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North Atlantic Deep Water | Formation and sources | freshest water mass of NADW. DSOW formed behind the ridge flows over the Denmark Strait at a depth of 600m. The most significant water mass contributing to DSOW is Arctic Intermediate Water (AIW). Winter cooling and convection allow AIW to sink and pool behind the Denmark Strait. Upper AIW has a high amount of anthropogenic tracers due its exposure to the atmosphere. AIW's tritium and CFC signature is observed in DSOW at the base of the Greenland continental slope. This also showed that the DSOW flowing 450 km to the south was no older than |
Muhammad Waseem | World title challenge | absorbed the shots and began trading again. Despite Waseem rocking Mthalane in the closing stage, Mthalane managed to finish the bout standing. The three judges scored the bout 114-113, 114-113 and 116-110 in favour of Mthalane. |
Nuseir Yassin | After Nas Daily | making company. His memoir, Around the World in 60 Seconds: The Nas Daily Journey—1,000 Days. 64 Countries. 1 Beautiful Planet will be released on November 5, 2019. |
Orange roughy | Current situation (2016) & Australian fisheries | Control Rule was agreed that would define what catch limits should be given an estimate of stock status. Catch limits for those fisheries are currently consistent with the outputs of the agreed Harvest Control Rule.
In May 2014, three orange roughy fisheries entered full assessment against the Marine Stewardship Council Fisheries Standard. Australian fisheries The Australian orange roughy fishery was not discovered until the 1970s, but by 2008, the biomass was estimated to be down to 10% of the unfished level. It was the first commercially sought fish to appear on Australia's endangered species list because of overfishing. A number |
Opel 8/40 PS | Naming convention & Engine, transmission and brakes | Opel 8/40 PS Naming convention The name of the car described the engine and followed the widely followed German convention of the time whereby the first digit – here “7” or “8” – identified the car’s tax horsepower (Steuer-PS) (effectively, in the case of German cars of the period, a linear function of the engine capacity) and the second digit represented the manufacturer’s figure for the actual horsepower. Engine, transmission and brakes The engine at launch was a 6-cylinder side-valve 1,735 cc unit for which the manufacturer quoted a maximum output of 34 PS (25 kW; 34 hp) at 3,600 rpm. |
Murder of Graeme Thorne | Aftermath & Media | where he worked as a hospital orderly and was kept protected from other prisoners. His wife and children returned to Europe, and Magda Bradley divorced him in 1965. On 6 October 1968 he died in prison of a heart attack aged 42 while playing in the gaol tennis competition, and was buried in the Catholic section of Goulburn cemetery. Regarding the crime, "Bradley never showed any remorse whatsoever". The Thornes, meanwhile, moved to another nearby suburb, Rose Bay. Bazil Thorne died in December 1978. Freda Thorne died in 2012 aged 86. Media Thorne's murder was the focus of the Crime |
Oppo | Headphones and amplifiers | the HA-2, was a portable version of the HA-1 amp/DAC which featured a battery pack option as well as a stitched leather casing. The phone played music in real-time to the HA-2 (via the included Android or iOS micro USB cable, or USB cable if from PC). It also can be charged using an included "rapid charger" charging kit. The battery pack feature can only be used simultaneously while the HA-2 is used to play music if the playing (source) device is an Apple iOS device. In October 2016 an updated version was released with a new DAC chip and |
Our Lady of Fatima Church, Kallukoottam | History | Our Lady of Fatima Church, Kallukoottam History Our Lady of Fatima Church, Kallukoottam, traces its humble origin as a Bhajan Kurusady (a thatched shed for carols during Christmas) in 1951. After a decade of coming together to exercise their simple faith, the community of 18 families, under the leadership of Mr Anthony Muthu, was raised to the status of substation of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Mankuzhi, in 1960. From then on the Eucharistic celebration for wedding and funeral was conducted. To bring the children up in the Catholic faith, rudimentary catechism classes were organised on one of the week days. |
Only Theatre of Pain | Anniversary concert | Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The addition of "1334" to the end of the band's name was reportedly to make a distinction from the Valor Kand-led version of the band, which includes none of the group's original members; "1334" was also Rozz Williams' "signature number". At the time, it was reported by Blabbermouth.net that the band were working on new songs and were to commence the recording of a new album later in the year, but this never materialized. |
Nepenthes rhombicaulis | Botanical history & Description | upper pitchers observed by Schmid-Höllinger. Description Nepenthes rhombicaulis climbs well and its stem is known to reach 35 m in length, making it one of the longest in the genus. Internodes are up to 20 cm long and 1 cm in diameter. They are usually rhomboid in cross section. The stem bears numerous sunken glands. The species has an extended rhizome which produces stems at irregular intervals.
Leaves are sessile. The lamina is lanceolate-spathulate, up to 25 cm long, and up to 4 cm wide. It has an acute to sub-peltate apex and an amplexicaul base. Two to three longitudinal veins are present on either |
PAOK FC | Toumba Stadium & First years in Alpha Ethniki | 45,000-seat capacity in the mid-'70s through extensive expansion work.
The attendance mark of 20,000 was broken on 28 April 1963 for the 1–1 draw with Panathinaikos (20,131 spectators), while the 30,000 mark was first surpassed in the 2–0 victory over Olympiacos on 19 March 1967 (31,504 spectators). The attendance record remains at 45,252 tickets and was registered on 19 December 1976 in the goalless draw with AEK Athens. First years in Alpha Ethniki In the first decade of Greek Alpha Ethniki (1959–1969), PAOK had a top-half finish in every season except from the 10th-place finish in 1961. The best outcome came |
New Haven Colony | New Jersey, Philadelphia, and the Pacific Ocean | New Jersey, Philadelphia, and the Pacific Ocean In 1641, the colony claimed the area that is now South Jersey and Philadelphia after buying land south of Trenton along the Delaware River from the Lenape tribe. Cape May, New Jersey and Salem, New Jersey were among the communities that were founded.
The treaty with the Lenape placed no westward limit on the land west of the Delaware, which became the legal basis for a Connecticut "sea to sea" claim of owning all the land on both sides of the Delaware from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This set |
Operation Linda Nchi | Eritrea | Emmanuel Kisiangani, a senior researcher with the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies, "Eritrea has had differences with Ethiopia over the Badme border region, which the Court of Arbitration at The Hague awarded to Eritrea, a decision which Ethiopia has not respected[...] It all boils down to the two actors supporting different parties. It is only that Ethiopia has played its cards well and what it does is acceptable to the international community." Eritrean ambassador Girma indicated that the Eritrean authorities "have never thought to destabilize any of the countries because they are our potential markets, they are our assets, |
Ontario Highway 81 | Route description | Ontario Highway 81 Route description Highway 81 once served as a connecting route between Highway 2 and Highway 7 before its role was largely supplanted by the completion of Highway 402, which generally parallels the southern half of the route. Beginning at former Highway 2 in Delaware, what is now known as Middlesex County Road 81 travels west through Campbellvale, Mount Brydges and Caradoc, curving slightly to the northwest. The route travels through a large swath of farmland between Caradoc and Strathroy, the latter from which it exits to the north. After crossing Highway 402 at Exit 65, the highway encounters former Highway 22 at Wrightmans Corners.
From Wrightmans |
Nootka Crisis | Background | the Russians began to explore Alaska and establish fur trading posts, Spain responded by building a new naval base at San Blas, Mexico, and using it for sending a series of exploration and reconnaissance voyages to the far northwest. These voyages, intended to ascertain the Russian threat and to establish "prior discovery" claims, were supplemented by the "effective settlement" of Alta California. Starting in 1774, Spanish expeditions were sent to northern Canada and Alaska to reassert Spain's claims and navigation rights in the area. By 1775 Spanish exploration had reached Bucareli Bay including the mouth of the Columbia River between |
Neosho, Missouri | 20th century | modernized in a multi-million project completed in September 2008.
Neosho is the home of Fort Crowder. Originally established as Camp Crowder south of town in 1941 at the height of World War II, the post was to serve as an armored training center. By 1943 the army had acquired 42,786.41 acres (173.1505 km²) in Newton and McDonald counties. As the facility was constructed, it was re-designated as a U.S. Army Signal Corps training center. It was named for Enoch Crowder, a Missouri general who was instrumental in developing the draft for World War I and the Selective Service. The post also served |
On My Way (film) | Plot | On My Way (film) Plot Bettie (Deneuve), a harried restaurant owner from Brittany, is an aging former beauty queen with an estranged adult daughter and grandson and an elderly mother who meddles in her life. She loves a married businessman who always told her he would divorce his wife in order to marry her. He indeed files for a divorce, but Bettie discovers that it is actually because he is also having another affair with another much-younger woman. At about the same time, the bank threatens to close down her restaurant.
When she goes out to run some errands, she |
Olympiacos F.C. | New presidency, seven consecutive championships and European ascent (2010–2017) | to having been coached by five individuals over the same season: Marco Silva, Victor Sánchez (responsible for the elimination from Hapoel), Paulo Bento, Vasilis Vouzas and Takis Lemonis. The team's UEFA Europa League journey was not as successful as other European campaigns, starting with a difficult 3–1 aggregate victory (1–1 before extra time) over Arouca in the playoffs, continuing with the team's qualification from the group stage but only as second-placed to APOEL (in a group that also included Young Boys and Astana), and ending with a heavy 5–2 aggregate defeat to Besiktas in the last 16 of the knockout |
Navaratna Rama Rao | Literary life | Rulers besides several articles he wrote to the then Madras Times journal on Shakespeare’s works and contemporary national politics when he was studying law at Madras.
In 2015, a memoir, The Vanished Raj was published by his two grandchildren, Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram and Rajeshwari Rao. |
Osteoblast | Bone structure & Bone remodeling & Osteoblasts | by deposition of hydroxyapatite (alternative name, hydroxylapatite). This mineral is hard, and provides compressive strength. Thus, the collagen and mineral together are a composite material with excellent tensile and compressive strength, which can bend under a strain and recover its shape without damage. This is called elastic deformation. Forces that exceed the capacity of bone to behave elastically may cause failure, typically bone fractures. Bone remodeling Bone is a dynamic tissue that is constantly being reshaped by osteoblasts, which produce and secrete matrix proteins and transport mineral into the matrix, and osteoclasts, which break down the tissues. Osteoblasts Osteoblasts are |
Operation Linda Nchi | Eritrea & Military events | we want a strong, viable Ethiopia". He also dismissed the charges that Eritrea is offering assistance to Al-Shabaab as "lies and deceptions", adding that Eritrea has not supported the group and would never do so. Military events On 17 October, media reported that Somali TFG forces had taken control of the town of Qoqani. Kenyan air support reportedly assisted in the battle, with attack helicopters bombarding Al-Shabaab positions. Some reports also suggested involvement by the United States military, though Somali and Kenyan officials alluded only to Kenyan participation in the clash. TFG spokesman Abdirahman Omar Osman indicated that Kenyan troops |
Miracle of Sound | Music and reception by critics | free to play games, microtransactions and downloadable content and express the desire for more games of the old CRPG style. He did not include the song on any album, saying on Twitter that "It's a parody of someone else's song. Wouldn't feel right to monetise it." Dunne has also used his music to criticise quick time events in his Resident Evil 6 song "Wigglesticks". It has been suggested that other indie games on limited budgets could improve the quality of their music by employing indie musicians such as Miracle of Sound.
Many of his songs have received very positive reviews, such |
Nee Unnai Arindhaal | Plot & Production & Release | up and disposes his body in a gallon barrel, and dissolves his body with nitric acid. Production Murali signed to play the role of a rickshaw puller. Newcomer Kushi was chosen to play the female lead role, with V. Rishiraj, T. K. Kala, Dhadha Muthukumar and T. Harikrishnan playing supporting roles. R. K. Sundar has scored the music for the lyrics jotted down by Indian Bhaskar. V. Rishiraj and Indian Bhaskar had written the story, screenplay and dialogues and the latter is taking care of the stunts. Z. T. Choudhary produced the film under the banner 24 Frames Productions. Release |
Orchid Tapes | Move to New York | tape on his stereo tape deck, a several-day process he was still using after the 20th release. Finally in the fall of 2013, he purchased a cassette duplicator for the label. According to No Fear of Pop in 2013, "Orchid Tapes embodies the D.I.Y. aesthetic that has implanted itself on the internet. Digital downloads are always free and cassette prices are reasonable, and the quality of music is so good that it entices intrigued listeners to search through the rest of the catalog."
Orchid Tapes states on its website that it seeks "music and artwork that breaks free of the established |
Newspaper Row (Boston) | History | needed to wait on Washington Street for the latest headlines. Gradually, the crowds on Newspaper Row diminished. Newspapers either closed down or moved to larger quarters. The last newspaper to abandon Newspaper Row was the Boston Globe, in May 1958
Newspaper Row was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. And in 2003, the Bostonian Society placed a historical marker at the former home of the Boston Globe, 244 Washington Street. |
Mood (psychology) | Types of mood | (RAT), a cognitive task that requires creative problem solving. Moreover, the study also suggests that being in a positive mood broadens or expands the breadth of attentional selection such that information that may be useful to the task at hand becomes more accessible for use. Consequently, greater accessibility of relevant information facilitates successful problem solving. Positive mood also facilitates resistance to temptations, especially with regards to unhealthy food choices.
Positive mood has also been proven to show negative effects on cognition as well. According to the article "Positive mood is associated with implicit use of distraction", "There is also evidence that |
Ontario Highway 24 | Route description & History | now designated as County Road 124, while in Waterloo and Peel Regions the route is designated Regional Road 24. This discontinuity has led to motorist confusion, as the route number changes suddenly at boundaries. Within Wellington County, there is also an unrelated County Road 24. The highway is maintained under a Connecting Link agreement in Simcoe and north of Highway 403 in Brantford. History Highway 24 was first designated on July 2, 1927, when the Department of Highways (DHO) assumed the road between Simcoe and Brantford as well as the road connecting Paris, Galt (Cambridge) and Guelph as a new provincial highway. In addition, a concurrency |
PAOK FC | Batatoudis era (1996–2003) | under the new administration. In May 1997, after a five-year absence from European competitions, PAOK qualified for the UEFA Cup under coach Angelos Anastasiadis. The club's reappearance at European level was marked by a victory and qualification over Arsenal with 2–1 on aggregate. Arsenal went on to win a domestic Double that season. Remembering the 1st leg encounter, captain Tony Adams and goalkeeper David Seaman spoke very highly of the atmosphere created by PAOK fans at Toumba Stadium.
In the night of 9 February 1998, PAOK player Panagiotis Katsouris, aged 21, was returning from an amateur 5x5 match, when his car |
Optimist (dinghy) | Origin | outwards across Europe from Scandinavia. The design was standardized in 1960 and became a strict One-Design in 1995.
A full history of the Optimist is published as: Wilkes, Robert (2013). The Optimist Dinghy 1947-2007. ISBN 978-1484911969.
The Optimist is sailed in over 120 countries and it is one of only two yachts approved by the International Sailing Federation exclusively for sailors under 16.
Optimists are used for beginners. Light weight sailors continue to race them up 14 to 15 years of age. The age limit is 15. Very small children are sometimes "doubled up" but usually the boats are single-handers. Many sailing |
Lupus Servatus | Early life | influential positions in the Church or court. His father was Bavarian and his mother Frankish. He assumed the nickname of Servatus in commemoration of his miraculous escape from danger either in a serious illness or on the battlefield. He began his education at the Abbey of Saints Peter and Paul in Ferrières-en-Gâtinais under St. Aldric, then abbot of the monastery. Here he was educated in the trivium and quadrivium.
Lupus was not fond of the required learning but developed a passion for Classical studies. Abbot Aldric saw fit to send him to deepen his theological education at the Abbey of Fulda |
Olympiacos F.C. | New presidency, seven consecutive championships and European ascent (2010–2017) | goals) of their two games (1–0 Olympiacos win in Piraeus, 3–2 Juventus win in Turin). The third place in the group gave Olympiacos the ticket for the next round of UEFA Europa League, where they were eliminated by the eventual runners-up Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Domestically, the team had a very successful season, winning the 17th double in their history. They won their 42nd Greek Championship with 12 points difference from the second Panathinaikos and their 27th Greek Cup, beating Skoda Xanthi 3–1 in the final.
The 2015–16 season started with a new manager replacement, as Marco Silva took over the management over |
Night Shift (2018 film) | Plot | where new men are wanted. Max agrees to come for an interview. His fitness and physique is satisfactory and the only thing that remains is to learn a few dance moves and he is hired. While hiding his new occupation from Anya, he finds himself in all sorts of ridiculous situations. Her husband's new profession is supposed to stay a secret, but all the lies only end up complicating things. |
PVF Beach Volleyball tournament | null | PVF Beach Volleyball tournament The PVF-Cantada Beach Volleyball tournaments is a once-a-month-only beach volleyball (with no registration fees) invitational tournament for men's and women's organized by the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) thru their President Edgardo "Boy" Cantada, Secretary General Karl Chan, Managing Director Otie Camangian (which served as the tournament director), and Deputy Secretary General Gerard Cantada. It is held at the Cantada Sports Center, in Bagumbayan, Taguig, with the world-class indoor and outdoor sand beach volleyball courts, therefore it is not opened to the public, with strictly invitational basis. The tournament is mainly supported by Tanduay under the helm |
Norton, Massachusetts | Geography and transit | miles (2.8 km²), or 3.72%, is water. Norton is generally low and swampy. The waters of the area are fed by the Wading River and the Canoe River, both of which feed into the Taunton River downstream. The two largest bodies of water in town are the Norton Reservoir, north of the center of town, and Winnecunnet Pond on the east (on the north side of I-495), which is fed by the Canoe River and feeds into the Mill River.
The town, an irregular polygon generally oriented from northeast to southwest, is bordered by Easton to the northeast, Taunton to the southeast, |
Olympiacos F.C. | Seven consecutive Championships, near-miss to UEFA Champions League semi-finals (1996–2003) | strengthen the team significantly in order to create a very strong roster that would dominate Greek football for years to come. He purchased the highly rated prospects Predrag Đorđević and Stelios Giannakopoulos from Paniliakos, outbidding both AEK Athens and Panathinaikos; signed Refik Šabanadžović, Andreas Niniadis, Giorgos Anatolakis and Alekos Kaklamanos; and brought Olympiacos Academy product Dimitris Eleftheropoulos back from his loan spell at Proodeftiki. With all these players up front, Olympiacos strode to the 1996–97 title by 12 clear points over AEK and 20 points over the third Panathinaikos in Bajević's first season in charge; this was the club's first |
North Druid Hills, Georgia | History & Government and infrastructure & Diplomatic missions & Culture | million in January 2013. Government and infrastructure The United States Postal Service operates the Druid Hills Post Office at 1799 Briarcliff Road NE in the CDP. Diplomatic missions The Consulate-General of Mexico in Atlanta is in the North Druid Hills CDP. Culture The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Metropolis of Atlanta is headquartered in North Druid Hills. |
One Week Friends | Manga & Anime | February 2015 issue of Gangan Joker which was published in Japan on January 22, 2015. Despite the end of the serialization, a special chapter will later be included in the magazine's May 2015 issue when it is published on April 22, 2015. The chapters was collected into a total of seven tankōbon volumes, the first of which was released on June 22, 2012. The final volume was released on April 22, 2015. Anime An anime television series adaptation by Brain's Base began airing on April 6, 2014. The opening theme is "Niji no Kakera" (虹のかけら, lit. "Fragments of a Rainbow"), |
Nuestra Voz | History & Content & News | was changed to nuestra-voz.org.
The paper’s motto, “Your faith in your language (Tú fe en tu idioma),” appeared on the front page under the nameplate until the newspaper underwent a major redesign of layout and sections in November 2016 in the issue Year VI, No. 3. Content Nuestra Voz is a Catholic-driven journalism force created to showcase a rich faith and the power that its community holds. Because the Diocese of Brooklyn is half Hispanic and one-fourth multilingual, its mission is to do more to inform and empower. News Nuestra Voz addresses contemporary issues affecting Hispanic Catholics in the |
Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner | Sham Contracting Inquiry & Wages and entitlements | recommendations range from looking at the legislative definitions of ‘employees’ and ‘contractors’, developing whole-of-government regulatory responses and examining how the ABCC might better conduct its core work investigating breaches of Australia's workplace laws. Wages and entitlements In March 2011 the ABCC took full responsibility for investigating complaints relating to wages and entitlements within the building and construction industry. Prior to this a memorandum of understanding had been in place between the ABCC and Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) where such complaints were handled by the latter agency. ABC Commissioner Leigh Johns announced he would terminate this practice when he commenced his |
Nikolas Rose | Biography | and Society in the 21st Century'. In 2013, writing with Joelle Abi-Rached, he published Neuro: the new brain sciences and the management of the mind.
Throughout his academic career he has been a critical analyst of psychiatry. His first book on this topic was published in 1986 - The Power of Psychiatry, a collection edited together with Peter Miller His most recent book Our Psychiatric Future: the politics of mental health was published by Polity Press in October 2018.
Nikolas Rose is the Chair of the Neuroscience and Society Network, an international network to encourage critical collaboration between |
Outlaws (1997 video game) | Plot & Development | and finally confronts him. After a fierce gunfight, Graham is believed dead and falls to the ground, and Anderson reunites with his daughter. Graham, clinging to life and gun trained on Anderson, reveals that he was the one who murdered Anderson's father. Just as Graham is about to finish off Anderson, Sarah manages to shoot Graham with Anderson's gun avenging her grandfather's death. After a tearful reunion, father and daughter ride into the sunset. Development Outlaws is powered by an upgraded version of the Jedi engine, which was previously used on Star Wars: Dark Forces. LucasArts' INSANE animation engine |
Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner | Wages and entitlements | appointment on 11 October 2010. |
National Government Administrative Center | Development and construction | as a "one-stop-shop" for business enterprises in Central Luzon.
Phase 1A of the development includes the construction of a sports complex consisting of a stadium with 20,100 seating capacity and an aquatics center with 2,000 seating capacity which is meant to be one of the venues of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games to be hosted by the Philippines. It also includes two buildings which will host the Integrated Operations Center which includes a satellite office of the Office of the President of the Philippines and disaster and risk management agencies, a 500-unit condominium housing for government employees, and a river park. |
Onofre R. Pagsanghan | Teaching and theater career | school days, and Pagsanghan took up the challenge in 1951, after graduating college. He applied to be a teacher in Ateneo High School. However, the principal back then, an American Jesuit, was unsure if he could last as a teacher because of his frail and weak structure. The principle eventually accepted him, under the condition that during lunch breaks, he would sleep in one of the unused rooms in order to gain his strength. Pagsanghan agreed, and began teaching English and Filipino to freshmen high school students. He chose to teach in first year high school because this was the |
Lupus Servatus | Literary contribution | division of syllables, whereby any pronounceable group of consonants is placed with the following vowel. Lupus not only conformed to this rule in his personal practice, but also made the texts that he collected adhere to the style. |
One For Arthur | 2016/2017 National Hunt season | unbelievable... I don't often get a chance to ride a horse as good as that". Russell commented "I am so proud of the horse. He jumped fantastically and Derek gave him a great ride. He has done us proud, done Scotland proud and done everyone at the yard proud".
One for Arthur ran again in the 2019 running of the race, finishing in sixth place for Derek Fox. |
Ormond McGill | Early life and career & Other Attributes | he mentored, and to teach hypnotherapy until his death in 2005 with Randal Churchill at the Hypnotherapy Training Institute. Other Attributes In addition to his career as a world-traveling magician and stage hypnotist, McGill was also a skilled hypnotherapist and a student of Eastern mysticism. He wrote between twenty-five and forty books (sources disagree on the total), including such titles as Grieve No More Beloved (about his afterlife contact with his deceased wife), Hypnotism and Mysticism of India, and his autobiography, The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill. McGill has revealed truth behind magical events such as Indian rope trick |
Nick Greiner | Political career & Premier of New South Wales | 1986, and was succeeded by Barrie Unsworth. In what proved to be a harbinger of things to come, the Liberals came within 54 votes of derailing Unsworth's bid to enter the lower house (he had previously been a member of the Legislative Council), and managed to take Wran's old seat on a large swing. At the March 1988 election, Greiner led the Coalition to a landslide victory. The Coalition scored a swing of over 8 percent and took 22 seats from Labor, including several Labor heartland seats where the Coalition had not come close to winning in years. Premier of |
Nootka Crisis | Diplomatic responses | to the contrary. He knew this claim was indefensible and would likely lead to war, but felt driven to make it by "the public outcry" in Britain. The ultimate outcome of the Nootka Crisis, publicized as a diplomatic victory in Britain, increased the prestige and popularity of Pitt.
Despite previous hostilities, the governments of Britain and France met in private to discuss terms of an alliance against Spain in the event of war over the Nootka Sound territorial claims. Correspondence of these events has been lost or may have been purposefully destroyed. It is likely that this correspondence between Pitt, William |
Olympiacos F.C. | Early years (1925–1931) | themselves as the leading force in Greek football; they managed to set a record by staying undefeated against all Greek teams for three straight years (from 14 March 1926 to 3 March 1929), counting 30 wins and only 6 draws in 36 games. Those results ignited an enthusiastic reception from the Greek press, who called Olympiacos Thrylos ("Legend") for the first time in history. The fourth Panhellenic Championship took place in 1930–31 and found Olympiacos winning the Greek national league title for the first time ever, which was a milestone that marked the beginning of a very successful era in |
Olympiacos F.C. | Domination in the early 1980s, UEFA Cup quarter-finalists (1975–1996) | to the 1980, 1981 and 1983 titles (winning also the Double in 1981, the 9th Double in Olympiacos' history) while Alketas Panagoulias, who had also been manager of the Greek national football team and the United States national team as well, led the team to the 1982 title after a memorable 2–1 win (Estavillo 6', Anastopoulos 69') against arch-rivals Panathinaikos in the crucial Championship final match in Volos. With Panagoulias as head coach, Olympiacos won the 1986–87 title as well, having a solid roster with players from the early 1980s like Anastopoulos, Mitropoulos, Michos, Xanthopoulos and other strong players like |
National Library of Tunisia | History | National Library of Tunisia History Founded in 1885, this library was called French Library. Its present name dates from the beginning of independence of Tunisia. In 2005, it was relocated to its present location, Boulevard 9 avril, just near the National Archives of Tunisia and some higher institutions like the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. |
Odesa Nuclear Power Plant | History & Possibility of construction restoration | accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant construction of the Odesa NCS has been stopped. Possibility of construction restoration National Nuclear Power Generating Company Energoatom (NNEGC "Energoatom") is holding discussions on the restoration of the construction of the APEC |
Orlando (film) | Reception & Awards & Orlando: The Queer Element | gifts here, how openly they entered into a dialogue with Woolf's playful, slippery text."
Rotten Tomatoes scored the film positively at 84% based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 6.72/10. Awards Orlando was nominated for Academy Awards for art direction (Ben Van Os, Jan Roelfs) and costume design (Sandy Powell). The film was also nominated for the 1994 Independent Spirit Awards' Best Foreign Film award. At the 29th Guldbagge Awards, the film was nominated for the Best Foreign Film award. Orlando: The Queer Element In 2017, the film was screened multiple times as part of a multi-media arts project |
PAOK FC | Macedonia Football Clubs Association Championships (1946–1958) | the civil war few days before. Panidis played for PAOK since 1930 and had 122 appearances. In 1950, they emerged once again champions of Macedonia, and the following year (1950–51), the team reached for second time the final of the Greek Cup, but lost 4–0 to Olympiacos at Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium.
During the summer transfer period of 1953 Kouiroukidis, Petridis, Progios, Geroudis, Kemanidis, Chassiotis and Angelidis joined the team. The acquirement of Lampis Kouiroukidis from Doxa Drama was the most important transfer. Along with Lefteris Papadakis and Christophoros Yientzis, they formed the famous attacking trio of that age.
For four consecutive seasons |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Mountbatten and independence | in the partitioned provinces. Plebiscites would take place in the North-West Frontier Province (which did not have a League government despite an overwhelmingly Muslim population), and in the majority-Muslim Sylhet district of Assam, adjacent to eastern Bengal. On 3 June, Mountbatten, Nehru, Jinnah and Sikh leader Baldev Singh made the formal announcement by radio. Jinnah concluded his address with "Pakistan Zindabad " (Long live Pakistan), which was not in the script. In the weeks which followed Punjab and Bengal cast the votes which resulted in partition. Sylhet and the N.W.F.P. voted to cast their lots with Pakistan, a decision joined by |
Optimist (dinghy) | Competition | many also excel in double-handers such as the 420 and 29er.
At the 2016 Olympics at least 85% of the boat skippers were former Optimist sailors.
The first World Championship was held in Great Britain in 1962 and it has grown to over 60 countries participating. The changing pattern of the strongest countries can be seen from the results of the Nations Cup. For the first 20 years, the class was dominated by sailors from the Scandinavian countries, with 13 world champions. In the 1990s Argentina was by far the dominant country but, following standardisation of the boat and improved coaching standards |
Nùng people | From the Middle Ages to the Present | from Long Ying in the southwest of Guangxi. Such other names as can be correlated with locations indicate that the migrants were primarily from the immediate frontier region of the southwest of Guangxi. The Nùng became increasingly numerous in the region, and were spread out through a long stretch of the Vietnamese northern border from Lạng Sơn to Cao Bằng, and about That Khe. The Mạc dynasty, a Vietnamese dynasty ruled over the Vietnamese northeast highlands, profited from the migration in that they were able to draw upon Nùng manpower for their own forces.
In 1833, Nông Văn Vân, a |
Open Wonderland | Shared applications | users can drop any .png or .jpg image into Wonderland and see it displayed with an image viewer application. Users can also drag-and-drop web pages into the world and continue browsing in a multi-user context. Any .svg documents dropped into the world will automatically instantiate an in-world whiteboard for collaborative editing of the document. After editing, the whiteboard documents can be dragged back out onto the desktop for e-mailing to others or for editing with a different application.
The last type of shared applications are multi-user 3D Java applications. Packaged as modules, these applications can contain any combination of artwork and |
Nell Shipman | Film career | film. She was one of the first directors to shoot her films almost entirely on location.
In 1918, Shipman contracted Spanish influenza during the international epidemic and nearly died. She lost all of her thick, long hair and had to wear a wig temporarily. She was lucky that her hair grew back.
During her recovery, she decided to create a production company called "Shipman-Curwood Producing Company," in partnership with the American author. Her husband, Ernest Shipman, convinced a consortium of Calgary businessmen to invest in Alberta, Canada becoming a major film location destination; they incorporated a company, Canadian Photoplays Ltd., |
Nokia N8 | History & Accessories & Development support & Promotion | became the product with the most customer pre-orders in Nokia's history up to the point of its release and sales in Q4 2010 were estimated to be almost 4 million.
The previous Nokia phone with a focus on photography had been the N86 8MP, which has an 8-megapixel sensor and had become available on June 2009.
The N8 was the second Nokia to have a capacitive touchscreen, following the X6, and the first with multi-touch. Accessories The Nokia Mobile TV Headset provides DVB-H TV. Development support Applications can be developed using the Nokia Qt framework. Promotion To highlight the capabilities of the |
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba | Dealing with the Portuguese and Aligning with the Dutch | headquarters at the town of Masangano. Hoping to recover lost lands with Dutch help, she moved her capital to Kavanga in the northern part of Ndongo's former domains. In 1644, she defeated the Portuguese army at Ngoleme, but was unable to follow up. Then, in 1646, she was defeated by the Portuguese at Kavanga and, in the process, her other sister was captured, along with her archives, which revealed her alliance with Kongo. These archives also showed that her captive sister had been in secret correspondence with Nzinga and had revealed coveted Portuguese plans to her. As a result of |
Orange roughy | Consumption & Fisheries | of 0.086 ppm for other edible fish. Based on average consumption and the recommendations of a National Marine Fisheries Service study, in 1976, the FDA set the maximum safe mercury level for fish at 1 ppm. Regular consumption of orange roughy can have adverse effects on health. Compared to most edible fish, orange roughy are a very poor source of omega-3 fatty acids, averaging less than 3.5 g/kg. Fisheries Annual global catches of orange roughy began in 1979 and increased significantly to a high of over 90,000 tonnes in the late 1980s. These high catch levels quickly decreased as stocks |
North Atlantic Deep Water | Spreading pathways | downward to 2000m. These minimum could be tracked, and were first observed in the subtropics in the early 1990s.
ISOW and DSOW flow around the Irminger Basin and DSOW entering the DWBC. These are the two lower portions of the NADW. Another CFC maximum is seen at 3500 m in the subtropics from the DSOW contribution to NADW. Some of the NADW recirculates with the northern gyre. To the south of the gyre NADW flows under the Gulf Stream where it continues along the DWBC until it reaches another gyre in the subtropics.
Lower North Atlantic Deep |
Noctum (role-playing game) | Wicked City & Virus | of shooting in every direction without hitting a thing. Corruption, brutality, and greed are important elements. Violence is also something that can play a big part. Virus Virus centres on genetic experimentation and viral weaponry gone haywire. Large, unethical, and greedy corporations and clandestine agencies conduct their unlawful experiments in their hidden laboratories. Violent viral outbreaks, mutations, and genetically altered monstrosities are the focus. In many cases there is both an air of psychological suspense, research, and hardcore violence thrown in the mix. There is seldom any form of supernatural explanation as such; everything that happens can be explained through |
PAOK FC | Goumenos era, troubled times (2003–2006) & Zagorakis–Vryzas management with massive fans' support (2007–2012) | Salpingidis to Panathinaikos.
On 13 November 2006, Goumenos resigned from PAOK presidency leaving huge debts behind and few weeks later, Nikos Vezyrtzis–Apostolos Oikonomidis duo (former PAOK BC presidents) assumed temporary management of the club. Zagorakis–Vryzas management with massive fans' support (2007–2012) In June 2007, former player and captain Theodoros Zagorakis assumed the presidency of the club, replacing the Nikos Vezyrtzis and Apostolos Oikonomidis administration and thus ushered a new era, in an effort to bring the club back to successes.
In 2007–2008 season, the early replacement of Georgios Paraschos by the well-known established manager Fernando Santos did little to prevent a 9th-place |
Pac-12 Conference football individual awards | Morris Trophy | Pac-12 Conference football individual awards Coaches of the Pac-12 Conference bestow the following awards at the end of each football season. The conference was founded in its current form as the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1959, but traces its roots to the Pacific Coast Conference, founded in 1915. The conference name changed to Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) in 1968 and Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) in 1978. The conference's 2011 expansion to 12 members saw the conference formally renamed as the Pac-12 Conference. Morris Trophy The Morris Trophy is awarded annually to the best offensive and defensive linemen in |
Meg Stinks! | Plot | any food at a diner, until he finds out that Meg knows a lot about his likes when she plays Night Moves by Bob Seger on the jukebox. They bond as Peter explains with stunning clarity that he had a family because he didn't like to use condoms and lost out on a promising career as a podiatrist to take his loathed job at the toy factory and support his new family. Arriving at the school, they find a party and continue to be friends. Back home, they reveal that they missed the interview as Lois scolds them. Meg defends |
Nuseir Yassin | Nas Daily | to creating a video everyday for 1,000 days. The first country he visited was Kenya. One of his first activities was to teach five people in Nigeria how to create videos, for which he earned US$3,000 per month. His source of income is ad revenue from his Facebook page, selling T-shirts, and consulting for people interested in multimedia. After meeting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in early 2018, Nas Daily was upgraded to "show" status. In September 2018, his Facebook page had over 8 million followers. and this rose to over 10 million by November of the same year.
Yassin stated that |
One Night in Lisbon | Plot | One Night in Lisbon Plot Dwight Houston (Fred MacMurray), an American pilot from Texas pilot, meets a British aristocrat in London amid bombing, and gets caught up in a Nazi spy plot in Portugal. At first Houston is critical of Britain, due to what he perceives to be a condescending attitude on the part of Leonora Perrycaote (Madeleine Carroll); however, he soon realizes in fact that as American he has much in common with them, and that their fight is his fight, remarking poignantly that "It's funny about England and the way Americans feel about you. It's sort |
Palazzo Adriano | History & Ethnic groups | Palazzo Adriano History The first mention of a casale Adrianum (farmstead of Adriano) dates from before 1060 under the reign of the Norman Roger I of Sicily. More reliable is information about the hamlet of Palazzo Adriano reported in a 1243 document. From 1282, the fiefs land holdings that now constitute the area of Palazzo Adriano saw more than thirty baronies granted leases by the abbots of the monastery of Santa Maria di Fossanova. In 1787, the Royal Court of Ferdinand IV of Naples captured all these land holdings, which fell under the control of Palermo. Ethnic groups Starting in |
Paattali | Production | and shooting was stalled for two weeks. Meena was first offered the role, but could not sign on as a result of her commitment to Vikraman's Vaanathaippola (2000). Her replacement, Simran was replaced by Ramya Krishnan for unknown reasons. |
Oliver Colvile | Overseas trip & Other interests | Mr Colvile, who was then vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on the Armed Forces made an all-expenses-paid trip to Saudi Arabia as a delegate of the UK Defence Forum that he received from the Saudi Arabian government. Other interests Following a spell at an agency advising on business development, since 1996 Oliver Colvile has run a communications business specialising in handling community consultation for major regeneration projects. He is a member of the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors, and is also a former director of the Enterprise Forum. Colvile is a keen cricketer and a |
Nexus 7 (2012) | Hardware and design | to the Internet. A mobile-capable version of the device utilizing HSPA+ cellular technology with 32 GB of storage was later introduced in October 2012 for $299. Unlike most tablets, the Nexus 7 has NFC connectivity built in, which allows users to share files quickly with Android Beam and perform non-touch payments at sites that employ NFC cash registers.
The Nexus 7 is powered by a 4,325 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery that typically lasts 9.5 hours and can be charged via micro-USB. In order to maximize the device's battery life, Asus engineers spent one month attempting to reduce electrical leakage by measuring heat and voltage at |
Morwenna Ludlow | Ordained ministry | and as a priest in 2016. She is a Curate at Exeter Cathedral. Since October 2018, she has also served as canon theologian of the cathedral. |
Oren Moverman | Biography | White People, Bad Hair.
Moverman will also write and produce Marc Meyers' Human Capital, an adaptation of Stephen Amidon’s 2005 novel, starring Liev Schreiber, Maya Hawke, and Marisa Tomei. |
Non-Agricultural Market Access | Main Issues & NAMA-11 | the existing tariff profile of a country.
The modified Swiss formula, on the other hand, takes into account the tariff profile of the countries while carrying out tariff reductions. This approach is supported by the developing countries. NAMA-11 A group of 11 developing countries, called NAMA-11, are working toward strengthening NAMA.
The group has two main objectives: supporting flexibilities for developing countries and balance between NAMA and other areas under negotiation.
Member countries of NAMA-11 are Argentina, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Namibia, Philippines, South Africa, Pakistan and Tunisia. |
Paleontology in West Virginia | Paleozoic | part of the Carboniferous period. By the Middle Mississippian, the sea had once more expanded its boundaries over the state. In the process it deposited the Greenbrier Formation, which was the last stratigraphic unit of significance to have been laid down in a marine environment. By 310 million years ago, the Mississippian was ending and West Virginia was dry land. West Virginia was swampy during the late Mississippian and its lush flora left behind many plant fossils. During the Mississippian, West Virginia was home to anthracosaur amphibians. One was a long-bodied form about 80 cm long that left behind footprints classified |
Orange–Fish River Tunnel | Construction | a 9" thick mass concrete lining. The ground was excavated entirely by the drill-and-blast technique, and was tested both by water and by fire.
The lining was done using a travelling shutter - concrete arrived first thing Monday morning, and continued un stopped until Saturday afternoon. The concrete mix was specially developed for the project, and the "cement" content was 50% Slagment a.k.a. PFA (Pulverised Fuel Ash). The mix containedd retarders to enable the concrete to be placed up to six hours after mixing, and it also contained accelerators, to enable the shutter to be moved after only |
Norman G. Baker | First radio station | published TNT magazine and later was the president of the Progressive Publishing Co., publisher of the daily Midwest Free Press. It was meant to undercut other newspapers which Baker asserted were part of the conspiracy against him. Baker also operated a traveling campaign bus equipped with a calliope, and he was in demand as a speaker for populist causes in the region. For example, he denounced mandated cattle TB tests, water fluoridation, vaccinations and also aluminum cookware, which he claimed caused half of all cancers.
In 1932, Baker organized the short-lived "United Farm Federation of America" and appointed himself permanent honorary |
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are | Music video & Plot | Kenny, Will Estes as the grieving friend (young Meat Loaf), Joshua Diaz as the childhood iteration of Meat Loaf, and an unidentified model as "The Beauty on the Edge of Town".
Filming took place in and around Denton, Texas. Several parts were shot in Slidell, Texas on a large ranch. The scene with the "beauty at the edge of town" washing her car was filmed in Valley View, Texas, near to the Oklahoma border. Plot The video opens with Kenny playing with his friend (Josh Diaz), and his father (Robert Patrick) letting them sit in his airplane. A little older, Kenny |
Opel 8/40 PS | The virtue of simplicity & The bodies | still the only manufacturer in Germany using a Ford inspired production line system. Under the circumstances it is not hard to see why Opel was an appealing target when General Motors (GM) were contemplating the acquisition of a major German auto-maker. In March 1929 GM purchased a controlling 80% share in the Opel business. The bodies In addition to the Torpedo bodied “Tourenwagen” the Opel 7/34 PS was available at launch as a closed 4-door “Limousine” (sedan/saloon) with a listed price of 4,900 Marks or, for a further 500 Marks, as a 4-door “Luxus-Limousine”. |
Ofermod | Biography and controversies | two songs for the Mystérion Tés Anomias re-release through Norma Evangelium Diaboli; on the re-release, Hakola used the new pseudonym "Michayah", and Nebiros called himself Leviathan.
The band's first album Pentagrammaton, which was supposed to feature Moloch of Teitanblood sharing vocals with Nebiros and "mark the ten year anniversary of OFERMOD" in 2006, was "partly finished in late 2005/early 2006", but delayed because "Michayah was sent to prison, for assault, robbery and a few other incidents, in early March 2006". He was released in August 2006, but sentenced to serve more time the same year, "due to new acts of violence". |
Le Mesnil-sous-Jumièges | Geography | Le Mesnil-sous-Jumièges Geography A farming village, situated in the Roumois and inside a meander of the river Seine, some 12 miles (19 km) west of Rouen on the D 65 road. A ferry boat carries cars and passengers across the river to Yville-sur-Seine. |
PAOK FC | Training Facilities and Academy & Supporters | PAOK FC Sport Center is the training ground of the first team and Academy, located in Nea Mesimvria area of Thessaloniki. The construction started under the presidency of Theodoros Zagorakis. Supporters PAOK FC is the most widely supported football club in Northern Greece and with the 3rd largest fanbase in the country, according to the latest polls and researches.
PAOK's traditional fanbase comes from the city of Thessaloniki, where the club is based, as well as from the rest of Macedonia region and Northern Greece. They also have fans all over the country and in the Greek Diaspora (Germany, Australia, USA, |
North Atlantic Deep Water | Formation and sources | North Atlantic Deep Water Formation and sources The NADW is a complex of several water masses formed by deep convection and also by overflow of dense water across the Greenland-Iceland-Scotland Ridge.
The upper layers are formed by deep open ocean convection during winter. Labrador Sea Water (LSW), formed in the Labrador Sea can reach depths of 2000 m as dense water sinks downward. Classical Labrador Sea Water (CLSW) production is dependent on preconditioning of water in the Labrador Sea from the previous year, and the strength of the North Atlantic Oscillation.
During a positive NAO phase, conditions exist for strong |
Orange roughy | Current situation (2016) | industry representative body (Deepwater Group Ltd) put four orange roughy fisheries into Fishery Improvement Plans (FIPs) to deliver improvements in the fisheries that would enable them to meet the certification requirements of the MSC. These FIPs are public and have been monitored by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership.
In 2014, Bayesian model-based stock assessments were completed for four of New Zealand's main orange roughy stocks, one of which had been closed to fishing since 2000. The stock assessments used data collected by research surveys carried out by research organizations and the fishing industry. A key factor was the use new acoustic technology, |
Olympiacos F.C. | Five consecutive Championships, Two presences in UEFA Champions League knockout phase (2004–2010) | Touré. During the 2005–06 season, Olympiacos won all the four derbies against their major rivals, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens, something only achieved once more, during the season 1972–73. The combined goal total in these four matches was 11–3 in favour of Olympiacos. They also beat AEK Athens 3–0 in the Greek Cup Final to clinch their second-straight double and managed to win an all-time record of 16 consecutive matches in the championship, breaking their own past record.
After a record-breaking season, in the 2006 summer transfers, Trond Sollied signed Michał Żewłakow, Júlio César and Tomislav Butina among others. However, he did |
Man About Town (1947 film) | Production | In his introduction to the published screenplay he wrote, "Without doubt some memories of youth have given birth to the comedy that follows. The action of this film takes place during the heroic period of French cinema. The advent of this industry does not form the subject of our story. It is, at the very most, only the background for the action. The author, who has a moderate taste for exceptional subjects, thinks, in effect, that making a film consecrated to the cinema is as dangerous as writing a play the heroes of which are comedians or a novel the |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | Turkey | campaigners in the Turkish constitutional referendum had faced bans, police interventions and arrests. Erdoğan said: "Now the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says if the result is ‘yes’, that means there are a lot of problems. Who are you? First of all, you should know your place. This is not your duty."
In February 2018, OSCE has criticized the Turkish government over the detention of social media users for criticizing the Turkish invasion of northern Syria. |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Wilderness years; interlude in England | he remained so long in Britain—Wolpert asserts that had Jinnah been made a Law Lord, he would have stayed for life, and that Jinnah alternatively sought a parliamentary seat. Early biographer Hector Bolitho denied that Jinnah sought to enter the British Parliament, while Jaswant Singh deems Jinnah's time in Britain as a break or sabbatical from the Indian struggle. Bolitho called this period "Jinnah's years of order and contemplation, wedged in between the time of early struggle, and the final storm of conquest".
In 1931, Fatima Jinnah joined her brother in England. From then on, Muhammad Jinnah would receive |
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen | Pretrial defense motions | to have been intentional. Perry agreed, and let the case proceed.
Following that denial, Overland moved to quash the search warrants that had been executed on Lazarus' home, vehicle and spaces she utilized at work, and suppress the evidence obtained from them. They were, he argued, based on stale information and did not sufficiently establish a nexus between the places searched and the likelihood of finding evidence there; Lazarus had not moved to her present residence, he observed, until 1994, eight years after the murder, and the affidavit in support of the warrant did not provide any reason why evidence might |
Orlando (film) | Orlando: The Queer Element | art films created by Masters in Design students at the Royal College of Art, as well as a series of scientific workshops and lectures. |
Odense Steel Shipyard | Company history | ships; including the Mærsk E-class with a nominal capacity of 15,550 TEU (originally declared as 11,000 TEU), the highest equivalent number of any vessel as of today. However, Maersk chose Daewoo to build its latest and largest design, the Triple E class with a nominal capacity of 18,000 TEU, as the Asian shipyard was more competitive.
The original shipyard remained in operation until 1966, when all operations were transferred to the new site. Unlike the modern shipyard, the old yard produced civilian and merchant vessels only. Its first completed ship was cargo steamship Robert Mærsk, completed in 1920. Its last production |
One For Arthur | 2016/2017 National Hunt season | lead at the second last fence and drew away to win by six lengths from Goodtoknow.
One For Arthur was assigned a weight of 10-11 (151 pounds) for the Randox Health Grand National over four and a quarter miles at Aintree and started at odds of 14/1 in a forty-runner field. He was ridden by Derek Fox who had just returned from injury having sustained a broken wrist and a dislocated collarbone in a fall on 9 March. One For Arthur raced towards the rear of the field before beginning to make progress early on the second circuit. He moved into |
Olympiacos F.C. | 2017–present | well in the Group H of the 2004–05 UEFA Cup, a lower-tier UEFA competition. Panathinaikos has also a one-point campaign in Group G of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League. Despite being in the Superleague lead halfway through the season, Lemonis was dismissed on grounds of dressing room instability, and Óscar García was subsequently appointed with a vision of increasing attacking efficiency and discipline. Domestically, Olympiacos' Greek Cup run ended in the quarter-finals as the team succumbed to a 2–1 aggregate defeat to AEK, marking their third consecutive year that they failed to lift the Cup and were eliminated by the |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | Structure and institutions | OSCE area in the fields of election observation, democratic development, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, rule of law, and Roma and Sinti issues. The ODIHR has observed over 300 elections and referendums since 1995, sending more than 50,000 observers. It has operated outside its own area twice, sending a team that offered technical support to the 9 October 2004 presidential elections in Afghanistan, an OSCE Partner for Co-operation, and an election support team to assist with parliamentary and provincial council elections on 18 September 2005. ODIHR is headed by Michael Georg Link.
The Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of |
Munstead Wood | Garden | the main house, also include listed buildings designed by Lutyens, in the lesser two categories; these were mostly Jekyll's outbuildings. Garden Jekyll purchased Munstead Wood in 1882 or 1883, just across Munstead Heath Road from Munstead House, where she had been living with her mother since 1878. A part of Munstead Heath, Munstead Wood was a triangular area 15 acres (6.1 ha) in total, sloping upwards from its north-west corner, which was a sandy field, to 9 acres (3.6 ha) of former Scots pine woodland, on heath soil.
Jekyll transformed Munstead Wood gradually over many years. She allowed the felled woodland to grow |
Operation Linda Nchi | Somalia | delegation in Mogadishu where Somalia's Defence Minister Hussein Arab Isse and Kenya's Minister of Defence Mohamed Yusuf Haji agreed to collaborate against Al-Shabaab. On 24 October, Ahmed again stated that although he welcomed Kenyan logistical support, he was against the Kenyan military presence, contradicting the agreement made on the 18th. He and the Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali issued a joint statement on 27 October denying any agreement between the TFG and Kenyan government to allow the Kenyan incursion into Somalia, a stance criticised by other TFG officials. A joint communique issued on 31 October by the Prime Ministers |
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | History | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe History The Organization has its roots in the 1973 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). Talks had been mooted about a European security grouping since the 1950s but the Cold War prevented any substantial progress until the talks at Dipoli in Espoo began in November 1972. These talks were held at the suggestion of the Soviet Union which wished to use the talks to maintain its control over the communist countries in Eastern Europe, and President of Finland Urho Kekkonen hosted them in order to bolster his policy of neutrality. Western |
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