It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

Chad successfully manages to repel the rebel movements, but recently, with some losses ( see Battle of N ' Djamena ( 2008 )).

Another major flood happened on June 12, 2008, when severe thunderstorms caused Duck Creek to overflow its banks and flood properties and nearby streets ( see Iowa flood of 2008 ).

On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

* EFSA GMO Panel deliberations on the Austrian report " Biological effects of transgenic maize NK603 x MON 810 fed in long term reproduction studies in mice " ( Part of the minutes of the plenary meeting held on 3 – 4 December 2008, see on page 9 )

In 2007 and 2008, a man being treated by Gero Hütter was cured of HIV by repeated Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ( see also Allogeneic stem cell transplantation, Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, Allotransplantation ) with double-delta-32 mutation which disables the CCR5 receptor ; this cure was not completely accepted by the medical community until 2011.

Many people enjoy this display, and large crowds flock to see it, with 12, 000 attending the 2007 / 2008 event.

* V-LIB 1. 2 ( 2008 Vartavan Library Classification for over 700 fields of knowledge, currently sold under license in the UK by Rosecastle Ltd. ( see http :// rosecastle. atspace. com / index_files / Page382. html ).

Campaigning wrapped up March 7, 2008 for general elections that could see gains for Malaysia's opposition amid anger over race and religion among minority Chinese and Indians.

At a Google Tech Talk in 2008 Matsumoto further stated, " I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.

Betancourt was rescued by the Colombian government on 2 July 2008 ( see Operation Jaque below ).

And thus, as of 2008, Switzerland is at the second place among European countries with populations above one million in terms of nominal and purchasing power parity Gross Domestic Product per capita, behind Norway ( see list ).

Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were erected in 2400 – 2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been erected at the site as early as 3000 BC ( see phase 1 below ).

In " The Runaway Bride " ( December 2006 ), " The Stolen Earth " ( 2008 ), and " The Beast Below ( 2010 )", however, the doors can be opened safely while the ship is in vacuum, as the TARDIS protects its occupants ( see the " Defences " section below ).

In January 2008, while on set of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Gilliam stated that he was looking forward to the project, " But I'm still waiting to see a script!

The fire of 13 February 2008 ( see History ) has resulted in major temporary economic disruption.

* Visual Basic see: http :// www. snakelegs. org / 2008 / 01 / 18 / double-metaphone-visual-basic-implementation /

He appeared to indicate that he did not see purchase of Russian launches for NASA crews as politically viable following the 2008 South Ossetia war, and hoped the new US administration will resolve the issue in 2009 by extending shuttle operations beyond 2010.

Intel started using the term netbook in March 2008 as a generic term to describe " small laptops that are designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet ", believing they were " not offering a branded line of computers here " and " see no naming conflict ".

The Dow would see the negative effects of this price-weighted average during September – October 2008 with a former component AIG.

There can be several Archbishops Emeriti of the same see: the 2008 Annuario Pontificio listed three living Archbishops Emeriti of Taipei.

In 2008 the U. N. Security Council adopted resolution 1820, which noted that “ rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide ”; see also war rape.

( For a relatively technical and US-centric view of state of play of HTS technology in power systems and the development status of Generation 2 conductor see Superconductivity for Electric Systems 2008 US DOE Annual Peer Review.

London in 2003 and extended in 2007 ( see London congestion charge ); Stockholm in 2006, as seven month trial, and then on a permanent basis since August 2007 ( see Stockholm congestion tax ); and since January 2008, Milan introduced a traffic charge scheme as a one-year trial, called Ecopass, that exempts higher emission standard vehicles ( Euro IV ) and other alternative fuel vehicles.

To measure the spectrum of the diffuse X-ray emission from the interstellar medium over the energy range 0. 07 to 1 keV, NASA launched a Black Brant 9 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico on May 1, 2008.

The mechanism of X-ray generation was studied further in 2008.

The erasure was incomplete, and Archimedes ' work is now readable after scientific and scholarly work from 1998 to 2008 using digital processing of images produced by ultraviolet, infrared, visible and raking light, and X-ray.

In July 2008, the International X-ray Observatory, a joint project between ESA, NASA and JAXA, was proposed as the next major X-ray observatory but was later cancelled.

In 2008, an X-ray computed tomography was taken of Canute, which showed that he was right-handed and of a slender build.

In April 2008, a rare portrait, believed to be of Southampton has been discovered using X-ray technology.

An X-ray confirmed he had broken a finger and he missed the remainder of the 2008 English domestic season.

They had two children: Bo Siegbahn ( 1915 – 2008 ), a diplomat and politician, and Kai Siegbahn ( 1918 – 2007 ), a physicist, who also received the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1981, for his contribution to the development of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

* X-ray Shows Picasso's Guernica Painting has Suffered a lot but is not in Danger Associated Press, 23 July 2008

In 2008, American scientists performed an experiment that showed the rays can be strong enough to leave an X-ray image of a finger on photographic paper.

Salivary stones, also called salivary duct calculus, are mainly made of calcium, but do not indicate any kind of calcium disorder .< REF NAME =" STONE "> Salivary Gland Stones ( Salivary Calculi ) Accessed March 20, 2008 .</ ref > Stones may be diagnosed via X-ray ( with a success rate of about 80 %< REF NAME =" STONE "/>), a computed tomography ( CT ) scan or Medical ultrasonography.

The Constellation-X Observatory ( HTXS or Con-X ) was a mission concept for an X-ray space observatory to be operated by NASA ; in 2008 it was merged with ESA and JAXA efforts in the same direction to produce the International X-ray Observatory project, announced on July 24, 2008.

On the occasion of his 300th umpiring appearance in 2008, McLaren described Hird's outburst as a " defining moment " in his career.

On 24 September 2008, Tuckey was again expelled from the house, this time for one hour, for an outburst during House of Representatives Question Time.

The eruption has continued intermittently into 2008, as of the end of February it was reported that the eruption appeared to be gathering strength, with a major outburst taking place on March 5.

In the week after Wilson's outburst, Miller had raised $ 1. 6 million, about three times his 2008 campaign, while Wilson raised $ 1. 8 million.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

Economic analysts say that the project would cost at least $ 1 billion ( equivalent to about 40 percent of Armenia's 2008 state budget ).

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

On September 11, 2008, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles at Pegasus Field.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

* 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

For example, an array of 10 integer variables, with indices 0 through 9, may be stored as 10 words at memory addresses 2000, 2004, 2008, … 2036, so that the element with index i has the address 2000 + 4 × i.

The Falcons had the NFL's second best winning percentage at home during the period of 2008 to 2010 with a. 833 percentage.

A 2008 quantum physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland has determined that in any hypothetical nonlocal hidden-variables theory the speed of the quantum non-local connection would have to be at least 10, 000 times the speed of light.

DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

* 2008 – Live at Babeville

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.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

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 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.

In 2008 Atari was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for pioneering the development of handheld games with its Lynx game unit.