September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days.
In Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when there was a calendar reform from the month of the Ides of March to the Kalends, or January 1. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological autumn is 1 September.
September marks the beginning of the ecclesiastical year in the Eastern Orthodox Church.It is the start of the academic year in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
September 1, 2009, Release of Juliette Lewis Album Terra Incognito.
September 1, 2009,European leaders remember the victims of World War II at ceremonies marking the start of the conflict 70 years ago. (RTÉ)
September 1, 2009, Former heavyweight world champion boxer Muhammad Ali visits the birthplace of his great-grandfather in Ennis, Ireland. (RTÉ)
September 1, 2009, Alain Robert scales Tower Two of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using no safety equipment. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, The unemployment rate across the Eurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, The European Union bans the manufacture or import of 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, beginning a phase-out in favour of energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, Fiji is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations, only the second full suspension in the organization's history. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, 91 countries agree to the first ever global treaty focused specifically on the problem of IUU fishing. (MercoPress)
September 1, 2009, An outbreak of diarrhoea in Orissa, India, kills at least 26 people and hospitalises 237. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, A diarrhoea epidemic kills 34 people in Ethiopia and infects more than 5,000, with 500 hospitalised in Addis Ababa in one day alone. (IOL)
September 2, 2009, (Drudge Report)
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September 2, 2009, UN chief visits 'doomsday' seed vault in Arctic(BreitBart)
September 2, 2009, The 66th Venice International Film Festival gets underway. (BBC)
September 2, 2009, Charles Gibson announces he will step down as anchor of World News and retire from ABC in January 2010. Diane Sawyer will replace him at ABC World News. (ABC News)
September 2, 2009, British energy company BP says it has drilled to one of the lowest depths ever in the oil and gas industry as it made a "giant" discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. (MarketWatch)
September 2, 2009, Two American journalists held by North Korea for illegal entry admit to crossing the border but claim North Korean guards arrested them on the Chinese side of the border and dragged them back into the country. (Reuters)
September 2, 2009, The death certificate of American pop star and entertainer Michael Jackson is amended to reflect his cause of death as homicide via "injection by another". (BBC)
September 2, 2009, Two British boys planning to create a massacre(Project Rainbow) in a high school in Manchester are on trial after wanting to emulate the Columbine High School massacre (BBC News)
September 2, 2009, A 3,700-year-old wall is discovered in east Jerusalem. (BBC)
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September 3, 2009, Michael Jackson's Funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Buried in the Great Mausoleum.
After the burial, the closest the public will be able to get to Jackson's vault is a portion of the mausoleum that displays "The Last Supper Window," a life-size stained-glass re-creation of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.
Forrest Lawn
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately-owned cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles, in the United States. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California (termed "memorial parks" by the company).
Forest Lawn was founded in 1906 as a not-for-profit cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Dr. Hubert Eaton and C. B. Sims entered into a sales contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over the management of the cemetery in 1917 and is credited as being the "founder" of Forest Lawn for his innovations of establishing the "memorial park plan" (eliminating upright grave markers) and being the first to open a funeral home on dedicated cemetery grounds. Eaton was a firm believer in a joyous life after death. He was convinced that most cemeteries were "unsightly, depressing stoneyards" and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic beliefs, "as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness." He envisioned Forest Lawn to be "a great park devoid of misshapen monuments and other signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, beautiful statuary, and ... memorial architecture" A number of plaques which state Eaton's intentions are signed "The Builder."
Most of its burial sections have evocative names, including Eventide, Babyland (for infants, shaped like a heart), Graceland, Inspiration Slope, Slumberland (for children and adolescents), Sweet Memories, Vesperland, Borderland (on the edge of the cemetery), and Dawn of Tomorrow. Packages for burial cover a wide spectrum of prices.
The six Forest Lawn cemeteries contain about 1,500 statues, about 10% of which are reproductions of famous works of art, in various locations. Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been recreated in stained glass in the Memorial Court of Honor ‘in vibrant, glowing and indestructible colors.’
Last Supper
There are also a number of full-sized reproductions of other Renaissance sculptures, including Michelangelo's David and Moses.
David
This cemetery is the only place in the world containing a complete collection of Michelangelo's sculptures which were made from castings taken from the originals and using marble from the same quarry used by Michaelangelo.
There are three non-sectarian chapels: ‘The Little Church of the Flowers,’ ‘The Wee Kirk o’ the Heather,’ and ‘The Church of the Recessional’, which are all exact replicas of famous European churches. Over 60,000 people have actually been married here (including Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, and Regis Philbin and his wife, Joy. More than 250,000 people are buried at Forest Lawn; there are over a million visitors each year, including thousands of schoolchildren on field trips.
Some of the inspiration at Forest Lawn is patriotic rather than pious, such as the Court of Freedom, with its large mosaic of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence and a 13-foot (4.0 m)-high statue of George Washington. On display in the "Hall of the Crucifixion" is the panorama painting by the Polish artist Jan Styka entitled "The Crucifixion." It is the largest permanently mounted religious painting in the world, measuring 195 feet (59 m) in length by 45 feet (14 m) in height. The main gates of Forest Lawn - Glendale are claimed to be the world's largest wrought-iron gates and are located at 1712 South Glendale Avenue, Glendale, California.
The Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery is a second park solely dedicated to the preservation of American history.
Many commentators have considered Forest Lawn to be a unique American creation, and perhaps a uniquely maudlin Los Angeles creation, with its "theme park" approach to death.
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September 3, 2009, Research indicates the Andromeda Galaxy appears to have expanded by digesting stars from other galaxies. (BBC)
September 3, 2009, American pop star and entertainer Michael Jackson is scheduled to be laid to rest at a private ceremony during a sunset service in a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, USA. (The Syndey Morning Herald)
September 4, 2009, Release of The Entrance band album The Entrance band.
September 4, 2009, Release of Extract.
Extract is a 2009 comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge and starring Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons, and Ben Affleck.
Joel (Bateman), a flavor extract factory owner, deals with workplace problems, boredom, and a streak of bad luck.Joel's wife Suzie (Wiig) is obsessed with reality television. If Joel does not make his way home from work before she dons her dreaded 'sweatpants', it means there will be no possible chance of him having sex with his wife that evening. Feeling unfulfilled, Joel unwillingly turns to his stable of friends for advice. His best friend, a lowly slacker named Dean (Affleck) decides to bring his friend out and attempts to expose him to life away from the norm. Dean explains that experimentation and living outside his boundaries are his best hopes for breathing some life into his boring existence.
During this time Joel is met with hostility by several members of his team and this eventually leads to an accident where a few key staff members are injured. In order to keep the factory operating at its full potential the company hires a few temps, one of which is Cindy (Kunis). Joel becomes infatuated with Cindy. Wishing to pursue a physical relationship with Cindy, Joel decides to hire a womanizer to clean the pool at his home. Joel's reasoning is that if his wife will cheat on him he will be free to have sexual intercourse with Cindy. After finding out that Cindy has no interest in Joel, he in turn must successfully remedy the situation with his wife in the homestead.
Gamer is a science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Gerard Butler as an unwilling participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players.
In 2034, mind-control technology has taken society by storm, and a multiplayer on-line game called Slayers allows gamers to control human death row prisoners in mass-scale deathmatches. Any inmate who lives through 30 matches wins his freedom. Simon controls Kable, the on-line champion of the game, having won 27 matches and lived through them all. When a virus hacks into the video mainstreams broadcasting a message from an elusive rebel group, Simon is offered the chance to communicate with Kable while in-game, which is not allowed. After a stranger gives Kable a warning that the game's mastermind plans to kill him, Kable is broken out by using a truck in-game.
Kable is taken to the rebels leader who explains that the mind control technology used on Kable and the other Slayers can potentially be used without discretion on anyone, potentially leading to the extinction of independent thought. He also gives Kable directions to where he can break his wife out of the mind control she is under. Kable arrives, and, after a brief shootout with security, manages to escape with his wife. While the rebels attempt to remove the cells from his wifes mind that make the mind control possible, Kable is taken into another room. The leader reveals that Kable was once a soldier, working on a future cellular control project. His friend was the first to receive the cell transplant. However, the owner of the game Slayers, a billionaire named Ken Castle, decided to discover the true limits of the mind control. After forcing Kable to kill his friend, Kable is convicted of first degree murder.
Some four years later, the game Slayers came out, with Kable as one of the leading stars. Kable is then informed that his daughter was with a foster family, which happens to be Castle himself. Kable infiltrates Castles' mansion, but is confronted by Castle who is singing and dancing to music, all the while forcing other death row inmates to dance along with him. After a brief fight between Kable and the inmates, Castle leads him into a room with a large basketball court. Castle reveals that he also received the transplant, however, the cellular structure in him allows him to control anyone else who has the cells. This is proven when, having obtained a knife, Kable attempts to kill Castle only to find himself frozen still. Castle then savagely beats Kable and brings in his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, rebel members manage to broadcast their confrontation all over the world.
Kable is forced to crawl to his family, and Castle then attempts to force him to kill his own daughter. After a brief struggle of wills, Kable manages to move the knife away. Simon then returns in control of Kable and, using his controller software that he uses to control Kable in-game, Kable barely manages to stab Castle in the stomach. After Castle dies, Kable requests for Castles' employees, who have been watching, to release the family from their control. They do this, and, with the words "Good match, Kable", depart. The movie then ends with Kable driving through a tunnel in the middle of nowhere with his daughter and wife in the car.September 4, 2009, Release of All About Steve.
All About Steve is a American comedy film directed by Phil Traill and produced by Sandra Bullock, who also stars in the film.The movie's name is a pun on the 1950 film All About Eve.
Crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz (Sandra Bullock) is strange and unpopular. When she meets weather journalist Steve (Bradley Cooper) on a blind date, Mary believes she has met her soulmate and is determined to pursue him wherever necessary. Steve's fellow journalist Hartman Hughes (Thomas Haden Church) encourages Mary's infatuation, taking pleasure in Steve's torture. As Mary follows the news team across the country, she becomes embroiled in the biggest news story of the year.
September 4, 2009, Ryan Tubridy takes over as host of The Late Late Show, the world's longest running chat show. (Irish Examiner)
September 4, 2009, North Korea announces it is in the final stage of uranium enrichment, as Russia, South Korea, Japan and the United States express concern. (RIA Novosti)
September 4, 2009, The International Monetary Fund grants Zimbabwe a US$ 500 million loan, its first to the country in 10 years. (The Herald)
September 5, 2009, The G-20 finance ministers outline plans for banking reform, including tougher regulation of financial institutions. (MarketWatch)
September 5, 2009, An oil deal and trade concerns with Libya were at one point considered as factors in the Lockerbie bomber's release, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw says in an interview. (CNN)
September 7, 2009, Scientists working in Papua New Guinea announce the discovery of over forty new species, including a giant rat weighing approximately 1.5kg. (BBC)
September 8, 2009, Release of Phish album Joy.
September 8, 2009, Police in Milwaukee, USA, arrest a man in suspicion of being the notorious North Side Strangler, believed to have killed at least seven women between 1986 and 2007. (MSNBC)
September 8, 2009, A colossal statue of Apollo is discovered at a UNESCO World Heritage Site at Hierapolis, Turkey. (Discovery Channel)
September 8, 2009, Mobile network operators T-Mobile and Orange agree to merge their British businesses. (BBC)
September 8, 2009, A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes northern Georgia. (BBC)
September 8, 2009, 35 people are killed and 44 remain missing after an explosion in a coal mine in Pingdingshan, China. (BBC)
September 9, 2009, September 9, 2009 was 09/09/09, next date with three nines will be September 9, 2109. After this there is only 3 triple number days left this century... Oct 10, 2010, Nov. 11, 2011, Dec 12, 2012.
September 9, 2009, Release of 9.
9 is a animated sci-fi/action film directed by Shane Acker and produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, director of Wanted, and stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer.
The story follows the character of 9, a sentient robot with the size and appearance of a ragdoll. As his name implies, he is the ninth and final stitchpunk creation of a brilliant inventor known only as The Scientist. Awakening in a post-apocalyptic world in which all humans have been killed off by a machine army, and inadvertently using a talisman he found to reawaken the B.R.A.I.N., the machine responsible for the extinction of humanity, 9 must convince the rest of his kind, especially their cautious leader 1, that they must engage and triumph over the machine army, and solve the mystery of the talisman left behind by their creator.
September 9, 2009, "Beatles Day" is celebrated worldwide as The Beatles release remastered versions of their albums, as well as The Beatles: Rock Band. (Newsday)
September 9, 2009, Obama Health Care speech to Congress.
September 9, 2009, Aeroméxico Flight 576, a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún, Quintana Roo, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport. (BBC News)
September 9, 2009, Google plans new mirror for cheaper solar power.(Reuters)
September 9, 2009, Hubble photographs a butterfly.
September 10, 2009, Dubai's Metro System, the first mass transit system of the Arabian Peninsula, officially opens to the public as its first metro line is partially operational. (Al Bawaba)
September 10, 2009, Greek militant group Revolutionary Struggle threatens to attack the "golden boys" it blames for the economic crisis as it claims responsibility for the Athens stock market bombing. (RTÉ)
September 10, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the post-war treatment of celebrated WWII code-breaker Alan Turing, who was chemically castrated for having homosexual relations(Downing St)
September 11, 2009,
September 11, 2009, Release of I can do bad all by myself.
When Madea (Tyler Perry) catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April (Taraji P. Henson), a heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Randy (Brian J. White), her married boyfriend. But April wants nothing to do with the kids. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino (Adam Rodriguez), a handsome Colombian immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart to be able to love him and others around her. With encouragement from her friends (Mary J. Blige and Gladys Knight) and Madea, April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Randy and the new possibilities of family, faith and even true love with Sandino.
September 11, 2009,Release of Whiteout.
Whiteout is a film based on the 1998 comic book of the same name by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber.
A U.S. deputy marshal (Kate Beckinsale), the only one assigned to Antarctica, must investigate a murder on the frozen continent within three days before the antarctic winter begins. She crosses paths with a UN operative (Gabriel Macht), also investigating the murder. While searching the frozen tundra they uncover something far more sinister than they could have ever imagined.
September 11, 2009, Release of the Blueprint 3.
-Jay Z also sponsors a concert at the Madison Square Garden on 9/11.
September 11, 2009, Panic on the Potomac.(ABC)
September 11, 2009, The oldest person in the world, Gertrude Baines, dies in Los Angeles aged 115. (Associated Press)
September 11, 2009, Michael Jordan, John Stockton, David Robinson and Jerry Sloan are elected to the NBA Hall of Fame.
September 11, 2009, NASA's space shuttle Discovery lands at the Edwards air force base in California, USA. (BBC)
September 11, 2009, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announces the discovery of a vast gas field off the coast of his country, one of the world's largest finds. (BBC)
September 12, 2009, A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in Venezuela, injuring many people. (Daily Press)
September 12, 2009, Lebanon wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. (Reuters)
September 12, 2009, 10 Warhol paintings dating from the late 1970s are stolen from the private collection of Richard Weisman in Los Angeles, USA. (BBC)
September 13, 2009, MTV VMA Awards. Madonna(Moon) Leads Michael Jackson(Sun) Tribute.
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September 13, 2009, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heavily criticises the "rich countries", the G8 and other international bodies over the global economic crisis. (BBC)
September 13, 2009, Teeth and bones from a range of animals, including hyenas, deer and rhinos, are discovered by archaeologists inside a cave in Devon, England. (BBC)
September 14, 2009, Too close for comfort: The astonishing twisters captured by storm-chasing photographer(Mail)
September 14, 2009, Patrick Swayze dies.
September 15, 2009, Release of Dan Brown book Lost Symbol.
September 15, 2009, Release of Muse album The Resistance.
September 15, 2009, Release of Megadeth Album Engame.
September 15, 2009, Release of Beastie Boy album Hot Sauce Committee Pt.1
September 15, 2009, Release of Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day.
September 15, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke says the worst U.S. recession since the 1930s is likely to end, while warning that growth may not be strong enough to quickly reduce the unemployment rate. (Bloomberg)
September 15, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accuses the United States of "blocking" Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. (CNN)
September 15, 2009, President and CEO of investment manager Rockefeller & Co. found dead in Mass.(Fox)
September 15, 2009, Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'(Telegraph)
September 15, 2009,NASA names target for water hunt at moon's south pole(LA)
September 16, 2009, President Barack Obama staged a homecoming-style Olympic rally at the White House Wednesday, saying the whole country is rooting for his hometown of Chicago in its efforts to host the 2016 Summer Games.(Huffpost)
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September 16, 2009, New documents disclose that novelist J. R. R. Tolkien secretly trained as a spy for His Majesty's Government in the run up to World War II. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 16, 2009, The World Meteorological Organisation says the hole in the Ozone layer is smaller than in 2008. (AFP)
September 16, 2009, Kenya begins moving the first residents out of slums in the capital Nairobi, as part of a plan to clear all shanty towns over the next two to five years. (BBC)
September 16, 2009, The TEAMS cable system, providing high speed broadband to East Africa for the first time, is poised to go live. (BBC)
September 17, 2009, Season premiere of Fringe.
September 17, 2009, The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy says European Union leaders agree to impose a cap on banker pay. (AP via Google News)
September 17, 2009, Colombia says it would consider quitting UNASUR if the bloc does not agree to debate issues related to drug trafficking, terrorism and arms purchases. (MercoPress)
September 18, 2009, Talk like a Pirate day.
September 18, 2009, Release of the Informant.
The Informant! is a dark comedy film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, and based on true events and the 2000 non fiction book about Mark Whitacre, The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald.
The Informant! is about Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics, only after his wife forced him to. Matt Damon portrays the bipolar whistleblower dubbed "The wacky little brother of Erin Brockovich". In the film, Whitacre displays bizarre behavior including recklessness and grandiosity.
One night in early November 1992, the high-ranking ADM executive confessed to FBI agent Brian Shepard (Bakula) that ADM executives — including Whitacre himself — had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, a food additive. As the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history, Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI.He assisted in gathering evidence by clandestinely taping the company’s activity in business meetings at various locations around the globe such as Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, and Hong Kong.
Whitacre’s good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and struggle with bipolar disorder. The film focuses on Whitacre's meltdown resulting from the pressures of wearing a wire for three years. In a stunning turn of events immediately following the covert portion of the case, headlines around the world reported that the whistleblower defrauded $9 million from his own company at the same period of time he was secretly working for the FBI and taping his co-workers. Because of this major infraction and Whitacre’s bizarre behavior, he was sentenced to a prison term three times longer than the white-collar criminals he helped to nab.September 18, 2009, Release of Splice.
Splice is a science fiction film directed by Vincenzo Natali and starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, who portray two young scientists who begin involving human DNA in their splicing of animal genes.
Two young scientists (Brody and Polley) achieve fame by splicing human DNA with the DNA of different animals to create a new creature. In the process they ignore their society's ethical and legal boundaries. The scientists name their creature "Dren", which is initially a deformed female infant, however, rapidly develops into a beautiful but deadly winged human-chimera.
September 18, 2009, Release of Jennifer's Body.
Jennifer's Body is a dark comedy and horror film written by Diablo Cody. The film is directed by Karyn Kusama and stars Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody.
Nerdy, reserved bookworm Anita "Needy" Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried) and arrogant, conceited flag girl Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) have been best friends "since the sandbox", although they share little in common.
One night, Jennifer drags Needy to a local dive bar to attend a concert by indie rock band Low Shoulder, with designs on its blithely evil lead singer (Adam Brody). A disastrous fire destroys the bar, and Jennifer ends up leaving the bar with the band, later learning that the band is worshiping Satan and she be sacrificed as a virgin to hell, but she was not a virgin, with the demon spirit taking over her body. Later that evening, Jennifer appears at Needy's house, covered in blood, looking vacant, and vomits a trail of "black ferromagnetic fluid."
The following morning, Jennifer appears fine, and Needy slowly deduces that Jennifer is eating the bodies of boys to survive. As Needy's male classmates are steadily killed off in gruesome attacks, the young girl must uncover the truth behind her friend's transformation and find a way to stop the bloodthirsty rampage before it reaches her own boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons). However Jennifer manages to get to Chip first during the school's dance, and takes him to an abandoned pool. Needy arrives a few minutes later and finds Jennifer with Chip.
She attempts to drown Jennifer and as soon as she gets to Chip, he’s already bleeding from a wound on his neck. As Jennifer suddenly begins floating in the air, Chip stabs Jennifer with a pool net. Jennifer bleeds a little but then escapes. Needy cradles Chip as he dies, both proclaiming their love for one another. Later, Needy attacks Jennifer in her own home, yelling “You killed my boyfriend!" As they fight, Needy pulls out a boxcutter and cuts Jennifer twice across her stomach. This doesn’t affect Jennifer. When Needy rips off Jennifer's BFF necklace, causing Jennifer to return to her normal self. Jennifer falls to her bed, and Needy comes down with the boxcutter stabbing Jennifer in the heart.
As Jennifer dies, her mother comes and finds Needy on top of Jennifer's bloody body. Needy winds up in the correctional facility of an asylum for the criminally insane. She has been cursed with Jennifer’s power as the result of surviving from a bite Jennifer gave her during their final fight. Needy escapes the facility, and then tracks down Low Shoulder, brutally killing them for turning Jennifer into a demon and causing all the deaths.
September 18, 2009, Release of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures and is inspired by the children's book of the same name by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett.
September 18, 2009, Hong Kong sentences former Morgan Stanley managing director Du Jun to seven years in prison for his insider trading conviction in its most high-profile case. (BBC)
September 18, 2009, The first ever Irish Global Economic Forum, modelled on Switzerland's World Economic Forum, begins in Farmleigh in Dublin's Phoenix Park. (The Belfast Telegraph)
September 18, 2009, 30,000 Ivory Coast residents seriously affected by the dumping of toxic waste by Trafigura, which, according to the United Nations, has killed at least 15 people, say an undisclosed compensation deal offered by a London-based oil firm is not enough. (BBC)
September 18, 2009, The Raptorex kriegsteini, a smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered in northeastern China. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 18, 2009, The African Union says a twin bombing that killed 17 peacekeepers on its base in Mogadishu, Somalia, was conducted in UN marked cars. (CNN)
September 18, 2009, A Gollum-like creature terrifies unsuspecting locals in Cerro Azul, Panama, after it reportedly "crawled out of a lake" and was bludgeoned to death by a group of school children. (Evening Herald)
September 19, 2009, Former three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer Muhammad Ali writes to the people of Ennis in Ireland, thanking them for the reception they gave him and his wife Lonnie during their recent visit in search of his roots. (The Irish Times)
September 19, 2009, Obama Says Financial Regulations Must Be Strengthened Globally(Bloomberg)
September 20, 2009, Trafigura oil trading firm agrees to pay more than $46 million compensation to more than 30,000 people in Côte d'Ivoire who say they were made ill by dumped waste in 2006. (BBC)
September 20, 2009, Series Premiere of Bored to Death.
Return of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
September 21, 2009, Return of House.
Merlin
Bing Bang Theory
Heroes
September 21, 2009, New York Yankees rookies dress up as Batman characters for a hazzing(NY)
September 21, 2009, HG Wells Birthday (Wiki)
September 21, 2009, Dog-Star Barak on Leno
September 21, 2009, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, the world's longest-serving monarch, is admitted to the hospital after suffering from fever and fatigue. (BBC)
September 21, 2009, Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin spent his retirement in a "golden cage", his phone tapped and the Kremlin controlling visitors, a colleague reveals. (The Irish Times)
September 21, 2009, Argentina’s Economy minister Amado Boudou announces he is to meet with his French counterpart Christine Lagarde for the resumption of negotiations with the Paris Club. (MercoPress)
September 21, 2009, Most of the world's major river deltas are sinking, including Colorado, Nile, Pearl, Rhone and Yangtze, increasing the flood risk faced by ½ a billion people, scientists report. (BBC)
September 21, 2009, Adidas and Puma end their 60-year-old feud. (BBC)
September 22, 2009, Autumnal
Equinox.
Autumn (also known as fall in North American English) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in March (southern hemisphere) or September (northern hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.
September 22, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama calls for the resumption of the Middle East peace process in meetings with the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas. (Voice of America)
September 22, 2009, A Spanish doctor, identified as AM, is sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the death of the former First Lady of Nigeria, Stella Obasanjo. (BBC)
September 22, 2009, Ireland's National Ploughing Championships, the largest ploughing championship in the world and the largest outdoor agricultural event in Europe, begins in Athy, County Kildare. (RTÉ)
September 22, 2009, Chinese President Hu Jintao tells a U.N. summit on climate change that China will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase reliance on clean energy sources in coming years. (CNN)
September 22, 2009, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration bans the sale of flavored cigarettes, except for menthol cigarettes. (The New York TImes)
September 22, 2009, #17 Plaxico Burress is sent to Jail for shooting himself.(CNN)(Link)
September 22, 2009, G-20 summit gives Pittsburgh a chance to update rust belt image(CNN)
September 22, 2009, Series premiere of Cougar Town.
September 23, 2009, Release of Capitalism: A Love Story.
September 23, 2009, Series Premeire of Eastwick.
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September 23, 2009, The cities of Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in Australia are covered by a dust storm, the worst in at least 70 years. Aviation in New South Wales is disrupted. (The Australian) (Drudge)
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September 24, 2009, Series Premiere of Flash Forward.
A mysterious global event causes everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 2 minutes and 17 seconds (137 seconds), during which people worldwide see what may be visions of their lives approximately six months in the future, April 29, 2010. The event results in deaths from accidents and leaves the survivors wondering whether what they saw will happen.
A team of Los Angeles FBI agents, led by Stanford Wedeck (Vance) and spearheaded by Mark Benford (Fiennes), begin the process of determining what happened, why, and whether it will happen again. With the help of his team, Benford creates a database of people's flash-forwards from around the world. He calls it the Mosaic Collective after the case he saw himself investigating during his own flash-forward. Along with various catastrophic or joyful visions, people also see themselves engaging in unexpected behavior; for example, Benford sees himself drinking again, and his wife Olivia (Walger) has an intimate vision of herself with an unknown man. Some see themselves in unusual locations or see unanticipated events, such as a pregnancy for a woman who doesn't have a boyfriend. In some cases, the event prevents actions from occurring such as Olivia's intern Bryce who was on the verge of committing suicide. However, Mark's partner Demetri, had no vision of the future and fears that this may indicate that he will have died before the day seen in the visions.
The minutes after the event are followed by seemingly atypical occurrences: a kangaroo is seen hopping across a street in downtown Los Angeles, and in the last scene of the episode, CCTV tape shows a person in black walking through a baseball stadium in Detroit while all around him, people have blacked out.
September 24, 2009,(Drudge)
September 24, 2009, (Huffpost)
September 24, 2009, Leaders of the world converge on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the opening of the G-20 Summit. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
September 24, 2009, Police use a lachrymatory agent to disperse a riot at the 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit. (AP via Fox News)
September 24, 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 probe discovers large amounts of water on the Moon. (Press Trust of India)
September 24, 2009, The United Nations Security Council, headed by world leaders, unanimously approve Resolution 1887 to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. (BBC)
September 24, 2009, Thailand announces a breakthrough of a HIV/AIDS vaccine, after trials find it can reduce infection by 31%. (Thai News Agency)
September 23, 2009, ABBA, Genesis, Kiss, LL Cool J, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Stooges are amongst several acts nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Rolling Stone)
September 23, 2009, The multi-billion dollar King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, boasting one of the world's fastest supercomputers, opens near Jeddah in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to enable the country to compete in science and technology internationally. (BBC)
September 24, 2009, Arthur's Day: The 250th anniversary of the signing of a lease by Arthur Guinness for a brewery at St James's Gate in Dublin. Events organised by Diageo get underway in Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, New York and Yaoundé. (RTÉ)
September 24, 2009, The United Kingdom's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure, a collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces comparable to the Book of Kells, is discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire. (BBC)
September 24, 2009,Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts chooses former Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk, Jr. to replace former Senator Teddy Kennedy on a temporary basis, until elections can be held to choose a permanent replacement to fill the remainder of Kennedy's term. (Houston Chronicle)
September 24, 2009, (Sun)
The day Michael Jackson told me he could save Hitler
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
© 2009 WorldNetDaily.com
Michael Jackson's comparison of himself to Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Martin Luther King in the videotaped testimony which recently aired at his trial will strike some as yet another example of a bizarre man's stunning flight from reality. But it would be unjust to single out Michael as a warped celebrity with strange delusions of grandeur when, in reality, such far-fetched self-appraisal is thoroughly in keeping with how American celebrities see themselves.
Anyone who has watched the Academy Awards would be forgiven if they mistakenly believed that the actors and actresses receiving the awards were doing so for curing cancer and securing world peace rather than for, say, memorizing dialogue and impersonating a character in front of a camera.
A particularly memorable case in point was Halle Berry's 2002 acceptance speech for the Academy Award for Best Actress in which, gasping for air as the enormity of the occasion gripped her, she deliriously exclaimed how she was "the vessel" who had advanced the, er, entire civil-rights movement.
After all, surely when a woman hyperventilates and screeches at the top of her lungs that she is the conduit that had so advanced "women of color," she must be referring to something more than the enormous sacrifice required to sit for hours in hair and makeup in her luxury trailer and take direction in "Monster's Ball."
That American celebrities see themselves variously as gods and messiahs explains why they can behave so crassly and experience no shame. The average man who is engaged to a woman only to publicly dump her, when the association no longer suits his professional purposes, and then a little while later get another woman pregnant, without marrying her, would feel just a little bit of dishonor. After all, the gentleman is the man who commits to a woman – rather than uses her for either professional or sexual purposes. But Ben Affleck feels no such embarrassment, because he is a screen idol and famous people are, well, just different from you and me.
It was this belief that he is different – more elevated, more sensitive – than ordinary folk, and thus not subject to rigid rules of right and wrong that most destroyed the life and career of Michael Jackson, a man who once had considerable good in him. If you thought he was having too much plastic surgery, well, as a mere earthling you could never understand the imaging needs of a superstar. And if you thought that sharing a bed with a child, however platonic, was disgusting, well, that too is because seeing it from your mortal vantage point could never enlighten you as to how the self-proclaimed "voice for the voiceless" sees it.I shall never forget how, when I was close to Michael and still believed that his celebrity could be used for positive purposes, we sat down to produce, for the purpose of publication, hours and hours of conversations about what he saw in children. The conversations were fascinating – Michael is much smarter and insightful than people would otherwise believe – and on one occasion the subject turned to evil historical figures who had had abusive parenting and which helped to partially explain why they had grown up to be monsters. Michael was claiming that everyone had good in them, and that he believed he could reach it, as the following transcript shows:
Shmuley: What if they were like the Nazis, just evil people?
Michael Jackson: I can't imagine that I couldn't reach their hearts in some kind of way.
S: So you believe that if you were face to face with Hitler you could ...
MJ: Absolutely. Absolutely! He had to have had a lot of yes people around him who were afraid of him.
S: You believe that if you had an hour with Hitler you could somehow touch something inside of him?
MJ: Absolutely. I know I could.
S: With Hitler? Come on. So you don't believe there is anyone who is completely evil and there is no way to touch them. So you don't believe in punishing the wicked because then ...
MJ: No, I believe you have to help them, give them therapy. You have to teach them, that somewhere something in their life went wrong. They don't see what they do. They don't understand that it is wrong a lot of times.
S: But Michael, there are clearly people who are irredeemable. Like Hitler. He was evil incarnate. There was no humanity there for you to address. You'd be speaking to the abyss, to a darkness like you never before witnessed. What about someone who has killed a lot of people? Don't you believe that there should be no therapy for them? They are murderers and they need to face extreme punishment.
MJ: I feel horrible about it. I wish somebody could have reached their hearts.
S: What if they have done it already? They've already killed their victims.
MJ: If they have done it already, it is wrong.
Now, while Michael could be forgiven for his naive assumption that even hardened mass-murderers have something good left in them – a man is allowed to be a dreamer – what is truly shocking is his belief that he could somehow have gotten through to Adolph Hitler. One can only imagine what level of messiah-complex it takes to believe that one can pull the devil himself
out of hell and bring him into heaven. But Michael fell back on this messiah-complex to give meaning to his suffering. He never saw himself as having made mistakes that caused his anguish throughout his life, and even now in his trial feels that he is being unfairly persecuted. Rather, just as Christ was crucified for the sins of mankind, but remained innocent all along, so too Michael Jackson.Little did Michael realize that all sin results from hubris. How sad that Michael could never see that a man who spends tens of millions of dollars on himself per year in the most lavish lifestyle, and has his security guards holding his umbrella for him even while he is on trial for his very life (where you would think he might finally have learned to exhibit some humility) is hardly the Messiah. He's just another self-absorbed Hollywood celebrity.
Pandorum is a 2009 American/German science fiction/horror film written by Travis Milloy and directed by Christian Alvart.
Two astronauts wake to find themselves drifting through space 500 million miles from Earth and with no memory of what has happened to the crew of a sleeper ship transporting 60,000 passengers. Exploring the spacecraft, they encounter several other surviving crew members and the astronauts start to learn that a terrible event has occurred on board which might have affected the survival of the entire human race. They discover other human crew members running from monsters that they learn are some of the crew who have mutated from genetic enhancements that were supposed to help them adapt to their eventual new world but ended up mutating and adapting to the spacecraft environment. They also learn that some crew members also suffer from a psychosis - a severe psychological condition called Pandorum - which was brought about by being in deep-space for extended periods of time. Those afflicted with Pandorum experience severe paranoia and vivid hallucinations.
September 25, 2009, Release of Surrogates.
Surrogates is a 2009 science fiction film, based on the 2005–2006 comic book series of the same name.
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (Willis) discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
September 25, 2009, Return of Series Medium.
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September 25, 2009, Poland approves a law making chemical castration mandatory for paedophiles. (Reuters)
September 25, 2009, A group of Polish political bloggers appeal to Irish people to vote "No" to the Treaty of Lisbon in the country's October 2 referendum as "the EU is trying to pass the treaty without asking Europeans to vote on it" and it is "an attempt to establish a European superstate". (The Irish Times)
September 25, 2009, Iran reveals to the United Nations nuclear watchdog the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant, facing accusations of secret building projects from Gordon Brown, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy. (BBC)
September 25, 2009, Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is sworn in as the interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, succeeding the late Ted Kennedy. (Roll Call)
September 25, 2009, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects U.S. President Barack Obama's accusation about Iran's nuclear program. (CNN)
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Bart and Milhouse convince Comic Book Guy to publish a comic book he wrote titled Everyman, in which the title character can absorb superpowers from the characters of comic books he touches. The comic becomes an instant hit, and many Hollywood studios become interested in making it into a movie. Comic Book Guy agrees to let Everyman become a movie, but only if he can pick the star. When Comic Book Guy sees Homer, he considers Homer perfect for the role, as he wants Everyman to be played by a middle-aged fat man. But the studio executives realizes that audiences want a physically fit actor for the role, so they hire celebrity fitness trainer Lyle McCarthy to make Homer fit. After a month, Homer becomes fit and the movie begins production.
Soon afterward, however, McCarthy leaves Homer for another client. Without McCarthy to keep him fit, Homer starts eating again and gains all the weight back. Homer can no longer fit into his costume or even his trailer, and the movie begins to go over budget. The studio executives and Comic Book Guy worry that the film will not be successful. The final version of the movie features scenes with the fat Homer and the physically fit Homer put into on clip {Some scenes he's fat, some he's physically fit}, upsetting the audience. After the premier of the film, McCarthy returns and offers to make Homer physically fit again, which Homer accepts. The studio executives offer to let Comic Book Guy direct the sequel, on the condition that Comic Book Guy lie to the fans and say he liked the film. Comic Book Guy rejects the offer and openly criticizes the movie online.
September 27, 2009, Season Premiere of Family Guy: Road to the Multiverse.
Stewie breeds a winning pedigree pig for Quahog Clam Day, and reveals to Brian that he got the pig from a parallel universe. He shows Brian the remote that allows him access to different parallel universes, each depicting Quahog in the same time and place, but under different conditions. They travel to different worlds as a demonstration, but having never traveled to more than one other parallel universe Stewie is unaware of how to return them home.
Jodie Foster as Contact replacing The Creation of Adam.
Brian is set to return until they reach a universe where humans are subservient to dogs, and changes his mind. An argument between the two results in them destroying the remote, trapping them in this universe, so they head on to the universe's Griffin family (as dogs) and Brian (as a human) to find a solution. They discover that Dog Stewie has also invented the same remote. But while Dog Stewie was getting the remote, Stewie bites Dog Peter and is sent to the human pound, where he would be euthanized. Brian, Dog Stewie, and Human Brian go to the human pound, frees Stewie, and sends him and Brian back to their universe. Human Brian, tired of living a harsh life under dogs, goes with them, but gets hit by a car before he can achieve any of his goals.
September 27, 2009, Season Premiere of American Dad: In Country...Club.
Steve has been chosen to sing the national anthem at the veteran's fair. However, he sings it with little passion, leading Stan to believe that the only way he can truly appreciate the national anthem is by experiencing war. Stan signs them both up for a Vietnam War re-enactment held at a local country club's golf course. Upon enlisting, Steve is immediately put on guard duty but he falls asleep, allowing the Vietnamese to attack their base and capture Stan. Steve goes in on a mission to rescue his father and succeeds. But later, while singing the national anthem at the fair, fireworks are lighted, sending Steve into a "war" flashback. This causes Steve to be committed to a mental hospital. Later, Steve escapes from the hospital as the doctor questions a limbless man named John (voiced by male pornographic actor Randy Spears) on how he opened the curtain. He uses his psychic powers to knock her into the wall as "Mind Quad" goes to commercial. Steve returns to the country club where the re-enactment took place (in a parody of First Blood). He interrupts the golfing and holes up in the golf cart shed. Stan comes in to apologize for pushing him too far and tells him that he can sing the way he wants to. Unfortunately, Steve sings the anthem in an excited mode while wearing a unitard; Stan tells a fellow veteran that he's his neighbor's son.
Meanwhile, Roger wants to gain the code to the Pay-per-view channel to see Barbara Streisand sing the songs of Celine Dion. However, Stan refuses to give it to him (he agreed when he thought it was $4.99, instead it was $499). So Roger plays a Vietnamese soldier interrogating him while he was captured; he tortures Stan by reading the first draft of the Sex and the City film. When Stan gives him a fake code, Hayley soon gives him the real code, in exchange for setting free an Ortolan Bunting, a rare bird, he was planning on cooking and eating. However, he gives her Klaus dressed as the bird. As Roger watches his show, he eats the bird and is so overwhelmed that he experiences the alien equivalent of a DMT trip.
As the credits are rolling, the "Mind Quad" part of the episode returns as a man wearing a black trench coat runs into the hospital room. The doctor tells him the Johns has escaped. The man reveals that John's legs were actually blown in to his mind as opposed to off of his body. The man vows to catch John as he uses his mind to drive a motorcycle to the Pentagon.
September 27, 2009, Series Premiere of The Cleveland Show.
Cleveland tells his friends that he has lost ownership of his house to his ex-wife Loretta and gained custody of their son, Cleveland Jr., and begins to worry about his future. After Peter (once again) destroys the side of Cleveland's house while he's in the tub, Cleveland decides he has finally had enough of everyone around him hogging all the attention and shenanigans, so he moves out of Quahog with Junior to California to pursue his life-long dream of becoming a professional minor league baseball scout.
Along the way, the two decide to stop off at Cleveland's old hometown of Stoolbend, Virginia where Cleveland runs into his old high school crush, Donna, who agrees to let him stay at her house for a few days. There he meets her philanderous five-year-old son Rallo and her irresponsible teenage daughter Roberta, as well as her neighbors: a redneck named Lester, a hipster wannabe named Holt, and an anthropomorphic bear named Tim. He also learns that Donna had divorced her no-good husband Robert, who was her boyfriend during high school, leaving her unable to handle caring for her children properly. Cleveland promises to set her children straight before he continues on his way.
Cleveland threatens Roberta's equally negligent boyfriend into bringing her home on curfew and gets Rallo back in school after he was expelled for looking up his teacher's skirt, and begins to fall in love with Donna all over again. Donna thanks Cleveland for all his work and decides her children need a man back in her family's life; however, instead of choosing Cleveland, she gets back together with Robert. Dejected, Cleveland leaves for California early with Cleveland Jr., but Junior convinces Cleveland to get back together with Donna. Cleveland returns to profess his love for Donna and helps her see that Robert is still not the man her family needs. Donna realizes Cleveland is right and leaves Robert for him. Cleveland and Donna later get married, and the two families accept each other into their lives.
September 27, 2009, In Germany the Christian Democrats and the Liberals win the federal election and announce their intention to form a new government with Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The Social Democrats concede defeat. (Der Spiegel)
September 27, 2009, Second South America-Africa Summit (ASA) on Isla Margarita.
September 27, 2009, The Swiss multinational Nestlé is buying milk from a farm seized from its white owners and now owned by the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, according to England's The Sunday Telegraph. (BBC)
September 27, 2009, American General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, formally requests more troops for the War in Afghanistan. (BBC)
September 27, 2009, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi tells a rally in Milan about his encounters with President of the United States Barack Obama, saying: "What's his name? Some tanned guy... Ah, Barack Obama!", also commenting on his wife Michelle: "You won't believe it, but two of them went to the beach because the wife is also tanned". (IOL)
September 27, 2009, An award-winning essay written by Paul McCartney as a 10-year-old for the coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is found after lying undiscovered in Liverpool's Central Library for more than 50 years. (BBC)
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September 28, 2009, Australia's 12 Apostles natural landmarks continue to crumble. (The Times)
September 28, 2009, A police officer who served at the G20 demonstrations in London in April 2009 is to face a charge of assaulting a woman with a baton after becoming involved in a confrontation at a vigil for Ian Tomlinson. (The Times)
September 28, 2009, Spain's Pablo Pineda wins the best actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, the first actor with Down's syndrome to win an international film award. (BBC)
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September 29, 2009, Release of Madonna Album Celebrations.
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September 12, 2009, 10 Warhol paintings dating from the late 1970s are stolen from the private collection of Richard Weisman in Los Angeles, USA. (BBC)
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September 29, 2009, Release of Mariah Carey Album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.
September 29, 2009, Release of Paramore Album Brand New Eyes.
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September 30, 2009, The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan Islands region in the South Pacific rises to at least 113. (The Age)
September 30, 2009, A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes western Indonesia, killing at least 75 and trapping thousands of people under rubble. (Reuters)
September 30, 2009, The final report of an international fact-finding mission concludes that Georgia started the 2008 South Ossetia war. (New York Times)
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