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What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Why do we use it?

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Where does it come from?

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

Where can I get some?

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don’t look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn’t anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.

Dbeibeh discusses with Bathily ways to expedite the Electoral Process

The Government of National Unity, led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, held a meeting today, Sunday, with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Abdoulaye Bathily, to discuss the latest developments in the country’s political process and ways to expedite the electoral process

During the meeting, they addressed the difficulties facing the electoral process and mechanisms to address them with all relevant parties.

Dbeibeh assured the envoy that elections are the path to fulfill the aspirations of the Libyan people in ending the transitional phase and proceeding directly to fair elections.

The meeting was attended by the United Nations Mission in Libya team, along with the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, the Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs, and a member of the team for communication with the UN mission and the advisor.

The budget of the House of Representatives, the Supreme Council of the State, the Presidential Council, the Libyan government and its ministries, according to the proposed budget for the year 2022

The Libyan government allocated in its proposed budget for the year of 2022, a copy of which was obtained by our source: an amount of 41.7 billion dinars for Chapter One “salaries” and an amount of about 8.7 billion dinars for running expenses. Both of which are distributed between parliaments, the state, the presidential, the government, its bureau and its ministries.

According to the proposed budget, an amount of 1.362 billion dinars has been allocated to the House of Representatives and its affiliates, of which more than 925 million are for salaries and 437 million for running expenses. 77 million dinars have been allocated to the Supreme Council of State, “17 million of which for salaries and 60 million for expenses.” As for the Presidential Council and its affiliates Authorities, led by the General Intelligence Service, 463.5 million dinars has been allocated to them, and nearly 1.5 billion dinars has been allocated to the Council of Ministers of the Libyan government and its affiliates , “of which 742 million are for salaries and 756 million for expenses.”

As for the ministries, the largest share was for the Ministry of Education with 15.8 billion dinars, then the Ministry of Defense with 7.9 billion dinars, the Ministry of Health with 5 billion dinars, the Ministry of the Interior with a total of 4.9 billion dinars, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with 2.3 billion dinars, and then the Ministries of Planning and Finance and of Higher Education at an amount of 2 billion dinars each, the Ministries of Justice and of Technical Education at a value of 1.3 billion dinars for each ministry, the Ministry of Labor and Rehabilitation at an amount of 784 million dinars, the Ministry of Local Government at a value of 584 million dinars, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Wealth at an amount of 488 million dinars.

As well as the Ministry of Social Affairs has been allocated with a share of about 341 million dinars, the Ministry of Economy and Trade with a value of 292 million dinars, the Ministry of Communications with a value exceeding 280 million dinars, the Ministry of Culture with a value of approximately 266 million dinars, the Ministry of Public Works with an amount of 249 million dinars, the Ministry of Sports with a value of 214 million dinars, the Ministry of Information With a value of 209 million dinars, the Ministry of Tourism with a value of 132 million dinars, the Ministry of Civil Aviation with an amount of 115 million dinars, and the rest of the ministries with values ​​less than 100 million dinars for each ministry.

The arrival of 100 million dinars as a liquidity shipment to reach 570 million dinars totally

The liquidity team of the Central Bank of Libya confirmed to “Tabadul TV” the arrival of a liquidity shipment this Friday morning to the International Airport in Benghazi, dedicated to branches of the Jumhouria Bank, with a value of 100 million Dinars. 

According to the team, the total shipments sent to bank branches in the eastern region within one week reached 570 million dinars for branches of Jumhouria Bank, National Commercial Bank and Wahda Bank.

Libya Lifts force majeure on Zueitina port

Libya’s NOC announced the lifting of force majeure Tuesday, September 22, 2020, and the operator of the Zueitina Oil Company has been instructed to initiate production arrangements.

It is worth noting that Zueitina Oil Company is the main supplier of LPG and also an important source for the coastline system, which enables the rest of the operators to supply the North Benghazi and Zueitina power plants with gas, which alleviates the suffering of the people in the greater city of Benghazi and its suburbs and provides clean and regular natural gas.

The ports of Hariga, Brega, and Zueitina are therefore classified as safe ports. The remaining oil fields and ports are being evaluated according to the safety and security standards in force in the national oil sector.

Libya Arms Embargo Has Become a ‘Joke,

According to a confidential UN report underscoring how the country’s proxy war has become a magnet for hired guns, a team of about 20, led by South African national Steve Lodge, arrived in Libya in late June 2019 and abruptly pulled out a few days later, leaving the North African country aboard two boats to Malta.

UN investigators said in the report they were unable to determine why the team pulled out, but that the explanation provided by their lawyers – that they were providing services related to oil and gas — was not convincing.

Libya Arms Embargo Has Become a ‘Joke,’ Top UN Official Says 

The report said the operation also called for a “targeting cell,” a group responsible for drones, and an attack helicopter, but was unable to determine if those plans went through.

On its website, Lancaster 6 says it works at “reducing violence” and specializes in “search and rescue” operations, among other services including oil field technical services and governance consulting.

A letter from Vince Gordon, the lawyer representing Lodge, Durrant and Perry in the matter, disputed the accusations in the report, quoting Durrant as saying: “allegations about the unlawful activity of Opus and Lancaster 6 in Libya are simply not factual and spread based on a patchwork of half truths.”

The letter said that they had cooperated with the UN investigation and offered to meet the panel several times. “Our clients intend to vigorously defend themselves and their directors and employees against false and misleading allegations.”

In a press release from Fenech’s company, Sovereign Charters Limited, it said that “Although the chartering agreement with the client was for 90 days, the situation in Libya had escalated rapidly and within a few days of their delivery the client decided to use the vessels to evacuate the personnel immediately.”

For first time in history: US oil price crash below zero

Oil prices in the US have crashed below zero for the first time in history as demand for energy plummeted due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The historic fall was fuelled by traders not wanting to get stuck owning crude oil with nowhere to keep it. The dramatic decline in demand due to the COVID-19 crisis means that storage facilities are nearly full.

Tanks could hit their limits within three weeks, according to analysts.

Brent LCOc1 was down by 147 %, at $ -8.60 a barrel.

Libyans rush to stock up for Ramadan before coronavirus curfew kicks in

Today, Libyans rushed to stock up on food for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan before a curfew starts in the capital Tripoli and other western areas aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.

The coronavirus adds to the fears and anxieties of residents tired after years of conflict that have seen the huge north African country divided into rival governments.

Despite calls by the United Nations for a ceasefire to allow Libya’s fragmented and overstretched health system to prepare to fight the COVID-19 disease, fighting has intensified since the LNA lost four towns in western Libya.

“Raedat” ( female entrepreneurs)

A competition in which 30 women competed, ten per region, through which they presented on air and in front of a jury  a summary of their ideas and expressed their ambition to enter the business and entrepreneurship market.

It is a project to develop Libyan female entrepreneurship under the auspices of Expertise France.

 The selection process was within a competitive TV Show. It was a platform that brought together women who had ideas and aspired to enter the labor market with experts and investors and win the proposed prizes. The programme  demonstrated the pivotal role of the private sector in supporting women in Libya.




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