Prior to nuclear inspired fashion, the biggest explosion on this day came from Isaac Newton's published Principia Mathematica (1687). Newton is lauded for his invention of Integration calculus, and diminished because he contemporaneously worked on it with Liebniz making similar discovery independently. However, Newton's Principia went beyond calculus .. he described the working of gravity .. planetary motion .. cannon balls .. light waves .. prisms. When the sun has disappeared beneath the horizon, it can still be seen by ocular illusion, and Newton discovered why. Without an iPad. With Newton, the apple fell, and the penny dropped. He went on in old age to reform English Banking. But he was weird. He believed women weakened men's logic facility. At his university, he would have guards precede him everywhere and make sure that Newton would not accidentally meet a woman. He also dabbled in the occult. He was the ward for a niece of whom it is said he had peep holes put in his residence. Personally, I think it is more efficient to marry a good woman. When you talk to her, you can discover more .. and she will listen when others won't .. But Newton was a genius .. and a fool ..
PT Barnum was born on this day in 1810. A consummate showman. He did not invent the saying "There is a sucker born every minute" but he exploited that fact. When his business went south, he became a temperance speaker. He ran and was elected as a GOP man. His enduring fame is as the guy who brought together a menagerie of big animals and freaks.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===Matches
- 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius
- 1295 – Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England.
- 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
- 1833 – Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1833 – Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng.
- 1934 – "Bloody Thursday" – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
- 1943 – World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
- 1945 – World War II: The liberation of the Philippines is declared.
- 1946 – The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France.
- 1950 – Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
- 1971 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by PresidentRichard Nixon.
- 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- 1977 – Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
- 1987 – The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers were born and, in the following years, continued to kill with the tactic.
- 1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later overturned.
- 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell
- 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, inStaffordshire, England.
Hatches
- 465 – Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Mayan ruler (d. 524)
- 1321 – Joan of The Tower, Scottish wife of David II of Scotland (d. 1362)
- 1547 – Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1562)
- 1653 – Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician (d. 1726)
- 1675 – Mary Walcott, American witness at the Salem witch trials (d. 1719)
- 1805 – Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865)
- 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)
- 1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
- 1849 – William Thomas Stead, English journalist (d. 1912)
- 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)
- 1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1895 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (d. 1984)
- 1924 – János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (d. 2013)
- 1947 – George Kunz, American football player
- 1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor (Huey Lewis and the News and Clover)
- 1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith and Stress)
- 1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player and coach
- 1966 – Susannah Doyle, English actress, director, and playwright
- 1967 – Vinod Raj, Indian actor, singer, and dancer
- 1968 – Ken Akamatsu, Japanese illustrator
- 1973 – Róisín Murphy, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Moloko)
- 1982 – Tomer Peretz, Israeli artist
- 1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
- 1984 – Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress, and singer
- 1993 – Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player
Despatches
- 967 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
- 1819 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b.1744)
- 1826 – Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
- 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
- 1920 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
- 1945 – John Curtin, Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and Werkbund Exhibition (b. 1883)
HOLY WARMING
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 05, 2014 (1:16pm)
Churchy types plead for science:
The Anglican Church has told the Abbott government to change its approach to climate change, urging it to respect and base its policy on scientific evidence.
You go first, Anglicans.
THREATENED SPECIES
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 05, 2014 (1:06pm)
Somehow, the environment is going to have to get by with less government funding:
The federal Department of the Environment will make 250 of its leading specialists reapply for their jobs and make 30 of them redundant in the latest round of cost-cutting measures …Beth Vincent-Pietsch, deputy secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, said morale within the department, which unveiled Gregory Andrews as the new threatened species commissioner on Wednesday, was “terribly low.”“[Staff] are anxious and depressed that the crucial work that they do is not being valued by this government,” she said.
A certain gravy train might be losing some momentum. In other environmental news, James Delingpole rocks the Glastonbury festival in a fine t-shirt. Suggested costume for Glastonbury 2015: Hector the coal mascot.
(Via the IPA)
MILESTONE MISSED
Tim Blair – Saturday, July 05, 2014 (12:38pm)
A glowing Fairfax review for a Melbourne ABC presenter:
It’s been a year of milestones for Red Symons.
It sure has – including this, which oddly now escapes Fairfax’s memory. As the review notes: “With the ABC as an employer, he can afford to be relaxed.”
With friends like that, who here needs Prabowo?
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (2:19pm)
Hmm. It is suddenly clear to me which of the two candidates in this week’s election I should support:
===About 1,000 people gathered at Grand Mosque in Yogyakarta on Tuesday at the invitation of a group of Islamic organizations that intended to declare presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto as the “war commander of Muslims”...(Thanks to reader Juliet.)
Gerakan Pemuda Kabah (GPK) ... Yogyakarta branch supervisory body chairman Muhammad Fuad said Muslim mass organizations in Yogyakarta ... regarded the retired lieutenant general, who was dismissed from military service for his involvement in the kidnapping of pro-democracy activists, as the only hope to prevent Indonesia becoming a secular country.
“This means we want him to protect Islam from the dangers of communists, Shiites and Ahmadis,” Fuad said.
Fuad expressed the hope that if elected, Prabowo would issue pro-Islam regulations…
The invitation to meet with Prabowo was signed by several groups, including Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI), Hisbullah, the GPK, and the former commander of the now defunct Laskar Jihad paramilitary group, Ja’far Umar Thalib.
Ja’far was involved in bloody conflict between Muslims and Christians in Maluku.
In a high profile sermon at the same mosque last month, he called on Muslims to wage jihad on infidels and pluralism, because pluralism tolerated the views of all religions…
However, during Monday’s gathering, the groups were unable to confer the title of “war commander” on Prabowo. His close aides played down the title and put its meaning down to Prabowo being the former son-in-law of former president Soeharto.
Mark Serreze - more ice, less ice, just blame global warming
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (2:01pm)
I thought we wouldn’t hear from alarmist Mark Serreze again after this spectacularly dud prediction in 2007:
===Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.But, no. Here he bobs up again to explain that global warming is actually causing something else he didn’t predict - record sea ice around Antarctica:
Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.
Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss. ...
“Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,” the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.
“So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.” ...
Dr Mark Serreze ... added: “I think Wieslaw is probably a little aggressive in his projections, simply because the luck of the draw means natural variability can kick in to give you a few years in which the ice loss is a little less than you’ve had in previous years. But Wieslaw is a smart guy and it would not surprise me if his projections came out.”
Earlier this year, global warming was blamed for the ‘irreversible retreat’ of west Antarctic glaciers.(Thanks to reader Spencer.)
But now scientists claim that warming of the planet is in fact behind a paradoxical growth in South Pole sea ice.
The comments come as Antarctica’s sea ice set a record this week, reaching 815,448 square miles (1,312,000 square km) of ice above its normal range…
‘The primary reason for this is the nature of the circulation of the Southern Ocean — water heated in high southern latitudes is carried equatorward, to be replaced by colder waters upwelling from below, which inhibits ice loss,’ Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, told Harold Ambler at Talking About the Weather.
If the sceptics made no sense, the BBC wouldn’t bother banning them
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (1:55pm)
The BBC’s gatekeepers have no confidence in the warmists arguments, so act to suppress the sceptics:
===The BBC’s Editorial Compliance unit has blasted its flagship Today programme over its failure to provide balance on a debate on climate change.(Thanks to reader Bob.)
The show’s editorial team was found to have given minority views and opinions ‘equal footing’ to those of the scientific consensus.
The programme, broadcast in February during the major flooding crisis featured climate change scientist Sir Brian Hoskins from Imperial College London who was debating the issue with a founder of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which is sceptical as to its impact....
According to Fraser Steel, head of the unit: ‘Minority opinions and sceptical views should not be treated as if it were on an equal footing with the scientific consensus…
‘I do not believe it was made sufficiently clear that Lord Lawson’s views on climate change are not supported by the majority of climate scientists, and should not be regarded as carrying equal weight to those of experts such as Sir Brian Hopkins.’
The Bolt Report tomorrow
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (10:27am)
On Sunday on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm…
How badly have we bungled immigration?
And has Malcolm Turnbull spat the dummy?
Plus: the fall of Fairfax, a hypocrisy alert on Jacqui Lambie and more.
On the show: Michael Kroger, Bruce Hawker, Dr Bob Birrell and Ben Hills. .
The videos of the shows appear here.
===How badly have we bungled immigration?
And has Malcolm Turnbull spat the dummy?
Plus: the fall of Fairfax, a hypocrisy alert on Jacqui Lambie and more.
On the show: Michael Kroger, Bruce Hawker, Dr Bob Birrell and Ben Hills. .
The videos of the shows appear here.
Herald says Tamil boat people are fleeing torture. A wife of one on board says, er, actually…
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (10:04am)
Sydney Morning Herald reporters are livid that Tony Abbott is turning back two boats of Sri Lankans:
Then after all that rage and hyping of horror, the Sydney Morning Herald finally quotes a relative of one of the Tamils on board to reveal their real motive for sailing. And, good heavens, it has nothing to do with tales of torture:
UPDATE
More context today:
UPDATE
India doesn’t think boat people who leave its care deserve to come back - and those who do have been warned Australia could send them to Sri Lanka:
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Last night I saw upon the sea,All week, Scott Morrison had been wishing away the little boat from India. The Immigration Minister steadfastly refused to acknowledge its existence or that of its human cargo, 153 Tamil asylum seekers; or that of another boat carrying 50 Tamils, which had come from Sri Lanka. By week’s end, it seemed Morrison’s wish had come true.
A little boat that wasn’t there,
It wasn’t there again today,
Oh, how I wish it would go away*
In a high-stakes, high seas operation – which Morrison never confirmed, preferring to call it speculation – Australia set out to deliver these boat people back into the hands of Sri Lanka, the regime they had fled, a country the United Nations suspects of systematic abductions, torture, rape, extrajudicial killings and the “disappearing” of its citizens…
“Australia’s moral, ethical and legal compass has been lost at sea,” said Trevor Grant, from Australia’s Tamil Refugee Council…
The Abbott government has singled out Sri Lankans for special treatment, or mistreatment, if the conclusions of successive international reports on the country’s human rights abuses are accepted. Australia subjects only Sri Lankans to “enhanced”, or expedited, screening....
In the foreword to a 2014 report that documents the testimony of 40 Tamils who fled to Britain, South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes: “It shows how anyone remotely connected with the losing side in the civil war is being hunted down, tortured and raped, five years after the guns fell silent....”
Then after all that rage and hyping of horror, the Sydney Morning Herald finally quotes a relative of one of the Tamils on board to reveal their real motive for sailing. And, good heavens, it has nothing to do with tales of torture:
“I thought maybe [the final destination of those on board] was to Italy, or France, or Tunisia,” said Ragajini, the 32-year-old wife of one of the men on the fishing trawler. “I did not know where he was going and he did not know, either.”The paper’s agenda is exposed - and exploded.
Ragajini, who has their two children with her, sobbed as she spoke from the Aliyar camp for Tamil refugees in the Coimbatore district in the far west of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Her husband had crippling debts and had needed to escape to a country where he could earn money, she said.
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More context today:
A TAMIL Sri Lankan man granted asylum in Australia more than three years ago has been arrested in Malaysia along with three others on suspicion of trying to revive the rebel Tamil Tiger movement and is expected to be deported to Sri Lanka…Puvaneswaran’s family say he’s innocent.
The Weekend Australian has learned Mr Puvaneswaran was arrested early on Thursday by plain clothed members of the Malaysian Police Counter Terrorism Unit, who have accused him of being a former explosives expert for the now-vanquished Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE).
Malaysian police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the arrests were made simultaneously at several locations around Kuala Lumpur and Maharashtra and that all four detainees were suspected of involvement in past terror attacks and plans to make Malaysia their base of operations.
“The first suspect is a card holder of High Commission of the United Nations for Refugees. He is said to be an expert in explosives. The second suspect was alleged to have been involved in the attempted murder of former president Chandirka Kumartunga,” Mr. Bakar said.
A third suspect is accused of having helped plan attacks on Sri Lankan consulates in India and the fourth of gathering intelligence for the group. Counterfeit passports and other documents had been confiscated, he added.
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India doesn’t think boat people who leave its care deserve to come back - and those who do have been warned Australia could send them to Sri Lanka:
Mr B. Anand, the Tamil Nadu principal secretary and commissioner for rehabilitation and welfare of non-resident Tamils, ... said India was not able to accept any Tamil refugees who left India illegally. ‘’The war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009, so it is difficult to accept that these people can still claim refugee status,’’ Mr Anand said. ‘’And if they were registered here as refugees, once they leave the country illegally, we cannot take them back here.’’
Mr Anand’s office showed Fairfax Media a pamphlet in Tamil published by the Australian government that has been distributed throughout the Tamil refugee community and clearly states that people who try to enter Australia without a visa will be returned to their homeland.
‘’Effective from July 19, 2013, illegal immigrants who come by boats to any province of Australia will be sent to Papua New Guinea,’’ the pamphlet says. ‘’Upon confirmation that they are genuine cases for refugee status, they will be allowed emigration at Papua New Guinea.
“In other cases, people concerned will either be sent back to their homeland or a detention camp.’’
(Thanks to readers Matthew, GoldCoastSeer and Gab.)
I fear Senator Lambie may be delusional
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (9:55am)
She really has an estimate of her abilities that is scarily out of whack:
===A SENATOR who holds the key to passing the Federal Government’s agenda has declared she wants to be prime minister.
Tasmanian Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie, who secured only 1501 first-preference votes at the election and has called Prime Minister Tony Abbott a “psychopath” who needs a “bucket of cement” to “toughen up”, yesterday said she “absolutely” aspired to take on his job.
Senator Lambie, who ... only joined PUP because she was running out of money, has quickly emerged as the most outspoken of the eight new crossbenchers who hold the balance of power…
Before she joined up with Mr Palmer, Senator Lambie tried and failed to win Liberal preselection for the Tasmanian federal seat of Braddon… In the Liberal preselection ballot in 2012, Senator Lambie did not gain a single vote…
PUP’s Queensland parliamentary leader, Alex Douglas ... [has described Senator Lambie] as a “bogan”.
How a warmist “expert” presents the normal as a sign of dangerous warming
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (9:35am)
How little does it take
to convince even the most credentialed alarmist that the climate is
changing before their horrified eyes?
Meet Professor Oppenheimer:
So this Oppenheimer is flying over the Arctic, his plane emitting the kind of gasses he deplores, when he glances out of his window and OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!:
(Thanks to reader Old Fellah.)
===Meet Professor Oppenheimer:
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is the Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.Impressive!
So this Oppenheimer is flying over the Arctic, his plane emitting the kind of gasses he deplores, when he glances out of his window and OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!:
Steve Goddard points out the obvious:
And some data:
This is not a simple gotcha. It really does signify something important. How can a man so credentialed have so eagerly presented the normal as alarming?
(Thanks to reader Old Fellah.)
Unions train delegates in using training money
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (9:30am)
Some unions show an astonishing sense of entitlement to members’ money and grants:
===THE Transport Workers Union continued to use large sums of “training” money from trucking companies as it saw fit for more than three years after pledging a swift clean-up of slush fund irregularities.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
The TWU’s leadership promised to implement recommendations of a Deloitte report in February 2008 that found millions of dollars of employer contributions intended for a “training fund” were not kept separate from union accounts, properly managed or audited. But the TWU’s NSW secretary, Wayne Forno, confirmed to the royal commission into corruption yesterday that ...the TWU’s leadership kept using $1.4 million of “training” money sitting in union accounts in 2007 to pay for annual union delegate conferences at a Sydney racecourse until the funds dwindled to $45,000 in 2011.
He claimed TWU delegates attending annual conferences received some training, but he was vague about its nature.
How much longer can Clive Palmer last?
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (9:18am)
Hedley Thomas:
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Palmer might be about to out-bullied:
===The power he now wields on the national stage makes him far more menacing, even dangerous, there than Hanson, Katter and even Bjelke-Petersen during his reign as premier…Palmer denies any wrong doing at all.
But do not bet on this lasting. It could be over in months… If Palmer is to be blasted from politics, public life and even business, it will be because the Beijing-based leaders of the People’s Republic of China instruct their Australian lawyers to use the evidence to not just take him on but to take him out.
If it happens it will likely stem from the withdrawals, last August and September, of $12.167 million of Chinese funds. This is a relatively minuscule sum when seen in the context of China’s disastrous almost $10 billion development of Palmer’s iron ore tenements in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. These withdrawals potentially have given the Chinese an opportunity to rid themselves, the political arena and the Australia-China relationship of someone they have come to see as a sociopathic bully and menace.
On the analysis of senior criminal lawyers consulted by The Australian, the predicament for Palmer appears serious…
For now, it is still a commercial dispute. It gives the Chinese great leverage in their separate and ongoing dispute with Palmer over the payment of royalties. But it is unlikely to rest there or to be quietly resolved.
The prima facie evidence in the documents points to possible serious offences — stealing and misappropriation — by someone in Palmer’s company. The Chinese give every impression of wanting these matters completely and promptly exposed to scrutiny by the public, media and the relevant authorities.
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Palmer might be about to out-bullied:
In a boardroom overlooking Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, Clive Palmer was in a frenetic rage. “You are an incompetent c---, a f---ing idiot,” the businessman yelled at one of the 10 investment bankers and lawyers seated around the table.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
The tirade of expletives would continue for nearly two minutes, as the veins in Palmer’s neck bulged and he thumped the table....
It was July 2007 and Palmer was at the offices of investment bank UBS to begin the $5 billion float of his mining company, Resourcehouse ... (but) it was not questions over the company’s aggressive valuation or even its lack of an operating track record which had Palmer in a rage that day.
It was his title.
The businessman, who failed to complete his undergraduate degree, insisted on being referred to as Professor Clive Palmer in the prospectus – and was indignant that someone had dared to question him.
This is a consistent theme from those who have worked with the 60-year-old over the years…
His three PUP Senators ... insist they won’t be Palmer’s puppets… But they all should remember one thing about Palmer. “He really hates being questioned,” said the source who asked not to be named…
If Palmer’s business career is any guide, they will “wake up” shortly and there will be a major falling out accompanied by furious name calling and threats…
[Citic and Palmer] are fighting in court over ... allegations that Palmer used $12 million of Citic’s money to fund his election campaign – an allegation repeatedly denied by Palmer.... But it could have devastating consequences, as some analysts believe Citic will eventually tire of the fight and walk away from the project entirely…
Tim Murray, the managing partner at J Capital Research… believes the mine will never be profitable, even if all its debts are written off, leaving Citic with no choice but to shut it down. If that happens, Palmer’s $200 million in royalties are gone, along with his claim to being a billionaire – and most likely his ability to fund future election campaigns.
The unofficial line from Citic in Hong Kong is that Palmer has picked the wrong fight this time. “He’s taken on the Chinese government,” was the view from within Citic’s headquarters.
A Senate of spenders
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (8:55am)
The problem with the
Senate is that those with the balance of power are most powerful when
they say no - which usually means no to the spending cuts we need:
===SENATORS are poised to veto more than $20 billion in budget savings, in a show of strength from micro-parties that have seized the balance of power in the upper house.
The crossbench forces will join up to block the government’s university reforms in one of the biggest blows to Tony Abbott’s agenda, amid fears of soaring fees for students. Attacking the government for its “clumsy” budget proposals, the independents and micro-parties will also smash the government’s plans to put new fees on Medicare services and scale back family tax benefits.
Exposing Christine Milne’s trashing of Sri Lanka
Andrew Bolt July 05 2014 (7:51am)
Greens leader Christine Milne is shocked that the Abbott Government is sending back boat people to Sri Lanka, a country she portrays as a hell-hole:
An insane anology, grossly offensive both to Sri Lanka and to the Jews and gypsies particularly who were the victims of Nazi genocide:
===“They have a shocking reputation for human rights,” she told a press conference this morning.Christine Milne plans a holiday in December 2011:
“It is now up to Prime Minister Abbott. Prime Minister tell Australians - are you going to send 153 people back to the people who have persecuted them?
“Is that what this nation has become under your leadership? Because I think the overwhelming majority of Australians will be horrified by this.
“Not only is it shocking and cruel for the people who have been persecuted and are being treated like this, but it is absolutely in breach of our obligations under the refugee convention.”
For now, there is a holiday in Sri Lanka and a rare chance to relax, possibly with her head in a history book, for the few short months that school is out.Canada, 2010 - data shows many Tamil “refugees” actually think Sri Lanka is safe to visit:
A secret government survey reveals the majority of successful Tamil refugees travel back to Sri Lanka, raising questions about the legitimacy of their refugee status…The most famous Tamil last year said conditions for Tamils in Sri Lanka were vastly better:
“I think it’s been fairly common knowledge, that after asylum seekers get status they go back,” said James Bissett a former head of Immigration Canada… A total of 50 people were surveyed, 31 of them had successfully obtained refugee status and 22 had returned to Sri Lanka. The CBSA refuses to release further information and will not say if an expanded study will be conducted to examine the full nature of the problem.
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has been misled about conditions for Tamils in the north of the country, cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan, a Tamil and national hero, said today.United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says it’s helping refugees return to Sri Lanka:
The lives of people are improving, Muralitharan, who took 800 test wickets, told reporters at an event in Colombo with Cameron to promote reconciliation on the island. Cameron, who traveled to the north yesterday, confronted President Mahinda Rajapaksa last night about refugees…
“In wartime I went with the UN, I saw the place, how it was,” Muralitharan said. “Now I regularly go and I see the place and it is about a 1,000 percent improvement in facilities,” he said.
Five years after the end of the conflict in Sri Lanka, the majority of those who were IDPs [internally displaced persons] in the country have returned to their place of origin. However, an undetermined number of individuals remain in protracted displacement, unable to return home owing to housing, land and property issues…UNHCR now praises Sri Lanka for how it is resettling returning refugees and the displaced. In fact, refugees from other countries are fleeing to Sri Lanka:
In Sri Lanka, IDP and refugee returnees have difficulty in meeting their basic needs. The lack of a comprehensive national policy on land rights has had an adverse impact on sustainable return… The return of Sri Lankan refugees will continue, albeit at a slower pace…
UNHCR will also facilitate the voluntary repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees in cooperation with the Governments of India and Sri Lanka.
In this global and regional context, Sri Lanka has made progress in reintegrating the returning Sri Lankan refugees and by being a host country to many of those that flee violence in the region. Since the conflict in Sri Lanka ended in May 2009, UNHCR has helped over 11,400 Sri Lankan refugees who have returned voluntarily to restart their lives. Similarly, though numbers remain low in comparison to other host countries in the region, Sri Lanka currently hosts 291 refugees and 1547 asylum seekers, all of whom are registered with UNHCR.UPDATE
Sri Lankan government has made great strides in reintegrating 573,651 returning internally displaced persons since the end of civil conflict in 2009. UNHCR continues to assist the government in finding durable solutions for the remaining IDPs. Likewise, Sri Lanka has very effectively dealt with the issue of statelessness on its territory by passing legislation enabling Tamils of Indian Origin, who had been previously disenfranchised, and a population of ethnic Chinese, who had been in the country since the 1940s, to access citizenship. Sri Lanka is often cited as the best practice in the region in resolving issues of statelessness.
An insane anology, grossly offensive both to Sri Lanka and to the Jews and gypsies particularly who were the victims of Nazi genocide:
Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser, an opponent of Operation Sovereign Borders, went further still yesterday, tweeting that handing asylum-seekers over to Sri Lanka at sea was redolent of handing Jews to Nazis in the 1930s.(Thanks to readers brett t r, pitman and others.)
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful government
That started from this group of incompetants
Aboard this Labor ship.
Beazley was a mighty Labor man,
Swan completely out of his depth.
Five comrades set sail that day
For a three year tour, a three year tour.
The in-fighting started getting rough,
The caucus was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless people
The nation would be lost, the nation would be lost.
The movement set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan (Swan)
The Skipper too, (Beazley, before Rudd knifed him)
The millionaire and his wife, (Crean & Macklin)
The movie star (Gillard)
The professor and Mary Ann, (Rudd & Roxon)
Here on Labors Isle.
So this is the tale of the throwaways,
They're been here for a long, long time,
We'll have to make the best of things,
It's an uphill climb.
The first mate and the Skipper too,
Will do their very best,
To make the others uncomfortable,
In the tropic island mess.
No sense, no financial responsibility, no morality,
Not a single moment of accountability,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
As primative as can be.
So join us here each week my freinds,
You're sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded unworthy despots,
Here on "Labors Isle."
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Dean Hamstead'
"When you're a sysadmin with a hammer, everyone's head looks like a nail."
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Even so, there is hope, for what words have torn apart when friends bicker, the Lord can heal. One needs to put faith in the Lord, not in themselves. - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Every great accomplishment is really a series of small accomplishments in a row.
===John Adams – Declaration of Independence
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Congress approves the Declaration of Independence, brilliant scene from John Adams mini-series. Happy Independence Day!
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HOW EXPORTS TO CHINA SAVED OUR BACON
One of the great Labor lies that will be peddled at this election is that Australia was “saved” from the GFC by the brillance of Wayne Swan and wasteful government spending on the Pink Batts farce and B.E.R scandal.
What they won’t tell you, is how Australia’s exports to China boomed during the GFC, and how it was that additional export income flowing into the country (in combination with the sound position that Howard/Costello left the nations finances in) that saved our bacon.
The facts are that over the last 6 years, China as a nation has increased their purchases from Australia every single year.
And last financial year 2011/12 - China’s purchases from Australia were almost $50 billion higher than 2007/8.
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Most Badass Elderly Couple Ever Lives In China.: http://bit.ly/12CNgPr
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July 5: Independence Day in Algeria (1962), Cape Verde (1975) andVenezuela (1811); Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- 1687 – The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation.
- 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporation introducedSpam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend.
- 1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état.
- 1989 – United States National Security Council member Oliver North(pictured) was sentenced for his part in the Iran-Contra Affair.
- 2004 – Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections, that resulted in the election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as President of Indonesia after the second round on September 20.
Events[edit]
- 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius
- 1295 – Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England.
- 1316 – The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada
- 1594 – Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begins an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during theCampaign of Danture in Sri Lanka.
- 1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
- 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- 1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
- 1803 – The Convention of Artlenburg is signed, leading to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
- 1809 – The Battle of Wagram is fought.
- 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
- 1813 – War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York commence.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
- 1833 – Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng.
- 1833 – Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1878 – The coat of arms of the Baku Governorate is established.
- 1884 – Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
- 1934 – "Bloody Thursday" – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
- 1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
- 1940 – World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
- 1941 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
- 1943 – World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
- 1943 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
- 1945 – World War II: The liberation of the Philippines is declared.
- 1946 – The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France.
- 1948 – National Health Service Acts creates the national public health systems in the United Kingdom.
- 1950 – Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
- 1950 – Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
- 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
- 1954 – The Andhra Pradesh High Court was established.
- 1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
- 1971 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by PresidentRichard Nixon.
- 1973 – A BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
- 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- 1975 – Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
- 1977 – Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
- 1987 – The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers were born and, in the following years, continued to kill with the tactic.
- 1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later overturned.
- 1995 – The Republic of Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
- 1999 – Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms, including a tornado. The area was hit again with severe storms on August 1.
- 1999 – U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
- 2004 – The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
- 2006 – North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly failed in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
- 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
- 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, inStaffordshire, England.
- 2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
Births[edit]
- 465 – Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, Mayan ruler (d. 524)
- 1029 – Al-Mustansir Billah, Egyptian Caliph (d. 1094)
- 1321 – Joan of The Tower, Scottish wife of David II of Scotland (d. 1362)
- 1547 – Garzia de' Medici, Tuscan son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1562)
- 1549 – Francesco Maria del Monte, Italian cardinal (d. 1627)
- 1554 – Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (d. 1592)
- 1586 – Thomas Hooker, English-American settler, founded the Colony of Connecticut (d. 1647)
- 1653 – Thomas Pitt, English businessman and politician (d. 1726)
- 1670 – Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (d. 1748)
- 1675 – Mary Walcott, American witness at the Salem witch trials (d. 1719)
- 1717 – Peter III of Portugal (d. 1786)
- 1718 – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1794)
- 1745 – Carl Arnold Kortum, German physician (d. 1824)
- 1755 – Sarah Siddons, Welsh-English actress (d. 1831)
- 1780 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (d. 1838)
- 1793 – Pavel Pestel, Russian soldier (d. 1826)
- 1794 – Sylvester Graham, American activist (d. 1851)
- 1801 – David Farragut, American admiral (d. 1870)
- 1802 – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)
- 1805 – Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, English-American son of Jérôme Bonaparte (d. 1870)
- 1805 – Robert FitzRoy, English captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (d. 1865)
- 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)
- 1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
- 1829 – Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican diplomat, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico (d. 1910)
- 1832 – Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter (d. 1919)
- 1841 – William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1904)
- 1849 – William Thomas Stead, English journalist (d. 1912)
- 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (d. 1902)
- 1857 – Clara Zetkin, German theorist and activist (d. 1933)
- 1860 – Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (d. 1919)
- 1872 – Édouard Herriot, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1957)
- 1874 – Eugen Fischer, German physician (d. 1967)
- 1879 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War (d. 1945)
- 1879 – Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (d. 1959)
- 1880 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1940)
- 1880 – Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright (d. 1945)
- 1882 – Inayat Khan, Indian educator (d. 1927)
- 1883 – Gustave Lanctôt, Canadian historian (d. 1975)
- 1885 – Blas Infante, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
- 1885 – André Lhote, French painter (d. 1962)
- 1886 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1988)
- 1888 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963)
- 1889 – Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)
- 1890 – Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist (d. 1954)
- 1891 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
- 1891 – Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955)
- 1894 – Ants Lauter, Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue (d. 1973)
- 1895 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (d. 1984)
- 1898 – Georgios Grivas, Greek army officer (d. 1974)
- 1899 – Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author (d. 1974)
- 1900 – Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist (d. 1989)
- 1901 – Sergey Obraztsov, Russian puppeteer (d. 1992)
- 1902 – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American colonel and politician, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Harold Acton, English author (d. 1994)
- 1904 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (d. 2005)
- 1904 – Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980)
- 1905 – Myles Horton, American educator and activist (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Georges Vedel, French educator (d. 2002)
- 1911 – Endel Aruja, Estonian physicist (d. 2008)
- 1911 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1980)
- 1911 – Georges Pompidou, French politician, 19th President of France (d. 1974)
- 1912 – Mack David, American songwriter (d. 1993)
- 1913 – George Costakis, Russian art collector (d. 1990)
- 1913 – Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
- 1914 – Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress and singer (d. 2009)
- 1915 – John Woodruff, American runner (d. 2007)
- 1918 – K. Karunakaran, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 2010)
- 1918 – René Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian army officer and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2012)
- 1918 – George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Mary Louise Hancock, American politician
- 1921 – Viktor Kulikov, Russian marshal (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Bob Duffy, American basketball player
- 1924 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian (d. 2001)
- 1924 – János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian sculptor
- 1925 – Jean Raspail, French author and explorer
- 1928 – Pierre Mauroy, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1929 – Katherine Helmond, American actress
- 1931 – Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and politician, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (d. 2000)
- 1931 – John Ure, British diplomat and author
- 1932 – Howard Dorgan, American author and academic (d. 2012)
- 1932 – Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
- 1935 – John Gilmore, American author
- 1935 – Fergus Millar, Scottish historian
- 1935 – John Schoenherr, American illustrator (d. 2010)
- 1936 – Shirley Knight, American actress
- 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 – Ronnie Self, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1939 – Booker Edgerson, American football player
- 1940 – Chuck Close, American painter and photographer
- 1942 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer, coach, and manager
- 1943 – Curt Blefary, American baseball player and coach (d. 2001)
- 1943 – Mark Cox, English tennis player, coach and commentator
- 1943 – Robbie Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (The Band)
- 1945 – Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican lawyer and politician, Attorney General of México
- 1946 – Pierre-Marc Johnson, Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th Premier of Quebec
- 1946 – Paul Smith, English fashion designer
- 1946 – Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 – Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Todd Akin, American soldier and politician
- 1947 – George Kunz, American football player
- 1948 – William Hootkins, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1949 – Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (d. 2013)
- 1950 – Huey Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor (Huey Lewis and the News and Clover)
- 1950 – Michael Monarch, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Steppenwolf, Detective, and World Classic Rockers)
- 1950 – Philip Terzian, American journalist and author
- 1951 – Keiko Fuji, Japanese singer and actress (d. 2013)
- 1951 – Goose Gossage, American baseball player
- 1951 – Roger Wicker, American colonel, lawyer, and politician
- 1953 – Elizabeth Emanuel,, English fashion designer
- 1954 – Leni Björklund, Swedish politician, 28th Minister of Defence for Sweden
- 1954 – Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist and songwriter (Aerosmith and Stress)
- 1954 – Wayne Hale, American engineer
- 1954 – Elżbieta Pierzchała, Polish politician
- 1954 – John Wright, New Zealand cricketer and coach
- 1955 – Peter McNamara, Australian tennis player and coach
- 1956 – Horacio Cartes, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay
- 1956 – Terry Chimes, English drummer (The Clash, Generation X, Hanoi Rocks, and Cowboys International)
- 1956 – Billy Jenkins, English blues guitarist and composer
- 1956 – James Lofton, American football player and coach
- 1956 – Patsy Pease, American actress
- 1957 – David Hanson, English politician
- 1957 – Anne Marie Morris, English politician
- 1957 – Doug Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
- 1958 – Paul Daniel, English conductor
- 1958 – Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
- 1959 – Marc Cohn, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1960 – James M. Kelly, American politician
- 1960 – Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stuntman
- 1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
- 1961 – Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
- 1961 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
- 1962 – Sarina Hülsenbeck, German swimmer
- 1962 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008)
- 1963 – Edie Falco, American actress
- 1963 – Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
- 1963 – Yasmin Qureshi, Pakistani-born British politician
- 1963 – Mark Stockwell, Australian swimmer
- 1963 – Dorien Wilson, American actor
- 1964 – Ronald D. Moore, American screenwriter and producer
- 1965 – Kathryn Erbe, American actress
- 1965 – Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli pianist
- 1965 – Julián Sotelo, Spanish javelin thrower
- 1966 – Susannah Doyle, English actress, director, and playwright
- 1966 – Claudia Wells, American actress
- 1966 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer and coach
- 1967 – Silvia Ziche, Italian author and illustrator
- 1967 – Vinod Raj, Indian actor, singer, and dancer
- 1968 – Ken Akamatsu, Japanese illustrator
- 1968 – Kenji Ito, Japanese composer
- 1968 – Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian keyboard player (The Evaporators)
- 1968 – Hedi Slimane, French fashion designer
- 1968 – Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist
- 1968 – Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor
- 1969 – RZA, American rapper, producer, actor, and director (Wu-Tang Clan and Gravediggaz)
- 1969 – Ansgar Brinkmann, German footballer
- 1969 – Jenji Kohan, American screenwriter and producer
- 1969 – Armin Kõomägi, Estonian writer and screenwriter
- 1969 – John LeClair, American ice hockey player
- 1969 – Jeremy Spake, English businessman
- 1970 – Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (d. 2004)
- 1971 – Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1971 – Nicola Stephenson, English actress
- 1972 – Robert Esmie, Canadian sprinter
- 1973 – Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer and coach
- 1973 – Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish drummer (The Cardigans)
- 1973 – Róisín Murphy, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Moloko)
- 1973 – Alexander Radčenko, Czech handball player
- 1973 – René Spies, German bobsledder
- 1974 – Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 – Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
- 1975 – Kip Gamblin, Australian dancer and actor
- 1975 – Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
- 1976 – Bizarre, American rapper (D12 and Outsidaz)
- 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
- 1977 – Royce da 5'9", American rapper and producer (Bad Meets Evil and Slaughterhouse)
- 1977 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
- 1978 – Britta Oppelt, German rower
- 1978 – Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (d. 2013)
- 1979 – Tim Coly, German rugby player
- 1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer-songwriter (Westlife)
- 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
- 1979 – Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer and manager
- 1980 – Pauly D, American DJ
- 1980 – Eva Green, French actress
- 1980 – Eirini Kavarnou, Greek swimmer
- 1980 – David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
- 1980 – Mads Tolling, Danish-American violinist and composer (Turtle Island Quartet)
- 1980 – Jason Wade, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lifehouse)
- 1981 – Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model and actress
- 1981 – Jesse Crain, Canadian baseball player
- 1981 – Ryan Hansen, American actor
- 1982 – Paíto, Mozambican footballer
- 1982 – Chris Bailey, Australian rugby player
- 1982 – Vitaliy Borisov, Azerbaijani footballer
- 1982 – Tuba Büyüküstün, Turkish actress
- 1982 – Monica Day, American model and broadcaster
- 1982 – Katerena DePasquale, Ukrainian model
- 1982 – Fabrício de Souza, Brazilian footballer
- 1982 – Alexander Dimitrenko, German boxer
- 1982 – Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer
- 1982 – Julien Féret, French footballer
- 1982 – Joey Foster, English race car driver
- 1982 – Lionel Gautherie, French rugby player
- 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
- 1982 – Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
- 1982 – Kate Gynther, Australian water polo player
- 1982 – Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lady Antebellum)
- 1982 – Yuri Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1982 – Tony Jackson, American football player
- 1982 – Mohammad Keshavarz, Iranian footballer
- 1982 – Tamer Moustafa, Egyptian basketball player
- 1982 – Junri Namigata, Japanese tennis player
- 1982 – Javier Paredes, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – Szabolcs Perenyi, Romanian-Hungarian footballer
- 1982 – Leon Sharf, Ukrainian footballer
- 1982 – Rubén Taucare, Chilean footballer
- 1982 – Beno Udrih, Slovenian basketball player
- 1982 – Aaron Wagner, Canadian football player
- 1982 – Ata Yamrali, Afghan-German footballer
- 1982 – Tomer Peretz, Israeli artist
- 1982 – Hamed Komeili, Iranian actor
- 1982 – Alain Arroyo, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – Julien Casoli, French sprinter
- 1983 – Marco Estrada, Mexican baseball pitcher
- 1983 – Jonás Gutiérrez, Argentinian footballer
- 1983 – Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
- 1983 – Taavi Peetre, Estonian shot putter (d. 2010)
- 1984 – Danay García, Cuban-American actress
- 1984 – Zack Miller, American golf player
- 1984 – Marion Thees, German skeleton racer
- 1984 – Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress, and singer
- 1985 – Stephanie McIntosh, Australian singer and actress
- 1985 – Nick O'Malley, English bass player (Arctic Monkeys)
- 1985 – Lucía Pérez, Spanish singer
- 1985 – Alexandre R. Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Megan Rapinoe, American football player
- 1986 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1986 – Alexander Radulov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Adam Young, American singer-songwriter and producer (Owl City, Sky Sailing, and Swimming with Dolphins)
- 1987 – Andrija Kaluđerović, Serbian footballer
- 1988 – Adriano Buzaid, Brazilian race car driver
- 1988 – Martin Liivamägi, Estonian swimmer
- 1988 – Samir Ujkani, Albanian footballer
- 1989 – Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer
- 1989 – Alona Fomina, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1989 – Dwight King, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Joseph King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Canvas and Deadbeat Darling)
- 1989 – Sjinkie Knegt, Dutch speed skater
- 1989 – Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
- 1989 – Sean O'Pry, American model
- 1991 – Jason Dolley, American actor
- 1992 – Chiara Scholl, American tennis player
- 1993 – Hollie Cavanagh, English-American singer
- 1993 – Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player
Deaths[edit]
- 967 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
- 1316 – Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
- 1375 – Charles III, Count of Alençon (b. 1337)
- 1507 – Crinitus, Florentine scholar (b. 1475)
- 1539 – Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
- 1666 – Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1584)
- 1676 – Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish commander and politician (b. 1613)
- 1715 – Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat (b. 1659)
- 1719 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (b. 1641)
- 1773 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
- 1819 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b.1744)
- 1826 – Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
- 1833 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
- 1859 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)
- 1862 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1800)
- 1863 – Lewis Armistead, American general (b. 1817)
- 1884 – Victor Massé, French composer (b. 1822)
- 1908 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
- 1920 – Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
- 1927 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 1929 – Henry Lincoln Johnson, American sergeant (b. 1897)
- 1932 – Sasha Chorny, Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
- 1935 – Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss captain and sailor (b. 1870)
- 1937 – Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (b. 1884)
- 1945 – John Curtin, Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- 1948 – Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (b. 1888)
- 1948 – Carole Landis, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
- 1957 – anugrah Narayan Sinha, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
- 1957 – Charles Sherwood Noble, American inventor (b. 1873)
- 1965 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat (b. 1909)
- 1966 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- 1969 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
- 1969 – Walter Gropius, German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and Werkbund Exhibition (b. 1883)
- 1969 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician, 1st Minister of Justice for Kenya (b. 1930)
- 1969 – Leo McCarey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
- 1975 – Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (b. 1892)
- 1983 – Harry James, American trumpet player and actor (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
- 1995 – Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor (b. 1919)
- 1997 – Mrs. Elva Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
- 1998 – Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Ernie K-Doe, American singer (b. 1936)
- 2002 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
- 2002 – Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (Shirley & Company) (b. 1936)
- 2005 – James Stockdale, American admiral (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
- 2006 – Amzie Strickland, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Don Lusher, English jazz and big band trombonist (b. 1923)
- 2007 – Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2007 – George Melly, English singer-songwriter and critic (b. 1926)
- 2008 – Hasan Doğan, Turkish businessman (b. 1956)
- 2010 – Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
- 2011 – Cy Twombly, American painter (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Howard Dorgan, American author and academic (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Rob Goris, Belgian cyclist (b. 1982)
- 2012 – Gerrit Komrij, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, English businessman and politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Bob Rowland Smith, American politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Ruud van Hemert, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Bud Asher, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
- 2013 – David Cargo, American politician, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Paul Couvret, Dutch-Australian pilot and politician (b. 1922)
- 2013 – John Curran, American journalist (b. 1953)
- 2013 – Jean Guy, American wife of William L. Guy (b. 1922)
- 2013 – James McCoubrey, Canadian-American super-centenarian (b. 1901)
- 2013 – Ama Quiambao, Filipino actress (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American psychologist and educator (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (b. 1939)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Bloody Thursday (International Longshore and Warehouse Union)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Anthony Maria Zaccaria, priest (d. 1539)
- Zoe of Rome (Roman Catholic Church)
- July 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- X-Day (Church of the SubGenius)
- Constitution Day (Armenia)
- Independence Day, celebrating the independence of Algeria from France in 1962.
- Independence Day, celebrating the independence of Cape Verde from Portugal in 1975.
- Independence Day, celebrating the independence of Venezuela from Spain in 1811.
- Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- Tynwald Day, if July 5 is on a weekend, the holiday is the following Monday. (Isle of Man)
- Emancipation Day, celebrating the emancipation of enslaved Africans in New York City in 1827.
- Poplifugia (Ancient Rome)
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance.”Psalm 33:12NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Sanctify them through thy truth."
John 17:17
John 17:17
Sanctification begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God infuses into man that new living principle by which he becomes "a new creature" in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways--mortification, whereby the lusts of the flesh are subdued and kept under; and vivification, by which the life which God has put within us is made to be a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. This is carried on every day in what is called "perseverance," by which the Christian is preserved and continued in a gracious state, and is made to abound in good works unto the praise and glory of God; and it culminates or comes to perfection, in "glory," when the soul, being thoroughly purged, is caught up to dwell with holy beings at the right hand of the Majesty on high. But while the Spirit of God is thus the author of sanctification, yet there is a visible agency employed which must not be forgotten. "Sanctify them," said Jesus, "through thy truth: thy word is truth." The passages of Scripture which prove that the instrument of our sanctification is the Word of God are very many. The Spirit of God brings to our minds the precepts and doctrines of truth, and applies them with power. These are heard in the ear, and being received in the heart, they work in us to will and to do of God's good pleasure. The truth is the sanctifier, and if we do not hear or read the truth, we shall not grow in sanctification. We only progress in sound living as we progress in sound understanding. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Do not say of any error, "It is a mere matter of opinion." No man indulges an error of judgment, without sooner or later tolerating an error in practice. Hold fast the truth, for by so holding the truth shall you be sanctified by the Spirit of God.
Evening
"He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully."
Psalm 24:4
Psalm 24:4
Outward practical holiness is a very precious mark of grace. It is to be feared that many professors have perverted the doctrine of justification by faith in such a way as to treat good works with contempt; if so, they will receive everlasting contempt at the last great day. If our hands are not clean, let us wash them in Jesus' precious blood, and so let us lift up pure hands unto God. But "clean hands" will not suffice, unless they are connected with "a pure heart." True religion is heart-work. We may wash the outside of the cup and the platter as long as we please, but if the inward parts be filthy, we are filthy altogether in the sight of God, for our hearts are more truly ourselves than our hands are; the very life of our being lies in the inner nature, and hence the imperative need of purity within. The pure in heart shall see God, all others are but blind bats.
The man who is born for heaven "hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity." All men have their joys, by which their souls are lifted up; the worldling lifts up his soul in carnal delights, which are mere empty vanities; but the saint loves more substantial things; like Jehoshaphat, he is lifted up in the ways of the Lord. He who is content with husks, will be reckoned with the swine. Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward and portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy.
"Nor sworn deceitfully." The saints are men of honour still. The Christian man's word is his only oath; but that is as good as twenty oaths of other men. False speaking will shut any man out of heaven, for a liar shall not enter into God's house, whatever may be his professions or doings. Reader, does the text before us condemn thee, or dost thou hope to ascend into the hill of the Lord?
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Vashti
The Woman Who Exalted Modesty
Scripture References - Esther 1; 2:1; 4:17
Name Meaning - Vashti corresponded to the significance of her name, "beautiful woman." She must have been one of the loveliest women in the realm of King Ahasuerus who thought so much of his wife's physical charms that at a drinking debauchery he wanted to exhibit her beauty for she "was fair to look upon."
Family Connections - Bullinger identifies this Persian beauty as the daughter of Alyattes, King of Lydia, but the only authentic record of Vashti is what we have in her brief appearance in Scripture as the queen of the court of Ahasuerus, or Artaxerxes. It would be interesting to know what became of the noble wife after her disgrace and divorce by her unworthy, wine-soaked husband.
While the Book of Esther holds a high place in the sacred literature of the Jews, it yet has no mention of God or of the Holy Land, and contains no definite religious teaching. Martin Luther is said to have tossed the book into the river Elbe, saying that he wished it did not exist for "it has too much of Judaism and a great deal of heathenish imagination." The book contains a genuine strain of human interest, but it is also heavy with the air of divine providence (compare Esther ). Although the story of Vashti only covers a few paragraphs in the book, yet in the setting of oriental grandeur we have the elements of imperishable drama. While the bulk of the book revolves around Esther, from our point of view the shining character in the story is the queenly Vashti, who was driven out because she refused to display her lovely face and figure before the lustful eyes of a drunken court.
By birth Vashti was a Persian princess, possessing along with her regal bearing, an extraordinary, fragile beauty. Although her husband was a king "who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces," her self-respect and high character meant more to her than her husband's vast realm. Rather than cater to the vanity and sensuality of drunkards, she courageously sacrificed a kingdom. Rather than lower the white banner of womanly modesty, Vashti accepted disgrace and dismissal. The only true ruler in that drunken court was the woman who refused to exhibit herself, even at the king's command.
The Demand
An impressive banquet was to be held in Susa the capital of Persia, lasting for seven days, with the king and his dignitaries joining with hundreds of invited guests in an unceasing whirl of festivities during which wine flowed freely. Both great and small were to be found "in the court of the garden of the palace." Then came the crowning touch of a drunken tyrant's caprice. When "the heart of the king was merry with wine" he commanded that Vashti, his royal consort, appear before the guests. For a week, inflamed with wine and adulation, he had displayed the magnificent wealth and power of his kingdom and the princes had poured flattery upon him. Now for the climax! Let all the half-drunken guests see his most lovely possession, Queen Vashti, who was probably the most beautiful woman in his kingdom. He wanted the intoxicated jubilant lords to feast their eyes on her. The Bible plainly declares that Ahasuerus summoned his wife to the feast simply "to show her beauty."
Had the king been sober he would not have considered such a breach of custom, for he knew that Eastern women lived in seclusion and that such a request as he made in his drunken condition amounted to a gross insult. "For Vashti to appear in the banquet hall, though dressed in her royal robes and crowned, would be almost as degrading as for a modern woman of our modern world to go naked into a man's party." What Ahasuerus demanded was a surrender of womanly honor, and Vashti, who was neither vain nor wanton, was unwilling to comply. Plutarch reminds us that it was the habit of a Persian king to have his queen beside him at a banquet, but when he wished to riot and drink, he sent his queen away and called in the wives of inferior rank - his concubines. Perhaps that is the historic clue to Vashti's indignant refusal for she knew only too well that Persian custom dictated that a queen be secluded during the feasts where rare wines flowed freely.
The Disobedience
To Vashti, the command of the king - her husband, who alone had the right to gaze upon her beautiful form - was most revolting to her sense of propriety, and knowing what the consequences of her refusal to appear before the half-drunken company would entail, refused in no uncertain terms to comply with the king's demand. She stood strong in womanly self-respect and "refused to come at the king's commandment." Her noble scorn at her threatened indignity deserves finer recognition. What the king sought would have infringed upon her noble, feminine modesty, therefore she had every right to disobey her wine-soaked husband. A wife need not and may not obey her husband in what opposes God's laws and the laws of feminine honor and decency. All praise to the heroic Vashti for her decent disobedience.
The Deposition
Vashti's disobedience excited the king to madness. No one, especially a woman, had ever dared to humiliate such a despot whose word was law in all his realm. Such a slight had but one issue, for forth went the decree, "that Vashti come no more before King Ahasuerus." This degradation also meant divorce, not only from her husband, but also from the life and luxury she had been used to. Thus amid the tragic darkness Queen Vashti - never more queenly than in her refusal - disappears like a shining shadow. The wise men, court astrologers and princes agreed with the king that banishment from the palace was the only fit punishment for such a crime. They knew that Vashti's bold stand might incite other Persian ladies to disobey their liege lords, and so the warrant, silly as it was royal, was enacted that "Every man be master in his own house, and that all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small!"
As a Persian law once made could never be revoked, Ahasuerus, now sober, and likely regretful of his impulsive anger could not reinstate Vashti, thus Esther was chosen to succeed her as queen. It is quite probable that "Vashti continued to live in the royal household, stripped of the insignia of royalty, but with her own integrity clothed in purple." Surrendering the diadem of Persia, Vashti put on a crown which was beyond the power of a despot king to give or take away, namely, the crown of exalted womanhood. How apropos are the lines of Tennyson as we think of the fine character of Vashti, the pagan Persian -
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Yet not for power (power by herself
Would come uncalled for), but to live by law,
Acting the law we live without fear;
And, because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Vashti chose deposition rather than dishonor with a mortifying refusal to obey. Her refusal to exhibit herself was visited with "a punishment severe enough to reestablish the supremacy which it threatened to overthrow," but to Vashti, conscience and personal dignity occupied a higher supremacy and for this ideal she was dethroned. Allied to her beauty and regal charm were courage and heroism, securing her character from the rot of power. Vashti had a soul of her own, and preserved its integrity; and if women today fail to honor their life they will never win the best God has for them. It is to be regretted that in our modern world many women are not as careful as Vashti the pagan was in guarding the dignity of the body. Fashion and popularity are a poor price to pay for the loss of one's self-respect. Christian ideals in womanhood may be deemed old-fashioned and in conflict with the trend of the times, but divine favor rests upon those who have courage to be ridiculed for such high ideals. Any woman is one after God's own heart when, as Mary Hallet puts it, she determines by His grace -
To remain refined in speech and action, when it is the style to appear "hard-boiled" -
To be dignified when everyone else pretends to be "wild" -
To maintain a true perspective, a real sense of values, in an irresponsible age.
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Achbor
[Ăch'bôr] - a mouse.
[Ăch'bôr] - a mouse.
- Father of Baal-hanan and king of Edom (Gen. 36:38, 39; 1 Chron. 1:49).
- Son of Michaiah and one of Josiah's messengers (2 Kings 22:12, 14). Called Abdon in 2 Chronicles 34:20.
- A Jew, whose son Elnathanwas sent by Jehoiakim to bring back Urijah the prophet from Egypt ( Jer. 26:22; 36:12).
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Today's reading: Job 28-29, Acts 13:1-25 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Job 28-29
Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found
1 There is a mine for silver
and a place where gold is refined.
2 Iron is taken from the earth,
and copper is smelted from ore.
3 Mortals put an end to the darkness;
they search out the farthest recesses
for ore in the blackest darkness.
4 Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft,
in places untouched by human feet;
far from other people they dangle and sway.
5 The earth, from which food comes,
is transformed below as by fire;
6 lapis lazuli comes from its rocks,
and its dust contains nuggets of gold.
7 No bird of prey knows that hidden path,
no falcon's eye has seen it.
8 Proud beasts do not set foot on it,
and no lion prowls there.
9 People assault the flinty rock with their hands
and lay bare the roots of the mountains.
10 They tunnel through the rock;
their eyes see all its treasures.
11 They search the sources of the rivers
and bring hidden things to light....
and a place where gold is refined.
2 Iron is taken from the earth,
and copper is smelted from ore.
3 Mortals put an end to the darkness;
they search out the farthest recesses
for ore in the blackest darkness.
4 Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft,
in places untouched by human feet;
far from other people they dangle and sway.
5 The earth, from which food comes,
is transformed below as by fire;
6 lapis lazuli comes from its rocks,
and its dust contains nuggets of gold.
7 No bird of prey knows that hidden path,
no falcon's eye has seen it.
8 Proud beasts do not set foot on it,
and no lion prowls there.
9 People assault the flinty rock with their hands
and lay bare the roots of the mountains.
10 They tunnel through the rock;
their eyes see all its treasures.
11 They search the sources of the rivers
and bring hidden things to light....
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 13:1-25
1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." 3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off....===
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