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"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential."

~Ellen Goodman

 

 


 

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The celebration of the new year is one of the oldest holidays. Many believe it was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago it marked the first New Moon after the Vernal Equinox. The Babylonian new year celebration lasted for eleven days. How did New Years Day move from the summer to the winter? A good question, especially since the spring is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. Today New years Day is January 1st.

The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah. It is a holy time when people reflect on the things done wrong in the past, with a promise to do better in the future. Religious services are held in synagogues, and an instrument called a Shofar, which is made from a ram's horn is played. Children are given new clothes, and New Year loaves are baked and fruit is eaten to remind people of harvest time.

New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle," completing a year's cycle. Some put coins in black-eyed peas and the person who gets the coin in their meal will be prosperous in the coming year.   Click here for more!


CoolBowls

College Football Bowl Season is in full gear and during the next week, you will find a plethora of football to watch.  Check out http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls for up-to-date info!

Chick-fil-A
Dec. 31
Auburn vs. Virginia
Atlanta, GA
ESPN
Final - AU 43, VA 24

TicketCity
Jan. 2 at 12:00 pm ET
Houston vs. Penn State
Dallas, TX
ESPNU

Outback
Jan. 2 at 1:00 pm ET
Mich St vs. Georgia
Tampa, FL
ABC

Capital One
Jan. 2 at 1:00 pm ET
Nebraska vs. South Carolina
Orlando, FL
ESPN

Gator
Jan. 2 at 1:00 pm ET
Ohio St vs. Florida
Jacksonville, FL
ESPN2

Rose Bowl Game
Jan. 2 at 5:00 pm ET
Wisconsin vs. Oregon
Pasadena, CA
ESPN

Tostitos Fiesta
Jan. 2 at 8:30 pm ET
Stanford vs. OK St
Glendale, AZ
ESPN

Allstate Sugar
Jan. 3 at 8:30 pm ET
Michigan vs. VA Tech
New Orleans, LA
ESPN

Discover Orange
Jan. 4 at 8:30 pm ET
West Virginia vs. Clemson
Miami, FL
ESPN

AT&T Cotton
Jan. 6 at 8:00 pm ET
Kansas St vs. Arkansas
Arlington, TX
FOX

BBVA Compass
Jan. 7 at 1:00 pm ET
Pittsburgh vs. SMU
Birmingham, AL
ESPN

GoDaddy.com
Jan. 8 at 9:00 pm ET
Arkansas St vs. N Illinois
Mobile, AL
ESPN

And the big one...

Allstate BCS National Championship Game
Jan. 9 at 8:30 pm ET
Alabama vs. LSU
New Orleans, LA
ESPN


CoolDay

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a United States holiday marking the birth date of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15. It is one of four United States federal holidays to commemorate an individual person.

King was the chief spokesman of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. He was assassinated in 1968.

The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination. Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed in 1986. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2006.

 

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