2007年財政預算為4,880萬元 盼望您積極回應支持 影音使團一直透過以不同形式的媒體，如福音電影、創世電視、天使心月刊、巡迴佈道會、福音產品等向社會不同階層人士傳講福音。使團為非牟利的慈善團體，收入 大部分來自主內弟兄姊妹的奉獻或一些教會團體的捐助，並無任何政府或商業機構的資助，也沒法申請銀行貸款，經常遇到奉獻收入不穩定的情況，每月的發薪日子 常常有很大的壓力。 [1]

事實

跨越奇園」由香港基督少年軍負責營運，提供20個不同難度的繩網項目，適合不同年齡的人士參與，包括中小學生、公眾團體、商界等。基督少年軍訓練幹事楊樹榮指3D巨人梯、攀石牆、信心飛躍等項目，均能考驗團體的合作性。...

整個馬灣公園由新鴻基地產負責興建，去年年底落成。新地於1997年以換地方式發展馬灣物業項目珀麗灣，當時政府答允少收8億元地價，但新地須於2006 年中前建成馬灣公園，但結果工程出現嚴重延誤，至07年7月第一期公園才初步開放。發展局長林鄭月娥去年曾表示，若工程費比少收的地價為少，新地要繳回餘額，亦要繳付工程延誤的利息。[2]

講一套, 做一套, 又一見証!

再講, 香港尚未有"升天神舟公園",

張此公園改建"升天神舟公園"就最好不過!

最好, 還是在耶路撒冷建一座孔子廟, 等世人得到孔子的愛!

SOURCE: 奉獻支持影音使團

[1] http://hk.88db.com/hk/Services/Post_Detail.page/Personal_Community/Donation/?PostID=124743

[2] 挪亞方舟繩網歷奇場地 復活節啟用 2009年2月16日

http://www.mingpaovan.com/htm/News/20090216/HK-gmb1.htm

Dr. Paul Nghiemt from the University of Washington in Seattle found that caffeine interrupted a protein called ATR-Chk1, causing the damaged cells to self-destruct, in cells damaged by UV rays. ATR is essential to damaged cells that are growing rapidly and caffeine specifically targets damaged cells that can become cancerous. Now, we know why caffeine might offer some protection from skin cancer.

Dr. Paul Nghiemt, Thanks for your finding.

Caffeine might offer some protection from skin cancer.  Healthday  Feb. 26 2009

For years, we have been buoyed by the ADs that one glass of wine improves our health. We thought drinking wine was good for us.

A new study involving nearly 1.3 million middle-aged British women showed that just one glass of chardonnay, a single beer or any other type of alcoholic drink per day increases the risk of a variety of cancers.

According to the news, actually many previous studies have found that alcohol appears to increase the risk of breast cancer, and that heavy drinking could make men and women prone to other cancers as well.

Rob Stein, Washington Post, did a calculation:
In any group of 1,000 U.S. women up to age 75 who consumed an average of one drink a day, the researchers calculated there would be 15 extra cancers; two drinks per day would result in 30 extra cancers and so forth. [2] Confused?

Well, if you have a habit of drinking glass of wine daily and you are healthy, are you going to stop drinking?

[1] A Drink a Day Raises Women's Risk of Cancer, Study Indicates Washington Post February 25, 2009 [2] Daily drink for middle-age women cancer risk, SFGate, February 25, 2009

Evangelical church leaders are pressing Kenya's national museum to relegate to a back room its world-famous collection of hominid fossils showing the evolution of humans' early ancestors. The museum's collections include the most complete skeleton yet found of Homo erectus, the 1.7-million-year-old Turkana Boy unearthed by Leakey's team in 1984 near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.

While, Bishop Bonifes Adoyo, head of the largest Pentecostal church in Kenya, said "our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes. "

Evolutionary theory is not anti-faith. It’s important to find a compromise between faith and theory.

Scientist Fights Church Effort to Hide Museum's Pre-Human Fossils LiveScience Sun Dec 3, 11:55 AM ET

The Big Bang Model is a broadly accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe. It postulates that 12 to 14 billion years ago, the portion of the universe we can see today was only a few millimeters across. It has since expanded from this hot dense state into the vast and much cooler cosmos we currently inhabit.

Foundations of the Big Bang Model

The Big Bang Model rests on two theoretical pillars:

General Relativity

The first key idea dates to 1916 when Einstein developed his General Theory of Relativity which he proposed as a new theory of gravity. His theory generalizes Isaac Newton's original theory of gravity, c. 1680, in that it is supposed to be valid for bodies in motion as well as bodies at rest. Newton's gravity is only valid for bodies at rest or moving very slowly compared to the speed of light (usually not too restrictive an assumption!). A key concept of General Relativity is that gravity is no longer described by a gravitational "field" but rather it is supposed to be a distortion of space and time itself. Originally, the theory was able to account for peculiarities in the orbit of Mercury and the bending of light by the Sun, both unexplained in Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. In recent years, the theory has passed a series of rigorous tests.

The Cosmological Principle

After the introduction of General Relativity a number of scientists, including Einstein, tried to apply the new gravitational dynamics to the universe as a whole. At the time this required an assumption about how the matter in the universe was distributed. The simplest assumption to make is that if you viewed the contents of the universe with sufficiently poor vision, it would appear roughly the same everywhere and in every direction. That is, the matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic when averaged over very large scales. This is called the Cosmological Principle. This assumption is being tested continuously as we actually observe the distribution of galaxies on ever larger scales.

These two ideas form the entire theoretical basis for Big Bang cosmology and lead to very specific predictions for observable properties of the universe.

What are the evidence for Big Bang Cosmology?

The Big Bang Model is supported by a number of important observations, each of which are described in more detail on separate pages:

The expansion of the universe
Edwin Hubble's 1929 observation that galaxies were generally receding from us provided the first clue that the Big Bang theory might be right.

The abundance of the light elements H, He, Li
The Big Bang theory predicts that these light elements should have been fused from protons and neutrons in the first few minutes after the Big Bang.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation
The early universe should have been very hot. The cosmic microwave background radiation is the remnant heat leftover from the Big Bang.

These three measurable signatures strongly support the notion that the our universe evolved from a dense, nearly featureless hot gas, just as the Big Bang model predicts.

Content Credit Big Bang Cosmology NASA Thursday, 12-15-2005 Tests of Big Bang Cosmology NASA Tuesday, 09-26-2006

A study of 52,000 phone users in Denmark suggests that cell phones don't trigger cancer. [1]

Cell phones beam radiofrequency energy that can penetrate the brain's outer edge, that may trigger the development of non specific annoying symptoms. In a study of 300 individuals, the researchers found 68% prevalence of mobile phone usage, nearly three quarters of them (72.5%) were complainers of the health manifestations. They suffered from headache (43%), earache (38.3%), sense of fatigue (31.6%), sleep disturbance (29.5%), concentration difficulty (28.5%) and face burning sensation (19.2%). [2]

In addition, a study in Turkey suggests that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellular phone influences human sperm motility. In addition to these acute adverse effects of EMR on sperm motility, long-term EMR exposure may lead to behavioral or structural changes of the male germ cell. [3]

For headache both call duration and frequency of calls/day were the significant predicting factors for its occurrence. For earache, in addition to call duration, the longer period of owning the mobile phone were significant predictors. Sense of fatigue was significantly affected by both call duration and age of the user. Sense of fatigue was significantly affected by both call duration and age of the user. [2]

[1] Study disputes cell phone-cancer link AP Tue Dec 5, 4:00 PM ET [2] Salama OE, Abou El Naga RM. Cellular phones: are they detrimental? J Egypt Public Health Assoc. 2004;79(3-4):197-223. [3] Erogul O, Oztas E, Yildirim I, Kir T, Aydur E, Komesli G, Irkilata HC, Irmak MK, Peker AF. Effects of electromagnetic radiation from a cellular phone on human sperm motility: an in vitro study. Arch Med Res. 2006 Oct;37(7):840-3.

Jeanna Bryner at Live Science.com reported that a study in mice shows that a stress-triggered hormone could worsen or even cause skin disorders like psoriasis and eczema. When the researchers blocked the glucocorticoid—a hormone increases in stressful times—, they found a better skin. [1]

While, Arck PC and co-workers at University Medicine Berlin, Germany suggest out that our skin, like few other organs, is continuously exposed to multiple exogenous and endogenous stressors. They portray the skin and its appendages as both a prominent target of key stress mediators (such as corticotropin-releasing hormone, ACTH, cortisol, catecholamines, prolactin, substance P, and nerve growth factor) and a potent source of these prototypic, immunomodulatory mediators of the stress responses. [2]

To cope with stress-induced oxidative damage, the skin and hair follicles also express melatonin, probably the most potent neuroendocrine antioxidant. [2]

[1] Skin Disorders Linked to Stress LiveScience Sat Dec 9, 4:50 PM ET [2] euroimmunology of stress: skin takes center stage. J Invest Dermatol. 2006 Aug;126(8):1697-704.

Urinary stone disease affects 10% of the Canadian population during their lifetime and approximately half of these patients will have another episode within ten years. Currently, patients undergo metabolic testing (serum and 24 hour urine tests) to identify modifiable risk factors; however, no modifiable risk factors are identified in many patients, yet they continue to form stones. New techniques must be developed to identify stone patients at risk for future recurrences and ultimately to develop more specific prevention strategies.

Urinary protein levels are not routinely measured in stone patients while there is strong evidence that proteins play a role in the etiology of stones. Urine with proteins usually appears to be foamy. Kidney disease, kidney failure from diabetes, urinary tract infections etc also cause foamy urine.

One possible method to examine the urinary and serum proteins of stone formers is by Surface Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization (SELDI).

Dr. Fischer TW and co-workers from Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany. cultivated hair follicles from 14 biopsies, taken from the vertex areas from male AGA patients for 120-192 h in vitro with normal William's E medium (control) or William's E medium containing different concentrations of testosterone and/or caffeine. AGA, stands for androgenetic alopecia, is a common problem in men of all ages, affecting approximately 50% at 50 years of age. The underlying cause is an androgen-dependent miniaturization of genetically predetermined hair follicles. They found growth suppression in hair follicles treated with 5 microg/ml testosterone, while this growth suppression was counteracted by caffeine. [1]

Treatment of these follicles with caffeine alone led to a significant stimulation of hair follicle growth. [1]

[1] Fischer TW, et al, Effect of caffeine and testosterone on the proliferation of human hair follicles in vitro. Int J Dermatol. 2007

One Marine One (VH-71) helicopter costs $400 million and a fleet of 28 new Marine One helicopters that will cost us around $11.2 billion! Sen. McCain suggested that if President Obama wants to help the economy, perhaps he should consider canceling the order. The new helicopters, which were originally ordered by President George W. Bush not long after 9/11, are now on hold. Why it is so expensive? Billions of dollars have been spent to develop the Marine One helicopter fleet, which is meant to replace the iconic Sikorsky Marine One helicopters the White House has used for a quarter-century. It has cutting-edge communications equipment, antimissile defenses, hardened hulls and a kitchen.

Costs have risen to the point where the price of each helicopter will exceed that of any of the much larger presidential Boeing 747 jets known as Air Force One.

Marine One Upgrade Now Looks Less Likely

Reference:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92303?fp=1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022302574.html?hpid=moreheadlines