He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

In 2009, the World Union of Deists published a book on deism, Deism: A Revolution in Religion, A Revolution in You written by its founder and director, Bob Johnson.

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.

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

As of build 1226, released on 30 July 2009, features that have been written and will be included in version 0. 8 include significant security improvements against both attackers acting on the network and physical seizure of the computer running the node.

In addition to helping develop TCP / IP and the Domain Name System ( DNS ), ISI contributed to the Net by editing the " Request for Comments " ( RFC ) series, the written record of the emerging network's technical structure and operation, from 1977 through 2009.

Mötley Crüe had announced that the movie The Dirt, based on the book written by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss, might be released in 2009.

In August 2009, in an article written for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact as " immoral.

In Russia Nasreddin is known mostly because of the novel " Tale of Hodja Nasreddin " written by Leonid Solovyov ( English translations: " The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara ," 1956, and " The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace ," 2009 ).

In 2009, King published Ur, a novella written exclusively for the launch of the second-generation Amazon Kindle and available only on Amazon. com, and Throttle, a novella co-written with his son Joe Hill, which later was released as an audiobook Road Rage, which included Richard Matheson's short story " Duel ".

" Throttle ", a novella written in collaboration with his son Joe Hill, appears in the anthology He Is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson, ( Gauntlet Press, 2009 ).

* " Demon Sweeney Todd ", a song written by the NWOBHM band, Saxon in their album Into The Labyrinth released in 2009

Gaiman is godfather to her daughter and a poem written for her birth, Blueberry Girl, was published as a children's book of the same name in 2009.

A crossover between X-Force and Cable series entitled Messiah War, written by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost, commenced in March 2009 and served as a second part in the trilogy that began with Messiah Complex.

2009 also saw the beginning of the new New Mutants volume written by Zeb Wells, with the limited series X-Infernus serving as prologue.

Tharp has written three books: an early autobiography, Push Comes to Shove ( 1992 ; Bantam Books ); The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life ( 2003, Simon & Schuster ), translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai and Japanese ; “ The Collaborative Habit ” ( 2009, Simon & Schuster ), also translated into Thai, Chinese and Korean.

In February 2009, it was confirmed that Williams had written material with Guy Chambers and Mark Ronson.

Leisure Suit Larry is a series of adventure games written by Al Lowe and published by Sierra from 1987 to 2009.

* The Trainer, a 2009 British play written by David Wilson and Anne Aylor

* Banyan ( Asia ) — named for the banyan tree, this column was established in April 2009 and focuses on various issues across the Asian continent, and is written by Dominic Ziegler.

* Schumpeter ( Business ) — named for the economist Joseph Schumpeter, this column was established on September 2009 and is written by Adrian Wooldridge.

Then, in 2009, an unproduced pilot script written by Horne and Millest in 1966 was revived by the same Radio 4 team.

In 2009, Benjamin Szumskyj's Strange Wonders, included the first few chapters of " The Tale of the Grain Ships ," written in the 1930s.

On January 26, 2009, she made an appearance on The View, singing " I Would Never Leave You " ( written by Johnny Rodgers, Billy Stritch, and Brian Lane Green ) from her new CD Liza's at The Palace ...!.

Mandatory registration of hedge fund advisers was supported by the largest hedge fund trade group, the Managed Funds Association ( MFA ), which announced its support for registration in testimony to a US congressional committee on May 7, 2009.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman said he " would not think that any hedge fund or private equity fund would become a systemically-critical firm individually ".

To testimony how strong the Grand Prix Legends community remains, 2009 has seen a free dld 60 frame / s ( frames per second ) patch.

According to Smart's October 1, 2009 US federal court testimony, after Smart had gone to bed on June 4, 2002, a man Smart identified as Brian Mitchell had entered her bedroom and had " placed his hand on my chest and then put the knife up to my neck.

In 2009, Lotter's appeal, using Nissen's new testimony to assert a claim of innocence, was rejected by the Nebraska Supreme Court, which held that since — even under Nissen's revised testimony — both Lotter and Nissen were involved in the murder, the specific identity of the shooter was legally irrelevant.

On March 31, 2009, in testimony that the LA Times viewed as " remarkable ", Ronstadt spoke to the United States Congress ' House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment & Related Agencies, attempting to convince lawmakers to budget $ 200 million in the 2010 fiscal year for the National Endowment of the Arts.

In March 2009, Danner published an essay in The New York Review ,' " US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites ", which revealed the contents of a secret International Committee of the Red Cross report based on testimony from " high-value detainees " in the " War on Terror ," who had been captured, held, and interrogated at secret US prisons — the so-called " black sites ".

During testimony at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal on April 27, 2009, Duch claimed the 10 security regulations were a fabrication of the Vietnamese officials that first set up the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

Commenting on Sir Christopher Meyer's testimony to the Iraq Inquiry in 2009, he described the inquiry as " a procession of primadonnas and the usual suspects grandstanding for the TV ".

In May 2009, Oussama Kassir was convicted for conspiring to assist in the camp's creation, based in part on testimony from Ujaama.

In 2009, Molly Kronberg, widow of Kenneth Kronberg, sued LaRouche in federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria, alleging that he and his associates libelled and harassed her on account of her compelled testimony in the 1988 case which led to his conviction.

Others to provide testimony included Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim and Founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy ; Melvin Bledsoe, whose son, a Muslim convert, is serving a life sentence for killing one Army soldier and wounding another in the 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting ; and Abdirizak Bihi, the Director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center.

On March 18, 2009 Miller, a member of the Financial Services Committee, excoriated American International Group ( AIG ) Chairman Edward Liddy during testimony pertaining to the insurance company's controversial financial policies following its receipt of federal assistance.

Burress asked a Manhattan grand jury for sympathy during two hours of testimony on July 29, 2009.

* I Am Second ( video testimony ) ( 2009 )

* I Am Second ( video testimony ) ( 2009 ?/ 2010?

There was this goat, written with Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele and published by KZN Press in March 2009, investigates the Truth Commission testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile.

Gillani also denied Snowdy's claim in testimony before the Commons committee investigating the issue, while the Globe and Mail reported that Snowdy had filed for bankruptcy in 2009 to cover over $ 13 million of debt, including $ 2 million of taxes owed.

On December 7, 2009, the New Jersey Senate Judicial Committee approved a civil marriage equality bill by a vote of 7 to 6, after seven hours of testimony and debate.

In April 2009, the Senate Armed Services Committee published evidence pointing to the use of torture to elicit testimony about the alleged link between al Qaida and the former Iraqi government from detainees.

On February 25, 2009, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee stated he favored the SEC to examine the restoration of the uptick-rule.

In October 2009, the courts ruled in CREW's favor and the US Justice Department was required to release a transcript of Cheney's testimony to the FBI regarding the Plame affair.

The court affirmed the ban in November 2009, finding no evidence for an inherited condition in the expert testimony provided by Pechstein.