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London Doctor Introduces Award-Nominated Pure Light Acne Treatment

London (PRWEB UK) 1 March 2012

London-based aesthetic medicine physician Dr Barbara Kubicka has a reputation for creating unique and innovative skin treatments; offering her patients the latest technology and unique approaches to difficult treatment areas. Now Dr Kubicka is tackling a new area and a skin problem that affects some 80% of the population at some point acne.

Dr Barbara Kubicka is one of the first skin doctors in the UK to offer the Lustre Pure Light Acne Treatment device by Ambicare, which has already been nominated for an award.

Lustre Pure Light Acne Treatment is a medically supervised light-based therapy system which patients use at home. Scientists have found that visible blue light at a wavelength of 420 nm does not cause damage to the skin but is effective in killing the bacteria which causes acne, so that the skin is able to heal.

Patients with acne or spots know that their skin improves after exposure to the sun. However, sunlight also contains ultraviolet (UVA-UVB) light which can damage skin and even cause skin cancer. In addition, finding time to expose your skin to the sun daily and year round is almost impossible.

The Lustre Pure Light technology harnesses the safe, natural blue part of the light spectrum to eliminate spot-causing bacteria, while also being gentle on skin and avoiding harmful UV rays.

Acne Light Treatment can be used alone or alongside regular professional exfoliation such as chemical peels, or else skin-improving treatments such as Dermaroller micro-needling. It can also be used in conjunction with medication if necessary.

This is a medically supervised system and is now available at Dr Barbara Kubickas clinic in Belgravia, London.

Acne sufferers know the difficulty of treating the characteristic red skin with blemishes and boils. Washing is important to keep the oiliness at bay, but seems to do little to really alleviate the problem; in fact, acne can actually be irritated by products containing harsh chemicals and perfumes. In severe cases, medication such as antibiotics can be used, but there are side-effects and the bacteria in the skin can become resistant to antibiotics too. Whats more, acne can leave severe scarring which will last a lifetime, so finding a solution to treat the problem is highly desirable for those affected.

Dr Barbara Kubicka explains: The symptoms of acne can be terribly destructive to the skin. Active acne is characterised by red, blotchy, blemished skin and there may be unsightly and sore open wounds. Acne is not isolated to the teenage years and can last well into adulthood. However, as an Aesthetic Medicine Physician, I also see a great many patients who are left with acne scarring seeking treatment for a pitted and uneven complexion even years after the acne has gone. That is why a new non-medicinal acne treatment is so welcome it enables practitioners to treat acne safely, quickly and effectively, limiting damage to the skin.

Dr Kubicka continues The beauty and appeal of Acne Pure Light Treatment is that it kills the bacteria causing acne, so that the skin is able to heal quite rapidly; curing the redness and pustules as well as avoiding long-term damage and scarring.

Dr Barbara Kubickas success is based on a unique blend of medical skill, knowledge and expertise; combined with a fine appreciation of facial aesthetics and a desire to help people to improve their appearances in a naturally beautiful way without surgery. Her many years experience and ability to listen to her patients mean that she has exceptional understanding of what patients really want and is keen to develop custom-made solutions to their problems. Her exclusive Eyedealise treatment was specifically designed to rejuvenate the delicate eye area, while the exclusive Neck and Jaw-line Programme is self-explanatory. She also works closely with leading manufacturers and speaks at industry conferences.

Dr Kubicka completed medical qualifications at Warsaw Medical, before completing a 2-year post-graduate course in Aesthetic Medicine at the world-renowned College de International de Medicine Esthetique in Paris. She practiced Aesthetic Medicine for a number of years, including a successful practice within Harrods, before opening her own clinic in the heart of Belgravia.

Dr Kubickas clinic is based at 9a Halkin Street, Belgravia, London and offers a wide range of cosmetic treatments, including anti-wrinkle injections, fillers, peels, mesotherapy and Dermaroller. Dr Barbara Kubicka also offers treatment for medical conditions such as Hyperhidrosis, Hyperpigmentation and thread veins.

For a confidential consultation with Dr Kubicka, call 0207 352 6803 or see the website for further information and contact details http://www.drbarbarakubicka.co.uk.

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Activists meet to defend Internet from state control (Reuters)

LONDON/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Internet activists accused governments of making it difficult for users of the Web, rights campaigners and private businesses to carry out their work through state attempts to seize control of the Web.

They said state officials were getting bolder in their drive to regulate the Web that has fueled Arab revolutions, enabled mass leaks of U.S. diplomatic cables and allowed online piracy to thrive.

"What we have seen in the last three years is that no longer do governments shy away from attempting to regulate Internet content," said Joy Liddicoat, project coordinator at New Zealand-based Association for Progressive Communications, which seeks to protect people's rights on and to the Internet.

They were speaking at the Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi on Tuesday, an annual event that brings together companies, non-profit groups, academics, engineers, government representatives and ordinary citizens.

Participants at the meeting said governments were increasingly filtering and blocking content on the Web, carrying out surveillance and making requests for data and privacy information in countries like Egypt and Pakistan.

"These are the sort of issues we would like to see discussed at the IGF and we think we need much more open and transparent discussions on how we should respond to these challenges," Liddicoat said.

They hope to show they are best placed to write the rules of the road ahead for the World Wide Web, an increasingly important driver of economic growth in a world on the brink of recession.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, deputy secretary general at Council of Europe, a 47-nation group that is mainly concerned about human rights, said that the growing relevance of the Web to millions of people as a tool of communication and commerce added impetus to the need for agreements on Internet governance.

"It is an important moment to come to some sort of principles that should govern the Internet at the level of those who govern the Internet," de Boer-Buquicchio said.

In a study published this year, consultancy McKinsey found the Internet accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth in mature countries, and that almost $8 trillion changes hands through e-commerce each year.

"Stronger influence of governments seems inevitable. The Internet has simply become too important for them to ignore it. They prefer a top-down approach," Markus Kummer of the Internet Society, which campaigns for the open Internet, told a recent London seminar.

Groups like the Internet Society fear the creeping use by governments of tools like "three strikes and you're out" laws to cut off Internet access from citizens caught breaking copyright rules, already passed by France and being considered in several other European countries.

Some countries have tried more radical measures, like Egypt cutting itself off from the Internet during the Arab Spring to stop flash protests being coordinated on websites like Twitter.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who applauded the Arab Spring, hosted the e-G8 in Paris this year, a conference of political leaders and Internet company bosses at which he put the case for more government regulation while paying lip service to an inclusive approach to governing the Internet.

"It was very exclusionary. For women and the global South there was virtually no consultation. It was a hand-picked group of white, male billionaires," Internet lawyer and consumer advocate Jeremy Malcolm told Reuters.

"The IGF is really the last best hope for this process. If it fails, what we're going to get is India, Brazil, South Africa, China, Kazakhstan, Russia and so on putting forward the idea that we need an intergovernmental process."

The Internet's potential to raise living standards is under-exploited in the developing world where just 21 percent of the population have access, compared with 69 percent in the developed world.

Its role as a catalyst for development will be a key theme of the IGF, a United Nations-sponsored event where speakers will include World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and EU digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes.

If it is to succeed in keeping governments at arm's length, the IGF will also have to show it is serious about cybersecurity

which companies now view as a bigger threat than traditional crime, natural disasters and terrorism.

The forum comes at a time of technical upheaval for the Internet where top-level domains such as .com or .org are about to be liberalized, enabling companies and communities to buy, create, name and run their own domains.

Web addresses in languages like Arabic and Russian have also recently been made possible, a move expected to transform the Internet and give more power to non-English speakers.

"The technology continuing to change is a given that we have to accept," said Jeff Brueggeman, who runs public policy for U.S. telecoms operator AT&T and will attend the IGF. "The idea is always to be looking ahead at the next issue."

(Additional reporting by Duncan Miriri in Nairobi; Editing by)

Graphene finding could lead to super-fast Internet (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) – British scientists have invented a way of using graphene, the thinnest material in the world to capture and convert more light than before, paving the way for advances in broadband Internet and other optical communications.

In a study of communication in the journal Nature, the team – which includes last year's Nobel Prize-winning scientists Kostya Novoselov and Andre Geim – has found that by combining the metallic nanostructures with graphene, it was an improvement of 20 times the amount of light of graphene can collect and convert into electricity.

Graphene is a form of carbon just one atom thick, yet 100 times stronger than steel.

"Many leading electronics companies account for the next generation of graphene devices.This research certainly increases the risk graph even further, "said Novoselov, a Russian-born scientist who won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics Geim for research into graphs.

Previous studies have shown that electrical power from two closely spaced metal wires on top of the charts, shedding light on the whole structure, which is effectively a simple solar cell can be generated.

The researchers explained that due to the extremely high mobility and speed of the electrons in graphene and graphene as cell devices can be incredibly fast – possibly dozens or hundreds of times faster than the fastest rates in the communication cable internet is in use.

The biggest obstacle to practical application is so far the cell devices' low efficiency have, the researchers said.The problem is that graphene absorbs little light – only about 3 percent – and the rest goes without contributing to electricity.

In a collaboration between the universities of Manchester and Cambridge, Novoselov team found they could solve this problem by combining metallic graphene with tiny structures called plasmonic nanostructures, which are specially arranged in the top of graphene.

Using plasmon improve the performance of light-harvesting graphene was driven by 20 times, without sacrificing speed, they wrote in their study. The effectiveness in the future could be even better, they say.

"We expected that the plasmonic nanostructures could improve the efficiency of devices based on graphene, but it was a pleasant surprise that improvements can be dramatic," said Alexander Grigorenko, an expert on plasmonics and leading member of the team."The graph seems a natural companion for the plasmon."

Andrea Ferrari of Cambridge University Engineering Department, who also worked on the team, said the findings show great potential for the graph in photonics and to develop electronic devices that can easily channel and control. He said that a combination of optical and electronic properties of plasmonic nanostructures can be fully exploited.

(Reporting by Kate Kellands, edited by Roger Atwood)

UK may disrupt social networks during unrest (Reuters)

Hooligans front of a burning barricade in Liverpool

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is considering disrupting social networks like Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger, during the riots, the prime minister, David Cameron said on Thursday, a move widely criticized as repressive for use by other countries.

The Egyptian authorities closed the cellular and Internet services in January, during the mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak, while China is quick to shut down online communication considers subversive.

Police and politicians have said that social networks, including Research In Motion's Blackberry popular Messager (BBM), were used by rioters and looters during the four days of illness in England this week to coordinate.

"We are pleased with the police, intelligence agencies and industry together to participate in, whether it be fair to the people of the communication through these web sites and services if they know we are seeking to prevent plotting violence, disease and crime," said Cameron during an emergency session of Parliament Inspired by the riots.

Many of the rioters BBM favorite Canadian company RIM on Twitter and other social media, because the messages are encrypted and private.

The company said on Monday that works with all telecommunications, law enforcement and supervisory authorities, but declined to say whether it is to deliver the chat logs to the user or special police.

RIM encrypted services have accused the aid militant attacks in India and the men and women who can not communicate with Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

In August last year, a source close to the negotiations between RIM and the Saudi authorities said the company had agreed to control the information that would enable SBB to deliver.

Online social media were also used by members of the British public in recent days to help others avoid fires and to coordinate a cleanup after the riots had ended.

BBM has over 45 million active users worldwide, 70 percent of their daily use, sending billions of messages, images and other files in total per month.

The authorities are struggling with violent disorder must instead cracked down clamp downs on social media to prevent and try to help the public against the rebels of recruiting, said John Bassett, a former high official in the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ and Now a senior researcher at the Royal United Services Institute.

"The use of social media in an uproar like a game-changer.But any attempt to exert state control over social media seems to fail, "he told Reuters.

"One solution would be far better to encourage and support individuals and local groups to identify the alarming developments in social media on the internet and also to speak against the extremists and criminals, and ensure that the police have the expertise and technical support to obtain pre-operative and preventive intelligence from the media when necessary. "

(Additional reporting by Peter Apps, editing by Matt Falloon and Gareth Jones)

London Olympic countdown begins (AFP)

London Olympic countdown

LONDON (AFP) – The one-year countdown to 2012 Olympic Games got underway on Wednesday with officials predicting London was about to deliver the best games ever with 12 months left.

International Olympic Committee boss Jacques Rogge was set to a formal invitation extended to athletes of the world during a ceremony at 7:00 p.m. Trafalgar Square in the highlight of the day-long events to the one-year milestone to mark.

British diver Tom Daley was due to a dip in the waters of the shiny new Aquatics Centre, one of a series of new premises built on 2.5 square kilometers (square miles), Olympic Park site in east London.

The British capital is also presenting a number of sites in the city's famous sights, including a beach volleyball arena at the Horse Guard Parade, where tons of sand were deposited included.

London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) Chairman Sebastian Coe said that the preparations for the Games were on schedule to finish with 90 percent of the sites.

"We are fully on track, we're on schedule, on budget and we are ready to go with a year ago and I are very proud that" Coe told reporters.

Some of the most famous athletes of Great Britain toured the 17,500-seat Aquatics Center early Wednesday morning, with former long-distance runner Steve Cram, making the site a glowing review.

"It's beautiful. It is absolutely amazing," the former Olympic silver medalist, told the BBC.

"Many talked about places in Beijing, talks about how good they were -. Bird's Nest, the cube is better than the Cube, this is not because I'm British, it really is .."

Mayor of London Boris Johnson also ran the exaggerations, saying that the city was 12 months away from hosting the "biggest party of the planet has ever seen." "We are set to welcome the world the best games in history," Johnson enthused.

London organizers also received a trust from the Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates, who said that the London Games, the 2000 Olympics in Sydney surpass – widely considered the best ever.

"I think we are all very proud of Sydney (2000) and many people say that Sydney is still the standard," Coates said.

"But from where I was sitting in London was six months to a year ahead of us in its preparation along and were awarded the Games six years ago."

"… These games are now very British label in them and I think that is likely to exceed our games."

Meanwhile Rogge described the preparations of London as "excellent."

"They are on time, within budget. Quality-wise it does not have the slightest concern," Rogge told The Guardian.

"No doubt about it. London is very well organized, the team is very strong. We are very optimistic."

While construction for the Games progressed smoothly, the organizers were attacked in the distribution of tickets for the Games, which saw hundreds of thousands of applicants to finish empty-handed.

Coe insists, however, that disappointment was inevitable given the question "unprecedented", with about 23 million ticket requests made by about two million people.

Coe said the security plan for the Games was "under constant review" the question of whether the killing was in Norway last Friday prompted a rethink.

"Security is constantly under scrutiny," said Coe. "We never go to comment, but we have good teams in the right places.

"We'll do what we must do to ensure that the Games are safe and secure as possible."

Amid scandal, Murdoch kills off News of the World (AP)

Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International is driven away from offices of News International in London, Thursday, July 7, 2011. News Inter

LONDON – The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly jettisoned the News of the World Thursday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the royal and remain Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper.

The abrupt decision stunned the paper’s staff of 200, shocked the world’s most competitive news town and ignited speculation that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. plans to rebrand the tabloid under a new name in a bid to prevent a phone-hacking scandal from wrecking its bid for a far more lucrative television deal.

“This Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World,” James Murdoch, son of the media magnate, announced in a memo to staff.

Mushrooming allegations of immoral and criminal behavior at the paper — including bribing police officers for information, hacking into the voice mail of murdered schoolgirls’ families and targeting the phones of the relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and the victims of the London transit attacks — cast a dark cloud over News Corp.’s multibillion-dollar plan to take full ownership of British Sky Broadcasting, an operation far more valuable than all of Murdoch’s British newspapers.

Faced with growing public outrage, political condemnation and fleeing advertisers, Murdoch stopped the presses on the 168-year-old newspaper, whose lurid scoops have ranged from Sarah Ferguson’s claims she could provide access to ex-husband Prince Andrew to motor racing chief Max Mosley’s penchant for sadomasochism.

James Murdoch said all revenue from the final issue, which will carry no ads, would go to “good causes.” The paper has been hemorrhaging advertisers since the phone hacking scandal escalated this week, with companies including automakers Ford and Vauxhall, grocery chain J. Sainsbury and pharmacy chain Boots pulling ads from the paper.

Police say they are examining 4,000 names of people who may have been targeted by the tabloid, which sells about 2.7 million copies a week.

The paper has acknowledged hacking into the messages of politicians, celebrities and royal aides, but maintained for years the transgressions were confined to a few rogue staff. A reporter and a private investigator working for the paper were jailed for hacking in 2007.

But in recent days the allegations have expanded to take in the phone messages of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who disappeared in 2002 and was later found murdered, as well as the families of two other missing schoolgirls.

James Murdoch said if the allegations were true, “it was inhuman and has no place in our company.”

“Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad,” he said, “and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.”

“While we may never be able to make up for distress that has been caused, the right thing to do is for every penny of the circulation revenue we receive this weekend to go to organizations — many of whom are long-term friends and partners — that improve life in Britain and are devoted to treating others with dignity,” he said.

The announcement sent shock waves across the British media establishment, and among News of the World staff. Features editor Jules Stenson said the news was met with gasps and some tears.

“No one had any inkling,” he told reporters outside the company’s London headquarters. “There was no lynch mob mentality, there was just a very shocked acceptance of the decision.”

Some suspected shutting the paper was a ploy to salvage Murdoch’s British media empire as well as the job of Rebekah Brooks, the trusted chief executive of his British news operation.

“News Corp. has taken a bold decision to stop printing the News of the World and close the title. Mr. Murdoch was clearly not willing to jeopardize his bid for BSkyB,” said markets analyst Louise Cooper of BGC Partners in London. “Murdoch has shown what a brilliant operator he really is.”

Graham Foulkes, whose 22-year-old son David was one of the 52 people killed in the 2005 London transit bombings — and who suspects his phone may have been hacked — said the paper’s closure was “a cynical decision” by Murdoch.

“The only language (Rupert) Murdoch speaks is the dollar and this must have hit him hard,” Foulkes said.

The 43-year-old Brooks, editor of News of the World at the time of the eavesdropping allegations, has maintained she did not know about it. James Murdoch said he was “satisfied she neither had knowledge of nor directed” the phone hacking.

News International spokeswoman Daisy Dunlop denied rumors that The Sun, the News of The World’s sister paper that publishes Monday through Saturday, would now become a seven-day operation. Still, she seemed to leave room for further developments.

“It’s not true at the moment,” she said.

According to online records, an unnamed U.K. individual on Tuesday bought up the rights to the domain name “sunonsunday.co.uk.”

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, one of the tabloid’s alleged hacking victims, said closing the paper would not resolve the problems at News International.

“Cutting off the arm doesn’t mean to say you’ve solved it,” he said. “There is still the body and the head and the same culture and that’s why there has be a public inquiry into it. I cannot accept for a moment that at the top of the company, Mr. Murdoch — and certainly Rebekah Brooks — didn’t know what was going on.”

But Charlie Beckett, director of the POLIS media institute at the London School of Economics, said it was a bold move aimed at resolving a situation that had got out of control.

“This is a fantastically brave move to try and cleanse everything and put a stop to it,” Beckett said.

The long-running hacking saga exploded Monday with the revelation that the News of the World had hacked into Milly Dowler’s voice mail soon after her 2002 disappearance and deleted some messages, giving her parents and police false hope the girl was still alive and hampering their investigation. Her body was discovered months later.

Later, newspapers alleged the tabloid obtained the phone numbers of relatives of people killed in the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks on London’s transit system, as well as those tied to two more slain schoolgirls and the families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

What many saw as an acceptable, if illegal, tactic used to gather scoops on drug-using celebrities, philandering politicians or cheating star athletes suddenly became completely unacceptable when missing children and grieving families were targeted.

There is so far no evidence the soldiers’ and bomb victims’ families’ phones were hacked or that the newspaper did anything illegal in obtaining their numbers. Nonetheless, a storm of outrage followed.

The scandal has come uncomfortably close to Prime Minister David Cameron, who, like predecessors Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, courted the powerful Murdoch empire whose endorsement is considered capable of swinging elections.

Cameron is friendly with Brooks, and even appointed a former News of the World editor, Andy Coulson, to be his communications chief. Coulson resigned from the paper after its former royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for hacking into voice mail messages in 2007, but has always insisted he knew nothing of the eavesdropping.

In January, as the hacking allegations widened, Coulson resigned from 10 Downing St.

The Guardian newspaper and the BBC’s “Newsnight” program reported late Thursday that Coulson had been told by police that he would be arrested Friday and questioned about hacking. Several News of the World journalists have already been arrested and quizzed over the allegations, but Coulson would be by far the most senior. No one has been charged since the two convictions in 2007.

Police declined to comment on the reports.

This week Cameron spoke out against the culture of hacking at the paper, calling for public inquiries into the News of the World’s behavior as well as into the failure of the original London police inquiry to uncover the extent of the hacking.

“We are no longer talking here about politicians and celebrities, we are talking about murder victims, potentially terrorist victims, having their phones hacked into,” Cameron said during an emergency debate Wednesday in the House of Commons.

The Metropolitan Police force is also facing an inquiry by the police watchdog over claims its officers took money from the News of the World in exchange for information. The original police investigation into phone hacking, shelved after Goodman and Mulcaire were jailed, was reopened earlier this year.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said he was “determined” to see any officers who received payoffs from journalists facing criminal conviction.

Brian Paddick, a former senior police commander, told the BBC one journalist paid $50,000 (30,000 pounds) for police information and others paid cash in envelopes handed over at a drive-thru fast food restaurant near the News International headquarters.

Some payoffs were “jeopardizing serious criminal investigations by giving out confidential information that could be useful to criminals,” Paddick said.

Rupert Murdoch — a global media titan with newspaper, television, movie and book publishing interests in the United States, Britain, Australia and elsewhere — is seeking to buy full control of broadcaster BSkyB, in which he owns a 39 percent share.

His British arm of News Corp. was within reach of gaining the British government’s approval to make a bid for BSkyB when the scandal exploded, emboldening rivals and critics, who called on the government to block the takeover.

As the week went on, BSkyB’s share price sank, reflecting market anxieties there might be no takeover bid. On Thursday they were down 1.8 percent on the London Stock Exchange.

Shares in News Corp., however, were up 1.6 percent after Thursday’s announcement, at $18.22 on the Nasdaq index in New York, although they have fallen from above $18.50 since Tuesday.

Cameron’s Conservative-led government had insisted the News of the World scandal had nothing to do with a pure competition decision, and News Corp. had offered to spin off Sky News as an independent company to allay concerns it would have a too-dominant position in the British news market.

Rupert Murdoch refused to discuss the situation Thursday.

“I’m not making any comments,” he said when ambushed by reporters at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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AP writers Gregory Katz, Raphael G. Satter, Cassandra Vinograd, Danica Kirka and Jonathan Shenfield in London contributed to this report.

Report: tabloid’s hacker targeted dead soldiers (AP)

LONDON – A published report says that the phone numbers of relatives of dead soldiers are in the files accumulated by a detective hired by a tabloid newspaper on Sunday.

The report Thursday edition of the Daily Telegraph could not be verified, and the newspaper did not identify the source of his information. There was no indication if any of these phones had been violated.

BBC reported that relatives of some soldiers say they have not been contacted by police, but that a newspaper had asked to be hacked.

News of the World, the magazine that is the focus of a criminal investigation, a statement said he was "shocked and dismayed" if there was any truth in the allegations.