Philippine TV Ratings April 19, 2007

THURSDAY PRIMETIME RATINGS
April 19, 2007

15.5 Gokusen
13.0 Palimos Ng Pag-ibig

27.4 24 Oras
23.4 TV Patrol World

35.2 Asian Treasures
20.4 Maria Flordeluna

33.3 Super Twins
23.3 Rounin
25.9 Sana Maulit Muli

35.7 Lupin
25.3 Maging Sino Ka Man

27.0 Jumong
23.8 Pinoy Big Brother

24.3 Magpakailanman
11.5 Bandila

Uranus rings 'were seen in 1700s'

Uranus rings 'were seen in 1700s'

By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Preston

Uranus' rings could have first been seen in the 18th Century

The rings around the planet Uranus may have been spotted nearly 190 years prior to the accepted date for their discovery, according to a theory.

According to the orthodox view, the rings around Uranus were detected during an experiment in 1977.

Now, a scientist has re-evaluated a claim made in 1797 by astronomer Sir William Herschel that he saw rings around the seventh planet.

The claim had previously been dismissed as a mistake.

The new idea was presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, UK.

Dr Stuart Eves, who works for Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, first came up the idea when he was given a framed page from an encyclopaedia published in 1815 for his birthday.

The page shows an orrery - a mechanical device detailing the relative positions and motions of planets and moons.

I started to add up all the statistics and I said: I reckon he had a point Stuart Eves, Surrey Satellite Technology

Made by the craftsman William Pearson, it showed the planet Uranus, with its spin axis in the correct plane, with six smaller objects spinning around it.

It was unlikely that these objects were moons. Although two Uranus satellites were found the 18th Century, the sixth moon of Uranus was not found until 1985, after Nasa's Voyager probe flew past the planet.

After researching the subject, Dr Eves found that the Pearson orrery in the encyclopaedia page was based on observations made by Sir William Herschel, who discovered the seventh planet in 1781.

'A ring suspected'

When Dr Eves tracked down Herschel's notes detailing his observations of Uranus, he found the following passage: "February 22, 1789: A ring was suspected".

Herschel even drew a small diagram of the ring and noted that it was "a little inclined to the red". The Keck Telescope in Hawaii has since confirmed this to be the case. Herschel's notes were published in a Royal Society journal in 1797.

Dr Eves told BBC News: "I was thinking, 'could he have got all of that right'? He has one ring, rather than multiple rings as there are at Saturn; it is relatively close to the planet and it's about the right size.

"The opening angle is about right. Astronomical software indicates that it may have been slightly more open as viewed from Earth on the dates Herschel was observing," he added.

"But there are reasons for thinking that the ring plane moves about a bit, and he has the major axis of the ring plane in the right direction. I started to add up all the statistics and I said: I reckon he had a point.

"[Herschel] is not just superimposing a saturnian-style ring system on Uranus. I think it is compelling from a psychological point of view, because he really didn't have much to compare it with at the time."

Other astronomers have dismissed the possibility that Herschel discovered rings around Uranus. They claim that it would have been far too faint for him to have seen from the ground, using contemporary telescopes.

Clear skies

The ring was officially discovered in 1977 during an occultation experiment. One question some will be asking is why no one saw the ring in the intervening years.

Stuart Eves thinks there may be a few reasons for this. Firstly, there are only a few windows of opportunity during which the rings present themselves to Earth.

The Cassini-Huygens mission has also observed darkening of the rings of Saturn. This may be due to dust accumulating on the icy material in the rings.

If this process is happening on Saturn, Dr Eves argues, it could be happening on Uranus. The seventh planet's rings may have been brighter in 1787, allowing Herschel to spot them from Earth. Several other effects could also cause variability in the rings, including loss of material from them.

Another factor may lie with the Earth's atmosphere. As the industrial revolution proceeded apace, light pollution and smog may have prevented subsequent observers from seeing the planet's rings.

More speculatively, a cold snap called the Maunder Minimum, which lasted from 1645 to 1715 and saw temperatures that were on average five degrees lower than today, might have removed water vapour from the atmosphere, locking it up as ice.

If the climate was still relatively cold by the time Herschel made his observations, less water vapour may have made skies clearer and therefore more suitable for astronomy.

Nationwide Ratings : April 16, 2007

Nationwide Ratings : April 16, 2007

NUTAM TV RATINGS MONDAY April 16,2007

AGB Nielsen Media Research Corp.
Nationwide Urban TV Audience Measurement
April 16,2007

12.4 Gokusen 2
21.5 Sineserye Presents: Palimos ng Pag-ibig

23.0 24 Oras
31.5 TV Patrol World

28.8 Asian Treasures
30.8 Maria Flordeluna

27.3 Super Twins
32.5 Erik Matti's Rounin

26.8 Lupin
34.5 Sana Maulit Muli

15.0 Jumong
34.0 Maging Sino Ka Man
26.0 Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 (Weekdays)

AUDIENCE SHARES
48% ABS-CBN
31% GMA
21% Others

CHANNEL RATINGS
19.5 ABS-CBN
13.1 GMA

RANK PROGRAM (CHANNEL) RATING
1. Sana Maulit Muli (ABS-CBN) - 34.5%
2. Maging Sino Ka Man (ABS-CBN) - 34.0%
3. Erik Matti's Rounin (ABS-CBN)- 32.5%
4. TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN)- 31.5%
5. Maria Flordeluna (ABS-CBN) - 30.8%
6. Asian Treasures (GMA) - 28.8%
7. Wowowee (ABS-CBN) - 28.5%
8. Super Twins (GMA) - 27.3%
9. Lupin (GMA) - 26.8%
10. Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 [Weekdays] (ABS-CBN) - 26.0%
11. 24 Oras (ABS-CBN) - 23.0%
12. Pilipinas GAME KNB? (ABS-CBN) - 22.5%
13. Sineserye Presents: Palimos ng Pag-ibig (ABS-CBN) - 21.5%
14. Naruto [Ani] (ABS-CBN) - 18.5%
15. Inocente De Ti (ABS-CBN) - 17.8%

Philippine TV Ratings April 18, 2007

TV RATINGS - 4/18/2007

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TV RATINGS
Wednesday - April 18, 2007

10.9 SiS
07.2 Homeboy

14.1 My Strange Family
17.0 Pilipinas Game KNB?

20.0 Eat Bulaga!
22.0 WoWoWee

18.2 Daisy Siete
12.1 Inocente De Ti

14.5 Muli
14.5 Princess Charming
13.2 Kapamilya Cinema

14.6 Full House
09.9 Pangako Sa 'Yo

24.4 24 Oras
21.8 TV Patrol World

32.9 Asian Treasures
22.0 Maria Flordeluna

32.4 Super Twins
20.2 Rounin

31.9 Lupin
24.7 Sana Maulit Muli

26.3 Jumong
25.4 Maging Sino Ka Man

16.8 Nuts Entertainment
23.5 Pinoy Big Brother Season 2
12.1 Bandila

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Philippine TV Ratings April 17, 2007

Narito ang overnight ratings ng mga programa ng GMA 7 at ABS-CBN 2 noong MARTES (Abril 17):

SiS 11.9% vs. Homeboy 10.4%;

My Strange Family 13% vs. Game Ka Na Ba 19.7%;

Eat Bulaga 21.3% vs. Wowowee 20.9%;

Daisy Siete 18.3% vs. Inocente De Ti 14.2%;

Muli 14.1% at Princess Charming 14.8% vs. Kapamilya Cinema 13%;

Full House 14.3% vs. Pangako sa 'Yo 7.7%;

Gokusen 17.6% vs. Sineserye 14.7%;

24 Oras 26.9% vs. TV Patrol World 23.7%;

Asian Treasures 35.9% vs. Maria Flordeluna 21.1% at  Rounin 19.7%;

Super Twins 34.6% vs. Sana Maulit Muli 23.7%;

Lupin 34.4% vs. Maging Sino Ka Man 23%;

Jumong 25.7% vs. Pinoy Big Brother 21.6%;

Bahay Mo Ba 'To 13.2% vs. Bandila 11.7%.

First climate debate divides UN... thanks to BBCnew.co.uk

First climate debate divides UN

Mrs Beckett proposed the debate

The United Nations Security Council has held its first ever debate on climate change with some members arguing it was not the place for such a discussion.

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett justified the debate by linking the issue to security.

But Russia and China said that as an international security watchdog, the 15-member council was not the right forum to debate climate change.

Mrs Beckett said an unstable climate could lead to increased world conflict.

The debate was initiated by the UK, which holds the presidency of the Security Council this month.

No resolution or statement arose from the discussion, in which 55 member states spoke.

Two world wars

"Our responsibility in this council is to maintain international peace and security, including the prevention of conflict," said Mrs Beckett.

She said the Stern report on climate change, which was commissioned by the UK government, warned of potential economic disruption on the scale of the two world wars and the Great Depression.

But China's deputy UN ambassador, Liu Zhenmin, said that the council lacked "professional competence in handling climate change".

Pakistan's UN delegate Farukh Amil said it was "inappropriate" for the Security Council to debate climate change.

He said there were other UN bodies which were better suited to dealing with the issue.

However, Panama, Peru and a number of small island states backed the British initiative.

Maritime dispute risk

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said that "issues of energy an climate change have implications for peace and security".

As examples, he said that scarce resources such as water and food could help turn peaceful competition into violence while migrations driven by climate change could deepen tensions and conflict.

The British mission to the UN circulated a paper explaining why it feels a discussion is needed.

It warns of "major changes to the world's physical landmass during this century", which will cause border and maritime disputes.

Some 200m people could be displaced by the middle of the century and "substantial parts of the world risk being left uninhabitable by rising sea levels".

And there could be conflicts over "scarce energy resources, security of supply and the role energy resources play once conflict has broken out", the document adds.