work as a unit and built at the Chabord factory in France, where high performance exhaust systems have been produced for over thirty years, exhaust systems that appeared in Formula One and in many prototypes in rally and at LeMans, as well as on rare collector cars like the Ferrari 250GTO.

In aviation, Chabord performance exhausts have flown in Red Bull competitions; these hand-made Inconel systems weigh as little as nine pounds, complete, for a 540-inch Lycoming, and are becoming ever-more popular in unlimited aerobatics. Chabord also produces certified exhaust systems for many exotic civilian aircraft, as well as for legacy aircraft whose factory support has run out. Increasingly, stock exhaust systems are being replaced by Chabords better-made, quieter, and efficient Eco Exhaust systems.

Measured performance improvements include a 4-11db reduction in noise (depending on the frequency measured, and at what distance; a decrease of the sound level by 3 dB corresponds to a halving of sound intensity). Measured climb rate increases went from 4.3m/sec (846 fpm) to 4.93m/sec (970 fpm), a 14% improvement after normalizing for flight conditions.

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Making Location Services Slick & Simple

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Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case teamed up with location whiz Aaron Parecki to build a platform for mobile location services. (Oh, and they're helping save lives.)

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Founders: Amber Case, 26; Aaron Parecki, 27

Year founded: 2010

Location: Portland

2011 Revenue: Undisclosed

2012 Projected Revenue: Undisclosed

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My life as a cyborg

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Google is pushing its Project Glass. But one CNET writer spends time with a bevy of cutting edge wearable computers, seeing what it's like to live a computerized life.

Zeal Optics Z3 goggles sport a tiny monitor inside to let skiers track their speed, see vertical distance covered, and even map their location when they connect to a computer later.

SEATTLE -- It was an unseasonably warm June evening, the kind of day locals rave about because they come so rarely. At 6 p.m., I hopped on my bike for an evening spin.

My heart-rate quickly raced up to 157 beats per minute as I picked up my pace to 14 miles per hour up a gradual rise in the road. At the same time, my blood-glucose level dropped to 62 milligrams per deciliter, low, but not dangerously so for a non-diabetic. All in all, pretty solid data, given that the night before I slept six hours and 21 minutes, waking for brief periods 21 times during the night.

Welcome to my cyborg life. Google has generated tons of press in recent days with its Project Glass, computerized glasses that lets users take pictures and find information. But it's hardly the only company pursuing wearable computing. And while Project Glass won't be commercially available for another two years at the earliest, there are plenty of companies selling devices that consumers can slip into and strap on to collect reams of data about their daily lives.

Suunto's Ambit watch, which tracks altitude, location, speed, and heart rate.

To get a glimpse of that future, I strapped on a bunch of those gadgets. Here's what I learned.

In all, the gadgets I tested collectively ran into the thousands of dollars. I was decked out from head --with Zeal Optics Z3 ski googles that track speed and map locations -- to my feet -- with Adidas Resolution running shoes with the company's miCoach Speed_Cell sensor that keeps tabs on speed and distance run. I gathered a ton of information about health and fitness, though it wasn't my most fashion-forward moment. There were times, when wearing everything, I looked like a high school science experiment run amok.

Wearable gadgets have been around for some time. Heart-rate monitors have been standard training devices for athletes for more than a decade. Pods that runners slip into their shoes have been around for years as well. And a new batch of gizmos have emerged that let users keep tabs on the number of steps they've taken, a popular new category that I also sampled.

The business of wearable computing is on the cusp of becoming mainstream. That's because the cost and size of the sensors the devices use has dropped significantly over the years. And the ability to transmit the data those gadgets collect and receive has become seamless as many connect with the mobile smartphones that folks slip into their pockets or purses everyday.

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La.'s beaches worst for water quality

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Published: Monday, July 2, 2012 at 11:16 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, July 2, 2012 at 11:16 a.m.

A new report from the environmental nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council ranked Louisiana last out of 30 states for its beach water quality.

Samples taken at Louisiana beaches in 2011 found levels of bacteria considered unsafe for swimming 29 percent of the time, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council report. That's the highest in the country.

Clean beaches are vital to our local, regional and national coastal economies, said Steve Fleischli, acting director of the council. If we want to keep our oceans and tourism industries thriving and healthy, we need our local and federal leaders to step up and adopt smart policies that protect our water, our health and our beach businesses.

Beach water pollution can cause a range of illnesses in swimmers including stomach flu, skin rashes, pink eye, ear, nose and throat problems, dysentery, hepatitis, respiratory ailments, neurological disorders and other serious health problems. For senior citizens, small children and people with weak immune systems, these infections can be fatal.

Five Louisiana beaches were listed as repeat offenders for having persistent bacterial contamination problems. Those beaches were all in Cameron Parish, including Constance Beach, Gulf Breeze, Little Florida, Long Beach and Rutherford Beach.

Beaches were ranked with one to five stars depending on their water quality, the frequency of water quality monitoring and public notification when problems came up.

No beaches in Louisiana achieved the best five-star ranking, but beaches at South Padre Island in Texas and Gulf Shores, Ala., did.

The report looked at 26 testing locations in Louisiana, including Fourchon Beach and Grand Isle. Elmer's Island was not tested for bacteria in 2011 because it had only recently opened to the public. Testing will begin on Elmer's Island this year.

Fourchon Beach had a clean slate, with no water samples testing positive for unsafe levels of bacteria. Fourchon, a private beach, is closed to the public because of the BP oil spill. Of the seven locations tested on Grand Isle, waters in the state park tested the worst, exceeding safe bacteria levels 18 percent of the time.

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Astronomy – Stars In Your Eyes (EDM) – Video

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01-07-2012 14:52 Buy "Stars In Your Eyes" here : Like Astronomy on Facebook : Follow Astronomy on Soundcloud : A track I put together named "Stars In Your Eyes". I enjoyed the production in this track very much! I decided to keep the main melody and progression as it is, because any other counter melody or bass would of ruined the emotion of the track. Thanks for all the support on soundcloud! More music to come...

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Did a meteor plunge into the ocean near Perth? I’m thinking no. | Bad Astronomy

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Ive been getting some emails and tweets alerting me to photos that purport to show the debris trail of a meteor after it apparently plunged into the ocean off the coast of Perth, Australia. After looking at the pictures, Im pretty sure this is not a meteor, but an airplane contrail.

First, the picture, from the Australian news site News.com.au:

Its a lovely photo! It shows the ocean off to the west of Perth, a blue sky, and what appears to be some sort of cloud-like vapor or debris trail. Thats probably not just an average cloud: its very linear, and shows signs of being sheared apart by winds. Cirrus clouds can look like this, but generally arent all alone in a blue sky. There are other types of linear clouds (like alto- and cirrocumulus) but those tend to appear in parallel bands.

The cloud is also relatively low above the Earths surface. In another photo from news.com.au, you can see the faint shadow of the cloud on the sky I have inset that here, with the brightness and contrast stretched. The arrows mark the shadow (the bright blobs are most likely internal reflections in the camera, and the dark spot a piece of dust or something like that on the lens). The picture was taken at sunset, so the Sun was low. The shadow of the trail is being cast on haze and other stuff floating in the air above the cloud. Clearly, the trail isnt all that high above the Earths surface.

This doesnt mean its not from a meteor, necessarily. A big rock plunging into the ocean might leave a trail (technically called a "train") like this. But I dont think thats what were seeing. A big rock burning up in the atmosphere wouldve been really conspicuous, and seen by lots of people especially at sunset near a major city like Perth. Id also expect the train to be much longer than this; big meteors start burning up about 100 kilometers (60 miles) over the Earth, so the train would arc across more of the sky.

And no one saw that? Also, there are no confirmations from anywhere else of an impact or even observations of this. So my skeptic sense is tingling hard.

Also? It just really really looks like a typical airplane contrail! We see these all the time. When a plane flies over the horizon it can leave a contrail looking exactly like this, with perspective making it look like its diving down into the ocean. It gets lit by the setting Sun, so it glows red, orange, or yellow. Thinking parsimoniously using Occams razor and looking at probabilities here whats more likely: an airplane flying away from a big city, or a big rock burning up in our atmosphere that almost no one saw?

Furthermore, contrails have been mistaken for meteors and even missile launches in the past!

And Ill save the best for last: as I was wrapping up writing this post I did a Google search to see if anything new popped up, and sure enough theres an article with a witness saying he saw this cloud for a while before sunset, and it was clearly a contrail from an airplane. I dont put a lot of stock in eyewitness testimony in general, but that fits everything else we know.

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A Megacynic? Me? | Bad Astronomy

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I wouldnt say Im cynical, merely skeptical. Still, the webcomic Megacynics does capture how I look as a typical conversation I might have degenerates into nonsense. Click the drawing to see the whole strip!

Im pleased to join my pals Bonnie Burton and a certain red-headed lady in the comic, too. One of the brains behind Megacynics is my old friend Steve Dengler, who runs the fantastic DracoGen website, where he backs geeky and techy ventures. Steves one of the good guys, and Im glad to be a cartoony part of this.

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Toxicity of Lunar Dust

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The formation, composition and physical properties of lunar dust are incompletely characterised with regard to human health. While the physical and chemical determinants of dust toxicity for materials such as asbestos, quartz, volcanic ashes and urban particulate matter have been the focus of substantial research efforts, lunar dust properties, and therefore lunar dust toxicity may differ substantially.

In this contribution, past and ongoing work on dust toxicity is reviewed, and major knowledge gaps that prevent an accurate assessment of lunar dust toxicity are identified. Finally, a range of studies using ground-based, low-gravity, and in situ measurements is recommended to address the identified knowledge gaps. Because none of the curated lunar samples exist in a pristine state that preserves the surface reactive chemical aspects thought to be present on the lunar surface, studies using this material carry with them considerable uncertainty in terms of fidelity.

As a consequence, in situ data on lunar dust properties will be required to provide ground truth for ground-based studies quantifying the toxicity of dust exposure and the associated health risks during future manned lunar missions.

Prisk, Urs Staufer, Erin M. Tranfield, Wim van Westrenen (Submitted on 27 Jun 2012)

Comments: 62 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Planetary and Space Science Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Medical Physics (physics.med-ph) Cite as: arXiv:1206.6328v1 [astro-ph.IM] Submission history From: Wim van Westrenen [view email] [v1] Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:26:10 GMT (411kb)

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