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Post-Cold War United Nations

kofi annan, secretary-general 1997 2006 after cold war, un saw radical expansion in peacekeeping duties, taking on more missions in ten years had in previous 4 decades. between 1988 , 2000, number of adopted security council resolutions more doubled, , peacekeeping budget increased more tenfold. un negotiated end salvadoran civil war, launched successful peacekeeping mission in namibia, , oversaw democratic elections in post-apartheid south africa , post-khmer rouge cambodia. in 1991, un authorized us-led coalition repulsed iraqi invasion of kuwait. brian urquhart, under-secretary-general 1971 1985, later described hopes raised these successes false renaissance organization, given more troubled missions followed. though un charter had been written prevent aggression 1 nation against another, in 1990s un faced number of simultaneous, serious crises within nations such somalia, haiti, mozambique, , former yugoslavia. un mission in somalia viewed failure after withdrawal following casua

Employment Craven

in 2008 there 26,591 employed; 22% self-employed. in 2010 each full time equivalent (fte) employee contributed £40,311 district’s economy, representing increase in productivity of 21.9% since 1998; annual increase of 1.8%. value of output per capita (estimated £19,703) has increased 32% since 1998.

Round summaries 1972 U.S. Open (golf)

1 round summaries 1.1 first round 1.2 second round 1.3 third round 1.4 final round 1.4.1 scorecard round summaries first round thursday, june 15, 1972 source: second round friday, june 16, 1972 source: third round saturday, june 17, 1972 source: final round sunday, june 18, 1972 in high winds, nicklaus par on front nine; after double-bogey @ tenth, arnold palmer , bruce crampton trailed 2 shots. palmer had chance tie nicklaus @ 14th, missed 10-footer (3 m) birdie. down 1 stroke, palmer bogeyed next 2 holes , finished final-round 76, 4 shots behind. with three-shot lead on crampton on tee of par-3 17th, nicklaus hit 1 of famous shots. 1-iron went directly @ pin, bounced once, struck flagstick, , settled inches hole tap-in birdie. lead @ 4 strokes on final tee, bogeyed 74 (+2) , win. source: scorecard cumulative tournament scores, relative par source:

Ellipses Wikipedia:Manual of Style

mos:ellipsis mos:dotdotdot to indicate omission of material quoted text, use ellipsis (plural ellipses): set of 3 unspaced dots: ... (the pre-composed ellipsis character (…), or 3 dots separated spaces (. . .), not recommended.) use ellipsis if material omitted in course of quotation, unless square brackets used gloss quotation (see § brackets , parentheses, above, , points below). put space on each side of ellipsis ( france, germany, ... , belgium ), except there should no space between ellipsis and a quotation mark directly following ellipsis ( france, germany, , belgium ... ). any (round, square, curly, etc.) bracket, ellipsis on inside ( france, germany (but not berlin, munich, ...), , belgium ). any terminal punctuation, colon, semicolon, or comma, directly following ellipsis ( going france ...? ). place terminal punctuation after ellipsis if textually important (as case exclamation marks , question marks , periods). use non-breaking spaces ( ) needed prevent improper lin

Judaism Religion in North America

^ global religious landscape: jews . pewforum. retrieved 2012-12-18.  ^ barry a. kosmin , ariela keysar (2009). american religious identification survey (aris) 2008 (pdf). hartford, connecticut, usa: trinity college. retrieved 2009-04-01.  ^ cia fact book . cia wololrld fact book. 2002. retrieved 2007-12-30.  ^ religious composition of u.s (pdf). u.s. religious landscape survey. pew forum on religion & public life. 2007. retrieved 2010-11-29.  ^ jewish population of canada - 2011 national household survey [2015 reports added] | berman jewish databank . www.jewishdatabank.org. retrieved 2017-02-15. 

Geography Hallein

salzach valley hallein, view untersberg massif the town located in tennengau region south of city of salzburg, stretching along salzach river in shadow of untersberg massif, close border germany in west. population of 20,300, hallein second largest town of salzburg state. municipal area comprises cadastral communities of adnet ii, au, burgfried, dürrnberg, gamp, gries, hallein proper, oberalm ii, , taxach. hallein can reached suburban s-bahn railway city of salzburg. has access 10 tauern autobahn (european route e55) salzburg villach.

Biography Howard Carter (evangelist)

1 biography 1.1 1968-1979 1.2 1980-1992 1.3 1990-1991 biography carter born in auckland. parents claude , enid carter. after gaining initial teaching qualification worked teacher @ district high school, reporoa, new zealand, 1960-1961. following baptist minister @ manurewa (new zealand) baptist church, 1962-1968. 1968-1979 in late 1960s , 1970s decade influential in charismatic movement s growth in mainstream churches in australia , new zealand, regularly organising holy spirit teaching seminars in sydney. teaching centred on themes of christ s authority, victorious living, , charismatic gifts. majority of teachings distributed through logos/restore magazine , short books. carter charismatic leader, became involved number of fundamentalist authoritarian protestant religious groups , churches in australia , south pacific. in mid-1970s instrumental in introducing shepherding movement , associated discipleship fort lauderdale 5 of christian growth ministries u.s.a. (cgm) oceania. te

References Regionalliga West/Südwest

sources deutschlands fußball in zahlen [an annual publication tables , results bundesliga verbandsliga/landesliga] (in german). dsfs.  kicker almanach [the yearbook on german football bundesliga oberliga, since 1937] (in german). kicker sports magazine.  die deutsche liga-chronik 1945–2005 [history of german football 1945 2005 in tables] (in german). dsfs. 2006. 

References 370th Air Expeditionary Wing

bibliography  this article incorporates public domain material air force historical research agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/. clay, steven e. (2010). u.s. army order of battle, 1919–1941 (pdf). 3, services: air service, engineers, , special troops, 1919–41. leavenworth, ks: combat studies institute press. isbn 9780984190140. retrieved 27 november 2012.  craven, wesley f; cate, james l, eds. (1955). army air forces in world war ii. vol. vi, men & planes. chicago, illinois: university of chicago press. lccn 48-3657.  maurer, maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. air force combat units of world war ii (pdf) (reprint ed.). washington, dc: office of air force history. isbn 0-912799-02-1. lccn 61060979.  maurer, maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. combat squadrons of air force, world war ii (pdf) (reprint ed.). washington, dc: office of air force history. isbn 0-405-12194-6. lccn 70605402. oclc 72556.  mueller, robert (1989). air force bases, vol. i, active air force bases within united states of am

Hardware vs. software Transactional memory

hardware transactional memory using read , write bits the abstraction of atomicity in transactional memory requires hardware mechanism detect conflicts , undo changes made shared data. hardware transactional memory systems may comprise modifications in processors, cache , bus protocol support transactions. speculative values in transaction must buffered , remain unseen other threads until commit time. large buffers used store speculative values while avoiding write propagation through underlying cache coherence protocol. traditionally, buffers have been implemented using different structures within memory hierarchy such store queues or caches. buffers further away processor, such l2 cache, can hold more speculative values (up few megabytes). optimal size of buffer still under debate due limited use of transactions in commercial programs. in cache implementation, cache lines augmented read , write bits. when hardware controller receives request, controller uses these bits detect conflic

The Spanish Civil War Spanish literature

the spanish civil war, lasting july 1936 april 1939, had devastating impact on trajectory of spanish letters. in july 1936, spain @ height of silver age. every major writer of 3 major generations—1898, 1914, , 1927—was still alive , productive. of 1914 , 1927 @ height or reaching height of literary powers. several recognized among western civilization s talented , influential writers. april 1939, miguel de unamuno, antonio machado, , federico garcía lorca, among others, dead. small handful of remaining writers had fled exile, dispersed across length of american continent, never enjoy close associations of conferences, tertulias, , theater premiers had united them in pre-war madrid. among handful of civil war poets , writers, miguel hernández stands out. young disciple , associate of generation of 1898, hernández, lorca, became martyr republican cause time post-war prisoner, fighting , writing soldier poet throughout war , languishing , dying in 1 of franco s prisons in 1942. among impo

Operations Gojo Industries

1 operations 1.1 ownership 1.2 products 1.3 headquarters operations gojo headquarters gojo, headquartered in akron, ohio, operates worldwide, offices in united kingdom, france, australia, japan, , brazil. operates number of manufacturing facilities in ohio , across north america, in latin america, south america, europe, , asia. gojo s main manufacturing , distribution facilities based @ lippman campus in cuyahoga falls, ohio. ownership gojo private, family-owned company. in 1946, gojo founded jerome jerry lippman , goldie lippman. today, joseph kanfer runs uncle jerry , aunt goldie s company, along other family members. kanfer s eldest daughter, marcella kanfer rolnick, vice chairwoman of gojo s board. marcella kanfer rolnick runs lippman kanfer family foundation focused on jewish philanthropy , sister organization lippman kanfer foundation living torah, along other family members. products gojo manufactures , markets skin health , hygiene solutions away-from-home settings. products

Adaptations to dry conditions Drought tolerance

drought tolerant plants typically make use of either c4 carbon fixation or crassulacean acid metabolism (cam) fix carbon during photosynthesis. both improvements on more common more basal c3 pathway in more energy efficient. cam particularly arid conditions because carbon dioxide can taken @ night, allowing stomata stay closed during heat of day , reducing water loss. many adaptations dry conditions structural, including following: adaptations of stomata reduce water loss, such reduced numbers or waxy surfaces. water storage in succulent above-ground parts or water-filled tubers. adaptations in root system increase water absorption. trichomes (small hairs) on leaves absorb atmospheric water. ^ botany online: photosynthesis - c3, c4 , cam. regulation of activity archived july 17, 2007, @ wayback machine.

Inbreeding and outcrossing White tiger

a captive white tiger because of extreme rarity of white tiger allele in wild, breeding pool limited small number of white tigers in captivity. according kailash sankhala, last white tiger ever seen in wild shot in 1958. today there large number of white tigers in captivity. white amur tiger may have been born @ center hill , has given rise strain of white amur tigers. man named robert baudy realized tigers had white genes when tiger sold marwell zoo in england developed white spots, , bred them accordingly. lowry park zoo in tampa bay has 4 of these white amur tigers, descended robert baudy s stock. it has been possible expand white-gene pool outcrossing white tigers unrelated orange tigers , using cubs produce more white tigers. white tigers ranjit, bharat, priya , bhim outcrossed, in instances more 1 tiger. bharat bred unrelated orange tiger named jack san francisco zoo , had orange daughter named kanchana. bharat , priya bred unrelated orange tiger knoxville zoo, , ranjit bred tige

Last months with the Indian National Army Death of Subhas Chandra Bose

map of central burma showing route taken subhas chandra bose , indian national army (ina) group of 500 rangoon moulmein. group traveled in japanese military convoy until reached river sittang. after crossing river, walked remaining 80 miles. @ moulmein, bose, party, , ina group of 500, boarded japanese trains on death railway (which had been constructed earlier british, australian, , dutch prisoners of war) arrive in bangkok in first week of may 1945. during last week of april 1945, subhas chandra bose along senior indian national army (ina) officers, several hundred enlisted ina men, , hundred women ina s rani of jhansi regiment left rangoon road moulmein in burma. accompanied lieutenant general saburo isoda, head of japanese-ina liaison organization hikari kikan, japanese military convoy able reach right bank of sittang river, albeit slowly. (see map 1.) however, few vehicles able cross river because of american strafing runs. bose , party walked remaining 80 miles (130 km) moulmein

Electrical and Electronic Engineering List of engineering journals and magazines

1 electrical , electronic engineering 1.1 heat transfer,fluid flow , energy , energy transfer 1.2 solid mechanics 1.3 robotics electrical , electronic engineering edn ee times electronic design ieee spectrum ieee wireless communications new electronics radioelectronics , communications systems energy-safety , energy-economy heat transfer,fluid flow , energy , energy transfer energy & environment international journal numerical methods in fluids journal of fluid mechanics solid mechanics international journal of fracture robotics international journal of robotics research

Properties and applications Paraboloid

hyperbolic paraboloid the hyperbolic paraboloid doubly ruled surface: contains 2 families of mutually skew lines. lines in each family parallel common plane, not each other. hence hyperbolic paraboloid conoid. these properties characterize hyperbolic paraboloids , used in 1 of oldest definitions of hyperbolic paraboloids: hyperbolic paraboloid surface may generated moving line parallel fixed plane , crosses 2 fixed skew lines. property makes easy realize hyperbolic paraboloid concrete, , explains frequent use in modern architecture. the sold fried snack food pringles potato chips resemble truncated hyperbolic paraboloid. distinctive shape of these chips allows them stacked in sturdy tubular containers, fulfilling design goal break less other types of chip. examples in architecture st. mary s cathedral, tokyo cathedral of saint mary of assumption, san francisco, california saddledome in calgary, alberta, canada london velopark dogra hall, indian institute of technology delhi in new delh

2012 Euro Cup EU Cup

the 2012 event held in edinburgh, scotland on saturday 22 september 2012. 16 national men s teams competed including: croatia, ireland, england, italy, spain, wales, france, scotland, germany, denmark, austria, finland, sweden, iceland, czech republic , norway (first participation). 2 women s teams, ireland , european crusaders, competed in women s match. ireland defeated denmark in final 1 point.

History Kodaikanal

the earliest residents of kodaikanal palaiyar tribal people. earliest specific references kodaikanal , palani hills found in tamil sangam literature of common era. modern kodaikanal established american christian missionaries , british bureaucrats in 1845, refuge high temperatures , tropical diseases of plains. in 20th century few elite indians came realise value of enchanting hill station , started relocating here. tourism has been impacted industrial pollution issues including closure of mercury factory owned unilever s indian subsidiary hindustan unilever after evidence of widespread mercury pollution. date no proper clean-up operation has been mounted. issue gained prominence in 2015 when kodaikanal won t , rap music mercury pollution in region went viral globally getting more million views in 4 days.

Science and technology Decay

1 science , technology 1.1 biology 1.2 physics 1.3 mathematics 1.4 psychology , sociology science , technology bit decay, in computing software decay, in computing distance decay, in geography decay time (fall time), in electronics biology decomposition of organic matter tooth decay (dental caries), in dentistry mitochondrial decay, in genetics physics orbital decay, process of prolonged reduction in height of satellite s orbit particle decay radioactive decay optical decay, in quantum physics mathematics exponential decay psychology , sociology decay theory, in psychology , memory social decay (decadence), in sociology urban decay, in sociology

Notable events List of earthquakes in 1968

1 notable events 1.1 january 1.2 february 1.3 march 1.4 april 1.5 may 1.6 june 1.7 july 1.8 august 1.9 september 1.10 october 1.11 november 1.12 december notable events january magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck southern outskirts of managua, nicaragua on january 4 @ depth of 5.0 km. although modest magnitude, there property damage in region of $2 million (1968 rate) reported. magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck atacama region, chile on january 6 @ depth of 30.0 km. magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off east coast of taiwan on january 13 @ depth of 35.0 km. magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck sicily, italy on january 15 @ depth of 10.0 km. 216 people killed , 563 injured. extensive destruction reported. property damage costs $320 million (1968 rate). magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck solomon islands on january 19 @ depth of 27.5 km. magnitude 5.1 aftershock struck sicily, italy on january 25 @ depth of 33.0 km. 8 people killed , further 55 injured. damage reported. magnitude 6.8 earthquake str

Music video Price Tag

jessie j marionette in music video. the music video directed emil nava , premiered on 30 january 2011. video begins closing on giant teddy bear missing eye , arm, accompanied musical box-rendering of johann strauss ii s blue danube, before zooming out show child version of jessie j sitting next it, gets , walks around bear, turning full-sized self. jessie j shown standing , holding out hands, , lyrics suggest, coconut man , moonhead appear on outstretched hands (this reference 2 individuals co-wrote song her: dr. luke coconut man , kelly moonhead in reference large head) , pointing herself (referring herself pea because of small head). video goes jessie j in lap of large teddy bear , shows various scenes of jessie j holding items relate lyrics, including huge price tag , pointing left , right. chorus begins, jessie j shown dancing under money tree dollar bills covering branches. scene of jessie j shown of oversized ballerina in jewelry box. jessie j says words video hoes , scene of we

Shortest vector problem .28SVP.29 Lattice problem

this illustration of shortest vector problem (basis vectors in blue, shortest vector in red). in svp, basis of vector space v , norm n (often l) given lattice l , 1 must find shortest non-zero vector in v, measured n, in l. in other words, algorithm should output non-zero vector v such n ( v ) = λ ( l ) {\displaystyle n(v)=\lambda (l)} . in γ {\displaystyle \gamma } -approximation version svp γ {\displaystyle {\text{svp}}_{\gamma }} , 1 must find non-zero lattice vector of length @ γ ⋅ λ ( l ) {\displaystyle \gamma \cdot \lambda (l)} given γ ≥ 1 {\displaystyle \gamma \geq 1} . hardness results the exact version of probl

Overview Plan of Saint Gall

a copy of plan because plan not correspond place built, every aspect of plan disputed modern scholars. debates continue on things such system of measurement used; whether scale single scale entire plan or varied different elements; if plan copy lost prototype or original; if reflective of single individual s ideas, or of monastic council. despite unknowns, has been learned medieval life plan. absence of heating in dining hall, instance, may not have been oversight meant discourage excessive enjoyment of meals. in quarters 120–150 monks, guests, , visitors, ratio of toilet seats better modern hygienic codes prescribe. the dedication the plan dedicated gozbertus, abbot of st gall 816–36. text reads [as translated horn english] for thee, sweetest son gozbertus, have drawn briefly annotated copy of layout of monastic buildings, may exercise ingenuity , recognize devotion, whereby trust not find me slow satisfy wishes. not imagine have undertaken task supposing stand in need of our instruct

State Legislature New York state elections, 2012

1 state legislature 1.1 state senate 1.1.1 open seats 1.1.2 notable races 1.2 state assembly 1.2.1 march 20 special elections 1.2.2 open seats 1.2.3 notable races state legislature on june 24, 2011, new york s legislature legalized same-sex marriage marriage equality act. conservative party of new york stated withdraw support candidate voted in favor of bill. new york s electoral fusion, republican candidates rely on endorsement of conservative party. senators roy mcdonald, james alesi, mark grisanti, , stephen saland each voted in favor of marriage equality act, , endorsed conservative party. carl paladino, 2010 republican gubernatorial nominee, announced financially primary candidates against both grisanti , saland, assemblywoman janet duprey, supported act. sen. alesi opted retire rather face primary challenge, sen. mcdonald lost republican primary kathy marchione, sen. saland won primary, lost general election democrat terry gipson margin of approximately 2,000 votes when primary c

History The Hart Dynasty

1 history 1.1 florida championship wrestling (2007–2009) 1.2 ecw (2008–2009) 1.3 last unified tag team champions (2009–2010) 1.4 dissolution (2010) history florida championship wrestling (2007–2009) the hart dynasty (from left right): natalya, david hart smith, , tyson kidd. in 2007, world wrestling entertainment (wwe) launched new development territory, florida championship wrestling (fcw). harry smith, nattie neidhart, , tj wilson moved new farm territory, aligned , formed next/new generation hart foundation (also known new hart foundation) , later joined teddy hart , ted dibiase jr.. @ fcw s debut show on june 26, smith won 21-man battle royal become promotion s first southern heavyweight champion. plans bring stable wwe s main roster made teddy hart released development contract in october. eventually, dibiase, neidhart, , smith, after losing southern heavyweight championship, called main roster, albeit on separate shows, dibiase , smith (using name dh smith) sent raw , neidhart sm