In 2008, there were an estimated 130 million works licensed under Creative Commons.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

* My Own Kind of Freedom ( written 2005, released under the Creative Commons license February 8, 2008 ), a novel based on the Firefly television series

Since September 2008, all Creative X-Fi based sound cards support DDL ( except the ' Xtreme Audio ' and its based line such as Prodigy 7. 1e, which is incapable of DDL in hardware ).

In 2008 Creative released the X-Fi Titanium series of sound cards which fully supports Dolby Digital Live while leaving all PCI versions of Creative X-Fi still lacking support for DDL.

Based on the agreement, in September 2008 Creative began selling the Dolby Digital Live packs enabling Dolby Digital Live on Creative's X-Fi PCI series of sound cards.

Also in 2008, New York City public arts group Creative Time premiered nine pieces of Malcolm's 21-part sound painting series Shallow via MTV's massive HD screen in Times Square.

In relation to his efforts on these issues, President Ólafur has participated in the Global Creative Leadership Summit, organized by the Louise Blouin Foundation, in 2007 and 2008.

On 15 January 2008, Lessig announced on his blog that his publishers agreed to license the book under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, and the book in PDF format can be downloaded freely.

On October 29, 2008, ( the tenth anniversary of the purchase of the palimpsest at auction ) all data, including images and transcriptions, were hosted on the Digital Palimpsest Web Page for free use under a Creative Commons License, and processed images of the palimpsest in original page order were posted as a Google Book.

In July 2008, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that the " I'm Fucking Matt Damon " had received a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics, competing against two songs from Flight of the Conchords, one from MADtv, and another from Phineas and Ferb.

In 2008, Cunningham released his Loops choreography for the hands as motion-capture data under a Creative Commons license ; this was the basis for the open source collaboration of the same name with The OpenEnded Group.

* In 2008, he also received Tel Aviv University's Dan David Prize (" Past Category "), jointly with Atom Egoyan and Tom Stoppard, for " Creative Rendering of the Past ".

* University College Birmingham, Known as Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies until January 2008

In 2008, Adams agreed to become honorary chair of the " International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment " or IAACM.

The creative industries were also a major focus of Scarborough's winning entry in the 2008 Enterprising Britain competition with a representative from Woodend Creative Workspace and scarborough-based Electric Angel Design representing the town in the Yorkshire and Humber regional heats.

A Power Stronger Than Itself: The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians by George Lewis, has been published by the University of Chicago Press ( May 2008 ).

" with Paul Ginsparg in Riffing on Strings: Creative Writing Inspired by String Theory ( 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-9802114-0-5

Following Gordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle of 3 October 2008, Follett was made Minister of Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport replacing Margaret Hodge who went on compassionate leave caring for her ill husband.

* Animal !, a 2008 album by Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

* Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions by Christopher M. Moreman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

* Blackwell, Alex & Daria ; Happy Hooking-the Art of Anchoring, 2008, 2011 White Seahorse ; ISBN 978-0-9815171-0-0

In 2008 Atari was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for pioneering the development of handheld games with its Lynx game unit.

As of February 18, 2008, carriers in the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies such as AT & T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently.

* Guy Roos ( 2008 ) " Exceptional symmetric domains ", § 1: Cayley algebras, in Symmetries in Complex Analysis by Bruce Gilligan & Guy Roos, volume 468 of Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society.

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.

A second edition of Bunnies & Burrows was printed in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, although the continuing popularity of the first edition is evidenced by how it was still being actively played in 2008.

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

Dungeons & Dragons version 3. 5 was released in June 2003, with a 4th edition in June 2008.

" Dungeons & Dragons In a Digital World ", Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2008.

* Aguirre, B. E & Quarantelli, E. H. ( 2008 ).

In 2008 Independent News & Media announced that The Independent would be moving its offices to the Northcliffe House in Kensington.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

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* Kevin G. Welner, NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling Rowman & Littlefield ( September 29, 2008 ), hardcover, 194 pages, ; trade paperback, Rowman & Littlefield ( September 29, 2008 ),

On July 8, 2008, RedBrick announced a new line called Age of Legend 4e, a port of the Earthdawn setting for use with the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition rules.

* Zeki, S. & Romaya, J. P. ( 2008 ), " Neural correlates of hate ", PloS one, vol.

* Fortran 77, 90, 95, 2003, 2008 Information & Resources

" Notes & Queries 55 ( 2008 ).

* Lucy Chesser, Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History ( 2008 ), a favorable look at artistic production excerpt and text search

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

19th Century Europe: A Cultural History ( 2008 )

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

OMA Beijing: In Asia, Koolhaas is working with his team on the office ’ s largest project to date, the 575, 000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters ( CCTV ) and Television Cultural Center ( TVCC ), currently under construction in Beijing and due for completion in 2008.

" Cultural Diversity and Ethnic minority Psychology14 ( 4 )( 2008 ): 286-296.

Graz was sole Cultural Capital of Europe for 2003 and got the title of a City of Culinary Delights in 2008.

In 2008, the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News named its brand new 276-seat theater the Ella Fitzgerald Theater.

* Lewis, Jeff, Cultural Studies, Second Edition, Sage, London, 2008.

* Longhurst, Brian, Smith, Greg, Bagnall, Gaynor, Crawford, Garry and Michael Ogborn, Introducing Cultural Studies, Second Edition, Pearson, London, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4058-5843-4

* Keulen, Wytse, Gellius the Satirist: Roman Cultural Authority in Attic Nights ( Leiden, Brill, 2008 ) ( Mnemosyne Supplements, 297 ).

* Thomas F. King, Cultural Resource Laws & Practice: An Introductory Guide ' ( 3rd Edition ) Altamira Press, 2008, 428 pages, ISBN 978-0-7591-1188-2 ( cloth ); 0-978-0-7591-1189-9 ( paper )

* Jon M. Kuykendall received the 2008 Emmy Award for Cultural Documentary for his work as Audio Producer on the University of Arkansas ' film " Silas Hunt: A Documentary ".

* An essay on local radio in La Follette in the 1950s and 1960s, including original audio: Hanson, Bradley, " The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee ," Southern Spaces, November 20, 2008. http :// southernspaces. org / 2008 / tennessee-jamboree-local-radio-barn-dance-and-cultural-life-appalachian-east-tennessee

The 2008 New Mexico State Legislature, via New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, appropriated preservation support that resulted in the June 2009 publication, " Chimayo Chile, A Living History of Faith, Culture, and Art ," written by Marie Pilar Campos of the Native Hispanic Institute.

* Yashushi Watanabe and David McConnell, eds, Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, London, M E Sharpe, 2008

Cultural Studies Press, 2008.

During September 2005, Colin Davis conducted an orchestra which combined students from the Juilliard and London's Royal Academy of Music at the BBC Proms, and during 2008 the Juilliard Orchestra embarked on a successful tour of China, performing concerts as part of the Cultural Olympiad in Beijing, Suzhou, and Shanghai under the expert leadership of Maestro Xian Zhang.

In 2008, Ios was among six European locations ( out of 109 candidates ) awarded the European Union Cultural Heritage prize for its exceptional conservation efforts at the archaeological site of Skarkos.

Since then until October 2008, about 140000 people visited this Australian Indian Cultural Extravaganza filled with culture, fun and cuisine.

Greg Graffin received the Rushdie Award for Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy in 2008.

* Prior, Nick, " Putting a Glitch in the Field: Bourdieu, Actor Network Theory and Contemporary Music ", Cultural Sociology, 2: 3, 2008: pp 301 – 319.