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FOOD
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• Gastroesophageal reflux
disease (GERD)
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MOVIE
TAKING
WINGS
General aviation in Qatar has
spread its wings with the recent
Al Khor Fly-In show which
attracted over 20,000 visitors and
35 aircraft from across the GCC.
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COVER STORY
Al Khor Fly-In
soars high P
By Raynald C Rivera
Barry Sloane
rivate jet owners in
Qatar, a regional commercial aviation giant,
attach much importance to raising awareness about general aviation during
the annual Al Khor Fly-In.
The sixth edition of the
show, which concluded recently,
attracted 20,000 visitors — four
times the number last year. It also
saw a 30 percent increase in the
number of participating aircraft.
The show turned out to be educational as well as entertaining for
the visitors, who mostly comprised
families.
For Qatar-based engineer Barry
Sloane, aviation is a hobby that is
both fun and relaxing. But more
than that, general aviation brings
great economic benefits, he says.
“In North America, for instance,
general aviation is now a multibillion dollar industry,” he told The
Peninsula.
General aviation is very popular
in North America, and there are
over 6,000 airports available for
use by general aviation pilots. In
the United States, general aviation
provides more than one percent
of GDP and over a million jobs in
manufacturing and professional
services.
“Economic benefits for the
Middle East could be incredible
by raising the level of activity
in general aviation, which could
help other sectors as well,” added
Sloane, who has been in Qatar for
17 years.
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A four-time participant in
the show, Sloane has seen how
the event and public interest
in it have grown.
“There’s a great level of
interest among the people
with a big number of families
coming today to have their
pictures taken beside the airplanes. This event also raises
awareness that they can fly
airplanes in Qatar.”
Sloane flies a Cessna N187, a
twin-engine aircraft that can
carry five people at a top speed
of 360kph, and has a range of
about a thousand nautical
miles, which can take it to
Amman, Jordan, non-stop.
“Qatar is a great place to
fly airplanes because of great
weather, and it also has an
interested population,” he
said, lauding the organisers
for putting up the show and
increasing awareness about
general aviation in the country and the region.
Fuad Dashti, the lone participant from Kuwait in the
show, was of the same view
about the need to promote
general aviation.
“There are lots of pilots in
Kuwait for general aviation,
but we don’t have general
aviation. I am the only one in
Kuwait who owns and flies my
own plane. We have jets, but
commercial ones,” said Dashti.
He has been taking part
in the event for the last four
years and, according to him,
“Every year it is becoming
better and better, and more
people are getting to know
what general aviation is about,
which is really important.”
Dashti developed his
interest in aviation as a child
dreaming to be a pilot, which
did not match his father’s
dream for him. But he did not
give up.
“My father wanted me to
be an engineer rather than a
pilot, but while I was studying
to be an engineer in the US,
I studied to be an aviator,” he
said, adding he had been flying
for 35 years now.
His plane, a Beechcraft
Baron G58, was one of the
crowd-pullers at the show,
being one of the largest aircraft on display.
Not only private planes but
companies also took part in
the expanded show this year.
One of these firms was Wallan
Aviation, which, in addition
to selling private planes and
helicopters, runs an aviation
school.
Based in Saudi Arabia, the
company is the exclusive agent
of Cessna Aircraft and Bell
Helicopter in the Middle East.
Two of its popular Cessna
models, Cessna 400 Corvalis,
and Skycatcher, were on display at the show.
“We were here last year,
and it is improving. It is a
nice gathering for aviators in
the Gulf and the Middle East,”
said Captain Omar Sadeq
Damra, a flight instructor at
Wallan Aviation.
Cessna 400 Corvalis is
priced at $500,000 while the
Skycatcher sells for about
$100,000.
“Some of the Cessna airplanes showcased in this expo
were sold by us,” he said, adding
they had a big customer base
in Qatar, as clients preferred
Cessna, with their jet planes
considered the fastest.
Another attraction at the
Al Khor Fly-In was affordably
priced air tours aboard microlight aircraft. They charged
QR200 for a ride.
The two-day event saw long
queues of people wishing to
take a ride, and all of them
expressed satisfaction with
the ten-minute trip.
“It was fun. The cockpit was
open, so I could feel the wind,
which made it thrilling,” said
American Academy student
Yash Joshi, who was one of the
first to take a ride.
With a pilot father, Joshi
has been on other types of
aircraft before in India, his
home country, but it was his
first time in a microlight.
“My dream is to be a commercial pilot because flying
gives a feeling of being free and
makes one appreciate nature
and, at the same time, appreciate human achievement in
getting in the air,” he added.
Filipina thrill-seeker Regina
Horario lauded the organisers
for including the air tours in
the programme.
“It is a good thing they have
organised this kind of activity
in Qatar,” said Horario, who
was also a first-timer on a
microlight plane.
“It was a different experience for me because I could see
everything and feel the air, so
it was really nice,” she said.
Held under the patronage of
Qatar Civil Aviation Authority,
the event also featured radiocontrolled model aeroplanes
and competitions for visitors.
Fuad Dashti
Capt Omar Sadeq Damra
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COMMUNITY
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
Pakistan Engineers
Forum sponsors
Science Club in PEC
T
he Pakistan Engineers Forum
(PEF) recently opened a
Science Club at Pakistan
Education Center (PEC)
to provide the students a platform
to carry out science projects of their
interest, including learning robotics.
Pakistani Ambassador Muhammad
Sarfraz A Khanzada inaugurated the
Science Club after a short presentation by PEF at the Arbab Auditorium
of PEC. This is the first initiative by
the new executive committee of PEF
under the leadership of its president,
Asfandiar Ansari.
In his speech, Ansari highlighted the
importance of science and technology,
especially the technology behind robotics. Dr Uvais Qidwai, an associate professor at Qatar University, is the brain
behind the programme.
The Peninsula
Pakistani Ambassador Muhammad Sarfraz A Khanzada inaugurating the Science Club along with Asfandiar Ansari, president,
and Mohammad Riaz, vice-president, Pakistan Engineers Forum, at PEC.
Nepali food festival
and cultural show
T
he first Nepali Food Festival &
Cultural Show featuring indigenous
dances and authentic cuisine of Nepal
will be held on January 31 and February 1 at
Horizon Manor Hotel.
Visitors to the festival will enjoy scrumptious food such as Dal Bhat, GundruokDheedo, Alu Tama, Vegetable Pulao, Masu,
Choyla, Kwati, Nepali, Momo, Samay Baji,
Sekuwa , Sel Roti, Sukuti and Thukpa while
watching dances including Sangini, Maruni,
Jhagad, Tamang Selo, Bhojpuri, Newari,
Kauda, Tappa, Ghatu, Jhora, Dhimal,
Sorathi, Shepru, Sakela and Dhan.
Organised by the Nepal Federation of
Indigenous Nationalities Qatar, Samsara
Thakali Bhanchha Ghar and Horizon
FROM LEFT: Binesh Tamang, public relations coordinator, and Narendra Sen, managing director, of Group Seven; Manor Hotel, the festival is scheduled on
Devika K C and Prakash Gurung of Samsara Thakali Bhanchcha Ghar; Shirish Ballikar, food and beverage manager, January 31 from 6pm to 12 midnight and
Horizon Manor Hotel; Hari Pun of Samsara Thakali Bhanchcha Ghar; and Sushma Lama, managing director, Quest on February 1 from 12 noon to 8pm.
Media Service, at the news conference at the Horizon Manor Hotel.
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Gulf-based businessman gets
award from Indian president
D
r K T Mohamed Rabeeh
Rabeeullah, a prominent Indian
businessman in the Gulf region,
has received a prestigious award for
his outstanding contributions to the
community and humanitarian services.
The award — Pravasi Bharathiya
Samman — was presented by Indian
President Pranab Mukherjee during
the concluding ceremony of a conference of Indian expatriates in Kochi,
Kerala. Fourteen other prominent
Non-Resident Indians also received
the award.
Dr Rabeeullah, who is chairman of
Shifa Al Jazeera Medical Group, runs
a number of Medical Centres in Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries.
The group employs more than 4,000
people from different countries, including 700 doctors.
“The contributions made by
Rabeeullah in making healthcare
affordable and available to ordinary
people have been immense,” said one
of his friends. “It was he who literally
opened the doors of super-specialty
healthcare to ordinary people working
in the Gulf,” he added.
Starting with a tiny clinic 30 years
ago, the group today offers its services through 25 healthcare centres
and hospitals and as many pharmacies in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain
and Kuwait.
The Peninsula
Dr K T Mohamed Rabeeh Rabeeullah receiving the award from the Indian president.
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Qatar Rail employees
donate blood
Malabar Gold Festival
I
The winner of the Malabar Gold Festival receiving gold coins from Raju, branch
manager of the Malabar Gold and Diamonds Garrafa showroom.
QNB Group gets ready
for Sports Day
n a show of support for
Hamad Medical Corporation
(HMC), employees of Qatar
Rail, including senior executives,
rolled up their sleeves and donated
blood to the medical centre. HMC
staff was on hand the entire day
to manage the overwhelming
response to the drive.
“Just one unit of blood can save a
life,” said Qatar Rail Deputy Chief
Executive Officer Eng Hamad Al
Bishri. “I am extremely proud
Eng Hamad Al Bishri donating blood.
of the altruistic actions taken by
the entire Qatar Rail family, and
I also ask members of the public to receive the help that they require.”
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donate to HMC to ensure that everyone, from the young to the elderly,
Lexus draw at Family Food Centre, Airport branch
Q
atar National Bank (QNB)
Group is getting ready to participate in the second annual
Sports Day.
To mark the event, QNB has
formed a committee to tailor a special
programme and line up a number of
activities for the day. The formation
of this committee stems from QNB’s
social responsibility programme,
which aims at giving back to the community as part of being a good corporate citizen, as QNB is the largest
financial institution in Qatar and the
wider Mena region and supports most
of the state’s initiatives, especially in
sports.
During last year’s event, QNB organised a marathon at Aspire zone that
attracted a good number of employees,
families and a large a number of clients and members of the public, who
praised and enjoyed the event.
Youth Forum to hold
sports competitions
A
s part of National Sports Day,
Youth Forum is organising
sports events for community
organisations from Kerala, India.
A sports meet — Pravasi
Kayikamela — will be held on
February 8 and 12. Competitions
will be held in individual and group
events among members and teams of
various organisations. Registration is
open until January 27.
The individual events include running (100, 200 and 1,500 metres),
long jump, high jump, shot put,
javelin throw and arm wrestling.
The group events are 4x100 metres
relay, volleyball, badminton and tug
of war. Each participating organisation can register two contestants for
each individual event and one team
for each group event. Only the first
16 teams that register will enter the
group events.
Organisations/groups can register
by emailing to pravasikayikamela@
gmail.com. More details on 55168364.
The Peninsula
A child holds the winning coupon of the second draw of “Family Shopping Surprise”, a sales promotion by Family Food
Centre (FFC). Nasser Mohamed, an official from the Ministry of Business and Trade; Habeeb Mohammedunni, HR and
administration manager, FFC; and Varghese Joseph, showroom manager, FFC, Airport Branch; supervised the draw
held at the Airport Branch of FFC yesterday. Merilou Simet (Coupon No. 589738) won the Lexus E350 2013 model. The
final draw will be held today at 10am at the Al Nasser Branch of FFC.
Salim Matramkot
New batch for IATA Foundation Diploma at Qatar Skills Academy
Qatar Skills Academy has announced its new batch for the IATA Foundation Diploma in Travel and Tourism. QSA Director
Paul Rogers said: “Qatar Skills Academy is delighted to be able to provide Qatar with assistance in this particular area
where high levels of training and development are so urgently required with the fast development of Doha International
Airport and its services.”
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PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
FOOD
Lofty discourse
from a leading
British chef
By Richard Vines
S
at Bains looks like a rugby player.
He’s not just physically imposing:
He’s actually physical. He’ll grab
you in a bear hug and loudly share
with you what’s on his mind, littering his
monologue with expletives. He’s the kind of
man who would make a good friend and a
bad enemy.
Bains, 41, also happens to be one of Britain’s
most sensitive chefs. He produces dishes of
such delicacy that it’s difficult to square them
with such a rumbustious character.
His Restaurant Sat Bains With Rooms
placed No. 4 in Britain’s National Restaurant
Awards in October. It’s located on the edge of
an industrial estate in Nottingham, central
England, and holds two Michelin stars.
Now, this English-born offspring of
Punjabi parents who moved to Britain in
the 1960s has released a cookbook, and it’s
predictably large. Too Many Chiefs, Only One
Indian weighs three kilograms (6.6 pounds)
and costs £75 ($120). The introduction is by
Heston Blumenthal of the Fat Duck.
Bains developed his love of food enjoying
meals with his extended family, and went to
catering college to meet girls.
“I started to read books by the great
French chefs, (Auguste) Escoffier, Michel
Roux, Pierre Koffmann, and I wanted to get
into the trade,” Bains said in an interview.
He left his home in the English Midlands
to work at Le Petit Blanc in Oxford and
L’Escargot in London before winning the
Roux Scholarship, the premier award for
young British chefs. His prize was training in
France at the three-star Le Jardin des Sens,
alongside Rene Redzepi, the Danish chef who
went on to open Noma in Copenhagen.
A trip with Gordon Ramsay followed,
to El Bulli, which held the title of World’s
Best Restaurant before Noma. Bains also
travelled to Japan on a culinary scholarship,
and you can see these experiences reflected
in his dishes, which combine the modern
technology pioneered by Ferran Adria at El
Bulli with a Japanese aesthetic of purity and
harmony.
Which isn’t to say there’s anything simple
about the recipes in Too Many Chiefs. They’re
aimed at professional chefs, are designed to
feed 10 and many require the kind of equipment (Pacojet, Thermomix, etc.) that even
the most skilled of home cooks may not
possess.
The book is beautiful, with photos by John
Arandhara-Blackwell, and the main buyers
may be happy diners rather than food lovers looking for recipe ideas. It most closely
resembles books Adria used to produce at El
Bulli, which documented dishes more than
they encouraged their reproduction.
The text, all in capital letters as if Bains
was shouting, is as robust as its creator.
Examples: “A CHEF SHOULD REALLY ONLY
EVER BE JUDGED FOR THEIR TECHNICAL
ABILITY.” And “NO ONE KNOWS MY FOOD
BETTER THAN ME, SO I CAN’T BE JUDGED
ON IT. THAT’S NOT ARROGANT. THAT’S
PURE HONESTY.”
Sometimes, the line between honesty,
arrogance and aggression can be a thin one.
Bains says a diner who described one of his
dishes as disgusting was summoned to the
kitchen and told “I’M NOT BEING FUNNY,
BUT YOUR BLOUSE IS DISGUSTING.”
Bains is known for his robust response to
criticism on TripAdvisor, telling an unhappy
customer his group resembled a wake. “The
only reason the staff stuck around was to
make sure they were still breathing, as a
death of grumpy customers is not something I want on my conscience,” Caterer and
Hotelkeeper quoted him as saying.
Bains serves only tasting menus. For dinner, it’s £79 for seven courses and £89 for 10.
When I dined there in October, the dishes
included scallop curry (with lentil dahl and
cumin yogurt); Cornish crab with avocado
and sea vegetables (with pickled turnip and
peanut brittle); duck “muesli” (with savory
granola); and chocolate mousse (with cumin).
It’s modern British cooking with influences
from France, the Nordic region, Spain, India
and Japan, to name but a few of the places.
It’s served beside a highway on the outskirts
of a provincial English city, almost two hours
from London by train, an unlikely setting for
a meal of such creativity.
The dress code? Don’t wear a disgusting
blouse.
www.restaurantsatbains.com
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HEALTH
Health Tips
from DOCTOR
Gastroesophageal
reflux disease
G
astroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs
when stomach acid, and sometimes bile, backs up
(refluxes) into the esophagus, the tube that connects
your mouth and stomach. Over time, the backwash
of acid can irritate and inflame the lining of the esophagus.
Signs and symptoms of GERD include acid reflux and heartburn. Both are common digestive conditions that many people
experience from time to time. When these signs and symptoms
occur at least twice each week or interfere with your daily life,
doctors call this GERD.
Most people can manage the discomfort of heartburn with
lifestyle changes and over-the-counter medications. But for
people with GERD, these remedies may offer only temporary
relief. People with GERD may need stronger medications, even
surgery, to reduce symptoms.
Conditions that can increase your
risk of GERD include, obesity, hiatal
hernia, pregnancy, smoking, dry
mouth, asthma, diabetes, delayed
stomach emptying, connective tissue disorders, such as scleroderma
and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
Lifestyle changes may help
Dr M M Abdul Kareem
reduce the frequency of heartburn.
Specialist – Internal
Consider trying to:
Medicine
• Maintain a healthy weight.
Healthspring World Clinic
Excess pounds put pressure on your
abdomen, pushing up your stomach
and causing acid to back up into your esophagus. If your weight
is healthy, work to maintain it. If you are overweight or obese,
work to slowly lose weight — no more than 1 or 2 pounds (0.5 to
1kg) a week. Ask your doctor for help in devising a weight-loss
strategy that will work for you.
• Avoid tight-fitting clothing. Clothes that fit tightly around
your waist put pressure on your abdomen and the lower esophageal sphincter.
• Avoid foods and drinks that trigger heartburn. Everyone has
specific triggers. Common triggers such as fatty or fried foods,
tomato sauce, alcohol, chocolate, mint, garlic, onion, and caffeine may make heartburn worse. Avoid foods you know will
trigger your heartburn.
• Eat smaller meals. Avoid overeating by eating smaller meals.
• Don’t lie down after a meal. Wait at least three hours after
eating before lying down or going to bed.
• Elevate the head of your bed. If you regularly experience
heartburn at night or while trying to sleep, put gravity to work for
you. Place wood or cement blocks under the feet of your bed
so that the head end is raised by six to nine inches. If it’s not
possible to elevate your bed, you can insert a wedge between
your mattress and box spring to elevate your body from the
waist up. Wedges are available at drugstores and medical supply
stores. Raising your head with additional pillows is not effective.
• Don’t smoke. Smoking decreases the lower esophageal
sphincter’s ability to function properly.
Treatment for heartburn and other signs and symptoms of
GERD usually begins with over-the-counter medications that
control acid. If you don’t experience relief within a few weeks,
your doctor may recommend other treatments, including medications and surgery.
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PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
Melamine tableware may
leach chemical: Study
By Genevra Pittman
A
chemical that sickened
and killed babies in
China when it tainted
baby formula can also
leach off of tableware and into
food, a new small study suggests.
However, researchers said,
that doesn’t prove the compound,
called melamine, is harmful to
kids and adults in the amounts
detected when study participants
ate hot soup from melamine
bowls.
Large doses of melamine —
which is used in some types
of fertiliser and in resin used
to make tableware - killed six
babies in China and sent thousands more to the hospital with
kidney damage in 2008. In high
enough quantities, melamine can
cause kidney stones and other
kidney problems in adults as
well.
In the new study, healthy
young adults who ate hot noodle soup from bowls made with
melamine resin had higher
levels of the chemical in their
urine for the next 12 hours.
The study “raises interesting
questions about environmental
agents that can affect the kidney long term,” said Dr Craig
Langman, who studies kidney diseases at Northwestern
University’s Feinberg School of
Medicine in Chicago.
“It does raise some concerns,
but it hardly proves anything,”
added Langman, who wasn’t
involved in the new research.
“To date, I have great skepticism about the link.”
Researchers led by Chia-Fang
Wu from Kaohsiung Medical
University in Taiwan had six
people in their 20s eat hot soup
for breakfast out of melamine
bowls and another six eat soup
from ceramic bowls. Then, the
researchers monitored participants’ urine for the next 12
hours. Three weeks later, the
two groups were reversed.
For the rest of the day, the
total melamine excreted in
study volunteers’ urine was
8.35 micrograms following a
melamine-bowl breakfast, compared to 1.31 micrograms after
breakfast from a melaminefree bowl.
The researchers didn’t measure any health effects possibly
related to melamine — and it’s
not clear if those urine levels
would lead to any long-term
medical problems or if participants’ bodies were storing any
of the chemical.
Still, Wu and colleagues wrote
in JAMA Internal Medicine,
“Although the clinical significance of what levels of urinary
melamine concentration has not
yet been established, the consequences of long-term melamine exposure should still be of
concern.”
Langman said research into
the chemical’s long-term biological effects should continue.
“The babies who were poisoned because of their being
young had very low kidney function to begin with,” he said — so
their kidneys were particularly
vulnerable to the chemical.
What’s more, “Clearly, poisoning acutely with this massive
overload is different than longterm exposure,” Langman said.
According to the Food and
Drug Administration, melamine is approved in the US
for use in the manufacturing
of some cooking utensils, tableware, plastics and industrial
coatings, among other things.
The chemical is likely more
common in other countries
including China.
“American exposure from
tableware must be astonishingly
small, or not at all. (However),
because of the Chinese poisoning
epidemic, we have to be entirely
vigilant all the time about our
food supply,” Langman added.
He said anyone who has a
choice might as well avoid buying tableware made with melamine, because it does interact
with some acidic foods and in
the microwave.
“If you can avoid it, why use
it?” he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/V2tOYf JAMA
Internal Medicine, online January
21, 2013.
Reuters
Scientists make breakthrough in HIV research
U
S researchers have cracked a system
that renders certain types of immune
cells impervious to HIV infection,
possibly paving the way to its eradication from the body.
The system’s two vital components are high
levels of a molecule that becomes embedded in
viral DNA like a code written in invisible ink
and an enzyme that, when it reads the code,
switches from repairing the DNA to chopping
it up into unusable pieces.
Johns Hopkins researchers say the discovery
opens a new approach to eradicating HIV from
the body, the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences reports.
“For decades, we have seen conflicting reports
on whether each of these components helped
protect cells from viruses,” says James Stivers,
professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Institute
for Basic Biomedical Sciences, who led the
study.
“By plotting how much of each are found
in different types of cells, as well as the cells’
response to HIV, we learned that both are
needed to get the protective effect,” adds Stivers,
according to a John Hopkins’ statement.
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HOLLYWOOD NEWS
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
ctress Jessica Chastain
wants to personally meet
and thank singer Robbie
Williams for providing the scholarship, which helped her study in
college.
Chastain, 35, has never had a
chance to meet and express gratitude to the singer, reports dailystar.co.uk.
“I am the first person to go to
college in my family and it was
because I got a scholarship from
Robin Williams, who made it possible... I sent him a letter when I
got the scholarship, but I’ve never
met him,” Chastain said on a US
chat show.
The actress, last seen in movie Mama, once missed the chance of meeting Williams.
“I almost met him. I was at a restaurant and I was telling someone the
story... (and) Robin came in and sat down next to me. I waited until he
was done eating because I don’t want to be the crazy girl at the restaurant,
and before he finished he jumped up and left and I jumped up and I was
gonna chase after him and then I thought, ‘No!’,” she said.
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Why Chastain wants to thank Williams
ctress Jessica Alba has
written a book on lifestyle
and parenting to provide
an honest account of everything.
Titled The Honest Life, the book
reveals the actress’ personal experience as a parent.
The actress, who has two daughters Honor, four, and Haven, 17
months, was annoyed by lack
of information on lifestyle and
parenting when she looked for it
online, reports dailystar.co.uk.
The Honest Life recounts Alba’s
personal journey of discovery and
reveals her tips for making healthy
living fun, real, and stylish, while
offering a candid look inside her home and daily life... Her solutions are easy,
chic, and down-to-earth: they’re honest,” said a statement on Alba’s website.
She is married to Cash Warren.
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Alba pens book on lifestyle
movie.
The 37-year-old had written, directed and produced 2011
release In The Land Of Blood And
Honey and says it was a result
of a homework she gave herself.
“I didn’t set out to ever become
a director or write a script. I was
never intending to make a film.
I often give myself homework
on different things,” Total Film
magazine quoted Jolie as saying.
“It’s good exercise to get your
mind working,” she added.
ctress Angelina Jolie says
she never planned to don
the director’s hat for a
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Jolie never wanted to direct
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new Indian film looks at the sensitive topic of sexual harassment
in the workplace at a time when
Bollywood has come under fire
for its portrayal of women, after a fatal
gang-rape shocked the nation.
Inkaar (Denial), a Hindi movie combining crime and romance, explores how a
relationship turns sour between Rahul, the
alpha male CEO of an advertising agency,
and his ambitious protegee Maya, who rises
up the company’s ranks.
She claims sexual harassment, a charge
he flatly denies, and the film develops
through a series of flashbacks as the pair
tell their story to a social worker looking
at the case.
The theme is an unusual one in an industry that has faced fresh criticism for objectifying women as merely skimpily dressed
arm candy for a macho hero.
The brutal gang rape and murder of a
23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi
on December 16 sparked shock waves and
protests across the nation, along with much
soul-searching about its treatment and
portrayal of women.
Director Sudhir Mishra said the timing
of Inkaar’s release, on Friday, was a coincidence but he hoped the film would spark
debate on under-discussed issues facing
modern and rapidly urbanising India.
“The film explains the environment of a
workplace from both men’s and women’s
points of view,” he said.
“Everyone has a point of view on a subject, especially something as strong as
sexual harassment. I have come across a
A
cluster of people who work in different
offices and they have similar stories to
narrate.”
Inkaar’s initial reviews say it has failed
to live up to its promise, and should have
pushed further its exploration of gender
politics in the office.
“The tough questions that the film had
started to lay out for us... all get buried
under a hurried, compromised end,” said
The Indian Express.
But film trade analyst Komal Nahta
The theme is an
unusual one in an
industry that has faced
fresh criticism for
objectifying women
as merely skimpily
dressed arm candy for
a macho hero.
Bollywood in
spotlight as
film explores
harassment
described it as a “brave attempt” to take
on a “bold subject”.
“Films based on sexual harassment
should be made more and more, but the
filmmaker should handle this delicate subject with utmost care,” he said.
While Bollywood avoids on-screen sexual contact and even kissing scenes, questions over its alleged commodification of
women have intensified since last month’s
horrific gang rape.
The “item number” has come under particular fire — a musical performance often
unrelated to the plot, featuring scantily
clad women in suggestive dance routines.
When the film returns to the story line,
the main female character is often tirelessly wooed by the male protagonist until
she gives in to him.
“We talk about public or police apathy
towards crimes against women but nothing comes close to the antipathy shown to
women by Bollywood,” said award-winning
playwright Mahesh Dattani in a scathing
column.
“Bollywood loathes women. Bollywood is
a monster that has gone horribly wrong,”
he said.
Shabana Azmi, a 62-year-old actor
known for her roles in Indian New Wave
cinema from the 1970s, suggested there
was some responsibility on younger women
in the business to insist on better portrayal of female characters.
“Celebration of a woman’s sensuality is
healthy but commodification is not and
our heroines will do well to make more
discerning choices,” she said on Twitter.
MOVIE
AFP
Others in the industry defended its
movies, saying Bollywood had become a
soft target that could not be blamed for
inciting violence.
Chitrangada Singh, the female lead in
Inkaar, said song-and-dance numbers in
films had been around for decades. She
pointed in particular to Helen, a legendary Indian star in the 1970s and the most
famous “item girl”.
“Helen did a lot of dances during my
mother’s time but men were not like this,”
she said.
Veteran art film actor and television
presenter Farooq Sheikh suggested that
scripts had deteriorated over the years.
“Intelligent writers need to be given a
chance,” he said.
An alternative Bollywood is starting to
emerge: a crop of “Hindi Indie” directors
have done well on the festival circuit and
even some mainstream films have departed
from the typical love story themes.
Films such as last year’s thriller
Kahaani (Story) and The Dirty Picture a
year earlier, both starring Vidya Balan,
have won praise for presenting stronger
female characters.
Among India’s leading independent
filmmakers is Anurag Kashyap, who said
it was up to the audience to make moviemakers adapt.
“Cinema is business and whatever will
work, they’ll keep doing that,” he told
NDTV. “You want that to change, stop
watching those films... stop buying those
tickets.”
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ctress Juhi Chawla, who
will soon be seen in 3D
animation movie Main
Krishna Hoon, says she loves family movies and this is the reason
why she agreed to be part of this
project too.
“I love this movie very much
as it touches your heart. And it
makes you laugh, it makes you
cry, it makes you feel happy. The
main reason I am doing this
movie is just because it is a family movie and I am sure you will enjoy it,” Juhi said in a statement.
The actress has done many family entertainers like Bol Radha Bol, Ishq
and Bhootnath in the past.
A
Juhi loves family
movies
ctor Sanjay Dutt
was delighted when
he got an opportunity to spend some quality
time with Tamil megastar
Rajinikanth while shooting
in Chennai.
Sanjay was shooting in
Chennai for director Ravi
Kumar’s movie Policegiri
when he and the director got the invitation from
Ranjinikanth to visit his
house.
“Rajini sir has always had
the highest regards for Mr.
Sunil Dutt and his whole
family. In fact, when he was unable to personally meet Mr Dutt’s children, he sent over unique and exclusive gifts for the kids all the way from
Chennai! They had a long and stimulating conversation bonding over topics
close to both,” a source later said.
A
Sanjay Dutt’s rendezvous with
Rajinikanth
B
lockbuster star Salman Khan has set a new record by signing a `5bn
deal with Star TV Network India for the television broadcast rights of
his upcoming films.
Post 2009 blockbuster Wanted, the 47-year-old’s career is going from strength
to strength. In the last five years, he has churned out a string of successful
films — Ready, Dabangg, Bodyguard, Ek Tha Tiger and Dabangg 2 - all these
films earned over `1bn at the box office.
Hemal Jhaveri, general manager at Star Gold, said: “Yes, we have signed a
deal with Salman Khan and whoever asks me why Salman, I would only say
why not Salman Khan? His past box office record has been outstanding and
his film, which has been premiered on TV, is exceptional.”
“He still has the highest record for his film Bodyguard which had the highest
rating so far,” he added.
According to the deal, the channel would own exclusive TV broadcast rights
of Salman’s all new films.
“The deal is from 2013 onwards where all his films in which he acts, produces
or be part of, we will have the broadcast rights exclusively with us,” said Jhaveri.
Salman, who is right now having some health issues and is likely to fly to
the US for treatment, has handful of films in his kitty — Kick, No Entry Mein
Entry and Sooraj Barjatya’s next untitled film among others. He will start
shooting for them soon.
Salman signs record `5bn deal with Star
BOLLYWOOD NEWS
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
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WHEELS
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
2013 will be the year of the truck and the luxury
most influential auto show
Ford F-150 Atlas: Concept truck uses
start-stop technology to improve fuel economy
Chevrolet Silverado: General
Motors hopes revamped pickup
Up to
will boost global profits
$44,000
(€33,000)
Global sales of cars
costing more than
$130,000 (€100,000)
are forecast to beat 2007
pre-recession peak this year
Porsche 918 Spyder: Hybrid
supercar – with mid-mounted
V-8 and two electric motors – has
top speed of 323km/h and fuel economy
of 2.5 litres per 100km.
expensive model is aimed
at Chinese market
Up to
$2.2 million
(€1.65m)
Mercedes SCG AMG Black Series: Re-born gullwing coupe
accelerates from 0-100km/h in 3.6 seconds
and has top
speed of
315km/h
$199,500
(€150,000)
Chevrolet Corvette:
First Corvette to carry
Stingray name
since 1970s
From
$50,000
(€37,600)
From
$315,000
(€236,100)
Ferrari 458 Spider:
Top speed of 320km/h,
0-100km/h in 3.3 secs
Bentley Continental
From
GTV8: Twin-turbo
$174,000
6.0-litre W12 engine.
Top speed of 325km/h, (€130,350)
0-100km/h in 4.1 secs
Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images, GMC, Ferrari, Porsche
© GRAPHIC NEWS
BOOKS
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
S
tefan Bachmann is only 19,
but his darkly mysterious
debut novel set in a parallel
world of faeries, goblins and
child snatchers has already earned
him comparisons to J K Rowling,
Dickens and Dostoyevsky.
“I didn’t realise it would get published,” Bachmann said, tapping the
yellow, mechanical bird depicted on
the cover of The Peculiar, which first
hit shelves in the United States last
September.
“I just really, really hoped something would happen with it,” the
lanky, blond Swiss-American with
rectangular steel-rimmed glasses
added with boyish enthusiasm.
And something certainly did.
After spending a year trying to
find a literary agent, the book he
began writing in his bedroom at 16
was suddenly the object of a publisher bidding-war before it was
snapped up by the US publishing
giant Harper Collins.
With a first print of 100,000 copies and rights sold in seven languages besides the original English,
his adventure set in a bleak version
of Victorian England where faeries
and humans unwillingly live side by
side has met rosy reviews, including
from the Los Angeles Times which
dubbed him an “unusually gifted
young writer”.
His second book, The Whatnot
— which picks up from the first
book’s cliffhanger ending and completes its harrowing tale of two
young peculiars, half-human, halffaery changelings despised by both
sides — is set to be published in
September. Both are what is know
as middle-grade fiction, targeting
the preteen age bracket.
“Don’t get yourself noticed and
you won’t get yourself hanged”:
that is a motto Bachmann’s hero,
a peculiar named Bartholomew
Kettle, leaves to one side as he is
swept into a cataclysmic adventure
which sees other peculiar children
snatched and killed, their insides
drained and their skin left floating
in the Thames.
“I know it’s dark,” Bachmann
admitted, cradling a cup of hot tea
in his hands in a crowded book store
cafe in the heart of Zurich.
“I’m not sure why. I think I just
really liked scary stories when I was
a kid. I wanted to write a story that
I would like to read,” he said.
A LONG ROAD TO SUCCESS
He said he decided early on that
his book needed to be in the “steampunk” tradition — a sub-genre of
science fiction inspired by 19th
century Western civilisation and
typically featuring steam-powered
machinery — and that it be set
in his favourite period: Victorian
England.
Bachmann, who has lived most
of his life on the outskirts of
Switzerland’s largest city, was
home-schooled by his American
mother, who he said had always
Teen author
Stefan Bachmann
reaps full-grown
success
encouraged him to read all different kinds of books.
He lists Charles Dickens, J R R
Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and
C S Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia
among his favourites.
“I really like it when writers can
make you feel like you’re in this
whole other world,” he said.
It may sound strange coming
from a 19-year-old, but the way
Bachmann tells it, his was a long
road to success.
“This is my first published book,
but I wrote three before it,” he confided. He began his first book aged
just 11.
“But they were definitely 11- to
12-year-old books. They were not
very good,” he laughed, adding that
he had not tried to get any of his
youthful works published.
It was also at 11 that Bachmann
began pursuing his second passion
in life, when he was enrolled in the
Zurich Conservatory.
Now majoring in composition, he
hopes to one day also be a film composer, he said, “but that is kind of
like writing, a lot of people want to
break in... I don’t know if I will have
the same luck twice.”
But as he works on a third book
and continues to dash around to promote The Peculiar, he says his teachers are not always understanding.
“They are intense maestros who
are not really impressed by the
hype. To them, music is the most
important thing ever, and everything else is peripheral.”
Asked if he sometimes wishes he
had more time to just be a regular teenager, he shrugged: “You win
some, you lose some.”
“I do go out with my friends
sometimes, but a lot of times I have
to say, no, sorry, I have a deadline,”
he said.
“But then you get to go on book
tours and go to New York and make
new friends. It’s worth it.”
AFP
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TECHNOLOGY
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
Apps of the DAY
Tech world crawling into the crib
(All apps are for Android OS.
Prices are for the UK market)
PBA BOWLING CHALLENGE
(FREE)
Bowling games have a long heritage on mobile phones — Jamdat
Bowling was one of the first big
downloadable hits back in the
pre-iPhone days. PBA Bowling
Challenge is thankfully bang up to
date, getting you to virtually bowl
against 21 famous (if you follow the
sport) 10-pin bowling stars.
O
ne is never too young to be
connected. The wares displayed by technology industry at the recently concluded
massive Consumer Electronics Show
included a variety of products and apps
aimed at the youngest audiences, even
those unable to walk.
The baby tech offerings featured
accessories and apps marketed to parents as tools to help children learn at
a very tender age.
Fisher-Price was showing a bright
plastic object with teething rings that
doubles as an iPhone case. That makes
it possible for a six-month-old to use
the smartphone.
“It’s a great learning tool,” said Julia
Maher, marketing manager for infant
toys at Fisher-Price, a unit of Mattel.
“We see moms passing back their
devices to occupy babies all the time.”
She said babies “like to turn pages”
and can in fact interact with a mobile
device.
For 18-month-olds, another device
from the toymaker attaches to the
iPad, giving toddlers another option
to start a digital lifestyle.
A tablet designed specifically for
young children was on display at CES
from the French company Lexibook.
The colourful device, which can withstand the numerous drops expected
from the young ones’ heavy usage, is
designed for children from four to eight
years old “but kids have the ability to
use this at age two,” said sales representative Robert Manlin.
These gadgets come on top of others such as the “tabeo” from retailer
Toys “R” US designed for children, and
released last year.
Tactile screens make it a lot easier
for kids to go mobile, but some experts
worry about prolonged exposure to
these devices.
Company officials argue, however,
that parents know best the limits for
their kids.
“When I was young, people asked
if kids watch too much TV,” said Bill
Hensley, vice president for marketing
at Wanderful, which was showing its
apps and interactive books for kids at
the CES in Las Vegas.
“Education is a big part of what we
do.”The new technology “helps children not only to learn to read, but also
to love stories. It’s a gateway to real
books,” he said.
In some of the new interactive
devices, children can find a word or
image and figure out how to match
them, or to make them move, part of
key early learning skills, according to
backers.
“If the app is used properly, there’s
no harm for kids to develop creativity
or Internet skills early in the childhood,” said Steven Chu, chief operating
officer of Canadian child mobile app
maker ToonBoom.
Others note that tactile screens and
apps can be especially beneficial for
SIMPLE (FREE)
Simple is a US thing for the
moment, but it’s interesting: A digital bank with a new Android app
for people to manage their accounts.
Helpful features for budgeting and
tracking spending add to its appeal.
DEEZCOVR (FREE)
This app is built using APIs from
streaming music service Deezer.
The focus is on discovering new
music, with the app recommending songs and artists you might like,
adapting them based on your mood,
and then saving the ones you like to
a playlist in your Deezer account.
THE LORDS OF MIDNIGHT
(£2.99)
A title to bring a nostalgic glow
to the eyes of gamers of a certain
age: this is a 2013 update of Mike
Singleton’s 1984 adventure The
Lords of Midnight. It sees you
exploring the land of Midnight while
also commanding armies to fend off
a witch king named Doomdark. It
was an 8-bit Skyrim! Sort of...
ASURA CROSS (FREE)
Here’s an entirely modern game
from Gamevil: An “adventure fighting” title that sees you building up
hero Jin to fight against a series of
mysterious foes. Eight game modes
and a local multiplayer option provide plenty of action to chew on.
LUMEN
PLAYGROUND
BETA (FREE)
One of the fun things about
Android gaming is getting to
play some games in beta before
their commercial release. Lumen
Playground is an early look at developer Sockeater Studios’ upcoming Lumen game, which already
looks like a beautiful thing, as you
roll a ball through a series of lush
environments.
children with disabilities.
Interbots has developed a system
aimed at autistic children, allowing
them to control a robot through a tactile screen. A therapist can also use the
robot to speak, offering a new type of
interaction for the children.
“Children with autism like working with touchscreens, they’re a little
more keen on interacting with a robot
than with a parent or a therapist,”
said Interbots Chief Technical Officer
Michael Knight.
AFP
GUNSLUGS (£1.65)
Gunslugs is a brand new game
influenced by some old classics,
featuring “a bunch of expendable action hero’s [sic] from the
80s”. So yes, also inspired by The
Expendables films. Random level
generation and unlockable characters look like keeping the challenge
fresh in this side-scrolling romp.
Stuart Dredge/ The Guardian
COMICS & MORE
LEARN
ARABIC
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
PERSONAL PRONOUNS
Masculine
Feminine
English
Ana
Ana
I, I am
Anta
Anti
You , you are
Howa
Hiyya
He, She, is
Getting to know people:
Ana Ismee……, wa Ana Ismee……, My name is…and
you what is yours
Anta ma is’muka(m) wa Anti ma
is’muki
Baby Blues
Anta min ay balad?
Anti min ay
balad?
Where are you
from?
Ana min….
Ana min….
I am from…
Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Hoy en la Historia
January 23, 1978
Sweden became the first
country to ban the use of aerosol
spray cans due to fears that
fluorocarbon gases they contained
were depleting the ozone layer
1909: The new 7,000 mile-long
telegraphic link between London and
India was welcomed
1973: President Richard Nixon told
the American public that the war in
Vietnam had ended
1995: Jacques Delors formally stepped
down as president of the European
Commission
2004: World Health Organization
alarm rose as Thailand reported its
first case of bird flu virus in humans
Picture: Getty Images
Hagar The Horrible
Zits
13
Chris Browne
© GRAPHIC NEWS
ALL IN THE MIND
Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,
vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
ACCORDION, BAGPIPES, BANJO, BASSOON, BELL, BUGLE,
CASTANETS, CELLO, CLARINET, CLAVIER, CONCERTINA, CORNET,
CYMBALS, DRUM, DULCIMER, EUPHONIUM, FLUEGELHORN,
FLUTE, FRENCH HORN, GONG, GUITAR, HARMONICA,
HARMONIUM, HARP, HARPSICHORD, KAZOO, KOTO, LUTE, LYRE,
MANDOLIN, MARIMBA, OCARINA, ORGAN, PIANO, RECORDER,
SITAR, TAMBOURINE, TIMPANI, TROMBONE, TRUMPET, TUBA,
VIBES, IOLA, VIOLIN, WHISTLE, ZITHER.
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1 Language in which
“hello” is “kaixo”
7 Chop-chop
11 Consumer protection org.
14 “Phooey!”
15 Hit song with the line
“When she squeezed
me tight she nearly
broke my spine”
16 French word that
sounds like a letter of
the alphabet
17 Rows
18 Grin-and-bear-it types
20 Impatient leprechaun’s
concern on an airplane?
22 Gossip
25 Type
26 Modernists
27 Musical genre of
Jimmy Eat World
28 Southern Iraqi city
30 Ooze
31 Degree for a
leprechaun who’s
an expert at finding
imperfections?
34 Period when Long
Island was formed
35 Some electronic parts
39 Leprechaun’s book
detailing the truth
about flounders?
43 Basic point
45 Show biz elite
46 Chess pieces
47 “The Long, Hot
Summer” woman ___
Varner
48 Mussorgsky’s
“Pictures ___
Exhibition”
49 New York’s ___ River
50 Scary legislation
introduced by a
leprechaun?
54 Rare astronomical event
55 Maharishi, e.g.
59 Score keeper, for short?
60 Obama education
secretary Duncan
61 Part of the Iroquois
Confederacy
62 Nice ’n Easy product
63 1987 Costner role
64 Vamp
DOWN
1 Punch accompanier
2 Knock over
3 Kind of short
4 Fantasy novel element
5 Miners’ sch.
6 Latin 101 verb
7 Swiss city where William
Tell shot an apple
8 Sisterly 9 Up
10 Beatle who was born
with the first name
James
11 Any of the singers of
“Jive Talkin’”
12 Paint the town red,
maybe
13 Goes over 21 at the
casino
19 Clorox cleaner
21 Brand name in a blue
oval
22 Brat Packer Moore
23 Apple choice
24 Symbol of the Virgin
Mary
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Fathered
Aphrodite’s lover
Fleet
Home-shopping
event?
Troubles
Russian diet
Squeezes (out)
Text message status
Sugar daddies, e.g.
Bygone Manhattan
eatery
TV journalist Lisa
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Unjust treatment
Died down
Previously, to poets
County on the Thames
Arab nation that’s not
in OPEC
Insurance grps.
Newcastle’s river
Good thing that comes
to those who wait?
Formal “yes”
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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
Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate
How to
play Hyper
Sudoku:
A Hyper Sudoku
Puzzle is solved
by filling the
numbers from 1
to 9 into the blank
cells. A Hyper
Sudoku has
unlike Sudoku
13 regions
(four regions
overlap with the
nine standard
regions). In all
regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear
only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is
solved like a normal Sudoku.
L
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EASY SUDOKU
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
CINEMA / TV LISTINGS
1
Bavuttiyude Namathil
(Malayalam) – 2.30 & 5.15pm
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
(Hindi) – 8.30 & 11.00pm
GULF
CINEMA
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER
TEL: 444933989
444517001
14:00 English Sports
News
14:15 Short
Programme
Inkar (2D/Hindi) – 2.30pm
2
Samar (Tamil) – 5.30pm
14:30 The Serie A
1
MALL
CINEMA
2
18:30
Tad, The Lost Explorer
(3D/Animation) – 2.30pm
20:30
Diango Unchained (2D/Action)
– 5.00 & 10.30pm
22:00
21:30
Chinese Zodiac (3D/Action)
– 8.00pm
3
Life Of Pi (Action/3D) – 7.15pm
The Last Stand (2D/Action)
– 9.30 & 11.30pm
Tad, The Lost Explorer
(3D/Animation) – 2.30pm
1
ROYAL
PLAZA
18:00
Hassal Kheir (Arabic)
– 5.00, 7.00 & 9.00pm
Great Expectations
(2D/Drama) – 2.30 & 5.00pm
2
The Last Stand (2D/Action)
– 4.15, 6.15 & 11.15pm
Diango Unchained (2D/Action)
– 8.15pm
Jack Reacher (Action) – 2.30pm
Beat The World (Drama)
– 5.00, 7.00, 9.00 & 11.00pm
Great Expectations
(2D/Drama) – 2.30pm
1
Tad, The Lost Explorer
(3D/Animation) – 3.00 & 5.00pm
Life Of Pi (Action/3D) – 6.45pm
2
13:40
14:35
15:05
16:00
16:55
17:50
18:45
20:05
21:00
21:30
21:55
23:20
Ultimate Survival
Border Security
Auction Kings
Deadliest Catch
You Have Been
Warned
Mythbusters
Sons Of Guns
How It’s Made
Auction Kings
Magic Of
Science
Time Warp
Mythbusters
13:00 Great
12:00
12:30
13:00
14:00
14:30
15:00
16:00
17:00
17:30
18:00
19:00
19:30
20:00
20:30
21:00
22:00
22:30
23:00
13:20
14:45
17:00
18:25
19:20
20:15
20:40
22:05
23:00
23:55
Wildlife SOS
Animal Precinct
Really Wild Show
Weird Creatures
With Nick Baker
Breed All About It
Monkey Life
Bondi Vet
Wildest Latin
America
Sharkman
Uakari –
Secrets Of
The English
Monkey
Macon County
13:55 Swamp Thing
15:25 In The Custody
Encounters
16:00 I, Predator
17:00 World’s
18:00
19:00
22:00
23:00
Weirdest
Hunter Hunted
Monster Fish
How Big Can It
Get
World’s
Weirdes
13:15 Foster’s Home
16:35
17:00
20:05
20:55
22:10
Hyde Park On Hudson
(2D/Comedy) – 9.00pm
12:25 Return To
Migrations
14:00 Dangerous
Chinese Zodiac (3D/Action)
– 5.00pm
Diango Unchained (2D/Action)
– 7.15 & 10.15pm
LANDMARK
Cricket
Bangladesh
Premier League
Khulna Royal
Bengals V
Rangpur Riders
English Sports
News
Basketball Nba
Oklahoma @ La
Clippers
La Liga
Programme
Atp Tennis
Magazine
English Capital
One Cup Semi
Final Swansea
V Chelsea
News
Tutu’s Children
Inside Syria
News
Talk To Al
Jazeera
News
Earthrise
NEWSHOUR
News
Inside Syria
Al Jazeera
World
NEWSHOUR
News
Listening Post
NEWSHOUR
News
101 East
News
Inside Story
NEWSHOUR
News
Talk To Al
Jazeera
Empire
Hassal Kheir (Arabic)
– 3.00, 5.00, 7.00 & 9.00pm
Jack Reacher (Action) – 11.00pm
3
08:00
09:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
Show
15:00 Twenty20
Da Thadiya (2D/Malayalam)
– 8.30 & 11.15pm
Beat The World (Drama)
– 3.00 & 11.15pm
15
23:00
For...
Young Justice
Ben 10:
Omniverse
Total Drama
Action
Ben 10:
Ultimate Alien
Grim
Adventures Of...
Ben 10
Of Strangers
17:00 Futureworld
19:00 Vanished
Without A
Trace
20:30 Implicated
22:00 Love And
Death
23:25 Rush
14:10 Ziegfeld FolliesFAM
15:55 Please Don’t
Eat The Daisies
17:45 The Wonderful
19:50
21:25
23:00
World Of The...
Billy The Kid
Torpedo RunAll The
Fine Young
Cannibals
Chinese Zodiac (3D/Action)
– 11.15pm
Les Miserables (2D/Drama)
– 2.30pm
3
The Last Stand (2D/Action)
– 5.30, 7.30, 9.30 & 11.30pm
12:00 Last Holiday
14:00 Little Shop Of
16:00
18:00
20:00
22:00
Horrors
The Search For
Santa Paws
Bad News Bears
The Banger
Sisters
The Dilemma
13:00 Quest For A Heart
14:30 Judy Moody And
16:00
18:00
20:00
22:00
The Not Bummer
Summer
Freddy Frogface
Puss In Boots
Shark Tale
Quest For A
Heart
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Events in Qatar
Message of HOPE 2012-13
Motivational workshop
When: Feb 6; 8:30am–noon
Where: Qatar Foundation Education City’s
HBKU Student Center Ball Room
What: In a workshop led by five handicapped
artists who paint with their mouth and feet,
corporate audiences will be challenged to
overcome their challenges, and motivated
to look at obstacles as opportunities.
The session involves live painting by the
handicapped artists, who will also share
their lifestories on how they overcame their
personal challenges to become successful.
Participants will also learn techniques of
painting without using hands.
Entry by invitation
For information and invitation:
www.hope-qatar.org
Forever Now
When: Until March 31, 2013; 11am-6pm
Where: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
What: Forever Now proposes new
readings based on the works of five artists
from Mathaf’s permanent collection. This
exhibition unpacks new narratives that posit
a unique understanding of five diverse artists:
Fahrelnissa Zeid, Jewad Selim, Saliba Douaihy,
Salim Al Dabbagh and Ahmed Cherkaoui.
Free entry
Art of Travel
When: Until Feb 11, 2013
(Sun, Mon, Wed: 10:30-5:30; Tue: closed;
Thu, Sat: noon-8pm; Fri: 2pm-8pm)
Where: Al Riwaq Hall next to the
Museum of Islamic Art
What: A watercolour album dated 1590
was commissioned by Bartholomäus
Schachman, mayor of Gdansk in 1604. It
documents what he saw during his travels
through the Ottoman Empire in 1588-89,
depicting costumes and people, scenes
of everyday life, festivals and ceremonies.
Pages of the album are on display along
with related artworks and documents
providing visitors with a fascinating and
vivid view back in time to the 16th century.
Entry: Children free, adults QR:25
POTPOURRI
PLUS | WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2013
Subway Footlong
found an inch short
T
he US fast-food chain Subway
got caught up in an online
furor after an Australian
teenager measured his “footlong”
Subway sandwich and found that it
was an inch short.
Matt Corby’s photo of the sandwich
next to a tape measure attracted hundreds of thousands of likes and hundreds more comments when he posted
it on Subway’s Facebook fanpage.
In response, Subway Australia
said the “Subway Footlong” was a
registered trademark “as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway
restaurants and not intended to be a
measurement of length.”
“Looking at the photo doing the
rounds, showing a slightly undersized sub, this bread clearly is not
baked to our standards,” the company said in a statement.
Angry fans took to the internet
to knock the company’s response. “I
refuse to eat at restaurants where I
need to bring a measuring tape to
choose my bread,” said Phil Tripp.
And John Ralph made the case for
the necessity of that extra inch: “An
inch or two can mean a big difference ... if the Titanic had missed the
iceberg by an inch or two it wouldn’t
have sunk.”
Reuters
MEDIA SCAN
A summary of
issues of the day
discussed by the
Qatari community
in the media.
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People are talking about the decision by the
Indonesian embassy to stop issuing housemaid visas for an unknown period. The reason
given by the embassy is that they are unable to
meet the financial burden of sending runaway
housemaids back home.
Many people are criticising the habit of writing on car glasses or putting stickers on them
because they obscure vision and can cause
accidents.
There is a discussion about the Qatar University
research centre for traffic. The centre is
expected to contribute to improving the traffic
situation in the country, raise awareness, and
reduce accidents.
People have appreciated Ashghal’s rerouting
of heavy trucks on Ras Laffan Highway, which
has significantly solved the problem of traffic
jams in the area.
There is a discussion in the social media about
the sanitation project in Southern Doha called
‘Idriss’. This is one of the biggest infrastructure
projects that will be developed by Ashghal.
The ‘Step into Health’ initiative launched by the
IN FOCUS
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Aspire Zone is winning praise from people as
it is beneficial for fitness and health.
Many residents of Al Khraitiyat area are calling for constructing speed breakers on roads
or setting up radars because many careless
and reckless drivers, mostly young men, are
practising car racing which can cause fatal
accidents.
There is talk about the Aspire Zone’s plan to
hold the TORCH Staircase Run on February 16.
Participants have to start at the base of the
tower and make their way up the stairs to the
finish line on the 51st floor.
Many people with disabilities are complaining
through the radio programme Watani Al Habeb
Sabah Al Khair that they are facing difficulties
in carrying out banking activities. Banks are
asking them to bring representatives, so they
are requesting the concerned bodies to help
them and solve the problem.
People are complaining about noisy motorcycle
driving in residential areas at night. Motorcycle
drivers are using devices that increase the
engine sound.
by Krishna Dev
The Family
When: Until Feb 28; 10am-10pm
Friday: 2pm-10pm
Where: Anima Gallery, The Pearl-Qatar
What: First Guiragossian family exhibition.
Despair, separation, re-union, love... Life
in all its forms is portrayed in the works of
Paul, Emmanuel, Jean Paul and Manuella
Guiragossian.
Free entry
Encounter: The Royal Academy
in the Middle East Exhibition
When: Until March 6; 10am-10pm
Where: Gallery 1&2 Building 19 and
Katara Gallery Building 22
What: An exhibition featuring over 80
works of art in a wide variety of media by
25 Royal Academicians and 25 prominent
artists from across the Middle East.
Free entry
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