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4 unusual facts about Ops


Brian Eddy

After the closure of Midway's pinball division in 1999, Eddy moved to Midway's video game division, where he worked on Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, and several games in the Mortal Kombat franchise.

Minicomic Co-ops

The group was created by Carl Gafford as an entity for trading and promoting small press comics and fanzines.

While each of these groups has its own distinctive character, they all follow the basic co-op format that was established by Carl Gafford decades ago.

Regia

The East Room contained a sanctuary of Ops Consiva, so sacred that only the pontifex maximus and the Vestal Virgins were allowed to enter it.


48th Operations Group

The HH-60G Pavehawk Helo is used in CSAR, SAR and now, in place of the retiring MH-53 PAVELOW fleet, spec-OPS infiltration and exfiltration.

Carlos Quentin

Quentin was selected to his second All-Star Game as a reserve after posting an .852 OPS in the first half.

Conflict: Denied Ops

Denied Ops is based around two CIA operatives, each having his own weapon and style: a sniper named Lincoln Graves who uses an SR-25 with an undermounted M26 MASS, and a machine gun operator named Reggie Lang who uses an M249 PARA with an undermounted M320 grenade launcher.

Craig Kyle

Chris Yost and Kyle co-wrote the revamped X-Force with Clayton Crain on pencils; the cast featured Wolverine, Warpath, Wolfsbane, and X-23 as black ops agents on assassination missions per the orders of Cyclops.

Davis Campus Cooperatives

Davis Campus Co-ops (DCC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide low-cost cooperative housing for students attending University of California, Davis.

FLORAKO

At least one of these Command, Control, and Communications (C3) facilities is always connected to the Air Defense & Direction Center (the ADDC or air ops center) at Dübendorf and fully operational on-line on a 24/7 basis, controlling Swiss airspace.

Gaiji Keisatsu

After the September 11, 2001 attacks on American soil, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department creates a secret anti-terrorist division within the Public Security Bureau in order to tackles crime, espionage and terrorism cases to preserve Japan's national security by doing black ops work to locate and apprehend spies and terrorist suspects.

Health insurance cooperative

Howard Dean and other Democrats have criticized abandoning the idea of a federally run, statewide, public option in favor of co-ops, questioning whether the co-ops would have enough negotiating power to compete with private health insurers.

Prominent economists such as 2008 Nobel Economics Laureate Paul Krugman and Robert Reich have also questioned co-ops' ability to become large enough to reduce health care costs significantly.

IS4C

IS4C or Integrated Systems for Co-ops is a free web-based point of sale software for retail stores initially developed by Tak Tang for the Wedge Community Co-op in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Larissa Ione

Code Word Storm (May 11, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7624-3843-3) in The Mammoth Book of Special Ops Romance anthology with Penny McCall, Rinda Elliot, Laura Griffin, Charlotte Mede, Shannon K. Butcher, Rachel Caine, Marliss Melton, Charlene Teglia, Michele Albert, Cheyenne McCray, Gina Robinson, Shiloh Walker, Jordan Summers, E.C. Sheedy, Caitlyn Nicholas, Liz Muir, Nicola Marsh, Gennita Low, and Debra Webb.

Mercenary for Justice

CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham (Luke Goss) and Black Ops organiser Anthony Chapel (Roger Guenveur Smith) hire John Seeger (Steven Seagal) and his crew for a mission in the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa.

Michael Westen

He wears expensive suits (during one episode he reveals the label showing the suit to be Armani, and always wears the same pair of Oliver Peoples sunglasses, which he at one points states to have retrieved from an Algerian special ops soldier that he tangled with who "didn't need them anymore."

Naval Ops: Commander

In the opening cutscene, a World War II-era destroyer similar to its predecessor, Naval Ops: Warship Gunner.

Office of Public Safety

The head of the OPS, Byron Engle, sent Los Angeles Police Department officers to Venezuela in 1962 to train local police officers and assist them in repression against the Armed Forces of National Liberation (AFNL).

Offshore Power Systems

When President Jimmy Carter placed a moratorium on nuclear power plant construction, OPS began laying off employees.

Oprichnik

Author W. E. B. Griffin's novel Black Ops claims as a plot point that all subsequent Russian secret police agencies such as the SVR are descendants of the Oprichniki.

OPS5

The OPS (said to be short for "Official Production System") family was developed in the late 1970s by Charles Forgy while at Carnegie Mellon University.

Phil Ross

While the NCAA does not presently keep official records of On-base plus slugging (OPS), by comparison, Ross's 1.607 OPS is 13% higher than the 1.422 of Major League Baseball single season OPS record holder Barry Bonds (set in 2004).

Project Cybersyn

The Ops room used Tulip chairs similar to those used in the American science fiction TV programme Star Trek, though according to the designers, the style was not influenced by sci-fi movies.

RadRails

During that time, the three developers worked as co-ops from the Rochester Institute of Technology at IBM Rational in Raleigh, NC.

Roland Suso Richter

Richter's latest project was the television movie Mogadischu, an account of the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977 and its subsequent storming by the GSG 9 special ops unit.

Ross T. Dwyer

During the Korean War, he served as Executive officer (XO) of the USMC Advisory Groupto the 1st Korean Marine Corps Regiment; As S-3, 5th Marines; Assistant G-3 (Ops) and Assistant G-3 (Plans) for the 1st Marine Division.

Selenops

Named after the moon goddess Selene, and Greek -ops "eye", because of the moon-like form of the eyes.

Shirane-class destroyer

The Shirane class are also the first Japanese ships to be fitted with 3D radars, the NEC OPS-12.

Student housing cooperative

Many of the co-ops are members of The Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada and NASCO.

The Visible Ops Handbook

The Visible Ops Handbook outlines how successful technology companies like Etsy, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon.com, Twitter and Google transformed their ITIL practices to implement effective change control.

Two Hats

At a CIA debrief, Brody reports that he was taken to see Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban), who is now in the U.S. He goes on to state that Nazir made a veiled threat to Brody's family, and that Nazir is planning an attack on a homecoming event hosted by Vice President Walden (Jamey Sheridan) where 300 special ops soldiers are to be reunited with their families.

Yorkshire Radio Network

However, both "Benny Brown's American Countdown" and "Rick Dees Weekly Top-40" programmes where bought in and played-out locally by each station, so the commercials were also played separately by the tech-ops at each individual station.

Yosvani Peraza

He was 4 for 9 with a homer and 3 runs in the event, putting him third on the Cuban squad in average, slugging, OBP and OPS behind Frederich Cepeda and Yoenis Céspedes.


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