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JANUARY’S INITIATIVE: AMBITION
“Cheers to a New Year, and another chance for us to get it right.” -Oprah Winfrey
“January 1 is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”–Brad Paisley
“Sometimes in the winds of change, you find your true direction.” –Unknown
Happy New Year
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Ringing in the New Year. Market Square, midnight, December 31
www.cityofknoxville.org/ Ice skating on the “Holidays on Ice” skating rink from
1 p.m. until midnight; Festival foods and face painting available at the ice rink;
Music on the Square beginning at 11 p.m., with a big screen showing events from
2013; Countdown beginning at 11:59 p.m., with a ball drop and fireworks; Join in
the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" following the fireworks
Gatlinburg Space Needle. Gatlinburg will welcome the arrival of 2014 in unique
style with its 26th Annual New Year’s Eve Ball Drop and Fireworks Show around
the intersection of Parkway and Historic Nature Trail at the base of the Space
Needle late Tuesday night, December 31. At the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2013, fireworks will blast off
the rooftop of the 400-foot tall Space Needle with music choreographed for the show produced by Pyro-Shows of
LaFollette, Tennessee. The Space Needle has added sequencing LED lights to the tower, making for a spectacular
display. Leading up to midnight, there will be free music and entertainment in the parking lot adjacent to the
Gatlinburg Convention Center.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” Ryan Seacrest and Jenny McCarthy hosts in Times Square, NYC; Fergie
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hosts the west coast. Airs on Tuesday, December 31 at 10:00 p.m. ET. Countless performers.
Spider-Man will be crawling to new heights this
New Year’s Eve. The hero is set to make an
appearance at the Times Square New Year’s Eve
event. For 109 years, Times Square has been the
center of worldwide attention on New Year’s Eve,
ever since the owners of One Times Square began
in 1904 to conduct rooftop celebrations to greet
the New Year. The first ball lowering occurred in
1907. Today’s ball contains 2,688 Waterford
Crystal triangles and is illuminated by 32,256
Philips Luxeon LEDs.
Make Your Own NYC Times Light
Materials: (50) 9 oz. clear plastic cups; (2) indoor/outdoor mini lights
of 50 lights.
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Drill a hole in the bottom all of the 50 cups, drill slow so the cup
will not crack.
Connect 2 cups by stapling them near the rim. Connect 12 cups to
form the first row which will make a circle of cups.
Add a second layer of (using 9) cups, sitting them on the first
layer.
Add a third row consisting of 4 cups. The last cups to not fit
exactly so adjust it accordingly.
Begin feeding the lights into the cup holes; 2 lights per cup.
Make a cord hanger from ribbon.
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Recovering from the Holidays
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Regardless if you celebrate the holidays or
not, today is a great time to refocus for new
ambitions and goals. Take the time to make
yourself personal, family and professional
goals.
Your body needs water and naturally
washes away the bad nutrients. Commit to
drink one glass of water before your first
break; one glass of water at lunch time and
one glass of water with your dinner.
Over spend? You are not alone! Get
yourself back on track. It’s good to refocus
your budget. Map out all of your bills.
Target the lowest amount that is a nuisance
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and aggressively attack it for pay off (then
so on and so on).
Eat too much? Again, you are not alone!
We will soon be re-weighed through
“Maintain, Don’t Gain” but if you still have
sweets left in your house and are too
tempted to eat them, bag them up—out of
sight, out of mind!
Review those necessary contracts that you
may feel trapped in such as phone or cable.
See if there are alternative sources that will
serve just as well. Discuss options with
others; they just may be considering the
same and have some great advice for you.
http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/newyearmap.html
Black-eyed Peas
www.americanfoodabout.com
On New Year’s Day, you’ll find people throughout
the South eating black-eyed peas and greens but
how did the tradition start? What do the foods
symbolize? Eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s
has been considered good luck for at least 1,500
years. According to a portion of the Talmud
written around 500 A.D., it was Jewish custom at
the time to eat black-eyed peas in celebration of
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Common
folklore tells that the tradition spread after the
Civil War. The Northern Army considered the
black-eyed peas to be suitable only for animals, so
they didn’t carry away or destroy the crops.
There are a variety of explanations for the symbolism of blackeyed peas. One is that eating these simple legumes demonstrates
humility and a lack of vanity. The humble nature of
the black-eyed pea is echoed by the old expression,
“Eat poor on New Year's, and eat fat the rest of the
year.” Another explanation is that dried beans
loosely resemble coins. Yet another is that because
dried beans greatly expand in volume, they
symbolize expanding wealth.
Clearly, a lot of people closely associate good luck
with monetary gain. That’s where the greens come in
(green is the color of U.S. currency). Any green will
do, but the most common choices are collard, turnip,
or mustard greens. Golden cornbread is often added
to the Southern New Year’s meal, and a well-known phrase is,
“Peas for pennies, greens for dollars, and cornbread for gold.”
New Year’s Day Stew
Don’t like black-eyed peas but want to eat them for good luck? Try this easy stew and you’ll never taste them. It’s easy and will rid your fridge
from holiday left-overs while is also a healthy dish.
Ingredients:
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Left-over turkey, ham or chicken from the holidays
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4 cans black eyed peas
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2 cans diced tomatoes
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1 small diced onion
Directions: Place all ingredients into crock pot and cook to your taste.
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1 package of drained spinach
2 cans drained corn
4 strips cooked bacon, crumbled