Filed under: Arizona, Christmas, City of Phoenix, City of Phoenix News, Holiday, Holidays, Phoenix, Phoenix Arizona, US - AZ (Phoenix), Workforce, Workforce News | Tags: New Years
HOLIDAY NOTICE
Christmas Holiday and New Year’s Holiday
City of Phoenix offices will be closed Monday, Dec. 25, in observance
of the Christmas holiday and Monday, Jan. 1, in observance of the New
Year’s Day holiday. To find out how city services are affected,
please click on the link below.
Visit http://phoenix.gov/newsrel/2212holiday.html for more
information.
Filed under: City of Phoenix, City of Phoenix News, City of Scottsdale, Phoenix, Phoenix Arizona, Scottsdale, US - AZ (Phoenix)
Merry Christmas From Phoenix Arizona
From Phoenix Arizona and Scottsdale Arizona: We wish you and your family and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all your holidays be happy and may you have a year blessed with joy, love, and abundance.
Bill and Kathee Thelly and Dick Kristen and Alex
For more Christmas fun:
Christmas Recipes – Christmas Quotes – Christmas Jokes
Merry Christmas From Around The World
How Merry Christmas is said in many languages around the world
Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
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
Brazilian: Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
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) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
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: Ruumsaid juulup|hi
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: Froehliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo’adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaian: Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
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
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
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: LL Milied Lt-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh
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
Philipines: Maligayan 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
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
Serbian: Hristos se rodi
Slovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serb-Croatian: Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
Serbian: Hristos se rodi. Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tami: Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Vietnamese: Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye’dun!
Filed under: City of Phoenix, Humor, Jokes, Phoenix, Phoenix Arizona, US - AZ (Phoenix) | Tags: Funny Jokes, Weather
Unlucky Weather in Phoenix Arizona
The State of Arizona comprises the extreme south-western portion of the United States. It is bounded on the north by Utah, on the east by New Mexico, on the south by Mexico, and on the west by California and Nevada. A woman had been living in Phoenix Arizona for 13 months. While talking to a friend of hers back east, she spent a considerable amount of time boasting about how wonderful it is to live there.
“The scenery is beautiful, everyone is so friendly, and the weather is gorgeous,” she noted.
That fall, her friend came to Phoenix AZ to visit for a week. The first day she was there, it rained. The woman was so disappointed, especially after claiming how wonderfully sunny it always was.
“I can’t believe it’s raining. It almost never rains,” she whined.
In an attempt to console her, her friend replies, “But it’s a dry rain.”
Filed under: Business, City of Chandler, City of Phoenix News, Small Business | Tags: Chandler, Chandler Arizona, Dining, Restaurants
Kokopelli Franchise Company Opens New Location in Chandler AZ – near Phoenix Arizona
DALLAS The Great American Food Chain, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GAMN), a restaurant holding company and concept developer, announced today that an area developer has opened its first franchised location of Kokopelli Fresh Mexican Grill in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler Arizona.
This marks the fourth franchise to open since the concept was acquired by GAMN. Arizona represents the fifth different state with franchises following Ohio, Oregon, Nevada, and Michigan. This location is the first of five restaurant units that are scheduled to open in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
Filed under: City of Tempe, City of Tempe News, Tempe, US - AZ (Phoenix) | Tags: Television
Tempe’s annual “Santa Show” airs tonight
TEMPE, Ariz. – Forget standing in line at the mall, waiting hours to
talk to the big guy in red, only to find that your little one is
terrified of sitting on his lap. Tempe has the perfect way to tell Santa
what you’d like for the holidays: The Santa Show.
For the sixth year, Tempe 11 will air the live call-in show hosted by
Dick Steely and starring the man of the month, Santa Claus. It is a
popular tradition for Tempe children who watch the show live on the
city’s cable channel, and for the viewers everywhere who watch it live
on the city’s Web site, www.tempe.gov/tempe11
<http://www.tempe.gov/tempe11> .
The show is the creation of Media Services Producer Greg Wolfe, a
17-year city employee, as a way to put smiles on the faces of the young
and young-at-heart during the holidays. He produces the annual show
along with Media Services Administrator Skip Neeley and Media Services
Producer Jason Wolf.
This year, The Santa Show will air Monday, Dec. 11, starting at 6:30
p.m. Children can call 480-350-8900 to talk to Santa. The show could
last until 8 p.m. because the crew never cuts off a child waiting on the
line to talk to Santa – they’ll keep taking calls as long as they come
in. The show also features segments highlighting the many holiday events
in Tempe.
Filed under: City of Tempe, City of Tempe News, Human Services, Tempe | Tags: Hugh Hallman
Tempe’s crisis response team lauded nationally
Award comes as CARE 7 celebrates 10 years in 2006
TEMPE, Ariz. – For the last decade, a dedicated group of staff and
volunteers responds whenever tragedy strikes in Tempe, comforting
victims and families in the aftermath of incidents like sexual assault,
homicide, robbery, suicide, drowning, domestic violence and fire.
Selflessly, they respond – sometimes in the middle of the night – and
never seek praise or recognition. Despite their modesty, accolades keep
coming.
The National League of Cities (NLC) awarded the City of Tempe’s Crisis
Response Team – known as CARE 7 – with the Silver Award in the 2006
Awards for Municipal Excellence. The award was announced at the National
League of Cities’ Congress of Cities and Exposition in Reno, Nevada, on
Dec. 8. The honor is one of several the program has received in its
10-year history, including being named a finalist in 2002 for Harvard
University’s Innovations in American Government Award.
CARE 7, a team of 25 professionally trained staff and volunteers,
provides around-the-clock crisis intervention services in Tempe. The
CARE 7 team gives emotional and practical support to the family or
person in crisis, enabling police and firefighters to handle law
enforcement, medical or fire emergency needs. The program’s name stands
for Crisis Assistance Response Effort. The numeral “7” is the Phoenix
Emergency Dispatch geographic locator for Tempe.
Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman said he is proud of the sensitivity and
practical assistance CARE 7 provides at a moment’s notice.
“Our most vulnerable residents, from children to the elderly, are
provided the highest quality intervention and grief support during the
worst of emergencies, often during the most traumatic incident of the
victim’s life,” he said.
CARE 7 recruits new volunteers twice a year and trainees go through a
rigorous, 30-hour Crisis Intervention Training Program at a cost of $45.
Volunteers commit to two shifts (four or six hours) per month for one
year, and they attend a monthly meeting to discuss their work and
continue their education. All volunteers must be at least 21, able to
climb stairs and lift small children. For more information about CARE 7,
please call 480-350-8032 or e-mail care7@tempe.gov.
Interview opportunities are available with CARE 7 volunteers. To inquire
about possibilities, please call Judy Tapscott at 480-350-5432.
Filed under: City of Phoenix News, City of Tempe, City of Tempe News, Tempe | Tags: Gila River Indian Community
Gila River Indian Community partners with Tempe
First-ever donation will fund community programs and Fire Department
TEMPE, Arizona – The Gila River Indian Community has graciously committed
to using some of its gaming revenue in 2006 to fund youth, health and
fire training programs in Tempe. Community representatives will present
a check to the city at the Tempe City Council’s Dec. 14 meeting.
Under Arizona law, Native American communities with casinos must
contribute 12 percent of gaming revenues each year to area non-profits
or government entities. This is the first time the Gila River Indian
Community has given money to the City of Tempe and Tempe-area charities.
“These grants underscore the very important partnership between the city
and the Gila River Indian Community,” Mayor Hugh Hallman said. “We share
the goal of working together to improve the safety and quality of life
of our citizens. My colleagues on the City Council and I sincerely
appreciate the support.”
The Tempe Early Childhood Literacy Initiative will receive $103,702 over
two years, while a donation of $24,900 will help the Tempe Fire
Department purchase fire training equipment and materials. In addition,
the Tempe Family YMCA will receive $30,000 for its Youth Wellness Center
and Tumbleweed Youth Center will receive $16,000 to fund a Tempe Youth
Resource Center Outreach Specialist.
Filed under: Arizona, Arizona Biotech, Arizona Technology, Biotech, Business, City of Phoenix News, News | Tags: Arizona Public Service, Recycling
Arizona Public Service and GreenFuel
Technologies Corp. Successfully
Recycle Power Plant Flue Gases into
Transportation-Grade Biodiesel
and Ethanol
Algae Bioreactor System Connected Directly to Smokestack of APS’ Redhawk 1,040 Megawatt Power Plant Recycles Greenhouse Gases into Renewable Biofuels
Arizona Public Service Company (APS) and GreenFuel Technologies Corporation have announced that they have successfully recycled the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the stack gases of a power plant into transportation grade biofuels. The announcement was made at the Platts Global Energy Awards ceremonies today in New York. Using GreenFuel’s Emissions-to-Biofuels™ algae bioreactor system connected to APS’ 1,040 megawatt Redhawk power plant in Arlington, Arizonan, GreenFuel was able to create a carbon-rich algal biomass with sufficient quality and concentration of oils and starch content to be converted into transportation-grade biodiesel and ethanol.
“This is the first time ever that algae biomass created on-site by direct connection to a commercial power plant has been successfully converted to both these biofuels,” said Isaac Berzin, GreenFuel’s founder and Chief Technology Officer. “The conversion and certification of the fuels were conducted by respected, independent laboratories.”
GreenFuel’s Emissions-to-Biofuels™ technology uses safe, naturally occurring algae to recycle carbon dioxide from the stack gases of power plants and other commercial sources of continuous CO2 emissions. At the Redhawk Power Plant, specially designed pipes captured and transported the CO2 emissions coming out of the stack. The gas was then transferred to specialized containers holding hungry algae. Algae are unicellular plants and, like all plants, they divide and grow using the process known as photosynthesis. In the presence of sunlight, algae consume CO2.
“We estimate that this process can absorb as much as 80 percent of CO2 emissions during the daytime at a natural gas fired power plant,” said GreenFuel CEO Cary Bullock. “Unlike typical agricultural biofuel feedstocks such as soybeans or corn which have a limited harvest window, algae multiply every hour can be harvested every day.”
GreenFuel and APS have been conducting a field assessment program over the past 18 months, and have moved into the next phase of study with the construction of an Engineering Scale Unit that will be completed in first quarter of 2007. “This project holds great promise as we look for ways to meet the energy needs of the second fastest growing state in the nation while maintaining a successful economy, quality lifestyle and healthy environment,” said Ed Fox, APS’ Vice President of Communications, Environment and Safety.
About Arizona Public Service Company
APS, Arizona’s largest and longest-serving electricity utility, serves about 1 million customers in 11 of the state’s 15 counties. With headquarters in Phoenix, APS is the largest subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (NYSE: PNW)
About GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
With more than a dozen pending patents, GreenFuel Technologies Corporation is the leading developer of systems for recycling rich CO2 streams from power and/or manufacturing plant flue gases to produce biofuels such as biodiesel, ethanol or methane. The company, which was founded in 2001, is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Phoenix Arizona 