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golan elzur

Bunnies Don't Wear Lipstick: Death by Mascara: Why We Torture, I Mean, Test On, Bunnies... - 0 views

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animals testing cosmetics

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  • Mrs. Brown was to be honored by her local PTA that very evening. At the beauty parlor hours before the big event, she decided to go ahead and try a cosmetic change -- to permanently darken her brows and eyelashes. Her hairdresser had a new coal tar-based dye called "Lash Lure." Riding home, Mrs. Brown’s eyes started burning. According to Teresa Riordan, author of Inventing Beauty, Mrs. Brown made matters probably worse when she got home by applying various treatments herself, one boric acid, another a topical made by her pharmacist, and then “yellow oxide of mercury.’ At the PTA banquet that evening, Mrs. Brown was so uncomfortable she left early. In the ensuing days, the skin around Mrs. Brown’s eyes ulcered and blistered. Nothing really helped. Of the aftermath, The New Republic would write: “Her eyes are gone and the flesh around them is a mass of tortured scars.”1
Dominick Wong

Concorde Aircraft Facts, Dates and History - 0 views

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  • delta wing configuration and an evolution of the afterburner equipped engines originally developed for the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber. It is the first civil airliner to be equipped with an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system.
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      Pros &Cons
  • For speed optimization: double-delta (ogive) shaped wings afterburning Roll-Royce/Snecma Olympus turbojets with supercruise capability thrust-by-wire engines, ancestor of today's FADEC controlled engines droop-nose section for good landing visibility
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  • Mach 2.04 'sweet spot' for optimum fuel consumption (supersonic drag minimum, while jet engines are more efficient at high speed) mostly aluminium construction for low weight and relatively conventional build full-regime autopilot and autothrottle allowing "hands off" control of the aircraft from climb out to landing fully electrically-controlled, analog fly-by-wire flight controls systems multifunction flight control surfaces high-pressure hydraulic system of 28 MPa (4,000 lbf/in) for lighter hydraulic systems components fully electrically controlled analog brake-by-wire system pitch trim by shifting fuel around the fuselage for center-of-gravity control parts milled from single alloy billet reducing the part number count.
  • unique experience of passing through the sound barrier was less dramatic than would be expected. The moment would be announced by one of the pilots, and could be seen on the cabin display, otherwise the slight surge in acceleration could easily be missed. At twice the normal cruising altitude, turbulence was rare and the view from t he windows clearly showed the curvature of the Earth. During the supersonic cruise, although the outside air temperature was typically -60 C, air friction would heat the external skin at the front of the plane to around +120 C making the windows warm to the touch and producing a noticeable temperature gradient along the length of the cabin. Most remarkably Concorde was the only passenger airliner able to overtake the terminator. On certain early evening transatlantic flights departing from Heathrow or Paris, it was possible to take off at night and catch up with the sun from the cockpit you could see the sun rise in the west.
  • aris crash The Concorde was the safest airliner in the world according to passenger deaths per distance travelled until the 25 July 2000 crash of Air France Flight 4590 in Gonesse, France, although it should be noted that the Boeing 737 fleet acquires more passenger miles and service hours in one week than the Concorde fleet acquired in the course of its entire service career. In any case, all of the people on board the flight perished, as well as four people on the ground. As the plane was on its take-off run, a metal piece punctured the tires which then burst, puncturing the fuel tanks and leading to the loss of the aircraft. The report of the investigation was published on 14 December 2004, attributing the crash to foreign object damage from a titanium strip that fell from another aircraft, a Continental Airlines DC-10 which had taken off four minutes before; the piece had not been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
  • Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST)
  • commercial servic
  • cruise speed of mach 2.04 and a cruise altitude of 60,000 feet
  • In the late 1950s the
  • British, Fr
  • ench, American
  • Soviets
  • developing a supersonic transport
  • ere lar
  • espective governments as a way of gaining some foothold in the aircraft market that was
  • designs called the Type 233 and Super-Caravelle
  • dominated by the United States.
  • prototype construction in the early 1960s, but the cost was so great that the companies (and governments) decided to join forces
  • egotiated as an international treaty between Britain and France
  • draft treaty was signed on November 28, 1962.
  • both companies had been merged into new ones and the Concorde project was thus a part of the British Aircraft Corporation and Aerospatiale.
  • Only 20 Concordes were built, six for development and 14 for commercial service. These were: two prototypes two pre-production aircraft 16 production aircraft
  • Critically, many of the victims of the 9/11 attacks were business executives based within the World Trade Center buildings who were either regular Concorde customers themselves, or authorised others to travel on the aircraft.
Dominick Wong

Concorde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • -powered supersonic passenger airliner
  • Anglo-French government treaty
  • ntered service in 1976
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  • ommercial flights for 27 year
  • 20 aircraft
  • represented a substantial economic los
  • ubsidised by their governments
  • ype’s only
  • crash on 25 July 200
  • n the late 1950s, the United Kingdom, France, United States and Soviet Unio
  • upersonic transport.
  • Bristol Aeroplane Company
  • Sud Aviation
  • Type 223 a
  • Super-Caravelle
  • ncreased radiation exposure
  • high altitude
  • Concorde
  • passengers received almost twice the flux of extraterrestrial ionising radiation as those travelling on a conventional long-haul fligh
  • pposition to Concorde’s noise,
  • Concorde produced nitrogen oxides in its exhaust,
  • o produce a net degradation to the ozone layer at the stratospheric altitudes it cruised
  • service was discontinued after three return flights because of noise complaints from the Malaysian government;
  • r transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles
  • sonic boom, takeoff-noise and pollution
  • but with a history of tyre explosions 60 times higher than subsonic jets.
  • Safety improvements
  • specially-developed burst-resistant tyres.
Dominick Wong

French court: Continental guilty in Concorde crash - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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  • French court: Continental guilty in Concorde crash
  • supersonic Concorde crashing into a hotel outside Paris a decade ago, killing 113 people and marking the beginning of the sleek jet's demise.
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  • Taylor fitted a faulty metal strip on a Continental DC-10 weeks
  • a strip that eventually tumbled onto the runway
  • Air France Concorde's tire
Mash M

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golan elzur

Law Bans Cosmetics Tests on Animals - Almost | Features | PETA.org.uk - 0 views

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animals ban cosmetics

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  • The Bad Points The Cosmetics Directive has loopholes and exceptions which mean that some animal testing can still be performed, and ingredients which are tested on animals can still make their way into products on store shelves in the UK. These loopholes include the following: Certain kinds of animal tests will still be allowed until 2013. Animal tests could still be used for ingredients to ensure that they meet other requirements, such as the requirements of other laws (for example, to determine if the ingredients could cause damage to the environment) or laws abroad.
  • The Good Points The ban means that fewer cosmetics tests using animals will be performed in Europe and that non-EU companies hoping to export their products to Europe will have to change their ways too. What's really exciting about the ban is that its deadline has helped advance the development of humane testing methods, such as the cruelty-free skin-irritation test which PETA helped fund. These humane tests can also be used for some drugs and other chemicals – so everyone's a winner. In addition, the ban is an important step forward because it makes the point that animals shouldn't be used for trivial purposes.
golan elzur

BBC News | Sci/Tech | End to cosmetic tests on animals - 0 views

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animals testing bbc

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  • The testing of cosmetics on animals in the UK has finally ended.
  • The end to the tests comes after months of negotiations to persuade companies to stop using animals - mainly guinea pigs, rats and mice - in the last remaining tests.
  • No fresh licences will be issued, meaning an effective ban, a Home Office spokesman said.
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  • But the change will only affect a tiny fraction of laboratory animals - less than 0.1% of the 2.7m animals used in testing in the UK each year.
golan elzur

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animals ethics experiments

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  • As far back as the 2nd Century, Roman physician, Galen falsely believed that animals possessed the same physiology as humans and performed many animal experiments. However it was not until the 19th century that a market for animal experimentation was developed
  • . Today, sadly it is big business and in Australia up to 6.5 million animals annually are used in futile and cruel experiments. Most animals are killed during or after experiments
golan elzur

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animals testing

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  • Cosmetics testing is banned in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, and in 2002, after 13 years of discussion, the European Union (EU) agreed to phase in a near-total ban on the sale of animal-tested cosmetics throughout the EU from 2009, and to ban all cosmetics-related animal testing. France, which is home to the world's largest cosmetics company, L'Oreal, has protested the proposed ban by lodging a case at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, asking that the ban be quashed.
  • The research is conducted inside universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, farms, defense establishments, and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to industry
  • Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments.
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  • medical schools
  • universities
  • pharmaceutical companies
golan elzur

Beauty brand tainted by US animal testing - Times Online - 0 views

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cosmetics animals testing

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  • div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } COSMETICS on sale in high-street shops were tested on animals years after the practice was banned in the UK.
  • A ban on live animal testing of cosmetics was introduced in 1998 when the government withdrew licences for testing ingredients in make-up and other beauty products.
  • Three popular products, produced under the leading brand Olay, contain a cosmetic preservative, butylparaben, that was tested on animals
golan elzur

Animal Testing on Cosmetics - About Animal Testing (UK) - 1 views

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cosmetics animals testing

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  • Animal testing on cosmetics is arguably one of the most - if not the most - controversial areas of animal testing. Although it was banned in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1998, it does still occur in other areas of the world. The European Union (EU), however, is poised for an almost full ban by 2009 on the sales of cosmetics tested by animals. Currently, the Netherlands and Belgium have banned the sales of such cosmetics, similar to the UK.
  • Cosmetics testing on animals relates to many aspects of the manufacturing process. Animal testing may occur on the full, finished product or it may occur on individual ingredients within a formulation. Another country may even be contracted to conduct the testing within the cosmetic company's homeland or it may be contracted out to a country where animal testing is not currently banned.
  • Cosmetics testing is usually focused on ensuring that a product does not harm a person's eyes and skin
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  • While many companies are now citing 'no testing on animals' in terms of their ethical stance on cosmetics, it is clear that this is an excellent marketing strategy given the widespread public disapproval of the practice. Ironically, those companies who do not test cosmetics on animals are still benefiting from previous data that was conducted on animals.
golan elzur

BBC - Ethics - Animal ethics: Experimenting on animals - 1 views

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animals ethics

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  • eriments are widely used to develop new medicines
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • Two positions on animal experiments In favour of animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is acceptable if (and only if): suffering is minimised in all experiments human benefits are gained which could not be obtained by using other methods
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  • Against animal experiments: Experimenting on animals is always unacceptable because: it causes suffering to animals the benefits to human beings are not proven any benefits to human beings that animal testing does provide could be produced in other ways
  • Are animal experiments useful? Animal experiments only benefit human beings if their results are valid and can be applied to human beings. Not all scientists are convinced that these tests are valid and useful.
  • Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.
  • In November 2008 the European Union put forward proposals to revise the directive for the protection of animals used in scientific experiments
  • The proposals have three aims: to considerably improve the welfare of animals used in scientific procedures
  • to ensure fair competition for industry to boost research activities in the European Union
  • The main changes proposed are:
  • to make it compulsory to carry out ethical reviews and require that experiments where animals are used be subject to authorisation to widen the scope of the directive to include specific invertebrate species and foetuses in their last trimester of development and also larvae and other animals used in basic research, education and training to set minimum housing and care requirements to require that only animals of second or older generations be used, subject to transitional periods, to avoid taking animals from the wild and exhausting wild populations to state that alternatives to testing on animals must be used when available and that the number of animals used in projects be reduced to a minimum to require member states to improve the breeding, accommodation and care measures and methods used in procedures so as to eliminate or reduce to a minimum any possible pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm caused to animals
golan elzur

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cosmetics testing ban

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  • The ban was agreed upon in 2002, but goes into effect in 2009
  • After years of discussion and debate, language for the ban was completed by 1998. Initial passage of the ban occurred in 2002
  • During the process, it was learned that some companies planned to circumvent the ban by testing cosmetics on animals outside the border of the EU and then import them for sale.
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  • The cosmetics industry maintains that animal testing is the only way to be sure that ingredients in cosmetics and personal hygiene products will not c
  • ause cancer or aggravate allergies
  • France has consistently opposed the EU ban. Collectively, the cosmetics companies in France make it the largest animal tester in Europe. However, opinion polls indicate that 60 percent of French citizens oppose animal testing
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