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“The competition represents one of the most important achievements of the Academy under its framework of ambitious programs and initiatives to develop women’s sports,” he said.
“It has become an important venue for elite international riders and offers an ideal opportunity for Emirati female riders, and the Abu Dhabi Sports Council attaches great importance to supporting the Academy’s plans and sporting events.”
The Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Sports Academy is keen to promote the participation of the nation’s young women in every sport.
HE Al Awani expressed his appreciation to the Academy, the Equestrian Federation, Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club and all the sponsors of the event, wishing success to all participants in the tournament.
Dr. Omniyat Al Hajeri, Board member at the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Sports Academy, expressed FBMA’s gratitude and appreciation to H.H. Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, Mother of the Nation, for her continuous support to Emirati women. She said: “We have recently celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the UAE, and this great nation has been built with the full support of Emirati women. At FBMA, we are committed to empowering female athletes and increasing the range of events that we offer to women across the UAE. The FBMA International Show Jumping Cup remains one of our flagship competitions, as it not only allows our local talent to shine in the global spotlight but has grown in recent years to be regarded as one of the Middle East’s top equestrian events on the calendar.
“We continue to offer women in the local community an opportunity to participate in international sporting events – a very important facet of FBMA’s work,” added Dr. Al Hajeri. “With this in mind, we are delighted to welcome back the FBMA International Show Jumping Cup, in its ninth edition and we hope that this platform to compete in the professional world of sport inspires them to achieve great things in the next 50 years of the UAE’s ongoing journey.”
“On behalf of the Longines management, we are delighted to be the Title Partner, Official Watch and Official Timekeeper of the Emirates Longines Show Jumping League and take part in the 9th edition of the Fatima Bint Mubarak Academy (FBMA) International Show Jumping Cup as part of the League. With our longstanding ties with equestrian sports that date back to 1878, Longines will continue to nurture its enduring relationship with the equestrian community at this event renowned for its prestige and elite status. Driven by our universally recognized excellence, we will further support the boldest riders in show jumping for their precision and elegance in their performances, the same values we uphold in watchmaking,” Longines Regional Brand Manager for the Middle East and South East Asia, Patrick Aoun said.
The FMBA International Show Jumping Cup will follow strict government guidelines on Covid-19 precautions to ensure the safety of all participants, attendees and staff.
Source: Abu Dhabi Sports CouncilAnnual meetings and conventions are perfect for having individual and group portraits done. It might be the one time of the year where the whole staff is already there. No team member is putting out a fire or tied up with another commitment. Everyone who might travel has specifically blocked out this day for the meeting. Truly, if you want to photograph conference headshots for all of your team members at once, annual meetings are the best opportunity.
I took this image in a small, furnished hotel room during a company’s annual leadership meeting. I took business headshots and full-body portraits to combine them into various group shots. Also, I changed the color of one of their shirts, added long sleeves, and tucked in that shirt to create pants and a belt. I further edited photos by adding lipstick when requested and photoshopping all the convention portraits into a group photo. Also, I added a background and safety vests from stock imagery chosen by the client. The company will be using these group portraits in its social media and on its website. They will also be hanging this photo in their lobby as a large print.
Professional photographers have the experience to shoot conference portraits quickly, so it does not slow down or negatively impact your annual meetings. Because I’ve done it for so long, the photoshoots run like clockwork. I shoot the photos quickly while still maintaining the highest quality conference headshots. We can schedule the company headshots so that everyone misses only a few minutes of their meeting. Time can also be blocked out if the company wants to get all of the convention headshots done in the same sitting.
An experienced photographer will help save costs by shooting as many of the group photos as possible at one time. It is amazing how much you can accomplish by photographing in a small hotel room.Do you ever just feel it in your gut?

Today was a normal day but not normal too.
Today felt like it didn’t matter one way or the other. I seen people and they said “thanks”. I told people my bad news and they said “I’m sorry but I’m happy your still here”. It’s almost as if I watched me, go through my whole day. Tonight the silence is deafening, yet it amplifying. The thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, I can’t control them. The knot in my stomach won’t let me eat, non will it let me throw up. The know I can feel growing. The knot feels familiar. It’s been a long time since I feIt it. It’s the knot in your gut when you are driven and determined. When you clearly see your goal and know how to reach it. I look at the things around me. So easily it would be, so easy it would be to disappear and not be seen agin, so easy it is to end this ride. So easy, so easy, so easy, sO MOTHERF***ING HARD IT IS! I want to do it but then Im stop. The guilt and overwhelming wave of selfishness, the overwhelming tidal set of disappointment, overwhelming tsunami of self hatred and self shame. I’m disappointed in me, I’m to strong; or am I to weak. No I know it’s nothing set up to say good bye, yet.WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted the most open jobs in December in the nearly two decades that records have been kept, evidence that the job market is strong despite several challenges facing the economy.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that job openings jumped 2.4 percent in December to 7.3 million. That is the most since records began in December 2000. It is also far greater than the number of unemployed, which stood at 6.3 million that month.
Businesses have shrugged off a variety of potential troubles for the economy in the past two months and kept on hiring. The 35-day partial government shutdown began Dec. 22, and growth in China, Europe and Japan has weakened, threatening U.S. exports. Still, employers added 304,000 jobs in January, the government said earlier this month, the most in nearly a year.
The jump in openings in December suggests hiring will likely remain robust. Openings are typically filled within 1 to 2 months. The surge in available jobs indicates that businesses expect demand to remain healthy and that they will need more employees to meet it.
Tuesday's data also showed that employers boosted hiring in December, while the number of people who quit remained unchanged at a healthy level of about 3.5 million. Higher quits are typically sign of a dynamic job market, as most people quit to take a new job.
The number of unemployed typically runs far ahead of job openings, but that switched early last year.
That could mean potentially stronger wage gains are in store in the months ahead. With job postings so high at a time that the unemployment rate is at a very low 4 percent, businesses may be forced to pay more to attract the workers they need.
Paychecks are already increasing, though at a modest pace. Average hourly pay rose 3.2 percent in January from a year earlier, the government said earlier this month. That's near December's figure of 3.3 percent, which matched the best pay gain in almost a decade. Still, wage increases typically top 4 percent when the unemployment rate is this low.
Many industries with the biggest increases in job openings include mostly lower-paying jobs. Restaurants and hotels advertised more than 1 million jobs, 84,000 more than in November. Health care job postings rose 79,000 to 1.2 million.
Some higher-paying industries also did well. Professional and business services, which include jobs in fields such as architecture and engineering, rose 82,000 to 1.34 million.
Available jobs in manufacturing, meanwhile, fell 67,000 to 428,000. They also dropped in retail and financial services.
Nowadays, maintaining server has been more and more difficult than before. There are too many attackers and different kinds of attack methods from Internet. The server maintainers need to check security issues everyday, upgrade their servers, and also check machine health if they use physical machines.
Hopefully, we are now in a cloud world. There are lots of cloud services and we can combine them together to build our applications. With those cloud services, setting up and maintaining servers are no longer required!
In this post, I will introduce how to build a static website. This website can submit forms and send emails without setting up any servers. I call it “Serverless HTML Form” in this post. We will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Customers Mail Cloud (CMC) to build this application.
The image below shows the architecture of Serverless HTML Form. We will use