The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

In May 2008, the Navy announced new plans to reposition its forces throughout Brazil.

The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation.

Chaosium released a new version of BRP on June 24, 2008 as single comprehensive book.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

In 2008, the graphics were again relaunched, using the style introduced in 2007 and a new colour scheme.

The conclusion of the countdown was altered in 2008 to feature the new presentation style, rather than a data stream moving in towards the camera.

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

* In 2008, 7 new species of Microcebus were formally recognized, but Microcebus lokobensis ( Lokobe Mouse Lemur ) was not among the additions.

An annual private media summit called Captivate, renamed from Gamers Day in 2008, is traditionally used as a platform for new game and business announcements.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

In the April – June, 2008, issue of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, computer scientists describe a potential new way to combat internet worms.

The Cairo Governorate was just north of the Helwan Governorate from 2008 when some Cairo's southern districts, including Maadi and New Cairo, were split off and annexed into the new governorate, to 2011 when the Helwan Governorate was reincorporated into the Cairo Governorate.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

In October 2008 TfL introduced a new colour scheme to the vehicles, using the blue, white and green of the routes ' symbol on TfL maps, to distinguish the trams from its buses operating in the area.

On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two.

After years of stagnation, the " new thinking " ( Anatoli Cherniaev, 2008: 131 ) of younger Communist apparatchiks began to emerge.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

From late 2006 the B7RLE in the UK is available with Plaxton Centro bodywork ( the first example being sold to GHA Coaches ), followed by Alexander Dennis Enviro300 and Optare Esteem bodywork in 2008.

Delivered in late 2008 were 6 Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLEs for Scarborough Park and Ride, thus making East Yorkshire one of the few operators to have bought both Centros and ADL Enviro 200 Darts.

In December 2006, Showtime announced a deal to broadcast mixed martial arts matches from the then-newly formed Elite Xtreme Combat ( or EliteXC ), an MMA organization formed by Showtime Networks and ProElite, Inc., with all events broadcast under the banner ShoXC ; the league folded two years later in 2008.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

* Broussard, Joyce L. " Occupied Natchez, Elite Women, and the Feminization of the Civil War ," Journal of Mississippi History, 2008 70 ( 2 ): 179 – 207,

Bend recently has had success in landing major sporting events such as the 2008 and 2009 USA Winter Triathlon National Championships, the 2008 and 2009 XTERRA Trail Running National Championships, and the 2009 and 2010 United States National Cyclo-cross Championships as well as the 2009 and 2010 USA Cycling Elite Road National Championships.

Recent NESCAC champions include men's ice hockey ( 2011, albeit officially forfeited ), men's tennis ( 2008 ), women's volleyball ( 2011 ) men's cross country ( 2001, 2002 ), women's basketball ( 2001 – 2007, 2009 ), women's ice hockey ( 2002, 2004 ) and women's field hockey ( 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ); recent NCAA tournament appearances include women's basketball ( Elite Eight, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 ; Final Four, 2004 ), women's field hockey ( Final Four, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 ) men's rugby ( sweet 16, 2001 ), women's ice hockey ( Final Four, 2002, 2003 ; Elite Eight, 2004, 2005 ), men's soccer ( Final Four, 2010 ) and women's lacrosse ( Final Four, 2011.

In February 2008, MTV2 replaced the 10 p. m. Eastern rebroadcast of Elite 8 with a standard block of music videos.

In succession to the LZR Pro and Elite, Speedo switched the branding for their technical suits from " Fastskin LZR Racer " to " Fastskin ", continuing the trend they left off in 2008 when they debuted the LZR Racer.

), Cultural Dimensions of Elite Formation in Transylvania ( 1770 – 1950 ), Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Cluj-Napoca, 2008, p. 159-185.

In 2008, the tournament was hosted in Cologne, Germany ; it was the first World Cyber Games tournament to incorporate a mobile-game based tournament, with the title Asphalt 4: Elite Racing, In 2009, the tournament was held in Chengdu, China, and featured a special promotion of the game Dungeon & Fighter.

At the subsequent, though less well-attended, World Championship held in 2008 in Durban, South Africa, the winners of the Elite divisions ( and therefore current World Champions ) were Australia in the Women's division, and France in the Men's ( Open ) division.

* Best Elite Level for the second year in a row, at the 21st Annual presentation ceremony of the Freddie Awards 2008

Although skeptical of New World Order conspiracism, political scientist David Rothkopf argues, in the 2008 book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, that the world population of 6 billion people is governed by an elite of 6, 000 individuals.

From 1969 until 2008, Maccabi Tel Aviv was sponsored by Elite, Israel's largest food company, and carried its name.

It was announced on August 25 that Shamrock's next opponent would be Kimbo Slice at Elite XC Saturday Night Fight Special on October 4, 2008.

On March 30, 2008, Self led Kansas to a win in the Elite Eight over Davidson College.

In 2008 Tikolo was selected as captain of The Eastern Aces in Kenya's Domestic Tournament, the Sahara Elite League

Since 2001 the club has won ten major trophies, including the Elite League Championship in 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2011 Speedway Elite League.

The Poole riders lead Coventry Bees | Coventry during an Speedway Elite League | Elite League meeting in July, 2008.