Also in 2009, Hasselhoff took part in a ghost hunting experience at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire with his daughters and Mills.

2009 the Forum returned to Brazil, where it took place in Belém.

Nielsen remained with the company until January 2009, when he accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer at VMware ; CFO Erik Prusch then took over as Acting President and CEO.

The new constitution took effect on the 6th November 2009.

A referendum took place on May 16, 2009 to decide whether to cut down the government's unwieldy political bureaucracy.

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In 2009, over 3 million K-12 students took an online course, compared to 2000 when 45, 000 took an online course.

A study published in 2009 took into account data sets from major world economies and correlated them with inequality indices.

In the last general election, which took place on 5 November 2009, only non-partisans were elected as there are no active political parties in the Falkland Islands.

There will be no night races in Albert Park but 2009 ’ s event started at 5pm and took place between 26 – 29 March.

Further democratic elections took place in 2004 and 2009.

He took office on 1 December 2009.

* Contemporary artists Jutta Koether, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Eline McGeorge and Karl Holmqvist were commissioned to make new installation works in 2009 in response to Kurt Schiwtters as part of the Senses exhibition which took place in Alesund, Norway ( 2009 ) and at Chisenhale Gallery, London ( 2010 ).

* Howard McMillan, Dean of Millsaps ' Else School of Management took over as Interim President in August 2009.

He took office following the retirement of Dato ' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ( colloquially known as " Pak Lah ") on April, 2009.

Muralitharan took the wicket of Gautam Gambhir on 2009 in Colombo to surpass Wasim Akram's ODI record of 501 wickets.

In English law it is usually created by the decision of a higher court, such as the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which took over the judicial functions of the House of Lords in 2009.

On 17 July 2009 Crowe took to the commentary box for the British sports channel, Sky Sports, as the ' third man ' during the second Test of the 2009 Ashes series, between England and Australia.

The gallery had suffered considerable structural degradation since its creation and during a period from 2008 to 2009 major restoration and refurbishment took place.

In Ireland, in the 2009 European election, Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party took one of three seats in the capital Dublin European constituency.

Meetings between Singapore Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Barack Obama took place on 15 November 2009

Similarly, the autonomous Puntland region's new administration, which took office in early 2009, has also implemented numerous reforms such as the expansion and improvement of its security and judicial sectors.

Then, with the dramatic decrease of oil prices that took place in the second half of 2008 plus the manifest bursting of the real estate bubble, concerns quickly shifted over to the risk of deflation, as Spain recorded in January 2009 its lowest inflation rate in 40 years, followed shortly afterwards, in March 2009 by a negative inflation rate for the first time since the gathering of these statistics started.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named " Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway " after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an " Adopt-A-Highway " plan.

At the San Diego Comic Con in July 2009, IDW announced the upcoming publication of Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays as part of their ongoing Library of American Comics project.

The University of Illinois marching band, the Marching Illini, wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.

Starting in 2009, vehicular traffic is banned at Times Square between 47th and 42nd Streets, and at Herald Square between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program ; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians.

Since May 2009, the portions of Broadway through Duffy Square, Times Square, and Herald Square have been closed entirely to automobile traffic, except for cross traffic on the Streets and Avenues, as part of a traffic and pedestrianization experiment, with the pavement reserved exclusively for walkers, cyclists, and those lounging in temporary seating placed by the city.

As of January 2009, it appears the project has been canceled, in part due to the strong opposition from the local population, mostly on environmental grounds.

In 2009, HP sold part of Compaq's former headquarters to the Lone Star College System.

Dallas wore this alternate uniform on October 11, 2009 as part of one of the NFL's AFL Legacy Weekends when they traveled to Kansas City to play the Chiefs who were sporting their AFL Dallas Texans ' uniforms.

He has also written about and advocated the notion of memetics as a philosophically useful tool, most recently in his " Brains, Computers, and Minds ", a three part presentation through Harvard's MBB 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series.

Relations between the United Kingdom and Ecuador were traditionally regarded as " low-key but cordial ", especially before the election of Rafael Correa ; the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the country in 2009, as part of a tour celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin.

El Salvador was part of the Multi-National Force – Iraq from 2003 — 2009.

* 2009: The Senate of Brazil passed a bill which would make Esperanto an optional part of the curriculum in its state schools.

The Off-Broadway theatre The American Place Theatre presented a one man show adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 as a part of their 2008 – 2009 Literature to Life season.

Eppig, Fincher, and Thornhill ( 2009 ) argue that " From an energetics standpoint, a developing human will have difficulty building a brain and fighting off infectious diseases at the same time, as both are very metabolically costly tasks " and that " the Flynn effect may be caused in part by the decrease in the intensity of infectious diseases as nations develop.

In April 2009, the New York Times reported on a document revealed in court as part of a lawsuit.

As part of the official welcome ceremony of a foreign head of state, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is inspecting a Serbian Armed Forces | Serbian guard of honour | guard of honor escorted by President of Serbia | Serbian President Boris Tadić, on the former's visit to Serbia in 2009.

This was increased to 50. 9 percent in 2005, but when GM further increased its stake to 70. 1 percent around the time of its 2009 Chapter 11 reorganisation, Holden's interest was relinquished and transferred to another ( undisclosed ) part of GM.

Rather than being transferred to Motors Liquidation Company as part of the GM bankruptcy in 2009, the brand was retained by GM, in order to investigate its sale.

On June 1, 2009, as a part of the General Motors bankruptcy announcement, the company revealed that the Hummer brand would be discontinued.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

* He released his own beer called Bad Ass Beer on July 17, 2009 released over the entire midwestern part of the U. S.