Similarly, the autonomous Puntland region's new administration, which took office in early 2009, has also implemented numerous reforms such as the expansion and improvement of its security and judicial sectors.

Similarly, another congressional act held 2007 payments at their 2006 levels, and HR 6331 held 2008 physician payments to their 2007 levels, and provided for a 1. 1 % increase in physician payments in 2009.

Similarly during the 2001 – 2009 presidency of George W. Bush, a number of bands actively espoused anti-Bush stances.

Lawrence White and Jerry Markham rejected these claims and argued that products linked to the financial crisis were not regulated by Glass-Steagall or were available from commercial banks or their affiliates before the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall sections 20 and 32. Alan Blinder wrote in 2009 that he had “ yet to hear a good answer ” to the question “ what bad practices would have been prevented if Glass-Steagall was still on the books ?” Blinder argued that “ disgraceful ” mortgage underwriting standards “ did not rely on any new GLB powers ,” that “ free-standing investment banks ” not the “ banking-securities conglomerates ” permitted by the GLBA were the major producers of “ dodgy MBS ,” and that he could not “ see how this crisis would have been any milder if GLB had never passed .” Similarly, Melanie Fein has written that the financial crisis “ was not a result of the GLBA ” and that the “ GLBA did not authorize any securities activities that were the cause of the financial crisis .” Fein noted “ ecuritization was not an activity authorized by the GLBA but instead had been held by the courts in 1990 to be part of the business of banking rather than an activity proscribed by the Glass-Steagall Act .” As described above, in 1978 the OCC approved a national bank securitizing residential mortgages.

Similarly, the Seattle Sounders left prior to the 2009 season due to the imminent entrance of Seattle Sounders FC into Major League Soccer.

Similarly, girls in the 2009 Leuven survey who viewed pro-ana websites were more likely to have a negative body image and be dissatisfied with their body shape.

Similarly, staff of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland have certain powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence ( Application to the Police Ombudsman ) Order ( Northern Ireland ) 2009

Similarly, Galileo, another invented instrument consisting of five swinging pendulums, which the composer performed often from 2001 to 2009, is now interpreted by Pierre Berthet.

" Similarly, Maria Todorova notes that, although it minimized the Ottoman contribution and displayed " emotional or evaluative overtones ", such a perspective ran against the divisive interpretations of the Balkans, offering a working paradigm for a global history of the region: " Although Iorga's theory may be today 2009 no more than an exotic episode in the development of Balkan historiography, his formulation Byzance après Byzance is alive not only because it was a fortunate phrase but because it reflects more than its creator would intimate.

Similarly, the Cunard Line's and, of approximately 81, 000 – 83, 000 GT, but displacements of over 80, 000 tons, do not differ significantly in displacement from their new 148, 528 GT successor,, which has been estimated to displace approximately 76, 000 tons With the completion in 2009 of Oasis of the Seas, the first of the Oasis Class ships, the Cunard Queens of the 1930s have clearly been passed in displacement, as the Oasis vessels were projected to displace about 100, 000 tons.

Similarly, on the Banter feature of the series B DVD, Lloyd also previewed the title of QIs fourth book, The QI Book of the Dead, which went on sale on 15 October 2009.

Similarly, Grand Marnier is distributed by Diageo in many markets, including exclusively in Canada, and a deal was reached in 2009 to expand significantly this partnership in Europe.

Similarly, Squire has explored the use of commercial games as a means for engaging disenfranchised students in school ( Squire, 2005 ), while Gerber has explored how video games shape students ' peripheral literacy activities ; mainly reading and writing in both online and offline spaces ( Gerber, 2009 ; Gerber & Price, 2011 ).

Similarly, a 2009 Australian study concluded that, of 97 patients admitted to hospital believing their drinks might have been spiked, none had in fact been drugged.

Similarly, the Dreyfus Greater China Fund invests in assets in companies that " are principally traded in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan " or have either the majority of their assets or revenues from this region., as does the JF Greater China Fund, and the HSBC Greater China Fund prior to February 2009 ( after which it dropped Taiwanese assets from its portfolio and was renamed to the HSBC China Region Fund ).

Similarly, the 2009 New Jersey Revolution professional indoor football team left the Continental Indoor Football League and played an abbreviated three-game schedule, all against semi-pro teams, which were presumably paid for their appearances.

Similarly it was the hope of the central banks of the United States and Europe in 2008 – 2009, with their foray into quantitative easing.

Similarly, the number of CT exams increased by 58 % and MRI exams increased by 100 % between 2003 and 2009.

Similarly, a croquet and indoor golf club was pioneered as an alternative by some of the class of 2009 in the 07-08 scholastic year, but it also faded with time.

Similarly in 2009, locations opened at the UW – Madison, Villanova University, Memorial Union and at UC San Diego.

Similarly, some franchises have been given the opportunity to move up to a higher level having found success in the lower divisions — most recently USL2 champions Cleveland City Stars moving to USL1 in 2009 — but this was not a regular occurrence.

Similarly, the party ran in the European Parliament election, 2009 ( Romania ) in a coalition with the Social Democrats, called National Union PSD + PC, and won 1 seat ( George Sabin Cutaş ).

Similarly, in 2009, using hundreds of polygons on a leaf in the background of a scene would be considered high poly, but using that many polygons on the main character would be considered low poly.

Similarly, the UK Youth Climate Coalition has scheduled the first British version of the event to run from October 9 to October 12, 2009.

Similarly, an article ( written from an in-universe perspective ) in the Call of Cthulhu tabletop role-playing game speculates that it may be a corruption of Abd Al-Azrad, which it claims translates to The Worshipper of the Great Devourer.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

Similarly, the Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, AO Neville, wrote in an article for The West Australian in 1930:

Similarly, in an article by CNN Money, Yorba Linda was one of the richest U. S. cities and the richest in Orange County as reported by the Census data, showing a median household income of more than $ 120K: " Among towns of between 65, 000 and 250, 000 in population, Yorba Linda, California, where six-figure incomes are the rule, had the highest median income at $ 121, 075 "

' Similarly, Mark M. Mattison, in his article The Meaning of the Atonement says, ' Substitution implies an " either / or "; participation implies a " both / and.

Similarly, it is the only parody to be given an extensive behind-the-scenes article on the BBC official website, and its own video release through BBC Video.

* Similarly, in his web article, John Q. Jacobs finds that " While differing on specifics, most authors accept a religious interpretation for many elements of the mural art.

" Similarly, future World Champion Bobby Fischer wrote a famous article, " A Bust to the King's Gambit ", in which he stated, " In my opinion the King's Gambit is busted.

Similarly, while he opposed the 2001 war in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban, he wrote an article ( in Socialist Action ) entitled " Why workers should support Soviet action in Afghanistan " in 1980.

Similarly, the use of ' ipsam ' in a phrase such as " per mediam vallem ipsam " (" through middle of valley itself ") anticipates the type of definite article (" péri sa mesanía de sa bàdhe ") that is found in Sardinian (" sa limba sarda ")-at least in its standard form.

Similarly, clinical trials and other kinds of important medical research may release preliminary results to the media before a journal article is printed.

Similarly, if the noun is determined by the definite article ( enclitic in Romanian, see that section ), the genitive-dative mark is added at the end of the noun together with the article, for example băiatul-băiatului ( the boy-of / to the boy ), cartea-cărții ( the book-of / to the book ).

Similarly, the Debye model predicts a universal function of the ratio ( see this article for further discussion ).

" Similarly, Shalit's article in Elle entitled " Girl Crazy " was pulled from the Elle website due to inaccuracies and a threatened lawsuit for defamation.

Similarly, a Washington Post article turned Maryland's twelfth-in-the-nation average eighth-grade math score into " last among the 50 states " by looking at differences rather than absolute numbers.

" Similarly, a 1997 review of the history of biological warfare published in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that the yellow rain allegations are " widely regarded as erroneous ", a 2001 review in the Annual Reviews in Microbiology described them as " unsubstantiated for many reasons ", and a 2003 article in Annual review of phytopathology described them as " largely discredited ".

Similarly, degrau " step " and jornal " journal " rhyme, which results in false plurals such as degrais " steps " ( vs. correct degraus ), by analogy with correct plural jornais.

For example, the Oregon Commentator, an independent conservative journal of opinion published at the University of Oregon, hosted a “ Great American Smoke-in ” on campus as a counter to the locally more widespread Great American Smokeout: “ In response to the ever-increasing vilification of smokers on campus, the Oregon Commentator presents the Great American Smoke-in as an opportunity for students to join together and enjoy the pleasures of fine tobacco products .” Similarly, “ Americans for Freedom of Choice ” a group in Honolulu, Hawaii organized “ World Defiance Day ” in response to WNTD and Hawaii ’ s statewide ban on smoking in restaurants.

‘ And at the Third Food Conference in Delhi on the 5th to the 8th July, … the suggestion that “ the only reason why people are starving in Bengal is that there is hoarding ” was greeted at the Conference by the other Provinces with applause .’ Similarly, some officials in the Government of India refused to accept the evidence on the ground, preferring their own idiosyncratic interpretations of the market: as late as November 1943, ‘ The Government of India would admit no intrinsic shortage in Bengal in the Spring of 1943 and, even in November, at the height of the famine, the Director-General of Food in the Council of State said that “ the major trouble in Bengal has been not so much an intrinsic shortage of essential foodgrains as a breakdown of public confidence .’ On 19 October 1943, when the famine was at its peak, Wavell noted in his journal “ On the food situation Linlithgow outgoing Viceroy says chief factor morale. panic hoarding ” For hoarding to have created the amount of hunger and death recorded if there had, indeed, been adequate supplies, it would have been necessary that the richest 10 % of Bengal's population, the only ones who could afford it, to lay in two years ' rice supply for themselves, in addition to the stocks accumulated in the previous two years, and to keep it in stock until the end of the war, while their neighbours starved.

Similarly, a separate study found that specialists were less discriminating in their choice of journal reading.