CRYSTAL BALLS

MC Escher

Part 2 of 4

According to the World Future Society, 2013 will provide us all with some exciting challenges and opportunities.

As far as the environment is concerned:

The next great wave of species extinctions may be in the oceans. By 2050, the scale of extinctions of ocean-dwelling plants and animals may equal the five great global extinctions of the past 600 million years.

 “Peak water” may become as big a problem as peak oil. As water tables around the world become depleted, and as growing populations demand more water for personal as well as agricultural use, supplies of sustainably managed water will continue to fall.

Extinctions are outpacing scientists’ ability to discover new species. New tools enable both professional and amateur taxonomists to identify new species and share discoveries around the world.

Water pollution from pesticide runoff will likely increase. As climate change alters the activity and spread of pests, more farmers in Europe will turn to pesticides to keep their croplands productive.

As far as food is concerned:

An aquaponic recycling system in every kitchen? Future “farmers” may consist of householders recycling their food waste in their own aquariums.

Genetic modification could yield healthier, more flavorful, and longer-lasting food, thus reducing waste and hunger. Vitamin A–fortified golden rice could help prevent blindness among children in developing countries, but it has not yet been approved.

Genetically engineered animals will become a major part of agriculture, but not soon. In the future, creating livestock that grows faster, consumes less feed, produces less waste, and yields leaner, healthier meat may seem a less “extreme” approach to meeting humanity’s food requirements than it does today.

Demands to decrease pesticides and other chemicals on farms could exacerbate food shortages. However, lower crop yields could be compensated for by wasting less food

China’s growing appetite for meat will strain global grain supplies. China now consumes 71 million tons of meat a year, about twice as much as the United States and more than a fourth of all the meat produced worldwide.

As far as habitats are concerned:

By 2025, there will be 27 megacities around the world, each with populations exceeding 10 million. The “real population bomb” isn’t the sheer number of world population, but the relentless urbanization in places unprepared for this growth.

By 2100, 70% of the world’s 10 billion inhabitants will live in cities. As rural residents move to far-more-complex urban habitats, many will struggle to cope with new institutions and new rules and attitudes.

Knowmads may drive growth in micro-urban areas. As telecommuting enables more knowledge workers to work and live anywhere they choose, places with big-city amenities and a small-town feel could have growing appeal.

A “green” housing boom is under way. U.S. home buyers are increasingly demanding energy efficiency and the use of sustainable materials both in new homes and in remodeling projects.

Part 3 of 4 on 1-16-13

SEASONLESS STYLE

Seasonless style from the 2012 catwalks. Photograph: Victor/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images/photomontage

When the fashion shows begin next month in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, designers will be show their collections for autumn/winter 2013.

In recent years, winter collections have included exotic hothouse flowers and miniskirts with bare legs and sunglasses, while the most recent round of summer shows featured layering, coats and a whole lot of very winter-worthy black.

This is part of a trend towards a sort of seasonless style. In a world where we spend time in artificially cold or warm environments thanks to air conditioning and central heating, the demarcations between the seasons are not as clear as they once were. Add the wash-out summers and warmer winters created by climate change, plus the growing global market for high fashion, and the blurring makes even more sense. It may be around 7C (45 degrees Fahrenheit) in London, but in Mumbai it's 34C (93 degrees Fahrenheit) and humid.

This is a problem at the heart and soul of the fashion industry right now; recently, Vogue ran a three-page article addressing the problem in a recent issue and designers are getting involved in the debate.

"The problem at the moment is that you look at a winter show and you want to see warm clothes," says Jonathan Saunders.  "In actual fact, in the whole other half of the hemisphere, it's warm, and you deliver in July."

To an increasingly show-literate audience of shoppers who have style.com in their bookmarks bar and get access to behind-the-scenes snaps from fashion insiders on Instagram, the collection in store starts to look a bit stale earlier than it used to. We have all seen the new range on the runway – even if we can't buy it yet. In a world where you can get a movie instantly, or download a song in seconds, our patience for waiting for season-led content is wearing thin.

Even though Saunders believes that eventually the industry will have to change to accommodate this new demand,   Susannah Frankel, fashion director of Grazia says,

"Pre-collections have probably been more visible for about the past five years."  Grazia is a weekly fashion publication in the UK.  "The rise of fast fashion partly explains that – people know a lot more about fashion now than they used to and they want to see new things more often."

So will this end seasonal fashion show? No, not really…  these show will continue to evolve like everything…

"The show is about the brand image and the pre-collections are about keeping that momentum," says Ruth Chapman, founder of London boutique Matches. "These pieces need to be transseasonal. Our online business is 50% international and the climates where people live obviously make a big difference."

Fashion designers will be able to focus on fashion rather than designing relative to a particular season.  Jennifer Baca, managing director of British label Erdem

"We have to service the customer in the Middle East, Florida, Russia – everywhere," she says. "It's mind-boggling… These clothes are going to be on the floor for a long time," she says. "We ship resort in October, it's in store from November to May. When the main collection hits the store in January, it gives clients a breath of newness."

How will global warming impact this new direction?

WALKS OF DECEIT

Never before in my lifetime have I seen politicians so polarized and disjointed in their thoughts and actions as right now, especially in WASHDC.  Is there a word to properly describe their ambivalence? Probably, but I can’t seem to find it.

For many years now, I have subscribed to the notion of an arrogant few loosely managing the fate of our nation, but never imagined it would go this far or to this extreme.  They say the exception(s) prove the rule(s) but there are no rules anymore, at least not in the same way as I imagine the definition of that word.

This is not a “last man standing” mentality but a “I don’t see why you cannot see that I am correct and you are wrong” mentality underscored by blind ambition that their “idea/ideals” is the only idea/ideals that can “fix/save” this country.  To me, it is a bizarre and twisted form of logic that prescribes larges dosages of impotent rhetoric.

To me, it is worse that autism and more like an advanced case of Alzheimer’s which reminds me of a joke I heard a while back.

A husband and wife are in the bed sleeping and

all of a sudden the husband sits bolt-upright in bed,

white as a ghost and says, “I better get outa here

before your husband comes home from work.”

I warned you...

Our politicians behave as if they follow a different “set of rules” than the rest of us follow by which they are measured, even though that is a pretense because none of them are ever held accountable or by the voting public.  They are in their own little addictive world supported by a “cult of look-a-likes” referred to as the “Party.”

While there are numerous “rags to riches” stories about how these politicians began their “walks of deceit,” I have never heard of or seen a poor one.  Have you?

You may think that my thoughts resemble “misplaced sarcasm,” but I can assure you that more and more Americans are beginning to think this way, now seeing our politicians like marriage counselors who have never been married, counseling a married couple on divorce; or, like a married homophobic who has a gay lover.

America is a land of freedom, opportunities, and democracy; and yet, each one of these apply differently depending upon one’s socio-economic standing within the community where we can commit crimes of the mind just as easily as we can kiss our children goodnight.

More importantly, we are “technically” Democratic Role Models for the rest of the world who now perceive us (America) as a “ship of fools,” because we are trying to impose a “set of standards” on the rest of the world that we CANNOT ourselves follow here at home.

To me, this is incredibly embarrassing, especially when I teach classes on Management to foreign students who still hold the US in the highest esteem.

It is just a matter of time before Hollywood “shoots” (no pun intended) this “fictional” (???) movie; and, no doubt it will win an Oscar and Buffalo Springfield will sing “For What It’s Worth.”

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Sunday Funnies

Quote of the Week

You can count on Kathy Griffin to push the envelope when she co-hosts CNN's New Year's Eve show from Times Square. And this past New Year's Eve was no exception.

This year's special moment had to do with Cooper's "sack."

A few minutes into the broadcast, Cooper brought up a Twitter follower's comments that there could be a drinking game whenever he giggled at Griffin's jokes.

"I'm going to tickle your sack," Griffin declared. "You can say sack (on air). That's not bad."

Cooper said: "I don't know what you're talking about. I have no sack of gifts here. A sack of Christmas presents. I did not bring a sack of Christmas presents."

Cracked Griffin, "You're calling your privates your Christmas presents."

But the witty repartee didn't end there. Just after midnight, Cooper cut to a report by correspondent Gary Tuchman from Eastport, Maine, where the town's custom is to kiss an 8-foot sardine after it has dropped from the top of a building.

When the camera came back to Griffin and Cooper, she stooped to kiss his crotch.

"Did you drop something?" he asked.

"No, I was kissing your sardine," she answered.

"I can do it again," Griffin said kneeling. "I can do this all night long."

"No, sweetie," said an uncomfortable Cooper, lifting her back to her feet.

"You know you want to," she said.

"Believe me, I really don't," Cooper said as he once again pulled her upright.

Caturday



Is this really water?

T. G. I. F.

I really wish you'd wear a

little green this weekend.

GLOBAL JIHAD

From Here to Timbuktu

The popular statement, " From here to Timbuktu." conjures up images of remote, isolated and distant parts of this earth. Very few people are aware of this ancient city's location, and fewer still ascribe any kind of civilization to this historic area. Timbuktu is located in the western African nation of Mali at the edge of the sahara.

“The African love for knowledge, literature and learning although now filtered through the religion of Islam, never died. As it has been in the days of the early Egyptian Kingdom, so it was in the days of Askia Mohammed. In fact, Leo Africanus, a historian of the XVIth century wrote about Timbuktu: 

There are many judges, doctors and clerics here, all receiving good salaries from King Askia Mohammed of the State of Songhay. He pays great respect to men of learning. There is a great demand for books, and more profit is made from the trade in books than from any other line of business.”

153 1/3 nautical miles (taking the Niger River) or 176 straight line miles SSW of Timbuktu is a town called Mopti (only 32 minutes by air).

Mopti is a town and an urban commune in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali. The town is the capital of the Mopti Cercle and the Mopti Region. Situated 460 km northeast of Bamako, the town lies at the confluence of the Niger and the Bani Rivers and is linked by an elevated causeway to the town of Sévaré. The urban commune, which includes both Mopti and Sévaré, had a population of 114,296 in the 2009 census.

Since the 2012 Northern Mali Conflict led Islamists to take over Northern Mali, Mopti has been one the towns furthest to the north that is still controlled by the government.

It is in this desert town of Mopti that Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's new country.

They have used the bulldozers, earth movers and Caterpillar machines left behind by fleeing construction crews to dig what residents and local officials describe as an elaborate network of tunnels, trenches, shafts and ramparts. In just one case, inside a cave large enough to drive trucks into, they have stored up to 100 drums of gasoline, guaranteeing their fuel supply in the face of a foreign intervention, according to experts.

A Mali harbour town

Northern Mali is now the biggest territory held by al-Qaida and its allies. And as the world hesitates, delaying a military intervention, the extremists who seized control of the area earlier this year are preparing for a war they boast will be worse than the decade-old struggle in Afghanistan.

"Al-Qaida never owned Afghanistan," said former United Nations diplomat Robert Fowler, a Canadian kidnapped and held for 130 days by al-Qaida's local chapter, whose fighters now control the main cities in the north. "They do own northern Mali."

The catalyst for the Islamic fighters was a military coup nine months ago that transformed Mali from a once-stable nation to the failed state it is today. March 21, disgruntled soldiers invaded the presidential palace. The fall of the nation's democratically elected government at the hands of junior officers destroyed the military's command-and-control structure, creating the vacuum which allowed a mix of rebel groups to move in.

With no clear instructions from their higher-ups, the humiliated soldiers left to defend those towns tore off their uniforms, piled into trucks and beat a retreat as far as Mopti, roughly in the center of Mali. They abandoned everything north of this town to the advancing rebels, handing them an area that stretches over more than 240,000 square miles. It's a territory larger than Texas or France — and it's almost exactly the size of Afghanistan.

al-qaida

Turbaned fighters now control all the major towns in the north, carrying out amputations in public squares like the Taliban did. Just as in Afghanistan, they are flogging women for not covering up. Since taking control of Timbuktu, they have destroyed seven of the 16 mausoleums listed as world heritage sites.

All I can say is what a shame 

a loss for the entire world.

OUR PLANET

THOUGHTS

There seems to be 4 main land masses in our global world, which are the:

• North and South Polar Caps
• Areas of Europe, Asia, Africa
• Americas

and a bunch of disconnected islands of various sizes, such as: 

• Japan
• Australia
• Hawaii
• Greenland
• Iceland

as well as an enormous culturally diverse population, including both males and females (that continues to expand), who for all intents and purposes can be traced back to the same ancestry whether it be in Europe or Africa, that can be further traced back to the first humans on this planet (and we are indeed living on a planet in a huge [unimaginable] universe) regardless of how you or I believe they got here.

In addition, we must all accept the fact (whether scientific or religious) that we (all inhabitants of this planet) have become who we are today through a multitude of mutations that have resulted in our: 

• Height and size
• Propensity for disease
• Aggressive nature
• Predilection for survival
• Perpetuation of our species

Simply put, in order to get where we are today, brothers and sisters must have had sexual relations with each other and produced children who produced children, etc.  It may not actually be what you or I want to here but there is no other way our population increase could have happened at the very beginning.

Jumping to the here and now, it is also true that technology has not only improved our “quality of life,” but it has virtually decreased the size of our planet in terms of “time” and how long it takes for one to travel from one side to the other side.  Traveling from the East Coast of America to the West Coast of America can be now compared to traveling from the East Coast of America to the East Coast of Asia.  In fact, it is now predicted by those who collect data and follow trends that Global Growth is going to take place in that Asian area.

Just as our planet is not the center of our Universe, the Americas will no longer be the central focus of our planet; consequently, as that focus changes so too will the economics associated with that focus change.  In other words, as the Asian areas increase in population and economic influence, the rest of the world, including the Americas, will decrease – it is just that simple.

We should all be aware of the massive flow of currency out of America and into the Middle East over the last 30-50 years due to the purchase of petroleum crude oil. 

We should all be aware of the economic growth of India and China as a result of providing low cost manufacturing to America to maintain our low cost standard of living.  And now, India has “invisible innovation” that helps the back offices of many businesses all over the world.

We should all be aware that America’s educational performance is ranked 17^th in the world and while we study the Liberal Arts in Colleges and Universities, the rest of the world studies STEM:  Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math.

Regardless of the shifts that are taking place on our planet, we are indeed, one planet and one people sharing a common ancestry but not a common culture; we are more culturally diverse than ever, fighting like brothers and sisters, over:  land, power, & wealth.

And, what’s the point?

Seriously…

What’s the point?

What is happening in our Nation’s Capital in Congress and our inability to compromise over anything is indicative of what is happening in all countries all over the world as well as what is happening between countries all over the world.

And yet:

We all live on the same unique planet sharing the same limited resources that cannot sustain our global population growth and while wars does indeed “thin out the herd,” it does precious little to solve our “shrinking planet” issues.

Is this the ultimate result of the copulation of siblings?

Hump Day Art

CRYSTAL BALLS

MC Escher

Part 1 of 4

According to the World Future Society, 2013 will provide us all with some exciting challenges and opportunities.  

As far as the economy is concerned:

Many recently lost jobs may never come back, but there’s still a future for work. The economy may become increasingly jobless. Rather than worry about unemployment, tomorrow’s workers will focus on developing a variety of skills that could keep them working productively and continuously, whether they have jobs or not.

Corporate reputation ratings will be even more transparent.  For instance, you might choose one restaurant over another when your mobile phone app flashes warnings about health-department citations or poor customer reviews.

Virtual games could accelerate real economic growth. Games played on mobile devices are increasingly enticing players with discounts, coupons, and other real-world rewards, as players use their phones to pay.

Money and even cash will still exist by 2100. Money will increasingly move to digital forms for legitimate transactions, but cash will still be the lifeblood of the black-market economy.

India will become a hotbed of “invisible innovation.” Rather than focusing on tangible consumer products innovators in India emphasize processes that improve efficiency.

Upscale opportunities in resource recovery will abound. Going beyond using post-consumer waste to make more stuff—often of inferior quality—upcycling is about harvesting resources to make new products of higher commercial value.

Sex workers in developed countries will become more responsible for their own branding. With more technologies available to them to work as independent entrepreneurs, sex workers will adopt retailing trends like collective discounts, online reviews, and strategic partnerships.

Career “paths” will become patchwork pieces. Baby boomers’ future career trajectories will more resemble a lattice than a ladder, with more lateral moves on the way up.

As far as energy is concern:

Subways, trains, and diesel trucks will become future sources of energy, not just consumers. Since most of the stored energy that vehicles use is wasted as heat spilling out from tailpipes, engineers at BMW, Ford, GM, and other manufacturers are seeking systems to recover thermal energy.

Future cars may become producers of power rather than merely consumers. A scheme envisioned at the Technology University of Delft would use fuel cells of parked electric vehicles to convert biogas or hydrogen into more electricity.

Noise vibrations and other “junk” energy will be harvested from the environment. Researchers at Georgia Tech are developing techniques for converting ambient microwave energy into DC power, which could be used for small devices like wireless sensors.

Forecasts for bioenergy in the United States may be overly optimistic. As a potential alternative source of energy to help the United States reduce its dependence on foreign oil, biofuels have not met proponents’ high expectations, says the American Chemical Society.

Alternative energies won’t be enough to solve the world’s energy woes. Alternatives to alternatives are needed. Heavy investment into solar energy, wind energy, and other renewable systems may actually set us back, since these strategies draw resources away from others.

Part 2 of 4 on 1-9-13

New Year's Day

Be all you can be . . .

Resolutions…



Global love...



Hunger eliminated...

Resolve issues together...

ACHIEVED...

Global truth realized...

Global Warming reduced...

Well managed...

Is this too much for which

to ask our LEADERS?

Around the world...

AFRIKAANS gelukkige nuwejaar / voorspoedige nuwejaar
AKPOSSO ilufio ètussé
ALBANIAN Gëzuar vitin e ri
ALSATIAN e glëckliches nëies / güets nëies johr
ARABIC عام سعيد (aam saiid) / sana saiida
ARMENIAN shnorhavor nor tari
ATIKAMEKW amokitanone
AZERI yeni iliniz mübarək
BAMBARA aw ni san'kura / bonne année
BASAA mbuee
BASQUE urte berri on
BELARUSIAN З новым годам (Z novym hodam)
BENGALI subho nababarsho
BERBER asgwas amegas
BETI mbembe mbu
BOBO bonne année
BOSNIAN sretna nova godina
BRETON bloavezh mat / bloavez mad
BULGARIAN честита нова година (chestita nova godina)
BURMESE hnit thit ku mingalar pa
CANTONESE sun lin fi lok / kung hé fat tsoi
CATALAN bon any nou
CHINESE (MANDARIN) 新年快了 (xin nian kuai le) / 新年好 (xin nian hao)
CORNISH bledhen nowedh da
CORSICAN pace è salute
CROATIAN sretna nova godina
CZECH šťastný nový rok
DANISH godt nytår
DARI sale naw tabrik
DUALA mbu mwa bwam
DUTCH gelukkig nieuwjaar
ENGLISH happy new year
ESPERANTO feliĉan novan jaron
ESTONIAN head uut aastat
EWE eƒé bé dzogbenyui nami
EWONDO mbembe mbu
FAROESE gott nýggjár
FINNISH onnellista uutta vuotta
FLEMISH gelukkig nieuwjaar
FRENCH bonne année
FRISIAN lokkich neijier
FRIULAN bon an
FULA dioul mo wouri
GALICIAN feliz aninovo
GEORGIAN გილოცავთ ახალ წელს (gilocavt akhal tsels)
GERMAN Frohes neues Jahr / prost Neujahr
GREEK Καλή Χρονιά (kali chronia / kali xronia) / Ευτυχισμένος ο Καινούριος Χρόνος (eutichismenos o kainourgios chronos)
GUJARATI sal mubarak / nootan varshabhinandan
GUARANÍ rogüerohory año nuévo-re
HAITIAN CREOLE bònn ané
HAOUSSA barka da sabuwar shekara
HAWAIIAN hauoli makahiki hou
HEBREW שנה טובה (shana tova)
HERERO ombura ombe ombua
HINDI nav varsh ki subhkamna
HMONG nyob zoo xyoo tshiab
HUNGARIAN boldog új évet
ICELANDIC gleðilegt nýtt ár
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ITALIAN felice anno nuovo / buon anno
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KABYLIAN asseggas ameggaz
KANNADA hosa varshada shubhaashayagalu
KASHMIRI nav reh mubarakh
KAZAKH zhana zhiliniz kutti bolsin
KHMER sur sdei chhnam thmei
KIEMBU ngethi cya mwaka mweru
KINYARWANDA umwaka mwiza
KIRUNDI umwaka mwiza
KOREAN 새해 복 많이 받으세요 (seh heh bok mani bat uh seyo)
KURDE sala we ya nû pîroz be
KWANGALI mvhura zompe zongwa
LAO sabai di pi mai
LATIN felix sit annus novus
LATVIAN laimīgu Jauno gadu
LIGURIAN bón ànno nêuvo
LINGALA bonana / mbúla ya sika elámu na tombelí yɔ̌
LITHUANIAN laimingų Naujųjų Metų
LOW SAXON gelükkig nyjaar
LUXEMBOURGEOIS e gudd neit Joër
MACEDONIAN Среќна Нова Година (srekna nova godina)
MALAGASY arahaba tratry ny taona
MALAY selamat tahun baru
MALAYALAM nava varsha ashamshagal
MALTESE is-sena t-tajba
MANGAREVAN kia porotu te ano ou
MAORI kia hari te tau hou
MARATHI navin varshaachya hardik shubbheccha
MARQUISIAN kaoha nui tenei ehua hou
MOHAWK ose:rase
MONGOLIAN Шинэ жилийн баярын мэнд хvргэе (shine jiliin bayariin mend hurgeye)
MORÉ wênd na kô-d yuum-songo
NDEBELE umyaka omucha omuhle
NGOMBALE ngeu' shwi pong mbeo paghe
NORWEGIAN godt nyttår
OCCITAN bon annada
ORIYA subha nababarsa / naba barsara hardika abhinandan
OURDOU naya sar Mubarak
PAPIAMENTU bon anja / felis anja nobo
PASHTO nawe kaalmo mobarak sha
PERSIAN سال نو مبارک (sâle no mobârak)
POLISH szczęśliwego nowego roku
PORTUGUESE feliz ano novo
PUNJABI ਨਵੇਂ ਸਾਲ ਦੀਆਂ ਵਧਾਈਆਂ (nave saal deeyan vadhaiyaan)
ROMANCHE bun di bun onn
ROMANI baxtalo nevo bersh
ROMANIAN un an nou fericit / la mulţi ani
RUSSIAN С Новым Годом (S novim godom)
SAMOAN ia manuia le tausaga fou
SANGO nzoni fini ngou
SARDINIAN bonu annu nou
SCOTTISH GAELIC bliadhna mhath ur
SERBIAN srećna nova godina / Срећна нова година
SHIMAORE mwaha mwema
SHONA goredzva rakanaka
SINDHI nain saal joon wadhayoon
SINHALESE (shubha aluth awuruddak weiwa)
SLOVAK šťastný nový rok
SLOVENIAN srečno novo leto
SOBOTA dobir leto
SOMALI sanad wanagsan
SPANISH feliz año nuevo
SRANAN wan bun nyun yari
SWAHILI mwaka mzuri / heri ya mwaka mpya
SWEDISH gott nytt år
SWISS-GERMAN es guets Nöis
TAGALOG manigong bagong taon
TAHITIAN ia orana i te matahiti api
TAMAZIGHT assugas amegaz
TAMIL இனிய புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள் (iniya puthandu nal Vazhthukkal)
TATAR yaña yıl belän
TELUGU నూతన సంవత్శర శుభాకాంక్షలు (nuthana samvathsara subhakankshalu)
THAI สวัสดีปีใหม่ (sawatdii pimaï)
TIBETAN tashi delek / losar tashi delek
TIGRE sanat farah wa khare
TSHILUBA tshidimu tshilenga
TSWANA itumelele ngwaga o mosha
TULU posa varshada shubashaya
TURKISH yeni yılınız kutlu olsun
TWENTS gluk in'n tuk
UDMURT Vyľ Aren
UKRAINIAN Щасливого Нового Року / З Новим роком (Z novym rokom)
URDU naya sal mubarak
UZBEK yangi yilingiz qutlug' bo'lsin
VIETNAMESE Chúc Mừng Nǎm Mới / Cung Chúc Tân Niên / Cung Chúc Tân Xuân
WALOON ene boune anéye, ene boune sintéye
WALOON ("betchfessîs" spelling) bone annéye / bone annéye èt bone santéye
WELSH blwyddyn newydd dda
WEST INDIAN CREOLE bon lanné
WOLOF dewenati
XHOSA nyak'omtsha
YIDDISH a gut yohr
ZULU unyaka omusha omuhle