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New South Wales Department of Planning The New South Wales Department of Planning (DOP) is a department of the Government of New South Wales with responsibility for the administration of the state's planning system and the assessment of major development applications. The department is headed by the minister for planning, a senior minister in the state government.
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) is part of the Government of New South Wales and is responsible for agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, state forests, and minerals and petroleum in the state. The Minister for Primary Industries is Ian Macdonald.
New South Wales Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation The New South Wales Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation is part of the Government of New South Wales and is responsible for a number of cultural and sporting institutions. The Minister for the Arts is Bob Debus.
New South Wales Electoral Commission The New South Wales Electoral Commission is the agency of the Government of New South Wales in charge of organising and supervising state and local elections in New South Wales. It is responsible for the administration of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912,
New South Wales Fire Brigades The NSW Fire Brigades (NSWFB) is the NSW government agency responsible for managing fire emergencies in the major cities, metropolitan areas and towns across rural and regional NSW. Under the Fire Brigades Act 1989 NSWFB also protect the State from hazardous material (HAZMAT) incidents and by extension of this capability, the consequences of terrorism.
New South Wales Golf Club New South Wales Golf Club is a golf course designed by Alister MacKenzieHistory of NSW Golf Club last accessed January 24, 2007 in late 1926. This links style course is situated in La Perouse, Sydney, and regularly rates in the top 50 golf courses in the world.
New South Wales Government Railways 38 class The 38 class was the most popular type of steam locomotive built and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. Built from 1945, the 30 locomotives in the class were designed to haul express trains and replace the 36 class on these premium workings.
New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme The New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme (also known as GGAS), which commenced on 1 January, 2003, is a mandatory greenhouse gas trading scheme that aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions to 7.27 tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita by the year 2007.
New South Wales legislative election, 2003 Legislative elections were held in New South Wales in March, 2003. The social-democratic Australian Labor Party led by Bob Carr won a third four-year term against the Liberal-National Coalition led by John Brogden.
New South Wales Mine Subsidence Board The Mine Subsidence Board of New South Wales is a Government of New South Wales agency responsible for reducing the risk of mine subsidence damage to properties in New South Wales by assessing and controlling the types of buildings and improvements which can be erected in Mine Subsidence Districts. in coal mining areas of New South Wales.
New South Wales Nurses' Association The New South Wales Nurses' Association (NSWNA) in a trade union which represents nurses in both the public and private sectors of New South Wales, Australia. It was formed in 1931 and has a membership of 51,000.
New South Wales Patriots New South Wales Patriots compete in the Claxton Shield Baseball Championship in Australia. The Patriots were one of the founding teams of the Claxton Shield in 1934 and competed as New South Wales until 1988 when the Claxtion Shield was awarded to the winner of the Australian Baseball League until 1999 when they were invited to join the International Baseball League of Australia which they competed in for 2 seasons(1999-00 and 2002), after this point the Claxton Shield reverted back to a competition similar to 1988.
New South Wales Police The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously New South Wales Police Service & New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency in the State of New South Wales, Australia. It is an agency of the Government of New South Wales within the New South Wales Ministry for Police.
New South Wales Police Association The Police Association of New South Wales was formed in 1922 and is the industrial association representing over 99 percent of the sworn police officers in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The current president of the association is Bob Pritchard.
New South Wales Premier League The New South Wales Premier League (which, for sponsorship reasons, is known as the Vodafone Premier League) is the highest State level men's football (soccer) division in New South Wales, Australia. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League.
New South Wales Rail Transport Museum The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum located in Thirlmere, New South Wales south-west of Sydney, is a museum dedicated to displaying former locomotives, carriages and goods wagons from the New South Wales Government Railways as well as private operations in NSW. The collection features steam, diesel and electric locomotives and other rolling stock.
New South Wales Rugby League season 1908 The 1908 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the inaugural season of the rugby league competition based in Sydney. Eight teams contested the first round of the season; seven teams from Sydney and one team from Newcastle.
New South Wales Rugby League season 1909 The 1909 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the second season of the rugby league competition based in Sydney. Eight teams contested during the season; seven teams from Sydney and one team from Newcastle, New South Wales.
New South Wales Rugby Union The New South Wales Rugby Union (NSWRU) is the organisation responsible for the sport of rugby union in most of the state of New South Wales, Australia. NSWRU is represented in the Super 14 competition by the NSW Waratahs.
New South Wales Rural Fire Service The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) is a volunteer firefighting service and is responsible for providing fire protection to over 90% of the geographical area of the state of New South Wales in Australia. They have 600 paid staff who fulfil the management and administrative roles of the service (current October 2005).
New South Wales State Plan The State Plan, A New Direction for NSW is a document prepared by the New South Wales Premier's Department within the Government of New South Wales and released on November 14, 2006. The plan, modelled on South Australia’s Strategic Plan (March 2004), sets priorities for the state government over a ten-year period.
New South Wales Student Representative Council The New South Wales Student Representative Council (NSW SRC) is a body that exists as part of the NSW DET's student welfare program. The NSW DET cites this body as it's peak student leadership consultative and decision-making forum.
New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union The New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union (NSWSRU) is affiliated to the New South Wales Rugby Union and runs the competition affectionately known as "Subbies" rugby. There are around 7500 players and 55 clubs competing across 5 divisions, making "Subbies" the largest centrally administered rugby competition in the world.
New South Wales Teachers Federation The New South Wales Teachers Federation (also known simply as Federation) is the registered trade union which covers NSW public school teachers. The New South Wales Teachers Federation represents all teachers in New South Wales public pre-schools, infants, primary and secondary schools and TAFE (technical and further education) Institutes.
New South Wales v Commonwealth (1990) New South Wales v The Commonwealth [1990] HCA 2; (1990) 169 CLR 482; 90 ALR 355, also known as the Incorporation Case, was a decision handed down in the High Court of Australia on 8 February 1990 concerning the corporations power in s51(xx) of the Commonwealth Constitution. The states of New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia brought an application seeking a declaration as to the validity of certain aspects of the Corporations Act 1989 (Cth).
New South Wales Waratahs The New South Wales Waratahs (referred to as HSBC Waratahs for sponsorship reasons, the Waratahs or simply the 'Tahs) are an Australian rugby union team, representing most of New South Wales in the Super 14 (formerly Super 12) competition—though not the Riverina or other southern parts of the state, which are represented by the Brumbies, who are based in Canberra and owned by the ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union.
New South Wales Youth Parliament One of a number of Australian YMCA Youth Parliaments, the sessions of the New South Wales Youth Parliament are held in Sydney. It provides a variety of parliamentary forums for students from grades 9 through 12 to participate in parliamentary debates of topics of importance to local young people.
New Southgate railway station New Southgate railway station is on the boundary of the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Enfield in north London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by First Capital Connect.
New Spicer Meadow Reservoir New Spicer Meadows Reservoir is a reservoir in Stanislaus National Forest in the Sierra Nevadas, straddling the border between Tuolumne County and Alpine County, California at an elevation of 6,620 feet. The 189,000 acre-foot reservoir is formed by New Spicer Meadow Dam on Highland Creek, a tributary of the Stanislaus River.
New Square, New York New Square (Hebrew: שיכון סקוויר×) is an all-Hasidic village in the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. Its inhabitants are Skverer Hasidim who seek to maintain a lifestyle based on Hasidic teachings.
New Standard Tuning The New Standard Tuning (or NST) is a special type of guitar tuning, introduced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson. Although used by a small number of players in comparison to the standard guitar tuning (referred to as 'Old Standard Tuning' by NST players), it has gained some popularity among experimental guitarists, and is the tuning taught at Fripp's Guitar Craft.
New Star Soccer New Star Soccer, also known as NSS, is a computer game published by New Star Games, which lets the gamer create and control a new football player as he moves through the ranks of the football leagues and national teams. Its creator, Simon Read, was inspired by Sports Interactive's Championship Manager, and Gremlin Interactive's Footballer of the Year.
New Stories From the South New Stories From the South is an annual compilation of short stories published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and billed as the year's best stories written by southern writers or about the Southern United States. The stories are collected from more than 100 literary magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
New Straits Times The New Straits Times is a Malaysian English-language newspaper. It is Malaysia's oldest newspaper, having been founded as The Straits Times in 1845, and it served as Malaysia's only broadsheet format English language newspaper.
New Strand Shopping Centre The New Strand Shopping Centre, known locally as 'The Strand', is the main shopping centre or mall in the town of Bootle, Merseyside. It opened in the 1960s, and was extended in 1999 to provide additional retail outlets, as well as additional car parking facilities.
New Swabia New Swabia (German: Neuschwabenland or Neu-Schwabenland) was a section of the continent Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W (overlapping a portion of Norway's claim zone Queen Maud Land), which was claimed by Germany between 19 January 1939 and 8 May 1945.
New Sweden New Sweden, or Nya Sverige, was a small Swedish settlement along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware and included parts of the present day American states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
New Swedes New Swedes ("Nysvenskar" in Swedish) is a term coined for those who have Swedish citizenship but is not of Swedish ethnicity especially denote 20th century immigrants and their offspring, particularly those of Southern European and non-European descent. Critics of this term however object to it as an exaggerated political correctness or alternatively as disguised racism, pointing out that this term ignores roughly a third of the immigrants who originate from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Germany & other countries in Northern, Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
New Swedish New Swedish (Swedish: nysvenska) is the linguistic term used for the Swedish language from the Bible translation of 1526 to the development of a common national language around 1880. The period can further be divided into Early New Swedish (1526-1750) and Late New Swedish (1750-1880).
New Synagogue (Dresden) The New Synagogue in Dresden was completed in 2001 and designed by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch. It was built on the same location as the synagogue by Gottfried Semper, which was destroyed in 1938 during the Kristallnacht.
New totalitarianism New totalitarianism is a term coined by ethicist John McMurtry to describe the political economy implied by so-called market theology; in other words, the ethics resolved wholly by the global markets with existing state power balances.
New town A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. Several of the world's capital cities are planned cities, notably Washington, D.
New Talent Singing Awards New Talent Singing Awards (Traditional Chinese: ć–°ç§€ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝) or NTSA for short, later re-organized into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals (Traditional Chinese: ĺ…¨ç華人新秀ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝) or NTSA International Finals for short), and most currently re-named TVB8 International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship (Traditional Chinese: TVB8ĺ…¨ç華人新秀ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝) is an annual singing competition organized by TVB that searches out new singers to enter the Asian music industry.
New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition (Chinese: ć–°ç§€ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝ćş«ĺ“ĄčŹŻé¸ć‹”čł˝) or NTSA Vancouver for short, is an annual singing contest organized by Fairchild Television in Vancouver, held every July. The winner of the contest will represent the city of Vancouver in the NTSA International Finals, usually held in Hong Kong, organized by TVB.
New Tampa, Florida New Tampa is an area in Florida that encompasses both a 24 square mile area within the corporate limits of the City of Tampa, as well as a larger land area that is in unincorporated Hillsborough and Pasco Counties, but retains a Tampa mailing address. The incorporated portion of "New Tampa" which lies within the city limits of Tampa is one of the largest city neighborhoods.
New Tang Dynasty TV New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) is an independent, nonprofit Chinese language television broadcaster based in New York City. Since its launch in February 2002, NTDTV has extended its 24/7 programming to cover North America, Asia, Europe and Australia with a wide range of cultural, leisure, political, and news programs in Mandarin Chinese and select programs in Cantonese and English.
New Tecumseth, Ontario New Tecumseth is a town in south-central Ontario, in the County of Simcoe. While it is not officially a part of the Greater Toronto Area, it is counted, in terms of the Census, as being a part of the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area.
New Technologies Demonstrator Programme The New Technologies Demonstrator Programme is a scheme part of Defra's Waste Implementation Programme, New Technologies Workstream, to demonstrate advanced waste processing technologies in England. A pot of ÂŁ30million was allocated to fund 10 demonstrator projects with the project being headed by Dave Brooks at Defra.
New Technology Institute The New Technology Institute (nti abbreviated to lower case letters) is a building located in the Learning and Leisure Zone of the Eastside of Birmingham, England. It was the result of a collaboration between the UCE Technology Innovation Centre (TIC), Aston University, University of Birmingham and West Midlands further education colleges.
New Territories New Territories refers to a region in Hong Kong, China. It comprises the area north of the Kowloon peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River (Shenzhen River) which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as most of Hong Kong's outlying islands including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau.
New Territories Joint School Debating Association New Territories Joint School Debating Association, (Traditional Chinese: 新界čŻć ˇčľŻč«–ĺ¸ćś) is a non-profit joint-school society in Hong Kong. Only secondary schools in the New Territories are admitted to join the association.
New Territories West New Territories West, or simply "NT West", refers to the western part of New Territories in Hong Kong. It includes Tsuen Wan District, Kwai Tsing District, Tuen Mun District, Yuen Long District and Islands District.
New Testament The New Testament (Greek: Καινὴ Διαθήκη), sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, and sometimes also New Covenant which is the literal translation of the Greek, is the name given to the final portion of the Christian Bible. The original texts were written by various authors after c.
New Testament apocrypha In the process of determining the Biblical canon, a large number of works were excluded from the New Testament. These New Testament Apocrypha are generally not accepted by Christians, though the Ethiopian Orthodox Church recognizes Jubilees, Book of Enoch, the Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement, Acts of Paul, and some uniquely Ethiopian books.
New Testament Witnesses of Christ The result of extensive research and years of study by LDS scholar John F Hall, New Testament Witnesses of Christ is a book which explores the lives of the four "pillars" of early Christianity: Peter, James, John, and Paul. It explores the environment in which they taught, their teachings, and their unwavering testimonies.
New Theatre (Cardiff) The New Theatre (Welsh: Theatr Newydd although it usually uses its English name as a title) is one of the principal theatres in Cardiff, Wales. It is located in the city centre on Park Place, close to the beautiful civic centre buildings.
New Theatre (Newtown) The New Theatre is an independent theatre company in the inner western Sydney suburb of Newtown, Australia. Established in October 1932, it is the oldest theatre company in continuous production in New South Wales.
New Theatre Oxford The New Theatre Oxford (for a period from 1977 known as the Apollo Theatre Oxford) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,826. It is located in George Street in the centre of the city, and puts on a wide variety of shows, from musical theatre Annie, West Side Story, Chicago) to stand-up comedy (Ross Noble, Jimmy Carr, Joe Pasquale) to gigs (Status Quo, Motörhead).
New Thought Movement The New Thought Movement describes a set of religious developments that originated in the United States during the late 19th century, inspired by the philosophy of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby from Belfast, Maine. Although Dr.
New Threat Upgrade New Threat Upgrade (NTU) was a program to improve the Anti-Aircraft capability of Terrier and Tartar ships. It allowed the use of newer Standard missiles and improved the interoperability of the radar and computer systems aboard the ships.
New Times (politics) New Times was a short-lived intellectual movement among leftists in Great Britain. It was centred on the Eurocommunist faction of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and most of the intellectual groundwork for the movement was laid out in the latter party's official theoretical journal, Marxism Today.
New Topography New Topography or New Topographics is a movement in photographic art in which the landscape is depicted complete with the alterations of humans. It is sometimes seen as a reaction against natural landscape photography, of the sort exemplified by Ansel Adams' photographs of Yosemite.
New Town Hall, Prague The New Town Hall (Czech: Novoměstská radnice) is the administrative centre of Prague's (medieval) New Town Quarter, or "Nové Město". In 1419 it was the site of the first of the three defenestrations of Prague.
New Town, Edinburgh The New Town, a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is often considered to be a masterpiece of city planning, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although still referred to as the New Town, it was built in stages between 1765 and around 1850, and retains much of the original neo-classical period architecture.
New Town, Luton 'New Town' is a district of Luton just south east of the town centre between Castle Street, the main route to London and the M1 motorway on one side and Park Street, leading to Luton Hoo and the village of Hyde on the other side.
New Town, Tasmania New Town is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located about 4 km north of the CBD. One of the city's oldest suburbs, it is now an inner city residential suburb, many of its streets are lined with federation style cottages.
New Trade Theory New Trade Theory (NTT) is the economic critique of international free trade from the perspective of increasing returns to scale and the network effect. Some economists have asked whether it might be effective for a nation to shelter infant industries until they had grown to sufficient size to compete internationally.
New Tradition Chorus The New Tradition Chorus is a men's Barbershop chorus based in Northbrook, IL, in the Chicagoland area. Founded in 1982, they have competed at the International Chorus Contest of the Barbershop Harmony Society 16 times, winning a medal on every attempt.
New Tricks (TV series) New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). Led by Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
New Triumph Party Partido del Nuevo Triunfo (New Triumph Party) is a minor far right group in Argentina. The party was formed by Alejandro Biondini in 1990 as the Partido Nacionalista de los Trabajadores (Nationalist Party of the Workers), initially being largely internet based.
New Turkey Party Yeni TĂĽrkiye Partisi (Turkish for New Turkey Party) was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 2002 following a leadership crisis in the Demokratik Sol Parti (Turkish for Democratic Left Party) that was the major partner in a three party coalition government.
New Union (Social Liberals) The New Union (Social Liberals) (Lithuanian: Naujoji sÄ…junga (socialliberalai)), or NS, is a social liberal party in Lithuania. The NS is member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and is an observer at Liberal International.
New Union Party The New Union Party (NUP) is a small political party in the United States. It was originally formed in 1974 as the New Unionists, several of whom had been members of Section Minneapolis of Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP).
New Union Treaty The New Union Treaty () was a draft treaty that would have replaced the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and thus replaced the Soviet Union by a new entity, an attempt of Mikhail Gorbachev to salvage the Soviet state. A ceremony of Russian SFSR signing the treaty was scheduled for 20 August, 1991, but was prevented by the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 a day earlier.
New Utopia The Principality of New Utopia is a libertarian micronation founded in the mid 1990s by Oklahoma resident Lazarus Long, his family and business associates. It is generally dismissed by those who see Long's claims as overstated and unattainable.
New Utrecht Avenue–62nd Street (New York City Subway) New Utrecht Avenue–62nd Street is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the BMT Sea Beach and the BMT Brighton Line and the West End Lines. It is located at New Utrecht Avenue and 62nd Street in Brooklyn, and is served by:
New Utrecht Reformed Church New Utrecht Reformed Church is the fourth oldest church in Brooklyn, New York. The church was established in 1677 in the town of New Utrecht and is affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, a Protestant denomination.
New Utrecht, Brooklyn New Utrecht is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Named after the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, it was first settled in 1657 and received its charter in 1661 when the entire region was part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
New Valamo New Valamo (Uusi Valamo in Finnish) is an Orthodox monastery in Heinävesi, Finland. The monastery was established in 1940, when 150 monks, evacuated from the Soviet occupied Valaam Monastery in Karelia, settled in Heinävesi.
New Valley Project The New Valley Project consists of building a system of canals to carry water from Lake Nasser to irrigate the sandy wastes of the Western Desert of Egypt, which is part of the Sahara Desert. In 1997 the Egyptian government decided to develop a "new" valley (in addition to the Nile Valley) where agricultural and industrial communities could be developed.
New Venture Gear New Venture Gear was a joint-venture automobile transmission company set up by General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation in February 1990. It was 64% owned by DaimlerChrysler and 36% owned by GM until February 2002, when General Motors sold its stake in the company to DaimlerChrysler.
New Victoria Theatre The New Victoria Theatre in Woking, England opened in June 1992. The theatre has presented dramas from groups such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre and the Peter Hall Company; regular visitors also include Glyndebourne on Tour, Scottish Ballet and Northern Ballet Theatre.
New Village New Villages, also known as Chinese New Villages (Chinese: 华人新村), are settlements created during the waning days of British rule over Malaysia in the mid-1950s. The original purpose of the New Villages in Malaysia was to segregate the villagers from the early Malayan Races Liberation Army's insurgents during the Malayan Emergency.
New Virginians Musical group from Virginia Tech founded in 1972. The group featured 24 singer/dancers, a 12 piece showband and a technical staff and focused on a musical variety show which toured Virginia and surrounding states as """musical ambasadors of Virginia Tech""".
New Vision Television New Vision Television was a subsidiary of Arlington Capital Partners. At their height, they owned four television stations: KSBY in Santa Barbara, California; KVII-TV in Amarillo, Texas; WISE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and KDLH in Duluth, Minnesota.
New Vogue (dance) The New Vogue dance style is an Australian form of sequence dancing that originated in the 1930s. Since then it has become an important part in the Australian ballroom scene, holding as much importance in social and competition dancing as Latin or International Standard dances.
New Vrindaban New Vrindaban was originally an ISKCON intentional community located in Moundsville, West Virginiahomepage section directions "The address of the New Vrindaban Community is:RD 1 Box 319 Moundsville, West Virginia 26041" retrieved May 2006. Its main function is now pilgrimage center, mainly because of economical necessity.
New wave of new wave The New Wave of New Wave (NWONW) was a term coined by music journalists to describe a sub-genre of the British alternative rock scene in the early 90s. NWONW bands typically consisted of young, white, working class males playing guitar-based rock music.
New wine (biblical) New wine or fresh wine is a beverage referred to in the Bible, which was made from juice extracted from grapes or other fruit, such as pomegranates. Some advocates of abstinence claim that the Hebrew phrase from which this is translated referred to unfermented juice rather than true wine (fermented juice).
New world order The term "new world order" has been used to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power. The first usages of the term surrounded Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and call for a League of Nations following the devastation of World War I.
New world order (Bahá'Ă) The phrase "New World Order" in the Bahá'Ă Faith refers to a system of teachings, enunciated by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'Ă Faith, that Bahá'Ăs believe embodies God's divinely appointed scheme for the unification of mankind in this age. Among the beliefs it includes is the eventual establishment of a world commonwealth based on principles of equity and justice, a commonwealth as vital spiritually as it would be materially.
New world record (band) New World Record are a four-piece band from Cambridge, England, who emerged in the local scene after winning the Red Stripe Band Competition in 2005. From there, they developed a following which gained them airplay (as unsigned band of the week) on UK radio station XFM, as well as various other regional and online radio.
New Waddell Dam The New Waddell Dam is an Earthfill Dam that was constructed between 1987 and 1992 damming the Agua Fria River in Maricopa County, Arizona. Its reservoir is known as New Lake Pleasant and has a drainage area of 1459 square miles.
New Walk Museum The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. Two dinosaur skeletons are permanently installed in the museum — a cetiosaur found in Rutland, and a plesiosaur from Barrow upon Soar.
New Warnings added to the Fluoroquinolones Fluoroquinolones should be used only to treat or prevent infections that are proven or strongly suspected to be caused by susceptible bacteria, in the absence of a proven or strongly suspected bacterial infection or a prophylactic indication, the use of drugs within this class is unlikely to provide benefit to the patient and increases the risk of the development of serious and irreversible adverse drug reactions. As with any potent antimicrobial drug, periodic assessment of organ system functions, including renal, hepatic, and hematopoietic, is advisable during therapy.
New Washoe City, Nevada New Washoe City is an unincorporated community located in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. New Washoe City is located in the Washoe Valley in southern Washoe County between Reno and Carson City, on the east side of Washoe Lake.
New Wave (design) In design, New Wave refers to an approach to typography that actively defies strict grid-based organizing conventions. Characteristics include inconsistent letterspacing, varying typeweights within single words and type set at unusual angles.
New Wave (science fiction) New Wave science fiction was characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously "literary" or artistic sensibility previously comparatively alien to the science fiction aesthetic. The term "New Wave" is borrowed from film criticism's nouvelle vague: films characterised by the work of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and others.
New Wave music New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. New Wave music was initially marketed as a more commercial or chart-friendly version of punk.
New Wave Theatre New Wave Theatre was a television program broadcast locally in the Los Angeles area on UHF channel 18 and eventually on the USA Network as part of the late night variety show Night Flight during the early 1980s. The show was created and produced by David Jove, who also wrote the program with Billboard magazine editor Ed Ochs.
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) is part of the Government of New South Wales and is responsible for agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, state forests, and minerals and petroleum in the state. The Minister for Primary Industries is Ian Macdonald.
New South Wales Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation The New South Wales Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation is part of the Government of New South Wales and is responsible for a number of cultural and sporting institutions. The Minister for the Arts is Bob Debus.
New South Wales Electoral Commission The New South Wales Electoral Commission is the agency of the Government of New South Wales in charge of organising and supervising state and local elections in New South Wales. It is responsible for the administration of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Act, 1912,
New South Wales Fire Brigades The NSW Fire Brigades (NSWFB) is the NSW government agency responsible for managing fire emergencies in the major cities, metropolitan areas and towns across rural and regional NSW. Under the Fire Brigades Act 1989 NSWFB also protect the State from hazardous material (HAZMAT) incidents and by extension of this capability, the consequences of terrorism.
New South Wales Golf Club New South Wales Golf Club is a golf course designed by Alister MacKenzieHistory of NSW Golf Club last accessed January 24, 2007 in late 1926. This links style course is situated in La Perouse, Sydney, and regularly rates in the top 50 golf courses in the world.
New South Wales Government Railways 38 class The 38 class was the most popular type of steam locomotive built and operated by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia. Built from 1945, the 30 locomotives in the class were designed to haul express trains and replace the 36 class on these premium workings.
New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme The New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme (also known as GGAS), which commenced on 1 January, 2003, is a mandatory greenhouse gas trading scheme that aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions to 7.27 tonnes of carbon dioxide per capita by the year 2007.
New South Wales legislative election, 2003 Legislative elections were held in New South Wales in March, 2003. The social-democratic Australian Labor Party led by Bob Carr won a third four-year term against the Liberal-National Coalition led by John Brogden.
New South Wales Mine Subsidence Board The Mine Subsidence Board of New South Wales is a Government of New South Wales agency responsible for reducing the risk of mine subsidence damage to properties in New South Wales by assessing and controlling the types of buildings and improvements which can be erected in Mine Subsidence Districts. in coal mining areas of New South Wales.
New South Wales Nurses' Association The New South Wales Nurses' Association (NSWNA) in a trade union which represents nurses in both the public and private sectors of New South Wales, Australia. It was formed in 1931 and has a membership of 51,000.
New South Wales Patriots New South Wales Patriots compete in the Claxton Shield Baseball Championship in Australia. The Patriots were one of the founding teams of the Claxton Shield in 1934 and competed as New South Wales until 1988 when the Claxtion Shield was awarded to the winner of the Australian Baseball League until 1999 when they were invited to join the International Baseball League of Australia which they competed in for 2 seasons(1999-00 and 2002), after this point the Claxton Shield reverted back to a competition similar to 1988.
New South Wales Police The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously New South Wales Police Service & New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency in the State of New South Wales, Australia. It is an agency of the Government of New South Wales within the New South Wales Ministry for Police.
New South Wales Police Association The Police Association of New South Wales was formed in 1922 and is the industrial association representing over 99 percent of the sworn police officers in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The current president of the association is Bob Pritchard.
New South Wales Premier League The New South Wales Premier League (which, for sponsorship reasons, is known as the Vodafone Premier League) is the highest State level men's football (soccer) division in New South Wales, Australia. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League.
New South Wales Rail Transport Museum The New South Wales Rail Transport Museum located in Thirlmere, New South Wales south-west of Sydney, is a museum dedicated to displaying former locomotives, carriages and goods wagons from the New South Wales Government Railways as well as private operations in NSW. The collection features steam, diesel and electric locomotives and other rolling stock.
New South Wales Rugby League season 1908 The 1908 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the inaugural season of the rugby league competition based in Sydney. Eight teams contested the first round of the season; seven teams from Sydney and one team from Newcastle.
New South Wales Rugby League season 1909 The 1909 New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the second season of the rugby league competition based in Sydney. Eight teams contested during the season; seven teams from Sydney and one team from Newcastle, New South Wales.
New South Wales Rugby Union The New South Wales Rugby Union (NSWRU) is the organisation responsible for the sport of rugby union in most of the state of New South Wales, Australia. NSWRU is represented in the Super 14 competition by the NSW Waratahs.
New South Wales Rural Fire Service The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) is a volunteer firefighting service and is responsible for providing fire protection to over 90% of the geographical area of the state of New South Wales in Australia. They have 600 paid staff who fulfil the management and administrative roles of the service (current October 2005).
New South Wales State Plan The State Plan, A New Direction for NSW is a document prepared by the New South Wales Premier's Department within the Government of New South Wales and released on November 14, 2006. The plan, modelled on South Australia’s Strategic Plan (March 2004), sets priorities for the state government over a ten-year period.
New South Wales Student Representative Council The New South Wales Student Representative Council (NSW SRC) is a body that exists as part of the NSW DET's student welfare program. The NSW DET cites this body as it's peak student leadership consultative and decision-making forum.
New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union The New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union (NSWSRU) is affiliated to the New South Wales Rugby Union and runs the competition affectionately known as "Subbies" rugby. There are around 7500 players and 55 clubs competing across 5 divisions, making "Subbies" the largest centrally administered rugby competition in the world.
New South Wales Teachers Federation The New South Wales Teachers Federation (also known simply as Federation) is the registered trade union which covers NSW public school teachers. The New South Wales Teachers Federation represents all teachers in New South Wales public pre-schools, infants, primary and secondary schools and TAFE (technical and further education) Institutes.
New South Wales v Commonwealth (1990) New South Wales v The Commonwealth [1990] HCA 2; (1990) 169 CLR 482; 90 ALR 355, also known as the Incorporation Case, was a decision handed down in the High Court of Australia on 8 February 1990 concerning the corporations power in s51(xx) of the Commonwealth Constitution. The states of New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia brought an application seeking a declaration as to the validity of certain aspects of the Corporations Act 1989 (Cth).
New South Wales Waratahs The New South Wales Waratahs (referred to as HSBC Waratahs for sponsorship reasons, the Waratahs or simply the 'Tahs) are an Australian rugby union team, representing most of New South Wales in the Super 14 (formerly Super 12) competition—though not the Riverina or other southern parts of the state, which are represented by the Brumbies, who are based in Canberra and owned by the ACT and Southern NSW Rugby Union.
New South Wales Youth Parliament One of a number of Australian YMCA Youth Parliaments, the sessions of the New South Wales Youth Parliament are held in Sydney. It provides a variety of parliamentary forums for students from grades 9 through 12 to participate in parliamentary debates of topics of importance to local young people.
New Southgate railway station New Southgate railway station is on the boundary of the London Borough of Barnet and the London Borough of Enfield in north London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by First Capital Connect.
New Spicer Meadow Reservoir New Spicer Meadows Reservoir is a reservoir in Stanislaus National Forest in the Sierra Nevadas, straddling the border between Tuolumne County and Alpine County, California at an elevation of 6,620 feet. The 189,000 acre-foot reservoir is formed by New Spicer Meadow Dam on Highland Creek, a tributary of the Stanislaus River.
New Square, New York New Square (Hebrew: שיכון סקוויר×) is an all-Hasidic village in the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. Its inhabitants are Skverer Hasidim who seek to maintain a lifestyle based on Hasidic teachings.
New Standard Tuning The New Standard Tuning (or NST) is a special type of guitar tuning, introduced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson. Although used by a small number of players in comparison to the standard guitar tuning (referred to as 'Old Standard Tuning' by NST players), it has gained some popularity among experimental guitarists, and is the tuning taught at Fripp's Guitar Craft.
New Star Soccer New Star Soccer, also known as NSS, is a computer game published by New Star Games, which lets the gamer create and control a new football player as he moves through the ranks of the football leagues and national teams. Its creator, Simon Read, was inspired by Sports Interactive's Championship Manager, and Gremlin Interactive's Footballer of the Year.
New Stories From the South New Stories From the South is an annual compilation of short stories published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and billed as the year's best stories written by southern writers or about the Southern United States. The stories are collected from more than 100 literary magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
New Straits Times The New Straits Times is a Malaysian English-language newspaper. It is Malaysia's oldest newspaper, having been founded as The Straits Times in 1845, and it served as Malaysia's only broadsheet format English language newspaper.
New Strand Shopping Centre The New Strand Shopping Centre, known locally as 'The Strand', is the main shopping centre or mall in the town of Bootle, Merseyside. It opened in the 1960s, and was extended in 1999 to provide additional retail outlets, as well as additional car parking facilities.
New Swabia New Swabia (German: Neuschwabenland or Neu-Schwabenland) was a section of the continent Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W (overlapping a portion of Norway's claim zone Queen Maud Land), which was claimed by Germany between 19 January 1939 and 8 May 1945.
New Sweden New Sweden, or Nya Sverige, was a small Swedish settlement along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America. It was centered at Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware and included parts of the present day American states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
New Swedes New Swedes ("Nysvenskar" in Swedish) is a term coined for those who have Swedish citizenship but is not of Swedish ethnicity especially denote 20th century immigrants and their offspring, particularly those of Southern European and non-European descent. Critics of this term however object to it as an exaggerated political correctness or alternatively as disguised racism, pointing out that this term ignores roughly a third of the immigrants who originate from Finland, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Germany & other countries in Northern, Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
New Swedish New Swedish (Swedish: nysvenska) is the linguistic term used for the Swedish language from the Bible translation of 1526 to the development of a common national language around 1880. The period can further be divided into Early New Swedish (1526-1750) and Late New Swedish (1750-1880).
New Synagogue (Dresden) The New Synagogue in Dresden was completed in 2001 and designed by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch. It was built on the same location as the synagogue by Gottfried Semper, which was destroyed in 1938 during the Kristallnacht.
New totalitarianism New totalitarianism is a term coined by ethicist John McMurtry to describe the political economy implied by so-called market theology; in other words, the ethics resolved wholly by the global markets with existing state power balances.
New town A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. Several of the world's capital cities are planned cities, notably Washington, D.
New Talent Singing Awards New Talent Singing Awards (Traditional Chinese: ć–°ç§€ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝) or NTSA for short, later re-organized into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals (Traditional Chinese: ĺ…¨ç華人新秀ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝) or NTSA International Finals for short), and most currently re-named TVB8 International Chinese New Talent Singing Championship (Traditional Chinese: TVB8ĺ…¨ç華人新秀ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝) is an annual singing competition organized by TVB that searches out new singers to enter the Asian music industry.
New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition (Chinese: ć–°ç§€ćŚĺ”±ĺ¤§čł˝ćş«ĺ“ĄčŹŻé¸ć‹”čł˝) or NTSA Vancouver for short, is an annual singing contest organized by Fairchild Television in Vancouver, held every July. The winner of the contest will represent the city of Vancouver in the NTSA International Finals, usually held in Hong Kong, organized by TVB.
New Tampa, Florida New Tampa is an area in Florida that encompasses both a 24 square mile area within the corporate limits of the City of Tampa, as well as a larger land area that is in unincorporated Hillsborough and Pasco Counties, but retains a Tampa mailing address. The incorporated portion of "New Tampa" which lies within the city limits of Tampa is one of the largest city neighborhoods.
New Tang Dynasty TV New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) is an independent, nonprofit Chinese language television broadcaster based in New York City. Since its launch in February 2002, NTDTV has extended its 24/7 programming to cover North America, Asia, Europe and Australia with a wide range of cultural, leisure, political, and news programs in Mandarin Chinese and select programs in Cantonese and English.
New Tecumseth, Ontario New Tecumseth is a town in south-central Ontario, in the County of Simcoe. While it is not officially a part of the Greater Toronto Area, it is counted, in terms of the Census, as being a part of the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area.
New Technologies Demonstrator Programme The New Technologies Demonstrator Programme is a scheme part of Defra's Waste Implementation Programme, New Technologies Workstream, to demonstrate advanced waste processing technologies in England. A pot of ÂŁ30million was allocated to fund 10 demonstrator projects with the project being headed by Dave Brooks at Defra.
New Technology Institute The New Technology Institute (nti abbreviated to lower case letters) is a building located in the Learning and Leisure Zone of the Eastside of Birmingham, England. It was the result of a collaboration between the UCE Technology Innovation Centre (TIC), Aston University, University of Birmingham and West Midlands further education colleges.
New Territories New Territories refers to a region in Hong Kong, China. It comprises the area north of the Kowloon peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River (Shenzhen River) which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as most of Hong Kong's outlying islands including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau.
New Territories Joint School Debating Association New Territories Joint School Debating Association, (Traditional Chinese: 新界čŻć ˇčľŻč«–ĺ¸ćś) is a non-profit joint-school society in Hong Kong. Only secondary schools in the New Territories are admitted to join the association.
New Territories West New Territories West, or simply "NT West", refers to the western part of New Territories in Hong Kong. It includes Tsuen Wan District, Kwai Tsing District, Tuen Mun District, Yuen Long District and Islands District.
New Testament The New Testament (Greek: Καινὴ Διαθήκη), sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, and sometimes also New Covenant which is the literal translation of the Greek, is the name given to the final portion of the Christian Bible. The original texts were written by various authors after c.
New Testament apocrypha In the process of determining the Biblical canon, a large number of works were excluded from the New Testament. These New Testament Apocrypha are generally not accepted by Christians, though the Ethiopian Orthodox Church recognizes Jubilees, Book of Enoch, the Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement, Acts of Paul, and some uniquely Ethiopian books.
New Testament Witnesses of Christ The result of extensive research and years of study by LDS scholar John F Hall, New Testament Witnesses of Christ is a book which explores the lives of the four "pillars" of early Christianity: Peter, James, John, and Paul. It explores the environment in which they taught, their teachings, and their unwavering testimonies.
New Theatre (Cardiff) The New Theatre (Welsh: Theatr Newydd although it usually uses its English name as a title) is one of the principal theatres in Cardiff, Wales. It is located in the city centre on Park Place, close to the beautiful civic centre buildings.
New Theatre (Newtown) The New Theatre is an independent theatre company in the inner western Sydney suburb of Newtown, Australia. Established in October 1932, it is the oldest theatre company in continuous production in New South Wales.
New Theatre Oxford The New Theatre Oxford (for a period from 1977 known as the Apollo Theatre Oxford) is the main commercial theatre in Oxford, England and has a capacity of 1,826. It is located in George Street in the centre of the city, and puts on a wide variety of shows, from musical theatre Annie, West Side Story, Chicago) to stand-up comedy (Ross Noble, Jimmy Carr, Joe Pasquale) to gigs (Status Quo, Motörhead).
New Thought Movement The New Thought Movement describes a set of religious developments that originated in the United States during the late 19th century, inspired by the philosophy of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby from Belfast, Maine. Although Dr.
New Threat Upgrade New Threat Upgrade (NTU) was a program to improve the Anti-Aircraft capability of Terrier and Tartar ships. It allowed the use of newer Standard missiles and improved the interoperability of the radar and computer systems aboard the ships.
New Times (politics) New Times was a short-lived intellectual movement among leftists in Great Britain. It was centred on the Eurocommunist faction of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and most of the intellectual groundwork for the movement was laid out in the latter party's official theoretical journal, Marxism Today.
New Topography New Topography or New Topographics is a movement in photographic art in which the landscape is depicted complete with the alterations of humans. It is sometimes seen as a reaction against natural landscape photography, of the sort exemplified by Ansel Adams' photographs of Yosemite.
New Town Hall, Prague The New Town Hall (Czech: Novoměstská radnice) is the administrative centre of Prague's (medieval) New Town Quarter, or "Nové Město". In 1419 it was the site of the first of the three defenestrations of Prague.
New Town, Edinburgh The New Town, a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is often considered to be a masterpiece of city planning, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although still referred to as the New Town, it was built in stages between 1765 and around 1850, and retains much of the original neo-classical period architecture.
New Town, Luton 'New Town' is a district of Luton just south east of the town centre between Castle Street, the main route to London and the M1 motorway on one side and Park Street, leading to Luton Hoo and the village of Hyde on the other side.
New Town, Tasmania New Town is a suburb of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, located about 4 km north of the CBD. One of the city's oldest suburbs, it is now an inner city residential suburb, many of its streets are lined with federation style cottages.
New Trade Theory New Trade Theory (NTT) is the economic critique of international free trade from the perspective of increasing returns to scale and the network effect. Some economists have asked whether it might be effective for a nation to shelter infant industries until they had grown to sufficient size to compete internationally.
New Tradition Chorus The New Tradition Chorus is a men's Barbershop chorus based in Northbrook, IL, in the Chicagoland area. Founded in 1982, they have competed at the International Chorus Contest of the Barbershop Harmony Society 16 times, winning a medal on every attempt.
New Tricks (TV series) New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). Led by Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
New Triumph Party Partido del Nuevo Triunfo (New Triumph Party) is a minor far right group in Argentina. The party was formed by Alejandro Biondini in 1990 as the Partido Nacionalista de los Trabajadores (Nationalist Party of the Workers), initially being largely internet based.
New Turkey Party Yeni TĂĽrkiye Partisi (Turkish for New Turkey Party) was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 2002 following a leadership crisis in the Demokratik Sol Parti (Turkish for Democratic Left Party) that was the major partner in a three party coalition government.
New Union (Social Liberals) The New Union (Social Liberals) (Lithuanian: Naujoji sÄ…junga (socialliberalai)), or NS, is a social liberal party in Lithuania. The NS is member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and is an observer at Liberal International.
New Union Party The New Union Party (NUP) is a small political party in the United States. It was originally formed in 1974 as the New Unionists, several of whom had been members of Section Minneapolis of Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP).
New Union Treaty The New Union Treaty () was a draft treaty that would have replaced the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and thus replaced the Soviet Union by a new entity, an attempt of Mikhail Gorbachev to salvage the Soviet state. A ceremony of Russian SFSR signing the treaty was scheduled for 20 August, 1991, but was prevented by the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 a day earlier.
New Utopia The Principality of New Utopia is a libertarian micronation founded in the mid 1990s by Oklahoma resident Lazarus Long, his family and business associates. It is generally dismissed by those who see Long's claims as overstated and unattainable.
New Utrecht Avenue–62nd Street (New York City Subway) New Utrecht Avenue–62nd Street is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the BMT Sea Beach and the BMT Brighton Line and the West End Lines. It is located at New Utrecht Avenue and 62nd Street in Brooklyn, and is served by:
New Utrecht Reformed Church New Utrecht Reformed Church is the fourth oldest church in Brooklyn, New York. The church was established in 1677 in the town of New Utrecht and is affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, a Protestant denomination.
New Utrecht, Brooklyn New Utrecht is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Named after the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, it was first settled in 1657 and received its charter in 1661 when the entire region was part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
New Valamo New Valamo (Uusi Valamo in Finnish) is an Orthodox monastery in Heinävesi, Finland. The monastery was established in 1940, when 150 monks, evacuated from the Soviet occupied Valaam Monastery in Karelia, settled in Heinävesi.
New Valley Project The New Valley Project consists of building a system of canals to carry water from Lake Nasser to irrigate the sandy wastes of the Western Desert of Egypt, which is part of the Sahara Desert. In 1997 the Egyptian government decided to develop a "new" valley (in addition to the Nile Valley) where agricultural and industrial communities could be developed.
New Venture Gear New Venture Gear was a joint-venture automobile transmission company set up by General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation in February 1990. It was 64% owned by DaimlerChrysler and 36% owned by GM until February 2002, when General Motors sold its stake in the company to DaimlerChrysler.
New Victoria Theatre The New Victoria Theatre in Woking, England opened in June 1992. The theatre has presented dramas from groups such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre and the Peter Hall Company; regular visitors also include Glyndebourne on Tour, Scottish Ballet and Northern Ballet Theatre.
New Village New Villages, also known as Chinese New Villages (Chinese: 华人新村), are settlements created during the waning days of British rule over Malaysia in the mid-1950s. The original purpose of the New Villages in Malaysia was to segregate the villagers from the early Malayan Races Liberation Army's insurgents during the Malayan Emergency.
New Virginians Musical group from Virginia Tech founded in 1972. The group featured 24 singer/dancers, a 12 piece showband and a technical staff and focused on a musical variety show which toured Virginia and surrounding states as """musical ambasadors of Virginia Tech""".
New Vision Television New Vision Television was a subsidiary of Arlington Capital Partners. At their height, they owned four television stations: KSBY in Santa Barbara, California; KVII-TV in Amarillo, Texas; WISE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and KDLH in Duluth, Minnesota.
New Vogue (dance) The New Vogue dance style is an Australian form of sequence dancing that originated in the 1930s. Since then it has become an important part in the Australian ballroom scene, holding as much importance in social and competition dancing as Latin or International Standard dances.
New Vrindaban New Vrindaban was originally an ISKCON intentional community located in Moundsville, West Virginiahomepage section directions "The address of the New Vrindaban Community is:RD 1 Box 319 Moundsville, West Virginia 26041" retrieved May 2006. Its main function is now pilgrimage center, mainly because of economical necessity.
New wave of new wave The New Wave of New Wave (NWONW) was a term coined by music journalists to describe a sub-genre of the British alternative rock scene in the early 90s. NWONW bands typically consisted of young, white, working class males playing guitar-based rock music.
New wine (biblical) New wine or fresh wine is a beverage referred to in the Bible, which was made from juice extracted from grapes or other fruit, such as pomegranates. Some advocates of abstinence claim that the Hebrew phrase from which this is translated referred to unfermented juice rather than true wine (fermented juice).
New world order The term "new world order" has been used to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power. The first usages of the term surrounded Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and call for a League of Nations following the devastation of World War I.
New world order (Bahá'Ă) The phrase "New World Order" in the Bahá'Ă Faith refers to a system of teachings, enunciated by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'Ă Faith, that Bahá'Ăs believe embodies God's divinely appointed scheme for the unification of mankind in this age. Among the beliefs it includes is the eventual establishment of a world commonwealth based on principles of equity and justice, a commonwealth as vital spiritually as it would be materially.
New world record (band) New World Record are a four-piece band from Cambridge, England, who emerged in the local scene after winning the Red Stripe Band Competition in 2005. From there, they developed a following which gained them airplay (as unsigned band of the week) on UK radio station XFM, as well as various other regional and online radio.
New Waddell Dam The New Waddell Dam is an Earthfill Dam that was constructed between 1987 and 1992 damming the Agua Fria River in Maricopa County, Arizona. Its reservoir is known as New Lake Pleasant and has a drainage area of 1459 square miles.
New Walk Museum The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. Two dinosaur skeletons are permanently installed in the museum — a cetiosaur found in Rutland, and a plesiosaur from Barrow upon Soar.
New Warnings added to the Fluoroquinolones Fluoroquinolones should be used only to treat or prevent infections that are proven or strongly suspected to be caused by susceptible bacteria, in the absence of a proven or strongly suspected bacterial infection or a prophylactic indication, the use of drugs within this class is unlikely to provide benefit to the patient and increases the risk of the development of serious and irreversible adverse drug reactions. As with any potent antimicrobial drug, periodic assessment of organ system functions, including renal, hepatic, and hematopoietic, is advisable during therapy.
New Washoe City, Nevada New Washoe City is an unincorporated community located in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. New Washoe City is located in the Washoe Valley in southern Washoe County between Reno and Carson City, on the east side of Washoe Lake.
New Wave (design) In design, New Wave refers to an approach to typography that actively defies strict grid-based organizing conventions. Characteristics include inconsistent letterspacing, varying typeweights within single words and type set at unusual angles.
New Wave (science fiction) New Wave science fiction was characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously "literary" or artistic sensibility previously comparatively alien to the science fiction aesthetic. The term "New Wave" is borrowed from film criticism's nouvelle vague: films characterised by the work of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and others.
New Wave music New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. New Wave music was initially marketed as a more commercial or chart-friendly version of punk.
New Wave Theatre New Wave Theatre was a television program broadcast locally in the Los Angeles area on UHF channel 18 and eventually on the USA Network as part of the late night variety show Night Flight during the early 1980s. The show was created and produced by David Jove, who also wrote the program with Billboard magazine editor Ed Ochs.
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