Showing posts with label The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2013

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

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A New Year's resolution is a commitment that a person makes to one or more personal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. A key element to a New Year's resolution that sets it apart from other resolutions is that it is made in anticipation of the New Year and new beginnings. People committing themselves to a New Year's resolution generally plan to do so for the whole following year. This lifestyle change is generally interpreted as advantageous.


The top 10 new years resolutions are:

  1. Spend more time with family and friends 
  2. Lose weight
  3.  Get fit and eat healthier
  4.  Quit smoking and/or drinking
  5.  Enjoy life and be happy
  6. Have better finances
  7. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
  8. Travel 
  9. Get organize
  10. Volunteering




Many studies conducted by universities have shown that the rate of actual achieved resolutions unfortunately is low, many advice people people sometimes don't start with small goals.

The number one goal that is less achievable seems to be #2 & #3 since the gym becomes people's #1 enemy, this past week a new report came out saying this new years resolutions only last until February .

The only advice we give to people is to make small shot time goals, find a partner in crime either if its to quit smoking or eat healthier even better if you find a gym buddy to has a lot of will power. Be reasonable "Rome wasn't built in a day" because good things take time :) 

P.S. Don't forget to take care of your trees at home and prune them regularly so this way you wont have to worry if a natural disaster such as sandy comes around, you'll be ready for this. 

GOOD LUCK  EVERYONE! 

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree


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This Past week on November 28th 2012 The Rockefeller Christmas lighting tradition took place and is been taking place since 1933. Many of the trees decorations were given by donors.

The late David Murbach, Manager of the Gardens Division of Rockefeller Center, searchs for a tree on a helicopter in the areas of Connecticut, Vermont, Ohio, upstate New York, New Jersey, and even Ottawa, Canada. When a tree is chosen, a crane supports it while it is cut, and moves it to a custom telescoping trailer that can transport trees up to 125 feet (38 m) tall, but the width of New York City streets passing through Rockefeller Center limits the height of the trees to 110 feet (34 m).
When they locate the tree on the Rockefeller Center, then they attach four guy-wires at its midpoint, and by a steel spike at its base. The star that has topped the tree since 2004 is 9.5 feet (2.9 m) in diameter and weighs 550 pounds (250 kg). This "Swarovski Star" was created by German artist Michael Hammers, who in 2009 additionally designed his own star lighting production.


The unofficial history of the tradition started on the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers from there decorated a smaller 20 feet (6.1 m) tree with "strings of cranberries garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans" on December 24, 1931.
There was no Christmas tree in 1932. The decorated Christmas tree remains lit at Rockefeller Center through January 6. Then it is removed and gets recycled for many other uses. In 2007, they changed the lights to conserve energy.The tall est Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center was a 100 feet (30 m) spruce erected on November 11, 1999.


Source: Wikipedia

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