* July 3 – Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, Hasidic rebbe ( died 2009 )

Between 2005 and 2009, Andreessen and longtime business partner Ben Horowitz separately and together invested $ 4 million in 45 start-ups that included Twitter and Qik.

On July 6, 2009, Andreessen and Horowitz announced their Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

On September 1, 2009, an investor group that included Andreessen Horowitz acquired a majority stake in Skype for $ 2. 75 billion, which was considered risky.

Gold badge holders include Christopher Newby ( 2000 ), David Beckham, JK Rowling, Queen Elizabeth II ( 2001 ), Tom Daley ( 2009 ), David Tennant ( 2009 ), Anthony Horowitz ( 2011 ).

* Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, Bostoner Rebbe zt " l, 1921 – 2009

Maishel Horowitz died in December 2009.

* Being Erica ( 2009 ) Larry Horowitz ( 1 Episode )

The most senior and well-known of the Bostoner Rebbes in contemporary times was Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Horowitz, who died in December 2009.

** Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Horowitz, ( 1921 – 2009 ) the Bostoner Rebbe in Brookline and Har Nof – son of Rabbi Pinchas David Horowitz

* 2009 Plague Over England with Michael Feast and Celia Imrie, Collaboration and Taking Sides, with Michael Pennington and David Horowitz, and Endgame with Mark Rylance, Simon McBurney, Miriam Margolyes and Tom Hickey.

James Watterson was elected as a council member in 1997, holding that position for 12 years before retiring on August 31, 2009 to pursue artistic " projects and goals ".

On 27 November 2009 he was appointed honorary member of the Order of Australia.

In September 2009, Lara was inducted as an honorary lifetime member of the Royal St. Kitts Golf Club.

The amended terms allowed former members of multiple societies which merge into one to maintain multiple entitlements to FSCS protection until 30 September 2009 ( later extended to 30 December 2010 ), so ( for example ) a member with £ 50, 000 in each of Nationwide, Cheshire and Derbyshire at the time of the respective mergers would retain £ 150, 000 of FSCS protection for their funds in the merged Nationwide.

Following the resignation of Labor MP Alison Anderson in 2009 to become an independent which then resulted in 2011 to become a member of the CLP, this increased to CLP's margin to 12 in the Assembly, leaving the incumbent Henderson Government to govern in minority with the support of Independent MP Gerry Wood.

* Miguel Martinez ( BS )-former member of the New York City Council representing the 10th District in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill areas until his resignation on 14 July 2009.

In April 2009 Hofstadter was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

In the 2009 European Parliament election the EFA got six MEPs elected: two from the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one from the PC ( Jill Evans ), one from the Party of the Corsican Nation ( PNC ; François Alfonsi ), one from the ERC ( Oriol Junqueras ) and Tatjana Ždanoka, individual member of the EFA from Latvia.

Petr Mach, an economist, a close associate of president Václav Klaus and a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 2007, founded the Free Citizens Party in 2009.

Applications for a firearms licence require the user to permit the Gardai to access their medical records, provide two character references, be a member of an approved target shooting club if the licence is for target shooting, install secure storage for the firearm ( to the standard specified in the Regulations 2009 ) and allow that storage to be inspected by the Gardai.

By July 2009, the IHF listed 166 member federations-approximately 795, 000 teams and 19 million players.

An amelioration of the economic and political conditions in the early years of the 21st century made Albania became a full member of NATO in 2009.

The regular budget funds most activities of the IAEA and is assessed to each member nation (€ 296 million in 2009 ).

Cambodia became a member in 1958, withdrew its membership in 2003, and rejoined 2009.

In 2009, Dan Itse, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Fremont, New Hampshire, led a national movement to restore the powers of the states through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

" Mebyon Kernow is a member of the European Free Alliance and although it did not contest European Parliament elections in 2004 or 1999, it has six candidates for the 2009 Euro elections.

It is the only member country of the European Union to have avoided a decline in GDP, meaning that in 2009 Poland has created the most GDP growth in the EU.

Rwanda is a member of the United Nations, African Union, Commonwealth of Nations since November 2009 ; and the East African Union, which may become the East African Federation.

* Sustainable Governance Indicators, first published in spring 2009 and updated in 2011, analyze and compare the need for reform in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) member countries, as well as each country's ability to respond to current social and political challenges

As a response to the expanded military cooperation the defence proposition of 2009 stated that Sweden will not remain passive if a Nordic country or a member of the European Union were attacked.

Unter uns was in a scare of cancellation in 2009, which was prevented by budget cuts and the firing of original cast member Holger Franke.

Slovakia has been an EU member state since 2004 and adopted the euro currency at the beginning of 2009.

On Friday, July 10, 2009, the NCAA announced that it has accepted SFU as a Division II member that will begin after a two year transition period.

American electronic pop duo, Microfilm, did a tribute song to Billy Mackenzie in 2009 titled " I'll Sing Like Billy Mackenzie in Heaven " which featured guitar and additional vocals by Scissor Sisters ' member Del Marquis.

As of June 2009, Cameron required a further four partners apart from the Polish and Czech supports to qualify for official fraction status in the parliament ; the rules state that a caucus needs at least 25 MEPs from at least seven of the 27 EU member states.

" Congo and Angola have agreed to suspend expulsions from both sides of the border ," said Lambert Mende, DR Congo information minister, in October 2009.

On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.

* Newman, Simon P. " Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia ," Journal of American Studies, August 2009, Vol.

" When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766 ," Parliamentary History, October 2009, Vol.

" Reflections on the ' New Qing History ' School in the United States ," Chinese Studies in History, Winter 2009 / 2010, Vol.

* Alexander O ' Hara, " The Vita Columbani in Merovingian Gaul ," Early Medieval Europe, 17, 2 ( 2009 ), 126 – 153.

" 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.

* LaFeber, Walter, " The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine ," Political Science Quarterly, 124 ( Spring 2009 ), 71 – 93.

" Images of America: Ellensburg ," Arcadia Press, San Francisco, 2009.

" " We are certainly putting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ," he told The Daily Telegraph in 2009.

On Sunday, 20 September 2009, MacLeod spoke at The " Rock Church ," in Anaheim, California.

The History of Women in Scotland 1300-1700 ," History Compass, March 2009, Vol.

*" Becoming France ," David Bell, The New Republic, 1 April 2009 ( in English )

* David N. Samuelson, " Hard SF ," pp. 194-200, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, 2009.

"( Re ) defining the English Reformation ," Journal of British Studies, July 2009, Vol.

On 3 July 2009, the Board of Governors voted to appoint Yukiya Amano " by acclamation ," and IAEA General Conference in September 2009 approved.

A September 2009 article in The National, titled " A noble side to Ig Nobels ," says that although the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research, history shows that trivial research sometimes leads to important breakthroughs.

A recent review by Greenberg ( 2009 ) discusses the " limitations in the beta-amyloid-mediated theory of IBM myofiber injury ,"

"' Entangling Affiances with None ': John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, and the Impact of Conflicting Interpretations ," New England Journal of History, Fall 2009, Vol.

* Grant F. Scott, " New Severn Letters and Paintings: An Update with Corrections ," Keats-Shelley Journal 58 ( 2009 ): 114-138.

* Sue Brown, " The Friend of Keats: The Reinvention of Joseph Severn ," in Eugene Stelzig, ed., Romantic Autobiography ( Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009 )

* Stoker, Donald, " There Was No Offensive-Defensive Confederate Strategy ," Journal of Military History, 73 ( April 2009 ), 571 – 90.

" In a June 13, 2009, article, New York Times columnist Frank Rich said of Voight's speech, in which Voight called to " bring an end to this false prophet Obama ," that: " This kind of rhetoric, with its pseudo-Scriptural call to action, is toxic.

" The legacy of the white highlands: Land rights, ethnicity and the post-2007 election violence in Kenya ," Journal of Contemporary African Studies, July 2009, Vol.