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Listening to this lovely raag Yaman by Lata Mangeshkar while cooking a Pasta Primavera Bake, reviewing a paper to submit, contemplating sorting the laundry, and nibbling on almonds is my idea of the height of multitasking. Oh, and blogging about it too!
Check out Lataji’s rendition of the raag and my badaam, aka, almonds!
Updated April 26, 2012, 2:28 pm
On April 27, 1947, “Babe Ruth Day” at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.
Go to article »On April 27, 1822, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States and commander of the Union armies during the American Civil War, was born. Following his death on July 23, 1885, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
By The Associated Press
1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines. 1896 Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby was born in Winters, Texas. 1947 “Babe Ruth Day” was held at Yankee Stadium to honor the ailing baseball star. 1965 Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow died at age 57. 1972 Apollo 16 returned to Earth after a manned voyage to the moon. 1982 John W. Hinckley Jr. went on trial in Washington, D.C., in the shooting of President Ronald Reagan. (He was acquitted by reason of insanity.) 1987 The Justice Department barred Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. 1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro. 1992 Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 2006 Construction began on a 1,776-foot building on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. 2011 More than 120 tornadoes raked the South and Midwest, resulting in 316 deaths across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. 2011 President Barack Obama produced a detailed Hawaii birth certificate in an extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born. Current Birthdays
By The Associated Press
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter turns 37 years old today.
AP Photo/Jeff Roberson
Rock musician Jim James (My Morning Jacket) turns 34 years old today.
AP Photo/William Philpott
1922 Jack Klugman, Actor (“The Odd Couple,” “Quincy”), turns 90 1932 Casey Kasem, Radio announcer, turns 80 1942 Jim Keltner, Rock musician, turns 70 1948 Kate Pierson, Rock singer (B-52s), turns 64 1951 Ace Frehley, Rock musician (Kiss), turns 61 1954 Herm Edwards, Football coach, turns 58 1959 Sheena Easton, Singer, actress, turns 53 1978 Patrick Hallahan, Rock musician (My Morning Jacket), turns 34 1984 Patrick Stump, Rock musician (Fall Out Boy), turns 28 1992 Allison Iraheta, Singer (“American Idol”), turns 20
Historic Birthdays
Ulysses S. Grant 4/27/1822 – 7/23/1885 18th president of the United States (1869-77) and Civil War general.Go to obituary »
49 Claude Gillot 4/27/1673 – 5/4/1722
French painter, engraver and theatrical designer74 Nikolay Novikov 4/27/1744 – 7/31/1818
Russian writer, philanthropist and social critic38 Mary Wollstonecraft 4/27/1759 – 9/10/1797
English writer and women’s rights advocate81 Samuel Morse 4/27/1791 – 4/2/1872
American painter and developer of the telegraph83 Herbert Spencer 4/27/1820 – 12/8/1903
English sociologist and philosopher71 Edward Whymper 4/27/1840 – 9/16/1911
English artist and mountaineer; first man to climb the Matterhorn67 Rogers Hornsby 4/27/1896 – 1/5/1963
American professional baseball player41 Wallace Hume Carothers 4/27/1896 – 4/29/1937
American chemist; developed nylon95 Walter Lantz 4/27/1899 – 3/22/1994
American film animator; creator of “Woody Woodpecker”
MORNING
“Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.”
Psalm 119:49Whatever your especial need may be, you may readily find some promise in the Bible suited to it. Are you faint and feeble because your way is rough and you are weary? Here is the promise–“He giveth power to the faint.” When you read such a promise, take it back to the great Promiser, and ask him to fulfil his own word. Are you seeking after Christ, and thirsting for closer communion with him? This promise shines like a star upon you–“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Take that promise to the throne continually; do not plead anything else, but go to God over and over again with this–“Lord, thou hast said it, do as thou hast said.” Are you distressed because of sin, and burdened with the heavy load of your iniquities? Listen to these words–“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions, and will no more remember thy sins.” You have no merit of your own to plead why he should pardon you, but plead his written engagements and he will perform them. Are you afraid lest you should not be able to hold on to the end, lest, after having thought yourself a child of God, you should prove a castaway? If that is your state, take this word of grace to the throne and plead it: “The mountains may depart, and the hills may be removed, but the covenant of my love shall not depart from thee.” If you have lost the sweet sense of the Saviour’s presence, and are seeking him with a sorrowful heart, remember the promises: “Return unto me, and I will return unto you;” “For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.” Banquet your faith upon God’s own word, and whatever your fears or wants, repair to the Bank of Faith with your Father’s note of hand, saying, “Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.”
EVENING
“All the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.”
Ezekiel 3:7Are there no exceptions? No, not one. Even the favoured race are thus described. Are the best so bad?–then what must the worst be? Come, my heart, consider how far thou hast a share in this universal accusation, and while considering, be ready to take shame unto thyself wherein thou mayst have been guilty. The first charge is impudence, or hardness of forehead, a want of holy shame, an unhallowed boldness in evil. Before my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no inward humiliation on account of it. For a sinner to go to God’s house and pretend to pray to him and praise him argues a brazen-facedness of the worst kind! Alas! since the day of my new birth I have doubted my Lord to his face, murmured unblushingly in his presence, worshipped before him in a slovenly manner, and sinned without bewailing myself concerning it. If my forehead were not as an adamant, harder than flint, I should have far more holy fear, and a far deeper contrition of spirit. Woe is me, I am one of the impudent house of Israel. The second charge is hardheartedness, and I must not venture to plead innocent here. Once I had nothing but a heart of stone, and although through grace I now have a new and fleshy heart, much of my former obduracy remains. I am not affected by the death of Jesus as I ought to be; neither am I moved by the ruin of my fellow men, the wickedness of the times, the chastisement of my heavenly Father, and my own failures, as I should be. O that my heart would melt at the recital of my Saviour’s sufferings and death. Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour’s precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire.
