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Selena revealed her amazing bikini body when she posted three new Instagram pictures of herself relaxing with friends on a Florida beach on Oct. 28. Is she hoping her ex Justin will see her sexy new swimsuit pics and come running?
Selena Gomez took a break from her hectic schedule to soak up the sun and show off some serious skin on a beautiful beach! Selena, 21, appears totally content and carefree in these new photos. Good for her! Read on for more details and check out the pics here.
Selena Gomez's Bikini Freedom — Sel Shows Some Sexy Skin In Florida
Justin Beiber's ex love got in touch with her animal instincts by sporting a black and white zebra-print bikini in the photos. She snapped one of herself lying on a towel with the caption "Off duty." In another pic, she wrote "Me libertando," which translates to "freeing myself." It sounds like Selena is feeling liberated — and it totally shows!
Of course, if we looked like Selena and were lying on a beach on a Monday afternoon, we'd feel quite liberated too! And we're sure the soothing sounds of the ocean helped Selena forget all about Justin. Or did they?
Selena Gomez — Why She Refuses To Date After Justin Bieber Split
As HollywoodLife.com previously reported, Selena's breakup with the Biebs still has an adverse affect on her love life.
We learned the real reason she hasn't been out on any dates since she and Justin called it quits last summer is because it would break her heart to finally be over him. In fact, Selena isn't even attempting to talk to any new guys, a source close to actress EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife.com.
"I'm not at all shocked that Selena hasn't been asked out because she's got a huge wall up," the source revealed. "Selena is not approachable at all. She's very closed off to guys right now, probably because she's still wrapped up in Justin."
Well, even if she isn't quite ready to date again, we're glad to see Selena having fun with her friends!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do you like Selena's new pics? Let us know!
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She might as well be gay. I don't know why people always ask her about Taylor. Yet she seems to always disses justin. Justin has never ever dis Taylor. She's not that perfect. She should stay out of people's RS and worry about her own issues. Taylor isn't all that. She's not that talented. Who would actually hire her to be a actress. I rather see Ashley Tisdale she's amazing and super talented not to mention she's pretty and I love her fashion.
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The owners of Celebration Location have posted pics of the suspect in their establishment and will prosecute.
The Police Department encourages anyone with information to come forward immediately.
According to Detective Greg Perkins, the police department has a couple of solid leads on this case.
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South Farm has to be one of my favourite wedding venues. Not only do the Tudor house, barn and stunning gardens provide a gorgeous setting for your wedding day, there are pigs, chicken and gypsy caravans! There is a very relaxed feel to South Farm - guests can camp or stay in the caravans - and you can even get married outdoors in the beautiful gardens. On top of all of this, it is an eco-friendly venue and the food, apart from being delicious, is largely organic and homegrown.
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High-throughput analysis of protein-protein interactions can provide unprecedented insight into how cellular processes are integrated at the molecular level. Yet membrane proteins are often overlooked in these studies owing to their hydrophobic nature and low abundance. Here we used a proteomics-based strategy with the specific intention of identifying membrane-associated protein complexes. One important aspect of our approach is the use of chemical cross-linking to capture transient and low-affinity protein interactions that occur in living cells prior to cell lysis. We applied this method to identify binding partners of the yeast Golgi P(4)-ATPase Drs2p, a member of a conserved family of putative aminophospholipid transporters. Drs2p was endogeneously tagged with both a polyhistidine and a biotinylation peptide, allowing tandem-affinity purification of Drs2p-containing protein complexes under highly stringent conditions. Mass-spectrometric analysis of isolated complexes yielded one known and nine novel Drs2p binding partners. Binding specificity was verified by an orthogonal in vivo membrane protein interaction assay, confirming the efficacy of our method. Strikingly, three of the novel Drs2p interactors are involved in phosphoinositide metabolism. One of these, the phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphatase Sac1p, also displays genetic interactions with Drs2p. Together, these findings suggest that aminophospholipid transport and phosphoinositide metabolism are interconnected at the Golgi.
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BAYOU SORREL - On January 3, 2013, a pipeline burst spilling over 100 barrels of crude oil into the Frog Lake area of Bayou Sorrel.
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This young FFA winner is enthusiastic about forages, working to own her own farm someday.
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Alyssa Fee developed an impressive set of farming skills with help and support from her employer, Scott Woolfolk. Above she's shown with Woolfolk and his son, John Thomas.
When Alyssa Fee is in college, her mind much of the time is on a farm 200 miles away in Jackson, TN. Her accomplishments there helped her win the National FFA Organization's top forage production proficiency award last year, and she goes back every chance she gets.
"My friends call me crazy because I love working with cattle and being in the hayfields," she says.
But the farm she calls "my favorite place to be" doesn't belong to her parents. It's Woolfolk Farms, a registered Hereford cattle and commercial hay operation where she's worked since age 14. From the beginning, she has worked closely with owner Scott Woolfolk. As her mentor, he in many respects functions more like a parent than an employer.
"He taught me literally everything I know," she says. "I wouldn't be around today if Scott and the rest of the Woolfolk family hadn't taken me in and taught me the skills that they did. Then they gave me the freedom to take some leadership roles and make some decisions that a lot of kids don't get the opportunity to do."
Fee's parents don't farm and have no interest in agriculture. Her interest was kindled at age eight, when she began helping an Angus breeder across the road from her home. Among other chores, she helped in the show ring and soon developed a love for showing cattle.
Woolfolk, another neighbor, was at some of those shows, and she got to know him there. Wanting to work more hours, she went to work for him as a high school freshman.
"Scott let me help him a few days, and after he saw my work ethic he asked me to work for him all the time," she remembers.
"She started out doing just odd-and-end chores on the farm, like spraying fencerows, and she helped quite a bit in the show barn," says Woolfolk. "Within about a year she could do just about everything. Within a couple of years she was raking hay, and it wasn't long after that she was operating about any piece of machinery we had."
She was good with the cattle, too, and he soon felt comfortable leaving the herd in her hands.
"After a year or two, I got to where I had 100% confidence in her taking care of them when I needed to be gone," he says.
"She's a very remarkable young lady," he adds. "Most kids who grow up on a farm don't have the passion for it that she does."
Today Fee is Woolfolk's show-barn manager and assistant manager of the cow herd and hay enterprises. The latter includes about 80 acres of mostly bermudagrass hay made into small bales and sold to horse owners. That enterprise has more than doubled in size during her tenure.
The biggest change over the past four years has been a steady transition from hay to baleage for the cow herd. Forage for Woolfolk cattle is packaged in 4 x 5' round bales, and an increasing portion of it is wheat and ryegrass grown between cotton crops. They're no-tilled into cotton stubble in October, then are harvested in April before the fields are planted back to cotton in May.
Rain is a big issue in April, and making baleage instead of hay helps avoid the problems it causes. But Woolfolk is making more and more baleage mostly because, thanks to its superior quality, his cow herd now is raised on grass and baleage with no supplements.
"With these $250- to $270-a-ton feed mixtures that we're looking at now, we've had to do something different," he says. "By next year 70% of our total cow feed will be wet hay."
Fee has beeninstrumental in the effort to improve the amount and quality of forages produced at Woolfolk Farms.
"The best piece of knowledge Scott has told me is that behind every good cattle operation is an even better forage operation," she says.
She's a sophomore ag business major at Tennessee Tech University at Cookeville. After graduating, she plans to go to law school and focus on agricultural law. She hopes to earn enough money in that profession to buy a farm and build a herd of registered Hereford cattle.
"If I could start farming tomorrow, that's what I'd do," she says. "But I've got to build into that."
As a reigning state FFA vice president, she makes chapter visits where she often gets career-related questions from younger members.
"The best advice I can give them is to find a job they like doing," she says. "I tell them farming is a 24/7 job, but I've never worked a day in my life because I love doing it."


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Bennington College is pleased to invite nominations for the 2015 Elizabeth Coleman Visionary Leadership Award. This annual award, established in honor of Bennington's ninth president and current director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), recognizes a distinguished Bennington alumna/alumnus, faculty or staff member, or an individual from the larger Bennington community whose innovative and inspirational leadership is advancing civic and cultural life and improving the lives of others.
The selected individual will be an engaged citizen who has successfully demonstrated the willingness to step forward and take risks in order to solve problems and achieve results in the areas of education, government, the arts and sciences, or industry.
Established by parents of a Bennington alumna from the Class of 2000, the $5,000 award has no restrictions on how it may be used. The honoree will be announced in early 2015 and will be invited to campus in the spring to meet with current students, allowing them to connect with an exceptional leader who is affiliated with the College.
The inaugural recipient, Holly Block '80, is the Executive Director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and recently served as the co-commissioner of the United States Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Under her leadership, the museum has not only earned international acclaim but become an engine for community revitalization.
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Climate Cult
Princeton Professor of Physics William Happer has long been skeptical of the climate change movement, viewing it as largely a religious, I would say substitute religious, cult. He set forth a summary of his views in an article in First Things in 2011:
Skeptics' motives are publicly impugned; denigrating names are used routinely in media reports and the blogosphere; and we now see attempts to use the same tactics that Big Brother applied to the skeptical hero, Winston Smith, in Orwell's 1984 . In 2009 a conference of "ecopsychologists" was held at the University of West England to discuss the obvious psychological problems resident in those who do not adhere to the global warming dogma. The premise of these psychologists was that scientists and members of the general population who express objective doubt about the propagated view of global warming are suffering from a kind of mental illness. We know from the Soviet experience that a society can find it easy to consider dissidents to be mentally deranged and act accordingly. Continue reading
Environmentalist Proponents Jump The Shark
An environmental confederation in the UK got the talented screenwriter Richard Curtis to produce a short film, ironically called No Pressure, for the 10:10 campaign, an effort to remind people to do their part in reducing carbon emission 10% by 2010 AD.
Unfortunately for the environmental movement the film backfired because it reinforced the image that beneath the surface environmentalists will do anything once in power to make it compulsory to follow their vision for the future, which includes violence.
Time Lapse Evidence Shows an Increase in Carbon Dioxide Does Not Harm Vegetation
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Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant.
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.
–Book of Genesis 1:26-30
Why Political Pressure is Good For Science
It is always nice to see one's perspectives confirmed by events. In the past I have strongly argued that science and politics are not autonomous or independent from one another. I have always believed that while scientific methods cannot be subject to political control, scientific presentations that do not take political moods into account are as arrogant as they are irrational. The arrogance stems from scientism – the belief that only scientific methodology reveals truth.
What political science – or perhaps, more accurately, political philosophy – teaches is that, following the wisdom of Hobbes, on any matter that touches human interests, there will be political disputes, especially over how data and findings are to be interpreted. Not even physics has been exempt, when we look at the degree to which it was politicized in the USSR and the battle between the "Copenhagen" interpretation of quantum physics and those interpretations preferred by Marxist materialists. And the further one descends from theoretical physics to say, biology, the greater and more politicized the controversies are likely to become.
But there is a vast difference between political control from above, as was exercised by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and political pressure from below, such as that which has been exerted upon the climate scientists of the IPCC. While they, and their most rabid defenders, first reacted to the Climategate scandal with utter contempt for the "denying" or "skeptical" masses, they have now actually admitted that they are culpable for the disaster and are in a far more conciliatory mood – indeed, what else can they do in the wake of scandal after scandal after scandal?
Question for the Day
How many more lies and frauds will the IPCC have to perpetrate on the entire world before we're allowed to reject it's scare-mongering without being ridiculed as "deniers" by their blind followers?
"The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders."
I particularly like this part:
Climate Gate Complete Database
Pajamas Media has put together a complete database for the Climategate documents here. The docs make for fascinating reading. On a whim I did a search using the term Hitler. The e-mail that came up is from February 21, 2005:
"From: Phil Jones <email@example.com>
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Fwd: CCNet: PRESSURE GROWING ON CONTROVERSIAL RESEARCHER TO DISCLOSE SECRET DATA
Date: Mon Feb 21 16:28:32 2005
Cc: "raymond s. bradley" , "Malcolm Hughes"
"Mike, Ray and Malcolm, The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here !
Maybe we can use this to our advantage to get the series updated !
Odder still that they don't realise that Moberg et al used the Jones and Moberg updated series!
Francis Zwiers is till onside. He said that PC1s produce hockey sticks.
Also ignored Francis' comment about all the other series looking similar to MBH.
The IPCC comes in for a lot of stick.
Leave it to you to delete as appropriate!
Italics added by me. It seems that the reluctance to release supporting data by these scientists has been going on for years. These documents give us an astonishing look inside a group that has been spearheading the global warming movement.
Junk Science Part II
A follow up to my initial post here on what is becoming known as Climategate. Now news comes from New Zealand about massaging of data by global warming proponents.
The New Zealand Government's chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn't there.
The scandal breaks as fears grow worldwide that corruption of climate science is not confined to just Britain's CRU climate research centre.
In New Zealand's case, the figures published on NIWA's [the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research] website suggest a strong warming trend in New Zealand over the past century.
Thoughts on 'Climategate'
I think Prof. Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy outlines a sensible approach to the recent 'Climategate' scandal:
Most of us, however, lack expertise on climate issues. And our knowledge of complex issues we don't have personal expertise on is largely based on social validation. For example, I think that Einsteinian physics is generally more correct than Newtonian physics, even though I know very little about either. Why? Because that's the overwhelming consensus of professional physicists, and I have no reason to believe that their conclusions should be discounted as biased or otherwise driven by considerations other than truth-seeking. My views of climate science were (and are) based on similar considerations. I thought that global warming was probably a genuine and serious problem because that is what the overwhelming majority of relevant scientists seem to believe, and I generally didn't doubt their objectivity.
At the very least, the Climategate revelations should weaken our confidence in the above conclusion. At least some of the prominent scholars in the field seem driven at least in part by ideology, and willing to use intimidation to keep contrarian views from being published, even if the articles in question meet normal peer review standards. Absent such tactics, it's possible that more contrarian research would be published in professional journals and the consensus in the field would be less firm. To be completely clear, I don't think that either ideological motivation or even intimidation tactics prove that these scientists' views are wrong. Their research should be assessed on its own merits, irrespective of their motivations for conducting it. However, these things should affect the degree to which we defer to their conclusions merely based on their authority as disinterested experts.


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"When details of an affair emerge and you find out the love of your life has been unfaithful, how far will you let your pain and anger drive you?"
Watch all the way to the end to see what happens!
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Hong Kong Jockey Club
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC, Chinese name: 香港賽馬會) is one of the oldest institutions in Hong Kong, founded in 1884 to promote horse racing. It was granted Royal Charter and renamed to "The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club" (英皇御准香港賽馬會) in 1959. The name of the institution was reverted to its original name in 1996 due to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997. Membership of the club is by nomination and election only.
It is a non-profit organisation providing horse racing, sporting and betting entertainment in Hong Kong. It holds a government-granted monopoly in providing pari-mutuel betting on horse racing, the Mark Six lottery, and fixed odds betting on overseas football events. The organisation is the largest taxpayer in Hong Kong, as well as the largest private donor of charity funds, contributing an average of over HK$1 billion (approximately US$130 million) annually over the past ten years. The Hong Kong Jockey Club also provides dining, social, sport and recreation facilities to its approximately 23,000 members.
Founded in 1884 as an amateur body to promote horse racing, it was an exclusive club whose membership was drawn from the upper class. During the 19th and early 20th century, there were few Chinese members[quantify]. Three of the top colonial clubs at the time, namely the Jockey Club, Victoria Recreation Club (1872) and the Amateur Dramatic Corps (1844) "had not a single Chinese member between them".[2]
The Club evolved into a professional institution from 1971. The Club organised the annual races which took place around Chinese New Year, and was initially financed by commissions on bets which were placed through private clubs.
HM Queen Elizabeth II accorded it with Royal Charter in 1959, and became "The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club" (英皇御准香港賽馬會) until 1996.
In July 2005, the decision was made to stage equestrian competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Hong Kong. The Club's racing centre at Sha Tin was used as the foundation for the Olympic and Paralympic venues, with additional competition and training venues being incorporated into existing sports facilities at the Hong Kong Sports Institute, the Jockey Club Beas River Country Club and the adjacent golf course.
Racing activities[edit]
The HKJC conducts nearly 700 horse races per year at its two race tracks at Sha Tin 沙田 and Happy Valley 快活谷. During the 2001/02 racing season, the HKJC licensed 1,144 horse owners, 24 trainers and 35 jockeys and had 1,435 horses in training.
In 2002–2003, the betting turnover was HK$71 billion. After paying dividends of 58 billion and betting duty of 9.5 billion, its betting commission revenue was HK$3.9 billion. It contributes 11.7% of Hong Kong's tax revenue. Surpluses from its operation are allocated to the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.
Following the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong, the popularity of horse racing declined substantially, possibly due to economic conditions in the region.
On 16 March 2007, the HKJC appointed William (Bill) Nader, formerly with the New York Racing Association, as its executive director of racing from April 2007.
On 9 September 2007, Sha Tin Racecourse opened after its summer break with record 1-day crowd of about 60,000. Chief Secretary Henry Tang 唐英年 struck the ceremonial gong. The Hong Kong Jockey Club collected US$106 million in bets (highest since 2001). Children of horse owners were admitted amid protest of local anti-gambling groups. Sunny Power, booted by Howard Cheng got the trophy in the 1,200 metre dash.[3]
In January 2008, Eclipse and Sovereign Award winning jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson became the first North American female rider to be granted a license to compete in Hong Kong. [1]
The reform and other changes mentioned above, the HKJC revenue has steadily increased back to previous levels and above. The total racing revenue for the Racing Season 2011/2012 reached HK$86.1 billion, up 43.4% since the 2006 reform.[4]
Betting and the law[edit]
The HKJC has a legal monopoly over betting on horse racing and football. In 1974, it opened 6 off-course branches where the members of the public could wager on horse race meets at the club's Happy Valley racecourse. There are now in excess of 100 betting branches throughout the territory which accepts bets on racing and on soccer and buy Mark Six lottery tickets.[5]
The HKJC was instrumental in persuading the Hong Kong government to pass the Gambling (Amendment) Bill 2002 to combat unauthorised cross-border gambling and the related promotional activities in Hong Kong, making it a criminal offence for any person in Hong Kong to bet with an unauthorised bookmaker, even when the bets are received outside Hong Kong. The offence applies to all visitors as well as to residents of Hong Kong.
It was also instrumental in persuading other members of the Asian Racing Federation to sign the Good Neighbour Policy on 1 September 2003.
2006 Horse racing reforms[edit]
In 2006, after years of declining turnover, the Hong Kong Legislative Council passed the Betting Ordinance (Amendment) 2006. This amendment granted the Hong Kong Jockey Club more autonomy in how it ran its own operations.
Single-race bets[edit]
Pool Name – Dividend Qualification
- Win (獨贏) – 1st in a race.
- Place (位置) – 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a race with 7 or more declared starters or 1st, 2nd in a race with 4, 5, 6 declared starters.
- Quinella (連贏) – 1st and 2nd in either order in the race.
- Quinella Place (位置Q) – Any two of the first three placed horses in any finishing order in the race.
- Trio (單T) – 1st, 2nd and 3rd in any order in the race.
- Tierce (三重彩) – 1st, 2nd and 3rd in correct order in the race.
- First Four (四連環) – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in any order in the race.
As of September 2006, all Win, Place, Quinella, and Quinella Place bets (including All Up bets) of a value of at least 10,000 Hong Kong Dollars are eligible for a 10% rebate if the bet or betline loses.
Multiple-race bets[edit]
Pool Name – Dividend Qualification – Consolation [if any]
- Double (孖寶) – 1st in two nominated races – 1st in 1st leg and 2nd in 2nd leg.
- Treble (三寶) – 1st in three nominated races – 1st in first two legs and 2nd in third leg.
- Double Trio (孖T) – 1st, 2nd and 3rd in any order in both legs.
- Triple Trio (三T) – 1st, 2nd and 3rd in any order in three legs – 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the first two Triple Trio legs.
- Six Up (六環彩) – 1st or 2nd in each of the legs nominated to comprise the Six Up – 1st or 2nd in each of the legs nominated to comprise the Six Up.
Fixed-odds bets[edit]
Jockey Challenge (騎師王) – best performing jockey in a race meeting.
High Society Membership[edit]
Membership in this club is very strict, limited to the moneyed social elite. In the past, this club was reserved for only "old money" families; but currently there are increasing numbers of "newly rich" members.
Similar to other elite clubs, Jockey Club membership applicants often must wait for years if not decades to be accepted. What makes it especially difficult to join is that this club does not allow memberships to be bought and sold in the secondary market. The joining membership fee is HK$400,000, with HK$1,800 monthly subscriptions. In addition, every applicant needs the endorsement of two of the only 200 voting members and the support of three other members. [6]
In the 1950s, as Hong Kong struggled with post-war reconstruction and a massive immigration, there was a need for more charitable structures. HKJC enhanced its charitable role in 1955 by formally devoting its annual surplus to charity and community projects. In 1959, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (Charities) Ltd, was formed to administer donations. This company became the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in 1993.
The trust serves four principal areas of civic and social need: sports, recreation and culture, education and training, community services and medical and health.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club supports various social and education institutions. The Jockey Club Government Secondary School 賽馬會官立中學 in Kowloon Tong 九龍塘 and the Jockey Club Ti-I College 賽馬會體藝中學 in Sha Tin was funded by the then Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. Many swimming pools or public sport facilities[which?] in Hong Kong are supported or founded by the funding of The Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Club chairmen[edit]
- Phineas Ryrie, 1884–92
- Sir Catchick Paul Chater, 1892–26
- H. P. White, 1926–29
- C. Gordon Mackie, 1929–35
- M. T. Johnson, 1935–39
- Thomas Ernest Pearce, 1940–41
- Douglas Clague
- Sir Gordon MacWhinnie
- Peter Gordon Williams
- Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg
- Sir Oswald Victor Cheung
- Sir John Joseph Swaine
- Sir William Purves
- Alan Li
- Ronald Arculli
- Wong Chung Hin
- John Chan (陳祖澤)
- Thomas Brian Stevenson[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Big shoes to fill for new club boss". The Standard. 31 August 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
- ^ Eric Cavaliero, "Hong Kong Club members succumbed to redevelpment offer, The Standard, 13 February 1997
- ^ ChannelNewsAsia.com, HK's Sha Tin race course opens to huge crowds
- ^ Hong Kong Jockey Club, "2011/12 Season End Results, retrieved 15 Aug 2013
- ^ Betting Services for the 21st Century, HKJC. Retrieved 24 July 2007
- ^ Ip, Kelly (11 January 2013). "Join the club". The Standard.
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Click on the link above to download this template in word (rtf) format. These are designed for those with a medical condition where a medical alert wouldn't be appropriate.
The GRSNNZ 0800 number and cell phone is currently not being answered or messages cleared. I haven't had a chance to change the message on it either.
I know there is a message there from last week I haven't cleared too.
My daughter has been in hospital since Monday and we had several visits last week. I'll attend to the messages hopefully next week.My 4 week old baby is on Ompreazole granules and we are going to start weaning him off in a few weeks to see how we go. I am considering starting him on probiotics to help this process. Can I give probiotics to a 4 week old or do I take them and he gets the benefit through my breastmilk? If I give it to him how do I administer it and what brand is best?
Alisha is now 3 1/2 months old, she is around 5 kg. We have had heaps of trouble with her. Put her on various medications and changes in my diet, then onto Neocate Formula with Losec Capsules. She has pretty much improved 100% from where she was a couple of months ago.
My question is, what quantity of formula does your baby drink and roughly how long inbetween? I've been trying to give her three hours inbetween each feeding which she can manage totally fine. But when food is offered she hardly drinks much in a sitting. I can usually get 100ml of formula into her over an hour, sometimes takes me longer.
Is this normal for a reflux baby??Is infant gaviscon at all effective for 2.5 yesr old? my son reacts to ranitadine and omeprozole but has had a reflux flare up which is now resulting in vomiting after lying down in bed. He's even coughing and gaging on water during the day probably from the irritation in his throat etc. I'm having to wait quite some time after dinner to give him rice milk and again before attempting bed. It's pushing bedtime out too far with him not napping. Any suggestions? Can't pinpoint anything dietry wise that may be causing it.
Hi everyone. I'm after a bit of advice, my 20month old has recently commenced on liquid iron supplement (after we were told his iron levels are low from blood tests) but we've found its giving him a really sore tummy. Have tried halving the dose but I still have a tearful distressed little man on my hands. Does anyone have any ideas? Or can recommend something else.
Hi there, I'm wondering if someone could please advise me. I have been dairy free for 3 weeks today and introduced some back in today; just butter on one piece of toast and a splash of cows milk in 2 hot drinks. My daughter's been crying and not sleeping most of the day unless held. I've also been block feeding to try to prevent her choking etc on my fast flow, however Plunket advised I may like to rethink that now she's 8 weeks old so my supply doesn't diminish. She's a frequent feeder and I've managed to push her out to 2 1/2 hourly feeds over the last few weeks (on Plunket and Dr advice as they said her always feeding would make the reflux worse). She had been quite a bit better over the last week. Tonight I offered her the other breast at her feed as well, instead of the same one as usual and she had a good feed, so obviously needed it. But my goodness, the reflux has been really bad afterwards with lots of gagging and choking and pained crying etc etc (she's not much of a puker). I don't know if this is from having both breasts at the one feed (surely not) or she's super sensitive to the dairy? I'm wondering how long it will now take to see if there's improvement now that I've quit the dairy again? Please tell me it won't be a whole other 3 weeks again!! As I said, it was only a small amount reintroduced today.
Paging Rebecca who left a message on the Gastric Reflux Support Network NZ Support Answer Phone on Monday!
Sorry, for some reason I can't return your call. Can you either text us again on 022 585 5935 or send us an email through the website (which is now working) - http://www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz/contact/Contact Gastric Reflux Support Network New Zealand for Parents of Infants and Children Charitable Trust Phone/Text 022 585 5935 Phone 0800 380 517 * indicates required field Name:* Email:* Subject:* Message:* CAPTCHA Code:* Request Skype Call/Conversation using the form above. Page last updated…
Just trying to access the website about allowances in nz.. nothing will load?
In all the reading I've done about reflux babies it seems common that they don't settle to sleep to well
During the day but will at night? Why is that?I don't know if any of you have noticed, but as the website is having a lot of updates at the moment, I have started adding a blog about it to the website. The posts appear on the home page, under the Facebook Preview. Roslyn, National Coordinator.
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Interesting article on dreamfeeds:
Will 'dream feeds' work for your baby? Dorothy Waide shares her insights on this late night option.
does a thickener help for Elecare formula? It seems to be so thin and my little granddaughter is spilling a lot with this formula.Would welcome your feedback thanks
Christchurch people - there is a new post from someone needing help finding Karicare Aptamil Food Thickener. If you know where to find it, can you please reply on their post?
Thank you!Does anyone in CHCH know where to find the formula thickener for Elecare formula?? My wee one has just been put onto Elecare and I am finding it needs to be a bit thicker as she is bringing up a lot just like the breast milk. Not all pharmacies sell it
After some advice, I have a 10 week old with possible silent reflux ( just started gaviscon) we are wanting to progress to help him achieve self settling. Does anyone have any methods that worked? Absolutely no comfort in patting and shushing... Or am I asking too much from my little man that finds a lot of comfort in being rocked to sleep?
Hi all, Just wondering if someone could confirm for me that going dairy free means you can still have non cows milk products like sheep or goat products? I read the spilt milk site and seems to be a cows milk protein issues, not other types of animal products? I just ate sheeps feta then second guessed if it's OK.
My 16 month old just saw an allergist today and he told me it sounded like he had reflux. He had it as an infant but around 9 months he stopped needing meds and was fine, but now this winter he has stayed sick! So I'm really trying hard to wrap my head around this... I feel like my baby has been sick for months (stuffy, sneezing, coughing, wheezing, fever.. the list goes on and on) and it's just reflux! I mean if that's the case I guess I'm relieved because that seems like a simple fix. I just feel like he's really been suffering. His pedi was thinking he had asthma and sinus infections. The allergist did swab his nose to see if anything comes back on it but for now he is just taking nexxium(sp?) and a nasal spray.
Ignore my previous message (If you saw it), http://www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz is back!
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I asked for a script for infant gaviscon and was given Acidex. Whats the difference?
Hoping for a bit of help/more advice. My now 8 week old baby has what we believe to be silent reflux, no one has actually diagnosed her with it, but have been given meds to help. She definitely regurgitates milk, and sometimes projectile vomits (she has only started doing this recently). I am getting so lost of what to do next, we have another appointment with the GP on Thursday, but in the mean time would love any advice on what I can do to help her.
We started out on Infant Gaviscon, which didn't help much at all. Then onto Ranitidine, which didn't help either. We got prescribed Losec by my GP to use with gaviscon. Which seemed to help for two weeks, but now she is back to being so unsettled and unhappy. From birth she could only ever drink a small amount before she got really uncomfortable and started screaming, I started expressing to get an idea of what she is really drinking, which turned out to be bugger all, this was why i was feeding her 20 odd ml every 1/2 hr to an hour. I'm doing everything I can to help her, have got the bassinet head raised, burp after what seems to be every mouthful! I wear her in my wrap a fair bit during the day for some of her naps.
I took her to the osteopath last week, and her said she was very sore and had a very tight diaphragm. Two nights later she slept 6 hours! But the next night she was back to a couple of hours at a time. I have another appointment on Thursday.
As I have a 20 1/2 month old toddler and, expressing got too much as I could never find the time to do it, so now have her on Karicare Formula, which i'm not 100% sure if this is upsetting her stomach aswell. She was induced at 38 weeks as they were concerned about her growth, she was 6lb 3 oz at birth.
What would be the best formula to have her on? She is still currently on losec and gaviscon. AND how can I ease the screaming after every feed? I'm really starting to stress alot about it and find myself getting pretty emotional.
Thanks and sorry for the long story!
EmmaHi everyone, my daughter had severe gerd up until about 9 months and was treated with losec and gaviscon and eurthymician (sp). Four about 3 months she was really good, not needing any meds at all so we weened her off them. She has been med free for about 6 months, but the past two months we are back to screaming and crying every hour each night ( was previously a good night sleeper!) very unsettled etc, but no vomit . My question is can reflux suddenly come back ?
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In particular:
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Please help i am desperate! My wee 9 week old is under a paediatrician forbreflux and a maybe dairy allergy. My milk supply is starring to drop and she has been given Elecare but she refuses to drink it. Have tried vanilla essence and mixing it with my breast milk but still no luck. Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated 😊
Hi. I am having real trouble settling my 9 week old baby, especially at night. I would like to wean her off me and have tried both pepti Jr and neocate but no luck. Also on ranitidine for refulx. Am i just best to breast feed or is there other options?
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Here's the full article. Tall magazine—"because life may be short, but we're not"—"
Jen Young wanted to share This Independent Digital Article on a glossy new magazine published by the Bush administration going on sale across the Middle East this week. It is targeting young people with a mix of features, celebrity profiles and music. The Arabic-language Hi magazine is US propaganda 2003-style. "We're fighting a war of ideas as much as a war on terror," said Tucker Eskew, director of the White House's Office of Global Communications.
Jen Young writes "Slate Has This On Redbook. The magazine, which turned 100 in May, was evidently not acting its age, and what could be more vulgar? How about the revelation, in a rash of unrelated news stories over the next week, that Redbook had given two of its cover girls big crude face lifts: Jennifer Aniston had been doctored for the June issue (and was considering suing), and Julia Roberts, her head (from a photo taken at the People's Choice Awards in 2002) scarily large atop a paper-doll stiff body (from the Notting Hill premiere in 1999), had been butchered for July. The editors apologized, saying they had wanted an image that would "pop on the newsstand," a spokesman for Redbook said. "Pop" it did, against a background of garish pink, red, and bright violet. "
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This One at ISCID that says the notion that a scientific idea cannot be considered intellectually respectable until it has first appeared in a "peer" reviewed journal did not become widespread until after World War II. They argue that prior to the Second World War the refereeing process, even where it existed, had very little effect on the publication of novel ideas, at least in the field of physics. But in the last several decades, many outstanding physicists have complained that their best ideas -- the very ideas that brought them fame -- were rejected by the refereed journals. Thus, prior to the Second World War, the refereeing process worked primarily to eliminate crackpot papers. Today, the refereeing process works primarily to enforce orthodoxy.
Jen Young noticed Alternet is Running A Story on the Public Library of Science. The group traces its immediate history to Varmus\'s project PubMed Central, a service associated with the aforementioned PubMed, which was supposed to make the full text of articles available to anyone who wanted them. Unfortunately, the scientific publishing business – exemplified by corporate giants like Elsevier, which puts out thousands of periodicals and books – didn\'t exactly embrace the idea of making its copyrighted materials available for free.
Someone else points over to The NYTimes and a similar story. They say the Public Library of Science, which includes scientists, doctors, researchers and their public supporters, plans to announce legislation on Thursday that would give taxpayers greater access to scientific data.
Lee Hadden writes: "The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the high cost of medical journals. See the issue for June 26, 2003, "Marquee Scientists Challenge Expensive Medical Journals." By SHARON BEGLEY, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. "In a challenge to the profitable business of science publishing, a marquee group of biomedical scientists is trying to move peer-reviewed research out of the exclusive world of expensive medical journals and make it freely available to everyone."
Bill Drew writes "I just read an article in Reference & Users Services Quarterly that I find troubling because of its lack of depth and coverage. It is "A Study of Web-Based Interactive Reference Services Via Academic Library Home Pages." The article does not mention anything that has happened on the Digital Reference front in the year. there is not one mention of the various vendors now offering Digital Reface services. The article was obviously submitted quite awhile ago and there for misses much of the recent growth in virtual reference services. The article was submitted in Nov. 12, 2001 and revised and accepted for publication in Feb. 12, 2002. I can see the fault is not with the author but with the publication schedule for R&USQ.
How can one expect to stay current by reading the professional library literature if it takes close to 18 months for an article to be published by one of our professional journals? "
Matt writes "The Chicago Tribune says magazines seem more relevant than ever. They picked out magazines that you'll find on staffers' nightstands and coffee tables, in their backpacks and on their car seats and on the edges of our bathtubs. These are the periodicals for which we pay good money.
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The current Punk Planet (which unfortunately -- though maybe appropriately for this issue -- doesn't have the zine's content on its website) is devoted to the joys of hard copy, and it includes interviews with and excerpts from Dave Eggers & Co., Underworld cartoonist Kaz, and others. There's also a nice profile ofzine libraries.
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Until recently Ed Parsons had never heard of such classes. At this point, though, it's a safe bet he wouldn't wish them on his worst enemy. A recent South Beach transplant, Parsons claims he was assailed on the evening of January 11 by a pair of Beach cops who roughed him up, hurled gay slurs at him, and arrested him on a bogus charge. It was in the midst of this ordeal, he says, that one of the officers introduced him to the concept of sensitivity training. "Aren't you glad we took the homo course?" the officer allegedly queried. "We learned a lot, didn't we?"
So much for enforced enlightenment.
Police investigators initially dismissed Parsons's complaint, which he filed January 13. But Parsons refused to let the matter drop. In a volley of letters to city officials, he successfully lobbied police to reopen the matter. Two weeks ago internal affairs investigators substantiated three of his four allegations. The report concludes that officers Jonathon Brudzinski and Bernie Ruder did not use excessive force in arresting Parsons, but that they slandered their suspect and that Brudzinski mishandled the arrest procedure and filed an arrest form containing false information.
Mike Finesilver, Parsons's attorney, says he met with Miami Beach City Manager Roger Carlton several weeks ago, as police were finishing their investigation. He says Carlton offered Parsons a "public apology" and a promise to discipline the officers. "Two things which are his obligation in the first place," observes Finesilver, whose client intends to sue the city.
Parsons, an unretiring 35-year-old who describes himself as a born-again Christian, moved from West Palm Beach to a Collins Avenue apartment this past October. He believes his January run-in was the result of mistaken identity, a claim the policemen steadfastly deny. As Parsons recounts it, he had just finished an oceanside night run and was on his way to pick up some dinner when the officers stopped him on the beach near Seventeenth Street. He says Brudzinski immediately asked his partner, "Isn't that the asshole we arrested last week?" Parsons, a registered nurse, started to explain that he had never been arrested. "That's when the fun began," he says. "The cops came at me together, like a timed attack. One guy nearly dislocated my right shoulder. The other hit my left shoulder. They yanked my arms back, forced me onto my knees, pushed my head toward the sand, and handcuffed me."
According to Parsons, twenty minutes of verbal abuse followed: "The first officer, Brudzinski, was saying things like, `You homos make me sick. We just arrested a bunch of your asshole buddies.'" The officers then got on the radio, presumably to run a criminal check on Parsons. "After that," Parsons says, "they became much more conciliatory. They must have realized they had the wrong guy." In fact, while Brudzinski had drawn up an arrest form for loitering and prowling -- a charge that requires a suspect be taken into custody -- the officers wound up releasing Parsons, after waiting 30 minutes for transportation that could take Parsons to jail.
Badly shaken by the incident, Parsons consulted friends and three days later filed a complaint with the Miami Beach Police Department. He was interviewed by Sgt. Steven Jones, who took sworn statements from both officers a week later. Ruder and Brudzinski, who both joined the force as full-time officers in June 1990, denied manhandling Parsons or directing any derogatory comments at him. They asserted that Parsons had been uncooperative and could not justify his presence in the area. Brudzinski and Ruder have since retained an attorney and both declined comment for this article. Their personnel files contain glowing evaluations and no major reprimands, though Brudzinski was investigated on an excessive-force complaint in 1990. He was exonerated.
On January 29, Jones closed his investigation and "unfounded" the allegations. Attorney Finesilver calls that decision "laughable. When you unfound an allegation, you are saying that it has no factual basis, or that the person admitted making it up. In this case, it was my client's word against the cops." (By contrast, an "unsubstantiated" classification would have indicated there was insufficient evidence to prove the allegation.)
Parsons was shocked when he learned of the decision. For a few months he put the matter aside, but remained seething. On May 7 he hand-delivered a five-page, single-spaced letter to Beach Mayor Seymour Gelber. The missive outlined the incident and asked for $20,000 in damages, citing mental trauma and an injury to his right shoulder. Gelber alerted City Manager Carlton, who took the issue to Chief Huber. On May 21, the investigation was reopened.
"I got a call from Sgt. Jones," Parsons recalls. "He said he had been ordered to reopen the case by the chief. I remember specifically he told me, `It's a waste of my time.' There was something almost belligerent in his tone." Jones calls this version of the conversation "absurd. I would never make any such comment."


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South Dakota LEND Program - About Us
The South Dakota LEND Program is . . .
- the South Dakota Leadership Education Excellence in Caring for Children with Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders Program.
- a program of the Center for Disabilities.
- a graduate-level traineeship.
- one year of specialized training which focuses on the interdisciplinary training of professionals for leadership roles in the provision of health and related services to infants, children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities and their families.
- working in collaboration with many organizations and institutions including:
- Augustana College,
- Autism Spectrum Disorders Program at the Center for Disabilities,
- Birth To 3 Connections at the Center for Disabilities,
- Children's Care Hospital & School,
- Deaf-Blind Program at the Center for Disabilities,
- Ethel Austin Martin Program for Human Nutrition at South Dakota State University,
- Sanford Children's Specialty Clinic,
- Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota,
- South Dakota Department of Health,
- South Dakota Perinatal Association,
- South Dakota State University, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences,
- The University of South Dakota, Department of Political Science.
- augmenting graduate studies in the disciplines of: audiology, child neurology, child psychiatry, developmental and behavioral pediatrics, health administration, medicine, nursing, school psychology, special education, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, pediatric dentistry, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric genetics, pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation, physical therapy, psychology, public health, social work, and parents of children with special needs.
- working to improve the health status of infants, children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities.
Specific Goals of the South Dakota LEND Program
- To provide an excellent education program which will prepare its preservice trainees to assume clinical leadership roles dedicated to meeting the needs of children with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities in all settings where care may be provided (home, ambulatory care settings, managed care and office settings, community-based, and hospital health care facilities). This training will emphasize the provision of family oriented, culturally sensitive, interdisciplinary services.
- To build the leadership capacity of its preservice trainees to guide public policy and health care practice in efficient, effective, evidence-based, comprehensive, family-centered, and culturally competent care for children with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities.
- To enhance and expand the capacity of heath care providers in the state of South Dakota and the surrounding region to utilize and promote comprehensive, family-centered, culturally competent, community-based, interdisciplinary approaches to care for children with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities through the provision of continuing education and technical assistance.
- To promote the development of improved systems of care through the pursuit of new partnerships and the expansion of existing relationships with governmental, educational and health care agencies which share the interest of neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families in South Dakota and the surrounding region.
The South Dakota LEND Program is supported by a grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), of the United States Department of Health and Human Services - grant number T73MC00037.


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A fisherman's tale: on the night of 6 October 1986 lobster fishermen from the small town of Gilleleje, north of Copenhagen, fishing the Kattegat Sea, found their nets crammed with Norway lobster. Many of the animals were dead or dying. About half were a strange colour.
The seas, and especially the European ones, are warming up. More likely than not, the Arctic will have ice-free summers well before the end of this century. Fish and plankton are already expanding their geographical distribution further north, and the seasonal cycles of certain species are changing.
Around 70 % of our planet is covered by oceans and marine litter can be found almost everywhere. Marine litter, plastics in particular, pose a threat not only to the health of our seas and coasts, but also to our economy and our communities. Most marine litter is generated by land-based activities. How can we stop the flow of litter into our seas? The best place to start tackling this global marine problem is on land.
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During their residence in the solar system, cosmic dust particles are exposed to radiation from solar flares and galactic cosmic rays. The dose from these sources is estimated to exceed most organisms' tolerance to radiation when exposed on time scales of 105 years (see Clark et al., 1998). Thus, IDPs with residence times in the solar system of 105 to 107 years would have been radiation sterilized. As is discussed in Chapter 5, a possible exception would be IDPs derived from dust that intersects the orbit of Earth from a cometary coma or tail and for which lifetimes, and thus exposure to lethal radiation, could be as short as days or months.
Samples of cosmic dust for analysis of composition have been obtained from meteoroids collected in the stratosphere by aircraft and Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) satellite and from micrometeorites obtained by the melting and filtration of large quantities of polar ice (Bradley and Brownlee, 1991; Maurette et al., 1991; Maurette, 1998).
Antarctic micrometeorites ranging in size from 100 to 400 mm, as well as smaller particles collected by aircraft and the LDEF satellite, are related primarily to the carbonaceous chondrites, and within this group mostly to the CM chondrites (which account for about 2 percent of meteorite infalls to Earth). Carbonaceous chondrites such as the Murchison meteorite are rich in organic compounds, including many organic compounds, such as amino acids, associated with terrestrial biochemistry (see Cronin et al., 1988). As mentioned above, some IDPs are also derived from comets, which contain abundant simple organic components (see Table 5.1), but whose inventory of complex organic molecules is less well known than is that of the carbonaceous meteorites. Some of the cometary organic compounds such as HCN, aldehydes, and ammonia are involved in the abiotic synthesis of more complex molecules, including amino acids and some of the bases present in DNA and RNA (see, e.g., Miller and Orgel, 1974). Thus, it is not unreasonable to expect that compounds important in biochemistry may also be present in comets, although this conclusion likely is dependent on whether at some time during a comet's history liquid water was present either on its surface or in its interior.
Based on measurements of the impact craters on the LDEF satellite, the rate of accretion of cosmic dust on the present-day Earth is estimated to be 4 ± 2 × 1010 g/yr (Love and Brownlee, 1993). A somewhat higher infall rate of 7 to 25 × 1010 g/yr has recently been estimated from osmium isotopes (Sharma et al., 1997). Direct measurements of the flux of micrometeorites reaching Earth's surface (Maurette et al., 1991; Hammer and Maurette, 1996; Taylor et al., 1996a), and comparison with the IDP preatmospheric flux at 1 AU (Love and Brownlee, 1993), indicate that micrometeorites in the 50- to 500-µm size range deliver to Earth's surface about 2 × 1010 g of extraterrestrial material each year. This annual flux of IDPs is similar in magnitude to that of larger objects (1- to 10-m meteorites and 1- to 10-km asteroids and comets) averaged over longer time scales (Ceplecha, 1992). Most of the IDP mass is in the form of micrometeorites with sizes of approximately 200 mm. The infall rate of IDPs appears to have varied over geologic time (Farley, 1995) and may have been as much as a factor of 10 higher 500 million years ago in comparison to the present-day flux (Schmitz et al., 1997).
It has been predicted that approximately 99 percent of the micrometeorites larger than 100 µm are completely melted upon atmospheric entry and that only small particles of less than 20 µm are not heated to at least 160 °C (Brownlee, 1985; Love and Brownlee, 1991, 1993). These theoretical calculations are critically dependent on the particles' size and on their velocity and angle during entry. Because particles of less than 20 µm make up only about 10-3 percent of the IDP or micrometeorite mass, only about 4 × 105 g/yr of the cosmic dust escapes heat sterilization during atmospheric entry. In addition, calculations of helium loss from IDPs in the size range from 5 to 150 µm suggest that only 0.5 percent of the mass of particles (approximately 2 × 108 g/yr) are heated below approximately 600 °C (the temperature at which helium is released) during delivery to Earth's surface (Farley et al., 1997). These predictions thus suggest that only some of the smallest IDPs (particles smaller than 20 µm), which make up only a minor fraction of the original IDP mass flux, escape heating to the temperatures of greater than 160 °C considered necessary for biological sterilization (Microbiology Advisory Committee, 1993) during atmospheric entry. However, this conclusion must be considered somewhat tentative because IDPs are exposed to peak temperatures on time scales of a only few seconds (Love and Brownlee, 1991). Some proteins may be


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A baby killer whale, born on Dec. 21, 2004, swims alongside mother whale Kasatka at SeaWorld San Diego''s Shamu. A video showing Kasatka attacking and almost drowning a SeaWorld trainer in 2006 has been released under a Freedom of Information request.
TurtleTrek, a new attraction opening April 27 at SeaWorld orlando, includes a domed, 3-@ theater experience.
In its lawsuit that was dismissed Wednesday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals argued that five orcas caught in the wild and brought to SeaWorld, includingTilikum, seen here in Orlando in March, were slaves and should be freed under the U.S. Constitution''s 13th Amendment.
This computer-generated illustration shows the planned Freshwater Oasis area at SeaWorld Orlando. Scheduled to open in the spring of 2012, the attraction will allow guests to swim alongside otters and marmosets.
SeaWorld Orlando will open its largest attaraction expansion, Antarctica-Empire of the Penguin, in spring of 2013.
High School Musical star Corbin Bleu gives a back rub to Clyde the Sea Lion during a behind-the-scenes tour of Sea World Saturday in San Diego.
Bleu jumped onstage with Clyde and joined in on his "sea lion salsa" routine.


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Why is it so easy to remember the words to our favorite songs even years after listening to them? Marc Ratcliffe, an Australian licensee of The Bob Pike Group, answered the question by explaining that brains are wired for rhythm, which is why music can be used as a vital tool in learning. During his breakout session titled "Creating a Soundtrack for Learning" at the 20th Annual Creative Training Techniques Conference, Marc detailed three applications and strategies for using music.
Background Music
Imagine you had a stressful day at work. After coming home, you put on a favorite song or an upbeat tune. Suddenly the stress of the day starts to melt away because music has the ability to stabilize physical and emotional rhythms.
Training participants often come into training sessions with an assortment of lingering stressors inhibiting their learning capabilities. By playing music as participants enter the room, a trainer can work to alleviate their tension and create a relaxed learning atmosphere.
However, music is only useful in small doses. It is best to limit the use of background music to introductions and exits, breaks, games and group discussions.
Music simply catches our ears, making it useful for transitioning from one thing to the next. When music suddenly stops, listeners will often do the same. By softly playing music during group discussion time, trainers will be able to pull their participants from discussions and quickly redirect the focus back on them with a press of a stop button.
The technique can also be used in the same fashion to regain the attention of participants after a break. As participants leave for a break, start the music. The music will encourage the participants to relax after an extended period of learning. It will help them recharge for the additional learning and reinforce the comfortable learning atmosphere created within the session. When the trainer wants to recapture the attention of participants, all she needs to do is stop the music.
Song Parodies
Every participant is familiar with a multitude of song rhythms. This creates an opportunity for linking content to a popular song, which is already etched into participants' brains. For this activity, divide participants into groups of five. Then instruct them to create a parody of a song that revisits the content they learned during a training session.
For most popular music, a trainer needs to attain permissions from artists or the music licensing agencies (BMI, SESAC and ASCAP are the big three) to use most music during training sessions, but don't let this obstacle deter you from reaping music's benefits. With the purchase of royalty free music, a trainer can play songs without having to worry about copyright infringement.
Though there is plenty of royalty free music available online, it is important that a trainer finds the right mix. First of all, the music collection should not have any lyrics as they tend to take the learner's attention away from the lesson. It is also important to have a variance in the pace of songs. Introduction and exit music is most effective when it is medium-paced, 90 to 110 beats per minute. Music played after breaks or during games is better if it is fast-paced, exceeding 110 beats per minute, because it builds a sense of excitement and stimulates motion, while slow music and its calming effect, is better suited for discussion and reflection.
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