UR
CityUr
was an ancient city in southern
Mesopotamia, located near the mouth (at the time) of the
Euphrates
and
Tigris
rivers on the
Persian Gulf and close to
Eridu. It is
considered to be one of the earliest known
civilizations in
world history. Because of marine
regression, the remains are now well inland in present-day
Iraq, south of
the Euphrates on its right bank, and named Tell el-Mukayyar
[1],
near the city of
Nasiriyah
south of
Baghdad.The site is marked by the ruins of a
ziggurat
(right), still largely intact, and by a settlement mound. The ziggurat is a
temple of
Nanna, the
moon
deity in
Sumerian mythology, and has two stages constructed from brick: in the
lower stage the bricks are joined together with
bitumen,
in the upper stage they are joined with
mortar. The Sumerian name for this city was Urim
Corner Of the Genius
Sas
Jacobs is an Australian
web developer specialising in web applications
training and Develop ment. She interested in using Flash
with dynamic content and She have presented at a
numerous International conferences relating to
applications development, XML and scripting
components. She edited the book (Flash MX 2004
Accelerated) as well as books on adobe Photoshop
and Illustrator. She have a nice flash business
web site at
http://www .aip.net.au and a personal web site at
http://www.sasjacobs.com
Mark
Galer is a seniorr lecturer in Digital
Imaging i photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute
of University on the BA Photography program ,, and has
published six titlezs for the International publisher
(Focal Press) - - ranging from location
photography through to Photoshop skills and . Digital
Imaging . He has a good commercial background in editoria; photography and is currently contributor
to magazines in the Australia USA, and the UK. He
is an Adobe beta tester for Photoshop and Photoshop
Elements, he is considered as one of the leading
lecturer in Photoshop training and has been appointed as
an Ambassador for Photoshop training in Australia.