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Even Labor students loathe Gonski plan

Piers Akerman – Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (1:38am)

Not a single state has agreed to sign up to Julia Gillard’s education “reform” Friday.

So much for the education revolution prime minister.

Even student activists say they’re ashamed of the Labor Party because of its decision to fund its Gonski plan by ripping $2.3 billion out of tertiary education.

Gillard was on the offensive yesterday, hitting the airwaves and attempting to promote her three-card trick.

Pity no-one was buying it.

The Australian newspaper today carries a telling interview with the University of Melbourne Student Union president and ALP member Kara Hadgraft who says the federal government’s decision to fund its education reforms by ripping $2.3 billion out of higher education and student support makes her ashamed of the party she joined several years ago.

The 22-year-old bachelor of environments student and member of Julia Gillard’s old Socialist Left Labor faction yesterday said she expected better from Labor.

Hadgraft said there was some irony to the fact that Gillard had cut her teeth in student politics, becoming president of what was then the Australian Union of Students as a Melbourne University student in 1983.

As Gillard told Radio National’s Fran Kelly that her government’s proposed reforms represented the culmination of a “lifetime journey”, which started when she was “worrying about education and opportunity and getting involved in the student movement”, the National Union of Students was preparing to rally against the plan.

“@JuliaGillard as a former student activist and representative how can you justify slashing one part of education for another?” the NUS tweeted.

Hadgraft said: “I guess the ironic thing is that I had been attracted to the Labor Party coming from an educational perspective..

“That’s what drew me into the Labor Party a couple of years ago, and to see the same party which I’ve joined doing this, is immensely disappointing.

“I don’t accept this idea that we should be taking from university to put it back into education because at the end of the day you’re trying to give kids in primary and secondary schools a better future.

“When you’ve got the Victorian government ripping money out of the TAFE sector, and now the federal government ripping money out of universities, what future do these kids actually have?”

Hadgraft referred to an email sent yesterday to university staff from University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis telling them that the federal government cut would result in losses of about $100 million in research funding, an estimated further $15m in infrastructure funding and $50.4m in teaching support at the university over the next four years.

The NUS will hold a “national day of action” tomorrow in response to the cuts.

Labor premiers joined the chorus of criticism over how the Gonski reforms are being implemented, and Western Australia insists it will reject the proposed changes.

With no national agreement, the government will negotiate with individual states to implement the reforms, a situation the Federal Opposition describes as a fiasco.

“The idea that we would have different states being treated differently by the Commonwealth is anathema to anyone in education sector and to the coalition and if the Prime Minister continues down that track she will demonstrate that she has finally lost the plot,” said opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne.

It’s not just a question of where’s the money, Julia, it is one of where’s the support?

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SURVIVORS

Tim Blair – Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (2:33pm)

A two-year-old survivor of the Boston bomb attack:

The child was thrown six feet and suffered multiple head injuries. Image posted on Twitter with his father’s permission. Another survivor, 78-year-old marathon entrant Bill Iffrig, was asked last night if he would continue running:

“Oh yeah, I don’t stop for this,” he said.

UPDATE. Remarkable and distressing photographs.

UPDATE II. I’ve known the ABC’s Virginia Trioli for a long time. She’s better than this:

The contrast of course with what goes on in, I mentioned Iraq in passing just before, what goes on there and also in Afghanistan on a weekly basis has not been lost on many people this morning. We did report this morning of course that there were a series of bomb attacks overnight in Iraq and it’s important to mention that again, 37 people dead and more than 270 others were wounded. Several cities were hit in those bomb blasts, the capital Baghdad, Kirkuk in the North and Nasiriyah in the South. They were coordinated attacks according to police there during the morning rush hour and they mainly involved car bombs. That’s the contrast that we always have on a day like today when it seems to me where we are overly focusing on what happens to rich white people in the West, versus what happens on a daily basis in those countries.

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BUY OUR BATTERIES

Tim Blair – Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (12:39pm)

The ABC recently received a $10 million election-year bonus on top of its usual $1 billion or so in annual funding. And they’re still crying poor:

ABC staff nationwide know that the ABC needs more funding. Without a funding increase this May, the ABC simply cannot sustain itself as a quality public broadcaster.

We have been lobbying MPs since October last year, now we need your help rallying public support.

If 2000 members sign the letter below by mid-April, we will publish your letter in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian in the weeks leading up to the ABC’s triennial funding announcement.

Help us let the Australian public know that you care about your workplace and the critical services you provide.

Our poverty-stricken tax babies are doing it tough:

Staff frequently dip into own pockets to purchase equipment the ABC should buy (mobile phones, batteries, laptops) just to ensure they can continue to cover basic news events.

(Via Ultimo Mole)

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BOSTON MARATHON ATTACKED

Tim Blair – Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (6:42am)

Bombs kill two, maim dozens in Massachusetts:

Two people were killed and dozens were injured this afternoon as two powerful explosions detonated in quick succession near the Boston Marathon finish line in Boston’s Back Bay section, turning a scene of athletic celebration into bloody chaos.

Two more explosive devices were found and dismantled, The Associated Press reported this afternoon.

Blood and broken glass covered sidewalks in the area where the blasts occurred just before 3 p.m. in the city’s Back Bay section. Immediately after the explosions, some of the wounded could be seen to have lost limbs; others lay unconscious.

Follow updates here. Latest reports have three dead and 30 injured.

UPDATE. The New York Post:

A federal law-enforcement source confirmed to The Post there are at least 12 dead and nearly 50 injured. Fox News reported that Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 10 people with amputated limbs and all operating rooms were on hold.

No other source at this point is confirming those numbers. The Boston Herald:

City Council President Steve Murphy, who was at the finish line when the two explosions happened, said, “Police sources say they are finding more devices.” Murphy said police have had a controlled detonation on at least one object.

Boston’s JFK Library is said to be on fire.

UPDATE II. Multiple bombs are the usual strategy in Islamist terrorist attacks. No word yet on any suspects, however.

UPDATE III. Fifty dead in Iraq:

Dozens of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing on the way to Baghdad airport, killed 50 people on Monday, just days before the country’s first elections since US troops withdrew …

Officials said more than 30 bombings and a shooting hit 12 different areas of Iraq, leaving 50 people dead and making Monday the country’s deadliest day since March 19.

UPDATE IV. A suspect under guard in Boston:

Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned.

Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital. (Boston police now say: “At this time, we haven’t been notified of any arrests or anyone apprehended.")

UPDATE V. Video of the first blast.

UPDATE VI. Speculation about right-wing extremists on CNN.

UPDATE VII. Shocking images of the attack’s aftermath.

UPDATE VIII. Live TV coverage.

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EVERY CROSSING IS A BEAR TRAP

Tim Blair – Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (3:11am)

Excellent driving advice from the 1940s: “The quickest way to get yourself scattered all over the landscape is to barrel through one of these intersections like a dame at a bargain counter.”

(Via PWAF, currently dishing up the goodness)

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Now the mainland is the target

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (8:07pm)

The farce gets even worse:

AUSTRALIAN authorities have intercepted a suspected asylum seeker boat near Broome, a week after another boat managed to reach Western Australia’s Geraldton port.
HMAS Ararat, with the help of the WA police vessel Delphinus, found the boat with 72 people on board on Sunday.

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Racist to worry about people much like our own being blown up

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (3:26pm)

ABC television host Virginia Trioli, a rich white person in the West, interrupts her station’s non-stop coverage of the Boston Marathon explosion to wish it were otherwise:

The contrast of course with what goes on in, I mentioned Iraq in passing just before, what goes on there and also in Afghanistan on a weekly basis has not been lost on many people this morning. We did report this morning of course that there were a series of bomb attacks overnight in Iraq and it’s important to mention that again, 37 people dead and more than 270 others were wounded. Several cities were hit in those bomb blasts, the capital Baghdad, Kirkuk in the North and Nasiriyah in the South. They were coordinated attacks according to police there during the morning rush hour and they mainly involved car bombs. That’s the contrast that we always have on a day like today when it seems to me where we are overly focusing on what happens to rich white people in the West, versus what happens on a daily basis in those countries.

Trioli gets to announce she’s more concerned than thou about Middle Easterners blowing each other up. Meanwhile her station continues to cater to her audience’s interests:

The ABC reassures us:

No matching headline: “White runners safe.”
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Reader AT doesn’t get it:

In regards to the indigenous Australian runner… i am led to believe that he was the only Australian not accounted for shortly after the blast. Are you saying it should have simply read “Australian runner safe in Boston” and drop the indigenous prefix?

Answer: yes.
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Reader Lisle explains why Australians might just care more about a bombing in Boston than in Kirkuk:

Please note there were 153 Australians taking part in the Boston Marathon. I repeat 153 of our own. That’s no small number.

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Boston marathon bombed

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (11:43am)

TWO explosions have shattered the finish of the Boston marathon, killing 2 and injuring 23, police say.
Authorities out on the course carried away the injured while stragglers in the 40 kilometre race were rerouted away from the smoking site.
Competitors and race volunteers were crying as they fled the chaos.
Police have found ‘’multiple explosive devices’’ around Boston, NBC News reported, citing officials.

(UPDATE - Latest death toll is three.)
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Authorities have a identified a suspect, who is currently being guarded in a Boston hospital with shrapnel wounds.Law-enforcement sources said at least the first explosion occurred in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel…
The New York Post reports police as confirming a third explosion at JFK Library in Boston. It was unclear if the explosion was linked to the two earlier ones that took place at the Marathon.

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The New York Post reports:

Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned.

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What terrorism looks like, shorn of all the apologetics. Warning: images include one very graphic.
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The bombs were loaded with ball-bearings to wound as many people as possible.
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No, no suspect detained:

Boston police say no suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Police Commissioner Edward Davis also says that the fire at a library a few miles away and more than an hour later doesn’t appear to be related to the explosions at the race on Monday. He says the fire may have been caused by an incendiary device.

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Immediately after the explosions, some of the wounded could be seen to have lost limbs; others lay unconscious… Boston area hospitals reported that at least 115 people had been brought in for treatment …
Asked if the explosions were a terrorist act, Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said, “We’re not being definitive on this right now, but you can reach your own conclusions based on what happened.’

The nature of the attack suggests home-grown extremists even more than Islamists, but there’s no point in jumping to conclusions until there’s an arrest and evidence.
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Can reader Rita really have described this correctly? (Other readers are also complaining.)

“It’s only rich white people”
This was just suggested, contemptuously, by Virginia Trioli on ABC TV 24 (about 8.15-8.20am), in the context of “this happens every day in Afghanistan, Iraq etc...these poor people experience this every day...yet we only pay attention when it happens to ‘RICH WHITE PEOPLE’. While this is predictable from the ABC, I still find it disgusting and hate the thought that my tax dollar pays for these racists. Privatise the ABC on 16 September 2013 !!!!!

Here are the ”rich white people” who took out the top three places in today’s marathon before the bombs went off:

[Lelisa] Desisa, a 23-year-old Ethiopian who won the Dubai Marathon in his debut in the event, pulled away from a three-man pack on Boylston Street to hold off Micah Kogo and Gebregziabher Gebremariam.

Kenyan Rita Jeptoo won the women’s event from Meseret Hailu of Ethiopa and Sharon Cheropwon of Kenya.
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Boston television is reporting that one of the dead is an eight-year-old.
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Right-wing extremists, suggests CNN.
Let’s see.
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Is the difference between the Middle East and the West very slowly being erased?

DOZENS of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing on the way to Baghdad airport, have killed 50 people, just days before the country’s first elections since US troops withdrew.
The violence, which mostly struck during Monday morning rush hour amid tightened security ahead of the polls, also wounded nearly 300 people and raises further questions about the credibility of the April 20 vote, seen as a key test of Iraq’s stability and its security forces’ capabilities.
A total of 14 election hopefuls have already been murdered and just 12 of the country’s 18 provinces will be taking part in the vote.

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How a Saudi man seems to have been detained:

Senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported this:

There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go.
He is a Saudi national who was near the scene of the blast. When the blast happened he began to run. Now, in context, a lot of people began to run. A civilian who thought he was acting suspiciously chased him down and tackled him and then turned him over to Boston police, saying, I saw this guy hanging around over there acting suspiciously. And then he ran. That may mean a lot, it may mean nothing at all.
Miller added that the man was fully cooperative but was denying any involvement in the bombing.

Not a suspect, just a person of interest:

The person, who sources said was 20 years old, had severe burns, but authorities had not determined whether the person was a victim or a perpetrator.
“There is no suspect,” said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis. “There are people we’re talking to.”

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A first responder source confirms to Fox News that five total explosive devices were found in the Boston area, including the two that exploded…
A source involved in the investigation tells FoxNews.com police are searching an apartment in the nearby Boston suburb of Revere as part of the investigation into the explosions. The apartment is on the fifth floor of the building.
Authorities are guarding a person of interest at a local hospital, according to a New York Post report confirmed by Fox News.
The person, who sources said was 20 years old, had severe burns, but authorities had not determined whether the person was a victim or a perpetrator. Sources say the person of interest is reportedly a Saudi national in the United States on a student visa.
“There is no suspect,” said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis. “There are people we’re talking to.”

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That search could be nothing:

A law enforcement source tells Fox 25 that a large police presence at a home in Revere is related to the Boston Marathon bombings.
The source said that a suspicious driver was pulled over by Revere police after driving past the State Police barracks a number of times.
The driver reportedly had a “nervous demeanor.”
The driver then led police, as well as the FBI, to a home in the area of Ocean Avenue and Beach Street.

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Garrett spending billions any old how

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (8:22am)

How well thought through is the Gillard Government’s latest school funding plan - costed at a massive $14.5 billion?
Not very, to judge by Schools Education Minister Peter Garrett:

CHRIS UHLMANN: Now the system works by having a base level of funding and then some disadvantage loading put on top of that. Has the disability loading been finalised yet?
PETER GARRETT: No, it hasn’t.
CHRIS UHLMANN: So how can you have a discussion on Friday about something so critical with that missing?
PETER GARRETT: Because we’ve provided an extra $100 million from the last commitment that we had on support for students with disability to cover across that year while that important work was going on.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Has the loading for limited English language proficiency been finalised yet?
PETER GARRETT: Again, that’s a matter which is still being worked through with officials.

(Thanks to reader Peter.)

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How Australian are these Lebanese?

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (8:15am)

Assimilation isn’t working its usual magic among many of young Lebanese Australians. Or should we start referring to them simply as Lebanese in Australia?

The head of Australia’s domestic intelligence agency has confirmed investigations into hundreds of young Australian-Lebanese men who have joined the fighting in Syria…

“We are also concerned that young Australians go overseas and become quite severely radicalised in the extremist Al Qaeda-type doctrines...” [ASIO director general David Irvine said].
“...people who do develop the sort of skills that terrorists can use and more importantly the commitment that drives terrorism, that remains a concern.”
Mr Irvine says most of the Australians are young males going to Syria either to fight or support the fighting in another way.
He says most of them were born in Australia or came to Australia at a young age.

(Thanks to reader Brian.)

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Our iron ore, their bullets

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (7:58am)

China’s rise doesn’t just mean we’ll all get rich together in this lovely “China Century”. Peter Hartcher:

The global business elite flocked to China’s Boao forum last week and thrilled to the President’s promises of growth and prosperity. But as they flew home enraptured, they might not have noticed what their host did next…
Xi made a visit to another part of Hainan island, the site of China’s big new naval base, including an underground port to protect Beijing’s growing fleet of submarines from US spy satellites and, potentially, missiles.
It is the symbol and the reality of China’s growing power to challenge US hegemony over the high seas…
David Shambaugh, director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University.. says that within a week of taking power, Xi had led the standing committee of his Politburo, the cabinet equivalent, on a museum exhibition about China’s “hundred years of shame and humiliation” at the hands of Western and Japanese imperialists.

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Gillard is so great than only sexism can explain this criticism

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (7:47am)

Academic Sally Young is mystified why Australians do not connect with a Prime Minister who has cheated them, lied to them, patronised them, set them at each other’s throat, squandered billions of their taxes and now reaches for their super:

But how much of the Prime Minister’s much-maligned failure to ‘’connect’’ with the Australian public has to do with how she is represented in the media?… Those media play a powerful role in shaping opinions about her and in recent debates about misogyny in Australian politics, one question that has been raised is just how much the reporting of the Prime Minister and her government has to do with gender.

Does Young seriously believe if Gillard were a man we’d have forgiven all the deceits and incompetence? We’d have “connected” with her?
Believe that, and you really are a sexist. If Gillard had proved a leader as worthy as Margaret Thatcher, she’d have been as admired as Thatcher was and still is.
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Gerard Henderson on the double standards of the Left, so keen to damn Thatcher in terms that horrify them when used against Gillard:

In Britain, Thatcher-haters are running an online campaign to push the song Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead to the top of the charts. Apparently it’s acceptable to brand Britain’s first female prime minister, and its longest-serving leader in the 20th century, as a ‘’witch’’.
In Australia the word usage has been even more offensive. Last Wednesday The Age ran an opinion piece by Michael Lynch. He wrote that ‘’for everyone who painted her [Thatcher] as a dynamic moderniser … there was another who regarded her as a heartless bitch’’. Lynch made it clear that he was in the latter category.
So it seems it’s OK to use the ‘’b’’ word with respect to the conservative Thatcher. This would be unacceptable - and properly so - if such a term of abuse was used against a leading social democratic politician like Julia Gillard…

And shouldn’t warmists thank Thatcher for closing coal mines?

Eco-catastrophists, who warn about global warming, have condemned Thatcher for presiding over the closing of dirty and inefficient coal mines in northern England and Wales in the 1980s. Yet it was these closures which made it possible for Britain to meet its emission targets under the Kyoto agreement.

Closing coal mines is the explicit policy of the Greens, as then leader Bob Brown made clear two years ago:

BARRIE CASSIDY: But when you say negligible impact do you also say then that no coal mines will closed?
BOB BROWN: I would expect that in the future we are going to see some of the most polluting enterprises in the country have a struggle. That’s the nature.
BARRIE CASSIDY: And how quickly after the introduction of the [carbon] tax?
BOB BROWN: Well, we’re still negotiating a scheme.
BARRIE CASSIDY: But it could close down some of these mines overnight?
BOB BROWN: I would not figure that in because they are just so highly profitable.
But that has to be the outcome. You know the coal industry has to be replaced by renewables.

What aren’t the Greens praising Thatcher?

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Spending billions to pamper couch potatoes

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (7:16am)

We’re spending mega-billions just to watch high-definition movies? What a symbol of our decline:

SUPER high-definition television alone is not a sufficient benefit to justify an investment as big as the National Broadband Network and nobody has been able to articulate uses that would drive mass-market demand for a fibre-to-the-home network.
These are the findings of two advisers to the telecommunications sector, who warn that broadband policy will need to be revised no matter which party wins the federal election. In a new joint submission to the committee chaired by independent MP Rob Oakeshott to oversee the NBN rollout, ... Venture Consulting and Allen & Overy argues that broadband policy will need to be “reset” regardless of who wins the election as there is reason to be sceptical of NBN Co’s current business plan…
“No one has yet been able to articulate the high bandwidth applications that will drive demand for mass-market FTTP capacity, particularly applications that promote productivity and social utility,” they say. “Super high-definition television should not be (the) rationale for an investment of this scale.”

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The union gives a Senate seat, the union takes it away

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (6:53am)

The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ union made Mark Bishop a Labor Senator, and now replaces him with another of its own:

Senator Mark Bishop pulled out of last night’s ALP preselection ballot that saw the most powerful left-wing and right-wing unions conspire against the resurgent blue- collar section of the party…
It is understood Senator Bishop may not have received a single vote if he had contested because of a deal between his right-wing retail workers union - the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association - and the dominant left-wing union United Voice.
Under the deal, SDA boss Joe Bullock, Senator Bishop’s one-time friend and union ally, grabbed the top spot on Labor’s WA Senate ticket, 109-61, relegating sitting Senator Louise Pratt to second.

You think Labor Senators represent the voters? Even just the party?
Meet the new member of the SDA.

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Would you trust your savings with Labor?

Andrew Bolt April 16 2013 (6:48am)

A party has no future when voters cannot even trust it to look after their savings:

According to a Newspoll survey conducted exclusively for The Australian on the weekend after Wayne Swan announced superannuation changes aimed at saving $1 billion over four years, 55 per cent said they did not “currently” trust Labor on superannuation and 31 per cent said they did..
Opposition to an increased tax on superannuation hit 78 per cent, with 89 per cent of Coalition voters and 66 per cent of Labor voters against the move.

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Polls agree. Labor is cactus

Andrew Bolt April 15 2013 (7:21pm)

Essential Media poll today - slight narrowing of the 2PP gap to “just” 10 points. Labor 45 to the Coalition 55.
Roy Morgan says it’s Labor 44.5 to the Coalition 55.5.
And there’s still the Budget to come just a month from now.
And there’s this:

The sharemarket has suffered its biggest fall in four weeks, losing about $14.5 billion in market value, with mining companies suffering heavy losses amid heightened worries of a slowdown in Chinese growth…
China’s economic recovery unexpectedly stumbled in the first three months of 2013 as the annual rate of growth eased back to 7.7 per cent from the 7.9 per cent pace set in the final quarter of last year, official data showed on Monday.

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A happy Independence Holiday to all
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Something terrifying is hiding in Caliburn House, and the Doctor finds himself part of the ghost hunt...

Don’t miss 'Hide' this weekend.
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These words of Abbott are fascinating on their own for their grace and power, but compare them with Gillard's words which would also equally apply to her own boat people policy, Gonski school reform, or any of the other failed policies like Pink Batts, NBN, or Carbon Tax. - ed
It’s important to show solidarity with America and with the people of Boston on this difficult day. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed and injured in this terrible incident. While it’s too early to say who was responsible, obviously an event like this should deepen our resolve to stand up for democratic values and democratic decencies. I have this morning spoken with Ambassador Bleich, so that he is assured that Australians stand together with the United States on this sad day. - Tony Abbott

"Australia unreservedly condemns this brutal and senseless attack," Ms Gillard said.
"Our condolences go to the families of those killed and our thoughts are with those who have been injured.
It will be some time before we know the full extent of what has occurred"
Does she even know what happened? - ed
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Handing out this week - Term 3 trophies - Edu Kingdom Bankstown
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Here's a little dose of geekery in my new Star Trek dress, making my go to thumbs up pose. Thanks Brian!!!
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Film Clip of the Day - April 15, 2013
Best John Wayne Movie Quotes

http://independentfilmnewsandmedia.com/best-john-wayne-movie-quotes/
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Never Give Up!
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Prayers are with everyone in Boston today. Sarah Palin
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"Hair, shoulder pads, nukes. It's the '80s. Everything's bigger." – dive in and take a peek behind the scenes of last Saturday’s 'Cold War' in this exclusssssive video: http://bit.ly/17x2U36
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"We will get to the bottom of this. And we will find out who did this. We'll find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice." -President Obama on Boston Marathon bombings

Watch the president's full remarks:http://tinyurl.com/cyj52kk
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Monarchs make a wonderful portrait of Lizzy
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Maggie?
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"Prayers going up for everyone at the Boston Marathon."--Northland Church
"Pray for Boston. Now."--Pastor Rich Warren
”Yes, God Be with them all, we are praying here."--Roma Downey
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ZOMBIE COCKTAIL: Fill a shot glass halfway with peach schnapps. Gently pour Bailey's Irish Cream on top. After the shot is almost full, carefully add a small amount of blue curacao. After it settles, add a few drops of grenadine syrup....When The Walking Dead comes back on, some of our friends shall be making these ;-)
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The IAF bows its head in memory of our fallen sons and daughters. May they rest in peace
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Maureen O’Hara – Green Eyed Lady (Sugarloaf)
- Music Video -

At this link:
http://independentfilmnewsandmedia.com/maureen-ohara-green-eyed-lady-sugarloaf/
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10 Things I Learned When I Stopped Yelling at My Kids===

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Today, the entire people and I salute the courage of our finest sons and daughters, who are worthy of glory for all eternity. Blessed is the people who has such sons
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Behold the glory of Jesus who is in you right now, and receive the miracle that you need! Check out more in today's devotional and be blessed! http://bit.ly/10yhamT
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You and your household can begin to live a life full of every blessing! In this video excerpt, let Joseph Prince show you glimpses of secrets to a blessed family and life from Obed-Edom's story in the Old Testament. Be encouraged to know that whatever your lack is today, learn how you can practice the presence of Jesus in your life and watch Him over-supply every need according to the riches of His grace!
http://josephprince.com/
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Our love and prayers go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and their families. We speak God's peace, healing and protection over this situation.
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Faith comes not by seeing God as a judge, but by seeing Him as your Savior who loves you very much and wants to do what’s best for you!
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So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.—Num 21:9

When the Israelites were bitten by serpents in the wilderness, God told Moses to put a bronze serpent on a pole—a picture of Jesus judged on the cross for us (John 3:14).

Those who beheld the serpent on the pole lived, while those who focused on their wounds died.

Today, look to the cross and see Jesus bearing every sickness and pain for you. Expect your healing to manifest and your body to be made completely whole!
http://josephprince.com/
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Check out today's devotional and see that your prayers will be answered because Jesus, your high priest, intercedes for you! Be blessed! http://bit.ly/10kfUDx
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Photo credit: John W. Pope Civitas Institute

Hi everyone! Here's the MichelleMalkin.com newsletter for April 15th. Enjoy!

The Daily Caller: Homeschooling advocate: Common Core abandons classics for ‘reading executive orders from President Obama’

John Fund: The media after Gosnell

Ace of Spades HQ: TurboTax, lobbying, and failure

Twitchy: The power of Twitter: WaPo, Wall Street Journal finally show up at Gosnell trial; Update: NYT shows up

Twitchy: Telling: How the Left, media view healer Dr. Ben Carson vs. butcher Kermit Gosnell

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

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April 16: Yom Ha'atzmaut in Israel

1520 – Citizens of Toledo, Castile, who were opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles V, rose up in revoltwhen the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
1853 – The first passenger line of what would becomeIndian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay (now Mumbai) and Thane.
1881 – Famed lawman Bat Masterson of the American Old West engaged in his last gun battle before later becoming a journalist.
1917 – Vladimir Lenin (pictured) returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
2001 – India and Bangladesh began a five-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.

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Events

1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
1178 BC – The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1521 – Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of theempire.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1917 – Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.
1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1944 – Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1992 – The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree shooting in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.

[edit]Births

778 – Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 – John II of France (d. 1364)
1488 – Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544)
1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
1516 – Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (d. 1550)
1646 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
1660 – Hans Sloane, English collector and physician (d. 1753)
1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (d. 1715)
1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant (d. 1744)
1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer (d. 1738)
1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist (d. 1778)
1728 – Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (d. 1799)
1730 – Henry Clinton, English general (d. 1795)
1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer (d. 1847)
1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier (d. 1888)
1808 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (d. 1864)
1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893)
1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet (d. 1879)
1839 – Antonio Starabba, Italian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant (d. 1862)
1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906)
1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer (d. 1919)
1865 – Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist (d. 1918)
1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer (d. 1914)
1882 – Seth Bingham, American organist and composer (d. 1972)
1885 – Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (d. 1960)
1886 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1944)
1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer (d. 1977)
1890 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (d. 1957)
1893 – Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian author (d. 1968)
1895 – Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer, founded Arup (d. 1988)
1896 – Robert Henry Best, American broadcaster (d. 1952)
1896 – Pat Clayton, English surveyor and explorer (d. 1962)
1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet (d. 1963)
1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
1904 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1905 – Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, invented the snowmobile (d. 1964)
1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
1908 – Ray Ventura, French bandleader (d. 1979)
1910 – Berton Roueché, American writer (d. 1994)
1911 – Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (d. 1963)
1912 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
1912 – Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress (d. 2009)
1915 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
1916 – Ted Mann, American businessman (d. 2001)
1917 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
1918 – Dick Gibson, English race car driver (d. 2010)
1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
1919 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (d. 2011)
1919 – Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author (d. 1995)
1922 – Pat Peppler, American football coach and executive
1922 – Léo Tindemans, Belgian politician
1923 – Warren Barker, American composer (d. 2006)
1924 – John Harvey-Jones, English businessman (d. 2008)
1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
1924 – Madanjeet Singh, Indian diplomat, author, and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1927 – Edie Adams, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1927 – Pope Benedict XVI
1927 – Dick Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor
1927 – Rolf Schult, German actor (d. 2013)
1929 – Roy Hamilton, American singer (d. 1969)
1929 – Ralph Slatyer, Australian biologist (d. 2012)
1929 – Ed Townsend, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1930 – Herbie Mann, American flute player (d. 2003)
1931 – Herman van Ham, Dutch chef (d. 2012)
1933 – Joan Bakewell, English broadcaster
1933 – Ike Pappas, American journalist (d. 2008)
1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet
1935 – Marcel Carrière, Canadian director and screenwriter
1935 – Bobby Vinton, American singer
1936 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian-Romani singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1937 – George "The Animal" Steele, American wrestler
1937 – Simeon II of Bulgaria, last reigning Tsar of Bulgaria, later Prime Minister
1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician
1938 – Rich Rollins, American baseball player
1939 – Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (d. 2008)
1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (The Lana Sisters and The Springfields) (d. 1999)
1940 – Margrethe II of Denmark
1940 – Benoît Bouchard, Canadian politician
1942 – Frank Williams, English founder and team principal of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team
1942 – Jim Lonborg, American baseball player
1943 – Ruth Madoc, Welsh actress
1943 – Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat and Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
1944 – Richard Bradshaw British conductor
1945 – Tom Allen, American politician
1946 – Margot Adler, American journalist
1946 – R. Carlos Nakai, American flute player
1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician and songwriter (The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel) (d. 2011)
1948 – Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (d. 2011)
1948 – Lynne Franks, British public relations consultant
1949 – Melody Patterson, American actress
1949 – Ann Romney, First Lady of Massachusetts, wife of American presidential nominee Mitt Romney
1949 – Pirkko Saisio, Finnish writer
1950 – Robert Dutil, Canadian politician
1950 – David Graf, American actor (d. 2001)
1950 – Billy West, American voice actor
1951 – Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer
1951 – Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
1951 – Mordechai Ben David, American singer
1952 – Bill Belichick, American football coach
1952 – Michel Blanc, French actor
1952 – Esther Roth-Shahamorov, Israeli track and field athlete
1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer and politician (Midnight Oil)
1953 – Jay O. Sanders, American actor
1953 – J. Neil Schulman, American writer
1954 – Ellen Barkin, American actress
1954 – John Bowe, Australian race car driver
1955 – Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1956 – Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
1957 – Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish author (d. 2009)
1959 – Scott McKinsey, American director
1959 – Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
1959 – Robert Casilla, American artist and illustrator
1960 – Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
1960 – Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
1960 – Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
1961 – Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
1962 – Ian MacKaye, American musician (Fugazi and Minor Threat)
1963 – Jimmy Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
1963 – Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
1964 – Dave Pirner, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Soul Asylum)
1964 – David Kohan, American television producer and writer
1965 – Yves-François Blanchet, Quebec politician
1965 – Jon Cryer, American actor
1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor
1965 – Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director
1968 – Vickie Guerrero, American wrestler and manager
1968 – Rüdiger Stenzel, German athlete
1969 – Stacy Francis, American singer and actress (Ex Girlfriend)
1969 – Patrik Järbyn, Swedish alpine ski racer
1969 – Fernando Viña, American baseball player
1970 – Dero Goi, German musician (Oomph!)
1970 – Walt Williams, American basketball player
1971 – Selena, American singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
1971 – Max Beesley, English actor and musician
1971 – Peter Billingsley, American actor
1971 – Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
1971 – Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver
1971 – Natasha Zvereva, Russian tennis player
1971 – Belinda Stewart-Wilson, English actress
1972 – Ed Byrne, Irish comedian
1972 – Conchita Martínez, Spanish tennis player
1973 – Akon, American singer and song writer
1973 – Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
1974 – Mat Devine, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and author (Kill Hannah)
1974 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director
1974 – Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
1974 – Fabián Robles, Mexican actor
1974 – Thomas Tevana, American actor
1975 – Keon Clark, American basketball player
1975 – Sean Maher, American actor
1975 – Nick Pickard, English actor
1975 – Karl Yune, American actor
1976 – Phil Baroni, American mixed martial artist
1976 – Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and singer (The Hellacopters, Dundertåget, and Thunder Express)
1976 – Lukas Haas, American actor
1976 – Dan Kellner, American fencer
1976 – David Lyons, Australian actor
1976 – Kelli O'Hara, American actress and singer
1976 – Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
1977 – Tameka Empson, English actress
1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
1977 – Alek Wek, Sudanese model
1978 – Lara Dutta, Indian actress and model, Miss Universe 2000
1978 – Jody Marie Gnant, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1978 – Nikki Griffin, American actress
1978 – Matthew Lloyd, Australian footballer
1978 – John Buffalo Mailer, American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist
1978 – Kristin Proctor, Norwegian-American actress
1978 – Igor Tudor, Croatian footballer
1978 – Ivan Urgant, Russian television host and actor
1978 – Christos Vasilopoulos, Greek actor
1979 – Christijan Albers, Dutch race car driver
1979 – Lars Börgeling, German pole vaulter
1979 – Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player
1979 – Sean Costello, American singer and musician (d. 2008)
1979 – Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
1980 – Jens Hartwig, German actor
1980 – Paul London, American wrestler
1980 – Juliette Marquis, Ukrainian actress, model, and ballerina
1980 – Adriana Sage, Mexican-American porn actress and model
1981 – Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer
1981 – Maya Dunietz, Israeli pianist, singer and composer
1981 – Russell Harvard, American actor
1981 – Matthieu Proulx, Canadian football player
1981 – Jake Scott, American football player
1981 – Vico Thai, Australian actor
1982 – Gina Carano, American mixed martial arts fighter, actress, and model
1982 – Boris Diaw, French basketball player
1982 – Barry Jones, Scottish magician
1982 – Michael Ratajczak, German footballer
1982 – Jonathan Vilma, American football player
1983 – Mikey Dalton, Iranian-English model and music producer
1983 – Marié Digby, American singer
1983 – Manuela Martelli, Chilean actress
1983 – Cat Osterman, American softball pitcher
1983 – George Patis, Greek badminton player
1984 – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
1984 – Natalie Blair, Australian actress
1984 – Teddy Blass, American composer and producer
1984 – Dane Brookes, English actor and writer
1984 – Noah Fleiss, American actor
1984 – Paweł Kieszek, Polish footballer
1984 – Claire Foy, English actress
1984 – Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
1985 – Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian
1985 – Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player
1985 – Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist
1985 – Rhiana Griffith, Australian actress, model, and artist
1985 – Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player
1985 – Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor, singer, musician, and model (Erreway)
1985 – Taye Taiwo, Nigerian footballer
1985 – JC Tiuseco, Chinese-Filipino model, actor, and basketball player
1986 – Laura Langman, New Zealand netball player
1986 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese footballer
1986 – Paul di Resta, Scottish race car driver
1986 – Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player
1986 – Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast
1987 – Neil Haskell, American dancer
1987 – Aaron Lennon, English footballer
1987 – Kyley Statham, Canadian actress
1988 – Jullie, Brazilian singer-songwriter, model, and actress
1988 – Alisa Durbrow, Japanese model, actress, and singer
1990 – Jérémy Kapone, French singer-songwriter and actor
1990 – Lily Loveless, English actress
1990 – Evangelos Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
1990 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
1990 – Nia Ramadhani, Indonesian actress and singer
1990 – Jules Sitruk, French actor
1992 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg
1993 – Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress
2003 – Alina Foley, American actress
2008 – Princess Eléonore of Belgium

[edit]Deaths

69 – Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
665 – Fructuosus of Braga
744 – Al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
924 – Berengar of Friuli
1113 – Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)
1118 – Adelaide del Vasto, Italian wife of Roger II of Sicily
1198 – Frederick I, Duke of Austria
1640 – Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (b. 1579)
1645 – Tobias Hume, English soldier, viol player, and composer (b. 1569)
1687 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet (b. 1628)
1689 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1742 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (b. 1672)
1756 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
1783 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
1788 – Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707)
1828 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
1846 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
1850 – Marie Tussaud, French-English artist, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761)
1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French mystic and Saint (b. 1844)
1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
1899 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
1904 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
1928 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1930 – José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
1942 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
1942 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862)
1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
1947 – Rudolf Höß, German SS officer (b. 1900)
1950 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish shooter (b. 1867)
1955 – David Kirkwood, Scottish labor leader (b. 1872)
1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English chemist (b. 1920)
1959 – Charles Halton, American actor (b. 1876)
1968 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
1968 – Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
1969 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (b. 1904)
1970 – Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1970 – Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (b. 1897)
1972 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1973 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
1973 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
1978 – Lucius D. Clay, American general (b. 1897)
1980 – Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)
1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
1988 – Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian military leader, founder of Fatah (b. 1935)
1989 – Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese educator and author (b. 1915)
1989 – Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
1991 – David Lean, English director (b. 1908)
1992 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
1992 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist, agent, and officer (b. 1915)
1992 – Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
1994 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)
1995 – Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
1995 – Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
1996 – Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
1997 – Doris Angleton, American murder victim (b. 1951)
1997 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
1998 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1880)
1999 – Skip Spence, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (b. 1946)
2000 – Putra of Perlis (b. 1920)
2001 – Michael Ritchie, American film director (b. 1938)
2001 – Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
2002 – Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur, founder of Ruth's Chris Steak House (b. 1927)
2002 – Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
2002 – Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2003 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
2005 – Kay Walsh, English actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
2005 – Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian and activist (b. 1976)
2006 – Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
2007 – People of the Virginia Tech massacre:
- – Jamie Bishop, American instructor of German language (b. 1971)
- – Seung-Hui Cho, American student and murderer (b. 1984)
- – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian instructor of French language (b. 1958)
- – Kevin Granata, American professor of engineering (b. 1961)
- – Liviu Librescu, American-Romanian professor of engineering science and mechanics and holocaust survivor (b. 1930)
- – G. V. Loganathan, Indian-American professor of civil and environmental engineering (b. 1954)
2007 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
2007 – Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1962)
2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
2008 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
2008 – Joseph Solman, American painter (b. 1909)
2010 – Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief (b. 1949)
2010 – Daryl Gates, American police chief, created the D.A.R.E. program (b. 1926)
2011 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925)
2011 – Sol Saks, American screenwriter (b. 1910)
2012 – Sari Barabas, Hungarian soprano (b. 1914)
2012 – Marian Biskup, Polish author and academic (b. 1922)
2012 – Ray Davey, Irish-Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community (b. 1915)
2012 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player (b. 1938)
2012 – George Kunda, Zambian lawyer and politician, Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1956)
2012 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (b. 1913)
2012 – Carlo Petrini, Italian footballer (b. 1948)
2012 – Ageeth Scherphuis, Dutch journalist and broadcaster (b. 1933)
2012 – Jack Streidl, American football coach and educator (b. 1918)

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