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Odyssey of the Mind Odyssey of the Mind (often called OotM and OM, but see below) is a creative problem-solving competition involving students from kindergarten though college. Team members work together at length to solve a predefined problem (the Long Term problem); and present their solution to the problem at a competition.
Odyssey Television Network Odyssey Television Network is a Canadian Greek language television network which consists of two channels featuring programming of interest to Greek Canadians, including programming from popular networks in Greece as well as local productions. OTN is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and is owned by Peter Maniatakos, who also owns CHTO- a multicultural radio station in Toronto.
Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure was a videogame written by Robert Clardy and released by Synergistic Software in 1980. It was created for the Apple II platform and is considered one of the first microcomputer-based role playing games.
Odzrkhe Odzrkhe or Odzrakhe was a historic fortified town and the surrounding area in what is now Samtskhe-Javakheti region, southern Georgia. According to medieval Georgian historic tradition, it was founded by the mythic hero Odzrakhos of the Kartlosid line.
OD Hunte OD Hunte is a record producer, writer, remixer and entrepreneur who has worked with many major label artists (Atlantic Records US, Sony, BMG), indie projects (Barnes and Noble US, V2 Records, Urbanstar Records, Concept Records) as well as scores of new artists, which ultimately has helped to secure multi-album deals with such companies as Sony UK, BMG and Rocafella. OD Hunte has been attracting praise from heavy weight industry personnel for years as he has been busy working behind the scenes.
OD Practitioner Network The Organization Development Practitioner Network, also known as the OD Network, sees organizational development as a field central to creating effective and humanistically-sound systems in the global business, governmental and non-profit community.
ODAC The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) is an independent, UK-registered educational charity. The centre is working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil depletion and peak oil problem.
ODESSA ODESSA (German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, "Organization of Former SS-Members") is the name commonly given to an international Nazi network alleged to have been set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers. Some historians, while acknowledging that there were secret postwar organisations of former SS members, deny that any organisation called ODESSA ever existed.
ODIN technologies ODIN technologies is a leading RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) services and software company based in Dulles, VA. According to a recent study conducted by RFIDUpdate, ODIN is second only to IBM as a thought leader in RFID technology and the most sought after business partner.
ODIS ODIS, or the Offender Data Information System is a web based, computerized records management software application to improve the capture, maintenance and quality of law enforcement data and that is capable of running in any combination of centralized or decentralized network environments. It is designed using Microsoft's DNA (Distributed interNetwork Architecture) programming model, constructed using three tiers: database for storage, compiled application components to handle the business logic and the presentation layer which is what the user sees.
ODMA The Open Document Management API simplifies the communication of desktop applications with document management systems (DMS). ODMA standardizes the access to the DMS, which makes getting to these files as easy as if the files were in the actual local file system.
ODRL ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language) is an XML-based standard Rights Expression Language (REL) used in Digital Rights Management systems and open content management systems. ODRL is managed by an open organization that's open to public participation.
Oe (Cyrillic) The Cyrillic letter Oe or Barred O (Ө, ө) is an O with a horizontal line through it. Despite having a similar shape, it is neither related to the letter Theta (Θ,θ) of the Greek alphabet nor the archaic Cyrillic letter Fita ().
Oebalus In Greek mythology, King Oebalus or Oibalos (Greek: Οίβαλος) of Sparta, son of Cynortas, was the second husband of Gorgophone. With her, he fathered Tyndareus, Icarius and Hippocoon (or, according to Apollodorus, he fathered them with the Naiad Nymph Batia).
Oeconomicus (Xenophon) The Oeconomicus by Xenophon is a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture. It is one of the earliest works on economics and a significant source for the social and intellectual history of classic Athens.
Oeconomus Oeconomus, Ĺ“conomus or oikonomos (Greek , from oiko- 'house' and -nomos 'rule, law') was an Ancient Greek word meaning 'manager' or 'housekeeper'. In Byzantine times the term was used as a title of a manager or treasurer of an organisation.
Oecophylla smaragdina Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include weaver ant, green tree ant and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in Asia and Australasia. They make nests in trees made of leaves stitched together using the silk produced by their larvae.
Oecumene Oecumene is a term originally adopted within Christianity, where it has been suggested there is a single believing community amongst the various different Christian denominations, particularly between the Roman Catholic Church and the denominations which arose by the Great Schism of 1054 and from the European Reformation. The most important document in the Christian oecumene the declaration of the Commission for Belief and Church Order of the World Council of Churches concerning Baptism, the Eucharist and Holy Office, also known as the Lima Report, which appeared in 1982.
Oecussi-Ambeno Oecussi-Ambeno (Tetum:Oe-Kusi Ambenu, also variously Ocussi, Oekussi, Oekusi, Okusi, OĂ©-Cusse) is a district of East Timor. It is a coastal exclave in the western part of the island of Timor, separated from the rest of East Timor by West Timor, which is part of the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, and which surrounds Oecussi-Ambeno in all directions except the north, where it borders the Savu Sea.
Oedemeridae The family Oedemeridae is a cosmopolitan group of beetles commonly known as false blister beetles, though some recent authors have coined the name pollen-feeding beetles. There are some 30 genera in the family, mostly associated with rotting wood as larvae, though adults are quite common on flowers.
Oedipe (opera) Oedipe is an opera in four acts by the Romanian composer George Enescu, based on the mythological tale of Oedipus, and set to a libretto by Edmond Fleg. Enescu worked on the composition for fifteen yearsbefore its Paris] premiere in [[1936.
Oedipus Oedipus was the mythical king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. Greek poets explain the name (Greek , transliterated directly as Oidipous) as meaning "swollen-foot.
Oedipus (horse) Oedipus (1946-1978) was an American Champion Thoroughbred steeplechase racehorse. Sired by 1929's flat racing Horse of the Year Blue Larkspur and foaled in Kentucky, Oedipus was purchased by Lillian Bostwick Phipps and was conditioned by future Hall of Fame trainer Pete Bostwick.
Oedipus at Colonus Oedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus Coloneus, and in Greek Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC.
Oedipus complex The Oedipus complex or Oedipus conflict is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud to explain the origin of certain neuroses in childhood. It is defined as a male child's unconscious desire for the exclusive love of his mother.
Oedipus the King Oedipus the King (Greek , "Oedipus Tyrannos"), also known as Oedipus Rex, is a Greek tragedy, written by Sophocles and first performed in 428 BC. The play was the second of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be produced, but comes first in the internal chronology of the plays, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone.
Oedo Oedo is an island of Geoje city, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. It is a marine western-style botanical garden in Hallyeo-Haesang National Park, built by Lee Chang-ho and his wife when they settled on the island in 1969.
Oedogoniales Oedogoniales is an order of filamentous freshwater green algae. The order is well-defined and has several unique features, including asexual reproduction with zoospores that possess a subapical ring of many short flagella, which are known as stephanokont.
Oehler system The Oehler system is a system for clarinet keys developed by Oskar Oehler. Based on the MĂĽller system clarinet, the system adds tone holes to correct intonation and acoustic deficiencies, notably of the forked notes (B and F).
Oeiras, PiauĂ­ Oeiras is a municipality in the Microregion of Picos of the Brazilian State of PiauĂ­. According to the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e EstatĂ­stica (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), its population was 34,538 inhabitants in 2003.
Oeko-tex standard The Oeko-Tex Standard 100 was developed in 1992 and is a universally recognized testing and certification system which reliably informs the consumer that textile products bearing this label are free from concentrations of harmful substances which could pose a risk to his health without having to compromise on functionality, care, properties or style.
Oelfke The name Oelfke, name of farmers from the "Hohe Heidmark" of the administrative district Soltau-Fallingbostel in Lower-Saxony, Germany traces back to Ol, Oel=Adel (nobility), Od=Besitz (property), like Oleff, Oloff, Odulleib, that's the one who has the life in sense of "being inheritor", simply expressed that's the one who owns the inheritance of farmer. The farmyard's name "Oelfkenhof" in Oerbke is
Oeneus In Greek mythology, Oeneus, or Oineus was a Calydonian king, son of Porthaon, husband of Althaea and father of Deianira, Meleager and Melanippe. He introduced winemaking to Aetolia, which he learned from Dionysus.
Oeno Island Oeno Island or Holiday Island is a coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory, located 143 km northwest of Pitcairn Island, at . Oeno Island measures about 5 km in diameter, including the central lagoon, with a total area exceeding 20 km².
Oenology Oenology (BrE) or enology (AmE) is the science and study of all aspects of wine and winemaking from the grape harvest to bottle. An expert in the field of oenology is known as an oenologist, but can also be a winemaker.
Oenomaus In Greek mythology, King Oenomaus of Pisa was the son of Ares by Harpina (daughter of Phliasian Asopus) and father of Hippodamia. By some accounts Sterope is considered to be his mother by Ares, instead of Harpina.
Oenomel Oenomel, derived from the Greek words oinos (wine) and meli (honey), is an ancient Greek beverage consisting of honey and unfermented grape juice. It is sometimes used as a folk remedy for gout and certain nervous disorders.
Oenopides (crater) Oenopides is a lunar crater that is located near the northwest limb of the Moon, and so appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth. This formation lies due south of the prominent Pythagoras crater, and is attached to the southwest rim of 'Babbage E'.
Oenothera speciosa Pink primrose (Oenothera speciosa), also known as Pinkladies and Showy evening primrose, is a herbaceous perennial wildflower native to the southeastern United States and Mexico. The species name speciosa means "showy".
Oenotrians The Oenotrians (the tribe of Oenotrus) were an ancient Italic people who settled a territory of remarkably large dimensions, including the region of Basilicata and the northern part of the region of Calabria in southern Italy.
Oenus (river) Oenus (Greek: ), also called KelefĂ­na, the modern OinoĂşs, rises in the watershed of Mt. Parnon, and, after flowing in a general southwesterly direction, falls into the Eurotas, at the distance of little more than a mile from Sparta.
Oera Linda The Oera Linda Book is a controversial Frisian manuscript covering historical, mythological, and religious themes that first came to light in the 19th century. Though modern linguistic analysis has tended to favour the hypothesis that the book is a hoax (Breuker, 1980), the overall themes presented within the text have led a few people in each generation to consider it genuine.
Oeridian agricultural gods In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Oeridian agricultural gods are five particular deities usually worshiped as a group: Velnius (weather, the oldest child and leader of the group), Telchur (winter, the north wind), Atroa (spring the east wind), Sotillion (summer, the south wind), and Wenta (autumn, the west wind). They are also known as the Velaeri.
Oeridians In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Oeridians (sometimes called the "Oerid"), are a race of humans living in the Flanaess. Having once inhabited the plains of Central Oerik, they moved into what is now known as Ull starting 1,235 years ago; the Oeridians were driven eastward into the Flanaess by orcs and goblins used as mercenaries by the Baklunish Empire and the Suel Imperium.
Oerlikon balzers coating Oerlikon Balzers is a supplier of PVD coatings which improves the performance and service lives of metallic precision components. These coating are very hard and very thin, reduce friction and improve hardness of components.
Oerlikon Contraves Oerlikon is a Swiss anti-aircraft artillery manufacturer made famous by its Oerlikon 20 mm autocannon design of 1914, used in the First and Second World Wars, and still in use today. Copies and derivatives of these designs were used by the Germans, French, British and Japanese weapon manufacturers.
Oerlikon FF The FF were a series of 20 mm autocannon introduced by Oerlikon in the late 1920s. The name comes from the German term flĂĽgelfest, meaning wing mounted, fixed, being one of the first 20 mm guns to be small and light enough to fit into a fighter aircraft's wing.
Oerol Festival Oerol is the name of a famous Dutch summer festival that takes place in June. For 10 days, the Dutch island of Terschelling is transformed into one huge theatre for more than 60 performances that take place from sunup to sundown.
Oerth Oerth is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings – that of Greyhawk – is located. Oerth has an axial tilt of 30 degrees, which results in larger polar caps and would have caused shorter summers in temperate areas but for wizardly and divine magic shifting weather patterns to be more favorable to the populace (at least the god-fearing folks).
Oesho Oesho was a deity represented on ancient Kushan coins, and apparently one of the titular deity of the ancient Kushans. The deity is often though to be identical with Shiva (I'sha), and "Oesho" would just be the pronunciation of Shiva's name in the Bactrian language of the Kushans.
Oesling The Oesling or Ösling (Luxembourgish: Eisléck) is a region covering the northern part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, within the greater Ardennes area that also covers parts of Belgium and France. The Oesling covers 32% of the territory of Luxembourg; to the south of the Oesling lies the Gutland, which covers the remaining 68% of the Grand Duchy.
Oeste Oeste, (Portuguese for "West") is a NUTS 3 sub-region (Portuguese: sub-regiĂŁo) of the NUTS 2 region of Portugal named Centro. The sub-region is coterminous with the Urban Community (comunidade urbana, or ComUrb) of the same name.
Oesterreichische Nationalbank The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) is the central bank of the Republic of Austria and, as such, an integral part of both the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the Eurozone. In the public interest, the OeNB contributes to monetary and economic policy decision-making in Austria and in the Euro area.
Oestriminis In Latin poetry Oestreminis ("Extreme West") was a name given to the territory of what is today modern Portugal, comparable to Finis terrae, the "end of the earth" from a Mediterranean perspective. Its inhabitants were named Oestrimni from their location.
Oestrinae Oestrinae is a subfamily of Oestridae which includes parasitic flies attacking a range of different hosts. There are 9 genera in this subfamily, which typically spend their larval stage in the skin or soft tissues of mammals, including deer or sheep (such species are often considered pests).
Oeyo Oeyo (於江与) or Satoko (達子) or Sūgen'in (崇源院: 1573–September 15, 1626) was the wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (the second Tokugawa shogun of Japan) and the mother of his successor Iemitsu. Oeyo was the third and youngest daughter of the sengoku daimyo Azai Nagamasa.
OE API OEAPI: Outlook Express Application Programming Interface is the name of a commercial library from Nektra that exports a Software Development Kit (SDK) to develop plugins in Microsoft Outlook Express. Unlike Microsoft Outlook there is not official Microsoft-supported API for Outlook Express.
OECD Anti-Bribery Convention The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (officially OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions) is a convention of the OECD aimed at reducing corruption in developing countries by sanctioning bribery in international business transactions carried out by companies based in the Convention member countries. Its goal is to create a truly level playing field in today's international business environment.
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are annex to the OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises. They are recommendations providing voluntary principles and standards for responsible business conduct for multinational enterprises operating in or from countries adhered to the Declaration.
Of counsel Of counsel is often the title of an attorney employed by a law firm or organization to assist in litigation but who is usually not an associate or partner. The title is often bestowed on part-time or retired attorneys.
Of Education The tractate Of Education was published in 1644, first appearing anonymously as a single eight-page quarto sheet (Ainsworth 6). Presented as a letter written in response to a request from the Puritan educational reformer Samuel Hartlib, it represents John Milton's most comprehensive statement on educational reform (Viswanathan 352), and gives voice to his views “concerning the best and noblest way of education” (Milton 63).
Of Exorcisms and Certain Supplications Of Exorcisms and Certain Supplications (Latin: De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam) is an 84-page document of the Roman Catholic church describing the rite of exorcism. It was revised on 26 January 1998, making it the last liturgical book to be revised following the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965.
Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy, is a political non-fiction book written by rock musician Krist Novoselic, who was the bassist for Nirvana, and published in September of 2004. The book details how politicians need to return to grassroots movements and clean up politics in general.
Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by William Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece, and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated in a signed inscription of a copy of the book (dated August 28, 1957) that belonged to the renowned collector Ingle Barr: This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention.
Of Human Hearts Of Human Hearts is a 1938 film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, Ann Rutherford, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, and Sterling Holloway.
Of Chaos and Eternal Night Of Chaos and Eternal Night is a melodic death metal EP released in 1995 by the Swedish band Dark Tranquillity. It includes a re-recorded version of the Skydancer track; Alone, with Mikael Stanne's vocals instead of Anders Friden's.
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck, first published in 1937, which tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The title of the novel is an allusion to a poem by Robert Burns.
Of Mice and Men in popular culture Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck, which tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The story is set on a ranch a few miles from Soledad in the Salinas Valley.
Of Pandas and People Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins (ISBN 0-914513-40-0) is a controversial 1989 (2nd edition 1993) school-level textbook written by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon and published by the Texas-based Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE).
Of Plymouth Plantation Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Colony they founded. Written between 1620 and 1647, the journal describes the story of the Pilgrims from 1608, when they settled in the Netherlands, through the 1620 Mayflower voyage, until the year 1647.
Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre - The Broken Heart of Man is an album by English band Current 93. Although musically one of Current 93's gentlest albums it is also lyrically very dark, prominently featuring the motif of blood, menstrual and otherwise.
Of the form In mathematics, the phrase "of the form" indicates that a mathematical object, or (more frequently) a collection of objects, follows a certain pattern of expression. It is frequently used to reduce the formality of mathematical proofs.
Of the Standard of Taste Of the Standard of Taste, a 1757 essay by philosopher David Hume, was a seminal essay on aesthetics that used as its main innovation an approach focusing on the subject (the viewer, the reader) rather than the object (the painting, the book). This was revolutionary at its time, following as it did a vast number of attempts by philosophers to define beauty, all of which were destined for relative failure given the abstract nature of the term, and the manifold and varying manifestations of beauty in art and nature.
Ofagbe Ofagbe ("Ofa kugbe") is a town about 10 miles north of Ozoro, the headquarter of the Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Legends have it that the town was established by three families who migrated from various points in the then Benin Kingdom to settle and call the town "home.
Ofaqim Ofaqim (אופקים; unofficially also spelled Ofakim) is a city in the Southern District of Israel in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 24,000.
Ofcom Ofcom is a regulator for communication industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established in the enabling device, the Office of Communications Act 2002 but received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003].
Off book Off book is a theater/acting term meaning that the actor no longer needs the script to rehearse a play; the material is now memorized. Conversely on-book means the actor still requires the script in order to rehearse the play.
Off Beat Cinema Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout North America late at night and features "the Good, the Bad, the Foreign..." but mostly cult movies like Night of the Living Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and even more art house fare like The Third Man in a format not unlike the Creature Double Feature of the 1970s and 1980s.
Off Centre Off Centre was an American television comedy created by Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Danny Zuker. Heavily promoted as "from the guys who brought you American Pie", the show was centered around the lives of two friends, British stud Euan Pierce (played by Sean Maguire) and play-it-safe American Mike Platt (played by Eddie Kaye Thomas), after they move into the posh Hadley Building on New York's Centre Street.
Off Kilter Off Kilter is a fast paced, progressive, Celtic-rock band that blends many different styles of music into one undefinable sound. Consisting of five members from ethnically diverse backgrounds, Off Kilter brings a new twist to Celtic music.
Off Limits Off Limits is a 1988 film set during the Vietnam War starring Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines and directed by Christopher Crowe. The name of the film was changed to Saigon when it was released throughout the rest of the world.
Off Page Optimisation Off page optimisation (off-page SEO) are strategies for search engine optimization that are done off the pages of a website to maximize its performance in the search engines for target keywords related to the page content. Examples of off page optimization include linking, and placing keywords within link anchor text.
Off road park An Off-Road Vehicle Park is an area of land that may be accessed by all terrain vehicles such as 4x4 Vehicles including Jeeps, Hummers, Chevrolet Blazers, Ford Broncos, Pickup Trucks, ATVs, and many other types of off-road vehicles.
Off spin Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his fingers to spin the ball from a right-handed batsman's off side to the leg side (that is, towards the right-handed batsman, or away from a left-handed batsman). This contrasts with leg spin, in which the ball spins from leg to off and which is bowled with a very different action.
Off the ball Off the ball (or OTB) is a term used in football in England, usually associated with a players movement when not in possession of the football. It can also be used for incidents that happen not involving the ball, like a fight or a late challenge.
Off the derech Sociologically, "off the derech" (literally, "off the path") is a term used by Orthodox Jews to describe someone who has intentionally stopped practicing frumkeit. The phrase is often applied to rebellious teenagers.
Off the Map (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Off The Map is a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert video released in 2001, two years after the release of their seventh studio album, Californication. The video runs as a full concert but is in fact edited to include parts of many concerts performed as part of their Californication tour, from 1999 through to sometime in 2000.
Off the Record (Jesse McCartney album) Off The Record (2005) is a mini-album by American pop singer Jesse McCartney. It consists of five live acoustic tracks recorded for Stripped- Raw and Real and a remix of single "She's No You" featuring rapper Fabolous and produced by Chad Hugo of The Neptunes.
Off the Road Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg (New York, Morrow, 1990) is a book by Carolyn Cassady, wife of Neal Cassady. It tells her side of events famously chronicled in the works of Jack Kerouac.
Off the Shelf Festival The Off the Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading takes place in Sheffield, United Kingdom during the last 2 weeks of October each year. It is organised by the Performing and Community Arts Section of Sheffield City Council with support from Arts Council England and several commercial companies.
Off The Chart Radio Off The Chart Radio is an Internet radio station based in the United Kingdom which calls itself "The Internet's Number 1 Hit Music Station". The main output of the station is Top 40 music from the UK for a young audience.
Off The Record (TV series) Off The Record is a Canadian sports television program hosted by Michael Landsberg on TSN. Commonly abbreviated as OTR, the show is a talk/debate style program, modeled after Politically Incorrect and features Michael Landsberg with up to four guests.
Off-balance-sheet Off balance sheet usually means an asset or debt or financing activity not on the company's balance sheet. It could involve at lease or a separate subsidiary or a contingent liability such as a letter of credit.
Off-budget enterprise Off-budget enterprises (OBEs, or special districts) are a type of government in the United States, the UK and the EU. OBEs use public funds to further public (as in education) or private (as in economic revitalization) interests.
Off-case arguments Off-case arguments, sometimes called On-Plan arguments are policy debate arguments presented by the negative in the 1NC. They are generally flowed on a separate sheet of paper each and read before case arguments.
Off-color humor The term off-color humor (also known as dirty jokes or blue humor) is used to describe various jokes, prose, poems, black comedy and skits that deal with topics that are considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morals in a culture. Most commonly labelled as "off-color" are acts concerned with sex, a particular racial group, or gender.
Off-course navigation Off course navigation is used to account for unknown variables in course to allow you to find your destination. Principally used prior to the introduction of electronic navigation it allows one to find one's destination despite the unknown factors - generally - the accuracy of the course steered or the drift to one side introduced by current or wind.
Off-Centre Television Off-Centre Television is a television show produced in Vancouver, BC, and aired in Washington State on KVOS channel 12. Taking its roots from shows like Saturday Night Live and the Tom Green Show, Off-Centre Television is a mish mash of variety, celebrity interviews and sketch comedy.
Off-Centred rhyme An off-centered rhyme is a rhyme scheme characterized by placing rhyming words or syllables in unexpected places in a given line. This is sometimes called a misplaced-rhyme scheme, or a Spoken Word rhyme style.
Off-hook tone The off-hook tone (also receiver off-hook tone or off-hook warning) is a telephony signal used to alert a person that he has accidentally left the telephone off-hook for an extended period, effectively disabling the telephone line. See permanent signal.

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