Sometimes it seems the only thing a left will willingly bury is decency. Known unto God. Al Jazeera provides details about boat people meant to condemn Liberal policy .. but it backfires. If car manufacturers can't profitably manufacture cars in Australia they shouldn't be here. Same sex marriage can work if the policy doesn't infringe on churches .. they probably should not be state regulated anyway. But gay activists don't seem to care about the issue, so much as pushing an envelope. ALP are still struggling to work out why they lost .. some saying they could have won. Here is a hint, ALP are wrong about conservative policy .. and ALP corruption is disheartening for their supporters. Two wonderful articles follow, one on how the US stimulus failed and the other shows Clive Palmer is a fool.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Sandy Gourlay, Paul Marji, Kim Martin and Narelle Huffadine. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 39 BC – Julia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (d. 14)
- 1735 – John Adams, American politician, 1st Vice President of the United States and 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1748 – Martha Jefferson, American wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
- 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1882 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1892 – Charles Atlas, Italian bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1941 – Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Temptations)
- 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director, and producer
- 1948 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor
- 1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
- 1998 – Meimi Tamura, Japanese singer and actress (S/mileage)
Matches
- 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
- 1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
- 1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- 1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
- 1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
- 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
- 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
- 1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- 1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
- 1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
- 1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
- 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
- 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
Despatches
- 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar (b. 1380)
- 1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer (b. 1459)
- 1987 – Joseph Campbell, American author and scholar (b. 1904)
Turning in their graves
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, October 29, 2013 (9:02pm)
THE idea of secretly replacing the evocation “Known Unto God” with a Paul Keating quote on the Tomb of the Unknown Australian soldier seems like an absurd atheist fantasy. But without the intervention of the Abbott government it would have happened.
Fingers quickly pointed to the left-wing, bandana-clad author Peter FitzSimons. His appointment to the memorial’s governing council by the Gillard government last year, in place of historian Les Carlyon, had caused great consternation.
But while it is true that FitzSimons is a self-described “outspoken atheist”, insiders say he had nothing to do with the decision. He is, in fact, often unable to attend meetings, and in this case had no input into the deliberations.
Sources say it was one of the “most conservative members” of the 13-member council chaired by retired Rear Admiral Ken Doolan, who suggested deleting the Rudyard Kipling quote “Known Unto God” which is carved into the beveled sandstone frame of the tomb.
In its place would go a secular quote from a 1993 speech by former prime minister Paul Keating: “We do not know this Australian’s name, we never will… He is one of them, and he is all of us”.
The decision to delete God was made in a meeting of the council in August, during the election campaign, in response to a proposal by war memorial director Brendan Nelson to give greater prominence and respect to Keating’s words.
But two days after being sworn in as Veterans Affairs Minister, Michael Ronaldson made the Abbott government’s displeasure known to Nelson and Doolan.
The council decided on a compromise in which “Known Unto God” would remain and Keating’s speech would be inscribed on a bronze plaque affixed to the wall outside the tomb’s entrance.
Just how close the Australian War Memorial came to replacing the iconic quote tells you everything you need to know about the insidious nature of political correctness. Like frogs in boiling water, we never realise how quickly our values can fall into line with the dominant intellectual climate.
On November 11, 1993, at the time of the interment of the unknown soldier’s remains in the memorial’s Hall of Memory, historian Geoffrey Blainey remembers being critical of the secular nature of the ceremony and Keating’s claim the unknown soldier had no known religion.
“To take someone from consecrated ground with a Judeo Christian inscription and put him in a new grave without a consecrated service was an extraordinary thing,” he said yesterday. “We wouldn’t dream of doing that to an Aboriginal…”
The Unknown Australian Soldier died in World War I in France. Until his remains were exhumed on November 2, 1993, and transported to Canberra, he was buried in the Adelaide Cemetery at Villers-Bretonneux under a headstone that bore the inscription: “An Australian soldier of the Great War, known unto God”.
In the southwest corner of the cemetery stands a large “cross of sacrifice”. In other words, Australia’s unknown soldier was buried on hallowed ground. And yet he was moved in 1993, at the height of the culture wars, to a memorial in Australia that was ostentatiously non-religious.
“Once you take him from hallowed ground and put him in a secular place, you’ve made a quandary for yourself,” says Blainey. Six years later, Blainey had joined the memorial’s council and suggested the words that were on the unknown soldier’s original tombstone should be replaced on his new tomb. The council approved the idea and the words “Known Unto God” were inscribed on the sandstone frame of the tomb.
The words are significant. They were written by Rudyard Kipling, whose own son John had died at 18 in the Great War. The inscription appears on almost every headstone of 211,996 unknown soldiers in war cemeteries worldwide.
But someone in the museum wasn’t happy with the council’s decision, and Blainey says the Kipling inscription was constantly covered up with wreaths, as a sort of guerrilla protest.
Blainey raised this problem at another meeting and a resolution was passed that the inscription should be uncovered unless a wreath-laying ceremony was under way.
Who would think that three little words could cause so much trouble.
Nelson insists all he wanted to do was make room for Keating’s speech, which he regards as important.
“The motive was not some political correctness or anything of the sort.”
In his defence Nelson maintains the deletion of God was faithful to the original intention of WWI war correspondent Charles Bean, who conceived of the idea of the Australian War Memorial.
“Bean was adamant there would not be religious language or symbols at the museum because he wanted a place of commemoration with a spiritual flavour but (which didn’t) resemble a place of worship.”
All’s well that ends well.
But the men who gave their lives in WWI were from a generation that believed in God. It was arrogant of a subsequent generation that fought no war to rewrite their history.
Students menace Hockey to grab more of your money
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (3:21pm)
What is the proper analogy? With a toddler tantrum or a hold-up?
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From a Facebook site run by a Socialist Alternative activist to promote the protest:
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But ABC radio reports that protest sympathisers are already accusing police of brutality:
Police allege one of their members was punched in the face by a protester.
A spokeswoman for Victoria Police said the police officer had been taken to hospital to receive treatment for minor facial injuries.
Police also allege some protesters threw shoes and chalk at police.
Three men and two women are in custody over the incident.
One last grant won’t do what the past billions couldn’t
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (8:31am)
Even smokers trying to quit know that their last cigarette can’t be the next one - or else they’re just kidding themselves:
===THE Productivity Commission has been tasked with evaluating the long-term sustainability of the Australian car manufacturing industry and will compare how handouts to domestic carmakers stack up with those in other countries.How many last grants have the car-makers had already?
Joe Hockey and Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane have announced the sweeping car industry inquiry, demanding an interim report by Christmas as Holden weighs the future of its Adelaide manufacturing plants and Ford plans to shut down domestic production in 2016.
Mr Macfarlane has previously flagged he may be prepared to give Holden a “blood transfusion” of funds before Christmas but the final Productivity Commission report to be delivered by the end of March will inform a final industry plan. He has warned that the package is likely to be the last one.
Not what Al Jazeera expected from its prize boat person
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (8:09am)
Al Jazeera berates
Australia for its cruelty to boat people, and produces an example of
just the kind of person - an Afghan - we’re letting down. But then their Exhibit A says something unhelpful:
The Fairfax newspapers and the ABC for years helped maintain Labor’s fiction that boat people were fleeing here for their lives. Today a Fairfax writer concedes that millions of poor people would rather live in rich countries - a perfectly simple and obvious truth that for a Fairfax audience must be presented in polysyllables, complete with economic theory, to make it palatable:
===An argument often made by politicians in Australia is that many “asylum-seekers” are not actually seeking asylum from persecution but rather from poverty, that they are economic migrants rather than genuine refugees.UPDATE
Mehak - to my surprise - agrees. Most of those on the boat he took to Australia, he thinks, were planning to give false accounts of their lives in order to qualify for refugee status.
He doesn’t think any of them deserved it.
The Fairfax newspapers and the ABC for years helped maintain Labor’s fiction that boat people were fleeing here for their lives. Today a Fairfax writer concedes that millions of poor people would rather live in rich countries - a perfectly simple and obvious truth that for a Fairfax audience must be presented in polysyllables, complete with economic theory, to make it palatable:
The global income gap has become common knowledge among the world’s 7 billion people and that has fuelled the motivation for migration. Surveys have found that more than 40 per cent of adults in the poorest quarter of the world’s countries would like to move permanently to another country if they had the opportunity. Hundreds of millions of people see migration as their only hope of improving their economic standing.(Thanks to reader Fern.)
Economists call this a “disequilibrium phase” - a huge mismatch between supply and demand.
Yelling abuse is half the fun of the same-sex marriage debate
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (8:02am)
What holds back the
same-sex marriage movement is that for many advocates the issue isn’t
about love of freedom. It’s about proving they are more moral than thou.
So Paul Kelly protests in vain:
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Even if Coalition MPs had voted on conscience the bill would have been defeated by a wide margin. This remains the situation.But that’s the whole point. Abusing others as bigots is fun and rewarding.
Why is this? The explanation, contrary to much same-sex propaganda, is that support for its cause is far more equivocal than it admits and, for many people, there is resistance to the nature of the noisy and often intimidatory same-sex campaign. Telling people who are not persuaded to your position that they are prejudiced or bigots does not, ultimately, assist your cause.
Labor’s problem: Rudd too vain to call election immediately
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (7:45am)
Couldas and shouldas in Labor:
But second, the problem with bringing back Rudd was that Labor also brought back his monstrous ego and selfishness, as I warned at precisely the time Rudd was dithering about going to the polls:
Then there was one other hitch:
===Kevin Rudd could have pulled off an unlikely election win if he had quickly gone to the people after regaining the leadership in June, says the man armed with the polling data at the time, Labor’s campaign director George Wright.First, I doubt Rudd’s sugar hit could have lasted an entire election campaign. Remember, too, calling the election immediately would have left Rudd no time to negotiate the PNG deal on boat people, which at least gave him a fig leaf.
He said with hindsight Mr Rudd should have pulled the election trigger sooner after replacing the unpopular Julia Gillard...
But second, the problem with bringing back Rudd was that Labor also brought back his monstrous ego and selfishness, as I warned at precisely the time Rudd was dithering about going to the polls:
Rudd’s interests divide from Labor’s. He is not there to lead Labor to an honorable loss. He is there to win.But that would have called for someone big enough and ugly enough to tell Rudd he wasn’t half as popular or as clever as he thought and had better dash to the polls before he was found out.
He would not want to take Labor to an election he thinks he would lose, even narrowly. He would rather wait in hope for a change in fortune, even if that means there’s a greater risk of losing big. He’d rather go for broke - for all or nothing. At least he’d be Prime Minister for longer, something he really, really loves.
That means Rudd, a confidence player, will now come under a lot of pressure from insiders telling him he’s less popular than he thinks and shouldn’t ride his luck. That he shouldn’t put self before the party.
Then there was one other hitch:
THE return of Kevin Rudd ripped apart the team Labor assembled in its bid to win the election this year…(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Wright brought together a team of 150 people for a “full trial’’ of the election strategy at campaign headquarters in Melbourne.They were “in their roles, doing their jobs, set, ready to go,’’ Mr Wright told the National Press Club…
“Two weeks out from the (start of the campaign for the September 7) election we had to replace 110 of those people because of the change in leadership and the impact that had on whether people’s interest and willingness to participate in the campaign,’’ said Mr Wright..
Picking on these students trivialises the real problem - and disguises it
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (7:33am)
Then why are these students being so publicly shamed as the face of anti-Semitism?:
===Mr Maclaine and Mr Foffani quickly issued apologies, explaining that they had both performed in a production of The Producers, a musical by the Jewish producer Mel Brooks, which among other songs features Springtime for Hitler.Is it that repentant students are easier to lecture than a gang of Pacific Islanders?
They claimed they had no idea that Mr Campbell was Jewish…
Mr Campbell told The Australian ... he fully accepted the apologies, did not believe the act was racially inspired, and did not want to victimise Mr Maclaine. “I am very happy with the way he has responded; I don’t want his life ruined,” Mr Campbell said.
As if warmists weren’t spooky enough
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (7:30am)
(Thanks to reader mem.)
NBN gets the audit we deserve
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (7:20am)
Now
the truth will come out about a mega-project Labor swore was essential,
would make money and would not be undermined by the consumer’s
preference for wireless:
===NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski has declared there will be no “no-go” areas in the strategic review of the nation’s biggest infrastructure project, saying the budget would be revised for all of its activities amid revelations of a $932 million loss in the last financial year.Reader Dave thinks former Communications Minister Steve Conroy may get more to cry about:
In an internal memo obtained by The Australian, Dr Switkowski said rigorous and forensic analysis of progress on the project and its “robust assumptions” for the future were needed to deliver a project consistent with the government’s “technology-agnostic philosophy”.
The memo came as the NBN Co’s annual report for the last financial year - provided to the Communications and Finance departments before the election, but not released to voters during the campaign - confirmed that the company recorded $17m in revenue in 2012-13 and warned of risks to long-term revenues, including the extent of consumer “substitution” to wireless internet services.
Ziggy is not so much going to eat Stephen’s lunch as nuke his milk.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Abbott dodges debate on Muslim integration
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (6:57am)
Tony Abbott is picking
his fights. One he is dodging - at least publicly - is on immigration
and Muslim integration. From my interview with him:
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===AB: Our population is growing by about 1 million every three years, mainly through immigration. Does that make sense to you when our cities seem to not to be coping?I have to say there was a lack of frankness there I found disappointing, even if politic.
PM: One of the tasks that we have as a nation is to give ourselves the infrastructure and the amenities necessary to cope with the population that we’ve got or we can reasonably anticipate having.
AB: It doesn’t seem to be happening.
PM: Well, it wasn’t happening, but it must start to happen.
AB: And if it doesn’t shouldn’t we stop immigration?
PM: Well, I’m confident that we can do it, Andrew.
AB: Are you worried at all about the difficulty of integrating some people in the community?
PM: There’s no doubt that if you’re a professor of history from New Delhi you’re going to integrate faster than a slum dweller from Glasgow. There’s no doubt about that.
AB: There’s also no doubt that you’re dancing around the fact that there are are communities that are having trouble integrating.
PM: One of the great things about Australia is that we encourage people, indeed we expect people, who come to this country to leave their ethnic animosities behind them.
AB: But they are failing to in some cases.
TA: We encouraged the English and the Irish to leave their sectarian and other animosity behind them…
AB: But they didn’t have suicide bombers.
TM: ... and we largely succeeded. Ditto, we would encourage the Tamils and the Singhalese to leave their animosities behind them. And, frankly, if people come to this country with a kind of a millenarian religious approach…
AB: But some do. I just want to know what we do about that.
TA: ... we would encourage them to quickly forget that.
AB: We are already encouraging them. That’s not the point.
TA: But, we shouldn’t assume that just because someone is a Belfast Irishman that he’s going to want to…
AB: No one is assuming that but ASIO has said that there are a number of Australians ...
PM: ... that there’s some hatred of Australia’s monarchical institutions and something like that.
AB: But we’ve got a score of people in jail from one particular group for terrorism offences against Australians. It’s more than whether you don’t like the monarchy.
PM: Yeah, but it would be a big mistake for anyone in authority in Australia to suggest that people might be citizens second, and adherents of a a particular faith first, because nothing could be more guaranteed to hinder the integration and ultimately the assimilation of such people.
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Meanwhile:
Police are bracing for the possibility of tit-for-tat shootings after the cousin of Brothers for Life founder Bassam Hamzy was shot dead in Sydney’s south-west.
Brothers for Life member Mahmoud Hamzy, 25, was fatally gunned down in a Revesby Heights garage just after 12.30am on Tuesday, police said. His friend, Omar Ajaj, 24, was in intensive care on Tuesday night after he was shot in the leg and stomach.
Stimulus fail: how the US spent its way into disaster
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (6:44am)
Economist Art Laffer on the terrible failure of stimulus spending in the United States:
It is clear, now, that a massive stimulus administered was an abject failure. It condemned America to the worst recovery in its history – including the 1930s. But when politicians make decisions while either panicked or drunk, the consequences are rarely edifying or attractive. US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson hyperventilating before Congress to pass his three-page stimulus bill granting him total authority to spend $US700 billion to save the economy was a sight to behold. Why, he even insisted the need was so urgent that there was no time for hearings, reviews or oversight. And passed it was – with some $US2.8 trillion additional stimulus funds over the coming few years. And what happened? American unemployment levels soared.The good news? The despised Tea Party movement has helped put a brake to this disaster:
The Keynesians warned that the post-Cold War spending cuts that occurred under President Clinton would cause economic contraction – instead we had an employment boom to match all booms. Obama’s economists revved up their economic model to justify spending an additional $US830 billion in stimulus, saying it would keep unemployment low. Without a stimulus, they said, joblessness would be 8 per cent. Instead of making things better, subsequent joblessness was higher than they predicted, peaking at 10 per cent.
(Graphics from - and more commentary at - the excellent Catallaxy Files.)
Not since the economic boom following 1945 have Americans seen such a rapid decline in the government’s claim on the nation’s resources – falling by a welcome $US94 billion over two years. You need to go back to the end of the Korean war to find a time when US government spending has actually declined over two years. If Republicans in the House stick to the sequester and future caps already built into current budget law, federal spending will stay at this low level for years to come.
Clive Palmer: “I am a scoundrel”
Andrew Bolt October 30 2013 (6:25am)
In my opinion, the rise to power of “billionaire” Clive Palmer is
dangerous and shameful. The man strikes me as irrational and has
policies that range from the ludicrously unworkable to the nakedly
self-serving. But his money talked.
Speaking of that alleged money… Here is Palmer being quizzed by The Australian’s Chip Le Grand yesterday:
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CL: When you were here in the lead-up to the federal election, you were asked about your personal wealth and you put your wealth at ($)6 billion.Of course, Palmer’s real wealth could become clearer when he completes the register of interests he’d had to complete as a politician. But that process is being delayed by Palmer’s extraordinary legal manouvres - challenging half the votes in a recount:
CP: Well that is not true. That is not true. That is just not true.
CL: You have said you never said that, but there is a transcript and audio.
CP: Well there could be, but you know the best barometer of my wealth, if you like, is the Murdoch press and The Courier-Mail in my home state of Queensland ... And this year the Murdoch press, who are my great friends and allies, said that I had a $2.2bn wealth, and I was the richest man in Queensland. So I would never argue with the Murdoch press, but on a political sense I would like to admit to you that I am a scoundrel, a terrible person, I shouldn’t be in parliament ... I am a bad person. That is taken. Right? And also that I have got no money. You can publish all that ...
CL: It is a serious question, though. If you work for the Townsville nickel refinery and you are aware of the documents that you have sworn suggesting that the ongoing viability of the refinery depends on you getting royalties ...
CP: I won’t be answering any business questions.
CL: How long can you keep that refinery going without receiving those royalties?
CP: It is really none of your business.
CL: Well, the thousands of workers might beg to differ.
CP: It is just none of your business ... What about your house? How much is your mortgage? How much did you pay your wife to get her to marry?
CL: I don’t employ 1000 people at a refinery, Mr Palmer.
CP: You are just here, and I can understand it, because you want to impress Rupert Murdoch when he is coming to Australia. He has run away from London because this week in London his ex-employees go to court to face criminal charges for paying money to police officers and other people and illegally tapping phones. And you know that Rupert is coming out here and you know that Chris Mitchell from The Australian has sacked a lot of people because they wouldn’t support Kevin Rudd and you don’t want to be sacked, you have got a mortgage to support, so you have dutifully come here to impress Rupert. But I am not interested in that. ... It is just a beat-up by old Rupert because he is upset that I said Wendi Deng his wife is a Chinese spy, and he doesn’t like that. And rather than Rupert come out and say anything or make a statement, he doesn’t do that, he just gets his flukeys (sic) to come along or he sends Skype messages to Chris Mitchell at The Australian; Chris says, “Go down there, give Palmer a hard time.” That is all it is about.
CL: All right, well, since I am here, one last one from the flukey.
CP: Forget about it. I won’t answer any more flukey questions.
CL: Do you have any business that is actually profitable?
CP: No, as I said, I am a complete bad person. I have absolutely got nothing. Publish that. That is fine. I have got nothing. I am zero. I have got zero assets. I am worthless. Hopeless. I am a nasty person. I shouldn’t be in politics. What else do you want me to say?
CL: Well, you could just answer the question.
CLIVE Palmer’s lead in Fairfax shrunk to 57 from 67 yesterday as counting ground on into the eighth week since the September 7 Federal Election… The process has been slowed by more than 44,000 challenges to votes, most coming from Palmer United Party scrutineers, on the basis of authenticity.
October 28th to November 1st is the National Union of Students Week of Action.
Just 2 weeks into the new Coalition Government, Education Minister Chris Pyne announced his intentions to
• slash funding to student organisations.
• remove participation targets for disadvantaged groups; and
• review the current uncapped number of university places.
The National Union of Studnets responded by bombarding Minister Pyne’s inbox with over 400 emails opposing his plans for higher education.
Since then, the Liberals have attempted to back-track. But we know better. We know what Liberals do to universities and students.
The last time the Liberals were in charge, HECS increased. Twice.
Now is the time to be ready.
The time to make our voices heard is now.
Save Campus Life: Student organisations and the university provide vital services for all students – whether they’re for fun, for help or support – everyone uses these everyday. They make university fair for all.
Education for All: An educated society is a better society. Abandoning participation targets and recapping the number of places would return us to the days of university for the privileged few. We want to make sure university is available for everyone, not only those with the resources and money to succeed.
Meet at Parliament House at 12.30pm on October 30th.
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HE WAS a white man with Nazi tattoos. She was an 18-year-old black girl, protesting a Ku Klux Klan rally in her home town.
The story of how their two lives crossed is an incredibly human
tale of kindness, selflessness and the ultimate respect for life.It was 1996. Keshia Thomas had heard the KKK, a prominent white supremacist group that had sprung up in America's deep south over a century earlier, was in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Getting my mischief on. Hosting the OBP Halloween Charity event tonight. #halloween#greatcause
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-giant-beach-ball-2649855
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Fall explodes along the banks of the Merced River with Half Dome looming behind the yellow, orange and green foliage a day before the snows will descend into the valley. This was the calm before the storm. It was beautiful. — at Yosemite National Park.
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Doctor Who - Starring You!
You can now get closer to the time vortex than ever before, by putting your name and your face into the #DoctorWho opening titles! Create your own digital invite and send it to you companions to get them to join you for the explosive 50th Anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor.
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Activists & politicians in #Shan State's Kengtung Township are petitioning against a Thai-owned coal mine project that would forcibly displace at least 2 villages and result in the confiscation of over 500 acres of farmland. Locals are refusing to sign an agreement giving permission for the project to take place, citing the government's predictable failure to provide details on future relocation, compensation, & employment opportunities.
Keep an eye on Kengtung residents with us; we hope #Burma's government will choose to respect them, their land, & the freedom of assembly.
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HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES: On its 150th birthday, get the facts on the International Red Cross. http://histv.co/1f1HspJ
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GREENS, SPOTTED OWLS AND CROCODILES
Australian Greens are more concerned with stuff like illegal arrivals and gay marriage than they are with endangered species. For the most part they are shunned by international Green groups as far too politically radical.
A desperate Julia Gillard gave them partnership in Government and suddenly media were shoving mikes in their unusual faces demanding commentary... a dream-like promotion based on a rag-tag balance of power in the Senate, and way beyond their political station.
Media still seeks out leader, Christine Milne, for comment despite the Greens having one sole member in the 150 member House and the fact they are about to lose all influence in the Senate.
This miniscule, oddball movement is now in a vacuum deciding what to hate next.
The Greens calling is back to their destructive Green roots protecting the pobblebonk frog and chaining themselves to old growth trees, now that their political commentary is irrelevant.
The spotted owl awaits their assistance. You know, the one that has brought the US north western states of Oregon and Washington to their financial knees?
The prolific whale species haven’t even heard of Milne. And Hanson-Young is still crying over the plight of illegal immigrants while the crown of thorns is busy eating our coral.
The Greens can now return to what they are good at like promoting repopulating the Northern Territory to save the endangered saltwater crocodile from starvation.
Maybe the Barramundi is in need of their further assistance, they did a marvellous job in the eighties. I was there.
The clever Greens had decided, because the Asian buffalos followed each other all over the Territory leaving ruts in the terrain where salt water merged with the fresh water, it was screwing up the Barramundi breeding cycle.
Barramundi are hermaphrodites, they start life as males, reach maturity and become females. (One of my mates went that way.)
Anyway, the Greens decided to shoot all these imported Asian buffalos to save this valuable piscatorial resource. I flew an R22 chopper while a bushie dropped hundreds of the poor buggers every day.
Unfortunately the Greens forgot the now-protected crocodiles had grown to depend on the buffalo for food, they collared them when they came to the rivers. It had become the crocodiles’ valuable food resource.
Crocodile numbers had exploded by virtue of such readily available tucker. With no buffalos to eat, the crocs set about eating all the Barramundi and you couldn’t fish the Mary River without competing with wall to wall 14 ft crocs.
And of course you couldn’t offend these prehistoric reptiles for fear of copping a $10,000 fine.
Yes it will be good to see the Greens back on task protecting endangered species again, 99 per cent of which had already become extinct before we arrived here.
Now if we could train crocs to eat Greens, problem solved!
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1 (15 oz) can whole kernel corn, drained
1 (15 oz) can cream-style corn
1 package Jiffy corn muffin mix (8 oz.)
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese or your favorite
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. mix all ingredients, minus the cheese, together and pour into a greased baking dish. After the casserole has baked for 45 minutes, or is set in the middle and golden brown, sprinkle with cheddar and put it back in the oven. Let the cheese melt, take the casserole out and enjoy this ridiculously buttery dish.
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The High Court has ruled in Canberra this morning that the woman was not entitled to compensation from the federal workplace insurer Comcare because the circumstances of her injury were not related to her employment.
Lawyers for Comcare argued throughout the four-year legal saga that the public servant should not get taxpayer-funded compensation as result of a "personal choice" to have sex while on the work trip.>
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/public-servant-loses-sex-injury-compo-claim-20131030-2wf3n.html
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When people hear the story of David and Goliath, sometimes they think, “That was all God.” And yes, in a sense, I know it was God. But the truth is that God didn’t sling the stone. God didn’t cause it to hit at just the right spot. It was the skill God gave David that he had developed."A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.”(Proverbs 18:16)
Like David, God has put in you skill that can slay a giant. You have skill that can open new doors, skills that can lead to an abundant life, but the key is that your skill has to be developed. Every day that you spend growing, learning and improving, you’re getting prepared for that new level.
Today, while you’re waiting for that new opportunity, start sharpening your skills. Study your boss. Study your manager. Learn that position. Be able to step into their shoes. When God sees that you are prepared, then He can open new doors. The scripture says, “Your gifts will make room for you.” Keep developing your skills because there is a giant slayer in you.God bless you.
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Grand Day of Death to America' rally planned in Iran
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- 1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forced Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
- 1863 – Seventeen-year-old Danish PrinceVilhelm arrived in Athens to becomeGeorge I (pictured), King of Greece.
- 1973 – Istanbul's 1,510-metre (4,950 ft) longBosphorus Bridge was completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait.
- 1983 – As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected President of Argentina.
- 1993 – The Troubles: Three members of the Ulster Defence Association opened fire in a crowded pub during a Halloween party, killing eight civilians and wounding thirteen.
Events[edit]
- 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
- 1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
- 1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
- 1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
- 1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- 1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
- 1657 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- 1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
- 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
- 1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
- 1864 – Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussianand Austrian administration.
- 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
- 1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
- 1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
- 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
- 1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
- 1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- 1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
- 1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
- 1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
- 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- 1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
- 1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communistthreat.
- 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
- 1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
- 1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
- 1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
- 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
- 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
- 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
- 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- 1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 1993 – The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party inGreysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded.
- 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
Births[edit]
- 39 BC – Julia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (d. 14)
- 1218 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (d. 1234)
- 1513 – Jacques Amyot, French writer and translator (d. 1593)
- 1624 – Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)
- 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (d. 1705)
- 1735 – John Adams, American politician, 1st Vice President of the United States and 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1748 – Martha Jefferson, American wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
- 1751 – Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright (d. 1816)
- 1762 – André Chénier, French poet (d. 1794)
- 1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (d. 1871)
- 1799 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian priest and bishop (d. 1885)
- 1839 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (d. 1899)
- 1844 – Harvey Washington Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
- 1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (d. 1897)
- 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (d. 1929)
- 1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
- 1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet (d. 1945)
- 1873 – Francisco I. Madero, Mexican politician, 33rd President of Mexico (d. 1913)
- 1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
- 1882 – Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player (d. 1957)
- 1882 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1882 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (d. 1944)
- 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1886 – Zoë Akins, American playwright (d. 1958)
- 1887 – Sukumar Ray,Indian Bengali poet, author, and playwright (d. 1923)
- 1888 – Louis Menges, American soccer player (d. 1969)
- 1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek jumper (d. 1913)
- 1892 – Charles Atlas, Italian bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1893 – Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (d. 1945)
- 1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977)
- 1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
- 1896 – Harry Randall Truman, American American owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens lodge (d. 1980)
- 1896 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (d. 1985)
- 1897 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
- 1897 – Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
- 1898 – Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Ragnar Granit Finnish-Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1906 – Hermann Fegelein, German SS general (d. 1945)
- 1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
- 1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1908 – Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
- 1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (d. 1963)
- 1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
- 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian musician and composer (d. 1994)
- 1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Hans Berndt, German footballer (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Richard E. Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
- 1914 – Anna Wing, English actress (d. 2013)
- 1914 – Leabua Jonathan, Prime minister of Lesotho (d. 1987)
- 1915 – Fred Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- 1915 – Jane Randolph, American actress (d. 2009)
- 1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Tommy Ridgley, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian race car driver (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
- 1930 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1956)
- 1931 – Vince Callahan, American politician
- 1932 – Barun De, Indian historian (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Louis Malle, French director (d. 1995)
- 1933 – Col Campbell, New Zealand television presenter (d. 2012) (Gardening Australia)
- 1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch flute player and conductor
- 1935 – Robert Caro, American journalist and author
- 1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian author (d. 2011)
- 1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
- 1935 – Michael Winner, English director and producer (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football coach
- 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French actor, director, and producer
- 1939 – Jean Chapman, English author
- 1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939 – Eddie Holland, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and The Great Society)
- 1940 – Ed Lauter, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 – Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Temptations)
- 1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
- 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director, and producer
- 1946 – Robert L. Gibson, American astronaut
- 1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia, The Firm, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, AC/DC, Uriah Heep, and Michael Schenker Group)
- 1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Eagles and Poco)
- 1948 – Rusty Goffe, English actor
- 1948 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor
- 1951 – Trilok Gurtu, Indian drummer and composer (Oregon and Tabla Beat Science)
- 1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
- 1951 – Poncho Sanchez, Mexican-American singer and conga player
- 1953 – Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American politician
- 1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor and director
- 1954 – Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
- 1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-English photographer
- 1955 – Heidi Heitkamp, American politician, senator-elect of North Dakota
- 1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor
- 1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
- 1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor
- 1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
- 1959 – Michael Fiedler, German footballer
- 1959 – Lagaf', French television presenter
- 1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
- 1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
- 1961 – Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician
- 1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican cricketer
- 1963 – Prabha Kiran Jain, Indian author
- 1963 – Michael Beach, American actor
- 1963 – Rebecca Heineman, American video game programmer
- 1963 – Andrew Solomon, American/British writer
- 1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress
- 1964 – Adnan Al Talyani, Emirates footballer
- 1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi journalist and author
- 1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
- 1965 – Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bush and Institute)
- 1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist (d. 2006)
- 1966 – Scott Innes, American voice actor and songwriter
- 1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Karim el-Mejjati, Moroccan terrorist (d. 2005)
- 1968 – Emmanuelle Claret, French biathlete (d. 2013)
- 1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor
- 1969 – Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
- 1969 – Vagelis Vourtzoumis, Greek basketball player
- 1970 – Ben Bailey, American comedian and game show host
- 1970 – Tory Belleci, American visual affects designer and television host
- 1970 – Christine Bersola-Babao, Filipino journalist
- 1970 – Nia Long, American actress
- 1970 – Maja Tatić, Serbian singer
- 1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
- 1971 – Fredi Bobic, Slovenian-German footballer
- 1971 – Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch field hockey player
- 1972 – Jessica Hynes, English actress and scriptwriter
- 1973 – Edge, Canadian wrestler and actor
- 1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian journalist
- 1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer
- 1975 – Ian D'Sa, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Billy Talent)
- 1975 – Marco Scutaro, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1975 – Maria Thayer, American actress
- 1976 – Stephanie Izard, American chef
- 1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
- 1976 – Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer
- 1976 – Maurice Taylor, American basketball player
- 1977 – Jason Adelman, American actor
- 1977 – Eefke Mulder, Dutch field hockey player
- 1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player
- 1978 – Matthew Morrison, American actor and singer
- 1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model
- 1978 – Derren Witcombe, New Zealand rugby player
- 1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
- 1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
- 1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress and singer
- 1980 – Jon Foo, English actor and martial artist
- 1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean mixed martial artist
- 1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player
- 1981 – Joshua Jay, American magician
- 1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese actress
- 1981 – Shaun Sipos, Canadian actor
- 1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
- 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
- 1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
- 1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player
- 1983 – Iain Hume, Scottish-Canadian footballer
- 1983 – Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
- 1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress
- 1984 – Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Ragnar Klavan, Estonian footballer
- 1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
- 1987 – Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer
- 1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
- 1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
- 1989 – Jay Asforis, American singer
- 1989 – Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
- 1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian-American gymnast
- 1989 – Vanessa White, English singer-songwriter and dancer (The Saturdays)
- 1990 – Suwaibou Sanneh, Gambian sprinter
- 1992 – MC Daleste, Brazilian rapper (d. 2013)
- 1992 – Tequan Richmond, American actor
- 1996 – Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
- 1998 – Meimi Tamura, Japanese singer and actress (S/mileage)
Deaths[edit]
- 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar (b. 1380)
- 1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer (b. 1459)
- 1553 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (b. 1489)
- 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
- 1611 – Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- 1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
- 1632 – Henri II de Montmorency, French navy officer and politician (b. 1595)
- 1654 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (b. 1633)
- 1680 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
- 1685 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician (b. 1603)
- 1757 – Edward Vernon, English navy officer (b. 1684)
- 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1816 – Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
- 1842 – Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784)
- 1853 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
- 1883 – Dayananda Saraswati, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1824)
- 1883 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
- 1893 – John Abbott, Canadian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1894 – Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
- 1896 – Carol Benesch, Czech architect, designed Peleș Castle (b. 1822)
- 1899 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1816)
- 1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
- 1912 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military officer (b. 1840)
- 1912 – James S. Sherman, American politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- 1915 – Charles Tupper, Canadian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1917 – Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
- 1919 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (b. 1850)
- 1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Canadian-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 1933 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (b. 1869)
- 1942 – Walter Buckmaster, English polo player (b. 1872)
- 1957 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian politician and economist, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)
- 1963 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
- 1965 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (b. 1888)
- 1966 – Yórgos Theotokás, Greek author (b. 1906)
- 1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
- 1968 – Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (b. 1899)
- 1968 – Conrad Richter, American author (b. 1890)
- 1974 – Begum Akhtar, Indian Singer(bb,1914)
- 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1979 – Rachele Mussolini, Italian wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
- 1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (b. 1887)
- 1985 – Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Joseph Campbell, American author and scholar (b. 1904)
- 1988 – T. Hee, American animator and director (b. 1911)
- 1990 – V.Shantaram,Indian Filmmaker(b.1901)
- 1993 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian archbishop (b. 1911)
- 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American director (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Maigonis Valdmanis, Latvian basketball player (b. 1933)
- 2000 – Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
- 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Aliki Diplarakou, Greek model and actress (b. 1912)
- 2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (Run–D.M.C.) (b. 1965)
- 2003 – Steve O'Rourke, English manager of Pink Floyd and gentleman racing driver (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Phyllis Frost, Australian philanthropist (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
- 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (b. 1942)
- 2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Washoe, American chimpanzee (b. 1965)
- 2007 – Robert Goulet, American actor and singer (b. 1933)
- 2007 – Linda S. Stein, American businesswoman and manager (b. 1945)
- 2007 – John Woodruff, American runner (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
- 2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1908)
- 2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Franck Biancheri, French politician (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Samina Raja, Pakistani poet (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Trevor West, Irish academic and politician (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Lebbeus Woods, American architect (b. 1940)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
- International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
- Mischief Night (United States)
- Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community)
The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonalandand other adjoining territories in southern Africa, was granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd (pictured), James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, three agents acting on behalf of the politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, on30 October 1888. The concession conferred on the grantees the sole rights to mine throughout Lobengula's country, as well as the power to defend this exclusivity by force, in return for weapons and a regular monetary stipend. Despite Lobengula's retrospective attempts to disavow it on the grounds of alleged deceit by the concessionaires regarding the settled terms, it proved the foundation for the royal charter granted by the United Kingdom to Rhodes' British South Africa Company in October 1889, and thereafter for the Pioneer Column's occupation of Mashonaland in 1890, which marked the beginning of white settlement, administration and development in the country. The Company officially named the territory Rhodesia, after Rhodes, in 1895, and governed it until 1923. (Full article...)
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“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.” Romans 12:1 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, etc."
Matthew 6:9
Matthew 6:9
This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, "Our Father." There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, "I will arise, and go unto my Father." This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy." There is but a step from rapturous worship to the glowing missionary spirit, which is a sure outgrowth of filial love and reverent adoration--"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Next follows the heartfelt expression of dependence upon God--"Give us this day our daily bread." Being further illuminated by the Spirit, he discovers that he is not only dependent, but sinful, hence he entreats for mercy, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors:" and being pardoned, having the righteousness of Christ imputed, and knowing his acceptance with God, he humbly supplicates for holy perseverance, "Lead us not into temptation." The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification. "Forgive us our debts," that is justification; "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," that is sanctification in its negative and positive forms. As the result of all this, there follows a triumphant ascription of praise, "Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, Amen." We rejoice that our King reigns in providence and shall reign in grace, from the river even to the ends of the earth, and of his dominion there shall be no end. Thus from a sense of adoption, up to fellowship with our reigning Lord, this short model of prayer conducts the soul. Lord, teach us thus to pray.
Evening
"But their eyes were holden that they should not know him."
Luke 24:16
Luke 24:16
The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard his voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover him. Yet is it not so with you also? You have not seen Jesus lately. You have been to his table, and you have not met him there. You are in a dark trouble this evening, and though he plainly says, "It is I, be not afraid," yet you cannot discern him. Alas! our eyes are holden. We know his voice; we have looked into his face; we have leaned our head upon his bosom, and yet, though Christ is very near us, we are saying "O that I knew where I might find him!" We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to reflect his image, and yet how possible it is for us to open that precious book and have no glimpse of the Wellbeloved! Dear child of God, are you in that state? Jesus feedeth among the lilies of the word, and you walk among those lilies, and yet you behold him not. He is accustomed to walk through the glades of Scripture, and to commune with his people, as the Father did with Adam in the cool of the day, and yet you are in the garden of Scripture, but cannot see him, though he is always there. And why do we not see him? It must be ascribed in our case, as in the disciples', to unbelief. They evidently did not expect to see Jesus, and therefore they did not know him. To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. Make it your prayer, "Lord, open thou mine eyes, that I may see my Saviour present with me." It is a blessed thing to want to see him; but oh! it is better far to gaze upon him. To those who seek him he is kind; but to those who find him, beyond expression is he dear!
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 18-19, 2 Timothy 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 18-19
At the Potter’s House
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’ 12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’”
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Timothy 3
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone....
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