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January 5th, 2010
Calendar of Events
January 3rd, 2010
Below is a list of Events in Big Bear!! Take a look and plan on a weekned up the hill!! Book a cabin with us today for great rates…;)
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Music, food, and good times are comin’! Listen for news of upcoming dates in May, June & July on KBHR radio. |
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The annual Bowl-a-Thon will be on May 3rd at 6:00pm . Form a team, and compete for trophies and braggin’ rights. Call the Bowling Barn to sign up. It will be a rollin’ good time. |
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Contact Person: Dennis Beets / 909.878.2695
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Widely Observed New Year Symbols and Traditions
January 2nd, 2010Resolutions: It is believed that the Babylonians were the first to make New Year’s resolutions, and people all over the world have been breaking them ever since. The early Christians believed the first day of the New Year should be spent reflecting on past mistakes and resolving to improve oneself in the New Year.
Fireworks: Noisemaking and fireworks on New Year’s Eve is believed to have originated in ancient times, when noise and fire were thought to dispel evil spirits and bring good luck. The Chinese are credited with inventing fireworks and use them to spectacular effect in their New Year’s celebrations.
For more New Year’s features see the History of New Year and Saying “Happy New Year!” Around the World.
United States
Probably the most famous tradition in the United States is the dropping of the New Year ball in Times Square, New York City, at 11:59 P.M. Thousands gather to watch the ball make its one-minute descent, arriving exactly at midnight. The tradition first began in 1907. The original ball was made of iron and wood; the current ball is made of Waterford Crystal, weighs 1,070 pounds, and is six feet in diameter.
A traditional southern New Year’s dish is Hoppin’ John—black eyed peas and ham hocks. An old saying goes, “Eat peas on New Year’s day to have plenty of everything the rest of the year.”
Another American tradition is the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The Tournament of Roses parade that precedes the football game on New Year’s Day is made up of elaborate and inventive floats. The first parade was held in 1886.
Hogmanay (Scotland)
The birthplace of “Auld Lang Syne” is also the home of Hogmanay (hog-mah-NAY), the rousing Scottish New Year’s celebration (the origins of the name are obscure). One of the traditions is “first-footing.” Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, neighbors pay visits to each other and impart New Year’s wishes. Traditionally, First foots used to bring along a gift of coal for the fire, or shortbread. It is considered especially lucky if a tall, dark, and handsome man is the first to enter your house after the New Year is rung in. The Edinburgh Hogmanay celebration is the largest in the country, and consists of an all-night street party (visit their Hagmanay website here).
Oshogatsu (Japan)
The New Year is the most important holiday in Japan, and is a symbol of renewal. In December, various Bonenkai or “forget-the-year parties” are held to bid farewell to the problems and concerns of the past year and prepare for a new beginning. Misunderstandings and grudges are forgiven and houses are scrubbed. At midnight on Dec. 31, Buddhist temples strike their gongs 108 times, in an effort to expel 108 types of human weakness. New Year’s day itself is a day of joy and no work is to be done. Children receive otoshidamas, small gifts with money inside. Sending New Year’s cards is a popular tradition—if postmarked by a certain date, the Japanese post office guarantees delivery of all New Year’s cards on Jan. 1.
Spain
The Spanish ritual on New Year’s Eve is to eat twelve grapes at midnight. The tradition is meant to secure twelve happy months in the coming year.
The Netherlands
The Dutch burn bonfires of Christmas trees on the street and launch fireworks. The fires are meant to purge the old and welcome the new.
Greece
In Greece, New Year’s Day is also the Festival of St. Basil, one of the founders of the Greek Orthodox Church. One of the traditional foods served is Vassilopitta, or St Basil’s cake. A silver or gold coin is baked inside the cake. Whoever finds the coin in their piece of cake will be especially lucky during the coming year.
~Sara
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Feng Shui Living Guide
January 1st, 2010Feng Shui is an ancient art of placement to bring
balance and harmony to a physical space. The loose
translation of Feng Shui is wind and water. Feng
represents the wind that carries the chi (energy)
throughout a space. Shui is the water that meanders
underneath the earth transporting chi.
Chi is the invisible energy that surrounds us. To most
people this energy cannot be felt, seen, or heard but it
influences all living things. Chi should flow effortlessly
around physical structures to bring balance and
harmony. Feng Shui was invented, thousands of years
ago to ensure the flow of chi would bring positive
vibrations not negative ones that could create discord
and chaos.
Feng Shui has been around for thousand of years but
only in the past twenty years has North America really
taken notice of this ancient art of placement.
Professor Lin Yun pioneered the Feng Shui movement in
the West. He teaches Black Hat Sect Feng Shui.
Its main objective is to align your physical space with
your personal life goals. Our homes are a reflection of
our life. Feng Shui’s purpose is to change the physical
space, to allow the individual to reach their goals.
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Door The door is the portal, the focus of any building whether a home or an office. Since this is the point where Chi enters and is distributed through the building, it is vital to the well-being of the occupants that the front door is located favorably on the house plan and in relation to the outside environment. This then is an appropriate place to start. NOT appropriate arrangement inside your home/doors: 1. Front door faces a staircase 2. Front door faces a corner 3. Front door faces a column or post 4. Front door is visible from the back door 5. has a view of a washbasin or toilet 6. has a view of a stove or fireplace 7. faces the door of a bedroom 8. faces the door of a sitting room 9. is situated below a toilet In Feng Shui, it’s not recommended to work, study, relax or place a chair with your back to any doors. Sometimes it happens in an office, but these chairs should be arranged again at Feng Shui point of view. So rearrange your home and your life and you will find that things start going
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~Once in a Blue Moon~
January 1st, 2010You know that saying? Well it sure was this New Years! We had a rare New Year’s Eve Blue Moon to ring in 2010! Happy New Year to everyone I hope your year is filled with joy and happiness!!
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step
January 1st, 2010Happy New Year 2010! I hope everybody had a safe and happy New Years!
The New Year offers a welcome opportunity to make a fresh start in life. If you’ve made some resolutions, think about implementing some of these Feng Shui tips to help you follow through with your intentions:
Lose Weight
By far, the best cure for losing weight involves ridding your home of clutter.
Clutter is symbolic of baggageand can manifest itself on your body as excess fat.
As with exercise, you need to start gently.
Persistence pays off in the long run.
Start with a single drawer, desk or closet.
As soon as you finish with that project,
you’ll be inspired to begin another.
The less junk you have in your house,
the more energized you’ll feel, and the easier it will be to shed pounds and enjoy exercise.
Find Love
If you want to find love in the New Year, head for the bedroom. It governs your sexual prospects.
First and foremost, make sure your bed has a clear view of the door,
but isn’t directly in line with the doorway. If you can’t move your bed,
position a mirror so you can see the entrance clearly while lying down.
Now you’ll be able to spot romance when it enters your life.
Next, make sure there is enough space on either side of your bed.
This symbolizes your desire to share your life with someone.
For added power, put a pair of beautiful objects in the far right corner of your room.
A couple of red candles, a pair of square fluffy pillows or a painting of passionate lovers are all good choices.
Get a Job
If finding a job is a top priority, pay attention to your front entrance. Make sure it is well-lit.
Clear away cobwebs and dirt. Bracket the door with healthy plants. Oil its hinges and make sure its locks operate smoothly.
If you have a hard time turning the key in your door, install a new lock. Personalize the door with a name plate or engraved
knocker. The more attractive your front entrance, the easier it will be to find your dream job.
Have a Child
Plans to conceive or adopt a child can be set in motion with a few cures. First and foremost,
clear any storage items from beneath your bed. Then don’t clean under your bed until after the baby arrives.
That’s because a still, restful environment is best for welcoming a child. To maintain this peaceful atmosphere,
don’t hang any pictures or undergo home renovations while you’re trying to conceive or adopt. Last but not least,
hang a wind chime with six metal rods in the center portion of the right side of your home,
and ring it the same time each day until you get confirmation of your child’s arrival.
Graduate From or Gain Entry to School
Whether you’re about to finish a course of study or ready to embark on one, you need to
focus on the near left corner of your home. Placing pictures of mentors or wise
people in this spot can put you in a more scholastic frame of mind. If you want to gain entry
to a particular school, display its logo here. This part of your home is activated by the earth
element, so natural crystals and geodes work well here. A picture of a
mountain placed in the near left corner can also improve your scholastic prospects.
Improve Your Social Life
If you vow to become more social in the New Year, pay special attention to the center
portion of the left side of your home. It governs community.
The wood element can activate this portion of your home. Placing a healthy tall
plant in this spot can attract new friends. So can tall, wooden furniture; this would be
a perfect spot to place a bookcase, provided it isn’t packed full.
A little empty space is always necessary to cultivate growth.
Keep this in mind if you’re surrounded with toxic people.
The best way to get rid of these bloodsuckers is to
prune this spot of clutter, creating as much light and space as possible.
Remember, vampires can’t stand the sun — they prefer to dwell in dark, shadowy corners.
Get Noticed
If you’re tired of being passed over in work, love or play,
add a few feng shui cures to your fame gua.
This is located in the center portion of the far wall of your home. Add strong, vibrant colors like red,
orange and pink here. Animal prints can also activate this spot, as can candles and bright lights.
If these touches are too garish for your taste, take a more understated approach.
Use this spot to display diplomas, awards and trophies. At the very least,
put an attractive solitary photo of yourself in the fame gua and shine a bright light on it.
Make More Money
A resolution to make more money should include a plan to keep it anchored in your bank account.
Otherwise, you may spend it as quickly as it comes in! When it comes to financial matters,
it’s always wise to attend to the far left corner of your home, otherwise
known as the prosperity gua. A tall, healthy tree in a ceramic pot can work wonders here,
as it represents both growth and stability. For extra luck, you may want to slip a crisp
$100 bill underneath the plant pot to symbolize your desire to cultivate prosperity.
Place the money in a red envelope to stimulate its growth.
Travel
Want to spend the New Year traveling to distant shores? Then prepare your home accordingly.
Place a photo of your dream destination in the near right corner of your home, which governs travel.
If you want to go around the world, place a globe here and spin it once a day. Last but not least, add some metal energy here.
Place a silver box in this corner, and fill it with postcards or wish lists of dream trips.
It is important to set the tone daily, not just once a year when you make New Year’s resolutions.
Get more organized and clear the path ahead and you’ll be amazed at how many new gifts will appear in your life!
In the universe around us everything is organized in a certain order, rhythm and flow.
Feng Shui helps us get in tune with this universal energy.
The more you organize your home or office according to simple
Feng Shui principles, the more the universe will support you in manifesting your goals.
~Sara
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Something to do on New Years!!
December 27th, 2009Snow Summit’s New Year’s Eve Torchlight Parade and Party
Summit is throwing a Torch party! It starts at 9:00pm and ending around 12:30am. Admission is $10 Party favors and DJ Desi playing!!
**Please 21 and older** No fake ID’s!!!!
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Need a place to go for new years?!
December 26th, 2009Murry’s
This is the best lil karaoke bar in town! It’s located right in town behind Chad’s Place… Murray’s is best known for the bras on the wall and karaoke singing any night of the week. Actually it was the first hospital in Big Bear, can you believe that, I know a man that was born there… So if you’re thinking of enjoying your new years with some locals head on down to Murray’s.
Happy New Year…;)
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The History of New Year’s Resolutions
December 26th, 2009The tradition of the New Year’s Resolutions goes all the way back to 153 B.C. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome was placed at the head of the calendar.
With two faces, Janus could look back on past events and forward to the future. Janus became the ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans looked for forgiveness from their enemies and also exchanged gifts before the beginning of each year.
The New Year has not always begun on January 1, and it doesn’t begin on that date everywhere today. It begins on that date only for cultures that use a 365-day solar calendar. January 1 became the beginning of the New Year in 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar developed a calendar that would more accurately reflect the seasons than previous calendars had.
The Romans named the first month of the year after Janus, the god of beginnings and the guardian of doors and entrances. He was always depicted with two faces, one on the front of his head and one on the back. Thus he could look backward and forward at the same time. At midnight on December 31, the Romans imagined Janus looking back at the old year and forward to the new. The Romans began a tradition of exchanging gifts on New Year’s Eve by giving one another branches from sacred trees for good fortune. Later, nuts or coins imprinted with the god Janus became more common New Year’s gifts.
In the Middle Ages, Christians changed New Year’s Day to December 25, the birth of Jesus. Then they changed it to March 25, a holiday called the Annunciation. In the sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII revised the Julian calendar, and the celebration of the New Year was returned to January 1.
The Julian and Gregorian calendars are solar calendars. Some cultures have lunar calendars, however. A year in a lunar calendar is less than 365 days because the months are based on the phases of the moon. The Chinese use a lunar calendar. Their new year begins at the time of the first full moon (over the Far East) after the sun enters Aquarius- sometime between January 19 and February 21.
Although the date for New Year’s Day is not the same in every culture, it is always a time for celebration and for customs to ensure good luck in the coming year.
So have a wonderful New Years and start thinking about those resolutions if you haven’t yet.
~Sara
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Nightmare Before Christmas
December 24th, 2009
It was late one fall in Halloweenland,
and the air had quite a chill.
Against the moon a skeleton sat,
alone upon a hill.
He was tall and thin with a bat bow tie;
Jack Skellington was his name.
He was tired and bored in Halloweenland
“I’m sick of the scaring, the terror, the fright.
I’m tired of being something that goes bump in the night.
I’m bored with leering my horrible glances,
And my feet hurt from dancing those skeleton dances.
I don’t like graveyards, and I need something new.
There must be more to life than just yelling,
‘Boo!’”
Then out from a grave, with a curl and a twist,
Came a whimpering, whining, spectral mist.
It was a little ghost dog, with a faint little bark,
And a jack-o’-lantern nose that glowed in the dark.
It was Jack’s dog, Zero, the best friend he had,
But Jack hardly noticed, which made Zero sad.
All that night and through the next day,
Jack wandered and walked.
He was filled with dismay.
Then deep in the forest, just before night,
Jack came upon an amazing sight.
Not twenty feet from the spot where he stood
Were three massive doorways carved in wood.
He stood before them, completely in awe,
His gaze transfixed by one special door.
Entranced and excited, with a slight sense of worry,
Jack opened the door to a white, windy flurry.
Jack didn’t know it, but he’d fallen down
In the middle of a place called Christmas Town!
Immersed in the light, Jack was no longer haunted.
He had finally found the feeling he wanted.
And so that his friends wouldn’t think him a liar,
He took the present filled stockings that hung by the fire.
He took candy and toys that were stacked on the shelves
And a picture of Santa with all of his elves.
He took lights and ornaments and the star from the tree,
And from the Christmas Town sign, he took the big letter C.
He picked up everything that sparkled or glowed.
He even picked up a handful of snow.
He grabbed it all, and without being seen,
He took it all back to Halloween.
Back in Halloween a group of Jack’s peers
Stared in amazement at his Christmas souvenires.
For this wondrous vision none were prepared.
Most were excited, though a few were quite scared!
For the next few days, while it lightninged and thundered,
Jack sat alone and obsessively wondered.
“Why is it they get to spread laughter and cheer
While we stalk the graveyards, spreading panic and fear?
Well, I could be Santa, and I could spread cheer!
Why does he get to do it year after year?”
Outraged by injustice, Jack thought and he thought.
Then he got an idea. “Yes. . .yes. . .why not!”
In Christmas Town, Santa was making some toys
When through the din he heard a soft noise.
He answered the door, and to his surprise,
He saw weird little creatures in strange disguise.
They were altogether ugly and rather petite.
As they opened their sacks, they yelled, “Trick or treat!”
Then a confused Santa was shoved into a sack
And taken to Halloween to see mastermind Jack.
In Halloween everyone gathered once more,
For they’d never seen a Santa before
And as they cautiously gazed at this strange old man,
Jack related to Santa his masterful plan:
“My dear Mr. Claus, I think it’s a crime
That you’ve got to be Santa all of the time!
But now I will give presents, and I will spread cheer.
We’re changing places I’m Santa this year.
It is I who will say Merry Christmas to you!
So you may lie in my coffin, creak doors, and yell, ‘Boo!’
And please, Mr. Claus, don’t think ill of my plan.
For I’ll do the best Santa job that I can.”
And though Jack and his friends thought they’d do a good job,
Their idea of Christmas was still quite macabre.
They were packed up and ready on Christmas Eve day
When Jack hitched his reindeer to his sleek coffin sleigh,
But on Christmas Eve as they were about to begin,
A Halloween fog slowly rolled in.
Jack said, “We can’t leave; this fog’s just too thick.
There will be no Christmas, and I can’t be St. Nick.”
Then a small glowing light pierced through the fog.
What could it be?. . .It was Zero, Jack’s dog!
Jack said, “Zero, with your nose so bright,
Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”
And to be so needed was Zero’s great dream,
So he joyously flew to the head of the team.
And as the skeletal sleigh started its ghostly flight,
Jack cackled, “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
‘Twas the nightmare before Christmas, and all though the house,
Not a creature was peaceful, not even a mouse.
The stockings all hung by the chimney with care,
When opened that morning would cause quite a scare!
The children, all nestled so snug in their beds,
Would have nightmares of monsters and skeleton heads.
The moon that hung over the new-fallen snow
Cast an eerie pall over the city below,
And Santa Claus’s laughter now sounded like groans,
And the jingling bells like chattering bones.
And what to their wondering eyes should appear,
But a coffin sleigh with skeleton deer.
And a skeletal driver so ugly and sick
They knew in a moment, this can’t be St. Nick!
From house to house, with a true sense of joy,
Jack happily issued each present and toy.
From rooftop to rooftop he jumped and he skipped,
Leaving presents that seemed to be straight from a crypt!
Unaware that the world was in panic and fear,
Jack merrily spread his own brand of cheer.
He visited the house of Susie and Dave;
They got a Gumby and Pokey from the grave.
Then on to the home of little Jane Neeman;
She got a baby doll possessed by a demon.
A monstrous train with tentacle tracks,
A ghoulish puppet wielding an ax,
A man eating plant disguised as a wreath,
And a vampire teddy bear with very sharp teeth.
There were screams of terror, but Jack didn’t hear it,
He was much too involved with his own Christmas spirit!
Jack finally looked down from his dark, starry frights
And saw the commotion, the noise, and the light.
“Why, they’re celebrating, it looks like such fun!
They’re thanking me for the good job that I’ve done.”
But what he thought were fireworks meant as goodwill
Were bullets and missiles intended to kill.
Then amidst the barrage of artillery fire,
Jack urged Zero to go higher and higher.
And away they all flew like the storm of a thistle,
Until they were hit by a well guided missile.
And as they fell on the cemetery, way out of sight,
Was heard, “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good
night.”
Jack pulled himself up on a large stone cross,
And from there he reviewed his incredible loss.
“I thought I could be Santa, I had such belief”
Jack was confused and filled with great grief.
Not knowing
