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.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.

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In May 2008, Scholastic announced the creation of a 10th Anniversary Edition of the book that was released on September 23, 2008 to mark the tenth anniversary of the original American release.

In 2008, as part of a rebranding campaign the word mark would be de-capitalized.

In 2008 its sales stayed below the 2 million mark.

In the UK, on-track bookies still mark up the odds on boards beside the race course and use tic-tac or mobile telephones to communicate the odds between their staff and to other bookies, but, with the modernisation of United Kingdom Bookmaking laws, online and high street gambling are at an all-time high, with a so-called Super Casino having been planned for construction in Manchester prior to the government announcing that this plan had been scrapped on 26 February 2008.

The LLNL BlueGene / L installation held the first position in the TOP500 list for 3. 5 years, until in June 2008 it was overtaken by IBM's Cell-based Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was the first system to surpass the 1 PetaFLOPS mark.

On 25 October 2008, to mark the 30th anniversary of the song " Saturday Night Fever " topping the UK charts, Gibb performed with special guests including Ronan Keating, Stephen Gateley, Sam Sparro, Sharleen Spiteri, Gabriella Climi and Bryn Christopher at the London music festival BBC Electric Proms.

Gamesley staged events in July 2008 to mark the 40th anniversary since it was first built and people from Manchester began moving onto the estate.

On 18 December 2008, to mark the centenary of her birth, a blue plaque was unveiled at her childhood home in Richmond.

Following its successful version of Dr. No, produced in 2008 as a special one-off to mark the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, Eon Productions allowed a second Bond story to be adapted.

In 1925, to mark the centenary of the event, the square was renamed as Decembrist Square, but in 2008 it reverted to its original name.

The modern five-pound issues are not issued for circulation, but to mark events or commemorations of national or Royal significance, including the following: Queen Mother 90th birthday ( 1990 ); 40th anniversary of the Coronation ( 1993 ); 70th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 1996 ); Golden Wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 1997 ); Prince of Wales ' 50th birthday ( 1998 ); Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial ( 1999 ); Millennium commemoration ( 1999 & 2000 ); Queen Mother Centenary ( 2000 ); Queen Victoria anniversary ( 2001 ); Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee ( 2002 ); Queen Mother Memorial ( 2002 ); Queen Elizabeth II Coronation 50th anniversary ( 2003 ); Centenary of the Entente Cordiale ( 2004 ); 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar ( 2005 ); 200th anniversary of the death of Horatio Nelson ( 2005 ); 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 2006 ); Diamond Wedding of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 2007 ) 60th birthday of Prince of Wales ( 2008 ).

On the evening of 8 November 2008, to mark the centenary year of Gray's birth, a concert was held in the Royal Festival Hall at London's South Bank Centre.

Since 2008, there have been plans afoot to mark the Quincentennial of the battle on, and before the 9th September 2013.

In October / November 2008, Rowan Tree Theatre Co. in the Scottish Borders, mounted a production of the play to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War and in celebration of the company's twenty first birthday.

On December 24, 2008, the STB approved CN's purchase for $ 300 million of the principal lines of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Company ( EJ & E ) ( reporting mark EJE ) from US Steel Corp originally announced on September 27, 2007.

While claimed figures are around the 3 million ( approx 5. 72 readers per copy ) mark, Nielsen data from 2008 had the ODN at 1, 762, 000 ( 530, 000 circulation ), Apple Daily at 1, 633, 000 ( 347, 000 circulation, The Sun at 537, 000 readers ( 180, 000 circulation ) all including online readers too.

In November 2008 the restored film was released on DVD to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice in 1918.

In the 2008 federal election, the Green Party of Canada was invited to the debates for the first time and achieved a high mark of 6. 8 % of the popular vote.

In November 2008, on the 75th anniversary of the Ukraine famine, both Muggeridge and Jones were posthumously awarded the Ukrainian Order of Freedom to mark their exceptional services to the country and its people.

During the 2008 – 2009 academic year the College at Florham celebrated a year-long celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of that campus.

The development of the chemistry of alkaloids was accelerated by the emergence of spectroscopic and chromatographic methods in the 20th century, so that by 2008 more than 12, 000 alkaloids had been identified.

On July 1, 2008, a new 20th anniversary special edition DVD set was released from Anchor Bay to coincide with the DVD of writer Waters ' new film Sex and Death 101.

On November 18, 2008, Anchor Bay released a Blu-ray with all the special features from the 20th Anniversary DVD and a soundtrack in Dolby TrueHD 5. 1.

It is the fastest growing Jewish youth movement, and in 2008 celebrates its 20th Birthday.

He recorded the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony in May 2008 at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox in Century City, California.

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.

* 2008 — Worldwatch hosted the 20th Anniversary of the James E. Hansen hearings.

The Death Star placed ninth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll of the most popular movie weapons.

In Malmesbury, his name lives on into the 20th and 21st centuries, with everything from a bus company and a second-hand shop to several roads and streets, as well as the Care Home opened in 2008, named after him.

Two Nico tribute concerts took place in Europe in the autumn of 2008 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Nico's birth and the 20th anniversary of her death.

In 2008, London Evening Standard critic, Ben Lewis, applied the term to three Turner Prize nominees and saw them amongst a movement which was reviving the formalism of the early 20th century ; he advocated values of an aesthetic informed by modesty, generosity and genuine emotion.

In 2008 English Heritage announced its recommendation to list parts of TV centre as an excellent example of 20th century architecture.

On September 27, 2008, the Allen Parish Tourist Commission opened Leatherwood Museum in Oakdale in a two-story house which served during the early 20th century as a hospital where women waited on the second-floor balcony to deliver their babies.

In February 2008, 20th Century Fox announced Schreiber would play the mutant supervillain, Sabretooth in the Marvel Comics film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on May 1, 2009.

In 2008 Salisbury's downtown area underwent major sidewalk and road work, with replica early 20th century-style streetlights installed.

Chesterfield celebrated the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2008.

New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Dennis Township as its 20th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the " Best Places To Live " in New Jersey.

Glenn Danzig had announced his intention to retire from touring following these, though he later contradicted this by announcing a Danzig 20th anniversary tour in 2008.

On May 11, 2010, at the 20th anniversary of the Latino Commission in its annual gala " Cielo Latino " and in the company of Hollywood and Broadway stars including Miss Universe 2008 and 2009, NBC / Telemundo anchor woman Carmen Dominicci was installed as International Ambassador of the Latino Commission on AIDS.

It was voted 20th place of the top 20 best orchestras in the world in a 2008 survey by Gramophone magazine.

As part of the event, from 1986 through 2008, the Orchestra released tracks from their broadcast archives on double LP / CD collections, as well as two larger sets of broadcasts and rarities ( CSO: The First 100 Years, 12 CDs, 1991 ; CSO in the 20th Century: Collector's Choice, 10 CDs, 2000 ).

For the 20th Anniversary in 2008, the location of the Festival was changed to be held closer to the City center at the Columbia Woods Park complex.

In August 2008, Glenn Danzig announced that Danzig ( the band ) would do a 20th anniversary tour, celebrating the release of their self-titled debut album.

In 2008, most of the Town of Mount Royal was designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as a " synthesis of urban renewal movements of the early 20th century, reflecting the influence of the City Beautiful, Garden City and Garden Suburb movements ".

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.