Kate Papenberg, the female winner of the full marathon, passes the Arnold House at approximately the 8.5 mile mark Sept. 19, 2009, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
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Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz gives a high five to one of the full marathon runners crossing the finish line Sept. 19, 2009, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz gives a trophy to Dave Johnston, the male winner of the full marathon Sept. 19, 2009, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz gives a trophy to Kate Papenberg, the female winner of the full marathon Sept. 19, 2009, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a 2009 American military science fiction action film based on the G.I. Joe toy line. It is the first installment in the G.I. Joe film series. Directed by Stephen Sommers from a screenplay by Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, and Paul Lovett, the film features an ensemble cast based on the various characters of the toy line. The story follows two American soldiers, Duke and Ripcord, who join the G.I. Joe Team after being attacked by Military Armaments Research Syndicate (M.A.R.S.) troops.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra premiered at the Andrews Air Force Base on July 31, 2009, and was released in the United States on August 7, by Paramount Pictures, following an extensive marketing campaign focused on the Mid-American public. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed over $302 million worldwide against a 175 million budget.
The film's actors were scanned for Hasbro's toy line,[19] which began in July 2009 with the release of 3-inch-tall action figures. The Rise of Cobra toy line also includes 12-inch figures, and vehicles, including the first play set based on the Pit in the franchise's history.[80] Electronic Arts developed a video game sequel to the film, also titled G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.[81]
IDW Publishing released a four-issue prequel written by Chuck Dixon. Each issue focuses on Duke, Destro, the Baroness and Snake Eyes, respectively.[82] It began publication in March 2009.[83] The weekly film adaptation was written by Denton J. Tipton and drawn by Casey Maloney. The film's universe continued in a limited series about Snake Eyes later in 2009: Ray Park enjoyed playing the character and approached writer Kevin VanHook and artist S. L. Gallant with the idea of a comic further exploring his incarnation of the character.[84]
In 2009, R.M. Productions Ltd. was contracted by Paramount Pictures Corp. to produce a viral marketing campaign for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. This resulted in the creation of G.I. Joe: The Invasion of Cobra Island, a two-part animated web video, which eventually went viral.[92] The plot has G.I. Joe called in to stop Cobra when they develop a secret bio-weapon on their hidden island base. It was done in the style of Team America: World Police and Thunderbirds, using a mix of vintage Hasbro G.I. Joe vehicles of the 1980s, and the newly produced 25th-anniversary G.I. Joe figures. The characters were animated using custom puppetry techniques, while their faces and other special effects were done using 3D animation software packages.[93]
The film was first screened in the US on July 31, 2009 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.[91] The premiere was at Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre on August 7, 2009,[94] and on the following day, G.I. Joe started playing at 4,007 theaters in the US,[95] along with 35 other markets.[96]
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was released on November 3, 2009 on Blu-ray and DVD in regular and two-disc editions, and later[97][98] as a book[99] and as a video game. Both disc editions include audio commentary by Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay, and two making-of featurettes, with the second disc of the special edition holding a digital copy of the film.[100] The film opened at #1 at the DVD sales chart, making $40.9 million from 2,538,000 DVD units in the first week of its release.[101] The film sold more than 3.8 million discs, 500,000 of them on Blu-ray, during its first week.[102] The film was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on July 20, 2021, to coincide with the theatrical release of Snake Eyes.[103]
The film grossed $150 million in the United States and $152.3 million internationally for a worldwide gross of $302.5 million[3] against a production budget of $175 million. It is the 22nd-highest-grossing film of 2009 and the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2009 to gross $300 million worldwide behind Star Trek, Monsters vs. Aliens, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator Salvation, Fast & Furious, A Christmas Carol, Inglourious Basterds, The Proposal, and The Blind Side.[105]
Inspired by the movie, The Ballad of G.I. Joe was released in 2009 on the website Funny or Die. Written by Daniel Strange and Kevin Umbricht, and featuring celebrities such as Olivia Wilde, Zach Galifianakis, Alexis Bledel, Henry Rollins, and Vinnie Jones, the video short parodies several characters from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero by showing what they do in their spare time.[130][131]
Mariusz Zbigniew Pudzianowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarjuʂ pudʑaˈnɔfskʲi]; born 7 February 1977), also known as "Pudzian" and "Dominator", is a Polish entrepreneur, mixed martial artist and former strongman competitor. With 43 international victories at a record 70% winning percentage in his strongman career[4] he is considered the greatest strength athlete of all time. During his career as a strongman, Pudzianowski won five World's Strongest Man titles, the most in history.[5] He also won two runner-up titles in 2006 and 2009 and made 9 out of 9 appearances into the World's Strongest Man final. He also won the Europe's Strongest Man a record, 6 times. In 2009, Pudzianowski debuted as a mixed martial artist. He is currently ranked #5 in the KSW Heavyweight rankings.[6]
He competed in the 2009 World's Strongest Man competition the following year which took place in Malta, trying to win a remarkable sixth title in 8 years. He eventually placed second after Žydrūnas Savickas returned to the competition to win the title for the first time. Following the competition, Pudzianowski said in an interview that he would not continue participating in strongman events, because of his career in Mixed Martial Arts, which required totally different training to strongman.[12]
He debuted as a mixed martial arts fighter on 11 December 2009, during the KSW 12 event in Warsaw, Poland, winning against Marcin Najman.[14][15] Pudzianowski started throwing low kicks soon after the fight began. After several hits, Najman fell to the mat and Pudzianowski started delivering punches (a tactic known as ground-and-pound).[15] Najman was forced to tap the mat, indicating he wanted to end the fight, which lasted for only 43 seconds.[14][15] Pudzianowski collected 200,000 zlotys (US$70,000) for the fight.[14]
In an interview in 2009 Mariusz said that he treats the sport as a hobby. He is not doing it for money, as the money is relatively low in Strongman and MMA (he said that the winner of World's Strongest Man can get US$60,000, and the winner of Grand Prix in the US can get anywhere from US$100,000 to $150,000). He owns a very successful company (a school for bodyguards) as well as real estate. Those are his main sources of money.[64] Pudzianowski also owns a truck cargo company named Pudzianowski Transport.
Pudzianowski often appears as a guest singer in the musical group Pudzian Band, formed by his brother Krystian. Their first single "Zdobyć świat", was released in 2006. In 2009, the group released an album, Dawaj na ring (Go, hit the ring).[65]
The study measured outcomes using a combination of structured questionnaires and observations, sampling and testing of drinking water, child anthropometry and specimen (stool and blood) testing. GfK Mode Pvt Ltd. was contracted to conduct the fieldwork. Training and all field activities were overseen by the study investigators (SRP, ALS). The baseline survey was conducted between 25 May and 18 July, 2009, and the follow-up survey was conducted between 23 February and 25 April, 2011. Questionnaires used in the follow-up survey were the same as those used in the baseline survey with some additional questions to measure program exposure and outcomes. The household questionnaire collected information about household socioeconomics, demographics, exposure to the TSC activities, water and sanitation infrastructure, sanitation- and hygiene-related behaviors, and health/diseases. Interviewers conducted standardized spot-check observations of dwelling sanitation and hygiene facilities. Defecation behavior was reported by adults during private, in-home interviews. Main outcomes were defined as follows.
Most studies share a strong consensus that language identification of tweets is an exceptionally difficult task for several reasons. First, language classification models are usually trained over formal and large corpora, while most messages shared on Twitter are informal and composed of 140 characters or fewer [81, 82] (see Appendix C for more details). Second, the informal nature of the content is also a function of linguistic and cultural norms; some languages are used differently over social media compared to the way they are normally used in books and formal documents. Third, users are not forced to choose a single language for each message; indeed messages are often posted with words from several languages found in a single tweet. Therefore, the combination of short, informal, and multilingual posts on Twitter makes language detection much more difficult compared to LID of formal documents [114]. Finally, the lack of large collections of verified ground-truth across most languages is challenging for data scientists seeking to fine-tune language detection models using Twitter data [81, 115, 116]. 2ff7e9595c
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