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Sept. 17, 2020 will be World Manta Day, a worldwide celebration of Manta Rays.
Friend of the Sea honors World Manta Day with standards for sustainable Manta Ray watching
ROME — Sept. 17, 2020 will be World Manta Day, a worldwide celebration of Manta Rays. Friend of the Sea, the preeminent global certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, is honoring World Manta Day through its standards for sustainable manta ray watching excursions as well as standards that reduce the impact of stray fishing nets on the rays.“We would love to get as many people as possible celebrating manta rays and their relatives for one special day each year,” said Paolo Bray, director of Friend of the Sea. “This event will bring together all the different organizations that focus on rays and ocean conservation in general. It’s a great opportunity to work together to promote and preserve a remarkable species.”Manta rays...
September 16, 2020

Friend of the Sea honors World Manta Day with standards for sustainable Manta Ray watching

Acclaimed Emirati artist and designer Ashwaq Abdulla inaugurated Sunday the first of its kind digital art exhibition ‘Al Mabrouka’ across the region.
Abdulla paints historic lives of Emirati women showcased in first digital exhibition
DUBAI — With the COVID-19 pandemic causing unprecedented disruptions across all industries, acclaimed Emirati artist and designer Ashwaq Abdulla inaugurated Sunday the first of its kind digital art exhibition ‘Al Mabrouka’ across the region. The virtual exhibition showcases paintings resembling the historic lives and culture of Emirati women.‘Al Mabrouka’, a name given to the elderly women in society due to their wisdom, and generosity, was attributed as a name of the digital exhibition that will feature 10 of Ashwaq’s art celebrating the success of Emirati women across the years.The digital exhibition illustrates the historic lives of Emirati women via an animated fusion of watercolor pastel paintings. Emirati women always had a major contribution in the society where their...
September 13, 2020

Abdulla paints historic lives of Emirati women showcased in first digital exhibition

The Royal Canadian Mint's $2 circulation coin celebrating the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War
RCM $2 circulation coin celebrates 75th anniversary of Allied victory
OTTAWA, Ontario — The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) is proud to launch a $2 circulation coin celebrating the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the Canadians who defeated enemies of freedom after six long years of service on the battlefield and on the home front.Symbolic of that heroic accomplishment, a "V" for Victory figures prominently on this new commemorative coin unveiled Wednesday on the Mint's YouTube channel."For nearly six years, Canadians serving in uniform or chipping in at home played a vital role in achieving a hard-won peace," said Lawrence MacAulay, minister of veterans affairs and associate minister of national defense."The Royal Canadian Mint's circulation coin issued on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second...
September 03, 2020

RCM $2 circulation coin celebrates 75th anniversary of Allied victory

Athel
Emirati short film 'Athel' gets outstanding achievement certificate at Berlin film fest
ABU DHABI — The Emirati short film "Athel" received the Outstanding Achievement Certificate at the Berlin Flash Film Festival in Germany, a festival that celebrates short films and scripts, giving the filmmakers a creative platform to voice their art. "Athel" also won the Gold Remy Award at the WorldFest — Houston International Film Festival in the United States. The festival aims to recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film and video, to validate brilliant abilities and to promote cultural tourism for Houston, to develop film production in the region and to add to the rich cultural fabric of the city of Houston. The world's film industry giants have won festival awards, and the films of the Remy Prize winners are shown on large screens to the...
September 01, 2020

Emirati short film 'Athel' gets outstanding achievement certificate at Berlin film fest

Actor Chadwick Boseman, who brought the movie
'Black Panther' star Boseman dies of cancer at 43
LOS ANGELES — Actor Chadwick Boseman, who brought the movie "Black Panther" to life with his charismatic intensity and regal performance, has died. Boseman has battled colon cancer since 2016 and died at home with his family and wife by his side, according to a statement posted on his Twitter account. He was 43."A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you so many of the films you have come to love so much," the statement said, according to CNN."From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy."A statement posted on Boseman’s Twitter account, read: “It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of...
August 29, 2020

'Black Panther' star Boseman dies of cancer at 43

Friend of the Sea announces standard for sustainable sea turtle watching.
Friend of the Sea announces standard for sustainable sea turtle watching
MILAN — Friend of the Sea, the preeminent global certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, recently announced the debut of the standard for sustainable sea turtle watching.The standard makes it possible for people to experience sea turtles up close without harming them or their habitats. The sea turtle watching standard is the latest in a series of such standards from Friend of the Sea’s, including certifications for watching dolphins, whales, whale sharks and manta rays.“Sea turtles are adorable, and indeed we’ve seen them turned into lovable movie characters and the like, so people feel as if they can have a personal relationship with these creatures,” said Paolo Bray, Director of Friend of the Sea.“This is great, up to...
August 08, 2020

Friend of the Sea announces standard for sustainable sea turtle watching

Al Atlal
Umm Kulthum hologram to perform at Dubai Opera
DUBAI — As part of Eid in Dubai Celebration, Dubai Festivals and Retail Establishment (DFRE), MBC Group, and New Dimension Productions (NDP) invite Umm Kulthum fans to attend a nostalgic exceptional concert hosted by Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) at the Dubai Opera House. The event will see a digitized version of the late diva singing in front of her audience. NDP is set to offer some of the iconic singer's unforgettable hits, which shaped the history of classical Arabic music.This year's cooperation between DFRE, MBC Group, and NDP comes after a hugely successful and largely celebrated debut in 2019. One of the leading providers of state-of-the-art entertainment technology, NDP enjoys an extensive experience in the 3D and hologram content production, as the regional audience...
August 03, 2020

Umm Kulthum hologram to perform at Dubai Opera

Art by Monika Radziunaite on an outdoor advertising stand in Vilnius. — courtesy photo Go-Vilnius
Vilnius Center: 100 art objects displayed in open-air exhibition
VILNIUS — Lithuanian capital Vilnius has come up with yet another solution for the post-pandemic social and cultural life. The city has turned its center into a huge “Art Needs No Roof” exhibition using outdoor advertising stands to show 100 works of Lithuanian artists."Although art galleries are already open, the restrictions for social gatherings remain in place," said Remigijus Šimašius, the mayor of Vilnius. "Therefore, Vilnius "takes its roof off."We have turned the city center into a huge open-air gallery. It is one of the largest art exhibitions in Vilnius containing the works of 100 artists. We hope that the project will stimulate creativity and some works will find their way into people's homes."Quarantine, which lasted three...
July 24, 2020

Vilnius Center: 100 art objects displayed in open-air exhibition

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere watched a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear, for first time. A colliding star may have triggered the drastic transformation. — courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear
By Jennifer ChuIt seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared.For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have watched as a supermassive black hole’s own corona, the ultrabright, billion-degree ring of high-energy particles that encircles a black hole’s event horizon, was abruptly destroyed.The cause of this dramatic transformation is unclear, though the researchers guess that the source of the calamity may have been a star caught in the black hole’s gravitational pull.Like a pebble tossed into a gearbox, the star may have ricocheted through the black hole’s disk of swirling material, causing everything in...
July 18, 2020

Astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear

The Calligraphers Tree
Certified Calligraphers Pedigree: New initiative for a comprehensive database
ABU DHABI — Under the sponsorship of Sheikha Khawla Bint Ahmed Bin Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, wife of Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE national security advisor, Khawla Art & Cultural Foundation has recently launched an initiative that aims to build a reference database of all distinguished, licensed calligraphers worldwide. The initiative was named “The Certified Calligraphers Pedigree”.Highlighting the elite calligraphers on the global arena, the Calligraphers Tree will branch out into various calligraphy arts, enlisting profiles of prominent calligraphers with their major works and who were the masters and students of each of them, resulting in an elaborate tree of references and lineages.The first of its kind, this initiative came to use Khawla’s foundation website as a...
July 01, 2020

Certified Calligraphers Pedigree: New initiative for a comprehensive database

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