Commuter trains are currently uncommon in China, although a small system has been inaugurated in Beijing in 2008.

The capacity of Craven Cottage has been increased during summers for instance in 2008 with a small increase in the capacity of the Hammersmith End.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

On June 13, 2008, a small majority of members of the House of Ariki attempted a coup, claiming to dissolve the elected government and to take control of the country's leadership.

In 2008, archaeologists working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile member of a population now referred to as Denisova hominins, or simply Denisovans.

From 2004 until 2008, HBC also owned and operated a small chain of off-price stores called Designer Depot.

It has a small genome size (~ 110Mb ) and its sequence was released by the Joint Genome Institute in early 2008.

Since the cancellation of the XM8 program, and into 2008, the LSAT rifle program has been pursued for the next generation of U. S. small arms.

In May 2008, a small bomb exploded outside the Norwegian embassy in Kathmandu.

Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys each had top twenty albums on small labels, with the former's Float landing at number four in 2008.

The CPU of the serial model, the PDP-8 / S, had only about 519 logic gates, while small microcontrollers ( as of 2008 ) usually have 15, 000 or more.

During a 2008 interview with the BBC, Major General Qian Lihua, a senior Chinese defense official, stated that the PLAN aspired to possess a small number of aircraft carriers to allow it to expand China's air defense perimeter.

On Oct. 21, 2008, the Time-Life set was released to retail outlets in Region 1 ( North America ) in a special all-seasons box set contained within a small briefcase.

A digital archive of back issues from 1925 to April 2008 ( representing more than 4, 000 issues and half a million pages ) has also been issued on DVD-ROMs and on a small portable hard drive.

For instance, in 2008 a laboratory device which ejects and identifies particles found small amounts of the compound in the inside of volcanic rock brought from Moon to Earth by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971.

Pullman has published two short stories related to His Dark Materials: " Lyra and the Birds ", which appears with accompanying illustrations in the small hardcover book Lyra's Oxford ( 2003 ), and " Once Upon a Time in the North " ( 2008 ).

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

Intel started using the term netbook in March 2008 as a generic term to describe " small laptops that are designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet ", believing they were " not offering a branded line of computers here " and " see no naming conflict ".

A " Friday the 13th " storm in November 1981 brought winds up to, with other storms including the inauguration day storm of January 20, 1993, the Guadalupe Day storm of December 12, 1995 ( with winds up to at Washougal, Washington ) and small tornado on January 10, 2008, which destroyed a boathouse at Vancouver Lake and caused damage to buildings in Hazel Dell before dissolving near Hockinson.

In 2008, Irish MEP Eoin Ryan called for tighter regulation over tokens and medals that are being increasingly used for small purchases mainly in vending machines across Europe.

In May 2008, a small bomb exploded outside the Norwegian embassy in Kathmandu.

In Istanbul ( since 2003 ) and in Ankara ( since 2008 ) gay marches are being held each year with a small but increasing participation.

Early Human Development 84, 225-9 ( 2008 )).< ref > It should be noted this was a small study ( n = 31 cases and 31 controls ) with serious limitations ( several significant factors were not controlled ), and has been criticised from various perspectives.

The accumulation of large amounts of PIXE data from other laboratories around the world in the ensuing decades was sufficient by 2008 to show that the Cahill figures for all elements in the inks of the map and its companion documents are at least a thousand times too small, so the discrepancy is due to their mistake.

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

In 2008, the German magazine sport auto conducted a test for production cars, with the CCX winning the event in a total time of.

Cricket is a rapidly growing sport in Tanzania after hosting the ICC Cricket League division 4 in 2008, Tanzania finished with one win for the tournament, and Tanzania also has its own national team.

In 2003, the International Olympic Committee made BMX a full medal Olympic sport for 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, and Māris Štrombergs ( male, for Latvia ) and Anne-Caroline Chausson ( female, for France ) became the first Olympic champions.

Hird's winning goal was the focus of a popular installment of the Toyota Memorable Moments advertising campaign, and the hug is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.

* European Masters Games, first held in 2008, for mature athletes ( generally for 30-35 years or older, dependent on sport ).

In the middle of 2008, a working group known as the " Car of the Future " project and led by former driver Mark Skaife was organised by V8 Supercars to investigate future directions for the sport.

In 2008 the separate boards of V8 Supercars Australia and TEGA were combined into a single board that is solely responsible for administering the sport.

The image of Barassi breaking a tackle in the 1957 Grand Final is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport

Licking County schools recently won at least one state title in four straight sport seasons: Heath in both Boys Track and Boys Baseball ( 2007 ), Newark Catholic in Football ( 2007 ), Newark in Boys Basketball ( 2008 ) and Lakewood in Softball ( 2008 ).

Rowing has also traditionally been a strong sport at the Hall, with the men attaining Headship in the Summer Eights of 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964 and 1965, and the women achieving the same feat in 2006, a title retained through 2007, 2008 and 2009.

The Winter X Games are, as described by ESPN ( 2008 ), a competition compiled of the greatest winter action sport athletes from around the world competing on an annual basis.

" Trabert said in January 2008, " I still maintain that Rod Laver is the best player who ever played the game because he's done something no one has ever done in the 120 or 140-year history of our sport: he won the Grand Slam as an amateur and he won the Grand Slam as a pro.

Although the sport is in decline in America, the first public amateur jai-alai facility was built in the United States in 2008, in St. Petersburg, Florida, with the assistance of the city of St. Petersburg.

At the 2008 Sport Accord congress convened in Beijing, the majority of the membership ( that is, the federations of other world sports, some of which are also members of the International Olympic Committee IOC ) voted to ratify the decision of the executive committee in recognising the IDBF as representing a paddle sport which is separate from other paddle sports such as kayaking, canoeing and outrigger canoeing.

Established in 2008, the Cineplex Legends Award ( also known as the Canadian Legends Award ) is posthumously awarded to " Canadian pioneers in film, music, sport, arts, and innovation.

Organised on an alternating comedy / sport theme and televised live in March, McCall has co-hosted Red Nose Days in 2005, 2007, 2009 & 2011, and for Sport Relief in 2006, 2008, 2010 & 2012.

* The National Hot Rod Association is enforcing a grandfather clause banning energy drink sponsors from entering the sport if they were not sponsoring cars as of April 24, 2008, pursuant to the five-year extension of its sponsorship with Coca-Cola, which is changing the title sponsorship from Powerade to Full Throttle Energy Drink.

In 2008, he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow in recognition of his outstanding achievement in football and for his distinguished role as an ambassador for the national sport.

SJSU also has achieved an international reputation for its judo program, winning 43 out of 46 national collegiate championships in the sport ( as of 2008 ).

In 2008 he made a comeback to rowing after leaving the sport after the 2000 Sydney Olympics in pursuit of a sailing career as a grinder.

On 29 April 2008 it was announced that Hoey would form part of the team of Conservative Boris Johnson, should he become Mayor, as an unpaid non-executive director advising on sport and the 2012 Olympics.

In June 2008, IRN started supplying a feed of news, sport and entertainment stories and video to the websites of client radio stations.