Gallagher reportedly blasted the organizers of the 2008 Glastonbury Festival for scheduling Jay-Z as a headliner for the traditionally guitar-driven festival:

For the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix race, organizers responded to lessons learned the previous year by reducing the total number of spectators allowed at the event.

However, in 2008, negotiations with the city of Toronto fell apart and the Walk of Fame would not be moving, although organizers will continue to look at three locations on private land in downtown Toronto.

Pinkpop 2008 had the largest audience of concert attendees to date, with an average of just over 60, 000 people arriving each of the three days, prompting the festival organizers to announce that 180, 000 people had visited the festival.

For the 2008 elections, Working Families Win hired 60 organizers in 20 states to build relationships with community leaders and educate voters about how policies in Washington affect their daily lives.

The 2008 tournament returned to North America, according to tournament organizers.

As of December 2008, however, Crawford County supervisors voted to rescind this ban after the RAGBRAI organizers took steps to indemnify third parties in the case of such events in the future.

The 2008 Midi Modern Music Festival was cancelled ( cancellation note ) and delayed to October 2008, the Soilwork gig ( preannouncement ) had to be cancelled, as the band did not receive their visas and the German Esplanade in Chongqing was stopped by the organizers ( change note ).

The organizers of the 2008 festival promised local officials that the main stage will shut down at 11 pm and no music on that stage will be played after that.

In February 2008 the festival organizers announced that, instead of passing on the torch to a younger generation-as has been the tradition, the 15th festival would be the last.

In 2008, tour organizers scaled back the event to a one day criterium race in downtown Altoona.

On October 16, 2008 the organizers announced that the 2009 edition would be cancelled, following the doping cases that were revealed in the sport of cycling.

In 2008, a previously protected area of Elliston Park was opened up to the organizers and the move was made to transfer the cultural pavilions to Elliston Park and re-launch the OneWorld Village.

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.

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In 2008 APA became a focus of congressional investigations regarding the way that money from the pharmaceutical industry can shape the practices of nonprofit organizations that purport to be independent in their viewpoints and actions.

Major citations have included the APA Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge Award ( Norman Frederiksen, 1984 ), the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award ( Frederic Lord, 1988 ); the AERA E. F. Lindquist Award ( William Turnbull, 1981 ; Frederic Lord, 1988 ; Samuel Messick, 1994 ; Paul Holland, 2000 ; Wendy Yen, 2008 ); the NCME Career Contributions to Educational Measurement Award ( Frederic Lord, 1990 ; Paul Holland, 2004 ; Neil Dorans, 2010 ); and the Jean Piaget Society's Lifetime Achievement Award ( Irving Sigel, 2002 ); among many other awards.

On April 25, 2008, a US Court of Appeals agreed with the ARRL that the FCC violated the APA, especially by redacting data from the public that could have shed doubt on the FCC's decision.

On 25 April 2008, a US Court of Appeals agreed with the ARRL that the FCC violated the APA, especially by redacting data from the public that could have shed doubt on the FCC's decision.

In December 2008, ownership of the interconnector was transferred to the Energy Infrastructure Investments Group, although APA Group remained the operator.

He was awarded the highest honour of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, by being elected an Honorary Fellow in 2006, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the World Psychiatric Association ( WPA ) in 2008 and International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ).

In May 2008, the first Blue Phase Mode LCD panel had been developed.

In 2008, a three-judge panel of the U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction but ordered a new capital sentencing hearing because the jury was improperly instructed.

* The January 8, 2008 comic of Ozy and Millie featured a panel in which Millie repeats the word " Splorsh " and Ozy quips " I've noticed you find Onomatopoeia extremely distracting.

In 2008, Carey was named as Australian Football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, and placed third in a similar list put together by a panel of football legends in The Age newspaper the same year.

In 2008 a major restoration of the Great East Window commenced, involving the removal, repainting and re-leading of each individual panel.

Evanier speaking on a panel about Jack Kirby with ( from left to right ) Roy Thomas, Joe Sinnott and Stan Goldberg, at the Big Apple Con in Manhattan, November 15, 2008.

On March 14, 2008, several members of L0pht sat at a panel at a standing-room-only group of infosec professionals at SOURCE: Boston.

In late 2008 the high school added a solar panel field to save on rising energy bills.

On 12 September 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon selected Prodi as president of the African Union-UN peacekeeping panel.

Manley's panel reported on Canada's Afghanistan mission to Prime Minister Harper on January 28, 2008.

* IIS 7. 5 included in Windows 7 ( but it must be turned on in the side panel of Programs and Features ) and Windows Server 2008 R2.

The panel submitted their report to the Federal Minister of the Environment in April 2008.

In its unanimous decision, the panel said, " The overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that the November 4, 2008 election was conducted fairly, impartially and accurately ", and said that Franken should be issued a Certificate of Election.

In December 2008, Bunton debuted as a member of the panel on Loose Women on ITV.

In October 2007, Samsung introducing a ten-millimeter thick, 40-inch LCD television panel, followed in October 2008 by the world's first 7. 9-mm panel.

On January 7, 2009, Page was appointed by Chief Justice Eric Magnuson to select the three-judge panel that heard the election contest brought by Norm Coleman in the 2008 U. S. Senate election.

On November 10, 2008, the Review celebrated its 45th anniversary with a panel discussion at the New York Public Library, moderated by Silvers, discussing " What Happens Now " in America after the 2008 presidential election.

She was chair of the European Research Area Board Identification Committee ( 2008 ), chair of the Review panel of the European Research Council ( 2009 ), and since December 2007, vice-chair of the Reflection group on the long term future of the European Union.

In August 2008, Norrington appeared in the reality TV talent show-themed television series, Maestro on BBC Two, when he led the judging panel.

Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its axing in 2011.

The 2008 RAE reported that 80 per cent of academics at the university who submitted research to the panel are doing international or world-leading research.

In March 2008, Humphries joined the judging panel on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything to find an unknown lead to play the part of Nancy in a West End revival of the musical Oliver !.