From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

On August 5, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year, $ 44. 75 million deal with the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41. 25 million through 2012 and including a $ 15. 5 million club option for 2013 with a $ 3. 5 million buyout.

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

On 17 August 2008 club chairman and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ; his place at the chairmanship of the club was successively taken by his daughter Rosella.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

in Stockholm 4 July 2008, and on Swedish television on 5 August.

In August 2008, two traffic lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas.

As a celebration, in partnership with the CLIC Sargent charity, 2 August 2008 was Gnashional Menace Day, where children were sponsored to behave like Dennis.

Regardless, the territory was formally transferred to Cameroon on 14 August 2008.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

* BBC News report on handover, 14 August 2008

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

* EU27 population projections 2008-2060, Eurostat Newsrelease 119 / 2008, 26 August 2008.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

In August 2008, a Comorian delegation visited China on a good-will visit.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

* The 5ESS Switching System ( The AT & T Technical Journal, July – August 1985, Vol.

In United States telecommunication law, Modification of Final Judgment ( MFJ ) is the August 1982 agreement approved by the court ( consent decree ) settling United States v. AT & T, a landmark antitrust suit, originally filed on January 14, 1949 and modifying the previous Final Judgment of January 24, 1956.

Microsoft purchased a license for Version 7 Unix from AT & T in 1979, and announced on August 25, 1980 that it would make it available for the 16-bit microcomputer market.

In August 1984, IBM introduced the Intel 80286-derived IBM PC / AT, its next-generation machine.

On July 2, 2008, the Goo Goo Dolls released a new single called " Real " to select iTunes stores, while it was released on the AT & T USA Olympic Team soundtrack to the remaining iTunes stores on August 8, 2008, coinciding with the start of the Beijing Olympics.

* Tom Duff " Viral Attacks On UNIX System Security ", AT & T 11273-880728-02TMS, August 1987

Webster University also hosts a speaker series, originally titled The Success to Significance Speaker Series and now known as the Walker Speaker Series, that has featured business professionals including Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Edward Whitacre, Jr., former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT & T Inc., and August A. Busch IV, President & CEO of Anheuser-Busch.

LIN TV reacquired WOOD-TV and its LMA with WOTV in 1999 when AT & T sold-off its stake in the company to Hicks, Muse, Furst, and Tate ( now HM Capital ) and on August 14, WOOD-TV became the first station in the area to air a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7.

In August 2010, AT & T reported that there were no phone numbers available in the 212 area code.

Beginning in August 1955 and extending into the 1960s, AT & T began remanufacturing the Model 302 as the Model 5302, with a base shell of new design ( and sometimes with a handset of new design ) which gave the set something of the appearance of a Model 500.

On August 13, a ruling by a federal appeals court cleared the way for NASCAR to prevent AT & T Inc. from featuring its logo on Jeff Burton's No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

At first practice for the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 24, the # 31 car had no AT & T branding, but the familiar orange and black paint scheme.

As part of the financial contribution, the center, which opened August 2008, will be named the AT & T Executive Education and Conference Center for the next 25 years.

In August of the same year, AT & T invested $ US1. 4 billion for a 32 % share.

After graduating, Jafarkhani joined AT & T Laboratories-Research in August 1997 before moving to Broadcom in July 2000 and to the University of California, Irvine in September 2001.

On August 5, 2011, during a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the San Francisco Giants at AT & T Park in San Francisco, Giants pitcher Ramon Ramirez hit Phillies batter Shane Victorino with a pitch.

The first wave of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) moved to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011, Radio 1 ended each day of the festival from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 August with the Fun & Filth Cabaret.

* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

Gygax met Dave Arneson, the future co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, at the second Gen Con in August 1969.

As of August 2012, the company is directly managed by NRDC and it also oversees the operations of Lord & Taylor in the United States.

* http :// www. alphagalileo. org / ViewItem. aspx? ItemId = 83171 & CultureCode = en, First Woman President of the International Mathematical Union, August 2010, AlphaGalileo

On August 24, 1958, Jan & Arnie played in a live show hosted by Dick Clark that featured Bobby Darin, the Champs, Sheb Wooley, The Blossoms, The Six Teens, Jerry Wallace, Jack Jones, Rod McKuen, and the Ernie Freeman Orchestra in front of nearly 12, 000 fans at the first rock-n-roll show ever held at the Hollywood Bowl.

Milford briefly became vocalist for Beck, Bogert & Appice for six performances between July 24 to August 7, 1972.

By August 2009, Latvia's GDP had fallen by 20 % year on year, with S & P predicting a further 16 % contraction to come.

1992: Child Survival & Safe Motherhood Programme ( CSSM ) was launched on 20th August

The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything, Little, Brown & Company, 1st BACK B Edition, August 2000, pp. 177 – 180.

His memoir, Just One More Thing ( ISBN 978-0786717958 ) was published by Carroll & Graf on August 23, 2006.

As the opening attack of the British Operation Crossbow, the Operation Hydra air-raid attacked the HVP's " Sleeping & Living Quarters " ( to specifically target scientists ), then the " Factory Workshops ", and finally the " Experimental Station " on the night of August 17 / 18, 1943.

The term " rhythm and blues " was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, when its " Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles " chart was renamed as " Best Selling Soul Singles ".

The movie, which was released in Japan on August 6, 1977, was edited down further and dubbed into English in 1978 ; entitled Space Cruiser Yamato or simply Space Cruiser, it was only given a limited theatrical release in Europe & Latin America, where it was called Patrulha Estelar ( Star Patrol ) or Astronave Intrepido ( Starship Intrepid ), though it was later released on video in most countries.

The Zelda version of Nintendo's Game & Watch series was released first in August 1989 as a dual-screen handheld electronic game similar in appearance to today's Nintendo DS.

When Jamaica was granted independence from Britain in August 1962, the Turks & Caicos Islands became a Crown colony.

* July & August: The city hosts a series of weekly firework displays by the sea front in Scheveningen, as part of an international fireworks festival and competition.

* July & August is the annual Summer School of The Hague, an international summer course for young dancers, initiated by Mirella Simoncini with guestteachers from Het Nationale Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, Cullberg Ballet, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Codarts and choreograohy workshops with repertoire from Itzik Galili, Mats Ek, Marius Petipa a. o.

In August 2012, The Pogues embarked on a 30th anniversary Summer 2012 8-city European tour scheduled from 4 August 2012 at the Stockton Weekender Festival in Stockton-on-Tees, UK to 11 & 12 September 2012 at L ' Olympia, Paris, two shows to be filmed and recorded for a live album and DVD.

Little Brown & Company ; ISBN 0-316-34816-3 ; ( August 1998 ).

The United Methodist Church is one tradition within the Christian Church .< ref >" Wesleyan Essentials of Christian Faith " August 18, 2009: < http :// www. worldmethodistcouncil. org / index. php? option = com_content & task = view & id = 22 & Itemid = 9 ></ ref > The United Methodist Church is active in ecumenical relations with other Christian groups and denominations.