April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April was originally the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC. It became the fourth month of the calendar year (the year when twelve months are displayed in order) during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC, when it also was given 29 days. The derivation of the name (Latin Aprilis) is uncertain.
The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, "to open," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις (opening) for spring. Since most of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her Greek name Aphrodite (Aphros), or from the Etruscan name Apru. Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.
The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, "to open," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις (opening) for spring. Since most of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her Greek name Aphrodite (Aphros), or from the Etruscan name Apru. Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.
April 1, 2009, April Fool's day.
April 1, 2009, Five thousand people protest in London as the G-20 begins its summit. (BBC)
RISING SUN
April 1, 2009, Series Finale of Life on Mars.
Sam Tyler receives a phone call that presents him with three tasks he must perform so he can return to his life in the future, he must weigh his alternatives and decide whether to stay in 1973 or go home.
At the end of the series it is revealed that Tyler's 2008 & 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the futuristic computer - named Windy - aboard a space ship that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling and Skelton on the first ever manned mission to the planet Mars.
Tyler's actual reality is the year 2035, and the crew he worked with in the past are just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crewmembers. The reason why he had traveled back to 1973 was due to a temporary malfunction on board the ship: to sustain their lives, all of the crew were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality "neural stimulation" programs of their own choosing, but a meteor storm caused a momentary glitch in the program (Sam had chosen his 2008 identity as part of his VR program, but the program accidentally kicked him back to 1973). Frank Morgan is the Mission Control flight director, Annie Norris is the Colonel in charge of the mission, and Gene Hunt - "Major Tom" - is also revealed to be Sam's father.
Major Tom is a fictional astronaut created by David Bowie. He appears in the songs "Space Oddity", "Ashes to Ashes" and "Hallo Spaceboy" by Bowie, the song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling, a French cover of "Major Tom" by Belgian artist Plastic Bertrand, "I'm A Soldier" by Stefán, "Mrs. Major Tom" by K.I.A., "Rocket" by Def Leppard, and "Rain or Shine" by Five Star. Due to some similarities in Elton John's "Rocket Man", some presume this song might also be an allusion to Major Tom. In fact, Bowie made the connection during concerts, calling out during the song, "Oh, Rocket Man!" Bowie's lyrics in "Ashes to Ashes" reinterpret Major Tom as an oblique autobiographical symbol for himself.
In a final wink to its fans, the writers describe the mission as one of science; looking for evidence of life on mars a "gene hunt" aka "Bigfoot".
April 1, 2009, S13 Ep4: Eat, Pray, Queef.
April 1, 2009, The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (The Australian)
April 1, 2009, At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity. (BBC)
April 1, 2009, Barak meets with the Queen.
April 1, 2009, Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, The United States' World War II steamship City of Rayville is located near Australia. (The Age)
April 1, 2009, A Computer virus called Conficker was spread throught millions of computers, getting onto their computers and destroying files, and sharing information.
April 2, 2009, The Group of 20 announces a US$1-trillion agreement to combat the current financial crisis. (BBC)
April 2, 2009, The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (BBC)
April 3, 2009, Release of the Fast and Furious 4
Fast & Furious is the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious film series. It is an interquel set between the second and third films. The plot connects with the original film of the series from which Vin Diesel(XXX/Babylon AD/Hannibal(Baraq/Lightning), Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles.
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After a successful run at hijacking fuel tanks on the lowways of Bani/Punta Cana Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has become an international criminal. Dominic's partner Han (Sung Kang) departs for Tokyo. With an increasing pressure from the police, Dom leaves Letty, not wanting her to be caught with him. Years later, Letty is found murdered in her wrecked car, bullet in the brain. At the scene of her murder, Dom finds traces of nitromethane residue that can only be purchased at one tuner shop in L.A.. At the body shop, he finds one of his old racing counterparts that, after being coerced, leads him to a man named David Park. Dominic finds Park and hangs him out of a window threatening to drop him and vowing to kill anyone that stands in his way of avenging Letty. He receives the information that only through a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, can he gain access to the man responsible for Letty's death(Fenix Caulderon).
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Laz Alonso as Fenix "Rise" Caulderon in Fast and the Furious 4
The hammer and sickle is a part of communist symbolism and its usage indicates an association with Communism, a Communist Party, or a Communist state. It features a hammer superimposed on a sickle, or vice versa. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them together symbolises the unity between industrial and agricultural workers. This emblem was made during the Bolshevik Revolution.
It is best known from having been incorporated into the red flag of the Soviet Union, along with the Red Star. It has also been used in other flags and emblems.
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April 3, 2009, Release of Adventure Land.
Into the Orange Abyss.
April 3, 2009, Orange Action Hero.
Via Alex Balk (From Huff Post) comes one of the most enjoyable things you'll see all week - super cool action figures of President Barack Obama! FROM JAPAN. Yes, it would appear that someone or something called Gamu Toys has put out some lovingly crafted Obama toys, for fun and frolic. Chances are, sharing these images with you will get us sued, by angry ninjas, but we just cannot help ourselves.
If I can trust the translating ability of the Babelfish - which I cannot! - the manufacturer describes these toys thusly:
44th generation United States of America President Barack Obama - First African type American president and Barack Obama 44th generation United States of America president in history with 12 inch action figure multi-layerization of surprise.
It is to be the thing itself surprise where such commodity comes out, but don't you think? The foreign country with it seems that either such politician figure is not unusual. We have become 2008 American Presidential election specification, where also the clothes and the accessories represent that time belong. The clothes itself have become the private suit, but it is, "[bishitsu] dresses stylishly." Also, the part where size is not agreeable with the prime field very somewhat with to it does not go.
But eyeball that quality of the head which becomes is enormous, there is a thing it closes the eye. Obama how seeing from wherever, is Obama...or the notch. It has been reproduced securely to the part where also quality of paint is high, material feeling and the like of the skin is small.
As for clothes, all removal possibilities. Really the button and the belt are used to fixing inside.
Oh, now, here we go. Black steel in the hour of chaos!
April 3, 2009, French police detain 300 people after protests in Strasbourg, where British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President Barack Obama are attending a NATO summit.
April 3, 2009, The United States economy lost 663,000 jobs in March, raising the unemployment rate to 8.5%. (New York Times)
April 3, 2009, Fourteen people die and 26 are injured during a shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York. (CNN)
April 4, 2009, Anniversary of the Death of Martin Luther King.
April 4, 2009, Three police officers are killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. (CNN)
Eagle/Phoenix
April 5, 2009, WrestleMania 25 takes place from the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
April 5, 2009, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command report that North Korea's Bright Star-2 communications satellite did not reach Earth's orbit. (CNN)
April 5, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announces his plan for worldwide nuclear disarmament. (AFP via Google News)
April 6, 2009, At least 207 people are killed and 1,500 injured during a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near L'Aquila(The Eagle/Phoenix), Italy. (CNN)
April 6, 2009, Mysterious Blue Foot reaches for Orange Cloud in photograph from Space.
April 6, 2009, North Carolina Tarheels win the NCAA March Madness Tournament.
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the oldest state-supported university in the U.S. The population was 48,715 at the 2000 census; its population was listed at 54,492 in the Census Bureau's 2007 estimates.
The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen County, Granville County, and Johnston County. It was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic.
The Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order or the Orange Lodge, is a Protestant fraternal organization based predominantly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the Commonwealth and the United States. It was founded in Loughgall, County Armagh, Ireland in 1795; its name is a tribute to Dutch-born Protestant king of Britain, William III of England (William II of Scotland), of the House of Orange-Nassau. William had defeated the Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Observers have accused the Orange Institution of being a sectarian organization, due to its goals and its exclusion of Roman Catholics as members.Some denominations of Protestants, however, are also ineligible for membership.
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Note: Masonry Compass & Square/Skull & Bones/Bee Hive etc.
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April 6, 2009, Chuck S2 Ep19: Chuck vs Dream Job - Orange Virus
The episode opens with Chuck and Sarah meeting with Chuck's father. Stephen catches up on his and Ellie's life, and Chuck confronts him about coming to Ellie's wedding. Stephen is reluctant, but finally agrees to return home. Chuck brings him back to the apartment, but the reunion with Ellie doesn't go as planned. She retreats to her room after being overwhelmed by seeing their father again, but Chuck convinces her to forgive him for leaving. The reunion becomes more awkward when Stephen rants about many things he claims to have invented that were stolen by Ted Roark (Chevy Chase). Among his father's possessions is an advertisement for a major tech show where Roark's latest computer operating system is to be released. Chuck flashes on it.
At Castle, Beckman briefs the team. Chatter has led them to believe a virus is being released in the operating system, and she orders them to investigate. A job interview is arranged for Chuck, under his own name, which Sarah encourages him he's more than qualified on his own for, even though it's a cover. The next morning Chuck arrives at Roark Industries and performs well. He is immediately hired on and introduced to Roark, whom Chuck had dreamed of working for since Stanford. As he's leaving he's spotted by Jeff and Lester, who will be attending the launch. They tell Morgan they just saw him leaving Roark's headquarters as a new employee. That night at dinner, Morgan lets slip about Chuck's new "job," which upsets Stephen as he believes Roark destroyed his life.
At the launch the next day, Casey and Sarah attempt to break in to stop it, but are unable to bypass security. The situation becomes more serious when Chuck flashes on a Fulcrum agent on stage with Roark. With no other options, Chuck bursts on stage in an effort to warn Roark that his operating system is believed to contain a virus, but he doesn't believe him.
Chuck grabs the controls that will initiate the launch and attempts to escape, but fails. Stephen and Ellie were watching the conference on Stephen's laptop when Chuck attempts to disrupt the launch, and Ellie is angered because she believes Chuck threw his dream job away for his father, even though Stephen denies putting him up to it.
Upset with the way the Intersect has ruined his life, Chuck tears through the documents left to him by Orion to piece together what he was supposed to do to free himself of the information. Stephen interrupts to tell him he didn't want Chuck to ruin his own career just for him, and if he wants to work for Roark it's ok with him. As he leaves, Chuck notices that the layout of Roark's offices matches the diagram in Orion's documents. He realizes that Roark is building a full-scale Intersect system for Fulcrum, but Casey and Sarah don't believe him. He takes it upon himself to infiltrate the office to investigate himself after tranquilizing Casey when he tries to stop him.
Chuck breaks into Roark's office, but before he can get far has to take cover when his father barges in demanding to speak to Roark and set things right for his son. Roark tells the Fulcrum agent Chuck flashed on earlier over the radio that he'll deal with Stephen in private. After the agent punches Stephen in the gut Chuck bursts from cover and starts shooting with his tranquilizer guns. He runs out of ammunition, with Roark's security staring at him for a moment before they all collapse. Chuck tries to get his father to leave when they encounter Vincent, (Arnold Vosloo) who tells them it's good to see them both again. Stephen then takes control of the security door with a wrist-mounted computer and uses it to incapacitate Vincent before revealing the truth to Chuck: He was Orion all along, and left Chuck and Ellie to protect them once he realized what the government wanted the Intersect for, and that there were others who wanted it just as badly.
He leads Chuck deep into the heart of Roark's complex where they find the nearly complete Fulcrum Intersect. Stephen prepares to use it to remove the data from Chuck's brain but they are interrupted by Roark and Vincent. Roark is about to have Chuck killed when Stephen steps in on his behalf, telling Roark that Chuck is his son, and promises to help as long as he's allowed to walk away. Roark agrees and let's Chuck leave while Stephen is taken to a helicopter. Just before the door shuts between them Casey and Sarah arrive, and Stephen tells him he was wrong when he told him not to trust his handlers. Back at Castle, Beckman makes clear the consequences of Roark escaping both with the Intersect and Orion, but tells them that she has their best men on it. Chuck stands up to Beckman and tells her that Operation Bartowski is their best men, and demands to be part of the effort to rescue his father. Beckman relents when Casey sides with Chuck, but warns him not to allow his personal feelings to get in the way.
Back at home, Ellie is heartbroken thinking that their father has left them again, but Chuck tells her not to give up on him.
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April 8, 2009, Thousands of people in Pyongyang, North Korea, celebrate the “successful” launch of the Bright Star-2 communications satellite into Earth's orbit. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly decommissions its black sites worldwide. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitcher Nick Adenhart(Fire strong-heart) Killed in Car Accident Early Thursday Morning.
April 10, 2009, Season Finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Born to Run(Springsteen/Obama).
April 10, 2009, Release of Observe and Report.
Eagle/Phoenix
April 10, 2009, Release of Dragonball "Evolution".
April 10, 2009, The Fourth East Asia Summit begins in Pattaya, Thailand. (Xinhua)
April 10, 2009, Japan announces a US$150-billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
April 11, 2009, Anti-government protests cancel the Fourth East Asia Summit in Pattaya, Thailand. (BBC)
April 12, 2009, Easter.
April 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI says that only reconciliation can resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. (MSNBC)
April 12, 2009, Ángel Cabrera wins the PGA Tour's 2009 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, United States. (Yahoo)
April 12, 2009, Captain Richard Phillips of the MV Maersk Alabama, who was abducted by Somali pirates, is rescued. (CNN)
April 13, 2009, The U.S. federal government will rescind travel and gift restrictions to Cuba. (Miami Herald)
April 13, 2009, The United Nations Security Council condemns North Korea's launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2. (Sky News)
April 14, 2009, North Korea will depart the six-party talks and resume its nuclear program. (BBC)
April 14, 2009, The Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, announces the birth of Injaz, the first cloned camel. (Telegraph)
April 15, 2009, Obamas introduce BO the Portuguese Water Dog. (WashPost)
April 15, 2009,China launches a second satellite as part of its Compass global navigation system. (Xinhua)
April 15, 2009, Swiss investment bank UBS AG will cut 8,700 jobs. (Sky News)
April 15, 2009, The Tax Day Tea Party protests against higher taxes and out-of-control government spending began rallying across the United States. [WSJ)
April 15, 2009, The Pitcairn Islands abolish alcohol prohibition. (RNZI)
April 15, 2009, The United States' consumer price index records its first year-on-year deflation since 1955. (Times Online)
April 16, 2009, Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local)
April 16, 2009, China's economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua)
April 17, 2009, Release of 17(Osiris/Phoenix) Again.
April 17, 2009, Release of Crank: High Voltage.
Lightning(Barak)/Phoenix
April 17, 2009,
LOS ANGELES – He's still got a little work to do on the economy, but already President Barack Obama has accomplished at least one task that had appeared all but impossible just a year ago: He's put The Dead back on the road.
As the core surviving members of the Grateful Dead, once the world's biggest concert draw, barrel across the country for the first time in five years, bass player Phil Lesh says they have Obama, and also Lesh's youngest son, Brian, to thank.
After Lesh, who had never publicly supported a presidential candidate, threw his lot in with Obama, he was anxious to do a benefit concert for him. But he was all but done with The Dead, so it was going to feature his other band, Phil and Friends.
"My son Brian said, 'No Daddy, you've got to get The Dead together because it will be so much more meaningful and important,'" the musician chuckled during a recent phone interview.
One benefit performance led to another and then an inaugural ball concert. Next thing they knew, Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann were back together.
"It came off so well that we thought we owe it to ourselves to play again," Lesh said. "It brings out something in all of us, in our gestalt and our totality, that we can't deliver, we can't find anywhere else."
For the tour, which got under way Sunday in Greensboro, N.C., and runs through the middle of next month, the band is breaking out what Lesh calls the Grateful Dead classics. The musicians will cherry-pick from 160 songs honed during weeks of rehearsals.
"We actually played 13 days in a row at one point. Not bad for a bunch of old beasts," laughed Hart.
But, all four say, there is still plenty of original music to be found in the jamming at the band's four-hour shows and in a rhythm section rearranged by the drummers.
"We didn't want to go out and just do the same thing," said Kreutzmann, who with Hart wrote new percussion parts for the tour.
The only thing missing is the group's iconic lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, whose death from a heart attack in 1995 prompted the band to drop Grateful from it's name and to all but abandon what had been 30 years of nearly nonstop touring. Warren Haynes replaces him for this tour.
"We all miss him every day," said Lesh. "At the same time, we're still here on Earth and we're still making music. And by God we'll continue to make music until we drop."
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April 17, 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström of The Pirate Bay are found guilty of copyright infringement and imprisoned until 2010. (New Zealand Herald)
April 17, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Barbados Advocate)
April 19, 2009, United States President Barack Obama announces that Central Intelligence Agency personnel who employed enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted. (BBC)
April 19, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas ends in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Canadian Press)
April 20, 2009, Oracle Corporation purchases Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. (MarketWatch)
April 20, 2009, China's government discovers 3,850 kilometres (2,390 mi) more of the Great Wall of China. (BBC)
April 20, 2009, Durban Review Conference: The United Nations World Conference against Racism begins in Geneva, Switzerland. (Telegraph)
-A protester throws an object at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and yells, "Racist, racist!" (BBC)
-Several delegations exit during an anti-Israel speech by President Ahmadinejad. (Reuters)
April 21, 2009, Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)
April 21, 2009, The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
April 21, 2009, The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
April 21, 2009, The smallest confirmed extrasolar planet, Gliese 581 e, is discovered. (MSNBC)
April 21, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-spies have hacked the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)
April 22, 2009, Japan reports its first annual trade deficit since 1981. (BBC)
April 23, 2009, General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. (AP via Miami Herald)
April 23, 2009, Judge Tomas Norström of The Pirate Bay's trial is revealed to be a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several entertainment industry representatives. (TT via The Local)
April 23, 2009, The International Monetary Fund forecasts that the world economy will not recover until 2010. (CNN)
April 23, 2009, Iraq's government calculates that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003. (AP)
April 24, 2009, Release of The Soloist.
Stargate/All seeing eye/Altered States of Consciousness
April 24, 2009, Release of Tyson.
April 24, 2009, Swine(Pig/Unclean Animal/Sinful) influenza kills at least 68 people and infects at least 1,000 more in Mexico. (CNN)
April 24, 2009, The bovine genome is sequenced. (Science)
April 25, 2009, Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza. (Reuters)
April 26, 2009, The United States declares a public health emergency over the outbreak of swine influenza. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Season Finale of Chuck S2 Ep22. Chuck Versus the Ring: The day of Ellie and Devon's wedding arrives, but Chuck finds himself forced to protect both his sister and the event from a vengeful Ted Roark.
Plot Synopsis
The episode begins as Chuck and Casey quit the Buy More. At Castle, Beckman offers Chuck a position as an analyst on the ongoing Intersect project, which Chuck declined. Casey is informed by Beckman he can rejoin his Special Forces unit, then asks Sarah to stay behind a moment. Upstairs, Chuck receives an extremely large sum of money from the government in exchange for the work he did for them. Casey gives Chuck his personal number if he ever needs anything, and for the first time tells Chuck he's done a good job after the two share an awkward hug. Back down in Castle, Beckman reassigns Sarah to the Intersect project alongside Bryce Larkin, who is now at Castle. They are due to head to Zurich the next morning.
At the church the day of the wedding, Chuck tells Ellie he quit the Buy More. Ellie is proud of him, and tells him to follow his dreams. He tracks down Sarah, who is going over her part in the wedding with Honey Woodcomb and asks her to come away with him on vacation, however Sarah breaks the news that she's leaving the next day with Bryce. Chuck leaves and takes a bottle of wine with him from the dining hall where the reception will be held, but before he can start drinking he discovers two dead caterers stashed under a table. Roark arrives and demands the Intersect, or else he will kill Ellie. He goes to warn Sarah but Morgan intercepts him first. Chuck tells Morgan to stall, and to specifically deliver a message to Sarah that he forgot the rings, as she saw them earlier. Morgan does as he asks, immediately alerting Sarah that something is wrong. She tells Morgan to continue his attempt to stall the wedding, then finds Roark and a Fulcrum team assembling. Chuck heads back to Castle to recover the Intersect cube but Bryce warns him it's already been moved, and reveals he knew about Orion, Chuck's father, all along. When he tells him Ellie's life is in danger Bryce decides to offer himself up as bait. Chuck also leaves Casey a message at his personal number.
Morgan delays the wedding by having Jeff and Lester perform before the ceremony (which Devon allows after Morgan tells him the instructions came from Chuck). Chuck arrives as Sarah is searching for a weapon, and Bryce offers himself up as the "Human Intersect." Roark still intends on killing the wedding party and a gunfight breaks out, with Sarah using knives from one of the gifts as a weapon. They are pinned down out of ammunition and about to be killed by Roark when Casey's special forces team parachutes through the glass ceiling into the dining hall to save Chuck, Sarah, and Bryce. Before anyone notices the commotion, Jeffster!'s rendition of Mr. Roboto ends with a fireworks display that sets off the sprinkler systems, destroying the ceremony but sparing Chuck from devising an explanation for Ellie. As Roark tries to escape, Stephen punches him, then Casey and his team take Roark back to Castle and set up a temporary base in the facility.
Chuck is upset that his spy life has again damaged his private life. He realizes however he can use his government pay to set things right, and with Sarah and Casey's help quickly plans the beach-side wedding that Ellie had really wanted. He confesses to Ellie that having Morgan stall was his idea and not to blame Morgan, and convinces her to trust him. The second wedding goes off without a hitch. During the ceremony Bryce watches from the beach, and realizes that Sarah doesn't intend to go with him. At Castle, one of Casey's men murders Roark, and executes the rest of the team but spares Casey, who had previously saved his life. Casey assumes he's Fulcrum, but before knocking him out the man says he is not Fulcrum. At the reception Bryce approaches Stephen, who warns him to leave his son alone now and asks him about changes made to Intersect 2.0. Bryce tells him he doesn't want to know, and leaves with a government officer. However Stephen flashes on the officer, who is identified as "presumed dead". While Chuck and Sarah dance she tries to tell him that he really has been a hero, but before she can confess that she won't be leaving, Stephen warns them of his flash on the officer that was with Bryce. Sarah realizes Casey is in danger and rushes to get him. Chuck tries to go after her but is stopped by Stephen, who after Chuck telling him he loves Sarah, gives him his wrist computer before he joins the team to rescue Bryce.
At the building where the Intersect is stored Bryce discovers the ambush and escapes into the vault. The team arrives shortly after and engages in a firefight. Chuck uses his father's computer to gain access to the Intersect, where he finds Bryce with a fatal gunshot wound. Bryce warns him the Intersect is too powerful and must be destroyed. Chuck tries to tell Bryce that the Intersect is needed to fight Fulcrum, but Bryce tells Chuck that Fulcrum doesn't matter, as they are only one part of "The Ring." He asks Chuck to take care of Sarah, and tells him she had decided to stay with Chuck. Chuck turns to the Intersect, but before destroying it downloads the new system into his head.
April 27, 2009, A low-flying Boeing VC-25, Air Force One, causes momentary panic in New York City, New York, United States. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Mexico reports 149 deaths from the outbreak of swine influenza. (BBC)
April 27, 2009, General Motors announces that its Pontiac(Firebird etc.) brand will be eliminated by 2010. (AP via Google News)
April 27, 2009, A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. (Sky News)
April 28, 2009, Son-Shine.
April 28, 2009, The first transgenic, fluorescent dogs are cloned in South Korea. (AP via Google News)
April 29, 2009, The United States economy contracts by 6.1% in the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via New York Times)
April 29, 2009, Swine influenza outbreak: The United States suffers its first casualty. (USA Today)
-Mexico reports 159 deaths and 2,500 suspected cases. (Sky News)
-The World Health Organization raises its Pandemic Alert Level to five.(BBC)
April 29, 2009, Usian Bolt is involved in a car crash.
April 29, 2009, President Obamas 100th day and Lost's 100th episode.
April 30, 2009, 30 Rock: The Natural Order
April 30, 2009, Chrysler LLC files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Code. (CNN-IBN)
April 30, 2009, Five people are killed and 13 injured during a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
April 30, 2009, The United Kingdom ends combat operations in the Iraq War. (BBC)
April 30, 2009, Helios Airways is charged with 119 counts of manslaughter over the crash of Flight 522 in 2005. (AP)
Sam Tyler receives a phone call that presents him with three tasks he must perform so he can return to his life in the future, he must weigh his alternatives and decide whether to stay in 1973 or go home.
At the end of the series it is revealed that Tyler's 2008 & 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the futuristic computer - named Windy - aboard a space ship that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling and Skelton on the first ever manned mission to the planet Mars.
Tyler's actual reality is the year 2035, and the crew he worked with in the past are just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crewmembers. The reason why he had traveled back to 1973 was due to a temporary malfunction on board the ship: to sustain their lives, all of the crew were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality "neural stimulation" programs of their own choosing, but a meteor storm caused a momentary glitch in the program (Sam had chosen his 2008 identity as part of his VR program, but the program accidentally kicked him back to 1973). Frank Morgan is the Mission Control flight director, Annie Norris is the Colonel in charge of the mission, and Gene Hunt - "Major Tom" - is also revealed to be Sam's father.
Major Tom is a fictional astronaut created by David Bowie. He appears in the songs "Space Oddity", "Ashes to Ashes" and "Hallo Spaceboy" by Bowie, the song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling, a French cover of "Major Tom" by Belgian artist Plastic Bertrand, "I'm A Soldier" by Stefán, "Mrs. Major Tom" by K.I.A., "Rocket" by Def Leppard, and "Rain or Shine" by Five Star. Due to some similarities in Elton John's "Rocket Man", some presume this song might also be an allusion to Major Tom. In fact, Bowie made the connection during concerts, calling out during the song, "Oh, Rocket Man!" Bowie's lyrics in "Ashes to Ashes" reinterpret Major Tom as an oblique autobiographical symbol for himself.
In a final wink to its fans, the writers describe the mission as one of science; looking for evidence of life on mars a "gene hunt" aka "Bigfoot".
April 1, 2009, S13 Ep4: Eat, Pray, Queef.
April 1, 2009, The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (The Australian)
April 1, 2009, At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity. (BBC)
April 1, 2009, Barak meets with the Queen.
April 1, 2009, Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, The United States' World War II steamship City of Rayville is located near Australia. (The Age)
April 1, 2009, A Computer virus called Conficker was spread throught millions of computers, getting onto their computers and destroying files, and sharing information.
April 2, 2009, The Group of 20 announces a US$1-trillion agreement to combat the current financial crisis. (BBC)
April 2, 2009, The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (BBC)
April 3, 2009, Release of the Fast and Furious 4
Fast & Furious is the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious film series. It is an interquel set between the second and third films. The plot connects with the original film of the series from which Vin Diesel(XXX/Babylon AD/Hannibal(Baraq/Lightning), Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles.
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After a successful run at hijacking fuel tanks on the lowways of Bani/Punta Cana Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has become an international criminal. Dominic's partner Han (Sung Kang) departs for Tokyo. With an increasing pressure from the police, Dom leaves Letty, not wanting her to be caught with him. Years later, Letty is found murdered in her wrecked car, bullet in the brain. At the scene of her murder, Dom finds traces of nitromethane residue that can only be purchased at one tuner shop in L.A.. At the body shop, he finds one of his old racing counterparts that, after being coerced, leads him to a man named David Park. Dominic finds Park and hangs him out of a window threatening to drop him and vowing to kill anyone that stands in his way of avenging Letty. He receives the information that only through a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, can he gain access to the man responsible for Letty's death(Fenix Caulderon).
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Laz Alonso as Fenix "Rise" Caulderon in Fast and the Furious 4
The hammer and sickle is a part of communist symbolism and its usage indicates an association with Communism, a Communist Party, or a Communist state. It features a hammer superimposed on a sickle, or vice versa. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them together symbolises the unity between industrial and agricultural workers. This emblem was made during the Bolshevik Revolution.
It is best known from having been incorporated into the red flag of the Soviet Union, along with the Red Star. It has also been used in other flags and emblems.
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April 3, 2009, Release of Adventure Land.
Into the Orange Abyss.
April 3, 2009, Orange Action Hero.
Via Alex Balk (From Huff Post) comes one of the most enjoyable things you'll see all week - super cool action figures of President Barack Obama! FROM JAPAN. Yes, it would appear that someone or something called Gamu Toys has put out some lovingly crafted Obama toys, for fun and frolic. Chances are, sharing these images with you will get us sued, by angry ninjas, but we just cannot help ourselves.
If I can trust the translating ability of the Babelfish - which I cannot! - the manufacturer describes these toys thusly:
44th generation United States of America President Barack Obama - First African type American president and Barack Obama 44th generation United States of America president in history with 12 inch action figure multi-layerization of surprise.
It is to be the thing itself surprise where such commodity comes out, but don't you think? The foreign country with it seems that either such politician figure is not unusual. We have become 2008 American Presidential election specification, where also the clothes and the accessories represent that time belong. The clothes itself have become the private suit, but it is, "[bishitsu] dresses stylishly." Also, the part where size is not agreeable with the prime field very somewhat with to it does not go.
But eyeball that quality of the head which becomes is enormous, there is a thing it closes the eye. Obama how seeing from wherever, is Obama...or the notch. It has been reproduced securely to the part where also quality of paint is high, material feeling and the like of the skin is small.
As for clothes, all removal possibilities. Really the button and the belt are used to fixing inside.
Oh, now, here we go. Black steel in the hour of chaos!
April 3, 2009, French police detain 300 people after protests in Strasbourg, where British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President Barack Obama are attending a NATO summit.
April 3, 2009, The United States economy lost 663,000 jobs in March, raising the unemployment rate to 8.5%. (New York Times)
April 3, 2009, Fourteen people die and 26 are injured during a shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York. (CNN)
April 4, 2009, Anniversary of the Death of Martin Luther King.
April 4, 2009, Three police officers are killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. (CNN)
Eagle/Phoenix
April 5, 2009, WrestleMania 25 takes place from the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
April 5, 2009, Simpsons Ep 20 x 16
April 5, 2009, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command report that North Korea's Bright Star-2 communications satellite did not reach Earth's orbit. (CNN)
April 5, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announces his plan for worldwide nuclear disarmament. (AFP via Google News)
April 6, 2009, At least 207 people are killed and 1,500 injured during a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near L'Aquila(The Eagle/Phoenix), Italy. (CNN)
April 6, 2009, Mysterious Blue Foot reaches for Orange Cloud in photograph from Space.
April 6, 2009, North Carolina Tarheels win the NCAA March Madness Tournament.
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the oldest state-supported university in the U.S. The population was 48,715 at the 2000 census; its population was listed at 54,492 in the Census Bureau's 2007 estimates.
The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen County, Granville County, and Johnston County. It was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic.
The Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order or the Orange Lodge, is a Protestant fraternal organization based predominantly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the Commonwealth and the United States. It was founded in Loughgall, County Armagh, Ireland in 1795; its name is a tribute to Dutch-born Protestant king of Britain, William III of England (William II of Scotland), of the House of Orange-Nassau. William had defeated the Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Observers have accused the Orange Institution of being a sectarian organization, due to its goals and its exclusion of Roman Catholics as members.Some denominations of Protestants, however, are also ineligible for membership.
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Note: Masonry Compass & Square/Skull & Bones/Bee Hive etc.
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April 6, 2009, Chuck S2 Ep19: Chuck vs Dream Job - Orange Virus
The episode opens with Chuck and Sarah meeting with Chuck's father. Stephen catches up on his and Ellie's life, and Chuck confronts him about coming to Ellie's wedding. Stephen is reluctant, but finally agrees to return home. Chuck brings him back to the apartment, but the reunion with Ellie doesn't go as planned. She retreats to her room after being overwhelmed by seeing their father again, but Chuck convinces her to forgive him for leaving. The reunion becomes more awkward when Stephen rants about many things he claims to have invented that were stolen by Ted Roark (Chevy Chase). Among his father's possessions is an advertisement for a major tech show where Roark's latest computer operating system is to be released. Chuck flashes on it.
At Castle, Beckman briefs the team. Chatter has led them to believe a virus is being released in the operating system, and she orders them to investigate. A job interview is arranged for Chuck, under his own name, which Sarah encourages him he's more than qualified on his own for, even though it's a cover. The next morning Chuck arrives at Roark Industries and performs well. He is immediately hired on and introduced to Roark, whom Chuck had dreamed of working for since Stanford. As he's leaving he's spotted by Jeff and Lester, who will be attending the launch. They tell Morgan they just saw him leaving Roark's headquarters as a new employee. That night at dinner, Morgan lets slip about Chuck's new "job," which upsets Stephen as he believes Roark destroyed his life.
At the launch the next day, Casey and Sarah attempt to break in to stop it, but are unable to bypass security. The situation becomes more serious when Chuck flashes on a Fulcrum agent on stage with Roark. With no other options, Chuck bursts on stage in an effort to warn Roark that his operating system is believed to contain a virus, but he doesn't believe him.
Chuck grabs the controls that will initiate the launch and attempts to escape, but fails. Stephen and Ellie were watching the conference on Stephen's laptop when Chuck attempts to disrupt the launch, and Ellie is angered because she believes Chuck threw his dream job away for his father, even though Stephen denies putting him up to it.
Upset with the way the Intersect has ruined his life, Chuck tears through the documents left to him by Orion to piece together what he was supposed to do to free himself of the information. Stephen interrupts to tell him he didn't want Chuck to ruin his own career just for him, and if he wants to work for Roark it's ok with him. As he leaves, Chuck notices that the layout of Roark's offices matches the diagram in Orion's documents. He realizes that Roark is building a full-scale Intersect system for Fulcrum, but Casey and Sarah don't believe him. He takes it upon himself to infiltrate the office to investigate himself after tranquilizing Casey when he tries to stop him.
Chuck breaks into Roark's office, but before he can get far has to take cover when his father barges in demanding to speak to Roark and set things right for his son. Roark tells the Fulcrum agent Chuck flashed on earlier over the radio that he'll deal with Stephen in private. After the agent punches Stephen in the gut Chuck bursts from cover and starts shooting with his tranquilizer guns. He runs out of ammunition, with Roark's security staring at him for a moment before they all collapse. Chuck tries to get his father to leave when they encounter Vincent, (Arnold Vosloo) who tells them it's good to see them both again. Stephen then takes control of the security door with a wrist-mounted computer and uses it to incapacitate Vincent before revealing the truth to Chuck: He was Orion all along, and left Chuck and Ellie to protect them once he realized what the government wanted the Intersect for, and that there were others who wanted it just as badly.
He leads Chuck deep into the heart of Roark's complex where they find the nearly complete Fulcrum Intersect. Stephen prepares to use it to remove the data from Chuck's brain but they are interrupted by Roark and Vincent. Roark is about to have Chuck killed when Stephen steps in on his behalf, telling Roark that Chuck is his son, and promises to help as long as he's allowed to walk away. Roark agrees and let's Chuck leave while Stephen is taken to a helicopter. Just before the door shuts between them Casey and Sarah arrive, and Stephen tells him he was wrong when he told him not to trust his handlers. Back at Castle, Beckman makes clear the consequences of Roark escaping both with the Intersect and Orion, but tells them that she has their best men on it. Chuck stands up to Beckman and tells her that Operation Bartowski is their best men, and demands to be part of the effort to rescue his father. Beckman relents when Casey sides with Chuck, but warns him not to allow his personal feelings to get in the way.
Back at home, Ellie is heartbroken thinking that their father has left them again, but Chuck tells her not to give up on him.
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April 8, 2009, Thousands of people in Pyongyang, North Korea, celebrate the “successful” launch of the Bright Star-2 communications satellite into Earth's orbit. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly decommissions its black sites worldwide. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitcher Nick Adenhart(Fire strong-heart) Killed in Car Accident Early Thursday Morning.
April 10, 2009, Season Finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Born to Run(Springsteen/Obama).
April 10, 2009, Release of Observe and Report.
Eagle/Phoenix
April 10, 2009, Release of Dragonball "Evolution".
April 10, 2009, The Fourth East Asia Summit begins in Pattaya, Thailand. (Xinhua)
April 10, 2009, Japan announces a US$150-billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
April 11, 2009, Anti-government protests cancel the Fourth East Asia Summit in Pattaya, Thailand. (BBC)
April 12, 2009, Easter.
April 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI says that only reconciliation can resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. (MSNBC)
April 12, 2009, Ángel Cabrera wins the PGA Tour's 2009 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, United States. (Yahoo)
April 12, 2009, Captain Richard Phillips of the MV Maersk Alabama, who was abducted by Somali pirates, is rescued. (CNN)
April 13, 2009, The U.S. federal government will rescind travel and gift restrictions to Cuba. (Miami Herald)
April 13, 2009, The United Nations Security Council condemns North Korea's launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2. (Sky News)
April 14, 2009, North Korea will depart the six-party talks and resume its nuclear program. (BBC)
April 14, 2009, The Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, announces the birth of Injaz, the first cloned camel. (Telegraph)
April 15, 2009, Obamas introduce BO the Portuguese Water Dog. (WashPost)
April 15, 2009,China launches a second satellite as part of its Compass global navigation system. (Xinhua)
April 15, 2009, Swiss investment bank UBS AG will cut 8,700 jobs. (Sky News)
April 15, 2009, The Tax Day Tea Party protests against higher taxes and out-of-control government spending began rallying across the United States. [WSJ)
April 15, 2009, The Pitcairn Islands abolish alcohol prohibition. (RNZI)
April 15, 2009, The United States' consumer price index records its first year-on-year deflation since 1955. (Times Online)
April 16, 2009, Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local)
April 16, 2009, China's economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua)
April 17, 2009, Release of 17(Osiris/Phoenix) Again.
April 17, 2009, Release of Crank: High Voltage.
Lightning(Barak)/Phoenix
April 17, 2009,
LOS ANGELES – He's still got a little work to do on the economy, but already President Barack Obama has accomplished at least one task that had appeared all but impossible just a year ago: He's put The Dead back on the road.
As the core surviving members of the Grateful Dead, once the world's biggest concert draw, barrel across the country for the first time in five years, bass player Phil Lesh says they have Obama, and also Lesh's youngest son, Brian, to thank.
After Lesh, who had never publicly supported a presidential candidate, threw his lot in with Obama, he was anxious to do a benefit concert for him. But he was all but done with The Dead, so it was going to feature his other band, Phil and Friends.
"My son Brian said, 'No Daddy, you've got to get The Dead together because it will be so much more meaningful and important,'" the musician chuckled during a recent phone interview.
One benefit performance led to another and then an inaugural ball concert. Next thing they knew, Lesh, guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann were back together.
"It came off so well that we thought we owe it to ourselves to play again," Lesh said. "It brings out something in all of us, in our gestalt and our totality, that we can't deliver, we can't find anywhere else."
For the tour, which got under way Sunday in Greensboro, N.C., and runs through the middle of next month, the band is breaking out what Lesh calls the Grateful Dead classics. The musicians will cherry-pick from 160 songs honed during weeks of rehearsals.
"We actually played 13 days in a row at one point. Not bad for a bunch of old beasts," laughed Hart.
But, all four say, there is still plenty of original music to be found in the jamming at the band's four-hour shows and in a rhythm section rearranged by the drummers.
"We didn't want to go out and just do the same thing," said Kreutzmann, who with Hart wrote new percussion parts for the tour.
The only thing missing is the group's iconic lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, whose death from a heart attack in 1995 prompted the band to drop Grateful from it's name and to all but abandon what had been 30 years of nearly nonstop touring. Warren Haynes replaces him for this tour.
"We all miss him every day," said Lesh. "At the same time, we're still here on Earth and we're still making music. And by God we'll continue to make music until we drop."
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April 17, 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström of The Pirate Bay are found guilty of copyright infringement and imprisoned until 2010. (New Zealand Herald)
April 17, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Barbados Advocate)
April 19, 2009, United States President Barack Obama announces that Central Intelligence Agency personnel who employed enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted. (BBC)
April 19, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas ends in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Canadian Press)
April 20, 2009, Oracle Corporation purchases Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. (MarketWatch)
April 20, 2009, China's government discovers 3,850 kilometres (2,390 mi) more of the Great Wall of China. (BBC)
April 20, 2009, Durban Review Conference: The United Nations World Conference against Racism begins in Geneva, Switzerland. (Telegraph)
-A protester throws an object at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and yells, "Racist, racist!" (BBC)
-Several delegations exit during an anti-Israel speech by President Ahmadinejad. (Reuters)
April 21, 2009, Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)
April 21, 2009, The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
April 21, 2009, The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
April 21, 2009, The smallest confirmed extrasolar planet, Gliese 581 e, is discovered. (MSNBC)
April 21, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-spies have hacked the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)
April 22, 2009, Japan reports its first annual trade deficit since 1981. (BBC)
April 23, 2009, General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. (AP via Miami Herald)
April 23, 2009, Judge Tomas Norström of The Pirate Bay's trial is revealed to be a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several entertainment industry representatives. (TT via The Local)
April 23, 2009, The International Monetary Fund forecasts that the world economy will not recover until 2010. (CNN)
April 23, 2009, Iraq's government calculates that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003. (AP)
April 24, 2009, Release of The Soloist.
Stargate/All seeing eye/Altered States of Consciousness
April 24, 2009, Release of Tyson.
April 24, 2009, Swine(Pig/Unclean Animal/Sinful) influenza kills at least 68 people and infects at least 1,000 more in Mexico. (CNN)
April 24, 2009, The bovine genome is sequenced. (Science)
April 25, 2009, Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza. (Reuters)
April 26, 2009, The United States declares a public health emergency over the outbreak of swine influenza. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Season Finale of Chuck S2 Ep22. Chuck Versus the Ring: The day of Ellie and Devon's wedding arrives, but Chuck finds himself forced to protect both his sister and the event from a vengeful Ted Roark.
Plot Synopsis
The episode begins as Chuck and Casey quit the Buy More. At Castle, Beckman offers Chuck a position as an analyst on the ongoing Intersect project, which Chuck declined. Casey is informed by Beckman he can rejoin his Special Forces unit, then asks Sarah to stay behind a moment. Upstairs, Chuck receives an extremely large sum of money from the government in exchange for the work he did for them. Casey gives Chuck his personal number if he ever needs anything, and for the first time tells Chuck he's done a good job after the two share an awkward hug. Back down in Castle, Beckman reassigns Sarah to the Intersect project alongside Bryce Larkin, who is now at Castle. They are due to head to Zurich the next morning.
At the church the day of the wedding, Chuck tells Ellie he quit the Buy More. Ellie is proud of him, and tells him to follow his dreams. He tracks down Sarah, who is going over her part in the wedding with Honey Woodcomb and asks her to come away with him on vacation, however Sarah breaks the news that she's leaving the next day with Bryce. Chuck leaves and takes a bottle of wine with him from the dining hall where the reception will be held, but before he can start drinking he discovers two dead caterers stashed under a table. Roark arrives and demands the Intersect, or else he will kill Ellie. He goes to warn Sarah but Morgan intercepts him first. Chuck tells Morgan to stall, and to specifically deliver a message to Sarah that he forgot the rings, as she saw them earlier. Morgan does as he asks, immediately alerting Sarah that something is wrong. She tells Morgan to continue his attempt to stall the wedding, then finds Roark and a Fulcrum team assembling. Chuck heads back to Castle to recover the Intersect cube but Bryce warns him it's already been moved, and reveals he knew about Orion, Chuck's father, all along. When he tells him Ellie's life is in danger Bryce decides to offer himself up as bait. Chuck also leaves Casey a message at his personal number.
Morgan delays the wedding by having Jeff and Lester perform before the ceremony (which Devon allows after Morgan tells him the instructions came from Chuck). Chuck arrives as Sarah is searching for a weapon, and Bryce offers himself up as the "Human Intersect." Roark still intends on killing the wedding party and a gunfight breaks out, with Sarah using knives from one of the gifts as a weapon. They are pinned down out of ammunition and about to be killed by Roark when Casey's special forces team parachutes through the glass ceiling into the dining hall to save Chuck, Sarah, and Bryce. Before anyone notices the commotion, Jeffster!'s rendition of Mr. Roboto ends with a fireworks display that sets off the sprinkler systems, destroying the ceremony but sparing Chuck from devising an explanation for Ellie. As Roark tries to escape, Stephen punches him, then Casey and his team take Roark back to Castle and set up a temporary base in the facility.
Chuck is upset that his spy life has again damaged his private life. He realizes however he can use his government pay to set things right, and with Sarah and Casey's help quickly plans the beach-side wedding that Ellie had really wanted. He confesses to Ellie that having Morgan stall was his idea and not to blame Morgan, and convinces her to trust him. The second wedding goes off without a hitch. During the ceremony Bryce watches from the beach, and realizes that Sarah doesn't intend to go with him. At Castle, one of Casey's men murders Roark, and executes the rest of the team but spares Casey, who had previously saved his life. Casey assumes he's Fulcrum, but before knocking him out the man says he is not Fulcrum. At the reception Bryce approaches Stephen, who warns him to leave his son alone now and asks him about changes made to Intersect 2.0. Bryce tells him he doesn't want to know, and leaves with a government officer. However Stephen flashes on the officer, who is identified as "presumed dead". While Chuck and Sarah dance she tries to tell him that he really has been a hero, but before she can confess that she won't be leaving, Stephen warns them of his flash on the officer that was with Bryce. Sarah realizes Casey is in danger and rushes to get him. Chuck tries to go after her but is stopped by Stephen, who after Chuck telling him he loves Sarah, gives him his wrist computer before he joins the team to rescue Bryce.
At the building where the Intersect is stored Bryce discovers the ambush and escapes into the vault. The team arrives shortly after and engages in a firefight. Chuck uses his father's computer to gain access to the Intersect, where he finds Bryce with a fatal gunshot wound. Bryce warns him the Intersect is too powerful and must be destroyed. Chuck tries to tell Bryce that the Intersect is needed to fight Fulcrum, but Bryce tells Chuck that Fulcrum doesn't matter, as they are only one part of "The Ring." He asks Chuck to take care of Sarah, and tells him she had decided to stay with Chuck. Chuck turns to the Intersect, but before destroying it downloads the new system into his head.
April 27, 2009, A low-flying Boeing VC-25, Air Force One, causes momentary panic in New York City, New York, United States. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Mexico reports 149 deaths from the outbreak of swine influenza. (BBC)
April 27, 2009, General Motors announces that its Pontiac(Firebird etc.) brand will be eliminated by 2010. (AP via Google News)
April 27, 2009, A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. (Sky News)
April 28, 2009, Son-Shine.
A Florida program which allows you to design custom license plates is set to get another two designs that are already causing controversy. The two new designs are Christian-themed, one featuring a cross in front a stained-glass window and the other an image of Jesus Christ in a position that most resembles him on the cross.
A similar bill has passed in South Carolina, but a federal judge has halted production while the constitutionality of the license plates is adjudicated.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist was asked about the whether this violates the separation between church and state. He responded, "If they don't want one they don't have to buy one."
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A similar bill has passed in South Carolina, but a federal judge has halted production while the constitutionality of the license plates is adjudicated.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist was asked about the whether this violates the separation between church and state. He responded, "If they don't want one they don't have to buy one."
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April 28, 2009, The first transgenic, fluorescent dogs are cloned in South Korea. (AP via Google News)
April 29, 2009, The United States economy contracts by 6.1% in the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via New York Times)
April 29, 2009, Swine influenza outbreak: The United States suffers its first casualty. (USA Today)
-Mexico reports 159 deaths and 2,500 suspected cases. (Sky News)
-The World Health Organization raises its Pandemic Alert Level to five.(BBC)
April 29, 2009, Usian Bolt is involved in a car crash.
April 29, 2009, President Obamas 100th day and Lost's 100th episode.
April 30, 2009, 30 Rock: The Natural Order
April 30, 2009, Chrysler LLC files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Code. (CNN-IBN)
April 30, 2009, Five people are killed and 13 injured during a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
April 30, 2009, The United Kingdom ends combat operations in the Iraq War. (BBC)
April 30, 2009, Helios Airways is charged with 119 counts of manslaughter over the crash of Flight 522 in 2005. (AP)
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