Wyden also opposed President Obama's plan for a " troop surge " in Afghanistan in 2009.

Wyden was among several moderate Democratic senators who in early January 2009 criticized President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan, calling for a greater emphasis on " tangible infrastructure investments " and warning that an effort had to be made to differentiate it from the Bush bailouts Wyden had opposed.

Wyden said in 2009 that he will continue to " fight tooth and nail " to block new federal attempts to block the law.

Aon has sponsored the British Touring Car Championship team run by Arena Motorsport since 2009.

Bundaberg Rum sponsored the rugby league ANZAC Test till 2009.

Later in 2009, some major IRC servers were delinked:,,, EFnet's only UK server, and EFnet's only UK hub, which were sponsored by Demon Internet.

The university has a " very high " level of research activity and received $ 463. 7 million in sponsored research from 2008 to 2009.

For example, Universe of Energy was sponsored by Exxon from 1982 to 2004, and The Land was sponsored by Kraft from 1982 to 1993, then Nestlé from 1993 to 2009.

Florida's Department of Mathematics has sponsored, since 1998, the annual Ulam Colloquium Lecture, and in March 2009, the Ulam Centennial Conference.

In October, 2009, 30 scientists from 10 countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC ), a World Health Organization sponsored group, to reassess the carcinogenicity of various agents including areca nut, and mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

In 2009, the council sponsored a statue in Spokane.

During the Double Ten Day of 2009, all government sponsored festivities were canceled, and the money intended for the festivals ( NT $ 70 million ) were reallocated for reconstruction of the damage done by Typhoon Morakot.

The local media faced national scrutiny in 2009 when both major newspapers refused to run anti-rodeo ads sponsored by the Vancouver Humane Society.

On an official trip to Central America in June 2009, Mrs. Ma was able to meet with one of her sponsored children, an 11-year-old boy in San Salvador.

In January 2009, the Green Power Partnership ( GPP, sponsored by the EPA ) listed Northwestern as one of the top 10 universities in the country in purchasing energy from renewable sources.

Another festival was held 23 to 28 April 2009, sponsored by the Friends of Whitchurch Heritage.

The club plan to move to a proposed new stadium, sponsored by ConocoPhillips, at nearby Great Coates in the summer of 2009.

Ask. com sponsored the car for most races in 2009, In the 2009 Spring Las Vegas race, the Shelby 427, Labonte recorded his first top 5 with Hall of Fame racing, and his best finish since he finished third in the Fall Martinsville race in 2006.

He co-sponsored both the 2008 and 2009 versions ( and, respectively ) of the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act and sponsored the Research Works Act () introduced in 2011, all of which aim at a reversal of the NIH's Public Access Policy, which mandates open access to NIH-funded research.

On April 23-24, 2009, The American Schools of Oriental Research and the Duke University Center for Jewish Studies, along with the Duke Department of Religion, the Duke Graduate Program in Religion, the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, sponsored a conference entitled " Archaeology, Politics, and the Media ," which addressed the abuse of archaeology in the Holy Land for political, religious, and ideological purposes.

Between 2008 and 2009, the company also sponsored ten of the band's concerts in Japan and other parts of Asia.

Kalis was sponsored by Alien Workshop for a significant period of time before switching to board sponsor, DGK, in 2009.

On April 17, 2009 between practice sessions of the Long Beach Grand Prix it was announced that Tracy will drive in the 2009 Indianapolis 500 for KV Racing Technology sponsored by Geico Insurance.

In October, 2009, 30 scientists from 10 countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC ), a World Health Organization sponsored group, to reassess the carcinogenicity of various agents including betel leaf quid with areca nut, and mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

A 2009 Zagat survey named Subway the best provider of " Healthy Options " ( in the " Mega Chain " category ).

While results do indicate house plants may be effective at removing some VOCs from air supplies, a review of studies between 1989 and 2006 on the performance of houseplants as air cleaners, presented at the Healthy Buildings 2009 conference in Syracuse, NY, concluded "... indoor plants have little, if any, benefit for removing indoor air of VOC in residential and commercial buildings.

In 2009, the Queensland Government's " Healthy Waterways EcosystemHealth Monitoring Programme " rated the River's freshwater area at a " D "; its Estuarine area was given an " F ".< ref > Healthy Waterways, " EcosystemHealth: Monitoring Program: Southern Catchments-Sub-regional Summary ," Retrieved from < http :// www. healthywaterways. org / media / scripts / doc_download. aspx? did = 1495 > Accessed on 23 / 07 / 2010 </ ref >

Although the numbers of Lithuanians in the area began to fall off in the 1950s, one of Lithuanian Chicago's longtime institutions, Healthy Food Restaurant on Halsted near Thirty-second street has closed it's doors on December 15th, 2009.

In 2009, NB Power became the first electric utility to be recognized by the National Quality Institute by being awarded a Healthy Workplace Award.

Essence also works to empower women through the magazine, instilling confidence in full figured African American women, and giving tips on how to love their hair, and their body, by holding a Young Women ’ s Leadership Conference, and releasing a book in 2009 entitled “ Essence presents: The Black Woman ’ s Guide to Healthy Living.

In late 2009, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies released, School Meals: Building Blocks For Healthy Children.

The final report, School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children was released in November 2009.

The study, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, combined the resources of four National Cancer Institute-funded studies: the Shanghai Breast Cancer Survival Study ; the Life After Cancer Epidemiology Study ; the Women ’ s Healthy Eating and Living Study ; and the Nurses ’ Health Study and included 18, 312 women between the ages of 20 and 83 years who had invasive primary breast cancer.

In April 2009, ConAgra reintroduced Healthy Choice's line of frozen meals along with new products, including a line of All Natural Entrees.

According to the 2009 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on PhysicalActivity for Children and Youth, children who are physically active perform better in school than those who are not.

A July 2009 Gallup Poll found only 30 % Americans thought the Fed was doing a good or excellent job, a rating even lower than that for the Internal Revenue Service, which drew praise from 40 %.

* Detention of five Americans in Pakistan ( Dec. 2009 )

A Globescan BBC poll on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ( 2009 ) found that 23 % of respondents believe capitalism is " fatally flawed and a different economic system is needed ", with that figure rising to over 40 % of the population in France ; while a majority of respondents including over 50 % of Americans believe capitalism " has problems that can be addressed through regulation and reform ".

On June 1, 2009, President Barack Obama declared June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, citing the riots as a reason to " commit to achieving equal justice under law for LGBT Americans ".

In late December 2009, the U. S. Embassy asked Americans in Yemen to keep watch for any suspicious terrorist activity following a terrorist incident on board a flight to the US that was linked to Yemen.

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.

In 2009, an independent study by Duke University into alleged racism found " no evidence that the ( assisted outpatient treatment ) Program is disproportionately selecting African Americans for court orders, nor is there evidence of a disproportionate effect on other minority populations.

More recently, a Quinnipiac poll from June 2009 finds that 55 % of Americans feel that affirmative action should be discontinued, yet 55 % support affirmative action for disabled people.

The Allen Americans are an ice hockey team and Central Hockey League ( CHL ) affiliate of the Dallas Stars, which began play in the 2009 – 10 season.

In January 2009, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel's invasion of Gaza a massacre " barbaric and inhumane and widely helped by the Americans ".

In 2009, Parks performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

While the city population is racially diverse, only two African Americans had run for Council in the 30 years preceding the 2009 election, one of whom had withdrawn before the election.

NIAF's 2009 public policy programs on Capitol Hill featured prominent Italians and Italian Americans as keynote speakers, including Leon Panetta, Director of the CIA, and Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Italy.

Asian Americans in New England: Culture and Community ( Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. xviii, 252 pp. ) isbn 978-1-58465-794-1

) In 2009, Americans won 5 of 28 official events, including one major, the Kraft Nabisco Championship while Koreans won 11 events ( See 2009 LPGA Tour for more details on the 2009 season.

* 2009: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

In 2009, Cooder performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

In 2009, Pink performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

As of July 2009, Mexican Americans make up 10. 3 % of the United States ' population with over 31, 689, 000 Americans listed as of Mexican ancestry.

Poverty has significantly fallen among Americans under 18 years old from 23 % in 1964 down to less than 17 %, although it has risen again to 20 % in 2009.