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

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 ".

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

OnStar transitioned to digital service with the help of data transport technology developed by Airbiquity, but warned customers who could not be upgraded to digital that their service would permanently expire on January 1, 2008.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

led to the January 2008 bulk-sampling of kimberlite pipes in a remote part of Montana.

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On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

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122. 9 billion cu m ( 1 January 2008 est.

This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1 % or less of January 2008 levels.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In January 2008, shortly before plans to retire to Blackpool, Vera's husband Jack found that she had died in her armchair.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

Funeral, illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Carmilla in The Dark Blue, January 1872

In August 2012, the book was confirmed for an international release by Oregon-based publisher Dark Horse Comics on January 29th, 2013.

Announced on 26 January 2007, BBC Radio 4 commissioned Above the Title Productions to make eighteen 30-minute adaptations of Douglas Adams ' Dirk Gently books ( including The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt ), running in three series of six episodes.

* Dark Victory on Lux Radio Theater: January 8, 1940

Frank Miller ( born January 27, 1957 ) is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.

The fourth volume was released on October 15, 1997 ; volume 19, which Dark Horse numbered " 19 / 20 " and which ended on the same chapter as the Japanese volume 20, was released on January 19, 2005.

* January 20 – The début of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at The Dome, Brighton, is halted by technical difficulties,.

John J. O ' Connor, writing for The New York Times in January 1993, noted that pre-release advertisements for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine offered " a new Star Trek era " and added, " Welcome to the Dark Side.

Nigel Benn ( born 22 January 1964 ), known as " The Dark Destroyer ", is a British former boxer who held world titles in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions.

Some of Cane's works are: January Garden ( 1926 ), Behind Dark Places ( 1930 ), And Pastures New ( 1956 ) and Snow Towards Evening ( 1974 ).

" Dark Star " and " St. Stephen " pairing was taken from the February 27, 1969 show at the Fillmore West ; " The Eleven " and " Turn On Your Lovelight " were from the January 26, 1969 show at the Avalon Ballroom ; " Death Don't Have No Mercy ," " Feedback ," and " And We Bid You Goodnight " were from the March 2, 1969 show at the Fillmore West.

This means that the first Dark moon of 2000, on January 6, was phase 8 ( in the cycle from 0 to 13 ), of full moon cycle 6 ( in a cycle from 0 to 17 ).

She played Sister Nicci, a Sister of the Dark, in the second season of Legend of the Seeker, appearing in episode nine, " Dark ", broadcast on January 23, 2010, and episode ten, " Perdition ", broadcast on January 30, 2010.

* Tank Girl: Dark Nuggets was a one-shot issue by Dayglo & Martin, published by Image Comics in January 2010.

* Evgeny Morozov, AUBG graduate, Class of 2005, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom ( January 2011 ); a contributing editor to Foreign Policy, contributor to The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and many others

* Andrew Curry: Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police Wired magazine 16. 02, 18 January 2008

It was also in this capacity that he was invited to debate masculine violence with a drunken Oliver Reed on an infamous edition of the late night Channel 4 television programme After Dark, broadcast on 22 January 1991.

* " A Girl Named Hope " ( with Duane Swierczynski, in Psylocke # 1 and Dark X-Men # 1, Marvel Comics, January 2010 )

**" The Gray Embrace " from Dark Horse Presents # 4, January 1987

**" Now Is Now " from Dark Horse Presents # 14, January 1988