* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

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As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

On April 26, Matt Ryan ( quarterback from Boston College ) was drafted third overall in the 2008 NFL Draft by the Falcons.

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

Combined Insurance was sold to ACE Limited in April 2008.

* Quick, Ben " The Boneyard " Orion Magazine, March / April 2008

Such a tax was in effect for some period of time, raising at least $ AU 290 million after April 2008.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

Burkina Faso recognized Kosovo on 24 April 2008.

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.

On 21 April 2008, BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News on the channel itself – but is referred to as the BBC News Channel on other BBC services.

Since 21 April 2008, the overnight bulletins, while produced by the BBC News Channel, have usually been broadcast from the studios of BBC World News.

In April 2008 Stephen Jones told a reporter, " I don't think I have a political bone in my body.

Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.

Announced on February 19, 2008, North American Airlines planned on discontinuing all scheduled service in May 2008 in favor of concentrating on charter operations.

* March 30, 2008: Announced acquisition of Synplicity, the leader in FPGA synthesis and rapid prototyping technology.

* In 2008, Ed Pavlic published Winners Have Yet to Be Announced ( University of Georgia Press ), poems re-imagining the life of Donny Hathaway.

* 2008: January, Announced eGo Portable Hard Drive

* 2008: May, Announced eGo Desktop Hard Drive

* 2008: September, Announced the new eGo Helium Portable Hard Drive

* 2008: October, Announced StorCenter ix2

* 2008: October, Announced ScreenPlay Pro HD Multimedia Drive

Announced officially in 2007 as a " spiritual successor " to Tribes, Fallen Empire: Legions was released to the public in June 2008 on InstantAction, and is currently being developed by the community after InstantAction was shut down in November 2010.

Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.

• Announced in January 2008 in coordination with the Arab League and the High Commissioner for Refugees campaign " by the Arabs but the Iraqis ," which contributed to supporting the education of more than 2, 500 students on the number of Iraqi teachers, and reflects the barrier 300 students during the college years.

* Orkney Announced for 2008, as yet unpublished ( 2011 )

* Yellow Line: Announced in April 2008

Announced in a release on TNAwrestling. com on April 2, 2008, TNA came to terms on a deal that had the show airing in Australia starting April 5.

* 2008: August, Introduced ScreenPlay TV Link Multimedia Adapter

On June 12, 2008 Intel demonstrated a special version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, titled Quake Wars: Ray Traced, using ray tracing for rendering, running in basic HD ( 720p ) resolution.

Season 2 had been scheduled for release in the summer of 2008, but it was cancelled when Toshiba ( which had been helping finance the remastering of the show ) pulled out of the HD DVD business.

The company provides over 100 video and over 78 audio channels, and in 2008 introduced its first HD video channel.

* Ancient Places TV: HD Video of Stonehenge Excavations of 2008

On January 4, 2008, Warner Bros. announced that they would drop support of HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc.

HD DVDs would continue to be released through May 2008 ( when their contract with the HD DVD promotion group expired ), but only following Blu-ray and DVD releases.

This started a chain of events which resulted in HD DVD development and production being halted by Toshiba on February 16, 2008, ending the format war.

The children's sports show This Week in Baseball began being shown in widescreen in 2009, while Sunday political talk program Fox News Sunday converted to HD when Fox News Channel launched their new HD facilities in November 2008 ( before the network's widescreen presentation effort went into effect in September 2010, it was the final Fox News program to be produced to fit the 4: 3 safe area, as Fox News Channel itself converted to a full-time widescreen presentation on both their HD and standard definition channels in 2009 ).

CIII and CHAN officially started transmitting in HD on April 18, 2008.

On April 18, 2008, Global officially launched a transmitter in Toronto making the HD simulcast of CIII-TV available over-the-air.

2008 saw the debut of Phineas and Ferb, the first original animated series to be broadcast in HD, and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck, along with Disney Channel Original Movies such as Camp Rock, Minutemen and The Cheetah Girls: One World.

* Disney Channel HD is a 720p high definition simulcast of Disney Channel, first broadcasting on March 19, 2008.

Throughout the final months of 2007 to the early months of 2008, various cable companies had started to add the Weather Channel HD to their cable lineups, including the Boston, Massachusetts, Austin, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana markets.

Time Warner Cable and Cablevision, both of which serve New York Metropolitan Area have also recently picked up the HD channel in late July 2008.

TWC began studio HD programming on June 2, 2008.

File: TWC HD logo. svg | The current Weather Channel High Definition logo debuted 2008

* " The Weather Has Never Looked Better " ( June 2 – late 2008 ; also slogan for HD broadcasting )

The only available Direct3D 10. 1 hardware as of June 2008 were the Radeon HD 3000 series and Radeon HD 4000 series from ATI ; in 2009, they were joined by Chrome 430 / 440GT GPUs from S3 Graphics and select lower-end models in GeForce 200 series from Nvidia.

Two seasons aired on MOJO HD before the network went down on December 1, 2008 ; a third season was filmed but has gone unaired.

SD MPEG-2 DVB-S broadcasts via satellite began on 2 May 2007 and DVB-T ( terrestrial ) broadcasts began April 2008 broadcasting in HD H. 264 video with HE-AAC audio.

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.