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• Qapco’s SummerInternship Class of 2013 ends successfully

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• Smartphones causerise in myopia,says surgeon

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BATSBATSResearchers want to educate more people about bats to try to protect

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By Christina Barron

You’re probably aware that giant pandas, rhinos and Asian elephants are disap-pearing from the wild. But the problems these large but cute animals face are

getting a lot of attention from adults and kids alike, so hopefully their numbers will rebound.

There’s an animal that lives much closer to home that is also dying in large numbers. Would you be surprised to find out that not a lot of people are coming to its defence? In addition to fighting for its life, this animal is also battling old wives’ tales and an image problem. As you have guessed by the pictures, we’re talking about a bat.

It’s not surprising that myths have hung around about a flying animal that comes out only at night. People don’t have much interaction with them. So false information continues to be passed along.

“It’s a common misconception that bats want to roost in your hair,” said Katie Coiner, an ani-mal keeper at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Coiner cares for the 172 Seba’s short-tailed bats at the zoo. She says zoo visitors sometimes get anxious when they see her inside the enclosure with the bats.

“They’re not something to be scared of,” said Coiner, who admitted that she wasn’t a bat lover as a child.

Another myth you may have heard is that most bats have rabies. Any wild animal can have rabies, but few do. (To be safe, it’s best not to touch any animal you don’t know.) What about the story that bats suck human blood? Not true. Even vampire bats don’t suck blood; they lick it.

The zoo aims to tell bats’ true story by hosting its first International Bat Day on August 24. The event will feature chats with keepers and other bat-related activities. It will also spread the word that bats’ survival is being threatened by disease and fewer places to nest.

With featherless wings, big ears and pointy teeth, bats don’t always look cute in photo-graphs. But bat rescuer and educator Leslie Sturges says that kids who meet a bat at one of her talks are charmed by the furry creatures.

“It’s always ‘awww,’ “ said Sturges, who spoke to 4,000 kids about bats last year. “No one ever sees their faces. They’re adorable.”

are in danger, and they could use some help

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Books about bats and bat conservation

Check out these books and websites about bats and bat conservation.

The Bat Scientists by Mary Kay Carson. 80 pages. Age 9 and older. Merlin Tuttle, who founded Bat Conservation International (www.batcon.org), is one of five bat scientists this book follows into caves and anywhere else bats live.

Eyewitness Junior: Amazing Bats by Frank Greenaway. 30 pages. Ages 6 to 11. Vivid photographs and illustrations make this a good reference book.

Living Wild: Bats by Melissa Gish. 48 pages. Age 10 and older. This book offers amazing photographs and enough text to present bat facts and also conservation efforts.

Leslie Sturges’s Save Lucy website (save-lucythebat.org) includes an online-only children’s book, lots of bat facts and a club for kids.

Sturges said kids often ask personal questions about the bats, such as their names and why she is taking care of them. Sturges has been trained to care for injured and orphaned bats. When they are healthy, she returns them to the wild. At the moment, she has 30 in the basement and back yard of her Annandale home.

Learning the bats’ stories creates a connection, Sturges said.

“Kids have a lot of empathy,” she said. “Bats and kids go together.”

Regardless of whether you think bats are cute, they are useful.

“Bats are extremely important to the ecosystem,” Coiner said. “Here in Maryland, they help keep control of the mosquito population.”

A little brown bat can eat as many as 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour. They also feast on beetles and moths, which can damage vegetable gardens and farm crops.

The Seba’s short-tailed bats, which are common in Latin America, are among those species that help pollinate plants.

“Without bats, there would be a lot less crops,” Sturges said.

They’re also interesting animals. More than 1,200 species include bats as small as an inch (the bumblebee bat) and those with a six-foot wingspan (the flying fox bat). They are the only mammal that can fly. Even though they are mostly small animals, they live a long time — 20 to 30 years.

One of the coolest bat features is how they get around at night. They navigate by making sounds that bounce off objects and let bats know how far away those objects are, a process called echolocation. (They aren’t blind. That’s another myth.)

Sturges noted several other qualities that have fascinated her since she began studying bats in college.

“They’re really tiny, but they’re super

smart,” Sturges said. “I like the social-ness of most of them. They have friends. They have language.” (Bats use a series of buzzes, clicks and trills to communicate with one another.)

Sturges said she tries to use those qualities to help kids relate to bats.

“All those things connect them to the way we live,” she said. “I tell them that the challenges that they face, those are the same challenges that bats face.”

One serious challenge that is unique to bats is white-nose syndrome. This disease was discovered around 2006 on bats in caves in New York. Since then, it has killed more than 5 million hibernating bats, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The disease comes from a fungus that infects bats’ wings, ears and face, and it

causes bats to wake up early from their hibernation. Without enough insects flying around in winter, the bats usually starve to death.

“It’s really a hard thing to watch hap-pen,” Sturges said. “Half the bats in North America are cave-dependent.”

No treatment is available because sci-entists are still trying to figure out why the fungus is causing the disease.

Conservationists and scientists have been watching it spread at an alarming rate. It has moved south and west, now into 22 states. And it is affecting additional species — including the little brown bats that live in the Washington area and the Virginia big-earned bat, the official state bat.

Bats that don’t hibernate have prob-lems, too. Their habitats are disappearing.

Wooded areas with hollow trees used for nesting are often cleared to make room for houses and office buildings. Sturges said she has helped bats that have been hit by cars and those that have been injured by cats or other wildlife.

Both Coiner and Sturges said kids can help save bats.

“If people learn to care about the bats themselves,” Coiner said, “ . . . that can hopefully lead to action, maybe personally or maybe on a broader scale.”

Kids can build boxes for bats to nest in outside. They can keep outdoor lights low. They can also be a voice for bat protection.

“We really want kids to take ownership of wildlife decisions,” Sturges said. “Let the adult world know that they care.”

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Bat factsA few things you probably didn’t know

about bats:

• Bats are the only mammals that fly.• There are more than 1,200 kinds of

bats.• The smallest bat, called the Kitti’s

hog-nosed bat or bumblebee bat, is only about one inch long.

• The biggest bat, known as the flying fox, has a wingspan of about six feet.

• The expression “blind as a bat” is misleading. Bats can see.

• Bats have only one or two babies per year.

• Since 2005, Virginia has had a state bat: the Virginia big-eared bat.

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Al Khalij Commercial Bank (al khaliji) is participating in Qatar University’s Yahala

Academic Orientation for New Faculty, a nine-day event welcoming new faculty and staff to the QU fam-ily and introducing them to the local business and academic community. Yahala began yesterday and will run until August 27 at the university’s Library Exhibition Hall.

“al khaliji is keen to lend support to human and educational development of Qataris as a means of fulfilling the pillars of Qatar’s National Vision 2030,” explained Hamad Al Kubaisi (pictured), al khaliji’s Group Head of Human Resources.

“al khaliji’s goal is to support Qatar’s vision of developing human

c a p i t a l by taking p r o m i s -ing talents and offer-ing them prosper-ous career opportuni-ties so that they have the oppor-tunity to

become leaders of our businesses in the future and contribute to the community as productive individu-als. We hope that by connecting to newcomers and veterans at Qatar’s largest university, academics will reach out to al khaliji so that we

can use our market expertise in further enhancing their students’ educational experience.” Yahala is designed to help new faculty mem-bers adapt to their new surroundings,

connect with professors, staff, and members of the business community, and to familiarise them with life on campus as well as Qatari culture and traditions. The Peninsula

al khaliji participates in Qatar University’s Yahala

Officials at the event.

Qapco’s Summer Internship training programme has once again proved to be a great success with 70 stu-

dents from local and international universities visiting the petrochemi-cal giant for an intensive eight-week training programme.

The programme began in early June with a three-day induction course designed to introduce the students to Qapco and included health and safety training, orientation of the plant and issuing of personal protection equipment.

Dr Mohamed Yousef Al Mulla, Qapco’s VC & CEO, described the programme as critical to a student’s

development and said: “Internships offer learning experiences that are different from the theory learnt in the classroom and can help the stu-dent gain a good understanding of the industry. It will also enhance the student’s academic and career goals connecting academic experience with the professional world of work.

“Qapco’s economic growth depends on recruiting the best and the bright-est graduates.

“That’s why we’re focusing sig-nificant energy on showing our stu-dents the tremendous opportunities Qapco has to offer after they finish their studies. This programme also shines a spotlight on the critical

role internships play not only in our Qatarisation strategy but in the strategic Qatarisation goals of the country.”

Abdulla Ahmed Naji, Qapco’s Learning and Development Manager, said: “I am proud of what has been accomplished this year with the Qapco Summer Internship programme as it allows students to gain valuable exposure to the workplace, provides opportunity for skills development and networking with professionals and gives us a competitive edge in the local job market.

“This year 70 internship students successfully completed the programme, with 25 Qatari students including 10

from Qatar Independent Technical School, nine from Community College Qatar, four from Al Awsaj Academy and two from Qatar University. Of the 70 students, 53 were technical students which emphasises our com-mitment to recruit the best technical graduates in Qatar. We also welcomed 15 students from international univer-sities with five from a special agree-ment with Qatar University.”

One of the Summer Internship stu-dents, Dean Gordon, an engineering student from Heriot Watts University in the UK, described his time in Qapco as “a truly wonderful experience — one I will never forget.”

The Peninsula

Qapco’s Summer Internship Class of 2013 ends successfully

The students with company officials.

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KPMG partnerswith QFBA for Kawader programme

KPMG in Qatar has partnered with Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA) for its Kawader

programme which aims to train young Qataris who are in their third year of university or fresh graduates.

KPMG in Qatar’s head of financial services, Omar Mahmood, said KPMG is committed to mentoring young Qatari candidates who strive to reach their full potential in line with Qatar National Vision 2030 and its own corporate social responsibility initiatives.

“It is necessary for students to be involved in a training programme, while they are away from university as it helps in their professional devel-opment and aids them in determining their career path,” said Mahmood.

Kawader programme, officially launched in July 2013, is a unique quali-tative initiative aimed to persuade the most talented young Qataris to choose a career in the financial sector. It is essentially a two-part programme span-ning six months comprising classroom and workplace exposure for the chosen interns. The Peninsula

Marzooq Al Shamlan & Sons (MSS) conducted a raffle draw at its head office in Hilal in the presence of officials from the Ministry of Trade & Commerce. Coinciding with the completion 57 years of watch business in Qatar, 57 winners were announced. The three mega draws included Nissan Altima 2013 Model, 27 Ipads and 27 Iphones. The promotion was valid from June 10 until August 15. Winner details will be published on MSS website www.mssqatar.com.

Marzooq Al Shamlan & Sons raffle draw

Regency Halls organisesblood donation campaign

Employees at the Regency Halls rolled up their sleeves to donate

blood in an initiative in partnership with the blood donors unit of HMC.

General Manager Eman Abela led the team members in the campaign to raise awareness about benefits of donating blood to support the health-care system by providing blood for life-saving transfusions.

“We are constantly seeking opportu-nities to contribute and give back and organising a blood donation campaign is one of them, our aim is to promote a business culture that’s focused on levitating our commitment to further aid the local community,” said Abela.

The Peninsula

Three Sixty, the revolving restau-rant at The Torch

Doha, has received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. The accolade which honours hospitality excellence, is given to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding guest reviews on TripAdvisor. Only the top-performing 10 per cent of businesses listed on TripAdvisor receive this prestigious award.

“The Torch Doha is honoured and humbled to receive the 2013 Certificate of Excellence for Three Sixty restaurant. The award is evidence that our hard work is translating into positive reviews on TripAdvisor. We will focus on maintaining our serv-ice standards at a superior level and offer our guests a memorable experience,”

Hotel Manager Sherif Sabry said.The Peninsula

Three Sixty receives excellence award

Regency Halls staff and officials at the blood donation drive.

A view from Three Sixty, the revolving restaurant at The Torch Doha.

PLUS | TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 20136 BOOKS

By Elaine Lies

Alan Broussard is 14 in 1973, the year the comet Kohoutek was set to race across the skies in the astronomical sensation of the century - although it ultimately failed to

deliver the blazing light show many people expected.In The Night of the Comet, a novel by George Bishop,

the comet is personal for Alan, whose geeky science-teacher father becomes so obsessed that it takes over his life as he works to whip their rural Louisiana town into a comet-watching frenzy.

Kohoutek slowly weaves through Alan’s growing sense of his father’s faults and his parents’ crum-bling marriage, as well as his own obsession with their beautiful neighbour Gabriella, until one final, shocking event.

Bishop, a Louisiana native who has spent most of his adult life overseas, spoke about writing and comets.

What got this book going?The idea of comet Kohoutek got stuck in my mind

years ago and I thought it would be a good backdrop for a story. Then the image of a telescope and a man in an overcoat leaping off a roof. I’ve had that in my mind for a story for decades. So I put the two together and came up with this.

What was it about the comet that attracted you?

I barely remembered the comet from my own childhood but I remembered all the excitement that built up to it. It was like the “Wannabe Comet” - the big dud of the decade. I thought it had dramatic potential, it elicited my sympathy. There was such a big buildup.

Then when I began researching it, it was even more than I remembered. People were crazy about this comet at the time, more than any comet in the era — since Halley’s. Nasa was all over it. There were all kinds of experiments launched around the comet. There were songs written about it. It was huge.

Where did you go from the images?I began with researching Kohoutek and looking

through old newspaper articles, kind of building the story around that. My idea was to use the trajectory of the comet as the arc of the story, which seemed really simple when I started out to do it. But then when I began writing it and researching comets more and more, I found out that I had to know a lot more about comets to make it scientifically accurate. I

had a very vague idea of the comet comes, it gets bigger, it fades away. That was all I’d thought about it. But to write it, you have to get all the science right. I was researching moon phases, consulting with astronomers.

The family story began a lot bigger, with the boy narrator grown up and going back to the town. He’s kind of a jerk after he’s grown up, he’s just divorced from his wife and he’s not getting along with his son. I originally imagined a multi-generational thing ... I worked on that for quite a while - it was really get-ting out of hand. It was sprawling ... I focused on the story in the ‘70s. The only frame that’s left is that very narrow frame in the beginning and the end.

What were some of the other things that were tough?

It was hard for me to find the right tone between humour and profundity, and realism. I wanted to also bring in a fantastical element too, with the comet. My default is kind of jokey but I was trying to reign it back with this one. I like the tone that came out, I

think it struck the right tone. But it’s tricky writing about kids and the geeky dad. So much of it lays itself open to stereotypes. The other difficult thing was that I had more ideas than I could fit in the novel.

Were there any tricks you learned with this second book that helped you work?

I learned the habit of writing every day, I learned to go about it as a job. I still do that. I set my alarm clock in the morning and I make coffee and I go to it. It took me a while to settle into that routine and see that this is what it takes ... I learned the habit of writing full-time, which is exhausting and not very pleasant. But I’ve learned how to do it and I see it as my job now.

Why are you writing about teens in Louisiana in the ‘70s?

I don’t know, maybe they’re the coming of age books I should have been writing 30 years ago and am just getting around to them now.

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The year comet Kohoutek tore through lives

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By Lenny Bernstein

Maybe, just maybe, we’re on to some-thing when pre-schoolers are asking for sec-

onds of broccoli. This, they swear, is the case at the Head Start pro-gram at the Edward C Mazique Parent Child Center in DC, which I visited last week.

“Fresh broccoli — they eat it like candy,” head cook Evon Gaither told me in the center’s full-service kitchen. “They love collard greens. And last week, I stir-fried squash. They loved that.”

Now, even some grown-ups, most famously former President George H W Bush, have trou-ble choking down the much-maligned member of the cabbage family. So I’m not about to drink the (unsweetened) Kool-Aid and believe that little kids will beg for broccoli if only we’d offer it to them.

But something has to explain last week’s encouraging report out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that, for the first time in decades, obesity declined among low-income preschoolers in 19 states and US territories. One possible reason cited by CDC officials: the recent wider avail-ability of fresh fruits and vegeta-bles, instead of sugar-laden juices, for poor kids enrolled in a federal nutrition programme.

So I went over to Mazique to see how they handle food and fit-ness, and I came away impressed by the rather simple principle they live by: Cultivate the habit of exer-cise and healthful eating while the children are young. Really young, like 6 weeks to 4 years old.

This is a heck of a good idea. One in eight US preschoolers is

obese; for black and Hispanic kids, the situation is worse. Children are five times as likely to be over-weight or obese when they grow up if they have weight problems between ages 3 and 5.

Mazique kids don’t go home to nannies who cook them balanced meals and after-school sessions with personal trainers. “We serve the poorest of the poor,” Executive Director Almeta R Keys said, adding, “And they don’t have the same advantages that other fami-lies do.” Some of the 4-year-olds I watched showing off their skills in English, Spanish and Amharic at last week’s graduation ceremony were homeless or living in transi-tional housing, she said.

So if anyone is going to make a difference in these kids’ lives, it’s their parents and the teachers at Mazique. Janet Unonu, who has been the programme’s full-time nutritionist for 33 years, gave me a tour and the ground rules at the same time, starting with the small garden out front where the chil-dren help plant and harvest okra, basil and peppers that will later go into their meals.

Rice must be brown and bread the same colour, she said. Baby food is made from scratch, ground from the same foods served to the older children. “From 6 weeks to 5 years [of age], they get no sugar here,” she said.

That’s not completely true. Once a month, the children get an oatmeal cookie containing sugar, Gaither said. (I consume more sugar than that at breakfast every day.) And once a month they’re allowed a sweetened cereal. The rest of the time, it’s fresh fruit for dessert and healthy grains at breakfast.

I wandered into a class of tots between 16 months and 2 years

old, where the kids and teachers were eating family-style around those little preschool tables I couldn’t fit under if I tried. In the middle was a big bowl of fresh green beans; also on their plates were tuna fish and fruit. Milk at Mazique is low-fat.

What about exercise? The kids love Zumba, teacher Reby Franklin said, as well as other kinds of dancing or just jump-ing up and moving around. Parents are invited to partici-pate. Teachers also take the kids on daily walks.

Is any of this going to stick when the little ones move on to a world of fast-food ads and video games? Mazique is hedging its bets. Parents are encouraged to take a six-week course offered by the programme that teaches them how to read food labels at the store and cook healthful meals at home. They also are taught how to get kids exercis-ing at home.

Meseret Abebe, whose 4-year-old served as mistress of ceremo-nies at the graduation, said she has learned to look for no-sugar-added juice and 2 percent milk. There’s no soda, chips or sweets in her house, and no fast food. She tries to serve fresh vegetables three times a day.

One day, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited Mazique and was pleased to see some of the children ask for sec-onds of broccoli, Keys recalled. Maybe this is a partisan thing. As President Obama noted just last month, it’s his favourite food. Not just his favourite vegetable, his favourite food.

I’m going to have to stick with chocolate chip cookies on this one. But don’t tell the kids.

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Smartphones cause rise in myopia: Surgeon

If smartphones have made our lives eas-ier, there is a flip side too -- they cause vision impairment, says a leading laser

eye surgeon.Femalefirst.co.uk reports that Surgeon

David Allambym has revealed that smart-phones have caused cases of myopia (short-sightedness) among young Britons to surge.

Allamby, founder of Focus Clinics, has reported a 35 percent increase of patients with advancing myopia, since the launch of smartphones in 1997, and warns that wors-ening Myopia in young adults could increase by 50 percent within 10 years.

Half of Britons own smartphones and spend an average of two hours per day using them. Combined with the amount of hours spent in front of a computer screen, laptop, tablet and television, it means that particu-larly young people and children are at risk of permanently damaging their vision.

New research found that the average smartphone user holds the handset 30cm from their face, with some people holding it just 18 cm away, compared to newspapers and books, which are held 40cm away from the eyes.

According to Allamby, excessive screen watching at a close proximity keeps the genes that control myopia activated well beyond the age that short-sightedness would historically have stabilised, around the age of 21. This is known as ‘epigenetics’. Myopia used to stop in our early 20s but now we see it progressing throughout the 20s, 30s, and even into our 40s.

“If things continue as they are, I predict that 40-50 percent of 30-year-olds could have myopia by 2033 as a result of smart-phones and lifestyles in front of screens, an epidemic we call Screen-Sightedness. People need to ensure they limit screen time wher-ever possible even by going outside without their phone for a period of time each day, and also seriously consider the age at which they give their children a smartphone,” Allamby said.

Allamby says today’s generation of chil-dren are most at risk of myopia, with chil-dren as young as seven being given their first smartphone.

It is predicted that by 2014 children aged 12 to 17 years will be the second biggest mar-ket for smartphones behind 18-24 year olds.

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Titanic (1997, 2012)

The Avengers (2012)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011)

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, 2011)

Skyfall (2012)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

�� (2006)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999, 2012)

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

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11RECIPE PLUS | TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2013

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By Alison Ladman

My mother loves tabbouleh. And given how healthy it is, it’s not such a bad food to love. Except that she made it a lot. As in, after I moved out, I avoided it

at all costs. I’d grown up with a tabbouleh overload.When I did eventually come back around to tab-

bouleh, I found that if I tweaked the recipe a bit, I liked it a lot more. The classic combination of lemon, parsley and garlic on cracked wheat is good, but it

can be so much more. It can be different and inspired. And you don’t have to bring the same version over and over to every backyard barbecue between the months of April and October.

I like to start by swapping out the traditional cracked bulgur wheat base for a different whole grain, such as farro, spelt, kamut, barley or even brown rice. For this recipe, I used green lentils, which are packed with nutrients, low in fat, and high in fibre and protein. Plus, they have a subtle flavour, perfect for a salad with plenty of other robust flavours.

Next up, the herbs. Traditionally, tabbouleh is made with lots of parsley and some mint. It’s pretty easy to switch those up for just about any fresh, green, leafy herb. Try cilantro or even basil. We kept the parsley, but added a bit of oregano and thyme. To round it all out, we added red vinegar and lemon juice, minced fresh garlic, chopped celery, toasted almonds, chopped olives, and red bell pepper.

To finish it off, you’ll want to add a drizzle of really good extra-virgin olive oil. Because it’s a simple salad, the quality of the olive oil is important. AP

Lentils lend a fresh and healthy take on tabbouleh

INGREDIENTS2 cups dry green or French

lentilsSalt1 cup chopped fresh parsley2 tablespoons chopped fresh

thyme2 tablespoons chopped fresh

oregano4 cloves garlic, minced3 stalks celery, diced1/2 cup sliced Kalamata olives1 red bell pepper, cored and

diced3 tablespoons red vinegar3 tablespoons lemon juice2 tablespoons extra-virgin

olive oilGround black pepper1/2 cup slivered almonds,

toasted

MEDIUMBring a medium pot of salted

water to a boil. Add the lentils

and cook until al dente, about 15 minutes.

Use a mesh strainer to drain the lentils, then spread them in an even layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Transfer to the refrigerator to cool.

Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the parsley, thyme, oregano, garlic, celery, olives and red pepper. Set aside.

In a small bowl, whisk together the vinegar, lemon juice and olive oil. Drizzle the dressing over the herbs and vegetables, then mix thor-oughly. Once the lentils have cooled (they don’t need to be chilled, just no longer hot), add to the bowl and mix well. Season with salt and pepper, then sprinkle the almonds over the top.

Start to finish: 30 minutesServings: 12

Lentil Tabbouleh

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 201312

By Juliette Garside

A British software developer has set a record for the most money raised in a crowdfund-ing campaign, with its project to develop a new smartphone attracting pledges of

more than $10m (£6.3m).The fundraising by Canonical for its Ubuntu Edge

phone has secured pledges worth $10,355,000 since opening on July 22 on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website – overtaking the previous record set by the Pebble smartwatch.

The developer of Ubuntu software is hoping to deliver its first handsets in May next year, and backers paying $695 or more will be given their own devices as a reward. The company said that more than 14,500 smartphones had so far been pledged for.

Backers include the media group Bloomberg, the first large company to join the campaign. It has pledged $80,000 for an enterprise package which includes 115 handsets.

“The campaign has sparked a level of interest that has surprised even us,” Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth told the BBC, saying that it had prompted interest from some large handset makers.

More than 22,000 pledges have flooded in from around the world, with the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, France, Sweden and the Netherlands among the top contributing nations.

However, the pledges may never be redeemed. This is because Canonical must meet its minimum fund-raising goal of $32m to be allowed to claim the money, and the campaign deadline is in six days.

“We were mindful that tripling a record is always a big stretch and a big ask,” Shuttleworth said, referring to the Pebble, which started production in January after fundraising on the US Kickstarter website.

The Ubuntu campaign had already smashed the

previous record set on Indiegogo: last year, Scanadu Scout used the website to raise $1.7m to develop a medical tricorder, which reads vital signs and sends them wirelessly to a smartphone.

Shuttleworth founded Canonical in 2004. The South African multimillionaire made his fortune from selling his internet security software company to VeriSign for $575m in 1999, and now resides in the Isle of Man.

Canonical, which employs 500 staff in 30 countries, espouses an open source ethic in making software for servers and cloud infrastructure. It was founded to create a PC operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Windows.

But as the cutting edge of computing moves from the desktop to mobile devices, it has switched its attention to smartphones.

Described by its maker as a “superfone”, the Ubuntu Edge runs on both Ubuntu and Google’s Android software, and can be connected to a

desktop computer. The connection allows the phone to become the brain of a PC running on Ubuntu’s operating system, with files stored on the handset visible on the computer screen.

Bloomberg, which announced its involvement ear-lier this month, and has developers designing and building software for mobile devices, said Ubuntu Edge was “an exciting prospect and one that com-plements our vision for open development on the mobile platform”.

CROWDFUNDING HITSPebble smartwatch: The watch that houses apps

and connects to your smartphone. Raised $10.2m on Kickstarter.

Form 1 3D printer: Due to start shipping in November. Raised $2.9m on Kickstarter.

Broken Age: Double Fine’s computer game, part one due to release in January. Raised $3.2m on Kickstarter.

Apps of the day

British software developer Canonical sets record for smartphone, with backers including media company Bloomberg

Fetch - A Boy and his Dog (Free)Publisher Big Fish Games releases

a lot of games, but this one has been generating much more interest than usual among iOS gamers already. It’s a beautifully-crafted adventure follow-ing a boy’s quest to rescue his dog. The game is free to try, with a £1.99 in-app purchase unlocking the full thing.

iPhone / iPad

Mister Maker – Let’s Make It! (£2.99)

He’s hugely popular on CBeebies (and elsewhere in the world), but now Mister Maker has an official app. It’s based on the craft-focused children’s

TV show, getting kids to create their own digital artworks, complete Minute Make challenges inspired by the show, and share the results with proud fam-ily members.

iPhone / iPad

Disney Animated (£9.99)An enormous treat for Disney fans,

this. It’s an app covering the anima-tion in all 53 of the studio’s movies, starting in 1937 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The app digs deep into concept art, painted backgrounds, storyboards and the transition from hand-drawn to computer-animated scenes, including the chance to

animate Wreck-It Ralph’s Vanellope yourself. There’s also a timeline of every film, plus a “Color Map” con-taining every scene from every movie in thumbnail form.

iPad

Tube Map Live (Free)There are a fair few London tube-

map apps drawing on data from Transport for London, but this one’s special. It shows trains making their way around the capital’s underground network in real-time (or, at least, as near real-time as the data allows. Useful, but strangely hypnotic too.

iPhone / iPad

Radio Alan The Alan Partridge Player (£0.69)

Launching alongside the Alpha Papa film, this app is for playing your own iTunes library, with Alan Partridge providing between-song patter. It’s tailored for some artists (“Keep your clubs away from his young, it’s Seal”), recognising their tracks if they’re stored on your phone, and recom-mending them on the iTunes store if not. The clips come from web-series Mid Morning Matters, with the prom-ise of more material to come.

iPhone / iPadBy Stuart Dredge

The Guardian

Ubuntu crowdfunding secures$10m plus pledges for Edge phone

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaAugust 20, 1980

1741: Danish explorer Vitus Bering discovered Alaska1910: Eero Saarinen, Finnish-U.S. architect and designer, responsible for the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the “Tulip” chair, was born1953: The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had conducted a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb1953: French forces forced the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, from his throne

The first successful solo ascent of Mount Everest was achieved by Reinhold Messner, the feat all the more remarkable as it was made without supplementary oxygen

Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

AMBROSIA, BLANCMANGE, BON BON, BRITTLE, BUTTERSCOTCH, CANDY, CANDY APPLE, CANDY FLOSS, CARAMEL, CHEWING GUM, CHOCOLATE, CONFECTION, CONFITURE, CREAM, DESSERT, FONDANT, FUDGE, GUMDROP, HONEY, ICE CREAM, JELLY BEAN, JUNKET, LOLLIPOP, MARSHMALLOW, MARZIPAN, MOLASSES, MOUSSE, NECTAR, NONPAREIL, NOUGAT, PRALINE, ROCK, SACCHARINE, SUGAR, SWEETMEAT, SWEETS, SYRUP, TOFFEE, TREACLE.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

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September 1, 2013



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 Like the people on the

Forbes 400 list 5 Mountains out of

molehills10 ___ facto14 Restatement?15 First group to get invites16 Like an “Open 24

hours” sign, perhaps17 It’s impressive18 Former French first lady

___ Bruni-Sarkozy19 “Surely you ___”20 “The Tsar’s Bride”

composer23 N.Y.S.E. debut24 Prefix with -logue25 It has its own Grammy

category34 Taken into account in

terms of a container’s weight

35 Crosswise, at sea36 Some genetic coding,

for short37 Dramatic cry38 Sneaked

39 Do some post office work

40 Crony41 Wipe the board clean42 Possible result of doing

questionable accounting43 NASA launch of 199046 Untreated47 Cricket World Cup

powerhouse: Abbr.48 Beginning of 20-, 25-

or 43-Across56 Minimal resistance57 Coupling58 Spanish-speaking

explorer60 Airhead61 Programme shower62 Operating system since

196963 Leave rolling in the

aisles64 Witchcraft trials city65 John, Paul or John Paul

DOWN 1 One who knows what it

means to travel

2 Cake decorator 3 Spiced Indian tea 4 Feedback producers 5 Add for good measure 6 Oil of ___ 7 Straight-bladed dagger 8 Home for Ibsen 9 Observed intently10 Locked up11 Furtive look12 Nothing to write home

about13 Airing21 Went 80 or 90, say22 ___ folder25 Kind of infection26 Pacific island nation27 Toothbrush brand28 “The ___ Home,” 1996

Emilio Estevez film29 Carrying a lot?30 Push away31 Tortellini in ___ (Italian

dish)32 Tear open33 Not glossy, as a photo38 Army barber’s

specialties

39 Was obsequious, informally

41 Israeli carrier42 ___ example44 Light, as a conversation45 Louis Braille or Louis

Chevrolet48 Joins as a couple49 Word repeated before

“the gang’s all here”50 “Cómo ___?”

51 Most eligible for service52 Grinding place53 Firehouse fixture54 “What were you

thinking?!”55 Common game show

prize59 Guitar, slangily

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14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

34 35 36

37 38 39

40 41 42

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48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55

56 57 58 59

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M E C C A R A J A S A B EA T L A S A L A S A N O NS C E N T F L I T F O B S

A B I G A I L A D A M SR E V E R I E O R A L SA V E R A L V I N A I L E YH E R R I R I S Y D S

A L A N A R K I NM T S O R E L A E R OA R T H U R A S H E V L A DC E R E S E N Z Y M E S

M A D E T H E A L I S TJ O N G H O A R N E R O SO L D E E A S T G A E L SB O S S E X E S S L E E T

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

14

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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05:15 Ajax vs

Feyenoord

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Espanyol

09:00 The Football

League Show

10:00 Rayo Vallecano

vs Elche

11:45 AFC

Bournemouth

vs Wigan

Athletic

14:30 Almería vs

Villarreal

16:15 Leeds United

vs Sheffield

Wednesday

18:15 Real Madrid vs

Real Betis

20:00 Ajax vs

Feyenoord

21:45 Olympique

Lyonnais vs

Real Sociedad

23:45 Juventus vs

Lazio

08:00 News

09:00 Al Jazeera

World

10:00 News

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:30 Viewfinder Asia

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 The French-

African

Connection

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 Earthrise

20:00 News

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21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

22:30 The Stream

23:00 Al Jazeera

World

13:45 Animal ER

14:40 Big Five

Challenge

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Wild Life

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Go Wild

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Wild Life

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Parolees

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15:30 Daily Show

16:00 Colbert Report

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With Jimmy

Fallon

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Global Edition

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13:00 A.N.T Farm

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15:30 Good Luck

Charlie

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Charlie

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22:50 Good Luck

Charlie

14:00 Lemony Snicket’s

A Series Of

Unfortunate

16:00 Mad Buddies

18:00 Naked Gun 33

1/3: The Final

Insult

20:00 Eurotrip

22:00 Angel’s Share

13:00 Scrapheap

Challenge

14:20 Gadget Show

14:45 The Tech Show

15:10 Scrapheap

Challenge

16:00 Prototype This

19:30 Scrapheap

Challenge

20:45 Junk Men

21:10 The Gadget

Show

21:35 The Tech Show

22:00 Scrapheap

Challenge

13:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres

Show

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15:00 Revenge

16:00 Emmerdale

16:30 Coronation

Street


19:00 Royal Pains


21:00 The Killing

22:00 Breaking Bad

14:40 Cash In The

Attic

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Roadshow

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The Hammer

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19:45 Come Dine

With Me

21:20 Antiques

Roadshow

22:15 Bargain Hunt

13:00 Lying To Be

Perfect

15:00 Waiting For

Forever

19:00 Cowboys& Aliens

21:00 A Little Bit Of

Heaven

23:00 The Girl With

The Dragon

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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.

TOUR OF QATAR

10:00 AM The show takes you on a trip to different locations in Qatar.

INTERNATIO-NAL NEWS

1:00 PM The latest news and events from around the world.

THINK ABOUT IT

4:00 PM Think about it a program put together by our very own Nabil Al Nashar. The show introduces our listeners to a new poem every week written in the style of Spoken Word. Spoken Word is a modern style of poetry that finds it’s inspiration suspended between Rap and the Classics. Enjoy the awesome power of words and music as he brings you the best of both worlds.

FASHION NEWS

7:00 PM Laura brings you a tidy package of the latest news and events from the world of fashion!

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 played to put listeners in the mood.

DECADES 10:00 PM A journey through time. The show reminisces at the music, the inventions, and the events that ensued during that era and defined modern history. Today’s episode brings you to the early 1990s! Hosted by Ms. Laura Finnerty and Scotty Boyes.

MUSIC & INFORMATION

Listen in the whole day as we offer a wide array of music from Pop, to Classical, Reggae, Jazz, Funk, World/Ethnic and loads of information through QF Radio’s Factoid Series. Stay tuned in to learn more about our upcoming new season which will start 1st of September.

MALL

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The Smurfs 2 (3D/Animation) – 5.15 & 7.15pm

Killing Season (2D/Action) – 9.15 & 11.30pm

2

Pacific Rim (3D/Action) – 2.30pm

Despicable Me 2 (3D/Animation) – 5.00 & 7.00pm

The Wolverine (3D/Action) – 8.45 & 11.15pm

3

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Chennai Express (Hindi/Comedy) – 4.45pm

Thalaivaa (Tamil) – 7.15 & 10.30pm

LANDMARK

1

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Killing Season (2D/Action) – 9.15 & 11.30pm

2



The Wolverine (3D/Action) – 8.45 & 11.15pm

3

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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara (2D/Hindi) – 8.00 & 10.30pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1


Killing Season (2D/Action) – 6.30pm

Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara (2D/Hindi) – 8.15 & 11.00pm

2

The Wolverine (3D/Action) – 2.30, 9.00 & 11.15pm


The Smurfs 2 (3D/Animation) – 7.00pm

3




Killing Season (2D/Action) – 11.30pm


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From Qurtuba To CordobaWhen: Until August 31, 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 1 - Bldg 13

What: This exhibition displays a variety of ornamental details -testimony of past splendour- which is often taken for granted by Cordoba’s dweller (s and visitors. The collection highlights emblematic monuments, walls, doors, towers, minarets and baths, including some examples of Mudéjar art, a more recent architectural style inspired by the influences of Al Andalus in the Iberian Peninsula. Free entry

Omar Khalifa – “Infinite”When: Until Dec 15; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Cultural Village What: This outdoor photography installation examines ‘the nature of being’. Using digital multiple exposure techniques, an image is crafted that gives us a sense of other-worldliness and depth of perspective through the human form. Free Entry

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection When: Public tours on Sundays and Tuesdays from 10am until 11.30am. Where: Qatar National Library’s Heritage Collection What: Qatar National Library’s remarkable Heritage Collection is a rare trove of manuscripts, books, and artifacts documenting a wealth of Arab-Islamic civilization and human thought. Among its more than thousands of 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

The ThievesWhen: August 22, 7pm Where: Drama Theater, Building 16

What: A band of five infamous Korean thieves headed by Popie (Lee Jung-Jae) receives an irresistible offer from former partner Macau Park, to steal a $20m diamond known as ‘Tear of the Sun’ from a casino. The team travels to Hong Kong where Park brought along four other Chines thieves to complete the job. On the day of the heist, the professionals who left nothing to chance find their perfect plan quickly turn into disaster revealing that they all have their own agenda. But who will succeed and walk away with the priceless diamond? Directed by Choi Dong hoon, this star-studded heist movie is one of the top grossing Korean films of all time See dohafilminstitute.com for more information on tickets

Events in Qatar

IN FOCUS

A view of the Doha skyline.

by Muhsin Majeed

Send your photos to [email protected]. Mention where the photo was taken.

Mayor begs Woody Allen to make a movie in Rio

Rio de Janeiro’s mayor says he’ll pay “whatever it takes” to get Woody

Allen to set one of his films in this sensuous seaside city, host of the 2016 Olympics.

“I’ll pay 100 percent of the production,” said Eduardo Paes in an interview published Sunday by the daily O Globo.

Woody Allen has made a string of recent movies featur-ing some of the world’s great cities -- London, Barcelona, Paris and Rome -- and Paes is determined to add Rio to the list.

“I’ll pay whatever it takes to get him to come film here,” he said.

“I so want him to come. I’ve already done all kinds of things. I talked to his sister, I sent him a message through (Spanish architect Santiago) Calatrava, who is his neighbour in New York,” Paes said.

He said he would put up with the criticism of locals for handing over “the millions that Woody Allen wants” to get a movie shot in his city.

Reuters

By Steve Gorman

A 16-year-old boy surfing along the eastern shore of Hawaii’s Big Island was bitten in the legs by

a shark over the weekend in the second such attack in the state in less than a week, authorities said.

The boy was flown by helicopter to the Hilo Medical Center, in the island’s larg-est city, and was listed in satisfactory condition on Sunday night, said William Aila, chairman of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Beaches along the Pohoiki coastline were closed to the public after the inci-dent as a precaution, he said. Earlier on Sunday, Hapuna Beach on the north-western end of the Big Island was shut down after lifeguards there spotted a shark, but that area has since been reo-pened, Aila said.

Aila said the teenage victim, who was bitten across both legs, was in the water at one of the few areas along the rocky Pohoiki coast that are suitable for surfing. He said details of the attack, including the type of shark involved, were sketchy.

Hawaiian television station KHON-TV reported that the boy was attacked from behind or the side by an 8-foot, gray-coloured shark while

surfing at a spot called Dead Trees in Pohoiki Bay, and was pulled to shore by other people.

“He was coming down the waves, and the shark came from the side and took him out by the legs,” one witness, another teenage boy who said he was nearby in the water, told KHON. His name was not given.

Lifeguard Nohea Matsuoka said the victim suffered “two big lacerations to his buttocks and his thigh.”

Authorities will survey the Pohoiki area, “and if there are no signs of the shark, it will be reopened,” Aila said.

Aila said the incident marks the ninth shark attack on a person in Hawaiian waters this year. Last Wednesday, a 20-year-old woman from Germany had her arm bitten off by a shark while snor-keling in Maui, he said.

KHON said another surfer was attacked by a shark on Oahu on July 29, and a woman was bitten in the abdo-men while swimming on Maui the fol-lowing day.

Aila said Hawaii typically documents five or six close encounters between people and sharks every year, includ-ing bites or cases in which a shark may actually bump into or brush up against someone. Fatal attacks in Hawaii are rare. Reuters

Shark bites teenage surfer along Hawaii’s Big Island

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