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ChargePoint acquires ViriCiti & has.to.be
In Europe, the US charging provider ChargePoint has acquired electric bus and commercial vehicle management provider ViriCiti for around 75 million euros. This should allow ChargePoint to accelerate the electrification of fleets. After acquiring has.to.be last month for around 250 million euros, this is ChargePoint's second major acquisition in Europe within a few weeks.
Enel X and has·to·be agree European roaming deal
Charging network has-to-be scores a roaming partnership with Enel X facilitated via the Hubject platform. The deal extends has·to·be's public network by around 8,000 in Italy to more than 175,000 charging points throughout Europe.
EVBox & has·to·be conclude roaming partnership
EVBox and has·to·be have entered into a roaming partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, both companies will grant each other access to their charging networks distributed across Europe.
ChargeUp Europe to lobby for charging industry
Allego, ChargePoint and EVBox have formed the 'ChargeUp Europe' e-mobility alliance to accelerate the development of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Europe.
VW buys into charging software-provider has-to-be
VW's energy subsidiary Elli has acquired a stake in has·to·be, an Austrian provider of charging software solutions and long-standing partner of Ionity and Audi as well. Together, the two companies want to push ahead with the expansion of the charging infrastructure.
Ionity and has·to·be agree on long-term cooperation
For some time, Ionity has been relying on software and services from the Austrian electromobility provider has·to·be to expand Ionity's fast charging network. Now both companies have agreed on long-term cooperation.
BYD & Alexander Dennis, Osnabrück, China, has.to.be, Stornoway.
Deal fixed: BYD will definitely expand its electric bus production in the UK to 200 units annually in cooperation with British bus builder Alexander Dennis (we reported). The firms are also in negotiations to include double decker buses, which would triple the scale of the current deal to almost 2 billion pounds.
bbc.com, bqlive.co.uk
E-buses in Germany: The city of Osnabrück plans to purchase 13 articulated e-buses to electrify a whole bus line by 2018. More routes are to follow successively, amounting to the acquisition of a total of 40 electric buses to be ordered before the end of the decade. The federal estate of Lower Saxony funds the acquisition with up to 50 percent, putting the electric buses on price parity with diesel driven ones.
noz.de (in German)
Chinese charging standards had a backlash as expert opinions are divided. Connections between electric vehicles and the actual charge point seem the most complicated part in setting a standard as it all comes down to long term compatibility, which requires cooperation.
en.yibada.com
Freeware solution: Austrian has.to.be presents its free software solution for EV charging stations providers at eCarTec. Via the 'be.Energised community' the charge spots can be analysed in real-time. Automatic invoicing and payments via mobile is included, too.
has-to-be-energised.com
Wind-powered e-car club: A fully electric car club has been set up in the Outer Hebrides. The island of Lewis offers nine electric Renault Zoe and one Kangoo Z.E. for hire in the town of Stornoway. The EVs by the E-Car Club are powered by a local wind farm, the largest of any Scottish island.
electriccarsreport.com, evfleetworld.co.uk
has.to.be, Nashville, New Jersey, Air New Zealand.
New roaming initiative: Company has.to.be announced at the IAA in Frankfurt that it will extend its charging station management system be.ENERGISED to include access to BOSCH Charge&Pay, Plugsurfing and InterCharge. Customers still have to sign up for a subscription with each of the roaming partners.
Nashville orders more e-buses: The U.S. country music heartland has ordered a second set of two 35 foot electric buses from Proterra. The previously ordered nine EcoRide e-buses are expected to hit the road later this year. The city also installed two charging stations for the public transportation sector.
ngtnews.com
New stations in New Jersey: Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, installed five charging stations for employees as part of a pilot project with Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G). The goal is to push EV uptake. PSE&G paid for the equipment, while the hospital paid for installation and will settle electricity costs.
yahoo.com, pseg.com
Electric on the ground: Air New Zealand says it hopes to electrify its entire fleet of road vehicles and ground equipment by 2017. The first EVs will arrive before the end of the year. This is part of the airlines move to cut carbon emissions, as it believes that a global carbon price is coming.
smh.com.au
https://www.electrive.com/2021/08/12/chargepoint-acquires-viriciti-has-to-be/


The city is looking at becoming a new kind of municipality. Councillor Rory Tarant says the proposed idea of Grande Prairie becoming a "specialized municipality" may work well with the new addition of the annexed areas of the city.
He adds that there are ways to take advantage of additional provincial dollars as well as systems used in other areas that could be mirrored in the swan city. He explains that other places in the province, that are under the specialized municipality title, have a tiered tax system which have people further away from the urban centre paying less in taxes.
Administration will look at other municipalities of these kind and bring information back on how it would work in the city.
Along with Jasper, the other four places in the province that use this title include the RM of Wood Buffalo, Strathcona County, Mackenzie County and Crowsnest Pass.


Culture in The Workplace, How Strong is Yours?
Have you ever taken the time to think about your company's culture? If so, what is it? What does it consist of and can you describe it to a prospective employee? Is it a culture that both you and your team can be proud of, and one the new employee might want to be a part of?
But isn't that for someone in the Human Resources team to worry about? After all, you are the one keeping the business moving forward right? Wrong, its you who builds the culture in your team.
But is that all a culture needs to be? I beleive it should be so much more than this.
We often hear in the media about the "War for Talent" and how hard it is to find exceptionally good candidates when recruiting across all sectors, so doesn't it make sense to retain your great people by making it hard for them to leave? By creating an environment that they want to be a part of? Surely a strong culture goes a long way to making this a reality.
Do you think your employees typically turn down approaches from other companies? My belief is that they don't always and will listen to what the competition is offering, and generally culture is high on the agenda. Trying to define your culture is a very tricky concept, as it is not a tangible exercise.
The general consensus is that a strong culture within a company is going to be a determining factor in which companies may succeed and which may fail.
We hear a great deal in the media about companies with a strong positive culture, notably Google, Apple, Microsoft and Toyota whose corporate cultures are models, which others hope to emulate. That, in and of itself may be part of the problem. Their culture may not work for your company and its values and vice versa.
The global economy has been such that companies who are or were struggling are looking for the right answers to help them to outperform thier competitors. A major part of the equation is finding the "right" company or corporate culture.
One mistake that companies make is to take a culture from another company and deem it to be right or correct for their own company. In many cases, it is not. Your own set of values, your company culture should be well thought out and carefully implemented to ensure that it is yours and not a pale imitation of another company.
So how can you determine your own company culture and then implement it in such a way that your company grows and excels as a result?
Finding your own culture for your company is the first order of business. Defining who you are, and why you are "that" kind of a company is as easy as looking over your own foundation, your values as a company and what you stand for as a group.
In many cases, we believe that we have that strong sense of values and community when the reality is that we've borrowed it from another company and it isn't working for us. Once you've explored who you are and laid the foundation for your company culture, the future of your company is dependent upon engaging your employees to become a part of that culture and use it to promote growth and excellence.
Motivating our employees and inspiring them to put forth maximum effort and maximum energy for the good of the company is the goal, but how is it accomplished?
Even after you have defined the culture that you want and enlisted the team members, turning them into a cohesive and functioning team, rather than into a group of competing individuals is difficult. How can you ensure that they are functioning as a unit? Different methods work for different cultures. It isn't a cookie cutter solution and some exploration and understanding of your team will be required.
Engaging the team in both professional and non-work related activities can help you build a team rapport. Understanding the individuals passions for sport or other hobbies an interest and encourage the wider team to participate can help you. Meet and greet occasions involving their partners/family, company functions, awards dinners could all be ways that you could motivate and engage your employees to become part of a single unit that is functioning at peak efficiency.
In some cases it's as simple as fostering a sense of community and friendship. Where do your employees eat, what kind of seating is involved in work areas? Are they staggered and separated, not even eating lunch together? Giving them a little community sense may foster a sense of not only community but also a company culture.
Another way in which to motivate your employees is to infuse them with the idea that your business has a purpose and is doing good for someone, that perhaps you are helping people or a concern. People who believe that this is true will often grasp the business with both hands and breathe new life into it with fresh ideas and energy that will excite other employees as well.
Building a company culture that is strong and healthy and engaging your employees to become members of a functional and strong team, absorbing them into that culture is going to take some time, but having done so, the rewards that you can reap as individuals and as a company can be nothing short of astounding.


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About Mother Seton School
Teacher's Page
Academics & Activities
The Catholic School Advantage
Statue of Mother Seton located at the entrance of the school
Our Patron St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was a convert to Catholicism. After the early death of her husband William, she was left alone to raise five small children.
Although she endured many hardships, she desired to go beyond her own sufferings and to offer a Catholic Education to children. God made a calling to Mother Seton to leave her security and to go to an unknown place. Emmittsburg, Maryland was where God would once again manifest himself to her and make known His plan.
The plan of God, unknown to her, was to be the foundress and first Superior of the Sisters of Charity in the United States.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton saw Christ in all. It was her devotion to the Eucharist that brought Elizabeth Seton closer to God. The passion of her life was to accomplish the will of God in all things. When asked how to know the will of God, Elizabeth would answer, first from the pages of the Gospels and secondly to know the needs of the people around you.
Great spiritual desolation purified her soul during a great portion of her religious life, but she cheerfully took the royal road of the cross.
On her death bed, the last words spoken to her sisters were "Be Children of the Church".
From the writings of Elizabeth Ann Seton:
~ "We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him."
~ "The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner He wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is His will."
~ "We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that He gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty."
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Dolly Parton and Miranda Lambert teamed up for a classic Parton kiss off for the recently released Dumplin' soundtrack. The two singers duet on "Dumb Blonde," Parton's 1967 song that's a warning to never underestimate a woman -- especially based on her hair color.
"You know if there's one thing this blonde has learned, blondes have more fun," Parton and Lambert sing in the tongue-in-cheek tune.
The song was written by Curly Putnam and included on Parton's debut album Hello, I'm Dolly.
The duet is part of several reimagined Parton hits for the Dumplin' soundtrack, which was released on Nov. 30. Dumplin', which premieres Dec. 7 on Netflix, follows Willowdean Dixon (Danielle Macdonald), a plus-size teenager who enters her small Texas town's beauty pageant. Her mother, a former beauty queen, is played by Jennifer Aniston.
In addition to the reimagined Parton songs, which find the country legend collaborating with Elle King, Mavis Staples, Alison Krauss and more, the soundtrack includes six original tunes Parton wrote for the film with Linda Perry.
The country legend recently released the hopeful "Girl in the Movies" and a haunting, string-laden version of "Jolene."
In February, Chris Stapleton, Kacey Musgraves, Pink and more will honor Parton as she's named the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year. Parton will be honored for her philanthropy as well as her career as a country music trailblazer.
Parton will also celebrate her 50th anniversary as a member of the Grand Ole Opry next year. The country icon will perform on the legendary show on Oct. 12, 2019, capping off a star-studded "Dolly Week," which will celebrate the singer-songwriter's incredible legacy and history with the Opry.


Stories from our counsellor, and the saddening fact that she counsels 5-6 primary school children every week who say they don't want to go on living.
Affirmation from South New Brighton School Principal and local Councillor David East.
We are so grateful for the many who helped our 2017 budget shortfall, raising an extra $44,000 towards our $50,000 target. However we did still cut staffing hours and some programmes, and with rising costs and the need still strong, we're asking if you'd also be willing to support us in 2018. In the past two weeks we've been declined $13,000 of expected funding for next year, yet we know we need to increase the amount of youthwork hours dedicated to Mentoring some of our more at-risk young people, and more hours are needed to develop our teenage leaders.
One off donations or regular donations can be made into our ANZ account, with your name and 'Friend of YAT' as a reference. Thank you again to everyone who already donates – you are making a difference in these young people's lives!
If you'd like to discuss any of this in more detail, or like to visit us, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Wishing you and your family a restful & refreshing Christmas and summer break!


I have incredible confidence, but for the most part it's incredibly quiet confidence, borne of a life spent in pain and taking every day and every accomplishment as a personal, private victory.
Only I know what I have been through, and I couldn't describe it all to anyone even if I tried. I know I can get through anything, with patience and belief in myself and my abilities. If I doubted what I was capable of, I would not have had the experiences I have.
It is difficult for me to walk very far without my body stiffening up and causing me considerable pain. On a good day I can last about an hour and a half before this becomes a problem, and on a bad day it's a struggle to walk a few blocks. I could quite easily decide that I can't walk distances, and sit down and watch the world pass me by. I just decided that it's quite okay to take lots of breaks, to sit and rest and then go again, and that walking is one of the best things for me. I have been afraid of how I would get around when my husband and I have traveled, but because I decided to just see what happens and have a patient companion, I have been to some amazing places.
Knowing your own daily struggles and acknowledging to yourself the powerful person that you are, even if it is just because you are able to get through the day, will lead to an internal strength and confidence that cannot be shaken.
Tamara Komuniecki has been a journalist since graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, major in Political Science, double minor in Philosophy and Criminology, in 1994, but she's been a storyteller her whole life. In 1994 the cameras just started rolling.


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International Center of Photography Closes on $23.5M Bowery Condo
By Terence Cullen	April 8, 2015 3:00 pm
250 Bowery.
The International Center of Photography has closed on a commercial condominium unit at 250 Bowery between East Houston and Prince Streets for $23.5 million, RKF announced.
The sale of the 11,000-square-foot space closed on Feb. 17, and will become home to ICP's museum, currently at 1133 Avenue of the Americas, brokers involved in the sale said in a release. The new space includes 6,600 square feet on the ground floor and 4,400 square feet on the lower level of the 24-unit building.
SEE ALSO: Sitex Group Snaps Up Greenpoint Industrial Site for $30M
Anthropologie was slated to take a 10,000-square-foot space at ground floor, but backed out of its contract in June 2013 over concerns with the build-out, as Commercial Observer previously reported.
ICP plans to move into the facility this fall after the build-out is done, the brokers said.
Beth Rosen, Andrew Stern and Benjamin Zack of RKF represented the seller, Bowery Star LLC, an entity that bought the building in 2013 for $15.75 million. Jane McVerry of Atria Properties represented ICP.
"ICP is a leader in the contemporary art world," Ms. McVerry said in prepared remarks. "When it came time to look for a new location for the historic and revered organization, the Bowery—with its eclectic mix of galleries, the New Museum and the Bowery Hotel— was an obvious choice. Once we honed in on a location, opting to acquire a building and make a permanent home for ICP was the right move on both a business and a cultural level."
The photo institute has hired Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to design the new museum with a minimalist look, a new storefront and high-end lighting.
Keywords: 1133 Avenue of the Americas, 250 bowery, andrew stern, Atria Properties, Benjamin Zack, Beth Rosen, International Center of Photography, Jane McVerry, RKF
Sitex Group Snaps Up Greenpoint Industrial Site for $30M
Another SoCal Retail Center Trades for $86M
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Join us in celebrating Pembroke District's 10th birthday!
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Are you interested in raising chickens? Join us to learn more about basic poultry information to help you get started.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County will be hosting a Basic Poultry Management program on Thursday, March 28th, 6:30-8 PM at the Cornell Cooperative Extension office in Troy (61 State Street Troy, NY).
Topics will include: hatching egg care, breeds, animal care and handling, housing, and health management.
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#include <string>
#include <thread>
#include <vector>

class Process {
	public:
		enum ErrorCode
		{
			NO_ERR,
			STDIN_CREATE_PIPE_FAIL,
			STDIN_NOINHERIT_FAIL,
			STDOUT_CREATE_PIPE_FAIL,
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		bool ended();
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		size_t write_stdin(std::string input);
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	private:
		Process::ErrorCode           create_process();
		std::string                  read_output_stream(HANDLE stream);
		size_t                       bytes_available(HANDLE stream);
		Process::ErrorCode           close_streams();
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};

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A bársonyhátú rózsabogár (Mecynorhina polyphemus) a rovarok (Insecta) osztályának bogarak (Coleoptera) rendjébe, ezen belül a mindenevő bogarak (Polyphaga) alrendjébe és a ganajtúrófélék (Scarabaeidae) családjába tartozó faj.

Nemének a típusfaja.

Előfordulása
A bársonyhátú rózsabogár előfordulási területe, Afrika trópusi részein levő sűrű erdők.

Alfajai

Mecynorhina polyphemus confluens Kraatz, 1890
Mecynorhina polyphemus polyphemus (Fabricius, 1781)
Mecynorhina polyphemus rufuino

Megjelenése
E bogárfaj esetében szembetűnő a nemi kétalakúság. A hím 35-80 milliméter hosszú, lapított testű, bársonyos színezettel; ezeken kívül szarvai is vannak. A nőstény 35-55 milliméter hosszú, sima páncélzata visszatükrözi a fényt és nincsenek szarvai.

Életmódja
A bársonyhátú rózsabogár főleg gyümölcsökkel és a fák nedveivel táplálkozik.

Szaporodása
A lárva a kidőlt vagy elhalt fák törzseiben él. A harmadik vedlés után bebábozódik. A lárva a bábot egy szilárd tárgyra rögzíti.

Képek

Jegyzetek

Fordítás

További információk
Photos of Mecynorrhina (Chelorrhina) polyphemus
Schoolmeesters P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page.

Ganajtúrófélék
Rovarfajok
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33rd Mushroom Days were a succes!
The much anticipated International Mushroom Days were a succes. We wish to thank everyone who came to talk to us at our stand and we hope to meet you again in the near future!


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Oil Set To Spike After Report Saudi Repairs At Abqaiq May Take "Up To Eight Months"
Guest September 22, 2019 in Oil (General)
Here's a surprise, not the 3 months, then 1 month like they said. Shocker.
Oil too is likely to catch a bid after the WSJ reported that it may take "up to eight months", rather than 10 weeks company executives had previously promised, to fully restore operations at Aramco damaged Abqaiq facility, suggesting the crude oil shortfall will last far longer than originally expected.
FULL ARTICLE - https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-set-spike-after-report-saudi-repairs-abqaiq-may-take-eight-months
The official reason for the delay: the supply-chain is unable to respond to the Saudi needs. Specifically, Aramco is" in emergency talks with equipment makers and service providers, offering to pay premium rates for parts and repair work as it attempts a speedy recovery from missile attacks on its largest oil-processing facilities."
Following a devastating attack on its largest oil-processing facility more than a week ago, Aramco is asking contractors to name their price for patch-ups and restorations. In recent days, company executives have bombarded contractors, including General Electric , with phone calls, faxes and emails seeking emergency assistance, according to Saudi officials and oil-services suppliers in the kingdom.
"One Saudi official said costs could run in the hundreds of millions of dollars", the WSJ reported.
The unofficial, and more likely, version: Aramco is unhappy with how quickly oil prices dropped after the "Iranian attack", and since its objective from the very beginning - especially with its IPO looming - was to get oil prices higher, and with its reputation to prevent "outside shocks" in tatters, it is now creating its own bottlenecks in restoring output.
Edited September 22, 2019 by Guest
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But that's only in the short to medium term: here SocGen warns that in the longer-term "the higher the price goes, the harder it will fall" and explains:
Energy and oil use per unit of real GDP in the West has been in a steady decline of course. However, the risk remains that a price spike may contribute to both softening GDP and oil demand in the new demand centres (East), and to politicians' renewed determination to speed up the energy transition away from fossil fuels. The oil majors will not suddenly abandon capital discipline, though they will benefit from the temporary margin and free cash flow expansion of a spike. But the higher the price goes, the harder it will fall. There are many precedents of previous supply shocks reviewed in brief on the next page. Historically, sharp disruptions and oil price spikes drive subsequent oil demand and GDP weakness. It is then just a question of the degree of a country's GDP sensitivity to oil prices (manufacturing versus service economies) as to how serious that economic impact is. The US is more balanced nowadays between its large consuming sector and a large shale liquids producing sector. But the main drivers of global oil demand growth in the East (China, Japan et al.) will suffer negative effects from higher oil price.
Or, to quote myself, "It's the demand, stupid"
Edited September 22, 2019 by Ward Smith
Haha yeah I saw that bit.
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Wethers are judged in separate classes as open or project, but all classes go in for the Grand Drive together.
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Forest ecosystems show diverse and evolving structures. Accurate descriptions and a good knowledge of these environments are therefore a real challenge. Existing forest cover investigation methods are mostly laborious, hard to replicate and usually based on the skills of a small number of experts. Moreover, these methods are bound to standard two-dimensional information originated from aerial images or land surveys. The use of LiDAR elevation models leads to the development of new methodologies likely to propose innovative solutions to improve and ease the description and study of forests. In practice, managers often carry out maintenance forestry tasks as well as experimental ones. These tasks are successfully completed by means of tree observation and census. It is precisely with census that LiDAR technology can provide innovative solutions, allowing collection of accurate and reliable information from objects standing out of ground surface. Spatial analysis tools are then used to establish suitable indicators or cartographic documents to identify and define forest management objectives, to plan measures to achieve these goals, or even to monitor the results. The main objective of this PhD thesis is to propose new methods based on LiDAR technology applied to forestry. At first the study focuses on basic characteristics of a forest cover. Specific investigation of the potential of LiDAR elevation models to estimate the location, the height of individual trees and stands is carried out. In a second stage issues closer to management tasks are addressed, in particular analysis of horizontal and vertical structure of the forest, quantification of stock and identification of significant changes between two successive planting situations on the same site. Concerns of this study are to divert synthetic and normalized indicators in order to facilitate the actions and decision making process of the forester. It wants to extract innovative information in order to improve the knowledge and the description of wooden environments. A more or less significant participation of the skilled practitioner is required to configure the operations and to interpret the indicators, purpose of which is to save time by allowing more targeted and more complete ground investigation, subjective factor being in the benefit of the results. Although discussed issues as well as presented developments are based on common forest problems and of universal nature, they are presented in a context strongly influenced by Swiss forestry. The new contributions as well as the boundaries of the LiDAR technology are central to the reflection.


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New Zealand Government supports Indonesia to detect COVID-19
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News: 8 April 2020
New Zealand has stepped up its support for Indonesia in its efforts to tackle COVID-19 by increasing the capacity, quantity and quality of COVID-19 testing.
The New Zealand Government will provide NZ$150,000 to the Ejikman Institute for Molecular Biology, in the Ministry of Research and Technology, to contribute to the COVID-19 response efforts.
President Joko Widodo assigned the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology as one of Indonesia's reference laboratories for COVID-19 testing on 13 March 2020. Since then, the number of COVID-19 samples referred to the Institute has increased exponentially. Within days, the Institute has produced and disseminated 20,000 Viral Transport Medium (VTM) to 95 health facilities across Indonesia.
VTM is an important medium for transporting swabs of suspected COVID-19 patients from hospitals or health care facilities. During this pandemic, the VTM's have been in short supply and are critical for increased testing capacity.
"Our contribution will enable the Eijkman Institute to continue producing and distributing 100,000 VTMs and provide supplies for accurate and reliable Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) analysis to detect the cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia," said New Zealand Ambassador to Indonesia, Dr. Jonathan Austin.
Professor Amin Soebandrio, PhD, the Chair of the Eijkman Institute said, "It is critical to continuously deliver accurate and reliable diagnosis for COVID-19 cases in Indonesia by producing VTM, nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal flocked swabs and RNA extraction kits."
"New Zealand has a long history of supporting Indonesia, and has always stepped up to assist in times of crises. We remain committed to support Indonesia as it works through the implications of this pandemic", said New Zealand Ambassador Dr. Jonathan Austin.
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Top diving destinations around the world
With 71% of the Earth's surface covered by water, it's only natural to be curious about what's going on below the surface. If you love discovering worlds that are totally different from your own and seeing places most people will never have the chance to explore, scuba diving could be the pastime for you. In this blog, we explore five of the best diving locations in the world, as well as other attractions in these areas, and provide information on the best private jet charters and routes for a journey as awe-inspiring as your underwater explorations.
Barracuda Point, Sipadan Island, Malaysia
Barracuda Point is a dream come true for scuba divers on the hunt for the world's best diving spots. This pristine diving destination, around an hour's boat ride from Semporna on Sabah's east coast, is a limestone pinnacle rising to 600 metres. Aside from a plethora of colourful reefs and coral, you can expect to see turtles, jacks, bumphead parrotfish, white-tip sharks and, of course, huge shoals of barracudas.
Sabah is a paradise – not just for diving holidays, but also for all kinds of adventure seekers. Whether you want to climb Mount Kinabalu, whitewater raft, sea kayak around the islands or visit orangutans, there's plenty to do here. If you prefer a more relaxing stay, the unspoilt beaches, unique local cuisine, mesmerising temples and lavish resorts are guaranteed to tantalise your senses.
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The Yongala Shipwreck off the Queensland coast, Australia
The mystic wonder of a long-forgotten shipwreck makes for some of the best diving in the world – all the more so if it's located within the central section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The 109-metre-long Yongala shipwreck off the coast of Cape Bowling Green, 90km southeast of Townsville in Queensland, sank during a cyclone in 1911, killing 122 people onboard. The steel passenger and freight steamer, now hidden beneath the depths of the ocean, is full of life. Manta rays, sea snakes, octopuses, turtles, bull sharks, tiger sharks, schools of fish and colourful coral transform this site into a world of wonder.
Deep sea diving isn't all there is to this spectacular corner of the Earth. Nearby attractions include Alligator Creek in Bowling Green Bay National Park, where you can dip into a beautiful running swimming hole while soaking in the magnificent beauty around you. If you prefer the comforts of a hotel, why not book into one of the luxury establishments overlooking Breakwater Marina in Townsville?
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A couple SCUBA diving between coral reefs, with a sea turtle in the foreground
Shark and Yolanda Reef, Egyptian Red Sea
This exceptional scuba excursion comprises three dives in one: Anemone City, Shark Reef with its spectacular drop, and the wreck of the Yolanda. Located in the Ras Mohammed National Park in the Northern Red Sea, this drift dive is without a doubt one of the best diving locations in the world. The Shark Reef dive is known for the current that carries you from Anemone City to Shark Reef, where you can choose to go over the saddle between Shark and Yolande Reef or around the outside of the reefs. Both routes will bring you to the mystic Yolanda wreck.
When you get out of your wetsuit, slip into something more chic and explore the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. Set between the dramatic desert of the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea, it offers the perfect backdrop to enjoy something cold and refreshing at one of the many bars and restaurants on the palm tree-lined promenade.
Travel to Egypt by private jet
Travelling by private jet is the most comfortable and secure way of flying, regardless of where in the world you're travelling to. For this trip, we recommend landing at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, a mere four to five hours away from Heathrow Airport depending on your choice of private jet charter.
Wall of Life, Inian Island, Alaska
The Wall of Life presents a somewhat different experience to diving in tropical waters. With water temperatures of around seven or eight degrees Celcius, this Alaskan dive is not for the faint of heart, but the reward is well worth it. These cold waters hold a world of wonder, with newly discovered species of yellow, pink and purple soft corals. Expect to be wowed by sea lions, octopuses, wolf eels and the Red Irish Lord – a photogenic fish species found throughout cold-water regions including southeast Alaska.
The Wall of Life is set in a remote location and the overnight boat ride to the diving spot, which departs from Juneau, is an adventure on its own. Divers making this extraordinary journey have come face-to-face with breaching whales along the way – a remarkable experience that requires a long-lens professional camera.
How to get to Alaska by Private Jet
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is one of the main points of entry into Alaska and caters to international private jet flights. From here, many travellers connect to the nearby Lake Hood Airport, a unique seaplane base that caters to small aircraft and seaplanes. Lake Hood is a popular hub for travellers taking seaplanes to areas inaccessible to standard land aircraft, and is one of the only airports in the world where you can watch take-offs as you enjoy wine and snacks with live musicians and spectacular views. Contact ACS to arrange your private jet charter to Alaska for the scuba diving holiday of a lifetime. Flights between London City Airport and Anchorage typically take around nine hours in a long range airliner.
A group of SCUBA divers prepares to enter the water at sunset
Sodwana Bay, South Africa
Sodwana Bay is situated on the east coast of South Africa near the Mozambique border. Located on the Indian Ocean side of South Africa, the water is pleasantly warm and home to some of the most beautiful sub-tropical reefs on the planet. Being part of a National Park, diving is permitted in a relatively small section of Sodwana, which is host to masses of marine life including dolphins, sailfish, whale sharks, humpback whales, manta rays and ragged tooth sharks. The dive sites are relatively shallow and currents won't sweep you out to sea, which makes for a very easy and enjoyable dive for amateurs and enthusiasts alike.
Besides the magnificent diving spots, this sub-tropical paradise has plenty to offer. Sodwana Bay National Park is a haven for water lovers all year round, with numerous water activities such as deep sea fishing charters offering exhilarating excursions out at sea.
Rent a Private Jet to South Africa
If you're flying into Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, we suggest taking an inland flight to Richards Bay, which is located approximately two hours' drive from Sodwana Bay. And if you aren't one for driving, local lodges can organise transfers from most major airports. Heading back, why not make a stop at Kruger National Park – South Africa's iconic safari destination with more wildlife species than any other park in Africa.
Whether you're planning a short trip for a weekend's deep sea diving or an extended two-week holiday, we'll find the most suitable private jet to make your journey as convenient and comfortable as possible.


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1: Voice posts 3: Text and Image: Woman Lost posts Feminist Gaze? In Process
http://www.barbarakruger.com
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/barbara-kruger/
http://www.artnews.com/2017/11/03/no-uncool-jokers-here-barbara-kruger-debuts-installation-at-les-skate-park/
https://ago.ca/exhibitions/barbara-kruger-contact-2010
Most important element is the political content, making it clear and bold, though often based on enigmatic images and comntradiction.
Short introductory overview.
She works visually with text usually short quotes in bold typeface eg futura, and uses black, white and 'lipstick' red, sometimes other bold colours or limited palettes. Sometimes in caps, sometimes lower case and often reversing front and background colours.
Appropriation eg images from 1950s used in 1980s. Silkscreen.
Kruger discusses how she constructs her work – deciding which elements of the image interests her most, then placing text accordingly.
Barbara Kruger discusses her life and work and how it has evolved from magazine cut and paste to large public murals.
Kruger discusses a collaborative project. It is the questions that are important in having a critical view of the world. Whose values, whose hopes and whose fears?
The questions are the important thing. Enjoys putting questins on a buge mural space.
Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist.[1] Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality. Kruger currently lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
Imagery and text[edit]
Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989
Belief+Doubt (2012) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Much of Kruger's work pairs found photographs with pithy and assertive text that challenges the viewer. Her method includes developing her ideas on a computer, later transferring the results (often billboard-sized) into images.[5] Examples of her instantly recognizable slogans read "I shop therefore I am," and "Your body is a battleground," appearing in her trademark white letters against a red background. Much of her text calls attention to ideas such as feminism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, frequently appropriating images from mainstream magazines and using her bold phrases to frame them in a new context.
Kruger has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren't."[15] A larger category that threads through her work is the appropriation and alteration of existing images. In describing her use of appropriation, Kruger states:
Pictures and words seem to become the rallying points for certain assumptions. There are assumptions of truth and falsity and I guess the narratives of falsity are called fictions. I replicate certain words and watch them stray from or coincide with the notions of fact and fiction.[16]
Her poster for the 1989 Women's March on Washington in support of legal abortion included a woman's face bisected into positive and negative photographic reproductions, accompanied by the text "Your body is a battleground."[5] A year later, Kruger used this slogan in a billboard commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts. Twelve hours later, a group opposed to abortion responded to Kruger's work by replacing the adjacent billboard with an image depicting an eight-week-old fetus.[17]
Kruger's early monochrome pre-digital works, known as 'paste ups', reveal the influence of the artist's experience as a magazine editorial designer during her early career. These small scale works, the largest of which is 11 x 13 inches (28 x 33 cm), are composed of altered found images, and texts either culled from the media or invented by the artist. A negative of each work was then produced and used to make enlarged versions of these initial 'paste ups'.[18] Between 1978 and 1979, she completed "Picture/Readings," simple photographs of modest houses alternating with panels of words.[5] From 1992 on, Kruger designed several magazine covers, such as Ms., Esquire, Newsweek, and The New Republic.[19] Her signature font style of Futura Bold type is likely inspired from the "Big Idea" or "Creative Revolution" advertising style of the 1960s that she was exposed to during her experience at Mademoiselle.[6]
In 1990, Kruger scandalized the Japanese American community of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, with her proposal to paint the Pledge of Allegiance, bordered by provocative questions, on the side of a warehouse in the heart of the historic downtown neighborhood.[5] Kruger had been commissioned by MOCA to paint a mural for "A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," a 1989 exhibition that also included works by Barbara Bloom, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince. But before the mural went up, Kruger herself and curator Ann Goldstein presented it at various community meetings over the time period of 18 months.[20] Only after protests did the artist offer to eliminate the pledge from her mural proposal, while still retaining a series of questions painted in the colors and format of the American flag: "Who is bought and sold? Who is beyond the law? Who is free to choose? Who follows orders? Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?".[5] A full year after the exhibition closed, Kruger's reconfigured mural finally went up for a two-year run.[20]
In 1994, Kruger's L'empathie peut changer le monde (Empathy can change the world) was installed on a train station platform in Strasbourg, France. One year later, with architects Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson and landscape architect Nicholas Quennell, she designed the 200-foot-long (60 m) sculptural letters Picture This for a stage and outdoor amphitheater at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.[5] Between 1998 and 2008, she created permanent installations for the Fisher College of Business, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Price Center at the University of California, San Diego.[21] For a site-specific piece that she produced at the Parrish Art Museum in 1998, Kruger placed across the upper range of the museum's Romanesque facade stark red letters that read, "You belong here"; below, on columns separating three arched entry portals, stacked letters spelled "Money" and "Taste."[22] As part of the Venice Biennale in 2005, Kruger installed a digitally printed vinyl mural across the entire facade of the Italian pavilion, thereby dividing it into three parts—green at the left, red at the right, white in between. In English and Italian, the words "money" and "power" climbed the portico's columns; the left wall said, "Pretend things are going as planned," while "God is on my side; he told me so" fills the right.[23] In 2012, her installation Belief+Doubt, which covers 6,700 square feet (620 m²) of surface area and was printed onto wallpaper-like sheets in the artist's signature colors of red, black and white, was installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[24]
Tags feminism, photographer, political, typography
← Roni Horn → Jenny Holzer


The eldest son of a tax collector, Repton attended Norwich Grammar School, concluding his schooling with three years in the Netherlands. He was then apprenticed to a Norwich textile merchant and, after his marriage to Mary Clarke in 1773, was established in business by his father. In 1778, following the death of his parents, he resolved to live as a gentleman farmer, moving to Sustead Old Hall, Norfolk. The landscape sketches he made around this time (Norwich, Castle Museum)—the first indication of where his future career lay—were engraved for M. J. Armstrong's History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk (1781). He became a friend of William Windham of Felbrigg, travelling to Ireland as his private secretary in 1783, and acted as election manager on Windham's entry into Parliament in 1784. Windham's agent, Nathaniel Kent, taught Repton estate management, and from another neighbour, Robert Marsham of Stratton Strawless, he learnt about arboriculture. He moved c. 1786 to a smaller cottage at Hare Street, Romford, Essex, where he was to spend the rest of his life.
In June 1788, five years after the death of 'Capability' Brown, Repton decided to combine his own various talents by becoming a landscape designer. He began to acquire technical knowledge, while using the political and social connections made earlier at Sustead to build up a list of clients. By 1792 he had been consulted in connection with about a hundred places, but the following year war with France broke out, and Repton's commissions were halved, dropping from over twenty per year (1790–93) to under ten (1794–1802).
In 1789 Repton, consulted over Ferney Hall, Salop, asked the advice of Richard Payne Knight, whose Picturesque improvements at Downton, Hereford & Worcs, he admired. He was also introduced to Sir Uvedale Price of Foxley, Hereford & Worcs, whom he joined in a trip on the Wye in 1790 or 1791, but relations soon soured between Repton, defender of utility and convenience in garden design, and these two connoisseurs of Picturesque beauty. This exploded into the so-called 'Picturesque Controversy' in 1794 with Knight's publication of The Landscape—satirical verses directed at Repton's proposals for Tatton Park, Ches. Repton replied in Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening (1795). A printing delay meant that he also saw the publication of Price's Essay on the Picturesque (1794), which he answered in a separately printed letter in July of that year. The debate swiftly became a popular topic of discussion, with both sides and their supporters continuing to publish sallies for the rest of the decade and beyond.
Repton's professed aim was to be as renowned an architect as landscape gardener, but the extent of his unaided architectural work is difficult to assess, and he seems to have been in constant quest for the ideal architectural collaborator. Prior to Nash, his partner had been William Wilkins (1751–1815) of Norwich, who contributed to at least eight commissions between 1789 and 1793, and to whom he apprenticed his son John Adey Repton (1775–1860). However, it was not until Repton took John as his partner in 1800 that he found a really satisfactory relationship with an architect. John was an antiquarian and a Gothic Revivalist, and together they produced a number of significantly early designs in what they styled 'Queen Elizabeth's Gothic'.
Repton's designs, like those by Brown, were derived from a Claudian ideal of 'natural' landscape; his departure from Brown's style lies in a greater attention to low foreground planting, based on the study of native woodland, and in a more loosely formed type of plantation than the Brownian clump. With Repton, plantations of trees characteristically swept down from a hill or formed a dark background to the house. Unless the site was overlooked, he disliked an enclosing outer belt of trees, preferring to allow excursive views to beyond the park boundary. Ever the empiricist, he studied the characteristics of each site, wishing only to enhance each with a sympathetic design to suit the particular practical needs of the individual client. Thus convenience would be united with a modified Picturesque beauty.


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While many of his friends celebrated the holidays with friends and family at home, 9-year-old Tyler Armstrong made history, becoming the youngest climber ever to reach the summit of the tallest peak in the Western hemisphere.
Various leading Argentinean media outlets reported that the Yorba Linda, California native reached the summit of Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina on Christmas, along with his father, Kevin, 30, and their guide Lhawang Dhondup, 50.
It was confirmed, Friday, in a Facebook post on a page dedicated to Armstrong's climbs that they had reached the summit on Christmas Eve.
"HUGE UPDATE: We are extremely proud and excited to officially announce that Tyler Armstrong has in fact broken the ACONCAGUA RECORD!!!! He was able to summit on Christmas Eve (December 24th)," the post read. "GO TYLER!!! Stand by for some awesome pics!"
Located near the Argentina-Chile border, at 22,837 ft. high, Aconcagua is considered one of the classic climbs for serious mountain climbers and is one of the famed "Seven Summits" – the highest mountains on each of the globe's seven continents.
According to Facebook, the young climber started his trek along the Rio de Las Vacas, in Mendoza, Argentina, after receiving permission from the local government to launch the effort.
The country only permits those 18 years or older to climb to the peak. According to Argentinean newspaper Clarin, the country's secretary of the environment initially denied giving Armstrong the permit, but his father was able to show that his son is an experienced climber despite his young age.
The young Armstrong has already notched impressive climbs, including the highest peak in the contiguous United States, Mt. Whitney, and Africa's highest summit, Mt. Kilimanjaro.
"It takes lots and lots of training," the boy told ABC News before his climb. "I had to do ice-climbing training, so if I fall I can stop myself and not slide down the mountain. We're really working on my abs a lot. All the weight from my backpack and all the stuff that I'm carrying goes where your abs are."
Updates of his trek were provided on Facebook, including the team reaching base camp at 14,300 feet and reaching "camp two" at 17,000 feet.
Although he was scheduled to climb to the summit between Dec. 26 and Dec. 29, a Facebook update said they decided to finish the climb to the peak due to inclement weather.
According to Clarin, an Argentinean government official confirmed that once the team made it to the summit, it began the descent down the mountain in good health. The official said the team is expected to reach home base between Friday and Saturday.
With his successful climb, Armstrong became the youngest to reach the summit of Arconcagua. The previous record holder was Matthew Moniz of Boulder, Colorado, who was 10 years old when he reached the summit on Dec. 16, 2008.
While Arconcagua is considered an easy climb compared to other nearby Karakorum peaks, it does not mean that it is safe. High altitude sickness and quick weather changes can cause frostbite and even death.
Armstrong took the easiest ascent trail – the Polish Glacier Traverse Route – which actually claimed the lives of five climbers in January 2009.
While this climb is a huge personal accomplishment for the boy, he is also trying to raise funds and awareness for the organization Cure Duchenne, which looks to find a cure for a form of muscular dystrophy that affects 300,000 boys worldwide.


The rapid formation and growth of cities, especially city clusters and megaregions, has become an important factor impacting the global economy and people's future wellbeing. From Aug. 19 to 20, "the 2018 IPP (Institute of Public Policy) International Conference: Metropolitan Circles Development and the Future of Urbanization— The World and China" was held at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou. Experts from all over the world discussed new trends, opportunities and challenges facing the development of the world's megaregions along with major issues of their growth and management.
According to Hans D' Orville, former UNESCO assistant directorgeneral for strategic planning, China's explorations and practices in building megaregions can be shared with other countries and regions around the world, so as to deepen theoretical understanding and contribute wisdom to human progress and wellbeing. He added that China is striving to integrate its green development vision with the UN's sustainable development goals, making great contributions to low-carbon development, circular economies and climate change mitigation. "China has become a leading player in pursuing sustainable and green development, which manifests in much of its urban-rural planning," he said.


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Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah (), usually simply referred to as al-Khansāʾ (, meaning "snub-nosed", an Arabic epithet for a gazelle as metaphor for beauty) was a 7th-century tribeswoman, living in the Arabian Peninsula. She was one of the most influential poets of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods.

In her time, the role of a female poet was to write elegies for the dead and perform them for the tribe in public oral competitions. Al-Khansāʾ won respect and fame in these competitions with her elegies, and is widely considered as the finest author of Arabic elegies and one of the greatest and best known female Arab poets of all time. In 629, she went to Medina with a deputation from her clan and, after meeting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, embraced the new religion. Some say al-Khansāʾ was Muhammad's favorite poet. He wept when he heard her elegies for her two brothers, Ṣakhr and Muʿāwiyah. Her poetry was later recorded by Muslim scholars, who were studying unaltered Arabic of her time in order to explicate the language of early Islamic texts.

Life
Al-Khansāʾ was born and raised in Najd, Arabia, into a wealthy family of the tribe of Sulaym, and was the daughter of the head of the al-Sharid clan. According to both contemporary as well as later judgement, she was the most powerful poetess of her time. In pre-Islamic society, the role of a female  poet, such as al-Khansā', was to compose elegies for the tribesmen who fell in the battlefield. Her extraordinary fame rests mainly on her elegiac poetry composed for her two brothers, Sakhr and Mu'āwiya, who were killed in tribal skirmishes of Banū Sulaym with Banū Murra and Banū Asad, predating Islam.

In 612, her brother Muʿawiyah was killed by members of another tribe. Al-Khansāʾ insisted that her brother, Ṣakhr, avenge Muʿawiyah's death, which he did. Ṣakhr was wounded in the process and died of his wounds a year later. Al-Khansāʾ mourned her two brothers' deaths in poetry, writing over a hundred elegies about the two of them alone, and began to gain fame for her elegiac compositions, especially due to her powerful recitals. The contemporary Arab poet al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī said to her: "You are the finest poet of the jinn and the humans." (). Similarly, another anecdote says that al-Nabigha told al-Khansāʾ, "If Abu Basir had not already recited to me, I would have said that you are the greatest poet of the Arabs. Go, for you are the greatest poet among those with breasts". She responded by saying, "I'm the greatest poet among those with testicles, too".

She was a contemporary of Muhammad, and eventually converted to Islam. It is said that Muhammad would ask her to recite some of her poetry for him, and he would love listening to her. Whenever she paused after a recital, he would gesture her to keep going and say, "Go on, Khunās!" Muhammad even rated al-Khansāʾ over the great Imru' al-Qais, the most famous poet of the classical Arabic tradition, as the one with greater poetic abilities.

She was married at least twice, and had six children, all of whom were also poets and eventually converted to Islam. Four of them, Yazīd, Muʿāwiyah, ʿAmr, and ʿAmrah, were killed in the Battle of Qadisiyah. When she received the news, she allegedly said, "Praise be to God who honored me with their martyrdom. And I have hope from my Lord that he will reunite me with them in the abode of his mercy." ().

Poetry and importance in the history of Arabic literature
The poems of al-Khansā' are short and marked by a strong and traditional sense of despair at the irrevocable loss of life. Apart from her poetical talent, her significance lies in having raised the early Arabic elegiac tradition to the level of qarīd poetry instead of sadj' or radjaz. Her style and expression, which assured her a superiority in this genre, became stereotyped in the later rithā' poetry. As an outstanding poet and female figure in the history of Arabic literature, the position of al-Khansā' is unique. Al-Khansa's elegies were later collected by Ibn al-Sikkit (802–858 CE), a literary scholar of the early Abbasid era. Nearly a thousand lines of her poetry remain.

Editions and translations
 James Montgomery, Loss Sings, The Cahiers Series, 32 (Sylph Editions, 2019),
 In 2021, it was announced that Yasmine Seale would translate al-Khansa's work for the Library of Arabic Literature series.

See also
 Arabic poetry
 List of famous Arabs
 Women in Arab societies
 Women in Muslim societies

References

External links
"A Great Arab Poetess of Elegy", an essay about Al-Khansa
Other Women's Voices collection, contains links, secondary sources, and excerpts
Project Continua: Biography of al-Khansa

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HONG KONG, Feb. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Bithumb Global Limited, a Hong Kong-based entity, announced the official launch of its block deal, matchmaking service catering to institutional clients under the Ortus brand. Institutions will undergo a strict onboarding process, whereby sufficient KYC and AML documentation must be supplied by the applicants.
''Institutions trading digital assets need to open accounts at exchanges and OTC desks around the world; however, there is no real solution for an aggregated liquidity provider or a trusted interdealer where Institutions can trade these assets. To fill this market gap, Ortus will operate to allow institutions to buy and sell digital assets through a network of global liquidity providers and benefit from a competitive and best price execution service.'' said Rahul Khanna, Director.
Competitive pricing from the world's largest OTC desks and liquidity providers.
Bithumb Global Limited, a Hong Kong-based entity, owns the rights to the Ortus brand. Ortus is a block deal, matchmaking service specifically for institutional clients around the world.


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Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season
By Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land
Category: Mystery & Suspense
May 04, 2021 | ISBN 9781984804372
About Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season
"This appealing—if murder-prone—world is a splendid place to spend a bit of the holiday season."–Publishers Weekly
Christmas has come to Cabot Cove, but a peaceful holiday season is not in the cards after Jessica Fletcher is pulled into a centuries-old mystery in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series.
With work on the reconstruction of her beloved home almost complete, Jessica Fletcher is in high holiday spirits, spearheading the annual Christmas parade and preparing for her nephew Grady and his family to come to town. The only thing dampening the holiday cheer is the discovery of two sets of bones on Jessica's property: one set ancient, the other only about a year old. It's concluded that they were both placed there during the reconstruction, and Jessica suspects that, despite the centuries between them, the remains might be connected.
Soon tabloid reporter Tad Hollenbeck arrives in Cabot Cove to write a story about what he calls "the murder capital of the country." But when Tad himself is murdered, Jessica speculates that his arrival, his death, and the discovery of the bones are all somehow linked.
As Jessica digs deeper to find the connection between the bones and Tad's murder, everything seems to come back to a mystery that has long plagued Cabot Cove. If she wants to solve the case, she'll need to delve into her beloved town's dark history, or else this holiday season may be her last….
May 04, 2021 | 336 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9781984804372
Praise for Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season
"A nice diversion for readers living in a world where a pandemic dominates both headlines and our nightmares, and gives us a great story of hope and Scrooge-like redemption to warm us on the cold winter nights to come."--Bookreporter
"A well-crafted and pleasing whodunit…. MURDER IN SEASON is a solid mystery filled with nostalgia and holiday warmth, and it is Land's most endearing entry in the 'Murder, She Wrote' canon."--Press-Republican
"Cozy as a warm blanket as Jessica Fletcher hunts down yet another killer with her customary panache."–Kirkus Reviews


There are only two really eye-catching debuts in the August 2010 edition of Diamond's Previews catalog, but they're pretty choice.
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