Also, in 2008 Mason changed its mascot from the " Gunston " animal to the " Patriot ".

Sommer ( 2008 ) classified historical accounts related to vitamin A and / or manifestations of deficiency as follows: " Ancient " accounts ; 18th-to 19th-century clinical descriptions ( and their purported etiologic associations ); early 20th-century laboratory animal experiments, and clinical and epidiomologic observations that identified the existence of this unique nutrient and manifestations of its deficiency.

Unaware that Ukrainsky had already renamed the animal, Octávio Mateus coined another new name for it in 2008, Diceratus.

* On episode 113 of the television series Mythbusters ( 2008 ), the hosts showed that the art of dorodango can be performed by substituting animal feces in place of mud.

As of the beginning of 2008, the town was still on the list of potential sites ( along with four other candidate locations ) for the facility, which would replace the existing animal disease research center at Plum Island, New York.

In 2008, the animal rights group PETA initiated a campaign against Karan for her company's use of fur in products and her contracted fur farmers ' alleged inhumane treatment of animals.

* DMX pled guilty to charges of drug possession, theft, and animal cruelty, at a hearing on December 30, 2008 ; he was sentenced to ninety days in jail on January 31, 2009.

A live animal diagnostic, not confirmatory, test was approved in 2008 for immunochemistry testing on rectal biopsy-derived lymphoid tissue by USDA.

* July 2008, Redlands, Brisbane, Queensland: Death of five horses ; four died from the Henda virus, the remaining animal recovered but was euthanised because of a government policy that requires all animals with antibodies to be euthanised due to a potential threat to health.

In November 2008, researchers at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University reported dietary supplementation with resveratrol significantly reduced plaque formation in animal brains, a critical part of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

It is the oldest and largest animal welfare organisation in the world and is one of the largest charities in the UK, with 1, 505 employees ( as of 2008 ).

Spindles Farm, located in Hyde Heath, was in the news in 2008 due to a case of animal cruelty relating to horses.

* Hassanali, Ahmed ; Herren, Hans ; Khan, Zeyaur R ; Pickett, John A ; Woodcock, Christine M ( 2008 ) Integrated Pest Management: the push-pull method approach for controlling insects, pests and weeds of cereals, and its potential for other agricultural systems including animal husbandry.

Two examples of animal species recently delisted are: the Virginia northern flying squirrel ( subspecies ) on August, 2008, which had been listed since 1985, and the gray wolf ( Northern Rocky Mountain DPS ).

Ryder is a supporter of VERO ( Voice for Ethical Research at Oxford ), a group of Oxford members and graduates formed in 2006 to protest the construction by the university of a new animal laboratory, the Biomedical Sciences Building, completed in 2008.

* Jonathan ( tortoise ), the oldest living animal as of 2008.

Palm kernel imports went from 0. 4 tonnes in 1999 to 455, 000 tonnes in 2007 and then to 1. 1 million tonnes in 2008, one quarter of the world's palm-based animal feed.

Rico ( December 13, 1994 – 2008 ) was a border collie dog who made the news after being studied by animal psychologist Juliane Kaminski from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig after his owners reported that he understood more than 200 simple words.

In September 2008, the U. S. Congress passed a law that directed the General Services Administration to close the animal disease center and to sell the island to the public, and to use the proceeds towards the construction of NBAF, if it were decided that NBAF would be built elsewhere.

Bartolucci introduced new animal protection legislation in April 2008, and the province's new Animal Welfare Act was officially proclaimed in March 2009.

Hawn pled guilty in November, 2008 to criminal mischief and animal cruelty and was released on $ 15, 000 bail.

On 19 January 2008, The Age newspaper published allegations of animal cruelty at the zoo.

She has advocated for stricter gun control laws and gay rights, and voted against California's Proposition 8 during the 2008 elections.

As of 2008, DreamWorks acquired the rights to produce a live-action film adaptation of the original manga with Steven Spielberg.

In early 1999, the source code of Heretic was published by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

In 1999 the source code for Hexen was released by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

On February 28, 2008, Cryptic Studios purchased the Champions intellectual property, and sold the rights back to Hero Games to publish the 6th edition books.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

Ireland supported a UN commission of inquiry and international level monitoring of the situation in Burma after 2008, as part of their efforts to support the Burmese people in their struggle for democracy and human rights.

In December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly voted for a resolution condemning Burma's human rights record ; it was supported by 80 countries, with 25 voting against and 45 abstaining.

Thus in 2008, enabling the National Executive Way, published by Law Rank, Value and Force of Organic Law of the Bolivarian Armed Forces, leading to a new organization, adapted to new requirements, with a geopolitical vision oriented to a social state, peace-loving defender of human rights and solidarity with our sister nations of the American continent, within the ideology of the Liberator Simón Bolívar.

As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

On 16 September 2008, Porsche increased its holdings by another 4. 89 %, in effect taking control of the company, with more than 35 % of the voting rights.

On October 2008, Scott confirmed that after a 25-year wait for the rights to become available, he was to make an adaptation of the book The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

In October 2008, production company Coolbai acquired the merchandising and distribution rights until 2013 to a number of the Smallfilms productions.

The heirs of Tolkien, including his son Christopher Tolkien, filed suit against New Line Cinema in February 2008 seeking payment of profits and to be " entitled to cancel ... all future rights of New Line ... to produce, distribute, and / or exploit future films based upon the Trilogy and / or the Films ... and / or ... films based on The Hobbit.

The insurance company involved in the failed first attempt withheld the rights to the screenplay for several years but the production was finally restarted in 2008.

After regaining the rights to the screenplay of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Gilliam restarted pre-production in 2008, with Johnny Depp still attached to the project.

A more recent ruling by the Supreme Court in 2008 has altered that scheme somewhat, by stating that treaties containing human rights provisions enjoy a status above that of ordinary legislation, though they remain beneath the constitution itself.

In September 2008, APA ’ s members passed a resolution stating that psychologists may not work in settings where “ persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law ( e. g., the UN Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions ) or the U. S. Constitution ( where appropriate ), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights .” The resolution became official APA policy in February 2009.

On 12 August 2008, Variety reported that Universal Pictures had optioned the rights to produce feature film adaptations of The Wheel of Time books.

For the 4 seasons from 2008 to 2012, the FA has secured £ 425 million from ITV and Setanta for England and FA Cup games domestic television rights, a 42 % increase over the previous contract, and £ 145 million for overseas television rights, up 272 % on the £ 39 million received for the previous four-year period.

The rights to the game were initially licensed to Selchow and Righter in 1982, then to Parker Brothers ( now part of Hasbro ) in 1988, after initially being turned down by the Virgin Group ; in 2008, Hasbro bought out the rights in full, for US $ 80 million.

It is probable that the ban was a result of the " Boycott Beijing 2008 " banner placed on Notepad ++' s SourceForge. net homepage to point out the human rights problem in China.

DP chassis are subject to a franchise-like approval system in which only approved constructors are eligible, with rules stability enforced for several years at a time, although this led in 2007 to established constructors like Lola and Dallara entering the 2008 series by taking over the rights of existing constructors ( Multimatic and Doran respectively ).