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BEAT BEAT THETHE HEAT HEATAs the summer kicks in with As the summer kicks in with full vigour, more cases of heat full vigour, more cases of heat related exhaustion are reported. related exhaustion are reported. Some precautionary steps can be Some precautionary steps can be taken to face the scorching suntaken to face the scorching sun.
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Be prepared to tacklethe scorching summerA
bout 40 cases of heat exhaustion were treated at the Emergency Department of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in May this year.
But from June through September, five to ten cases of heat exhaustion are expected daily for treatment at the Emergency Department.
Senior Consultant at the Emergency Department of HMC, Dr Saad Abdulfattah Al Nuaimi, advises people to take precautions to prevent heat-related illnesses.
Dr Nuaimi says drinks containing caffeine or alcohol should be avoided, and so should be heavy meals. Leaving children and infants inside parked cars can be risky in summer as the temperature inside a vehicle standing in the sun can increase dangerously.
Also, people on a low-salt diet are advised to seek a doctor’s advice to maintain their mineral levels, especially while doing physical exercise.
According to Dr Nuaimi, heat exhaustion is a common illness in summer. It occurs when the
body’s temperature control system fails due to exposure to high temperatures (eg above 35�C) and humidity.
Symptoms of heat exhaustion include cramps, fatigue, weakness, headache, dizziness, nausea, and occasionally vomiting, but usually con-sciousness is retained. Body temperature might be between 38 and 39 degrees Celsius, says Dr Nuaimi.
A person suffering from heat exhaustion should be immediately moved to a cooler area, his clothes should be removed or loosened and a cool shower should be given, if possible. Plenty of cool drinks and some salty snacks, too, should be given.
People having mild heat exhaustion are advised to go to a Primary Health Center, while those with symptoms such as drowsiness or loss of con-sciousness need to be taken to the Emergency Department. Cases where symptoms persist more than an hour after first aid, or where the person has co-morbidities such as diabetes, hypertension or obesity, should also be taken to the Emergency Department. The Peninsula
People having mild heat exhaustion are advised to go to a Primary Health Center, while those with symptoms such as drowsiness or loss of consciousness need to be taken to the Emergency Department.
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Good habits to follow during summer
• Increase fluid intake to stay hydrated and replenish the water your body loses due to excessive sweating.
• Avoid drinks containing caffeine or alcohol, as these can cause you to lose more body fluids.
• Eat small snacks throughout the day. Avoid heavy meals and hot food as these can increase body temperature. Salty snacks and fruit juices can help replenish salts and minerals lost through excessive sweating. If you have a chronic illness and are already on a low-salt diet, however, you will need to consult your doctor regarding the amount of salt you can safely consume.
• Stay indoors in a cool place as much as possible. Avoid going out between 10am and 3pm as the temperature is usually at its peak during this time. Schedule outdoor activities such as sports in the early morning or evening hours when it is cooler.
• If you need to go outdoors, it is best to stay or rest often in shady areas. Wear a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen of SPF 15 or higher, applied about 30 minutes before exposure to the sun.
• Wear lightweight, light-colored, loose-fitting clothing. • Having someone accompany you is also advised when you have
to stay or work in a hot environment. Heat-related illness can some-times progress so rapidly that you may suddenly become drowsy or unconscious, so it is helpful to have someone around who is aware of the situation.
• During exercise, drink two to four glasses of water or other cool, non-alcoholic fluids per hour. If you exercise outdoors, start slowly to allow your body to acclimatise to the hot weather. If you start having a fast or strong heartbeat and are feeling tired, stop exercising for that day, rest in the shade and take plenty of fluids.
• Never leave infants, children or pets unattended in a parked car, as temperatures can rise rapidly inside the vehicle.
• Check frequently on people at greater risk of suffering from heat-related illness, such as the elderly, young children and babies, and those who are obese or have chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension or other co-morbidities.
Heat-related illnesses: Symptoms and first aid (Suggested by the Hamad Medical Corporation)
Heat cramps are muscle pains and spasms caused by exposure to high heat and humidity, resulting in loss of fluids and electrolytes. Adequate intake of fluids and salty snacks can help prevent heat cramps.
What to do If you suspect heat cramps, stop all activity in the hot environ-ment. Rest in a cool, shaded area and take plenty of cool drinks.
Heat syncope usually happens to those who exercise or stand for a long time in a hot environment, becoming dehydrated and developing a fainting attack.
What to do: Move the person to a cooler, shaded area; make the patient lie down and slowly drink an adequate amount of fluids. If symptoms persist, the person should be immediately brought to the Emergency Department.
Heatstroke (or sunstroke) is the extreme stage of heat exhaustion which causes damage to the central nervous system. The person will have a very high body temperature, usually exceeding 40 degrees Celsius, increased pulse rate, headache, dizziness and nausea, and may also sometimes suffer convulsions or go into a coma. If not treated early, heatstroke can rapidly lead to death.
What to do: First-aid treatment is the same as that for heat exhaus-tion, but the person should immediately be transported to the Emergency Department. If the person has nausea or is vomiting, make him lie in a lat-eral position (on one side) so he can expel the vomit and avoid aspirating it into his respiratory tract. If he has convulsions, make sure he is away from things that could cause injury, such as fire or electricity.
Heat rash occurs when sweat glands or ducts become obstructed due to excessive sweating, resulting in red pimples or blisters which usually affect the neck, upper chest, the area below the breast, in the armpit, in the elbow, and in the groin.
What to do Avoid further exposure to heat and humidity. Keep the affected area dry and apply dusting powder. Avoid any ointments or creams, which can further block the sweat glands and worsen the condition.
Sunburn is usually a first-degree burn which causes some redness and pain in the skin.
What to do Sunburn is best prevented and healed by avoiding exposure to the sun, especially for fair-skinned people, and using sun creams. If the sunburn becomes very painful and blisters appear, seek medical advice.
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AAB unveils all-newLexus IS in Qatar
Lexus introduced the all-new Lexus IS model range in Qatar to demonstrate a fresh direc-tion for Lexus sedans. With a base price of
QR138,000 the new IS is expected to do well in the local market. The price for the high-end model can go upto QR192,000
According to Dr Nasser Abdulghani Al Abdulghani,Managing Director for AAB: “With its contemporary and elegant design, advanced driving dynamics and innovative technology, the new IS range marks the entry of a distinctive and premium sports sedan to provide a truly responsive vehicle which is a natural extension of its driver. The pursuit of perfec-tion has earned us a reputation for amazing technical excellence, not to mention superior service and a new standard of luxury. Beyond the rational, however, we now aim for amazing emotion to make the Lexus IS a fun to drive car. So the Lexus IS represents much more than a car — it’s an emotional experience and that is what the IS exemplifies by bringing our customers joy as part of a fulfilling and sophisticated lifestyle.”
PUTTING THE FUN IN “FUN TO DRIVE”Junichi Furuyama, IS chief engineer, said: “We
specifically made driving pleasure the major premise behind all aspects of performance.”
“For example, new laser welding and adhesive bonding techniques were used to increase body rigid-ity. New sub frame and cowl side braces improve
handling and steering. The revised front suspension has a 20 percent increase in sway rigidity while the multilink suspension provides better grip and con-trol. The new electric power steering system offers a more authentic road feel, with better feedback. All these technical improvements add up to one thing — the New IS handles better under all conditions, accelerating, cornering, and in the fast lane. At the
wheel, you feel every move really is your move. The car is a true extension of its driver.”
The IS 350 offers a 3.5 litre V6 with D4-S direct and port fuel injection. The 3.5 litre engine produces 312 hp @ 6,400rpm, 38.5kg-m/4800rpm torque. The IS 250 is powered by a smooth 2.5 litre V6 providing 204 hp @ 6,400rpm and 25.5kg-m/4800rpm torque.
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AAB and Toyota officials in front of the new Lexus IS.
Consolidated Gulf Company (CGC) has again achieved Gold Certification from Cisco and
is now officially identified as Cisco’s Gold Certified Partner. To earn Gold Certification, CGC had to meet rigor-ous standards for networking compe-tency, service, support and customer satisfaction set forth by Cisco.
Anil Mahajan, Chief Operating Officer, CGC, expressed happiness on achieving the next level of Cisco Gold partnership. “It is a mark of excel-lence and recognition of the excep-tional level of services we offer to our valued customers in Qatar. The certi-fication falls in line with our strategic
goal of being the best technological and engineering resource to our cus-tomers. With a combination of Cisco’s solutions, our proven expertise and value added services, our portfolio uniquely positions us as a tried and trusted local provider. ”
“With specialisations in unified com-munications, routing and switching, security, and wireless LAN, CGC has made an investment in developing the capability to deliver the integrated and customised technology solutions as per the customer’s demand,” said Shabahat Bokhari, Partner Account Manager, Cisco.
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CGC gets Cisco Gold CertificationCGC and Cisco officials with the certification.
At an event held recently at Four Seasons, Doha Bank honoured Jumbo Electronics and Video Home as their electronics “Partner of the year”. Ranjith Philip Abraham, senior manager, retail sales and marketing, Jumbo Electronics, receiving the award from Doha Bank’s vice chairman, Ahmed Abdul Rahman Yousef Obeidan.
Skills Development Centre is organising a summer workshop for kids — ‘SWAS-13’. Chief Guest Baboucarr Cham, vice president, Gambia Community Association of Qatar, and former Gambian diplomat, addressed the gathering and inaugurated the camp. The two-month workshop, with classes on arts, culture and career building, and activities, will end on August 31.
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Health News
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By Casey Seidenberg
When my boys recently had their teeth checked, their den-tist warned them that summer is the
worst time for cavities. Parental rules relax, allowing more candy and soda into the mix at the same time brush-ing slackens.
As much as I hate to admit it, I can see this happening in our household. Does anyone else have a tween boy who thinks brushing and showering are a sprint? He has mastered speed, but effectiveness... not so much. I’m not sure those teeth are being cleaned as they should.
Tooth decay begins with bacteria that naturally live in the mouth. These bacteria burn sugar in order to thrive and during this process convert sugar into acid. The acid then eats away at a tooth’s enamel, which begins the decay and cavity process.
So sugary foods such as candy, soda, sports drinks and ice cream provide fuel for the bacteria, but there is actu-ally a trifecta of criteria that make foods bad for teeth: anything that has sugar or acid or is sticky.
FOOD-BASED CAUSES OF TOOTH DECAY
— Sugary foods fuel bacteria.— Many children consume their
sweet or gummy vitamins after they brush their teeth, so the sugar remains on their teeth all morning.
— Sticky foods such as Skittles, Starburst candies, gummies and dried fruits linger on the teeth, giving the bacteria extra occasion to execute damage.
— Long-lasting fare, such as lolli-pops, Jolly Ranchers and cough drops, allows the sugar to dawdle in the mouth for a prolonged period.
— Starchy foods such as french fries, white bread and pretzels that easily lodge between teeth are quickly con-verted to sugar by the pre-digestive saliva.
— Acidic foods and drinks such as
soda, citrus and tomatoes eat away the enamel of teeth.
— Chewing on ice can cause tiny fractures in the teeth that over time collect extra bacteria and cause addi-tional breakage.
EAT TO SUPPORT TOOTH HEALTH
My childhood dentist regularly told me that if I was in a pinch, chew-ing parsley was a “natural” way to brush my teeth. I didn’t buy it back then, but there is truth to his advice, according to the American Dental Association.
— Saliva neutralises acids, helping
to prevent tooth decay. High-fibre veg-etables such as celery and parsley take longer to chew, so they stimulate saliva production.
— Some foods neutralise acids, such as pears, apples, yogurt and other dairy.
— Foods that provide calcium and phosphates such as raw nuts and yogurt can strengthen the tooth’s surface.
— Crunchy fruits and vegetables such as apples, celery and cucumbers have high water content, which helps dilute the sugar and wash away food particles.
— Drinking water throughout the day will wash teeth and flush bacteria.
— You can minimise acid in foods
such as citrus and tomatoes by eating them with other foods.
— Sip sugary drinks through a straw to limit the amount of contact the sugar has with the teeth.
The foods that damage teeth have been shown to damage overall health, and the foods that are favourable to teeth tend to be favourable to health. No surprise. Just one more reminder of why we should eat well and avoid sugar. Not that any of our kids wanted one more reminder.
Seidenberg is co-founder of Nourish Schools, a Washington, D.C. -based nutri-tion education company.
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Brush up on Brush up on foods that are foods that are good for teethgood for teeth
Cancer cases risingin India, says expert
Cancer cases are increasing in India but with availability of state-of-the-art procedures, its treatment has touched new highs, an
expert said.“There is a rise in cancer cases in India in
almost equal proportion among men and women,” Shaikat Gupta, who heads the surgical oncology department at Apollo Gleneagles Hospital in Kolkata said.
According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate, by 2020 cancer cases will be in equal proportion among both genders.
However, due to advancements in surgical tech-niques, many cancerous anomalies can be cured through surgery.
“Organ-confined cancers are treated by
ultra-radical surgery. Heart cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer and pancreatic cancer can be surgi-cally treated now,” Gupta said on the sidelines of a media conference that highlighted a new type of surgery conducted by Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals to treat leiomyosarcoma (a kind of pelvic tumour).
Controlling cholesterol, BP lowers heart disease risk
Scientists have found that simultaneously controlling blood pressure and cholesterol can significantly lower the risk of heart dis-
ease, a study says.
“Prescribing medications to better manage blood pressure and cholesterol would greatly ben-efit people who are older, diabetic and have car-diovascular disease. Going to the doctor at least twice a year could help,” reports Science Daily, citing a study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.
“Under-treated high blood pressure and cho-lesterol affect millions of Americans -- posing a major public health threat,” said Brent M Egan, lead study author and professor of medicine and pharmacology at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. “The reality is, we know more than enough to prevent 75 percent of heart disease and strokes, but we’re not doing every-thing we could be doing or even doing it at a rea-sonable level,” he said.
“We’ve made some gradual improvements over the years, but there is still a lot of progress to be made,” Egan said. Agencies
TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 20136
By Stuart Dredge
The most lucrative mobile games in the world right now are the work of independ-ent developers rather than big publishers, according to the analytics companies track-
ing app store revenues.One of them, App Annie, has just published its
global charts of the most downloaded and highest-earning mobile games on iOS and Android for May 2013.
It claims that UK firm King’s Candy Crush Saga was the top iOS game by monthly revenue, knock-ing Japanese company GungHo Online’s Puzzle & Dragons down to second spot.
Finnish developer Supercell’s Clash of Clans and Hay Day games took third and fourth places, while Electronic Arts’ The Simpsons: Tapped Out rounded out the top five.
On Android’s Google Play store, Puzzle & Dragons made the most money globally in May — this, despite only being available in a few countries — ahead of Candy Crush Saga, then three games (Cookie Run, Fives and Windrunner) made for South Korean mobile social network Kakao.
App Annie also broke down estimated revenues by publisher for both platforms, claiming that Supercell made most mobile-games money on iOS in May from its two games, followed by GungHo from its 11 titles – although the vast majority of its revenues come from Puzzle & Dragons — and King with its three games.
By Will Oremus
When you join a social net-work, it usually asks if you’d like help finding friends who also use the
service. It sounds like a nice offer — much easier than manually searching the site. So you click “yes,” put check marks next to the people you want to follow, and go merrily on your way.
Congratulations: You’ve just donated all of your friends’ and colleagues’ email addresses and phone numbers to that social network’s internal database. If you’re lucky, its employees will treat your friends’ contact information with more respect than you just did.
But they might not. They might use it to blast everyone from your boss to your mother-in-law with text messages at 6am, like the fledgling social network Path did to at least one user in April. Or they might do something more subtle: cross-check your contacts list against their internal database, adding phone numbers and emails that your friends had chosen, for whatever rea-son, not to associate with their account. They might even collect the emails and phone numbers of people who aren’t members at all. And if you’re really unlucky — or rather, if your friends are really unlucky — they’ll acciden-tally reveal those secret phone numbers and email addresses to everyone else
in your friends’ networks. That’s what Facebook was doing for the past year, until the security research site Packet Storm pointed out the gaffe last week, and Facebook scrambled to fix the bug.
Facebook apologised for the mistake, which made some six million users’ pri-vate contact information available to their friends and others through the site’s Download Your Information fea-ture. The leak was clearly unintentional and quite rare for Facebook, which is among the best in the business at data security.
Everyone knows that the personal data he or she stores on the servers of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon is never 100 percent secure. But you’re probably somewhat less inured to the idea that your friends and associates are storing personal information about you there as well. On social networks, that information is part of what’s called your “shadow profile.” It’s data about you that’s stored on Facebook’s servers but not revealed to anyone other than the people who uploaded it — not even you.
Here’s where it gets a little Kafkaesque: Even if you knew that your phone number and secondary
email addresses were being added to your Facebook shadow profile without your consent, you couldn’t do anything about it. Technically, once you gave your phone number or email address to your friends and they added it to their address book, it became their personal information, not yours — and when they granted Facebook access to that address book, it became Facebook’s information, too. Facebook won’t delete it even if you ask, because it’s not yours to delete. As Packet Storm put it, “Facebook feels that your friends should have more control over your data than you.”
Believe it or not, though, this isn’t some malicious scheme that Facebook dreamed up to steal your data. From Facebook’s perspective, it’s actually a service. It makes it easier for friends to find one another, and it helps Facebook avoid sending you useless emails and notifications.
If Facebook didn’t attach that sec-ondary email to your “shadow profile,” then friends who looked you up at that address would think you weren’t already on Facebook, and they might invite you to join.
The existence of shadow profiles was
among the alleged privacy violations raised in an investigation of Facebook by the Irish government in 2011. But the Irish authorities cleared Facebook on that count, because they found that the company wasn’t using the hid-den data for any nefarious purposes. It wasn’t using those extra addresses and phone numbers to target anyone with ads, it wasn’t selling them to third-party marketers, and it wasn’t disclosing them to anyone else on the site (until the data leak, anyway). It was just using them in the way it said it would use them when they were uploaded in the first place — ie, to help people find their friends on the site.
For most people, shadow profiles probably rank somewhere below embarrassing photos, private messages and credit-card numbers on the list of sensitive information that Internet companies have about them. Still, even Facebook told me it’s not a bad idea for people to think twice before they turn over their address books to any social network or app, Facebook included. Find Friends is a nice service, but if you’re handing out people’s sensitive information to for-profit companies left and right, you might eventually find yourself with fewer friends in real life.
Oremus is the lead blogger for Future Tense, reporting on emerging technolo-gies, tech policy and digital culture.
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Candy Crush Saga, Puzzle & Dragons top games charts
How safe is your data?
EA is the only publisher from the traditional games industry to appear in the top 10 chart for iOS, in fourth place ahead of Gree, Kabam, Storm8, Gameloft, DeNA and Line.
On Android, GungHo made the most money in May according to App Annie, with the chart dominated by developers from South Korea (CJ E&M, WeMade, Devsisters) and Japan (Line, DeNA, Colopl and Gree). King (eighth) and EA (ninth) were the only two Western publishers to make the top 10.
The figures can be compared to rival analyt-ics company Distimo’s estimates for May 2013, although its charts covered all apps, not just games.
That company claimed that the five top
revenue-generating iOS apps in May were all games, though: Puzzle & Dragons, Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans, Hay Day and Kabam’s The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth.
Puzzle & Dragons was the most lucrative Android app in May according to Distimo, ahead of Line, Line Wind Runner, Pride and Candy Crush Saga.
How much money are the publishers behind the most popular games making? Some have announced figures in recent months. Supercell’s two games generated $179m in the first quarter of 2013, while Puzzle & Dragons made $113m for GungHo in April alone, after generating $303m in the first three months of 2013. The Guardian
7TRAVEL PLUS | WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 2013
Croatia’s national parks are a beautiful alternative to its Dalmatian coast. Libby Brooks went inland to see lakes, canyons and get a glimpse of the country’s wild bears.
As the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia’s Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming. Lumbering out from their daytime retreat
in the thick undergrowth, a female is wooed by two younger members of the group, cheerfully at first. Then suddenly her humour turns, signalling a rejec-tion with a snarling scoring of the ground with her claws.
It is a breathtaking privilege to see bears like this in the almost-wild. The Kuterevo sanctuary is the only one of its kind in the region, scooping up the casualties of the human population’s ambivalent relationship to other large mammals. As with many successful environmental interventions, it was set up by a passionate maverick just over a decade ago as a nursery for cubs that had been orphaned by hunters or brought into towns for entertainment. It is now run by knowledgeable volunteers who take visitors around the huge enclosures that drape across the hillsides, for the price of a donation. Turning up at dusk is essential for those who want to see more than the most newly rescued cubs, deceptively cute as they are.
Bears aside, the national park of the northern Velebit (np-sjeverni-velebit.hr) is home to over 2,700 plant species, as well as wolves, lynx, birds of prey and rarities such as the long-fingered bat and capercaillie. While visitors usually hit the beachy delights of the Dalmatian coast, the country is also home to some of the most spectacular - and well-protected - natural environments in Europe, with seemingly limitless opportunities for hiking, camping, climbing, and gen-erally “doing nature” without doing it in. Croatians take their environmental responsibilities very seri-ously. There are some 444 protected areas, making up 9 percent of the country, including eight national parks, two strict reserves and 10 nature parks.
The most famous protected area and the old-est national park in Croatia is the Plitvice Lakes national park (whc.unesco.org, entrance fee 110HRK) it is also a Unesco World Heritage Site. It is, more infamously, the location of the first fatalities in the Croatian war of independence - and the park was held by Serbian forces during the conflict. Because of the area’s economic importance, the government made it a priority for de-mining efforts after the war ended in 1995, but the damage caused by fish-ing with dynamite, unregulated hunting and forced migration was acute. I noticed, for example, that Plitvice is much quieter than other national parks,
simply because much of the birdlife was frightened away and has yet to return.
This park’s centrepiece is a stunning 8km of ter-raced lakes and waterfalls, coloured luminous tur-quoise by calcium deposits leaching into the water. It is a sight to behold but gets crowded, so it is worth considering other, less obviously “bling” parks, too.
The island parks of Mljet, Kornati and Brijuni are characterised by uniquely diverse underwater worlds. There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked
ridges, and here there is a proper day’s hik-ing to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand. Likewise, at the south-ern end of the range, sits Paklenica national park (paklenica.hr, entrance £5.60), with its deep limestone can-yons and steep sheets of rock, up which I watched more nimble folk than myself ascend like wee fluorescent spiders.
About 90 minutes from the car park (I hired a car as Croatian
public transport can be capricious), I ate sausages barbecued in the open air and plastered with ajvar, a local aubergine and pepper relish, at a mountain house cafe. Granted, visitors don’t yet come to this country purely for the food (although they will soon, if the organic farming and upscaling establishments along the coast are anything to go by) but there’s nothing like a solid uphill toil to remind one that it’s possible to over-think processed meat.
Probably our favourite park was Krka (npkrka.hr, entrance £10.70), in Dalmatia, which follows a sequence of gorges, lakes and rapids of the river Krka towards the Adriatic.
The mini-cascades over barriers of limestone sedi-ment at Skradinski buk are not as dramatic as the waterfalls elsewhere in Croatia, but the meandering wooden walkways allow us to feel practically sub-merged, with the sound and smell of the torrent in our ears and noses.
This is one of the few national parks where swim-ming is allowed, though unfortunately we couldn’t, because of what we were informed was overflowing water.
I’d advise noting ferry times in advance as, with all parks, some sections can only be reached by boat. Mind you, the worst that can happen is that you end up taking an unscheduled jaunt, as happened to us, where we spotted a leopard snake before he spotted us and slunk away.
The low cost and frequency of flights from Britain to Zadar, the ancient capital of Dalmatia, makes it an ideal base for island and mainland parks, for those who don’t want to camp. Zadar itself is easy to fall for (Alfred Hitchcock did, declaring it the loca-tion of the best sunset in the world). And there is a phenomenally good restaurant at the Hotel Bastion (hotel-bastion.hr).
It is also the location of the Sea Organ, designed by local artist Nikola Basic - every coastal town should have one. A broad stone staircase descends into the sea, beneath which the waves push air through a series of underwater pipes and up through niches in the steps, to produce a random selection of musical notes. It is captivating to listen to, particularly late into the evening, perhaps after visiting bears, with a bear-watching beloved of your own.
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Bear-watching in Croatia’s Bear-watching in Croatia’s national parks: Holidaysnational parks: Holidaysbeyond the Dalmatian coastbeyond the Dalmatian coast
The Sea Organ at Zadar.The Sea Organ at Zadar.
A Kuterevo bear takes a dip.
The lower falls at Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes national park.
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ter t
han
ever
. To
illus
trat
e th
is, w
e’ve
gr
aphe
d th
e R
otte
n To
mat
oes
ratin
gs o
f eac
h P
ixar
film
ove
r the
yea
rs, c
ompa
ring
criti
cs’ r
at-
ings
with
the
perc
enta
ge o
f pos
itive
resp
onse
s fro
m c
hild
ren.
Wha
t ex
plai
ns t
he d
iffer
ence
? C
ritic
s of
ten
judg
e w
heth
er t
he m
ovie
s ar
e al
so g
ood
for
adul
ts,
but
not
a s
ingl
e ch
ild w
e sp
oke
to
expr
esse
d an
y co
ncer
n fo
r w
heth
er t
heir
par-
ents
enj
oyed
the
mov
ie. A
nd k
ids
love
seq
uels
, ap
pare
ntly
, rat
ing
both
Monst
ers
Univ
ers
ity a
nd
Cars
2 m
uch
high
er th
an th
e cr
itics
did
. The
re
was
one
oth
er t
hing
tha
t tu
rned
off
youn
ger
revi
ewer
s: A
gain
and
aga
in,
mov
ies
rang
-in
g fr
om M
onst
ers
, In
c.
to A
Bug
’s L
ife w
ere
deem
ed “
too
scar
y.”
Her
ewith
, the
bes
t P
ixar
mov
ies,
fro
m b
est
to w
orst
, as
chos
en b
y ou
r chi
ldre
n.
1. M
ON
STE
RS
, IN
C. (
2001
)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 9
6 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
93
perc
ent
Monst
ers
, In
c.
was
the
und
ispu
ted
cham
p,
with
kid
s pr
aisi
ng “
the
mes
sage
” (N
ell,
age
12),
“its
cre
ativ
ity”
(Jac
ob, a
ge 1
0), a
nd, a
bove
all,
its
rela
tabl
e ch
arac
ters
. Gid
eon,
age
4, g
ave
it hi
s hi
ghes
t rat
ing
“bec
ause
I lik
e M
ike
Waz
owsk
i,”
whi
le F
rann
y, a
ge 8
, did
the
sam
e “b
ecau
se I
like
Sul
ly.”
Pea
rl, a
ge 9
, als
o lis
ted
it am
ong
her
favo
urite
s be
caus
e “i
t gav
e m
e a
reas
on to
not
be
sca
red
of m
onst
ers,
whi
ch I
had
been
whe
n I
was
litt
le.”
The
lone
dis
sent
er, 4
-yea
r old
Har
ry,
foun
d it
“too
sca
ry,”
but
9-y
ear-
old
Bra
ndon
su
mm
ed it
bes
t: “I
t’s ju
st a
real
ly g
ood
mov
ie.”
2. T
OY S
TO
RY 3
(201
0)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 9
9 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
91
perc
ent
Our
kid
s ag
reed
that
Toy
Sto
ry 3
was
“re
ally
fu
nny”
(Liz
ey, 9
), “d
eep”
(Noa
, 12)
, and
had
“a
very
cle
ar d
epic
tion
of g
ood
and
evi
l” (
Nel
l, 12
). N
ell
elab
orat
ed t
hat
“it
touc
hes
on s
o m
any
deep
sub
ject
s, b
etra
yal,
loss
.” O
ther
s,
like
Mad
ison
, 4,
like
d it
for
diffe
rent
rea
sons
: “B
ecau
se t
he d
ay c
are.
I l
ike
the
day
car
e pa
rts.
”2.
UP
(200
9)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 9
8 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
91
perc
ent
Mos
t ch
ildre
n ag
reed
tha
t U
p i
s “f
unny
” (P
earl,
9),”
beau
tiful
” (N
ell,
12),
and
“sad
” (L
izey
, 9)
, tho
ugh
sad
“in
a go
od w
ay”
(Noa
, 12)
. Stil
l, N
ell w
orrie
d th
at “
for
mos
t ch
ildre
n, t
here
are
no
t eno
ugh
joke
s to
dis
trac
t fro
m th
e sa
dnes
s,”
whi
le J
acob
, 10,
foun
d it
“bor
ing.
” A
lex,
5, l
iste
d U
p as
his
fav
ourit
e, “
Bec
ause
Rus
sell
thro
ws
his
GP
S o
ut th
e w
indo
w a
nd h
e’s
so fu
nny
and
he c
an m
ake
bird
s w
ith h
is h
ands
. He’
s a
wil-
dern
ess
expl
orer
, you
kno
w.”
Pea
rl ad
ded:
“It
was
real
istic
dow
n to
min
ute
deta
ils, l
ike
in 5
0
year
s m
aybe
a c
olla
r co
uld
tran
slat
e a
dog’
s th
ough
ts in
to s
peec
h.”
4. M
ON
STE
RS U
NIV
ER
SIT
Y (2
013)
Crit
ics’
Rat
ing:
77
perc
ent
Kid
s’ R
atin
g: 8
9 pe
rcen
tTh
ough
it’s
got
ten
dis
app
oint
ing
revi
ews
(by
Pix
ar s
tand
ards
) fr
om a
dult
criti
cs,
man
y of
our
4-,
5-,
and
6-y
ear-
old
resp
onde
nts
liste
d M
onst
ers
Univ
ers
ity a
mon
g th
eir
favo
urite
s.
Rea
sons
incl
uded
“B
ecau
se S
ully
can
rea
lly
roar
” (M
ax,
5),
“Bec
ause
Mik
e ha
s br
aces
in
his
teet
h” (A
lex,
5),
and
“Bec
ause
it w
as fu
nny
and
a m
onst
er f
ell o
ff a
bed”
(Har
ry,
4).
Liam
, 6,
agr
eed
abou
t the
roar
ing,
list
ing
Monst
ers
U
as h
is fa
vour
ite “
beca
use
the
part
whe
re S
ully
ha
s th
e bi
g ro
ar a
nd s
care
s al
l the
pol
icem
en.”
S
ome
olde
r res
pond
ents
“di
dn’t
like
it as
muc
h as
Monst
ers
, In
c.,
whi
le o
ne 4
-yea
r-ol
d no
ted
that
it w
as “
too
scar
y fo
r me.
” (D
ad a
dds:
“W
e le
ft ab
out fi
ve m
inut
es in
.”)
5. T
HE
IN
CR
ED
IBLE
S (2
004)
Crit
ics’
Rat
ing:
97
perc
ent
Kid
s’ R
atin
g: 8
5 pe
rcen
tM
ost
ch
ildre
n w
ho
cham
pio
ned
T
he
Incre
dib
les
focu
sed
on
one
thin
g: t
he c
ool
“pow
ers”
and
“su
perp
ower
s” (L
izey
, 9, J
acob
, 10
, an
d E
li, 1
2).
On
the
othe
r ha
nd,
Pea
rl, 9
, fo
und
it “t
oo a
ctio
n-pa
cked
,” w
hile
Miri
am, 1
0,
judg
ed th
at “
the
idea
is in
tere
stin
g bu
t not
the
stor
y.”
Fran
ny, 6
, gav
e it
a hi
gh ra
ting
“bec
ause
I l
ike
the
dad.
”
6. T
OY S
TO
RY
(199
5)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 1
00 p
erce
ntK
ids’
Rat
ing:
82
perc
ent
Mos
t of o
ur re
spon
dent
s lik
ed T
oy
Sto
ry, n
ot-
ing
that
it w
as “
funn
y” (
Jam
eson
, 6)
, “s
wee
t”
(Nel
l, 12
), an
d “v
ery
real
istic
” (N
oa, 1
2). S
till,
it ha
d its
det
ract
ors:
Elli
ot,
4, s
aid,
“I d
idn’
t lik
e it,
bec
ause
Sid
is m
ean
and
he
smas
hes
all
the
toys
.” H
arry
, 4,
als
o ha
d co
mpl
aint
s: “
It’s
just
toys
in it
. Jus
t a b
unch
of t
oys.
I do
n’t l
ike
toys
in m
ovie
s.”
7. C
AR
S 2
(201
1)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 3
9 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
82
perc
ent
Whi
le it
was
pan
ned
by c
ritic
s, C
ars
2 w
as
HO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
Celin
e Di
on c
ritic
ised
for
not g
ivin
g cr
edit
Aust
ralian s
inger D
anie
l M
erriw
eath
er h
as
crit
icis
ed C
eline D
ion f
or
not
giv
ing h
im c
redit
for r
ecordin
g h
is s
ong W
ate
r a
nd
a F
lam
e i
n
her n
ew
alb
um
.D
ion u
nveiled h
er n
ew
track in A
pril, but
did
not
menti
on M
erriw
eath
er
in t
he c
redit
lis
t. T
he s
ong i
s th
e A
ust
ralian s
tar’s
2009 d
uet
wit
h s
inger
Adele
, reports
dailyst
ar.
co.u
k.
Merriw
eath
er p
ost
ed a
mess
age o
n h
is F
acebook p
age.
He w
rote
: “I
t is
ast
oundin
g t
hat
Celine D
ion t
rie
s to
pass
off
lyric
s th
at
I w
rote
as
her o
wn.
Now
, if
I h
ad w
rit
ten t
he s
ong f
or h
er,
it
would
n’t
both
er m
e s
o m
uch, but
Wa
ter
an
d a
Fla
me is
a v
ery p
erso
nal so
ng, th
at
I w
rote
rig
ht
aft
er a
break u
p I
was
goin
g t
hrough a
nd is
one o
f m
y p
erso
nal
favourit
e s
ongs
on m
y a
lbum
Love
& W
ar.
This
song h
as
every o
unce o
f m
y h
earta
che a
nd p
ain
in it
and s
he p
rete
nds
as
if s
he w
rote
it
herse
lf.”
“Don’t
get
me w
rong, I
am
genuin
ely
flatt
ered t
hat
anyone w
ould
want
to c
over o
ne o
f m
y s
ongs,
but
there is
an a
ge o
ld e
tiquett
e a
mongst
arti
sts
that
one g
ives
credit
where c
redit
is
due.”
“Thank y
ou C
eline D
ion f
or s
ingin
g m
y s
ong, but
if y
ou h
ad s
een e
ven
half
of
what
I have s
een in m
y lif
e t
ime, you w
ould
n’t
be a
ble
to g
et
out
of
bed in t
he m
ornin
g let
alo
ne s
ing, so
just
be m
indfu
l of th
e fact
that
songs
are a
connecti
on t
o t
he e
ther,
and a
n i
nsi
ght
to o
ur i
nner m
ost
thoughts
and f
eelings
and f
or s
om
e o
f us
it m
ay b
e a
ll w
e w
ill ever h
ave,” h
e a
dded.
Harr
y St
yles
obs
esse
d w
ithvi
ntag
e m
usic
inst
rum
ents
One D
irecti
on m
em
ber H
arry S
tyle
s is
said
to b
e o
bse
ssed w
ith v
inta
ge
musi
c i
nst
rum
ents
and l
ooked f
or t
hem
in e
very c
ity d
urin
g h
is “
Take
Me H
om
e”
worl
d t
our.
“H
arr
y loves
all t
hin
gs
vin
tage a
nd s
peci
alist
horn
s are
his
late
st o
bse
ssio
n.
He’s
been s
endin
g o
ut
the b
and’s
securit
y in e
ach U
S c
ity t
o s
cour s
hops
for
the p
rem
ium
ite
ms
as
well a
s oth
er r
etr
o p
roducts
lik
e fl
ags,
” fe
male
firs
t.co.u
k q
uote
d a
source a
s sa
yin
g.
The 1
9-y
ear-o
ld a
lso c
onsi
ders
the e
xpensi
ve m
usi
cal
props
an “
invest
-m
ent”
for h
is f
utu
re. “T
hey’r
e a
great
financia
l in
vest
ment
for h
im. B
uyin
g
vin
tage i
nst
rum
ents
is
like c
ollecti
ng a
rt.
They’r
e w
orth
a f
ortu
ne a
nd t
he
US
is
hom
e t
o s
om
e o
f th
e m
ost
sought-
aft
er c
ollecta
ble
s,”
said
the s
ource.
Sty
les’
is
als
o s
aid
to b
e o
bse
ssed w
ith t
he s
axophone a
nd h
e i
s eager t
o
learn it.
“H
e’s
alw
ays
wante
d t
o p
lay t
he s
axophone b
ut
never g
ot
anyw
here
wit
h i
t. B
ut
since b
uildin
g u
p h
is h
orn c
ollecti
on i
t’s
rekin
dle
d h
is i
nte
rest
and n
ow
he’s
lookin
g t
o fi
nd a
good t
eacher,”
the s
ource a
dded.
Ranv
eer’s
Loo
tera
look
insp
ired
by D
ev A
nand
, Jam
es D
ean
Ranveer S
ingh r
eveals
his
look i
n L
oote
ra h
as
been
in
spir
ed b
y l
ate
H
ollyw
ood a
cto
r J
am
es
Dean a
nd B
ollyw
ood legend D
ev A
nand.
“Vik
ram
(dir
ecto
r V
ikram
adit
ya M
otw
ane)
was
very c
lear i
t had t
o b
e
an a
malg
am
ati
on o
f Ja
mes
Dean a
nd D
ev A
nand. S
o t
hose
were t
he r
efe
r-
ences
that
he u
sed t
o s
end m
e,” t
he 2
8-y
ear-o
ld s
aid
.“I
did
not
do a
nyth
ing, he (
the d
irecto
r)
knew
the k
ind o
f lo
ok h
e w
ante
d,
the k
ind o
f hair
he w
ante
d. E
very d
eta
il h
e l
ooked i
nto
, so
I r
eally d
idn’t
giv
e a
ny input
this
tim
e, it
was
all V
ikram
’s,” h
e s
aid
.R
anveer is
happy w
ith t
he a
pprecia
tion h
is c
lean look is
garnerin
g, esp
e-
cia
lly f
rom
his
fem
ale
fans.
“I
am
very h
appy e
verybody l
ikes
that
cle
an
cut
look. I’ve g
ot
a lot
of
mess
ages
that
are v
ery a
pprecia
tive o
f th
at
look,
esp
ecia
lly f
rom
the ladie
s, w
hic
h is
nic
e,” h
e s
aid
.
Aish
war
ya in
Kaj
ra re
in
spire
s Ja
cque
line
Sri L
ankan b
eauty
Jacqueline F
ernandez
took insp
irati
on from
Ais
hw
arya R
ai’s
work
in K
ajr
a r
e s
ong for h
er ite
m n
um
ber
“Jadu k
i jh
appi”
in R
am
aiy
a V
ast
ava
iya.
Jacqueline d
ons
desi
avata
r for t
he s
ong
choreographed b
y P
rabhudheva,
who i
s als
o t
he d
irecto
r o
f th
e m
ovie
.T
alk
ing about
Ka
jra
re,
sh
e said
: “I
th
ink i
t w
as c
horeographed b
eauti
fully,
A
ishw
arya w
as
lookin
g s
tun
nin
g...
I lo
ve
that
song a
nd I
rem
em
ber h
earin
g it
when
I cam
e t
o I
ndia
, so
it
kin
d o
f rem
ain
ed a
nd
I th
ink it
was
am
azi
ng. It
is
my favourit
e,”
said
the a
ctr
ess
at
the u
nveilin
g o
f th
e ite
m
num
ber.
Jacqueline’s
first
ite
m s
ong D
ha
nn
o in H
ou
sefu
ll w
as
receiv
ed w
ell.
Rele
asi
ng o
n J
uly
19,
Ra
ma
iya
Va
sta
vaiy
a s
tars
Gir
ish T
aurani and S
hruti
H
aasa
n in t
he lead r
ole
s.
Ram
Cha
ran,
Allu
Arj
un d
onat
e`2
m fo
r Ut
tara
khan
d re
lief
Telu
gu a
cto
rs
Ram
Charan T
eja
, so
n o
f acto
r-t
urned-p
oliti
cia
n C
hir
anje
evi, a
nd
his
cousi
n A
llu A
rju
n c
hip
ped i
n `
1m e
ach
tow
ards t
he U
ttarakhan
d d
isaste
r r
elief
fund.
Earli
er,
acto
r P
aw
an
K
aly
an
, youn
ger
broth
er o
f C
hir
an
jeevi, d
on
ate
d `
2.4
m f
or
the s
am
e c
ause
.C
onfirm
ing t
he n
ew
s, A
llu S
iris
h, younger
broth
er o
f A
rju
n p
ost
ed o
n h
is T
wit
ter p
age:
“Charan a
nd B
unny (
Arju
n)
gave ̀
1m e
ach,
(while)
Kaly
an g
aru g
ave `
2.4
m.”
Mem
bers
from
Chir
anje
evi’s
fan c
lub h
ave
tuned in u
p t
o `
2.5
m f
or t
he v
icti
ms.
“I’
m very proud th
at
our m
ega fa
ns
(megast
ar C
hir
an
jeevi’s
fan
s’)
com
mun
ity
cam
e f
orw
ard a
nd p
oole
d in `
2.5
m t
ow
ards
Utt
arak
han
d reli
ef
fun
d,”
S
iris
h poste
d
furth
er.
Mem
bers
from
Chir
an
jeevi’s
fam
ily w
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or L
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at
the C
liff
side M
alibu r
ehab c
entr
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he w
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usl
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et-
ting h
er c
ourt-
ordered t
reatm
ent
at
the B
ett
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ord C
entr
e a
t R
ancho
Mir
age.
mos
tly b
elov
ed a
mon
g ou
r ch
ildre
n, w
ho
decl
ared
tha
t it
was
eve
n “b
ette
r th
an C
ars
” (L
izey
, 9)
. O
ur y
oung
est
criti
cs lo
ved
it m
ost,
notin
g “I
love
raci
ng th
ings
!” (G
raha
m, 7
), “R
ace
cars
are
fun
ny”
(Wils
on,
4),
and
, “B
ecau
se
ther
e’s
bad
guy
s, a
nd M
ater
, an
d L
ight
ning
M
cQue
en,
and
SP
IES
!” (
Max
, 5)
. N
oa,
12,
prov
ided
a c
ount
erpo
int:
“The
thin
g ab
out t
he
Car
s m
ovie
s is
that
they
are
gea
red
to a
spe
cific
au
dien
ce a
nd t
hat
audi
ence
doe
s no
t in
clud
e 12
-yea
r-ol
d gi
rls.”
8. R
ATA
TO
UIL
LE
(200
7)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 9
6 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
79
perc
ent
The
mos
t con
trove
rsia
l iss
ue w
ith R
atat
ouille,
un
iver
sally
acc
laim
ed b
y pr
ofes
sion
al c
ritic
s,
was
the
rats
. Miri
am, 1
0, “
liked
that
it w
as a
bout
a
rat t
hat c
ould
coo
k,”
whi
le E
lliot
, 4, d
isag
reed
, sa
ying
, “I d
idn’
t lik
e it,
bec
ause
it h
as ra
ts, a
nd I
don’
t lik
e ra
ts.”
Noa
, 12,
exp
lain
ed, “
I lik
e ho
w
it is
sym
bolic
of r
eal l
ife. A
nd I
like
rats
.”
9. T
OY S
TO
RY 2
(199
9)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 1
00 p
erce
ntK
ids’
Rat
ing:
71
perc
ent
Toy
Sto
ry 2
ear
ned
a ra
re p
erfe
ct ra
ting
from
R
otte
n To
mat
oes,
but
you
nger
vie
wer
s w
ere
all o
ver t
he m
ap. N
ell,
12, l
iked
“ho
w it
is s
ad”
and
appr
ecia
ted
the
them
e of
“th
e cy
cle
of to
ys
and
the
loss
they
felt.
” E
li, w
ho’s
the
sam
e ag
e,
dism
isse
d th
e m
ovie
as
“poi
ntle
ss.”
“A
bun
ch
of p
eopl
e ap
pear
ed a
nd d
isap
pear
ed in
90
min
-ut
es, m
aybe
less
.” M
ax, 5
, sai
d it
was
one
of
his
favo
urite
s, “
Bec
ause
Evi
l Em
pero
r Zur
g!”
10. W
ALL-E
(200
8)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 9
6 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
71
perc
ent
Man
y ch
ildre
n lo
ved
WA
LL-E
, ofte
n na
min
g th
e sc
ene
whe
re W
ALL-E
floa
ts in
par
ticul
ar. B
ut
a fe
w d
isag
reed
. Nel
l, 12
, offe
red
the
hars
hest
ta
ke:
“I d
on’t
get
it. I
don
’t th
ink
it is
cle
ver.
Ther
e is
no
narr
ativ
e. I
don’
t lik
e th
e ec
o-ne
ss
of it
. I t
houg
ht it
was
bor
ing.
” 5-
year
-old
Ale
x lis
ted
it am
ong
his
favo
urite
s: “
Wall-
E fl
oats
in
spac
e an
d he
mee
ts a
bes
t frie
nd. I
love
mee
t-in
g be
st fr
iend
s.”
His
twin
, Max
, agr
eed:
“W
all-E
ca
n flo
at! A
nd h
e m
akes
squ
are
stuf
f com
e ou
t of
his
bel
ly.”
11. B
RA
VE
(201
2)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 7
8 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
67
perc
ent
Fans
of
Bra
ve r
eally
like
d th
e sc
ene
“whe
n th
e be
ar w
as n
aked
” (F
rann
y, 8
, an
d G
ideo
n,
4). J
acob
, 10,
als
o “l
iked
the
Bra
ve’s
bra
very
.”
But
twin
s M
ax a
nd A
lex,
5, n
umbe
red
it am
ong
thei
r lea
st fa
vour
ites,
exp
lain
ing
that
they
did
n’t
like
the
scar
y w
itch
and
“the
ver
y sc
ary
bear
, M
ULD
OO
N.”
(H
is a
ctua
l nam
e is
Mor
’du.
) A
t le
ast o
ne k
id a
gree
d w
ith m
any
criti
cs, c
eleb
rat-
ing
the
fact
that
“fo
r onc
e th
e st
ory
has
a fe
mal
e he
roin
e” (P
earl,
9).
12. F
IND
ING
NE
MO
(200
3)C
ritic
s’ R
atin
g: 9
9 pe
rcen
tK
ids’
Rat
ing:
57
perc
ent
Nea
rly h
alf o
f our
chi
ld c
ritic
s di
slik
ed F
ind
ing
Nem
o, c
ompl
aini
ng th
at it
was
“ov
erhy
ped”
and
“v
ery
pre
dic
tab
le”
(Noa
, 12
), “a
litt
le w
eird
” (L
izey
, 9)
, an
d “w
ent
over
boar
d w
ith f
anta
sy”
(Jac
ob,
10).
Nem
o’s
fans
, on
the
oth
er h
and,
ex
plai
ned
that
the
y lik
ed it
“be
caus
e th
ere’
s a
turt
le t
hat’s
so
funn
y, it
sw
ims
away
” (L
ily,
6),
and
beca
use
they
“lik
ed th
e fis
h” (F
rann
y, 8
).
13. C
AR
S (2
006)
Crit
ics’
Rat
ing:
74
perc
ent
Kid
s’ R
atin
g: 5
4 pe
rcen
tA
s w
ith R
atat
ouill
e, t
he m
ost
cont
rove
rsia
l as
pect
of C
ars
was
the
subj
ect m
atte
r. P
earl,
9,
said
, “Ta
lkin
g ca
rs d
on’t
appe
al to
me.
” Ja
cob,
10
, ag
reed
: “T
oo m
any
cars
.” S
ome
youn
ger
view
ers
took
the
oppo
site
vie
w, g
ivin
g hi
gh ra
t-in
gs b
ecau
se “
race
car
s ar
e fu
nny”
(Wils
on, 4
), an
d “b
ecau
se t
hey
race
” (G
ideo
n, 4
). N
ell,
12,
got
to t
he h
eart
of t
he m
atte
r: “T
hey
wer
e ju
st
tryi
ng to
app
eal t
o a
youn
ger a
udie
nce.
”
14. A
BU
G’S
LIF
E (1
998)
Crit
ics’
Rat
ing:
92
perc
ent
Kid
s’ R
atin
g: 4
3 pe
rcen
tFo
r th
ose
who
rem
embe
red
it —
and
man
y d
idn’
t —
A B
ug’s
Life
see
ms
to h
ave
aged
po
orly
. W
hile
som
e lik
ed it
, pr
aisi
ng it
s “g
ood
stor
y” (P
earl,
9),
anot
her c
ompl
aine
d th
at it
was
“t
oo s
cary
” (M
ax, 5
). Li
zey,
9, g
ave
it he
r low
est
ratin
g: “
It w
as k
ind
of s
tupi
d th
at t
hey
mad
e a
mov
ie a
bout
inse
cts.
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P-B
loom
ber
g
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WE
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ES
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Y 3
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LY 2
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ouri
te P
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ies
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ouri
te P
ixar
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ies
BY KEVIN SIEFF
THE man who spends his days surrounded by dead Afghan soldiers waits in a faded shipping container across from the morgue. But Noorulah Noori rarely waits long before
he is called to work.Inside the container is a bed, a fan and a hose for
washing the bodies. He has prepared at least a thou-sand of them for burial over the past decade: victims of roadside bombs, gunshots, mortar rounds and dis-ease, delivered to him in all the shapes death takes.
Noori, 33, removes the soldiers from identical wooden coffins that are draped in Afghanistan’s flag, and he performs his duty, preparing each for burial in the Islamic tradition. He washes off blood and dirt, sprinkles perfume and covers each in a white sheet, or kafan. That’s how their families will see them when they make it home.
What Noori sees first is much more bracing — a relentless procession of bodies just off the battlefield. He takes anti-anxiety medication to help him sleep. He doesn’t tell his family anything about his job at one of the Afghan military’s busiest medical centers,
Kandahar Regional Military Hospital.In Washington, questions about the future of
Afghanistan are often phrased in terms of the Taliban’s strength and the Afghan army’s fighting ability. Noori’s perch on the war doesn’t provide clear answers to those impossibly large questions. But it has made him a front-line witness to the massive human cost associated with what’s formally articu-lated as a “military transition.”
As his country’s army inherits the war from the United States and NATO, there are far more of those bodies than ever before. More than 250 Afghan sol-diers and police are now killed in Afghanistan every month, many of them in the violent south where Noori works. On that subject, Noori takes a long view. “The army will keep fighting, and men will keep dying, until there is peace,” he said.
Noori was once employed by the group responsi-ble for the death and destruction he sees on a daily basis. For several years, beginning when he was 19, he worked for the Taliban.
In Kandahar, the province where the Taliban was born, the only job he could find was sweeping the floors of the former regime’s main hospital. It was nearly two years before Sept. 11, 2001.
When war came to Afghanistan and the regime was toppled, Noori swept the same floors for the new Afghan government.
Because he was a low-level worker, his previous allegiance was forgiven. Soon, he was watching gov-ernment fatalities trickle in.
The man then in charge of washing bodies needed assistance. It wasn’t an alluring job, but it was an important one, Noori thought.
“It’s religious work,” he recalls thinking to himself.He volunteered. Since then, Noori, typically clad in
medical scrubs and an Afghan army windbreaker, has handled corpses nearly every day for the past decade.
“I’ve seen more death than anyone,” he said. “The bodies keep coming.”
Afghani who prepares war Afghani who prepares war dead for burial considers dead for burial considers it a religious callingit a religious calling
Doctor Mohammad Hussain Nasiri, left, and morgue worker Noorullah Noori Doctor Mohammad Hussain Nasiri, left, and morgue worker Noorullah Noori place an Afghan flag over the coffin of Mohammed Nasir, a fallen soldier, in place an Afghan flag over the coffin of Mohammed Nasir, a fallen soldier, in a makeshift morgue at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital on April 27 in a makeshift morgue at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital on April 27 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Morgue worker Noorullah Noori unlocks the door of an ambulance before unloading Morgue worker Noorullah Noori unlocks the door of an ambulance before unloading the remains of a fallen soldier at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital.the remains of a fallen soldier at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital.
FEATUREPLUS | WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 201310
He gets middle-of-the-night phone calls beckon-ing him to the hospital so that bodies can be washed and buried as soon as possible, according to Muslim custom. He knows exactly what a bomb or a machine gun or a rocket-propelled grenade can do to a human body. Some soldiers look serene, almost untouched, and others don’t look human at all.
He knows to expect anything when he removes the lid of the coffin. Once he saw his neighbor and close friend, Hashmat. Noori mourned quietly while doing his job.
“Anyone would get angry to see a friend like that,” he said.
As more Afghan soldiers die, Noori finds himself close to some of the worst violence. His morgue is the destination for those killed in contested swaths of the south and southwest, including several of Afghanistan’s bloodiest districts.
His colleagues ask how he’s holding up, and he often shrugs them off.
“No matter what the body looks like, he does his job,” said Sgt. Mohammad Hussein, the head of the morgue. “It’s difficult.”
The truth is that Noori can’t sleep without medica-tion. He dispassionately describes himself as “physi-cally and mentally exhausted.” He keeps the bed in the storage container, he says, because after washing three or four bodies, he needs to lie down.
This year, just after the Taliban announced the beginning of its “spring offensive,” bodies came in one after the next. One afternoon, an ambulance arrived from Helmand Province carrying three dead, all killed by separate makeshift bombs.
Noori was suddenly frenzied. He called to a group of soldiers for help lifting the bodies for washing. But the men walked away brusquely.
“They don’t have the courage to help,” he said to himself as he worked alone.
There is a tenderness to the way Noori does his job, washing the men’s hair as if he were caring for a small child. But the circumstances can be brutal. Sometimes, he has to wash severed limbs separately. Sometimes, the clean white sheets turn red as soon as they’re placed on bodies. Sometimes, he sees fresh scars where doctors tried to operate, but failed or ran out of time.
On warm days, all the death and heat make the job nearly unbearable.
Spring and summer are when the fighting is most
intense, particularly this year, when U.S. troops are doing minimal combat and Afghan soldiers are dying at a higher rate than Western forces ever did.
“In the summer, it’s too much,” Noori said.Questions about the Taliban’s strength do occupy
Noori’s mind. Because he is an employee of the Afghan military but not a soldier, he lives off base, on the outskirts of Kandahar City. Every day, he drives one hour to Camp Hero, the sprawling military installation where the hospital is located.
He knows his unguarded living conditions make him vulnerable to insurgents, especially former Talibs, who target those working for the Afghan government. His colleagues, who live at Camp Hero, worry about him.
“If they find him, they will kill him immediately,” Hussein said.
But Noori has taken an approach to his own life
that seems to blend defiance and fatalism. He says he isn’t scared of the Taliban, but that he’s ready for death when death comes.
When the hospital calls him in during early morning or late nights, he slips out of bed quietly so that his wife does not wake. He has never described his job to her in any detail, because he worries she would begin to associate his early morning departures with the death of soldiers. “She wouldn’t be able to take it psy-chologically,” said Noori, who has an infant daughter.
Noori says he can take it, though he thinks often of the families who will be on the receiving end of his work, in whatever Afghan province the soldier called home. “They deserve to see the bodies clean and neat,” he said. “They are the ones who have suffered.”
WP-BLOOMBERG
Noorullah Noori cares for the body of Kiram Uddin, a fallen soldier, in a Noorullah Noori cares for the body of Kiram Uddin, a fallen soldier, in a makeshift morgue at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital.makeshift morgue at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital.
Noorullah Noori prepares to remove a tie from the feet of the remains of Kiram Uddin, a Noorullah Noori prepares to remove a tie from the feet of the remains of Kiram Uddin, a fallen soldier, in a makeshift morgue at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital fallen soldier, in a makeshift morgue at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital Noorullah Noori Noorullah Noori
11FEATURE PLUS | WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 2013
PLUS | THURSDAY 4 JULY 201312 SPYING
© GRAPHIC NEWS
Cyberspies are not only monitoring the content of internet traffic but arecollecting vast quantities of metadata – information about who, where andwhen phone calls, emails and text messages are made globally each day
New York
Montreal
London
MadridLisbon
Frankfurt
Washington Rome
Paris
Fibre-opticinternet routes
terabyteis 1,000Gb
(gigabytes),equivalent to230 DVDs
petabyteis 1,000Tb,
or 230,000DVDs
exabyteis 1,000Pb,
or 230 millionDVDs
zettabyteis 1,000Eb,
or 230 billionDVDs
Combinedcapacity of alltransatlantic
cables is around27,600Pb per day,
or 6.4 billionDVDs
U.S. NationalSecurity Agency
BritishGCHQ
Prism: Allows NSAto monitor internet
traffic of foreigners, but sweeps upAmerican citizens during process.Prism programme captures contentplus metadata.Boundless Informant: Programmecollects more than three billion itemsof metadata per day. Bluffdale datacentre has 1.3 zettabytes of storage– equivalent to 300 billion DVDs
Tempora:Programme operated by Britishsecret service agency monitorsglobal internet and telephoneconnections and collects metadatafrom 200 transatlantic fibre-opticcables. Tempora uses 300 stafffrom GCHQ, and 250 from NSAto analyse data. GCHQ can access21 petabytes of data per day –equivalent to 4,800,000 DVDs a day
Sources: TeleGeography, Wired, The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
COMICS & MORE 13
Hoy en la HistoriaJuly 3, 1938
1928: John Logie Baird transmitted the world’s first colour television pictures1993: Military leader General Raoul Cedras signed a UN plan to restore democracy to Haiti2001: Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic became the first former head of state to be arraigned on war crimes charges at the The Hague2003: Astronomers announced the discovery of a solar system 90 light years away which could support life
The British steam train Mallard achieved a new world record speed of 126mph (203kph) for steam locomotives which still stands to this day
Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS
ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
ADAPTATION, AGAINST THE ROPES, ALIEN, ALONG CAME POLLY, AMADEUS, ANNIE HALL, BABE, BASIC INSTINCT, BEN HUR, BIG FISH, BRAVEHEART, CABARET, CASABLANCA, CHICAGO, CONFIDENCE, DAREDEVIL, DIE HARD, DR ZHIVAGO, EVITA, GHANDI, GHOSTBUSTERS, GLADIATOR, GOLDFINGER, INSOMNIA, IRIS, JAWS, LANTANA, LOST IN TRANSLATION, MAD MAX, MIRACLE, MR DEEDS, NETWORK, PEARL HARBOR, PLATOON, PSYCHO, ROCKY, SIGNS, STAR WARS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE STING.
Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne
LEARNARABIC
How to conjugate verbs in the past:
Personnel pronoun and their suffixes:
How to conjugate verbs:
Remark: To conjugate verbs in the past, we delete the last letter a then we add suffixes that correspond with the pronoun for ex: tu, ta, ti,a,at
Ana tuAna Kataba+tu
Ana Katabtu I wrote
Anta taAnta ( verb+tu)
Anta Katabta You wrote (m)
Anti ti Anti ( verb+ti) Anti Katabti You wrote (f)
Hu’wa a Hu’wa ( verb+a) Howa Kataba He wrote
Hiy’ya at Hiy’ya ( verb+at) Hiyya Katabat She wrote
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HYPER SUDOKU
CROSSWORD
CROSSWORDS
YESTERDAY’S
ANSWER
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.
ACROSS 1 Line of acid reflux
medications
7 Gash
15 1984 film based on the1924 novel
17 Causes for some wars
18 Court org.
19 French-built rocket
20 Downwind
21 Some religious experiences
23 Laplanders
24 ___ Tamid (synagogue lamp)
25 Items often found near the cash register
26 Suffix with diet
27 Mark atop, as graph points
29 Money for nothing?
30 Undergoes liquefaction, as a gel
31 It may have an ext.
32 Actresses Graff and Kristen
33 Next
34 Like some rule-breaking Olympians
35 Not getting it
36 Leave
38 Guidance
39 What’s between fast and slow?
41 Great Lakes state: Abbr.
42 Segue
43 Country whose name sounds like a Jamaican exclamation
44 Pretends not to care
47 1945 event
48 Shooting pellets?
49 Completely gone
DOWN
1 Katherina or Bianca, in “The Taming of the Shrew”
2 Like questions of what is knowable
3 1 or 2 Timothy
4 Where to hear hearings
5 Sch. in Ames
6 Finds customers from social media, perhaps
7 Preceded
8 Baseball stat
9 Woodsy scavengers
10 Its national anthem is “Amhrán na bhFiann”
11 Boxing seg.
12 “Guys and Dolls” song
13 Some basic car care
14 Take on gradually
16 Rulers or managers
22 Didn’t hide one’s feelings, to say the least
23 Bad thing to make at a restaurant
26 One working on a board
28 Tiffany features
29 Elite
30 Askance
31 Wearer of the triregnum crown
33 Spoofing, with “up”
35 Absolutely perfect
37 Like campers at night, typically
39 “The ___: A Tragedy in Five Acts” (Shelley work)
40 Unlike HDTV screens
42 “South Pacific” girl
45 Relig. title
46 Christian ___
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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.
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Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.
CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15
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MALL
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Monster University (3D/Animation)– 2.30 & 5.00pm
ABCD (2D/Malayalam) – 7.30 & 10.30pm
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Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.15 & 4.45pm
World War Z (3D/Action) – 7.15pm
The Purge (2D/Horror) – 9.30pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 11.15pm
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The Purge (2D/Horror) – 2.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 4.30 & 6.45pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 9.00pm
Dark Tide (2D/Thriller) – 11.30pm
LANDMARK
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Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.30 & 5.00pm
ABCD (2D/Malayalam) – 8.00pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 11.00pm
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Monster University (3D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 6.30pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 9.00pm
Dark Tide (2D/Thriller) – 11.30pm
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The Purge (2D/Horror) – 2.30 & 6.30pm
Tatah (2D/Arabic)– 4.30pm
World War Z (3D/Action) – 8.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 11.00pm
ROYAL PLAZA
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Man of Steel (3D/Action) – 2.30pm
Monster University (3D/Animation) – 5.00pm
White House Down (2D/Action) – 7.00 & 11.15pm
Dark Tide (2D/Thriller) – 9.30pm
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Monster University (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm
The Heat (2D/Action) – 4.30 & 6.45
White House Down (2D/Action) – 9.00pm
The Purge (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm
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World War Z (3D/Action) – 3.00pm
Raanjhanaa (2D/Hindi) – 5.30pm
Ghanchakkar (2D/Hindi) – 8.30 & 11.00pm
QF RADIO 91.7 FM ENGLISH PROGRAMME BRIEF LIVE SHOWS Airing Time Programme Briefs
SPIRITUAL HOUR 6:00 – 7:00 AM A time of reflection, a deeper understanding of the
teachings of Islam.
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carpets and popular brands around the world.
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Created by our very own Nabil Al Nashar.
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LEGENDARY ARTISTS
8:00 PM The show tells the story of a celebrity artist that has
reached unprecedented fame. Throughout the episode,
the artists’ memorable performances/songs will be
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PLUS | WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 2013
0800 Magazine Tba0830 Rio Ferdinand
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Raven20:00 Jessie20:25 Wizards Of
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Doha Trade Fair 2013 When: Until July 6Saturday to Thursday: 10am — 10pmand Friday 2pm — 10pmWhere: Doha Exhibitions Center What: Trade shows featuring over 580 exhibitors from 29 countries, showcasing and selling a wide range of products varying from household items; toys, gadgets and electronics; perfume and cosmetics; to clothes and food. Free entry
Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art When: Until July 20Sunday, Monday, Wednesday:10:30am - 5:30pmThursday, Saturday: Noon — 8pmFriday: 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)
Qatar National Library Heritage Collection 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 QatarWhen: 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
Events in Qatar MEDIA SCAN
• Some people are complaining about soaring prices of restaurants serving diet meals for weight loss, as they charge up to QR3,000 a month.
• Citizens are complaining about truck drivers not giving way to cars, parking wrongly and blocking traffic at fuel stations.
• People are talking about the Licensing Authority at the Ministry of Interior banning issuance of driving licences to labourers under the sponsorship of ministries, government organisations, and mixed sector and private companies.
• People are demanding an urgent solution to the problem of cars being parked for long times in open areas at Al Thumama, Abu Hamour and Umm Al Hawl, because it can damage the environment and the vehicles become breeding grounds for insets.
• People are discussing the dismissal from Qatar University of a Qatari woman holding a doctorate degree in physics.
• People are demanding an end to the practice of parents, especially mothers, letting their sons drive cars in residential areas without a driver’s licence.
• Visitors to the Emergency Unit of Hamad Hospital are complaining about security personnel there doing work unrelated to their job, such as helping patients see doctors, and passing medial files.
• People are talking about Qatari students in Egypt and saying that some citizens are still stranded there and they could not be brought to Qatar.
• There is talk about the decision by the Ministry of Business and Trade to suspend evening auction of fish during the holy month of Ramadan.
A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
IN FOCUS
Two children enjoying the summer as they dance at the Museum of Islamic Art Park in the evening.
by Shamil Rasheed
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Hitler’s food taster feared death with every morsel
Margot Woelk spent the last few years of World War Two
eating lavish meals and fearing that every mouthful could mean death.
The former food taster for Adolf Hitler was served a plate of food and forced to eat it between 11 and 12 every morning for most of the last 2-1/2 years of the Nazi German leader’s life. If she did not fall ill, the food was packed into boxes and taken to the Wolf ’s Lair, a military head-quarters located deep in woodland, in what is today northeastern Poland.
“Hitler was a vegetarian so it was all vegetarian fare - it was very good food like white asparagus, wonder-ful fruits, peppers and cauliflower,” the 96-year-old Berliner said.
Along with 14 other girls in their 20s, Woelk lived in fear that every meal she ate would be her last.
“We were always terrified that the food might be poisoned as England wanted to poison Hitler and he knew that from his spies so he employed young girls to taste his food,” she said.
“We cried a lot and hugged each other. We asked each other: ‘Will we still be alive tomorrow or not?’”
Reuters
