The world-famous Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park closes on New Year's Eve. It's a beautiful site with a rich history, and the closing has been marked by serious legal tension, as WSJ reports. Tavern is losing its license with the city after more than 30 years. Another local restaurateur will operate an eatery there, instead. That prompted the Tavern owners to declare bankruptcy, which has unleashed a bar fight over the Tavern name. Lawyers for the LeRoy family, which opened the celebrity hangout and tourist haven in 1976, say the family trademarked the name in 1978, using it on the restaurant and later, a bottled salad dressing. The estimated value of the moniker, they say, is $19 million, and the company's biggest asset. But city officials are clearly nervous that the LeRoy family may capitalize on the Tavern brand, starting restaurants in Miami or, perhaps, elsewhere in New York. Lawyers with the city of New York have asserted in federal court that Warner LeRoy never had the city's permission to trademark the name and that he obtained the name fraudulently. WSJ Law Blog December 31, 2009

Census Bureau Projects U.S. Population of 308.4 Million on New Year’s Day
News release: "On the eve of the 2010 Census, as the Census Bureau prepares to conduct an actual count of the nation’s population, the bureau projects that on Jan. 1, 2010 — three months out from Census Day — the total U.S. population will be 308,400,408. This would represent an increase of 2,606,181, or 0.9 percent, from New Year’s Day 2009. In January 2010, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United States and one death every 12 seconds. Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 37 seconds to the U.S. population in January 2010, resulting in an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 14 seconds."

2010 (MMX) will be a common year starting on Friday in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It will be the first year of the 2010s decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010

This is the calendar for any common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C). Examples: Gregorian years 1999, 2010 & 2021 or Julian years 1910 & 1899 (see bottom tables). A common year is a year with 365 days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_year_starting_on_Friday

2010 Daylight Saving Time will be March 14 and November 7 except there will be no DST in Arizona, Hawaii and the Midway Islands. See all countries at:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2010.html

2010 Phases of the Moon
Universal Time

NEW MOON FIRST QUARTER FULL MOON LAST QUARTER

d h m d h m d h m d h m

JAN. 7 10 39
JAN. 15 7 11 JAN. 23 10 53 JAN. 30 6 18 FEB. 5 23 48
FEB. 14 2 51 FEB. 22 0 42 FEB. 28 16 38 MAR. 7 15 42
MAR. 15 21 01 MAR. 23 11 00 MAR. 30 2 25 APR. 6 9 37
APR. 14 12 29 APR. 21 18 20 APR. 28 12 18 MAY 6 4 15
MAY 14 1 04 MAY 20 23 43 MAY 27 23 07 JUNE 4 22 13
JUNE 12 11 15 JUNE 19 4 29 JUNE 26 11 30 JULY 4 14 35
JULY 11 19 40 JULY 18 10 11 JULY 26 1 37 AUG. 3 4 59
AUG. 10 3 08 AUG. 16 18 14 AUG. 24 17 05 SEPT. 1 17 22
SEPT. 8 10 30 SEPT. 15 5 50 SEPT. 23 9 17 OCT. 1 3 52
OCT. 7 18 44 OCT. 14 21 27 OCT. 23 1 36 OCT. 30 12 46
NOV. 6 4 52 NOV. 13 16 39 NOV. 21 17 27 NOV. 28 20 36
DEC. 5 17 36 DEC. 13 13 59 DEC. 21 8 13 DEC. 28 4 18
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.php

The first month of the year
Deutsch: Januar, Jänner • English: January • Español: Enero • Esperanto: Januaro • Français : Janvier • Italiano: Gennaio • For pictures and other months of the year, see: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/January January is Janeiro in Portuguese.

Rio de Janeiro ("River of January", English pronunciation: /ˈriːoʊ deɪ ʒəˈnɛəroʊ/; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈxiu dʒi ʒaˈneiɾu]) is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America.[1][2][3] The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1822 during the Portuguese colonial era, and from 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation . It is also the former capital of the Portuguese Empire. Commonly known as just Rio, the city is also nicknamed A Cidade Maravilhosa or "The Marvelous City." Rio is considered a Beta World City.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro

A global city (also called world city or sometimes alpha city) is a city deemed to be an important node point in the global economic system. The concept comes from geography and urban studies and rests on the idea that globalization can be understood as largely created, facilitated and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade.
The most complex of these entities is the "global city," whereby the linkages binding a city have a direct and tangible effect on global affairs through socio-economic means.[1] The terminology of "global city", as opposed to megacity, is thought to have been first coined by the sociologist Saskia Sassen in reference to London, New York and Tokyo in her 1991 work The Global City,[2] though the term "world city" to describe cities which control a disproportionate amount of global business dates to at least Patrick Geddes' use of the term in 1915.[3] See a list of alpha, bet and gamma world cities at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city

Palindrome dates in the 21st century
In the MMDDYYYY Date Format (first five (5) of 12 in 21st century):
October 2, 2001 (10022001)
January 2, 2010 (01022010)
November 2, 2011 (11022011)
February 2, 2020 (02022020)
December 2, 2021 (12022021)
In the DDMMYYYY Date Format (first five (5) of 29 in 21st century):
10 February 2001 (10022001)
20 February 2002 (20022002)
1 February 2010 (01022010)
11 February 2011 (11022011)
21 February 2012 (21022012) http://faculty.up.edu/ainan/palindrome.html

The swiftest thing in the world is thought. The sweetest thing in the world is sleep. The richest thing in the world is earth, for out of the earth come all the riches of the world. Clever Manka, Czechoslovakian folk tale