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

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

Major Dutch-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Kerk en Leven ( Drukkerij en Uitgeverij Halewijn ) ( 409, 817 ), Dag Allemaal ( 402, 097 ), HUMO ( 227, 614 ), Libelle ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 216, 506 ), TV-Blad ( 158, 283 ), Story ( Belgian magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 159, 833 ), Plus Magazine ( Belgium ) ( 134, 242 ), TV-Familie / Blik ( 129, 328 ), Flair ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 126, 831 ), Knack ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ) ( 126, 646 ), Trends ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ),'t Pallieterke, ....

Major French-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Trends / Tendance ( Roularta Media Group ), Le Vif / L ' Express ( Roularta Media Group ), Télé Moustique ( Sanoma Belgium ), Femmes d ' Aujourd ' hui ( Sanoma Belgium ), ....

The China Railway Seventh Group Co. Ltd will be in charge of the contract, under signed by the China Railway Engineering Corporation, with construction to be started from June 2008.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

* Development of other content distribution networks on the internet through P2PTV ; EBU Project Group D / P2P, from November 2007 to April 2008, with a trial of selected member channels, thanks to Octoshape's distribution platform.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

In 2008 de Garis received a 3 million Chinese yuan grant ( around $ 436, 000 ) to build an artificial brain for China ( the China-Brain Project ), as part of the Brain Builder Group at Wuhan University.

Since 2008 a take-over is in progress: the Schaeffler Group from Herzogenaurach ( Bavaria ) holds the majority of the stock but were required due to the financial crisis to deposit the options as securities at banks.

Japanese investment in Cambodia includes Phnom Penh Commercial Bank, a joint venture of Hyundai Switzerland and Japanese SBI Group, opened in 2008.

Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network ( GaWC ) research.

" On June 17, 2008, Viacom formed the Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group to " encompass all paid and subscription gaming initiatives across all relevant platforms ", including Neopets.

According to OHCHR, the Oromia Support Group ( OSG ) recorded 594 extra-judicial killings of Oromos by Ethiopian government security forces and 43 disappearances in custody between 2005 and August 2008.

According to an Environmental Working Group analysis of USDA and FDA pesticide residue tests performed from 2000 through 2008, 84 % of the 2, 216 tested potato samples contained detectable traces of at least one pesticide.

* Tom Cooper, Sudan, Civil War since 1955 Air Combat Information Group, Feb 10, 2008

According to the 2009 Syria Report of the Oxford Business Group, the oil sector accounted for 23 % of government revenues, 20 % of exports, and 22 % of GDP in 2008.

In the fall of 2008, Scientific American was put under the control of Nature Publishing Group, a division of Holtzbrinck.

In December 2008, the Austin Group published a new major revision, known as POSIX: 2008 ( formally: IEEE Std 1003. 1-2008 ).

TiVo was launched in Australia in July 2008 by Hybrid Television Services, a company owned by Australia's Seven Media Group and New Zealand's TVNZ.

The OSP signed four Memorandums of Understanding with leading companies from Europe and Singapore at the Paris Eurosatory 2008 defense exhibition on Junen 20th, Rheinmetall Group and Diehl Defence Holding of Germany, Singapore Technologies Engineering ( ST Engg ), and Thales of France.

In 2008, the company was purchased by Diageo Estates.

These steps included the acquisition on June 2, 2008 of substantially all of the assets of the Pennsylvania Brewery from Diageo North America, Inc. From 2007 to 2009, core product volume brewed at company-owned breweries increased from approximately 35 % to over 95 %.

Diageo made an announcement on June 24, 2008 that it intends to build and operate a new rum distillery on St. Croix, Virgin Islands beginning in 2010 and to source from it beginning at the end of their current supply contract in 2012.

According to Gislason and Craig ( 2005 ): " Most thermodynamic data come from calorimetry ..." According to Kondepudi ( 2008 ): " Calorimetry is widely used in present day laboratories.

Phayer's Pius XII, The Holocaust, and the Cold War ( 2008 ) makes use of many documents that have recently come to light due to Bill Clinton's 1997 executive order declassifying wartime and postwar documents, many of which are currently at the US National Archives and Holocaust Memorial Museum.

On 24 July 2008 Tuisugaletaua Avea, the Minister of Transport, announced that the switch would come into effect at 6: 00 am on Monday, 7 September 2009.

* 1 January 2008 — New rules of navigation passed on by the Suez Canal Authority come into force.

The treaty was written in 2008 and was to come into force 30 days after the date of receipt of the ninth instrument of ratification.

The sixth was slated for November 2008, but Warner moved it to July 2009 only three months before the movie was supposed to come out, citing the lack of summer blockbusters in 2009 ( due to the Writer's Strike ) as the reason.

On 11 February 2008, national television reported that the motorcade of Gusmão had come under gunfire one hour after President José Ramos-Horta was shot in the stomach ; according to the Associated Press, the two incidents raised the possibility of a coup attempt ; they have also described as possible assassination attempts < ref name = " Rudd-Timor ">

As 2007 ended and 2008 began, it was clear that lending standards had tightened and the era of " mega-buyouts " had come to an end.

Family Matters is a consideration of the difficulties that come with aging, which Mistry returned to in 2008 with the short fiction The Scream ( published as a separate volume, in support of World Literacy of Canada, with illustrations by Tony Urquhart ).

Amid accusations of vote-rigging Argüello narrowly won the mayoral election in Managua on November 9, 2008 elections against the candidate of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party, Eduardo Montealegre, who had come second to Daniel Ortega in the 2006 presidential election.

These were not the first presidents to come to Elko County: William McKinley visited in 1901 ; Herbert Hoover made his final campaign broadcast as president from a railroad car in Elko in 1932 ; President Roosevelt spoke in Carlin in 1938 during his whistle stop tour ; and Barack Obama visited while campaigning in 2008.

Since 2008 railway service has come under attack by the Balochs, especially in the Bolan Pass area resulting in a bomb blast on the railway tracks and firing on trains.

The formal announcement for the new facility is expected to come out in 2008, with construction to begin shortly thereafter.

They had the best record in school history and are probably the best team that will ever come through the school. In 2008 the Conway baseball Bears finished third in the state tournament for the first time in school history.

The long awaited Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.

The " Waltham Abbey Church Heritage Organ Appeal " was launched in July 2008 to replace the existing organ, which is deemed to have come to the end of its useful life.

Glenn Close was quoted in 2008 as saying, " Men still come up to me and say, ' You scared the shit out of me.

On December 8, 2008 it was revealed that this release will be called Live Inferno and come in the form of a double-disc live album and a live DVD, taken from their appearances at Inferno and Wacken metal festivals during their brief reunion.

In September 2008, Hayward announced the impending release of remastered versions of Octave, Long Distance Voyager and The Present which will be released on Universal Records in the months to come.

" In September 2008, Anderson wrote that he's " so much better ... so grateful and so blessed ... I look forward to 2009 for the " Great Work " to come.

Over time the feature would come to be one of the most recognizable and long-running pieces on the station, being owned by the station until 2008 and continuing to air new segments up until May 2011.

*" 2012 – The Paralympics come home ", BBC, July 4, 2008.

There were reunions and subsequent tours from Van Halen ( with Hagar in 2004 and then Roth in 2007 ), The long awaited Guns N ' Roses album Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008, but only went platinum in the U. S., produced no hit singles, and failed to come close to the success of the band's late 1980s and early 1990s material.

Although they had the youngest average age of any WNBA team, the Liberty managed to win 19 regular season games in 2008, to defeat the Connecticut Sun in the first round of playoff action, and to come within two points of defeating the Detroit Shock in the third and last game of the Eastern Conference Finals.

As of 2008 plans to revamp Jarrow School have come into action.