Genealogy will be forever changed…. and not in a good way

Over the years we have seen huge advancements in the world that have helped us do our genealogy. However, the new Canadian Census change might cast a dark cloud over all of those advancements. What was once a huge asset to economists and genealogists, is now more vague and restricted to the public. There are many news articles on the subject…

I’ve included an article from the Vacouver Sun, as and introduction to the changes:

(Follow the link, or read the article below)

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Genealogists+slam+restrictions+census+information/3217316/story.html

Genealogists slam new restrictions on census information

By Shannon Proudfoot, Canwest News Service June 29, 2010

Learn Mandarin and teach the gospel.

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For Fathers day we had two sets of missionaries over for dinner including the Mandarin missionaries.

Most missionaries love friend referrals, but, what I learned is that referrals are especially important for Mandarin missionaries.  Apparently, two young guys in suites, with broken Mandarin rarely get invited in because it is assumed that they are selling something. Mandarin missionaries have most of their success with their ESL Classes held at the church.

So, what does this all mean to you. Leaning a little bit of Mandarin can help open doors for discussion.  A short  “hi”, “how are you” could lead to “Are you interested in improving your English by coming to an English class at my church?”

Below I’ve included a downloadable JPG of basic Mandarin.

Because Mandarin is a tone base language it is really helpful to have some one teach it to you. If you are interested the missionaries would love to come help you learn the basics.

Canada Day!!!!

First Thursday Canada Day – Calgary’s monthly arts & culture crawl

Source: http://calgaryculture.com/content/first-thursday-canada-day-spectacular-calgarys-monthly-arts-culture-festival

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Many free events

Event Description:

how your love for Canada and join us for Canada Day arts and cultural festivities taking place in Calgary’s Cultural District.

In this special edition of First Thursday, we celebrate with the City of Calgary at Olympic Plaza with a great lineup of bands and fun for the whole family. The Sled Island Music & Arts festival will also be in full swing on Canada Day. Music shows will take place in venues around downtown, with the main outdoor site taking place the weekend of July 2nd and 3rd at Olympic Plaza.

Canada Day in the Cultural District

10am Historical walking tour of downtown calgary

So you think Calgary has a short history, compared with longer-in-the tooth locales such as Cairo or Kyoto? Well, you have to look back, way back, to find our beginnings.

12-5pm Art Central will be open Canada Day

Axis Contemporary Art: O-Canada: paintings by Timothy Wilson Hoey

Keystone Art Gallery: 10% off all artworks for one day only

INFLUX Jewellery Gallery: Big News II: 2nd Annual Invitational Artists Exhibition

Swirl Fine Art & Design: 10% off original artwork for one day only

Shisomiso: Original Prints by Jillian Cyca

Studio Todorovic: Artist Supplies Canada Day Sale: Canada Day is awesome, so we are having an awesome sale on all red and/or white products in our store!

My “Escape” Art Line Dancing II by Design Artist Melody Germain

1pm – 7pm Free Pancake Show

Free pancakes and sweet bands + two art openings

1pm-1am Sled Island Music & Arts Festival

An annual independent multi-venue music and arts festival showcasing emerging and established local and international talent during a four-day celebration that makes truly revelatory shows more commonplace in Alberta.

5pm Tour of the downtown public art circuit

This one-hour Downtown Public Art Circuit introduces you to Civic Art Collection pieces in and around the Municipal Building and Plus 15.

6pm Tour of the Cantos Music Foundation keyboard collection

Explore the Cantos collection of keyboard and related instruments free of charge.

6pm-12am City of Calgary Canada Day Celebration

Olympic Plaza Stage

8:00 – 8:10 Opening Ceremonies
8:15 – 9:00 Wil
9:15 –10:00  Souljah Fyah
10:15 – 10:45  The United Steel Workers of Montreal

10:30pm – 12am Calgary Tower Flame Lighting

10:45 – 11:00 Fireworks

View City of Calgary Canada Day celebration events

In Beautiful Harmony

Screen Shot of Music Player

Every Sunday I’m  impressed with our ward’s ability to sing the Hymns of the Church.

Have you ever wanted to expand you vocal skills and learn the harmony of some of the hymns? Well, the lds website might be able to help!

In my opinion, the music player  is one of the neatest pages on the church website

http://www.lds.org/cm/display/0,17631,4996-1,00.html#

You can adjust the volume of each  part…. You can start with just your part then slowly introduce the other parts as you are more confident with your part!!!!

Follow instructions

Click to view the Interactive Music Player

(or the picture on the right)

Scaled Model Provides Salt Lake Temple Open House Experience

So, last month I stumbled on this really neat article about the new model of the Salt Latke Temple that is in the visitor’s centre of Temple square. What and amazing opportunity for the church to show the tourist who come to temple square  not only it’s majestic outside, but it’s beautiful interior architecture.

Plus! the Architectural model was done by a firm in Toronto!

Extract from the article:

More than a century has passed since the public open house was held for the Salt Lake Temple, but an exhibit featuring a 1:32 scaled replica of the Mormon temple opened today that offers an open house experience of the magnificent building. Earlier this morning, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled the 88-inch tall, near-identical replica of the temple in the South Visitors’ Center on Temple Square. The permanent exhibit will be open to the public starting at 1:30 p.m. today.

[...] Peter McCann Architectural Models of Toronto was commissioned to create the replica last August. Sixteen modelers with different expertise in various parts of the duplication process worked on the project for five months. (Click here for fact sheet, photos and audio sound bites about the creation process).

For the full article you can go to:

http://www.newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/scaled-model-provides-salt-lake-temple-open-house-experience

With Pictures and video about the model.