NEW YEAR HISTORY

The New Year is one of the oldest festivals of the world, dating back to the pre historic era. The New Year History itself forms an extensive area of study. The history of New Year has undergone a series of changes over the ages to achieve its global form. The urge of celebrating New Year as a vibrant festivity emerged at the dawn of civilization. At present, New Year is celebrated on January 1 and it had been an essential part of the cultural and traditional practices of the different communities inhabiting the world. This had been the practice for the last few centuries but the New Year History had its root to yet far off times. Therefore, this is the principal reason that the New Year traditions vary from country to country.

The earliest instance of New Year is found in Mesopotamian culture. It was about 2000 BC, when the people of Babylon used to observe New Year celebrations on the day of the Vernal Equinox that is during the middle of March. It was the Romans, who recognized March 1 as New Year Day in their calendar. At that time there were only ten calendar months beginning from March. The relevance of this fact can still be seen in the names of some months, which were been set according to their respective sequences in the calendar. As in the calendar of the present time the months from September to December are placed as the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth months respectively, previously they were positioned as the seventh, eighth, ninth and the tenth months. In Latin, �Septem� means, seven, �Octo� means, eight, �Novem� means, ninth and �Decem� means ten.

The Roman calendar also passed through an array of rectifications. The calendar was attributed with the months of January and February in 153 BC, by Numa Pontilius, the second Roman king. Thus the festival of New Year got shifted to the month of January for the first time, although people carried on observing New Year on March 1 for quite a long time after that.

This is still not the end of the New Year History. Several new calendars were been devised. Julius Caesar implemented the Julian calendar which was created based on the solar system whereas the previous calendar were based on the lunar cycle. The Christianity has added up new meaning to the New Year Celebration by lionizing the Christmas Day, the Annunciation Day and The Easter as New Year Day at various times. There had also been times when January 1 had been abolished to be celebrated as New Year altogether.

It was in the Gregorian calendar established by Pope Gregory XII , New Year was firmly positioned on January 1. It was readily accepted by the Catholics and then by the Protestants and soon became a holiday recognized by the entire world slowly and steadily.

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Sade - Cherish The Day

Cherish The Day lyrics
Songwriters: Adu, Sade; Riley; Bright; Matthewman; Hale;

You're ruling the way that I move
Not breathe your air
You only can rescue me
This is my prayer

If you were mine
If you were mine
I wouldn't want to go
To heaven

I cherish the day
I won't go astray
I won't be afraid
You won't catch me running
You're ruling the way that I move
You take my air
You show me how deep love can be

You're ruling the way that I move
Not breathe your air
You only can rescue me

This is my prayer

I cherish the day
I won't go astray
I won't be afraid
You won't catch me running, ah
Cherish the day
I won't go astray
I won't be afraid
Won't run away

You show me how deep love can be
You show me how deep love can be
This is my prayer

Cherish the day
I won't go astray
I won't be afraid
Won't run away
Won't shy
Cherish the day
I won't go astray

I cherish the day
I cherish the day
I cherish the day
...

ENDURING PACE Breast Cancer Awareness Edition Sunglasses

Young athletes feel indestructible. It’s an attitude that lets them challenge all limits. Young women are the same when it comes to health. Even the idea of breast cancer seems distant, an unlikely detour far down the road and decades from possibility. The reality is closer than most realize. In the United States alone, more than 250,000 women under age 40 are living with breast cancer, and it’s the leading cause of cancer deaths in women 15 to 54. Cancers in young women are generally more aggressive. The disease is usually diagnosed at later stages than with older women, and the survival rate is lower.
The YOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION® (YSC) is a non-profit network focused on the concerns and issues unique to young women affected by breast cancer. The YSC’s core purpose is to improve the quality and quantity of life for all young women facing the challenges of breast cancer. A proud partner of the YSC, Oakley is helping support its mission of Action, Advocacy and Awareness by providing $20 from each sale of this special edition sunglass.
The first sport performance sunglass engineered specifically for women, ENDURING® features the best of Oakley technology. Its interchangeable lens design combines the clarity of HIGH DEFINITION OPTICS® (HDO®) with a permanent HYDROPHOBIC™ lens coating to eliminate water sheens and repel dust, skin oils and lotions. Two sizes of nosepiece let you customize the fit. With this level of all-day comfort, you can put the contrast-boosting G20™ lens through its paces in a range of medium to bright light. A breast cancer awareness ribbon is screen printed on the frame stem, and each sunglass comes with a specially designed pin. You also get an eyewear case, plus a custom MICROCLEAR™ bag for lens cleaning and frame storage.
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FITFLOP

Marcia Kilgore, the FITFLOP boss, has known what women want for twenty years already.
"It's easy,’ quips Kilgore, ‘If I don't want to buy it, I don't want to sell it."
The 41-year old married mother of two is regularly referred to as a serial entrepreneur, but claims she's more savvy with zeitgeist shifts than spreadsheets.

Born in Canada, in the tiny farming town of Outlook, Saskatchewan (pop. 2000), Kilgore finished high school in a neighbouring city - Saskatoon - and moved to New York City in 1987 with $300 in her pocket. She worked as a personal trainer to make money for University tuition, opting for a summer crash-course in facials when her celebrity clients headed off for the Hamptons.

She started her beauty business from a one-room office downtown in New York City's Soho, and is credited with kick-starting the day spa boom in the mid 1990's by opening BLISS SPAS in New York City and LONDON. Her more recent bargain cosmetics collection - Soap & Glory - has prompted a designer to high street beauty blitz. Soap & Glory's credo? You shouldn't have to spend an arm and a leg to moisturise one.

In 2005, with one booming business under her belt, one in the works, and with time with her kids taking priority over time on the treadmill, Kilgore realised that there must be thousands of women like her who were looking for the ‘cliff-notes’¹ version of toning. Two years, and several rounds of R&D later, she launched FITFLOP.

Kilgore's knack for delivering ‘what women want’ has made FitFlop™ (like Soap & Glory and Bliss before it) a huge success. She currently lives in London with husband Thierry and her sons Raphael (3½) and Louis (5), and commutes to work on the tube, where she's obsessed with what people are wearing on their feet.

¹ CliffNotes (formerly Cliffs Notes, originally Cliff's Notes and often, erroneously, CliffNotes) are a series of student study guides available primarily in the United States. The guides present and explain literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Detractors of the study guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned literature. In contrast, the company claims to promote the reading of the original work, and does not view the study guides as a substitute to the reading.