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I don't have an issue with Thou popping up in place of You. But instead nearly everytime I type the word "and" it replaces it with "abd"
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There wasn't much joy among Sotheby's Canada managers and employees at the conclusion of the company's spring sale of important Canadian art Thursday in Toronto.
Sotheby's had 198 lots up for live bidding at the Royal Ontario Museum, carrying a total pre-sale estimate of between $4.7-million and $6.9-million. By the time Hugh Hildesley, the New York-based chair of the company's Canadian advisory committee, hammered down the last lot of the evening, he'd managed to sell only about 135 of them for a total of slightly more than $4.02-million. And this included the commission that Sotheby's charges on the hammer price of each successful bid (20 per cent on the first $50,000 of the hammer, 15 per cent on the balance). Last year at this time, with 30 per cent fewer lots for sale than it had Thursday, Sotheby's grossed $7.4-million, including the buyer's premium.
Clearly something was out of joint. Or more aptly some things, namely paintings by some of the biggest brand names in Canadian art - Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, Jean-Paul Riopelle - that were expected to realize, at the very least, a total of more than $1.3-million but ended up being declared unsold. These included a large, untitled Riopelle abstract from 1954 that, pre-sale, was carrying an estimate of $800,000-$1.2-million yet failed to elicit a single bid from the floor, and a recently discovered Tom Thomson oil sketch, Early Snow, Algonquin Park, that saw bidding sputter to a halt at the $425,000 mark, $25,000 shy of the low-end of its pre-sale estimate. The Harris, Abstract Painting #98 (1937), in the meantime, flamed out at $75,000 - exactly one-half the high-end of its pre-sale estimate.
Of course, it wasn't all gloom and doom. A petite café scene by James W. Morrice, completed in 1913, sold for $152,000, almost double its high-end estimate of $70,000. Similarly, a 1973 Christopher Pratt, French Door, fetched $140,500, an auction record for the veteran artist and well above its $60,000-$80,000 pre-sale estimate, while Fair Weather Signals, a lyrical oil-and-pencil sketch by Vancouver's B.C. Binning (1909-1976), sold for $106,000, well over its pre-sale estimated value of $30,000-$40,000.
By and large, though, the works that did sell sold within and often just below Sotheby's estimates, with only a couple (or three) handfuls earning more than their high-end estimates. Still, Sotheby's Canada president David Silcox wasn't acknowledging that the good times that have defined the resale market for Canadian art in the last six or seven years had ended. "I think there's quite a lot of good material still to come," he said in an interview. "These things do come and go depending on the four Ds - death, debt, divorce and downsizing. There's always an uneven flow of things in the course of one year."
Winnipeg-Toronto art dealer Shaun Mayberry said he felt "the quality of the work overall was quite irregular" and the rather listless, often sporadic bidding reflected this. "If we compare it to previous auctions over the last several years, we've seen an unparalleled number of high-level works come to the market and they've sucked up a lot of money from collectors. Collectors now are becoming a little more discerning. What we saw tonight were second-tier and third-tier level pieces . . . and there's less interest in those things."
Both Mayberry and Silcox were quick to stress that the lacklustre performance of the Thomson sketch doesn't indicate a precipitous softening of the market for works by the progenitor of the Group of Seven. (In November 2009, a Harris sketch sold for a record $2.75-million.) Early Snow, Algonquin Park "is an amazing work," Silcox observed. "But I think it doesn't have the flashy presence of, say, a Thomson of a flaming sunset with a pine tree in front of it. It doesn't have, as they say in the real estate business, curb appeal, or at least the curb appeal a lot of Thomson collectors look for."
Mayberry agreed, calling it more a "museum painting" than something a private collector might covet. In addition, it was painted in 1914 whereas collectors tend to be most keen on works Thomson did in the 12 to 18 months before his death in 1917. "You're still going to see certain Thomson paintings sell for $900,000, $1-million, $1.2-million, $1.5-million, even more . .. [but]it's probably going to have to be from the 1916-1917 period."


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I made a table topper for my youngest son and his wife. The reindeer pattern is made from their shoe and both hands. Someone, (I don't remember her name now) had posted a picture of the one she made for her daughter a bit ago. This one is from my youngest son, his wife and their baby daughter. I will have one for my older son and his family but I have to wait until his wife and daughter comes up next week to give me their shoes and hand prints. They don't know why I have asked them for the prints (or outlines I should say) I hope they will like it.
Oh my older son will not be coming up for Christmas. He is leaving Sunday the 12th for Afghanistan and will be there until end of April to the beginning of May. I would appreciate prayers for out troops. Thank you.
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1. Re: Connecting CM14 to P6 EPPM R8.2rjebb Feb 1, 2013 3:53 PM (in response to rjebb)I have now resolved this.
Firstly, the documentation in the media kit on the edelivery cloud is out of date - you need to grab the latest version from the Oracle site which covers several things that were omitted from the original version.
Second, you need to get hold of Document ID914068.1 from the Oracle KB, which specifically covers linking P6 and CM together and covers it in way more detail than the manual, with screenshots and sample URLs
At this point things still didn't work. I then did the following:
* Set up a user in P6 with the same uid/pwd as the user I was using to log into CM, and granted them rights to a bunch of projects/resources
* Altered the name of the JDBC datasource in WebLogic that pointed to the P6 database to exactly match the actual name of the database used by my P6 installation, since it was not "PMDB" as shown in the docs
I am not sure whether the last item is strictly necessary, but at this point I could map a P6 project to a project in CM, display the schedule etc.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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How do you keep all your stories from sounding the same, while at the same time staying true to your voice, your 'brand', your style?
I'm wrestling with a couple plot lines for a new WIP, and I'm seeing similar themes and threads occuring that have shown up in previous works. I don't want all my books to be the same.
Time to think outside the box (what a cliche) and come up with something different.
Where do you find your plot inspiration? How do you make your stories sound different from each other?
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This is SUCH a good question. I've found the same thing, but I'm hoping y'all didn't notice =P But I think that happens to everyone. Or take, for example, CBA as a whole: early widowhood runs rampant in CBA because divorce is almost always a no-no (at least in romance).ReplyDelete
Wish I had a good solution, but I'm still too new to have a method.
Well, Georgiana is right - widowhood runs rampant because of no divorce. That stinks to me because I've been divorced. It would be nice to read how other Christians (even Christian characters) handle divorce. Sorry CBA, divorce happens. Even to Christians. Sorry for the rant. One of my pet peeves.ReplyDelete
Erica, I rely on my character's personality to make the story different--if that makes sense: Is my heroine a Diane Lane type or is she a Britney Spears type? Is hero like Paul Newman or a Chevy Chase? Each of these people are different personalities and would act/react in different ways. So the book will have a different tone/voice. Some of my characters have more 'energy' about them. In one of my books, my heroine was a Jacqueline Smith. I love her--think she's beautiful. She has a quiet voice and personality. Can I say that was the most boring book I've ever written--and it all had to do with her quiet personality. She had no pizazz. I had to totally rewrite. Now she's a Stephanie Zimbalist. LOL This probably doesn't make any sense at all.
Having rewritten the same book over a couple of times - and then gone back and rewritten so the endings were different - I'm not sure I have an answer.ReplyDelete
My personal opinion is that people worry too much about having a certain style or brand. If your story is good -- and I've read a lot of yours to know they are - they I don't think you need to worry about them all being the same "type."
While I might chose to read a particular author because they write mysteries or historicals and I'm hoping to have a repeat experience of a book I enjoyed, it doesn't bother me if the book doesn't follow the same format as their last book.
And I can certainly echo Jess's comment about wanting to read other topics of interest to CBA readers that are considered no-no's. You don't read much about Catholics either. :)
Maybe your books explore the same themes--but as long as you can do it in a creative way your readers will keep coming back for more.
My take and I still have 7 minutes left on the library pc. :)
That's true, G, about CBA as a whole. Sometimes we are forced to use certain themes because the outside-the-box themes aren't accepted!!!ReplyDelete
Can we just stick with that excuse? hehe.
I've realized now that two of my last three stories have teetered around a bad relationship between hero and father relationship! Which is strange since that's never been on purpose, its snuck in there during the synopsis plotting stage. Interesting! (and BTW I have a fantastic relationship with my dad so that's not it. lol)


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The nation's increasing interest in the Arctic led a Coast Guard admiral, several bureaucrats and a gaggle of journalists to Barrow Tuesday.
They came aboard a Coast Guard Hercules C-130 that's specially equipped to play a role in analyzing climate change: inlet tubes on the aircraft allow equipment on board to measure greenhouse gases high above Alaska.
With melting sea ice allowing increased access to the Arctic Ocean, a global race is on to unlock the region's potential, with countries such as Russia, China and the United States jockeying for position.
Ship traffic in the Arctic is on the rise. Oil companies are looking to drill the ocean floor, tourists are seeking new adventures, and shipping companies are chasing a quicker route to Asia's growing consumer market.
The Coast Guard's responsibilities are growing, too.
"There used to be ice most of the year round in the areas that are now open water," said Rear Admiral Thomas Ostebo, the new head of the Coast Guard's Alaska district. "We ought to understand how the Coast Guard would respond now that that activity's happening, just like we would off the coast of Miami, just like we would off the coast of New England."
A highlight of the day trip included a drop-in visit to a search-and-rescue "tabletop" exercise headquartered in Ilisagvik College in Barrow, the nation's northernmost community with 4,200 residents.
The Coast Guard organized the exercise, which included local agencies and emergency responders.
The question: How ready is the Coast Guard to respond if, God forbid, a tourist ship goes down?
The answer: Not very.
"The Coast Guard doesn't have any publicly assigned assets (in the Arctic). None. Zero," Ostebo said.
There's no airfield to take planes. No facilities to house men. The Coast Guard owns a single, aging icebreaker that's based in Seattle and now headed to Alaska, the Healy.
"How exactly would we mitigate the damage from the mishap? How would we rescue all those people? Where would we take them?"
"If you take 100 people in a mass casualty to Barrow, then what? They obviously don't have the infrastructure to take care of that, so where would you take them for advanced medical care? How would you respond to the salvage of a vessel?"
The effort will help the Coast Guard learn what's needed, and make a case to expand its assets in the Arctic.
"This (trip) is really about education for us," said Ostebo, who'd never visited Barrow before. "Learning about the environment, understanding what the requirements are, and once we have that figured out, what are the right capabilities and where do we put them."
One of the big questions: Does the Arctic need a deepwater port? If so, where is the most "cost-effective and operationally efficient" spot to locate it?
What type of ships should the Coast Guard operate?
Answers to those questions will produce more questions, including: Who pays for what? The media were brought along in part to let the nation know about the Coast Guard's challenges in the Arctic, Ostebo said.
"There's a lot of people that think they know the Arctic and have never been there and have never really seen the challenges that we face," he said.
The tabletop exercise is a lead-in to other efforts expected to take place this summer, such as on-water drills. The Coast Guard is also thinking about creating an emergency towing system for use in the North Slope region, a massive package of towing equipment that can be launched or dropped onto a vessel to pull another ship in trouble.
The city of Unalaska created one now that's now used by the Coast Guard out of that Aleutian Island hub community. It was employed late last year to rescue the 740-foot cargo ship, Golden Seas, said David Mosley, with Coast Guard public affairs.
Before landing in Barrow for the afternoon tabletop drill, the C-130 flew down in a corkscrew pattern so a technician with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could collect data on such gases as methane and carbon dioxide.
The Coast Guard's collaborating with NOAA on the project, which is in its early phase and usually includes measurements of greenhouse gases above Prudhoe Bay and the communities of Kivalina, Barrow and Galena, said Jason Manthey, the technician.
A third effort aboard the C-130 included several officials with a multi-agency planning effort involving federal waters in Alaska, said Debora Cooper, associate regional director of resources for the National Park Service in Alaska.
The Coast Guard is leading the Coastal Marine Spacial Planning effort, a project to look at oceanic development in a comprehensive manner that allows development while protecting the environment, Cooper said.
The trip was a chance for the planners to see some of the areas they're working on. Agencies represented in that effort included the EPA, National Park Service, Bureau of Ocean Energy and Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The C-130 also flew past Barrow and out over the jumbled ice of the Arctic Ocean with its back end open for media shots.
This story is posted with permission from Alaska Newspapers Inc., which publishes six weekly community newspapers, a statewide shopper, a statewide magazine and slate of special publications that supplement its product.


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What we doMeetings Of Abertawe Centre National Trust are normally held at St Paul's Sketty Parish Centre, De La Beche Road, Sketty, Swansea, on the fourth Wednesday of the month (except for December when time and date may be modified) between October and April at 7.30 p.m.
A number of excursions occur throughout the summer months and a holiday in early autumn.
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In his report the Chairman summarised the year's activities and concluded by thanking the members of the Committee for their support and advice.
Treasurer's Report: Mr. Knight circulated his report and a copy would be attached to the official minutes. He confirmed that the accounts showed a surplus from which a donation would be made to a National Trust project. The accounts were approved unanimously.
Mr Mahmood Poptani was re-elected as independent auditor.
The Area Property Manager Mr. Alun Kersley-Evans was unable to attend the meeting.
The Officers and Committee will be: Chairman: Mr Michael Simpson.
Vice-Chairman: Mrs. Barbara Davies.
Treasurer and Membership Secretary: Mr. Roger Knight.
Annual Holiday Organiser: Mr Michael Simpson.
Secretary: Mrs. Ann Bennett.
Speakers Secretary: Ms Ann Thomas was appointed at a subsequent Committee meeting.
Committee Members:
Prof. Muriel Chamberlain.
Mrs. Anne Jackson.
Mr. William Bennett.
Ms. Ann Thomas.
Mr. Ken Owens (Functions organiser).
Mrs. Shirley Thomas.
Dr Bruce Lervy (Webmaster)
The meeting closed at 8.10 pm
After refreshments, Ms Anne Thomas set us an interesting quiz. It was won jointly by Mr & Mrs Ryland, Dr Don Williams, Mr Roger Knight and Mrs Mo Ellard, who, in accordance with our convention, received the shared equivalent of two free seats on one of the day trips – but at the price of hosting next year's quiz.
The first meeting of 2017 was held in January when Kate Elliott-Jones spoke on the war years in Swansea. Her talk was illustrated with many photographs of the devastation caused to the town by bombs..
In March Dr Bruce Lervy gave an illustrated talk on the history of Morriston.
A proposal was passed unanimously at the AGM in February 2016 and read as follows "Membership of the Abertawe Centre will be open to persons supportive of the aims of National Trust on payment of the current annual subscription to The Centre
A spring lunch was held in May at The Oxwich Beach Hotel.
June saw the first of the summer day outings with 35 members taking an outing to Packwood House
In January 2017 Dr Dan Foreman (Swansea University) spoke on: Crymlyn Burrows (A Site of Special Scientific Interest)
The Annual Holiday visited Cambridgeshire and included a visit to The National Stud at Newmarket.
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The Company retracts the combined indicated and inferred quantities and restates its current resource as follow: INDICATED AND INFERRED GOLD AND SILVER RESOURCES All Indicated Cutoff oz Au/T Tons oz Au/T oz Ag/T oz Au oz Ag 0.005 108,733,000 0.012 0.14 1,250,000 15,331,000 0.007 83,125,000 0.013 0.16 1,106,000 13,217,000 0.008 70,148,000 0.015 0.17 1,017,000 11,855,000 0.009 58,689,000 0.016 0.18 921,000 10,564,000 0.010 49,184,000 0.017 0.19 836,000 9,394,000 0.011 41,383,000 0.018 0.20 757,000 8,318,000 0.012 34,874,000 0.020 0.21 687,000 7,393,000 0.013 29,342,000 0.021 0.22 619,000 6,543,000 0.015 20,939,000 0.024 0.25 507,000 5,172,000 0.020 10,080,000 0.033 0.31 328,000 3,084,000 0.025 5,797,000 0.040 0.35 234,000 2,052,000 0.030 3,732,000 0.048 0.39 179,000 1,459,000 0.050 1,118,000 0.074 0.49 83,000 547,000 All Inferred Cutoff oz Au/T Tons oz Au/T oz Ag/T oz Au oz Ag 0.005 21,685,000 0.008 0.08 180,000 1,691,000 0.007 13,147,000 0.010 0.09 134,000 1,183,000 0.008 9,733,000 0.011 0.10 110,000 954,000 0.009 6,753,000 0.013 0.10 86,000 689,000 0.010 4,975,000 0.014 0.10 71,000 512,000 0.011 3,848,000 0.015 0.10 59,000 400,000 0.012 2,914,000 0.017 0.11 49,000 306,000 0.013 2,374,000 0.018 0.10 42,000 235,000 0.015 1,562,000 0.021 0.09 32,000 137,000 0.020 606,000 0.026 0.08 16,000 48,000 0.025 230,000 0.035 0.08 8,000 18,000 0.030 118,000 0.042 0.09 5,000 11,000 0.050 15,000 0.067 0.13 1,000 2,000 Note that all grades are in Imperial units rather than metric or both as that is the current format of report. A PowerPoint presentation on the Teras website prior to April 4th, 2014 stated: Golden Jubilee - located in Granite County, Montana. Demonstrates historical high grade gold mineralization and made mention of a historical resource. This statement is not correct and is retracted and the reference removed from website. There is no NI 43-101 compliant resource at the Golden Jubilee. The company used a source report that does not comply with NI 43-101 standards. Teras continues to focus on delivering shareholder value by developing its Cahuilla project in Imperial County, California. As of March 28th, 2014 the Company completed the planned 7 diamond core holes of its current angled drill program with respective depths of 500, 650, 600, 500, 600, 428 and 528 feet respectably. Core has been shipped and will continue to be shipped to Inspectorate Lab in Reno Nevada. The results of the drilling will be released once received. About Teras Teras is focused on developing its Cahuilla project located in Imperial County, California. The project encompasses an area of at least 3 km by 1.5 km and Teras believes that the Cahuilla project has the potential to develop into a mining operation consisting of altered and mineralized sedimentary and volcanic host rocks with numerous sheeted high-grade quartz veins. Teras filed a NI 43-101 compliant technical report with an indicated resource of 1.0 million ounces of gold and 11.9 million ounces of silver on its Cahuilla project (70 million tons at an average grade of 0.015 ounces per ton gold and 0.17 ounces per ton silver with a cut-off of 0.008 ounces per ton gold) and inferred class of 10 million tons grading 0.011 opt gold and 0.10 opt silver. Gold equivalent ounces are 1.2 million ounces in indicated class and 130,000 ounces in inferred class using a ratio of 55 silver ounces to 1 gold ounce. Dale A Vitone P. Eng., registered with the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, Alberta and Northwest Territories and a director of Teras, is the Company's nominated qualified person responsible for monitoring the supervision and quality control of the programs completed on the Company's properties. Mr. Vitone has reviewed and verified the mining scientific and technical information contained in this news release. For further project and corporate information, contact: Teras Resources Inc. Peter Leger, President (403) 262-8411 (403) 852-0644 Email: email@example.com Website: www.teras.ca Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy of accuracy of this news release. This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking information. Generally, forward-looking information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "goals", " expects" or "does not expect", "proposed", "potential", "is expected", "budgets", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. In particular, this press release contains forward-looking information regarding the diamond drilling program being conducted by the Company and the timing of results of such program; the potential of the Company's Cahuilla project to develop into a mining operation; and the Company's goals for the Cahuilla project. 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The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has referenced one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Lowndes County or the community of Davenport:
The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Davenport:
GNIS ID for Davenport: 155052
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GNIS ID for Alabama: 1779775
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State Code: 01 (Alabama)
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Place Code: 19765 (Davenport)
State & County Code: 01/085 (Alabama / Lowndes County)
State & Place Code: 01/19765 (Alabama / Davenport)
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Hello. I just recently got a new computer with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I own The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and the game will crash at certain parts, all at the beginning. I tried the regular start of the game (in a prison) and it keeps crashing. I installed a mod for alternate starts (choose one of seven starting points) and those crash in the beginning. I don't believe the mods I have should be the source of the problem, either. I have three mods installed (I erased the alternate start mod).
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Institutions for Economic and Financial Integration in Asia : Trends and Prospects
Asian economic regionalism has emerged from a bottom-up process, driven by market forces in the absence of a grand plan for regional integration. While the financial crisis of 1997–98 triggered new regional cooperation initiatives, more recently several Asian political leaders have formulated proposals for the creation of a regional economic community, suggesting the possible start of a top-down approach. Based on the results of a survey of Asia's opinion leaders conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2010, this paper discusses how Asia's institutional architecture for economic and financial integration is taking shape, suggesting the need to strengthen existing institutions that promote Asian regionalism and to create new ones. While the focus of the paper is on monetary and financial integration, the analysis also covers other integration pillars such as trade and investment, connectivity and infrastructure, and regional public goods. It suggests the need to create new institutions in support of Asian regionalism and to adopt a broad perspective in moving towards the formation of a region-wide economic community based on strong political commitment and grassroots participation.
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The newest transit line in Baltimore is expected to carry 57,000 people a day on a path from near Security Mall to Bayview Hospital. As Mike Schuh reports, a broad coalition is trying to make sure local people get jobs along the way.
Saying this is a march and not a protest, a coalition of churches, neighborhood groups and unions are 200 strong. They're walking a quarter of the distance the completed red line will run, a 14-mile path from Woodlawn to Bayview.
"Man needs a job to feed his family; woman needs a job to feed her family. If we don't do it, it's not gonna get done," said Rev. Hoffman Brown.
He says local jobs are what they need.
As the red line will run down these streets and underground through downtown Baltimore with nearly $2 billion of state money, the marchers want 50 percent to stay locally to train the red line's neighbors to work on the construction or on the line itself.
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The marble dome that surmounts the tomb is the most spectacular feature. Its height of around 35 metres (115 ft) is about the same as the length of the base, and is accentuated as it sits on a cylindrical "drum" which is roughly 7 metres (23 ft) high. Because of its shape, the dome is often called an onion dome or amrud (guava dome). The top is decorated with a lotus design, which also serves to accentuate its height. The shape of the dome is emphasised by four smaller domed chattris (kiosks) placed at its corners, which replicate the onion shape of the main dome. Their columned bases open through the roof of the tomb and provide light to the interior. Tall decorative spires (guldastas) extend from edges of base walls, and provide visual emphasis to the height of the dome. The lotus motif is repeated on both the chattris and guldastas. The dome and chattris are topped by a gilded finial, which mixes traditional Persian and Hindu decorative elements.
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My Life App Study Bible starts right at Genesis (with the intro to that book). I can get copyright info by right-clicking for "About the Text," but is it expected that there's no prefatory material in this module? Other study Bibles I have include a bit about translation theory, etc., or at least extended copyright info. I searched my library to be sure there wasn't some other accompanying module that might have that, and nothing in the read-me module, as well. But I might just be missing something.
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Located in Toowoomba, Flying Spur Motel is close to Clifford Park Racecourse and Toowoomba Base Hospital. This motel is within close proximity of Grand Central Shopping Centre and Empire Theatre.
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Four share lead in Boise, where three players make acesSeptember 20, 2007
By Chris Reimer PGA TOUR Staff
BOISE, Idaho -- Jim McGovern, Brenden Pappas, Jeff Klauk and Nicholas Thompson shot matching 8-under-par 63s Thursday for the first-round lead at the $675,000 Albertsons Boise Open presented by First Health. The 63s match the tournament record for lowest first-round score with six other players dating back to Rick Cramer's opening round in 1996.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS 18-HOLE LEADERBOARD Player Scores T1. Jim McGovern 63 -8 T1. Nicholas Thompson 63 -8 T1. Jeff Klauk 63 -8 T1. Brenden Pappas 63 -8 T5. Dustin Bray 64 -7 T5. David Hearn 64 -7 T5. D.A. Points 64 -7 T5. Ryan Hietala 64 -7 T5. Garth Mulroy 64 -7
McGovern remembers playing in the inaugural tournament in Boise in 1990. Since then, the 42-year-old has bounced between the Nationwide Tour and the PGA TOUR, winning three Nationwide Tour events and the 1993 Shell Houston Open on the PGA TOUR. McGovern began the 2007 season with a runner-up at the Movistar Panama Championship, but has only recorded one top-10 finish since.
"I still remember making the drive back then from Reno up here to Boise," McGovern said when asked about looking back to the tournament in 1990. "I'm happy to be back. Sure the circumstances could be different, but I love to compete and I enjoy this event.
"Today the golf course played beautifully. The greens played perfect. They were fast. There might be a lot of red numbers, but this course can bite you, too."
McGovern finished the 1990 event tied for 26th and pocketed $860. He's been back to Boise four other times since then, but has yet to make a cut. The 63 is McGovern's lowest round on the Nationwide Tour since shooting 63 at the 2002 Permian Baisin Open.
Thompson's year started out well, too. A win at the HSBC New Zealand PGA Championship and six top-10 finishes have Thompson entering this week at No. 6 on the money list. With $265,055 earned this season, Thompson has guaranteed that he will land inside The 25 and earn his 2008 PGA TOUR card. That might be enough to keep most players happy. Thompson, however, remains unsatisfied.
"My goal since the start of the year has been to finish the season No. 1 on the money list," the 24-year-old Georgia Tech graduate said. "Roland Thatcher (the Tour's leading money winner) is playing great right now, but that doesn't mean I should change my goals. Everyone who plays out here should want to be No. 1. Nothing has changed for me."
Klauk's bogey-free round included a stretch of 5 under on holes 1-6. Klauk, who has been a member of the Nationwide Tour since 2002, has never held or shared the first-round lead. Thursday was his lowest round since the 2002 BMW Charity Pro-Am at the Cliffs. The Jacksonville, Fla., native has made six consecutive cuts and ranks No. 38 on the money list.
"I felt that I had a round like this coming. I have been working very hard recently and it is great to see it pay off," said the Florida Southern graduate. "Seeing the 63s on the leaderboard from the morning, I knew that there was a low round out there. I just had to play well."
Pappas has twice held or shared the first-round lead in a Nationwide Tour event. The last time came at this year's Chitimacha Louisiana Open, where he shot an opening-round 60. Pappas finished the event tied for 12th. Pappas is playing well as of late, with his best finish of the season coming at last week's Oregon Classic presented by Kendall Auto Group where the South African finished tied for fourth. The 37-year-old winner of the 2006 Rex Hospital Open ranks No. 31 on the money list.
"They call me the bubble boy," Pappas said. "Seems like every year either out here or out on the PGA TOUR, I'm right on the bubble. This year, I've stopped caring about what number I am on the money list and I'm just going to go out and swing from the hip."
Boise resident Ryan Hietala birdied three of his last four holes to shot a 7-under-par 64 and finish the round one shot off the lead. Hietala had a familiar face as a caddie this week with his wife, Jennifer, on his golf bag.
Hietala said that the comfort of having Jennifer as his caddie as well as sleeping in his own bed helped him play well. The 6-foot-5, 235-pound graduate of the University of Texas-El Paso said that playing in front of a crowd that included many friends and family did not add any pressure.
"Having everyone out there relaxes me. I know my friends and family are here. I know Jennifer is on the bag and there is no added pressure. It makes me calm," Hietala said. "I know a lot of players don't play well in their hometown event, but I seem to do better when playing at home."
Hawaiian phenom 16-year-old Tadd Fujikawa, playing in his first Nationwide Tour event and his third tournament since tournament professional this summer, became the youngest player in Nationwide Tour history to record a hole-in-one. At 16 years, 8 months and 11 days, Fujikawa recorded an ace on the 133-yard 17th hole using a pitching wedge.
Playing as an amateur earlier this year at the Sony Open, Fujikawa became the youngest player in PGA TOUR history to make a cut since 1957. Fujikawa finished the event tied for 20th. He finished Thursday's round 2 under par and tied for 59th.
First-Round News & Notes: Ricky Barnes also recorded a hole-in-one on the 17th hole. With Barnes, Fujikawa and David Hearn all acing the 17th hole on Thursday, it marks the first time that three players recorded holes-in-one on the same hole in the same round in Nationwide Tour history. Incidentally, this was Hearn's sixth hole-in-one of his life, all made with his 9-iron.... There were 14 bogey-free rounds on Thursday. ... The most players to share the first-round lead. ... Thompson finished the round tied for first in greens in regulation after hitting 17 of 18 greens. ... The first-round leader has won this tournament 3 of 17 times. ... The first-round scoring average of 69.519 is lowest first-round average in the tournament's 18-year history, and the fourth-lowest overall.


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UN reviews conduct of peacekeeping operations
The United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has appointed an international panel to make recommendations about the conduct of future UN peacekeeping operations.
The appointment follows a report released last year which was critical of the failure of the UN to prevent the genocide in Rwanda and the massacre of Muslim civilians at Srebrenica in Bosnia.
The panel will be chaired by the former peace envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, and is expected to report back to the UN this summer.
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YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta, facing global outrage for spurning international assistance, appeared to relent Monday, saying it would allow its Asian neighbors to oversee the distribution of foreign relief to cyclone survivors.
It also approved a visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and prepared to host a meeting of aid donors, while claiming that losses from the May 2-3 disaster exceeded $10 billion.
A three-day official period of mourning was to begin today for the dead, which numbered more than 78,000, according to official figures. Another 56,000 people are missing.
Conditions, especially in the hard-hit low-lying Irrawaddy Delta, remain precarious for survivors.
Heavy rain fell again Monday, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, noting that such weather can have the benefit of providing clean water for those able to catch the downpour with plastic sheeting.
"However, the rain for many others simply adds to the misery as they look forward to their 18th night in often wretched conditions," the agency said. "In addition, access to already relatively inaccessible locations is set to remain very difficult."
The organization remained concerned about the distribution of relief supplies, saying "Reports indicate that in most of the bigger affected townships, basic relief and food is available but much less so in the more remote areas."
It added that there seemed to be problems even at some of the temporary relief camps set up by the government: "While significant relief is getting through, there are indications of mounting frustration among many displaced communities."
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Ottawa's Keshia Chante isn't your average 18 year old.
The up-and-coming R&B singer, with a sophomore disc, 2U, in stores on Tuesday, appears to have both professional and personal ambition way beyond her years.
"I give J.Lo credit for her business side," said Chante, who has been living in Toronto for the last two-and-a-half years with her mother. (Her parents separated when she was six).
"I love the fact that she's involved in so many different ventures. And I'm very much like that, where I'm so interested in so many things. I'm very creative and I'm easily inspired."
To that end, Chante wants to have a clothing line, her own perfume, an acting career -- her debut will be in an episode of the new CBC TV series, Da Kink In My Hair to be aired next spring -- and even her own label one day.
Believe it or not, the recent high school graduate (from Fletcher's Meadow in Brampton), is a student of life.
"Every single day I'm in my Blackberry typing in the five lessons of the day that I've learned," said Chante, who also wants to write a book. "It's just something that I've been doing just since I was really young. And it can be something really, really simple. And I have to learn something or else there's just no point. I'm very into progression."
First up, hopefully, is an American breakthrough.
Chante, who recently opened for Ciara at the Guvernment, spent the summer touring the U.S. on both the Teen People and Seventeen mall tours to set up the release of 2U, which will come out early next year south of the border.
"In America, there's a lot of work that goes into it," she said. "I'm starting all over again. It's pretty much doing my groundwork. Because it's so much more of a bigger market, everything that I did here, is like triple."
And she's not a bit daunted by it.
"It's very, very exciting," said Chante, who is already an established star in Canada, having won her first Juno award last year for best R&B recording following the release of her 2004 self-titled debut, which spawned five Top 10 singles. In fact, it was the third single, Bad Boy, which garnered the attention of BET in the U.S. and led to labels calling to record and release her second record.
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"Normally, a website with relatively high traffic will receive around 800 requests per second," said Basefarm CEO Sara Murby Forste in a statement.
"During the attack on Adeprimo, we were registering around 400,000 requests per second," she added.
News websites affiliated with the Stampen media group, which uses Adeprimo's media platform, were among those hardest hit. These include main Gothenburg newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, whose site was inaccessible from early morning until lunchtime on Thursday.
Basefarm said it did not receive any warning or threat prior to the attack. The company is preparing to submit a report to the police and is continuing an internal investigation into the attack.
"We know from the nature of the attack that they possess a lot of knowledge. This took place in a planned manner, outside Europe, and with serious force," said Basefarm's technical manager Stefan Månsby.
"There is much to suggest that the traffic came from Asia and the United States. It could well be Asian, bouncing via the US."
A second attack later in the day knocked out the website of the Swedish police, which was down for a couple of hours hours in the late afternoon.
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"The amount of traffic was exactly the same in both attacks and we too witnessed traffic from the United States. But the saboteur could be anywhere in the world," she added.
In general, it is more common for attacks to come from abroad, said Alverås.
"Asia is over-represented, but a large proportion also come from the former Soviet Union. But it's hard to judge where the people - there's usually more than one - are located."
Thursday's attacks are to be investigated by the police's IT crimes unit. Ann-Marie Alverås said the purpose of the attacks remained a mystery.
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My particular understanding of the dynamics and partial success of the Egyptian uprising draws from understandings of the anti-globalization movement, the meaning and presence of informal political networks in the Middle East, and the influence of neoliberalism on Arab economies and polities. I would argue that we need to situate the Egyptian uprising within the context of globalization and social movement theory which grew out of the anti-globalization movement in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This perspective highlights the importance of neoliberalism, networks, coalitions, and young people to understand the Arab uprisings and mass protest in late 2010 and early 2011, although other contingent factors were also critical to the diffusion and success of protest in some countries. While my focus here today is on the Egyptian uprising, my comments are also relevant to some of the other successful and failed rebellions across the region.
Transnational collective action has been described by social movement scholars Donatella della Porta and Sidney Tarrow as "the most dramatic change we see in the world of contentious politics."[1] This is a change not only in frequency of interactions across borders but also in the complexity of campaigns, the density and design of networks, their adaptability to rapidly changing events, the fluidity of alliances that bring together a wide range of issues, actors, and perspectives, and the boldness, assertiveness, and creativity with which demands for profound, systemic change are put forth. Tarrow and Della Porta link this trend toward increased transnational activism with the global spread of neoliberalism which created greater opportunities for "contacts among groups, associations, networks, organizations, and individuals with very different histories, forms of action, and social and cultural backgrounds" as they confronted similar economic predicaments.[2]
In Egypt and across the Arab world neoliberalism has redrawn the economic and social landscape. The Arab Spring is as much a reaction to these policies as it is to the regimes and leaders who instituted them. While protests broke out in Tunisia originally, the super-targets of these uprisings and master frames ["the fall of the regime" and "dignity, freedom and social justice"] were widely diffused across the region, since neoliberalism and the global recession provoked shared political and economic grievances such as high youth unemployment (particularly among the educated), a weakened social safety net and rising consumer prices, externally oriented and dependent sectors of the economy, sharper divisions between rich and poor, fewer 'good' jobs, and increased residential segregation and walled enclaves protecting the rich and regime cronies.[3]
Patronage politics and authoritarian repression over decades, constraints on the media, political participation, and the rule of law had fueled the political opposition to President Mubarak and many other regional leaders. The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in December 2010 resonated across the region, not only due to the particular circumstances of his abuse and humiliation at the hands of the authorities, but because of previous organizing efforts that had protested human rights violations and torture. Many people throughout the region experience the everyday abuse and arbitrary power of the police and security forces and thus could immediately sympathize with the desperation and anger of Bouazizi. It was the crack that broke the damn of the authoritarian age in the Middle East. Young people, in particular, were at the forefront of these protests in Tunisia and elsewhere because they have been disproportionately disadvantaged by neoliberalism. They were economically excluded by high unemployment and the lack of 'good jobs' in the formal sector after structural adjustment and privatization programs; they were politically excluded by authoritarianism and state repression; and they were socially excluded by the limbo of "waithood" or prolonged adolescence as marriage, and entry into adulthood, was delayed, in part due to greater educational achievements and the high cost of marriage.[4]
The groundswell of protest in Tunisia, enabled by its labor movement, young people, and a cross section of opposition groups and citizens, unseated Ben Ali's regime and it was this success that galvanized those in Egypt to break the "fear barrier" of protest and rebellion. As James Scott has argued, "[s]ome grievances are so deep-rooted and shared by a very large group that when there is a possibility for some political action -- a change in the conditions of repression – the revolt spreads like 'wildfire' looking like a very organized, coordinated uprising, when it fact, it was not."[5]
Della Porta et. al. argue that a new net-like, complex, intricate model of interaction brought together associations and smaller affinity groups to protest neoliberal globalization and like their colleagues in Europe and Latin America people across the Arab world are also reclaiming and occupying public space while demanding "dignity, freedom, and social justice."[6] The "movement of movements" in European and Latin American social movements had network features which allowed for greater heterogeneity and solidarity across weak ties. This same flexible organizational approach allows particular groups in the Arab world (such as secular youth, the Muslim Brothers, the women's movement, citizen journalists and activist bloggers, the left, political artists, workers, liberals, professional syndicates, the labor movement, political parties, the human rights movement) to maintain their separate identities even as they jointly search for common meaning and strengthen a coalition large enough to engineer the "fall of the regime."
In addition to the important regional effects of Mohammed Bouazizi's death and the fall of the Tunisian government, I would argue that the mass protests which emerged in Egypt were not only due to the previous organizing of civil society, the April 6th Coalition, the National Association for Change, Islamist, or labor activists, but to the ubiquitous presence of informal networks. Informal networks, which are a product of decades of political exclusion and the strong communal and family bonds of Egyptian society, are used to negotiate demands and fulfill needs across the bureaucracy, neighborhood, markets and workplaces (for housing, jobs, education, etc.), religious institutions, private charitable associations, public institutions, and formal political institutions. Their ubiquity allowed innovative and entrepreneurial young activists, who had experimented with leaderless coalitions during the Kifaya movement in 2004-2006 and had grown tired of diva-like leaders in political parties and other organizations, to adopt the non-hierarchical, flexible, inclusive, heterogeneous organizational 'movement of movement' model when new political opportunities opened up, or were created by their own activism and exogenous factors. While many analysts have discussed the key strategic and normative commitment of activists in 2011 to non-violence, which may or may not have been influenced by theorists such as Gene Sharp and global training abroad, they also need to pay more attention to the affinity between the "movement of movement's" reticular, net-like model of organization and informal networks across Egyptian society. Both this network organizational strategy and ideological commitment to consensual and non-hierarchical leaderless politics made it easier to bridge differences among various unrelated constituencies and organizations when new opportunities arose. Finally, activists from Facebook groups such as "We are all Khaled Said" and the April 6th Coalition, contributed a new technology which is itself a networked model, transforming faceless individuals into virtual activists and politically engaged supporters. This new technology reduced the costs of collective action and aggregated collective action virtually before it was strong enough to move out into the streets and reclaim public space and political power.
The organizational strategy of protest in many of the Arab uprisings will pose problems as unity fades and electoral arrangements hopefully are created to replace some of these regimes. The diversity of the "movement of movements" and a commitment to coalitions and leaderless, coalition politics is obviously much harder to sustain in the long run. Yet, despite the huge problems ahead, "publics" have emerged in the Arab world that have greater possibility to sustain themselves while attracting electoral and representative constituencies to solve public goods questions.
[1] Donatella della Porta and Sidney G. Tarrow, eds., Transnational Protest and Global Activism (People, Passions, and Power) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 6.
[2] Della Porta, Donatella et. al. 2006. Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, p. 28.
[3] Informal sector workers typically do not receive minimum wage protection, health insurance, pensions, sick leave, paid vacations, maternity benefits, or trade union protection. Reductions in the formal public sector work force have not been offset by the creation of private sector formal jobs, but by informal private sector jobs. Only 19 percent of men (18 to 49) who ever worked obtained 'good' jobs, as defined by the ILO. Binzel & Assaad, "Pathways to Marriage in Egypt," Middle East Youth Initiative, Brookings Institute, September 2008; p.18
[4]In many Middle Eastern countries, there are more young people than ever before due to a demographic youth bulge. While economists speak of the phenomenon of "wait employment" or the pattern of young people enduring temporary employment in order to find a high status 'permanent' position, I have coined the term "waithood" to understand they ways in which young people endure years of waiting while they accumulate the considerable socially proscribed costs of marriage. Young people, particularly urban young men who marry in their late twenties and thirties, are in this period of "waithood" or prolonged adolescent limbo, as they largely live at home and are financially dependent on their parents. In this liminal, complex world, many face unemployment (particularly women), the informalization of the labor force, and underemployment as well as conservative social constraints on intimacy, since sexuality is 'housed' within marriage. For further detail see "The Economic Imperatives of Marriage: Emerging Practices and Identities among Youth in the Middle East." Middle East Youth Initiative Working Paper. Wolfensohn Center for Development, The Brookings Institution, No. 6, September, 2007. Washington, D.C.
[5] James C. Scott. Domination and the Arts of Resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990, p. 224
[6] Della Porta et. al. 2006, p. 22.
Diane Singerman is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, School of Public Affairs at American University (in Washington, DC). She received her BA, MA, and PhD from Princeton University and did graduate work at the American University in Cairo, living in Egypt for several years throughout her career. She is interested in comparative politics, gender and politics in Egypt and the Middle East, informal politics, political participation, urban studies, globalization, and social movements. Her recent research interests include Personal Status Law reform, the cost of marriage, poverty, and the problems which young people face in the Middle East, and urban politics in the era of globalization. She is the co-founder and co-director of Middle East Studies@ American University.
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