* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

* James Turner ( acting director ), 2007 – 2008

The Chargers started the 2009 campaign slowly, with a 2 – 3 record, a trend under current coach Norv Turner ( 1 – 3 in 2007 & 2 – 3 in 2008 ).

In 2008, Turner explained he not only regretted these statements but said he had made peace with organized religion and had joined with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the United Methodist Church to fight malaria.

In a 2008 MSNBC interview, Turner stated that he no longer considers himself atheist or agnostic, and prays for sick friends, but keeps it short because " I don't want to load up the wires.

In 2008, Turner also received attention when he asserted on PBS's Charlie Rose television program that if steps are not taken to address global warming, within 30 to 40 years " most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

* Call Me Ted by Ted Turner and Bill Burke ( Grand Central Publishing, 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-446-58189-9

Other former Poets Laureate include, Hone Tuwhare ( 2000 – 01 ), Elizabeth Smither ( 2002 – 03 ), Brian Turner ( 2004 – 05 ), Jenny Bornholdt ( 2006 – 07 ), Michele Leggott ( 2008 – 09 ) and Cilla McQueen ( 2009 – 11 ).

The Stuckists gained significant media coverage for eight years of protests ( 2000-2006 and 2008 ) outside Tate Britain against the Turner Prize, sometimes dressed as clowns.

In 2008 Graham Turner at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO ) in Australia published a paper called " A Comparison of ` The Limits to Growth ` with Thirty Years of Reality ".

In 2008, London Evening Standard critic, Ben Lewis, applied the term to three Turner Prize nominees and saw them amongst a movement which was reviving the formalism of the early 20th century ; he advocated values of an aesthetic informed by modesty, generosity and genuine emotion.

Turner and Leeds: Image of Industry ( Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2008 )

On January 21, 2008 ( Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ) Turner Classic Movies presented the world broadcast premiere of the movie as part of a night-long marathon of Burnett's movies.

After a public memorial service held March 1, 2008, at The Church on the Hill, Turner, Oregon, Norman was buried in Salem's City View Cemetery, and his tombstone reads: " Larry Norman Evangelist Without Portfolio 1947 – 2008 Bloodstained Israelite ".

In October 2008, a cellular communications tower was erected on Turner Hill ( located in north Young ).

* Clifton Clay Long, Jr. ( 1919 – 2008 ), was a family physician in Ozark from 1946 – 1975, who helped to establish Turner Memorial Hospital.

Morris W. Turner ( 1931 – 2008 ), a businessman and the mayor of Lubbock, Texas, from 1972 – 1974, was born in Coalgate.

* Michael Turner ( 1971 – 2008 ), American comic book artist and publisher known for his work on Witchblade and Fathom

Carl Buettner ( 1945 – 1946 ), Gil Turner ( 1948 – 1956 ), and Dick Matena ( 2005 – 2008 ) are generally regarded as the most notable Wolf creators featured in the title.

Turner faced further criticism from the Treasury Select Committee on 25 February 2009, especially over failures to spot or act on reckless lending by banks before the crisis of 2008 occurred.

In a 2008 Mojo magazine article, Turner explained the album references " how easily things had come to them ... the

* Leigh Turner ( 2006 – 2008 )

Continued to host Leo Laporte's TV Shows ( Call for Help, The Lab ) until cancelled in 2008 after sale to Rogers Comm., and shares programming from American produced shows from Comcast, Turner Broadcasting and other networks.

In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

In reviewing the 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production, The Telegraph reviewer wrote that " Sondheim's lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case.

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial / religious hatred in relation to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was Interior Minister of France.

In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: " Chaplin was not just ' big ', he was gigantic.

In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.

Robert Harley of The Absolute Sound wrote, in a 2008 editorial ( on Issue 183 ), that " blind listening tests fundamentally distort the listening process and are worthless in determining the audibility of a certain phenomenon.

Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O ' Hara's album that was released in May 2008.

In a July 28, 2008, op-ed in The Washington Times, he wrote that he regretted his youthful anti-war activism, calling it the result of " Marxist propaganda.

" On July 28, 2008, he wrote an editorial in The Washington Times critical of then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Kid Rock performed on VH1 Storytellers on November 27, 2008, giving an insight to how he wrote some of his hit songs.

Ahmed Maged of Daily News Egypt wrote in April 2008 that Bassam el Shammaa was appealing to Egyptian authorities to rebuild the Pharos.

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate in economics for 2008, wrote in his New York Times Op-Ed column for December 15, 2008:

* What We'll Find Inside the Atom by Dr. Leon Lederman is an essay he wrote for the September 15, 2008 issue of Newsweek

In 2008, Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson and Tim Wiles ( from the Baseball Hall of Fame ) wrote a comprehensive book on the history of the song, Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of ' Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

Following the commercial success of the Matrix series, they wrote and produced 2006 film V for Vendetta, and in 2008 released the film Speed Racer.

“ While there had been sound economic growth in years prior to 2008, there were still sizable fund balance drawdowns in both 2006 and 2007 ,” Fitch wrote.

In 2008, Straczynski wrote a draft of Ninja Assassin for Joel Silver ( which he completed in just 53 hours ).

Since 2008, he has chaired the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and wrote the essay on usage for the Fifth Edition of the Dictionary, which was published in 2011.

Aykroyd wrote the liner notes for fellow Ottawa born blues musician JW-Jones ' album Bluelisted in 2008.

In 2008, Jones wrote and directed an opera titled Evil Machines.

Idle wrote and directed the Rutles comeback in 2008 for a live show Rutlemania!

After the 2008 South Ossetia war, Bildt wrote on his blog that the Russian rationale for its intervention, i. e. concern for the welfare of its expatriates in the Near Abroad, had certain similarities with the rationale for the annexation of Sudetenland.