In 2008, effective January 1, 2009, the ADAAA broadened the interpretations and added to the ADA examples of " major life activities " including, but not limited to, " caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working " as well as the operation of several specified " major bodily functions ".

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

In 2009 Belgium has 20 major media companies active in numerous telecommunications media subsectors.

A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

There are 7 major and 31 minor airports in the DR ( 2009 ):

Since 2009 the FAE is going through some major changes and modernisation plans are still ongoing whilst new projects are considered to bolster the country's defence capacities.

A study published in 2009 took into account data sets from major world economies and correlated them with inequality indices.

* Hanley Ramirez ( 2006 – 2012 )-As the main piece of the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell trade in the 2005 off-season, Ramirez was the face of the franchise during his tenure and a major offensive cog, having a 30-30 season in 2008, winning a batting title and finishing 2nd in MVP voting in 2009, and participating in three All-Star games.

Gambling is also a major international commercial activity, with the legal gambling market totaling an estimated $ 335 billion in 2009.

A 2009 survey found that Europeans rated climate change as the second most serious problem facing the world, between " poverty, the lack of food and drinking water " and " a major global economic downturn ".

For the Construction of RN7 Canada Pledge US $ 75 and IDB US $ 31 Million for the construction of the road which started in 2009 ; it did suffer major setback because of the earthquake also.

Terminals 3 and 4 underwent major refurbishments between 2007 – 2009.

Windows 7 is the current major release after Windows Vista and was released to manufacturing on 22 July 2009, and reached general retail availability on 22 October 2009.

This emerging bipolarity represents a major break from the fragmented, multi-party political landscape of the postwar era, although it appears to have reached a plateau, since efforts via referendums to further curtail the influence of small parties were defeated in 1999, 2000, and 2009.

Later in 2009, some major IRC servers were delinked:,,, EFnet's only UK server, and EFnet's only UK hub, which were sponsored by Demon Internet.

The Royal Bank of Scotland International ( RBSI ) is a major employer with some 900 staff employed in Jersey, as of March 2009.

The galleries, which the museum had initially hoped to open by 2009, represent the first major architectural intervention at the Louvre since the addition of I. M.

In a survey conducted by Monash University in December 2009, flybuys was ranked as " most worthwhile joining " among major Australian loyalty programs.

Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, representing a ¥ 406 billion market in Japan in 2007 ( approximately $ 3. 6 billion ) and ¥ 420 billion ($ 5. 5 billion ) in 2009.

* Marketing to Moviegoers: Second Edition Academic / business book covers major studios and independents, 2009.

As of 2009, the world production of neptunium-237 by commercial power reactors was over 1000 critical masses a year, but to extract the isotope from irradiated fuel elements would be a major industrial undertaking.

Spring and fall are generally warm but prone to severe thunderstorms, which occasionally bring tornadoes — with recent major events on April 16, 1998 ; April 7, 2006 ; February 5, 2008 ; April 10, 2009 ; and May 1 – 2, 2010.

As of 31 December 2009, there are of motorways ( autostrady, singular – autostrada ); of expressways ( drogi ekspresowe, singular – droga ekspresowa ), and an extensive network of other roads ( of which about are dual carriageways ) connecting all major cities.

The Bengals returned to the playoffs again in 2009 in a season that included the franchise's first ever division sweep.

PNC Financial Services launched a program in 2009 as a direct result of its acquisition of National City Corp., which National City already had, along with a mortgage division — neither of which PNC had had before the deal.

On August 18, 2009, after months of speculation and negotiations, twice-retired veteran quarterback Brett Favre, who until 2007 played 16 years for division arch rival Green Bay Packers, signed a two-year, $ 25 million deal with the Vikings, starting what many Vikings fans refer to as " The Brett Favre Era ".

In his presentation to the American College of Sports Medicine's annual meeting in 2009, researcher and exercise physiologist Gary Granata presented research after studying members of the Avon High School Marching Black and Gold, noting " At the top levels of marching band and drum corps, you get a level of competition and athleticism that is equal to a division I athletic program.

Following an announcement on November 2009, Hyundai pulled their passenger car division out of the Japanese market and focused on their commercial vehicle division instead.

In January 2009, on a broadcast of The 700 Club, Robertson stated that he is " adamantly opposed " to the division of Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians.

The closing of the Oldsmobile division presaged a larger consolidation of GM brands and discontinuation of models during the company's 2009 bankruptcy reorganization.

In June 2009, Mars Botanicals, a division of Mars Inc., the candymaker and food company, launched Cirku, a cocoa extract

* 2007: Removed the old system of division into the Odelsting and Lagting ( took effect after the 2009 general election ).

The Blackhawks finished the 2008 – 2009 regular season in second place in their division, with a record of 46-24-12, putting them in fourth place in the Western Conference with 104 points.

On February 17, 2009, GM originally proposed the elimination of its Saturn division, the sale of Saab, and either the sale or elimination of Hummer, depending on whether a buyer could be found quickly.

In 2009, the first XI achieved promotion to the Home Counties Cricket League, and are therefore one division away from the highest level of club cricket in England and Wales.

The 2008 / 2009 boys ' basketball team won the Alabama state championship in division 6A.

Effective November 2, 2009, the company was renamed Hostess Brands, Inc. after the cake division that featured Twinkies and Cupcakes although it continues its bread line including Wonder Bread.

Due to financial turmoil Alitalia cargo division was sold off to new owners in 2009.

Each division returns one county councillor and the most recent county council elections were held in 2009 — the Liberal Democrats won Beeston North and the Conservatives won Beeston South & Attenborough.

América de Chimaltenango football club has played the 2009 / 2010 season in Guatemala's second division.

* In 2008 – 2009 they were champions of the south division and champions of the LNBP.

In February 2009, GM declared its intent to part with this brand by closing or selling the division, either to investors or to dealers, as part of restructuring plans dependent upon the receipt of a second round of government loans (" bailout " funding ).

As a result of several mergers, the remains of the old E. F. Hutton are now part of Citigroup, although on January 13, 2009, Citigroup itself announced that it would sell 51 % of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley, creating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which was formerly a division of Citi Global Wealth Management.

On August 21, 2009, the second largest bank, Guaranty Bank, in Texas, became insolvent and was taken over by BBVA Compass, the U. S. division of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, the second-largest bank in Spain.

Motown began celebrating its fiftieth anniversary ( January 12, 2009 ) in late 2008, including the release of a The Complete No. 1's box set containing Motown # 1 hits from Billboard's pop, R & B, and disco charts, reissues of classic-era Motown albums on CD, and other planned events, which were released in collaboration with Universal Music Group's catalog division Universal Music Enterprises.

It merged with the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro in 2007 and was known as StatoilHydro until 2009, when the name was changed back to Statoil ASA.

The Halden VBK volleyball club plays in the Premier Division, and while the local ice hockey team Comet did play in the GET-league ( Norway's highest ice hockey division ) for some years, but they ran into some financial problems in 2008 / 2009, and is now in division 1.