Ms Al Mazrui was welcomed by General Sheikh Ahmed bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, director of the National Service Authority, and senior officers. She said Emirati youth have become a symbol of will and determination, ready to make sacrifices to safeguard the nation and its achievements. Touring the military school, Ms Al Mazrui learnt about the training programme for female conscripts that includes using firearms and skills related to being independent and punctuality.

“I can see that you are gaining knowledge and skills in military affairs and others to serve the community and safeguard our beloved nation. Defending our nation can be in our offices, volunteering, military action, which eventually is protecting our nation’s achievements,” she told the conscripts. “I have two brothers who are currently conscripted. I send you all our appreciation, and to all who are working on such a

leading national project for your sacrifices to safeguard our nation and ensure our security.”

As Shamma Al Mazrui said:- The 22-year-old minister was addressing female conscripts at the Khawla Bint Al Azwar Military School during her first field visit following the Cabinet reshuffle.

“Joining the military service is not an easy decision for women, generally; it requires sacrifice and you proved that [you] are able to efficiently and effectively handle today’s challenges,” added the minister.

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Abu Dhabi: The UAE is seeking -

through its supportive stances

towards Arab countries - to enable

countries in the region to address

diverse challenges that could

undermine pillars of regional

security and stability, His Highness

Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al

Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi

and Deputy Supreme Commander of

the UAE Armed Forces, has affirmed.

''Citizens of the UAE have proven

their competence, ability and

excellence in all national military and

humanitarian field missions and

responsibilities within the UAE and

beyond.

We are proud of them and of

their sacrifices and devotion

which will be inscribed on the

memory of the nation and

history of the region,'' Shaikh

Mohammad said while talking

during a visit to Saif

Mohammad Bin Ablan Al

Mazrouie at his residence in

Al Ain city. In attendance

were a number of

participants in national

missions inside and outside

the UAE.

Emirates 24|7 is encouraging its readers to gather as many books

as they can and build a ‘House of Books’ with them – along the

lines of House of cards.

“This is our campaign to support the #UAEReads initiative

implemented by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al

Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and

Ruler of Dubai, to mark 2016 as the Year of Reading in the UAE,”

said Khadeeja Al Marzooqi, Editor-in-Chief of Emirates 24|7.

“We have designed it in such a way as to make it fun for readers

while at the same time enhancing reading habits in the UAE,” she

added.

Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited the house of Saif

Mohammad Bin Ablan Al Mazrouie in Al Ain city on Friday

It referred the public prosecutor in Dubai Criminal Court to three vendors in place of fish, carrying Bengali nationality, for their involvement in the trafficking of narcotics, where they sell to addicts, taking advantage of their presence in the shop in which they work.

Prosecutors confirmed that the General Administration of Narcotics Control officers caught the accused in possession of five kilograms and a half kilogram of poppy seeds viable for germination.

Ea pro natum invidunt

repudiandae.

The prosecution said it had received information about the possession of the accused salesman narcotic substances, moved periodically to the shop, where he accused the company of two colleagues him (accused the other two), and when asked whether the possession of narcotic substances, remove them from under the accounting table a plastic bag was found that it contains the seeds of poppy, Asked about the reason for possessing them, told them he and the other defendants for those wishing to sell, and they are doing it six months ago.

3 vendors are promoting «poppy» in place of fish

Tens of thousands of people have spent a cold and wet night in temporary shelters following two powerful earthquakes that struck the south-west Japanese island of Kyushu.

More than 240,000 people were urged to evacuate the area amid fears heavy rain could bring landslides and further damage, local media reported. There is concern for dozens of people feared trapped under rubble. More than 40 people were killed in Thursday and Saturday's quakes. About 2,000 people were treated for injuries and nearly 200 are said to be in a serious condition. Saturday's magnitude-7.3 quake struck at 01:25 (15:25 GMT on Friday) close to the city of Kumamoto, which had been hit by a magnitude-6.4 quake on Thursday night.

Japan earthquake: Thousands

spend night in cold and wet

Both quakes were shallow, causing huge damage to roads, bridges, tunnels, homes and buildings.

Big landslides cut off remote mountain villages. Some 100,000 households were without power and around 400,000 homes without water.

At least 50 people spent the night in their cars at a public park in the town of Ozu.

They included 62-year-old Yoshiaki Tanaka, his wife and 85-year-old mother. "I don't think we can go back [home]," he told the Associated Press. "Our life is in limbo".

And accused the prosecution, in another case, unemployed holds Iranian citizenship possession of 20 capsules containing a banned substance, the purpose of promotion, as well as positive for hashish and «Tramadol».

The officer said the police source assigned to communicate with the accused, after receiving information that possession of narcotic substances, and wants to sell part of it. He added: «after communicating with the accused agreed to AED 300 for the amount of the drug, go with the police source elements to the agreed place, and after the end of the process of receiving and delivery, police arrested the accused».

MIAMI — A Malayan tiger attacked and killed a veteran keeper Friday afternoon at a South Florida zoo, officials said.

Stacey Konwiser, 38, was killed by the 13-year-old male tiger in an enclosure known as the night house that is not visible to the public, Palm Beach Zoo spokeswoman Naki Carter said. It’s where the tigers sleep and are fed.

The tiger was tranquilized and authorities had to wait until the sedative took effect before they could come to Konwiser’s aid, West Palm Beach police spokeswoman Lori Colombino said.

Media reports said guests were herded into the gift shop for a short time out of an abundance of caution. Police also confirmed that the tiger was in a contained area and guests were not at risk.

“At no time was any guest or visitor in danger. At no time was any animal loose,” Carter said.

The zoo said it will remain closed Friday, and Carter said they will make a determination about Saturday later.

Zoo officials said Konwiser’s husband was also a zoo keeper there. Grief counselors had been sent in for the staff, and zoo officials said they were reaching out to Konwiser’s family members, who live out of state. They declined to comment on whether there had been other incidents with the tiger.

Tiger attacks, kills veteran keeper South Florida zoo

One of the most exciting

movies of 2015 was The

Martian, nominated for best

picture at this year’s 88th

Academy Awards. Based on

the popular Andy Weir

novel, The Martian is about an

astronaut stranded on the Red

Planet after a windstorm

drives his crewmates away.

The XKCD webcomic devoted

an installment to The

Martian in June, summing up

the plot as "the scene in Apollo

13 where the guy says 'We

have to figure out how to

connect this thing to this thing

using this table full of parts or

the astronauts will all die" —

but lasting for the entire movie

instead of just a single scene.

It’s basically an extended story

about everybody “sciencing”

all the problems.

Watch a trailer for The Martian: It's not really a spoiler to say

that a man who has every

reason to believe he’ll be

stranded on Mars for years by

himself will need to create a

food supply. The

Martian shows how astronaut

and botanist Mark Watney,

portrayed by Matt Damon,

uses limited resources to

generate water from its

constituent elements, create

fertilizer from his own waste,

and grow a new crop

of potatoes from the small

supply he had in storage.

GROWING IDEAS LIKE POTATOES ON MARS

The protagonist is surrounded by

an environment that is utterly

hostile to life, yet he creates the

conditions necessary for

something new and life-

sustaining to grow.

Learn more about the life and

legacy of Sir Antony Fisher:

Back here on Earth, Sir Antony

Fisher was a successful

entrepreneur in England during

the years following World War II.

He found himself dismayed by

the intellectual tide in his home

country, which had begun to

disparage market activity and

establish central economic

planning. He felt he had to use

his success to help change the

world for the better, but was

unsure how to proceed. He

originally considered a career in

politics, but a conversation with

future Nobel laureate economist

Friedrich Hayek left Fisher

convinced that he had to pursue

a different strategy. Electoral

victories may have a short-term

impact, Hayek explained, but

today’s policy success can be

easily undermined or rescinded

tomorrow. The only lasting way

to change the world is by

influencing the climate of ideas.

5 Die After Electronic Music Festival in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentine health officials say at least five people have died and five others are critically ill of apparent drug use at a major electronic music festival in Buenos Aires. Two people in their 20s died during the Time Warp festival on Friday and three others died in an ambulance or at a hospital.

How to reactivate it?

In case you have not activated the PIN code during the registration process or you have accidently deactivated your Pin functionality, the holder has to visit the nearest registration center. No appointment is required. The card holder has to notify the center supervisor to activate the PIN. Remember, you have to take your ID card during this process and you must yourself set the new four digit pin code.

Do you know your PIN code? Every resident of the UAE has it, as it comes to you with your Emirates ID with Emirates Identity Authority (Eida) mentioning the card holder has to protect their PIN Code. “Think of it like a key. Instead of unlocking the door to your house or car, your Pin unlocks the gateway to your personal information. We regularly lock our houses and cars, but too often, we’re careless about the ‘keys’ to our personal information and possibly soon our financial, health, and private information,” says the authority.

What is PIN Code? The PIN code is one of the means used to get access to the private data in your card and authenticate your identity. It consists of four digits and is recommended to be changed regularly (using Card reading program offered by Eida).

In the case of three false entry of your PIN code, the ID card deactivates this functionality. To reactivate it, the card holder has to visit the nearest registration center, or Eida kiosk machine.

Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

The UAE is seeking through its supportive stances on Arab countries to address diverse challenges that could undermine pillars of regional security and stability, His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has affirmed.

"Citizens of the UAE have proven their competence, ability and excellence in all national military and humanitarian field missions and responsibilities within the UAE and beyond. We are proud of them and of their sacrifices and devotion which will be inscribed on the memory of the nation and history of the region," Shaikh Mohammed said during a visit to the traditional family home of Saif Mohammed bin Ablan Al Mazrouie in Al Ain city. In attendance were a number of participants in national missions inside and outside the UAE.

Cooperation and integration are the best way to tackle challenges and risks and the shortcut to eradicate threats, violence, terrorism and to end foreign interferences into internal affairs of countries in the region, said Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed.

"We draw our strength in confronting challenges from our strong solidarity and cohesion as one family in this dear country. We stand united against malignant and malicious elements and hate-mongers," Shaikh Mohammed added. Thanks to sacrifices made by our gallant armed forces and those of the Arab Coalition, higher objectives in Yemen had been fulfilled and the Yemeni people are today on the threshold of a critical juncture in the future of their country and its security and stability," he said.

He affirmed the UAE, under the leadership of

the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin

Zayed Al Nahyan, is assuming its historic role

faithfully and responsibly and is committed to

performing its strategic duties and

responsibilities as well as working and

cooperating with other fellow countries to

preserve security and stability of the region.

Do you know your PIN code?

UAE Minister of Happiness

This is the person tasked with putting a

smile on the face of UAE residents –

meet the country’s first Minister of State

for Happiness.

Ohood bint Khalfan Al Roumi was named

in the new role by HH Sheikh

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,

Vice President and Prime Minister of the

UAE and Ruler of Dubai, as he released

further details of the UAE cabinet

reshuffle.

Al Roumi is one of eight women handed

ministerial roles in one of the biggest

shake-ups of UAE government.

In all, eight new ministers were named.

Al Roumi was previously Director

General of the Prime Minister’s Office in

Dubai.

Hamad Al Rahoomi, an FNC member,

said of the new role: “I am happy with

the new position of Minister of

Happiness.

It’s already sending a good message that

the UAE loves to see its people happy.”

Al Rahoomi added: “The minister’s job

also involves coming up with new ideas

and policies that would help government

improve people’s wellbeing so they can

have happy lives.”

Three theme parks will open in Dubai in

October 2016, but a Turkish newspaper has

reported that Dubai-based developer Emaar

Properties is likely to tie up with Rixos Hotels

on a TL 1.2 billion (Dh1.5 billion) theme park

project in Belek, Antalya.

The Land of Legends in Belek, Antalya, opens

in May, ‘Daily Sabah’ newspaper said.

In a statement emailed to Emirates 24|7,

Emaar said it explores opportunities with

various entities as part of normal course of

business.

“Appropriate disclosures are made only

subsequent to finalisation of any

agreements,” a company spokesperson said.

“Rixos Group and the Emaar Group were in

the last stages of negotiations for the

project. According to the partnership

agreement, the project has three stages and

will cost TL 1.2 billion; the agreement is to be

signed within a month,” Daily Sabah said.

Expected to attract one million tourists to

Antalya's tourism sector, the project should

be completed by 2021, the newspaper

mentioned.

Built over a total area of 639,110-square-

meters, the Rixos Theme Park will cover an

area equal to almost 76 football fields.

Nearly 4,000 people were employed in the

construction, and its first stage covering the

hotel and the entertainment park has been

completed.

The Land of Legends was designed for

children from management to rooms. The

five-star hotel has 200 rooms, 31 suites in

different sizes and four rooms for physically

disabled guests.

Each room has a 5D cinema, a double screen LED TV and PlayStation. The hotel offers a different holiday concept with shows and virtual platforms, such as simulations and animations using special technologies. The entertainment park includes 55 waterslides, art workshops, an area for bicycles and skateboards, a walking-track and stages for different activities. Dubai is set to get a number of theme parks with Dubai Parks and Resorts, listed on Dubai Financial Market, opening Legoland Dubai, Bollywood Parks Dubai and Motiongate Dubai this October, while IMG Worlds of Adventure, the world's largest indoor theme park, is also expected to open this year.

Dubai’s Emaar to open new theme park in May

Smart Patrol in Preparation for

Expo 2020

An Abu Dhabi government official

has invented a smart patrol that will

help the police handle the expected

influx of visitors to the UAE during

the Expo 2020 , The smart patrol

project has been invented by

Mubarak Abdulrahman Al Hashemi,

an employee of the General

Directorate of Residency and

Foreigners Affairs in Abu Dhabi .

The patrol will enhance road control

and monitoring, and can be linked to

the operations room at the Abu

Dhabi Police. It includes cameras,

radars and a "remote control

feature".

Al Hashemi indicated that the project

will contribute to achieving the UAE

Government's vision and the goals of

the Ministry of Interior, aimed at

maintaining road security by

spreading the traffic safety culture,

and enforcing the law.

Mubarak Al Hashemi is a

distinguished employee, and has

received several medals from H.H

Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of

Interior, as well as more than 47

thanks and appreciation certificates

from his department and from the

office of the Assistant

Undersecretary of Naturalization,

Residency and Ports Affairs. He also

earned acknowledgment from

government departments in Abu

Dhabi, for his voluntary participation

in a number of national events .

New System to Improve Camel Racing A Master's student from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has capitalised on the latest technological advances in computer science and signal processing to innovate one of the UAE's oldest and cherished pastimes - camel racing.

Recognizing the novelty and potential commercial applications of the student-led innovation, Masdar Institute has filed a provisional patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the innovative camel monitoring system being developed by Saeed Alnofeli, an MSc student in the Engineering Systems and Management Programme.

The invention is based on Alnofeli's thesis research, titled "Customer Driven Product Development Process for Camel Monitoring System," which is focused on optimizing monitoring systems of a training platform that can be used to improve camel training and racing.

Camel racing is part of the UAE's rich heritage. As a centuries-old cultural tradition across the Arabian Peninsula, the UAE formalized the sport immediately after the country was founded.

Despite its popularity and cultural significance, Alnofeli believes that some aspects of the sport are a bit antiquated. "I found some challenges in the camel racing industry, including a poor understanding of the camel's health and how to improve camels' racing performance, which is what, motivated my research," Alnofeli said.

Robot jockeys, which were introduced in 2004, were the first technological advance in the sport and the first step towards improving communication between camels and their trainers.

Really, too bad Stade Poitevin Volley-Beach Poitiers was eliminated...

FRA M: Spectacular 3-meter spike by Dutch setter Abdel-Aziz!

The Dutch from Stade Poitevin Volley-Beach Poitiers finished the season as his team was eliminated in quarterfinals of the French playoffs by Arago de Sète V.B. (2-0). Too bad, because we will not see more of Abdel-Aziz, we will not see these second ball spikes behind 3-meter line (from Game 1 vs. Sète)! Something which Earvin Ngapeth perfected…

RUS M: Zaytsev - "Sorry, but this is the end of my adventures in Dinamo..."

Ivan Zaytsev will definitely leave Dinamo Moscow this summer! Zaytsev ZaytsevAfter two years spent in Moscow, Ivan Zaytsev will go somewhere else. He decided to leave Dinamo and wished the club all the best in future."I had a good time in Dinamo. The first season was difficult due to my injury, but the second one was much easier. Still, this is the end of my adventures in Dinamo. Sorry. I wanted to stay until the end of my contract, but the decision has already been made, so... I hope that I will return one day. I wish good luck to the club in future and to finally beat Zenit. They have had a long series of wins, hopefully next season Dinamo will break that streak," said Zaytsev for R-Sport.The season in Russia is over. Zaytsev will now have some time to rest and to think about plenty of offers that he has on the table. We are about to see which one he will chose and what will be his next volleyball destination...

Volleyball world

FRA M: He has done it again! Abdel-Aziz, Europe’s best spiker among setters:

The Dutch Nimir Abdel-Aziz demonstrated excellent spiking abilities in the playoffs in France.

During Game 1 of quarterfinals against Arago de Sète V.B, he had TWO incredibly powerful 3-meter spikes. We already published the first one, but the second was also STUNNING! Abdel-Aziz changed roles with the CubanRaydel Poey, who became setter in this rally.

The Best Book I Ever Read

Beatrice Prior lives in a future version of Chicago where there are five distinct factions. Each faction thinks one feature is best: Dauntless think bravery is keen, Erudite love knowledge, Abnegation is pro-self-sacrifice, Amity hearts friendship, and Candor is into telling it like it is. Beatrice grew up in an Abnegation family. But when she turns 16, she decides to join Dauntless.

The story talks about how Beatrice suffered living in the Abnegation fiction, and how she dealt with being “Divergent”.

If I Stay is about Mia and her brother (Teddy) and her mum and dad. One day in their lovely home state in America, it snows. And they are in a car crash. Mia's Mum and Dad die at the scene, and both her and Teddy are in a critical condition. What happens next is incredibly difficult to explain, so this is what I made of it.

Mia enters a state of… 'non-death' (?) and watches over as her body is operated on and transported from ward to ward until it ends up in the ICU. She watches as people come and go, watching her body. The rest of the book is based upon Mia reflecting over her life and what she's accomplished and achieved and answering the ultimate question: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (No reference to the song intended.)

would definitely recommend this book to anyone, but I also fail to see how this can be sensibly adapted into a feature length film. Some production company wants to do it though, so I'll be waiting to see that eagerly.

The novel was written by: Anne Tyler

The novel is a portrait of the Whitshank family across several generations. Denny, 19 when the story starts, something of a prodigal son, is reminiscent in his charming, maddening, potentially delinquent way – balanced bewilderingly yet convincingly between helpfulness and fecklessness – of Jack, the returning bad lot in Marilynne Robinson’s Home. Tyler is in the top rank of American writers, and moments in this novel have an affinity with Canada’s Alice Munro too. But what she has that neither Robinson nor Munro possess to the same degree is an irrepressible sense of the comedy beneath even the most melancholy surface – or sometimes peeking just above it – in human affairs. Tyler is good on irony too. The son who has most tormented his mother most colonises her heart. Not that Denny registers Abby’s favouritism, having spent a life feeling jealous of his adopted younger brother Stem. Abby, a social worker, married to Red, who works in construction, is the heart of the family and the novel. In her 70s, she is starting to unravel in small but alarming ways while staying defiantly her own person. As a social worker Abby used habitually to find a place for lame ducks at her table and still does, given half a chance. But now she is becoming a lame duck herself – and Denny has shown up to support her. The trouble is that Stem and his beautiful Baptist wife, Nora, have got there first. Abby gets infuriated by Nora’s presence and manner, asking herself why Nora persists in calling her “Mother Whitshank”: “It made Abby sound like an old peasant woman in wooden clogs and a headscarf.” I enjoyed reading this book because this novel left me with mixed emotions.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine

Drawings UAE compassion

"Huda snowstorm "

Done By: I had painted this painting last year supporting the UAE compassion campaign that was launched by his highness sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed to provide relief to victims of Huda snowstorm in the Levant region. The painting shows three children walking under the heavy snow and the freezing weather. It shows how people-especialy children- suffer the cold weather. And how they don’t have any choice but feel the pain.

Ghazal

Done By:

Almost five years after it began, the full-blown civil war has killed over 200,000 people, half of them were kids. Bombings are destroying crowded cities and horrific human rights violations are widespread. Basic necessities like food and medical care are sparse

I was searching on my paintrest account about the Syrian case, ghazl's photo stops me for a while, I start starring at her peaceful face after she leaved the world to a bitter place , whenever I look at her face I imagine her with green eyes , they got the color of the trees in paradise , they were bright and beautiful and I imagine her walking all the way to school!.

Heart-Breaking

Done By:

The fear in the little girl’s eyes as she bit her lip to stop herself crying has caused an outpouring of emotion about the “heart-breaking” image showing how “humanity failed” in the Syrian civil war.

It spread across social media in weeks after it was tweeted by a photojournalist in Gaza.

After I saw it I decided to change this little girl future on a canvas, the idea of my paining is to focus on the future of those young kids who didn’t get enough education in school as all the kids, but I drew this little girl holding a brush to give her the freedom to spread her dreams around the world and to build her own future full with what she need, even in this hard situation.

Surrealism Movement

Done By:

Women find that closing her eyes is the only way to reach to her dreams and touch her heart to stay as free as she was created to, carrying ability to escape from the reality, From sinking in a sea of Social pressures that lose her the thrill of freedom, even to get her own rights as a human, I chose the cloud to represent freedom which filled with hope that will take her from the unfair reality, and her dream to live in a world filled with all the love. At the end this painting represent the “Surrealism movement” which its works on creating strange creatures from everyday objects. And the apple in the surrealism language means the pure humanity.

Have Fun

Have

Fun

A moment of silence

Written By: Khadeijah Almaamari

12s3

A moment of silence So brief , so rear Drained, utter dryness Yet wet, drowning in despair Reflections , brightness It gave me a deep stare Who are you? I saw my tears Sliding down a strangers face Contained my feels It isn't my haven's place Who are you? My lungs screamed Awaiting a word My sense pleased With a broken soul "I am you" the stranger reached " My angel, you were never whole " He yelled he preached I cried I swore Who are you? I am not a half I am not missing I let go a laugh Snake was hissing Who are you? A reflection, brightness With a deep stare In a moment of silent So brief, so rear

A moment of silence

Written By: Khadeijah Almaamari

12s3 In the land of wonder

they shall surrender

to the roar of thunder

and a demon's smile

that fooled the human kind

Disclosing a manifest claw , proud

to tear the flesh of a happy crowd

a crowd that once gathered as whole

to scratch the sun in complete cruor

evince a might that collected the human

kind

For the sake of seeking despair

to the demon they exhibited a man , prostrate

atomizing melded dreams of delight

that once were a chord to strike

and the demon ragged with teary eyes

the stupidity of the human kind

As he gathered his granted spoils and

lands

and what the seas have always held in

hands

his eyes glistened with the sorrow of vivid

pasts

as the land of wonder

has finally surrendered

to his smile.

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