Uprising is the opening track and first single from The Resistance (2009), Muse's fifth album. Matt Bellamy wrote the lyrics inspired by the 2008 financial crisis, the G20 protests and the feeling that "they" (banks, governments, system) try to control everything.It became the biggest hit of their career in the US: #1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs for 17 weeks (record at the time), #37 on the Hot 100 (the band's only top 40 to date) and voted the best song in Alternative Songs history in the

Factual thoughts….@ScottPelley and @mhenryschuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too. I wrote him when I was hired.

STAR TREK (2009) was such a hit that it became the first film in the franchise’s 43-year history to gross over $100 million.It took 10 movies & four decades for Star Trek to cross a box office milestone that most blockbuster franchises hit much earlier.

John Collison: We only had 50 users two years after founding Stripe“We started working on Stripe in the Fall of 2009, and we launched Stripe in September 2011,” John Collison reflects. “I remember right at the beginning when we were starting it I said to Patrick [Collison], ‘Yeah let’s do it. How hard can it be?’ Which gives you a sense of our mindset. And the answer was: two years of difficulty. We had not predicted that.”John remembers feeling dejected when Stripe only had 50 users two years l