Happy New Year: 2010! For America

As 2009 turns to 2010 around the world, the Flickr Team would like to wish all of you a happy 2010!

Goodbye 2009! World ready for a more hopeful 2010

PARIS — Paris jazzed up the Eiffel Tower with a multicolored, disco-style light display as the world basked in New Year's festivities with hopes that 2010 and beyond will bring more peace and prosperity.

From fireworks over Sydney's famous bridge to balloons sent aloft in Tokyo, revelers across the globe at least temporarily shelved worries about the future to bid farewell to "The Noughties" - a bitter-tinged nickname for the first decade of the 21st century playing on a term for "zero" and evoking the word naughty.

In New York City, hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in chilly weather in Times Square to usher in the new decade. Organizers were preparing 3,000 pounds (1,360 kilograms) of confetti that will be scattered when the New Year's Eve crystal ball drops at midnight.

Fireworks were set off at about 6 p.m. and the gigantic ball was lowered into place in preparation for midnight. Many people wore conical party hats and 2010 glasses that blinked colorfully, and some were jumping up and down to keep warm - the National Weather Service said the temperature will be in the low 30s and forecast snow for around midnight.

Las Vegas prepared to welcome some 315,000 revelers with fireworks from casino rooftops, a traffic-free Las Vegas Strip and toasts at nightclubs from celebrities including actress Eva Longoria and rapper 50 Cent.

Even as some major stock market indexes rose in 2009, the financial downturn hit hard, sending many industrial economies into recession, tossing millions out of work and out of their homes as foreclosures rose dramatically in some countries.

"The year that is ending has been difficult for everybody. No continent, no country, no sector has been spared," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on national TV in a New Year's Eve address. "Even if the tests are unfinished, 2010 will be a year of renewal," he added.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned her people that the start of the new decade won't herald immediate relief from the global economic ills. South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, was more ebullient, saying the World Cup is set to make 2010 the country's most important year since the end of apartheid in 1994.

At midnight in Rio de Janeiro, about 2 million people gathered along the 2.5-mile (4 kilometer) Copacabana beach to watch a huge fireworks display and listen to dozens of music acts and DJs.

The multitudes came mostly dressed in traditional white clothing, a nod to the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble but a custom followed by nearly everyone as it is thought to bring peace and good luck for the coming year.

Officials said about 12,000 police were on duty during the New Year's Eve party in and around Copacabana to provide security.

Dressed in white and holding a glass of champagne in his hand, visitor Chad Bissonnette, 27, a nongovernmental group's director from Washington, D.C., said, "This year was the toughest I've experienced - for the first time as an American I saw many friends lose jobs and businesses in my neighborhood close regularly."

New Year’s Eve 2009: Photo gallery of Tiger Woods, from champion golfer to disgraced sex hound

December 31 -- As a Blue Moon rises over the Boston golf world on New Year’s Eve 2009, the Tiger Woods sex scandal is still making news, with recent word that the golfer suffered only a “fat lip” from his infamous November 27 car crash.

With a new PGA Tour golf season about to unfold, it seems a good time to look back on a year filled with Woods’ victorious return to the tour after major knee surgery, as well as his self-inflicted implosion off the course.

Indeed, these photos tell the story of the incredibly swift and sure fall from grace of the man who little more than a month ago ranked as the world’s best golfer and richest athlete, and enters 2010 as a recluse and virtual hostage of his own disgrace and humiliation.

How old is Dick Clark ? Watch Video

Dick Clark whose actual name is Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an American businessman; game-show host; and radio and television personality. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years.

He is best known for hosting long-running television shows
such as American Bandstand, five versions of the game show Pyramid, and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.

Clark has long been known for his departing catchphrase, "For now, Dick Clark...so long," delivered with a military salute, and for his youthful appearance, earning the moniker "America's Oldest Teenager", until he had a stroke in late 2004.

With some speech ability still impaired, Clark returned to his New Year's Rockin' Eve show on December 31, 2005/January 1, 2006. Subsequently, he has appeared at the Emmy Awards
on August 27, 2006, and every New Year's Rockin' Eve show since then.

On November 30, 2009, disc jockeys throughout the nation paid tribute to Clark on his 80th birthday.

Because he was born in 1929, that makes him 80 years young!

2010 New Year from Times Square Live Ball Drop

For those who were in Times Square to see in the 2010 New Year, the thing that you would have been waiting to see was the live ball drop. We have embedded a video of this happening below, just for those who did not get a chance to see this once a year event.

This is one of the most popular traditions in New York, as it counts down the final minute of the current year and usher in the new one. There is always so much noise in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, but all voices are joined in unison as the final seconds are counted down.

The ball is made of crystal and electric lights and is raised on a pole on top of the One Times Square building. The ball then descends 77 feet during the final minute and then comes to rest at its base at 12:00 am. According to Wikipedia, up to one million people attend the Times Square party, but it is estimated than more than one billion people watch the event either online or on TV.

Happy New Year from all at Only Kent.

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Happy New Year greeting message for Tiger Woods: AT&T latest sponsor to dump golfer

The telecommunications giant severed its endorsement relationship with the embattled golf great on December 31, according to the Associated Press, assuring Woods a rather unhappy New Year's Eve.

“We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well in the future,” an AT&T spokesperson said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Host-less? Woods has not been a mainstay of AT&T’s advertising strategy, but he sports the firm’s logo on his golf bag and has hosted the AT&T National PGA Tour event since its 2007 inception. In 2009, Woods signed a multiyear deal with the company, which will reportedly continue to sponsor the PGA tourney.

The AT&T National Web site continues to showcase Tiger Woods as the host of the event, scheduled to occur in Philadelphia from June 29 through July 4, 2010.

And now a word from our ex-sponsors. AT&T is only the latest sponsor to distance itself from the top-ranked golfer, who is on an indefinite hiatus from golf since his infamous November 27 car crash and ensuing allegations of serial infidelity.

Global consulting firm, Accenture, pitched the golfer into the rough two weeks ago, while Boston-based Gillette announced it would stop using Woods in its razor commercials. Tag Heuer has said it would limit the use of Tiger’s image in ads for its high-end Swiss watches.

Nike and Electronic Arts (marketers of EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games) are standing with Woods for now.