What is deprivation to a Greenpeace warrior? Free food and board from a Russian government that he tried to harm, and an ungrateful Greenpeace terrorist complains that he didn't have enough vegetables. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Something that AGW extremists trapped in summer ice in Antarctica may not have considered. Rescue ice breakers haven't been able to get through. No doubt, the report, the extremists will make, will say that they were unable to measure any warming abatement because of their predicament. Waleed Aly can count to three. That is good for an ABC presenter. Average age of the youth group called Get Up is 55, yet so immature. Trust Brandis to stand up for an independent and committed individual in Wilson.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Nhi Tori Tran and Lisa Morson. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 39 – Titus, Roman emperor (d. 81)
- 1678 – William Croft, English composer (d. 1727)
- 1853 – André Messager, French composer (d. 1929)
- 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
- 1910 – Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
- 1913 – Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
- 1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
- 1931 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (The Davis Sisters) (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1935 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
- 1942 – Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Monkees and First National Band)
- 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer and actor (The Monkees) (d. 2012)
- 1946 – Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet
- 1961 – Sean Hannity, American radio and television host
- 1980 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
- 1982 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress and producer
- 1990 – Joe Root, England and Yorkshire cricketer
- 1992 – Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer
Matches
- 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city
- 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
- 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
- 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
- 1906 – The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
- 1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London, England, UK admits its first female bar student.
- 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
- 1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
- 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
- 1981 – In the 39th game of his third NHL season, Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, giving him 50 on the year and setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richardand Mike Bossy, who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
- 1993 – Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
Despatches
- 274 – Pope Felix I
- 1867 – Sarah Booth, English actress (b. 1793)
- 1916 – Grigory Rasputin murdered in the Yusupov Palace
- 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
- 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
- 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian (b. 1880)
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
2014 FORETOLD
Tim Blair – Monday, December 30, 2013 (5:26am)
In accordance with ancient tradition, it is once again time to gaze into my crystal balls as we look forward to events in the new year.
Continue reading '2014 FORETOLD'
AND IT WASN’T EVEN WHOLEGRAIN
Tim Blair – Monday, December 30, 2013 (5:20am)
This is beautiful:
A Greenpeace campaigner claims he was forced to live on bread and water while being held in a Russian prison because it didn’t offer a vegetarian alternative.
(Via jailhouse gourmand PWAF)
ICE BLOCK
Tim Blair – Monday, December 30, 2013 (5:09am)
A bunch of climate change activists go to Antarctica so they can gather evidence of global warming:
Professor Turney and his UNSW colleague Professor Chris Fogwill are leading a team of 60 scientists, including meteorologists, marine ecologists, oceanographers, ice-core and tree-ring specialists.The research stakes are high because the Antarctic is one of the great engines of the world’s oceans, winds and weather, especially in Australia.Already scientists believe there is evidence of climate change.
Things haven’t exactly worked out as planned. Turney, the Professor of Climate Change at the University of University of New South Wales, is now trapped with his climate changey pals by gigantic masses of old-fashioned Antarctic ice. The activists seem mystified:
Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up.
Even rescue vessels can’t make it through the ice-loaded waters, leaving the activists to spend their time with puzzled locals:
Caption contest: what is that penguin thinking?
Caption contest: what is that penguin thinking?
CALL THE POLICE
Tim Blair – Monday, December 30, 2013 (5:07am)
If the ABC is so worried about an AFL footballer using a camera while he’s driving, shouldn’t the ABC be just as worried about one of its own presenters doing the same thing?
KEEP COUNTING
Tim Blair – Monday, December 30, 2013 (4:59am)
Waleed Aly checks the numbers:
This year, we’ve had three prime ministers, Victoria has had two premiers, the Northern Territory has had two chief ministers (and, while we’re at it, Catholics have had two Popes).
We’ve also had nearly 15,500 people killed by Islamic terrorists in more than 8,500 terrorist attacks. But that’s OK, because terrorism is only an “irritant” that “kills relatively few people”.
RED AND GREY
Tim Blair – Monday, December 30, 2013 (4:39am)
The ABC is out to attract younger viewers to its main ABC1channel next year, with research revealing it has the oldest audience of any of the Australian TV networks.Fusion Strategy figures show that the median age of ABC1viewers is 63 – much older than SBS (57) and channels 7 (49), Nine (45) and Ten (41).
This explains why the ABC’s middle-aged comedy group are routinely described as “the Chaser boys”. Relative to their audience, they are. And then we have the radical youth wing of the CFMEU:
(Via Angus Black)
(Via Angus Black)
NO JOKE
Tim Blair – Monday, December 30, 2013 (4:29am)
Humour makes us free. Which is why the authoritarian left hates it.
George Brandis on the enemies of freedom - and of Tim Wilson
Andrew Bolt December 30 2013 (11:37am)
Attorney-General George Brandis on Tim Wilson, the new freedom commissioner Brandis appointed to the Human Rights Commission:
(Via Catallaxy.)
===More often than not, Wilson has taken a position in opposition to that of the Liberal Party. The list is long, but it includes issues as various as industry assistance, public broadcasting, renewable energy targets, tobacco packaging, industrial relations policy, health insurance, bikie laws and gay marriage, to name but a few.I do think van Onselen has been particularly unfair on Wilson. And maybe conservatives have been unfair on Brandis, now revealing himself as a man up for the fight:
To describe a person who has been an articulate public opponent of the Liberal Party on so many of the issues which have defined the politics of recent years as a Liberal Party “partisan” seems to me, with all due respect to van Onselen, to be absurd.
But some things never change, like the reaction of the claque of bilious pseudo-intellectuals who constitute what passes for a left-wing commentariat in this country. Mike Carlton, Catherine Deveney, Van Badham and their ilk were nothing if not boorishly predictable.I do think that if anything about Wilson’s appointment deserves comment it is the utterly vicious reaction to it by people so terrified of freedom that they unleash the hate speech they claim to condemn.
They and their followers unleashed a storm of hatred and bile against Wilson on social media, the like of which I have never seen. The irony that these people pose as the enemies of “hate speech” was lost on them, if not on others.
(Via Catallaxy.)
Warmists trapped by irony off Antarctica
Andrew Bolt December 30 2013 (7:03am)
Explorer Douglas Mawson lands in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, in clear water in 1912. (Video here.)
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Reader Adam:
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Turney’s team is still in astonishing denial. It is stuck in thick ice off a continent that has more of it than usual, yet still it claims warming is melting more ice than ever:
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So what does a warmist like Turney do when he’s trapped in ice? Simple: blame global warming for not melting what global warming should have:
Mind you, Turney has some strong vested interests in blaming warming for causing freezing where he predicted melting:
(Tim Flannery joins the Turney family on the Carbonscape Holdings share registry.)
And Turney once wondered why people didn’t take his warnings seriously:
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Douglas Mawson was not worried about global warming even though his team landed on Antarctica on January 8, 1912, in fine weather:
The sun shone gloriously in a blue sky as we stepped ashore on a charming ice-quay-- the first to set foot on the Antarctic continent between Cape Adare and Gaussberg, a distance of one thousand eight hundred miles…A century later, global warming believers decide to retrace Mawson’s trip in the conviction the climate has got a lot warmer since, thanks to man. They are are accompanied by a journalist of the warmist Guardian who earlier this month reported:
In landing cargo on Antarctic shores, advantage is generally taken of the floe-ice on to which the materials can be unloaded and at once sledged away to their destination. Here, on the other hand, there was open water, too shallow for the `Aurora’ to be moored alongside the ice-foot....
The day had been perfect, vibrant with summer and life, but towards evening a chill breeze sprang up, and we in the motor-launch had to beat against it. By the time we had reached the head of the harbour, Hoadley had several fingers frost-bitten and all were feeling the cold, for we were wearing light garments in anticipation of fine weather.
This Sunday, scientists will begin a month-long expedition to retrace Mawson’s journey and examine how the eastern Antarctic, one of the most pristine, remote and untouched parts of the world’s surface, has fared after a hundred years of climate changes. “They collected a wealth of scientific data on this entirely new continent,” says Prof Chris Turney, a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013. “As a result, it provides this incredibly good baseline – we’re going to repeat the measurements and see how much has changed over the last century…The strange thing about this right from the start was how in denial Turney’s team was about evidence suggesting there was, if anything, long-term cooling of Antarctic - and certainly increasing sea ice around the continent:
“We’re heading towards east Antarctica in an area that’s traditionally been thought of as very stable – you can do almost anything to it, environmentally and climatically, and it will just sit there. But in the last few years we’re realising that that’s clearly not the case. Parts of it are very vulnerable...”
First difference. Where Mawson found a bay with clear water, Turney found a bay choked with ice, forcing his ship to stop some 70 km short of where Mawson landed:
We had reached Commonwealth Bay in East Antarctica. To be precise, our ship, the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, was at the edge of an ice sheet that has been stuck fast to the entrance of the bay ever since a giant 75-mile-long iceberg, called B09B, grounded itself in the bay four years ago.Second difference. Turney’s ship is now stuck fast in the ice - an irony so obvious that the Guardian journalist on board avoids the phrase “climate change” in describing the expedition in his latest report:
Life has taken a turn for the worse since Christmas Day, when gusts of up to 70mph slammed into the hull of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy and snow circled its decks, making it impossible to stand up straight outside.Here’s how it’s changed, boys. There is more ice.
Since then we have been stuck in pack ice. The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long has given up its attempt to rescue us as ice sheets continue to spread and thicken. Now Xue Long is waiting for the Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis to join it in a joint bid to free our ship…
We were only two nautical miles from the ocean before Christmas, but that distance has now swelled to around 20 nautical miles as the blizzards and winds have continued. If the joint efforts of the Aurora Australis and Xue Long don’t work, the only other option will be to evacuate the ship by air, though this would be the absolute worst case scenario.
I am with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, led by climate scientist Chris Turney of the University of New South Wales. We are following a century-old expedition led by the British-Australian Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson, who landed in Commonwealth Bay in January 1912. We – a group of scientists and paying members of the public acting as science assistants – plan to repeat many of Mawson’s scientific measurements in order to understand how this pristine landscape has changed over the past 100 years.
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Reader Adam:
I wonder what their carbon footprint will be if they are all lifted off by helicopter. Quite high I presume, if we use their own typically exaggerated measurements. With that in mind it seems only reasonable to hold them accountable with their own standards and leave them there. That way they could also accurately recreate Mawson’s voyage by sitting there for a year and waiting for the ice to melt.NOTE: The Aurora made it into Commonwealth Bay in three successive summers to land and pick up members of Mawson’s expedition.
I predict a Lord of the Flies type scenario unfolding.
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Turney’s team is still in astonishing denial. It is stuck in thick ice off a continent that has more of it than usual, yet still it claims warming is melting more ice than ever:
Sea ice is disappearing due to climate change, but here ice is building up.This is pathological.
UPDATE
So what does a warmist like Turney do when he’s trapped in ice? Simple: blame global warming for not melting what global warming should have:
Q: Dr Adam Rutherford: The fact that it’s expanding, that - that sounds counter-intuitive, when we talk about the polar ice caps melting, as a result of global warming.Like I said. It’s pathological.
A: Prof Chris Turney: Yeah, well, it’s a fascinating thing, isn’t it, really. Ultimately, global warming covers a vast array of different responses by our planet. And one of the fascinating things that we’re seeing is suggestions that large parts of the oceans off East Antarctica are actually getting fresher. And yet you’ve got this expanding sea ice, and one of the ideas we’re testing out here is this idea that when you’re melting the sea ice around the East Antarctic coastal fringes, at depth - not from air temperature but from warmer oceans - what you’re doing is you’re putting that fresh water from the Antarctic ice sheets into the oceans. It’s lighter, it’s less dense than salt water, so it floats to the surface relatively, and then it’s more vulnerable to freezing. And hence you get an expansion of sea ice cover. So that’s one idea that we’re testing at the moment.
Mind you, Turney has some strong vested interests in blaming warming for causing freezing where he predicted melting:
I am an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Climate Change at the University of University of New South Wales where my team and I are focussing our efforts on using the past to better understand the changes we are seeing today. To do something positive about climate change, I helped set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.
(Tim Flannery joins the Turney family on the Carbonscape Holdings share registry.)
And Turney once wondered why people didn’t take his warnings seriously:
(Thanks to readers AndrewS and Matt. More on this surreal expedition at Watts Up With That.)
2014 is quickly coming upon us and so I share a picture I took as 2013 was ushered in. Hopefully the weather will be on my side as I and a few friends seek to document the new years celebration from a different location this year.
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as fun as a broken promise .. ed
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Still less efficient and less safe than nuclear power. Still less efficient than coal. - ed
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"He will bring a new age of righteousness and justice." -John the Baptist
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He isn't measured for what he gets wrong .. that is grace. - ed
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Sunrise — at Mono Lake South Tufas.
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Michelle Malkin
What bias? You won’t believe what Denver Post called Phil Robertson of ‘Duck Dynasty’ ==>http://twitchy.com/2013/
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Up at 5:30 this morning to get ready for carpet people. Expected 7:30 start. Arrives at 8:30 to tell me that he was expecting to work in an empty unit. Cancels day. FML - ed
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First day on the fight team for maximum choppage and I already kicked a stuntman in the nuts. Took it like a pro tho. #sorryjimmy#dongtam #nutcheck
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The Chairman of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, admitted that in 1948, “Arab armies forced Palestinians to leave their homes (the PLO’s weekly, Filastin A-Thawra, March 1976).” On May 13, 2008, Al Ayyam, the second largest pro-Mahmoud Abbas Palestinian daily, claimed: “[In 1948] the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) told Palestinians to leave their houses and villages, and return a few days later, so the ALA can fulfill its mission.”
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Pro-Israel Festival in New Orleans this Spring ~ Chloe Valdary
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Love of the Land: A Viable Alternative for the Future of Israel - The Independent Palestinian...
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===***Dr. Emmanuel Navon "All illegal migrants claim that they are political refugees, whether they migrate to Western Europe, to North America or to Israel. But why is Israel expected to be more lenient than Europe toward these illegals?
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Melanie Phillips' latest post, "A Church of Hate"
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MY WORDS FOR YOU AS YEAR COMES TO AN END.YOUR HEAVENS SHALL OPEN AGAIN.
The Scripture says, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.2 Chronicles 7:14
(KJV). I want you to know that ,it is only the man who calls upon the Lord that will be saved.
If you have been experiencing circumstances that look as if your heavens have been closed,then you need to seek the face of God before you cross over the year 2014.You need to fast and pray so that God can open them again for you.There are many blessings that God wants to bring to your life this coming year,but they can only be possible when your heavens above you are open.To call upon the Lord is to ask God for a divine intervention.If you know,from all indication that your heavens are closed,you must call upon God to intervene in His mercy and re-open heaven for you.
God does not reply wishes,He replies prayers."For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when He shall hear it, He will answer thee. Isaiah 30-19. The time for weeping has ended in your life this year and grace is awaiting you come 2014. Don't allow your situation to become a cross for you.Take time out to fast and pray as year comes to an end,He will surely answer you.It is my prayer that all your heart desires shall be met,no more sorrow in the year 2014,in Jesus Name,Amen.
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Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised. "For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls. Hebrews 10:35-39.God bless you.
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PRAY ALONG.
ABBA FATHER,I thank you Lord for your mercy and grace.Thank you for favor in this season.Lord, You have the name that is above all names. You are Lord forever and there is no one who can challenge Your authority and power. You rule forever and ever, and there is no end to Your Kingdom.
I bring myself before Your throne of grace, and ask that You would look upon me with Your favor. Your word says that You give strength to the weary, so I ask that You would strengthen me. Bless me Lord with Your presence, and encourage my heart. Remind me of Your faithfulness and Your love that I might stand in faith against the issues that I face.I bind the schemes of the enemy to tear me down, and I rebuke the spirits that have been assigned to harass me. I ask You Lord to minister fresh strength and joy to me. I agree with Your word that says Your plans for me are to give me hope and a future, let it be so, according to Your will. I pray in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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Friend
Hello! I hate to be a nudge, and really hope you are having a wonderful holiday season with the people you love. As you prepare for the New Year, however, please make a tax deductible donation to enable people with disabilities to achieve the American dream. You can make a powerful, positive difference in their lives by donating now to RespectAbility! Please also ensure that any other groups you fund do not discriminate in their work/service against people with disabilities. According to the U.S. Census 18.6% of Americans have a disability (more than 56 million people). Yet since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, there has been ZERO improvement in the percentage of Americans with disabilities in the workforce. Moreover:
We have a strong business plan which you can see here, but as significant positive social change takes a lot more than just good intentions, we need your help now!
Please, make a difference and be a hero today – donate now to empower people with disabilities to achieve the American dream! Your gift is immediately tax deductible. Thank you in advance for making a difference in the lives of people with disabilities (PWDs)! Sincerely, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi President, RespectAbilityUSA.org P.S. Thank you being a hero and making a difference in the lives of people with disabilities (PWDs)! May you and yours only go from strength to strength! By Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Fully 70 percent of working-age people with disabilities in America are not working. This leads to poverty, powerlessness and prison. So how can we, who care about people with disabilities, change that?
Back in the old days, people with disabilities didn't have access to quality education. Now, thankfully, with better access to education and technology some of the smartest and most productive people on earth are people with disabilities. Think of Stephen Hawkins. Fifty years ago he wouldn't have been able to communicate. Today he is unlocking the secrets of the universe.
We need every American worker who can work to do so. Think about it -- we have 10 million Americans with disabilities, most of whom want to work, ready to get off the sidelines and help make American companies stronger. When more people are earning paychecks, the economy improves. We can save tax money. People with disabilities want to and can contribute to the economy.
Here are 10 tips to how YOU can make a positive difference to enable people with disabilities to get real jobs at real wages.
1. Demand your rights. If you are a person with a disability (PWD) or the loved one of a person with a disability (PWD), you need to demand that your IEP and/or vocational rehab program prepare you for paid employment in an integrated work environment. That means that from the infant and toddler program, all the way through the end of school rights at age 21, public employees and the community overall should be preparing you or your loved one with a disability for "employment first." They should not be just passing you through for a lifetime of government benefits (which by the way average not much more than $1100 a month plus healthcare). They should prepare you/your loved one for much more than "dayhab" or to join 400,000 Americans with disabilities who are being exploited by a legal loophole of sheltered workshops that allows some employers to "pay" people with disabilities literally as little as pennies an hour. It means helping you find the alignment between your interests, abilities and what is needed in the competitive job market. Your goal should be the opportunities for full time work in an integrated workplace where the pay is at least the minimum wage.
2. Be proud and loud in telling people you want a hand UP, not a hand OUT.The majority of working age Americans with disabilities want to work. Yet most of them sit quietly on couches, with 10 million people living in a cycle of dependency that undermines opportunity and hope. Take advantage of vocational rehab (VR) programs and other excellent programs such as BRIDGES and PROJECT SEARCH to get the training and supports you need to get ahead.
3. Encourage PWD to start working in an unpaid internship or as a volunteer by age 14. There is no better predictor of future economic success that early practice in the workplace. Work into paid positions as soon as possible and do a job. Ask members of your faith or other communities to help you find opportunities to make a difference and to build skills and experiences that will help you build your resume one step at a time.
4. Know the facts. You need to be an expert not only on your own disability or loved one's disability, but also on issues that confront all people with disabilities. When we work together across the range of disabilities we can all help each other. Key facts you need to know include that fully 70 percent of working age Americans with disabilities are currently outside of the workforce. That compares to 28 percent for Americans who do not have disabilities. The disability unemployment situation leads to extremely high levels of poverty, isolation and financial dependency for Americans with disabilities. This in turn costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits. However, most Americans with disabilities who are working age want to work.
Companies are in the business of making money -- and hiring people with disabilities can make them more profitable. I know the old stereotypes. People hear the word "disability" and think of someone who needs pity rather than someone with something to offer. But with today's technology a blind person can function fully on Apple computers. A non-verbal person on the Autism spectrum can speak clearly through assisted technologies. The breakthroughs due to science, education, medicine and rehab are transformative. Individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities have demonstrated unique and profitable ways to contribute to the workplace. It's time for companies to take advantage of these changes and to hire people with disabilities for the abilities that they DO have.
5. Educate your elected officials. Perhaps the most important leader in America today on disability employment issues is Governor Jack Markell of Delaware. He has no personal family connection to disability issues. However, when he met a young man with a disability who got his first job in his late 20's, he asked what the young man had been doing. "Sitting on the couch" was the answer. Governor Markell instantly got that our nation would be better off if the talents and time of people with disabilities was harnessed for the good of the country. As the head of the National Governors Association at the time, he got all 50 governors involved in learning about how to make positive change for people with disabilities. You should take the time to read the report here. Know that it all started with one person with a disability educating one person -- his own governor. You too can make such a difference by getting to know your elected officials and helping them learn the facts.
Even when we are able to change the public perception of hiring practices in America, there are still legitimate obstacles preventing individuals with disabilities from entering the workforce. Working with the government to make changes is imperative and thankfully, Governor Markell of Delaware launched a tremendous initiative in 2012 to set a goal to advance employment opportunities for individuals with significant disabilities.
Now is a great time to reach out to your governor to encourage them to take additional steps to bring their state to the next level on inclusive hiring practices.
You can find your governor's contact info here.
6. Use the right messages and remember to K.I.S.S. -- KEEP IT SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD. Ensuring that individuals with disabilities are able to achieve the American dream is MY issue. If you are reading this lengthy article, than in some way this is likely your issue as well. We care deeply and are personally impacted. But Americans these days face a million demands on their time and will give you very little to state your case. So if you want to speak out on these critical issues to the media, your elected officials or friends and neighbors, keep in mind a key rule: K.I.S. -- Keep It Simple. Use this message triangle below on the 3 points that you want to get across on this topic.
Now, get ready to repeat yourself over and over, with slightly different variances to keep it interesting! You want to go back to your core three messages over and over. It's called "message repetition" or "message discipline" and it's not an easy thing to do. That's because you will be thinking, "I've already said these things once, twice or three times. If I say it one more time the people I speak to will think I'm nuts or will be annoyed." But scientific research has shown that on average a person needs to hear the same message at least seven times before it will be internalized enough to change a behavior.
7. Talk about case studies that work. Employers, unlike elected officials, don't follow public opinion as much on the hard issues of dollars and cents. While they might watch and like the Michael J. Fox show which models how a person with a disability can be a productive employee, ultimately they will need to see case studies from companies they trust that show a profitable bottom line. Thus, when business sections of newspapers, magazines and news shows tell real live case studies of companies that are more profitable because of inclusive hiring of Americans with disabilities -- that is when the floodgates of opportunity will open. But it needs to be business-to-business, employer-to-employer.
The recent cover story, "The Autism Advantage" in the New York Times Magazine, Thorkil Sonne of Denmark, "started a company called Specialisterne, Danish for "the specialists," on the theory that, given the right environment, an adult on the Autism spectrum, could not just hold down a job but also be the best person for it. This is a tremendous example of a successful case study. The impact is sure to be far-reaching. More of these stories are needed to change the public opinion dynamic.
8. Meet the print and TV reporters who cover business or disability issues in your area, bring them the news. Leaders and activists who care about people with disabilities should be speaking about these issues to the media.
The media (both the news media and Hollywood) is the lens through which Americans see people with disabilities. The Cosby Show and Oprah broke historic ground for race relations in our nation. All of a sudden African Americans were in the living rooms of white Americans -- and they became like welcomed family members. What The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Will and Grace, and Married with Children did for LBGT issues caused tremendous change. Public opinion shifted on marriage equality so quickly that elected officials and courts are practically falling over one another to change their views on these issues.
The disability community has high hopes for the new Michael J. Fox Show. Michael J. Fox, an incredibly popular and well-known actor who himself has Parkinson's, portrays a reporter with Parkinson's who re-enters the workforce. And because Fox is so very well liked and talented, the hope is that viewers will root for him -- and that they will see him as capable and successful. Sadly however, according to G.L.A.A.D., only one percent of scripted TV characters have a disability, compared to 18.6 percent of the population.
We need employer "heroes" who will be proud to be showcased in the media. They need to be both in entertainment media and in the news. We need to showcase companies who are doing better because they hired people with disabilities who are capable, productive and profitable.
Although 20 percent of Americans have a disability, there are very few public role models, which show the stunning success that Americans with disabilities can have for their employers. As disability leaders or activists, our goal with the media and the public is to have them show people with disabilities for the talents and benefits that they bring to employers. To do this, we need to identify local heroes -- a company or organization that has been more successful because of their inclusive hiring processes. It needs to be a win-win pro-business or pro-employer story. It should also make the employer so proud of being associated with hiring people with disabilities that they will want to send it to their clients and make it a part of their publicity. That, in turn, can help inspire more employers to choose employees with disabilities.
9. Network with business people who matter. Speak to friends, neighbors, and colleagues. You aren't asking them to hire an individual, you are speaking to them about an important profitable initiative that they should know and care about. Keep your audience in mind. You never know who is listening or who your message might be shared with second hand. CEOs want to hear that inclusive hiring practices will make them money, and help save on taxes. It might seem tricky to work into cocktail party conversation, but what do you want to answer when someone asks how are, what are you working on these days? Why not respond, "actually, I'm very involved in advocating for people with disabilities to achieve the American dream. Did you know..."
Remember to go back to your "message triangle" again. Here is an example of what you could say to a business person:
10. Never give up and stay positive. We have a lot to accomplish, but it can be done! Alone we feel alone, but together we can and will make a difference. Get involved today, talk to a friend or co-worker, identify a promising employer to highlight, contact your governor. We can enable more Americans to achieve their American dream!
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- 1460 – War of the Roses: Richard, Duke of York, was killed in the Battle of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, and his army was destroyed.
- 1853 – The United States purchased approximately 29,600 sq mi (77,000 km2) of land south of the Gila River and west of theRio Grande (map pictured) from Mexico for $10 million.
- 1903 – In the deadliest single-building fire in United States history, theIroquois Theatre fire claimed 602 lives in Chicago.
- 2000 – A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines within a span of a few hours, killing 22 people and injuring 100 others.
- 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was executed afterbeing found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
Events[edit]
- 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
- 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
- 1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
- 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
- 1825 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1825) between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
- 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
- 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
- 1897 – The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
- 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
- 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
- 1906 – The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
- 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
- 1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London, England, UK admits its first female bar student.
- 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
- 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
- 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
- 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
- 1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
- 1947 – King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
- 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
- 1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing 3 and sparking international tension.
- 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
- 1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
- 1981 – In the 39th game of his third NHL season, Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, giving him 50 on the year and setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richardand Mike Bossy, who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
- 1993 – Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
- 1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
- 1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
- 1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
- 2000 – Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
- 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
- 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
- 2006 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
- 2006 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
- 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
- 2009 – A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei Riverbefore finally reaching the Yellow River.
- 2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
- 2011 – Owing to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.
Births[edit]
- 39 – Titus, Roman emperor (d. 81)
- 1204 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, Portuguese ruler of Minorca (d. 1282)
- 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
- 1673 – Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1736)
- 1678 – William Croft, English composer (d. 1727)
- 1722 – Charles Yorke, English politician (d. 1770)
- 1724 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
- 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (d. 1829)
- 1785 – Dorothea Lieven, German-Russian wife of Christopher Lieven (d. 1857)
- 1792 – Sylvester Jordan, German lawyer and politician (d. 1861)
- 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (d. 1898)
- 1819 – John W. Geary, American politician, 16th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
- 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (d. 1891)
- 1838 – Émile Loubet, French politician, 7th President of France (d. 1929)
- 1849 – John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (d. 1913)
- 1851 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (d. 1929)
- 1853 – André Messager, French composer (d. 1929)
- 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
- 1869 – Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (d. 1944)
- 1869 – Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (d. 1918)
- 1873 – Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (d. 1944)
- 1875 – Jean-Guy Gautier, French rugby player (d. 1938)
- 1878 – William Aberhart, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Alberta (d. 1943)
- 1879 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (d. 1950)
- 1883 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
- 1884 – Hideki Tōjō, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
- 1890 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican politician, 47th President of Mexico (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
- 1899 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001)
- 1904 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987)
- 1905 – Daniil Kharms, Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1942)
- 1906 – Carol Reed, English director and producer (d. 1976)
- 1910 – Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
- 1911 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
- 1914 – Bert Parks, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1917 – Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (d. 2004)
- 1919 – David Willcocks, English choral conductor and composer
- 1920 – Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1921 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987)
- 1922 – Jane Langton, American children's writer
- 1923 – Prakash Vir Shastri,Indian Freedom Fighter, (d.1977)
- 1927 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Robert Hossein, French actor and director
- 1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Rosalinde Hurley, English physician (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1930 – Roy Calne, English surgeon
- 1931 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (The Davis Sisters) (d. 2004)
- 1931 – John Houghton, Welsh climate scientist
- 1934 – John N. Bahcall, American physicist, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope (d. 2005)
- 1934 – Joseph Bologna, American actor
- 1934 – Joseph P. Hoar, American general
- 1934 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1934 – Russ Tamblyn, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1934 – Barry Briggs, New Zealand Speedway rider, Four times World Champion
- 1935 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
- 1935 – Jack Riley, American actor
- 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer
- 1937 – John Hartford, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2001)
- 1937 – Jim Marshall, American football player
- 1937 – Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Peter, Paul and Mary)
- 1938 – Mike Auldridge, American guitarist (The Seldom Scene and Chesapeake) (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Glenda Adams, Australian author (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Mountain) (d. 1983)
- 1940 – James Burrows, American director
- 1941 – Mel Renfro, American football player
- 1942 – Betty Aberlin, American actress
- 1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist
- 1942 – Guy Edwards, English race car driver
- 1942 – Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Monkees and First National Band)
- 1942 – Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian and politician
- 1942 – Toomas Savi, Estonian politician and physician
- 1942 – Fred Ward, American actor
- 1943 – Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
- 1944 – William J. Fallon, American admiral
- 1944 – Joseph Hilbe, American statistician and author
- 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer and actor (The Monkees) (d. 2012)
- 1945 – Lloyd Kaufman, American director, screenwriter, and producer, co-founded Troma Entertainment
- 1945 – Concetta Tomei, American actress
- 1945 – Vernon Wells, Australian actor
- 1946 – Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet
- 1946 – Clive Bunker, English drummer (Jethro Tull, Electric Sun, Solstice, and Aviator)
- 1947 – Michael Burns, American actor and historian
- 1947 – James Kahn, American medical specialist and writer
- 1947 – Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Electric Light Orchestra, Traveling Wilburys, The Move, and The Idle Race)
- 1947 – Steve Mix, American basketball player
- 1948 – Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (d. 1996)
- 1949 – David Bedford, English long-distance athlete
- 1949 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician
- 1950 – Timothy Mo, Anglo-Chinese author
- 1950 – Lewis Shiner, American author
- 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created the C++ programming language
- 1951 – Doug Allder, English footballer
- 1952 – June Anderson, American soprano
- 1952 – Melissa Fay Greene, American author
- 1953 – Daniel T. Barry, American engineer and astronaut
- 1953 – Bill Kazmaier, American strongman and wrestler
- 1953 – Dana Key, American singer, guitarist, and producer (DeGarmo and Key) (d. 2010)
- 1953 – Graham Vick, English opera director
- 1953 – Meredith Vieira, American journalist and game show host
- 1954 – Barry Greenstein, American poker player
- 1955 – Dindo Yogo, Congolese singer (Viva La Musica, Langa Langa Stars, and Zaiko Langa Langa) (d. 2000)
- 1956 – Suzy Bogguss, American singer-songwriter
- 1956 – Claudia di Girolamo, Chilean actress
- 1956 – Patricia Kalember, American actress
- 1956 – Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress and singer
- 1957 – Matt Lauer, American journalist
- 1957 – Glenn Robbins, Australian actor and comedian
- 1957 – Rod Harrington, English darts player
- 1957 – Nick Skelton, English equestrian
- 1958 – Steven Smith, American astronaut
- 1959 – Antonio Pappano, English conductor and pianist
- 1959 – Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, screenwriter, and director
- 1959 – Josée Verner, Canadian politician
- 1961 – Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
- 1961 – Sean Hannity, American radio and television host
- 1961 – Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter
- 1962 – Henry Cho, American comedian and actor
- 1962 – Joshua Clover, American poet
- 1962 – Paavo Järvi, Estonian-American conductor
- 1963 – Chandler Burr, American author
- 1963 – Milan Šrejber, Czech tennis player
- 1963 – John van 't Schip, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1964 – Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1964 – Sylvie Moreau, Canadian actress
- 1964 – Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (BMX Bandits)
- 1964 – Sophie Ward,English actress
- 1965 – Heidi Fleiss, American madam and columnist
- 1966 – Bennett Miller, American director
- 1966 – Gary Chartier, American legal theorist
- 1967 – Karen Dunne, American cyclist
- 1967 – Carl Ouellet, Canadian wrestler
- 1968 – Bryan Burk, American film and television producer
- 1969 – Dave England, American snowboarder and stuntman
- 1969 – Jay Kay, English singer-songwriter (Jamiroquai)
- 1969 – Jan Wehrmann, German footballer
- 1970 – Sister Bliss, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Faithless)
- 1971 – Ricardo López Felipe, Spanish footballer
- 1971 – Daniel Sunjata, American actor
- 1972 – Kerry Collins, American football player
- 1972 – Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
- 1972 – Dita Indah Sari, Indonesian activist
- 1972 – Steven Wiig, American actor and drummer (Papa Wheelie)
- 1973 – Frans Bauer, Dutch singer
- 1973 – Jason Behr, American actor
- 1973 – Ato Boldon, Trinidadian runner
- 1973 – Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn actor, director, and producer
- 1974 – Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1974 – G-Enka, Estonian rapper
- 1974 – S. Jithesh, Indian cartoonist
- 1974 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
- 1975 – Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer
- 1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer
- 1976 – Kastro, American rapper (Outlawz)
- 1976 – Ashley Callie, South African actress (d. 2008)
- 1976 – Patrick Kerney, American football player
- 1976 – A. J. Pierzynski, American baseball player
- 1977 – Laila Ali, American boxer
- 1977 – Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
- 1977 – Saša Ilić, Serbian footballer
- 1977 – Scott Lucas, Australian footballer
- 1977 – Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
- 1977 – Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer
- 1977 – Lucy Punch, English actress
- 1978 – Devin Brown, American basketball player
- 1978 – Tyrese Gibson, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1978 – Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer (Behemoth, Azarath, and Witchmaster)
- 1978 – Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player
- 1979 – Flávio Amado, Angolan footballer
- 1979 – Michael Grimm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1979 – Tommy Clufetos, American drummer (Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's solo band)
- 1980 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
- 1980 – Kenny Kwan, Filipino-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (Boy'z)
- 1980 – D. J. Mbenga, Congolese-Belgian basketball player
- 1980 – Alison McGovern, English politician
- 1981 – K.Will, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
- 1981 – Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer
- 1981 – Spencer Day, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1981 – Haley Paige, Mexican-American porn actress (d. 2007)
- 1981 – Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer
- 1981 – Reef the Lost Cauze, American rapper
- 1981 – Matt Ulrich, American football player
- 1982 – Robbie Gould, American football player
- 1982 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress and producer
- 1982 – Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer
- 1982 – Dawan Landry, American football player
- 1982 – Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
- 1983 – Davide Mandorlini, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Josh Sussman, American actor
- 1984 – Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
- 1984 – LeBron James, American basketball player
- 1985 – Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
- 1985 – Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby player
- 1986 – Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1986 – Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer
- 1987 – Jake Cuenca, American-Filipino actor and footballer
- 1988 – Leon Jackson, Scottish singer
- 1989 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder
- 1990 – Joe Root, England and Yorkshire cricketer
- 1992 – Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer
Deaths[edit]
- 274 – Pope Felix I
- 1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland (b. 1443)
- 1460 – Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York(b. 1411)
- 1525 – Jakob Fugger, German businessman (b. 1459)
- 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (b. 1512)
- 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian author and poet (b. 1504)
- 1591 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
- 1621 – Job of Manyava, Ukrainian saint (b. 1550)
- 1640 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (b. 1597)
- 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
- 1662 – Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (b. 1628)
- 1768 – Ruth Blay, American convicted murderer (b. 1737)
- 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Irish-Austrian soldier (b. 1685)
- 1803 – Francis Lewis, Welsh-American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1713)
- 1867 – Sarah Booth, English actress (b. 1793)
- 1879 – Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, Brazilian poet and painter (b. 1806)
- 1896 – José Rizal, Filipino activist (b. 1861)
- 1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1844)
- 1916 – Grigory Rasputin murdered in the Yusupov Palace
- 1928 – Jean Collas, French rugby player (b. 1874)
- 1937 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
- 1940 – Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
- 1941 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
- 1944 – Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
- 1945 – Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
- 1947 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
- 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
- 1954 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
- 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (b. 1913)
- 1967 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)
- 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896)
- 1970 – Angelos Evert, Greek police officer (b. 1894)
- 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
- 1971 – Jo Cals, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)
- 1971 – Melba Rae, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1971 – Vikram Sarabhai,Indian Scientist,(b.1919)
- 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
- 1981 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
- 1984 – Massa, Ghanaian-American gorilla (b. 1930)
- 1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
- 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian poet (b. 1925)
- 1989 – Leonore Lemmon, American girlfriend of George Reeves (b. 1923
- 1990 – Raghuvir Sahay,Indian Hindi Writer,(b.1929)
- 1993 – Mack David, American songwriter (b. 1912)
- 1993 – Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)
- 1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (b. 1907)
- 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (b. 1904)
- 1994 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English-American hairdresser (b. 1946)
- 1995 – Ralph Flanagan, American conductor, composer, and pianist (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1996 – Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
- 1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author (b. 1926)
- 1998 – Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (b. 1905)
- 1998 – George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian (b. 1880)
- 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (b. 1909)
- 2000 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
- 2002 – Eleanor J. Gibson, American psychologist (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Mary Wesley, English author (b. 1912)
- 2003 – David Bale, South African–American businessman and activist (b. 1941)
- 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American author and screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
- 2004 – Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
- 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
- 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander police officer and spy (b. 1938)
- 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
- 2007 – Themis Cholevas, Greek basketball player (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959)
- 2009 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian politician, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer and dancer (Boney M.) (b. 1949)
- 2011 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Catarina Castor, Guatemalan politician (b. 1980)
- 2012 – Philip Coppens, Belgian author (b. 1971)
- 2012 – Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Mike Hopkins, New Zealand sound editor (b. 1959)
- 2012 – Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (b. 1949)
- 2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
- 2012 – Gloria Pall, American actress (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Irvine Patnick, English politician (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Sonam Topgyal, Tibetan politician (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province (Slovakia)
- Freedom Day (Church of Scientology)
- Rizal Day (Philippines)
- The sixth day of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” John 14:1-3 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
1 Samuel 7:12
1 Samuel 7:12
The word "hitherto" seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, "hitherto the Lord hath helped!" Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea, in honour, in dishonour, in perplexity, in joy, in trial, in triumph, in prayer, in temptation, "hitherto hath the Lord helped us!" We delight to look down a long avenue of trees. It is delightful to gaze from end to end of the long vista, a sort of verdant temple, with its branching pillars and its arches of leaves; even so look down the long aisles of your years, at the green boughs of mercy overhead, and the strong pillars of lovingkindness and faithfulness which bear up your joys. Are there no birds in yonder branches singing? Surely there must be many, and they all sing of mercy received "hitherto."
But the word also points forward. For when a man gets up to a certain mark and writes "hitherto," he is not yet at the end, there is still a distance to be traversed. More trials, more joys; more temptations, more triumphs; more prayers, more answers; more toils, more strength; more fights, more victories; and then come sickness, old age, disease, death. Is it over now? No! there is more yet-awakening in Jesus' likeness, thrones, harps, songs, psalms, white raiment, the face of Jesus, the society of saints, the glory of God, the fulness of eternity, the infinity of bliss. O be of good courage, believer, and with grateful confidence raise thy "Ebenezer," for--
He who hath helped thee hitherto
Will help thee all thy journey through.
When read in heaven's light how glorious and marvellous a prospect will thy "hitherto" unfold to thy grateful eye!
Evening
"What think ye of Christ?"
Matthew 22:42
Matthew 22:42
The great test of your soul's health is, What think you of Christ? Is he to you "fairer than the children of men"--"the chief among ten thousand"--the "altogether lovely"? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your piety by this barometer: does Christ stand high or low with you? If you have thought little of Christ, if you have been content to live without his presence, if you have cared little for his honour, if you have been neglectful of his laws, then I know that your soul is sick--God grant that it may not be sick unto death! But if the first thought of your spirit has been, how can I honour Jesus? If the daily desire of your soul has been, "O that I knew where I might find him!" I tell you that you may have a thousand infirmities, and even scarcely know whether you are a child of God at all, and yet I am persuaded, beyond a doubt, that you are safe, since Jesus is great in your esteem. I care not for thy rags, what thinkest thou of his royal apparel? I care not for thy wounds, though they bleed in torrents, what thinkest thou of his wounds? are they like glittering rubies in thine esteem? I think none the less of thee, though thou liest like Lazarus on the dunghill, and the dogs do lick thee--I judge thee not by thy poverty: what thinkest thou of the King in his beauty? Has he a glorious high throne in thy heart? Wouldest thou set him higher if thou couldest? Wouldest thou be willing to die if thou couldest but add another trumpet to the strain which proclaims his praise? Ah! then it is well with thee. Whatever thou mayest think of thyself, if Christ be great to thee, thou shalt be with him ere long.
"Though all the world my choice deride,
Yet Jesus shall my portion be;
For I am pleased with none beside,
The fairest of the fair is he"
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Today's reading: Zechariah 9-12, Revelation 20 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Zechariah 9-12
Judgment on Israel’s Enemies
1 A prophecy:
The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrakand will come to rest on Damascus—
for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel
are on the LORD—
2 and on Hamath too, which borders on it,
and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.
3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold;
she has heaped up silver like dust,
and gold like the dirt of the streets.
4 But the Lord will take away her possessions
and destroy her power on the sea,
and she will be consumed by fire.
5 Ashkelon will see it and fear;
Gaza will writhe in agony,
and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.
Gaza will lose her king
and Ashkelon will be deserted....
Today's New Testament reading: Revelation 20
The Thousand Years
1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years....
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Nathan [Nā'than]—he hath given.
- The third child of David, born after he came to reign over Israel (2 Sam. 5:14; 1 Chron. 3:5; 14:4 ).
- The distinguished prophetduring the reigns of David and Solomon, who brought home to David the enormity of his sin. What a piercing arrow from the divine bow that was—Thou art the man (2 Sam. 7:2-17; 12; 1 Kings 1; 1 Chron. 17). Although the confidential adviser of King David, Nathan was unsparing in his condemnation of his monarch’s sin. Nathan also wrote a history (2 Chron. 9:29).
- The father of Igal, one of David’s heroes ( 2 Sam. 23:36).
- Father of Solomon’s chief officer (1 Kings 4:5).
- Son of Attai and father of Zabad, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chron. 2:36).
- Brother of Joel, one of David’s heroes (1 Chron. 11:38).
- A chief man with Ezra at the brook of Ahava (Ezra 8:16).
- A son of Bani who put away his foreign wife (Ezra 10:39).
- A chief man in Israel (Zech. 12:12).
- An ancestor of Jesus Christ (Luke 3:31).
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