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Researchers say jackfruit – a large ungainly Researchers say jackfruit – a large ungainly fruit grown across south and south-east fruit grown across south and south-east Asia – could be a replacement for wheat, Asia – could be a replacement for wheat, corn and other staple crops under threat corn and other staple crops under threat from climate change.from climate change.

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By Suzanne Goldenberg

It’s big and bumpy with a gooey interior and a powerful smell of decay — but it could help keep millions of people from hunger.

Researchers say jackfruit — a large ungainly fruit grown across south and south-east Asia — could be a replacement for wheat, corn and other staple crops under threat from climate change.

The World Bank and United Nations warned recently that ris-ing temperatures and unpredictable rainfall had already reduced yields of wheat and corn, and could lead to food wars within the decade.

Now researchers say jackfruit could help provide the solution.Jackfruit is the largest known treeborne fruit. Even a small

jackfruit weighs in at 10-15lbs (5-7kg), and farmers have recorded specimens of more than 100lbs (45kg).

“It’s a miracle. It can provide so many nutrients and calories – everything,” said Shyamala Reddy, a biotechnology researcher at the University of Agriculture Sciences in Bangalore, India. “If you just eat 10 or 12 bulbs of this fruit, you don’t need food for another half a day.”

But jackfruit, despite its huge potential, remains underexploited as a food crop in India, where it originated.

That is beginning to change, however, with a growing number of researchers looking for alternatives.

Reddy’s university will host an international conference on jackfruit in May. She said the Indian government had launched a number of new initiatives to promote the crop by expanding its use as a canned vegetable and as a processed food.

The effort coincides with a global push to expand food produc-tion, especially in developing countries which are expected to face growing challenges to feed their people in the coming decades.

Jackfruit can fill the gap on a number of counts, said Danielle Nierenberg, president of Food Tank, which works on sustainable agriculture.

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“It is easy to grow. It survives pests and diseases and high temperatures. It is drought-resistant,” she said. “It achieves what farmers need in food production when facing a lot of challenges under climate change.”

The fruit is rich in potassium, calcium, and iron, said Reddy, making it more nutritious than current starchy staples.

Sri Lanka and Vietnam have established jackfruit industries, where the fruit is processed into products as diverse as flour, noodles, papad and ice cream. Jackfruit is also canned and sold as a vegetable for export.

But jackfruit remains a hard sell in much of India. Although the fruit was seen as an important staple 40 or 50 years ago, it is now derided as a poor man’s fruit, said Shree Padre, a jackfruit farmer from Karnataka.

Only one or two commercial-scale jackfruit plantations are in current operation.“In the country of origin, it is just not understood,” he said. “There is an infe-

riority attached to jackfruit. Any farmer would happily carry an imported apple in his hand rather than jackfruit.”

The down-market reputation is unwarranted, said Nyree Zerega, a researcher on plant biology at the Chicago Botanic Garden, who has studied jackfruit in Bangladesh.

In addition to its high nutritional value, the fruit is very versatile, she said. The seeds, young fruit, and mature varieties are all edible. The timber from jackfruit trees is also valuable. “It is just not being utilised,” she said.

“I think it could play a much more important role in diets than it currently does and be a staple,” she continued. “In addition to consuming cooked young jackfruit, ripe jackfruit, and jackfruit seeds, there are also many food products with longer shelf life that can be made from jackfruit.”

Processing the fruit can be offputting, she conceded. The larger fruit give off a strong odour, and ooze a thick white sap. “It is not the easiest fruit,” Zerega said.

But jackfruit, breadfruit, and other non-traditional crops are being reexamined because of fears about future food supply.

A report from the International Panel on Climate Change last month warned that heatwaves, drought, and unpredictable rainfall patterns were already cutting into yields of wheat and maize. The World Bank’s Dr Jim Yong Kim earlier this month predicted food shortages could lead to wars within the next five to 10 years.

“There is just more interest in crops that aren’t the major staples,” she said. “We just don’t have a choice. We are going to have to explore some of these alter-native to make sure we are going to be able to nourish people,” Nierenberg said.

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In addition to its high nutritional value, the fruit is very versatile, she said. The seeds, young fruit, and mature varieties are all edible. The timber from jackfruit trees is also valuable.

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PEC honours meritorious students at annual prize distribution ceremony

Pakistan Education Centre awarded meritori-ous students of academic year 2013-14 with medals, trophies and merit certificates at the

annual prize distribution ceremony held recently. Shahzad Ahmad, Ambassador of Pakistan to Qatar and Chairman, Board of Governors, of Pakistan Education Centre, was the chief guest. Principal Nargis Raza was the guest of honour at the ceremony. Pakistan Embassy official Commodore Muhammad Masud Akram, parents of the award winners and a large number of students attended the event.

The ceremony was a joint venture of all the four wings of the school. First, the budding stars of KG Wing were presented certificates and trophies by the principal. A colourful presentation by the young students of the KG Wing earned the loudest applause from the audience. A choir from the Girls Wing Music Club also presented a song of inspiration and motivation.

Students from the Girls Wing staged a skit on the problem of peer pressure, and students from the Boys Wing displayed their dancing skills.

Later, the overall top three position holders in grades V, VI, VII and VIII were awarded medals, trophies and certificate by the chief guest.

The overall first position holders were Sana Saleem, Salman Khan and Syed Saif Raza.

The overall second position holders were Fatima Gulzaib, Eiman Amir, Muhammad Kamran, Saba Imtiaz and Maira Naeem.

The overall third position holders were Laiba Mariam, Muhammad Rabid, Muhammad Imran Zahid and Ahlam Rashid Latif.

Later, the chief guest addressed the students and wished them success in their future endeavours. He also commiserated those who had failed to get the desired results and advised them to make more efforts to reach their academic goals.

Earlier, the principal presented the annual accu-mulative report for the academic year 2013-14. She

congratulated all the toppers in various classes and dedicated the evening to these elite achievers of PEC.

“On this evening, by spotlighting the hard work of all the students whose academic contributions

are being acknowledged, we aspire to inspire our prospective students. In this way, by blending past with present, we try to create a better future in the end,” she said.

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Overall position holders with Ambassador Shahzad Ahmad and Principal Nargis Raza Otho.

The Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony was held at BFPIS for the junior and senior wings.

High-achievers in academics were awarded during this ceremony.

The guest of honour was Samar Javed, first secretary at Pakistan embassy. Justine Obrien, educationist, also graced the occasion as chief guest.

They gave away awards to the ris-ing stars and praised them for their

success. The event was attended by parents of the high achievers. The school choir performed songs that added pizzazz to the joyous ceremony. Students also staged various musical performances which were appreciated by all present.

The school principal, Imran Waheed, congratulated the students on their performance and advised them to continue their efforts to

achieve their goals. He enumerated the challenges faced by present-day students and highlighted the role teachers and parents ought to play to shape the destiny, life and future of the children.

The chief guest congratulated all the prize winners in his speech and exhorted all students, in general, to do even better and touch greater heights in life. The Peninsula

Annual prize distribution ceremony at BFPIS

SIS student bags first prizein essay writing competition

In an essay writing competition organised by the Indian Community Benevolent Forum (ICBF), Nikhat Sayed, a Class XII student of Shantiniketan Indian School bagged the first prize. Students from eight Indian schools took part in the com-petition held at MES School recently. ICBF organised the competition in memory of Hajika, a social activist who dedicated his services to the Indian Community in Qatar.

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TNG organises Youth Leadership Programme

The 2nd TNG Youth Leadership Program was held recently, with inter-school competi-

tions and workshops conducted by distinguished speakers.

The first day of the three-day event was for 3-5-year-olds. It was all about rhymes, elocution and poems bringing out the talent and confidence of the children. Students of Rising Star Kindergarten, Middle East International School, Doha Modern Indian School and The Next Generation (TNG) participated in solo and group performances.

The second day was for children aged five to eight, and concentrated on enhancing the creative and ana-lytical abilities of the children, chal-lenging their imagination, the art of public speaking, a drawing com-petition and a debate on the topic

“Internet is good or bad”. Students from Pakistan Education Centre, Middle East International School, Doha Modern Indian School and TNG participated.

The final day saw prize distribu-tion for the winners of the events and a leadership workshop.

More than 168 students from dif-ferent schools of Doha registered to attend the event.

Shahzad Ahmad, Ambassador of Pakistan, was the chief guest, and Dr Javaid Sheikh, Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, chaired the event. Riyaz Ahmed Bakali, Founder Director of TNG Group, and Principal Qudsia Asad Khan were also present at the event.

The entire event was con-ducted by 10 students of Key stage 2 with Mahrukh Bakali

and Fatima Rizwan in the lead. Badar Sohail Khan, HR Advisor

to Ashghal Public Works authority, Timur Shah, Events Division Manager at G4S, Dr Shaukat Chandna and Dr Sheikh addressed the students. Bakali thanks parents, teachers and spon-sors Almarai and Express Business Machines for their support to the event.

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Indian Traditional Day marked at Shafallah Center

As part of cultural celebrations at Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, the Day

Care unit celebrated Indian Traditional Day. The event was attended by Indian Ambassador Sanjiv Arora, Shafallah Center Managing Director Mohammed Al Saada and Public Relations Director Ghada Rashid.

Ali Musavi, Dr Athrash, Lathifa Zeinal, Noura Al Dosari, Jawahar Al Suwaidi and Drzia Al Shamri from Social Work Department, IWA President Ushas Andrews and IWA management committee members were also present.

The Day was organised by the Social Work department of Shafallah Day Care Unit and Indian Women’s

Association under Indian Embassy as part of their community services and support to Qatar. Birla Public School students and members of Indian Women’s Association presented a

cultural extravaganza, including tra-ditional performances from different Indian states.

Also on display were Indian handi-crafts, wedding costume, jewellery,

clothes, sarees, henna, spices and food.Other units of Shafallah celebrated

traditional days of Qatar, Lebanon, France, Iran, Jordan and Palestine.

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Dance performance by Dance performance by Aiswarya Vijay KumarAiswarya Vijay KumarBirla Public school studentsBirla Public school students

Adonis.com, a business-to-business online sales

channel, recently organised a Turkish roadshow at the Retaj Royale hotel in associa-tion with Airarabia.com.

The intent behind the roadshow was to create a link between about 14 hotel chains located in Turkey and interested in Qatari tourism corporations, so that healthy communication between both sides could be created and maintained, and to meet their expectation of achiev-ing a 17 percent increase

in potential tourists. The 10-day programme, which will travel to Riyadh and Dubai, among other Middle East cities, aims to brief interested parties on travel destinations that Turkey has to offer, among which are Istanbul, Antalya, Bodrum, and Trabzon, and to create affordable and achievable opportunities for interested parties and potential tourists so that they are able to visit such destinations.

Tamer Cicek, Adonis.com general manager, stressed the

importance of such events in building and creating strong links between luxury hotel chains in Turkey and poten-tial travel/tourist agencies in the Middle East, and espe-cially Qatar.

More than 120 luxury chains are taking part in the workshop, among which are Retaj Royale Istanbul, Crowne Plasa Asia, Ramada Tekstilkent, Rixos Premium Belek, Titanic Business Hotel Europe Bayrampasa, and Golden Savoy hotel.

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By Joe Yonan

As anybody who has gotten vegetable-cooking advice from

their nearest farmers market can attest, sometimes Grower Knows Best. That’s certainly the case when the grower in question is also a cookbook author, writer and former food magazine editor.

Susie Middleton did the back-to-the-land thing several years ago, walking away from the suburban home and the big job at Fine Cooking. She headed to Martha’s Vineyard, where she planted a garden, then a bigger garden, then moved to an old farmhouse to plant a bigger one, then started a farm stand, then — well, you see where this is going. She and her new love, the carpenter who built her a farm stand, became farmers.

Her new book, Fresh From the Farm (Taunton Press), tells that story in its outer margins. Taking centre stage are images of the vegetables she grew,

and recipes for what she made with them. Read one and then another, and you’ll find yourself charmed by her conversational tone and equally breezy way of cooking.

Back to that grower-knows-best idea. I was looking for something different to do with radishes, and there it was: Middleton quickly pickles them — and by quickly, I’m talking a matter of minutes — to remove just enough of their bite that they become addictive.

Tucked into arugula that’s been similarly tamed by lemon juice and a little honey, and with Parmesan, almonds and mint thrown into the mix, the radishes are able to star without overtaking the dish.

Middleton likes to pair pink radishes with arugula for her favourite colour combination, but the salad looks positively cheery — farm-fresh, indeed — no matter which colour radish you choose.

A radish-arugula salad that doesn’t bite back

Radish and Arugula Salad With Honey, Almonds and Mint

This quick salad makes the most of two of spring’s most flavourful, farm-fresh ingredients: radishes and arugula. Both have a peppery bite, so author and farmer Susie Middleton quickly pickles thinly sliced radishes with a pinch of sugar to tame their heat; a little honey drizzled on top brings the whole thing together. The dish is simple, and beautiful.

From Middleton’s Fresh From the Farm(Taunton Press, 2014).

Ingredients6 or 7 large fresh radishes (4 ounces total), tops and tails removed, very thinly sliced2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice plus 1/4 lemon, seeded, or more as needed1/4 teaspoon sugar3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt, or more as needed4 cups loosely packed baby arugula leaves (about 21/2 ounces total)4 teaspoons small fresh mint leaves or large leaves torn into smaller pieces1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil, or more as more needed1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted and coarsely crushed (see NOTE)2-ounce wedge Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (preferably a few inches long, for easier shaving)1 tablespoon honey, for drizzling

4 small edible flowers, such as violets, chive blos-soms or short mint sprigs, for garnish (optional)

Method:Combine the sliced radishes in a small, nonre-

active bowl with the 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, the sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt. Let sit for 5 minutes, tossing occasionally.

Combine the arugula and mint in a medium bowl. Squeeze the juice from the remaining 1/4 lemon over the greens, then drizzle on the oil. Sprinkle with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, and toss to incorporate. Taste, and season with more lemon juice, oil and/or salt as needed.

Divide the arugula-mint mixture among indi-vidual plates, mounding each portion. Sprinkle some of the crushed almonds on top.

Drain the liquid from the radishes and arrange them in the center and around each mound of greens.

Use a vegetable peeler to shave 5 or 6 thin curls or shards of cheese over the each portion. Sprinkle them with the remaining almonds, then drizzle them with the honey. Garnish with the edible flowers or mint sprigs, if using.

Serve right away.NOTE: Toast the almonds in a small, dry skil-

let over medium-low heat, shaking the pan to avoid scorching, until the nuts are fragrant and lightly browned. Cool completely before using.

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By Jeff Green and Jeff Plungis

The furore over General Motors’ deadly igni-tion switch has the potential to doom the car key, a technology drivers have been using for 65 years.

Testifying before Congress, GM Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra said the recall of 2.59 million affected cars may prompt the company to make push-button start standard in all its vehicles. The shift by the largest US automaker would hasten a technological evolution that started with the hand- crank starter more than a century ago, before Chrysler introduced the keyed ignition across its line-up in 1949.

Push-button start, which showed up in Mercedes models in the late 1990s, is now an option in 72 per-cent of 2014 cars and trucks in the US, according to Edmunds.com. In a survey conducted by auto researcher AutoPacific, consumers ranked the tech-nology the fifth most coveted upgrade for $100 or less. This month the New York auto show used a push button as its logo.

“People really see the push button as a convenience and a luxury feature,” said Bill Visnic, senior editor at Edmunds.com. “The ignition switch is a very fussy, electro-mechanical part that’s seen as less reliable.”

Drivers were complaining about key ignitions long before GM discovered switches in the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion could slip out of the “on” position, shutting off the engine and disabling air bags. The defective part has been linked to at least 13 deaths.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has logged more than 18,000 com-plaints about key ignitions, according to a Bloomberg

News analysis. They involve multiple models and carmakers and range from keys getting stuck, vehi-cles stalling at high speeds and even cars starting on their own.

GM’s faulty key ignition is fairly typical of the flaws catalogued by NHTSA over the years. The key could be inadvertently jarred by a knee, uneven road or weighed down by a heavy key chain. GM is under investigation because it waited more than a decade to recall the affected cars.

The recalled Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion models don’t in fact top the list of ignition-related complaints in the NHTSA database. That distinction goes to Ford’s Focus, which garnered more than 2,000 complaints about keys getting stuck or not turning, primarily in models from 2000 to 2005. Because Ford decided the flaw didn’t imperil drivers, the company declined to recall the cars and instead alerted dealers to the problem so they could fix it.

“There was no safety risk, as this could only occur when the car was parked and the driver shut off the engine and tried to remove the key,” Kelli Felker, a Ford spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.

Automakers have recalled about 21 million vehicles for issues related to the keyed ignition switch, includ-ing more than 8.8 million from Ford, 5.5 million from GM, 3.5 million from Honda and 1.6 million from Chrysler and its predecessors.

“The biggest weakness for the key has always been that it was a rotating device, if you weigh it down, you can wear it out,” said John Wolkonowicz, an inde-pendent auto analyst, who acknowledges replacing an ignition switch in a 1980s GM model after loading down the key ring with about 25 keys.

Push-button start has few moving parts and sim-ply sends an electronic signal to the engine. The

button works only if the driver brings a small remote unit, such as a keyless fob that also locks and unlocks the doors, into the vehicle.

The push-button system may be a boon as Americans age because it doesn’t strain the wrist like turning a key, said Karl Brauer, a senior ana-lyst with auto researcher Kelley Blue Book, who said that was a frequent complaint among disabled drivers he’s interviewed about making cars easier to drive.

Not that push-button start is trouble-free.In 2009, a police officer couldn’t shut off a button-

start Lexus ES 350 after a floor mat got wedged in a pedal. He and three others died. That model required the driver to hold the start button down for as long as three seconds to stop the car. In 2011, NHTSA proposed a new standard of a half-second hold. The Society of Automotive Engineers recom-mends a range of a half-second to two seconds.

The agency also proposed giving drivers an audi-ble warning if they exit a car without turning the engine off. In several cases, drivers mistakenly started their parked cars in enclosed garages, some-times leading to a deadly build-up of carbon monox-ide. In one such incident in 2010, a Florida woman died and her boyfriend was seriously impaired.

Getting used to new technology always takes time, said Visnic of Edmund’s.com. He recalled stopping by his house to drop off his gym bag and leaving the car running outside. It was only later when he tried to restart the vehicle that he realized he’d left the starter fob in the gym bag.

“We’re asking people to unlearn something which was developed over generations of habit,” he said: “You turned the key and it started or stopped.”

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years ago, but be forewarned: They also wrote Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and it’s that clunky amalgama-tion of seen-it stunts and talky exposi-tion that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 most closely resembles. Granted, there are at least two genuinely breathtaking set pieces to be admired here, includ-ing a climactic, emotional gut-punch of a scene set in a clock tower toward the end of the film, and the transfor-mation of Max into his own shimmer-ing, translucent alter ego. (Both Foxx and DeHaan deliver promising turns in their respective good guy/bad guy personas.)

But those moments are nearly lost within an unforgivably long assemblage that never coalesces into a compel-ling story. Such niceties are certainly beside the point in a film whose aim is purely utilitarian, in introducing some important new villains, disposing of one beloved character and otherwise ensuring a market for the planned sequels and spinoffs.

Can Spider-Man go that distance? So far he’s been the easiest Marvel superhero to love, but in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, some cracks are show-ing in the character’s internal dynamic. Spider-Man’s cheeky one-liners have always carried the ring of giddy lib-eration, the gee-whiz expressions of a shy teenager in the throes of newfound power and freedom. In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, they just sound snarky. Similarly, when Peter makes a dra-matic entrance at his high school

graduation, he looks less like a goofy adolescent than a cocky, self-entitled jerk.

Whereas the chief pleasure of the first Amazing Spider-Man was the cuddly chemistry between Garfield and Stone, here they generate fewer sparks than questions, namely how a 30-year-old and 25-year-old (respec-tively), despite their proven and pro-digious talents, can be expected to play recent high school graduates with any degree of credibility.

Narratively and chronologically, that’s less of a problem for Stone, who once again delivers a winning and mostly believable performance as the smart, self-possessed Gwen.

As for Garfield, the future’s less certain. He’s one of the finest actors of his generation, as anyone who saw the shattering 2007 drama Boy A will attest, but the acrobatics he’s asked to do in service to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 — physically, and in sub-mitting to such a narrow emotional range — are looking increasingly uncomfortable.

Despite all the swooping and spin-ning and swinging in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Garfield looks less like a kid having fun than like an actor entangled in a corporate web that, at least for now, he can’t escape. But with at least three new villains barrel-ing down the Manhattan streets with Spidey firmly in their crosshairs, it may be too late.

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Farhan honoured in Australia

Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar, who recently received the best actor award from the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy here, has been honoured

at the ongoing Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM).“Thank you to the jury and Government of Victoria, Australia for hon-

ouring me with best actor at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne,” Farhan tweeted.

The actor bagged the best actor award for his work in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. Rajkummar Rao, who was honoured with the National Award in New Delhi for his performance in Shahid, was also nominated in the cat-egory. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with the International Screen Icon award at fest.

IFFM — the annual celebration of Indian cinema in Australia — began May 1 and will conclude May 11. The festival launched the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards this year and announced the winners on May 2.

Even I’m targeted on Koffee with Karan: Sonam Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor made some controversial statements on the chat show Koffee

with Karan, which included a comment on Deepika Padukone’s style. The actress, however, says when she is targeted by celebrities on the same show, she doesn’t make a big deal out of it.

Known for her high-style quotient, the Raanjhanaa actress said: “I have realised that a lot of people say a lot of things about me on the same show. On every show someone has said something about me.”

“But because I go with the spirit of the show, I never react to anything, I don’t comment, I don’t make a big deal out of it and I expect the people to do the same thing,” added the 28-year-old known for her carefree attitude.

On the chat show Sonam had com-mented upon Deepika’s style, saying it is dominated by her stylist Anaita Shroff and her wardrobe lacks her personal touch. However, she doesn’t mind yapping tongues and said: “For some strange reason I make good copy, so peo-ple like to talk about me. I am okay as long as people are talking about me.” But enough is enough. Now she plans to stop commenting on anybody’s clothes.

“Honestly, I think I will start being a little more careful and I will not give my opinion on anyone’s clothes anymore. It was a fun show and I tried to be fun and not take myself too seriously. But I think that’s the wrong move,” she said.

Sonam is currently gearing up to walk the red carpet at the Cannes film fest that begins on May 14.

Riteish dedicates his first Award to dad

Actor-producer Riteish Deshmukh is elated about receiving his first National Award for his second production venture, Yellow, and he has

dedicated it to his late father Vilasrao Deshmukh.Riteish’s second Marathi venture, Yellow won the Special Jury and Special

Mention awards at the 61st National Film Awards. He received the honour from President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday at the 61st National Film Awards ceremony.

“My first National Award. This one is for my father. He would have been proud and said with a smile, ‘Well done beta’,” tweeted the son of the late minister.

The Grand Masti star made his Bollywood acting debut with Tujhe Meri Kasam in 2003. It also helped him find his soulmate in his co-star Genelia D’Souza, with whom he tied the knot in 2012. Riteish turned a producer with Balak Palak in 2013.

Heidi Klum getting rude, losing friends

Supermodel Heidi Klum is reportedly losing her friends due to her “midlife crisis”. The 40-year-old’s pals are said to be struggling to

deal with her new-found love for partying and wild behaviour, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“Heidi’s drinking and outspoken rude behaviour is winning her no friends these days. She’s going through a bad midlife crisis that makes her almost impossible to deal with,” said a source.

“Heidi spent most of last year partying and she needs to shape up or face consequences,” added the source.

Her friends are reportedly worried that she’s not spending enough time with her children — Leni, 9, Henry, 8, Johan, 7, and Lou, 4 — because she’s too busy with her new boyfriend Vito Schnabel, whom she began dating in February.

The source said: “Since Vito came on the scene, her kids have spent a lot more time with their nannies! More trouble is most certainly ahead for Heidi in 2014 as she is not nearly the hot in-demand star she was six years ago and it’s really hit her hard.”

Klum was previously married to celebrity hair stylist Ric Pipino before marrying singer Seal in 2005.

Kate Hudson wants to try ‘sprint triathlon’

Actress Kate Hudson, who loves sports, doesn’t mind setting new

goals to stay fit. “I’d like to do a sprint triathlon. I’ve always loved sports. I always felt like I was the athletic type and I always had that thing as a kid,” eonline.com quoted her as saying.

“I really loved setting those kinds of goals for myself... Your bodies are these incredible machines and they can be if you want to use them that way,” she added.

The 35-year-old mother of two has been doing Pilates since she was 19.

“I think that was the foundation for everything that I have done. I like Pilates because it kind of strengthens from the

inside out. It’s very specific and I feel the strongest when I’m doing it because it really centres on your core,” said Hudson.

If she is unable to do the formal workout, Hudson sometimes plays music and will “jump around” for 20 minutes.

Miley to get medical care for UK tour

Singer Miley Cyrus, who suffered a severe allergic reaction last month, will be given medical care during her British tour and will have “a

nurse on standby”.The “Wrecking Ball” hitmaker, who was hospitalised last month after

suffering a severe allergic reaction to Cephalexin, an antibiotic prescribed for flu, is on the mend but isn’t taking any chances with her health, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“Miley has been under the supervision of two nurses, who are monitoring her progress 24 hours a day at her home,” said a source.

“She already has a nurse on standby for when she lands in Britain. The worst thing about her illness is that there are times when she feels entirely fine but then suddenly her symptoms flare up again.”

“The reaction could still affect her over the next few days but Miley is determined to put on a great show for her British fans,” added the source.

The European leg of the tour is set to start at London’s O2 Arena May 6.It is said the star has been prescribed steroids, while staying hydrated

with intravenous drips and using an oxygen tank to assist her breathing.

By Ann Hornaday

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to monetise a vertically inte-grated mass-entertainment

franchise within a rapidly expanding global marketplace.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the sequel to the reboot of the series based on the comic book, is one of those mov-ies that insiders used to describe as “critic-proof.” But director Marc Webb and his flotilla of screenwriters seem to want to go one step further and create a movie that’s audience-proof.

With studios now gleaning most of their revenue not from Americans steeped in Marvel mythologies and arcane origin stories, but from film-goers from Brasilia to Beijing with new Imax 3-D theaters to test-drive, the point of filmmaking is to create an experience so insistently bombastic that novelty-starved audiences simply can’t not go.

In the right hands, that impera-tive can co-exist and even help cre-ate coherent, artful storytelling — last year’s Gravity being just one superb example. But more often, it results in movies comprised mostly of turgid expository scenes of two people talk-ing, occasionally interrupted by fre-netic, blurrily choreographed action sequences.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2, a strenuously chipper but nonetheless saggy, baggy and mostly ho-hum

addition to the Spider-Man canon, belongs to the latter category, with the added asterisk that what was once its greatest strength — its cast-ing — is on the verge of becoming its biggest liability.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 takes up pretty much where 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man left off, with Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), graduating from high school.

After a grisly prologue revisiting the death of Peter’s parents years earlier, we’re shown that he’s still pursuing his extra-curricular hobby of saving New York as Spider-Man, the super-cool wall crawler sheathed in a blue-and-red bodysuit and blessed with super-human spider sense and web-spinning savvy.

Presumably, Peter and Gwen are heading into new and unchartered futures, but soon enough Peter is vis-ited by his past, when Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) returns to Manhattan to visit his father’s deathbed and take over the sinister family business.

As a corporate hegemon that would make Donald Trump blush, Oscorp reigns supreme over the New York sky-line, employing not just Gwen, but also an engineer named Max (Jamie Foxx), who crosses paths with Spider-Man in an encounter that will have fateful, if not fatal, reverberations.

Webb’s primary screenwriters, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, wrote the bracingly clever Star Trek reboot a few

The Amazing Spider-Man 2:The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Look out! Here come sequelsLook out! Here come sequels


TERRORISMPLUS | MONDAY 5 MAY 201410

© GRAPHIC NEWSSource: National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Picture: Associated Press

The number of terrorist attacks worldwide soared by over 40 percentin 2013 despite a weakening of Al Qaeda’s core leadership, according

to the U.S. State Department’s annual global terrorism report

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Protein in Australian coral blocks HIV

A type of protein found in coral species in the ocean waters around Australia prevents the

HIV virus, which causes AIDS, from penetrating the cells of the body’s immune system, a new study says. The research, headed by the National Cancer Institute’s Barry O’Keefe, was presented at the annual Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego.

The proteins, called “cnidarins”, are found in coral collected from the waters along the north-ern Australian coast, and researchers are focusing on them after examining thousands of natural extracts in the biological archives of the National Cancer Institute.

“The fact that this protein appears to block HIV infection — and to do it in a completely new way — makes this truly exciting,” O’Keefe said.

The discovery opens the possibility of adapting cnidarins for use in sexual gels or lubricants to provide a barrier against HIV infection.

The cnidarins bind with the virus and prevent it from fusing with the membranes of T-cells — the first step in HIV transmission — and because this is very different from what other proteins do, scientists believe that the cnidarins have a unique mechanism of action.

The next step in the study is to improve the meth-ods for producing cnidarin proteins in large quan-tities so they can be used to identify possible side effects and how they influence other types of viruses.

Functional human cartilage grown in lab

In a pioneering work, researchers at Columbia Engineering have successfully grown fully func-

tional human cartilage from human stem cells derived from bone marrow tissue.

“We have been able to generate fully functional human cartilage from mesenchymal stem cells by mimicking in vitro the developmental process of mesenchymal condensation,” explained Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, the Mikati Foundation pro-fessor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering.

This could have clinical impact, as this carti-lage can be used to repair a cartilage defect, or in combination with bone in a composite graft grown in lab for more complex tissue reconstruc-tion, he informed.

The general approach to cartilage tissue engi-neering has been to place cells into a hydrogel and culture them in the presence of nutrients and growth factors and sometimes also mechani-cal loading. But using this technique with adult human stem cells has invariably produced mechanically weak cartilage.

So Vunjak-Novakovic and her team wondered if a method resembling the normal development of the skeleton could lead to a higher quality of cartilage. They came up with a new approach — by inducing the mesenchymal stem cells to undergo a condensation stage as they do in the body before starting to make cartilage.

“Our whole approach to tissue engineering is biomimetic in nature, which means that our engi-neering designs are defined by biological princi-ples,” Vunjak-Novakovic noted.

This approach has been effective in improving the quality of many engineered tissues — from bone to heart. “Still, we were really surprised to see that our cartilage, grown by mimicking some aspects of biological development, was as strong as ‘normal’ human cartilage,” she emphasised.

Agencies

By Kate Kelland

Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as

big a factor as genes, according to the largest analysis to date to look at how the brain disorder runs in families.

Sven Sandin, who worked on the study at King’s College London and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, said it was prompted “by a very basic question which parents often ask: ‘If I have a child with autism, what is the risk my next child will too?’”

The findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), suggest her-itability is only half the story, with the other 50 percent explained by environmental factors such as birth complications, socio-eco-nomic status, or parental health and lifestyle.

The study also found that chil-dren with a brother or sister with autism are 10 times more likely to develop the condition, three times if they have a half-brother or sister with autism, and twice as likely if they have a cousin with autism.

“At an individual level, the risk of autism increases according to how close you are genetically to other relatives with autism,” said Sandin.

“We can now provide accu-rate information about autism risk which can comfort and guide parents and clinicians in their decisions.”

People with autism have varying levels of impairment across three common areas: social interaction and understanding, repetitive

behaviour and interests, and lan-guage and communication.

The exact causes of the neu-rodevelopmental disorder are unknown, but evidence has shown they are likely to include a range of genetic and environmental risk factors.

As many as one in 50 school-age children in the United States are diagnosed with autism, although some of these will be milder cases that have been diagnosed partly because of better recognition of autism symptoms by carers and doctors.

In Europe, experts say the rate is around one in 100 children.

For this latest study, researchers

used Swedish national health reg-isters and analysed anonymous data from all two million children born in Sweden between 1982 and 2006, 14,516 of whom had a diag-nosis of autism.

The researchers analysed pairs of family members, identical and non-identical twins, siblings, maternal and paternal half-sib-lings and cousins.

The study involved two separate measures of autism risk — herit-ability, which is the proportion of risk in the population that can be attributed to genetic factors, and relative recurrent risk, which measures individual risk for people who have a relative with autism.

Most previous studies have suggested heritability of autism may be as high as 80 to 90 per-cent. But this new study, the larg-est and most comprehensive to date, found genetic factors only explained around half of the cause of the disorder.

“Heritability is a population measure, so whilst it does not tell us much about risk at an individual level, it does tell us where to look for causes,” said Avi Reichenberg, of the Mount Sinai Seaver Center for Autism Research, who worked on the study while he was at King’s College London.

He said he was surprised by the results, as he did not expect the importance of environmental fac-tors to be so strong.

“Recent research efforts have tended to focus on genes, but it’s now clear that we need much more research to focus on identifying what these environmental factors are,” he added.

Reuters

The exact causes of the neuro-developmental disorder are unknown, but evidence has shown they are likely to include a range of genetic and environmental risk factors.


Environment as important as genes in autism: Study

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | MONDAY 5 MAY 201412

1 Angry Birds, no longer soaring so highAngry Birds was the first genuinely massive brand to

emerge in the iPhone and Android era of mobile gaming. Finnish developer Rovio launched the first game in December 2009, and by the end of 2012, the company’s titles were being played by 263 million people every month. In 2013, though, its growth stalled. Rovio’s revenues had doubled in 2012 to £125.1m, but in 2013 increased only slightly, to £128.4m, while net profits halved.

The latest Angry Birds title, racing game Angry Birds Go!, has not been setting the app store charts alight either, cer-tainly not compared with Rovio’s emerging competitors.

2 Candy Crush Saga, the new king of gamingIf Angry Birds has been dethroned as the biggest mobile

gaming brand, Candy Crush Saga is probably the contender for its crown. By the end of 2013, 93 million people were playing the sweet-matching puzzle every day: its publisher, King, said the game was played a billion times in December alone. The company reported revenues of £1.1bn in 2013, and this year went public on the New York stock exchange.

Also riding high is one of Rovio’s fellow Finnish firms, Supercell, which made £528.6m in 2013 from two mobile games: strategy game Clash of Clans and farming game Hay Day. Elsewhere, Japanese firm GungHo Online made £945m in 2013, with 91 percent of that coming from a single mobile game, called Puzzle & Dragons.

3 Other birds are available (and flappy)At its peak, Angry Birds was something of a craze in the

mobile world. In 2014, that role was fulfilled by another avian title: Flappy Bird. Created by Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen in 2013, it was a simple but brutally difficult game that involved tapping the screen to make a bird flap its wings and fly between pipes. In January, the free game went viral, was downloaded millions of times, reportedly earning Nguyen £29,600 a day from in-game ads.

The pressure of his worldwide hit led Nguyen to remove Flappy Bird from the app stores, but it has been followed by a flock of Flappy Bird “clones” - straight copies, plus games inspired by Nguyen’s hit, with different heroes. One based on Miley Cyrus enjoyed its own run at the top of the app store charts. It was a sign that in the mobile world, a hit game can rise from nowhere to global prominence in a matter of days.

4 Free-to-play, but pay to winCandy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans, Puzzle & Dragons...

these are the new kings of mobile play, along with games such as The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Hobbit and Modern War. What they all have in common is that they are “free to play” games: free to download and play, but making their money

from in-app purchases of virtual items and currency. As much as 90 percent of the money spent on mobile games is now thought to come from in-app purchases; as a guide, research companies IHS and App Annie recently estimated that total mobile game spending reached £9.5bn in 2013.

The argument for free-to-play is that it has made gaming more accessible: people can try a game and pay only if they enjoy it. However, they have plenty of critics: gamers worry that free-to-play games are simply systems designed to prod people into paying.

5 Some people are still buying mobile gamesFree-to-play games are increasingly the dominant way to

make money in the mobile world: last week, every one of the top 30 grossing iPhone games in the UK were free-to-play, for example. Yet some people are still paying upfront for games on smartphones and tablets. Minecraft is the obvious example: it has sold 21m copies of its mobile edition since 2011, while sticking to a £4.99 price with no in-app purchases.

Meanwhile, Swedish developer Simogo has sold 235,000 copies of a title called Year Walk, and 220,000 of the thriller Device 6, both beautifully crafted games that cost £2.49. This year, an iPhone and iPad game from UK developer ustwo called Monument Valley topped App Store charts around the world, making back its development costs in its first week.

6 Mobile gaming is a mainstream affairBefore iPhone and Android, research regularly showed

that around 5 percent of mobile-phone owners were buying games for their devices. In 2014, it’s a very different story: mobile gaming is mainstream. Research company eMarketer estimates that there are currently 20 million mobile gamers in

the UK: 51 percent men and 49 percent women. Angry Birds was one of the first games to benefit (and, indeed, drive) this change, since it appealed to a wide range of ages and gam-ing abilities. Candy Crush Saga has pushed that on too: the average bus or train carrying commuters to or from work is now a moving amusement arcade of sweet-swappers.

7 Children and free-to-play is a controversial subjectOne of the reasons the growth of Angry Birds stalled in

2013 was that Rovio was relatively slow to jump on the free-to-play bandwagon. Why? The fact that Angry Birds is a popular game (and also brand) for children was a big factor.

The issue of children playing free-to-play games — and sometimes spending their parents’ money on virtual items without their knowledge — is hugely sensitive for the games industry.

In 2013, the Office of Fair Trading launched an investiga-tion into exactly this topic, producing a report outlining some of the “misleading commercial practices” that were aimed at “exploiting children’s inexperience, vulnerability and credulity” by promoting in-app purchases.

One difficulty is that many of the most popular mobile games — Angry Birds, Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans included — are not specifically aimed at children. They just have a lot of under-18 players, and many parents either share their app-store payment passwords or have not changed their settings to prevent unauthorised purchases by their children.

8 Mobile gaming isn’t just a threat to console game companies

Nintendo has spent much of the past three years fending off questions from journalists and analysts about whether it has any plans to turn its big gaming brands (from Mario to Pokemon) into mobile games for devices made by other companies.

For now, the company is sticking with its refusal to make such a leap. Rivals Sony and Microsoft are taking a different approach, aiming to capitalise on the mainstream audience for mobile games. Both have launched iPhone/iPad and Android games based on some of their biggest brands, while it’s not uncommon to see big new console games also offering companion apps for smartphones and tablets.

9 Mobile gaming is now making its way to TVMobile games are already played in the living room: many

people are using their smartphones or tablets while watch-ing television. But these games are making their way on to televisions too, as a direct challenge to the consoles. Apple’s Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast products both provide ways for people to control games on their mobile devices but play them on TV.

Just as interesting, though, is a new generation of “micro-consoles” that connect to television screens to run games. The Android-based Ouya raised £5.1m on crowdfunding site Kickstarter in 2012, although it is unclear how many units it has sold since.

Amazon’s new Fire TV set-top box - available only in the US for now - will also be able to download and run mobile-style games, while Apple and Google have both been rumoured to have deeper micro-console ambitions.

10 There’s hope still for Angry Birds - including beyond games

If Angry Birds had a less than spectacular 2013, it’s because of a range of factors: among them more competition from free-to-play games and Rovio’s caution in going free-to-play. But it’s still a well-known brand that’s about much more than games. Rovio is working on an Angry Birds film, which will be released in 2016, and its Toons.TV network of children’s cartoons (including its own) has been notching up views since its launch last year. The company is also mak-ing a great deal of money from toys and merchandise - 47% of its revenues in 2013 came from these licensed products rather than games.

And Rovio also has ambitions in education: it has published a range of books and last September launched a scheme called Angry Birds Playground, which is an educational pro-gramme covering maths, science, music, language, arts and crafts, physical education and social interaction.

Those birds aren’t crashing back to Earth just yet.The Guardian

10 things you need to know about mobile games

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaMay 5, 1930

1260: Kublai Khan became ruler of the Mongol Empire, one of the largest land empires in human history1274: Italian poet Dante Alighieri met Beatrice Portinari, who would become his muse, for the first time1930: Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in India by the British after his campaign of disobedience2011: Claude Choules, the world’s last First World War combat veteran, died in Perth, Australia, aged 110

Amy Johnson began the first solo flight by a woman pilot from England to Australia. She landed safely in Darwin on May 24 after flying 11,000 miles (18,000km)

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

ANCHOVY, BARRACUDA, BASS, BREAM, CARP, CATFISH,CHUB, DOGFISH, FLOUNDER, GOLDFISH, GROUPER, GUPPY,HAKE, HALIBUT, HERRING, JELLYFISH, KRILL, LAMPREY,MARLIN, MINNOW, MULLET, PERCH, PIKE, PIRANHA, ROACH,SALMON, SARDINE, SEAHORSE, SHARK, SNAPPER, SOLE,STICKLEBACK, STINGRAY, STURGEON, SWORDFISH, TROUT,TUNA, TUNNY.

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Baby Blue

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey


With the Jeweler

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Is he far from here? Hal houwa baçeed min houna?

Can you accompany me? Hal tasta�eeç an tourafiqanee?

I like this ring Laqad aç�abanee ha�a al �atem

Can I try it? Hal asta�eeç an ou�arribha?

I am thinking to buy a gift for my friend

Oufakkir fee aštaree hadiya li�adeeqee

Let me see this necklace Arinee ha�a al çiqd

What is its price? Ma �amanouh?

It is expensive Innahou ali

It is cheap Innahou ra�ees

I will buy this necklace Sa'aštaree ha�a alçiqd

How much shall I pay? Kam çalaya an adfaç

Thank you Šoukran

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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 Term of address from a

hat-tipper 5 Changes channels

rapidly10 Bumps off14 Periodic table fig.15 Staircase sound16 Learn by ___17 Roe source18 Delhi language19 Madeline who played

Lili Von Shtupp20 Southern town whose

name is the longest example of 52-Across [on the left]

23 Words on either side of “what”

24 Satisfied sigh25 Muhammad’s resting

place26 Pats down28 Request to a barber30 “___ to mention …”31 Like yesterday’s bagels32 Stockyard bellows33 Get an eyeful

34 Midwest town whose name is the longest example of 52-Across [on the right]

37 Disney World conveyance

40 Leaf support41 Warming periods45 “Death Becomes ___”46 Oaf47 Female TV dog whose

portrayers were all male48 Where Yeltsin ruled50 Be indisposed51 Pod item52 See 20- and 34-Across56 Alaska ZIP code starter57 Courageous one58 Department59 List-ending abbr.60 Become one on the run61 Fresh-mouthed62 “___-starter” (résumé

cliché)63 Some score marks64 Derry derrière

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deficiency, to a Brit 4 Manner of doing 5 Start and end of

3-Down, phonetically 6 Scheming Heep 7 Not buy, say 8 Lose brilliance 9 Minor battle10 Ticked off11 Persuading by flattery12 Biofuel option13 Able to see, hear, etc.21 End of a seat seeker’s

query22 Pro ___27 Candidate for urban

renewal28 Moderated, with “down”29 Leeway32 Sleuth played by Lorre33 Reactions to fireworks35 Hawaiian, e.g.36 An original eurozone

member

37 Bathroom fixtures, slangily

38 Get back together39 Weapons stockpile42 Ambitious one43 The “pigs” in pigs in

blankets44 Channel to the ocean46 Org. in “Argo”47 Petrol measures

49 Library unit50 Like a whiz53 Hill’s opposite54 Bow-toting god55 ___ John’s (Domino’s

competitor)

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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

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

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.


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MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.

• Several people have demanded that the authorities build a pedestrian bridge or subway for the large number of people crossing Airport Road between the departure terminal of Doha International Airport and the food outlets and shops on the other side.

• Some people have demanded that the authorities check the radars on highways, some of which are not working properly, particularly on Al Shamal Road. They say this is encouraging many drivers to violate the speed limit, putting their lives and the lives of others in danger.

• Many people have urged the authorities at Hamad General Hospital to return to the earlier system, whereby those with chronic conditions could get medicines from the pharmacy without having to see a doctor first and get a new prescription every time, as they have to do now.

• Many parents have demanded that the Supreme Education Council reduce

school hours during summer, when students become listless after 12 noon because of the heat.

• People have urged the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning to prevent partitioning of villas for subletting without permission from the authorities. They say such subletting poses a danger to people living in the villas because of congestion and possible electrical and other faults.

• There are complaints about men working in boutiques and shops selling women’s garments. People say the presence of men in these shops is against Qatari culture and women do not want to enter such shops to avoid meeting strange men.

• Many people have urged the authorities to monitor travel agencies and airlines, many of which are exploiting the demand for tickets in summer by increasing prices and advertising fake offers and services.

IN FOCUS

A barren tree near Abu Hamour.

by Sanjay Basu

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Who’s who

Waleed Al Sayed, Chief Operation Officer, Ooredoo Qatar

He joined Ooredoo (when it was Qtel) in 1987. Waleed led Qtel teams to win the highest

number of honours at the ‘Contact Centre World Awards’ held in United Kingdom in 2010, where his presenta-tion won Qtel the Gold Award for Best Customer Service in the MENA region. Waleed has attended many courses in Management, Leadership, Project Planning, Public Relation, Public Speaking, Marketing and Sales. He is the Chairman of the Board of Qtel subsidiary Starlink - Qatar, Deputy Chairman of Qtel subsidiary Nedjma and a Board Member of Meeza.

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The Square When: May 15 -21, 7:00 PM Where: Katara Drama Theater Building 16

What: The square is a film by Jehane Noujaim about a group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.Tickets available at DFI ticket outlet at Katara building 26(www.dohafilminstitute.com)

Richard Serra: Concurrent ExhibitionsWhen: Till July 6, 8:30am- 5:30pmWhere: QMA Gallery Building 10, KataraWhat: Richard Serra is among the most important contemporary sculptors. The exhibition organised by the QMA in Doha is one of Serra’s most ambitious ever in that it brings together sculptures and drawings from different periods, ranging from the seminal One Ton Prop (House of Cards) of 1969 (on rare loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York) to a new large-scale work, Passage of Time, especially created for this occasion.Free entry

Nutcracker the Acrobat Ballet When: May 5-6; First Show: 3pm–5pmSecond Show: 8pm–10pm Where: Katara Opera House – Building 16 What: “Nutcracker: A Dream in Shanghai” narrates the beautiful dream of a young girl named Marie who is very shy but also a highly gifted dancer. She manages to outshine other contestants in a talent show competition and win the trophy.Tickets: QR100-250, available at Virgin Mega Store

Kings and Pawns When: Till June 21Where: Museum of Islamic Arts What: This exhibition uncovers the history of board games in the Islamic world, from India to Spain between 7th and 20th century.Free Entry

VCUQatar Faculty Exhibition - Strange WondersWhen: Till May 6Where: Msheireb Enrichment Centre,

Sheraton Park, Corniche

What: VCUQatar annual faculty exhibition showcasing new work by current VCUQatar faculty and staff. This year’s exhibition takes its inspiration from Company House, one of the heritage buildings within Msheireb downtown area, which played an important part in the lives of Qatar’s original oil pioneers.Free Entry

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