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# European Union (Amendment) Act 2008

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The European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gives effect in the law of the United Kingdom to the Lisbon Treaty, which was signed there by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 14 December 2007. The Bill was first debated in the House of Commons on 21 January 2008, and passed its second reading that day by a vote of 362–224; Prime Minister Gordon Brown was absent that day, and left the Bill to be defended by then-Foreign Secretary David Miliband who introduced it to the House of Commons. A Conservative amendment led by the then Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague to hold a UK-wide referendum on final approval of the Lisbon Treaty was defeated by the Labour Government in a Committee stage debate on 5 March 2008, by 311–248 in the House of Commons. The enactment via royal assent came on 19 June 2008. The Act does not actually ratify the treaty; it merely adds the Lisbon Treaty to the treaties listed in section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The actual ratification by the United Kingdom of the treaty took place when the British Government deposited the instruments of ratification in Rome on 16 July 2008.
The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 repealed this Act on 31 January 2020.
# Janabiyah

Janabiyah (Arabic:الجنبية) is a village situated in the north-west of Bahrain, close to the Gulf of Bahrain. It is located south of Bani Jamra and to the west of the village of Saar. It is under the Northern Governorate administrative region of the country. The village is mainly popular for its camel farms that host around 100 camels.

## History

Janabiyah is home to hundreds of ancient burial mounds dating back to 2200 BC, during the Dilmun era of Bahraini history. The site is regarded by archaeologists as being "one of the most important heritage sites in the country". People buried in Janabiya were believed to have resided in the nearby villages of Saar and Budaiya since northern Bahrain was agriculturally rich. The Dilmunite practice was to bury the dead in central Bahrain in locations like Hamad Town, because of the dryness of the area however it was not always the case. The mounds were constructed from sand and limestone, obtained from nearby surroundings. Excavations at Janabiyah during 2005 yielded around forty-five artifacts, including Dilmun trade seals, pottery, shells, ostrich eggs, daggers, beads, baskets and 2 complete human skeletons.
Artifacts dating to the Dilmun era over 4,000 years ago were uncovered at a burial mound in Janabiyah in 2005. Trade seals with Indus Valley inscriptions were discovered, strengthening archaeologists' beliefs about the existence of regular trade between the Dilmun and Indus Valley civilisations respectively. The seals were found in a large burial mound that was believed to have been built for wealthy or religious people.
In J. G. Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf (1908), he writes that Janabiyah consisted of 20 huts inhabited by the Baharna, who were either fishermen or farmers. There were an estimated 1000 date palms, 8 donkey and 2 cows in the village.

## Facilities

Aside from the camel farm, the village is also host to multiple resorts and fitness centres. The Birla Institute of Technology International Centre is based alongside the Janabiyah highway. Sanabil private school was situated in the village prior to its closure, as well as the children's academy for the disabled.
Janabiyah hosts a two-story substation which is currently undergoing renovations that will install a 4000kV project. This will accommodate two transformers of 1,500kV each on the ground floor and main isolation and contact devices and four main low-voltage distribution boards.
# Time in Mongolia

Time in Mongolia is officially represented by the Mongolian Standard Time (UTC+08:00). However, the far western provinces of Khovd, Uvs and Bayan-Ölgii use UTC+07:00.

## Daylight saving time

Mongolia used daylight saving time in 1983–1998, 2001–2006 and 2015–2016.

## IANA time zone database

The IANA time zone database contains two zones for Mongolia in the file zone.tab.
| coordinates | TZ | comments | Standard time | Summer time | Notes |
| +4755+10653 | Asia/Ulaanbaatar | most locations | tUTC+08:00 | tUTC+08:00 | Link from Asia/Choibalsan, Asia/Ulan_Bator |
| +4801+09139 | Asia/Hovd | Bayan-Ölgii, Hovd, Uvs | sUTC+07:00 | sUTC+07:00 |
# Star Parodier

Star Parodier (スターパロジャー, Sutā Parojā) is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Kaneko and published by Hudson Soft for the PC Engine CD-ROM² in 1992. It is a spin-off of the Star Soldier series and was localized for North America as Fantasy Star Soldier, but this version was never released. The game was released for the Wii Virtual Console on March 7, 2008 in Japan, March 16 in Europe and later in North America on August 11. The title is also playable on the Turbografx-16/PC Engine Mini Console.
Star Parodier is a vertical scrolling shooter, much like the Star Soldier games, and features many of the same conventions, such as collecting power-ups to upgrade the player's weapons, and facing several bosses and minibosses as they progress through the game. The game also features the 2- and 5-minute high score time attack modes seen in previous games.
In parodying the hard sci-fi atmosphere of the Star Soldier games, Star Parodier takes a lighthearted approach by featuring cute, cartoonish graphics and toning down the violence (for example, defeated enemies wave white flags in surrender). The players choose from three craft to play as in the game: the Paro Ceaser from Star Soldier, a giant flying Bomberman or an anthropomorphic PC Engine console that shoots HuCards and CD-ROMs at enemies.
# Ismael Valenzuela

Ismael Valenzuela (December 25, 1934 – September 2, 2009) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was one of 22 children born to parents who had immigrated to the United States. Shortly after Valenzuela's birth, the family returned to their native Mexico. At age 14, Valenzuela came back to the United States where he began working with quarter horses, then launched his career as a jockey at a racetrack in Tucson, Arizona. He eventually began riding in California and came to national prominence as a jockey competing for the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
Leading up to the 1958 Kentucky Derby, the California horse Silky Sullivan received much publicity for his habit of coming from very far behind to win races. It was the first time television played a major role in the publicizing of a racehorse, and after Valenzuela won the Derby on board Tim Tam, the next day he was flown to New York City to make a guest appearance on CBS Television's The Ed Sullivan Show. Two weeks later, Valenzuela and Tim Tam won the Preakness Stakes, but in the final leg of the Triple Crown, they finished second at the Belmont Stakes after the horse fractured a sesamoid bone near the end of the race.
For over three years in the early 1960s, Valenzuela was the regular rider of Kelso. On Kelso, Valenzuela won twenty-two important graded stakes races, passed Round Table to become the No. 1 money winner in Thoroughbred racing history, and earned the most prestigious Horse of the Year award every year. In 1963, Valenzuela was the recipient of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award given to a top thoroughbred jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack. In 1966, he won the Canadian International Stakes and in 1968 history repeated itself when he again won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Forward Pass but fell short of winning the Triple Crown when they finished second in the Belmont Stakes.
After having won 2,545 races, Valenzuela retired from racing to a home near Santa Anita Park. In December 1998, his wife died suddenly of liver failure at age 63. Rosa Delia Valenzuela had been taking the doctor-prescribed drug Rezulin that a few months later was withdrawn from the market when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that Rezulin use had "possibly or probably" resulted in 90 liver failures, including 63 deaths and seven nonfatal organ transplants.
In 2008, Valenzuela was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In poor health, he was unable to travel to the annual induction ceremony on August 4 at Saratoga Springs, New York and was inducted in a special ceremony at Santa Anita Racetrack on June 22, 2008.
Seventy-four-year-old Ismael Valenzuela died on September 2, 2009, and was buried in the Live Oak Memorial Park Cemetery in Monrovia, California.
Valenzuela had three brothers who also became jockeys as did his nephew, Pat Valenzuela.
# Daniyel Cimen

Daniyel Cimen (German pronunciation:; born 19 January 1985 in Hanau) is a Germa football manager and footballer who last played for SpVgg Groß-Umstadt. He is currently the head coach of FC Gießen.
He was playing for Eintracht Frankfurt, but had some problems earning a spot in the regular squad. Eintracht Frankfurt loaned him to the then 2. Bundesliga side Eintracht Braunschweig. After being relegated with Braunschweig, Cimen joined Frankfurt rival Kickers Offenbach in June 2007. Cimen moved from Kickers Offenbach to FC Erzgebirge Aue in July 2008, but returned to Eintracht Frankfurt in summer of 2010.

## Managerial career

Cimen was the manager of the U19 team of Eintracht Frankfurt, while he was playing a season for Kreisoberliga Hanau (VIII)-side FC Hanau 93. He was hired in the summer of 2012, after leaving the club as a player, and was sacked as manager in the summer of 2014 due to bad results.
In the summer of 2015, Cimen was hired as the new manager of Rot-Weiss Frankfurt.

## Honours
### Club
#### Eintracht Frankfurt

   * DFB-Pokal Runner-up: 2005–06
# Janet Bercovitz

Janet Bercovitz is an American entrepreneurship scholar and the Deming Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder in strategy, entrepreneurship, and operations.

## Early career

Bercovitz graduated with BS degree in chemistry, an MBA, and a PhD in Business and Public Policy with a concentration in strategy from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Her PhD advisor was Oliver Williamson.
Bercovitz was a faculty member at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. From 2005 to 2017 she served as an assistant professor and tenured associate professor in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship faculty group at the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, she held a courtesy appointment in the Institute of Genomic Biology and has been a Miller Faculty Fellow at the Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois. In 2017, she joined the University of Colorado as a professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship.

## Research

Bercovitz's research studies inter-firm alliance structures, contractual and relational foundations of alliance governance, and the behavioral dynamics that shape contracts between organizations.
Bercovitz is an authority on academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer coming out of university research. Bercovitz asks the basic question of why some academic units and individual professors are actively engaged in technology transfer, while others are much less engaged. Her work with longtime co-author Maryann Feldman points to organizational structures and individual characteristics. Prior research had suggested that such certain universities are more prolific in technology transfer simply due to their greater scientific resources. Bercovitz and Feldman identified the role of social forces within an academic unit on the likelihood of becoming an academic entrepreneur. For example, at a local level, individual researchers' decisions to disclose inventions might be shaped by the norms of their own doctoral training, the behavior of their peer group in the university, and disclosure activities by a department chair. These influences go beyond selection effects from hiring researchers with a greater, or lesser, proclivity to disclose. Bercovitz has also studied the structure of contracting relationships in university technology transfer, and information technology service contracts.
Bercovicz has also studied business franchisor-franchisee agreements.
# Enterprise Allowance Scheme

The Enterprise Allowance Scheme was an initiative set up by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative UK government which gave a guaranteed income of £40 per week to unemployed people who set up their own business. It was first announced on 13 November 1981, and piloted between January 1982 and July 1983, funding 3,331 individuals. Introduced nationwide in 1983 against a background of mass unemployment in Britain, it went on to fund 325,000 people, including Creation Records head Alan McGee; Superdry founder Julian Dunkerton; artist Tracey Emin and the founders of Viz magazine. Anyone wishing to claim money under the scheme was required to fund the first £1000 out of their own funds, and also to produce a basic business plan.
Proponents of the scheme believed that it would have a great impact on unemployment, and support entrepreneurship. Critics pointed to figures which suggested that one in six of the start-up businesses failed in the first year, and said that it had no significant impact on unemployment figures as most of the start-ups were sole-trading operations.
A similar scheme, the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance was set up in Ireland.
On 6 October 2010, a plan was announced by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to revive the scheme, giving mentoring and funding of up to £2000 to those unemployed for over six months and wishing to start up their own business. The funding would include a weekly payment linked to the value of their benefit, and £1000 for the purchase of equipment.
# San Gabriel Cemetery

San Gabriel Cemetery is a historic cemetery in San Gabriel, California, United States. Founded in 1872, it contains over 19,000 burials in its approximately 15 acres (6 ha), including many of the founding leaders of San Gabriel and Los Angeles.

## History

The San Gabriel Cemetery Association was formed and the cemetery was founded in 1872. The cemetery property was separated from that of its neighbor, The Church of Our Savior in 1874 and the Association filed Articles of Incorporation with the County Clerk on April 16, 1874. Benjamin Davis Wilson provided the cemetery with additional land in 1875. The first burial was recorded in 1876.
In 1893, the cemetery house was built at a cost of $337.62 and moved to its present location in 1923.

## Notable Burials

* Mark Reeves Bacon
* Myron Hunt
* William May Garland
* Henry Mather Greene
* Frank Tenney Johnson
* Jay Johnstone
* William Myron Keck
* Richard Lacy
* Chi Mui
* Merlin Olson
* George S. Patton
* Laura Scudder
* Benjamin Davis Wilson AKA Don Benito Wilson
* Mary Letitia Jones (Los Angeles City Librarian)
# Cassandre (opera)

Cassandre (Cassandra) is an opera by the French composers Toussaint Bertin de la Doué and François Bouvard, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 18 February 1706. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, is based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus.
# PP-62 Gujranwala-IV

PP-62 Gujranwala-IV (پی پی-62، گوجرانوالا-4) is a constituency of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab.

## General elections 2024

Provincial election 2024: PP-62 Gujranwala-IV :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | PML(N) | Muhammad Nawaz Chohan | 30,596 | 37.28 | |
| | Independent | Rizwan Mustafa Sian | 26,087 | 31.79 | |
| | TLP | Muhammad Saleem Ullah | 7,097 | 8.65 | |
| | Independent | Muhammad Afzal | 5,253 | 6.40 | |
| | JI | Faiz UI Haq | 3,280 | 4.00 | |
| | Pakistan Muslim Markazi League | Shoukat Ali Virk | 2,430 | 2.96 | |
| | Others | Others (forty candidates) | 7,318 | 8.92 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 84,329 | 41.53 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 82,061 | 97.31 | |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 2,268 | 2.69 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 4,509 | 5.49 | |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 203,059 | | |
| | hold | hold | hold | hold | hold |

## General elections 2018

Provincial election 2018: PP-55 Gujranwala-V :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | PML(N) | Muhammad Nawaz Chohan | 36,882 | 46.94 |
| | PTI | Muhammad Arqam Khan | 22,594 | 28.76 |
| | Independent | Mahboob Alam | 9,189 | 11.70 |
| | TLI | Chaudhry Muhammad Saqib | 3,720 | 4.73 |
| | MMA | Muhammad Yaseen | 2,442 | 3.11 |
| | TLP | Rehan | 1,332 | 1.70 |
| | Others | Others (thirteen candidates) | 2,514 | 3.06 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 80,954 | 54.27 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 78,574 | 97.06 |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 2,380 | 2.94 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 14,288 | 18.18 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 149,173 | |

## General elections 2013

| Contesting candidates | Party affiliation | Votes polled |

## General elections 2008

| Contesting candidates | Party affiliation | Votes polled |
| | | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) |
# Pionerskaya railway station

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Pionerskaya rail station (Russian: Ста́нция Пионе́рская) is a railway station located in St. Petersburg, Russia.
It was constructed by the joint-stock company of the Prinorskaya St.-Peterburg-Sestroretsk railway and was opened with the Ozerki line on July 23, 1893.
In 1948 it was re-opened as a part of the narrow-gauge Malaya October Railway under the name the Zoopark. In 1969 it was renamed to Pionerskaya, and was closed in 1990.
# Robert Henderson (writer)

Robert Henderson (born 1947) is an English writer who has caused public controversy with his views on racial issues and his letters to the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He lives in Central London.
Henderson spent his early childhood in Cheshire before moving to Hertfordshire, where he was educated at St Albans School, later graduating from Keele University. Before retiring due to ill health, he worked for the Inland Revenue, while also retaining a strong personal interest in cricket.

## Controversy
### Cricket

In 1995 he became the subject of attention from the British media after Wisden Cricket Monthly published his essay "Is It In The Blood?", which used language such as "negro" and implied that foreign-born, black and Asian players would be less committed to the team. A legal action taken against Wisden by black England cricketers Devon Malcolm and Phillip DeFreitas was settled out of court.

### Tony Blair

Henderson claimed media bias against him together with censorship of his views and wrote a number of letters to his constituency Labour MP, Frank Dobson, and later to Tony Blair (then the opposition leader) and also to Blair's wife Cherie. In March 1997 Blair is said to have contacted the police asking for a means to stop this "pestering"; on 25 March 1997, a story accusing Henderson explicitly of "pestering" the Blairs appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror. Henderson has frequently claimed that Special Branch and the security services have, on Blair's instructions, interfered with his mail and tapped his telephone.
Sir Richard Body, a Conservative MP, put forward an Early day motion in support of Henderson.

## Writings

Henderson has written most frequently in recent years for the political magazine Right Now! and the English nationalist/cultural magazine Steadfast. Right Now, which ceased publication in 2006, could be described as of the Old Right, while Steadfast, which also appears to have ceased publication, had wider political appeal (and was becoming increasingly "green"). He has not written for Wisden since the 1995 controversy. With the demise of his domestic outlets Henderson began submitting his writings to the American white supremacist publication American Renaissance. He also writes an internet blog entitled "England Calling", where he espouses English supremacist viewpoints and gives indications of his close dealings with the BNP.