Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

In 2008, effective January 1, 2009, the ADAAA broadened the interpretations and added to the ADA examples of " major life activities " including, but not limited to, " caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working " as well as the operation of several specified " major bodily functions ".

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

OnStar transitioned to digital service with the help of data transport technology developed by Airbiquity, but warned customers who could not be upgraded to digital that their service would permanently expire on January 1, 2008.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts produced a limited-run revival of the musical from January 11 to 27, 2008.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

However, in January 2008, Selig agreed to a three-year contract extension, announcing he planned to retire after the 2012 season.

* On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts ( Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales ) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

led to the January 2008 bulk-sampling of kimberlite pipes in a remote part of Montana.

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On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

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This eliminated the human reservoir of the disease and reduced hospital admissions to 1 % or less of January 2008 levels.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In January 2008, shortly before plans to retire to Blackpool, Vera's husband Jack found that she had died in her armchair.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

She left the production on December 30, 2007, and later returned from August 26, 2008 until the production closed on January 11, 2009.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

During Obama's State of the Union Address on January 27, 2010, he said that he would work with Congress and the military to enact a repeal of the gay ban law and for the first time set a timetable for repeal.

" Bowie declared himself gay in an interview with Michael Watts in the 22 January 1972 issue of Melody Maker, a move which coincided with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.

Marvin was a liberal Democrat who opposed the Vietnam War and declared his support for the gay rights movement in a January 1969 interview with Playboy magazine.

At about 1: 30 in the morning on January 4, he was arrested outside of a gay bar for interfering with a police officer.

In January 2008, Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney condemned Corpus Christi, which opened for Mardi Gras, because it depicted Judas seducing a gay Jesus as well as Jesus ' administration of gay marriage between two apostles.

In January 2010, Annise Parker became the first openly gay mayor of a large American city upon her inauguration as Houston's mayor.

However, on 26 January 2006, after The Sun newspaper told him that they had proof that he had used a gay chat service known as ' Man Talk ', Hughes admitted that in the past he had had relationships with both women and men.

The organization was founded in January, 1982 after reports began surfacing in San Francisco and New York City that a rare form of cancer called Kaposi's Sarcoma was affecting young gay men.

In January 2011, Phillips objected to the British government's educational curriculum because she believed it promoted " the gay agenda.

* The Economist, " Single-Sex Marriage: This house believes that gay marriage should be legal ," January 2011

Joel Gibb ( born 28 January 1977 ) is a Berlin-based Canadian artist and singer-songwriter who leads the " gay church folk " group The Hidden Cameras.

During the committal hearing for the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams in January 1957, Goddard was seen dining with the defendant's probable gay lover, Sir Roland Gwynne ( Mayor of Eastbourne from 1929 to 1931 ), and ex-Attorney-General Hartley Shawcross at an hotel in Lewes.

Bruce LaBruce ( born January 3, 1964 ) is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.

Charleson, who was gay, was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, and died of AIDS-related causes in January 1990 at the age of 40.

In a press release dated 26th January 2001 the Muslim Council of Britain listed two points of contention that prevented them from attending the event, which were that it " totally excludes and ignores the ongoing genocide and violation of Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere " and that " It includes the controversial question of alleged Armenian genocide as well as the so-called gay genocide.

Glick first ran for the legislature in 1990, being sworn in to office the following January when she became the state of New York's first openly gay state legislator .< ref >

Following the donation, SNP leader Alex Salmond was criticised for " pandering to homophobia " by accepting Souter's donation-particularly as the party had just opposed the right for gay couples to be given equal treatment by Catholic adoption agencies, and had also snubbed a gay rights debate in January 2007.

The castle's licence to host wedding ceremonies was revoked with effect from 1 January 2009 after Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon, refused a gay couple use of the building to hold their civil partnership ceremony because it did not fit with his religious beliefs.

Joey Stefano ( January 1, 1968 – November 26, 1994 ) was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay adult films.

Held during January and February in Melbourne, Australia, the festival began as a one week celebration of gay pride in 1989.