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The megalopolis of Chongqing is seeking national and ultimately global recognition for its hot pot.

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CHONGQING:CHONGQING:China’s Hot Pot CityChina’s Hot Pot City

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by carol huang

Thousands of vats of hot pot seasoning thicken the air around Nie Ganru’s home with a miasma of chilli as

flame-red paste, thick with oil, bakes in the sun.

Nie lives and effectively breathes hot pot, the spicy cook-it-yourself communal Chinese meal that made his fortune, and has built a pot-shaped six-storey museum dedicated to the dish.

Now his home town, the megalopo-lis of Chongqing, is seeking national and ultimately global recognition for the food.

“It’s numbing, it’s hot, it’s very fla-vourful, it has an aroma that hits you in the face, and that’s why everybody

likes it,” says the 70-year-old tycoon, who eats it about every other day.

Seated at a wooden table crowded with dipping options, Nie plunks cap-sules of duck blood into a simmering broth teeming with oil, chillies and hot and numbing Szechuan peppers. Others ladle out oil-coated slices of lotus root and cool their tongues with pickled vegetables.

“Everyone gathers around a table to eat and it’s harmonious, it’s lively, it’s warm – it’s a great environment,” he says.

The museum houses hundreds of pots Nie has collected over more than a decade, including one supposedly used in the palace of the Qing dynasty Qianlong Emperor in the 1700s and another dating to the Western Zhou dynasty of 1046 to 771 BCE.

Dish of distinction: Bubbling ambitions in China’s ‘hot pot city’

Hot pot tycoon Nie Ganru with some of his collection at his hot pot museum and factory in Chongqing.

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Emperors and ConfuciusHot pot originated a century ago as

a low-brow meal for peasants squatting by the river to cook ox tripe and other offal, but has since followed China into prosperity.

The first restaurant opened in the 1930s and the meal’s popularity spread when Chongqing became China’s capi-tal during World War II, drawing the displaced from around the country.

As China’s economy exploded in recent decades, hot pot too has boomed, with other regions offering different varieties and upscale venues serving delicacies such as fatty mutton slices, rabbit kidney, prawns and mushrooms.

By Nie’s telling, hot pot also played a starring role in modern Chinese history.

Communist leader Mao Zedong shared the meal with Nationalist rival Chiang Kai-shek before ousting him in civil war in 1949, his exhibits show.

Another mural depicts paramount leader Deng Xiaoping treating officials to hot pot in the late 1970s while strat-egising the Reform and Opening over-haul that would transform the country.

Yet competition for a place on the national list of “intangible cultural her-itage” is tough in a huge country with a rich culinary tradition.

Only a handful of its more than 1,200 entries are foods, each heavy with his-tory – dishes served in the residences of emperors and the sage Confucius, salt from the ancient Zigong wells and a rice dumpling brand dating back to the 1800s.

Good for the bodyChongqing – which was split out of

the more culinarily renowned province of Sichuan in 1997 – is just one of many locales trying to cook up attention by winning recognition for native dishes, says Fuchsia Dunlop, a Chinese food expert and author of Shark’s Fin And Sichuan Pepper.

“Certainly the Chongqing hot pot is very distinctive and hugely popular,” says Dunlop. “The entire surface of the pot is covered with these spices ... it will really blow your head off.”

But, she adds, “If you start trying to label things, intangible cultural herit-age in China, where do you stop? It’s

such a rich and wonderful culinary cul-ture and there are so many dishes that go back centuries.”

So far Chongqing has managed to get itself christened “China’s hot pot city” in 2007 by the China Cuisine Association.

It has added hot pot to its own cata-logue of intangible cultural heritage, which boasts 278 entries – although half the country’s provinces have com-piled even longer lists.

The Chongqing Hot Pot Association, which applied for national recognition, also aspires to someday join Unesco’s global list – which only features a few

food entries, including a set of cuisine customs called washoku from China’s longtime rival Japan, but none from China.

“Eating hot pot makes you feel hot, and this can be good for the body,” says 20-year-old Chongqing resident Li Yao. “It helps you sweat.”

Doctor Zhang Jingnan, 44, also loves the meal but admits overindulging is unwise. “From a health point of view it’s not very good,” she says, gathered with her family around a bubbling vat and bowls of rice.

Still, she adds, “I don’t think I could live without hot pot.” AFP

Hot pot originated a century ago as a low-brow meal for peasants squatting by the river to cook ox tripe and other offal, but has since followed China into prosperity.

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Compass International School, Al Khor, marked ‘Culture and Creativity Week’ and International Day of Happiness last week. To celebrate this occasion, each class chose a country on which they focused their learning throughout the week. The learners immersed themselves in learning about this country; its cul-ture, language, history and its geography. CISAK celebrated International Day of Happiness with the learners dressing in the traditional dress of their home country. An International Market was set up in the school’s gym to showcase what each class had learnt during the week. The learners were able to browse among their fellow schoolmates’ work and displays, enjoy diverse food and discuss their new-found knowledge.

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Best Buddies Qatar holds skating classes

Best Buddies Qatar (BBQ) held a sport activ-ity “I and My Buddy Skating” as a part of its social integration mission for people with

intellectual challenges at the City Center recently.“I and My Buddy Skating” started in December

2013 with weekly skating classes for its members at the City Center. It will continue till May 2014 and will help the students to explore their physical abilities better.

The participants were students between the age 8 and 21-year-old from the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs and also students from Bin Khaldoun Preparatory Independent School, Nasser Bin Abdullah Al Attiyah Independent Secondary School, Omar Bin Abdulaziz Independent Secondary School.

Ali Gholoom, Head of Public Relations and Media Department at BBQ, noted that it was a day for celebrating the efforts of intellectually challenged students who had been practicing skating since December, and the sport activities are one of the key factors in their social integration.

Mohammad Al Sada, General Manager of the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, highlighted that Best Buddies Qatar take care of Children in Shafallah Center and it is a link between them and society.

He added: “These kids have the rights and we need to help them. And the government gives great support”.

Khalid Abu Romman, Special Needs Department Specialist at Best Buddies Qatar explained: ”All com-munity members, regardless of their disabilities, have the right to fully participate in society and obtain all kind of necessary support that each person with intellectual challenge can live, learn, work and play along with persons without disabilities.”

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Collaborative marine research cruise supported by RV Janan

Qatar University’s marine research vessel RV Janan was part of a recent col-

laborative research cruise involving a team of marine scientists from the Environmental Studies Center (ESC) and Bangor University UK to study the ecology of marine habitats in Qatar’s offshore waters.

The ESC team comprising Dr Ibrahim Al Maslamani, Dr Ibrahim Al Ansari, Dr Mohsen Al Ansi and Ismail Al Shaikh was joined by the Bangor team led by Dr Lewis Le Vay to collect images of seabed habitat, as well as samples of marine organisms and oceanographic data, with the aim of developing a better understanding of the links between the Gulf waters and the seabed below.

Using specially-designed camera gear, the team focused on oyster reefs about 20-30 miles offshore from Doha, which are shallow and highly productive areas that support diverse marine life and that are also fishing grounds of traditional and cultural importance.

Dr Al Maslamani said: “This

cruise came as part of an ongoing partnership in the marine sciences and research between the two uni-versities in an agreement signed in 2012. RV Janan is well-equipped to carry out these critical investiga-tions that will uncover data that will assist in the formulation of national environmental policies in line with objectives detailed in the National Vision 2030 and the development strategies”. The Peninsula

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Qatar Petroleum’s Industrial Cities Directorate recently marked this year’s celebration

of the Qatar Tree Week by organizing a variety of activities in both Mesaieed and Ras Laffan. The first celebration took place in Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC) in the presence of Dr Sheikh Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani, Director of General Administration of Agricultural Researches and Development at the Ministry of Environment, Adel Esmael Rahimi, Acting Manager of MIC, and

other representatives from the minis-try, QP, as well as from the community schools in MIC.

“QP Industrial Cities and its busi-ness partners are committed to Qatar National Vision 2030 with its four pil-lars that include protecting the envi-ronment and maintaining the natural balance by achieving a comprehensive and sustainable development for all generations,” said Rahimi.

Dr Al Thani thanked QP Industrial Cities for its contribution to the “Tree

Week” and its support for this noble initiative.

The second celebration of the Tree Week was held in Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLC), and it saw the participation of representatives from the Ministry of Environment and QP Industrial Cities, along with students and staff from northeastern commu-nity schools. The event took place at RLC’s conservation area, and it was marked by speeches, a tree planting activity, and student performances

revolving around the theme of the day.Salman Fahad Al Mohanadi, a spe-

cialist on marine biodiversity, said: “The National Tree Day is a Qatari environmental initiative aimed at pro-moting the planting of native trees and plants by communities. QP’s Industrial Cities Directorate is proud to be a partner of today’s event as we main-tain our partnership with the Ministry of Environment and with neighboring communities for many years now.”

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QP Industrial Cities marks ‘Tree Week’ in Ras Laffan and Mesaieed

The Light second module releasedThe Light is a mass Quran Learning programme in English run by the Quran Learning

School of Qatar Indian Islahi Centre. It is based on the English translation of the famous Quran thafsir (interpretation) by Ibn Kathir. The entire Quran is divided into 20 modules published every two months. More information available on 55221797 or 3310667

Qatar Natural History Group meeting

Today at 7pm, Qatar Natural History Group (QNHG) will hold its monthly meeting at the Doha English Speaking School. The guest speaker will be Dr Robert Carter,

archaeologist and historian, Senior Lecturer in the Archaeology of the Arab World at UCL Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Education City, Doha. His talk is entitled “The Origins of Doha Project”. The event is open to new members. QNHG membership facili-tates participation in archaeological and geological field trips. Further details available on on www.qnhg.org

Kareem Abdulla, President of ICBF, was felicitated after receiving the Award for the best Social and Humanitarian Worker from Qatar by Media One TV Channel. From left: Santosh Manikantan, Secretary, ICBF, Baby Kurian, Vice President, ICBF, Kareem Abdulla, Thomas Kurian, President, Fota, K K Shankaran, General Secretary, Samskriti, and Jiji John, General Secretary, Fota.

Huawei and representatives of the Toastmasters fraternity in Qatar signed a Memorandum

of Understanding on Monday to sup-port Toastmasters Annual Conference - Qatar 2014. The highest level of Public Speaking Championship for Toastmasters in Qatar (Division E), will be held on April 25 at the AI Dostur Hall, Dukhan and on April 26 at the Grand Hyatt Doha.

Ghassan Abu Asba, Director of Enterprise Business for Qatar and Kuwait markets at Huawei, said: ‘At Huawei we feel it is incredibly important to support the communities in which we operate and help further commu-nication in all its forms. With that in mind we wholeheartedly endorse the Toastmasters activities around commu-nication and leadership, which resonates with our own core values as a brand.’

Saquib Raza Khan, Division Governor for Toastmasters in Qatar,

said, ‘We could not have asked for a better partnership. It makes perfect sense to have an information and com-munication technology giant standing up for an institution that promotes communication and leadership.’

Nasimudheen Abdul Hameed, Chairman of the TAC-Q 2014 Organizing Committee, said: “With the help of Huawei the magnitude of the Toastmasters Annual Conference Qatar 2014 will be enormous. It is a great opportunity to witness the creme de la creme orators of Qatar”.

One of the highlight of the Annual Conference will be the key note address by the Year 2007 world champion of public speaking Vikas Jhingran. The winners from the TAC-Q-2014 Championship will represent Qatar at the district level (comprising seven countries in the Middle East). For more information visit tacq2014.com.

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Huawei joins hands Huawei joins hands with Toastmasterswith Toastmasters

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GE appoints UAE national as President and CEO of GE Gulf

GE has appointed UAE national Dalya Al Muthanna (pictured) as President and CEO of GE

Gulf, reporting to Nabil Habayeb, GE’s President and Chief Executive Officer for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

The first Emirati to be appointed to the senior leadership position, Dalya will be responsible for developing GE’s busi-ness strategy for the Gulf region, lead-ing growth and driving cross business selling across the company’s diverse portfolio.

Also mandated with overall strategic positioning of GE in the Gulf region cov-ering UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, she is entrusted with building a portfolio of profitable growth initiatives while main-taining the highest level of integrity, and also promoting National leadership and talent development.

Nabil Habayeb said: “The appointment of Dalya Al Muthanna to the senior leader-ship role underlines our commitment to support the localisation agenda across the region. It also reflects GE’s ongoing commitment to drive the participation of women in leadership roles. In a short time, Dalya has proven her leadership ability and management skill, supporting GE’s growth in key markets across the region. Her appointment will serve as an inspira-tion for National women to be part of GE, which has been chosen as one of the Top 5 ‘Great Places to Work for Women.’”

Dalya said: “I am excited to take up the challenging role as President & CEO of GE Gulf, and contribute to strengthen-ing the growth of GE in the region. With over 80 years of presence in the Middle East, GE has focused on building stra-tegic partnerships with the public and private sectors. I look forward to fulfill-ing GE’s growth strategy for the region and build new business partnerships. I also hope the appointment will inspire National women across the region to take up new career challenges that dem-onstrate their true skills and potential.”

Dalya joined GE in 2008 and is the company’s first UAE national to gradu-ate from GE’s Experienced Commercial Leadership Program (ECLP), during which she received multiple global ECLP awards and undertook global rotations in the US. The Peninsula

Beiersdorf Mena announced that Nivea Deo Stress Protect for females, Nivea In-Shower Body

Lotion, Nivea Men Original Range and Nivea Men Shower Care have all been voted ‘Product of the Year’ at the Product of the Year 2014 Gulf Edition awards.

The awards are voted for by consumers

across the Gulf and are judged on a range of factors including usage, satisfaction, purchase intent and innovation.

Patrick Hoven, Marketing Director Beiersdorf Middle East & North Africa, said: “We are very proud to have won not one, but four awards. This is a true testimony that Nivea is the preferred and

most trusted everyday skin care brand. We are committed to providing innova-tive products that delight consumers and improve their lives. We stand by our val-ues of offering high quality products that deliver what we promise and reliable skin care brand in the region.

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Nivea wins four awards at Product of the Year 2014

Zurich International Life launched a first-to-market life insurance

proposition called Zurich Business Protect, designed specifically to pro-tect SMEs in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

While the majority of SMEs will typically have insurance to protect their assets, such as their premises, stock and vehicles, the human asset of a business is often left uninsured,

potentially threatening the future growth of a business.

“Life insurance products are one of the least understood and used solutions for business planning,” said Jawed Barna, CEO of Zurich International Life MEA.

“At Zurich we are committed to deliv-ering customer centric solutions. As a result of extensive market research, we have designed a proposition for SMEs in the region culminating in the

launch of Zurich Business Protect. It provides tailored life insurance solu-tions that protect SMEs against the death or critical illness of a key person by providing Key Person, Liability and Partner protection.”

Zurich Business Protect typically protects an SME against three scenar-ios: ‘Key Person’ Protection, ‘Liability’ Protection and ‘Partner’ Protection.

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Zurich launches insurance product designed for Middle East SMEs

Rafco-Leica roadshow

Rafco-Leica Geosystems has organ-ised a roadshow event in La Cigale

Hotel recently. “The objective of the roadshow was to highlight the latest innovation in “Measuring Technology” of Leica survey equipment,” said Bassem Awada, General manager of Rafco.

Rafco provides surveying solutions in collaboration with Leica Geosystems AG for the past four decades. Leica Geosystems is best known for its array of products that capture accurately, model quickly, analyze easily, and visu-alize and present spatial information.

Awada added: ““We have got together the key players in the survey community and some of Leica experts in the field to keep them updated about what Rafco/Leica can provide them as they embark on mega infrastructure projects.” The Peninsula

FOOD 7PLUS | WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014

By Joe Yonan

Few things are as gratifying to a restaurant-loving vegetarian as seeing a whole table of food obsessives unable to talk about any dish other than the one you ordered. Sure, the seven-hour lamb was great

(I heard), and the braised squid was perfectly tender (I was told), but when I sat with the inimitable Patricia Wells and friends at brasserie Lazare in Paris, it was a salad of haricots verts, artichokes and hazelnuts that stole the show.

Of course, Wells wouldn’t take me anywhere she knew couldn’t handle such cooking. As a former vegetarian herself, she is an avowed plant lover. At Lazare, the textures alone of that salad — crisp-tender beans, crunchy hazelnuts and almost-starchy artichokes — made it something we raved about well into our next meal, and even the next day.

Wells is more than a writer, of course, even though I was visiting because she has written a long-awaited new edition of her landmark book, Food Lover’s Guide to Paris. She is also one of the most popular cooking teachers in all of France, with week-long sessions in the city and in Provence that sell out many months in advance. In other words, she knows her way around a recipe, and she makes a habit of getting them from chefs, so by the time I returned from my trip, instruc-tions for the Lazare salad were waiting in my e-mail inbox.

She adapted it from Lazare’s chef, and I took it a little fur-ther, adding even more hazelnuts and crushing half of them so they dispersed into every bite. My favorite part of the recipe: The step that calls for you to immediately immerse the just-blanched artichoke slices in the lemon-hazelnut vinaigrette while they’re still warm, so they soak it up.

The result: pitch-perfect seasoning, and a reminder of one glorious spring day in the City of Light.

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MAKE AHEAD: The toasted hazelnuts can be stored (before crushing) at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 1 week. The vinaigrette and cooked artichokes can be tossed together and refrigerated for up to 1 week. The cooked, towel-wrapped beans can be refrigerated for up to 4 hours.

Hazelnut oil by La Tourangelle is available at Whole Foods Markets and other specialty gro-cers. For something special, seek out Jean Leblanc hazelnut oil, imported from Burgundy and avail-able from Amazon.com and other online sources.

From a recipe that cookbook author Patricia Wells adapted from Lazare brasserie in Paris.

Ingredients: (4 servings)1/2 cup skin-on hazelnuts1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon hazelnut oil (see head-

note; may substitute another nut oil or extra-virgin olive oil)

1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus more to taste and for blanching

3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice4 small, fresh artichokes1 pound haricots verts (thin French green

beans), ends trimmed2 tablespoons finely chopped shallotCoarsely ground black pepper

Method:Combine the hazelnuts with 1 teaspoon of the

hazelnut oil and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt in a small skillet over medium heat, and toss to coat. Cook, shaking the pan regularly, until the nuts are

fragrant, evenly toasted and beginning to crackle and sizzle, 3 to 4 minutes. (Don’t let them burn.) Transfer them immediately to a large plate to cool. Transfer half of the cooled nuts to a zip-top bag and use a mallet or rolling pin to crush them.

Whisk together 1 tablespoon of the lemon juice, the remaining 1/4 cup of hazelnut oil and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon of salt in a large bowl to form an emulsified vinaigrette. Taste for season-ing, and add salt if needed.

Fill a mixing bowl with water; add the remain-ing 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.

Use a knife to trim away most of each arti-choke’s stem, leaving about 1 inch and discard-ing the rest. Bend back the tough outer green leaves, one at a time, and snap them off at the base. Continue snapping off leaves until only the central cone of yellow leaves with pale green tips remains. (As you pare down the artichokes, keep them in the acidulated water; this will prevent discoloring.)

Trim the top cone of leaves to just below the green tips. Trim any dark green areas from the base. Halve the artichokes lengthwise. Use a grapefruit spoon or a melon baller to scrape out/discard the hairy choke (if present) from each half. Cut each trimmed artichoke half lengthwise into quarters.

Set a colander into a large pasta pot, fill the pot

with salted water and bring it to a rolling boil over high heat. Add the artichoke slices and blanch, uncovered, until barely tender, about 2 minutes. Lift the colander to drain them; leave the water in the pot. Transfer the blanched artichokes to the vinaigrette in the bowl and toss to coat. (Adding the artichokes while they are still warm will help them absorb the vinaigrette.)

Prepare a large bowl of ice water.Rinse the colander and return it to the pot of

water. Return the water to a rolling boil over high heat. Add the beans and blanch, uncovered, until crisp-tender, about 5 minutes. (The cooking time will vary according to the size and tenderness of the beans.)

Immediately remove the colander from the cooking water, allowing the beans to drain, then plunge the colander (with beans) into the ice water so they cool down as quickly as possible. (The beans should not stay in the ice water for more than 1 or 2 minutes, or they will become soggy and begin to lose f lavor.) Drain well, then wrap them in a thick kitchen towel to dry.

Add the cooled beans and the crushed hazel-nuts to the artichokes and vinaigrette; toss to coat evenly.

Transfer the mixture to a platter or indi-vidual plates. Garnish with the shallot and the remaining whole, toasted hazelnuts. Sprinkle/grind pepper lightly over the top, and serve.

Nutrition Per serving: 290 calories, 5 g protein, 14 g carbohydrates, 25 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 290 mg sodium, 7 g dietary fiber, 2 g sugar

Green Bean, Artichoke and Hazelnut Salad

A glorious salad in the City of Light

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Riding bike was tough: Ekta KapoorVarun Dhawan took his film’s co-producer Ekta Kapoor for a bike ride

to promote their film “Main Tera Hero” Monday. But thanks to her fear of two-wheelers, she found the experience tough.

Her fear has to do with an incidence in her childhood days.“It was very tough because I have not even sat on a cycle in my life...I

did twice as a child and it (the cycle) fell on both the occasions. My father used to hold the cycle and balance it. The moment he left the cycle, the cycle fell and I fell too,” the 38-year-old said here after riding pillion.

“I rode the bike for the first time and I can’t tell you the hate mail I have got from various women for riding on a bike with Varun,” she added.

Depp confirms engagement

Actor Johnny Depp has finally confirmed his engagement to girlfriend Amber Heard by joking about his “not very subtle” engagement ring.

The 50-year-old showed off a diamond engagement ring during a pro-motional tour of his latest movie Transcendence, reports contactmusic.com.

Asked whether he was engaged, Johnny quipped: “The fact that I’m wear-ing a chick’s ring on my finger is probably a dead giveaway. Not very subtle.”

The star first met Amber on the set of The Rum Diary in 2011 and a year later separated from his partner of 14 years, French actress Vanessa Paradis, with whom he has children Lily-Rose, 14, and Jack, 11.

Harry Potter spinoff to turn into trilogyIf all goes well, Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find

Them could be turn into a movie trilogy.According to The New York Times, the book, published in 2001 and

billed as one of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts textbooks, will be adapted by Warner Bros into “three megamovies”.

In an interview with the publication, Warner Bros’ CEO Kevin Tsujihara con-firmed that the stories, which are not prequels or sequels, would be set in New York about 70 years before Harry Potter, reports digitialspy.co.uk.

David Heyman will produce the films, about a “magizoolo-gist” named Newt Scamander.

Rowling also praised Tsujihara, saying: “When I say he made ‘Fantastic Beasts’ happen, it isn’t PR-speak, but the literal truth.

“We had one dinner, a fol-low-up telephone call, and then I got out the rough draft that I’d thought was going to be an interesting bit of memo-rabilia for my kids and started rewriting!”

She continued: “When Kevin got the top job, he brought a new energy, which rubbed off. He’s a very engaging person, thoughtful and funny.”

Rowling previously revealed that she penned the first screenplay draft of Fantastic Beasts in 12 days.

Adele in no rush to deliver next albumAward winning singer Adele will deliver her next album “at her own

pace” and won’t rush the follow-up to 21, says OneRepublic band member Ryan Tedder, with whom she has worked.

The Skyfall singer, who is recording the follow-up to her charttopper album 21, claims she is not rushing the release.

“I haven’t heard everything she’s done, but I’ve heard everything we’ve done and I’m as proud of it, or prouder of anything we did on the first album, and she is sounding even better than ever,” contactmusic.com quoted her as saying.

“She will deliver the album on her own timetable, at her own pace, and the only person that will ever declare it finished will be her, when she decides it’s finished,” she added.

The 25-year-old singer had to cancel tour dates in 2011 to undergo throat surgery and then took a break after giving birth to her son Angelo in 2012, with boyfriend Simon Konecki.

By Mark Kennedy

The Denzel Washington you meet backstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is not exactly living a glamorous

Hollywood life. He’s more like a col-lege kid during finals.

He wears a black Yankee cap, black sweat pants and blue sneakers. There are free weights on a counter and a bot-tle of diet cola. Notebooks and papers are everywhere. He’s fighting off the New York chill with some chicken noo-dle soup laced with hot sauce.

“Have a seat,” the star says, waving to a banged-up sofa and settling down in his own seat in front of a makeshift desk made from a mini-fridge. “I’ve got good heat here.”

Good heat, comfortable clothes, soup — the unfussy Broadway version of Denzel Washington seems completely in his element as he puts the finishing touches on one of America’s greatest plays, A Raisin in the Sun.

“It’s just a great opportunity — that’s how I look at it,” says Washington. “It’s like getting back to your roots. It’s going good. But around about the 70th show, I might be going, ‘What am I doing?’”

Like an athlete in training and cur-rently dressed the part, Washington has poured himself into the work, fill-ing two composition books with notes and leaving every page of his script highlighted, underlined or annotated.

The first notebook starts with the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, the work that helped inspire the play, which Washington has

handwritten. A few pages later is a photo pasted of the playwright, Lorraine Hansberry (“I got her in there! I forgot I had her in there,” he says while flipping through.)

The play marks Washington’s first return to Broadway since his Tony Award-winning turn in Fences in 2010 and every preview has been sold out, with top premium tickets going for as much as $348.

“Denzel? Listen, he’s a Stradivarius,” says co-star LaTanya Richardson Jackson, an old friend and Samuel L Jackson’s wife. “He’s so versatile. It’s so wonderful being on the stage with him. He’s so elegant and so giving.”

Set in 1950s Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun centers on the struggling Younger family, who anxiously await a $10,000 insurance check — and the ensuing squabbles over how to spend it.

Washington plays Walter Lee, a chauffeur with dreams of opening a liquor store, a role made famous by Sidney Poitier, who played it in the original 1959 production and reprised it in a 1961 movie. In a twist, this revival is in the same theater where Poitier debuted the play.

How far has Washington gone in his research? It turns out all the way to Poitier’s home. The two actors recently met to talk about the role and when Poitier rose to act out scenes, Washington pulled out his cell phone to film it (“As you can see, I’m no camera-man,” he jokes as he shares the jerky images).

“He’s so generous and complimen-tary and he was like, ‘Oh you’re going to kill. You’re going to be better than

I was,’ and all this stuff,” Washington says. “He’s just a sweet, gentle man. It wasn’t even about the play anymore. I was just like, ‘I’m going to come hang with him.’”

Washington may be the Academy Award-winning actor known for Gloryand Training Day, but he says his dream when he first started acting at Fordham University was to be onstage. His first two roles in college were The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill and Shakespeare’s Othello.

“I was too ignorant to know what pressure even was,” he laughs.

As a young man, Washington once caught James Earl Jones star in Oedipus the King uptown and then sneaked into Jones’ dressing room, where he hung out as the older actor greeted well-wishers.

“Obviously he didn’t know who I was — I was a student. I’m picking up his rings and his props while he’s talking to the people. He probably looked and thought, ‘Oh, he’s probably a young actor.’ I’m like, ‘Man, that’s what I want. I want to do that. I want to do what he’s doing,’” he says.

The revival of A Raisin in the Sun hasn’t been completely without drama: Last month, the cast was shook up when Diahann Carroll pulled out and Richardson Jackson stepped in as the family matriarch.

“Diahann realised she just couldn’t handle it, physically. If we live long enough, we’re all going to come to that place where we go, like, ‘OK,’” says Washington. “Even I had my doubts in the beginning. Can I remember all this?”

Richardson Jackson, who was last on Broadway in the Tony-winning 2009 revival of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, had acted before opposite Washington — they both were in Ntozake Shange’s Spell #7 in the late ‘70s. He pushed for her to come onboard to play his mother, saying “I knew she was strong and powerful.”

At 64, she’s only five years older than Washington, 59, but he notes that a 32-year-old Poitier played Walter Lee opposite 41-year-old Claudia McNeil in the original Broadway production.

“No, you can’t have a baby at 5 but I don’t think you can have one at 9, either,” jokes Washington. “That’s act-ing. She’s my mom and I’m her son.”

This time on Broadway, Washington has changed a few things, starting with his Playbill bio, which had grown unwieldy. He sliced it down: “It was really blowing my own horn,” he says. “I don’t need to advertise. I got the part.”

He also dedicates his performance to the late Tony Scott, who directed Washington in such films as Crimson Tide and Man on Fire and committed suicide in 2012. “I thought about Tony and I wanted to mention Tony,” says Washington.

His mother, who turned 90 recently, plans to come to New York to see her son in the play and another who has promised to come and cheer is none other than Poitier. “I said to him, ‘Don’t come early,’” Washington says. “He said, ‘No, I’m coming.’ I said, ‘Not early. And don’t tell me when.’”

AP

Irrfan to shuttle between India and US for Jurassic World, Piku

Accomplished actor Irrfan Khan will spend the rest of this year living out of a suitcase as he will be shooting for two films — Jurassic World and

Piku. This week he leaves for the US to begin shooting for Colin Trevorrow-directed fourth part of the phenomenal Jurassic Park franchise. The film is to be shot in Hawaai and New Orleans.

“It’s a brief schedule to begin with, though my role is anything but brief. At the moment all I can tell you on record is that it’s a pivotal role. I am very excited about the project. It’s the second American global franchise after Spiderman that I am part of,” said Irrfan, adding that he did not share the Indian audience’s disappointment over the length of his role in Spiderman.

He said: “It isn’t as if my role was reduced for ulterior reasons. Sometimes a particular character’s footage suffers for factors like the film’s length, etc. I was very happy to be part of Spiderman.

“Come to think of it, there have been very few projects that I’ve regretted doing. And those were taken up because I needed the money. Over a period of time I’ve realised I don’t need too much money to keep body and soul alive. However, now my sons have other goals and priorities. They do ask for things, which I never needed or coveted. I never say no to their demands. My movies pay me well enough to keep my family happy.”

The remaining part of this year would see Irrfan shuttling between two projects in two continents.

“After the first brief first schedule of ‘Jurassic World’, I’ll be back in India to shoot for Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Piku’. I’ll complete one long schedule of ‘Piku’ and then return to the US for a long schedule of ‘Jurassic World’. So it’d continue for the rest of the remaining part of the year.”

The actor says he is exceptionally excited about working with Amitabh Bachchan in Piku. “You keep asking why we’ve never worked together before. It’s not as if I didn’t get the opportunity earlier. I was offered Mehul Kumar’s Kohram with Bachchan saab. But I wanted to wait for the right film that would do justice to our presence.”

Irrfan reveals he has some amazing moments to share with the Big B and Deepika Padukone in Sircar’s film.

“’Piku’ boasts of some unique writing. It’s one of the best scripts I’ve been offered. Bachchan saab gets to do a completely new character. I’ve most of my scenes with him. It’s a very mellow down-to-earth slice-of-life drama like ‘The Lunchbox’,” said Irrfan, who will begin work on Sujoy Ghosh’s film with Kangana Ranaut at the end of the year.

Irrfan bagged the best actor award for his perform-ance in The Lunchbox at the Macau Film festival. He’s impressed by the competition that he faced to bag the award. “At any festival the competition that you are up against always matters. Here I was pitched against a formidable actor Toni Chiu Wai Leung whom I’ve always admired. I also met one of my all-time favourite filmmakers Johnny To. I consider him the master of storytelling.

“During the shooting of Life Of Pi, Ang Lee and I had lengthy discussions on his amazing mastery over the language of cinema. In Macau, I got a chance to talk to him. I guess I am blessed,” he said.

Irrfan is proud of his journey in filmdom. “When I started with Govind Nihalani’s Drishti, I had a chance to work with Dimple Kapadia. I had no clue of how glorious that moment was. I wish I got to work with her later in life. Fortunately, I keep getting the chance to re-invent myself each year. I am very lucky to get roles like The Lunchbox and Piku.”

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Soon, ‘electronic skin’ to release drugs in body

Imagine a tattoo-like thin wearable device that can store information and also deliver

medicine — combining patient treatment and monitoring at one time?

Researchers in the US have created an ‘elec-tronic skin’ that can store and transmit data about a person’s movements, receive diagnostic information and release drugs into skin.

The technology could aid patients with move-ment disorders such as Parkinson’s disease or epilepsy, they claimed.

What we are talking here is a “sticky patch containing a device roughly four centimetres long, two cm wide and 0.003 millimetres thick”, said Nanshu Lu, a mechanical engineer at University of Texas in Austin.

The researchers constructed the device by layering a package of stretchable nanomaterials — sensors that detect temperature and motion, resistive RAM for data storage, microheaters and drugs — onto a material that mimics the softness and flexibility of the skin.

“The novelty is really in the integration of the memory device,” Stephanie Lacour, an engi-neer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, added.

The device works if it is connected to a power supply and data transmitter, both of which need to be made similarly compact and flexible before the prototype can be used routinely in patients.

“Although some commercially available com-ponents, such as lithium batteries and radio-frequency identification tags can do this work, they are too rigid for the soft-as-skin brand of electronic device,” Lu explained.

The findings were published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology1.

Ladies! Have fruits for super heart: StudyReinforcing the importance of developing

healthy eating habits early in life, research-ers have found that women who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables are less likely to develop heart diseases.

These women are less likely to have plaque build-up in their arteries 20 years later com-pared with those who consumed lower amounts of these foods in their adulthood, the study noted.

Buildup of plaque can lead to heart disease, heart attack and stroke. Surprisingly, the find-ings of the research showered that the same benefit did not hold true for men.

“These findings confirm the concept that plaque development is a life-long process, and that process can be slowed down with a healthy diet at a young age,” said Michael D Miedema, a cardiologist at Minneapolis Heart Institute in the US.

For the study that included 2,508 participants, researchers evaluated the association between dietary intake of fruits and vegetables in young adults and the presence of coronary artery cal-cification (CAC) 20 years later.

The CAC scores, which were obtained using a CT scan, provided a direct estimate of the amount of plaque in the coronary arteries.

Women who consumed eight to nine servings of fruits and vegetable a day for a 2,000-calorie diet in their 20s were 40 percent less likely to have calcified plaque in their arteries in their 40s, the study said.

Agencies

By Vicky Hallett

Just a few years ago, Todd Newell was 130 pounds heav-ier and unable to run 100m.

The idea of participating in a com-petition for The Fittest on Earth back then?

A smoker’s coronary artery dis-ease is likely to be as advanced as that of a non-smoker who is 10 years older when both show up at the hospital with a heart attack, according to a new study.

Researchers looked at nearly 14,000 patients hospitalised with blockages in arteries supplying the heart muscle and found smokers were more likely than nonsmokers to die within a year.

Despite their being younger, and otherwise healthier, the smokers’ heart arteries were in a condition similar to those of nonsmokers 10 years older.

“We saw smokers presenting the disease at age 55 and non-smokers presenting the same disease at 65,” said Dr Alexandra Lansky, a researcher on the study.

Smoking can cause blood clots, which often get lodged in the rigid and narrow arteries that have already been clogged by the buildup of cholesterol and fat deposits, according to Lansky and her colleagues.

Although the fat buildup and stiffening of the artery walls, known as atherosclerosis, becomes more likely with age for every-one, the clots caused by smoking worsen the blockages.

That makes smokers more likely to have a heart attack at a younger age, but less likely to have the other conditions, known as comorbidities, that go along with

aging, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

“Smoking accelerates the mani-festation of coronary disease but in the absence of these comorbidi-ties,” Lansky told Reuters Health.

Past research has identified a “smoker’s paradox” — because smokers are younger, with fewer other health problems, when they had a heart attack, they were more likely to recover it. Or so it seemed.

“We wanted to look at longer-term effects of smoking rather just the short term effect,” Lansky said.

The researchers analysed medi-cal records for 13,819 patients, almost 4,000 of them smokers, hospitalized with chest pain or a heart attack caused by a blocked coronary artery.

The study team organised the data to match the smokers and nonsmokers by age, weight, comorbidities and other risk factors.

When compared to nonsmok-ers with similar overall health, the smokers were ten years younger, on average, and more likely to have already been treated with blood thinners — suggesting they had already experienced problems with blood flow.

Imaging of the coronary artery showed the smokers’ had athero-sclerosis comparable to the non-smokers ten years their senior, the researchers report in the journal JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.

Before the adjustments for age and other health conditions, the smokers and nonsmokers were about equally likely to survive the first 30 days after hospitaliza-tion, and smokers were about 20

percent less likely to die within a year.

But once smokers and non-smokers with similar health pro-files were compared to each other, the smokers were 37 percent more likely to die within the first year.

“What makes it novel, is that we are showing that if you come in, your chance of survival is already reduced, as a smoker,” Lansky said.

The findings are not surprising, according to Dr Robert Giugliano, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

“Nonetheless, the public does need to know that there is now even more evidence that smoking is bad for your health, accelerates the process of atherosclerosis (so smokers have heart and vascular disease on average 10 years early than non-smokers), and leads to worse outcomes compared to non-smokers of a similar age,” said Giugliano, who also teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Elliot Antman, also of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard, said it would be interesting to follow the patients for longer than a year to see what happened to survival rates among smokers who quit.

Antman was not surprised by the findings either. “I always sus-pected this was the case but it is nice to see the data,” he said.

“There just aren’t many healthy people in their 80’s who smoke regularly . . . if you want to live a healthy, long life, smoking stacks the odds against you,” Giugliano said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1g8o9sK JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, online March 14, 2014.

Reuters

Smokers may show heart Smokers may show heart disease much younger disease much younger than non-smokersthan non-smokers


TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 201412

By Caroline Copley

Mila, a Swiss peer-to-peer online marketplace for services ranging from IT support to furniture

assembly, expects big European firms to turn to such platforms as a cheap way to improve their customer care.

Austere times and cheap mobile technology have helped kickstart the so-called sharing economy, in which individuals rent out their time and expertise — from lending power tools to making their cars available for hire.

The idea has spawned a slew of fast-growing startups, including online home rental market place Airbnb and peer-to-peer online platforms Mila and TaskRabit, which vet and match those who are offering services with those who need them.

It is also beginning to pique the interest of big business.

Mila has, for example, struck a part-nership with Swisscom to help the tel-ecom provider’s customers hire a local “geek next door” to solve IT problems rather than calling on the services of a Swisscom technician.

Since the pilot launched in Zurich in November, hundreds of members of the public have signed up to become “Swisscom Friends” ranging from tech-savvy students and the unem-ployed to IT professionals who want to make extra cash.

Swisscom vets these freelance tech workers, but does not pay them. They are paid by the customers who hire them — with Mila taking a commis-sion, of course.

“Many firms are having to reduce costs but at the same time have more complexity in support or service areas,” Mila Chief Executive Manuel Grenacher said. “With a sharing approach, they can offer a nationwide service.”

Swisscom, which would need a far larger workforce if it was to provide a local, out-of-hours service, said there had been 450 customer requests to use the Friends service since November.

Lukas Peter, the company’s inno-vation manager, said Swisscom’s pri-mary motivation was to improve its customer service, but he acknowledged the service may help it cut costs.

‘Geek Next Door’“When a customer rings us up and

wants to know how to record some-thing on the TV it can sometimes take a long time to just explain where the right button is on the remote control,” he said. “We want to be able to offer our customers a ‘geek next door’ that can come round.”

Grenacher said Mila, a Zurich-based startup founded in 2013, would also launch two large pilot projects to provide peer-to-peer customer sup-port in Germany this year, one with

a big furniture store and the other with an insurance company. He said he was not yet authorized to name the firms.

Partnering with a well-known brand, like Swisscom, helps build trust among consumers who at first may be reluc-tant to let a stranger into their home, he said.

As large companies lay off workers due to margin pressures, Grenacher sees peer-to-peer service platforms picking up some of the slack by allow-ing out-of-work individuals to adver-tise their skills available for hire.

“By supporting this sharing economy concept, big companies are bringing work back into the market place,” he said.

Peer-to-peer rental of goods is already a $26 billion industry, accord-ing to estimates by Rachel Botsman, author of “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption”.

Last year, car hire firm Avis bought car sharing firm Zipcar, while General Motors has teamed up with RelayRides. In Europe, German car-maker BMW owns a stake in British firm parkatmyhouse.com, a platform that helps homeowners make money from unused parking spaces.

But Grenacher believes the sharing of services has even bigger potential: “Not everyone has a car, but everyone has at least some talent.”

Reuters

Mila sees firms using web to outsource customer support

Samsung Electronics’ mobile head paycheck hits $5.8m, beating Cook

The head of Samsung Electronics Co’s mobile business, J K Shin (pictured), received a $5.8m com-

pensation package last year, beating the paycheck of his counterpart at US rival Apple Inc, the South Korean firm said in its first such disclosure under new regulations.

The world’s biggest technology company by revenue said Shin’s pack included a base salary of 1.17bn won ($1.09m) and 1.6bn won in incentives and performance bonus.

By comparison, Apple chief executive Tim Cook received $4.25m in 2013, little changed from the previous year when he had been paid $4.17m. Cook, however, had a separate pay related to annual stock grants, while Shin did not have stock options.

Shin, who has led Samsung’s mobile business since 2009, has since over-seen the launch of its flagship Galaxy handsets that helped it unseat Apple in the smartphone market and also sparked patent litigation the world over that claimed Samsung copied the look and feel of the US firm’s iconic mobile products.

Samsung’s other co-chief execu-tive Kwon Oh-hyun, who leads the component business, earned 6.77bn won, while third co-CEO Yoon Boo-keun, the head of its consumer elec-tronics business, received 5.09bn won.

South Korean financial authorities changed regulations late last year, requiring listed companies to include annual compensation details of execu-tives who earn more than 500m won in their business reports filings.

But the measure also drew some criti-cism as it does not shed much light on pay details of some high profile owners of business conglomerates or chaebols, as they frequently assume non-execu-tive titles.

Samsung didn’t disclose remunera-tion details of J Y Lee, non-executive vice chairman and son of its chairman Lee Kun-hee, who is also non-executive chairman and receives no salary from Samsung. Reuters

Star Wars: Assault Team (Free + IAP)This is a turn-based strategy game based on the clas-

sic Star Wars films, as you develop a team of heroes and fight against... well, pretty much everyone you remember seeing in Star Wars. Player-vs-Player online battles are a big part of the game too. iPhone / iPad

Word Monsters (Free + IAP)This is the latest game released through Angry Birds

maker Rovio’s publishing arm, Rovio Stars. It’s a fun and accessible word game that involves swiping words off the screen, competing against friends from social networks. The monster aspect may appeal to younger players, although parents should know that the in-app purchases of coins and cookies go up to £34.99 at a time. iPhone / iPad

oO (£1.49)Good luck finding this on the App Store with a search

– the link above is your friend in that respect. This is a “minimalist indie dodge-em-up / runner arcade game” with simple, stark visuals and gameplay that involves moving a ball around the edges of interconnected circles. Has the potential to be a real time-killer. iPhone / iPad

DJMAX Technika Q (Free + IAP)The DJMax games are new to me, but they appear to

have a healthy following from their arcade and console versions. This new mobile outing is an entertaining music rhythm game, with social rankings and more than 50 songs to tap along to. iPhone / iPad

Barcode Kingdom (£0.69 + IAP)I’m not entirely sure how much long-term appeal

Barcode Kingdom has, but I remain surprised that more mobile game developers haven’t tried inventive things with barcode-scanning. Here, you build an army to fight battles by scanning barcodes in the real world, and see-ing what units they create. Heady days for anyone who remembers Barcode Battler in the early 1990s, but hope-fully the idea will find its way into more games in the future. iPhone / iPad

iOS app of the week

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The mass graves of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia were first revealed. More than a million people are believed to have been executed from 1975-79

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HYPER SUDOKU

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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

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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.

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action17 Toe-tapping trigger18 Kissers19 Some fridges20 Dot in an atlas21 How close-up

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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 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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Cuckoo (2D/Tamil) – 8.15pm

2


Blood Ties (2D/Crime) – 4.30pm



3

The Iceman (2D/Drama) – 2.30 & 11.30pm


Tokarev (2D/Action) – 6.00 & 9.30pm


ROYAL

PLAZA

1

Tokarev (2D/Action) – 2.15 & 9.15pm

Cuckoo (2D/Tamil) – 4.00pm

Dishkiyaoon (2D/Hindi) – 7.00pm


2



Blood Ties (2D/Crime) – 7.00pm


Dishkiyaoon (2D/Hindi) – 11.30pm

3

The Iceman (2D/Drama) – 2.30 & 11.30pm




13:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

13:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Snack Attack

15:30 Pavitra Rishta

16:00 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

16:30 Qubool Hai

17:00 Word Match

17:30 Bollywood

Business


18:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

19:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

19:30 Jodha Akbar


20:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki


13:00 Good Luck

Charlie

13:25 Austin & Ally

13:45 A.N.T. Farm

14:10 Jessie

14:35 Dog With A Blog

15:00 Good Luck

Charlie

15:25 Gravity Falls

15:50 Austin & Ally

16:10 Violetta


17:20 Austin & Ally

17:40 Gravity Falls

18:10 Jessie

20:05 Jessie


21:40 Shake It Up

22:00 Austin & Ally

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Good Luck

Charlie

23:10 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

13:00 Better Off Ted

13:30 Arrested

Development

14:00 Raising Hope

14:30 The Crazy Ones

15:00 Trophy Wife

15:30 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

16:00 Colbert Report

16:30 The War At Home

17:00 Late Night With

Seth Meyers

18:00 The Simpsons

19:00 The Mindy Project

19:30 Modern Family

20:00 The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy

Fallon

21:00 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

21:30 Colbert Report

22:30 Brickleberry

23:00 Eastbound &

Down


PLUS | WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2014 POTPOURRI16

Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

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

• There are demands that the authorities inspect tankers carrying drinking water to ensure that they are following health rules, holding the required permits and that the vehicles are cleaned properly.

• Some parents have complained about the schedule for the second term examination of class 11 students. The students will have to remain in school until the end of school hours. The Education Authority at the Supreme Education Council has been urged to allow the students to leave once they have finished their papers.

• There are complaints about a shortage of Shafaf gas cylinders. Demand for the cylinders is high and people are suffering due to the shortage.

• It has been proposed that an office of Qatar Tourism Authority be set up at the Corniche so that people can get maps

and information about tourist spots in the country.

• There are demands for regulation of tourist boats. There should be a licence for such boats, they should be equipped with the necessary navigation gear, the passenger capacity of the boats should be specified, and coastguards should be assigned to make sure that the boats follow safety rules.

• Some parents have criticised the registration system of private schools. Most schools have announced that they have no more seats. Some keep receiving applications, and in the end the parents are surprised to know that the schools are full.

• There are demands that the authorities install sports equipment for children at beaches, and vehicle owners have been urged to park their vehicles properly on beaches to avoid blocking roads.

IN FOCUS

A view of Corniche.

by Malu Simith

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

Yousuf Isa Mohammad Al Jabir, Director of GCC Affairs Department

He holds a BA in Business

Administration from Cairo

University and Diploma in

International Relations from Oxford

University. He started as Third

Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs. In 1992, appointed as Director

of GCC Administration and member in

the GCC negotiating team. Participates

in the meetings of the Supreme Council

of the GCC as well as the meetings

preparing for the event at the ministe-

rial and committee levels.

Who’s who

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

iD by Cirque ÉloizeWhen: April 2: 8pm; April 3: 8pm; April 4: 3.30pm, 8pm; April 5: 1.30pm, 6pmWhere: The Theatre, Qatar National

Convention Centre

What: A mix of circus arts and urban dance by Cirque Éloize, an affiliated company of Cirque du Soleil directed by Jeannot Painchaud. Tickets: QR95 - QR1,500, Available at Virgin Megastores (Villagio and Landmark) or online at www.virginmegastore.me

Ziad Khoury live When: April 4; 11pm Where: La Cigale Hotel

What: Be part of a delightful night with the renowned Lebanese singer Ziad Khoury and the band conducted by Maestro Elie El Alia. Ticket: QR250 (membership required)

Behind the Veil When: Until April 12; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Building Number 12 What: A tribute to the grande dame of photography, Eve Arnold, and celebrates her legendary career that spanned nearly half a century as a photojournalist social commentator and documentor. She is known for her portraits of Hollywood heavy weights such as Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe.Free Entry

The First Turkish Festival When: April 9 - April 12; 10am-10pmWhere: Building 3, Katara Esplanade What: Promoting Turkish culture, history and its modern’s aspects based on the bonds between Qatar and Turkey. Four days of activities for promoting Turkish culture and history. Free Entry

Al Dabke Festival When: April 3 — April 5; 10am-10pm Where: Building 15 Hall, Katara Amphitheater and Katara Esplanade What: The Al Dabke festival is being organized to highlight the Arabic folkloric moment historical and the cultural richness it has in the Arab countries in all forms: An initiative to showcase Dabke and its diversity through workshops, exhibitions and 3 shows in the Amphitheater.Free Entry

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

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