Happy New Year!!!

Well at least New Years is one of those resolutions that you don't have to really look up. How did this whole "Happy New Year" thing get started anyway? It may not need an explanation but a definition is in order!

New Year's Day is the first day of the year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome (though other dates were also used in Rome). In all countries except for Israel using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, it is a public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the Julian calendar corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. In Western Christianity New Year's Day, January 1, is the eighth day of Christmas.

Probably observed on March 1 in the old Roman Calendar, New Year's Day was fixed on January 1 by the period of the Late Republic. Some have suggested this occurred in 153 BC, when it was stipulated that the two annual consuls (after whose names the years were identified) entered into office on that day, though no consensus exists on the matter.[3] Dates in March, coinciding with the spring equinox, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from January to December.

Among the 7th century pagans of Flanders and the Netherlands, it was the custom to exchange gifts at the New Year, a pagan custom deplored by Saint Eligius (died 659 or 660), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, "(Do not) make vetulas, [little figures of the Old Woman], little deer or iotticos or set tables [for the house-elf, compare Puck] at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks [another Yule custom]." The quote is from the vita of Eligius written by his companion, Ouen.

Most countries in Western Europe officially adopted January 1 as New Year's Day somewhat before they adopted the Gregorian calendar. In England, the Feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, was the first day of the new year until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. The 25 March date was known as Annunciation Style; the 1 January date was known as Circumcision Style, because this was the date of the Feast of the Circumcision, being the eighth day counting from December 25.[citation needed]

Thank you wikipidea! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day

Whatever way you celebrate!!! Happy New Year!!

A day I will never forget!

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Happy Birthday Mom :-(

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an amazing week. That started with the Death of my beloved mother Kyriaki Zafiropoulos 8-22-30 8-16-09 just 6 days short of 79 years old. The link above will take you to my facebook profile which has a series of photos of her. invite me to be a friend so u can see the pics.

Christos Zafiropoulos joins EDL Consulting Business Development Team

EDL Consulting www.edlconsulting.com is pleased to announce that Christos Zafiropoulos has joined the firm in the Business Development area. Christos will be focused on selling the CloudCraze eCommerce application, developed natively on the Force.com platform. www.cloud-craze.com CloudCraze gives any organization the power of near instantaneous, infinitely-scalable eCommerce capabilities.

Christos comes to EDL with over 15 years of sales experience. He was the Executive Director of US Partnerships for GEON Inc. where he built partnerships with U.S. higher learning institutions. Previously, Christos was a Senior Account Manager for B2B Computer Products, an Account Executive at Empower Geographics and an Outside Sales Executive for Global Computers.

Christos holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Devry with studies in Management Information Systems. Christos lives in Naperville, Illinois with his wife and three children.

Christos can be reached through email at christos@edlconsulting.com or by phone at

Another Bittersweet move!

Unfortunetly my run at a fresh startup has ended. I simply just ran out of cash. Fortunately it didn't take me very long to land on my feet and once again my network has saved my butt! literally minutes after I posted on LinkedIN that I was looking for work I got a note from a network contact asking me if I would like to interview for a newly opening position at his company! Timing is everything! after interviewing with all the principals (4 interviews) I was hired last Thursday! I will post the official announcement in a bit. If you know me by now you know that I will be contacting you to connect and see if there are any opportunities out there within my network.

Thank you everyone for the prayers during the hard times of no income while we were trying to get the startup going.

It is a true blessing to have so many great friends all around the world.

I love my Network of acquintances and friends that I've collected over my 40 years of Life!

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!

Wahooo!

After being four months short of 5 years at B2B Computer Products I have jumped into the known unknown abyss known as Business partner in a start up company!

I Have nothing to say but "Thank You" to Chris Kurpeikis and Mike Theriault at B2B Computer Products.

Thank you for four great years and for getting me through the hard times of last year. Without you guys behind me I wouldn't of ever made it this far. I will miss the crazy trips around the tropics every spring with you guys.

Also a mention to Alex Menard, Ryan Custer, Nicole Cherven, Jim Mundall, Jason Medina, Sandy Gorecki and the rest of B2B! It was a great run.

Now I have a lot of work to do as we build a company from scratch

More thank yous to Maureen, Cima, Toni Stewart, Kurpeikis family, Custer Family, Mundall Family, Theriault Family, Medina Family for the extra help while I was down for the count last year! Would of never made it through without your great support!

extra bonus Thank you to Jason for watching my accounts. It will never be forgotten.

Happy Flag Day!

"We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing Liberty."[5]

George Washington

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