Many of us have been watching the Olympics this week (how about that Phelps?). The first week culminated with an exciting individual women’s gymnastics competition. Despite the home advantage (see Balmer and Nevill, 2003 in the annotated bibliography), Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson took Gold and Silver respectively (63.325 and 62.725), with Chinese Yilin Yang winning Bronze (62.650)...

Highlights • Parasitic bronchitis (Husk) frequently diagnosed in cattle • Two outbreaks of botulism in cattle and one in sheep investigated • Bovine Babesiosis incidents in North Wales, The South West and Scottish borders • Parasitic gastroenteritis continuing to cause losses in sheep • Cases of acute fasciolosis in sheep provide an early warning of a high risk of disease • Histomoniasis (black...

An 18-vertical level primitive equation general circulation model was developed from previous models of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in order to study t,he lower stratosphere in detail. The altitude range covered was from the surface to 4 mb. (37.5 km.), the vertical resolution being optimized in the tropopause region to permit a more accurate calculation of the vertical transport ...