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The GIA has been completely turned by the Government … In 1992 Smain created a special group, L ’ Escadron de la Mort ( the Squadron of Death )… The death squads organize the massacres … The FIS aren ’ t doing the massacres .’
He has published three instructional books, " The Inner Game of Music " ( Doubleday, 1986-over 250, 000 copies sold ) and " The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry " ( Broadway Books 2003 ) and ' Bringing Music to Life ' ( 2009 GIA Music ).
He has published a DVD on The Inner Game of Music ( U. of Wisconsin-Clinics on cassette ) and Bringing Music to Life ( 2009 GIA Music ).
In the case of organizations such as the GIA ( as mentioned above ), it has been used to legitimize attacks on any Muslim who is not actively fighting against their governments.
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However, after several years GIA also ceased operations, and at present there exists no Ghanaian airline providing long-haul international services.
** Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill 7 French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.
In 1996, in Roubaix, the unit neutralized a 14-terrorists group tied to the GIA, suspected of several bloody bank robberies, murders and a missed attack against a G7 meeting in Lille.
Two major Islamist guerrilla groups, Armed Islamic Group ( GIA ) and AIS, and several minor ones, were fighting the government.
They formed themselves into several armed groups, principally the Islamic Armed Movement ( MIA ), based in the mountains, and the Armed Islamic Group ( GIA ), based in the towns.
GIA offers several programs and courses online through an interactive eLearning format, and through its 12 campus locations around the world.
* 23 May-Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill seven French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.
GIA and diamond
* Gemological Institute of America ( GIA ), the main provider of education services and diamond grading reports.
GIA was also responsible for the first modern diamond grading reports, where it introduced grading methodologies for diamond color and diamond clarity.
The Ocean Dream is the only natural diamond known to the GIA to possess a blue-green hue, making it one of the rarest diamonds in the world.
GIA and grading
The GIA system included a major innovation: the introduction of 10x magnification as the standard for grading clarity.
Some diamonds with painted girdles receive lower grades in the GIA's cut grading system, for reasons explained in the GIA article Painting and Digging Out.
* The GIA began grading cut on every grading report beginning January 1, 2006 based on their comprehensive study of 20, 000 proportions with 70, 000 observations of 2, 000 diamonds.
Refers to a grading scale for diamonds in the normal color range used by internationally recognized laboratories ( GIA & IGI for example ).
GIA also designs and manufactures professional equipment for grading, identifying, and selling diamonds and colored gemstones.
GIA and reports
To minimise such differences, seven of the most respected labs, AGTA-GTL ( New York ), CISGEM ( Milano ), GAAJ-ZENHOKYO ( Tokyo ), GIA ( Carlsbad ), GIT ( Bangkok ), Gübelin ( Lucerne ) and SSEF ( Basel ), have established the Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee ( LMHC ), for the standardization of wording reports, promotion of certain analytical methods and interpretation of results.
GIA issues two types of reports, the more complete being the Diamond Grading Report ( a briefer and less expensive version is called a Diamond Dossier ).
GIA colored stone identification reports may include a comment about any treatments detected and an opinion of country of origin for ruby, sapphire, emerald and tourmaline.
The journal includes full-length feature articles, as well as reports on GIA research, abstracts of relevant articles from other journals, book reviews, and industry news from around the world.
GIA and gemology
The Gemological Institute of America, or GIA, is a nonprofit institute dedicated to research and education in the field of gemology and the jewelry arts.
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But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
The breakdown of classical structures of meaning in all realms of western culture has given rise to several generations of artists who have documented the disintegrative processes.
Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.
The Uniconer has several outstanding features -- it operates with much greater efficiency than existing equipment ; ;
Sometimes it takes several `` eatings '' of avocado to catch that delightful quality in taste that has made it such a favorite throughout the world.
As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, Jr., Bench Show Chmn. of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog world to address them.
While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.
The cabin has several shelves for small items and storage under the bunks for water skiis, life jackets, etc..
We are acutely aware that yours is a society which, in spite of several wars and many privations, has developed itself into one of the foremost nations of the world.
`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.
So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).
These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.
Interviews with several church leaders have disclosed that this development has raised the question whether the Peace Corps will be able to prevent confusion for church and state over methods, means and goals.
Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.
Due to this difference in epistemology, anthropology as a discipline has lacked cohesion over the last several decades.
As such, anthropology has been central in the development of several new ( late 20th century ) interdisciplinary fields such as cognitive science, global studies, and various ethnic studies.
Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a nation through various forms of public education ( eg, museums of several kinds ).
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