Today In History. September 10

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year

 

1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium

1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.

1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.

1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.

1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.

1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.

1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.

2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.

2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

2001 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.

2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

‘Blessed are the fully armed’ in church, ‘theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven’

                              CBN

 “It’s Sunday morning and they sing hymns and they praise the Lord and you listen to a sermon, good or bad,
and you shake hands with your neighbors, and it seems like the one place in America you’d think you’d be safe: a church,” Robertson explained to 700 Club viewers. “But sadly, that isn’t always true.”

“Violent attacks and even deaths on church property occur far more often than people realize,” he continued. “The good news: you can protect yourself. What are you going to do? You going to give church members AK-47s at the door to let them blow away those intruders?”

After showing a report about how some churches were forming armed “eyes and ears teams” to watch for trouble during services, Robertson suggested an approach slightly more measured than giving the congregation military-style assault rifles.

He came up with a new Beatitude? Blessed are the fully armed for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven,”.  According to him,“I really believe that if the bad guys understand that the citizenry are able to react against them then they won’t be as free to go into a crowded mall or a school or a church and start blowing people out.”

“I do believe that if people are trained with firearms, and they’re able to protect themselves, I don’t think it will lead to more violence, it will lead to less,” he continued. “The idea of having citizens who are trained or to have off-duty police in your church is not a bad thing.”

“Anyhow, it’s something to consider,” Robertson concluded. “You don’t even think about it. You want to go to church to praise the Lord. You don’t want to go to church to shoot people or to get shot.”

Women Are Just ‘Penis Homes,’

 

Washington mega-church, Mars Hill announced that it is closing several branches, and has dismissed a pastor after he recently called for the resignation of founder Mark Driscoll, who had created controversy with his anti-woman views.

“Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis. You are simply borrowing it for a while,” Driscoll wrote under the name William Wallace II in 2001. “Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.”

He further wrote;

“Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your penis is homeless and needs a home,” he continued. “But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not… And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.”

Mark Driscoll has reduced women to a penis receptacle for men.  Is that all marriage is meant to be

Today In History; September 9

1493 – Ottoman Empire forces defeated the Croatian army at the Battle of Krbava Field.

1739 – The Stono Rebellion, at the time the largest slave rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies of British America, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina.

1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, US, destroying both planes and killing all occupants.

1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lankan Army massacred at least 184 Tamil refugees in the Batticaloa District.

2009 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula and the world's longest fully automated metro network, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 PM.

Ebolademic Panic

The fear of the deadly Ebola virus is everywhere now, people are scared as rumours fly about from unknown and unverified sources and if the information going round is to be believed, then by the end of this year more than half the population of Nigeria will die from Ebola.

Real or imagined or just unconfirmed information, many men of God are instilling fears in their members from the pulpit, so many revelations about the virus are being accredited to some prominent men of God, and it’s really a sad situation if it’s true. Awareness should be created and not fear, we have cases of Ebola in the country, but has it become Ebolademic, has it gotten to the stage where everyone should be afraid to even breath air outside their homes.

The information going round is that we should not shake hands with people anymore, we should not embrace friends again, we should not eat bush meat because animals are the primary carriers of the virus, and we should not come in contact with another’s person body. The question is; those that have to commute with public transport every day, what should the do? Maybe the federal government will have to come out with a special raincoat for people to wear as a safety measure.

The latest information now is that people should bath with hot water with a dash of salt inside as well as drink the salty water for safety measures. I received a call from a relative as early as 4:30am to pass the information, then I got lots of broadcast on BBM toward that effect and by the time I came out of my house the information was all over Nigeria.

I began to wonder what salt has to do with Ebola virus until I read up somewhere that the Ebola virus is worm-like, and someone somewhere has put up the logic that since salt kills worm, it may be effective in killing the Ebola virus and so the information spread with an alarming velocity, even to the point of death. There was report of people who died from excess intake of salt and some others hospitalized too; all because of unnecessary fear.

From reports monitored so far, the numbers of infected persons are too small for the panic being generated. In as much as we should not throw cautious to the wind, but with the way it’s be escalated, Ebolademic panic will kill people more than the Ebola virus.

Women accountants mobilise against cancer scourge

The Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria (Swan) of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has mobilised its members against the health scourge of cancer which has lately turned into destroyer of mostly black women including those of Nigeria.

Censors Board Approves Half Of A Yellow Sun For Theatrical Release

The much anticipated big budget film, Half of a Yellow Sun (HOAYS). has finally being giving the go ahead order by The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB).

The film adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie's novel of the same title, directed by Biyi Bandele and starring Nigerian-born actor, Chinwetel Ejiofor, featured prominently on the list of 77 movies, which the NFVCB said its department of classification has approved for June 2014. 


 The NFVCB refused the film classification when the promoters applied for certification in April 2014 on the grounds that it contained scenes that may cause ethnic uproar.

 Half of a Yellow Sun, has being premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 . In addition, it won the best film prize award at the just concluded Zanzibar International Film Festival and it featured prominently at the NollywoodWeek Paris Film Festival.