Mike Carlton has funny mannerisms. Kudos to children who copy them. But it is probably irresponsible in an adult. On the issue of irresponsible, Al Gore gave a speech. ABC Insiders selects women on merit? Foreign press are a little confused about global warming, so it is no surprise they have no idea about geography. Apparently, the public are not allowed to know the truth about the footprint of nuclear power versus Wind or Solar power.
Beating up Jews is undertaken by someone with a southern European name, not an Islamic one?
Greer is paid millions of dollars for old notes, and I'm struggling to give away encyclopaedia. I'm sure the money could have been put to better use. ABC interviews Milne on Global Warming and fails to correct any of the lies. Fairfax celebrates finding some lefties in the US. It was terrible Palmer was able to buy seats in parliament. But where does the money come from? FitzSimons consults Wikipedia and takes as fact what Hunt was criticised for treating as issues. Religious extremists believe in global warming .. with their religion being the worship of wealth redistribution. But the faith of Forrest is questioned despite its sincerity and effectiveness .. At worst, Forrest's faith is in nothing but good manners. At best ..
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Alan Tran. Born on the same day, across the years, as
- 1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- 1510 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest (d. 1572)
- 1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English author and journalist (d. 1966)
- 1909 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
- 1941 – Hank Marvin, English guitarist (The Shadows)
- 1982 – Matt Smith, English actor
- 1997 – Sierra McCormick, American actress
Matches
- 97 – Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
- 1628 – The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
- 1962 – End of Cuban missile crisis: Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
- 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
Despatches
- 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
- 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
- 1704 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
TALK LIKE MIKE
Tim Blair – Monday, October 28, 2013 (5:00am)
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is so passé. Today, thanks to a wonderful discovery on the internet, we celebrate International Talk Like Mike Carlton Day.
AL ALONE
Tim Blair – Monday, October 28, 2013 (4:57am)
HATE UNLEASHED
Tim Blair – Monday, October 28, 2013 (4:44am)
The vicious weekend attack on a group of Jewish Australians in Bondi is just the latest outrage committed against Sydney’s Jewish community.
OUTSIDERS
Tim Blair – Monday, October 28, 2013 (4:43am)
The ABC’s Insiders program selects its female guests on merit.
A LAND OF SWEEPING FLAMES
Tim Blair – Monday, October 28, 2013 (4:05am)
Australia is a deeply puzzling land, especially to foreign media types. Even our basic geography is sometimes a cause of bewilderment.
ENEMY WITHIN
Tim Blair – Monday, October 28, 2013 (3:46am)
Hal Colebatch investigates the proud wartime history of Australia’s waterside unions:
In October, 1945, following the Japanese surrender, the small British aircraft-carrier HMS Speaker carried some of the surviving Australian soldiers released from Japanese prison camps back to Sydney.They had had no mail or news from their families for more than three and a half years. Most were in desperate physical straits and it was a medical rule of thumb at the time that their suffering had taken ten years off their life expectancies. Already, all but the strong had perished and many of them said later that in another month they would all have been dead: their ordeal had simply gone on too long.When Speaker arrived at Sydney, watersiders went on strike for thirty-six hours, preventing them being disembarked.
Do read on.
THE EARTH-FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVE
Tim Blair – Monday, October 28, 2013 (3:34am)
Nuclear vs solar vs wind farms – it’s the infographic that the British government doesn’t want anybody to see.
(Via The Indomitable Snowman, Ph.D.)
Astonishing. Amira Willighagen sings O Mio Babbino Caro
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (6:19pm)
She is just nine years old. Amira Willighagen sings Puccini for the judges of Holland’s Got Talent.
(Thanks to reader Scott.)
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Greer’s cast-offs snapped up for a fortune - by a university, of course
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (5:15pm)
Melbourne University is paying $3 million for Germaine Greer’s old notes and letters? Really? It honestly can’t think of a better purpose for such cash? And would Greer truly have not settled for less?
===Greens leader Christine Milne tells ABC seven global warming porkies. ABC corrects none
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (3:45pm)
Once again, the ABC gives the platform to a warming alarmist and does not challenge a single false claim on the “science”.
This time the alarmist is Greens leader Christine Milne, venting yesterday on Insiders about global warming, and how the NSW bushfires are evidence of it.
MILNE’S FIRST DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
MILNE’S SECOND DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
MILNE’S THIRD DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
MILNE’S FOURTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
MILNE’S FIFTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
MILNE’S SIXTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
MILNE’S SEVENTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
So Christine Milne on Insiders made seven claims about global warming that were clearly false, deceptive or deeply misleading.
How many of those claims were challenged or corrected?
None.
Something for the ABC’s Media Watch to criticise tonight, right?
===This time the alarmist is Greens leader Christine Milne, venting yesterday on Insiders about global warming, and how the NSW bushfires are evidence of it.
MILNE’S FIRST DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
...we know that south-eastern Australia is experiencing a drying trend.In fact, that answer is misleading and deceptive for at least five reasons:
First, the correct measure of global warming is global temperature, which has actually been flat for 15 years:
Second, the “long-term drying trend” in south-east Australia seems no more than a return to rainfall levels of the first half of last century:
Third, the rainfall levels in NSW, home of these fires, actually show no such drying trend:
Fourth, and most telling, is that the Climate Council two years ago denied what it now claims - that the alleged drying in south-east Australia is evidence of global warming:
Our capability to project future changes to rainfall patterns, apart from the drying trend in southwest Western Australia, remains uncertain… It is difficult from observations alone to unequivocally identify anything that is distinctly unusual about the post-1950 pattern [of rainfall].Fifth, ... what added to the fire danger in NSW was not “long-term drying” but three years of good rains, which built up a dangerous fuel load.
MILNE’S SECOND DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
We’ve had the hottest year...That is misleading and deceptive for two reasons. First, global temperatures have been flat for 15 years, and this is not the hottest year globally on record. Second, the Bureau of Meteorology may argue that last year was the hottest in Australia, but satellite measurements monitored by the UAH disagree.
MILNE’S THIRD DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
We’ve had ... the hottest winter...This is false and misleading on two grounds. In fact, the measure of global warming is global temperatures, and last winter (in the Southern Hemisphere) was not the hottest on record. Nor did Australia have its hottest winter on record.
MILNE’S FOURTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
... And the scale of the fires.False or misleading on at least two grounds. First. these fires were not biggger, earlier of deadlier than other Australian fires. Our biggest known bushfire burned out 5 million hectares in 1851. These NSW fires burned out 60,000. Second, the intensity of a fire has little link to global temperatures. Top fire experts such as Phil Cheney and David Packham, both former CSIRO bushfire researchers, believe far more relevant factors include fuel loads in the bush and fuel reduction management. Past rains are also highly relevant, adding to the fuel load.
MILNE’S FIFTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
It’s the intensity and scale of the ... floods and cyclones that is going to be driven by global warming.Again, false or misleading for at least four reasons. First, even the IPCC says there is little evidence of global warming making floods worse:
...there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale.Second, even Tim Flannery’s Climate Commission admitted our recent floods in Queensland in particular were not linked to global warming:
The floods across eastern Australia in 2010 and early 2011 were the consequence of a very strong La Nina event and not the result of climate change.Third, even the IPCC says there’s little evidence global warming has made cyclones worse or more numerous:
In summary, this assessment does not revise the SREX conclusion of low confidence that any reported long-term (centennial) increases in tropical cyclone activity are robust… In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low.Fourth, Australia has in fact had fewer cyclones, according to the Bureau of Meteorology:
MILNE’S SIXTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
Tony Abbott is doing is tearing down the only policy that we’ve got in place which is reducing emissions...False again. We also have in place a renewable energy target. Unfortunately.
MILNE’S SEVENTH DECEPTIVE OR MISLEADING CLAIM:
We are already seeing lives lost and billions of dollars worth of damage. Look at Cyclone Yasi, look at the floods, now the fires in New South Wales.False or misleading for many reasons. Even the Climate Commission said Yasi and the floods it brought were ”not the result of climate change”. Yasi was not historically big or unusual, and cyclones have actually decreased in our region. The IPCC says it has low confidence in any claims that floods world-wide have got worse because of global warming, and says cyclone numbers in our region have, if anything, fallen. Likewise, there is nothing about these NSW fires that was unusual - not their size, destruction or timing - and no link with global warming can be credibly made.
So Christine Milne on Insiders made seven claims about global warming that were clearly false, deceptive or deeply misleading.
How many of those claims were challenged or corrected?
None.
Something for the ABC’s Media Watch to criticise tonight, right?
Unleashing the Jew-bashers
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (9:55am)
Tim Blair:
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The Jerusalem Post:
===The vicious weekend attack on a group of Jewish Australians in Bondi is just the latest outrage committed against Sydney’s Jewish community…One of the victims:
A crude loathing of Jews and Israel is also obvious in protests against the Max Brenner chain of chocolate shops, which is Jewish-owned....
Young, supposedly educated student activists seem remarkably prone to opposing Israel, and this opposition can quickly dissolve into conspiracy theories and general dumb hostility. It isn’t a big leap from describing the entire Jewish nation as a “rogue state”, as Tanya Plibersek once put it, to slurring the entire Jewish people.
Those protests are the middle-class, white-collar version of what we saw in Bondi on the weekend.
Jewish National Fund envoy to Australia Shlomo Ben Haim, told Army Radio: “There was a group of 10 youths. They started yelling ‘dirty Jews’ at us and then they just assaulted us. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. Someone punched me in the face and I just fell to the ground, and then they wouldn’t stop hitting us for 15 to 20 minutes.A non-sequitur:
‘’It is extremely shocking that an attack like this could happen in Australia let alone in Bondi being such a multicultural area.’’It is in precisely a multicultural area where you’d expect such tribalism:
In more linguistically diverse suburbs, both foreign-born and Australian-born respondents are less inclined to trust those around them. The negative relationship between trust and ethnic diversity is not unique to Australia. Separate studies looking at the US, Britain, India, Kenya and Pakistan have shown that diversity is associated with lower levels of trust and less investment in shared resources.I am struck by the failure to publicly identify the alleged attackers in any way - by name, complexion or ethnic group. Don’t police want help to catch the rest?
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The Jerusalem Post:
Although some websites jumped to the conclusion, based on inconclusive security camera footage that captured part of the attack, that the assailants – two 16-yearolds and a 23-year-old – were Muslims, an Australian source said that only the adult’s name was released, and it sounded “southern European.”
Fairfax celebrates! It finds some American who winced at Abbott
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (9:33am)
Hold the Fairfax presses! Some American we’ve never heard of thinks Tony Abbott was rude to describe the Rudd and Gillard governments as “wacko” and “wasteful"L
But we should care either way? Fairfax is so choked with hatred of Abbott that it’s making itself a joke.
UPDATE
It’s nothing a former US ambassador hasn’t already told Washington, at least about Kevin Rudd:
How hard did Fairfax work to find a critic of Abbott’s words? Here’s the one academic it found:
===Norman Ornstein, an author and political scientist with the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said he ‘’winced’’...I wonder if Fairfax tried to find another American - among the 313 million people in the United States - who thought Abbott was spot on?
But we should care either way? Fairfax is so choked with hatred of Abbott that it’s making itself a joke.
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It’s nothing a former US ambassador hasn’t already told Washington, at least about Kevin Rudd:
Rudd … undoubtedly believes that with his intellect, his six years as a diplomat in the 1980s and his five years as shadow foreign minister, he has the background and the ability to direct Australia’s foreign policy. His performance so far, however, demonstrates that he does not have the staff or the experience to do the job properly…UPDATE
‘’Rudd … has made a number of missteps on foreign policy. Repeatedly, Rudd has made snap announcements without consulting other countries or within the Australian government…
‘There has been persistent criticism from senior civil servants, journalists and parliamentarians that Rudd is a micro-manager obsessed with managing the media cycle rather than engaging in collaborative decision-making… Mistakes that have occurred because of a haphazard, overly secretive decision-making process are likely to continue…
‘’Rudd’s self-serving and inaccurate leaking of details of a phone call between President Bush and him cast further doubt on his foreign policy judgment.
How hard did Fairfax work to find a critic of Abbott’s words? Here’s the one academic it found:
International studies expert Clinton Fernandes told Fairfax Media Mr Abbott’s comments to the Washington Post left behind an image of “coarseness, amateurishness and viciousness”.Familiar name.
Mr Fernandes, an associate professor of international and political studies at the University of New South Wales, said Mr Abbott’s predecessors, including John Howard, “would never have done any of this stuff, ever”.
The Perils of Palmer, money and votes
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (8:52am)
Hedley Thomas on the interesting finances of “billionaire” Clive Palmer:
===BHP Billiton was so worried about the future of its Queensland Nickel refinery when it sold it to Clive Palmer that the mining giant imposed extraordinary conditions that would prevent the businessman stripping it of assets or cash.Meanwhile:
However, Mr Palmer overcame the contractual restrictions in the sale agreement to spend tens of millions of dollars of the Townsville refinery’s working capital on golf courses on the Gold Coast, the Hyatt Regency resort at Coolum (now a five-star dinosaur park), a wedding venue, luxury cars and a coal tenement…
Mr Palmer, whose Palmer United Party is likely to hold the balance of power in the Senate after July 1, has argued that the investments made by Queensland Nickel are part of a strategy to diversify the business. But large cash sums have been channelled from the refinery’s coffers to interests including the Club of Madrid, a think tank in Spain that rewarded Mr Palmer by giving him the new title “joint secretary-general, World Leadership Alliance”.
The spending spree with Queensland Nickel funds has now ceased as Mr Palmer’s refinery, which has exhausted most of its cash reserves, has been unprofitable with a low nickel price, while senior sources claim production capacity has been hit by the loss of key staff, operational decisions and cuts to maintenance.
SEVERAL hundred ballots have been found mistakenly placed in the informal pile during the extremely tight recount of the West Australian Senate vote, which will determine whether mining magnate Clive Palmer’s party wins a third upper house seat and bolsters his voting bloc…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
(T)he outcome hinges on a crucial choke point where the Australian Christians candidate was knocked out during the initial count after finishing 14 points behind the Shooters and Fishers Party candidate.
That initially delivered wins to the Palmer United Party’s Zhenya Wang and Labor’s Louise Pratt, and ousted Greens senator Scott Ludlam…
If the Australian Christians finish ahead of the Shooters and Fishers party this time, Senator Ludlam and (Australian Sports Party candidate Wayne) Dropulich will receive the flow of preferences and secure the last two WA Senate positions.
Warmist FitzSimons should check his own paper, not Wikipedia
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (8:15am)
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Peter FitzSimons, October 2013:
Sydney Morning Herald, October 1928:
Sydney Morning Herald, October 1948:
Sydney Morning Herald, October 1951:
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Reader idbkiwi in New Zealand is puzzled by FitzSimons’ research:
Reader Aard Knox says fires have hit NSW even earlier:
===The debate has moved on a little since then, with denialists furiously saying these kinds of bushfires are QUITE NORMAL for October…A Sydney Morning Herald writer should surely not be this ignorant about what the Sydney Morning Herald has written about previous October fires.
Me? I thought this was effectively blown out of the water by Fairfax writer Tony Wright, who looked a little deeper at Wikipedia and established that: ‘’According to Wikipedia ... they’re the first major conflagrations over more than a century that have occurred as early as October. With the exception of a couple in November, all the rest – and there are about 40 of them – have been in December, January, February, March, and once, in April.’’
Sydney Morning Herald, October 1928:
Sydney Morning Herald, October 1948:
Sydney Morning Herald, October 1951:
Peter FitzSimons writes history books. True.
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Reader idbkiwi in New Zealand is puzzled by FitzSimons’ research:
Clearly then, according Mr FitzSimons, these things as reported to us across the ditch never happened:UPDATE
SERIOUS FIRES IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Sydney, 17th October 1890
Tremendous bush fires are raging at Lismore, an agricultural district situated on the north arm of the Richmond River, about 530 miles north of Sydney. Vast tracts of territory has been devastated, and the township of Clunes is in danger. The inhabitants of the last-mentioned place are out fighting the flames.
SERIOUS BUSH FIRES
SYDNEY, 16th October. 1923
As a result of the drought serious bush fires are raging in the Upper Richmond district of New South Wales, menacing large areas of timber and grass
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION CUT OFF.
14th October 1926
SYDNEY, This Day. Huge bush fires are reported in the northern part of the State. The whole country from the Queensland border to Tabulam,, across the Tooloo Range, is ablaze. Unconfirmed reports state that some houses were burnt. All telegraphic communication is cut off. There has been little rain for months, and the country is exceedingly dry.
DAMAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY, 15th October. 1926
Bush fires are still racing on the north coast, and, fanned by a gale, are travelling at a remarkable rate. Thousands of acres of valuable forest, country have been devastated, many homesteads destroyed, and much fine dairying country swept.
BLACK SUNDAY
A WILD STORM ENORMOUS DAMAGE IN N.S.W.
SYDNEY, 17th October. 1928
This year summer heat has descended upon New South Wales unusually early. Already there have been several trying days, but the worst of these was last Sunday, when a high temperature of 95 degrees was accompanied by a cyclonic gale, which left behind it a trail of enormous damage.
BUSH FIRES IN N.S.W.
SYDNEY, October 15, 1944
Bush fires in New South Wales have destroyed thousands of acres of timber and pasture country. Prolonged drought conditions have caused the fires to spread rapidly. Already this month Sydney has had three days on which the temperature reached more than 90 degrees. High humidity has made conditions uncomfortable.
Reader Aard Knox says fires have hit NSW even earlier:
Thousands of old reports here on fires around Sydney in September. It’s important to remember that these earlier fires would been potentially more disastrous if fuel levels on the ground had been as high as they are today.
I’m amazed that, with a world-class resource like Trove, some journalists continue to demonstrate an abysmal ignorance of history.
Bob Carr talks big now he’s out
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (8:09am)
But he didn’t, did he?
===Former foreign minister Bob Carr revealed yesterday he canvassed the option of prohibiting Australians who had fought in [Syria’s civil war] from coming home, arguing the threat of exile would be a powerful deterrent to extremists.Nor did Labor restrict the kind of immigration that leaves us exposed to such threats.
Only a religious extremist could think a tax stops bushfires
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (8:04am)
Henry Ergas:
===LIKE the theologians Voltaire skewered for attributing the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to licentiousness and vice, the green lobby has seized on the NSW bushfires as a sign that the carbon tax must be retained… To believe Australia’s unilateral carbon tax reduces the likelihood of global warming, and hence could cost-effectively avert an increase in bushfires, is on a par with faith in the tooth fairy.
Forrest’s faith - and his mysterious keys to heaven
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (7:54am)
Very little has been said before about the faith that drives mining billionaire Andrew Forrest:
===Forrest publicly pledged this year to give away most of his fortune - recently estimated by Forbes magazine at $5.7 billion - to charity. It’s a promise that could make him Australia’s greatest philanthropist.Admirable, but his way of finding God seems disturbingly trivial:
He revealed the biggest inspiration for his giving: the Bible. Forrest’s devout Christianity is unusual for a prominent Australian entrepreneur, perhaps especially so for one who thrives on risk and adopts a win-at-all-costs approach to business. But none of Forrest’s friends doubts his piety. They have experienced enough Forrest- led prayer sessions, or caught him sneaking a quick read of his Bible during enough hectic overseas business trips, to understand that belief in God appears to guide his every waking hour.
Forrest “found” God as a nine-year-old boy in the sandhills near Minderoo, the family property. He grew up in a family of Anglicans, but the Forrests were not overtly religious. Late one afternoon, Andrew was riding his motorbike miles from the homestead when he decided to throw the key to the machine away in the dunes to see if he could find it again. He related the anecdote last year: “One of the reasons I became a Christian and am still a Christian now is because after about three or four hours of fruitless search among the spinifex and the hot sand for this key which I was probably never going to find, I tried everything, every physical thing to find the key. And eventually, when I had given up all hope ... I prayed. And when I came up from praying, there was the key between a little petrol overflow hose and the carburettor on the motorbike.
“Now there’s not a snowflake’s chance in hell that I threw it there; I threw it over my shoulder. So I just thought, ‘OK, that’s cool, we’re showing off a little here, God. That’s a very obvious sign, I won’t ever test you again’ - and I haven’t.”
More you won’t hear on Media Watch
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (7:36am)
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Electricity Bill won’t win an election
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (7:32am)
TO celebrate his 50 days since winning the election, Tony Abbott made a special meal - of “Electricity Bill” Shorten.
What the Prime Minister did last weekend to the Opposition Leader in just one sentence should terrify Labor. He put a label on Shorten that will stick like Tarzan’s Grip, reminding voters Shorten is keeping power bills too high by stopping Abbott in the Senate from scrapping the carbon tax.
“That’s what people will be thinking every time their power bill comes in until the carbon tax goes - that’s Electricity Bill who’s responsible,” Abbott said.
Labor’s fantasy then shattered.
(Read full article here.)
===What the Prime Minister did last weekend to the Opposition Leader in just one sentence should terrify Labor. He put a label on Shorten that will stick like Tarzan’s Grip, reminding voters Shorten is keeping power bills too high by stopping Abbott in the Senate from scrapping the carbon tax.
“That’s what people will be thinking every time their power bill comes in until the carbon tax goes - that’s Electricity Bill who’s responsible,” Abbott said.
Labor’s fantasy then shattered.
(Read full article here.)
Sell SBS and make porn lovers pay for it themselves
Andrew Bolt October 28 2013 (7:21am)
SBS was created for people just like my dad, and now sucks up more than $200 million a year of taxpayers’ money.
It says it’s there to “ensure that all Australians, including the estimated three million Australians who speak a language other than English in their homes, are able to share in the experiences of others, and participate in public life”.
But public life or pubic life?
(Read full article here.)
===It says it’s there to “ensure that all Australians, including the estimated three million Australians who speak a language other than English in their homes, are able to share in the experiences of others, and participate in public life”.
But public life or pubic life?
(Read full article here.)
Timothy Ly Martial Arts Showreel 2013 from Timothy Ly on Vimeo.
Timothy Ly
Alrighty! Four years ago I stopped training and filming Martial Arts thinking that I was done and dusted with what I learn't until opportunities came this year knocking at my door. Taking a bold decision, I decided to put 3 months of intensetraining in getting back into shape and dusting off some of the old Kung Fu skills and also picking up some new ones. Here's a little something i've been working on to say a little hello to the world again #preparingfortv #maximumchoppage#iknowkungfu #lifting #MMA
Awesome .. but I'm a little puzzled as to why those trees are still upright at the end. Who did the music? It works. Good quote too. - ed
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And you will never know the value of a forgotten thing - ed
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Easy .. the safety switch to the house gun .. Blade Runner?
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Terrorists from the Gaza Strip have fired over 20 rockets into #Israel since the beginning of 2013. Still today, Israel's civilians are constantly under the threat of terror attacks.
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John Wayne: Playboy Interview – May 1971
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“Well, the liberals seem to be quite willing to have Communists teach their kids in school. The Communists realized that they couldn’t start a workers’ revolution in the United States, since the workers were too affluent and too progressive. So the Commies decided on the next-best thing, and that’s to start on the schools, start on the kids. And they’ve managed to do it. They’re already in colleges; now they’re getting into high schools. I wouldn’t mind if they taught my children the basic philosophy of communism, in theory and how it works in actuality. But I don’t want somebody like Angela Davis inculcating an enemy doctrine in my kids’ minds.” ~ John Wayne
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While it may sound like something taken straight from the books of fiction, the Sandbox Tree (Hura. Crepitans) is all too real for the scores of Central and South American farmers who've had their cattle injured by these explosive plants. Upon ripening, the fruit of the Sandbox tree will explode like a botanical hand-grenade carrying seeds up to 40m at 240kph, easily penetrating any animal or poorly placed window.
Read more: http://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2013/10/theres-tree-covered-in-spikes-whose.html#ixzz2j0bhuzmO
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“I see red and lose myself,” he says.
And, tune-in for a very important announcement from Robin McGraw!
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Emma Watson
"I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time."
Exactly why I love Watership Down .. or Delderfield .. or Redeeming Love .. ed
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Probably one of the best #Halloween costumes I have ever seen!
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Craig Kelly
ANOTHER VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN THE ECONOMYGreat to see the re-decorated Bona Fides café in Macquarie Mall Liverpool doing well.
If you’re in Liverpool, call by – they do a great coffee.
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One for this IDF soldier!
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Why is this a meme? - ed
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How to scare a Doctor Who fan.......
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Larry Pickering
NO CHIPPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK LEFT
The late Don Chipp once gave me some advice, he said: “Larry, no-one learns anything while they are talking.” Since then I have listened to everyone... except Al Gore that is.
I always listen very carefully to Tanya Plibersek... before dismissing what she says as camel crap. But we’d better get used to hearing from (if not listening to) our Lady Tanya.
This ambitious, self-promoted Deputy Opposition leader’s only qualification as Shadow Foreign Minister is that she made my tobacco packet brown and doubled its price. Oh, and she visited Turkey once.
As deputy, Tanya had the choice of shadow portfolio and what better choice could there be than the much rorted Foreign Affairs gig. Just ask Bob Carr, it was first class all the way!
Of course the recently-elected Bob has shot through now he is in Opposition and his favourite gig has gone to the far Left. The unelected mob is now positioning for the Senate vacancy.
The first thing the Julia-cloned Plibersek needs to do is buy an atlas and find out where everything is.
She lines up behind her Palestinian-promoting Green mate, Comrade Lee Rhiannon, who demands the destruction of Israel among a bucket list of other odious Communist policy “initiatives”.
But Tanya will keep her nose clean and her powder dry while waiting for her leader Bill Shorten to falter before she swoops on the top job. She has demonstrated treachery equal only to Kevin Rudd’s when jockeying for position.
Labor has learnt nothing from its six years of bumbling ineptitude and Shorten and Plibersek, in an unholy alliance, are set to continue the trend with the full support of a smarting Fairfax and ABC who believe Abbott is illegitimate.
Bill Shorten is an accident waiting to happen and Plibersek is waiting. Shorten has more skeletons in his cupboard than did Pol Pot, he can never be trusted, he is the Don of the mob and mobsters always meet a nasty end.
What he did to whistleblowers Bob Kernohan and Kathy Jackson would make the Cosa Nostra proud.
Plibersek is determined to avenge Bill’s killing of Australia’s first female prime minister. To her it’s a morally symbolic must and not borne of a love for Gillard, or anyone else for that matter.
Shorten will get whacked, it’s just a matter of time. There is much more blood to be spilled and this crime family will readily rat on each other when facing jail time.
A block of formerly occupied Labor cells awaits Williamson, Obeid, Ludwig, Wilson and a raft of others.
Labor unions and crime families go hand in hand and chief unionist Bill Shorten’s teflon is wearing thin... Plibersek sees herself in the void.
Don Chipp may be dead but the dishonest bastards live on.
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Goosebumps! God, thank you for America! And thank you for giving talent like this to a gracious man who can express our pride in the USA!http://is.gd/6waoD6
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G'day again,
Just couldn't resist marking this monumental moment of political retirement with a goodbye cartoon for
Bob Carr. As critical as I have been throughout the years of his reign, particularly as Premier of NSW, I will concede that he did contribute to the country and acknowledge I that now that he has left the Parliament, the IQ of the entire Federal Labor Party has just halved.
Godspeed
Zeg
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Carr is an anti semitic low life, not a good man .. not a smart man .. but probably merely corrupt - ed
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Rip off, tribute, whatever - ed
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Husband of Laurie Anderson. How did he live so long? - ed
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
You must have had that the wealthiest places on earth are not the oil fields of the Middle East nor the diamond mines of South Africa. The wealthiest places are the cemeteries. Buried in the ground are businesses that were never formed, songs that were never sung, books that were never written, potential that was never realized,hopes that were not achieved and dreams that never came to pass.Scripture says, "A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him.”
(Matthew 12:35, NIV)
Saints, don’t let that be you. Don’t go to your grave with your treasure still in you. Keep growing. Keep learning. Step out in faith and trust God. Bring forth the good treasure that God has placed within you. If you don’t know where to start, start by meditating on His Word. Let Him speak to your heart. Learn to hear His voice. Learn to obey quickly. Trust that He is good and will lead you in the path He has prepared for you.God bless you.
(Matthew 12:35, NIV)
Saints, don’t let that be you. Don’t go to your grave with your treasure still in you. Keep growing. Keep learning. Step out in faith and trust God. Bring forth the good treasure that God has placed within you. If you don’t know where to start, start by meditating on His Word. Let Him speak to your heart. Learn to hear His voice. Learn to obey quickly. Trust that He is good and will lead you in the path He has prepared for you.God bless you.
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DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW HIM?
Crimes are on the increase.Every two or three months there is a new disease or epidemic to be afraid of. It is so bad that it makes you believe that we are living in a world that has forgotten God. The problem today is not that people have forgotten Christ. No, the problem is that they never really knew him. Once you’ve met Christ, you can’t forget him. He has a magnetic personality. He will leave a lasting impression in your mind. He affects your life in such a way that you find yourself worshipping him whenever there is an opportunity.
Those who know Christ want to be around other people who know Christ. I believe you don’t have to beg people who know God, to come to Sunday school. You don’t have to beg people who know Christ to support Wednesday night Bible study. When you know Jesus you want to talk about Jesus. You want to share with other believers how Jesus has affected your life. You ought to be at Sunday school saying, “Guess what he did for me this week.” Instead of immersing themselves in the work of the Lord, they go back to the bottle. Instead of doing God’s work they go back the other women. Or the arms of someone else’s husband. Or to the casinos. Or to just sitting at home feeling sorry for themselves on Sunday morning. They run back to things they did before they knew Christ.
Remember we are not talking about men that had forgotten Christ. They knew him. Spent time with him. Ate meals with him. Even laid their heads on his chest. But sometime even those who know Christ back slide. Even those of us who have shared intimate moments with Jesus find ourselves down in the dumps. We know he’s alive. We’ve seen him work miracles in our own lives. But still we may find ourselves heading back to from whence we came. Even the Apostle Paul said when he tries do good, evil is all around him. It is not always outside evil trying to get us. Sometimes it stuff in our past trying seep back into our lives. Let there be a change in you.Worship Him in truth and in Spirit.God bless you.
Crimes are on the increase.Every two or three months there is a new disease or epidemic to be afraid of. It is so bad that it makes you believe that we are living in a world that has forgotten God. The problem today is not that people have forgotten Christ. No, the problem is that they never really knew him. Once you’ve met Christ, you can’t forget him. He has a magnetic personality. He will leave a lasting impression in your mind. He affects your life in such a way that you find yourself worshipping him whenever there is an opportunity.
Those who know Christ want to be around other people who know Christ. I believe you don’t have to beg people who know God, to come to Sunday school. You don’t have to beg people who know Christ to support Wednesday night Bible study. When you know Jesus you want to talk about Jesus. You want to share with other believers how Jesus has affected your life. You ought to be at Sunday school saying, “Guess what he did for me this week.” Instead of immersing themselves in the work of the Lord, they go back to the bottle. Instead of doing God’s work they go back the other women. Or the arms of someone else’s husband. Or to the casinos. Or to just sitting at home feeling sorry for themselves on Sunday morning. They run back to things they did before they knew Christ.
Remember we are not talking about men that had forgotten Christ. They knew him. Spent time with him. Ate meals with him. Even laid their heads on his chest. But sometime even those who know Christ back slide. Even those of us who have shared intimate moments with Jesus find ourselves down in the dumps. We know he’s alive. We’ve seen him work miracles in our own lives. But still we may find ourselves heading back to from whence we came. Even the Apostle Paul said when he tries do good, evil is all around him. It is not always outside evil trying to get us. Sometimes it stuff in our past trying seep back into our lives. Let there be a change in you.Worship Him in truth and in Spirit.God bless you.
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Father,I thank You for the good treasures You’ve deposited in me. I will be faithful to develop what You’ve entrusted to me. Help me, by Your Spirit, to stay close to You and follow Your leading every step of the way in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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October 28: Feast days of Simon the Zealot and Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity); Labour Day in New Zealand (2013)
- 312 – Constantine the Great defeatedMaxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome.
- 1886 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicated theStatue of Liberty (pictured), a gift from France, to commemorate the centennial of theDeclaration of Independence.
- 1893 – In Saint Petersburg, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskyled the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine days before his death.
- 1995 – The world's deadliest subway disaster took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, when an electrical malfunctioncaused a fire that killed 289 passengers and injured 265 more.
- 2009 – The detonation of a car bomb by an as-yet unidentified party in Peshawar, Pakistan, killed 137 people and injured more than 200 others.
Events[edit]
- 97 – Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
- 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 312 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor.
- 456 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (Portugal), churches are burnt to the ground.
- 969 – Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes seizes part of Antioch's fortifications. The capture of the city from the Arabs is completed three days later, when reinforcements under Peter Phokas arrive.
- 1061 – Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, theantipope Honorius II.
- 1344 – The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders.
- 1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming Dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, is completed.
- 1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluksnear Gaza.
- 1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel,Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
- 1538 – The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
- 1628 – The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
- 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
- 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
- 1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
- 1834 – The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends – Unionforces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses aroundRichmond, Virginia.
- 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
- 1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
- 1904 – Panama and Uruguay establishes diplomatic links.
- 1915 – Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
- 1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
- 1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
- 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- 1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
- 1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
- 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- 1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II.
- 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- 1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties ofDDT.
- 1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope.
- 1962 – End of Cuban missile crisis: Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
- 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
- 1965 – Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.
- 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
- 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
- 1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco.Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
- 1990 – The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
- 1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
- 1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
- 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
- 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
- 2006 – A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists.
- 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
- 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
- 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
Births[edit]
- 1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- 1466 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian and priest (d. 1536)
- 1510 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest (d. 1572)
- 1585 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop (d. 1638)
- 1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg (d. 1740)
- 1690 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian navy officer (d. 1720)
- 1693 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
- 1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian missionary (d. 1793)
- 1733 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)
- 1767 – Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1852)
- 1793 – Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (d. 1861)
- 1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
- 1815 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician and author (d. 1856)
- 1837 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1913)
- 1839 – Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)
- 1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
- 1846 – Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
- 1854 – Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
- 1860 – Jigoro Kano, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
- 1864 – Adolfo Camarillo, American-Mexican rancher and philanthropist (d. 1958)
- 1867 – Sister Nivedita, Indian Saint Vivekanand's fellow(d.1911)
- 1875 – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer (d. 1966)
- 1877 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
- 1879 – Channing H. Cox, American politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
- 1880 – Wilhelm Anderson, German-Estonian astrophysicist (d. 1940)
- 1881 – Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
- 1881 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish pole vaulter (d. 1969)
- 1884 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (d. 1967)
- 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
- 1889 – Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975)
- 1891 – Ormer Locklear, American pilot (d. 1920)
- 1892 – Dink Johnson, American pianist (d. 1954)
- 1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
- 1897 – Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
- 1901 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (d. 1986)
- 1903 – John Chamberlain, American journalist (d. 1995)
- 1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English author and journalist (d. 1966)
- 1904 – George Dangerfield, English-born American writer (d. 1986)
- 1907 – John Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentine politician, 32nd President of Argentina (d. 1995)
- 1909 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Richard Doll, English physiologist (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Douglas Seale, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Glenn Robert Davis, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
- 1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1916 – Pearl Hackney English actress (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1921 – Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)
- 1922 – Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer
- 1922 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Cleo Laine, British singer and actress
- 1927 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (d. 1955)
- 1928 – Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
- 1929 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
- 1929 – John Hollander, American poet (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Joan Plowright, English actress
- 1930 – Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
- 1932 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
- 1932 – Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1933 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
- 1935 – Alan Clarke, English director (d. 1990)
- 1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1936 – Carl Davis, American-English conductor and composer
- 1937 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
- 1938 – Kenneth Best, Liberian journalist
- 1938 &ndashl Gary Cowan, Canadian golfer
- 1938 – Dave Budd, American basketball player
- 1938 – David Dimbleby, English journalist
- 1938 – Bernadette Lafont, French actress (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Anne Perry, English author
- 1939 – Jane Alexander, American actress
- 1939 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist
- 1939 – Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast
- 1940 – Susan Harris, American scriptwriter and producer
- 1941 – John Hallam, Irish actor (d. 2006)
- 1941 – Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter
- 1941 – Hank Marvin, English guitarist (The Shadows)
- 1942 – Abdelkader Fréha, Algerian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
- 1943 – Cornelia Froboess, German actress and singer
- 1943 – Charo López, Spanish actress
- 1943 – Jimmy McRae, Scottish rally driver
- 1944 – Coluche, French actor (d. 1986)
- 1944 – Dennis Franz, American actor
- 1944 – Anton Schlecker, German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
- 1945 – Elton Dean, English saxophonist (Soft Machine) (d. 2006)
- 1945 – Wayne Fontana, English singer (The Mindbenders)
- 1946 – John Hewson, Australian economist and politician
- 1946 – Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1948 – Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
- 1949 – Bruce Jenner, American decathlete and actor
- 1949 – Tracy Reed, American actress
- 1950 – Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian activist
- 1950 – Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
- 1951 – Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, American conjoined twins
- 1951 – Joe R. Lansdale, American author and martial arts expert
- 1952 – Annie Potts, American actress
- 1953 – Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman
- 1953 – Desmond Child, American songwriter and producer
- 1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman, co-founded Microsoft
- 1955 – Indra Nooyi, Indian-American businesswoman
- 1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian politician, 6th President of Iran
- 1956 – Dave Wyndorf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Monster Magnet)
- 1956 – Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher
- 1957 – Christian Berkel, German actor
- 1957 – Stephen Morris, English drummer (Joy Division, New Order, and The Other Two)
- 1957 – Zach Wamp, American politician
- 1958 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (d. 2013)
- 1958 – Ashok Chavan, Indian politician
- 1958 – William Reid, Scottish guitarist (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
- 1959 – James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1959 – Randy Wittman, American basketball player
- 1960 – Mark Derwin, American actor
- 1960 – Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist
- 1962 – Scotty Nguyen, Vietnamese-American poker player
- 1962 – Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
- 1962 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
- 1963 – Lauren Holly, American actress
- 1963 – James Miller, American pilot (d. 2002)
- 1963 – Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1963 – Sheryl Underwood, American comedian and talk show host
- 1964 – Onofrio Catacchio, Italian illustrator
- 1965 – Jami Gertz, American actress
- 1966 – Steve Atwater, American football player
- 1966 – Andy Richter, American comedian and actor
- 1966 – Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
- 1967 – Monica Chan, Hong Kong actress and model
- 1967 – Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
- 1967 – Kevin Macdonald, Scottish director
- 1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress
- 1967 – John Romero, American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
- 1968 – Chris Broussard, American columnist
- 1968 – Caitlin Cary, American singer and violinist (Whiskeytown)
- 1968 – Marc Lièvremont, French rugby player and coach
- 1969 – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
- 1969 – Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Relentless7 and Fistful of Mercy)
- 1970 – Greg Eagles, American voice actor
- 1971 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano (d. 2010)
- 1971 – Leonidas Sabanis, Greek weightlifter
- 1972 – Terrell Davis, American football player
- 1972 – Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1973 – Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler
- 1973 – Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager
- 1974 – Braden Looper, American baseball player
- 1974 – Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
- 1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
- 1974 – Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer
- 1974 – Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993
- 1976 – Keiron Cunningham, Welsh rugby player
- 1976 – Martin Lepa, Estonian footballer
- 1976 – Simone Loria, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Lauren Woodland, American actress
- 1978 – Marta Etura, Spanish actress
- 1978 – Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1979 – Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
- 1979 – Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (Blaque) (d. 2012)
- 1979 – Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
- 1980 – Kanzi, American bonobo
- 1980 – Christy Hemme, American wrestler
- 1980 – Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
- 1980 – Agnes Obel, Danish singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer
- 1981 – Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
- 1981 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
- 1981 – Nate McLouth, American baseball player
- 1981 – Nick Montgomery, English footballer
- 1982 – Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
- 1982 – Enver Jääger, Estonian footballer
- 1982 – Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1982 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
- 1982 – Matt Smith, English actor
- 1983 – Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
- 1983 – Joe Thomas, English actor
- 1984 – Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
- 1985 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
- 1986 – Anthony Griffith, English footballer
- 1986 – Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1987 – Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter (Odd Future)
- 1988 – Edd Gould, English animator, founded Eddsworld (d. 2012)
- 1988 – Kim Un-Guk, North Korean weightlifter
- 1989 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer
- 1990 – Megan Reeves, Jagan
- 1992 – Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
- 1996 – Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
- 1997 – Sierra McCormick, American actress
Deaths[edit]
- 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
- 457 – Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
- 1225 – Jien, Japanese monk, poet, and historian (b. 1155)
- 1312 – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
- 1412 – Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
- 1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
- 1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
- 1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
- 1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
- 1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
- 1676 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
- 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
- 1704 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
- 1708 – Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
- 1716 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
- 1740 – Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
- 1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
- 1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
- 1763 – Heinrich von Brühl, German politician (b. 1700)
- 1768 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
- 1787 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735)
- 1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
- 1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer (b. 1724)
- 1800 – Artemas Ward, American politician and general (b. 1727)
- 1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
- 1818 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
- 1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
- 1857 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
- 1877 – Robert Swinhoe, English naturalist (b. 1835)
- 1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
- 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
- 1900 – Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
- 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
- 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
- 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
- 1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
- 1917 – Dimitrios Votsis, Greek politician (b. 1841)
- 1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
- 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
- 1952 – Billy Hughes, Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- 1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
- 1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary leader (b. 1932)
- 1963 – Mart Saar, Estonian composer and organist (b. 1882)
- 1965 – Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
- 1969 – Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
- 1970 – Baby Huey, American singer (Baby Huey & the Babysitters) (b. 1944)
- 1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian author (b. 1889)
- 1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
- 1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
- 1975 – Oliver Nelson, American composer (b. 1932)
- 1978 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan Tamil singer and actress (b. 1923)
- 1986 – John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
- 1987 – André Masson, French painter (b. 1896)
- 1989 – Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
- 1990 – Erich Göstl German SS officer (b. 1925)
- 1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
- 1999 – Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer (b. 1931)
- 2000 – Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
- 2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
- 2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
- 2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish boxer (b. 1907)
- 2005 – Eugene K. Bird, American army officer (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Bob Broeg, American journalist (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
- 2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- 2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
- 2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
- 2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
- 2010 – James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
- 2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Gordon Bilney, Australian politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Ernst Heinrich Karlen, Swiss-Zimbabwean archbishop (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Kevin Reilly, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – George Riashi, Greek bishop (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish politician and the first non-communist prime minister in Eastern Europe since World War II (b. 1927)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Abdias of Babylon
- Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Eadsige
- Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic Church)
- Faro
- Godwin of Stavelot
- Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)
- Lord of Miracles (Lima)
- Simon the Zealot (Western Christianity)
- October 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918. (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
- International Animation Day (ASIFA)
- Ochi Day (Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities)
- Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture)
- Youth Pledge Day or Hari Sumpah Pemuda (Indonesia)
“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”Hebrews 4:12 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"It is a faithful saying."
2 Timothy 2:11
2 Timothy 2:11
Paul has four of these "faithful sayings." The first occurs in 1 Timothy 1:15, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." The next is in 1 Timothy 4:6, "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation." The third is in 2 Timothy 2:12, "It is a faithful saying--If we suffer with him we shall also reign with him"; and the fourth is in Titus 3:3, "This is a faithful saying, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works." We may trace a connection between these faithful sayings. The first one lays the foundation of our eternal salvation in the free grace of God, as shown to us in the mission of the great Redeemer. The next affirms the double blessedness which we obtain through this salvation--the blessings of the upper and nether springs--of time and of eternity. The third shows one of the duties to which the chosen people are called; we are ordained to suffer for Christ with the promise that "if we suffer, we shall also reign with him." The last sets forth the active form of Christian service, bidding us diligently to maintain good works. Thus we have the root of salvation in free grace; next, the privileges of that salvation in the life which now is, and in that which is to come; and we have also the two great branches of suffering with Christ and serving with Christ, loaded with the fruits of the Spirit. Treasure up these faithful sayings. Let them be the guides of our life, our comfort, and our instruction. The apostle of the Gentiles proved them to be faithful, they are faithful still, not one word shall fall to the ground; they are worthy of all acceptation, let us accept them now, and prove their faithfulness. Let these four faithful sayings be written on the four corners of my house.
Evening
"We are all as an unclean thing."
Isaiah 64:6
Isaiah 64:6
The believer is a new creature, he belongs to a holy generation and a peculiar people--the Spirit of God is in him, and in all respects he is far removed from the natural man; but for all that the Christian is a sinner still. He is so from the imperfection of his nature, and will continue so to the end of his earthly life. The black fingers of sin leave smuts upon our fairest robes. Sin mars our repentance, ere the great Potter has finished it, upon the wheel. Selfishness defiles our tears, and unbelief tampers with our faith. The best thing we ever did apart from the merit of Jesus only swelled the number of our sins; for when we have been most pure in our own sight, yet, like the heavens, we are not pure in God's sight; and as he charged his angels with folly, much more must he charge us with it, even in our most angelic frames of mind. The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer, and only moves that arm because the sinless One, the great Mediator, has stepped in to take away the sin of our supplication. The most golden faith or the purest degree of sanctification to which a Christian ever attained on earth, has still so much alloy in it as to be only worthy of the flames, in itself considered. Every night we look in the glass we see a sinner, and had need confess, "We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags." Oh, how precious the blood of Christ to such hearts as ours! How priceless a gift is his perfect righteousness! And how bright the hope of perfect holiness hereafter! Even now, though sin dwells in us, its power is broken. It has no dominion; it is a broken-backed snake; we are in bitter conflict with it, but it is with a vanquished foe that we have to deal. Yet a little while and we shall enter victoriously into the city where nothing defileth.
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 12-14, 2 Timothy 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 12-14
Jeremiah's Complaint
1 You are always righteous, LORD,
when I bring a case before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the faithless live at ease?
2 You have planted them, and they have taken root;
they grow and bear fruit.
You are always on their lips
but far from their hearts.
3 Yet you know me, LORD;
you see me and test my thoughts about you.
Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!
Set them apart for the day of slaughter!
4 How long will the land lie parched
and the grass in every field be withered?
Because those who live in it are wicked,
the animals and birds have perished.
Moreover, the people are saying,
"He will not see what happens to us."
when I bring a case before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the faithless live at ease?
2 You have planted them, and they have taken root;
they grow and bear fruit.
You are always on their lips
but far from their hearts.
3 Yet you know me, LORD;
you see me and test my thoughts about you.
Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!
Set them apart for the day of slaughter!
4 How long will the land lie parched
and the grass in every field be withered?
Because those who live in it are wicked,
the animals and birds have perished.
Moreover, the people are saying,
"He will not see what happens to us."
God's Answer
5 "If you have raced with men on foot
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in safe country,
how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?
6 Your relatives, members of your own family-
even they have betrayed you;
they have raised a loud cry against you.
Do not trust them,
though they speak well of you....
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in safe country,
how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?
6 Your relatives, members of your own family-
even they have betrayed you;
they have raised a loud cry against you.
Do not trust them,
though they speak well of you....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Timothy 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy, my dear son:
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thanksgiving
3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. 4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. 5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
Appeal for Loyalty to Paul and the Gospel
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God....
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Naphtali, Nephthalim
[Năph'talī, Nĕph'tha lĭm] - obtained by wrestling. The sixth son of Jacob and second by Bilhah, Rachel's maid. Rachel gave her son his name because she had wrestled in prayer for God's favor and blessing (Gen. 30:8; 35:25). The tribe that descended from Naphtali bears his name (Num. 1:15, 42).
[Năph'talī, Nĕph'tha lĭm] - obtained by wrestling. The sixth son of Jacob and second by Bilhah, Rachel's maid. Rachel gave her son his name because she had wrestled in prayer for God's favor and blessing (Gen. 30:8; 35:25). The tribe that descended from Naphtali bears his name (Num. 1:15, 42).
The Man Who Lacked Self-Control
In the last words of Jacob ( Gen. 49:21), the patriarch speaks of Naphtali as "a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words" - a fluent orator but as erratic as the wild gazelle. Henry Thorne wrote of him,
He is gifted undoubtedly, but he has no self-control. He will scamper through life aimlessly and without a goal. His uncontrolled energy may some day be his ruin. He may possibly leap over a fence, but he may also jump into a ditch. Byron was gifted, but of him it has been said -
He laid his hand upon the ocean's main,
And played familiar with his hoary locks.
He was a man of brilliant talent and magnificent capacity, but he was also "a hind let loose." There was a wild extravagance in his career of wrong-doing that marred his influence and spoiled his life.
Nothing but divine grace can restrain those who are erratic. He who rebuked the rude tempest with a word (Job 38:11; Mark 4:39) and produced a great calm, can rebuke the turbulent and the reckless in any nature, and cause the energy that is wasted by folly to flow into channels of usefulness. God can make the rebel a priest and a king.
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