[LeadersWorkshop] Fw: ~~~~ Origin of New Year

 

Origin of New Year  Origin of New Year   New Year is the world's most popularly celebrated festival. Perhaps, everybody would like to know how these celebrations  began, from where it originated and what is so important  about the festival. Let's give you an insight to the origin of this grand event in a brief form.   Origin of New Year dates back to the era of emperors. They thought of celebrating a special day which should dot a day for beginning and end of the year. First New Year celebrations were noticed in Mesopotamia  around 2000 years. It was celebrated at the time of Equinox in mid-March by the Egyptians, Persians and Phoenicians while Greeks  celebrated it on winter solstice.   Ancient New Year Calendar First New Year celebrations were noticed in Mesopotamia around 2000 years. It was celebrated at the time of Equinox in mid-March  by the Egyptians, Persians and Phoenicians while Greeks celebrated it on winter solstice. As per the ancient Roman calendar New Year fell on  March 1.  This calendar just had ten months and March was the first month of the year. The calendar originated by the cycles of the moon,  beginning in spring and ending with autumn planting.   Inclusion of Two Calendar Months It was Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome  who divided the year into twelve lunar months by adding the months of January and February. The New Year was shifted to January as it marked the  beginning of the civil years in Rome. But this was not fully accepted by the people of Rome  and they continued celebrating in the month of March only.   January 1- an Official Date of New Year Celebrations The Roman emperor Julius Caesar officially declared  January 1 to be a New Year in 46 B.C. Romans worshiped God Janus who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. The month of January was named after this Roman God  and it gave an idea to the emperor to establish January as a gate to the New Year.  It is said Caesar celebrated January 1 - New Year  by ordering the revolutionary Jewish forces to route back. People began New Year celebrations on January 1 after many years. They ritualized the beginning of the year by acting  and re-enacting the world of the past before peace proliferated.  People learned January as first month of the year and with this the tradition of following Julian calendar.   Abolition of Roman New Year Date In the medieval period, pagan festivals were given more  importance and March 25 was announced as the  beginning of the New Year.  March 25 was called the Annunciation Day as on this day  Mary got the news that she should be impregnated. Later, the King of England ensured that Jesus' birth December 25 should be commemorated as New Year.   Gregorian Calendar About 500 years later, Pope Gregory XIII abolished the old Julian calendar and introduced Gregorian calendar which comprised of a leap year after every four years  to maintain balance between seasons and calendar.  Finally, in 1582, Gregorian calendar was set to celebrate New Year on the first day of January.

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[LeadersWorkshop] Words of Wisdom

 

Good words .     Good words from an........   An old father is telling his grandson about a fight that is going on inside himself. He said it is between 2 wolves.   One is evil: Anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.   The other is good: Joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.   The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"   The old father simply replied, "The one I feed."   "   Please share the lessons you have learned in your full-time, informal school called Life with " Join Us by Email | Remove your Email | Join from Web | Visit Yahoo! Group

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[LeadersWorkshop] SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING.................

 

Hi Friends,

SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99, (Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred) 


Letters 'a', 'b' 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999, (Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)


Letters 'b' 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999, (Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

and

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting

Just Try......... ......... ......... except
C ..for....CASH !!

 

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[LeadersWorkshop] FW:~~~ This (ppt) is a must read. [1 Attachment]

 

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Good reading, it is simple to some of us, but other's seem to struggle with the basics. May help for the coming new year, THINK ABOUT IT!   Do spare a few minutes to go through this  artice on why we are what we are,on why things are getting out of control. We seem to be chasing shadows and ignoring totally the real substance that makes for a civil society. We celebrate vulgarity and wealth and not the decencies and virtues that make life satisfying and fulfilling.we've discarded the teachings and legacies of our fathers and forefathers and chosen instead to tread on slippery ground, in fact a self-destructive path! a thousand pities!!   Best wishes.

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[LeadersWorkshop] Fw:~~~ BIG.Problems Big opportunities.!!!

 

Two men went fishing. One was an experienced fisherman, the other wasn't. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it in his ice chest to keep it fresh. Whenever the inexperienced fisherman caught a big fish, he threw it back.  The experienced fisherman watched this go on all day and finally got tired of seeing the man waste good fish. 'Why do you keep throwing back all the big fish you catch?' he asked. The inexperienced fisherman replied, 'I only have a small frying pan.' Sometimes, like that fisherman, we throwback the big plans, big dreams, big jobs, big opportunities that God gives us. Our faith is too small. We laugh at that fisherman who didn't figure out that all he needed was a bigger frying pan, yet how ready are we to increase the size of our faith? Whether it's a problem or a possibility, God will never give you anything bigger than you can handle. That means we can confidently walk into anything God brings our way.    REMEMBER: Stop telling God you've got big problems. Tell your problems you've got a BIG GOD!  --

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[LeadersWorkshop] Real-life Superheroes: 10 People with Incredible Abilities. Awesome Information

 

Real-life Superheroes: 10 People with Incredible Abilities. Awesome Information With so many superhero movies around, such as Spiderman or Hulk, we are used to see people with special abilities in fiction. But people with amazing abilities actually do exist in real life; here's a list of 10 of the most amazing of these people! The Incredible Brain Daniel Tammet): Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates artwork, particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi. Tammet holds the European record for memorising and recounting pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours. He also speaks a variety of Languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. He particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels. Tammet is creating a new language called Mnti. Tammet is capable of learning new languages very quickly. To prove this for the Channel Five documentary, Tammet was challenged to learn Icelandic in one week. Seven days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing in Icelandic, with his Icelandic language instructor saying it was "not human." Watch This Video on You Tube The Boy with Sonar Vision(Ben Underwood): Ben Underwoodtaught is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a quite normal life. He taught himself to use echo location to navigate around the world. With no guide-dogs, he doesn't even need hands: he uses sound. Ben makes a short click sound that bounces back from objects. Amazingly, his ears pick up the ecos to let him know where the objects are. He's the only person in the world who sees using nothing but eco location, like a sonar or a dolphin. Watch This Video on You Tube The Rubber boy (Daniel Browning Smith): Five time Guiness Record holder,The Rubber boy is the most flexible man alive and the most famous contortionist. He has been in many professional basketball or baseball games and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN's Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show Period, The Discovery Channel Men in Black 2, HBO's Carnivale, and CSI: NY and American got a talent.. He dislocates his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics. Watch This Video on You Tube Mister Eat-it-All (Michel Lotito): Michel Lotito (born 1950) is a French entertainer, famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all). Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since 1966. Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'. He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with walls of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are, allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain portion of his metallic meals. Watch the Video at YouTube. King Tooth(Rathakrishnan Velu): On August 30, 2007, the eve of Malaysia's 50th Independence Day, Rathakrishnan Velu (or Raja Gigi, as he is known locally) broke his own world record for pulling train with his teeth, this time with 6 coaches attached weighing 297.1 tons over a distance of 2.8 metres at the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. Raja Gigi, from Tampin in Malaysia learned a technique of concentrating his powers to any part of his body from an Indian guru at a young age of 14. Watch This Video on You Tube The Magnetic Man (Liew Thow Lin): Liew Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia, recently made news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface by means of an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He says that he discovered he had the amazing ability to make objects stick "magnetically" to his skin, and now he's added car-pulling to his repertoire. After reading an article about a family in Taiwan who possessed such power, he says he took several iron objects and put them on his abdomen, and to his surprise, all the objects including an iron, stuck on his skin and didn't fall down. Since this "gift'' is also present in three of his sons and two grandchildren, he figures it's hereditary. The Man who doesn't Sleep (Thai Ngoc): Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said, "My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish. The Torture King (Tim Cridland): Tim Cridland doesn't seem to feel pain like the rest of people. He astounded everyone by pushing needles into his arms without flinching and he now performs a terrifying act for audiences all over America. Scientific tests have shown that Tim can tolerate much higher levels of pain than are humanly possible. He explains that, by using mind over matter , he is able to push skewers through his body and put up with extreme heat and cold unharmed - but to do this safely he has extensively studied human anatomy, because puncturing an artery could be fatal. The Lion Whisperer(Kevin Richardson) Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson says he relies on instinct to win the hearts and form an intimate bond with the big cats. 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