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COMMUNITY
• Institute of Internal
Auditors Qatar
hosts seminar
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RECIPE CONTEST
• Send your best
recipe and win
a dinner voucher
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HEALTH
• Doctors develop
$260 test-tube baby
system for poor world
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MOVIE
• Omar Al Qattan
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Arab films
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TECHNOLOGY
• Messaging app WeChat
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Exploring Art
VCUQatar recently collaborated with the Ministry of Social Affairs and held a
summer art and design programme. It was held for the third year and students
with no background in art or design were offered a new learning opportunity.
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COVER STORY
Developing skills in art & design
By Fazeena Salim
Y
oung students who explored and developed their skills in art and design in
the summer programme of Virginia
Commonwealth University in Qatar
will showcase their works on Thursday.
The exhibition of drawings, paintings, collages and experiments with different materials by children aged eight to 10 years, titled
‘Mini Masterpieces’, will be held at room 370
of VCUQatar.
Their elder colleagues, in the age group of 11
to 12 years, will showcase their works on July
18 at room 390 at VCUQatar together with students from the Creative Discovery and Design
Intensive programme.
‘Creative Discovery’ will showcase their paintings, drawings, illustrations, prints, and computer graphics.
The ‘Design Intensive’ exhibition will show
paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media works,
dyeing, computer graphics and photographs.
VCUQatar recently collaborated with the
Ministry of Social Affairs and held a summer
art and design programme. It was held for the
third year and attracted 20 young female Qatari
students aged 14 to 20 years.
The students, with no background in art or
design, were offered these programmes as a new
learning opportunity.
VCUQatar alumni Yang Soon Ju (skill building) and Esra Kazem (object transformation)
and community class instructors Shamim Hatim
Dalal (paper quilling), Sangeeta Deepu (clay jewellery) and Asha Mathews (non-traditional jewellery) conducted a two-week programme with
two sessions each day. They were assisted by
VCUQatar students Omaima Al Abdulla, Noor
Suleiman, Rana Jubara and Geetha Rajeswar.
The skill building session involved the development of basic collage, drawing and colouring
skills. The students could then choose to learn
either two jewellery making techniques – clay
jewellery and non-traditional jewellery—or two
product design and production techniques –
paper quilling and object transformation. They
received brief introductions to the respective
subjects and went on to create a final project
on their own.
The instructors and teaching assistants
agreed the programme was a welcome opportunity to give back to the community and said
sharing their passion with strangers was highly
rewarding. They loved the fact that the students
were interested and engaged in their work.
Mini Masterpieces will
showcase drawings, paintings,
collages and experiments
with different materials by
children aged eight to 10
years on Thursday at room
370 of VCUQatar. Their elder
colleagues, in the age group of
11 to 12 years, will showcase
their works on July 18 at room
390 of VCUQatar together with
students from the Creative
Discovery and Design Intensive
programme.
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“Although most of the students did a collage for the first
time they explored their creativity with great enthusiasm,
finding out that the process could be very useful for their
future work and as a hobby. Understanding line weight, different values and colours was challenging for the students,
who, despite this fact, and in a very short time, produced
successful work,” said Yang.
“Students started out by forming simple shapes from
clay and went on to create coloured jewellery components,”
said Deepu.
“The process of working with clay is very soothing and
relaxing; the students did not want to stop,” she added.
Family members and friends were invited to an exhibition of the final projects on at VCUQatar, where students
proudly presented their works in a show combining ideas
for jewellery, lamps, frames, bags and envelopes as well as
collages and works of art.
VCUQatar Dean Allyson Vanstone presented certificates
to the students in the presence of faculty, alumni, the
students’ families, and representatives from the Ministry
of Social Affairs—Noor Al Thani, trainer, Muneera Al
Muraikhi, social programme specialist, and Abdul Hameed
Al Mulla, public relations consultant.
“It was very a joyful experience, especially that the
course took place at VCUQatar,” said Latifa Al Kuwari, a
student participating in the programme.
“We learnt basic skills in sketching, colouring, product
design, object transformation and paper quilling, and the
skills we learnt were beneficial for everyday life. We would
like to thank the Ministry of Social Affairs for offering us
this opportunity and for being there at our exhibition.”
Another student, Sheikha Al Sulaiti, agreed. “The beginning was tough, and ideas did not flow easily,” she said, “but
with practice, ideas started to flow and we were able to
apply the skills we learnt more fluidly in our work. Even
the assistants and instructor helped us throughout the
course. I would highly recommend others enrol in this
programme because I benefited so much from it, and so
will they.”
The aim of the Community and Outreach Programme
team is to make the programme one of several annual
collaborations between the Ministry of Social Affairs and
VCUQatar, promoting awareness of art and design in the
community, providing a model for community engagement
and learning opportunities for young Qatari students, who
feel the need to develop their creativity.
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COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE
Institute of Internal
Auditors Qatar
hosts seminar
T
he Institute of Internal Auditors Qatar
hosted a seminar with talks by two speakers on complimentary topics. The seminar
outlined the expectations of regulators who
stress the importance of correct internal audit and
identified challenges relating to developments in the
legislation process in Qatar pertaining to IT security
and protection mechanisms.
The first speaker, Ewald Muller, is a director at
Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority. He
focused on the role of internal audit in governance
and regulation, with examples from banking supervision. Referring to a study, Muller said: “Internal
audit’s value will be measured by its ability to drive
positive change and improvement”
The second speaker, Samir Pawaskar, a manager
in cybersecurity strategy and policy at ICTQatar,
took the audience through developments in Qatar
relating to legislation for protection and control
over critical information, respect for privacy and
overall IT security and protection. The speaker
referred to cyber warfare and hacktivism as existing phenomena.
In his address, Chris Adonis, a past president of
IIA, referred to the characteristics of a professional,
such as competence, skill and confidence.
Sundaresan Rajeswar, an election officer and past
president, concluded the event with a review of the
existing board members’ portfolios and informing
the meeting of co-opted board members.
The board’s term has been extended and an election will be held in the near future. Girish Jain coordinated the event
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Salam Technology launches new digital signage solutions
S
alam Technology, in collaboration with
ADabisc, has announced for the first time
in Qatar new digital signage screens. Salam
Technology offers traditional digital signage solutions and also provides “Any Glass concept”, which
can be offered to customers through broadcasting media into different end points such as iPads,
iPhones, projectors, LED screens and video walls)
through a centralised media management solution.
Salam Technology is utilising Cisco systems and
AppSpace technology, and works on integrating both
these platforms in digital signage screens. ADabisc
will develop a creative and innovative touch on the
content, which the consumer will receive on the
screens through a complete and integrated system
using its own unique content.
Hythem El Kabbany, General Manager for
Marketing and Sales at Salam Technology, stated:
“Salam Technology is launching this one of a kind
initiative in Qatar in partnership with ADabisc,
CISCO, and AppSpace. We were able to combine
the latest technology with creative content solutions in one of the most sophisticated devices. This
comprehensive package will lead every consumer
to experience the privilege of owning a customised
system that reflects the essence and aspirations of
its company, drifting away from the monotonous
and traditional technical approaches.”
Luay Darwish, Managing Director at ADabisc,
said: “Modern technology is no longer the only
criterion that institutions and organisations look
for these days. They strive for excellence and
innovation in order to influence and encourage
healthy competition. Within this framework, our
An official showcasing the
new signage solution.
company has more than a decade of experience
and professionalism in the field of creative content and digital marketing. Today we are sharing
our expertise with you to create a first of its kind
experience in Qatar.”
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Al Mourjan Restaurants
win international award
A
l Mourjan Restaurants
(Corniche Branch) received
an international award of
excellence from the US Business
Initiative Directions (BID), the
worldwide organisation promoting
quality culture in top businesses, at
the “International Quality Summit”
held in New York recently.
This award is a “very prestigious award” given to select business
organisations from different industries from around the world that
have gone beyond the limit of excellence. “Al Mourjan Restaurants is
proud to be the only restaurant in
the region to have attained such a
prestigious global award in recognition of its gourmet cuisine, track
record of customer satisfaction and
professional business practices,” a
press statement said.
Al Mourjan
official with
the award.
“Since the creation of Al Mourjan
Restaurants (Corniche Branch), our
vision was to create a restaurant
in Qatar that can go globally and
compete with the very best in the
world. Today we have achieved that
by putting Al Mourjan Restaurants
on the world map of the ‘Best
Restaurants of the World’,” added
Mohamed Al Sadek, owner director
of Al Mourjan International Group,
after receiving the award in New
York.
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Safeeran-e-Watan, a Pakistani organisation, organised a dinner party in honour of
Khalid Hameed, PIA Country Manager, and Syed Wajahad ul Hassan. Sardar Ashiq
Hussain, chief patron, gave a welcome speech, and the chairman of the organisation,
Malik Sarfaraz Khan, also addressed the gathering. Addressing the audience, Hameed
said that he was proud and happy that he got posted in Qatar and would work hard
for the welfare of Pakistanis living here. Noor ul Hassan, chairman of Muslim League
Noon Society, and Ishtaq Bangsh and Zahid Rizvi from Descon, Abdul Hameed, Athar
Hussain, Amjad Hussain, Abul Hassan, Majid Khan, Akram Nawaz and Kabir ul din
Khan also participated in the function, which was held at Zoak Restaurant.
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The Grand Prize winner of the NAS
Stores raffle draw, Mohammed Juma
Mohammed Dosari receiving a symbolic car key from Moath Al Qadi,
Group Human Resources Manager of
Nasir bin Abdullah and Sons. The second and third prize winners, Ghanshyam
Chaudhary (right) and Mohammed
Mazhar (second left), also received keys
during the raffle draw ceremony at NAS
Stores showroom in Doha yesterday.
NAS Stores gave away three cars and
electronic goods to 222 winners. The
first prize winner received a Hyundai
Santa Fe and the second and third prize
winners got a Hyundai Accent each.
The Torch Doha offers
authentic Ramadan
atmosphere
Qatar UAE Exchange launches ‘Beat the Heat’ campaign
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all CGC and selected dealer outlets
across Qatar. Customers can redeem
the vouchers for any purchase at any
Lulu outlet until August 31.
he Torch Doha has prepared
special events for Ramadan.
While dining and experiencing
The Torch’s services, guests can enjoy
the cultural and family activities of
Hayyakum B Aspire Ramadan Festival.
Guests can savour iftar and sohour
buffet offerings at the Flying Carpet
restaurant.
The iftar and sohour buffets offer an
extensive range of Arabic delicacies to
be enjoyed along with Ramadan beverages and culinary masterpieces. In
addition, the live cooking station will
serve a variety of dishes including traditional lamb ouzi, fresh barbecue and
shawarma complemented by authentic
Arabian sweets.
The Arabian décor of the hotel lobby,
with white and beige chiffon, enhances
the warm atmosphere for guests during the holy month. The Flying Carpet
restaurant features hanging carpets
and Ramadan lamps along with a beverage trolley.
For private events, Aspire Ballroom
and Torch Ballroom — adjacent to
Aspire Ladies Club — are good options
with a traditional Ramadan ambience
and private service. Guests staying at
the hotel during Ramadan and Eid
Al Fitr can avail of a special package available from QR750 per room
per night, including overnight stay in
a modern deluxe room, sohour, iPad
in-room solution, 24/7 in-room iftar
and sohour and use of Health Club
facilities.
The iftar buffet is served daily in
the Flying Carpet restaurant from
Maghreb prayer until 8pm for QR195
per person, including Ramadan juices.
The sohour buffet will be served from
11pm until 2am at QR175 per person,
including Ramadan beverages. Dinner
a la carte will be served in Doha’s only
revolving restaurant, Three Sixty,
located on the 47th floor at The Torch.
“We are glad to welcome our guests
during this special time of the year with
a spread of delicious Ramadan delicacies and family activities happening in
Aspire Zone. Ramadan Kareem to all,”
said hotel manager Sherif Sabry.
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Qatar UAE Exchange has launched an awareness programme, Beat The Heat, with support from Aster Medical Center to
provide basic information on healthy living during summer. The initiative aims to spread awareness among people, especially
those who work outdoors, about the risks of exposure to sunlight and preventive steps to avoid sunstroke or any other
clinical emergency during this season. The first seminar was held at the CCIC camp, Shahaniya, and was attended by 200
camp residents. Dr Sakkir from Aster Medical Center briefed the residents. Senior camp officials, marketing officers from
Qatar UAE Exchange and Aster representatives shared their views with the audience.
CGC unveils new
Nokia promotion
I
n celebration of the holy month
of Ramadan, Consolidated Gulf
Company (CGC), the Nokia
associate in Qatar, is offering Lulu
Hypermarkets’ shopping vouchers
worth up to QR200 on purchase of
Nokia Lumia smartphones.
Anil Mahajan, COO, CGC, said: “We
are delighted to once again partner
with Lulu to bring an attractive value
proposition to our esteemed customers. Besides offering the latest Nokia
Lumia smart devices, customers have
the choice to use Lulu vouchers for any
purchase in the Lulu outlets. Moreover,
there is no limit on the number of purchases and the redemption period is
also long enough to cover the entire
festival season.
Nokia Lumia smartphones are on
offer with Lulu vouchers, including
Lumia 920 with QR200 in gift vouchers at QR1,999, Lumia 820 with QR150
in vouchers at QR1,299, Lumia 720 at
QR1,199 with QR100 in vouchers, Lumia
620 with QR100 in vouchers at QR879,
while a QR50 gift voucher is given with
each purchase of Lumia 520 at QR649.
This offer is available till July 31 at
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RECIPE
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WINNER
Healthy Crunchy
Chickpea Spinach Salad
Ingredients:
• Canned whole chickpeas (250g)
• Canned mushrooms, sliced (100g)
• 1 red bell pepper
• 2 cups spinach leaves, chopped
• 2 small stalks spring onions
• A few rocket leaves
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped
Dressing:
• 2 cloves of garlic.
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp Balsamic vinegar
Method:
Steam the spinach for about 20 mins.
Wash and drain well the rocket leaves. Line the
base of a dish with the leaves.
Crush the garlic cloves and mix well with the oil and
vinegar to make the dressing and set aside.
Drain out the water from the chickpeas and mushrooms. Chop the bell pepper and the spring onions.
Mix the chickpeas, mushrooms, red pepper, spring
onions and the steamed spinach along with the
dressing. Layer this mixture over the rocket leaves.
Sprinkle the chopped walnuts on top and serve.
Ayesha Banu
Method:
Wash the greens thoroughly and dry them. Chop the lettuce
into bite-sized pieces. Set aside.
Bring vinegar to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high
heat. Reduce heat, and simmer until vinegar is reduced to 2
tablespoons (about 2 minutes). Remove from heat; stir in honey.
Cool to room temperature.
Prepare grill to high heat. Destone and slice the peaches into
wedges. Drizzle with a little olive oil (or coat with cooking spray).
Place peach wedges onto heated grill; grill 30 seconds on each
side until grill marks appear but peaches are still firm. Remove
from grill and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine oil, pepper, and salt while whisking.
Add greens and cooked, diced beets, tossing gently to coat.
Arrange the mixture on a platter. Top with grilled peach wedges.
Drizzle with balsamic syrup; sprinkle roasted pine nuts and
crushed feta cheese.
Mala
Healthy Salad
Ingredients:
• 100 gms whole mung (green gram)
• 100 gms white chick peas
• 1 big tomato
• 1 cucumber
• 1 onion
• 1 tbsp salt (as per taste)
• 1 tbsp black pepper (as per taste)
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp cumin powder
• 1 cup chopped salad cabbage
• 1 bunch of lettuce leaves
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Method:
Crispy Potato Chips and
Lettuce Salad
Ingredients:
• 1 medium size potato
• 1 medium size Onion
• 1 small bowl red pepper cubes
• 1 tsp chat masala
• 1 tbsp corn flour
• 1 tbsp flour
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 4/5 lettuce leaves
• Salt and red chilly powder for taste
• Oil for deep frying
Method:
Make thin slice of potato, sprinkle salt and red chilly powder.
Add chat masala. Mix it well. Take corn flour and flour in same
proportion. Mix it well without adding water. Mix well potato chips
to get coating with flour and deep fry it.
Cut onion. Add red pepper, lettuce, salt to taste, little red chilly
powder and lemon juice. Toss it well. Arrange the fried chips on
the lettuce. Serve in salad dish.
Anjali Pimple
Beet and Grilled Peach
Summer Salad
Ingredients:
For the Salad
• 2 medium beets, peeled, cooked, and diced into 1/2” cubes
• 2 small moderately ripe peaches
• 1 bunch baby arugula leaves
• 1 small head butter lettuce
• 2 tbsp roasted pine nuts
• 2 tbsp crushed feta cheese
For the Dressing
• 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
• 2 tbsp honey
• 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/8 tsp ground black pepper
• 1/4 tsp salt
First of all take whole mung and keep them in warm water for
7 hours (overnight).
Remove the water next morning and put the mung in a white
cloth and tie the cloth. Put that cloth in a vessel and cover it.
Next day morning you will have seeded mung.
Now take the white chick peas and boil them for one hour and
remove the remaining water.
Take a plate and decorate it with lettuce. On that put a layer of
seeded mung and then a layer of boiled white chick peas. On top
of that put chopped onion, cucumber, salad cabbage and tomato.
Now put black pepper, salt, olive oil, cumin powder and mix everything properly. Your healthy and delicious salad is ready to serve.
Enjoy healthy salad in the morning breakfast or afternoon lunch.
Darshna Taylor
Fried Brinjal Salad
Ingredients:
• 5 brinjals
• 2 onions chopped
• 1 tomato chopped
• 2 green chilies chopped
• 1/2 tsp chili powder
• Salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp lemon
• Oil for frying
Method:
Wash the brinjal and slice in to thin circles.
Deep fry the sliced brinjals, until it is little brown and crisp.
Once fried drain the oil, and into that add the chopped onion,
tomatoes, green chilies, red chilies, salt and lemon and mix
well and serve.
Fathima Shabeena Fahmy
Chickpeas and Potato Salad
Ingredients:
• 3/4 cup Chickpeas
• 1 cup Chopped Boiled potato
• ½ cup finely chopped onion
• ¼ cup finely chopped green mango
• ¼ cup finely chopped coriander leaves
• 2 tbsp finely chopped mint leaves
• ½ cup fresh pomegranate seeds
• 1 tbsp cumin powder
• 2 tsp chat masala
• Sugar-salt – as per taste
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 pinch each asafoetida and Cumin
• 1 tbsp green chilli paste
• 2 tsp garlic paste
Method:
Dip the chickpeas for 6-7 hours and boil it.
Mix boiled chickpeas, potato, onion, green mango, coriander leaves, mint
leaves, half of Pomegranate seeds, cumin powder, chat masala, salt and
sugar properly.
Heat the oil and once the oil is hot put asafoetida and cumin in it. Then
put chilli and garlic paste in it, sauté it for few seconds and pour it in above
salad mixture.
Let it cool. Garnish it with pomegranate seeds and coriander leaves.
Madhavi Bhattad
Spiced Potatoes with Tomato Salad
Ingredients:
• 6 tomatoes
• 750g waxy potatoes peeled
• 4 tsp olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled & crushed
• 4 tsp smoked Paprika
Method:
Cut a cross in the base of each tomato, cover with boiling water and leave
for 1 minute. Remove from water and peel, then chop and set to one side.
Cut the potatoes into bite-size chunks. Bring a large pan of water to the boil.
Add the potatoes and bring back to boil. Reduce the heat a little and cover.
Cook for 8 minutes and drain.
Heat the oil in large frying pan and add the potatoes. Cook over a moderate
heat stirring from time to time for about 10 minutes, until potatoes start to
turn golden in places.
Add the garlic, paprika and cook stirring, for 1 minute.
Add the chopped tomatoes and continue to cook for a further 5 minutes,
stirring from time to time. Remove from the heat and serve.
Nitin Vasant
HEALTH
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Easing into outdoor workouts on summer days
By Dorene Internicola
C
an’t take the heat? Fitness experts say one
way for outdoor exercisers who dread the
long, hot summer days of steamy runs and
breathless aerobics during a heat wave is
to embrace it.
“It takes most healthy people 10 to 14 days to fully
acclimate to exercising in the heat,” said Dr Cedric X.
Bryant, chief science officer of the American Council
on Exercise. “In order to achieve that you need to be
exercising in heat.”
The heat-acclimated individual will sweat sooner
and that sweat will be more dilute, Bryant said.
There will be a lower risk for dehydration and a
reduction in the heat gained through exercise that
will help maintain a lower core temperature and
heart rate response.
He said as much as 25 percent of the healthy
population is estimated to be heat intolerant in an
unacclimated state. Once they get acclimated that
drops to 2 percent.
A 2011 report from the US Centers for Disease
Control showed that about 6,000 people a year seek
emergency treatment for heat illnesses suffered while
playing sports or participating in other recreational
activities outdoors.
While acclimating to the physiological demands
of the heat, Bryant said, be sure to tone down your
workout.
“Strictly adhere to the talk test (the ability to talk
as a gauge of correct exercise intensity),” he said. “It’s
not a time to do intervals or high-intensity exercises.
Afterwards, when you’re fully acclimated, you can
ramp up intensity.”
Connecticut-based fitness instructor Ellen Barrett
said a daily dose of hot yoga primed her for the heat
wave that slammed the US East Coast in June.
“I did the Bikram yoga challenge every day for
a month, so when that heat wave hit I didn’t even
notice it,” said Barrett, author of the upcoming book,
The 28 Days Lighter Diet.
By Ben Hirschler
B
elgian doctors have developed
a low-cost version of test-tube
baby technology for use in
developing countries, where sophisticated Western systems are unaffordable for most couples.
The researchers said their simplified process cost around €200 ($260)
per cycle of treatment and delivered
results that were not much different
to those seen with conventional invitro fertilization (IVF) programme.
The price is just 10 to 15 percent
of the current cost of Western-style
IVF and suggests infertility care could
one day become universally accessible,
Elke Klerkx from the Genk Institute
for Fertility Technology told a medical meeting.
Around 5 million babies have been
born around the world since the birth
of the first test-tube baby in 1978 but the treatment remains largely
the preserve of developed countries
because of its high cost.
“Infertility care is probably the
most neglected healthcare problem of
developing countries, affecting more
than 2 million couples according to the
She said Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer trains
in Dubai.
“He plays all day in the hot sun so when he’s at the
US Open at the end of summer in New York City, he
looks fresh as a daisy,” she said.
Exercise physiologist and running coach Tom
Holland is a veteran of more than 60 marathons
and 21 Ironman triathlons, many held in sweltering
conditions including an Ironman in Malaysia, where
the temperature soared to 104 degrees (40 Celsius)
and humidity to 99 percent.
“I actually love running in the brutal heat and
humidity and have trained myself accordingly,” said
Holland, author of The Marathon Man.
When running in the heat, he recommends adjusting speed and goals and said runners should expect
to run more slowly and should focus on covering the
distance.
“I paced a 60-year-old client in the 2012 Boston
Marathon where the race hit 90 degrees,” he said.
“When I saw how hot it would be, we adjusted his
race goal from 3:40 (three hours, 40 minutes) to just
finishing.”
Running in heat is difficult, Holland explained,
because blood has two conflicting interests - supplying working muscles and going to the skin to cool
the body down.
“So there is less blood for the muscles, our hearts
have to work harder, our heart rate increases, and
the relative intensity of the run increases,” he said.
“You simply cannot run as fast in hot conditions.”
Bryant said that even the fully heat-acclimated
exerciser reverts rapidly when the training stops.
“Unfortunately the benefits of heat acclimation
are lost quite quickly,” he said. “For every two days
an individual abstains from heat exposure, one day
of acclimation is lost. So after two to three weeks
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you’re back to starting over.”
Health News
Doctors develop $260 test-tube
baby system for poor world
WHO (World Health Organisation),”
Klerkx said.
In order to slash the price, Klerkx
and her colleagues used an embryo
culture method that removes the need
for much of the expensive laboratory
equipment found in European or
North American IVF clinics.
Results from a study showed similar success rates between the standard
and low-cost system - and two-thirds
of the top quality embryos from 35
cycles as assessed by an independent expert came from the simplified
system.
“Our initial results are proof of
principle that a simplified culture system designed for developing countries
can offer affordable and successful
opportunities for infertility treatment
where IVF is the only solution,” said
Klerkx. “This is a major step towards
universal fertility care.”
Fertility
experts
attending
the European Society of Human
Reproduction and Embryology
(ESHRE) annual meeting in London,
where her results were presented, said
the system could bring IVF to many
corners of the world, including much
of Africa, where there is a huge unmet
need.
But they cautioned that it had, as
yet, only been shown to work in a
developed world setting, using a laboratory in Belgium, and larger trials
in one or more developing country
were now needed to test the process fully.
Infertility is a serious problems in
some countries in Africa and other
resource-poor settings, where infections are a common cause of tubal
blockages in women, leading to often
high rates of infertility and social isolation. Many cases of infertility in the
developing world are due to infectious
diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea or
tuberculosis.
Richard Kennedy, general secretary of the International Federation
of Fertility Societies, said the
Belgian team’s work had great
potential.
“Infertility is a disease which does
not respect national boundaries. Until
now it has been unaffordable for many
in the developing world,” he said in a
statement.
ESHRE estimates the prevalence
of infertility that lasts for at least 12
months to be around 9 percent worldwide for women aged 20-44.
Klerkx and the Genk team are
now working to build a low-cost IVF
laboratory that could be a used as a
template for use in poorer countries.
The cost of setting up a high-quality
IVF lab is between €1.5m and €3m,
but she expects the low-cost version
to cost less than €300,000.
Construction of the centre in
Genk is expected to be completed by
November this year and it will provide
training for clinicians from developing
countries.
Reuters
Dhakira
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Michel Khleifi, 1980
The Palestinian Michel Khleifi is
probably the finest Arab film-maker of
his generation. I must declare an interest here as we have worked together
for more than 20 years, but in truth I
admire all his films. His most famous is
Wedding in Galilee, but for me his most
moving and exciting work is the documentary that made his name. Fertile
Memory is a portrait of two women: one
a radical young Palestinian novelist, a
divorcée, living with her daughters in
the Occupied Territories; the other
Khleifi’s illiterate aunt, who lost her
husband just after the 1948 war. This is
the first feminist Arab film and it has
a very keen sense of observation and
political engagement.
(Al
Fertile Memory
Khasba)
Zeina Daccache, 2009
I was on the jury when this won the
top documentary award at Dubai in
2009. The director is a young Lebanese
drama therapist who put on a production of 12 Angry Men inside Lebanon’s
most notorious prison and filmed the
long protracted process. The film
was partly an attempt to reform the
country’s criminal and penal laws
and improve prison living conditions.
It also enabled Daccache to extend
her drama therapy work to prisons
across Lebanon, and she had started
working in Syria shortly before the
current conflict began. It is deeply
moving and full of humanity, particularly in the way it describes the process of lifting men from a profound
Khalid Al Siddiq, 1972
This, I think, is the first feature
film ever made in Kuwait by a Kuwaiti
director. Shot in black and white, it
evokes the pre-oil days when Kuwait
relied almost entirely on the sea, either
for trade or for pearl fishing. Men
would go to sea for months, leaving the
women, children and elderly to fend for
themselves. The sea is the main character here — initially the source of all
things beautiful but equally a monster
that destroys lives. The film is a Greek
tragedy of sorts, and despite its formal
simplicity, it is technically ambitious
and very beautiful. I also admire the
spare acting style.
The Cruel Sea (Bas-Ya-Bahar)
Hassan Al Imam, 1972
I love musicals, and this one is particularly good as it was written by the
great cartoonist, poet and satirist Salah
Jaheen. It is a comedy of class conflict
— Zouzou (Soad Hosny) comes from
Cairo’s popular quarters but is attending the liberal world of university. It’s
a satirical film but lively. If you watch
this, and then visit a Cairo university
campus today, with its veiled girls and
bearded boys, you will be shocked by
how conservative and reactionary Arab
urban society has become in the past
40 years.
Watch
out
for
ZouZou
(Khally ballak min ZouZou)
state of despair into a renewed desire
to live and build a different future for
themselves.
12 Angry Lebanese
Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969
This was the most successful fulllength feature film by Shadi Abdel
Salam, who started his career as an
assistant to Rossellini and Mankiewicz
(on Cleopatra) and died quite young.
Set in Egypt at the end of the 19th
century, it tells of a peasant family living off the illegal trade in pharaonic
treasures. The theme here is the continuity between ancient and modern
Egypt and the importance of preserving
pharaonic culture. Abdel Salam, also a
great costume and set designer, based
everything on meticulous research.
Its aesthetic rigour was never again
rivalled in Egyptian cinema.
The Mummy (Al-Mummia), aka The
Night of Counting the Years
Mohammad Malas, 1993
A great Syrian film. It is about the
director’s home town of Quneitra, on
the borders of the Golan Heights, which
was almost completely destroyed by the
Israelis after the 1967 war and remains
in ruins. The film is a historical-autobiographical epic of three generations,
taking you from the Syrian fight for
independence against the French in the
1930s, through the 1948 war with Israel,
and into recent times. Malas is probably the most highly regarded living
Syrian director — he is still based in
Damascus as far as I know — and this
film is heavily influenced by Tarkovsky
in the use of long, contemplative dream
and memory sequences where time is
as important an expressive element as
space, dialogue or movement.
The Night (Al-Lail)
Man of Ashes (Rih Essed)
Nouri Bouzid, 1986
This powerful film about workingclass boys growing up in Tunisia caused
a stir because it deals with sexual harassment and homosexuality. A carpentry apprentice is about to celebrate his
wedding but he and his close friend have
both been victims of sexual abuse, notably by the monstrous local carpenter.
This dark secret threatens to come out
before the young man’s wedding. Several
Arab films in the mid-80s — another is
Michel Khleifi’s Wedding in Galilee —
explored the close links between sexual oppression and political and social
oppression, whether in the form of traditional patriarchal orders or foreign
military occupation or entrenched class
Henry Barakat, 1960
Barakat was the master of classical
cinema in Egypt, and this film is based
on a novel by the great Taha Hussein.
It is humane and beautifully made. The
heroine, a peasant girl, decides to take
revenge on a handsome engineer who has
seduced her sister and caused her “honour” killing by her uncle. In order to do
so, she becomes his live-in maid but soon
finds herself falling in love with him. It
stars a very young Faten Hamama, who
went on to become a huge star and who
plays every role with grace and elegance,
The Call of the Nightingale (Doa
al-Karawan), aka The Nightingale’s
Prayer
interests. Man of Ashes does this brilliantly.
The 10 best Arab films
PLUS | TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013
Fifty years of movie magic, from Tunisia to
Iraq, as chosen by Omar Al Qattan,
film-maker and chair of Shubbak – A
Window on Contemporary Arab Culture.
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Hussein Kamal, 1971
Based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz,
this film’s theme is decadence. It is set on
an illicit barge on the Nile where disenchanted government employees meet to
get drunk and smoke hashish. Made soon
after President Nasser’s death, the film is
critical of the old “socialist” bureaucracy,
which had become extremely corrupt. It
has the foresight and courage to mark
the end of an era, with eyes keenly locked
on a not-very-promising new one. One
could consider the film overmoralising in
that it conflates freedom with corruption,
but it has a great subversive power and
is still banned in many Arab countries.
Chitchat on the Nile (Thartharah
fawq al-Nil) aka Adrift on the Nile
without ever seeming contrived or dull.
MOVIE
The Guardian
Tewfik Saleh, 1973
Set in Iraq, shot in Syria, based on
a famous Palestinian novel by Ghassan
Kanafani (assassinated by the Israelis
in 1972) and directed by an Egyptian,
this harrowing film is about a group
of Palestinian workmen in the early
50s trying to cross the border illegally
from Iraq into Kuwait, to join the oil
boom. They get a lift inside a water
tank and are stuck there when the
driver is held up by customs officials.
The action takes place inside the tank
in the searing desert heat as the men
dream of the homes and loved ones they
left behind. A classic of the Palestinian
experience.
The Dupes (Al-makhdu’un)
9
ormer model and VJ Keith Sequeira, who will soon be seen in Sixteen,
a film based on teenagers, says even though it contains some profanities, it can be enjoyed by parents and children together.
“There is no such thing in the film that kids can’t watch with their
parents. As for parents, I would like to say that you will feel comfortable
watching the film. Yes, the language is bad at some places, but we have
only told the truth,” Keith said here in an interview.
“If you won’t accept it, then you would be lying to yourself. Kids do use
different language at home and outside. We have also done it, but then we
realised and changed,” he added.
Directed by Raj Purohit, Sixteen also stars Izabelle Leite, Wamiqa Gabbi,
Mahak, Highphill. Hitting theatres on July 12, it talks about teenagers who
lose their way and fall into wrong habits.
Keith also advises parents to give time to children for proper upbringing.
“Parents today think that they can compensate for the missed time
with with mobile, I-pad or cars. But this is not the right thing because if
you don’t find time for your kids, they will not find the right direction,”
Keith said.
F
Families can watch Sixteen
together: Keith Sequeira
ilm-maker-actor Farhan Akhtar will give a
chance to his fans to run along with him in
a mini marathon he will organise ahead of the
release of his movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.
The 3km-5km marathons will be hosted in
four cities — Delhi, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad
and Jaipur.
Releasing on July 12, director Rakeysh
Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag will
see Farhan as athlete Milkha Singh. The biopic
is a co-production between Mehra and Viacom
18 Motion Pictures.
“The curiosity to see Farhan running a marathon is at its highest. He has been able to transcend boundaries and has become the Milkha
Singh of celluloid,” a spokesperson from Viacom
18 Motion Pictures said in a statement.
The actor went through rigorous physical training in order to get the
perfect body like that of an athlete and fans are eager to watch the actor
run live.
“Ever since the promotions started, everyone has been asking Farhan
about the practice that went into playing the role of Milkha Singh. That’s
why the makers have decided to give the audiences a chance to watch him
run a marathon and participate with him,” a source said.
“Many school and college students will be running with Farhan. They
were selected via contests held by the makers recently,” the source added.
The movie also features Sonam Kapoor.
F
Farhan to host mini marathon in four cities
ersatile actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who changed the definition of a hero
with his films, says dark men are now being appreciated in Bollywood.
“Now audience is ready to see all kinds of films and accepting different
actors post Gangs Of Wasseypur. Even Dhanush is being appreciated in
Raanjhanaa, so now it’s time for dark men. I am happy that dark men are
being appreciated in Bollywood (films) by the audience.”
In showbiz, grooming, styling, fitness and good looks play an important
role, but conventionally not good looking, Nawazuddin has made a mark
for himself with his acting skills.
Some of the cast members of Gangs of Wasseypur — Nawazuddin, Huma
Qureshi and Richa Chadda — have teamed up again for Shorts, which has
five short stories by five directors. Releasing July 12, it has been co-produced
by Guneet Monga and Anurag Kashyap.
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Nawazuddin happy that dark
men are being appreciated
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AVIATION
PLUS | TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013
During the first half of 2013 Boeing and Airbus delivered aircraft at
a rate of three a day. Boeing delivered 306 planes and Airbus 295 –
a rare sign that the global economy could be on the mend
Orders for
next generation
single-aisle aircraft (2010-13)
Boeing 737 Max
1,431
38.9%
Airbus
A320neo
2,248
61.1%
Total orders: 3,679 by 57 airlines or lessors
AIRCRAFT ORDERS AT PARIS AIR SHOW (June 17-23)
By manufacturer*
By value (US$ billion)
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options,
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FOOD
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Sandwiches, ready when you are
By Joe Yonan
S
ome nights, sandwiches seem
like the easiest dinner possible
— if you’re a meat eater and
want to reach for the cold cuts.
For vegetarians, a little more planning
typically is in order. I’ve made sandwiches from combinations of raw or
refrigerator-stable ingredients, such
as a grilled “kimcheese” and one that
layers thin slices of zucchini with
radicchio and ricotta, but mostly I’m
depending on leftovers.
An even better bet is to plan on
those leftovers — that is, to get in
the habit of making certain things in
advance so you have them around to
draw from. It’s especially helpful, obviously, with ingredients that take a long
time to cook.
Two such examples presented themselves to me recently when I encountered a delicious appetiser made by
chef Cedric Maupillier at Mintwood
Place in Washington. It’s a roasted
beet, goat cheese and onion “mountain pie,” a white-bread sandwich he
presses in a pie iron and cooks in the
wood oven. (Traditionally it goes right
in campfire embers, hence the name.)
Beets and caramelized onions can
take up to an hour to make, but I’ve
gotten in the habit of preparing batches
of each every week or two to put on salads, pizza and more. When I scrounged
around in my fridge recently for dinner ideas, there they were, ready for
me to combine with a schmear of soft
goat cheese between slices of sprouted
whole-grain bread. At home, I have
neither wood oven nor pie iron, but a
skillet on the stove top helps me turn
the lot into a simply grilled sandwich.
In the case of the beets, a supermarket shortcut is available: cooked
and refrigerated baby beets in the
produce section. They’re a whole lot
Beet, Caramelised Onion and
Goat Cheese Sandwiches
A quick-pickled beet lends a welcome tartness to offset
the rich goat cheese and sweet onions. To save time, look
for cooked, vacuum-packed beets in the supermarket
produce section.
MAKE AHEAD: The caramelized onions can be refrigerated for up to 2 weeks. The beets can be refrigerated
for up to 1 week.
From Washington Post Food editor Joe Yonan, author
of the upcoming Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the
Single Cook (Ten Speed Press, August 2013).
Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 large yellow onions (1 3/4 pounds total), thinly sliced
1/4 teaspoon sea salt, plus more to taste
Water (optional)
4 small to medium beets (about 1 pound), stemmed and well scrubbed
1 tablespoon red vinegar
1 teaspoon honey
4 ounces soft, spreadable goat cheese
8 slices low-sodium whole-grain bread
2 teaspoons canola oil
more expensive than fresh ones, but
sometimes — when I haven’t done the
prep work myself — I’m willing to pay
for the convenience. So far, I’m on my
own when it comes to the onions.
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Method
Heat the olive oil in a large cast-iron or other heavy skillet over medium
heat. Add the onions and cook, tossing with tongs or a spatula, until they wilt
and start to brown. Sprinkle with the salt, toss and reduce the heat to the
lowest possible setting. Cook, stirring very occasionally, until the onions are
deeply golden brown, soft and sweet, up to an hour or more. (If they start to
dry out during cooking, stir in a few tablespoons of water at a time to keep
them moist.) Transfer the onions to a bowl to cool, and wipe out the skillet.
Meanwhile, set a steamer basket in a medium saucepan filled with an
inch or two of water, over medium heat. Bring the water to a boil, then
reduce the heat so the water is gently bubbling and add the beets. Cover
and steam until barely tender when pierced with a fork, 25 to 40 minutes
(depending on their size). Remove from the heat, cool slightly, and slip
off the skins under running water.
Cut the beets into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Place them in a medium bowl
and toss gently to coat with the vinegar and honey.
To make the sandwiches, spread the goat cheese on one side of 4 bread
slices. Top each with the sliced beets, caramelized onions and one of
the remaining 4 bread slices. Press gently to compress each sandwich.
Brush the skillet with the canola oil and heat over medium-high heat.
Once the oil starts to shimmer, lay the sandwiches in the skillet, working
in batches if necessary. Cook, pressing gently with a spatula from time
to time, until the undersides are golden brown, about 2 minutes. Repeat
to brown the second sides. Serve warm.
NUTRITION
Per serving: 420 calories, 17 g protein, 63 g carbohydrates, 13 g fat, 5 g
saturated fat, 15 mg cholesterol, 330 mg sodium, 12 g dietary fibre, 18 g sugar
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TECHNOLOGY
By Jia Lynn Yang
W
ith Web giants such as Facebook and
Twitter blocked by the Chinese government, an entire ecosystem of homegrown companies has flourished with
names that are unfamiliar to many outside China.
Tencent, one of the country’s biggest tech firms, is
hoping to change that with a product that is already
one of the fastest-growing mobile services in the world.
The company’s instant messaging product, WeChat,
has amassed more than 300 million users — nearly
equivalent to the US population — in less than three
years. Tencent says there are more than 70 million
users across southeast Asia, India and Mexico, with 30
million of those added in just the past three months.
WeChat has also expanded into Saudi Arabia recently,
and there are plans to open an office in the United
States.
But WeChat’s Chinese origins could cause problems
for the company worldwide, just as Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE have faced
obstacles in the United States.
Top Web services enjoy extraordinary access to the
kind of user data that is coveted by national security
officials. China has long been seen as especially aggressive with cyber-snooping, and recent revelations about
American Internet surveillance efforts have heightened
global concerns about online privacy.
WeChat has already run into some resistance. India’s
Intelligence Bureau has reportedly proposed a ban on
WeChat’s services. Analysts predict a potential backlash in the United States, too.
“It’s one thing when WeChat dominates in China, but
when WeChat becomes popular outside China, suddenly
China has this access that only the US had before,”
said Christopher Soghoian, senior policy analyst on
speech, privacy and technology for the American Civil
Liberties Union.
Jeremy Goldkorn, director of Danwei.com and a
Chinese media expert, said the political issue of where
servers that store user data are physically located is
going to become more common. “It seems to me many
governments are going to want as much control as
possible,” he said.
A spokeswoman for Tencent said that “we have taken
user data protection seriously in our product development and daily operations, and like other international
By Stuart Dredge
23-year-old Swedish gaming vlogger
leaves Psy, One Direction and Miley
Cyrus trailing in his wake.
Messaging app WeChat carries
Chinese firm’s global ambitions
peers, we comply with relevant laws in the countries
where we have operations.”
In mainland China, WeChat is ubiquitous, used by
everyone from teenagers and their parents to Tibetan
activists.
It has been called the Facebook of China, but that
comparison fails to convey all the things that WeChat
can do. At its most basic, WeChat functions like a free
text-messaging service on your phone. Beyond just
texts, users can send short videos or voice messages
back and forth, like a walkie-talkie. Each person can
also set up a profile like the ones on Facebook.
Companies can also set up WeChat profiles to connect to customers. Have a question about a computer
that needs to be fixed? Send the manufacturer your
exact location via your smartphone, and an employee
will tell you the nearest place to get your device
repaired.
Tencent is already a $7bn company, with revenue
up more than 50 percent last year. Pony Ma, Tencent’s
PewDiePie is world’s most
popular YouTube channel
R
apper Psy’s Gangnam Style video has now
been watched more than 1.7 billion times
on YouTube, and his channel has more than
six million subscribers. But he’s still not the
king of Google’s online video service.
A 23-year-old Swedish gamer named Felix Kjellberg,
whose PewDiePie channel is devoted to “sharing gaming moments on YouTube with my bros”, is currently
the most-viewed channel on the service.
According to online video site Tubefilter’s latest
Top 50 chart, PewDiePie generated just under 50
million views in the week between June 27 and July
3, putting it ahead of Turkish music videos channel
Muyap (45.6 million) and another games channel, Sky
Does Minecraft (35.5 million).
Psy’s 27.6 million weekly views secure him fourth
spot on the chart, with the likes of Samsung Mobile
USA (25 million), One Direction (22.3 million), Arab
Idol (21.6 million) and Miley Cyrus (19.1 million) following in his wake.
It’s PewDiePie’s success that should startle the
entertainment industry. Kjellberg added 349,000 new
subscribers in the week covered by the latest chart,
taking him to a total of 9.8 million overall.
He’s likely to pass the 10 million subscribers milestone sometime this month, and is catching up fast
with comedy channel Smosh, whose 11.1 million subscribers make it the most subscribed-to channel on
YouTube.
PewDiePie and SkyDoesMinecraft’s popularity is
also a reminder of the attention-grabbing growth of
games channels on YouTube, with 1.9 billion all-time
views for the former and 892 million for the latter at
chief executive, has said he wants his company to go
global.
“Successful or not, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Tencent,” Ma told CBN, a Chinese financial
news network.
WeChat, whose rivals include the United Statesbased WhatsApp and Japanese Line messaging services, has been able to charge into new countries by using
advertising that features local celebrities, including
Bollywood actors and soccer players.
By doing this, Tencent is showing a level of savviness
about how online services must often cater to local
tastes and cultural norms. If Ma succeeds, it would be
a breakthrough for Chinese tech firms.
“The Chinese market is both a curse and a blessing,” said Lee Kai-Fu, a longtime tech entrepreneur in
China. “It’s a blessing because it’s big, but it’s a curse
because the marginal cost of doing something more
outside China isn’t that attractive.”
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the time of writing. Both are part of larger “multichannel networks” (MCNs) on YouTube: Maker
Studios in PewDiePie’s case and Machinima for
SkyDoesMinecraft.
MCNs are driving rapid growth for their stables
of YouTubers, with subscriptions becoming an evermore-important spur for views on the service. YouTube
has made a number of changes in the last year to put
more emphasis on channels and subscriptions rather
than just individual videos.
YouTube now attracts more than a billion unique
users a month, who watch more than six billion hours
of video — with a million channel creators currently
earning money from ads placed around their videos
through the YouTube Partner Programme.
Channels like PewDiePie are also appealing strongly
to younger viewers, a group Google refers to as “Gen
C” for their habits of “creation, curation, connection
and community”.
In a study published on its Think Insights website
in March 2013, Google claimed that Gen C is “twice
as likely to be a YouTube viewer than the general
population — and 40 percent more likely to be only a
light TV viewer”.
The study also suggested that these viewers are
increasingly watching on their mobile devices.
“YouTube has the same reach with Gen C on smartphones as it does on desktop. In fact, 80 million of Gen
C with a smartphone watch YouTube.”
The Guardian
COMICS & MORE
LEARN
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13
How to Ask about verb:
Remark: To ask about verbs
we add hel
Hel Ana Katabtu
Did I wrote
Hel Anta Katabta
Did you wrote(m)
Hal Anti Katabti
Did you wrote (f)
Hoy en la Historia
July 9, 1993
Baby Blues
Hal Howa Kataba
Did he wrote
Hal Hiyya Katabat
Did she wrote
British scientists using DNA
genetic fingerprinting tests
identified the bones of the
murdered Russian Tsar Nicholas II
and members of his family
by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
1872: New England sea captain John
F. Blondel patented the first doughnut
cutter that cut the centre out of the ring
2001: A Chilean court ruled that
General Augusto Pinochet should be
spared trial for human rights
violations on account of ill-health
2003: The Canadian government
announced it would supply marijuana
for legal medicinal purposes
2007: Snow fell in Buenos Aires for
the first time in 89 years
Picture: Getty Images
Hagar The Horrible
Zits
by Chris Browne
© GRAPHIC NEWS
ALL IN THE MIND
Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,
vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
ACCOUNTANT, ARCHITECT, ARTIST, ASTRONAUT, AUTHOR,
BAKER, BRICKLAYER, BUILDER, BUTCHER, CARPENTER,
CHEMIST, DENTIST, DOCTOR, DRIVER, ELECTRICIAN, FARMER,
FIREFIGHTER, GLAZIER, HANDYMAN, JOURNALIST, LAWYER,
MUSICIAN, NURSE, PHOTOGRAPHER, PILOT, PLUMBER,
POLITICIAN, SAILOR, SCIENTIST, SOLDIER, TAILOR, TEACHER.
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ACROSS
1 Either of two Syrian
presidents
6 “Spring forward” inits.
9 “Oleanna” playwright
14 Bather’s scrubber
15 When to observe
6-Across in France
16 Hoopster Stoudemire
17 Humanoid of Jewish
folklore
18 Elbow-bender
19 ___ Hart (“Chicago” role)
20 Marsh rodents
23 Mil. headquarters
26 Country associated
with 38-/40-/
41-Across
27 They’re flashed at guards
30 “Babes in Toyland”
composer
32 Wall St. stat
34 Wings, in zoology
35 Golfer Aoki and others
37 Comparative word
38, 40 & 41 18thcentury literary and musical
movement
42 Aircraft velocity figure
45 & 47 Writer associated
with 38-/40-/
41-Across
50 90° from Nord
51 Sirius
55 Vintner’s prefix
56 Permeate
58 GPS suggestion: Abbr.
59 What much space junk is
in
61 Time for both hands to
be up
62 Sen. Rubio
64 “All yours!”
65 Morales of “Caprica”
66 Worth a 10
67 ___ and terminer
68 Word before poor or
cheap
69 Remainder, in Rouen
70 Moor growth
71 Radical org. of the ’60s
72 Camels’ pit stops
73 Sightseer’s ride
DOWN
1 “Solve for x” subj.
2 The Great Lakes’ ___
Locks
3 G, in the key of C
4 Not many
5 Price to pay, informally
6 Palm Springs paper, with
“the”
7 With 36- and 53-Down,
translation of 38-/40-/
41-Across
8 Four-footers
9 Joan of Arc, notably
10 Pal of Andy
11 Peak, slangily
12 “___ tu”
13 Pipe joint
21 Actress Polo
22 Hydrocarbon suffixes
23 Cartoonist Addams
24 Go soft
25 Place for an English
king?
27 One of Sam’s tunes in
“Casablanca”
28 Gorilla expert Fossey
29 “Yesterday” or
“Tomorrow”
HYPER SUDOKU
31 “It gets late early out
there” speaker
33 “… poem lovely as ___”
36 See 7-Down
39 Earth, to the French
41 Río ___ (African region)
43 South American cardinal?
44 Links org.
45 Yoked
46 Absorption process
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How to play Kakuro:
The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be
of any size. It has rows and columns, and
dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like
in a crossword, some of the dark cells will
contain numbers. Some cells will contain two
numbers.
However, in a crossword the numbers
reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers
are all you get! They denote the total of the
digits in the row or column referenced by the
number.
Within each collection of cells - called a run
- any of the
numbers 1
to 9 may be
used but,
like sudoku,
each
number
may only be
used once.
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate
How to
play Hyper
Sudoku:
A Hyper Sudoku
Puzzle is solved
by filling the
numbers from 1
to 9 into the blank
cells. A Hyper
Sudoku has
unlike Sudoku
13 regions
(four regions
overlap with the
nine standard
regions). In all
regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear
only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is
solved like a normal Sudoku.
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EASY SUDOKU
Easy Sudoku Puzzles
Place a digit from 1 to 9 in
each empty cell so every
row, every column and
every 3x3 box contains all
the digits 1 to 9.
YESTERDAY’S
ANSWER
CINEMA / TV LISTINGS
PLUS | TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013
SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER
Monster University
(3D/Animation) – 2.30pm
1
TEL: 444933989
444517001
09:30 Omni Sport
10:00 Indiana Pacers
ABCD (2D/Malayalam) – 4.30 & 7.30pm
12:00
14:00
14:30
Singam II (2D/Tamil) – 10.30pm
2
MALL
Singam II (2D/Tamil) – 2.00 & 8.30pm
15:00
Monster University
(3D/Animation) – 5.00pm
18:30
The Bling Ring (2D/Crime) – 7.00pm
21:00
23:00
00:00
19:00
Hammer of Gods (2D/Action) – 11.30pm
01:00
White House Down (2D/Action)
– 2.15 & 6.30pm
03:00
03:45
Phantom (2D/Thriller) – 4.45pm
vs Miami Heat
Serbia vs Italy
Sports News
Beckham in
China
Cycling - Tour
De France
FIFA Futbol
Mundial
Indiana Pacers
vs Miami Heat
Poland vs USA
Brazil Prepares
Rio Ferdinand
Programme
Miami Heat vs
Indiana Pacers
Beckham in
China
Santa Fe vs
Olimpia
3
09:00 Al Jazeera
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
13:00
14:00
14:30
15:00
16:00
17:00
17:30
18:00
19:00
19:30
20:00
20:30
21:00
22:00
22:30
23:00
World War Z (3D/Action) – 9.00pm
Officer Down (2D/Drama) – 11.30pm
14:35 Border Security
15:30 Auction Kings
16:00 Ultimate
Lootera (2D/Hindi) – 2.30pm
1
2
LANDMARK
15
Singam II (2D/Tamil) – 7.30 & 10.30pm
16:55
17:50
18:45
19:40
21:00
21:55
The Bling Ring (2D/Crime) – 3.00pm
22:25
Monster University
(3D/Animation) – 5.30pm
Survival
One Man Army
Mythbusters
Sons Of Guns
Deconstruction
Flip Men
Off The Hook:
Extreme
Catches
Robson’s
New Extreme
Fishing
World
News
Inside Story
News
The Stream
News
Witness
NEWSHOUR
News
Inside Story
Al Jazeera
Correspondent
NEWSHOUR
News
The Stream
NEWSHOUR
News
The Cure
News
Inside Story
NEWSHOUR
News
The Stream
Al Jazeera
World
14:20 The Gadget
Show
14:45 Tech Toys 360
15:10 Scrapheap
16:00
16:55
17:45
18:35
19:30
21:10
21:35
22:00
Challenge
Storm Chasers
Superships
Thunder Races
Through The
Wormhole
Scrapheap
Challenge
Gadget Show
Tech Toys 360
Scrapheap
Phantom (2D/Thriller) – 5.00 & 7.00pm
Hammer of Gods (2D/Action)
– 9.00 & 11.15pm
13:00 Seinfeld
13:30 Arrested
Monster University
(3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm
14:00
14:30
White House Down (2D/Action) – 4.30pm
16:30
18:00
3
World War Z (3D/Action) – 6.45pm
18:30
21:00
21:30
22:00
Officer Down (2D/Drama) – 9.00 & 11.30pm
Development
Breaking In
Parks And
Recreation
Hope & Faith
Last Man
Standing
Raising Hope
Daily Show
Colbert Report
Malibu Country
14:00 C.S.I. Miami
16:00 Emmerdale
16:30 Coronation
Street
17:00 The Ellen
18:00
19:00
20:00
21:00
22:00
23:00
DeGeneres
Show
C.S.I. Miami
Royal Pains
Franklin & Bash
The Killing
Banshee
Awake
Monster University
(3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm
QF RADIO 91.7 FM ENGLISH PROGRAMME BRIEF
1
The Bling Ring (2D/Crime) – 7.00pm
Hammer of Gods (2D/Action)
– 9.15 & 11.15pm
Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.30pm
ROYAL
PLAZA
2
LIVE SHOWS
Airing Time
SPIRITUAL
HOUR
6:00 – 7:00 AM
DECADES
10:00 AM
Phantom (2D/Thriller) – 5.00 & 9.15pm
Programme Briefs
A time of reflection, a deeper understanding of the
teachings of Islam.
A journey through time. The show reminisces at the
music, the inventions, and the events that ensued
during that era and defined modern history. Hosted
by Ms. Laura Finnerty and Scotty Boyes. Tonight on
Decades Scott and Laura look at the events and music
from the years 1990-95.
17:00 Cheetah Girls 2
18:30 That’s So
18:55
19:20
20:30
20:50
21:15
21:40
22:00
Raven
Jessie
A.N.T Farm
Austin And Ally
Austin And Ally
That’s So
Raven
Good Luck
Charlie
Shake It Up
13:15 Tareq Taylor’s
Nordic Cookery
13:45 Bargain Hunt
17:00 Phil Spencer Secret Agent
18:50 Food & Drink
20:35 Extreme
21:20
22:15
Makeover:
Home Edition
Antiques
Roadshow
Bargain Hunt
Officer Down (2D/Drama) – 7.00 & 11.30pm
THINK ABOUT
IT
6:00 PM
The Bling Ring (2D/Crime) – 3.00pm
3
Is a show about ‘Spoken Word.’ Every week the
audience is introduced to a new artistic piece.
Created by our very own Nabil Al Nashar. The episode
features a new piece entitled ‘The Vain of Man’.
12:00 Sorority Wars
16:00 Ernest Scared
18:00
20:00
Policegiri (2D/Hinidi) – 5.00 & 11.00pm
TOUR OF
QATAR
7:00 PM
The show takes you on a weekly trip to different
locations in Qatar.
Lootera (2D/Hindi) – 8.00pm
FASHION
NEWS
10:00 PM
Is a lighthearted fashion bulletin from red carpets and
popular brands around the world, brought to you by
Ms. Laura Finnerty.
22:00
Stupid
The Wish List
Crazy, Stupid,
Love
The Giant
Mechanical
Man
13:00 Winx
15:00 Second Chances
16:45 We Bought A
Zoo
19:00 The People vs
George Lucas
21:00 Young Adult
23:00 Saving Grace B.
Jones
16
Events in Qatar
Omar Khalifa – “Infinite”
When: Until Dec 15; 10am—10pm
Where: Katara Cultural Village
What: This outdoor photography
installation examines ‘the nature of
being’. Using digital multiple exposure
techniques, an image is crafted that
gives us a sense of other-worldliness and
depth of perspective through the human
form.
Free Entry
Ferozkoh: Tradition and
Continuity in Afghan Art
When: Until July 20
Sunday, Monday, Wednesday:
10:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday, Saturday: Noon — 8pm
Friday: 2pm — 8pm
Where: Museum of Islamic Art
What: An exhibition showcasing works
created by Afghan artists inspired by
masterpieces from the Museum of
Islamic Art (MIA) collection
Entry fee 25QR (free on Mondays
and for children under 16 years)
POTPOURRI
PLUS | TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013
Smelly monster
‘corpse’ flower in
bloom in Brussels
A
Titan Arum, one of the
world’s largest, rarest and
smelliest flowers, is in bloom
in a Brussels hothouse for the third
time in five years in a rare botanical feat for a plant that generally
goes years without blooming.
Variously known as a “corpse
flower” in Indonesia where first
found, or its scientific name,
“Amorphophallus titanum”, the
strange but spectacular specimen
began to bloom on Sunday in the
national botanical gardens, the
Jardin de Meise, on the outskirts
of the Belgian capital.
“Flowering is very brief, three days
at the very most. Afterwards it will
die and it’ll be several years before it
blooms again,” the spokesman for the
gardens Franck Hidvegi said.
The plant, which looks a little
like a giant ear of corn until the
red-rimmed flower opens leaving a
stench of rotting flesh or fish, stood
244cm (eight feet) high yesterday,
attracting crowds.
Endangered in its natural habitat of the Sumatra tropical forest,
Titan Arum is generally in flower
every four or five years.
MEDIA SCAN
A summary of
issues of the day
discussed by the
Qatari community
in the media.
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Customers are complaining about
dealers in electronic goods refusing to
repair gadgets sold by them even when
they are under warranty, and asking
customers to get them repaired at their
expense.
There are complaints about shortage
of health centres and delay in opening
new ones, while some of the existing
ones function only five days a week,
which causes crowding and long
queues.
It has been suggested that solar power
be used to light buildings and public
parks, as is done in some countries to
reduce dependence on non-renewable
energy.
Several parents are demanding that the
Supreme Education Council approve
‘enrichment classes’ in all schools to
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curb the business of private tutoring.
Many people are complaining about
worn off lane markings on roads in
residential areas, which is said to
be causing accidents because of
confusion created for drivers.
There are demands that the authorities
issue directives to stop drivers from
suddenly pulling up in front of shops
to make purchases, which sometimes
leads to accidents, and the driver who
hits from behind is considered at fault.
There is talk about the announcement
by Ashghal that it is building 44 schools
at a cost of QR1bn.
People are demanding that the capacity
of slaughterhouses be increased to
cater to the increasing number of
customers and reduce crowds and
long waiting times.
AFP
IN FOCUS
Qatar National Library
Heritage Collection
by Herbert Galiza
When: Public tours twice every Sunday
and Tuesday at 10am and 11:30am.
Where: Qatar National Library
What: Qatar National Library’s
remarkable Heritage Collection is a
rare trove of manuscripts, books, and
artefacts documenting a wealth of
Arab-Islamic civilisation and human
thought. Among its more than 100,000
works, the collection contains an edition
of Ptolemy’s Geographia, which was
printed in Rome in 1478 and is the oldest
printed map showing the name of Qatar
or referred to in Latin as ‘Catara’.
Free Entry
1st Red Bull Flugtag Qatar
When: November 1, 1pm
Where: Museum of Islam Art Park,
What: Red Bull Flugtag, which means
“flying day” in German, pushes the
envelope of human-powered flight, but
competitors need more than airtime to
reach the podium. Teams are judged on
three criteria: Flight distance, creativity of
the craft, and showmanship. These criteria
have inspired flying tacos, prehistoric
pterodactyls, winnebagos with wings and
even Snoopy and the gang to grace the
Red Bull Flugtag flight decks!
Free entry
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