Netflix‚ Inc.‚ (NASDAQ: NFLX) is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States‚ Canada[5]‚ and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos‚ California. It started its subscription-based digital distributionservice in 1999[6] and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100‚000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25‚ 2007‚ Netflix announced the billionth
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Handbook on good practices Since the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) was set up in 2007‚ one of its major priorities has been the promotion of diversity in and through sport. To this end‚ the Council of Europe has developed a pan-European programme involving a variety of stakeholders from public authorities and the world of sport. All have an important role to play in reversing the discriminatory trends currently observed in sport and in promoting sport as a means of fostering
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Affirmative action From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For the history and implementation of affirmative action in the U.S.‚ see Affirmative action in the United States. Affirmative action‚ known as positive discrimination in the United Kingdom‚ refers to policies that take factors including "race‚ color‚ religion‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ or national origin"[1] into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment‚ education
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------------------------------------------------- Suleiman the Magnificent From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman the Lawgiver سلطان سليمان اول | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Islamic Caliph Amir al-Mu ’minin | | Suleyman I attributed to school of Titian c.1530 | | Period | Growth of the Ottoman Empire | Coronation | 30 September 1520 | Full Name | Suleiman I | Born | 6 November 1494 | Birthplace |
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Human trafficking in the Philippines Human trafficking and the prostitution of children is a significant issue in the Philippines‚ often controlled by organized crime syndicates. Human Trafficking in the Philippines is a crime against humanity. In an effort to deal with the problem‚ the Philippines passed R.A. 9208‚ the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003‚ a penal law against human trafficking‚ sex tourism‚ sex slavery and child prostitution. Enforcement is reported to be inconsistent.
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Culture Turkish . The English word "Turkish" comes from the ancient Turkish word Türk ‚ which can be used as an adjective or a proper noun. In Turkish‚ the name of the country is Türkiye . After decades of nationalistic indoctrination‚ most citizens self-identify as Turks regardless of ethnic background. Some of the major non-Turkish ethnic groups—the Kurds in the southeast‚ the Arabs in the south‚ the Laz of the western Black Sea coast‚ and the Georgians in the northeast and northwest—express double
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The basic causes of World War II were nationalistic tensions‚ unresolved issues‚ and resentments resulting from the First World War and the interwar period in Europe‚ plus the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The culmination of events that led to the outbreak of war are generally understood to be the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the 1937 invasion of the Republic of China by the Empire of Japan. These military aggressions were the decisions made by authoritarian ruling
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Clash of Civilizations THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS Samuel P. Huntington Foreign Affairs. Summer 1993‚ v72‚ n3‚ p22(28) from the Academic Index (database on UTCAT system) COPYRIGHT Council on Foreign Relations Inc. 1993 THE NEXT PATTERN OF CONFLICT World politics is entering a new phase‚ and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be--the end of history‚ the return of traditional rivalries between nation states‚ and the decline of the nation state from the conflicting
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Psychology in the Schools‚ Vol. 47(4)‚ 2010 Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) C 2010 Wiley Periodicals‚ Inc. DOI: 10.1002/pits.20473 THE EXPERIENCE OF BULLYING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS CHRISTINA ATHANASIADES AND VASSILIKI DELIYANNI-KOUIMTZIS School of Psychology‚ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The present study was designed to qualitatively investigate secondary students’ interpretations and experiences of bullying (and victimization) in
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TRAD E UNIONS TRADE UNIONS WHAT IS A TRADE UNION? A trade union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union‚ through its leadership‚ bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour with employers. This may include the negotiation of wages‚ work rules‚ complaint procedures‚ rules governing hiring‚ firing and promotion of workers‚ benefits‚ workplace safety and policies
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