In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U. S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities.

In March 2009, U. S. District Court Judge Panner ruled in favor of the Santo Daime, acknowledging its protection from prosecution under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

* Borland Software Corporation, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 8-K filing, July 27, 2009 ( formally notifying SEC of the Change of Control under which Borland became a Micro Focus subsidiary )

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.

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the U. S. to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

* Fidel Castro's ' Reflection ' on U. S. Travel Restrictions Miami Herald, April 14, 2009

Dartmouth's strength in undergraduate education is highlighted by U. S. News & World Report when in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 it ranked Dartmouth first in undergraduate teaching at national universities.

Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by sex, race, and ethnicity, U. S., 2009.

The pair remain close although Cox was chairman of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission until he was forced to resign as chairman of the SEC on January 20, 2009 due to multiple allegations of fraud.

In 2009, the U. S. provided nominal $ 1. 3 billion to the Egyptian military ($ billion in ).

May 2009 The Egyptian Lover collabs with Debonaire on " Do U Wanna Get Down?

2009 The Egyptian Lover makes a brand new album that included songs, Electro Pharaoh, U. F. O., Freaky D. J., BellyDance, Scandinavian Summer, Do U Wanna Get Down ?.

Sources of electricity in the U. S. in 2009 Fossil fuel power plant | fossil fuel generation ( mainly coal ) was the largest source.

The U. S. Census Bureau cites Generation X as highly educated, statistically holding the highest education levels when looking at current age groups: U. S. Census Bureau, in their 2009 Statistical Abstract.

On 6 February 2009, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first human biological drug produced from such an animal, a goat.

As of November 2009, the company was offering 100 Mbit / s service for $ 99HK ( about $ 13 U. S .) per month.

In October 2009, U. S. Marine Corps HMMWVs in the Philippines deliver family food packs to communities affected by Tropical Storm Ketsana.

On January 1, 2009 the U. S .– Iraq Status of Forces Agreement entered into force.

The number of foreign nationals who became legal permanent residents ( LPRs ) of the U. S. in 2009 as a result of family reunification ( 66 %) exceeded those who became LPRs on the basis of employment skills ( 13 %) and for humanitarian reasons ( 17 %).

In 2009, new research ( now known as the RAND study ) revealed that in the U. S alone, between 3 and 8 million people have interstitial cystitis.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

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.

* Graf, Fritz, Apollo, Taylor & Francis, 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-31711-5.

January 2009 Spanish Pronto: Spanish < > English Medical Translators.

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More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

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

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

Based on phylogenetic research, the latest ( 2009 ) revision of the APG classification groups together the former families Hemerocallidaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae sensu stricto and Asphodelaceae as the Xanthorrhoeaceae.

Based on phylogenetic research, the latest ( 2009 ) revision of the APG classification groups together these three families under the conserved name of Amaryllidaceae.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed that the original three families should be retained as subfamilies within Amaryllidaceae sensu lato.

Based on phylogenetic research, the latest ( 2009 ) revision of the APG classification supports the use of a single broadly defined family, Asparagaceae sensu lato.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.

The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.

In 2009, one of the subfamilies of Araliaceae was shown to be polyphyletic.

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

A review of the management of degenerative ataxia was published in 2009.

* 2009 – A 6. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L ' Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

* 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.

* 1925 – Joe Bowman, American and marksman and boot-maker ( d. 2009 )