In 2008, Stockton approved an agreement with Marina Energy LLC for the installation of solar panels on The Big Blue athletic center roof to provide electricity to the college.

A new Barbie designed to look like Jo Stockton was only available to 2008 Barbie conventioneers.

2008 saw the first ever Stockton Heath Festival, which is now going into its fifth year.

In May 2008, the team announced that it was joining the Professional Arena Soccer League and would be renamed the Stockton Cougars.

In 2008 Howes signed with the Stockton Cougars of the Professional Arena Soccer League.

Stockton won its 11th championship with a 9 – 3 win over the Lancaster JetHawks on Sept. 14, 2008.

On May 16, 2008, a pregnant, 17 year-old migrant worker named Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez collapsed and later died while pruning vines at a vineyard east of Stockton, CA owned by West Coast Grape Farming, a division of Bronco Wines.

The team would win their first home game at the Wells Fargo Arena on April 26, 2008, defeating the Stockton Lightning 47 – 24.

In January 2007, the Thunder and Stockton Arena were chosen to host the 2008 ECHL All-Star Game.

The Stockton Arena hosted the 2008 ECHL All-Star Game, World Wrestling Entertainment house shows for both SmackDown / ECW and Raw, and the July 26, 2008 EliteXC: Unfinished Business MMA event.

In 2008 Wright joined the af2 and on December 22 was assigned to the Stockton Lightning.

* Strunk, Keith ( 2008 ), Prallsville Mills and Stockton ( Aracadia Publishing )

A 2008 Senate investigation found that Biederman also received $ 1. 6 million in speaking and consulting fees between 2000 and 2007 — some of them undisclosed to Harvard — from companies including makers of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for children with bipolar disorder.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

Edinson Volquez received three second-place votes in 2008 balloting despite no longer being a rookie under the award's definition.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

Caltech received $ 144 million in federal funding for the physical sciences, $ 40. 8 million for the life sciences, $ 33. 5 million for engineering, $ 14. 4 million for environmental sciences, $ 7. 16 million for computer sciences, and $ 1. 97 million for mathematical sciences in 2008.

More recently, on 10 October 2008 Charlton received an indicative offer for the club from a Dubai-based diversified investment company.

It received its world premiere in New York City in June 2008.

* In 2008, Trudeau received the Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from the Yale School of Medicine for his depiction of the mental-health issues facing soldiers upon returning home from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Day received a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in Music in 2008, albeit again in absentia.

* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ( 2008 ) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is written as a series of letters and telegraphs sent and received by the protagonist.

In December 2008, the IFF and the sport of floorball received recognition from the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

The FDA's federal budget request for fiscal year ( FY ) 2008 ( October 2007 through September 2008 ) totaled $ 2. 1 billion, a $ 105. 8 million increase from what it received for fiscal year 2007.

ABC News reported in March 2008 that Singer said he is not on the payroll of the energy industry, but he acknowledged that SEPP had received one unsolicited charitable donation of $ 10, 000 from ExxonMobil, and that it was one percent of all donations received.

In 2008, most of the € 202. 5 million received by the organization was donated by about 2. 6 million regular supporters, mainly from Europe.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.

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.

A third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations for the track " Ash Wednesday ", for the Grammy awards in 2008.

He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.

In 2008, the Authority received two new applications for authorization to explore for polymetallic nodules, coming for the first time from private firms in developing island nations of the Pacific.

As an example, Mexico started to export irradiated guava to the U. S. in 2008 and mango, sweet lime, manzano pepper in 2009 ; and has received approval for citrus and star fruit with exports to initiate in 2012.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

In 2008, the BJU Museum & Gallery opened a satellite location, the " Museum & Gallery at Heritage Green " near downtown Greenville, which features rotating exhibitions from the main museum as well as interactive children's activities.

In September 2008, Reality Deviant Publications published Shadows of Cthulhu, a supplement that brings Lovecraftian gaming to Green Ronin's True20 system.

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

Third parties have failed to score any electoral success: in the 2008 election the Alternattiva Demokratika ( Democratic Alternative-a Green Party established in 1989 ) and the Azzjoni Nazzjonali ( National Action ) managed to secure only 1. 31 % and 0. 5 % of the first preference votes nationwide respectively.

During the season, the Vikings had many distractions, including trading for Randy Moss and then waiving him only a month later, Brett Favre's NFL investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to Jets ' employee Jenn Sterger while he was with the team in 2008, the Metrodome's collapse and resulting venue changes, and finally head coach Brad Childress ' firing on November 22 following a 31 – 3 loss at the hands of the rival Green Bay Packers.

SU received the Sustainability Innovator Award in 2007 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute for SU's pre-consumer food waste composting program and the Green Washington Award in 2008 from Washington CEO Magazine for SU's sustainable landscape practices and pre-consumer food waste composting program.

Malik Rahim, former Black Panther Party activist, ran for the U. S. Congress in 2008 with the Green Party.

On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National Theatre ; and Pinter's The Homecoming and Miller's The Price in the West End, also appearing in Visiting Mr. Green in 2007 and 2008.

** Green Line in Yokohama ( opened 2008 )

The Green Confederation ( Confédération Verte ) in Vanuatu won 2 out of 52 seats in the last legislative elections on 2 September 2008.

In the 2008 Vancouver municipal election, Stuart Mackinnon, a member of the Vancouver Green Party, was elected to the Vancouver Parks Board.

The first U. S. Green elected to a state legislature was Audie Bock in 1999, to the California State Assembly, followed by John Eder to the Maine House of Representatives in 2002 and 2004 and Richard Carroll to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008.

The Green Party has contested four U. S. presidential elections: in 1996 and 2000 with Ralph Nader for President and Winona LaDuke as Vice President, in 2004 with David Cobb for President and Pat LaMarche for Vice President, and in 2008 with Cynthia McKinney for President and Rosa Clemente for Vice President.

The Green Party of Lebanon was founded in 2008 as a secular party.

* 2008: Country Home magazine ranked Corvallis the best Green Place to Live in America.

In 2008, long-time contributor Marie Mason was arrested as part of what some call the Green Scare.

In 2008, Rossellini toured the festival circuit, including the Sundance Film Festival, with a series of short films entitled Green Porno, which she wrote and co-directed with Jody Shapiro.

* October 2004-today: Chairwoman of the German Green Party ( together with Reinhard Bütikofer until 2008, then Cem Özdemir ).

Since the purchasing of The Weather Channel by NBC Universal in 2008, the network has participated in the " Green is Universal " campaign, which occurs twice a year, usually being in April and November.

The Green Party of England and Wales had one member of the ( unelected ) House of Lords, the Upper Chamber of Parliament, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, who died in 2008.

Caroline Lucas speaking as the first Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales at its autumn conference in 2008.

In Geoff Johns ' 2008 storyline " Green Lantern: Secret Origin ", it is revealed that the Manhunters suffered from a malfunction in their logic that led them to believe that order could only be achieved by eliminating all life.

4 ) # 21-23 and " Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special " one-shot, hardcover, February 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1650-1, softcover, May 2009, ISBN 1-84576-783-7, DC Comics, ISBN 1-4012-1870-9 )

The content of Green Mars and the cover artwork for Red Mars are included on the Phoenix DVD, carried onboard Phoenix, a NASA lander that successfully touched down on Mars in May 2008.

Clerkenwell's tradition of left-leaning publication continued until late 2008 with The Guardian and The Observer having their headquarters on Farringdon Road, a short walk from the Green.