Thursday, December 8, 2016

December 8, 2016 Thursday #kick#celebrate#Rejoice!#failedandwon#poornorm#authoritarian!

Get Fit
Who’s ready for some balance work?! Today you are going to need a set of weights as we balance through one legged exercises and kicks. There are 3 rounds as we go through the Roundhouse, side Kick, and Snap Kick and pair them up with 1 legged burpees, 1 legged squats, and speed skaters!

We don’t have the time, we make the time! Find this on Google https://youtu.be/hBiRq80Jayg  get moving!  kick boxing

Get Faith
Nehemiah 12:27-43  This celebration of the dedication of the Wall of Jerusalem sounds very much like our Christmas celebration.  The people all gather and play music, choirs sing, there are processionals and a lot of joy.  People come home for the celebration, from where ever they are.  They did this for a wall to protect the city and the people, the life they wanted to preserve so they could worship our God.  We do it to thank God for the birth of our Savior who saved us from a life where we need protection, to a city where the joy never ends, and the rejoicing can be heard everywhere.

On this day
1982 - Yesterday I mentioned Tommy, the boy I worked with in the probation program.  This year I was working with Shane - an alcoholic, my own age.  I picked her up and we went to Macomb Mall shopping and had dinner.  I had to keep eyes on her all the time, she was a handful.  She was removed from the one on one program as it was not effective with her.  I tried, she did not, I hope she got help later.  On arriving home, Andy and Alice were home.  My brother had moved in after his divorce and when he met Alice they eventually moved into their own place.  It was nice having them here at the Lodge. (All my renters called my house this)

1982 - Norman D. Mayer demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monument hostage. He threatened to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. 10 hours later he was shot to death by police. I don't remember this, we can't remember all of these things regardless of how meaningful they might have been.  Nuclear weapons are still a threat but not for Norman.

Victoria Falls Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (/zɪmˈbɑːbw/), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked sovereign state located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers. It borders South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west and southwest, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east and northeast. Although it does not border Namibia, less than 200 metres of the Zambezi River separates it from that country. The capital and largest city is Harare. A country of roughly 13 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages,[3] with EnglishShona, and Ndebele the most commonly used.
Since the 11th century, present-day Zimbabwe has been the site of several organised states and kingdoms as well as a major route for migration and trade. The British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes first demarcated the present territory during the 1890s; it became the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1923. In 1965, the conservative white minority government unilaterally declared independenceas Rhodesia. The state endured international isolation and a 15-year guerrilla war with black nationalist forces; this culminated in a peace agreement that established universal enfranchisement and de jure sovereignty in April 1980. Zimbabwe then rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations—which it withdrew from in 2003. It is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).

Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980, when his ZANU-PF party won the elections following the end of white minority rule; he has been the president of Zimbabwe since 1987. Under Mugabe's authoritarian regime, the state security apparatus has dominated the country and been responsible for widespread human rights violations.[12] Mugabe has maintained the revolutionary socialist rhetoric from the Cold War era, blaming Zimbabwe's economic woes on conspiring Western capitalist countries.[13] Burnished by his anti-imperialist credentials, contemporary African political leaders have been reluctant to criticise Mugabe, though Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called him "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator."[14]  This is informative but not very flattering.

Enjoy the day!  Make it Memorable!  Happy Birthday Melissa B!! Molly and Ty F!

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