Monday, January 13, 2014

January 13, 2014 Monday - again

Started the week with Rita, a little conga never hurt anyone.  I believe she is from Puerto Rico and I noticed a lot of these moves are reminiscent of loading boats, as in pulling the rope and lifting arms up and down.  I would guess a lot of ethenic dances reflect things that happened in peoples lives.


1 Thessalonians chapter 2 - Here Paul is writing that he is sorry he can't be with the people of this country to help them build their faith.  He sends Timothy.  The faithful grew in number.  A story is also related by the author of todays study, that when an African village was invaded by Mussolini in 1937 and the missionaries were run off, the number of believers grew to be 10,000 because of the few remaining that shared God's word.  You don't have to be the head of a church to share the Gospel.


1997 - On this day, we had a spaghetti dinner for the youth group.  Not just any dinner.  Maybe you have done this one.  You make a menu that includes everything from food to utensils, napkin etc..  You list it in a foreign language, or now just say your spell check screwed up and everything appears without rhyme or reason on the menu.  They have to pic 3 items for each of the 5 courses you serve. The result is they could pick a fork, napkin and glass of water for the first course.  You clear after every course, so they don't necessarily have utensils for their spaghetti or ice cream.  It's messy, but fun.  Try it, I even pulled this one on friends at a dinner party.


Parenting - It is fun to have private jokes with your child, not mean behind the back things, but shared silly memories that only the two or three of you experienced.  They are very bonding.


Vancouver - ok a little more background :

Twentieth century[edit]

The dominance of the economy by big business was accompanied by an often militant labour movement. The first major sympathy strike was in 1903 when railway employees struck against the CPR for union recognition. Labour leader Frank Rogers was killed by CPR police while picketing at the docks, becoming the movement's first martyr in British Columbia.[42] The rise of industrial tensions throughout the province led to Canada's first general strike in 1918, at the Cumberland coal mines on Vancouver Island.[43] Following a lull in the 1920s, the strike wave peaked in 1935 when unemployed men flooded the city to protest conditions in the relief camps run by the military in remote areas throughout the province.[44][45] After two tense months of daily and disruptive protesting, the relief camp strikers decided to take their grievances to the federal government and embarked on the On-to-Ottawa Trek,[45] but their protest was put down by force. The workers were arrested near Mission and interned in work camps for the duration of the Depression.[46]
Other social movements, such as the first-wave feminist, moral reform, and temperance movements were also instrumental in Vancouver's development. Mary Ellen Smith, a Vancouver suffragist and prohibitionist, became the first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada in 1918.[47] Alcohol prohibition began in the First World War and lasted until 1921, when the provincial government established control over alcohol sales, a practice still in place today.[48] Canada's first drug law came about following an inquiry conducted by the federal Minister of Labour and future Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King. King was sent to investigate damages claims resulting from a riot when the Asiatic Exclusion League led a rampage through Chinatown and Japantown. Two of the claimants were opium manufacturers, and after further investigation, King found that white women were reportedly frequenting opium dens as well as Chinese men. A federal law banning the manufacture, sale, and importation of opium for non-medicinal purposes was soon passed based on these revelations.[49]
Amalgamation with Point Grey and South Vancouver gave the city its final boundaries not long before it became the third-largest metropolis in the country. As of January 1, 1929, the population of the enlarged Vancouver was 228,193.[50]


Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable! 

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