Green policy ignites flames.
Illegal immigrants are not clients. Europeans move to stop murderous folly.
Crying children need parents.
Australian child brides.
Wikileaks movie bombs despite top actors.
Education reform needs good educators.
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Hatches
Happy birthday and many happy returns Peter Trinh. Born on the same day, across the years as
1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
1632 – Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)
1780 – Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (d. 1825)
1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956)
1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1950 – Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter and musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, and Traveling Wilburys)
1970 – Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author
1995 – Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist
Matches
1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain andHoly Roman Emperor, Charles V.
1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japaneseduring the Second World War.
1951 – The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
Despatches
460 – Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine wife of Theodosius II (b. 401)
1640 – John Ball, English clergyman (b. 1585)
1936 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
1964 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
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Charade of unity is lost in shadows
Piers Akerman – Saturday, October 19, 2013 (11:23pm)
THE new shadow cabinet reflects the inherent problems the unreconstructed and unreformed Labor Party has dealing with the twin evils of cronyism and factionalism.
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Greens policies igniting flames
Miranda Devine – Sunday, October 20, 2013 (5:59am)
TONY Abbott has been in the job just six weeks, and is the only PM to don a volunteer firefighter’s yellow overalls. But already greenies are blaming him for Sydney’s devastating bushfires, branding him a “climate-change criminal”.
Nothing could be more despicably opportunistic than Melbourne Greens MP Adam Bandt’s tweet on Thursday, using the latest fire emergency in the NSW Blue Mountains to score a political point over the Coalition’s climate-change policy.
At the time, distressing scenes were playing out as desperate mothers outside a Springwood school begged firefighters to evacuate their children as flames raced towards the ridge.
“I’ve just spoken to the teacher,” said one woman, barely containing her panic. “The teacher has said she doesn’t know how to get them out.”
Maybe Bandt doesn’t have a TV in his office, but at about the same time he made his cynical political interjection into this rolling human tragedy via Twitter. “Why Tony Abbott’s plan means more bushfires for Australia & more pics like this of Sydney.”
Cue image of blackened bush and a link to his article in The Guardian: “By repealing the carbon tax, Tony Abbott is failing to protect his people.”
In fact, this is a total lie.
Tony Abbott’s plan is to abolish the carbon tax, for which he has a resounding election mandate. The carbon tax has zero impact on bushfires. Zero. It doesn’t matter how much we charge ourselves for carbon dioxide, bushfires will occur.
We cannot control the weather. The only thing we have control over is how much fuel is available to those fires.
And here is where greenies are culpable. It is their continuing opposition to properly managing the fuel loads in our bush that has turned bushfires in recent times into unstoppable infernos.
They might pay lip service to hazard reduction but in a thousand ways they obstruct it.
In the Blue Mountains last week, in Tasmania, in Victoria, time and time again, we witness the destructive consequence of huge fuel loads - leaves, tree litter, undergrowth - built up over years without proper hazard reduction.
Systematic cool burns in the winter months, which are done on a cyclical basis every few years, are needed to keep fuel loads at levels which allow firefighters to control outbreaks.
“Fires run on fuel. More fuel equals more fire,” says Brian Williams, captain of the Kurrajong Heights bushfire brigade for 28 years.
“Limited fuel means limited fire. Hazard reduction won’t eliminate fire but it keeps it at a level where we can manage it.”
Williams is expecting severe fire danger today in his fire-prone area at the top of a ridge, surrounded by national park.
He has never lost a house but this time he is worried, because he has been unable to do all the necessary hazard reduction burns, due to bureaucratic green tape and obstruction from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
“I’ve got a patch now I’ve been waiting three years to burn, and if this fire gets in there’s every chance homes will go. The fuels are 12 years old and there’s a 20 degree uphill slope to houses on the ridge line.”
Even for a veteran like Williams, performing a controlled burn in the cooler months has become a logistical nightmare, with multiple forms to fill out, biodiversity to monitor and myriad agencies from which to beg permission.
A process that once took six people now needs 40, with a limited window of suitable weather days.
While the NSW government has vowed to increase hazard reduction, it is nowhere near enough.
Australia’s foremost bushfire scientist, former CSIRO researcher Dr Phil Cheney, says this fire season is very similar to 1968, with strong westerly winds in October after a dry winter.
The difference is that “the forests have thickened up enormously in the past 50 years” and people’s attitude to fire has changed.
People used to not “whinge about a bit of smoke on their washing. It was accepted that fire was part and parcel of the environment. Now that acceptance is begrudgingly learned,” Cheney says.
Cheney is no climate sceptic, but he scoffs at the stupidity of blaming climate change for bushfires.
“We’ve had these big fires forever. You’d have to come from Mars not to know that. This is a flammable continent.
“The changes are not weather changes - they are not fire behaviour changes. They are lifestyle changes and fuel changes.”
People now live deep in the bush, with flammable native gardens rather than lawns and European vegetation. Burning off ground fuel used to be an Australian tradition. Now it’s frowned upon.
“As a result the fires we get are much more intense and close to homes.”
The smoke haze still lies thick over us today and worse is yet to come.
But one thing is for sure: when Tony Abbott goes out to fight fires with his local brigade, there will be no sign of Adam Bandt.
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Blame games
Miranda Devine – Sunday, October 20, 2013 (5:52am)
RETIRED Labor MP Nicola Roxon seemed not to realise the hypocrisy of calling for civility from her colleagues and telling them to “keep yourselves nice” - while she repeatedly called Kevin Rudd a “bastard” during a speech last week.
It is not a good example for a former attorney-general to set for children.
But the rancour is all part of the battle of the narratives.
Who is history going to blame for Labor’s mess: Julia Gillard or Rudd? Labor does need to engage in serious soul-searching and get to grips with what went wrong.
But here’s a tip: it’s not the fault of just one person.
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Crying kids can drive you mad
Miranda Devine – Sunday, October 20, 2013 (5:49am)
SPARE a thought for the bus driver who tried to throw Beth Burton (below) and her whining child off the bus to Bondi.
He has been suspended after telling Burton, 24, that if she didn’t stop 21-month-old Mia from “carrying on” she’d have to get off the 380 bus.
When a male passenger intervened, the driver stormed off the bus before cooling off and resuming his duties.
It upset the young mum, and an apology was in order.
But let’s cut the driver some slack. Driving a bus in Sydney traffic and keeping up with a stringent, impossible timetable is hard enough without out-of-sorts kids in your ear. Of course, the community needs to be more tolerant and welcoming towards children in our midst.
After all, parents are nurturing the citizens of the future.
When my children were toddlers, I formed a joke lobby group with friends which we called Mothers Against Meanies (MAM) to combat all the nasty looks and comments from older people intolerant of our children’s antics.
But it’s a two-way street. Parents should not expect the public to endure long bouts of intolerable behaviour from their children.
Learn to control your offspring, or don’t take them out.
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Abuse alert
Miranda Devine – Sunday, October 20, 2013 (5:24am)
A MUSLIM child-bride married off at age 14 and abused by her husband for the next six years has won full custody of their child in a case that should send warning bells across Australia.
Federal Circuit Court judge Joe Harman was so appalled by the violent abuse endured by the young woman, now 24, that he called her former husband as “a most heinous, capricious and revolting misogynist”.
What is most disturbing about this story is not just that her parents willingly married her off to such a man.
It is that she told a teacher of her problems but nothing was done, despite mandatory reporting requirements.
This is cultural tolerance beyond reason. Domestic abuse is wrong in any culture.
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Illegal entrants aren’t “clients”, just as burglars aren’t
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (9:19am)
We should support honesty in language:
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has instructed departmental and detention centre staff to publicly refer to asylum seekers as ‘’illegal’’ arrivals and as ‘’detainees’’, rather than clients.Calling people “clients” is just as dehumanising. But it’s actually deceptive.
The directive has been criticised as a ‘’profound’’ shift by a leading asylum seeker agency, which says the new terms are designed to dehumanise people.
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Whatever suits Latham is true at the time
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (9:10am)
Tim Blair:
Only last year, Mark Latham described the ABC as “Australia’s last remaining mausoleum of socialist demagoguery” and volunteered to oversee its privatisation. Now the erratic former Labor leader calls on conservatives to acknowledge “the impartiality of the ABC.”
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The Greens get burned
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (8:59am)
Mark Knight never followed the herd, but Professor Sinclair Davidson is broadly correct:
Mark Knight’s picture is magnificent. What I find most interesting, however, is the notion that mocking a Green (or anyone actually) warming about the hell-fire and damnation of climate change has become acceptable. Only a few years ago the entire progressive establishment (including elements within the Liberal Party) would have been out there drawing the links between bushfires and climate change. Now with only Bandt have stuck his head out, we see cartoonists tearing him a new one.Australian Climate Madness on Greens MP Adam Bandt, who claims Tony Abbott’s global warming policies will create more bushfires:
Good.
Australia’s emissions are 1.5% of the global total. If we reduced that to zero overnight, it would make no difference at all to the climate. As it is, we are only planning to reduce by 5% by 2020, or in other words, 0.075% of global emissions, when the major emitters are doing close to nothing by comparison.UPDATE
And Bandt thinks that will make a difference to bush fire frequency or intensity?
Idiotic statements like this will ensure the Greens are consigned to the sewer of Australian political history...
Wendy Harmer worries where she should live in a warming world. Tim Blair is rounding up some suggestions.
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Dear ABC. About your “science” presenter, warming alarmist Dr Karl. Are you really so sure of his judgment?
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Herald hails Tanya Plibersek, the next beautifully dressed Labor leader
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (8:19am)
The Sydney Morning Herald - and plenty of others on the Left - are already positioning Tanya Plibersek as the hero to take over from Bill Shorten, who has more numbers than admirers. From the Herald puff piece, which lays on the love with a trowel:
Note one other thing from the hagiography. It is by a woman, writing for Fairfax’s Daily Life section for women. Daily Life columnists like to vent at sexists who discuss what clothes female politicians wear, the poor victims. For instance:
Within hours of the ALP losing government in September, Plibersek emerged as a potential new leader. A few weeks later, BRW magazine described her as a “powerful candidate” due to her “warmth, intelligence ... and, let’s not be shy, her undoubted charisma”. Then former PM Julia Gillard all but endorsed Plibersek, calling her one of the most gifted communicators in politics… political observers were left asking why she didn’t step up for the top job....Watch out, Bill.
“If you were to draw up a shortlist for the next PM, it would have Tanya Plibersek’s name on it,” says political commentator Lachlan Harris, a former press secretary to Kevin Rudd…
[Bob] Hawke remains a firm believer in Plibersek’s ability to lead the party. “She’s got everything it takes,” he says… In her own electorate of Sydney she is much loved…
Long-time Canberra press gallery journalist Kerry-Anne Walsh describes Plibersek as a “straight shooter… She’s a genuinely compassionate person, a good policy driver, and she doesn’t play nasty political games."…
Plibersek’s hospitality is legendary… Plibersek is one of the most invited guests on ABC TV’s Q&A program ... known for her calm, thoughtful answers ... warmer, more personable ... strikingly handsome ... family comes first for Plibersek… The marginalised and disadvantaged are the focus of Plibersek’s work.... Plibersek is a survivor, a stayer, a new hope for Labor.
Note one other thing from the hagiography. It is by a woman, writing for Fairfax’s Daily Life section for women. Daily Life columnists like to vent at sexists who discuss what clothes female politicians wear, the poor victims. For instance:
From a young age, we all of us – men and women – internalize the idea that women have an obligation to be attractive, particularly if they plan on making a habit of speaking in public, or venturing into places where people can see them…Another example:
These are not issues separate from the ‘jocular’ observations of whether or not the Prime Minister’s jackets are awkwardly tailored. They all belong to the school of thought that suggests women are there for the amusement and benefit of other people, and that they should follow the rules accordingly… But on a macro level, it also discourages the involvement of women in public life.
Ms Gillard said that it had been a mixed bag being Australia’s first female prime minister.But note the focus Daily Life puts on Plibersek’s clothes - and how Plibersek herself goes along with it:
‘’It’s an experience that’s mixed, I’d have to say. Endless focus on hair, and clothes and shoes and things that men don’t have to put up with,’’ she said.
Styling by Sarah Bonnett. Hair and make-up by Erin Shaw. Lead-in and top image: Tanya wears Esprit shirt, Bianca Spender pants.... Above right image: Tanya wears Country Road shirt, Bianca Spender pants.(Thanks to reader Ellen.)
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WikiLeaks movie bombs. Must be another US plot
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (7:47am)
Never confuse the
frantic myth-making of the media class with the interest of the
movie-going public. For instance, Julian Assange fills acres of Leftist
newsprint but empties cinemas:
Placing #6 is DreamWorks Studios’ The Fifth Estate flopping worse than forecast with only $700K for Friday and just a $2M weekend even factoring its low 1,769 theatre count. The per screen average looks to be $1,102 meaning each location is playing nearly empty. This hyperbolic melodrama earned only a ‘B-’ CinemaScore from audiences which won’t help word of mouth. Its multiple trailers and high-spend TV ads were as misguided as WikiLeaker Julian Assange played by Benedict Cumberbatch who deserved way better than director Bill Condon.
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Yes, more power to parents and principals. But what if their abilities are not great?
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (7:43am)
I like the idea in
principle. My concern is that many state schools will not have the
esprit and the parental involvement needed to make this work well:
A class of 25 led by a great teacher is better for students than a class of 20 led by a bad one.
PRINCIPALS and parents will be put in control of public schools under the first rollout of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s schools revolution...In the end, though, the government should also do a better job of insisting on performance, with sanctions on those who do not deliver it. It should also reverse the damaging trend of the past couple of decades to prefer quantity to quality in hiring teachers.
Mr Abbott pledged during the election campaign to make public schools “independent”, and wants 25 per cent of public schools to make the switch by 2017…
Education Minister Christopher Pyne predicts the reforms will boost public school enrolments, reversing the trend of parents choosing to go private over public.,,
“Rubber will start to hit the road in 2014...’’
At the core of the new schools agenda is delivering more public school principals the power to hire staff and set school budgets.
For parents, independent public schools would offer a greater say through school boards that would set the strategic direction of a school in consultation with local community and business leaders.
A class of 25 led by a great teacher is better for students than a class of 20 led by a bad one.
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Safe bet made
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (7:17am)
Reader Eskimo:
Bet the NSW Police Chief didn’t go to dinner this week.No, that would be the kind of dereliction of duty only forgiven in a feminist hero.
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Europeans demand their homes have walls and fences
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (7:08am)
It is now almost too
late - certainly to avoid damaging tensions - but Europeans are in
revolt against the destruction of their borders:
Hostility to EU migrants seeking work and benefits is now entrenched in the bloc’s biggest economies, according to a poll for the Financial Times…(Thanks to reader GJH.)
In one of the most striking conclusions, national restrictions on EU migrants’ rights to benefits were backed by 83 per cent of Britons, 73 per cent of Germans and 72 per cent of French respondents. Around three out of five also disapproved of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens securing, from January, one of the main freedoms of the union: the right to work in any EU member state…
The EU would be better with fewer powers, according to two-thirds of Britons, more than half of Germans and Spaniards, 44 per cent of Italians and 43 per cent of French respondents.
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Labor wins NSW by-election with 27 per cent swing
Andrew Bolt October 20 2013 (6:53am)
The electorate is volatile, and particularly severe on politicians who seem self-serving:
(Thanks to reader Tim.)
LABOR’S Barry Collier has reclaimed his old NSW parliament seat of Miranda with one of the biggest swings ever in the state in yesterday’s by-election…Politicians inclined to rort their expenses should take particular note.
NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson says the swing of about 27 per cent swing against the Liberals in Miranda sends a clear message.
Mr Collier took back the seat he lost in 2011 after the resignation of former Liberal sports minister Graham Annesley ... to become chief executive of the Gold Coast Titans NRL club…
[Premier Barry] O’Farrell ... said the backlash was against an MP quitting and causing people to return to the polls, not against his government… There have [also] been allegations over relations between property developers with Liberal Party connections and Sutherland Council.
(Thanks to reader Tim.)
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I don't care for their opinion - ed
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Hold a baby .. great skill! - ed
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I am stupid .. I used to be really arrogant and critical of others .. but as I got older .. I began to realise, slowly because I'm quite dumb, that others have reason for their actions, but I had none for my contempt.
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< Disappointment as Richmond brothel fails to arouse winning bid
When this Melbourne brothel opened on Saturday it was the first time in its long and colourful history that nobody came.
Well - some people came. To the auction. But not many. There was only one bid of a tickle over $1.4 million, but it was not nearly enough to sell the property, which until July was trading as Ladies For Gentlemen.>
http://theage.domain.com.au/real-estate-news/disappointment-as-richmond-brothel-fails-to-arouse-winning-bid-20131019-2vtxs.html
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Morning Breaks over the Gate
Please bear with me for a while... you will be seeing a few more images of the Golden Gate bridge from yours truly.
I arrived at Hawk hill a day ago as the sun was setting and the moon was rising. Then the fog moved in. I wound up staying all night long in the area and even wound up finding a place to car camp with the fog bound bridge in sight and let the fog horns lull me to sleep for a three hour nap.
This was my third location for shooting the morning sunrise. I went straight home after taking this shot.
...more images to come!
— at Battery Spencer.Please bear with me for a while... you will be seeing a few more images of the Golden Gate bridge from yours truly.
I arrived at Hawk hill a day ago as the sun was setting and the moon was rising. Then the fog moved in. I wound up staying all night long in the area and even wound up finding a place to car camp with the fog bound bridge in sight and let the fog horns lull me to sleep for a three hour nap.
This was my third location for shooting the morning sunrise. I went straight home after taking this shot.
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The Pastel Pallet
I warned you... here is yet another pic I took of the Golden Gate bridge this morning... — at Hawk Hill.
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
TRUTH for the day: Life is too short for dead in jobs, people, places and things. If there is no peace, fulfillment, appreciation, love, happiness, uplifting, laughter or passion then it needs to change or go. Have a fabulous day!
Harsh wisdom .. it is wise .. patience can sometimes be taken advantage of. But it is good not to give up on *everything* .. prioritise ;) ed
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Awesome Anzac bikkies and three great books on problem solving Maths .. thanks to Teresa Limbu, and William Tan. And kudos to Tiny on his restraint .. I get it now how disciplined he is!
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Karl the Fog — at Fort Baker.
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Hypocrite Adam Bandt blames Tories for Sydney Fires but we're still subject to Green Gillard's "cooling" carbon dioxide tax. Hmmm...
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/bandt-is-still-bastard.html
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Training time!! — at Scare-Ric Circuit Session
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Remember when the press would fight censorship? - ed
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Whoops! Last month's discovery of a 2,600-year-old Etruscan warrior prince's tomb in Italy held one more surprise for researchers. (Cue the Disney music...)
The prince was, in fact, a princess.
Read more: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/f5p7
See the ancient tomb: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/f5pb
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Happy birthday, Michael Gambon! Thank you for taking a character so dear to our hearts and bringing him to life flawlessly.
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A couple had their wedding rings engraved with a waveform of their own voices saying “I do.”
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This is a wildlife bridge in the Netherlands. They are designed to help animals cross busy highways in safety. They don't just protect wildlife from being hit by cars - they also connect fragmented habitats and help populations intermingle and breed.
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This father and newborn daughter's set of 'selfies' just went viral! See the rest here:http://tblz.us/pYuD4
(Image Source: Reddit)
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Pastor Rick Warren
The more I focus on me,
the more unhappy I'll be.
See Philippians 2:4
the more unhappy I'll be.
See Philippians 2:4
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
I LIKE WHAT AM DOING.
It is one thing to be a son and spiritual son and working through the relationship on a daily bases, it is another to be the parent. I had parenting and spiritual parenting literally entrusted to me. This really caused the pressure and lessons to be sped up.
I worked out the right way to do it (By His Grace of course). It was a challenge to take everything and teach it. How do you take all you have learned and put it into a few messages?
By faith. Yet nothing excited me more than to see how the Lord revealed his own agenda during my quiet hour.I look forward to seeing the change come, but where will that change start? In families and in our Church.
• The way we see God will influence our beliefs and viewpoints
• The way we see our parents and mostly our Fathers (Natural or Spiritual) will affect our relationship with the Lord and those all around us.
I for one am challenged afresh and pray you too will take up this new call to accountability. If you are a child, it is time to receive what you need.
If God has called you to be a spiritual parent, then stand up and be counted as He is waiting for you to serve Him.God bless you.
It is one thing to be a son and spiritual son and working through the relationship on a daily bases, it is another to be the parent. I had parenting and spiritual parenting literally entrusted to me. This really caused the pressure and lessons to be sped up.
I worked out the right way to do it (By His Grace of course). It was a challenge to take everything and teach it. How do you take all you have learned and put it into a few messages?
By faith. Yet nothing excited me more than to see how the Lord revealed his own agenda during my quiet hour.I look forward to seeing the change come, but where will that change start? In families and in our Church.
• The way we see God will influence our beliefs and viewpoints
• The way we see our parents and mostly our Fathers (Natural or Spiritual) will affect our relationship with the Lord and those all around us.
I for one am challenged afresh and pray you too will take up this new call to accountability. If you are a child, it is time to receive what you need.
If God has called you to be a spiritual parent, then stand up and be counted as He is waiting for you to serve Him.God bless you.
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And now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them.”
(Genesis 11:6, AMP)
How often do you stop and think about what you are thinking about? So often, we live with our minds on autopilot, taking in whatever thoughts come our way. But, if we are going to rise up higher the way God intends, we have to determine to make sure our thoughts line up with God’s thoughts.
Seven times in scripture God asks, “What do you see?” God is interested in our vision. Before your dream comes to pass, you have to see yourself accomplishing that dream. You’ve got to get a picture of it. Before you lose the weight, before you break the addiction, you have to see it happening in your imagination.
Today, instead of thinking about your problems, think about God’s promises. Get a vision for what He has in store for your future. Imagine yourself living in victory. Imagine yourself healed. Imagine yourself walking in abundance. Imagine yourself blessing other people. Just imagine what God has in store for you because nothing is impossible with Him.God bless you.
(Genesis 11:6, AMP)
How often do you stop and think about what you are thinking about? So often, we live with our minds on autopilot, taking in whatever thoughts come our way. But, if we are going to rise up higher the way God intends, we have to determine to make sure our thoughts line up with God’s thoughts.
Seven times in scripture God asks, “What do you see?” God is interested in our vision. Before your dream comes to pass, you have to see yourself accomplishing that dream. You’ve got to get a picture of it. Before you lose the weight, before you break the addiction, you have to see it happening in your imagination.
Today, instead of thinking about your problems, think about God’s promises. Get a vision for what He has in store for your future. Imagine yourself living in victory. Imagine yourself healed. Imagine yourself walking in abundance. Imagine yourself blessing other people. Just imagine what God has in store for you because nothing is impossible with Him.God bless you.
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I'll start off with last night's Fog Bow... I would have never known about these if not for Mike Hollingshead... this was the first time I ever saw one in person. Pretty nifty! — at Hawk Hill.
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Cotton Candy Sunrise
After pulling an all nighter along the Marin Headlands, I was rewarded with this fantastic foggy sunrise over San Francisco and it's bridges. I was also rewarded by seeing so many of the awesome local photographers I have grown to know so well and who I delight in seeing and talking to. There was far too little time to socialize however with this pastel scene unfolding before us. It was good seeing you; John Louie, and his brother Andrew, Steve-Maxx Landeros, Toby Harriman, David Yu, Wilson Lam, Amy Heiden, and so many others! I look forward to seeing what you came away with on this beautiful morning.
Cheers!
~M@ — at Hawk Hill.
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http://www.theage.com.au/national/defence-all-at-sea-on-new-submarines-20131018-2vsd6.html
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Indeed a musical high water mark .. in the same genre of Rebecca Black's Friday .. ed
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The Moment
I was up on Hawk Hill with my friend Miguel, and when he went to go home, I decided to see if the fog had lowered enough at Battery Spencer to get a shot. When I arrived, I was completely alone and the bridge was not visible through the thick mists. This thought came to me that if I stayed a little while there would be a clearing, and indeed five minutes later this presented itself. Then the sky closed up again... Magic. — at Battery Spencer.
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Resettlement and Recompense Little notice has been paid to the fate of the 850,000 Jewish refugees from the Arab states, about 550,000 of whom were resettled in Israel. Similarly, the resettlement of most of the Palestinian refugees in the host Arab countries, creating a de facto population exchange, has been overlooked.
http://www.meforum.org/3643/palestinian-refugee-problem
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Is Antisemitism Back in Europe? The rise of Muslim antisemitism in Europe is well documented—and widely ignored.
John Allen Gay | October 18, 2013
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Charles Krauthammer: Deal with an Iranian moderate? The search has been never-ending for good reason
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The search, now 30 years old, for Iranian “moderates” goes on. Amid the enthusiasm of the latest sighting, it’s worth remembering that the highlight of the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages debacle was thesecret trip to Tehran taken by Robert McFarlane, President Reagan’s former national security adviser. He brought a key-shaped cake symbolizing the new relations he was opening with the “moderates.”
We know how that ended.
Three decades later, the mirage reappears in the form of Hassan Rouhani. Strange résumé for a moderate: 35 years of unswervingly loyal service to the Islamic Republic as a close aide to Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei. Moreover, Rouhani was one of only six presidential candidates, another 678 having been disqualified by the regime as ideologically unsound. That puts him in the 99th centile for fealty.
Rouhani is Khamenei’s agent but, with a smile and style, he’s now hailed as the face of Iranian moderation. Why? Because Rouhani wants better relations with the West.
Well, what leader would not want relief from Western sanctions that have sunk Iran’s economy, devalued its currency and caused widespread hardship? The test of moderation is not what you want but what you’re willing to give. After all, sanctions were not slapped on Iran for amusement. It was to enforce multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding a halt to uranium enrichment.
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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/the-rabbits-who-caused-all-trouble-and.html#.UmOmThZlpa8
By James Thurber, first published in The New Yorker on August 26, 1939:
Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. (The wolves were crazy about the way they themselves were living, because it was the only way to live.) One night several wolves were killed in an earthquake and this was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that rabbits pound on the ground with their hind legs and cause earthquakes. On another night one of the wolves was killed by a bolt of lightning and this was also blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that lettuce-eaters cause lightning. The wolves threatened to civilize the rabbits if they didn't behave, and the rabbits decided to run away to a desert island. But the other animals, who lived at a great distance, shamed them saying, "You must stay where you are and be brave. This is no world for escapists. If the wolves attack you, we will come to your aid in all probability." So the rabbits continued to live near the wolves and one day there was a terrible flood which drowned a great many wolves. This was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that carrot-nibblers with long ears cause floods. The wolves descended on the rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned them in a dark cave, for their own protection.
When nothing was heard about the rabbits for some weeks, the other animals demanded to know what had happened to them. The wolves replied that the rabbits had been eaten and since they had been eaten the affair was a purely internal matter. But the other animals warned that they might possibly unite against the wolves unless some reason was given for the destruction of the rabbits. So the wolves gave them one. "They were trying to escape," said the wolves, "and, as you know, this is no world for escapists."
Moral: Run, don't walk, to the nearest desert island.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013, , By Charles Abelsohn, TOI The following article was sent to the spokesman for Baroness Catherine Ashton. It was not acknowledged. BARONESS ASHTON: PLEASE ENLIGHTEN WHY, WHEN ISRAEL IS INVOLVED, THE EU CHANGES THE LEGAL TO ILLEGAL AND THE ILLEGAL TO LEGAL. Sometimes one wonders exactly what the European Union [EU] wants from and expects of …
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HOW CAN IT BE STOLEN WHEN THEY HATE JUDAISM ?There was 1/2 million Jews living in Iraq at one time .. Saddam & Iraqis butchered them and drove them out ... and do not want any Jews there . Why should Iraq get the scrolls ? It should go to the Jews that fled to Israel from Iraq
The Jewish community of Iraq was one of the most ancient and storied of the Jewish diaspora. Jews came to the area after the destruction of the First Temple (586 B.C.E.) - and maybe even 10 years earlier with the exile of Jehoiachin. They integrated into their land of captivity and took part in its economic and cultural development.
At its highest point, the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq's capital, amounted to nearly one-third of the total population. The rise of Islamic regimes and increased anti-Semitism drove away most Jews from Iraq. Today, the Jewish community in Iraq is non-existent.
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<People have double standards.
" The unspeakable crime of the 20th century, more than the triumph of evil, was the sin of the "innocent" bystander."
When I posted tragic photographs of Syrian children raped and murdered I am told by the do-gooders how offended they are that I am exploiting these shocking pictures for pushing the point how Obama is guilty of assisting the anti- Assad Syrians.
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- 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Soldiers of the Spanish Tercios waded across the river Scheldt at its mouth, walking overnight in water to chest height, to relieve the siege of Goes in the Spanish Netherlands.
- 1740 – Per the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, Maria Theresa (pictured) assumed the throne of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria.
- 1941 – World War II: German soldiers began a massacre of thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
- 1973 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, formally opened the Sydney Opera House on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour.
- 1982 – During a UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow andHFC Haarlem, a large number of attendees tried to leave the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at the same time, resulting ina stampede that caused 66 deaths.
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Events[edit]
- 1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain andHoly Roman Emperor, Charles V.
- 1572 – Relief of Goes, Cristóbal de Mondragón with 3000 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios, release the siege of the city.
- 1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
- 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
- 1781 – Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
- 1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
- 1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
- 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
- 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
- 1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
- 1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
- 1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1935 – The Long March ends.
- 1939 – Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
- 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
- 1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
- 1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
- 1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
- 1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japaneseduring the Second World War.
- 1946 – Goverment of Democratic Republic of Vietnam decided that on 20/10 is Vietnam Women's Day
- 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
- 1947 – United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
- 1951 – The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
- 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
- 1961 – The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine.
- 1962 – China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, beginning the Sino-Indian War.
- 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
- 1970 – Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
- 1971 – The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
- 1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
- 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
- 1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
- 1977 – Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crash.
- 1981 – Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army andWeather Underground.
- 1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
- 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
- 1991 – A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
- 2011 – Libyan civil war: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.
Births[edit]
- 1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
- 1496 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French general (d. 1550)
- 1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
- 1620 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
- 1632 – Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)
- 1656 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
- 1660 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician (d. 1723)
- 1677 – Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (d. 1766)
- 1700 – Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans (d. 1761)
- 1711 – Timothy Ruggles, American military leader and politician (d. 1795)
- 1719 – Gottfried Achenwall, German economist and jurist (d. 1772)
- 1740 – Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch author and poet (d. 1805)
- 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician (d. 1815)
- 1780 – Pauline Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (d. 1825)
- 1784 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
- 1785 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
- 1801 – Melchior Berri, Swiss architect (d. 1854)
- 1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
- 1819 – Báb, Iranian founder of Bábism (d. 1850)
- 1819 – Karol Mikuli, Armenian-Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1897)
- 1822 – Thomas Hughes, English author (d. 1896)
- 1832 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
- 1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- 1858 – John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
- 1859 – John Dewey, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1952)
- 1864 – James F. Hinkle, American politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
- 1873 – Nellie McClung, Canadian politician and activist (d. 1951)
- 1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- 1876 – Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (d. 1953)
- 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956)
- 1882 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1885 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, bandleader and composer (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1941)
- 1887 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Japanese founder of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family (d. 1981)
- 1890 – Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (d. 1968)
- 1891 – Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and biographer (d. 1973)
- 1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1893 – Charley Chase, American actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1940)
- 1894 – Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
- 1895 – Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1897 – Yi Un, Korean husband of Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress, and dancer (d. 1993)
- 1904 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (d. 2006)
- 1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Frederic Dannay, American author (d. 1982)
- 1905 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1965)
- 1907 – Arlene Francis, American actress and talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1909 – Carla Laemmle, American actress
- 1909 – Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Bob Sheppard, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
- 1913 – Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998)
- 1913 – J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-American director and producer (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Fayard Nicholas, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2006)
- 1917 – Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and activist (d. 2013)
- 1917 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
- 1917 – X. M. Sellathambu, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
- 1918 – Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
- 1919 – Tracy Hall, American chemist (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Hans Warren, Dutch poet and author (d. 2001)
- 1922 – John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Robert Craft, American conductor
- 1925 – Art Buchwald, American columnist (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Tom Dowd, American record producer (d. 2002)
- 1925 – Roger Hanin, French actor and director
- 1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, columnist, and actress (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Richard Caliguiri, American politician, 54th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 1988)
- 1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1932 – Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
- 1932 – William Christopher, American actor
- 1934 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player (d. 1974)
- 1934 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Empress Michiko of Japan
- 1935 – Barrie Chase, American actress and dancer
- 1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1937 – Wanda Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
- 1938 – Emidio Greco, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer (d. 2006)
- 1940 – Kathy Kirby, English singer (d. 2011)
- 1940 – Robert Pinsky, American poet
- 1942 – Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist (d. 1992)
- 1943 – Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano
- 1944 – Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher
- 1944 – David Mancuso, American party planner, created The Loft
- 1946 – Lewis Grizzard, American comedian and author (d. 1994)
- 1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 – Richard Loncraine, English director
- 1946 – Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
- 1948 – Piet Hein Donner, Dutch politician
- 1948 – Melih Gökçek, Turkish politician, 27th Mayor of Ankara
- 1950 – Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter and musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, and Traveling Wilburys)
- 1950 – William Russ, American actor
- 1951 – Al Greenwood, American keyboard player (Foreigner)
- 1951 – Patrick Hall, English politician
- 1951 – Ken Ham, Australian evangelist
- 1951 – Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
- 1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager
- 1952 – Melanie Mayron, American actress
- 1953 – Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
- 1953 – Richard McWilliam, American businessman, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (d. 2013)
- 1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor
- 1954 – Steve Orich, American composer
- 1955 – Robert ten Brink, Dutch television host
- 1955 – Thomas Newman, American composer and conductor
- 1955 – David Profumo, English author
- 1955 – Aaron Pryor, American boxer
- 1956 – Danny Boyle, English director
- 1957 – Chris Cowdrey, English cricketer
- 1957 – Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
- 1957 – Hilda Solis, American politician, 25th United States Secretary of Labor
- 1958 – Valerie Faris, American director
- 1958 – Dave Finlay, Irish wrestler
- 1958 – Lynn Flewelling, American author
- 1958 – Scott Hall, American wrestler
- 1958 – Mark King, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Level 42 and Re-Flex)
- 1958 – Dave Krieg, American football player
- 1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor
- 1958 – Ivo Pogorelić, Croatian pianist
- 1959 – Mark Little, Australian actor and comedian
- 1960 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
- 1960 – Lepa Brena, Yugoslav singer and actress
- 1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
- 1961 – Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
- 1962 – David M. Evans, American director and screenwriter
- 1962 – Dave Wong, Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
- 1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
- 1963 – Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
- 1963 – Stan Valckx, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1964 – Kamala Harris, American lawyer, 32nd Attorney General of California
- 1965 – Norman Blake, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, and Jonny)
- 1965 – Jil Caplan, French singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1965 – William Zabka, American actor
- 1966 – Fred Coury, American drummer (Cinderella and London)
- 1966 – Allan Donald, South African cricketer
- 1966 – Stefan Raab, German comedian and television host
- 1966 – Patrick Volkerding, American computer scientist, founded Slackware
- 1967 – Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
- 1967 – Elizabeth Carling, English actress and singer
- 1967 – Luck Mervil, Haitian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1967 – Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
- 1968 – Susan Tully, English actress
- 1969 – Laurie Daley, Australian rugby player
- 1969 – Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1969 – Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
- 1970 – Sander Boschker, Dutch footballer
- 1970 – Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American wrestler
- 1970 – Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (d. 2011)
- 1970 – Aapo Ilves, Estonian writer, artist and musician
- 1970 – Michelle Malkin, American blogger and author
- 1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper, producer, and actor (Tha Eastsidaz and 213)
- 1971 – Eddie Jones, American basketball player
- 1971 – Kamiel Maase, Dutch runner
- 1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1971 – Matt Norman, Australian director and producer
- 1972 – Pie Geelen, Dutch swimmer
- 1972 – Will Greenwood, England rugby player
- 1972 – Brian Schatz, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
- 1974 – Bashar Rahal, American actor
- 1976 – Nikolaos Bacharidis, Greek footballer
- 1976 – Nicola Legrottaglie, Italian footballer
- 1976 – Dan Fogler, American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, playwright, filmmaker, and voice artist
- 1977 – Matt Jansen, English footballer
- 1977 – Leila Josefowicz, Canadian-American violinist
- 1977 – Erko Saviauk, Estonian footballer
- 1977 – Samuel Witwer, American actor and singer
- 1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
- 1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player and songwriter (Snow Patrol and Terra Diablo)
- 1979 – Vasyl Baranov, Ukrainian footballer
- 1979 – Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer
- 1979 – John Krasinski, American actor and director
- 1979 – Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
- 1980 – Gary Jarman, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Cribs)
- 1980 – Niall Matter, Canadian actor
- 1980 – Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 – Willis McGahee, American football player
- 1981 – Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1982 – Kristian Bak Nielsen, Danish footballer
- 1982 – Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
- 1982 – Katie Featherston, American actress
- 1982 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
- 1983 – Flavio Cipolla, Italian tennis player
- 1983 – Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1983 – Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
- 1984 – Florent Sinama Pongolle, French footballer
- 1984 – Andrew Trimble, Irish rugby player
- 1985 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
- 1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
- 1985 – Alphonso Smith, American football player
- 1985 – James Sutton, English race car driver
- 1986 – Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer
- 1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
- 1987 – Raphael Hackl, German rugby player
- 1988 – Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player
- 1988 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Tanpopo)
- 1988 – Candice Swanepoel, South African model
- 1989 – Colin Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player
- 1992 – Liis Lemsalu, Estonian singer
- 1992 – Ksenia Semenova, Russian gymnast
- 1992 – Mattia De Sciglio, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Kristian Ipsen, American diver
- 1994 – Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
- 1995 – Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist
Deaths[edit]
- 460 – Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine wife of Theodosius II (b. 401)
- 1139 – Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
- 1570 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
- 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
- 1640 – John Ball, English clergyman (b. 1585)
- 1652 – Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1611)
- 1713 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
- 1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
- 1842 – Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
- 1865 – Champ Ferguson, American guerrilla (b. 1821)
- 1870 – Michael William Balfe, Irish composer (b. 1808)
- 1890 – Richard Francis Burton, English geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
- 1900 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
- 1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
- 1910 – David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
- 1913 – William Clark, American archer
- 1926 – Eugene V. Debs, American politician (b. 1855)
- 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
- 1936 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
- 1940 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
- 1947 – Gilbert Bougnol, French fencer (b. 1866)
- 1950 – Henry L. Stimson, American statesman, lawyer and politician (b. 1867)
- 1953 – Werner Baumbach, German pilot (b. 1916)
- 1957 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (b. 1890)
- 1964 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
- 1967 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Bud Flanagan, English singer (b. 1896)
- 1972 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
- 1977 – Cassie Gaines, American singer (The Honkettes) (b. 1948)
- 1977 – Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Detroit (b. 1949)
- 1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948)
- 1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
- 1983 – Peter Dudley, English actor (b. 1935)
- 1983 – Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
- 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
- 1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Sheila Scott, English pilot (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 – Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1992 – Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (b. 1926)
- 1993 – Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
- 1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1995 – Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Jack Lynch, Irish politician (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (b. 1949)
- 2002 – Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
- 2003 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Endon Mahmood, Malaysian wife of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (b. 1941)
- 2005 – Eva Švankmajerová, Czech painter and poet (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2007 – Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
- 2007 – Paul Raven, English bass player (Killing Joke, Prong, Ministry, Society 1, Godflesh, and Zilch) (b. 1961)
- 2008 – Gene Hickerson, American football player (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher, founded Penthouse magazine (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-born British novelist (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)
- 2011 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)
- 2011 – Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan army officer (b. 1977)
- 2011 – Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet (b. 1928)
- 2011 – Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, Libyan minister of defence (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Oli Ahad, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Jaouad Akaddar, Moroccan footballer (b. 1984)
- 2012 – Przemysław Gintrowski, Polish poet and composer (b. 1951)
- 2012 – Paul Kurtz, American academic (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Daniel Enele Kwanairara, Solomon Islands politician (b. 1947)
- 2012 – E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Birth of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)
- Christian feast days:
- Acca of Hexham
- Artemius
- Caprasius of Agen
- Irene of Tomar
- John Cantius (Extraordinary Form, celebrated by Traditionalist Catholic)
- October 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Kenyatta Day (Kenya, until 2010)
- Revolution Day, one of the two Patriotic Days (Guatemala)
- World Osteoporosis Day
- Spirit Day
- The International Day of the Air Traffic Controller
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“Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”Psalm 37:4 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Babes in Christ."
1 Corinthians 3:1
1 Corinthians 3:1
Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father's heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, "put out that smoking flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!" but the smoking flax he will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but he will never break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. Though "less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess." Yet, if the root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation.
Evening
"God, my maker, who giveth songs in the night."
Job 35:10
Job 35:10
Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. It is easy enough for an Aeolian harp to whisper music when the winds blow--the difficulty is for music to swell forth when no wind is stirring. It is easy to sing when we can read the notes by daylight; but he is skilful who sings when there is not a ray of light to read by--who sings from his heart. No man can make a song in the night of himself; he may attempt it, but he will find that a song in the night must be divinely inspired. Let all things go well, I can weave songs, fashioning them wherever I go out of the flowers that grow upon my path; but put me in a desert, where no green thing grows, and wherewith shall I frame a hymn of praise to God? How shall a mortal man make a crown for the Lord where no jewels are? Let but this voice be clear, and this body full of health, and I can sing God's praise: silence my tongue, lay me upon the bed of languishing, and how shall I then chant God's high praises, unless he himself give me the song? No, it is not in man's power to sing when all is adverse, unless an altar-coal shall touch his lip. It was a divine song, which Habakkuk sang, when in the night he said, "Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." Then, since our Maker gives songs in the night, let us wait upon him for the music. O thou chief musician, let us not remain songless because affliction is upon us, but tune thou our lips to the melody of thanksgiving.
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Today's reading: Isaiah 56-58, 2 Thessalonians 2 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 56-58
Salvation for Others
1 This is what the LORD says:
"Maintain justice
and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
2 Blessed is the one who does this-
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil."
and do what is right,
for my salvation is close at hand
and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
2 Blessed is the one who does this-
the person who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,
and keeps their hands from doing any evil."
3 Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say,
"The LORD will surely exclude me from his people."
And let no eunuch complain,
"I am only a dry tree."
"The LORD will surely exclude me from his people."
And let no eunuch complain,
"I am only a dry tree."
4 For this is what the LORD says:
"To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant-
5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that will endure forever....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Thessalonians 2
The Man of Lawlessness
1 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us-whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter-asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness....
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Potiphar
[Pŏt'ĭphar] - who is of the sun or a fat bull. The captain of Pharaoh's guardto whom Joseph was sold by the Midianites. It was his wife who tried to seduce Joseph (Gen. 37:36; 39:1).
[Pŏt'ĭphar] - who is of the sun or a fat bull. The captain of Pharaoh's guardto whom Joseph was sold by the Midianites. It was his wife who tried to seduce Joseph (Gen. 37:36; 39:1).
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GOD’S ATTRIBUTES – SPIRIT
Jesus said, “a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." This is one of the core attributes of God.
But what does “Spirit” mean? Both the Hebrew word for spirit (ruach) and the Greek word (pneuma) can mean breath, wind, or spirit. Like the invisible wind that comes from one direction, then another, and can assert itself with mighty power, so does God come as Spirit. Breath, too, is invisible, yet with breath, you are a living being; without it, you are dead. So “Spirit” is a wonderfully precise description of who God is–”the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God…” (1 Timothy 1:17).
We all know that there are two fundamentally different ways of looking at reality. One assumes that only what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard is real. This is the materialist position. The other view allows that there are realities beyond our senses, the metaphysical beyond the physical. It assumes that there is a divine Spirit who is not limited by the material world as we are. He moves as he wishes; he is actively present in all places at once. He comes to us as pleasantly as a breeze, but also comes as a mighty cyclone.
If you put a negative spin on it, God’s spirituality may seem like an inferior trait, as if he is less than the creatures and things we all daily see, touch, and smell. It may seem easier to ignore God because he is invisible, and to go on with occasional debates about whether God exists or not-which is like talking about someone who is, in fact, still in the room with us. If there were a lion in the room, we wouldn’t ignore it, but it’s not hard to disregard an invisible God.
But God’s invisibility is not some lack on his part. It is what you would expect of a God who presides over a universe in which there are not just three dimensions, but at least eleven at last count, according to some physicists. And if someone says, “Why doesn’t God just show himself?” the answer has to be, “He did!” “The Word became flesh, and made his dwelling among us.”
Excerpt from Putting the Pieces Back Together: How Real Life and Real Faith Connect. Click for more.
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