Free Programs * January 2015
Th., Jan. 1, New Year’s Day
The site will be open regular hours, 9 AM to 5 PM, with hot cider and cookies to welcome the New Year, historic toys and games for children, and a 1 PM presentation about the history of New Year’s.
Sat., Jan. 10, open from Noon to 4 PM
Shakespeare in the church: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
As the search continues to another missing passenger airliner, Indonesian search and rescue teams fear that Flight 8501, carrying 162 people may have crashed.
Airasia is facing it's worst nightmare after the pioneer low-cost air travel to Southeast Asia may be loosing face with the flying public.
US Broadcasting Board of Governors Washington, D.C. headquarters examines in detail the function, structure and activities of the International Broadcasting Bureau. The IBB manages the transmission, distribution, digital media development, marketing, and support services for the U.S. international media networks. There has been an increase in the unwarranted and abusive attempt to intimidate US journalists & repress free media.
BBG condemns the raid and closure of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Baku office by Azerbaijani authorities. Investigators from Azerbaijan’s state prosecutor’s office entered the RFE/RL bureau on the morning of December 26 accompanied by armed police officers. They searched the company safe, ransacked files and equipment, and ordered staff members to leave the building after holding them in a room for several hours without telephone or computer access. Several staff members later were summoned for questioning.
“This unwarranted action is an escalation of the Azeri government’s abusive attempt to intimidate independent journalists and repress free media,” said BBG Chairman Jeff Shell. “We call on the authorities to immediately allow RFE/RL to resume its important journalistic work from Baku, and to release investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova.”
The government raid comes three weeks after the arrest and detention in Baku of prominent Azerbaijani investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova, a contributor to RFE/RL’s Azerbaijani Service programming. Ismayilova was sentenced to two months of pre-trial detention, and if convicted could serve three to seven years in prison. Khadija’s arrest has been widely condemned, including by the BBG. Amnesty International has declared Ismayilova a prisoner of conscience, “detained solely for exercising her right to freedom of expression.”
There was something for everyone on Christmas Eve at Trinity United Methodist Church last night, as a group of City Islanders attended religious and musical celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Throughout the years, Christmas services have been attended by many Christians. Services were held in the evening, with songs prayers and solemn contemplation.
2014 Christmas Services at Trinity Church, NYC, NY (BXW Photo: Ron Terner)
Of all the expected visitors I received while working part time during the Christmas holidays, there was special little girl, who I had the distinct pleasure of listening to decades ago.
It has now been decades and unfortunately many pounds ago when her late parents Rosario and Antonio J Soto III, who were also my big brother and sister in law had agreed to bring their little girl Rosie Soto to meet Santa at The Mall for Christmas.
It may have been a goofy, or silly idea we had come up with, but it made my niece, who is now a California gal very happy.
Afrikaans: Geseënde Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Bosnian: (BOSANSKI) Cestit Bozic i Sretna Nova godina
Brazilian: Feliz Natal
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Sheng Dan Kuai Le
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi
Ethiopian: (Amharic) Melkin Yelidet Beaal
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Fröhliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Haiti: (Creole) Jwaye Nowel or to Jesus Edo Bri'cho o Rish D'Shato Brichto
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Hungarian: Boldog Karácsonyt
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Kurdish: Serî sallî nwê pîroz
Lao: souksan van Christmas
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Luxembourgish: Schèine Chreschtdaag an e gudde Rutsch
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philippines: Maligayang Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele or Craciun fericit
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig Chridheil dhuibh
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne Praznike Srecno Novo Leto or Vesel Bozic in srecno Novo leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Switzerland (Swiss-German): Schöni Wienachte
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil: (Tamizh) Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai or souksan wan Christmas
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Z Rizdvom Khrystovym or S rozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho (good New Year not Merry Christmas)
Vietnamese: Chuc Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!
A Christmas storm is headed towards the NYC metropolitan area with a chance of creating a winter waterland. Expect overnight areas of drizzle, then rain. Areas of fog with winds and a chance of precipitation is 80%. Hazardous Weather Outlook...
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To put their down payment on their tombstone.
Not me, I like to take my time in the things I do. Life is for living, so why rush?
I'm still going to get wherever I am going in the end. I think maybe we should all chill out just a bit more and things would not be so hectic.
The holidays are in full swing... Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Eve. So many holidays, so little time... NOT.
I often find myself watching cars speed by me while driving, only to see them slam their brakes down the road. Our entire life rushes by from my vantage point, or a window to the world.
Everybody seems to be moving at high speed... Its as if they were all in a big hurry to put a down payment of their tombstone.
MERRY CHRISTMAS * During this joyous time of year, we’re blessed and extremely grateful to have you as part of our fast growing community. We only wish Facebook would share a small portion of their ad revenues appropriately and equivalent to the amount of content we've posted, which attracts the most visits and likes.
We have loved streaming live video from City Island, but we have since decided to appeal to a larger audience and we will continue sharing stories, which have inspired us to create more features that have attracted eyeballs and advertisers to our Web page. www.cimages.me
As we grow optimistic about 2015, the New Year has new segments and, we’d like to express our gratitude by reminding you that we have a free all-news and information service showing all of you how awesome you are to start 2015 and begin a Happy News Year.
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"The Great Christmas Light Fight" - Tonight is the last installment of holiday decorations for the most wonderful time of the year. My daughter Sabrina Soto hosts ABC's hit decorating competition series, as the popular holiday program returns for a second week. ABC Tonight @8P
The competition and the quest for the $50,000 grand prize continue in the second edition of this seasonal special’s three telecasts, with the conclusion coming next week. Creating a dazzling outdoor display is the mission of the 24 families around the country who are in the running this time.
Each of the one hour episodes features 4 families from across America who work harder than Santa's elves in order to out-deck the halls of their competition and possibly win the ultimate Christmas Gift--$50,000!
The total prizing for the series is $300,000. Sabrina Soto and Michael Moloney from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" have returned as judges for the series. 8:00 --10:00P, ET.
http://abc.go.com/shows/the-great-christmas-light-fight
TONIGHT, it's The Great Christmas Light Fight Finale with the most fantabulous, illuminous, tree-mendous displays! http://youtu.be/z5qPzLkg3hU