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Jerry Coyne and the "Fact" of Evolution
by Kyle Butt, M.Div.
Dr. Jerry Coyne is recognized in atheistic circles as one of, if not the, leading evolutionary biologists in the world. He has written a book, Why Evolution Is True, that leading atheists such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens have widely endorsed. Allegedly, Dr. Coyne has compiled an insurmountable case for evolution.
On closer inspection, however, one begins to see serious flaws with Coyne's "evidence" and his mode of reasoning. One of his most serious deficiencies is the way in which he equivocates the term evolution. Equivocation is a classic tool of dishonest argument in which a person gives a term multiple meanings and then uses the term in a different sense than is correct. For instance, suppose a person were to say: "I'm holding nothing in my hand, and nothing is stronger than God. So what I have in my hand is stronger than God." Anyone listening to the statement understands that there is some type of "sleight of hand" at play. The rub lies in the multiple meanings of the word nothing. In the first instance, it means "non-existence," and in the second instance, it means "of the things that do exists, not one fits the category." Thus, the logical fallacy of equivocation is one that often muddles the issue at hand.
Throughout Coyne's book he abuses the term evolution, defining it in multiple ways and equivocating it. For instance, he states: "Evolution is a fact" (2009, p. xiii). What does he mean by the term evolution? That is the question. In some places, he defines the term as the idea that all life arose by naturalistic processes from "a single naked replicating molecule" (p. 233). According to that definition, evolution most certainly is not a fact for many reasons, not the least of which is that life cannot arise from non-living "molecules" (see Miller, 2012). In other places, however, Coyne defines the term in ways that any creation scientist would freely acknowledge to be true.
For instance, on page 180, Coyne discusses experiments in which biologists force "animals or plants to adapt through evolution to different environments…. After a period of adaptation, the different 'populations' are tested in the lab to see if they have evolved reproductive barriers." Notice that in this instance of the use of the term "evolution," Coyne simply means a process by which organisms can change slightly to adapt to their environment. Few, if any, creationists would argue that animals do not adapt based on their environment and built-in genetic flexibility. The fact that animals can adapt and change to a certain degree is quite different from the idea that all life arose from a single molecule. Carefully watch the argument then. Evolution is seen in a lab (minor adaptations), thus we must admit that evolution (molecules to man) is true. Such equivocation from one of the leading proponents of evolution should alert the critical reader to a serious deficiency in the molecules-to-man aspect of the term evolution.
Again, on page 217, Coyne talks about human "evolution" that we can envision occurring. He mentions that one human allele called CCR5-∆32 "provides its carriers with strong protection against infection with the AIDS virus." He then states, "We can predict that if AIDS continues as a significant source of mortality, the frequency of this allele will rise in affected populations. That's evolution, as surely as is antibiotic resistance in bacteria." Notice again the equivocation. No creationist (to my knowledge) has any problem recognizing the existence of certain alleles that might proffer a certain benefit to those humans that have them. Nor would the spread of those alleles throughout portions of the human population militate against anything proposed by the creation model. By terming this process as "evolution," Coyne then says that we know evolution (molecules to man) is true.
At one point in his book, Coyne tacitly admits what he is doing. On page 143, he states:
True, breeders haven't turned a cat into a dog, and laboratory studies haven't turned bacterium into an amoeba (although, as we've seen, new bacterial species have arisen in the lab). But it is foolish to think that these are serious objections to natural selection. Big transformations take time—huge spans of it. To really see the power of selection, we must extrapolate the small changes that selection creates in our lifetime over the millions of years that it has really had to work in nature.
While he does not openly admit to equivocating the term evolution, he does differentiate between what is actually seen in the laboratory (and in nature), and what we must "extrapolate" from what we see. In reality, his "extrapolation" of "big transformations" is the antiscientific idea of molecules-to-man evolution. Were he to stop where the evidence stops, he would be forced to say that small changes—about which both creationists and evolutionists agree—have not been shown to render "big transformations" (for more information on this fact, see Butt, 2006; Butt 2008; Thompson and Harrub, 2002; Thompson, 1994).
Coyne's use of the logical fallacy of equivocation belies the inherent weakness of the theory of evolution that he attempts to defend. No legitimate, factual scientific evidence has ever been produced that remotely substantiates the concept that a single replicating molecule evolved into a human over millions of years of mindless, materialistic processes. Were we to stick only with what we know to be fact, we would be forced to conclude, as the late atheist-turned-believer Antony Flew commented: "The only satisfactory explanation for the origin of such 'end-directed, self-replicating' life as we see on earth is an infinitely intelligent Mind (2007, p. 132).
Butt, Kyle (2006), "What Do the Finches Prove?," Apologetics Press, http://apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=1652.
Butt, Kyle (2008), "Mutant Fruit Flies Bug Evolution," Apologetics Press, http://apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=9&article=2501.
Coyne, Jerry (2009), Why Evolution Is True (New York: Viking).
Flew, Antony and Roy Varghese (2007), There Is A God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (New York: Harper One).
Miller, Jeff (2012), "The Law of Biogenesis (Part 1)," Apologetics Press, http://apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=12&article=4165.
Thompson, Bert (1994), "Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance—Proof of Evolution?," Apologetics Press, http://apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=572.
Thompson, Bert and Brad Harrub (2002), "Fifteen Answers to Scientific American's Nonsense," Apologetics Press, http://apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=1350.
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TEN LAKE TOWNSHIP– A Beltrami County K9 Unit is credited as being instrumental in the recent arrest of a wanted felon.
According to a release from Sheriff Ernie Bietel, deputies and officers from the Leech Lake Tribal Police Department responded to a gunshot report in an area of Ten Lake Township in the early morning hours of July 1.
Leech Lake officers arrived in the area first and conducted a traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle, when the male suspect fled from the car into the woods.
Deputy Kyle Nohre and his K9 partner Mac arrived on scene and tracked the suspect, 31-year-old Floyd R. Desjarlais of Cass Lake. A total of five people were arrested from this incident.
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Regional Court building, currently serving as the District Court, Lublin
Regional Court building, currently serving as the District Court
public building
The only public building in Lublin which features original interior décor dating back to the late 19th century.
In 1891, the Ministry of Justice purchased a plot of land from Celestyna Domańska with the intent to build a Regional Court building there. The designer of the building - architect Marian Jarzyński - came up with a technical design and subsequently directed the entire construction process. As a result, between 1892 and 1894, an impressive edifice came into being - an eclectic design with dominant Classicist influences manifesting themselves both in architectural detailing and in the interior décor, all at the cost of 180 000 rubles. An innovative solution in the form of a glazed ceiling was applied in order to let daylight into the main hall; in addition, a forced-air heating system and gas lighting were used for all public sections of the courthouse. After 1918, the name of the courthouse changed as it became a District Court. In 1936, the building housed a land registry, a notarial office as well as apartments for the bailiff and the court ushers. In years 1926-1929, the building was restored; after 1937 the front façade decorations have been simplified to a substantial degree, with the double pilasters as well as other pieces of architectural detailing being removed. In 2005, a comprehensive restoration and modernisation of the building began. A wide array of conservation and adaptation works was carried out in years 2011-2012. These included, among others, the modernisation of interior fixtures and fittings. The interiors were restored to their former glory while at the same time ensuring that the authenticity of original features and the continuity of their initial functions were preserved.
The building is located in the Lublin City Centre, in the quarter located between the Krakowskie Przedmieście, Chopina, Lipowa, Sądowa and Hipoteczna streets. The courthouse is positioned on a fenced plot of land, slightly receded compared to the rest of the frontage.
The current appearance of the courthouse ca be described as post-Classicist, with the original, Classicist interior decorations surviving inside the building.
The building was designed on a floor plan the shape of which is similar to that of the letter "T", its interior layout being irregular, with numerous suites of rooms present throughout the structure. The axis of symmetry of the edifice is marked by the public sections of the courthouse, designed in a grand, representational style - the vestibule, the two-storey halls, the galleries and the large courtrooms; these are adjoined by rows of smaller hearing rooms, accessible directly from the corridors or galleries and mostly arranged in an enfilade layout.
The courthouse is a three-storey building with a basement. The main body is covered with a gable roof with skylight. The front part of the building features a gable roof with a roof ridge positioned perpendicularly towards the roof of the middle avant-corps, which is likewise of the gable type.
The building is a brick structure, its walls covered with plaster; the roofs are clad with sheet metal.
The façades follow a multi-axial layout, with a tall plinth encircling the entire edifice acting as the visual foundation for the design; further up one can admire the individual storeys, separated from one another by string courses and friezes and topped with a crowning cornice. Most of the windows and doors are rectangular in shape. The front (northern) façade follows a symmetrical, three-storey, eleven-axis layout with a three-axial avant-corps in the middle and two single-axial side avant-corps at the edges. The walls of the ground floor level are adorned with decorative rustication and separated from the rest of the structure by a subtle string course. The middle avant-corps is accentuated at the third-storey level by pilasters which flank a white eagle in bas-relief, above which there is an inscription that reads "SĄD REJONOWY" (District Court), placed on a broad frieze. The entire facade is crowned with a triangular pediment. The lavishly decorated main entrance door at the ground floor level features a semicircular fanlight and is flanked by windows with semicircular upper sections which open separately to facilitate ventilation. The façades of the side avant-corps are enlivened at the ground floor level by the presence of a gateway with a metal gate (eastern avant-corps) and a false gateway opening in the western avant-corps, added to preserve the symmetry of the design. At the third storey level there are balconies flanked by pairs of pilasters, featuring stone balustrades adorned with foliate motifs. Decorative parapet walls at the top provide the finishing touch to the entire design.
Inside, the building features numerous period features such as the main hall illuminated by a large skylight above, elements of interior décor such as wood effect wall paintings as well as numerous fixtures and fittings such as the wind porch, the balustrades, decorative plasterwork, tiled stoves etc.
The building may be viewed from the outside. The interiors are accessible to a limited extent only.
compiled by Anna Sikora-Terlecka, Regional Branch of the National Heritage Board of Poland in Lublin, 24-10-2014.
Record sheet, Regional Court building, currently serving as a district court, compiled by Koziejowski Wojciech, Lublin 1992, Archive of the Regional Monuments Protection Office in Lublin; Archive of the National Heritage Board of Poland in Warsaw
Kawałko P., Nestorowicz Z., Lublin. Przewodnik, Lublin 2012, pp. 216-217
Nowak B., Lublin. Przewodnik, Lublin 2000, p. 210.
Żywicki J., Urzędnicy: architekci, budowniczowie, inżynierowie cywilni … Ludzie architektury i budownictwa w województwie lubelskim oraz guberni lubelskiej w Królestwie Polskim w latach 1815-1915, Lublin 2010, pp. 251-252, 450.
Type: public building
Chronology: 1892-1894
Address: Krakowskie Przedmieście 76, Lublin
Location: Voivodeship lubelskie, district Lublin, commune Lublin
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Alfie at Nursery School
Imprint: Red Fox Picture Books
Shirley Hughes (Illustrator)
Alfie loves Nursery School – and so does Annie Rose! She can't wait to go there with him – in fact she's so desperate to join in that she gets Alfie into a very sticky situation in this collection of nursery school tales.
Join Alfie as he navigates playground games and special concerts in this heartwarming book from Shirley Hughes, creator of Dogger.
The Adventures of Dogger
Dogger's Christmas
Alfie on Holiday
Alfie and Dad
Lucy & Tom: From One to Ten
Lucy & Tom: From A to Z
Alfie's Christmas
Alfie and His Very Best Friend
Lucy and Tom at School
Dixie O'Day on his Bike
Alfie Outdoors
Alfie and Mum
Dixie O'Day: Up, Up and Away!
Clara Vulliamy
Lucy and Tom at Christmas
Dixie O'Day and the Haunted House
Alfie Gets in First and Other Stories
Lucy and Tom at the Seaside
Alfie and Grandma
Dixie O'Day and the Great Diamond Robbery
Dixie O'Day: In The Fast Lane
Shirley was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. She then embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in London, where she still lives today. She illustrated other writers' work, including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier, Margaret Mahy and notably Dorothy Edwards's My Naughty Little Sister series. Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger and the Alfie series. Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for Dogger in 1977 and for Ella's Big Chance in 2003. In 2007 Dogger was voted the public's favourite Greenaway winner of all time. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature, and a CBE in 2017. She is the first recipient of Booktrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Paula Cooper Gallery presents two presentations of work by Matias Faldbakken: a selection of sculptures from his Screen Overlaps series (2016) and FUEL SCULPTURES (2017) in the gallery's second-floor exhibition space at 521 W 21st Street, and an installation of his earlier work THE INTERNET in the vitrine space below at 529 W 21st Street.
Working with a breadth of materials in painting, drawing, sculpture and video, Faldbakken's art mines the tension between proposition and cancellation, aggression and retreat, and language and illegibility. His aesthetic of reticence and refusal functions as a universal solvent of culturally established meanings and anchors his work in a rebuke of neat binary oppositions.
On view in the second-floor gallery are a number of works from Faldbakken's Screen Overlaps series (2016). Composed of reconfigured readymades ranging from an antique meat grinder to mass-produced plastic furniture, the objects are collided with crude, screen-like plastered surfaces onto which Faldbakken applies a sequence of repeated images. The gesso-like façade with its overlapping pictorial motif suggests various media formats, including application windows on a computer screen, an uncontrollable reiteration caused by malware, or layers of wheat-paste posters and vinyl billboards. Sourcing and re-contextualizing images from advertising, literature, art history, and pop culture, Faldbakken examines how visual information is endlessly multiplied, transmuted and undermined in the illimitable flow of consumer culture and the digital age. Also presented in the exhibition are works from the artist's FUEL SCULPTURES (2017). Using funnels, jerry cans and plastic jugs as casting molds for poured concrete sculptures, Faldbakken renders visible the innards of these ubiquitous items, collapsing internal and external forms. Here, the use of unremarkable materials and seemingly indifferent execution challenges traditional modes for generating sculpture.
Presented in the street-level vitrine gallery is Faldbakken's twenty-year-old installation, consisting of solely the words "THE INTERNET" broadcast in a bold graphic font across the wall. Otherwise left entirely bare, the ambiguous interior space allows for a multitude of readings, ranging from notions of authorial veracity and expansiveness to artifice and void. First made in 1999, the prescient work draws greater associations of urgency when considered against the contemporary digital landscape, two decades later. The dissolution of privacy protections, the unabated spread of false news, and the monopolistic power of titan tech companies have become chronically intertwined with all aspects of the global economy, civic discourse, and democracy itself.
Born in Denmark in 1973, Matias Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, Norway and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. His work has been the subject of many important one-person exhibitions, including a recent major survey at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo titled "Effects of Good Government in the Pit" from September 2017 though January 2018. Other one-person exhibitions include Le Consortium, Dijon; WIELS, Brussels; The Power Station, Dallas; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen; Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen; IKON Gallery, Birmingham; The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo. Faldbakken represented Norway in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2005 and participated in Documenta 13 in Kassel in 2012 and the 11th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea in 2016. His work is included in important public collections worldwide, such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The National Museum of Art, Oslo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; The Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon; and The Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, and others. Faldbakken is known internationally for his writing, including the novels The Cocka Hola Company, Macht und Rebel, Unfun, and others. His newest book, The Waiter, was published in the US by Gallery/Scout Press in October 2018 to critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the prestigious Brage Prize in Norway. Faldbakken currently lives and works as an artist and writer in Oslo, Norway.


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«Витим» — российский проект стационарной надгоризонтной радиолокационной станции большой дальности дециметрового диапазона волн. Позиционируется как средство непрерывного контроля воздушно-космической обстановки. Обеспечивает обнаружение, сопровождение и классификацию баллистических, космических и аэродинамических объектов.

Определяет координаты и параметры движения баллистических ракет, ГЧ, ИСЗ и АДЦ, проходящих через зону наблюдения; классификация сопровождаемых целей по признакам «БР», «ИСЗ» (искусственных спутников земли), «АДЦ» (аэродинамических целей).
Это обнаружение, сопровождение, определение характеристик излучения, параметров траектории и районов падения источников активных помех, излучающих в рабочем радиолокационном диапазоне РЛС «Витим», а также формирование типовых сообщений и выдачу потребителю информации об обнаруженных и сопровождаемых целях и источниках помех.

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 РЛС «Витим», НИИДАР.

Радиолокационные станции
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Is it better to reconstruct old house or to build a new one?
Do you desire to have your own house and you are standing in front of a decision whether to reconstruct an old house or to build a new one? This decision is not easy at all. Both alternatives bring many positives but also negative aspects. If you choose right you can save a lot of money, trouble, time and sleepless nights.
Demandingness of the reconstruction is usually given by the age of the building but also by the fact how it was occupied. Unoccupied houses deteriorate faster- thanks to self-invited visitors and vandals.
What are the advantages of this choice? For sure the purchase price will be lower. Usually it is possible to move in at once and reconstruct step by step. Usually it is also a land in an already build-up area with established garden. As a positive could be also certain charm (atmosphere) of the specific place or property.
And what are the disadvantages? Layout of the house is already given. There can be faulty distribution of electricity or water pipelines. Also insulation and canalization can be missing. Therefore the reconstruction can be much more costly than you have expected. Also during the reconstruction there can occur other hidden problems.
It is recommended to decide to build a new house especially in cases when you have sufficient financial funds that you can use at once. Also in cases when you are too busy to have time for reconstruction.
As an advantage is for sure the fact that everything is new, unused and there is possibility to claim eventual damages. You can decide about everything, from design, price to material and disposition etc. If you choose a package deal, it will be very comfortable for you.
Disadvantages are mainly higher price, restricted offer of building land and need for building permit (administration delays). Besides house, you have to establish a garden and in the meantime of the building you have to have someplace to live.
In case you are lost- consult an independent specialist. If you will need a building permit (and a building plan) you cannot manage without consulting one. Besides the fact that the specialist will advise you well, he can help you also with other things- legislation, technologies, materials etc.


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Imagine having a VIP pass to a concert and then security telling you that you're not allowed to go backstage. Such a pass wouldn't seem very appealing as its worth is entirely contingent upon its ability to produce unrestricted access. Limited access holds limited power and limited value.
In a medical office, the doctors are the rock stars. Patients recognize the value of a doctor that makes themselves available after-hours. Similarly, a doctor should see equal value in a system that makes access to their patient files as easy as possible.
While doctors would hope that their days end at the time noted on their entrance way, the nature of their profession means that it is not uncommon for their services to be called upon at odd hours. In fortunate cases, issues can be resolved over the phone, but those instances that require a doctor to send a patient file to another physician, for many, still means making the commute to retrieve physical files from an office building.
Time is wasted. Stress is added. Sleep is lost. A doctor relying upon a system that places restrictions upon their ability to retrieve and transmit their patient files seems about as logical as a concert headliner specifically requesting that his road crew hide his guitar right before a big show. Adding unnecessary hurdles to a physician's regimen is not only pointless; it takes away from their family, their patients, and their wallet.
It is understood that becoming a doctor is not simply a decision; it's a calling that demands a great deal. Time away from family and friends is one of the biggest sacrifices. On a website directed towards those considering practicing medicine as a profession, Dr. Kevin Pezzi notes, "Twenty hours of paid time may translate into 30-plus hours carved from your personal life.
You might try to work fewer paid hours, but doing so makes it difficult to economically rationalize why you assumed so many student loans to become a doctor." It's even harder for women, who can be vilified for choosing to work fewer hours in favor of a more balanced work-life.
In a New York Times op-ed, piece anesthesiologist Karen S. Sibert voices her criticism of doctors unwilling to make full sacrifice of their time, stating that "It's fine if journalists or chefs or lawyers choose to work part time or quit their jobs altogether. But it's different for doctors. Someone needs to take care of the patients." When time becomes as limited as it is in the medical field, every minute away from the office is cherished, as doctors struggle to maintain optimal patient care without neglecting time spent with loved ones.
Striking such a balance is not easy as asking a doctor to leave their work at the office is simply not a reasonable request for many physicians. The goal, then, becomes making office-related work more readily available at home, limiting the retrieval and handling process.
In addition to taking doctors away from their personal lives, a doctor's inability to quickly retrieve patient information is detrimental to their level of patient care provided. Here, time becomes a factor in medical response. It would not be unheard of for a physician to make an emergency request for a patient's file from another physician. What happens when the doctor is away from the office and there is no one else that can access the file?
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average time spent commuting to work is 24.3 minutes. 24.3 minutes is a lifetime and can mean the difference between life and death when dealing with an emergency situation. This scenario doesn't even begin to take into account the additional time spent searching for the proper paperwork, which can take longer than expected, particularly in situations where doctors are unfamiliar with their own filing system, their demanding schedule forcing them to delegate such organization to staff members (that are nowhere to be found).
Accounting for the number of deaths that occur when care is not given in time, a physician's ability to produce patient records shouldn't be discussed in terms of minutes; it should be discussed in terms of seconds.
Being an effective doctor is not just a matter of providing excellent patient care, but doing so while managing a life outside of work. A doctor is always on duty. This, of course, means that it is necessary for them to have to proper resources at their disposal at all times. In considering making a shift within the office, opting to minimize dependence upon filing of physical paperwork in favor of electronic records, questions pertaining to cost are the most prevalent.
How much money and time is being wasted, hiring staff to manage paperwork?
Are you wasting money on gas and time spent in traffic, having to make additional trips to the office?
What's the potential cost of not being able to provide patient information when time becomes a critical issue?
The sacrifices that doctors make are made for a reason. The countless hours of education and debt incurred through years spent in medical school should come with an expectation that not only is it worth it, but that time served is rewarded with an increased ability to instill greater flexibility into one's work schedule. You are the rock-star and you have paid your dues.
Don't you deserve an all-access pass to your own office? Yes. After all, if you can easily access your personal email and social networking profiles on a computer or cell phone at work, shouldn't it be just as easy to access patient files at home? Yes. Should it cost you an arm and a leg? No! And, you know what? It doesn't have to.
Belkin, Lisa. "Should Women Be Doctors? – NYTimes.com." Parenting, Children and Parents – Motherlode Blog – NYTimes.com. 13 June 2011. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. <http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/should-women-be-doctors/>.
"Does Becoming a Doctor Mean Sacrificing a Family?" ACP Internist. 29 June 2011. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. <http://blog.acpinternist.org/2011/06/does-becoming-doctor-mean-sacrificing.html>.
Pezzi, Kevin. "Can She Be a Mother AND a Doctor?" ER-doctor.com: Information for People Contemplating a Career in Emergency Medicine and Other Specialties. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. <http://www.er-doctor.com/women_as_doctors8.html>.


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Aga Khan (Iv), His Highness Prince Karim, (born 13 Dec. 1936)
granted title His Highness by the Queen, 1957, granted title His Royal Highness by the Shah of Iran, 1959; KBE 2004
Born Genthod, Geneva 13 Dec. 1936...
Andrew, Ven. Philip John, (born 4 Dec. 1962), Archdeacon of Cheltenham, since 2017
Born Eldoret, Kenya 4 Dec. 1962; s of Brian Andrew and of Eileen Andrew; m 1987, Dr Susan; three s
Archdeacon of Cheltenham, since 2017...
Arbuthnot, Rev. Andrew Robert Coghill, (14 Jan. 1926–11 Dec. 2010), Missioner, London Healing Mission, 1983–95; Director, Sun Alliance and London Insurance Ltd, 1970–91
Born 14 Jan. 1926; s of Robert Wemyss Muir Arbuthnot and Mary Arbuthnot (née Coghill); m 1952, Audrey Dutton-Barker; one s one d; died 11 Dec. 2010
Missioner, London Healing Mission, ...
Bateman, Alys, (died 7 Nov. 1924), soprano singer
Born d of late Robert Bateman and Marian Moore, relative of Hannah Moore; m 1st, Malcolm Colin, s of Francis Simon Dring, of Simonstown, Co. Cork; 2nd, John Starkie Gardner; ...
Bates, Paul Spencer, (1 Jan. 1940–29 May 2006), independent management consultant
Born 1 Jan. 1940; s of Rev. John Spencer Bates and Margaret Annie Bates (née Harwood); m 1964, Freda Ann Spillard (marr. diss. 1998); two s; m 2004...
Boddington, Caroline Elizabeth, (born 23 Feb. 1964), Archbishops' Secretary for Appointments, since 2004
Born 23 Feb. 1964; d of David Gamgee Boddington and Marianne Boddington; m 2006, Rt Rev. Dr Alastair Llewellyn John Redfern , qv
Archbishops' Secretary for Appointments, since 2004...
Boyd-Lee, Paul Winston Michael, (born 3 May 1941), Director, Bible Truth Publishers, since 1974
Born 3 May 1941; s of Harry William Lee and Violet Cynthia (née Cabrera); m 1962, Jean Warburton; one s
Director, Bible Truth Publishers, since 1974...
Brooker, Alan Bernard, (born 24 Aug. 1931), JP, DL; FCA; Chairman: Kode International, 1988–98; E. T. Heron & Co., 1991–96
Born 24 Aug. 1931; s of late Bernard John Brooker and of Gwendoline Ada (née Launchbury); m 1957, Diana (née Coles); one s...
Carnell, Rev. Canon Geoffrey Gordon, (5 July 1918–14 Nov. 2015), Chaplain to the Queen, 1981–88; Non-Residentiary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral, 1965–85, then Canon Emeritus
Born 5 July 1918; m 1945, Mary Elizabeth Boucher Smith (d 2008); two s; died 14 Nov. 2015
Chaplain to the Queen, 1981–88; Non-Residentiary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral, ...
Coulton, Very Rev. Nicholas Guy, (born 14 June 1940), Residentiary Canon and Sub-Dean, Christ Church, Oxford, 2003–08, Canon Emeritus, since 2012
Born 14 June 1940; s of Nicholas Guy Coulton and Audrey Florence Furneaux Coulton (née Luscombe); m 1978, Edith Mary Gainford; one s two ...
Denniston, Rev. Robin Alastair, (25 Dec. 1926–6 April 2012), Oxford Publisher and Senior Deputy Secretary to the Delegates, Oxford University Press, 1984–88 (Academic and General Publisher, 1980–84); Priest-in-charge of Great with Little Tew and Over Worton with Nether Worton, 1995–2002
Born 25 Dec. 1926; s of late Alexander Guthrie Denniston, CMG, CBE, head of Govt code and cipher school, and Dorothy Mary Gilliat; m 1st, 1950, Anne Alice Kyffin Evans (...
Dobbs, Baron, (Michael John Dobbs) (born Nov. 1948)
Born Nov. 1948; s of Eric William Dobbs and Eileen Dobbs; m; four s
novelist, dramatist and parliamentarian
Drummond, Rev. Norman Walker, (born 1 April 1952), Founder and Chairman: Drummond International, since 1999; Columba 1400, Community and International Leadership Centre, Isle of Skye, since 1997; Visiting Professor of Leadership in Education, University of Edinburgh, since 2009
CBE 2014; MA, BD; FRSE
Born 1 April 1952; s of late Edwin Payne Drummond and Jean (née Walker); m 1976, Lady Elizabeth Helen Kennedy, ...
Gaisford, Rt Rev. John Scott, (born 7 Oct. 1934), Bishop Suffragan of Beverley, 1994–2000; Episcopal Visitor for the Province of York, 1994–2000; Hon. Assistant Bishop of Ripon, 1996–2000
Born 7 Oct. 1934; s of Joseph and Margaret Thompson Gaisford; m 1962, Gillian Maclean; one s one d
Bishop Suffragan of Beverley, 1994–2000; Episcopal Visitor for the Province of York, 1994–2000; Hon. Assistant Bishop of Ripon, 1996–2000...
Green of Hurstpierpoint, Baron, (Stephen Keith Green) (born 7 Nov. 1948)
Born 7 Nov. 1948; s of late Dudley Keith Green and Dorothy Rosamund Mary Green; m 1971, Janian Joy; two d
Harris, Adrian William, (born 21 March 1984), Head of Digital, Church of England, since 2016
Born Lincoln 21 March 1984; s of William Peter Harris and of Patricia Ann Harris; m 2014, Helen Jane Armes
Head of Digital, Church of England, since 2016...
Joachim, Rev. Dr Margaret Jane, (born 25 June 1949), Operations Manager, Fujitsu Services Ltd, 2011–14; Minister in Secular Employment, Diocese of London, since 1997
Born 25 June 1949; d of late Reginald Carpenter and Joyce Margaret Carpenter; m 1970, Paul Joseph Joachim (d 2011); one d
Operations Manager, Fujitsu Services Ltd, 2011–14; Minister in Secular Employment, Diocese of London, since 1997...
King, Graeme Crockatt, (born 8 Sept. 1948), Chairman, Hydro Hotel Eastbourne plc, since 2004; Chairman, Audit Committee, Company Director and Board Consultant, Rank Foundation, since 2006
Born 8 Sept. 1948; s of late William Ramsay Morrison King and Margaret Lowe Robertson (née Crockatt); m 1975, Dr Susan Margaret Hobbins; one ...
Lancaster, Rev. Ronald, (born 9 March 1931), Founder, 1964, Managing Director, 1986–2006, Director and Chairman, since 2007, Kimbolton Fireworks Limited
MBE 1993
Born 9 March 1931; s of Jack and Kathleen Lancaster; m 1966, Kathleen Smith; one s one d
Founder, 1964, Managing Director, 1986–2006, Director and Chairman, since 2007, Kimbolton Fireworks Limited...
Lane, Rev. John Ernest, (born 16 June 1939), charity consultant; Associate: Craigmyle & Co., 2001–05; Bill Bruty Associates, 2001–14; Fundraising Training Co., 2001–14; Director, Corporate Affairs, St Mungo Community Housing Association Ltd, 1996–2001
OBE 1994
Born 16 June 1939; s of Ernest William Lane and Winifred (née Lloyd); m 1st, 1962, Eileen Williams (marr. diss. 1988); three ...