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EVENTSTHINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND

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Qajar Women: Images Of

Women In 19th Century Iran

This exhibition features the centrality of the

female form to the artwork of the Qajar

period in Iran (1785-1925).

Through a variety of historical objects from

MIA’s collection, in juxtaposition with photo-

graphs and contemporary artworks inspired by

the Qajar period, they explore the meaning of

the image of women at the onset of modernity.

Where: The Museum of Islamic ArtWhen: Until June 11Ticket: Free admissionCheck http://www.mia.org.qa for details

The exhibition features an exhibition of conceptual Emirati artist Has-san Sharif, titled: “Hassan Sharif: Objects and Files”. The exhibition includes a selection of artist archives and object installations from be-

tween 1981-1987, during which time Sharif established new, self-imposed systems of repetition, duration and chance in the execution of his work.

Sharif’s works are showcased alongside four significant and influential artists from across the Arab world, including Faraj Daham (Qatar), Saloua Raouda Choucair (Lebanon), Inji Efflatoun (Egypt) and Farid Belkahia (Morocco).

Where: Ground floor of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in DohaWhen: Until September 4Time: 11am-6pm, Fri: 3pm-8pm, Monday closed Ticket: Free entry

Works from Mathaf Collection, vol. 2

An exhibition by 15 contemporary Chinese artists curated by internationally acclaimed New York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, presented in the context of Qatar China 2016 Year

of Culture. After his solo exhibition at Mathaf in 2011, Cai Guo-Qiang returns to Qatar to present an exhibition featuring 15 contemporary Chinese artists and collectives working in a variety of media.

Where: QM Gallery Al Riwaq When: Until July 16Time: Sunday to Wednesday 10.30am to 5.30pmThursday and Saturday noon to 8pmFriday 2pm to 8pmTuesdays holidayTickets: Free entry

What About The Art?

Contemporary Art From ChinaHandmade in Qatar

Handmade in Qatar Exhibition is first QatART open event of its kind where selected variety of over 50 artists, designers and crafters create and exhibit their products at Hilton Doha. There will also be

a customized workshops to create a Creative Handmade family Day. The Hotel will also offer loads of food and goodies.

Where: Nashira Ballroom, Hilton Hotel, DohaWhen: April 30, 10:00am to 3:00pmTickets: Entry fee payable at the door; Kids under 4 free entry, while QR 10 for 4-12 years and QR20 for everyone over 12+ years.

One of the world’s most iconic reggae pop bands, UB40 will give their Qatar live debut at Doha’s InterContinental Doha Beach (West Bay Lagoon) on Friday, May 13, 2016. Grab the

best seats before its too late.

When: May 13; 7pm Where: Intercontinental Hotel Doha BeachTicket: QR249 (General), QR499 (VIP tickets); visit q-tickets.com and platinumlist.net to book your tickets.

UB40 Live in Qatar

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giving you headstart so that you book your tickets in advance.

There is something for everyone at IWED, the 9th inter-national wedding exhibition being held at Katara. Be it shopping for an upcoming wedding or looking for the

latest spring collections, IWED offers a plethora of choices for the fashion lovers in Qatar. What’s more there are also profes-sional beauty experts and stylists at the exhibition who offer beauty tips and ideas. There is also a fashion show held every evening from 5pm to 9pm.

When: Until Saturday, April 30; noon to 10 pm; friday: 3pm to 10pmWhere: Building 12 of Katara Hall Tickets: Free entry

IWED Doha Metro Train

Scan the QR code to watch videos from The Peninsula newspaper

Quadrofoil a silent electric hydrofoil

30 April 2016 Clothes and Accessories Origami

14 May 2016 Birds Origami

28 May 2016 Flowers Origami

* Workshops will be in English. * Age 6 and above.

Where: Katara Art Studio B19 Time: 3pm-5pm and 5pm-7pmAdmission: QR100 per session

Origami Family Workshop

It’s time to hit the Qatar Sky! Skydive Qatar will be holding a skydiving event from May 3 to May 31 in which the adrenaline junkies can sign up and get a chance to jump from an aircraft at 13,000 feet over the

Al Khor desert. Both male and female certified instructors are available. Where: Al Khor AirportWhen: May 3 to May 31Tickets: Tandem jump (QR 1,899 including a souvenir video & pho-tos); Certified Solo Jump (QR150 with Rig rental QR240 )

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TRAVELAn offseason visit to the dreamy deep-red caverns of Utah meant silence and an intense blue sky that made the outsize and precipitous boulders and ravines even more mind-blowing.


On the icy rocks:On the icy rocks: Utah parks in offseason Utah parks in offseason just as grandjust as grand

By Elizabeth Zach

The Washington Post

Among the many photos I have from a re-

cent vacation to Utah, one shows me at

Canyonlands National Park, cupping my

hands around my eyes and peering into

the Island in the Sky Visitor Center. It was

closed for the winter, and I was forlorn that I could

not get a stamp in my National Parks passbook, an

obsession of mine born this year as the park service

marks its centennial.

I say I was forlorn, and I was, but only partly: A

winter visit to the dreamy deep-red caverns and arches

that stretch across eastern Utah had been something

of a gamble. My boyfriend, Reed, and I love hiking,

but we knew that rough weather could easily ruin the

vacation.

What we found, however, is what travellers often do

when they head someplace offseason: smaller crowds

and cheaper airfare and accommodations. We flew

into Salt Lake City, rented a car and drove to Moab,

where we had rented a room for four days. Yet even

in this popular town, within spitting distance of two

national parks, we found mostly silence and, luckily, an

intense blue sky that made the outsise and precipitous

boulders and ravines even more mind-blowing.

Driving on from the shuttered visitor centre, we de-

bated which trail to hike, knowing we wanted to be at

Grand View Point Overlook to watch the sun set. Rather

spontaneously, we parked at the Shafer Canyon Over-

look, crossed the road to the west with our hiking gear

and descended amid the brush along the 5.5-mile Neck

Spring Loop, which one of my guidebooks designates

as the most secret trail in the park. We had prepared

for chilly weather, with jackets, gloves, caps and heavy

socks, so we were delighted to find sunny skies and

temperatures in the 50s, a perfect day to be out there.

With our gear, we were warm enough to take breaks

along the trail to admire the views.

We had the place to ourselves as we skirted lush

carpets of cryptobiotic soil and clusters of cedar and

pinyon-juniper, along with patches of snow and even

an abandoned hitching post, a reminder that cattle and

horses had once grazed here. Then, as we approached

a canyon, I saw a meager waterfall.

We walked toward it, but came to an abrupt halt

as we glimpsed an icy curtain woven around the

base, giving off the surreal appearance of an earthen

amphitheater. We carefully trod away from the trail,

sidestepping the marsh and mud until we reached the

icicles, and then we slipped behind them, looking out

of our private cove toward the rest of the sunny ravine,

a stellar view. After we had our fill, we turned back for

the trailhead and then continued by car to Grand View.

It was shortly before sundown when we pulled up

to the overlook, where, save for a friendly tourist from

Montreal lugging around his enormous telephoto lens,

we were alone, the solitude emphasised by the vast

canyon below us. Driving back to the interstate, we

watched the heavens morph into a warm rosy hue

and could see silhouetted buttes off in the distance.

Back in Moab, we settled into the Hacienda res-

taurant on Main Street for a generous veggie burrito

and an exceptionally tasty taco salad with ahi tuna.

Afterward, back at the Gonzo Inn up the road, we

performed what had, on this vacation, become our

evening ritual, racing from our room through the frigid

night air in our bathing suits for the Jacuzzi and gazing

up at the stars. And, like every evening at the inn, we

had the tub to ourselves.

The next day, after picking up chicken salad and

drinks for a picnic lunch, we drove back toward Can-

yonlands but hung a left to Dead Horse Point State

Park. Since planning this Utah vacation, I had been

coming across aerial photos of a gooseneck turn in

the Colorado River that weaves among striated cliffs.

I thought it was at Canyonlands and looked for it

when we drove to Grand View the previous evening,

but afterward I realized that the image was from Dead

Horse. I was eager to find it — and did. The viewing

platform and surrounding pathways were empty when

we reached them and looked out onto parts of the can-

yons still flecked with snow. The Colorado resembled

day-old coffee with cream. With the air hazy, the view

to the bottom was striking, and left us spell-bound,

well worth the search for it.

Across the parking lot on the other edge of the

canyon, we prepared our picnic while perched on rocks

overlooking the La Sal Mountains. At the base of the

canyons, we could see a glimmering series of ponds

with what appeared to be railroads encircling them: the

Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA)

Project, a US Department of Energy effort to move

16 million tons of uranium tailings from the banks of

the Colorado River to a permanent disposal site near

Crescent Junction. But the project site appeared eerily

still, almost abandoned, from where we sat.

Another day, we visited Arches National Park, which

we found to be much busier than Canyonlands. Ameri-

can writer Edward Abbey was a park ranger here, and

his journals from that time would become the book

“Desert Solitaire,” published in 1968 and eventually

adopted as a bible for adventure travel to the area.

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Arches National Park, near Moab, a city in eastern Utah, has more than 2,000 natural arches — the greatest concentration in the world.

It’s hard to imagine that the collection of sculpted rock

at Arches, which was designated a national monument

in 1929 and elevated to park status in 1971, was initially

promoted as a destination for tourists who didn’t want

to exit their automobiles. In fact, it’s possible to glimpse

the more than 2,000 catalogued arches — the greatest

concentration in the world — doing just that.

But nowadays people get out in nature, and we still

had fair weather. Before hiking, we stopped at the visitor

center to see which trails were traversable. None were

closed, but the rangers did point to ice and snow advi-

sories. Reed, who had toured Arches before, especially

wanted to see the iconic Delicate Arch, which he’d missed

on his last visit. The rangers displayed photos of a seem-

ingly treacherous path toward the end of the trail, but

we were still game.

And it turned out that once we got to the parking lot

there, so were plenty of other tourists. When we joined

them, we encountered a veritable Tower of Babel — we

could pick out French, Ukrainian and Cantonese. Because

about half the trail goes over broad, open rock faces, it

didn’t feel crowded until we reached the very narrow

and icy stretch that rounds a bend and leads to the ridge

where Delicate Arch is.

At one point along the trail, we took a slight detour to

see petroglyphs depicting bighorn sheep and horseback

riders, dating to when the Ute tribe - for which Utah is

named - roamed the region. These aren’t especially old;

a sign said they were created between 1650 and 1850.

However, they are well-preserved and protected and

remain sacred to Native Americans in the area.

The trail from the petroglyphs onto Delicate Arch

eventually winds through narrow rocky passages and over

creeks, until the final cautious steps along a precipice that

then opens onto a ridge. There, with the La Sal Mountains,

pinnacles and balancing rocks off in the distance, the

solo and soaring arch appears to teeter on the canyon’s

edge. It has been photographed so often and yet is no

less arresting when you actually see it in person. We first

stood on the distant ledge, taking in the spacious vista,

and then slowly approached, posing for

photos along the way.

Later, I looked up Abbey and his work

and realized I was visiting Arches exactly

60 years since he had described this in-

candescent landscape. Abbey was deeply

critical of what he called “industrial tour-

ism” and was conflicted over our liaison

with nature and specifically the desert and

its indifference to humans. In this sense,

my photos from eastern Utah now feel

particularly valuable, for the grand views

and solitude we were allowed - and de-

spite the missing stamp in my passbook.

(All the photos are by Elizabeth Zach for The Washington Post.)

TRAVEL

Sleeping with sharks in Paris

Shakespeare added more than 1,700 new words and phrases to the English language — many still in use.


YOUNG EDITORS

By Marylou Tousignant

The Wasgington Post

Last week marked the 452nd anniversary of

the birth of William Shakespeare as well as the

400th anniversary of his death. Both of these

monumental events occurred in the English

village of Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shake-

speare’s life came full circle before his death in 1616.

In his flaming youth, however, Shakespeare took off

for London in excitement to pursue a life in the theater.

The busy city was a brave new world for this country lad,

but Shakespeare didn’t lie low. Besides becoming a well-

known actor, he wrote dozens of magnificent plays and

more than 150 poems and other works, leading count-

less bedazzled readers ever since to call him the world’s

greatest playwright and poet, the be-all and end-all of

great English literature!

Others are more critical, saying it’s almost laughable

to think that someone with a grammar-school education

could have written such majestic works. In their mind’s

eye, to credit it all to one man is too much of a good

thing, and they are deeply suspicious.

But disproving Shakespeare’s authorship has been

a wild-goose chase so far. And without such proof, his

supporters refuse to budge an inch in their belief that

Shakespeare wrote each and every word credited to him.

But the naked truth is, nobody knows for sure. Like much

of Shakespeare’s life, the answer seems to have melted

into thin air.

Maybe the truth will out someday. If so, the discov-

ery could occur at Washington, DC’s Folger Shakespeare

Library, where scholars from around the world come to

study the Bard of Avon. “Bard” is another word for poet.

The first major collection of Shakespeare’s work was

printed in 1623. As good luck would have it, the Folger

library has 82 of the 233 copies known to exist.

Shakespeare added more than 1,700 new words and

phrases to the English language — many still in use. Com-

puter searches have found that he may not have invented

all of them, but he certainly made them popular. Want

to try a zany challenge? We’ve hidden 30 of his words

and phrases in this article. How many can you find? This

game is not for the gloomy or faint-hearted. You could

wind up in such a pickle you’ll be puking! Here’s a hint to

help you get started: Nine of those words and phrases

are in this paragraph. So hurry, for goodness’ sake! Time’s

a-wasting and the game’s afoot!

Can you spot words and phrases Shakespeare invented?

Here are the 30 (by paragraph) that were tucked into the story, plus the plays they came from.

monumental (“Troilus and Cressida”) *full circle (“King Lear”);

flaming youth (“Hamlet”) *excitement (“Hamlet”) *brave new world (“The Tempest”) *lie low (“Much Ado About Nothing”) *countless (“Titus Andronicus”)

*bedazzled (“The Taming of the Shrew”) *be-all and the end-all (“Macbeth”);

critical (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) *laughable (“The Merchant of Venice”)*majestic (“Julius Caesar”) *mind’s eye (“Hamlet”) *too much

of a good thing (“As You Like It”) *suspicious (“Henry VI”);

wild-goose chase (“Romeo and Juliet”) *budge an inch (“The Taming of the Shrew”) *naked truth (“Love’s Labour’s Lost”) *melted into thin

air (“The Tempest”);

truth will out (“The Merchant of Venice”);

as good luck would have it (“The Merry Wives of Windsor”);

zany (“Love’s Labour’s Lost”) *gloomy (“Henry VI”) *faint-hearted (“Henry VI”) *in such a pickle (“The Tempest”) *puking (“As You Like It”)

How did you do in the Shakespeare game?

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YOUNG EDITORS


Did you know your sense of smell begins with six million smell-detecting cells located at the top of your nasal cavity?

By Howard Bennett

The Washington Post

For most animals, smells are neither

good nor bad. Rather, they commu-

nicate something about the world.

Predators mark their territory with urine

and other scents so competitors know

that they’re in the neighbourhood.

Prey use their sense of smell to fig-

ure out whether a predator is trying to

catch them. Males know mating season

has arrived based on scents produced by

females of their species.

For modern humans, smell isn’t as

much about life and death. People use

mouthwash because they don’t want to

have bad breath. Parents sniff the air to

determine whether their baby needs a

diaper change. Kids wonder why some

cheese smells like stinky feet.

Your sense of smell begins with six

million smell-detecting cells located at

the top of your nasal cavity. These cells

detect odours in the air and send infor-

mation about them to an area near the

front of the brain called the olfactory

bulb. (“Olfactory” is the scientific word

for smell.) The olfactory bulb transmits

the signals to other parts of your brain

where “smell” is interpreted.

Six million smell-detecting cells sounds

like a lot, but dogs have 220 million of

them. Now you know why dogs do such

a good job finding lost people, but people

aren’t so good at finding lost dogs.

Your tongue recognizes five tastes:

sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury. But

the ability to appreciate all of the amazing

flavours in the world is possible because

of your sense of smell. Every time you eat

something, information from your taste

buds and your nasal cavity converge in

your brain. It’s the combination of this in-

put that allows you to taste the complex

flavours in food. (That’s why food tastes

bland when you have a cold.)

There is a simple experiment you can

do that demonstrates this point. Get a

piece of fruit or something else to eat. Take

a bite out of the food and swallow it. Think

about the way it tasted. Now take another

bite, but this time hold your nostrils closed

when you eat the food. It doesn’t taste as

good, does it?

Anosmia (pronounced a-NAWZ-mee-

uh) is a rare condition in which a person

is unable to smell.

The last time I diagnosed this was

with a 15-year-old patient. He thought he

couldn’t smell things because his nose

was stuffy, but I was able to show him it

was more than that. Once he realized what

was going on, he said to me, “Now I know

why I can never smell my brother’s farts.”

After we both stopped laughing, I

had to remind him that it also meant he

wouldn’t be able to smell whether food

had spoiled or whether there was a gas

leak in his home. Fortunately, you can buy

products that detect gas, and he would

learn to be careful with expiration dates

on food. There is another condition that

affects humans, especially younger ones,

called selective smelling.

In this case, kids walk around with

smelly feet or body odor but fail to notice

the aroma coming from their bodies. They

also tend to argue with anyone, especially

parents, who point this out. There is no

cure for this condition, but a nice, warm

shower - with soap and shampoo - keeps

it in check!

Ever wondered about your sense of smell?

COLOUR MEGUESS THE CHARACTER

Last week’s correct answer: Laurel and Hardy

Identify this cartoon characterMail us the name of this famous character at [email protected] with ‘Guess the Character’ mentioned in the subject line. This character has the natural ability to shoot water from its mouth.

WHEELSIf you have the money to spend on a Range Rover HSE Td6, buy it; as there is real technical, practical and performance value.


By Warren Brown

The Washington Post

AEven the name of the exterior paint, Kaikou-

ra (Kai-eee-koo-ra) Stone Metallic, sounds

expensive.

Everything else is money, too — interior

ivory/almond-coloured Oxford Leather, automatic

Xenon headlamps with LED signature lighting, turbo-

charged 254-horsepower V-6 engine and eight-speed

automatic - yes, eight-speed automatic transmission.

It can roll over rocks, negotiate streams and traverse

most other off-road obstacles, but most of its buyers

never will demand that it do those things or anything

else causing it noticeable harm.

Ha! Take a pen, pad or recording device to a high-

end U S shopping mall. Try to find as many Land Rover

machines as you can — 10 should be an easy number.

How many are scratched or show other signs of seri-

ous off-road damage?

Don’t be surprised to find all close to pristine. Why?

Simple. Rare, indeed, are the people who will spend

$106,325 — the full cost of this week’s 2016 Range

Rover HSE Td6 — to risk common off-road damage.

Even rarer are those willing to spend that kind of

money on a Range Rover Autobiography or Executive

model - $150,000 or more.

Why do you buy it? Do you get it for the adventure

of sleeping overnight at a Sheetz truck stop, as I’ve oc-

casionally done? Do you use it to take a long, off-road

guided tour, as I’ve done a few times in my career?

Do you get it because you live in England on a large

country estate with wildlife in need of monitoring and

field hands to help? Probably not.

The truth: This is where prestige comes into the

business of buying and selling, folks.

The importance is this: Range Rover genuinely of-

fers prestige with portfolio.

That means there is real technical, practical and

performance value in the case. You have to make the

economic decision as to whether you actually want or

will it. That is a real decision.

Almost any bona fide full-time off-road vehicle can

travel most roads travelled by a Range Rover HSE Td6.

But can it do it as well? Not many of them. No.

So what? It you seldom go off-road or never plan

to leave pavement, why worry about it or spend more

money to do what you never have any intention of do-

ing? You might as well buy every insurance policy the

world offers. It makes just as much sense.

You can spend far less than $106,325 and get

a safe, reliable, sport-utility-vehicle. Will it serve you

reasonably well on those rare off-road jaunts? Prob-

ably. Just have it checked before you go? Will it come

with multiple conveniences such as gradient- release

control (reactive grounding response), intelligent

start-stop for fuel efficiency, hill start and hill descent

control? Probably not.

Will it have Range Rover’s overall guarantee of

luxury and quality? No.

Will it have Range Rover’s accommodation of

prestige, which accompanies the vehicle almost as

naturally as breathing? No.

Bottom line: If you have the

money to spend on a Range Rover

HSE Td6, buy it. If you are primarily

in pursuit of prestige via vehicle, get it.

Ride, acceleration and handling: It generally is

brilliant in all three areas. But some broken roads will

let you know that they are quite broken.

Head-turning quotient: It is a big Range Rover.

No one misses it.

Body styles/layout: This is a full-size, front-en-

gine, full-time luxury sport utility vehicle, meaning

it can be outfitted to almost every conceivable per-

sonal whim.

Engine/transmission: It comes with a tur-

bocharged (forced air) 3.0-liter gasoline V-6

(254-horsepower, 443 pound-feet of torque) with

32 valves and variable-valve timing. The engine is

linked to an eight-speed automatic transmission.

Capacities: Seating is for five people. Capacity

with all seats in place is 32.1 cubic feet. With seat

folded, it is 71.t cubic feet. Fuel

capacity is 22.5 cubic feet. Pre-

mium grade is recommended.

The HSE Td6 can be outfitted to tow 7,716 pounds.

Safety: Standard equipment includes front and

rear ventilated disc brakes; four-wheel antilock disc

brakes; emergency braking assistance; stability and

traction control; side and head air bags; post-colli-

sion safety system; pre-collision safety.

Note: The HSE Td6 comes loaded with advanced

electronic safety systems. Additional systems are

available as options. You already are spending lots

of money. It is worth it. Spend more. Get them.

Pricing: The base price of the 2016 Rover Range

HSE Td6 is $93,450 with an estimated dealer’s in-

voice price of $90,000. Price as tested is $106,325

including an estimated $12,035 in options (advanced

electronic suites and other items). Dealer’s price as

tested is optional.

Nuts & Bolts

Latest Range Rover offers prestige with portfolio

09FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016

Being a first lady is complicated as it’s technically not a job at all with a description or a salary, but there is huge expectation from people who occupy this position. WOMEN

By Emily Heil

The Washington Post

Being president is hard. (See the graying heads of commanders-in-chief for proof.)

But an even more complicated gig might just be that of first lady - according to the

chiefs of staff to the last three women to hold down the job, who gathered on Wednesday night for a panel at Georgetown University.

Starting with the fact that it’s not technically a job at all.

“There is no job description,” noted Melanne Verveer, who worked for Hillary Clinton in the East Wing. “There is no salary. There is no appointment. There is no election. And everybody in the United States has an opinion, I swear, about what the first lady is supposed to do - and they’re all in contradic-tion with each other.”

First ladies have traditionally picked a few issues to focus on that complement their husbands’ agendas, using the spotlight that comes with their positions for the good of their causes. And in the modern era, the chiefs agreed, being first lady really is a full-time job.

“There’s a greater expectation that Americans have of what the people who occupy this position are doing with it,” said Anita McBride, who was chief of staff to Laura Bush. “Long gone are the days when Mamie Eisenhower used to say, ‘Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.’”

Another difficulty of the office? First ladies have to look flawless. Staffing for one means not just making sure your boss’ speech is on-message, but that her hair is on fleek — which isn’t, the women agreed, as frivolous a matter as it might sound.

“It’s down to ‘what’s the ground like that she’s

going to have to walk across, because can she wear heels? Or does she have to wear flats?’” said Tina Tchen, the top staffer to Michelle Obama. “When you have the cameras of the world on you, and you are representing the United States of America in a for-eign country, the ability to carry yourself down that walkway is critical.”

McBride concurred: “For us, the equivalent of the nuclear football was that makeup bag. When you are the representative of the United States and its people ... you feel the pressure to be as perfect as you can.”

Why being a first lady is complicated?

“When you have the cameras of the world on you, and you are representing the United States of America in a foreign country, the ability to carry yourself down that walkway is critical.”

DESIGN


“It is intended to be a sofa that one can sit up and have a great conversation in, and also take a really great nap in.”

By Colleen Barry

Associated Press

Big Italian furniture brands turned out col-

lections at the 55th Milan Furniture Fair

that included forgotten or neglected treas-

ures from their archives, along with fresh

innovations by the “starchitects” who have

infused design with glamour.

A record 372,000 people attended the premier

event for Italian design and furnishings that ended Sun-

day. It featured more than 2,400 exhibitors at the Rho

fairgrounds and spilled out into eight design districts in

Milan’s city center. The annual gathering highlights the

prowess of Italy’s furniture manufacturing sector, which

last year reported a 3 percent increase of revenues to

nearly 25bn euros ($28bn).

Patricia Urquiola, who was named Cassina’s new

art director in September, is doing it all: launching her

own designs while curating new works from colleagues,

and updating the Italian brand’s iconic pieces ahead

of its 90th anniversary next year.

Urquiola said she has brought a more feminine

influence to the Cassina DNA, which “has always been

very masculine, very architectural.”

She started with a new armchair called “Gender,”

which she described as her “manifesto piece.” It com-

bines two elements: a ridged, high-back form that

embraces the occupant with a more cartilaginous,

adjustable headrest and a fitted cushioned “dress.”

The chair can be paired with an inverted U-shaped

ottoman.

For her debut collection, Urquiola also revisited

a steel-supported table designed by Carlo Scarpa in

1968, making it from anodized aluminum in strong

shades including copper and matte red to lighten the

impact. The table in the central Milan showroom fea-

tured a clear glass top, but it’s also available in white

or black marble.

Taiwan-based architect Shi-Chieh Lu adapted the

traditional yoke-back Ming chair popular in China for

Poltrona Frau, as the Italian brand infuses its collection

with a taste of the Orient.

While the Ming chair has traditionally been crafted

from wood, the “Ming’s Heart” design for Poltrona Frau

takes its European cues from the leather styling. The

distinctive geometric back and seat are suspended

from the tubular frame, creating the sensation of a

swing.

The US brand has made some of the world’s most

distinctive, enduring chair designs, including Ludwig

Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair. “The chair is an

intricate question,” allowed Benjamin Pardo, Knoll’s

design director, recalling the 70 series executive seat-

ing collection that marked the brand’s entry into the

European market in the mid-20th century.

As with his runway designs, Tomas Maier took in-

spiration from materials for Bottega Veneta’s latest

home collection, with heroic bronze accents.

The bronze base of round, arched coffee tables

provided a fitting thematic counterpoint to frescoes of

fierce war scenes in the living room of the brand’s 18th

century palazzo showroom. They were harmonized

with velvet seating.

Bottega Veneta launched its home line in 2006,

and as with other design houses, it is a growing part

of the portfolio. This year’s collection featured updates

on tableware, including porcelain dishes and flatware

imprinted with Bottega’s distinguishing weave pattern.

Maier also finds cross-overs from his ready-to-

wear looks. A leopard pattern on a chair appeared

on the runway last season, while platinum boxes with

semi-precious stone was inspired by Bottega Veneta’s

stone-inlaid sterling silver jewellery.

Italian furniture makers strengthen brands through archives

Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola is lying on a chair called “Gender,” at the Cassina space, part of the Design Fair exhibition, in Milan, Italy.

11

DESIGN


“If the designed landscapes haven’t had a level of maintenance, they reach a tipping point, and when they do, there’s pressure to create something new because it’s easier to fund.”

Preserving a fleeting art form: The garden

By Adrian Higgins

The Washington Post

In 1990, the innovative landscape architects Wolf-

gang Oehme and James van Sweden trumpeted

their efforts at changing the face of the American

garden by publishing a book titled “Bold Romantic

Gardens.”

They showed that dynamic gardens of novel peren-

nials and ornamental grasses sprinkled with shrubs and

trees could replace static lawns and clipped hedges.

They used this plant palette in all kinds of settings

— small urban gardens, big civic projects, seaside land-

scapes and botanical gardens. Their credo seemed to

be: The meek may inherit the earth, but it is the daring

who should shape it.

A generation later, the DC firm they established lives

on, but both Oehme and van Sweden have died — and

so has much of their original work. Of the 21 landscape

projects featured in the book, nine have been lost to

time or neglect, or altered to the changing needs or

tastes of subsequent owners.

Gardens are living creations, and even the best-

tended of them change. It is because of this fragility

that extra care must be taken to preserve the worthy

ones.

Raising awareness of these forces was the major

impetus behind an exhibition that closes Sunday at

the National Building Museum after six months. “The

New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of

Oehme, van Sweden” includes photographs of major

projects, including the Federal Reserve Board garden;

the Slifka beach house in Sagaponack, New York; the

seminal Vollmer residence in Baltimore; and the Rosen-

berg garden on Long Island’s Mecox Bay.stone-inlaid

sterling silver jewellery. This show is ending as another

landscape design exhibition at the building museum

is in full swing. “Luminous Landscapes” is a survey by

photographer Alan Ward of some of our most enduring

and culturally significant landscapes, including Mount

Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dum-

barton Oaks in Georgetown; and the Biltmore Estate

in Asheville, North Carolina.

Through Ward’s panoramic lenses, they have an

immutable quality about them. Viewing both shows in

sequence offers remarkable contrasts about how spac-

es are given different character and how our gardening

sensibilities have changed over the past century.

It is the tenuousness of Oehme and van Sweden’s

creations that spurred the landscape conservationist

Charles Birnbaum to stage that show in collaboration

with the museum’s curators.

As founder and head of the Cultural Landscape

Foundation, Birnbaum has been raising concerns for

a long time about the constant loss of or threat to

important designed landscapes by major landscape

architects. In various institutional and civic settings,

many of the gardens are aging, their founders out of

the picture, and the spaces are being eyed for other

uses. If the designed landscapes “haven’t had a level

of maintenance, they reach a tipping point, and when

they do, there’s pressure to create something new

because it’s easier to fund,” Birnbaum said.

Slifka beach house garden in Sagaponack, New York, was begun in 1986 by Wolfgang Oehme and James van. Sweden.

FILMS


AL KHOR

ASIAN TOWN

NOVO

MALL

ROYAL PLAZA

GREEN ROOM

BABY BLUES

ZITS

After witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads.

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

List of movies running in Qatar cinemas. Get your friends or families together, grab a bucket of popcorn and enjoy a weekend flick.

Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

The Jungle Book (2D/Action) 11:30am, 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:20 & 10:45pmMother’s Day (2D/Comedy) 10:00, 11:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 3:20, 5:00, 7:20, 7:40, 9:40 & 11:40pm & 12:00midnightI Am Wrath (2D/Action) 10:00, 12:00noon, 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 5:40, 6:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Take Down (2D/Thriller) 11:30am, 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pmGreen Room (2D/Crime) 1:30, 5:30 & 9:30pmSynchronicity (2D/Thriller) 11:00am, 3:10, 7:30 & 11:45pmMidnight Special (2D/Drama) 1:00, 5:10 & 9:30pmThe Huntsman Winter’s War (2D/Action) 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 9:00 & 11:30pmKangar Hoppiena (2D/Arabic) 11:00am, 3:10, 7:20 & 11:30pmPrecious Cargo (2D/Action) 1:10, 5:20 & 9:20pm Dhay Fe Abu Dhabi (2D/Arabic) 11:30am, 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 & 11:15pmThe Jungle Book (3D IMAX/Drama) 10:20am, 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 & 11:15pm

Take Down(2D/Thriller) 1:30pm Baaghi (2D/Hindi)8:30&11:00pmTop Cat Begins (2D/Animation) 3:30pmMother’s Day(2D/Comedy) 5:15pm

Kangar Hoppiena (2D/Arabic) 7:15 & 9:15pmMidnight Special (2D/Drama) 6:00 & 9:15pmDhay Fe Abu Dhabi (2D/Arabic) 2:00pmThe Jungle Book (2D/Action) 4:15pm Kali(2D/Malayalam)1:15pm

Hijrat (2D/Urdu) 3:30pm Synchronicity (2D/Thriller) 5:45pm

I Am Wrath (2D/Action) 7:45pm Green Room (2D/Thriller) 11:30pm

Kali (Malayalam) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45pm

& 12:00midnight Theri (Tamil) 6:00pm

Baaghi (Hindi) 12:45, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30pm & 12:45am Manithan (Tamil) 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15pm & 01:00am

Sarrainodu (Telugu) 12:30pm Vetrivil (Tamil) 3:30pm

Top Cat Begins (2D/Animation) 1:30 & 3:15pm The Jungle Book (2D/Action) 5:00pmBaaghi (2D/Hindi)6:45 & 11:15pm Take Down(2D/Thriller) 11:30pmGreen Room (2D/Thriller) 1:00pm Hijrat (2D/Urdu) 9:15pm

Mother’s Day (2D/Comedy) 1:45 & 7:15pm

I Am Wrath (2D/Action) 3:45 & 7:30pm Kangar Hoppiena (2D/Arabic) 5:30 & 9:15pmDhay Fe Abu Dhabi (2D/Arabic) 3:00pmMidnight Special (2D/Drama) 5:15 & 9:15pmSynchronicity (2D/Thriller) 11:45am & 11:30pm

The Jungle Book (Drama) 12:15, 12:30, 2:30, 2:45, 4:45, 5:00, 7:00, 7:15, 9:15 & 11:30pm Mother’s Day (Comedy) 12:15, 2:45 & 5:15, 9:30pm & 12:00midnightI Am Wrath (Action) 7:45, 9:45 & 11:45pm

13

PUZZLES


EASY SUDOKU

Yesterday’s answer

Easy Sudoku Puzzles: Place a digit from 1

to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every

column and every 3x3 box contains all the

digits 1 to 9.

Yesterday’s answer

MEDIUM SUDOKUACROSS

1. Elementary (6)

4. Sort (4)

8. Made known (9)

9. Scintilla (4)

10. Season (6)

13. Fluent (6)

15. Unguent (4)

18. Reptile (9)

19. Bed on a ship or train (4)

20. Conflict (6)

DOWN

1. Law officer (7)

2. Intended (5)

3. Solitary (4)

5. Watercraft (5)

6. Conclusion (3)

7. Sound (5)

11. Violent disorder (7)

12. Flower (5)

14. Diadem (5)

16. Obviate (5)

17. Passport endorsement (4)

18. Young mammal (3)

CROSSWORD

Feeling lazy to go out? Stay inside with a hot karak, some healthy chips and start solving these puzzles. We have some number crunching ones and also the traditional crossword.

ALL IN THE MIND

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

ABOVE, ABYSS, ACME,

APEX, ATOP, BASEMENT,

BELOW, BROW, CANYON,

CHASM, CRATER,

CREST, CROWN, DEEP,

DEPRESSION, ELATION,

ELEVATED, HIGHEST,

HILL, HOLE, HOLLOW,

LOFTY, LOWEST, MOUND,

MOUNTAIN, NADIR,

OVER, PEAK, PINNACLE,

RAISED, RAVINE, ROOF,

SUMMIT, TRENCH, UNDER,

VALLEY, VERTEX, ZENITH.

13:23 Through The

Wormhole

With Morgan

Freeman

16:31 Mega Builders

18:05 Mythbusters

18:50 Da Vinci’s

Machines

19:40 How The

Universe Works

21:15 Sinkholes:

Swallowed Alive

22:00 Da Vinci’s

Machines

10:00 Bottle Rocket

12:00 The Bounty

Hunter

14:00 Happy Gilmore

16:00 Down To Earth

18:00 Cas & Dylan

20:00 Wild Hogs

22:00 Nothing To

Lose

13:45 Gator Boys

14:40 Treehouse

Masters

15:35 Tanked

16:30 Animal Cops

South Africa

18:20 River Monsters

19:15 Tanked

20:40 Shamwari: A

Wild Life

21:05 Treehouse

Masters

22:00 River Monsters

22:55 Gator Boys

13:30 JLA

Adventures:

Trapped In Time

14:30 The Theory Of

Everything

16:45 McFarland,

USA

19:00 Maze Runner

21:00 Ant-Man

23:00 The Equalizer

08:00 News

08:30 Viewfinder

Latin America

09:00 Al Jazeera

World

10:00 News

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:00 News

12:30 101 East

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Marco Polo: A

Very Modern

Journey

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:00 News

17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 Rebel

Architecture

20:30 Inside Story

22:00 News

22:30 Rebel Geeks

23:00 Valentino’s

Ghost

13:10 Austin & Ally

14:00 Liv And

Maddie

15:20 Dog With A

Blog

15:45 Miraculous

Tales Of

Ladybug And

Cat Noir

17:00 Violetta

Recipes

17:10 Lemonade

Mouth

18:40 Best Friends

Whenever

19:05 Evermoor

Chronciles

20:30 Lemonade

Mouth

22:00 Binny And

The Ghost

22:50 Sabrina

Secrets Of

A Teenage

Witch

23:10 Hank Zipzer

23:35 Binny And

The Ghost

TV LISTINGS


PARENTINGWith a few tweaks to our behaviour and calming of our nerves, parents can get kids excited about cooking. Even if your child doesn’t become an Iron Chef.

By Aviva Goldfarb

The Washington Post

Would you let your 2-year-old use a chef’s

knife? Many people think that sounds

not just dangerous, but insane. How-

ever, that’s what my friend J.M. Hirsch,

a prominent food writer and cookbook author, did

with his son Parker.

I’m a little more conservative (okay, fearful) than

he is. My kids were more like 8 when I first let them

use a sharp knife in the kitchen. But in my work, I’ve

come across some 6-year-olds who can slice and dice

like pros.

Just like our kids’ maiden voyage down a steep

slide, or the moment they wobbled off without training

wheels on a bicycle, that first chop through a carrot

is terrifying. We’re bound to question ourselves and

picture them slicing off a fingertip. But if we want our

kids to love to cook and to do it with confidence, we

need to put aside our fears and let them do more than

we are comfortable with in the kitchen.

I’ve been cooking with parents and kids for nearly

two decades. While I’ve never had a child get hurt in

my kitchen or at one of my demos or classes, I have met

many parents who are so consumed with worry that

they unintentionally drive their kids out of the kitchen.

I understood this caring mom’s reaction — she was

trying to protect her beloved child from injury and

she hadn’t seen him learn to chop safely. But upon

reflection, I wondered whether the real fear should be

that, in the long term, our kids won’t learn to cook at

all, and will be consigned to years eating prepared or

highly processed foods. That is statistically far more

likely to result in disease than cooking is to result in

mortal injury.

Here are seven ways we can get a grip on our fears or controlling behaviours and inspire our kids to cook instead:

Let kids cook real food. Many of us cherish memo-

ries of baking with our parents, and we want to share

that experience with our kids and really, who doesn’t

love fresh, hot cookies? But to really release our kids’

inner chef, we need to encourage them to make other

foods they may enjoy eating, Ideally, we want our kids

to learn that it’s easy to make almost any food they

like to eat.

Let kids be in charge. Too often parents take the

lead in the kitchen and stay in control for too long.

Instead, let the child direct the activity by letting her

decide what to make, how to season it and what to

serve it with. Let the child do the actual work, includ-

ing reading or thinking the entire recipe through first.

If she acts as head chef and you serve as sous chef.

Hot stoves and sharp knives? Bring ’em on. At

first, kids are often shocked that I let them cook at the

stove and wield a knife. Yes, we most definitely need

to teach our kids basic safety skills around heat and

sharp objects, but we also need to stretch beyond our

fears and comfort zone and empower and trust them

to cook safely and responsibly so they won’t get bored

by just mixing and measuring.

Let them make a mess. Don’t suck the joy out

of cooking by grimacing or groaning every time your

child spills some flour on the floor or splashes some

soy sauce on the counter. Sure, kids also need to learn

that cleaning up is an inevitable result of cooking, and

they should help clean up the kitchen after cooking

But let them get in their flow without worrying about

making a mess along the way.

Take a breath. If you are stressed out or rushed

when your child wants to cook with you, and you know

you need to have dinner on the table in 15 minutes,

you may inadvertently send signals to him that cook-

ing is stressful or you don’t want his help. If you find

yourself snapping at or correcting him constantly while

he is in the kitchen.

Stop talking. In cooking with kids, the most im-

portant lesson I’ve learned is that the less we say, the

better off we all are. Sure, if they ask us a question we

should answer, but it’s important to keep quiet as often

as possible when we feel like directing or correcting,

and let them figure stuff out for themselves.

Get out of the room. Especially at first, it can be

scary to let our kids cook when we’re not standing

right there. I remember when my daughter texted me

a question about using the food processor alone for

the first time while I was at my son’s basketball game

and I wanted to tell her to wait until I got home but

I held my tongue.

A few weeks ago, our son Solomon, who is now a

freshman in college, demonstrated how developing

cooking skills early can pay off. While on a spring

break trip to an athletic tournament, the 30 kids on

the team planned, shopped for and cooked group din-

ners all week. Though the menus were basic, no one

lost a finger, they saved tons of money and Solomon

said that preparing and sharing those dinners was a

highlight of the vacation.

Let your kids use sharp knives and hot stoves

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POTPOURRI


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Photo of the week Photographer: Haja Javed Ahmed

A man trying his hand in fishing.

By Ellie Krieger

The Washington Post

Ellie Krieger writes a healthful-eating column for

Local Living and a weekly Nourish recipe for Food.

She is a registered dietitian, nutritionist and au-

thor. Her most recent cookbook is You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, Do-Ahead Meals.

The pineapple can be cooked on an outdoor grill.

(Remember to brush the grates with oil.) If you have a

pineapple corer, use it to remove the core before you cut

the pineapple into rings.

MAKE AHEAD: The can of coconut milk needs to be

refrigerated for at least 5 hours and up to 1 day in ad-

vance. You’ll have whipped coconut cream left over; it

can be refrigerated for at least 1 month. Ellie Krieger

likes to refrigerate the beaters she uses for the coconut

whipped cream; you can chill them along with the canned

coconut milk.

Ingredients: 4 servings

One 13.5-ounce can full-fat coconut milk

1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar

1 fresh whole pineapple

1/4 teaspoon ground allspice

Canola oil, for the grill pan

2 teaspoons fresh mint leaves (whole or chopped),

for garnish

Method:

Chill the can of coconut milk in the refrigerator for at

least 5 hours and up to 1 day.

Remove it from the refrigerator without shaking it

or moving it too much. Transfer what has congealed at

the top to a mixer bowl, being careful not to include any

of the liquid. The yield should be about 3/4 cup of solid

coconut cream.

Add the sugar to the bowl; whip with chilled beaters

(optional; see headnote) on medium-high speed (stand

mixer or handheld electric mixer) until the coconut cream

is glossy and firm enough for a spatula to leave tracks

that remain. The yield is about 1 cup.

Cut off the top and bottom of the pineapple. Cut

away and discard the skin and any brown spots on the

fruit. Cut the pineapple flesh crosswise into eight equal

slices (about 1/2 inch thick). Use a spoon or apple corer

to carve out the center core of each slice to create rings.

Sprinkle the allspice evenly over each pineapple ring (on

one side only).

Brush a large grill pan lightly with the oil and heat

the pan over medium-high heat. Working in batches and

adjusting the heat as needed, cook the pineapple rings

for 2 to 3 minutes per side or until they are nicely

browned and grill marks have appeared.

To serve, place 2 pineapple rings on each serving

dish. Top each with a small dollop (2 teaspoons) of the

coconut whipped cream, and garnish with mint.

Nutrition | Per serving: 90 calories, 0 g protein, 21 g carbohydrates, 5 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 0 mg choles-terol, 0 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 16 g sugar

Grilled Pineapple With Coconut Whipped Cream

Photo by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post.

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