The Korean piano and guitar maker Samick Music Corporation is the largest shareholder, controlling 33 % of Steinway stock ; Samick Chairman Jong Sup Kim has been a member of the Steinway board of directors since November 2009.

Gabriela Montero at a Steinway grand piano at the Inauguration of Barack Obama | inauguration ceremony for US President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009

On January 24, 2009, Steinway installed the world's largest solar-powered rooftop air-conditioning and dehumidification system, at a cost of $ 875, 000, to dehumidify the factory in New York City, and protect the pianos.

After the 2008 economic downturn, Steinway grand piano sales fell by half and 30 % of the union employees were laid off from the New York factory between August 2008 and November 2009.

In 2009, the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music in Ohio became designated an All-Steinway School, based on a $ 4. 1 million order of 165 new pianos, one of the largest orders Steinway has ever processed.

Image: 2009. 05. 12 Poetry Jam at the White House-Lin-Manuel Miranda-Alex Lacamoire-Steinway grand piano. ogg | The White House's Steinway art case grand piano from 1938.

Aimard was featured recording Bach's The Art of Fugue in the 2009 award-winning German-Austrian documentary Pianomania, about Steinway & Sons ' piano technician Stephan Knüpfer, which was directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis.

In late 2009, Samick acquired a 16. 5 % share of Steinway Musical Instruments.

On October 24, 2009, North American company Super Fighter Team released Zaku, an all new, all original horizontal shooter for the Lynx developed by PenguiNet.

The Central African Republic ( CAR ) is classified as one of the world's least developed countries, with an estimated annual per capita income of $ 700 ( 2009 ).

For example, a 2009 version of Pac-Man was developed and distributed for the Channel F.

On June 26, 2009, John Carmack released Doom Resurrection, a new game developed by Escalation Studios for iOS and published by id Software.

On April 1, 2009, an OpenGL Shader Model 3. 0 renderer was revealed to have been developed for EDuke32, named Polymer to distinguish from Ken Silverman's Polymost.

In 2009, he underwent heart surgery, details of which were never made public, but he was known to have developed pneumonia postoperatively.

Genetically engineered plants and animals capable of producing biotechnology drugs more cheaply than current methods ( called pharming ) are also being developed, and in 2009 the United States FDA approved the sale of the pharmaceutical protein antithrombin produced in the milk of genetically engineered goats.

From late 2009, fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed among investors concerning Greece's ability to meet its debt obligations due to strong increase in government debt levels.

Jordan has a developed banking sector that attracts investors due to conservative bank policies that enabled the country to weather the global financial crisis of 2009.

He has collaborated with scholars of Islam, conceiving World Religions in America: An Introduction ( fourth edition, Louisville 2009 ), which explores how diverse religions have developed in the distinctive American context.

Lazio's limited industrial sector and highly developed service industries allowed the region to well outperform the Italian economy in 2009.

The QFracture score was developed in 2009 and is based on age, BMI, smoking status, alcohol use, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma, use of tricyclic antidepressants or corticosteroids, liver disease, and a history of falls in men.

A sequel called Wolfenstein was developed by Raven Software and id Software and published by Activision, and released on August 18, 2009.

South Korea was one of the few developed countries that was able to avoid a recession during the global financial crisis, and its economic growth rate will reach 6. 1 % in 2010, a sharp recovery from economic growth rates of 2. 3 % in 2008 and 0. 2 % in 2009 when the global financial crisis hit.

The economy of Sierra Leone is that of a least developed country with a GDP of approximately 1. 9 billion USD in 2009.

In 2009, the University of Prince Edward Island developed the concept of “ University Island ” to describe the ways in which UPEI makes a difference “ on the Island and around the world .” A website, universityisland. ca, was created to showcase the University ’ s outreach in the areas of learning, community service, and research.

In 2009, Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi developed a robot that can jump three inches off the ground.

In 2009 Lawrence Philips released a third version, called Metaphone 3, which achieves an accuracy of approximately 99 % for English words, non-English words familiar to Americans, and first names and family names commonly found in the United States, having been developed according to modern engineering standards against a test harness of prepared correct encodings.

A professional version was released in October 2009, developed by the same author, Lawrence Philips.

* Grand Slam Tennis, a 2009 video game developed by EA Sports

Wine is primarily developed for Linux, but the Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris ports are currently ( as of January 2009 ) well maintained.

It was developed by Team 17 and the publishing rights were offered to Codemasters who published the game in March 2009.

In 2009, Nigeria's EFCC announced that they have adopted smart technology developed by Microsoft to track down fraudulent emails.

According to an article in The Times dated 10 April 2009 approximately 30, 000 spread bet accounts were opened last year, and that the largest study of gambling in the UK on behalf of the Gambling Commission found that serious problems developed in almost 15 % of spread betters compared to 1 % of other gambling.

In 2009, on her album Running for the Drum, Buffy Sainte-Marie released a new version of " America the Beautiful ".

In 2009, plans for a $ 24 million expansion to the campus, including a new academic building, a second residence and a sports complex were unveiled.

In September 2009 the club unveiled plans to build a new 55, 000-capacity stadium in the western suburbs of Rome.

In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

A new translation by Zinnie Harris at the Donmar Warehouse, starring Gillian Anderson, Toby Stephens, Anton Lesser, Tara FitzGerald and Christopher Eccleston opened in May 2009.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

Building new highways is one of the top goals of the 2009 elected government of Boyko Borisov, therefore new roads and highways are regularly opened for use.

The first identification cards were issued to two Bahá ' ís under the new decree on August 8, 2009.

In 2009, the North Carolina Department of Transportation began widening 1. 1 miles of U. S. 421 ( King Street ) to a four to six-lane divided highway with a raised concrete median from U. S. 321 ( Hardin Street ) to east of N. C. 194 ( Jefferson Road ), including a new entrance and exit to the new Watauga High School, at a cost of $ 16. 2 million.

The brand new Dennis and Gnasher was launched separately from The Beano in September 2009.

Dennis and Gnasher got their own TV series on CBBC from 7 September 2009 to accompany the comic's new look.

Shareholder nominations can only occur at the general meeting itself or through the prohibitively expensive process of mailing out ballots separately ; in May 2009 the SEC proposed a new rule allowing shareholders meeting certain criteria to add nominees to the proxy statement.

A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.

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

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

In 2009, Love reformed Hole with new members and released Nobody's Daughter ( 2010 ).

In 2009 plans were revealed to move the club from its present home at Bowdens Park on Draycott Road to a new larger site.

In 2009, for the first time in church history, more new members came from Africa than the United States.

" While the economic slowdown has created a difficult business environment, we are encouraged by brisk activity from new and existing propeller fleet operators placing almost 200 orders for 2009 production aircraft ," Pelton stated.

Since 2009, all new shows include previously broadcast segments as much as 10 years old.

In 2009, SkyCable became the first cable TV service provider in the Philippines to broadcast the UAAP Games in HDTV via the new SkyHD Cable TV service.