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Johannesburg, Jan. 17 (ANI): Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has said that comments on Israel attributed to him before he was elected, slammed as deeply offensive by the US, were taken out of context.
According to a statement from the presidency issued after Morsi met US Senator John McCain, the president said they were taken from comments on the Israeli aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and stressed the need to put the remarks in the right context, reports News24.
According to a TV clip released by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Morsi refers in a 2010 interview to "occupiers of Palestine" as "blood suckers and war mongers, and descendants of pigs and apes". He added that they must be resisted with all forms of resistance, including the military.
In his latest statement, Morsi stressed his commitment to the principles he has always insisted on, including full respect for religions, freedom of faith and religious practices, especially the heavenly religions. He also stressed the need to differentiate between Judaism and its adherents from those who practise violent actions against Palestinians. (ANI)


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Durban - Four high school pupils, aged between 16 and 19, have been arrested for allegedly stabbing four others on a school bus in Cedara, outside Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Saturday.
"Two accused were released in the care of the parents since they were minors," Captain Thulani Zwane said.
On Friday, four pupils were stabbed during a fight on a school bus.
Two were stabbed in the chest, a third had severe facial injuries, and the fourth had been stabbed in the arm, ER24 spokeswoman Luyanda Majija said earlier.
"Paramedics were told that the incident occurred when approximately 12 males arrived at the school where some jumped onto the bus and started stabbing the learners on the bus."
Zwane said that one of those arrested was an accused in a case of assault with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm dating back to August. The pupils who were stabbed were witnesses in that case.
"(The) arrested suspects will be charged for attempted murder and will appear in Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court soon," he said. - Sapa

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UTair Group has continued to show significant growth in key indicators over the past 9 months. In the period between January and September 2012, UTair Group transported a combined total of 6,554,283 passengers, an increase of 33.5% in comparison with the same period in 2011.
Passenger turnover for reporting period constituted 12,253,247PKM, an increase of 36.1%over same period in 2011. According to Russian aviation industry statistics gathered by the Transport Clearing House, the Russian industry average for growth in this indicator stands at 16.4%.
In total, UTair Group fixed wing aircraft logged a record 224,757 flight hours for the reporting period, 19.8% more than for the same period last year. UTair Group aircraft delivered 20,117.9 tons of cargo, 55.1% more than for the same period in 2011. UTair Group helicopters logged a total of 126,125 flight hours, 21.7% more than for the same reporting period last year.
Key KPI for UTair Group helicopter operations for the first 9 months of 2012 have surpassed results for the same period last year. UTair Group helicopter transport operations logged a total of 126,125 flight hours in the first 9 months of 2012, 21.7% more than for the same reporting period last year. In the same period UTair Group helicopters transported 600,171 passengers and delivered 120,174.3 tons of cargo.
Growth of performance indicators has come with fleet modernization and expansion of the company's service operations portfolio. During the reporting period, UTair helicopters performed a wide range of operations, including the transportation of bulk cargo, VIP passenger transport on specially-equipped rotorcraft, and fire fighting operations in Russia and abroad.
In the summer of 2012 UTair attracted financing for the acquisition and delivery of 19 new Eurocopter AS 350/355 helicopters from leading British bank HSBC with insurance guarantees from the French insurance agency COFACE. The airline has already launched operations with five such helicopters. UTair expects to start operations on four more AS 350/355s by the end of 2012, with the remaining 10 rotorcraft to be delivered in 2013.
UTair Aviation is the first Russian airline to attract insurance coverage from an international export.
About UTair
The UTair Group includes airlines conducting passenger and cargo operations with fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft as well as enterprises offering MRO, personnel training, flight services and air transportation sales services. UTair Aviation is the Group's core enterprise and includes Utair-Express, UTair-Ukraine, UTair-Cargo, Turukhan, JSC Nefteyuganskiy, Vostok, Helisur, UTair Europe, UTair South Africa and UTair India as well as UTair-Technichs, UTair-Engineering and other enterprises.
The fleet of the Group includes more than 550 aircraft - more than 200 fixed-wing planes and more than 350 helicopters. UTair Group revenue for 2011 amounted to 54,126 mln rubles, an estimated 27.6% increase in revenue over 2010. Net profit for 2011 grew 21.2% over 2010 to 261.2 mln rubles. UTair Group headquarters are situated in Surgut, Russia. Subsidiaries are located in Sugut, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansyisk, Moscow and in other cities in Russia and around the world.


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Glenn Anderson, specialist in agricultural education with the Virginia Department of Education, was inducted into Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Hall of Fame Sept. 5.
The induction was part of the college's homecoming activities held in conjunction with the university's Farm and Family Showcase. Also part of the activities was the awarding of the college's Young Agricultural Alumni Citation to Jamie Whitacre, a senior loan officer with Valley Farm Credit in Winchester and a 1994 graduate of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Anderson, a resident of Mechanicsville, was named to the hall of fame for his contributions to the industry of agriculture and to the university. Sharron Quisenberry, dean of agriculture for Virginia Tech, recognized Anderson during the ceremony.
"It is in his role as specialist in agricultural education for the Virginia Department of Education and in his support to this college through the Virginia Tech Agricultural Alumni Organization that we know Glenn best," Quisenberry said. "In both, his leadership has had lasting impacts on the state's agriculture industry and on this college."
Anderson, who earned a bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech in 1968 and went on to earn his master's and doctoral degrees from the university as well, has been in a position to influence agricultural education in Virginia's schools for more than 30 years. In addition to serving as the agricultural education specialist for the Department of Education, he is also the state adviser for the FFA.
He served on the leadership council for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and on the board of the Virginia Tech Agricultural Alumni Organization. He served as the organization's president for a one-year term that ended last fall. His other accomplishments include serving as managing editor of Agricultural Education Magazine, adviser to the Young Farmers of Virginia, a member of the board of directors of the Virginia Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and a member of the Virginia Plant Pollination Advisory Council.
Jay Jackman, outgoing president of the Virginia Tech Agricultural Alumni Organization, presented Whitacre with the Young Alumni Award.
Whitacre is a past president of the organization, and he served in a number of leadership positions on the organization's board since he was a student representative during his senior year in 1994. He is a part-time farmer in addition to his job with Valley Farm Credit.


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Nissan Altima recall affects 10,000 cars in Canada
This is a new one, at least for me.
Nissan Motor Co. announced over the weekend a recall on the 2013 Altima because an improperly inflated spare tire. Because of a manufacturing problem, the tires may be over- or underinflated.
The recalls affects a total of more than 123,000 vehicles, only 10,000 of which are in Canada a spokesperson confirmed via email on Monday. All vehicles were produced between March 21 and March 26.
According to an Associated Press report, tires that are significantly over- or underinflated can increase the risk of a crash. Nissan says it has no reports of accidents or injuries related to the defect, which was discovered by a dealer.
The Japanese carmaker said the issue was traced to a a malfunctioning pressure regulator on a machine at its Canton, Miss., plant.
Customers will be able to bring their Altima to a dealer, which will inspect spare tires and adjust the tire pressure for free.


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secondary hard drive not showing in my computer
Hey basicaly im a noob when it comes to win 7 not had a need to use windows for a while but recently had the urge to game on my pc again
I have a 250gb hard drive which i have windows 7 and ubuntu installed onto and a 1tb and a 1.5tb hard drive formated in ntfs(from when i ran mainly xp)
The disk drives dont show up in my computer but they do show up in disk management however they show as black(unallocated) despite the fact i know that is is allocated and has stuff on which i can still access via ubuntu and i cant assign them a label i know that they definatly work and are in ntfs format as i double checked this through ubuntu im sure its a simple fix but googling hasnt seemed to have turned it up yet :s
Thanks in advance
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Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
If its showing all space in black, I believe thats Unallocated Space.
In Disk Management:
Right click and create a partition (whatever size you want and however many you want)
just follow the prompts and it will guide you through setting it up.
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I dont want to reformat them as there is data on their i need and i know is accessible because i can still access it in ubuntu fine but for some reason win 7 is treating it like it isnt
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Check in your bios and make sure that those drives are enabled.
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Windows 7 Enterprise (x64); Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
Sounds like the partition or format type on your drive is not compatible with Windows 7. Put the drive into a Windows XP machine if it is accessible double check the drive is FAT32 or NTFS if it is not convert it to NTFS. Make sure you set the permissions to EVERYONE FULL on the drive before you take it to the Windows 7 machine or you will have to take ownership of the whole drive.
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It was in ntfs and the dirvers were working fine otherwise it wouldnt work in ubuntu os i think it was just some wierd bug from the partions been done through an old xp or something i just shoved everything onto spare hard drives i had and reformated just seems silly that it was ntfs and wouldnt get recognised
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I figured it out the mbr on both discs was unreadable in wondows due to me changing the partition label in ubuntu :s
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Volume 44 Number 5
The Executive Director's Corner
ASA Annual Meeting Highlights "Christian Pioneers in Science"
"Christians are strongly over-represented" in science. That observation by MIT Prof. Ian Hutchinson gives perspective for ASA's annual meeting theme. Let's head east to check Hutchinson's claim, before we head west.
Atop the columns on the MIT campus, are inscribed the names of historic heroes of science: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Boyle ... As Hutchinson and colleagues researched their lives, they estimated 60% of them were Christians - "not just nominal Christians, but deeply committed to Jesus Christ."
With that context, let's head west to observe highlights of this year's annual meeting, which was held Aug. 2-5 at Pepperdine U., Malibu, CA. This issue will concentrate on Christian pioneers on today's scientific scene who appeared personally on campus. Subsequent issues will round out the historic perspective.
General of the Genome Speaks
"It's been an incredible ride, and it ain't over yet," Francis Collins said in the exultant voice in which Archimedes must have shouted, "Eureka!"
As Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for nine of its twelve years of existence, Collins points with satisfaction to the scientific achievements, and adds, "Here we have a federally-funded project that is ahead of schedule and under budget. Boy, does that make life easier for me!"
Collins had big shoes to fill when he succeeded Nobel laureate James Watson as the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and he has filled them admirably. Program Chair Sara Miles introduced him as one who always makes "unapologetic references to the spiritual nature of humanity."
He began his lecture by reading Psalm 8, in which the Psalmist says God made humans "a little lower than the angels." To illustrate the aesthetic majesty God has incorporated into humanity's DNA, Collins projected a PowerPoint slide of the Rose Window from York Minster Cathedral beside a slide looking down the barrel of DNA, "so that the double helix in its spiral form is shown in a particularly beautiful aspect." He used this visual illustration to show that the scientific and the spiritual worldviews, "which most people out there imagine are incompatible," harmonize beautifully.
About a year ago, Nature published its longest paper ever, "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome," ([15 February 2001]: 860-921), "some 62 pages of fine print, describing what we had learned with the first reading of a draft of the human genome sequence." Collins and a large number of colleagues spent six months preparing the manuscript. He calls it "an exhilarating experience, ... like reading the world's most incredible literature classic that no one else had ever read before, and getting to write the first critical review."
Most textbooks still carry the 15- year-old estimate that the human genome would contain about 100,000 genes. Collins said that when the inventory came out at approximately 30,000, some people felt offended. He compared that to 25,000 genes for mustard weed and 55,000 for rice, and provoked audience laughter when he said, "So you need to have more respect for dinner tonight!"
To people who think his work is done, Collins replies, "In many ways, we're at the end of the beginning." By April 2003, all the project's original goals will have been achieved.
But virtually every disease has some genetic component. "We all have probably dozens of places in our DNA where you wish you had a T but you really have a C," which makes us at risk for something. By 2010 he expects predictive tests for a dozen conditions, to map the risk factors for individuals, and to have interventions available to reduce the risk of several. By 2020 he believes the genomic therapeutic revolution will be in full swing, with gene-based designer drugs available for diabetes, Alzheimer's and several other diseases, and with gene therapy becoming the standard of care of several conditions. He says:
Where we're going next ... will have even more profound impacts on medicine and on our society. As Christians, we bring a special perspective about how to usher in this new revolution in a fashion that has the maximum benefits, and is done in the most benevolent way.
Collins' complete lecture is available in several audio formats on the ASA Website, www.asa3.org. An audiotape is available from the ASA office. Additional details regarding Collins' science and his Christian testimony are in the Jul/Aug issue of ASAN, as well as several previous issues.
MIT's Ian Hutchinson fuses "Science: Christian
& Natural"
Most earthlings know three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. But approximately 90% of the visible universe is in a state called plasma. If plasma can be harnessed in fusion reactions, it will enable us to generate electricity with much less fuel, and with almost no climate-damaging emissions such as CO2.
Ian Hutchinson defines fusion as "a nuclear reaction between light elements such as isotopes of hydrogen. These, when brought together sufficiently forcefully, can react and produce other light elements ... and thereby release energy." Bringing about that "sufficient force" requirement will take some doing, and for nearly his entire career, Hutchinson has been on the forefront of researching it. Currently he is Professor of Nuclear Engineering at MIT's Plasma and Fusion Center.
In his lecture entitled "Science: Christian and Natural," Hutchinson said his first exposure to Christianity had turned him off. It seemed "a vague and rather unsatisfactory sentimentality, a psychological prop that I really felt no need of, and a system of thought ... that was in the process of repudiating its own roots." In spite of having attended a school where prayers were regularly said at assembly, he remained basically ignorant of genuine Christianity.
That began changing when fellow Cambridge students invited him to a series of lectures by Michael Greene, later published as Jesus Spells Freedom. He was struck by the idea that there are strong historical reasons to believe Jesus was who he said he was, that the theological teachings of Christianity had an inner consistency that made sense of the world and of human experience and "strangest of all, that personal relationship with God was possible through Christ, entered into by faith but lived out in action in the world." He was baptized on his twentieth birthday.
Despite ridicule from friends, he sensed that his new faith and his science fused together with very little intellectual conflict. He says:
Actually the more troubling intellectual challenges I faced were ... when I was studying liberal theology and higher criticism. It seemed to me rather absurd that theology should adopt a materialistic position, ... and then after constructing elaborate stories about how the Scriptures came to be what they are, conclude that the Bible is nothing but a human book. Of course, the conclusion was ... embedded in the premises.
Hutchinson calls MIT "perhaps the high temple of technology in the U.S. and maybe even in the world." As he walks across campus, the tops of columns list the revered names of the pioneers of science. He and colleagues researched those names, and discovered that about 60% of the giants of physical science have been Christians: "Not just nominal Christians, but deeply committed to Jesus Christ."
Then where have so many people gotten the idea that Christianity conflicts with natural science? He traces it to 19th-century efforts such as Andrew Dixon White's 1898 book, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. As president of the newly-founded Cornell U., White states in his preface that the book is a manifesto in support of his battle against denominational control of higher education.
Several of White's arguments turn out to lack substantive accuracy. Hutchinson elaborates this and other points on the ASA Website, in both audio and text formats.
At MIT, Hutchinson speaks freely to colleagues about his faith, prays with students struggling with personal or educational challenges, and leads seminars specifically focused on Christian content for Christians and non-Christians. (See "Coming Events" for a year-end InterVarsity seminar in which he will be involved).
He added:
But I believe that these are but the tip of the iceberg in what it means to be a Christian scientist. The marvels of the scientific world are little revelations of God's creative thoughts. They are uncovered by attention to Christian mental virtues, objectivity and truthfulness, which ... the secular scientific establishment finds to its surprise that those virtues don't necessarily come naturally to a post-Christian society. But they are part of the centuries-old heritage, built by remarkable thinkers, many of whom were devout Christians on a Christian philosophy of the world as an intelligent, intelligible, but contingent, free creation. They give opportunities for benefiting humankind - relieving hunger, need and suffering, as Jesus called us to do.
Nobelist Townes Keynotes Annual Meeting
When Program Chair Ted Davis introduced Charles Townes to the ASA annual meeting, he commented that Townes didn't act as if he had turned 87 the previous Sunday. Still an avid diver and snorkeler, he has an equally agile mind. For his work on the maser and laser, Townes shared the 1964 Nobel Prize for Physics. Last year he received Russia's top award, the Lomonosov Prize.
Speaking on "The Convergence of Science and Religion," Townes said both disciplines attempt to understand the universe - science concentrating on its mechanism and religion emphasizing its purpose.
The two converge by using faith, usually referred to in science as postulates. "G–del's theorem basically says ... to prove something you make a certain set of postulates; then we accept normal mathematical logic [and] ... use that logic to deduce things from those postulates and make decisions."
Both disciplines use intuition, sometimes leading to accurate conclusions, sometimes not. For example, when it was discovered that light was wave-like, intuition said it had to have a medium through which to travel in space. Scientists postulated "ether," until the Michelson-Morley experiment disproved its existence.
Revelation also plays a part in scientific discovery. After long being puzzled about the structure of benzine, Kekule saw the answer in a dream of a snake coiled around with its tail in its mouth. Townes had a similar experience: After several years of frustratedly trying to find new ways to produce radiation, a "Eureka!" moment hit him while he was sitting in the park early one morning - a key idea that later led to the maser and laser. "Where did that idea come from? ... Inspiration, revelation if you like."
The two disciplines also converge in the matter of aesthetics. "You don't know how many scientists say, 'This relation is beautiful! This must be right!'" Einstein called this property "elegance."
After the lecture, I interviewed Dr. Charles Townes and Frances, his wife of 61 years. They pray together every day and read the Bible morning and night. He says, "It makes you think about what you're trying to do," and she adds, "It gives you purpose. You greet the day as another gift from God, especially at our age."
When I asked how they remained so vigorous, he answered, "Oh, I just have a good time, ... doing things I find interesting, and I just keep doing them for fun." She added that the day before the conference, he had spent time at Mt. Wilson, digging a big hole and putting a pole in it. "It's lots of work; it isn't all glamour. But it's for a purpose." Frances' purpose for the past fourteen years has included establishing The Chaplaincy, a benevolence for homeless people in Berkeley. "That's something that feeds me," giving fulfillment.
Townes told several commencement audiences about seeming failures and sidetracks that turned to his long-term advantage. For example, when he graduated in 1939, no university research jobs were available. So he reluctantly took a job at Bell Labs, where he soon became a systems engineer. He learned new ways of viewing problems, and "much of my scientific career has grown out of that." He has the unusual distinction of belonging to both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineers.
Mao Tse-Tung said astronomy disproved the existence of God, and Chinese scientists had to state that they didn't believe the Big Bang theory. The year after Mao died, Townes was one of the first scientists invited to China.
Mrs. Townes says, "We think God got us together so we could interact. ... We met at a point in our lives where we were exploring what this divine part of us was, so that's been our life journey together and one of the things that has kept us together, as different as we are."
For further reading: Dr. Townes has published an earlier version of "The Convergence of Science and Religion" in his book Making Waves (Woodbury, NY: AIP Press, 1995). Among its 15 chapters are five on "Spiritual Views from a Scientific Base."
Astronomy's Ambassador to Washington
Jennifer Wiseman had been on Capitol Hill about a week before 9/11. On that historic morning, she was receiving orientation in the Library of Congress, directly across the street from the Capitol, when she received news about the World Trade Center. A CNN monitor was brought in. She recalls:
Then when the Pentagon was hit, it didn't take a brilliant mind to deduce that the big national buildings of pride were being targeted ... We didn't know how many were still to come, and we were sitting next to the most important national building that we have.
She and a terrified "fellow Fellow" went to the sidewalk and prayed, asking God's wisdom regarding the safest place to spend that day.
In retrospect, God did protect them. The plane that crashed in Pennsylvania may have been intended for them. She says, "These terrorist attacks, both by the airplane and the anthrax invasion that we had on Capitol Hill, have had a major effect on Congress and all the staff and Fellows ..."
What had brought a Ph.D. astronomer to Washington, where the lights are too bright for optical astronomy? A mix of boredom with research plus a sense of civic duty led her to ask God for some kind of change. "The Lord answered in giving me this unusual position on Capitol Hill." Jennifer's sponsor is the American Physical Society, and she serves on the Science Committee of the House of Representatives. She works mainly with the Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics and the Subcommittee on Research. The Science Committee has oversight jurisdiction over many science agencies such as NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Jennifer is responsible mainly for issues relating to space science, earth science, and astrophysics, such as NASA space-based telescopes and planetary probes and also NSF-funded ground-based astronomy and physics facilities.
Science plays a role in nearly every issue that Congress considers: basic research, national security, the economy, environment, education, etc. Yet most lawmakers have very little scientific or technical background. Exceptions to this include two physicists: ASA Fellow Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), a former Calvin C. Professor, chairs the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards, and Rush Holt (D-NJ) is the former director of the Princeton Physics Laboratory. Much of the legislative work on the Hill in Member offices is actually carried out by assistants in their mid- 20s(!), though committee staffers tend to be more senior.
Capital culture shock
Washington can shock a newcomer. In science, brilliant insights and academic discourse rule; people skills are secondary. In Washington, however, "if you have great connections, people skills, networking, that is tops." Another surprise is that "decisions in the political realm are not always made solely on truth and scientific 'logic.' Or maybe there are many levels of truth" - such as tobacco lobbyists presenting the alternative "truth" of economic impact on the home district if tobacco subsidies are discontinued.
Jennifer observes: "The first priority of Congress has turned to national security. But what do we as a nation gain and lose by shifting the bulk of our attention to nervous self-protection?"
Wiseman believes more Christians should be involved on Capitol Hill - some as elected officials, others in support positions. She sees a need for greater discernment and for balanced discussion of issues. She is "disturbed by the way hearings are set up, bringing in witnesses who all say the same thing," such as in hearings and briefings on what is variously called embryonic stem cell research or therapeutic cloning. One side monopolizes the presentations, without even acknowledging the other side's objections. Thus the issue is never clarified "that you do have the equivalent of a fertilized egg that's dividing and growing ... [and] if it were implanted it would continue to grow. For many people that is a human life or close enough to it that it makes this research disturbing, while for others the promised medical benefits seem to hold sway. But one never gets the feeling that either side understands or acknowledges fully the concerns and viewpoints of the other."
Capitol Hill has a dual deficit - of scientific expertise and of ethical discernment. Wiseman says: "If you put all these ideas together, it would be wonderful to have more Christian scientists in government, in public policy, because then you have people who have the background and technical and scientific expertise who also have a sense of global stewardship ... Christians have an explicit calling of the Lord to do everything to his glory ... Christians with scientific backgrounds and gifts and insights are needed at all levels."
A Lifelong Quest: Tracking Copernicus
Chaos theorists think when a butterfly flaps its wings over Kyoto, it provokes an Atlantic hurricane three years later. If that's true, Owen Gingerich told a plenary session, "The gentle flight of a butterfly began for me in the wee hours of June 20, 1946," when he was a 16-year-old Merchant Marine cowboy delivering 847 horses to post-war Poland under UN Relief & Rehabilitation Administration auspices.
That was step one in a saga that included a missed flight, chance encounters and dogged determination - all leading to a lifelong worldwide quest to research 600 copies of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium ("On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs"). Contradicting novelist Arthur Koestler's statement that Copernicus' tome was "the book that nobody read," Gingerich tracked down well-read copies once owned by a range of people. "But most interesting are the exemplars owned and annotated by astronomers, which illuminate the long process of acceptance of the sun-centered cosmos ... Here are also fascinating turf battles among astronomers, as well as the struggle of the Church to come to terms with the new reality."
Entitling his lecture "Forbidden Games: The Religious Reaction to the Copernican Theory," Owen debunked the common impression that the Catholic Church had universally censored De Revolutionibus. Instead, he discovered censorship was heavily concentrated in Italy. He said:
About two-thirds of the copies in Italy were censored and essentially none elsewhere ... It became apparent in looking at this, the rest of the world saw that exercise as a local Italian imbroglio, and they were having none of it. In fact, the Spanish version of the Index explicitly permitted the book.
We anticipate that this lecture will appear in a future issue of PSCF, and next year Walker Press expects to publish Gingerich's account of his Copernican quest, under the title The Book Nobody Read.
One other butterfly who stimulated Gingerich to excel to the level that he did, was the late Harold Hartzler. In his introduction, Ted Davis called Hartzler "a mover and shaker in the early ASA" and a prof. under whom Gingerich studied at Goshen C., before moving to Harvard for graduate studies. What current ASAers are mentoring students in comparable ways?
ASA Annual Meeting, Pepperdine U., Malibu, CA, August 2-5, 2002
Left picture
Plenary speakers: I. Hutchinson; O. Gingerich;
J. Wiseman; F. Collins.
Right picture
Plenary speaker C. Townes;
ASA Executive Director D. Munro
ASA Executive Council:
front row: S. Daniels, young scientist representative;
K. Touryan; M. Price;
back row: D. Munro; D. Chappell; F. Hickernell; M. Flora
Scholarship Winners Present Findings
Some under-30 scholarship winners gave papers during Saturday afternoon parallel sessions. They are: Young Astrophysicists: Kyler Kuehn, "The Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Sources with AMANDA"; J. Brian Pitts, "Reconciling Relativity with Tensed Time"; Young Scientists on Science and Religion: Julia Scally, "A Look at Faith-Based Community Organizing from the Church Perspective"; Jason Colwell, "Chaos and Providence"; Young Biologists: Andrew Babcock, "PCR Detection and Stain Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum in Symptomatic Children in Zambia"; Chelsea Matsko, "Selection and Analysis of SV40 T ag Epitope I Escape Variants"; and Kimberly Brothers, "Improving the Technique for the Intracellular Uptake of Bacteria Using Murine Peritoneal Phagocytes and Fluorescence Phase Contrast Microscopy."
Kyler Kuehn, left: "The Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Sources with AMANDA"
J. Brian Pitts, right: "Reconciling Relativity with Tensed Time."
Julia Scally, left: "A Look at Faith-Based Community Organizing from the Church Perspective,"
Jason Colwell, right: "Chaos and Providence."
Andrew Babcock, left: "PCR Detection and Stain Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum in Symptomatic Children in Zambia,"
Chelsea Matsko, center: "Selection and Analysis of SV40 T ag Epitope I Escape Variants"
Kimberly Brothers, right: "Improving the Technique for the Intracellular Uptake of Bacteria Using Murine Peritoneal Phagocytes and Fluorescence Phase Contrast Microscopy."
Local ASA Events
Gingerich is research professor of astronomy and history of science at Harvard and senior astronomer emeritus at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He is a leading authority on 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler and on Nicholas Copernicus. His talk is entitled "Galileo: Hero or Heretic?"
Newman is professor of New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary, Hatfield, PA, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Biblical Research Institute (IBRI). He received his doctorate in theoretical astrophysics from Cornell U. His presentation is entitled "The Cosmos and the Bible: A Critical Examination of Modern Cosmological Theories."
For more information or to be put on the Eastern PA contact list, email Alan McCarrick at: firstname.lastname@example.com
The next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 28, 2002 in Dallas, discussing bioethics. For more information, e-mail Scott Robinson: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Coming Events
Call for Papers
Toward a Culture of Life: Restoring Human Felicity sponsored by Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (JIS), an international journal of interdisciplinary and interfaith dialogue.
Despite spectacular scientific and technological advances at the dawn of the Third Millennium, which promise to extend life and cure many diseases, human life remains precarious, especially at inception and in old age. Can the present crisis of human worth find resolution in a culture which celebrates all life, thus restoring human felicity?
Mss. Deadline: 1 January 2003. Send 3 double-sided copies of a 15-25 page mss. +150-word abstract, typed, double-spaced, in-text citation format, author identification on a separate sheet only (SASE for mss. return) to: Dr. O. Gruenwald, JIS Editor, IIR, 1065 Pine Bluff Dr., Pasadena, CA 91107. Visit www.JIS3.org
New Editors
If you were at Pepperdine, you saw new Newsletter editors Dave Fisher and Margaret Towne covering the event. We'll introduce them in more detail next issue. Dave was lead editor for this issue, Margaret will take primary responsibility for the next issue, and they'll rotate.
Amid news of the annual meeting, they do want to squeeze in one thought:
Please submit your news and feature ideas.
To minimize the confusion, there's one central e-mail address:
If that's occasionally out of operation, contact them directly: email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Upcoming ASA Conferences
July 25-28, 2003: Colorado Christian Univ., Lakewood, CO
July 23-26, 2004: Trinity Western Univ., Langley, BC Canada
Aug. 5-8, 2005: Messiah College, Grantham, PA
July 28-31, 2006: Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
New Book
Hope C. psychologist David Myers recently published a new book, Intuition: Its Powers and Perils. Details are at www.davidmyers.org/intuition.
Anniversary Couple
Alice and John Fredickson celebrated 56 years of marriage.
Job Postings
For descriptions of job postings, visit the ASA web site. At press time, these included physics and environmental advocacy.
With the Lord
Carbon scientist Jack L. White passed away on Feb. 20, 2002 at age 76. Our present understanding of the various microstructures formed in the carbonaceous mesophase and its associated disclination structures stems directly from his pioneering work.
Jack earned a Ph.D. in metallurgy from UC-Berkeley. He worked as visiting scientist at EUROATOM in Holland from 1967 to 1969. In 1973, he joined the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA, as a research scientist in the Materials Science Lab. He "retired" in 1988 and joined the Chemical Engineering group at UCSD.
He is survived by his brother, Don; a daughter, Janette; and two grandsons.
Information from the professional journal Carbon
and from his daughter.
* Janette Shelton
The Executive Director's Corner
by Donald W. Munro
What a surprise! When I went to save this latest Executive Corner file, I found that this Corner is number 50. They are all lined up but not in order since I used different abbreviations like execlet or execlt with a number after it. One time I used exectlt. That must have been a mentally off day. Can I really have written fifty? It is hard for me to believe.
The 57th annual meeting of the ASA with its 220 registrants is history. It is difficult and unfair to rank meetings but much thanks goes to Ted Davis and Sara Miles who, though busy people, put in the many hours that were necessary to assure quality and diversity to make this an outstanding meeting. Thanks again to those donors including the Templeton Foundation who made the Young Scientists' scholarships available. It bodes well for our future.
Following the meeting, Stan Moore, who served most admirably as our Local Arrangements Chair, and I plus our wives went up the California coast from Malibu to the Big Sur and spent several days in the beautiful Monterey area. My wife and I then went to Seattle, WA, to visit our daughter and family which includes our very cute 18-month-old grandson. She took us to the Olympic National Forest where we did much hiking and site seeing including a trip to see Hurricane Ridge. A few of you may remember that we were supposed to see that on our ASA field trip in 1993 from Seattle Pacific U. but somehow we never quite made it as we ran out of time. It was a magnificent site. From the top of the ridge, one can see across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the city of Victoria.
Now let's get ready to go to Colorado Christian U. in Lakewood, CO, a suburb of Denver, July 25-28, 2003. It will emphasize astronomy and cosmology with Jennifer Wiseman as Program Chair and David Oakley as Local Arrangements Chair assisted by Ken Touryan. One featured speaker will be Dr. Dennis Danielson from the U. of British Columbia and editor of The Book of the Cosmos.
While Pepperdine is low, Colorado Christian U. is high - I'm talking altitude. You want to be high up for this topic. I still remember one of the best looks I got at the heavens with the naked eye was when we were living in Kijabe, Kenya more than 7,000 feet up. Not only do the stars appear close, but there is little ground light to hinder your vision of the southern cross and other astronomical wonders. I hope that the Colorado sky is clear for us next summer.
In this issue, we recognize those who joined ASA thirty years ago according to the membership records of our newsletter or journal. Some may have dropped out and rejoined but that information was burned up in the fire. Thus, I congratulate the following sixteen people: Kenneth B. Aring, Russell R. Camp, Juan A. Castro, Gordon E. Fish, Benjamin M. Hatch, William J. Kinnaman, Ronald L. Kotesky, Albion J. Kromminga, Richard A. Leo, Donald G. Ring, William D. Sisterson, Duane E. Stevens, Gerald van Belle, Philip R. Whitney, Robert B. Wilhelmson and Davis A. Young. Do not forget to celebrate your memories and present activities with our new newsletter editors.
Now for the final installment of the survey last February at Congress 2002 taken through a random sampling of 71 people from among those that happened to come by our booth. There are two questions left. The first is: How did God create the diversity of living things? Twenty-five said it happened by God's decree all at once in the first days of earth; twenty-one thought it was by God's decree and through small evolutionary changes; fourteen chose by God's decree at different times in earth's history; five picked the phrase, mainly through evolution once God started things; and six admitted that they did not know. The final question is: Was there a big bang at the beginning of the universe? Twenty-six said yes, twenty-three said no, and twenty- two were undecided. How is that for a split decision?
Many, many thanks to some who are helping us with the necessary and important computer upgrade at the ASA office. As many of you know, such matters seem to be never ceasing. Sometime this fall we hope to have each of the staff upgraded with a satisfactory computer. That will be wonderful. Staff has done wonders with what we have. Things are getting so fast on my new computer that I am saving time to work on other things. Unfortunately the thoughts for this column do not come any faster with an upgraded computer.
A special thanks to those of you who have already sent a donation in 2002. We are counting very heavily on your continued contributions as you renew your dues for 2003 this fall. We have calculated the yearly cost per member to be roughly around $150 so that the difference between your membership fee and this real cost is made up by sales, grants and, above all, your donations. Thus, even our Fellows only pay half their cost in dues. Because you continue to donate so freely, Council decided once again not to raise the membership dues for 2003. Your generous donations will help us keep the dues down.


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City and county leaders vote to continue looking into both properties despite possible hurdles
One property is beholden to a condo association and is a tight fit for a homeless shelter. The other site was once a landfill and could require excavation, along with the relocation of city vehicles and equipment.
When Sarasota County and city officials decided to build an adult homeless shelter, they knew it would be a complicated process. And the complications surrounding their top choice sites for the shelter were illuminated this week in a report by environmental consulting company Cardno.
After reviewing the report, the commissions decided Tuesday to keep looking into the two North Sarasota properties that homeless consultant Robert Marbut recommended — 1800 N. East Ave. and 1330 N. Osprey Ave.
They also agreed to reconvene in 60 days once staff and contractors have a better idea of the environmental and logistical issues they will have to tackle, and how much those would cost.
The next step will be to either choose between the two properties or go back to the drawing board.
"Every site is going to have issues. There's political issues, environmental issues, cost issues," Sarasota County's Homeless Coordinator Wayne Applebee said. If they decide to rule out both sites, "We're right back to square one," he said.
Before asking for further research, commissioners heard concerns from business owners near the sites who said a shelter would hurt their operations, as well as support from homeless advocates who urged them not to stop the community's momentum to address homelessness.
Connie Beatty, owner of Contemporary Cabinetry & Closet Concepts on Lime Avenue, was one of several business owners who said she would be concerned about the safety of employees if a shelter is in her neighborhood.
"I've worked hard to establish a reputable and successful business," Beatty said. "My dedication and hard work would only be rewarded with loss of business and property value."
Homeless people already come through their property, said Steve Lanning, Beatty's neighbor, who runs Lanning Tire Sales Inc. The shelter would amplify the problem and make it unmanageable, he said.
Choosing a site
Homeless people are coming onto properties because Sarasota is not dealing with the issue, homeless advocate Steve McAllister said. While he is afraid that a shelter would attract more homeless, McAllister said he is more fearful that the community will not do the right thing and will once again drag its feet on the issue.
County Commissioner Joe Barbetta echoed his sentiments.
"Our streets right now is where the homeless are. Downtown Sarasota is the homeless shelter," Barbetta said.
The county commissioners voted unanimously to move forward with the review and cost analysis and then reconvene. The city voted 3-2 to do so, with commissioners Susan Chapman and Willie Shaw dissenting.
The governments' ideal design for the shelter is a single-level building that would include a dining room, kitchen, lounge and office space. There would be men's and women's living quarters with 250-300 beds indoors and 50 beds outdoors. The outdoor beds, likely mats on the ground, would house people who are not willing to engage in case management. They would be allowed to stay there if they are on drugs or drunk but the substances would not be allowed on the property.
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office would run the so-called "come-as-you-are" adult homeless shelter, which is estimated to cost $1.2 million to operate annually.
The East Avenue property, which would have to be rezoned for a shelter, is not large enough to house all of the desired features in a one-story building. A utility line running through the site could limit the building layout or have to be relocated.
Outdoor space for residents would be limited and parking minimal. There would not be space for the five shipping containers that the county wants to use to store clients' belongings, according to the Cardno report.
The site is also part of a business condominium association made up of four owners. The county has to work with the association to ensure they approve the redevelopment and land use changes before designing the site, according to the report.
Former landfill
Applebee and Marbut have been meeting with association members since early this year and have invited them to tour the Pinellas Safe Harbor shelter to get a sense of what advocates want to build. The association seems to be waiting to see how the government decides to proceed, Applebee said.
Commissioner Charles Hines cautioned that if the county continues studying the East Avenue site, then they are "relying on people not to pull the rug out from under us."
Marbut initially favored the Osprey Avenue location because it is city-owned. But city staff raised concerns about a well that is being added to the property to store water treatment byproducts 1,400 feet underground. An approximately 150-square-foot area around the well would need to be fenced off, the report states.
Sarasota's public works department also uses the property for parking and storage. The vehicles and equipment would have to be relocated.
The city has looked into one relocation option — a nearby Florida Power and Light property. It would cost $1.6 million to buy that site. The city will look for a better deal, Deputy City Manager Marlon Brown said.
Commissioner Susan Chapman, who opposes having the shelter in the city, urged that the county can surely find a "cleaner, greener" site.
The Osprey Avenue property was formerly a landfill where construction and demolition materials were dumped. However, contaminants, such as arsenic, were found in areas at both sites.
Those findings do not raise any red flags, and are to be expected in urban industrial areas, Cardno Environmental Director Richard Hagberg said.
Sarasota Mayor Shannon Snyder warned that commissioners should hear from "seasoned" residents about why the Osprey Avenue site was never developed and whether there are more issues with the soil or groundwater than have been discovered so far.
The adult homeless shelter is just one piece of an ongoing, countywide effort to address homelessness. Case management system and family housing initiatives are also moving forward.


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I only read TKAM a month ago but I've loved Atticus for longer. Kinda makes me upset that people will think I am a snob if I name my child that.
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I don't think anyone is saying that if you adore Jerome David Salinger and all his works, but you dislike his f & m names and you don't want to name your kid Holden, because let's face it, he's not that cool, or Zachary because it's too Biblical, and Zooey's too girlie for a boy, and you like Zoe for a girl but not that weird version, and Franny's just ugly, noone will pronounce Esmé the way you want to, and Phoebe's too popular, and Stradlater is just weird, Jane's too plain (and I can't remember more), but hey, there's Salinger! Wohoo! You can call him Sal! Her Sally! Yay! That's not a problem for me.
I think it's pretentious when people pick a name to look well read when they aren't. If you like the name Atticus, but don't like the book/haven't read it/think Cary Grant was cute, don't blooming tell me you named your child after Atticus Finch.
Sorry for that. It's late and I'm tired, but the nightfeed is about to happen so I'm still up...
I think it depends on the character/author. Gatsby, for instance, with the upcoming movie I expect to see a bunch of little Gatsby's running around in the near future. I would doubt that the parents have sat down and read the actual book. Though, again, who am I to make that judgment? Name popularity is a relatively mysterious thing. What makes a name likable to one person, doesn't necessarily make it likable for the same reasons to another. One person may like Atticus because of the literary connection, others may like it because it begins with an "A". Why were the character names chosen to begin with? What made Shakespeare choose Romeo and Juliet, what makes any author choose the names they choose to begin with. Like, John for example. Not every man named John was specifically named for the Johns in the bible.
I think literary names can seem pretentious in a downmarket sort of way, just like Paris or Chardonnay or Bentley. If the parent is a legitimate lover of books, or of France/champagne/stupid cars, that's one thing. If, however, they simply want to denote some kind of artificial, affected sensibility, that's pretentious. It's not necessarily an issue of class or education, but authenticity. For instance, a literary baby name on the child of a small-town librarian would not be pretentious; a literary baby name on the child of a WASPy Wall Street Yale grad who's only ever read Donald Trump's autobiography, however, would be pretentious for days.
Maybe I'm wrong on that, but that's what I've concluded thinking on it recently.
Actually, I love literary names, but I do tend to role my eyes when other people use them. I don't know if I would use a name, like Atticus, that's so closely tied to a literary character, even though it's a great name. I think I would be reluctant to use an overtly literary name because it would be so... expected? I don't know. That might be worse than pretentiousness.
As for flaunting my education and privilege in the faces of the unwashed masses - who cares what those plebes think? I want my kid's name to erase any doubt that he or she belongs to the elite, educated classes. I want his or her name to proclaim to the world, "My mother has massive student loan debt!"
^^that was a joke. Not the student loan debt, though. That part is true.
On a related note: I stood in line behind someone at the grocery store one day who called her kids Ebenezer and Ichabod. I think I may have visibly flinched.
I think it is only if its because they wanted to appear like they read it. If its been your favourite name for decades or its yours and Dh's favourite book and it hold memories then use it but otherwise it is pretentious
ELSE, and possibly regret that choice. The way I see it, are you more likely to regret picking a name you loved that isn't necessarily the best reflection on you socially, or a name you were 'meh' on but felt 'safe' with? (I firmly believe that there is no such thing as a safe name)
In enduring four years of high school, I've spent too much of my time worrying about what other people think, and I hate that. So I try to encourage people to basically say 'screw it' when it comes to this sort of thing, because I know where MY biggest regrets lie. It's more important to live the way you want to live, or in this case name the way you want to name, than it is for other people to approve of everything you do.
If I use Atticus it's not because I'm trying to be unique or special, it's because the name is special to me. Growing up the daughter of an English teacher in the 80s, the majority of the movies we owned were related to my mom's lesson plans. Because "To Kill A Mockingbird" has children as main characters, I was allowed to watch it as a 4 year old. It's one of the first non-cartoon movies I recall watching. Atticus is widely known as a great father-figure. Gregory Peck kinda reminded me of my dad because they were both dark headed. Now that my father is deceased, I'm not sure I can bring myself to name a son after him (would make me sad), but I think it would be great to name a son after a wonderful father-figure from my childhood. To me, Atticus is a name and character I grew up loving.
I can't say why everyone else suddenly likes it, but that's my story.
I honestly don't care if it gets more popular. To me that's a plus. I have an very unique and misspelled name, so my hope for my kids is that there's will be more recognizable. Having a rare name is overrated and annoying.
I'm sorry, but why make a distinction between being inspired by literature versus, say, a movie, a television program, an athlete, musician, or a long-forgotten relative who happened to have an interesting name? What does it matter? If it's truly meaningful to you, go for it, and forget worries of so-called pretentiousness.
I'd be happy to be called pretentious and have a daughter named after a Shakespearean heroine rather than dubbed trendy and have her share her name with one of the insufferable Kardashian clan.


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So, let's talk about that scene in "The Giver." The one with the baby.
The movie, which had a soft $12 million opening this weekend (from a $25 million budget), is based on Lois Lowry's controversial young adult dystopian novel that's been taught in schools for years. Part of the reason why the film took nearly two decades to bring to life is because many studios were wary of the very dark content within the book, where the characters live without choices or freedom.
This resulted in a lot of very careful discussions about what to portray within the film, producers said. Ideally, the movie would be suitable for a young audience. But there's no escaping the most chilling aspect of "The Giver's" utopian society, and one that had to be in the movie: That babies — if they aren't developing fast enough — are euthanized.
Of course, the people in the society (who call the act a "release") have no clue that they're killing the babies, since they're living in a universe where there's no such thing as death or pain or sadness. Only a couple people know what "releasing" someone truly means. Still, that doesn't make it any less disturbing when the main character's father is in charge of releasing a newborn, who was born as a twin; in "Giver" world, for inexplicable reasons, only one twin is allowed to survive.
Producer Nikki Silver, who partnered with Jeff Bridges nearly 20 years ago to try and make the film, said that scene led to lots of debate between the film executives. There's no way they couldn't include it — the moment is a pivotal scene in the novel, because that's when the main character, Jonas, realizes that he can't live in a society that has such a ritual. It's the turning point for the whole story.
Silver credits the movie's director, Phillip Noyce, for carefully handling the sensitive material.
"My hat's off to Phillip Noyce for finding the right balance between sharing the horror of the scene but not making you watch every minute of it — but you know exactly what's happening," Silver said. In the film, the audience sees Jonas's father inject the baby and put it in a box, which is horrifying enough, but you don't see the act up close.
Silver said it was crucial to leave the scene in. "To really make the movie work, you have to be willing to show what's behind the curtain," she said. "I believe we have done it to a point where we can have younger kids see this film, and yet really show the horror of where society without choice and freedom could go."
Even though it was an incredibly disturbing few minutes, producers actually made a choice to cut one of the most famous lines from the book — because, despite everything, it was just too dark. In the book, Jonas's father (who, again, is just a pawn in the dystopian world and doesn't realize exactly what he's doing) puts the dead baby in a box and says cheerfully, "Bye-bye little guy."
Although Silver said they did film a version where the father (played by Alexander Skarsgard) said the line, everyone made the decision to leave it on the cutting room floor.
"On screen, it was just too chilling," Silver explained. "And it felt like we never wanted that scene to be interpreted any other way than what it is."


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I think you have enough input on price...and hopefully your local dealer will help you out on a trade..../ especially if that was where you bought them.
A couple of tips ....make sure the gun is pristinely clean and properly lubed when you take it in, to trade it. I can't tell you how many dirty guns I see come into my buddy's shop - looking for trades / and it affects what he will pay for the gun.
Make sure its not loaded...no rounds in the mag either....its just smarter ( and you'd be shocked to know how many times they are loaded).
Before you buy again, ideally you want to shoot a variety of 9mm's ..get a feel for the difference in the controls, grip angles, sights, how the triggers feel as they break, how far they travel ..how they reset, width, weight ....all of that stuff makes a huge difference.
There are so many 9mm's out there...poly frame, alloy frame , steel frames...it would be hard to suggest you look at anything ...but at least look at offerings from companies like Sig ....at least a 239 model (their single stack - relatively small gun) ....and some of their larger full size guns like a 226 ...and some kind of a 1911 in 9mm ( Springfield, Colt, Kimber, etc ) ...
and rent - or try and shoot as many as you can before you buy.
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- Kenny Loggins
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A woman must combine the role of mother,
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- Ben Okri
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- Antonio Tabucchi
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- Antonia Fraser
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- Theodore White
I am not at all a politician.
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I am certainly not going to stand for election.
- Pervez Musharraf
I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
- Charles Farrar Browne
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
- Austin O'Malley
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who
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- William Hazlitt
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who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
- Pauline Hanson
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Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:20 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> Simon Riggs wrote: >>> It turns out that a join like this >>> >>> select a.col2 >>> from a left outer join b on a.col1 = b.col1 >>> where b.col2 = 1; >>> >>> can be cheaper if we don't remove the join, when there is an index on >>> a.col1 and b.col2, because the presence of b allows the values returned >>> from b to be used for an index scan on a. >> Umm, you *can't* remove that join. > > Yes, you can. The presence or absence of rows in b is not important to > the result of the query because of the "left outer join". > > I spent nearly a whole day going down that deadend also. Oh. How does the query look like after removing the join, then? -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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After four straight quarters of revenue and net profit decline on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, Sun TV Network Ltd's December quarter financial performance was a positive surprise, beating Street expectations. Double-digit growth in advertising compared with single-digit growth in the first half of the fiscal year boosted performance. Subscription revenue rose 16%, reflecting the full impact of the Arasu deal.
Sun TV's revenue in the December quarter rose by 14% over the same period last year to Rs.486 crore. In comparison, in the September and June quarters, revenue had fallen by 4% and 6%, respectively. In the December quarter, advertising revenue increased by 20% to Rs.293 crore. It naturally looks far better than the 4-5% growth seen in the past two quarters. Of course, the past quarter was helped by a lower base, festive season impact and higher advertising spending in many sectors.
Although net profit increased by 13% to Rs.190 crore, operating performance deteriorated. Operating profit margins declined by 280 basis points on a y-o-y basis to 77.4%. A basis point is 0.01%.
All components of cost increased at a relatively faster pace. What offers comfort though is operating margin in the three months ended December was better than the preceding two quarters.
However, shareholders for now don't seem to be too worried about the annual decline in margin. The recovery in growth rates in revenue and net profit is heartening. Moreover, outlook on advertising revenue, too, has improved. No wonder the stock has risen by about 5% since the company announced its December quarter numbers last week. The benchmark Sensex remained about 0.6% higher in the same period.
So far in this fiscal year, the Sun TV stock has gained about 46% against the 15% increase in the BSE-200 index. At Rs.456, it trades at around 21 times estimated earnings for the next fiscal year starting April. In comparison, peer Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd's stock trades at about 25 times estimated 2013-14 earnings. It suggests there might be some more juice left for the Sun TV stock.


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|[PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1
|"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
|Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:24:24 -0800
I've put a patch up for testing on the kernel.org mirrors: /pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.0-1.diff.gz It provides a framework for zerocopy transmits and delayed receive fragment coalescing. TUX-1.01 uses this framework. Zerocopy transmit requires some driver support, things run as they did before for drivers which do not have the support added. Currently sg+csum driver support has been added to Acenic, 3c59x, sunhme, and loopback drivers. We had eepro100 support coded at one point, but it was removed because we didn't know how to identify the cards which support hw csum assist vs. ones which could not. I would like people to test this hard and report bugs they may discover. _PLEASE_ try to see if 2.4.0 without this patch produces the same problem, and if so report it is a 2.4.0 bug _not_ as a bug in the zerocopy patch. Thank you. In particular, I am interested in hearing about any new breakage caused by the zerocopy patches when using netfilter. When reporting bugs, please note what networking cards you are using as whether the card actually is using hw csum assist and sg support is an important data point. Finally, regardless of networking card, there should be a measurable performance boost for NFS clients with this patch due to the delayed fragment coalescing. KNFSD does not take full advantage of this facility yet. Later, David S. Miller davem@xxxxxxxxxx
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L M Osman
Affiliation: University of Aberdeen
Country: UK
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- Indoor air quality in homes of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseLiesl M Osman
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176:465-72. 2007..Less is known of the relationship of indoor air quality to respiratory health of groups vulnerable to outdoor air, such as those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
- Implementing asthma education programmes in paediatric respiratory care: settings, timing, people and evaluationLiesl M Osman
Respiratory Medicine Unit, Aberdeen Royal Hospitals and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
Paediatr Respir Rev 5:140-6. 2004..Evaluation is also recommended for individual outcomes (clinical improvement and increase in perceived asthma control and confidence in management)...
- How do patients' views about medication affect their self-management in asthma?L M Osman
Respiratory Medicine Unit, Aberdeen Royal Hospitals Trust, Scotland, UK
Patient Educ Couns 32:S43-9. 1997..The experience of successful control by medication, in the ways that patients think are important, are most likely to influence patients in positive attitudes to medication...
- Requests for repeat medication prescriptions and frequency of acute episodes in asthma patientsL M Osman
Respiratory Medicine Unit, Aberdeen Royal Hospitals Trust, Scotland
J Asthma 36:449-57. 1999..Among patients who were low bronchodilator users, those who requested few inhaled steroid prescriptions were younger and more anxious but did not have an increased risk of acute asthma episodes...
- Symptoms, quality of life, and health service contact among young adults with mild asthmaL M Osman
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Aberdeen University and Thoracic Medicine Unit, Aberdeen Royal Hospitals Trust, Aberdeen, Scotland
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 161:498-503. 2000....
- Patient weighting of importance of asthma symptomsL M Osman
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK
Thorax 56:138-42. 2001..If some asthma symptoms are more troublesome to patients than others, this may affect their contribution to outcome measures. This study was designed to assess the relative importance of common symptoms in adults with asthma...
- A randomised trial of self-management planning for adult patients admitted to hospital with acute asthmaL M Osman
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, UK
Thorax 57:869-74. 2002..There is still debate over the benefit of self-management programmes for adults with asthma. A brief self-management programme given during a hospital admission for acute asthma was tested to determine whether it would reduce readmission...
- Adult asthma review in general practice: nurses' perception of their roleR Robertson
Respiratory Unit, Aberdeen Royal Hospitals Trust Department of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, UK
Fam Pract 14:227-32. 1997..However, little is known about training of nurses carrying out reviews and how this affects the nurse role in patient management...
- Parents' quality of life and respiratory symptoms in young children with mild wheeze. EASE Study GroupL M Osman
Dept of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Scotland, UK
Eur Respir J 17:254-8. 2001..The absolute impact of child symptoms on parent quality of life varies among parents...
- Health status of professional divers and offshore oil industry workersJohn A S Ross
Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Occup Med (Lond) 57:254-61. 2007..To compare the health status of UK professional divers and age-matched non-divers and to contrast offshore divers (OSDs) with non-offshore divers (NOSDs)...
- Home warmth and health status of COPD patientsLiesl M Osman
Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Liberty Safe Work Research Centre, Foresterhill Road, Aberdeen, AB252ZP, UK
Eur J Public Health 18:399-405. 2008..Is health status of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) associated with maintaining this level of warmth in their homes?..
- Wheezy bronchitis in childhood: a distinct clinical entity with lifelong significance?Carole A Edwards
Respiratory Unit, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland
Chest 124:18-24. 2003..In this study, we reexamined these subjects 12 years later to determine whether the improved outcome of the wheezy bronchitis group had been maintained...
- Dispensing of antibiotics, antitussives and mucolytics to asthma patients: a pharmacy-based observational surveyLaurent Laforest
Pharmacoepidemiology Unit, CHU Lyon, Lyon University, Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, F 69677, France
Respir Med 102:57-63. 2008..Antibiotics, antitussives and mucolytics are commonly used in asthma, despite limited evidence for their effectiveness. The correlates of use for these medication classes in asthma were identified...
- Asthmatic patients' poor awareness of inadequate disease control: a pharmacy-based surveyLaurent Laforest
Universite de Lyon, France
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 98:146-52. 2007..Many asthmatic patients fail to perceive their level of disease control...
- Objective neuropsychological test performance of professional divers reporting a subjective complaint of "forgetfulness or loss of concentration"Claire L Taylor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Scand J Work Environ Health 32:310-7. 2006..Secondary aims were to qualify the functional nature of the complaints and to ascertain whether reduced performance was linked to diving history...
- Results of a national asthma campaign survey of primary care in ScotlandGaylor Hoskins
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Int J Qual Health Care 17:209-15. 2005..To identify within primary care in Scotland how far procedures for asthma review and patient education match guideline recommendations...
- True device compliance: the need to consider both competence and contrivanceVictoria K Brennan
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sheffield Children s Hospital, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK
Respir Med 99:97-102. 2005..Lack of competence, particularly in the elderly, and contrivance, particularly common amongst those using holding chambers, are two important but independent impediments to effective inhaled therapy...
- GP discussion of prognosis with patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative studyJoan Halliwell
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Goodfellow Unit, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Br J Gen Pract 54:904-8. 2004..Recent research shows that health professionals do not communicate about prognosis with patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as openly as with patients who have cancer...
- Minor illness education for parents of young childrenHelen Robbins
Moray LHC, Grampian Primary Care Trust, King Edward, Banff, UK
J Adv Nurs 44:238-47. 2003..This study examines the effect of a minor illness education programme which aimed to increase parents' confidence and knowledge in managing childhood illnesses...
- Factors influencing dispensing of psychotropic medications to patients with asthma: a community pharmacy-based surveyLaurent Laforest
Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 100:230-6. 2008..To our knowledge, the use of psychotropic medications (antidepressant, anxiolytic, and hypnotic agents) in patients with asthma has not been extensively explored...


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The San Diego sportfishing fleet's recent dispute with Mexico over the required documents and fees needed to fish that country's inshore waters may be heading to a solution.
A letter to Arturo Sarukhan Casamitjana, who is Mexico's ambassador to the U.S., was signed by Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Representatives Duncan Hunter, Darrel Isaa, Susan Davis, Brian Bilbray and Bob Filner and asked that the Mexican regulations regarding fees and documents be clarified.
Ever since January, commercial passenger sport boats have had nothing but problems with the new regulations. Boats were boarded and cited for fishing without proper documentation in Mexico and anglers paid unreasonable extra fees to fish there on three-quarter-day trips. Presently, no commercial passenger sport boats from San Diego are fishing Baja's inshore coast or islands like the Coronados. They instead are fishing offshore or in U.S. waters.
In the letter, the politicos state to Mexican Ambassador Sarukhan: "We are concerned that the lack of clarity about the regulations and inconsistencies in enforcement are negatively impacting tourism for both countries."
Ken Franke, president of the Sportfishing Association of California, has been working with his staff behind the scenes to resolve this sticky issue for nearly a year. He said it took nearly 11 months to get an official letter from U.S. government officials because they had to be educated about the importance of sportfishing in the U.S. and Mexico and what impact the Mexican regulations were having on both sides of the border.
The San Diego-based fleet pays Mexico between $3 million and $5 million a year in license fees for such excursions as fishing, diving, whale-watching and wildlife viewing. In addition to those fees, they spend millions more on food, lodging, shopping and other recreation in Mexican ports if they stop there.
The U.S. politicos asked the Mexican government to set fees for permits and licenses at "reasonable rates" in order to ease financial burden on anglers and the industry. They stressed that tourism helps Mexico's economy and benefits both countries.
"The sooner this is resolved, the better," Franke said.
Notes: No first name was given, but Mr. Ambrose landed a 12.5-pound rainbow trout at Lake Cuyamaca. He told lake rangers he fought it for five minutes on 4-pound test before landing it. The fish anchored a limit of five trout totaling 16 pounds, 5 ounces.
World records: Kathy Rounds of San Diego caught a 228-pound Pacific halibut off Gustavus, Alaska on Sept. 6, and if approved by the International Game Fish Assocaition, Rounds' catch will set a women's world record for halibut on 30-pound line. She used 25-pound test line and landed the brute in 40 minutes on the light string. It ate a live cod. The present women's halibut mark for 30-pound test line stands at 214 pounds. Rounds owns the women's halibut mark for 20-pound test with a 285-pounder she caught. In other record news, the IGFA said it received Guy Yocom's record application for the 427-pound yellowfin tuna he caught off Cabo San Lucas on Sept. 18. Yocum landed it in 50 minutes. If approved, Yokom's catch will shatter the present all-tackle and 130-pound mark for tuna that was set by Mike Livingston on Mike Lackey's Vagabond off Magdalena Bay on Nov. 30, 2010.


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late L/Cpl Iddi Braimah An attempt by the police to arrest members of a car-snatching gang at Ashaiman last Tuesday ended fatally when one of the plainclothes policemen was shot by the robbers.
Lance Corporal Iddi Braimah died at the Police Hospital Wednesday morning from the gunshot wounds he had sustained the day before.
However, a swift response by the police at the hideout of the car snatchers early on Thursday resulted in the death of one of the robbers, the capture of another, while a third suspect is believed to have escaped with gunshot wounds.
The deceased robber has been identified as Prosper Kwateku, alias Kush Oseiku, while Godson Mantey, alias Velli, 25, is in the grip of the police. The escapee robber has been identified only as Kobby, alias Schoolboy.
A locally manufactured pistol, four live cartridges, one spent cartridge, five mobile phones and a quantity of leaves suspected to be Indian hemp were retrieved from the robbers' hideout.
Briefing newsmen in Accra Thursday, the Accra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mr Patrick Timbillah, said about 1:30 p.m. on April 10, 2012, the police had information that some armed robbers were offering for sale two cars they had earlier snatched.
He said some policemen in plainclothes were despatched to the scene to negotiate the purchase of the cars.
He said the suspected robbers, numbering three, were located at a hotel and used a black Toyota Corolla with registration number GE 4910-09.
According to Mr Timbillah, on the approach of the police operatives, one of the armed robbers identified L/Cpl Braimah as a policeman and consequently opened fire on the operatives.
He said L/Cpl Braimah died at the Police Hospital while receiving treatment from two bullet wounds.
He said although the police returned the fire, the armed robbers managed to escape.
After receiving intelligence reports, he said, the police stormed the robbers' hideout at Lebanon, a suburb of Ashaiman, about 2 a.m. on April 12, 2012 with the view to arresting them.
Mr Timbillah said the robbers opened fire on the policemen upon seeing them and one of the robbers, Prosper, died when the police returned fire, while Kobby managed to escape with gunshot wounds.
According to him, Mantey, who had gone into hiding after the April 10 incident, later surrendered himself to the police.
The suspect, he said, had allegedly admitted being at the hotel on April 10, 2012.
The Accra Regional Police Commander said although the armed gang had been suspected to be a new car-snatching ring, it was established after Godson had surrendered that the gang had been in the business for long.