Bad ALP administration has resulted in corruption of academic progress in schooling. Not merely the calls to lie about global warming and bush fires from senior administration, but the very act of teaching and learning reading has been corrupted by a fad. Average and exceptional children with excellent home support may progress normally with whole word reading, but there is a substantial number of children who don't, and they need a technique for attacking words which current educational standards don't cater for, as evidenced by the substantial number of children graduating from high school illiterate .. unable to write a sentence, or a letter, or read an administrative form requiring their birthdate and signature. Of course, abysmal left wing preaching permeates the courses in all key learning areas.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Maxine Stauffer, Sophie Mirabella, Helen Le and Duncan Rowland Born on the same day, across the years, along with
921 – Emperor Shizong of (Later) Zhou (d. 959)
1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
1811 – Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875)
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
1939 – John Cleese, English actor, screenwriter, and producer
1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
1953 – Peter Firth, English actor
1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer
1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist
1986 – David Warner, Australian cricketer
1999 – Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Matches
312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
1914 – World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west ofIreland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
Despatches
939 – Æthelstan, English king (b. 895)
1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
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Labor’s honesty epidemic is a crisis that’s worth having
Piers Akerman – Sunday, October 27, 2013 (12:14am)
LABOR’S transformation into Opposition has brought about a most welcome, if astonishing, outbreak of honesty.
Kids who read don’t light fires
Miranda Devine – Sunday, October 27, 2013 (12:17am)
IT’S not making excuses, but there’s a good chance that the juveniles who allegedly lit the fires that engulfed NSW last week have problems with reading.
The best predictor of juvenile delinquency is illiteracy. Being unable to read means you are disenfranchised from society and condemned to a life on the margins. Little wonder, with illiteracy entrenched among Australian youth, we are seeing angry youngsters who express their rage with a match - or, more often, by quietly committing suicide or spiralling into drug addiction. It is a problem that has vexed Rev Bill Crews since he first started burying the street kids who turned to his Ashfield Uniting Church for help in the 1990s. The common denominator was all had endured seven years of primary school without learning to read. Once they reached high school, they were lost.
If there is one way the state can make a difference in people’s lives, irrespective of parental quality, it is by providing a good education. And the most important component of a good education is learning to read. From that, everything else flows.
Yet our education establishment continues wilfully to obstruct the systematic, phonics-based approach that all evidence has proved is the best way to teach children to read.
There is a pretence that phonics is incorporated into the system but it is the same lip service authorities give to bushfire hazard reduction. A little bit here and there which amounts to a pile of nothing.
Just as green ideology is behind the reluctance to prevent bushfires in the only way known to man so, too, is ideology behind the resistance against the teaching of phonics. How ideology infected reading instruction is explained in a brilliant new paper by researchers Jennifer Buckingham, Kevin Wheldall and Robyn Beaman Wheldall for the Centre for Independent Studies: “Why Jaydon can’t read: the triumph of ideology over evidence in teaching reading”.
Billions of dollars have been spent in the last decade on remedial literacy programs in schools with zero improvement. The myth of Labor’s Gonski reforms, endorsed by the Abbott Government, is that huge amounts of taxpayer money will magically fix the problem. But evidence says otherwise.
Spending on schools increased by more than 40 per cent, with the result the reading skills of Australia’s Year 4 students were the worst of every English-speaking country tested in last year’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
One quarter of these children of Labor’s “education revolution” were unable to read at the minimum standard for their age group.
Yet, Buckingham says, “with exemplary teaching … more students can achieve higher levels of reading achievement and fewer will fail to learn to read, irrespective of family background. (But) too many children are not receiving exemplary instruction.”
What works is “a highly structured, sequential and explicit method that teaches (children) how to construct words from the smallest language ‘building blocks’ of letters and letter combinations, and their corresponding sounds,” she says.
But an almost “religious” rejection of this approach emerged in universities and teacher training institutions in the freewheeling 1970s, which held that children should not be subjected to stringent instruction because it would kill their love of learning.
Instead, by simply being exposed to books, they would pick up reading by osmosis. This so-called “whole language” approach encourages children to guess words and rewards them for effort, rather than accuracy.
The problem is only about a third of children will learn this way, according to Wheldall. One third will need extra help and another third (especially boys) never will learn, regardless of intelligence.
Despite conclusive evidence it doesn’t work, “the whole language approach has dominated the teaching of reading in Australian schools over the last 30 years …” Reform of teacher education is a start, Buckingham says, urging compulsory effective-reading instruction.
Education ministers seem fixated with refurbishing buildings and erecting school halls. But get reading right and it wouldn’t matter if children were taught in a grass hut.
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AL GORE IS NOT A CARP
Tim Blair – Sunday, October 27, 2013 (2:39am)
A fun exchange with Georgina Dent on Sky’s Friday Live, after Al Gore was named in the program’s “snakes and ladders” segment:
Georgina: “Look, I wouldn’t put him in the snake category. I think that …”Tim: “Lower?”Georgina: “… I’m with him, that it’s fine to …”Tim: “Some kinda carp?”Georgina: “ … to back this up, that we have always had bushfires …”Tim: “Some kinda speech-capable bacteria?”Georgina: “ … that happen, and there is scientific evidence that it is because of rising temperatures.”
I can’t find a clip of our chat on Sky, but it’s worth seeing for Georgina’s determination to make her point despite persistent heckling.
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TAKE ACTION
Tim Blair – Sunday, October 27, 2013 (2:34am)
Fine words from the Prime Minister:
“Let’s be under no illusions the carbon tax was socialism masquerading as environmentalism,” he said.“That’s what the carbon tax was.”
Quite so. Meanwhile, warmy Bernard Keane asks the kids to rise up:
Our youth are entitled to wonder whether, in the absence of genuine political action, they should take some direct action of their own. Action to shut down the loaders and ports that export coal. Action to shut down coal-fired power plants. Actions to shut down the electricity-greedy industries we prop up, like aluminium smelting. Such action will be expensive, and damaging, and inequitable, and dangerous …
… and, if it knocks out Victoria’s coal-based electricity system, it will shut down Crikey and we won’t be able to read Bernard Keane. Storm those power stations, children!
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LIFE IMITATES PJ
Tim Blair – Sunday, October 27, 2013 (2:19am)
Author PJ O’Rouke in 1979:
You have to get a car that handles really well. This is extremely important, and there’s a lot of debate on this subject – about what kind of car handles best. Some say a front-engined car; some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.
V8 Supercar driver Russell Ingall following his fifth place in yesterday’s Gold Coast 600:
Drove it like a rental car.
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Snow last year, fires this. Guess which is “global warming”?
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (2:55pm)
Blue Mountains, October 2012 - and snow.
Blue Mountains, October 2013 and fires blaze in a heat wave:
The ABC does not mention global warming once:
The Bureau of Meteorology says snow falls have occurred right along the Great Dividing Range and as far north as Queensland’s Granite Belt…
The bureau says the unseasonal weather has been caused by a low-pressure system which is expected to move north throughout Friday.
(Thanks to reader Simon.)
This time the ABC mentions global warming again and again and again:
EMMA ALBERICI: Now, the former Rural Fire Service Commissioner Phil Koperberg says the fire in the Blue Mountains isn’t the worst we’ve seen, but it’s certainly the first time bushfires of this magnitude have happened in October… Are bushfires in October part of the pattern of extreme weather events noted in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
DAVID BOWMAN: ... So, circumstantially, this is very worrying because it is consistent with the climate change signal.
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Abbott just as women-friendly as Insiders
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (2:45pm)
Reader Peter spots a symmetry:
Guests on Insiders since the election: 24
Female: 4
Percentage of women as guests since election: 16.6 per cent
Individuals in Abbott’s Ministry (not including parliamentary secretaries): 30
Female: 5 Percentage of women in the Abbott Ministry : 16.6 per cent
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Steffen was all for googling until Greg Hunt did it
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (2:29pm)
When Environment Minister Greg Hunt mentioned he’d checked Wikipedia ”just to see what the rest of the world thought”
about our bushfires, green activists pounced and pretended Hunt
himself used Wikipedia for research on global warming. He was verballed and selectively quoted for political purposes.
One of those grabbing the chance to monster Hunt was Professor Will, of Tim Flannery’s Climate Council. Now watch the video.
In 2007, Steffen tells his class he Googles for his research and invites artists to inform us about environmental issues.
In 2013 he damns Wikipedia and tells us to listen only to the true experts - meaning people just like him. Google guy.
(Thanks to reader Stuart.)
One of those grabbing the chance to monster Hunt was Professor Will, of Tim Flannery’s Climate Council. Now watch the video.
In 2007, Steffen tells his class he Googles for his research and invites artists to inform us about environmental issues.
In 2013 he damns Wikipedia and tells us to listen only to the true experts - meaning people just like him. Google guy.
(Thanks to reader Stuart.)
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SBS: Sex Broadcasting Service
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (8:42am)
SBS explains why taxpayers give it more than $200 million a year:
SBS was founded on the belief that all Australians, regardless of geography, age, cultural background or language skills should have access to high quality, independent, culturally-relevant Australian media.Public life or pubic life?
The multiple language programs available through SBS Television, Radio and Online 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.
(Thanks to reader Dan.)
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Labor MP: deals with Greens don’t work
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (6:01am)
I don’t think Tasmanian Labor backbencher Brenton Best is wrong:
[Premier Lara] Giddings recently stated she would consider continuing with power sharing [with the Greens], if necessary, after the election in March next year.(Thanks to reader Correllio.)
It was the last straw for Mr Best… The MP reiterated to the ABC that it was time for her to go.
“This arrangement’s not working. It’s upsetting the average person on the street ... the truth is I think it’s time to move on and I don’t think we should do this again - it’s been a failed experiment,” he said…
“I was disappointed when it was announced that we were all in lockstep behind the Greens if there was the chance of minority government in March next year and I don’t support that.
“I think if my colleagues were able to reflect on it and they were given the choice in March next year they wouldn’t be supporting an arrangement with the Greens again - it doesn’t work.
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How the UN picks its “scientists”
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (5:52am)
The United Nations demonstrates again that politics and ideology count for far more than real science. From Lubos Motl:
(Thanks to reader mobihci.)
Six days ago, the UN boss Ban Ki-moon announced 26 members of a Scientific Advisory Board for the U.N. that will be hosted by UNESCO:Explains a bit about the UN’s IPCC, too…
UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board to strengthen connection between science and policyI learned about this news story because Fabiola Gianotti, the former spokeswoman for the ATLAS collaboration at CERN (who led the discovery of the Higgs boson), is one of the 26 folks who were appointed – one of the 3-4 “real top scientists” in the board.
Otherwise I must say that the selection underscores the world organization’s political and ideological distortion of the scientific process. You would expect that if scientists are advising the world organization, they should be representative of the scientific community, kind of.
However, you don’t need to look too carefully if you want to see how the members of the board were actually being identified.
First of all, either 14/26 or 13/26 of the members are female. Nothing against that but this – clearly politically correct – proportion has nothing to do with the actual composition of the scientific community which is vastly different, closer to 1/6 than to 1/2.
Second, the nationality of the members is extremely far from the distribution quantifying where science (and most of science) is actually being developed at the beginning of the 21st century. Just look at the homelands of the 26 members:
South Africa, U.S., Barbados, Philippines, Australia, Oman, Ethiopia, Russia, Italy, China, Germany, Bulgaria, Argentina, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Brazil, India, U.S., Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, France, Kenya, Israel, Malaysia, Egypt.Well, this distribution may reflect the number of votes that countries have in the UN but as a collection of representatives of the world science, it is just silly. The U.S. will have two people in the board; one of them is female and one of them is an (Asian) Indian American. But the actual percentage of science that is being advanced in the U.S. is closer to 1/2 than to 1/13…
The disciplines of the scientists are heavily distorted, too. About 1/2 of the members are involved or marginally involved with various types of environmental, ecological, climatic, “sustainable”, or biodiversity activism. This gives a huge overrepresentation to this class of folks whose net contribution to science is safely lower than 1/10, much less than 1/2 indicated by the composition of the board.
(Thanks to reader mobihci.)
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Abbott preaches warming scepticism to US
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (5:46am)
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is revealing his inner climate sceptic nicely - this time to the Washington Post for Americans to mull over, too:
Mr Abbott also told Americans the arguments around climate change had become too “theological” - Australia had had fires and floods since the beginning of time.Portraying climate change as a theology for many believers is absolutely correct.
“We’ve had much bigger floods and fires than the ones we’ve recently experienced. You can hardly say they were the result of anthropic global warming,’’ he said.
“This argument has become far too theological for anyone’s good. I accept that climate change is a reality. And I support policies that will be effective in reducing emissions, but I do think there is too much climate-change alarmism.”
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Who’d know? People smugglers or Fairfax reporter?
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (5:32am)
Hmm, who to believe? Fairfax, which credits Labor for the fall the boat arrivals, or the people smugglers who blame Tony Abbott?
‘’Tony Abbott makes a beeline in my arse,’’ says people smuggler Reza Kord on a secretly recorded phone call recently.
It’s a particularly rude piece of idiom in the Farsi language, apparently, but just one of the unkind things being said about the new Australian Prime Minister among people smugglers and asylum seekers in Indonesia.
If Australia’s aim was, in Julia Gillard’s words, to ‘’smash the people smugglers’ business model’’, then the recent policy changes have done the job…
In Cisarua, it’s Abbott copping the blame.
‘’All Australian prime ministers have been chosen for two terms,’’ one people smuggler was recorded saying recently. ‘’Two terms means six years. Without any doubt, for six years, Australia’s door will be shut for asylum seekers.’’
The irony here is that it’s not Abbott’s policies, but Kevin Rudd’s uncompromising final stand - the Papua New Guinea and Nauru options - as well as Indonesia’s decision (under pressure from Labor) to stop Iranians using visas-on-arrival to get to Indonesia, that have stopped the people traffic in its tracks.
So, why is Abbott being accused of making the beeline? Because his tough talk - known in the finance industry as ‘’jawboning’’ - has almost fully convinced the people smugglers and their customers that this time Australia means it.
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Fairfax digs deep in past to find Liberal expenses
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (5:24am)
It’s odd that Fairfax’s
manic pursuit of the expenses “scandal” concentrates almost exclusively
on Liberals, and is now so short of material that it goes after
Liberals who were ministers in a government that ended six years ago:
UPDATE
Remember these travel rorts or goof offs of Labor Ministers?
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Apologies, I missed this line:
Senior figures in the Abbott government were among those who enjoyed ‘’free’’ travel on VIP military aircraft to fly to Canberra for parliamentary sitting weeks, amassing a taxpayer bill of more than $2 million, Defence Department records reveal.Not a word about Labor ministers and members of far more recent history. Is that because they are pure, or would Fairfax need to open its other eye?
Former ministers in the Howard government including Peter Costello, Nick Minchin and Amanda Vanstone used ‘’special purpose’’ VIP military flights to commute to Canberra with private staff members, despite having unlimited business-class air travel with Qantas as part of their ministerial perks.
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Remember these travel rorts or goof offs of Labor Ministers?
UPDATE
Apologies, I missed this line:
Beyond prime ministerial travel - including then acting prime minister Wayne Swan’s trip to the 2010 NRL and AFL grand finals - Fairfax Media could not find systemic use of VIP jets by Labor MPs during the Rudd and Gillard governments.
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Abbott unleashes
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (5:10am)
After 50 days of buckling down to work, the Abbott Government is on the political attack.
First yesterday:
First yesterday:
Mr Abbott said [Labor under Bill Shorten] could help abolish 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,” Mr Abbott said…Now this:
KEVIN Rudd will be ordered to reveal the secrets of his deadly home insulation program before a judicial inquiry to be commissioned by the Abbott Government.And for dessert, Abbott attacks Labor in an interview with the Washington Post:
Draft terms of reference exclusively obtained by The Sunday Mail reveal the judicial commission will demand answers of the top echelons of the former Rudd government.
Matthew Fuller, Rueben Barnes, Mitchell Sweeney and Marcus Wilson died between 2009 and 2010 while installing insulation in the former government’s rush to save the economy after the global financial crisis.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt, who has previously called for Mr Rudd to release all correspondence between him and his ministers, wants the report finalised by June 30 next year. He also wants evidence given publicly and not behind closed doors.
“Welcome to the wonderful, wacko world of the former government,” he said.
“I thought it was the most incompetent and untrustworthy government in modern Australian history.”
Asked to expand on his argument, Mr Abbott said the former government made a whole lot of commitments, “which they scandalously failed to honour”.
“They did a lot of things that were scandalously wasteful and the actual conduct of government was a circus.
“They were untrustworthy in terms of the carbon tax. They were incompetent in terms of the national broadband network,” he said.
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Keane’s child soldiers
Andrew Bolt October 27 2013 (4:51am)
Crikey’s Bernard Keane urges children to do his dangerous fighting for him:
Oh, and he wants all this done by “our youth”. Keane himself will stay at home.
Alarmist, vandal ... and hypocrite.
In a world governed by Rudds and Abbotts and Hunts, in which a functional carbon pricing scheme will actually be removed and replaced with a nonsensical scheme even the creators of which know is a joke, our youth are entitled to wonder whether, in the absence of genuine political action, they should take some direct action of their own. Action to shut down the loaders and ports that export coal. Action to shut down coal-fired power plants. Actions to shut down the electricity-greedy industries we prop up, like aluminium smelting. Such action will be expensive, and damaging, and inequitable, and dangerous....Keane is encouraging children to break the law and cause economic damage to others. He is licencing them to shut down a $40 billion a year export industry, and never mind the savage consequences to workers or the will of the majority of their citizens. He is urging them to hurt other people with illegal activity he knows is “inequitable and dangerous” - and which he should also know will actually make not a blind bit of difference to world temperatures, anyway.
Oh, and he wants all this done by “our youth”. Keane himself will stay at home.
Alarmist, vandal ... and hypocrite.
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The unvieling of the official William Jefferson Clinton presidential portrait (HL)
The Lewinsky Legacy lives on forever and ever.>
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Obsessed with #wholefoodshouse #organics#susperstore #amazing — at Wholefoods House.
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TEST YOUR CRITICAL THINKING
There is a very, very tall coconut tree and there are 4 animals, a Lion, a Chimpanzee, a Giraffe, and a Squirrel, who pass by.
They decide to compete to see who is the fastest to get a banana off the tree.
Who do you guess will win?
Your answer will reflect your personality.
So think carefully…
Try and answer within 30 seconds !!!
Got your answer?
Now scroll down to see the analysis...
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If your answer is:
Lion = you’re dull.
Chimpanzee = you’re a moron.
Giraffe = you’re a complete idiot.
Squirrel = you’re just hopelessly stupid.
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A COCONUT TREE DOESN’T HAVE BANANAS.
Obviously you’re stressed and overworked.
You should take some time off and relax!
Try again next year.!
Author unknown
I chose lion .. reasoning that the others would surrender any banana to survive .. dull, but effective - ed
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He has taken enough drugs to see things others don't. - ed
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"The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him- The reasoning mind." | The Fountainhead
.. the brain grows on you - ed
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not a great distance between winning and losing, and yet a gulf. Evidenced by Iron Man Tony Stark. - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Attraction is easy. Love is hard. Love is hard because it’s the opposite of our natural selfishness. It’s putting others’ needs before my own. (Great Photo by James Stilley)
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The average church stops growing after 15 years. Yet Saddleback, at 33 years old grew another 3000+ in attendance this year, WHILE planting new churches and sending thousands of members overseas on the PEACE Plan.
I encourage any pastor or church leader to watch this weekend's message when I give a insider's report to our congregation on the first 3 years of our Decade of Destiny. You might pass this on to your church leaders who might be interested. God bless you! Pastor Rick YOU CAN WATCH HERE; http://bit.ly/HnE6ib
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Miranda Kerr
Good morning Friends!
Miranda Kerr For #grazia #magazine
The article name is: Miranda kerr Australia's Wonder woman #fashion #shoot #mirandaphotos
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- 1682 – William Penn landed at New Castle, Delaware Colony, on his way to founding the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1838 – Governor of Missouri Lilburn Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44, ordering all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
- 1907 – Hungarian gendarmes fired into a crowd of people gathering for the consecration of the local church in Csernova (now Ružomberok, Slovakia), killing fifteen people.
- 1958 – General Ayub Khan deposed Iskander Mirza in a bloodless coup d'état to become the second President of Pakistan, less than three weeks after Mirza had appointed him the enforcer of martial law.
- 1981 – Cold War: Soviet Whiskey-class submarine U 137 ran aground near Sweden's Karlskrona naval base(monument pictured), sparking an international incident termed "Whiskey on the rocks".
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Events[edit]
- 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
- 710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 939 – Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
- 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries betweenSpanish colonies and the U.S.
- 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena.
- 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 1827 – Bellini's third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
- 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
- 1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- 1907 –Černová massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. This would led to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary.
- 1914 – World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west ofIreland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
- 1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
- 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
- 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1930 – ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treatyand the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions go into effect immediately; further limiting the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories.
- 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
- 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
- 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 1961 – Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
- 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
- 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Servicerecords.
- 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973 – The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1981 – The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
- 1988 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
- 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
- 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
- 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
- 2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
Births[edit]
- 921 – Emperor Shizong of (Later) Zhou (d. 959)
- 1156 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1401 – Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
- 1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
- 1744 – Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
- 1760 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- 1766 – Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817)
- 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
- 1806 – Juan Seguín, American politician (d. 1890)
- 1811 – Stevens T. Mason, American politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
- 1811 – Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875)
- 1814 – Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician (d. 1891)
- 1838 – John Davis Long, American politician, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
- 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1928)
- 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish author, journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1854 – William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
- 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
- 1869 – Viola Allen, American actress (d. 1948)
- 1872 – Emily Post, American author (d. 1960)
- 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
- 1894 – Oliver Leese, English general (d. 1978)
- 1894 – Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi politician (d. 1946)
- 1896 – Edith Haisman, South African-English survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 1997)
- 1901 – Abbas Uddin, Bangladeshi singer (d. 1959)
- 1904 – Riho Lahi, Estonian writer and journalist (d. 1995)
- 1904 – Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player (d. 1974)
- 1906 – Earle Cabell, American politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
- 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
- 1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
- 1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American historian, author, and anthropologist
- 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1915 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian film producer (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African politician (d. 1993)
- 1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
- 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American activist and humanist
- 1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- 1922 – Michel Galabru, French actor
- 1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
- 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Ruby Dee, American actress, scriptwriter, and poet
- 1925 – Warren Christopher, American politician and diplomat, 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1926 – H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Dominick Argento, American composer
- 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
- 1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English general
- 1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author
- 1931 – Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
- 1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and manager
- 1932 – Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1933 – Valentin Boreyko, Russian rower (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Floyd Cramer, American pianist (d. 1997)
- 1934 – Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director
- 1935 – Frank Adonis, American actor
- 1935 – Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist
- 1936 – Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author
- 1937 – Lara Parker, American actress
- 1939 – John Cleese, English actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1939 – Suzy Covey, American scholar (d. 2007)
- 1940 – John Gotti, American mobster (d. 2002)
- 1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American author
- 1941 – Dave Costa, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
- 1942 – Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician
- 1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor
- 1943 – Jerry Rook, American basketball player
- 1944 – J. A. Jance, American author
- 1945 – Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist (Masqualero)
- 1945 – John Kane, Scottish actor and scriptwriter
- 1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian politician, 35th President of Brazil
- 1946 – Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer
- 1946 – Ivan Reitman, Czech-Canadian actor, producer and director
- 1946 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1949 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
- 1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player and producer (E Street Band)
- 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American author
- 1950 – Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
- 1951 – K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter (Judas Priest)
- 1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English cosmologist
- 1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
- 1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American actress and sportscaster
- 1951 – Éric Morena, French singer
- 1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
- 1952 – Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher
- 1952 – Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer (Agents) (d. 2011)
- 1953 – Peter Firth, English actor
- 1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor
- 1954 – Jan Duursema, American illustrator
- 1955 – Debra Bowen, American politician
- 1956 – Veronica Hart, American porn actress and director
- 1956 – Jaq D. Hawkins, English occultist and author
- 1956 – Babis Tsertos, Greek singer and guitarist
- 1957 – Jeff East, American actor
- 1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
- 1958 – Lee Carter, American judge
- 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter (Duran Duran and Arcadia)
- 1958 – Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
- 1958 – David Hazeltine, American jazz pianist
- 1959 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
- 1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player
- 1963 – Marla Maples, American actress and model
- 1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer
- 1964 – Ian Wells, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger, founded the Drudge Report
- 1966 – Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
- 1967 – Steve Almond, American author
- 1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
- 1967 – Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer
- 1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, The Wondergirls, and Camp Freddy)
- 1968 – Dileep, Indian actor and producer
- 1968 – Alain Auderset, Swiss author
- 1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer
- 1969 – Peter O'Meara, Irish actor
- 1970 – Karl Backman, Swedish artist and musician (AC4)
- 1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
- 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth, At the Gates, Nemhain, The Haunted, Nifelheim, and Brujeria)
- 1970 – Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby player
- 1970 – Jonathan Stroud, English author
- 1971 – Jade Arcade, American illustrator and writer
- 1971 – Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
- 1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
- 1972 – Elissa, Lebanese singer
- 1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer
- 1972 – Marika Krook, Swedish singer and actress (Edea)
- 1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American director
- 1972 – Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner
- 1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball player
- 1975 – Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1975 – Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
- 1975 – Elias Toufexis, Canadian actor
- 1976 – Wilson Raimundo Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 – Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
- 1977 – Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
- 1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist
- 1978 – Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist
- 1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1981 – Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer
- 1981 – Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
- 1981 – Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
- 1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian skier
- 1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor
- 1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
- 1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
- 1983 – Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984 – Bam Doyne, American basketball player
- 1984 – Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1984 – Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
- 1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
- 1984 – Emilie Ullerup, Danish actress
- 1986 – Matty Pattison, English footballer
- 1986 – Jon Niese, American baseball player
- 1986 – David Warner, Australian cricketer
- 1987 – Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
- 1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
- 1987 – Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
- 1987 – Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1987 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
- 1988 – Brady Ellison, American archer
- 1988 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
- 1990 – Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
- 1990 – Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
- 1992 – Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Emily Hagins, American director
- 1993 – Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
- 1994 – Eddie Alderson, American actor
- 1994 – Cooper Pillot, American actor
- 1997 – Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
- 1999 – Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Deaths[edit]
- 939 – Æthelstan, English king (b. 895)
- 1271 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- 1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
- 1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, Scottish wife of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
- 1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
- 1439 – Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
- 1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician, and sultan (b. 1394)
- 1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
- 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
- 1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
- 1573 – Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)
- 1605 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
- 1617 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
- 1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London (b. 1640)
- 1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh preacher (b. 1617)
- 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
- 1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
- 1880 – Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
- 1917 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
- 1926 – Warren Wood, American golfer (b. 1887)
- 1927 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
- 1935 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
- 1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
- 1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer (b. 1872)
- 1949 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
- 1949 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
- 1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- 1954 – Harry Tate, American soccer player (b. 1886)
- 1962 – Rudolf Anderson, American pilot (b. 1927)
- 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
- 1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
- 1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938)
- 1975 – Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Deryck Cooke, English author and historian (b. 1919)
- 1977 – James M. Cain, American author (b. 1892)
- 1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian lawyer, politician, and author (b. 1924)
- 1980 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (T. Rex, Shagrat, and Steve Took's Horns) (b. 1949)
- 1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Charles Hawtry, English comedy actor and musician (b. 1914)
- 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
- 1990 – Jacques Demy, French director (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American air force officer and author (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Princess Sophie von Hohenberg (b. 1901)
- 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 1991 – George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
- 1992 – David Bohm, American physicist (b. 1917)
- 1996 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1996 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
- 1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
- 2000 – Walter Berry, Austrian opera singer (b. 1929)
- 2001 – Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Tom Dowd, American record producer (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
- 2003 – Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
- 2004 – Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2004 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian composer (b. 1942)
- 2006 – Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
- 2006 – Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2006 – Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
- 2007 – Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2008 – Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
- 2009 – John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2009 – August Coppola, American academic and author (b. 1934)
- 2009 – David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
- 2010 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950)
- 2010 – James Wall, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2011 – James Hillman, American psychologist (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Ian Buist, English diplomat (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian politician (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Jacques Dupin, French poet (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Dmitry Gayev, Russian civil servant (b. 1951)
- 2012 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Rodney S. Quinn, American politician (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Bill White, American illustrator (b. 1961)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Černová Tragedy Day (Slovakia)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991.
- Navy Day, first organized to be on this day. (United States)
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (International)
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“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house."
Haggai 1:9
Haggai 1:9
Churlish souls stint their contributions to the ministry and missionary operations, and call such saving good economy; little do they dream that they are thus impoverishing themselves. Their excuse is that they must care for their own families, and they forget that to neglect the house of God is the sure way to bring ruin upon their own houses. Our God has a method in providence by which he can succeed our endeavours beyond our expectation, or can defeat our plans to our confusion and dismay; by a turn of his hand he can steer our vessel in a profitable channel, or run it aground in poverty and bankruptcy. It is the teaching of Scripture that the Lord enriches the liberal and leaves the miserly to find out that withholding tendeth to poverty. In a very wide sphere of observation, I have noticed that the most generous Christians of my acquaintance have been always the most happy, and almost invariably the most prosperous. I have seen the liberal giver rise to wealth of which he never dreamed; and I have as often seen the mean, ungenerous churl descend to poverty by the very parsimony by which he thought to rise. Men trust good stewards with larger and larger sums, and so it frequently is with the Lord; he gives by cartloads to those who give by bushels. Where wealth is not bestowed the Lord makes the little much by the contentment which the sanctified heart feels in a portion of which the tithe has been dedicated to the Lord. Selfishness looks first at home, but godliness seeks first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, yet in the long run selfishness is loss, and godliness is great gain. It needs faith to act towards our God with an open hand, but surely he deserves it of us; and all that we can do is a very poor acknowledgment of our amazing indebtedness to his goodness.
Evening
"All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again."
Ecclesiastes 1:7
Ecclesiastes 1:7
Everything sublunary is on the move, time knows nothing of rest. The solid earth is a rolling ball, and the great sun himself a star obediently fulfilling its course around some greater luminary. Tides move the sea, winds stir the airy ocean, friction wears the rock: change and death rule everywhere. The sea is not a miser's storehouse for a wealth of waters, for as by one force the waters flow into it, by another they are lifted from it. Men are born but to die: everything is hurry, worry, and vexation of spirit. Friend of the unchanging Jesus, what a joy it is to reflect upon thy changeless heritage; thy sea of bliss which will be forever full, since God himself shall pour eternal rivers of pleasure into it. We seek an abiding city beyond the skies, and we shall not be disappointed. The passage before us may well teach us gratitude. Father Ocean is a great receiver, but he is a generous distributor. What the rivers bring him he returns to the earth in the form of clouds and rain. That man is out of joint with the universe who takes all but makes no return. To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves. He who is so good a steward as to be willing to use his substance for his Lord, shall be entrusted with more. Friend of Jesus, art thou rendering to him according to the benefit received? Much has been given thee, what is thy fruit? Hast thou done all? Canst thou not do more? To be selfish is to be wicked. Suppose the ocean gave up none of its watery treasure, it would bring ruin upon our race. God forbid that any of us should follow the ungenerous and destructive policy of living unto ourselves. Jesus pleased not himself. All fulness dwells in him, but of his fulness have all we received. O for Jesus' spirit, that henceforth we may live not unto ourselves!
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 9-11, 1 Timothy 6 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 9-11
1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water
and my eyes a fountain of tears!
I would weep day and night
for the slain of my people.
2 Oh, that I had in the desert
a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,
a crowd of unfaithful people.
and my eyes a fountain of tears!
I would weep day and night
for the slain of my people.
2 Oh, that I had in the desert
a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,
a crowd of unfaithful people.
3 “They make ready their tongue
like a bow, to shoot lies;
it is not by truth
that they triumph in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
they do not acknowledge me,” declares the LORD.
4 “Beware of your friends;
do not trust anyone in your clan.
For every one of them is a deceiver,
and every friend a slanderer.
5 Friend deceives friend,
and no one speaks the truth.
They have taught their tongues to lie;
they weary themselves with sinning.
6 You live in the midst of deception;
in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the LORD....
like a bow, to shoot lies;
it is not by truth
that they triumph in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
they do not acknowledge me,” declares the LORD.
4 “Beware of your friends;
do not trust anyone in your clan.
For every one of them is a deceiver,
and every friend a slanderer.
5 Friend deceives friend,
and no one speaks the truth.
They have taught their tongues to lie;
they weary themselves with sinning.
6 You live in the midst of deception;
in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the LORD....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Timothy 6
1 All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. 2 Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves.
False Teachers and the Love of Money
These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs....
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Iddo
[Ĭd'dō] - affectionate, festal, favoriteor his power.
[Ĭd'dō] - affectionate, festal, favoriteor his power.
- Father of Ahinadab, and one of Solomon's purveyors at Mahanaim (1 Kings 4:14).
- A descendant of Gershom, son of Levi (1 Chron. 6:21). Called Adaiah, and ancestor of Asaph the seer (1 Chron. 6:41).
- A son of Zechariah and a chief in David's time of the half tribe of Manasseh east of Jordan (1 Chron. 27:21).
- A seer who denounced the wrath of God against Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and who wrote a book of visions (2 Chron. 9:29; 12:15; 13:22).
- Grandfather of the prophet Zechariah (Ezra 5:1; 6:14; Zech 1:1).
- A priest who returned from Babylon (Neh. 12:4, 16).
- The chief at Casiphia through whom Ezra obtained help. He was a Nethinim (Ezra 8:17).
- A man who put away his foreign wife (Ezra 10:43). Jadau is a corruption of Iddo.
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