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Topandira is a trio of young musicians originally from

the same city in North East Brazil and decided to take up the chance offered by a Doha hotel to export their talent to the Middle East.

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By Isabel Ovalle

Samba, bossa nova, forró and lambada are only a few genres of Brazilian music which the only genuine Brazilian band in Doha has brought to Qatar.

Topandira is a trio of young musicians with loads of experience on stage. All members are originally from the same city in North East Brazil and decided to take up the chance offe-red by Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel to export their talent to the Middle East.

The musicians were hired separately by the hotel and started playing together in Qatar, even though they come from the same city in Brazil, namely Natal. From the dunes of the safest city in their country, also located next to the sea, they moved here, a safe country of dunes as well.

Both cities have things in common and also many differences, but ultimately music is music, and especially Brazilian rhythms like Samba or Bossa Nova, are hugely popular here as well. The musicians met about seven years ago in Brazil where they worked as freelancers.

Sami Tarik, who plays the tambourine and other instruments, in addition to collaborating in the vocals, moved to Doha approximately seven months ago. “The power of Brazilian music is high in Arabic countries, Bossa Nova and Samba have a great influence,” he stated.

However, the sometimes carefree tunes that encourage people to get on their feet and dance, to some extent contrast with the local culture. “At first I was concerned about the repercus-sion of our music in Arab countries, but now

I’m more confident there will be no trouble,” he added.

He has approximately fifteen years of expe-rience on stage, but this is his first time in a Gulf country. Nevertheless, this country pre-sents a mix of cultures and influences similar to that of Brazilian music.

“Brazilian music is a mix of many things, like the culture of Africa, Europe, the Arab world and America,” said the musician, while adding that subsequent to this mix, the result is very different from the original ingredients. “Our music is very creative and open. Our country is so big, practically a continent, which houses many cultures,” he added.

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Tarik plays an instrument called the tambourine that came to Brazil from the Arab world. At first it was played by poor people, now it’s widely known and it has made its way back to the region to be played in Qatar.

The other male component of the group is Caio Padilha, who already knew the other members and also traveled to Doha with his traditional instruments. In his case, he brought along 11 rabecas, a type of folk violin played in Brazil. During the six week summer break the band will take from Qatar, the guitarist will teach a wor-kshop about this instrument in Paris.

In addition, Padilha plays acoustic guitar. “I started when I was four years old, first the violin and later acous-tic guitar. Here I play everything in Brazilian music and also compose my own songs,” he stated.

The guitar player explained the big influence the Arab culture has had in Brazil, for instance there is a big influence from Lebanon. “There are more people of Lebanon in Brazil then in Lebanon. That has a strong cultural power, which also brings instruments of Arabic origin. It’s very difficult to know what Brazilian music is like because it has so many influences,” he clarified.

With regard to the audience in Qatar, Caio admits that Brazilians are always very excited to listen to their music and, luckily, there’s always some new Brazilian watching the show. On her part, Silvia Sol, the main vocalist, considered that the local audience can sometimes be a bit cold. However, there’s always a surprise. “Some days I’m very tired and I think I haven’t done an excellent job, but at the end someone is applauding profusely,” said Caio.

Silvia Sol started singing when she was a child and has done it professio-nally for around 11 years. She’s also a painter and is learning to play different instruments and compose. “Brazilian music is very happy and broad. We sometimes play jazz and even blues with a Brazilian accent,” said the singer.

To keep her voice in an excellent condition to take on three hours of singing, she doesn’t drink cold water or alcohol and doesn’t smoke.

*Tocandira plays every evening -except Sundays- from 7 pm and during brunch hours at Ipanema res-taurant, at Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel.

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Tarik plays an instrument called the tambourine that came to Brazil from the Arab world. At first it was played by poor people, now it’s widely known and it has made its way back to the region to be played in Qatar.

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Winners of Qatar University College of Engineering’s Computing Contest

2013 were announced at the closing ceremony, attended by CENG mem-bers, participating students, teachers and parents.

The contest, organised annually by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and spon-sored by ConocoPhillips Qatar, saw winning team Mustafa Alsumadi and Muan Alshaar from Nasser Al Attiya Secondary Independent School for Boys take the first prize. The students, men-tored by teacher Muatasim Alkhateib, received QR10,000, and a scholarship each at the CSE Department.

The second-place team of Bedour Fakher and Sarah Al Jarrah from Al Ieman Secondary Independent School for Girls, mentored by Nahed Abdel Azim, won QR6,000.

Third-place winner was the team of Malkan Khatib and Abdullah Doleh from Tariq Ibn Zeyad Secondary Independent School for Boys, mentored by Ali Hamad, who won QR4,000.

As in previous years, this year’s con-test was based on the time it takes for a LEGO NXT 2.0 robot to complete certain tasks.

This included an added engineering component in which the robot selects a ball of specific colour and drops it off at a certain location.

Contest organisers were impressed by the quality of the excellent submis-sions they received, saying: “We were surprised to see the talent and abili-ties shown by everyone who partici-pated in the contest. The department is encouraging as many high school students as possible to participate next year.”

Department head Prof Sebti Foufou said: “This contest is designed to offer students across Qatar the opportu-nity to interact with each other and

demonstrate their creativity and teamwork skills.

“The contest also provides a plat-form for the department and schools to address the growing market demand for computing professionals such as software engineers, system administrators, system developers, network designers, security consult-ants, and teachers.”

ConocoPhillips Qatar Government Affairs Director Salem Al Halbadi said: “For the second year, ConocoPhillips is

the main sponsor of QU’s computing contest. We are delighted and proud to support this initiative because we believe education and innovation go hand in hand to develop a bright future generation. Teamwork is possibly the most important value that participants have learned from this experience and it is one of our company’s spirit values since it is the key to any professional success. I congratulate all of you on a successful competition”.

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Winners with officials at the prize distribution.

Students of KG Section of Noble International School, managed by Noble Indian Educational Society (NIES), celebrated their Graduation Day with a colourful function. Tarun Basu,

President, Indian Cultural Centre, and Ali Jassim Khalifa Al Malki, patron of the school, attended the function.

Graduating students gave brief speeches, sharing their experiences. Children of other classes presented cultural programmes and dances.

Basu and Al Malki presented convocation certificates to graduates.

They also distributed special complimentary gifts from the management to winners of different programmes

during the academic year. Basu said: “Certainly you will find in every child some

talent or the other. Encourage them to celebrate success. Once they succeed, they will be motivated to create more success, including in studies. Success begets success…’’

K Mohamed Easa, Vice Chairman of Noble Indian Educational Society, presided over the function. K Abdurahim Kunnummal, General Convener, Shoukathali TAJ, Treasurer, R S Moideen, Mustafa V, Shajahan A M, conveners, also spoke.

Shaheen Akhtar, Head Mistress, KG section, wel-comed the guests. Hameed Ali Yahya, Principal, and teachers of the graduating students were present.

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Noble International School celebrates KG Graduation Day

Texas A&M hosts Ethics Week 2013

Texas A&M at Qatar hosts its second annual Ethics Week from today until Thursday, welcoming international

experts to the Texas A&M at Qatar campus and the Hamad bin Khalifa University Student Center. The event is organised by The Initiative in Professional Ethics (TIPE). TIPE serves as an umbrella for all ethics- related activities at Texas A&M at Qatar, highlighting the university’s focus on ethics across all its curricula and academic programmes.

The week features activities, including a guest lecture, ethics open forum café, faculty and student debate and a filming broadcast on the event’s last day.

Ethics Week begins today with a lecture by Dr Charles Choguill, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Al Faisal University, Riyadh.

The Ethics Cafe, tomorrow from 4.30pm to 6pm, will be held at Link Atrium at Texas A&M University at Qatar. It will be an open forum for discussion on ‘Ethics in the Professional Workplace’; the intrica-cies of professional ethics over coffee and snacks.

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QU computing contest winners announced

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After the success of Shreya Ghoshal Live in Concert, Doha Waves, in association with Bluray Advertisements, is organis-ing a musical event ‘Udit Narayan Live in

Concert 2013’ on April 26 at Old Ideal Indian School, Near Midmac Roundabout, Salwa Road, at 7pm.

Udit Narayan, renowned Bollywood singer, will perform along with female playback singers Deepa

Narayan Jha, Prachi Shrivasthava, and Ashish Atul Kumar.

Sunil Pal, winner of the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One will also be part of the team.

Tickets are available for QR500, QR250, QR800 (Family Package), QR125 and QR75.

For details contact 66558248/70032101 oremail: [email protected]. The Peninsula

Doha Waves to bring Udit Narayan to Doha HSBC’s unique offer at Qatar national career fair

HSBC has launched a new programme for aspirant investment and global

banking graduates. As the leading international bank, HSBC offers unique career opportunities for students and graduates to become part of its scholarship and intern-ship programme that will give successful candidates the chance to gain valuable work experience while they are studying.

“We have introduced a pro-gramme for our Global Banking and Markets and Global Private Bank departments to hire local graduates as full-time analysts. Summer Internship opportuni-ties are also available for those in their penultimate year of uni-versity study,” said Maha Jabor AlMohannadi, Senior Human Resources Manager at HSBC in Qatar. “This programme was launched to further support imple-mentation of our Qatarisation strategy,” she added.

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Karnataka Sangha Qatars’ (KSQ) 4th Invitational ‘Karnataka Cup 2013’ cricket tournament came to an end

with a glittering closing ceremony at old Ideal School Grounds recently. Qatari Diar lifted the cup this year.

Ex-Indian all-rounder and Coach of Hyderabad Team Sunil Joshi was Guest of Honour for this year’s event.

V S Mannangi, President of KSQ, thanked all those who supported in

organising the event, in his welcome address.

KSQ honoured Joshi for his contri-bution to the game of cricket.

Joshi congratulated KSQ on its effort to keep the game alive among expats in Qatar.

K M Varghese, Chairman Advisory Panel ICC, lauded efforts of KSQ to bring the people of subcontinent together by organising such tourna-ments. The Peninsula

Qatari Diar lifts ‘Karnataka Cup 2013’

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Veolia Water organises customer seminar

Veolia Water, through its team of experts in the oil and gas market, VWS Oil & Gas, organised a customer seminar in Doha recently. Speakers addressed issues on

water management and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) at Qatar’s industrial facilities.

A new legislation was presented by Prof Mohamed Shamrukh Mahmoud, expert in water resources at the Ministry of Environment.

Veolia designed and built one of the largest indus-trial water treatment plants in the world, the Shell Pearl GTL plant.

It employs several treatment systems to recover and reuse water from effluent generated by the facility.

Dr Mohammad Albeldawi, Head of Environment, Ras Laffan Industrial City, was present at the event. FROM LEFT: A Thiesse, P Gannat, M Sanderson, J Boom, J Clere, Prof Shamrukh, J L Basabe and P C Seneca.

Popeyes Ramada wins international award

Popeyes Ramada won the Silver Plate Award 2012 for operationally excelling and posi-tively representing the brand’s image and effective use of Popeyes training tools. The

restaurant is evaluated on current and past sales, overall execution of the Popeyes Concept, and lead-ership as demonstrated by the restaurant manager and the team. The 2012 Silver Plate Award winners are: Mohamed Ekram, Brand Operations Manager, Popeyes, and Mahmoud Suleiman, Popeyes Ramada Restaurant Manager.

Representative of Popeyes International, Regional Director Middle East and Africa Maher Khalifa said: “We are proud to work with the International Food Concepts. Honouring them is our way of say-ing thank you for their dedication to the brand and our customers.”

CEO of International Food Concepts, Rajab Al Jabari said: “Popeyes is a new brand in Qatar and we are proud to get worldwide recognition and 2012 Silver Plate Awards. Special appreciation goes to Mohamed Ekram and his team, who strongly believed in the brand and dedicated all efforts to attain high standards.” The Peninsula

FROM LEFT. Rajab Al Jabari, CEO, International Food Concept Company, Mahmoud Suleiman, Popeyes Salwa Road Manager, Richard Lynch, Chief Global Brand Officer, and Mohamed Ekram Mostafa, Brand Operations Manager, during the Silver Plate Award presentation ceremony at Popeyes Ramada Doha, yesterday.

The Shorebase Offshore Support team of the Offshore Asset Department of RasGas

Company Limited (RasGas) recently celebrated a milestone in safety to mark the completion of 16 years with-out a Lost Time Incident and 12 years without a Recordable Incident.

Congratulating the Offshore Asset team at Shorebase for its exceptional

safety achievement, Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi, RasGas Chief Executive Officer, said that the achievement is the result of giving primary importance to safety in all our work.

“At RasGas, safety is more than just part of the job; rather it is a cul-ture and hallmark of all employees.

“To continue for 16 years without

an LTI echoes RasGas’ commitment to deploy the best safety practices and enforce safe working behaviour as a core element of the company’s success in the LNG industry,” he told a special ceremony at Al Waha Club, Al Khor, to mark the occasion.

“All milestones are reminders of our responsibility to maintain the achievement, particularly

when it is in safety, the responsi-bility becomes further significant as maintaining safety standards is not an easy task.

“In fact, it is more difficult to maintain the success than achiev-ing it,” said Hamad Mubarak Al Muhannadi, Chief Operations Officer of RasGas.

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RasGas Shorebase team with other senior company officials.

RasGas Shorebase team celebrates 16 years without a Lost Time Incident

HEALTH 7

Health Tipsfrom DOCTOR

Exercise is bad for back painRegular exercise prevents back pain.

For individuals suffering from back pain, physiotherapists evaluate and may recommend exercise regimes to cure and prevent recurrence.

Bed rest is the best cureOne or two days of bed rest may be

recommended to reduce pressure on the spinal discs and avoid stresses that irritate pain receptors but staying in bed for longer can have adverse effects.

My father/ mother had bad back prob-lems so I’m likely to have it

For the vast majority of conditions related to back pain, there is no genetic predisposition (parents do not pass it to their children).

Always sit up straightSlouching is harmful, but prolonged

sitting up too straight and still can also be strenuous. So take periodic breaks, walk and stretch your back.

Don’t lift heavy objectsIt’s not necessarily how much you

lift, it’s how you lift. (Do not lift any-thing too heavy for you). Ask your therapist to teach you safe lifting techniques.

Once you’ve had back pain you will always have back problems

Each case of back pain has indi-vidual solutions. Consult your thera-pist regarding preventive strategies, postural, ergonomic advice and home programmes to avoid recurrence.

Dr Sunil SamuelPhysiotherapist

Healthspring World Clinic

Misconceptionsexist about back pain. A few myths are:


By Genevra Pittman

One in 15 people undergoing robot-assisted prostate, kidney or bladder surgery develops a nerve injury related to pres-sure from positioning on the operating

table, a new study suggests.Patients on the table getting those types of

robotic surgery need to be tilted steeply — with their head by the floor and their feet in the air — to give the surgeon better traction, researchers explained.

“When somebody is in that position, there’s a chance they could slide down — it’s like a big ramp,” said lead author Dr Tracey Krupski, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.

“When you slide, you then could be pulling, or having the drag on some of the nerves. It’s like a constant pulling on the muscle.”

Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would be taking a closer look into safety reports regarding da Vinci surgical robots, made by Intuitive Surgical. The robots cost about $1.5m each.

For the new study, Krupski and her colleagues reviewed records from 334 robot-assisted urol-ogy procedures done at their institution in 2010 and 2011. Those included prostate, kidney, adrenal gland and bladder surgeries.

Twenty-two patients — between six and seven percent — woke up with a positioning injury after their procedure, including weakness, numbness or immobility in the hands or feet. More than half of the injuries resolved within a month, but five lasted more than six months, the study team reported in The Journal of Urology.

Patients were more likely to be hurt during

longer procedures: Surgeries without a position-ing injury lasted four hours, on average, compared to five and a half hours for those in which a person was injured.

Krupski said the new findings shouldn’t raise the alarm over robotic surgery safety.

“I don’t think it means that we need to stop doing it,” she said. “The benefits of a robotic approach far outweigh the six percent chance that we saw this happen.”

Doctors and nurses can try to prevent the inju-ries by paying close attention to what’s happen-ing to their patients during surgery, she said, and going in to check on their positioning and slightly readjusting them when necessary.

“I think the issue of careful patient position-ing and avoiding nerve injury is something that’s there with every patient,” said Dr Myriam Curet, a surgeon at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Chief Medical Adviser for Intuitive Surgical.

“When you’re putting a patient in a steep posi-tion, those issues are heightened,” she said, adding that some non-robotic surgeries require that type of positioning as well.

“I think it’s part of the discussion that any sur-geon has with their patient about what the risks of surgery are.”

Krupski agreed the most important message from her study is simply making patients aware of the possibility of nerve injury — so they know what’s going on if it does happen to them.

“You tell the patients that, ‘You might tran-siently wake up with one of these things that the vast majority of the time goes away,’” she said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/10ltpD4 The Journal of Urology, online March 4, 2013.

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Robotic surgery tied to temporary nerve injuries

US scientists are developing a blood-cleansing tech-nology to treat

life-threatening blood infec-tions in critically-injured sol-diers and patients.

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Saturday that it has been awarded a $9.25m contract to further advance the blood-cleansing technology developed with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) support, reports Science Daily.

The DARPA has also asked the institute to help

accelerate the technology’s translation to humans as a new type of sepsis therapy.

The device will be used to treat bloodstream infec-tions that are the leading cause of death in critically-ill patients and soldiers injured in combat.

To rapidly cleanse the blood of pathogen, the patient’s blood is mixed with magnetic nano-beads coated with a genetically-engineered version of a human blood “opsonin” protein that binds to a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites, and toxins.

It is then flowed through micro-channels in the device

where magnetic forces pull out the bead-bound patho-gen without removing human blood cells, proteins, fluids, or electrolytes — much like a human spleen does. The cleansed blood then flows back to the patient.

“In just a few years we have been able to develop a suite of new technologies, and to integrate them to create a powerful new device that could potentially transform the way we treat sepsis,” said Wyss Founding Director and Project Leader Don Ingber.

“The continued support from DARPA enables us to advance our device manu-facturing capabilities and to obtain validation in large animal models, which is precisely what is required to enable this technology to be moved towards testing in humans,” Ingber added.

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conceiv

ed y

ears

ago in a

sit

-dow

n w

ith

his

frie

nd R

yan G

osl

ing, w

ho s

tars

in

both

film

s. B

ut

Th

e P

lace

Beyo

nd

th

e

Pin

es

has

the f

eel

of

a n

ot-

quit

e-s

uc-

cessfu

l li

terary adapta

tion

, w

ith

it

s th

ree-p

art,

generati

on-s

pannin

g s

tory

an

d c

arefu

lly o

rchest

rate

d r

ecurrin

g

moti

fs.

Aft

er t

he r

aw

tw

o-c

haracte

r i

nti

-m

acy of

the en

d-o

f-lo

ve sto

ry B

lue

Va

len

tin

e,

Cia

nfr

an

ce

has

cle

arly

decid

ed t

o c

rank i

t up a

notc

h i

n t

he

am

bit

ion d

epartm

ent.

Th

e P

lace

Beyo

nd

th

e P

ines

asp

ires

to b

e n

oth

ing less

than

a G

reek m

yth

transp

ose

d t

o m

odern-

day S

chenecta

dy (

whose

nam

e d

eriv

es

from

a M

ohaw

k w

ord t

hat

transl

ate

s to

the m

ovie

’s t

itle

). I

n t

he inte

rst

ices

betw

een

the t

wo i

nte

rlo

ckin

g f

ath

er/

son

psy

chodram

as

that

make u

p i

ts

main

sto

ry,

Cia

nfr

an

ce c

ram

s m

ult

i-ple

moto

rcycle

chase

s, b

ank r

obberie

s,

teenage d

rug p

arti

es,

and p

olice c

or-

rupti

on s

candals

.W

ith a

ll t

hose

balls

in t

he a

ir,

Th

e

Pla

ce B

eyo

nd

th

e P

ines

was

boun

d t

o

fum

ble

som

ew

here. T

he m

ovie

’s s

oulf

ul

self

-serio

usn

ess

, like t

hat

of

its

liquid

-eyed h

ero,

can

occasi

on

ally s

lip i

nto

se

lf-p

arody.

But

this

movie

con

firm

s m

y B

lue V

ale

nti

ne-b

ase

d s

usp

icio

n t

hat

the 3

8-y

ear-o

ld C

ian

fran

ce i

s on

e t

o

watc

h.

He’s

capable

of

coaxin

g tr

e-

men

dous m

om

en

ts fr

om

acto

rs,

he

know

s how

to m

ove a

cam

era a

nd, as

this

over-l

aden b

ut

never b

orin

g m

ovie

sh

ow

s, h

e’s

willing t

o o

perate

from

a

pla

ce o

f ris

k.

The fi

lm’s

unusu

al

tem

poral

struc-

ture is

perhaps

its

bold

est

gam

bit

, but

it’s

als

o o

ne t

hat

can’t

be d

esc

rib

ed i

n

too m

uch d

eta

il w

ithout

giv

ing a

way

the p

lot.

Rath

er t

han s

et

up h

is m

ul-

tigenerati

onal

story w

ith a

flash

back,

or t

ell it

by inte

rcutt

ing b

etw

een t

ime

fram

es

(the t

echniq

ue h

e u

sed in B

lue

Va

len

tin

e),

Cia

nfr

ance c

hoose

s to

begin

in

the p

ast

and m

ove i

nexorably

for-

ward in t

ime, ju

st lik

e... w

ell, ti

me. T

he

movie

is

div

ided i

nto

three s

egm

ents

of

roughly

equal

length

, th

e fi

rst

tw

o

of

whic

h t

ake p

lace 1

5 y

ears i

n t

he

past

, th

e t

hir

d i

n t

he p

rese

nt

day. A

s w

e m

ove f

rom

one s

tory t

o t

he n

ext,

th

e c

on

sequen

ces o

f on

e c

haracte

r’s

fata

l ch

oic

e reverberate

dow

n th

e

generati

ons.

Gosl

ing p

lays

Luke G

lanto

n,

a l

ux-

uria

ntl

y ta

ttooed m

oto

rcycle

stu

nt

rid

er w

ho p

erfo

rm

s w

ith a

travellin

g

cir

cus.

Tryin

g t

o h

ook u

p w

ith a

gir

l he m

et

in S

chenecta

dy o

n h

is last

trip

th

rough, R

om

ina (

Eva M

endes)

, L

uke

learns

that

the s

on s

he’s

rais

ing w

ith

anoth

er m

an (

Mahersh

ala

Ali)

is b

io-

logic

ally h

is. A

sin

gle

, epic

inst

ance o

f baby-h

old

ing c

lues

Luke in t

o t

he joys

of pate

rnit

y, a

nd h

e s

ets

out

on a

quix

-oti

c,

obse

ssiv

e,

and e

ventu

ally v

iole

nt

quest

to p

rovid

e f

or h

is s

on

an

d w

in

back h

is w

om

an.

Wit

h h

is c

hop-s

hop

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AY

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IL 2

013

HO

LLY

WO

OD

NE

WS

MO

VIE

89

BO

LLY

WO

OD

NE

WS

I lo

st w

eight

for

mys

elf, n

otfo

r fi

lm: K

unal

Roy

Kap

oor

Kun

al

Roy K

apoor,

who s

ports

a m

uch t

rim

med p

hysi

que i

n t

he

prom

os

of

forth

com

ing c

om

edy N

au

tan

ki

Sa

ala

com

pared t

o h

is

overw

eig

ht

appearance i

n D

elh

i B

ell

y, c

larifi

es

that

he l

ost

weig

ht

for h

imse

lf a

nd n

ot

for t

he m

ovie

.“I

had t

o lose

weig

ht

for m

yse

lf. I

was

fat

and I

had t

o look fi

t fo

r m

yse

lf.

I did

n’t

lose

weig

ht

for a

ny fi

lm,” s

aid

the a

cto

r.N

au

tan

ki

Sa

ala

dir

ecto

r R

ohan S

ippy d

idn’t

ask

him

to “

lose

weig

ht”

.“I

felt

, if

I w

ould

look t

he s

am

e a

s I

looked i

n D

elh

i B

ell

y, p

eople

would

ty

pecast

me. I

had t

o g

ain

20 k

ilos

for D

elh

i B

ell

y. I

am

happy n

ow

and I

have a

long w

ay t

o g

o,” h

e a

dded.

While K

unal’s

eld

er b

roth

er S

iddarth

Roy K

apoor is

Managin

g D

irecto

r,

Stu

dio

s, D

isney U

TV

, his

younger b

roth

er A

dit

ya is

an a

cto

r t

oo.

Thanks

to h

is s

iblings

involv

em

ent

in t

he e

nte

rta

inm

ent

indust

ry,

work

-in

g “

gets

easi

er”

, he s

aid

.“W

e d

iscuss

a lot

about

film

s and o

ther s

tuff

. T

hin

gs

get

easy

when y

ou

have a

fam

ily f

rom

the s

am

e fi

eld

.”In

Na

uta

nk

i S

aa

la,

Kunal

has

team

ed u

p w

ith A

yush

mann K

hurrana,

Pooja

Salv

i and E

vely

n S

harm

a. T

he fi

lm is

slate

d f

or a

n A

pril 1

2 r

ele

ase

.

Pol

itic

ians

shou

ld w

atch

Sat

yaka

m: D

har

men

dra

Lam

en

tin

g t

he d

earth

of

good s

tory w

rit

ers

in B

ollyw

ood,

vete

ran

acto

r D

harm

endra, best

know

n f

or h

is p

erfo

rm

ance in t

he N

ati

onal

Aw

ard w

inner S

aty

ak

am

, sa

id t

hat

every p

oliti

cia

n s

hould

watc

h t

he

Hris

hik

esh

Mukherje

e-d

irecte

d 1

969 c

lass

ic.

“I t

hin

k t

ellin

g t

he t

ruth

has

stopped t

oday. In

Sa

tya

ka

m I

told

the t

ruth

and it

was

a v

ery g

ood s

tory. I

thin

k e

very p

oliti

cia

n s

hould

see t

he fi

lm.

“Good fi

lms

are b

ein

g m

ade b

ut

characte

rs

like t

hose

in S

aty

ak

am

and

Ba

nd

ini

are n

o l

onger t

here i

n o

ur c

ountr

y,”

Dharm

endra s

aid

at

a m

edia

confe

rence a

t th

e P

VR

Cin

em

as,

Avani R

iversi

de M

all in H

ow

rah.

Best

know

n for fi

lms

like S

hola

y and S

aty

ak

am

, th

e a

cto

r w

as

in K

olk

ata

prom

oti

ng h

is f

orth

com

ing fi

lm,

San

geeth

Siv

an

’s c

om

edy d

ram

a Y

am

la

Pa

gla

Deew

an

a 2

(Y

PD

2)

— a

sequel to

the o

rig

inal.

“Sto

ry-w

rit

ers

are n

ot

pennin

g s

uch s

torie

s and s

creenpla

ys

are a

lso n

ot

like t

hat

of

earlier d

ays.

I w

ould

be g

rate

ful to

you p

eople

if

you c

an g

et

me

som

e g

ood w

rit

er lik

e t

hat

and w

hic

h s

uit

s to

day’s p

eople

,” s

aid

Dharm

endra.

YP

D2 s

late

d t

o r

ele

ase

June 7

, st

ars

Dharm

endra w

ith h

is s

ons

Sunny

Deol and B

obby D

eol in

the lead. G

ivin

g t

hem

com

pany o

n-s

creen a

re lead-

ing ladie

s N

eha S

harm

a a

nd d

ebuta

nt

Kris

tina A

kheeva.

Agreein

g w

ith h

is f

ath

er,

Sunny D

eol, c

rit

ically-a

ccla

imed f

or fi

lms

like

Arj

un a

nd G

ha

yal sa

id”

“We d

o n

ot

have t

hose

kin

d o

f dir

ecto

rs

and t

here

are just

a h

andfu

l of

them

.“O

bvio

usl

y I

ndia

n c

inem

a i

s a r

eflecti

on o

f th

e c

ountr

y s

o w

hate

ver’s

is

happenin

g a

round is

basi

cally w

hat

is s

een in t

he c

inem

a. W

e w

ant

to e

nte

r-

tain

and w

e c

an o

nly

giv

e w

hat

people

want

and t

hat’s

what’s

happenin

g.

“So if people

desi

re for s

om

eth

ing g

ood a

nd if th

ere a

re w

rit

ers

out

there

who w

ant

to g

et

deep-r

oote

d i

nto

the c

ountr

y o

bvio

usl

y w

e w

ould

make

those

film

s and I

would

love t

o t

hem

,” h

e a

dded.

Tim

ber

lake

sen

ds

fans

on t

reas

ure

hunt

Sin

ger-a

cto

r J

ust

in T

imberla

ke h

as

sent

fans

on a

specia

l tr

easu

re

hunt

to t

hank t

hem

for s

endin

g h

is n

ew

alb

um

to t

he t

op o

f th

e U

S

charts

.H

e d

ecid

ed t

o t

reat

devote

es

by h

idin

g a

handfu

l of auto

graphed r

ecords

around t

he U

S.

Tim

berla

ke t

ops

Billb

oard C

harts

in t

he U

S a

fter t

he s

ale

s figure o

f his

com

eback a

lbum

Th

e 2

0/20 E

xp

eri

en

ce r

eached t

he 9

68,0

00-m

ark

, reports

dailyst

ar.

co.u

k.

Announcin

g t

he c

om

peti

tion o

n T

wit

ter,

he p

ost

ed: “I

t’s

Frid

ay a

nd I

ain

’t g

ot

anyth

ing t

o d

o! S

o I

pla

ced 5

sig

ned v

inyls

around t

he c

ountr

y!

Sta

y t

uned fi

nders

keepers.

”H

e t

hen u

plo

aded a

trio

of photo

clu

es

on I

nst

agram

alo

ngsi

de t

he c

ap-

tion: “C

om

e fi

nd it

NY

C!”

He f

ollow

ed i

t up w

ith s

imilar h

ints

about

priz

es

in c

itie

s, i

nclu

din

g

Chic

ago, Il

linois

and h

is n

ati

ve M

em

phis

, T

enness

ee.

Did

Bie

ber

spit

on n

eighbou

r?

It se

em

s contr

oversi

es

and J

ust

in B

ieber g

o h

and i

n h

and. T

he s

inger

reporte

dly

faces

legal acti

on f

or a

llegedly

spit

ting o

n h

is n

eig

hbour.

Bie

ber is

alleged t

o h

ave s

pat

on h

is n

eig

hbour o

uts

ide h

is C

alifo

rnia

hom

e.

TM

Z.c

om

reports

that

accordin

g t

o law

enfo

rcem

ent

sources,

Sherrif

’s

invest

igato

rs

will

refe

r t

he c

ase

to t

he L

A C

ounty

Dis

tric

t A

ttorney f

or

revie

w a

fter t

he invest

igati

on is

com

ple

ted, and t

hey w

ill recom

mend t

hat

crim

inal batt

ery c

harges

be fi

led a

gain

st t

he s

inger.

Offi

cia

lly,

the S

herif

f’s

Departm

ent

say t

hey h

ave n

o r

ecom

mendati

on

yet

because

the invest

igati

on is

not

com

ple

te.

How

ever,

sources

say a

cle

ar p

ictu

re h

as

alr

eady e

merged, and n

ot

just

over t

he a

lleged s

pit

ting incid

ent.

The D

epartm

ent

believe it’s

rele

vant

that

Bie

ber h

as

show

n a

patt

ern o

f dis

regard f

or t

he l

aw

, in

clu

din

g s

peedin

g t

ickets

, fights

, th

reats

, reckle

ss

driv

ing, drugs

and m

ore.

Cher

yl, V

icto

ria

bes

t fr

iends

agai

n?

Fash

ion

desi

gn

er V

icto

ria

Beckham

an

d s

inger C

heryl

Cole

have

reporte

dly

burie

d t

he h

atc

het

an

d b

ecom

e f

rie

nds

again

. T

heir

fr

iendsh

ip f

ell a

part

when V

icto

ria

did

not

stand b

y C

heryl

when

she w

as

cheate

d b

y e

x-h

usb

and A

shle

y C

ole

in 2

010

.H

ow

ever,

thin

gs

seem

to h

ave c

hanged n

ow

, reports

dailyst

ar.

co.u

k.

“Posh

has

off

ered C

heryl an o

live b

ranch s

ince m

ovin

g b

ack t

o L

ondon.

She e

-mailed invit

ing h

er a

nd b

oyfr

iend T

re t

o d

inner a

nd C

heryl accepte

d,”

a s

ource s

aid

.“A

lot

of ti

me h

as

pass

ed s

ince t

hey fell o

ut

and t

hey b

oth

want

to m

ove

on,” t

he s

ource a

dded.

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ND

AY

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IL 2

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Pine

s is

mes

sy, a

mbi

tious

DESIGNPLUS | MONDAY 1 APRIL 201310

By Jura Koncius

The reign of the trophy kitchen is officially over. The dream kitchens of today aren’t about six-burner range or the most exotic countertop material. As cooking has returned to center stage and remod-

elling budgets have sobered, the kitchen island is nurturing family togetherness and reviving casual entertaining.

In kitchens with a small footprint, glass tiles, quartz counters and dish drawers are adding spar-kle and practicality. The kitchen of 2013 has soul.

“That industrial, commercial style was looking a little cold,” says Samantha Emmerling, Kitchen Editor at Hearst Design Group. “People are spending all their time in there, and they want it warm and inviting, as well as low-maintenance.”

Designers say the look today is less tradition, more transition. Clients are choosing more modern touches such as white or gray cabinets, gray walls and neu-tral quartz counters, individualised with different textures and touches of colour.

“Ten years ago, everyone showed up with the same photos of what they wanted,” says Paul Lobkovich, an architect and kitchen designer at Lobkovich Kitchen Designs in Virginia. “Now people are much more cre-ative. They’ve seen plenty of TV shows and scoured websites. They have a Pinterest board full of stuff they like. This gives people a wide range of unique looks. And it makes it more exciting for us designers.”

Yes, the kitchen is still the most obsessed-about room in the house, but it’s clear homeowners want more than just trends. They are seeking a calming space that makes them happy. “Lately it’s been less the kind of stars-in-the-eyes approach and a bit more practical with a simplified aesthetic,” says designer Eric Lieberknecht, who owns a kitchen design firm in Alexandria, Virginia. “People have a wide port-folio of things they want, and not just what their neighbour has.”

Nadia Subaran, Senior Designer at Aidan Design, calls the design direction “modern cottage.” “It’s not stark modern design,” Subaran says. “It has natural materials, textures and layering, with lots of whites and grays. There is nothing fussy or frou-frou about it.” Although stainless still reigns, there is growing interest in white ranges and refrigerators in a new glossy finish, as well as soapstone countertops and floating shelves.

“People are really looking to make the most of their space. They want practical and functional,” says Liza Hausman, a Vice President at Houzz, a home design website and mobile app.

Virginia designer Shazalynn Cavin-Winfrey calls her own family kitchen, done in shades of gray, “an interactive galley style.” Her two kids hang out on the slip covered benches at the mother-of-pearl counter as she cooks breakfast or packs lunches. Two wood table lamps make it cozy.

The 2013 member survey by the National Kitchen & Bath Association identified a menu of some of today’s top style choices in kitchens. Here is insider information on seven of them:

1. WHITE PAINTED CABINETSThe choice of cabinets is arguably the most impor-

tant decision when redoing a kitchen. The selec-tion sets the look. In the National Kitchen & Bath Association survey, 67 percent of respondents said that white was their first choice for cabinetry, a jump

of 20 percentage points in the past two years. “Over the years, white is always a popular colour and there are times it is the No 1 colour,” says John Morgan, president of the association and owner of kitchen products supplier Morgan Pinnacle in Glyndon, Maryland. “I would say that white and dark cherry are both timeless.”

2. QUARTZ COUNTERSConsumers are demanding products that are easy

to care for, including quartz counter surfaces such as Caesarstone and Silestone. These durable products are made of about 90 percent natural quartz mixed with pigments, polymers and resins. They require no special maintenance. Silestone produces 70 colours in polished or matte finish and contains an antimi-crobial agent. According to Lorenzo Marquez, Vice President of marketing for Cosentino North America, Silestone’s parent company, the most popular colours right now are white and gray.

“It’s a pretty honest material, and it functions so nicely,” says Washington designer Paul Sherrill of Solis Betancourt & Sherrill. “If you don’t have a tolerance for natural stone and what it’s going to do over time, go for it.”

3. MANY SHADES OF GRAYGray seems to be the colour of the moment.

Although white and off-white are still the top colo-urs, grays are showing up on cabinets, counters and walls. Gray is another neutral that can be paired with many accent colours and looks chic and modern, whether a driftwood gray wood finish or glossy gray coating.

Colour consultant Jean Molesworth Kee of the Painted Room says, “I’m seeing a lot of quick redos where they are painting old wood cabinets a light gray and totally getting rid of anything Tuscan red or yellow.” But she cautions against gray overload. “If there is too much gray, it can look really chilly and depressing. You’ll think you are stirring your pot in an operating room. You need a lot of white to balance it out.”

4. LED LIGHTINGMore and more remodelled kitchens now have

LED lighting, especially below cabinets. LED bulbs are more efficient and generate little heat. “We are

doing a lot of LED under-cabinet lighting,” says Larry Rosen, owner of Jack Rosen Custom Kitchens in Maryland. “Halogen and Xenon lighting actually burn very hot. If you accidentally touch a bulb, you can burn yourself. LED is more expensive, but they save on electricity, are cool and last a really long time.”

5. ELECTRONIC FAUCETS“When people renovate their kitchen, it’s not

just functionality and beauty,” says Houzz’s Liza Hausman. “They are thinking about how to include the latest technology.” One of these new toys is the tricked-out faucet. Both touch-activated faucets and hands-free faucets are beginning to appear in kitchen remodelling contracts. According to Tom Tylicki, Moen’s Senior Product Manager for kitchen, the Moen MotionSense hands-free faucet responds to consumers’ kitchen work styles and helps prevent the spread of germs. It’s also a good choice for gardeners whose hands are frequently covered in dirt.

6. SATIN NICKEL FINISHES“Satin nickel is the new oiled bronze,” Sherrill

says. For him, the matte nickel finish reflects the increasingly modernist kitchen look.

The survey found that polished nickel and polished chrome were less requested than last year, and the duller finish was growing in popularity. Some desig-ners feel that this finish best complements stainless steel appliances; others say the gray metal colour sets off gray cabinets, counters and walls.

7. GLASS BACKSPLASHESGlass tiles are the jewellery of a kitchen for inte-

rior designer Tynesia Hand-Smith. “They add great shimmer,” she says.

With neutral colours ruling in cabinets and coun-ters, glass tile is one way to add colour and per-sonality. “Reds, greens and blues, vibrant colours are trending right now, as is iridescent glass,” says DeeDee Gundberg, an Ann Sacks Tile Product Development Manager. Instead of using the ubi-quitous white subway tile backsplash, she suggests substituting new large-format glass tile in a similar shape. “Light blue glass tiles are still very traditional with white cabinets but look very fresh,” Gundberg adds. WP-Bloomberg

The kitchen 2013The kitch

11SCIENCE PLUS | MONDAY 1 APRIL 2013

Pictures: European Space Agency,NASA, AFP/Getty Images

© GRAPHIC NEWS

Observations of Cosmic MicrowaveBackground (CMB) radiation – theafterglow of the Big Bang itself –reveal that the newborn universeinflated a trillion trillion trillion timeswithin the blink of an eye.�� Plank space telescope alsoshows there is less of theperplexing dark energy andmore dark matter in the universethan previously known

Oldest light: Universe is about80 million years older thanpreviously thought

Big Bang: In a searing fireballwith temperature of 1032 degreesKelvin, or 100,000 billion billionbillion degrees, universe expandsfaster than speed of light

One second later: Temperature falls to 10 billiondegrees. Atomic nuclei form

100 seconds later:Temperature falls to 1 billiondegrees. Fundamental particlesand radiation are linked together

380,000 years after Big Bang:Temperature falls to 3,000 degrees.Atoms of hydrogen formed.Radiation and matter travelfreely for first time – CMBradiation is released, preservingrecord back to this time

Dark Ages: Stars have notyet been born – there is no otherlight except CMB afterglow

200 million yearsafter Big Bang: Firststars and galaxiesform

Nine billion yearsafter Big Bang: OurSun is formed fromcollapse of cloudof gas and dust inthe Milky Waygalaxy. 500 millionyears later Earthis formed fromleftovers

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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | MONDAY 1 APRIL 201312

By Derrik J Lang

It’s back. The virtual reality head-set, the gizmo that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable

return at this year’s Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering of video game makers in San Francisco.

After drumming up hype over the past year and banking $2.4m from crowdfunding, the Irvine, California-based company Oculus VR captured the conference’s attention this week with the Oculus Rift, its VR headset that’s more like a pair of ski goggles than those bulky gaming helmets of the 1990s that usually left users with headaches.

“Developers who start working on VR games now are going to be able to do cool things,” said Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. “This is the first time when the technology, software, com-munity and rendering power is all really there.”

While VR technology has success-fully been employed in recent years for military and medical training pur-poses, it’s been too expensive, clunky or just plain bad for most at-home gamers. Oculus VR’s headset is armed with stereoscopic 3-D, low-latency head tracking and a 110-degree field of view, and the company expects it to cost just a few hundred bucks.

A line at the conference snaked around the expo floor with attendees waiting for a chance to plop the glasses on their head and play a few minutes of “Hawken,” an upcoming first-person

shooter that puts players inside levitat-ing war machines.

Attendance was also at capacity for a talk called “Virtual Reality: The Holy Grail of Gaming” led by Luckey. When he asked the crowd who’d ordered development prototypes of the technol-ogy, dozens of hands shot into the air.

“There’s been a lot of promise over several decades with the VR helmet idea, but I think a lot of us feel like Oculus and other devices like it are starting to get it right,” said Simon Carless, Executive Vice-President at UBM Tech Game Network, which organises the Game Developers Conference. “We may have a com-petitive and interesting-to-use device, which you could strap to your head and have really immersive gaming as a result.”

Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp are reportedly working on similar peripherals, as are other companies. Luckey contends that the innova-tions Nintendo Co made with its Wii U, Sony is planning with its upcoming PlayStation 4, and Microsoft is likely tinkering with for its successor to the

Xbox 360 don’t seem like enough.“We’re seeing better graphics and

social networks, but those aren’t things that are going to fundamentally change the kind of experiences that gamers can have,” said Luckey.

A growing list of high-profile game makers have sung the device’s praises, including Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, “Minecraft” mastermind Markus Persson, id Software’s John Carmack, “Gears of War” chief Cliff Bleszinski and Valve boss Gabe Newell.

Valve is planning to release a VR ver-sion of its first-person shooter “Team Fortress 2” for the Rift, but Luckey is hoping that designers in attendance at this week’s conference begin creating games especially for the doodad.

“The doors are already open,” noted Luckey. “People are already telling us things they want to do with the Rift that they can’t do with traditional games.”

Luckey said prototype versions of the technology are being distributed to developers now, and he anticipates releasing a version for consumers by next year. AP

Virtual reality, gogglesand all, attempts return

(iOS apps)

PETTING ZOO BY CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (£1.49)

There’s only one word for this animated animals children’s app: Delightful. Created by author and illustrator Christopher Niemann, it’s a collection of hand-drawn animals for kids to interact with through swipes and taps, and is fizzing with character, craft and humour. iPhone / iPad

YOGIFY (FREE)Yogify is a mobile yoga app aimed

at beginners and veterans alike, with more than 50 classes and 275 yoga poses to practise. Photos, audio instructions and social features aim to get you bending and stretching just so, with the classes sold as in-app purchases. The publisher may be a surprise too: Games firm EA. iPhone

SNOOP LION’S REINCARNATED — TRACK NOTES APP (FREE)

This is an advance promotion for the new album from Snoop Lion (formerly Dogg). Aiming to offer the tablet equivalent of liner notes for vinyl albums, it offers songs, vid-eos and notes on Snoop’s inspira-tion for his career pivot into reggae. iPad

SOLITAIRE BLITZ (FREE)PopCap Games — now a sub-

sidiary of yoga giant EA — had big hits with Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled Blitz on the App Store. Solitaire Blitz is cut from the same cloth as the latter, boiling the famil-iar card game down into 60-second rounds, with Facebook connectiv-ity enabling players to challenge friends. In-app purchases push the action along if desired. iPhone / iPad

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR & FRIENDS STICKERBOOK (£0.69)

If you missed the annual Very Hungry Caterpillar Day (yes, it’s a real thing) this app may be a good way to belatedly celebrate. Based on Eric Carle’s famous children’s book, it presents kids with five scenes to decorate with 57 digital stickers of characters and items from the book — as well as other Carle titles full of creepy-crawlies. iPhone / iPad

COUCH MUSIC PLAYER (£1.49)

If you’re using your iPad lots to play songs from your iTunes col-lection, Couch Music Player is well worth a look as an alternative to Apple’s default Music app. Designed for sofa usage, it helps you swipe songs into queues and slider-bar your way through tracks. Good for solo use and house parties alike. iPad

By Stuart Dredge

Apps for the day

While VR technology has successfully been employed in recent years for military and medical training purposes, it’s been too expensive, clunky or just plain bad for most at-home gamers. Oculus VR’s headset is armed with stereoscopic 3-D, low-latency head tracking and a 110-degree field of view, and the company expects it to cost just a few hundred bucks.

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaApril 1, 1999

1927: The first gramophone to change records automatically went on sale2001: The Netherlands introduced a law giving same-sex marriages full legal parity as heterosexual couples 2003: All residents of a housing complex in Hong Kong were evacuated when over 200 developed SARS 2012: Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in Myanmar’s parliament, having been released from 20 years house arrest in 2010

A new territory, Nunavut, meaning “our land”, was created in northern Canada to provide autonomy for the Inuit people. It is the largest territory of Canada

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

BLIZZARD, BREEZE, CHINOOK, CIRROCUMULUS, CIRROSTRATUS,CIRRUS, CLOUDY, COLD, CUMULONIMBUS, CUMULUS, CYCLONE,DOLDRUMS, DRIZZLE, DRY, FAIR, FOG, FREEZING, FROST, HAIL,HARMATTAN, HEATWAVE, HOT, HUMID, HURRICANE, LIGHTNING,MILD, MIST, MISTRAL, MONSOON, NIMBUS, OVERCAST,PRECIPITATION, RAIN, SHOWER, SIROCCO, SLEET, SLUSH,SNOW, STORM, STRATUS, SUNSHINE, THUNDER, TORNADO,TYPHOON, WIND, ZEPHYR.

Baby Blues Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible Chris Browne

LEARNARABIC

A group of useful verbs

Kataba Wrote

Zhahaba + Ila Gone + to Remark: Some verbs are always followed by prepositions, such as Ila which means: to, min, means from...etc

Shariba Drunk

Akala Eat

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HYPER SUDOKU

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How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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ACROSS 1 Veers quickly 5 Be aware of 9 Breakfast cereal with

a propeller-headed alien on the front of the box

14 “Mmm-hmm”15 Part of a foot16 Before17 One sharing an

apartment19 Rhône feeder20 Daddy Warbucks’s

henchman21 “Chow down!”23 Eastern dance-drama26 City near Vance Air

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airport 6 Sight-seeing grp.? 7 Calendar mo. 8 Marine snail 9 Give out10 Opened11 Coast-to-coast route,

informally12 Phone voice?13 Stated one’s case18 Ones on top of the

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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 SUDOKUEasy 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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Zaragoza V Real

Madrid

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Round Replay

Chelsea V

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United

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News

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18:45 This Is Paris

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Leeds V Derby

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Miami

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QF RADIO 91.7 FM ENGLISH PROGRAMME BRIEF LIVE SHOWS Airing

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7:00 – 9:00 AM

Rise, a LIVE 2-hour morning show hosted and produced by Scott Boyes. It discusses a wide array of topics from Weather, News, Health tips, Sports News and interactive bits with the callers.

On the program, Scott speaks with Dr. Patrick Meier, Director of Social Innovation at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. He will be filling us in on the topic of his talk this coming Wednesday at Tornado Tower, and explain why human computing and artificial intelligence are key to developing the next generation of humanitarian technologies.

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FASHION 6:00 – 7:00 PM

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If you want your events featured here, mail details to [email protected]

Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport When: March 7-Jun 16 Monday–Thursday, Saturday: 9am-8pmFriday; 3pm-9pm (Sunday closed)Where: QMA Gallery, Bldg 10 What: The Qatar Museums Authority will exhibit ‘Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport’ at QMA Gallery in Katara Cultural Village. The exhibition was first held in London during the 2012 Olympic Games. The exhibit originated in Qatar, beginning at the Arab Games’ Athletes Village in December 2011, where photographer Brigitte and documentary filmmaker Marian Lacombe set up an outdoor studio, working with female athletes. They then travelled to 20 Arab countries from the Gulf to North Africa, documenting images and videos of 70 Arab sportswomen. Free entry

“Paper Trail” Works from the Collection of the Barjeel Art FoundationWhen: Until April 20; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Cultural Village, Bldg 22

What: A curated exhibition by Barjeel Art Foundation featuring selected works from the collection of Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi. The exhibition interrogates ideas of what is ‘real’ in ways that highlight how histories are guided by carefully selected narratives that apply meaning to what we see and hear.There will be an extensive educational program and visiting artists talks complementing this exhibition Free entry

Designed To WinWhen: Until June 23; 10am-10pm Where: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: Katara Exhibition in Collaboration with the Design Museum in London.Designed to Win celebrates ways in which design and sport are combined, pushing the limits of human endeavour to achieve records and victories of increasing significance and wonder. There will be an extensive educational programme and visiting artists’ talks complementing the expo.

A Bridge to the MoonWhen: Until April 27; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Gallery 2 - Bldg 18 What: Amal Al Aathem is one of the most prominent and proactive Qatari artists today, her reputation as a Qatari artist with a real voice and message has won her respect internationally. Her work has been widely exhibited in the region and in different parts of the world. Al Aathem believes that old philosophies have linked the moon, nature and the woman in a symbolic way, believing that the moon is the centre of the universe and the woman is thecentre of society.

Events in Qatar MEDIA SCAN

• People were asking for strict inspections of beauty salons and barber’s shops to ensure they comply with hygiene requirements to protect the health of residents and citizens.

• There were talks about the opening of Hamad International Airport and the Qatar Airways’ plane that was the first international flight that landed there.

• People were discussing a decision by the Ministry of Labour to give 10 free visas called “temporary visa” to outstanding manpower agencies.

• Some people demanded beaches with facilities, saying many public beaches lacked facilities such cafeterias, toilets, and shelters.

• People were surprised that some of the traffic department offices allow the use of “transparent film” while others don’t.

• There were talks about the Career Fair, with many people stressing the need for it to provide real opportunities and not just use the event to promote companies.

• Some citizens stressed that the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Development should attract Qatari engineers by providing financial and other incentives.

• There were discussions in the social media about the committee drafting the human resources law which has added increased transportation and residential allowances for employees and retirees.

• The social media was abuzz with talks about a press statement given by one of the officials in charge of the Career Fair in which he said fake job vacancies will be monitored.

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

IN FOCUS

A view of Souq Waqif.

by Zhou Tong

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Freezing weather wipes out German flea circus

An entire troupe of perform-ing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing tempera-

tures currently gripping Germany.Flea circus director Robert

Birk says he was shocked to find all of his 300 fleas dead inside their transport box Wednesday morning.

The circus immediately scram-bled to find and train a new batch so it could fulfill its engagements at an open-air fair in the western town of Mechernich-Kommern.

Michael Faber, who organizes the fair said that an insect expert at a nearby university was able to provide 50 fleas in time for the first show on Sunday.

Faber says he hopes they’ll “get through this without any more fatalities.”

Birk said it was the first time his circus had lost all of its fleas to the cold in one go.

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