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# 2008 in German television

This is a list of German television related events from 2008.

## Events

* 8 March - No Angels are selected to represent Germany at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with their song "Disappear". They are selected to be the fifty-third German Eurovision entry during Wer singt für Deutschland? held at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
* 17 May - Thomas Godoj wins the fifth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar.
* 7 July - Silke "Isi" Kaufmann wins the eighth season of Big Brother Germany.
* 22 November - 44-year-old harmonica player Michael Hirte wins the second season of Das Supertalent.

## Debuts
### Free for air
#### Domestic

* 23 June - Doctor's Diary (2008–2011) (RTL)
* 14 December - Die Patin – Kein Weg zurück [de] (2008) (RTL)

#### International

* 28 April - Roary the Racing Car (2007–2009) (KiKa)

### Cable
#### International

* 28 February - Dexter (2006–2013) (Sky)
* 16 June - The Secret Show (2006–2007) (Disney Channel)

### BFBS

* 4 February - Roary the Racing Car (2007–2009)
* 21 July - The Slammer (2006-2014)
* 23 July - Tom (2003)
* Frankenstein's Cat (2008)

## Television shows
### 1950s

* Tagesschau (1952–present)

### 1960s

* heute (1963-present)

### 1970s

* heute-journal (1978-present)
* Tagesthemen (1978-present)

### 1980s

* Wetten, dass..? (1981-2014)
* Lindenstraße (1985–present)

### 1990s

* Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992–present)
* Marienhof (1992-2011)
* Unter uns (1994-present)
* Verbotene Liebe (1995-2015)
* Schloss Einstein (1998–present)
* In aller Freundschaft (1998–present)
* Wer wird Millionär? (1999-present)

### 2000s

* Big Brother Germany (2000-2011, 2015–present)
* Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2002–present)
* Let's Dance (2006–present)
* Das Supertalent (2007–present)

## Networks and services
### Launches

| Network | Type | Launch date |
| Sportdigital | Cable television | Spring |
| Fox | Cable television | 19 May |
| Xite | Cable and satellite | 21 May |

### Conversions and rebrandings

| Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion Date | Notes | Source |
| | | Cable and satellite | | | |

### Closures

| Network | Type | End date | Notes | Sources |
| Premiere Serie | Cable television | 4 October | | |
# Kentucky, New South Wales

Kentucky is a village in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. It is about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Uralla and 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-west of Walcha and about 7 kilometres (4 mi) off the New England Highway. Kentucky is located 540 kilometres (336 mi) by rail from Sydney in Sandon County on the Northern Tablelands. It is at an altitude of 1066m and is within Uralla Shire. At the 2016 census, Kentucky had a population of 158.

## History

On 25 May 1870 Alexander Binning Walker, a rural lock-up keeper, chased, confronted and killed the infamous bushranger Fred Ward, alias Captain Thunderbolt, at Kentucky Creek, Uralla.
The Kentucky railway station, on the Main North Line, was opened on 2 August 1882. It was closed many years ago, though daily Sydney/Armidale trains still pass through the village.
| Preceding station | Former services | Former services | Former services | Following station |
| Urallatowards Wallangarra | | Main North Line | | Wolluntowards Sydney |
The area was a former soldier settlement region with many orchards and other agricultural properties. The development of the Kentucky Returned Soldiers Settlement along the railway between Kentucky and Wollun commenced in July 1918. This settlement covered 7,319 acres (29.62 km$^2$), mostly of a light sandy granite type soil. The area was divided into eighty holdings of 40 to 250 acres (1.0 km$^2$) each depending on the location of the farm. The total orchard area which was planted with apples, pears, prunes, plums and cherries was 1,200 acres (4.9 km$^2$).
The Kentucky Memorial Hall, in 2008, installed a memorial plaque at the Noalimba Avenue of Honour dedicated to the original soldier settlers and those servicemen and women from the district who enlisted in subsequent conflicts.
About 4 km south of Kentucky is Kentucky South which was a rail siding that opened on 18 October 1926 and closed on 20 February 1975. Some of the old rail sheds remain there along with several houses.

## Kentucky today

The district now has several well-known Merino sheep studs and produces some top super fine wool, as well as quality beef cattle. Apples, cherries, pears and other stone fruit are available from the orchards during the season. The Kentucky Tree Nursery produces many low cost trees and shrubs for farm planting. A boutique distillery and brewery (Dobson's), a fine-dining restaurant (Pinot) and a sophisticated nightclub (The Speakeasy) together comprise Eastview Estate, developed since 2009 immediately to the north-east of the village. Kentucky also has two churches, a community hall, general store and a progressive public school. Some of the country gardens are opened to the public through the open gardens scheme and community fund raising schemes. The current population is about 60 persons.
# Jon Price

Jon Price (born September 28, 1973) is an American sports gambler, adviser, entrepreneur, and radio personality. Known for placing high-stake sports bets, Price was named by The Comeback as "one of the top 10 most influential people in the sports betting world" in 2022.

## Life and career

Jon Price grew up in a middle-class family in the Northeast. He started to sell tips and picks to the public in 2013 via his brand, Sports Information Trader's.

### Publications

Price has been featured in several publications and nationally syndicated radio shows throughout his career. Forbes Magazine did a feature on him about Super Bowl Prop Bets. He's also been featured on KNBR in San Francisco, ESPN Radio, CBS Sports Radio, Westwood One with Zach Gelb and The Gary & Larry Show.
During the 2015-16 College Football Bowl Season, Inc. Magazine did a feature on Price regarding his strategies for wagering in sports, particularly in Bowl Games.
# Piotr Havik

Piotr Havik (born 7 July 1994) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for Belgian club team Shifting Gears.

## Major results
### 2011

    1st Ronde des Vallées
    8th Overall Liège–La Gleize
    10th Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde Juniors

### 2012

    1st Overall Regio-Tour
    1st Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
    1st Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde Juniors
    2nd Overall Driedaagse van Axel
    2nd Overall Trophée Center Morbihan
    2nd Bernaudeau Junior
    3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne Juniors
    8th Overall Oberösterreich-Rundfahrt
    10th Overall Liège–La Gleize

### 2013

    10th Circuit de Wallonie

### 2014

    3rd Road race, National Under–23 Road Championships
    4th Ronde van Overijssel

### 2015

    10th Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies

### 2016

    7th ZODC Zuidenveld Tour

### 2018

    1st Ronde van Overijssel
    3rd Ronde van Limburg
    4th Overall Tour of Estonia
    7th Antwerp Port Epic
    9th Duo Normand

### 2019

    1st Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Kreiz Breizh Elites
    2nd Halle–Ingooigem
    3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
    4th Antwerp Port Epic
    6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
    7th Elfstedenronde
    8th Rutland–Melton CiCLE Classic
    10th Volta Limburg Classic
    10th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

### 2021

    6th Antwerp Port Epic

### 2023

    3rd Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas
    UCI Gravel World Series
       3rd Gravel One Fifty

### 2024

    1st Overall Ibereolic Gravel Tierra de Campos
       1st Stage 2
    1st GP Florian Vermeersch
    UCI Gravel World Series
       2nd Limburg
    4th Unbound Gravel 200
# Barry McLaughlin

Barry McLaughlin (born 19 April 1973 in Paisley) is a Scottish football manager and former professional footballer. He played for St Mirren for ten years, and was captain of the St Mirren side in his last season. After this he went on to play for Kilmarnock and Ayr United. After leaving senior football in 2006 he joined the junior leagues to play for Irvine Meadow, before retiring completely in 2009.
McLaughlin was appointed manager of new West of Scotland League members Thorn Athletic in July 2022, having previously been in charge of the Glenvale under-20 team.
# Tactics (album)

Tactics is a live album by jazz guitarist John Abercrombie, organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum, recorded in New York City over three days in July 1996 and released by ECM Records in 1997.

## Reception

Scott Yanow of AllMusic writes: "Not sounding at all like a typical soul-jazz organ group, these musicians take more advanced improvisations."
The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album 3½ stars, stating it contains "churning but still delicate Hammond shapes, a rock steady bass, and some of Abercrombie's lightest and most dancing jazz-playing".
Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Penguin Guide to Jazz | |

## Track listing

All compositions by John Abercrombie except as indicated
* "Sweet Sixteen" – 11:21
* "Last Waltz" – 11:14
* "Bo Diddy" (Wall) – 11:43
* "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 10:15
* "Chumbida" (Nussbaum) – 5:46
* "Dear Rain" – 7:38
* "Mr. Magoo" (Wall) – 8:44
* "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) – 9:42

## Personnel

* John Abercrombie – jazz guitar
* Dan Wall – Hammond organ
* Adam Nussbaum – drums
# Travis Williams (sports executive)

Travis Williams is an American attorney and sports front office executive. He is the president of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball.
Williams is from Indianapolis, Indiana. He earned his bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and his Juris Doctor from the Duquesne University School of Law. He was a partner at the law firm Reed Smith, and served as outside counsel for the Pirates. He joined the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 2008, becoming chief operating officer in 2011. He left the Penguins to become the president of business operations for the NHL's New York Islanders in 2018. Williams succeeded Frank Coonelly as president of the Pirates in October 2019.
Williams and his wife, Nikki, have six children.
# Paul McDonald (Scottish footballer)

Paul Thomas McDonald (born 20 April 1968) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a winger.

## Playing career

After playing for a local boys' club in his home town McDonald was spotted by Hamilton Academical and signed for the club in June 1986. McDonald, who usually featured on the left wing played at the club during a period of comparative success, picking up winners medals for the First Division in 1987–88 and the Scottish Challenge Cup in 1992 and 1993. After a long spell at the Accies he was signed by Southampton for £75,000 in the summer of 1993. McDonald failed to make an impact at The Dell, although a successful loan spell at Burnley prompted Brighton & Hove Albion to pay £25,000 for his services in 1996. He left the club the following year and returned to Scottish football, with spells at Dunfermline Athletic, Partick Thistle and Greenock Morton before returning to Hamilton for a final two season run in 2001.

## Coaching career

After this spell with the Accies, McDonald, who had also been serving the club as Youth Development Manager from 2002, retired from playing and became the SFA community coach at Kilmarnock. McDonald was placed in temporary charge of the Kilmarnock first team in October 2017, after the departure of Lee McCulloch.
In December 2021, McDonald was announced as the new director of the Thistle Weir Youth Academy at Partick Thistle. In March 2023, following the promotion of the academy's head of youth Kris Doolan to the position of first team manager, McDonald joined the first team coaching staff serving as interim assistant coach.

## Managerial statistics

    As of match played 10 October 2017
Managerial record by team and tenure :
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Ref |
| Team | Nat | From | To | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | Ref |
| Kilmarnock (interim) | | 10 October 2017 | 16 October 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 100.00 | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 100.00 | — |
# Tobias Franek

Tobias Franek (born 29 July 1996) is an Austrian male BMX rider, representing his nation at international competitions. He competed in the time trial event at the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships.
# Świętochy

Świętochy (Polish pronunciation:) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Siennica, within Mińsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
# Wallpaper Engine

Wallpaper Engine is an application for Windows with a companion app on Android which allows users to use and create animated and interactive wallpapers, similar to the defunct Windows DreamScene. Wallpapers are shared through the Steam Workshop functionality as user-created downloadable content. It features its own rendering engine and provides a wallpaper editor, allowing for the creation of 2D and 3D wallpapers, including a particle system editor and a fork of JavaScript called SceneScript for additional wallpaper logic. It also supports using video files, audio files, webpages and some 3D applications as wallpapers.

## History

A proposal outlining the general idea of the software was added to Steam Greenlight in December 2015. The application was subsequently released as a paid product on Steam in October 2016 as an early access title. After three years of development, the software left its early access stage in November 2018. In August 2019, Wallpaper Engine was announced to be one of the release titles for Steam China.
In late November of 2021, the team released version 2.0 of Wallpaper Engine. This update brought a new logo, a large set of additional features, support for Windows 11, and a free android release that interfaces with the desktop version.
Despite not being a game, Wallpaper Engine is one of the most used apps on Steam, being located in Steam's Top 25 played games in July 2019 and Top 10 played games in November 2021. Kotaku reported users in China use it to share pornographic videos in 2022.
# Steve O'Hara

Stephen O'Hara (born 21 February 1971) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Walsall.
# Geoffrey Watson

Geoffrey Stuart Watson (3 December 1921 – 3 January 1998) was an Australian statistician.
Watson was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1921. He studied at the University of Melbourne, and received his PhD at the North Carolina State University in 1951. After taking positions at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, the University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University, he became chair of the Department of Statistics of Princeton University in 1970. He remained there until his death.
Watson developed the Durbin–Watson statistic for detecting autocorrelation with James Durbin of the London School of Economics in 1950. Watson was especially interested in applications of statistics. He used statistical methods to support the theory of continental drift. He estimated the size of the penguin population in Antarctica, and the effect of repealing the motorcycle helmet law in the United States.
In 1966, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
He is sometimes confused with the mathematician G. L. Watson, who worked on quadratic forms, and G. N. Watson, a mathematical analyst.
# 1,2,4-Butanetriol

1,2,4-Butanetriol is an organic compound with the formula HOCH$_2$CH(OH)CH$_2$CH$_2$OH. It is an colorless, odorless, hygroscopic, oily liquid. Containing three alcohol groups, it is classified as a polyol, similar to glycerol and erythritol. It is chiral.

## Uses

1,2,4-Butanetriol is used in the manufacture of butanetriol trinitrate (BTTN), an important component of US military rocket motor solid fuel. As of 2014, it was commercially produced by a single Chinese company.
1,2,4-Butanetriol is also used as a precursor for two cholesterol-lowering drugs, Crestor and Zetia, which are derived from D-3,4-dihydroxybutanoic acid, by using 3-hydroxy-gamma-butyrolactone as a chiral synthon It is used as one of the monomers for manufacture of some polyesters and as a solvent.

## Preparation

1,2,4-Butanetriol can be prepared synthetically by several methods, such as hydroformylation of glycidol and subsequent reduction of the product. It can also be prepared by reduction of malic acid esters with sodium borohydride. The oxidation of butynediol with mercuric oxide followed by reduction of the resulting ketone.
Genetically engineered bacteria produce these triols in enantiopure form. Pseudomonas fragi converts D-xylose to D-xylonic acid, which is decarboxylated by a strain of Escherichia coli to D-triol. Similarly, D-arabinose is converted to D-arabinonic acid, which is converted to the L-triol.
# Portneuf River (Capitale-Nationale)

The Rivière Portneuf is a tributary of the north shore of the Saint-Laurent river, crossing the municipalities of Saint-Raymond, Pont-Rouge, Sant-Basile and Portneuf, in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of the Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.

## Toponymy

The name of this river is linked to the seigniory of Portneuf which it crosses before flowing into the Saint Lawrence river. Although this seigniory was allotted in 1636, the act of the concession was confirmed in 1647.
The toponym "Rivière Portneuf" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.
# Slide on the Rhythm

"Slide on The Rhythm" is a 1993 Eurodance House song recorded by the British music project Arizona, featuring Bajan-born singer Zeeteah Massiah (credited as "Zeitia" on the song), which was written and produced by Michael Gray and Jon Pearn (under the production name Greed, which later became Full Intention). The single reached number one on Billboard 's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on October 2, 1993. The track sampled portions of a 1982 Club song, "Ride on The Rhythm," by the American group Mahogany, which was written and produced by Nick Braddy and Richard Bassof (for whom they get credits for on the American release of "Slide on The Rhythm"). The latter was also one of the earliest production works for Nick Martinelli.

## Track listings
### 12 inch (US)

* A1 Slide On The Rhythm (Funky Mix) 6:06
* A2 Slide On The Rhythm (Dub On The Rhythm Mix) 6:01
* B1 Slide On The Rhythm (D&D Reconstruction Mix) 6:42
* B2 Slide On The Rhythm (Chant On The Rhythm Mix) 5:32

### CD Maxi (UK)

* 1 Slide On The Rhythm (7" Edit) 3:28
* 2 Slide On The Rhythm 6:15
* 3 Slide On The Rhythm (Dub On The Rhythm Mix) 6:03
* 4 Slide On The Rhythm (Chant On The Rhythm Mix) 5:32
* 5 Slide On The Rhythm (Funky Mix) 6:00
# Sam van 't Westende

Sam van 't Westende (born 6 August 1991) is a Dutch judoka.
van 't Westende is a bronze medalist from the 2018 Judo Grand Prix Tbilisi in the ‍–‍73 kg category.
# Świętochów

Świętochów (Polish pronunciation:) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Tarczyn, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Tarczyn, 21 km (13 mi) south-west of Piaseczno, and 34 km (21 mi) south-west of Warsaw.
# D' Fightin' Ones

D' Fightin' Ones is a 1961 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on April 22, 1961, and stars Sylvester and Hector. It is a parody of the 1958 film The Defiant Ones, a film about two escaped inmates—one black, one white—who are shackled to each other.

## Plot

Sylvester and Hector are on a truck headed for the pound. Both are shackled to each other and hate each other's guts. After a little scuffle, the truck hits a bumpy road, causing the back door to open, and dumping Sylvester and Hector out. Just as the truck stops and turns around to pick them up, the two quickly run for cover, which is easier said than done due to being stuck together.
After fighting over some food, Sylvester and Hector realize the first thing they must do is get the chains off. However, attempting to blow up the chains with TNT and chiseling them apart both fail. Later, while walking near railroad tracks, they escape an approaching train, but not the caboose; it snags their chain and soon leaves them dangling on a water silo. That night, the two sneak into the city and see animal control personnel heading their way; the two quickly take brief refuge in a shed and avoid the spotlights. After avoiding the spotlight, the only thing they can do now is flee the city, but they need to avoid detection from animal control personnel; Sylvester and Hector take turns disguising themselves in human clothes while the other animal hides in a suitcase. As soon as the two reach the bus station, they try to hop aboard a bus out of town, but quickly hightail it out of there when they find that their bus is revealed to be headed for Sing Sing.
In the final set piece of the cartoon, it would seem the situation is hopeless, but then, Hector spotted an approaching train and gets an idea: they hang below a train trestle that goes between two mountains, and once the train runs over their chains, it will cut them free. However, both realize too late it's a bad idea when Sylvester points downward, indicating that once the chains are broken, they'll fall hundreds of feet to the ground. Sure enough, Sylvester and Hector fall into a junkyard after the train cuts their chains. At first, both continue to argue about how dumb the plan was, but are joyous when they realize they aren't shackled together anymore, their joy is short-lived when they look down and notice they're now connected by leg via a pipe. They hear police sirens coming their way and hop down the road to escape as the short ends.
# Ceratoneura

Ceratoneura is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae.
# Bill Camkin

William Alexander Camkin (1894 – 26 April 1956) was an English billiard hall owner who came to prominence in the early years of the World Snooker Championship, when many of the tournament's matches were held at his clubs.
He was involved in various aspects of billiards and snooker, initially renovating and supplying tables and later supplying equipment and promoting events and refereeing matches. During the Second World War he acted as secretary-manager of Birmingham City F.C.

## Birth

Camkin was born in Willesden, London.

## Camkin's Hall

Camkin ran a billiards hall on John Bright Street, Birmingham known as Camkin's Hall. This hall was used for a number of World Snooker Championship matches from 1927 to 1930, including the 1927 and 1928 finals. Camkin himself was the referee for the 1927 final. In 1928 it was the first venue outside London to be used for the final stages of the English Amateur Championship.

## Birmingham City F.C.

Camkin was appointed honorary managing-director of Birmingham F.C. in September 1939, and when W. H. Grady died in 1941, took over secretarial duties in addition. Team manager George Liddell had resigned on the outbreak of war, and Camkin, together with trainer George Blackburn, oversaw team affairs until November 1944, when Ted Goodier took over as caretaker manager. Although the Football League was suspended for the duration of hostilities, Birmingham competed in regional league and cup matches. Camkin remained on the club's board of directors until ill-health forced his retirement in 1951, when he was elected as vice-president of the club.

## Death

Camkin died at his home in Leamington, Warwickshire on 26 April 1956 aged 61.

## Family

His son John Camkin, a journalist and broadcaster, who lived in Leamington Spa served on the board of Coventry City and was secretary of the League Managers Association. In the 1970s he owned a string of travel agencies (Camkin Travel) in the Midlands that were eventually sold to the Lunn Poly/Thomson Group.