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• CNA-Q partners with Oryx GTL to honour highest achieving graduates

• Sandstormers pledge QR200,000 for charity

• No need for tonnesof fat in this sweet potato salad

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GARBAGERegistered members of a unique clinic Registered members of a unique clinic in Indonesia can exchange rubbish for in Indonesia can exchange rubbish for check-ups and medicine. There are five check-ups and medicine. There are five such centres in the city that are part such centres in the city that are part of a scheme dubbed “Garbage Clinical of a scheme dubbed “Garbage Clinical Insurance”.Insurance”.

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By Maud Watine

Mahmud hauls bags full of rubbish to the small, dilapidated clinic next to a busy road on Indonesia’s

main island of Java several times a month. There he exchanges grubby cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and other garbage for something he would struggle to afford otherwise — medical treatment.

“I know I can sell my garbage here so I keep it,” said the 60-year-old, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. “I used to throw everything onto the street but I have started tell-ing myself that actually the garbage is useful.”

Mahmud, who suffers from arthritis, is one of many members of the Klinik

Bumi Ayu in Malang who regularly bring in rubbish in exchange for check-ups and medicine.

There are five such centres in the city that are part of a scheme dubbed “Garbage Clinical Insurance” by its 24-year-old founder Gamal Albinsaid, offering treatment and advice for free to some of the country’s poorest.

As Southeast Asia’s biggest economy struggles to spread the riches earned in recent years to the poorest in soci-ety, the clinics are a creative attempt to fill the gaps left by a threadbare welfare system. The government this year began rolling out what is sup-posed to be a universal healthcare sys-tem across the sprawling archipelago of 250 million people.

Once fully implemented by 2019, it is expected to cost around $15bn a year — but critics say it is underfunded and

Indonesia lacks enough well-trained medical staff.

In a country where half the popula-tion lives on $2 a day, spreading the gains from a sustained economic boom has been in sharp focus recently, with contenders running in July presiden-tial elections pledging to better the lot of society’s underprivileged.

Beyond healthcare, Albinsaid’s ini-tiative has had another notable benefit — it has created an army of cleaners to clear the streets in and around Malang, which like many cities in fast-growing Indonesia struggles to keep litter from piling up.

Albinsaid decided to open a first centre in 2010 after hearing the story of a young daughter of a rubbish col-lector who died after contracting diar-rhoea. Her family could not afford treatment.

Indonesia’s poor swap garbage for health care

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That clinic failed to get off the ground, but in 2013, Albinsaid and four others got together the funding to open five centres in Malang, and they have so far been doing well.

His achievements were recognised in January when he was awarded the Unilever Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize by Britain’s Prince Charles at a ceremony in London, which included €50,000 ($70,000) in financial support and mentoring.

Trash for treatmentPeople who want treatment at the

clinics bring in rubbish once a week on Saturdays. They must collect 10,000 rupiah (90 US cents) worth of garbage every month to be a member of the scheme, and this qualifies them for two visits a month.

Different types of rubbish are worth different amounts, according to Albinsaid. Organic waste can be turned in to fertiliser which is sold to farmers, and other materials, such as plastic and

metal, are bought by rubbish collectors who process it and sell it on.

The Klinik Bumi Ayu is staffed by two doctors, one nurse and two pharmacists and is open daily in the afternoons. Most of the patients are agricultural workers who toil in the rice paddies surrounding Malang, in eastern Java.

On a recent Saturday at the centre, about 10 patients were waiting to be seen by doctors.

A woman held her two-year-old daughter close, wrapped in a sarong,

the young girl’s eyes puffed up and red. After a quick examination, a doctor diagnosed her with a severe bout of diarrhoea and sent her away with some medicine.

Efriko Septananda, a doctor at the clinic, said common problems people came in with include high blood pressure, diabetes, runny noses and gastroenteritis.

Most earn between 500,000 and one million rupiah a month ($44-88), and would struggle to get good medical treatment if the clinic did not provide it in exchange for rubbish, he said.

‘Now I can pray normally’Free public healthcare does exist in

Malang and other parts of Indonesia. But getting access to it is a complicated, highly bureaucratic process, according to Albinsaid.

For Mahmud, treatment at the centre has helped ease his arthritis.

“Before I did not feel well, especially when I had to bend over to pray,” he said. “But now I can pray normally.”

More than 90 percent of Indonesia’s population describe themselves as Muslim.

Albinsaid, who is training to be a doctor but does not treat patients at the clinics himself, said the system has been successful as only 10 to 15 percent of people who bring in garbage use the services. This leaves enough money to run the centre and fund its development. He hopes to expand the scheme across Indonesia with clinics planned in three other cities so far, and the government has also taken an interest in getting involved.

For Albinsaid, it is also about giving some of the least privileged in the country greater control of their destinies. “With these clinics, we can help empower poor people,” he said. AFP

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College of the North Atlantic – Qatar part-nered with Oryx GTL in honouring the high-est achieving graduates of the Class of 2014

recently.Twenty-five students, all of whom received the

highest marks in their individual programmes, were presented with the President’s Medal of Excellence by Dr Ken MacLeod, President, CNA-Q, Ahmed Al Muhannadi, CAO, Oryx GTL, Ann Marie Vaughan, President, CNA and their academic Dean.

“As I look at his group, I cannot help but feel a great deal of CNA-Q pride, surrounded by the most outstanding achievers of the Class of 2014,” said Dr MacLeod. “Not only does this award recognize all your hard work and great capacity for academics, it is also representative of your ability to be leaders.

I have no doubt that each and every one of you will be an asset to your future organizations. You have proven yourselves to be the best and brightest. You are the future of Qatar’s workforce and you are a proud representation of CNA-Q.”

This is the 2nd year that CNA-Q has presented the President’s Medal of Excellence to graduates and the first year that a corporate partner was welcomed to the celebration. Corporate partnerships have been a mainstay at CNA-Q since 2002, with more than 60 percent of students sponsored by local organizations and Ministries. This is the first year that Oryx GTL has been involved in the event. Oryx GTL also sup-ports CNA-Q students through a number of other initiatives including scholarships and there are cur-rently 17 CNA-Q alumni working with Oryx GTL.

“We are honoured to be associated with the President’s Medal awards ceremony. Our part-nership with CNA-Q is very important and we believe it is important to recognise and celebrate academic achievement and encourage students to reach their full potential. As part of our sponsor-ship we will give every student a special gift which we hope will help them remember their success and support them in their next steps,” said Ahmed Al Muhannadi, Chief Administrative Officer, Oryx GTL. “We are also awarding four students with a commendation certificates. These are the top per-forming graduates in each of the 4 main schools and the commendation is in recognition of their outstanding achievements.”

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CNA-Q partners with Oryx GTL to honour highest achieving graduates

CNA-Q President’s Medal award winners.

Pakistan Cricket Academy (PCA) organised the first under-14 inter Academy Cricket tournament at Pakistan Education Centre (PEC) cricket ground recently. Six teams participated in the tournament. PCA Green won the final beating Pak Shama. Ali Athar Sheikh was declared Man-of-the-Match and the Best All-rounder of the tournament. Rashid Nizam, CEO, PCA, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, President, PCA, and PEC Principal Nargis Otho distributed the prizes. Shahid Iqbal delivered the vote of thanks. Tahir Mahmood, Senior Coach, PCA, and his team were responsible for organising the event. PCA Green captain Rushabh Hemant Jhaveri received the winners trophy from the officials. Haroon Qureshi compered the prize distribution ceremony.

DPS-MIS participates in Asian Debate League

DPS-MIS debaters Russell Mendonca, Tanya Shastri, Siddhant Singh, Prathmesh Mehra, Parag Bajaj, Ronishka Sabu and student adjudica-

tors Saumya Singh along with school debate coach Jaya Majumder repre-sented Qatar at the 6th Asian Schools Debating Championship which was held in Kota Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia recently. There were a total of 78 teams, 234 debaters and 102 adjudicators from nearly 60 high school representing 8 different countries around Asia. All motions of the tourna-ment were impromptu, and the debaters got just 30 minutes to formulate their arguments. All DPS-MIS debaters were appreciated by the judges on multiple occasions for their arguments, style and rebuttals. The Peninsula

German Business Council Qatar elects new board

The Annual General Members’ Assembly of German Business Council Qatar (GBCQ) took

place at the Wyndham Grand Regency Hotel recently during which a new board was elected.

Boris van Thiel was re-elected as Chairman of the GBCQ board. Adel Al Mannai (Teyseer), Henning Zimmermann (DB Schenker), Dr Helmut Landahl (Hochtief Solutions) and Peter Binneboessel (Arc de Triomphe) have been appointed as Members of the Board.

GBCQ launched the latest Members’ Directory during the event and it will be distributed among the members, local German companies, local Qatari and foreign companies in addition to public authorities and embassies.

“Over the last few years, Qatar has developed into one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In the dynamic business climate of the Gulf region, German products enjoy an excellent reputation which is showcased in the increasing bilateral trade which amounted to approximately €2.02bn in 2013

reflecting a long and successful partnership,” van Thiel summarised.

The GBCQ has 150 members, more than one third

among them are Qatari companies. The group is managed by the German Industry and Commerce Office Qatar (AHK). The Peninsula

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The new board members.

Ezdan Holding holds training course along with Civil Defence

Fifteen employees of Ezdan Holding Group took part in a training

course held by the group in collabo-ration with the General Directorate of Civil Defence; entitled ‘The Art of Crisis Management.

The session, which lasted for five days, was carried out by Maj Hussain Aman Al Ali, Assistant Director of Prevention Department of the General Directorate of Civil Defense and adviser as well as chairman of the ‘Dukhr’ commit-tee for community development at Qatar Charity.

He is also advisor to the Sheikh Thani Charity (RAF).

Deputy CEO of Ezdan Holding

Group Nasser Mohammed Al Abdulla commented on the event: “The group is seeking to organise a number of

training courses and workshops with the aim to permanently develop the skills of all employees.” The Peninsula

Sandstormers pledge QR200,000 for charityAs the Sandstormers, Qatar’s only charity cycling

team, makes their final preparations for a 650km ride across four European countries in one week, the team’s beneficiary, the Sheikh Eid Charity Association’s Beitak Beiti initiative makes arrange-ments to bring basic comforts to 200 homes in Qatar.

The team of 16 amateur cyclists will cycle more than 100km a day travelling along the Danube River from Budapest to Munich. Thanks to the gener-ous donations of their corporate sponsors, Vodafone Qatar, Qatar Airways, RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) and QShield along with the contributions of family and friends, the team has secured a cumu-lative sum of approximately QR180,000 approaching their target of QR 200,000. The funds raised will go to the Beitak Beiti (Your House is My House) initia-tive to support 200 disadvantaged families in Qatar with basic household necessities to lead a decent life in Qatar.

The Sandstormers will represent Qatar at the Global Biking Initiative which brings together more than 400 cyclists from 25 countries for an annual charity ride across Europe in the summer. Each

country team is required to raise a minimum amount of funds for worthy causes in their home countries. The team, led by Qatari national Marouf Mahmoud, started their journey on June 15.

“We’re very pleased to be supporting Beiti Baitak once again this year. While we have challenged our-selves by doubling our pledge to QR200,000 this year, we have been humbled by our generous sponsors’ support and the returning in-kind support of Qatar Airways and Vodafone Qatar,” said Mahmoud.

Mahmoud added: “Raising such a large sum for charity is a challenge which has brought out a lot of creativity among the team. We have doubled in size this year and now have four Qatari nationals on the team; our partnership with Sheikh Eid Charitable Foundation for the second consecutive year strength-ens our roots in the Qatari community and we look forward to reaching our pledged sum and coming back to deposit the funds in full very soon.’’

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By Erika Widen

Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, is built on 14 islands and connected by 57 bridges. The greenery, breath-taking buildings, fresh air and the proximity to the sea are distinctive traits of the city. Starting from early May

until late August, Sweden’s sun brightens the night and lengthens your sightseeing days. In Stockholm daylight lasts more than 18 hours in late June, how-ever only around six hours in late December. In gen-eral, Sweden receives between 1,100 to 1,900 hours of sunshine annually.

In addition, with its 750-year history and rich cultural life, Stockholm offers a wide selection of world-class museums and attractions. Most of the city’s attractions can be reached on foot, and there is a good chance of experiencing a lot of things in a short time. All in the course of the same day, experi-ence the big-city life, the history of civilization and natural scenery.

Gamla Stan, meaning the old city in Swedish – is one of the largest and best-preserved medieval city centres in Europe, and one of the foremost attrac-tions in Stockholm. Gamla Stan is where Stockholm was founded in 1252.

All of Gamla Stan and the adjacent island of Riddarholmen are like a living pedestrian-friendly museum full of sights, attractions, restaurants, cafés and places to shop. Furthermore, Gamla Stan is also popular among aficionados of handicrafts and souve-nirs. The narrow winding cobblestone streets, with their buildings in so many different shades of gold, give Gamla Stan its unique character. Even now cel-lar vaults and frescoes from the Middle Ages can be found behind the visible facades, and on snowy winter days the district feels like something from a storybook.

In the same way, another place to visit within Stockholm is Skansen, which consists of the oldest open-air museum in the world and the Stockholm zoo. In addition it also has a beautiful location on Royal Djurgården and a view over all of Stockholm. Royal Djurgården, meaning ‘Animal Park’ is a national Swedish city park in the heart of Stockholm. It is a mix of parkland and forest with both canal and harbour sides.

Skansen is indeed a favourite for both Stockholmers and visitors passing through, and it is a perfect family outing. At Skansen you can learn about traditional crafts and traditions. This is the place to visit the historic Sweden in

miniature. 150 farms and dwellings from differ-ent parts of the country were disassembled and transported to Skansen. In addition, you will find charming town districts with glass blowing, pot-tery, a tinsmith’s workshop and a bakery, a gold-coloured manor house, the Skogaholm manor house, an eighteenth-century Seglora wooden church and the The museum shop. You can also see all of the animals native to Scandinavia such as moose, bears, lynxes, wolves, wolverines and seals. There is also a terrarium, a monkey house and a children’s zoo.

Another must place to visit is The Vasa, which is the only preserved seventeenth-century ship in the world, and a unique art treasure. More than 95 per cent of the ship is original, and it is decorated with hundreds of carved sculptures.

The 69 meter-long warship Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in the middle of Stockholm in 1628, and was salvaged 333 years later in 1961. For nearly half a century the ship has been slowly, deliberately and painstakingly restored to a state approaching its original glory.

Also, seeing Stockholm from the water is an enjoyable must. Fortunately, there are many tours to choose from depending on your interests. Under the Bridges of Stockholm, Royal Canal Tour and the early Good Morning Stockholm Tour – concentrate on central Stockholm and take from 50 minutes to two hours.

What is more is The Royal Palace, which is the official residence of His Majesty the King of Sweden, with over 600 rooms. The Palace is open to the public and offers no less than five museums. The Palace was largely built during the eighteenth century in the Italian Baroque style, on the spot where the ‘Tre Kronor’ castle burned down in 1697. Visit the recep-tion rooms with splendid interiors from the eight-eenth and nineteenth centuries.

A final place to visit within Stockholm, especially for those with an eye for photography would be the Fotografiska Museum. Fotografiska is one of the world’s largest meeting places for contemporary pho-tography. Fotografiska presents four unique large exhibitions and about 20 smaller exhibitions annually. In addition to the large exhibition, Fotografiska also houses a book and souvenir shop, a restaurant, and photo gallery.

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By Sara Moulton

Let’s talk potato salad. Everyone knows it’s good — there’s a reason it’s a summer peren-nial — but that doesn’t mean

it’s good for you. Here’s a crafty version that swaps in sweet potatoes for the more traditional white potatoes and loses the standard recipe’s abundant mayonnaise in favour of a dressing high in flavour and low in fat.

White potatoes have plenty of nutri-tional value, but sweet potatoes — a good source of fibre that’s also high in calcium, folate, potassium and beta-carotene — have them beat. One caveat: steam your sweet potatoes just until they become tender. Overdo it and they’ll turn to mush.

I’ve cast black beans and corn in support of the sweet potatoes. I like black beans for their robust taste and their staying power. (They do a fine job of filling you up.) Like all legumes, black beans are low in calories and high in protein and fibre, and they boast an assortment of important nutrients.

Corn, of course, is in no need of hype. It’s just about everyone’s favour-ite summer vegetable. But corn is at its best when it’s fresh, fresh, fresh!

Corn’s natural sugars start to turn into starch the minute it’s harvested. The challenge is to safeguard its natural sweetness. If you live near a farm stand or a farmers market, buy your corn in the morning, then refrigerate it as soon as you get home and cook it as soon as possible.

Typically, truly fresh corn is so good you can eat it raw. Boil it and brush it with butter and you have a dish fit for a king. But grilling the corn, as we do here, takes it to an even higher level. Somehow this process amps up the flavour and decreases the need for fat.

In fact, with the exception of the spray used to coat the corn before grill-ing, there’s no oil in this recipe. How’d I manage that little trick? By composing a dressing so flavourful — the keys are chipotle, cilantro and garlic — no one notices the lack of fat. The chipotles (or smoked jalapeno chilies) are the crucial ingredient. You can find them in your supermarket simply dried or in an adobo sauce. I prefer the adobo, made of tomato and vinegar, because it adds a lovely flavour of its own. The chili’s heat is counter-balanced with the slight sweetness of the seasoned rice vinegar and by the sweet potatoes. (If you happen to be a cilantro hater,

substitute basil or mint.)One final note: toss the sweet pota-

toes with the dressing while they’re still warm, which helps them to absorb the dressing and become deeply flavoured.

Sweet Potato, Grilled Corn and Black Bean Salad with Spicy Cilantro Dressing

Start to finish: 45 minutes (30 minutes active)

Servings: 6

Ingredients1 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch chunks1 clove garlic1/2 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce1 small shallot, coarsely chopped1 cup chopped fresh cilantro1 cup seasoned rice vinegarSalt4 ears corn, husked15 1/2-ounce can black beans, drained4 scallions, white and green parts, thinly sliced

Method:Heat the grill to medium.In a medium saucepan fitted with a

steamer basket, bring 2 inches of water to a boil. Add the sweet potatoes, cover

and steam until just tender, about 8 minutes. Transfer the potatoes to a bowl. Meanwhile, in a blender, combine the garlic, chipotle, shallot, cilantro and vinegar. Puree until smooth. Taste, then season with salt. When the pota-toes are done, pour half of the dressing over them, then toss well. Set aside to cool.

While the potatoes cool, prepare the corn. Mist the corn with cooking spray, then grill, turning often, until the ears are lightly browned in spots on all sides, about 10 minutes.

Remove the corn from the grill and set aside to cool until easily handled. Cut the kernels from the cobs. To do this, one at a time stand each ear on its wide end, then carefully saw down the length of the cob on all sides. You should have at least 2 cups of kernels.

Stir the corn kernels, beans and scallions into the potatoes, adding additional dressing as desired. Taste, then adjust seasoning.

Nutrition information per serving: 260 calories; 20 calories from fat (8 percent of total calories); 2.5 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 54 g carbohydrate; 9 g fiber; 17 g sugar; 9 g protein; 1250 mg sodium. AP

No need for tonnesof fat in this sweet potato salad

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HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS

Nothing wrong with Botox: Kate Hudson

Actress Kate Hudson has shared her opinion on anti-ageing and admits she wouldn’t say no to Botox. The 35-year-old thinks it’s “great” that

age-defying cosmetic injections are widely available to women and she can see herself resorting to the treatment to improve her complexion in the future, reports contactmusic.com.

Asked whether she’d ever have Botox, she exclaimed: “Why not? Right now, it’s not something I feel I need but I think it’s great that it’s avail-able. The other day, my girlfriend called me and said, ‘I’m going to get a little Boty’. So I think there’s nothing wrong with a little Boty call if you feel you want it.”

Hudson, who raises her sons, Bingham, two, and 10-year-old Ryder with her fiancé, Muse singer Matthew Bellamy, has always had a passion for fashion and says putting together a great outfit helps boost her confidence.

She said: “I’ve loved it since I was a little girl. My mom says that when I was small, I would put together outfits that made her go, ‘Okay, I don’t know what you are wearing, but I’ll go with it’.”

SRK’s Twitter family crosses 8 million

Bollywood ‘badshah’ Shah Rukh Khan’s family on microblogging site Twitter crossed a staggering mark of eight million.

Now, the Chennai Express star, who was recently named the second richest actor in the world, is second to megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has over nine million followers.

Shah Rukh joined the online platform in 2010, and his new benchmark has surpassed the followers of his contemporaries Aamir Khan (7.17 mil-lion) and Salman Khan (7.18 million).

Via his Twitter account, Shah Rukh shares his day-to-day thoughts, updates on his film shoots, experiences and travel plans. The 48-year-old also gets philosophical often, but most of his tweets reflect his closeness to his children — Aryan, Suhana and AbRam.

The actor’s IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders recently won the sev-enth edition of the cricket league.

He is neck deep into work — the shooting of Fan and Raees and promo-tion of Happy New Year will occupy his schedule, as will Rohit Shetty’s new movie. Later in the year, there’s also the Champions League Twenty20.

“He hardly has time for a breather,” a source close to the superstar said.

Bhagyashree excited to be back

Maine Pyar Kiya fame actress Bhagyashree Patwardhan will soon be seen on the small screen in a new show Laut Aao Trisha. She plays

a mother in search of her missing daughter and says the complexities of the character made her accept the offer. Thrilled to be part of the show, Bhagyashree said in a statement: “It’s been a long time since I have been in an entertainment space and I am really excited to be back and working with Life OK for Laut Aao Trisha.”

In the show, which is likely to go on air in July, the actress essays the role of Amrita Swaika, a mother and her journey as she steps out of the house to find her daugh-ter Trisha, who has dis-appeared. During her search, she comes face to face with the shattering realities of her family and relationships.

Bhagyashree says “the intrigue and the complex-ities of relationships that are part of my character is what attracted me to the show and made me want to be part of it.”

“Nothing is black and white, we are all shades of grey. There are layers to every relationship and it takes a trauma to reveal them,” added the actress, who has done her share of TV in the past.

Shabana wants Tumhari Amrita revived

Veteran actress and social activist Shabana Azmi wants a revival of Tumhari Amrita — a play that also featured late actor Farooque Sheikh

and premiered over two decades ago. Tumhari Amrita is a play helmed by Feroz Abbas Khan and she says she is persuading the director to revive it.

“I’m persuading Feroz Khan to revive Tumhari Amrita with a fresh cast. Any ideas on who shud replace Farouque Shaikh and me as Zulfi/ Amrita?,” Shabana posted on Twitter.

Inspired by A R Guerney’s Love Letters, Tumhari Amrita is a funny, poignant, melancholic chronicle of two people would not come together and could not stay apart. The play ran for 21 years until Farooque’s untimely death in December 2013.

Kardashian likely to re-launch pop career

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is reportedly having vocal coaching and songwriting lessons as she wants to relaunch her pop career.

The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star, who released a single titled “Jam (Turn It Up)” in 2011, will also take the help of her hus-band, Kanye West, when she enters the recording studio, reports contactmusic.com.

“Kim has told pals she’s keen to be taken seriously as a vocal artist. Kanye will advise on the project, which he’s given his full back-ing,” a source told The Sun newspaper.

“She’s started vocal coach-ing and songwriting lessons and set up meetings with record companies,” the source added.

Gaga surprises students with masterclass

Pop star Lady Gaga and singer Tony Bennett surprised a group of stu-dents in New York City by hosting a masterclass on their final day of

school. The two reunited at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, a facil-ity Bennett opened in 2001 in his hometown of Astoria, Queens, reports contactmusic.com.

The crooner usually attends the annual graduation ceremony, but is unable to make it to this year’s event due to his hectic tour schedule.

To make up for his absence, he recruited Gaga to join him for a special performance and masterclass at the school’s Tony Bennett Concert Hall.

Bennett and Gaga began the event by discussing jazz music before answering questions from members of the 700-strong audience.

Bennett also gushed about his pop star friend by telling the crowd: “When I first heard Gaga sing, my reaction was that she is going to be bigger than Elvis.

“She is so bright and intelligent and she has ‘it’. In jazz you either got it, the syncopation, the rhythm, or you don’t, and when I heard Gaga I said she’s got it.”

The two then performed for the audience.Bennett and Gaga first collaborated on the latter’s Duets II album in

2011, covering “The Lady Is A Tramp”, and are currently working on a jazz record slated for release later this year.

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By Peter Bradshaw

Over the years, fans have thrilled again and again to a stark musical cry as the movie begins, the sun ris-

ing over an imaginary African land-scape: “Na-a-a-nts ingonyama bagithi Baba!” Then the vocal dramatically drops to that breathy, choral-ensemble hum: “Sithi uhm… ingonyama!” From the Zulu language, it means: “Behold a lion, father – yes, a lion.” The song then switches to English: “From the day we arrive on the planet/And blinking, step into the sun …” – but, let’s face it, they had us at Nants ingonyama bag-ithi Baba. The classic Disney animated musical The Lion King, directed by Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers, is 20 years old this year — but its popularity and influence are apparently indestructible. It just gets bigger and bigger, endur-ingly loved on DVD, and now Disney have announced production on The Lion Guard, a TV movie and series inspired by the film and its sequels.

This is the tale of the young lion Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) who was cruelly tricked into thinking that he has killed his own father Mufasa (voiced by the majestic James Earl Jones), and must now rescue his homeland from his evil usurping Uncle Scar (a career-highlight triumph for Jeremy Irons). The film created its own potent legend, its own mythic ecosystem, a movie with its own philosophy of life’s circularity, as proclaimed by talking animals. Movie audiences were captivated by this rev-erent if picturesque vision of “Africa” as a place of Edenic nobility and feu-dal integrity, a conservative vision of patriarch-worship.

The Lion King was the last Disney picture in the classic vein, perhaps the last Walt Disney movie that the man himself (who died in 1966) might have recognised as something that could have come from his own hand. It was

a robustly traditional tale, conceived as a wholesome family musical, with influences from the Bible, Shakespeare and Kipling – and it looked similar to Bambi and The Jungle Book. Digital ani-mation is nowadays supercharged with richness and sophisticated detail; The Lion King’s design looks simple in com-parison. When the film was revived in London on Imax screens about a dec-ade ago, some of the background looked weirdly inert, like the illustrations of a much-loved children’s storybook pro-jected on to the side of a building.

Yet despite or perhaps because of this old-school simplicity, The Lion King con-tinues to triumph. It is powerful and bold. Young Simba (Swahili for “lion”) is introduced by his father Mufasa (Swahili for “king”) to all his respon-sibilities as a future monarch. He must respect all creatures “from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope” and when Simba points out that they eat the ante-lope, Mufasa quietly but firmly explains that when lions die, they become grass “and the antelope eat the grass, and so we are all connected in the Circle of Life”. Simba is not so disloyal or diso-bedient as to point out that that grass does not experience fear and pain, in the way the antelope does. It is a benignly untroubled exposition of the carnivore’s natural prerogative and screenwriters might perhaps now feel constrained to acknowledge more explicitly the her-bivores’ existence. But it is not a bad introduction to the concept that we are all interrelated, and that everything we do has an effect on everything else.

Simba’s duplicitous Uncle Scar (a nod, surely, to Shere Khan from The Jungle Book) is plotting to dislodge Mufasa (he is called “Scar” after a facial disfigure-ment under his left eye – Scar does not get a noble Swahili name). There is a terrifically Shakespearean confron-tation between the two brothers and Scar tricks Simba into wandering into a wildebeest stampede. Mufasa saves

Simba, but a tragedy ensues – wicked Scar persuades poor little Simba that he is to blame and forces him into exile, where he befriends two goofy new pals: cheeky meerkat Timon (voiced by Nathan Lane) and flatulent warthog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They intro-duce Simba to the seductive philoso-phy of “hakuna matata” (it means “no worries”) – just as Baloo the bear sang to Mowgli about kicking back with the bare necessities of life. But soon Simba’s childhood friend Nala (and now the love of his life) is to return and urge him to face his demons and his destiny.

There are so many tremendous things about this story. Poor Simba actually thinking that he has killed his father is almost unbearable; it is a powerfully real moment of agony. Then there is the terrific musical sequence that captures the adult Simba and Nala falling in love, singing the song Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

The Lion King’s fierce mythic potency has had a huge influence on popular culture. This was never more powerfully shown than in 2002, when Michael Jackson showed the world that he was having his own very disturbing Lion King moment. While staying in the presidential suite of the Adlon Hotel in Berlin, he held his baby, the then nine-month-old “Blanket” Jackson, over the balcony, apparently “presenting” him to the crowds of press and paparazzi below. Everyone was horrified – and when the explanation for his behaviour dawned, it didn’t make anyone less uncomfortable: the King Of Pop was very clearly holding up his young heir, just as Mufasa – in accordance with the invented tradition – would allow his young cub Simba to be ceremonially held up at Pride Rock, for all the animals to bow down to.

The Lion King’s success, though not immediate, has grown and grown; the lifetime gross stands at $987,483,777 and climbing. It spawned two moderate direct-to-video sequels, The Lion King II:

Simba’s Pride, a Romeo-and-Juliet love story between the progeny of Simba and Scar, and the oddity The Lion King 1 1/2 (or The Lion King 3) a collection of sketches and scenes featuring lovable Timon and Pumbaa. But more impor-tantly, in 1997 there was the smash-hit stage version directed by Julie Taymor, which still carries on triumphantly on Broadway, London’s West End and around the globe. On Broadway alone, the total current box-office gross is a flabbergasting $1,061,946,670. Everyone in the world, it seems, wants to see The Lion King on stage.

All nature documentaries now have a touch of Lion King about them, in my view. There has always been a bit of anthropomorphisation – now it is very prevalent. For example, a recent film Arctic Tale (2007), narrated by Queen Latifah, featured a polar bear cub and walrus pup called “Nanu” and “Seela”, as if this is what the animals’ parents had actually called them. Almost all nature documentaries give their ani-mals Lion King-like names and tend to talk about things happening in “Africa” as if it were a big national park with-out nation states. The documentary March of The Penguins (2005), narrated by Morgan Freeman, is about a very real trek undertaken by Antarctic pen-guins to their breeding grounds – it is a built-in longer-form narrative and its heart-warming quality has an emotional rhetoric not far from The Lion King.

For me, The Lion King is always very enjoyable, perhaps especially for the old-fashioned pizazz of the musical num-bers; Tim Rice’s lyrics are terrifically good, especially in the song Be Prepared when Scar promises to pay off his hyena lackeys: “I know it sounds sordid/But you’ll be rewarded …” Everything in that song is witty, literate and well-judged and as for the rest of the film … well, they don’t make them like that any more.

The Guardian

The Lion King’s old-school simplicity roars on

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Food addiction is for real, find researchers

Do you experience food craving just by looking at images of delectable food

items regardless of how recently you had eaten? Check if your are overweight.

“Some people may have an instinctive, psychological predisposition to binge eat-ing,” said Claus Voegele, a professor of clini-cal and health psychology at University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg.

Women with weight problems were more impulsive than average in a food-related psychology test.

“All addictions are similar in that the sufferer craves to excess the feel-good buzz they receive from chemical neurotransmit-ters produced when they eat, gamble or smoke,” Voegele added.

For the test, images of fatty or sweet food (a burger, cake or pizza etc) and non-food items (a sock, a mug or a shoe etc) were flashed at random on a computer screen.

The women were instructed to click as fast as possible on either the food or non-food pictures.

Tests were run either three hours after eating or just after meals.

The researchers found that several women with weight problems said the test had provoked food craving, regardless of how recently they had eaten.

‘Smart cup’ to check your calorie count

What if a cup can keep tab of the calo-ries that you consume and send you

an alert when you have had enough alcohol?That would sink a lot of your worries

about weight gain and binge drinking as you would know exactly when to put the cup down.

A San Francisco-based company Mark One has developed a device that can accu-rately identify your drink, tell you how many calories you are consuming and alert you when it is time to drink again.

Called Vessyl, the “smart” cup can be asked to display a particular set of data to aid you achieve certain goals, such as losing weight or regulating caffeine.

Made of a glass-like material, the cup holds 385 ml of liquid.

When a beverage is poured in, text on the side reveals what drink is inside.

The sliding lid of the cup is spill proof and it has a non-stick interior, making it easy to clean according to the company.

The cup can measure the caffeine levels inside a drink that has been poured into it, in addition to the sugar, protein, calories and fat inside a drink.

By syncing with an app, it is then able to provide further statistics about what the user has been drinking throughout the day.

How it works exactly is being kept a closely-guarded secret by its makers.

It will begin shipping in early 2015, media reports said.

Agenies


Office workers who spend long hours looking at computer screens have changes in their tear

fluid similar to people with the disease known as dry eye, accord-ing to a study from Japan.

The protein MUC5AC, secreted by cells in the upper eyelid, makes up part of the normally occurring mucus layer, or “tear film,” that keeps the eye moist. But study participants with the most screen time had MUC5AC levels near-ing those of people with diagnosed dry eye.

“To understand patients’ eye strain, which is one of major symptoms of dry eye disease, it is important that ophthalmolo-gist pay attention to MUC5AC concentration in tears,” said Dr Yuichi Uchino, an author of the new study.

Uchino is an ophthalmologist at the School of Medicine at Keio University in Tokyo.

“When we stare at comput-ers, our blinking times decreased compared to reading a book at the table,” he said.

People staring at screens also tend to open their eyelids wider than while doing other tasks, and the extra exposed surface area in addition to infrequent blinking can accelerate tear evaporation and is associated with dry eye disease, he said.

Dry eye may be chronic for some but can be managed with over the counter or prescription eye drops.

Past research suggests that up to 5 million men and women over age 50 in the United States suffer from dry eye disease, the

researchers write in their report. In Japan, tens of millions of peo-ple report some dry eye symptoms, often associated with computer work, they add.

The study team tested the tears from both eyes of 96 Japanese office workers, about two-thirds of them men, and measured how much of the total protein content of the tears was MUC5AC.

Workers employed in jobs involving computer screens filled out questionnaires about their working hours and symptoms of any eye problems.

Seven percent of men and 14 percent of women were diagnosed with ‘dry eye disease,’ meaning they reported symptoms of eye problems like irritation, burning or blurred vision and had poor quality or quantity of tear film, according to the tests.

Overall, participants looked at screens for work for just over eight hours a day and had an average of about 6.8 nanograms of MUC5AC per milligram of protein in each eye.

However, people who worked with computer screens for more than seven hours per day had an average of 5.9 ng/mg of MUC5AC, compared to 9.6 ng/mg for people who spent fewer than five hours daily with screens.

Similarly, people with definite dry eye disease had an average of 3.5 ng/mg of MUC5AC compared to 8.2 ng/mg for people without the disease.

“Mucin is one of the most important components of the tear film,” said Dr Yuichi Hori, who was not a part of the new study. “Mucins (like MUC5AC) function

to hold water on the ocular sur-face of the epithelia that synthe-size them, hence, they are major players in maintenance of the tear film on the ocular surface,” Hori said.

He is chair of the department of Ophthalmology at Toho University Omori Medical Center in Tokyo.

Concentration of the protein was also lower for people with symptoms of eye strain than for people without symptoms, accord-ing to the results published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

People with dry eyes at work tend to be less productive and are more likely to be depressed, according to previous studies, Uchino said.

Office workers who are worried about dry eye can make some sim-ple changes to decrease their risk, Uchino said.

“The exposed ocular surface area can be decreased by placing the terminal at a lower height, with the screen tilted upward,” Uchino said.

Doctors also recommend using a humidifier at the office and avoid-ing being in the direct path of the wind from an air conditioner, he said.

“We advise the office work-ers suffering from ocular fatigue and dry eye symptoms that they should blink more frequently in an intended manner during (screen use), and that they should use artificial tears,” Hori said.

“And they should ask an eye care doctor if their symptoms still remain.”

SOURCE: bit.ly/1oTQ4ov JAMA Ophthalmology, June 5, 2014.

Reuters

Staring at screens all Staring at screens all day linked to changes day linked to changes in eye secretionsin eye secretions

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 201412

The government plans to use robots as a key measure in dealing with labor shortages and the nation’s aging society, and will boost support for development in several priority

areas, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.According to the government’s robot strategy,

which is aimed at achieving the widespread adop-tion of inexpensive, user-friendly robots before other countries, the government will focus on four fields — nursing care, agriculture, infrastructure inspection/disasters and factories. Through subsidies and other support measures, it aims to take the initiative in the field of robotics, where international competition is increasingly fierce.

The strategy also sets a target for boosting the scale of the domestic market for robots, aiming to increase it from about 700bn yen in 2012 to about 2.4 trillion yen ($23.6bn) in 2020.

The government will announce the plans this week and include them in its new growth strategy to be compiled in late June.

In step with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the government plans to hold an event tentatively called the “Robot Olympics,” where coun-tries from around the world would compete over the efficiency and performance of their robots.

According to a government estimate, the nation will need about 1 million more caregivers than it will actually have in 2025. With this in mind, the government will promote efforts to reduce the cost of robotic power-assist suits, mechanical exoskel-etons that can be worn to make caregiving physically easier. Such suits can help a caregiver hold and move a person in need of nursing care.

As more than 60 percent of the nation’s farmers are 65 or older, the government will also support the development of unmanned tractors and other

devices. Regarding infrastructure inspection, the government will accelerate efforts to develop small unmanned helicopters that can confirm cracks in the inaccessible parts of bridges using cameras or sensors.

The government believes that efforts over the next several years will be critical. Last year, US-based Google acquired robot development companies in both the United States and Japan. Robots are expected to play a central role in the next industrial revolution after the Internet.

Japan is a world leader in robotics technology, but

the adoption of nursing-care robots is hindered by their high price of about 20m yen each. The govern-ment believes that a robot with a narrower range of functions costing about 100,000 yen would be rapidly adopted in many nursing care facilities, making it possible to increase the number of such robots to more than 1 million.

The government is also considering establish-ing a panel comprising robot development com-panies and users to enhance the user-friendliness of robots.

WP-Bloomberg

Talking Progress (Free)Finally, an app designed for adults suffering from

depression. The idea being that you can record your feelings in a digital diary, helping you track the condi-tion and discuss the results with your doctor. There’s also a medicine-reminder alarm built in, if that’s of use.

Spydy Contacts (Free + IAP)Spydy is apparently a “social launchpad and peo-

ple organiser” – presumably for people whose social life remains defiantly land-bound and whose friends are un-organised. It promises a visual revamp of your contacts app, puling in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, with group messaging included.

Peugeot Music (Free)The challenge of “music discovery” – helping peo-

ple find new songs or rediscover old favourites in streaming music services – is being talked about a lot in the music industry. How about help from… Peugeot? Yes, the carmaker has its own music app, offering a curated selection of streaming tunes.

TCS SocialSoccer (Free)More World Cup – well, it is the week for it –

with this app offering scores and stats, but with just as much focus on tweets about prominent teams and

players. It’s also claiming to throw in some “big data analytics” to keep you posted on Twitter sentiment around the tournament. If it works, it could be fun.

Angry Birds Epic (Free + IAP)The latest Angry Birds game sees no physics-

based flinging. Instead, it’s a roleplaying game (RPG) that sees you building up a team of birds and attacking pigs through other means. Along the way, you craft and upgrade weapons, learn new skills and get to grips with its turn-based battles system.

By Staurt DredgeThe Guardian

Android apps of the day

In step with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, Japan plans to hold an event tentatively called the “Robot Olympics,” where countries from around the world would compete over the efficiency and performance of their robots.

Japan looks to robots to solve labour woes

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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numbers from 1

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unlike Sudoku

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15 Expressed slight surprise

17 “But really …”

18 ___ Empire

19 Deep-seated

20 What you might be

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21 Part of A.M.A.: Abbr.

22 Principal

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24 Rx specification

25 Industry leader

26 Part of a place setting

27 Swelters

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31 Voyeur

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42 Pipe holder?

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28 Workout targets,

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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21:40 Austin & Ally

22:00 Shake It Up

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Good Luck

Charlie

23:10 Wolfblood


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

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

• It has been suggested that shopping centres organise cultural and entertainment programmes for kids and families during Ramadan and the summer vacation, as many families prefer to remain in Qatar during Ramadan.

• Implementation of the traffic law that stipulates a fine of QR500 and seizure of the vehicle for a month for overtaking from the right or occupying parking spaces allocated for the disabled has caused an uproar. Some people say the punishment is too severe and have urged the authorities to stop seizing vehicles and only fine the violators.

• Some nationals are surprised that the Ministry of Administrative Development, which is concerned with the employment of nationals in the public sector, has no website through which people can know about available jobs.

• There are demands that inspections be intensified before Ramadan to make sure that food outlets respect health regulations. People are worried after expired and counterfeit foodstuff was seized in several outlets.

• It has been suggested that the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning launch an electronic platform where people can register once and get services they need repeatedly, such as emptying of septic tanks when they are full, without having to fill forms every time they need the same service.

• People have complained about the small signals on the road leading to Hamad International Airport. Motorists cannot see them during the night.

• People have complained about the high charges of car workshops. Moreover, they refuse to give an estimate of the cost in advance.

IN FOCUS

A view of sunset from Shamal.

by Abhilash P Venugopal

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

Abeer Al Hammadi, Manager, IP Commercialization, Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, QF Research and Development

She was admitted in the Qatar Science Leadership Program (QSLP). After graduating

from QSLP, she joined the Office of Institutional Research in Qatar Foundation Research & Development, as a Senior Research Analyst. Currently, as a member of QF’s first central IP and Technology Transfer, Al Hammadi con-tinues to work in the establishment of QF’s first IP and Technology Transfer Office. She has a BSc in Biotechnology, Cardiff University in Wales, UK and Certificate in Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.

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Events in Qatar

One Thousand and One Nights BalletWhen: June 23; 8pm-9.15pm Where: Katara Opera House – Building 16 What: A spectacular show that evokes the fragrance of history and the East’s magic. Enchanting dance performances and pieces composed by Amirov merging East and West tunes.Tickets: QR100 to QR250 at Virgin Megastore (online)

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

In Bloom (film screening) When: June 18, 7pmWhere: Katara Drama Theater Building 16

What: In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992, Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.Tickets available at DFI ticket outlet. (www.dohafilminstitute.com)

Richard Serra: Concurrent ExhibitionsWhen: Till July 6, 8:30am- 5:30pmWhere: QMA Gallery Building 10, KataraWhat: One of Richard Serra’s most ambitious exhibition ever — brings together sculptures and drawings from different periods, ranging from One Ton Prop (House of Cards) of 1969 (on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York) to a new work, Passage of Time, especially created for this occasion.Free entry

Qatar Brazil: A Journey from the Amazon to the Desert When: Till July 1, 10am-10pm Where: Qatar Photographic Society – Building 18, Katara

What: Four photographers from two different continents — Qatari and Brazilian photographers Aref Hussein, Abdullah Al Tamimi, Andre Joaquim and Leonardo Wen — document their journey engaging in an inspiring exchange of artistic discovery and cultural dialogue. Free entry

Cinema Showcase: Mutum When: June 26 -27, 7pm Where: Museum of Islamic Art What: Ten-year-old Thiago is forced to confront separation and betrayal within his home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.Tickets (QR35), available at www.dohafilminstitute.com

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