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• In New York,the new‘super-slims’
• Controlled intensive exercise may benefitheart failure patients
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ON THE FAST TRACKON THE FAST TRACKTwo teams from Doha British School -- Ooredoo Oryx and
Immense -- are heading to Austin, Texas,to represent Qatar in the F1 in Schools World Finals.
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BY PRAMOD PRABHAKARAN
Ooredoo Oryx and Immense from Qatar may not be as popular as Red Bull, Ferrari or Williams formula one (F1)
teams, but they are going to get their share of fame on the F1 world stage when they compete against 38 other teams from all over the world in the in the F1 in Schools World Finals in Austin, Texas.
Ooredoo Oryx and Immense from Doha British School (DBS) are the winners and runners-up, respectively, in the national F1 in Schools champi-onship held a few months ago in Doha, and will represent Qatar in the world finals.
Accompanied by two school officials, nine youngsters will fly to Austin by the end of this week. The four-day competition is being held alongside the 2013 United States Grand Prix, which takes place in Austin from November 15 to 17.
The teams are busy giving finish-ing touches to their miniature cars made out of bolster wood and raising last-minute funds for their project. The cars are made from scratch by the students and have to follow strict guidelines issued by the competition organisers. These are miniature ver-sions of real F1 cars you see racing on the tracks, minus the mechanical parts. They need to perform well on mini tracks made especially for the race and also look good as there are many prizes to be won.
“This competition is not just about racing cars, there are a lot of other criteria in picking the winners. We need to do a presentation to the judges on how we went about building the team -- we need to explain the role of each team member, how we raised the funds etc,” said Immense team
manager Anastasiya Unnikrashnan.In the F1 in Schools challenge,
groups of three to six students form a team, assume different roles like team manager, car engineer, graphics designer, and accountant, prepare a business plan, get sponsorships and, most importantly, design a formula one car using 3D CAD.
In many Western countries they have local, regional and national level competitions; but in Qatar it’s only in its second year and there is only a national level competition.
“DBS is the hub of F1 in Schools in Qatar. The school has invested a lot in setting up the infrastructure for the competition; hope our teams will do well in the world finals. Even if they don’t win prizes it will be a great exposure for these students and they will get to learn a lot -- from automobile designing to finance. We are the sole school in Doha with this facility and hopefully more schools will participate in the nationals in the coming years,” said John Smith, Head of Secondary School.
Clare Foynes, Careers, Education and Guidance Counsellor, and Kevin Bloomer, Subject Leader -- Art and Design Technology, who was mentor-ing both teams with designing and other technical aspects, will be travel-ling along with the teams.
“The kids have put in a lot of effort for the competition. Both the teams had to separately find sponsors and raise funds for their project. As part of the requirement to qualify for the finals they had to raise a cer-tain amount of money. They did all the legwork themselves -- setting up meetings with senior managers of different corporates to present their project for their backing. We only gave guidance where necessary,” Foynes said.
A car is seen through the windscreen as a monitor displays the status of the Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) technology in a Lexus.
Two teams head for Two teams head for F1 in Schools finalsF1 in Schools finals
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The F1 in Schools Challenge is the world’s largest secondary school tech-nology programme. It involves over nine million students from 17,000 schools in 31 nations. The patron is F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, along with the F1 teams, which are co-patrons. Each year the world championship team is presented with the solid crystal Bernie Ecclestone F1 in Schools World Champions trophy and university scholarships to City University London.
“The car we used in the nationals was rudimentary compared to the one we are going to use in the finals. We did a lot of research about aerodynam-ics and did a lot of testing, including the wind tunnel test on the computer, before coming up with the final design. The whole process was very challeng-ing and at the same time very interest-ing,” said Zak Harris, Ooredoo Oryx team Car Engineer/Manufacturer.
After all their hard work the teams will be treated to a visit to the Circuit of The Americas and a pit lane walk on the Thursday of the Grand Prix week and can then stay on to watch the 2013 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix as guests of the Circuit of The Americas.
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Team Ooredoo OryxDylan Devshi: Team Manager - MarketingZak Harris: Car Engineer/ ManufacturerBharath Shyamsunder: Accountant - MarketingKamal Afiq: Graphic Designer Team ImmenseAnastasiya Unnikrashnan: Team ManagerKyle Pratt: Resource Manager / Manufacturing EngineerAkila Aluthge: Design EngineerCharlotte Cunningham: Graphic DesignerEthan Diggins: Communication and Marketing Director
What is F1 in schools?
Using 3D CAD (Computer –Assisted Design) software the team designs a Formula One car of the future. The aerodynamics of their
design is analysed for drag co-efficiency in a Virtual Reality Wind Tunnel using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software. Then using 3D CAM (Computer-Aided Manufacture) software, the team evaluates the most efficient machining strategy to make the car out of balsa wood using a CNC (Computer Numerical con-trolled) Router.
The CO2 cartridge-powered cars are tested using wind and smoke tunnel equipment to fine tune designs to optimise speed and drag co-efficiency. The cars are put to the ultimate test on an elevated 24-metre track. During the race, teams are judged on car speed as well as supporting evidence of their design in portfolios. Each team’s presentation and marketing display in ‘the pits’ are also factored into their performance.
Technical regulationsEvery competing F1 in schools team receives a large
list of regulations to comply to, whether they follow the regulations exactly or deviate could effect how many points they receive when the judging stage of the com-petition takes place.
Different sections of the regulations focus on differ-ent aspects of the team car, such as the body, tether line set-up, wheels, wings and etc.
Designed and manufactured according to the regu-lations for the purpose of participating in races on the F1 in schools track at the World Finals event, powered only be a single cars cylinder containing 8 grams of pressurized CO2.
F1 in schools cars are designed to travel the 20 metre race distance as quickly as possible, whilst withstand-ing the force of launch acceleration, track traversing and physical deceleration after crossing the finishing line.
An F1 in Schools car assembly must only consist of the following components:• A body (which includes a virtual cargo)• A CO2 cylinder chamber• A front wing• A rear wing• Wing Support structure• A nose cone• Wheels• Wheel support systems• A tether line slot • Tether line guides• Surface finishing and decals• Adhesives with no dimensional impact are permissible for joining components. Source: Team Ooredoo Oryx presentation
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Ideal Indian School athletic meet concludes
The 29th Ideal Indian School Annual Athletic Meet saw some 3,500 students taking part in preliminary heats of track and field events under sub-junior, junior, senior and
super senior categories.The grand finale was held on Thursday, where
Dr Hassan Kunhi M P, president of the school and the chief guest for the day, declared the meet open after taking salutes from the marching athletes and hoisting the school flag. Mabrook Saleh Nasser, men’s walking race champion, and Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla, Asian 800m gold medallist, were the guests of honour.
The ceremony was attended by Tariq Al Mahmood. Manager, Qatar Sports Club, Principal Syed Shoukath Ali and the heads of various sections. Mohamed Noufal, head of physical education, coor-dinated the sporting events of the day. Mass drills by students of the kindergarten and junior sections of the school enthralled the spectators with their mesmerising uniformity and cohesion.
The champions in various sections of the school were:
Junior Section: Red House, headed by Sheela Ramesh and captained by Ashwin, Maimoona and Harshidh.
Boys’ Section: Yellow House, headed by Sajid Shamim and captained by Ashwin, Suraj and Baheej bagged the two coveted prizes of the day — Champion House as well as the best in March Past for Boys.
Girls’ Section: Yellow House, headed by Sheeja V A
and captained by Khyathi, Thamanna and Nashwa, emerged champions in the athletic events and bagged the first prize in March Past for Girls.
Individual champions of Boys Section: Sub-junior: Akhil Mohammed, Junior: Modassir Baig, Senior: Resith Ramesh and Super senior: Faheem Faisal
Individual champions of Girls’ Section: Sub-junior: Fatima Talib, Junior: Sandra O Emiola, Senior: Alice Aslam, Super senior: Adeela Khatoon.
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Champions receiving their trophies.
Chief guests and school officials at the sports meet.
Devassy enthrals Bhavan’s studentsA musical concert led by musical prodigy Stephen Devassy was held at Bhavan’s Public School, Al Wakra, recently. Balasubramaniyam, Principal, delivered the welcome address. Devassy was the first Asian to get a coveted certificate from Trinity College of Music, London, securing first rank. Saleem Ponnambath, school president, presided over the function. Devassy kept the audience spellbound with his performance. Jayakrishnan Menon, acting chair-man, presented a memento to the musician. The young reporters of Bhavan’s interviewed him about his career and music.
Three senior experts spon-sored by Total are deliver-ing lectures in Texas A&M
University at Qatar on the topic “Oilfield Development - An Integrated Approach”.
The professors, Max Mille, Alphonse Grynko and Etienne Moreau, are members of the Total Professeurs Associés, an initiative by Total Group with the goal of build-ing bridges between the oil industry and academic circles. With over 38 years of experience, the three profes-sors have worked at Total Group, and regularly lecture and deliver technical and business-related presentations in their fields of expertise.
Stephane Michel, Managing Director of Total E&P Qatar, said: “Total aims to share its experience and expertise with various educa-tional institutions in Qatar. We are very pleased to see that this course is reaching a big audience in Texas A&M University. By sharing our knowledge and skills, we are determined to sup-port the development of a top oil and gas industry in this country.”
Dr Vassilios Kelessidis,
professor and programme chair of the Petroleum Engineering programme at Texas A&M at Qatar, said: “We in the Petroleum Engineering programme at Texas A&M at Qatar are very excited and thankful to the professors of Total Professeur Associés (TPA) and to Total, who made it possible to offer the course to our senior students.”
Kelessidis continued, “This col-laboration has been in the works for the past six months, after we became acquainted with the TPA during our participation to the Total Energy & Education Seminar in Paris last November. We expect that the expe-riences shared by the three profes-sors of TPA who will be coming here to Texas A&M at Qatar will greatly benefit our senior students, as they will address industry problems and propose real life solutions to the many cases they have faced in their profes-sional careers. They will also prepare our students for their design course, which will be attended next spring, and expose them to conditions that are encountered in the challenging environment of oil and gas field devel-opment.” The Peninsula
Total experts to lecture at TAMUQ
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Four Seasons Hotel Doha’s popular Italian restaurant Il Teatro is presenting a special fine dining menu in tribute to
the ‘Tartufo Bianco d’Alba” – the famed Alba White Truffle, praised within culinary circles as the “diamond of the kitchen”. The limited edition menu will be launched on November 7 and will run until stocks last.
The subterranean ingredient hails from the mushroom family and is held in high esteem on account of its rar-ity, brief seasonal appearance and truly distinctive flavour and aroma. The white truffles from Alba are consid-ered the finest in Italy and will be given pride of place in the special four-course menu created by Chef Aldo Cadau.
Guests can look forward to dishes that best display the truffle’s delicate flavour, including an antipasti of soft poached egg, asparagus, truffle polenta and whole wheat crouton, a primi (first-course) of truffle risotto, a sec-ondi (second-course) of truffle duck breast with accompaniments and a dolci (dessert) featuring a combination of poached pear and almond tart, white chocolate truffle ice cream and orange blossom honey.
The dinner will begin at 8pm and three Italian chefs will be in attend-ance to freshly shave the truffle at the table of each guest as well as answer any questions guests may have about the Alba White Truffle.
Guests can choose between two
packages of QR500 or QR700 (depend-ing on the drinks you chose).
Each of the two packages offers a standard portion of truffle, additional portions can be ordered at an extra charge. Guests can also inform the
restaurant in advance of any food intol-erances that would enable the team to create an ad hoc menu that would enable enjoyment of the truffle while keeping in mind dietary restrictions.
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Il Teatro to present rare Alba White Truffle dinner
Doha Marriott staff nurse picked as unsung hero
Doha Marriott staff nurse Mary June Amora has been picked as the ‘Unsung Hero
of the Year” by Hotelier Middle East.
One of the most p o p u l a r awards of the night, this year’s award was sponsored by A. Ronai and presented by Ronai managing d i r e c t o r Gavin Dodd.
Judges were most in awe of the resolve June showed through some very difficult, emotional and test-ing situations over the past year, supporting injured and grieving colleagues after a fatal bus crash involving the hotel’s staff.
Working long hours without being asked to by the hotel man-agement, June ensured that every surviving associate was taken care of, making home visits to the less critically injured associates and even providing them medical care.
“Having to see my friends so physically affected, I was really struggling emotionally, but I had to stay strong in front of them to help them. Some of them are still healing from the accident and I’m trying to help them still as best I can,” said Mary.
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Darwish Luxury and The House of Boucheron have announced the opening of a 15sqm pop-
up store at Fifty One East, Al Maha Center.
Following the opening of its bou-tique in Fifty One East, Lagoona Mall in 2011, Boucheron is strengthening its presence in Doha, with a new Parisian-inspired store.
On entering the new store, the cus-tomer is immersed in a setting that celebrates the exceptional luminos-ity of the famous flagship at 26 Place Vendome.
“We invite our customers to delve into the graceful setting, evoking play of lights and the sparkle of the gems, which will showcase at the new Boucheron pop-up store,” said a repre-sentative from Darwish Luxury.
Exhibited in this store are jewellery collections such as the graphic Quatre, the delicate Ava and the Serpent Boheme collection, a tribute to the love story between Frederic Boucheron and his wife Gabrielle.
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New Boucheron pop-up store opens doors
Vodafone Qatar was awarded the Best Social Media Strategy for Telecommunications award at Marketing Awards Middle East, which was recently
held in Dubai, UAE on the sidelines of The Marketing Show 2013, which brought together scores of marketing, loyalty and CRM professionals from across the region to hear from and debate the latest trends and insights with industry lead-ers. Marketing Awards Middle East recognise and celebrate companies leading the region in social media, customer engagement and loyalty.
Nominees in Social Media categories were judged on how they were creating real conversations with followers, how active fans and followers were on their social media plat-forms, how social media created a positive sentiment within their organisation, and what features differentiate their strategy from competitors.
Hamad Al Hammadi, Government Relations Manager at
Vodafone Qatar, said: “Vodafone Qatar is leading the region in social media and is devoted and committed to serving customers and engaging via social media. Vodafone Qatar creates unique and relevant content specific to this medium and we put primary importance on the relationship with our customers. We earn the right to follow our audience by deliv-ering our likable brand personality through the voices of real people on our social media team, authentic content and by ensuring responsiveness and transparency in all interactions.”
Vodafone Qatar was also recently recognised as the number one socially devoted Facebook brand in Qatar, according to Socialbakers, the most popular provider of social media analytics tools, statistics and metrics. A socially devoted brand is defined as a brand that creates and opens line of communication with fans, responds to fan requests at least 65 percent of the time, and responds in a timely fashion. The Peninsula
Vodafone Qatar recognised for best social media stategy
PLUS | MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 20136 DESIGN
By James S Russell
Two duplex apartments at the One57 condo tower have sold for more than $90m each — a stag-gering number even in
Manhattan’s super-luxe market.One57, just steps from New York’s
Carnegie Hall, is not only crazy expensive, it’s super-tall for a resi-dential building.
Designed by Paris architect Christian de Portzamparc, the tower rises to 1,000 feet, with pano-ramas of Central Park and midtown Manhattan.
The new building is one of perhaps a dozen needle-thin towers planned for New York. Carol Willis, the founder of Manhattan’s Skyscraper Museum, calls them “a new type in the history of the skyscraper.”
Super-slims are unique to Manhattan. “The economy of land values drives what can be built,” Willis said.
“Sky High and the Logic of Luxury,” an exhibition now on view at the museum, makes that case with models, floor plans and diagrams of acrobatic engineering.
In buildings with just one sprawling residence per floor, the owner shares the views only with passing falcons.
You would think these towers would cast deep shadows for blocks around, but their skinniness mini-mises the gloom.
The staggering price tags and a perception (possibly fanciful) that the universe of global billionaires is big enough to support a few hundred more units have developers rushing to erect super-slims. The competition for the best views is fierce.
Here’s my street-level assessment of the three 57th Street needles.
One57, 157 W. 57th StHow does Extell President Gary
Barnett get away with selling shiny, gift-wrapped ordinariness for top prices?
One57 crashes unceremoniously into the street, though a not-yet-installed rippling canopy may bring a note of whimsy.
The tower’s exterior, still famous for the construction crane that drooped alarmingly after Hurricane Sandy, is nearly complete.
Endless acres of cheap-looking frameless glass in cartoonish stripes and blotches of silver and pewter muddy this tower’s profile. Enough of lazy, no-character glass walls.
Skillful marketing is cheaper than real architecture. Architect Christian de Portzamparc salvages a bit of dig-nity with winsomely curving green-house hats atop the setbacks. That shaping of the views seems to have commanded the highest prices.
432 Park Ave.Despite the name, 432 Park is
really on 57th Street. Developed by
the CIM Group with builder Harry Macklowe, it’s rising to almost 1,400 feet as a cubic silo of concrete with 10- foot-square windows that punch the exterior.
The windows seem to be at war with the extraordinarily slender form.
If it’s finished with finesse, though, this chest-thumper might be gutsy enough to command the sky.
Inside, the monumental windows and 12.5-foot-high ceilings conjure a modernist baronial grandeur. The lowest 9,000-square- foot apart-ment floors will start 300 feet high,
sufficient to see past surrounding towers, atop a pile of residential amenities.
It’s by far the most important build-ing in New York by Vinoly, who has earned recent notoriety for a London tower with reflections that have melted auto trim.
111 W. 57th St.This tower, by far the skinniest of
the needles so far, will rise from the courtyard of the Steinway building, a stoic classical pile that houses the legendary piano showroom.
The condo will culminate in a series of bronze-trimmed setbacks and fini-als that visually dissolve the building into the sky. (The Steinway Building’s offices will be converted to apart-ments, though the ornate showroom will remain. Steinway may sell pianos elsewhere within the development).
While the midtown face of the tower thins dramatically at the top, horizontal bands of full-height glass look north to Central Park, and wrap the corners to widen the view.
Rippling moldings in terra cotta run vertically up the skinny sides. If all of these ideas meld gracefully, this will be the most alluring of the mid-town super-slims.
Apartment layouts, prices and amenities are still being worked out, but the tower will accommodate no more than one residence per 5,000sqft floor, with some duplexes.
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By Andrew M Seaman
Some doctors caution people with heart failure against pushing themselves too hard physically. But a new
analysis of past studies suggests heart patients may actually benefit more from relatively intensive exercise.
Researchers found people with heart failure had a 23-percent improvement in heart function after taking part in relatively high-intensity exercise programmes. That compared to a seven-percent improvement among those in low-intensity programmes.
“I think we need to open up our eyes and really ask ourselves, ‘Does high intensity equal higher risk or does it mean higher rewards?’” said Neil Smart, the study’s lead author.
“I personally think it’s not higher risk,” he said. “I think it means higher rewards.”
Smart is an associate professor at Australia’s University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales.
About 5.8 million people in the United States have heart failure, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The condition occurs when the heart can’t take in enough blood or adequately pump enough blood to the rest of the body. There’s no cure, but the NIH says doctors can help people manage the condition to improve the quality and length of their lives.
One strategy that has been tested among people with heart failure is exercise training, such as the kind that exists within cardiac rehabilitation programs.
People who have had heart attacks and other cardiac problems like heart failure may take part in those programmes to get medical supervision while learning to safely exercise and manage their condition.
Smart and his colleagues write in JACC: Heart Failure that past analyses have found exercise helps improve breathing and heart health among people with heart failure.
But the largest trial to compare people in an exercise programme to a comparison group showed smaller improvements than expected. Many of the people in that trial stopped exercising during the study, which may have made it harder to see an effect.
For the new analysis, the researchers looked at randomised controlled trials, which are
considered the gold standard of medical research.
They found 74 studies that compared 3,265 people in exercise programmes and 2,612 in non-exercise groups.
Of people randomly picked for exercise programmes, 241 were put on high-intensity training programmes. Another 2,215 worked out at a vigorous intensity, 672 at a moderate intensity and 137 at a low intensity.
The intensity is relative to each participant’s ability. That means high intensity for a heart failure patient may be a brisk walk for a healthy adult.
Exercise programmes lasted anywhere from four to 52 weeks.
At the beginning of the study, each participant’s peak oxygen consumption was used as a measure of heart health. Peak oxygen consumption increases with how effectively the body is using oxygen during exercise.
Between the beginning and end of the programmes, oxygen consumption increased by 23 percent among people exercising at a high intensity. That compared to about a seven-percent increase among those in the low-intensity groups.
A 23-percent increase in peak oxygen consumption would be noticeable to people with heart failure, according to one expert who was not involved with the new study.
People with heart failure would notice they are no longer tired after their daily care, said
Gordon Blackburn, an exercise physiologist and programme director of cardiac rehabilitation at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Blackburn also said it’s a large enough difference to suggest there could be a reduction in deaths among people in the high-intensity exercise groups. The study, however, did not find that to be the case. It also showed no differences in deaths and hospitalisations between exercise groups.
“In a supervised cardiac rehabilitation environment, it’s suggesting we can be more aggressive with these patients, but we have to pay attention to the whole disease,” Blackburn said. “The patient has to be stable with their heart failure managed.”
He noted that it’s important people know this analysis is based on data collected during closely controlled and supervised programmes.
“I would hate to think that someone with heart failure would go out and think, ‘I’m going to push myself,’” Blackburn said.
Smart also cautioned that all exercise should not be intensive. Instead, a fraction of a person’s programme should be spent on high-intensity exercises.
“I still think we need a bit more evidence before we make people exercise a bit more,” he said.
“This isn’t definitive, but it’s a good start.”
SOURCE: bit.ly/1csQbUj JACC: Heart Failure, online October 25, 2013. Reuters
One to two years average time to get pregnant: Study
Usually women lose patience within just six months from the time they decide to start a fam-
ily. But they shouldn’t be impatient as a couple takes one to two years to conceive, reveals a study.
A study by the women’s health brand Balance Activ, surveyed 2,000 women in Britain, about their knowledge of con-ception. They were misinformed when it came to how long and how demand-ing becoming pregnant can be, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
A mere 15 percent could identify the correct time frame, which is one to two years, while a shocking 43 percent expected to conceive within six months -- 12 percent of them even said three months.
This ill-informed expectation to con-ceive sooner can often lead to stress and anxiety in women.
“Deciding to try for a baby can be an intense time for couples. The fact that women are choosing to have chil-dren later on in life, combined with an expectation that conception will happen within weeks can also add stress and anxiety to the mix, which in turn can lead to its own problems,” said Corrin Farr, senior marketing manager at Balance Activ.
UAE provides vaccinesto two million children
Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Development
and International Co-operation, said the country has provided vaccines to about two million children worldwide.
Sheikha Lubna was addressing the half-yearly review conference of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, held in Stockholm to ensure the provision of vaccines to immunise children from diseases and eradicate them as well.
The minister conveyed the regards of General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces to the confer-ence, referring to the efforts of Sheikh Mohamed in partnership with Bill Gates, president of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that made the UAE join the global alliance since 2011.
Sheikha Lubna said the crown prince of Abu Dhabi has pledged $33m from 2011-2013 to help curb the rates of child mortality as well as reduce the spread of diseases in Afghanistan, noting that the last installment of $10m will be available at the end of this month.
She said the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation exerts utmost efforts to reduce the child mortality rates and the spread of dis-eases through making the vaccines available.
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.A
s R
eggie
an
d J
ake t
ravel back in
ti
me t
o t
he 1
600s, th
ey c
om
e a
cross
a fl
ock o
f agile, fa
st
turkeys a
lready
sta
yin
g o
ne s
tep a
head o
f th
e h
um
an
sett
lers l
ookin
g t
o h
un
t th
em
.C
om
edie
nn
e A
my P
oeh
ler,
best
kn
ow
n a
s s
mart
an
d g
oofy
cit
y c
oun
-cil
mem
ber L
esli
e K
nope o
n N
BC
sit
com
Pa
rks
an
d R
ecre
ati
on,
voic
es
a s
imilarly
sm
art
an
d e
ndearin
g t
ur-
key n
am
ed J
en
ny,
who R
eggie
falls
in love w
ith.
“S
he’s
kin
d o
f a f
un
characte
r t
o
pla
y i
n a
nim
ati
on
, on
e t
hat
I hadn
’t
reall
y pla
yed befo
re.
Sh
e’s
a very
serio
us,
ste
adfa
st, n
atu
ral le
ader,
no-
non
sen
se k
ind o
f tu
rkey.
On
e t
hat
is c
erta
inly
the s
marte
st
on
e o
f th
e
bun
ch,”
Poehle
r s
aid
.
No C
heap G
obble
sW
hile F
ree
Bir
ds
touches o
n t
he
orig
ins o
f th
e U
S T
han
ksgiv
ing t
ra-
dit
ion
, H
ayw
ard s
aid
he d
idn
’t w
an
t th
e fi
lm t
o b
ecom
e a
his
toric
al
les-
son
fo
r th
e fi
lm’s
in
ten
ded youn
g
audie
nce.
“K
ids g
o t
o s
chool
all w
eek,
an
d
when
they c
om
e t
o t
he p
ictu
res,
I did
n’t
wan
t to
turn
it
into
a s
chool
lesson
,” t
he d
irecto
r s
aid
.“T
here’s
a
lot
of
stu
ff
abou
t T
han
ksgiv
ing t
hat’s n
ot
that
nic
e,
there’s
a lot
about
the s
ett
lin
g o
f th
e
Un
ited S
tate
s t
hat
I could
n’t
show
,”
he a
dded.
Capit
alisin
g o
n a
slo
w m
on
th f
or
children
’s a
nim
ate
d c
om
edie
s,
Fre
e B
ird
s, m
ade f
or $
55m
, is
proje
cte
d
by b
ox o
ffice f
orecaste
rs t
o c
ollect
betw
een
$14m
an
d $22m
at th
e
North
A
meric
an
box offi
ce in
it
s
open
ing w
eeken
d.
Rela
tivit
y M
edia
is
dis
trib
uti
ng t
he fi
lm.
Hayw
ard s
aid
he h
oped t
he m
ovie
w
ould
appeal to
children
an
d a
dult
s,
an
d th
at
they w
ould
ta
ke aw
ay a
moral
message t
o r
eflect
on
for t
he
festi
ve h
oliday s
eason
.“M
y a
gen
da f
or t
his
movie
was t
o
make a
n e
moti
on
ally f
ulfi
llin
g, very
fun
ny b
uddy m
ovie
that
had a
great
message t
o i
t, a
nd t
he m
essage h
as
noth
ing t
o d
o w
ith food. T
he m
ess
age
is t
hat
you’r
e p
art
of
som
eth
ing b
ig-
ger t
han
yourself
,” h
e s
aid
.B
ut
if
you’r
e
look
ing
for
an
y
tradem
ark t
urkey ‘gobble
s,’
the c
ast
said
they d
idn
’t h
ave t
o l
earn
how
to
make t
he g
urglin
g t
urkey s
oun
d
because t
he t
urkey c
haracte
rs c
om
-m
un
icate
through t
alk
ing.
“If
you’r
e
look
ing
for
gobble
s,
you’r
e n
ot
goin
g to
get
that
here,
okay? I
f you’r
e lookin
g for c
heap g
ob-
ble
s, th
en
keep w
alk
ing. T
his
is n
ot
the m
ovie
for y
ou,”
Poehle
r q
uip
ped.
Re
ute
rs
HO
LLY
WO
OD
NE
WS
Shee
n n
ot a
llow
ed t
o m
eet
chil
dre
n
Acto
r C
harlie S
heen w
as
reporte
dly
not
allow
ed t
o m
eet
his
tw
in s
ons
Bob a
nd M
ax b
ecause
he h
ad a
ccuse
d law
offi
cia
ls o
f not
giv
ing p
ro-
tecti
on t
o t
he c
hildren.
The f
our-y
ear-o
ld t
win
s w
ere t
aken a
way f
rom
th
e c
ust
ody o
f th
eir
moth
er a
nd S
heen’s
ex-w
ife B
rook M
ueller a
nd a
re
currentl
y r
esi
din
g w
ith S
heen’s
form
er e
x-w
ife D
enis
e R
ichards.
Ric
hards
was
not
allow
ed t
o t
ake t
he c
hildren o
ver t
o t
he a
cto
r’s
house
, on S
atu
rday,
because
the L
os
Angele
s C
ounty
Departm
ent
of C
hildren a
nd
Fam
ily S
ervic
es
(DC
FS
) w
ere a
nnoyed w
ith S
heen’s
cla
im t
hat
his
sons
were in d
anger a
nd w
ere n
ot
bein
g p
rote
cte
d b
y t
he d
epartm
ent,
reports
tm
z.com
. T
he four-y
ear-o
ld t
win
s w
ere t
aken a
way from
Mueller b
ecause
of
her d
rug a
ddic
tion.
When
Bec
kham
wen
t to
coo
kin
g s
choo
l
Soccer a
ce D
avid
Bechkam
spent
six m
onth
s goin
g t
o c
ulinary s
chool
when h
e liv
ed in I
taly
. T
his
was
where h
e learnt
how
to m
ake c
om
pli-
cate
d I
talian d
ishes,
reports
fem
ale
first
.co.u
k.
“Fun
nily e
nough,
when
I l
ived i
n I
taly
, I
took a
six
-mon
th c
ulin
ary
course
at
a p
rofe
ssio
nal
chef’
s sc
hool
and l
earnt
to m
ake r
eal
ragu a
nd
fresh
past
a. I
use
d t
o g
o t
here t
hree t
imes
a w
eek... I
was
obse
ssed w
ith
perfe
cti
ng t
he r
isott
o b
ecause
it
is d
ifficult
,” s
aid
Beckham
.T
he p
layer r
eti
red f
rom
soccer e
arlier t
his
year.
I see
the
next
SRK
in A
bRam
: SRK
Kin
g K
han, w
ho is
ruling t
he B
ollyw
ood indust
ry,
says
he s
ees
the n
ext
Shah R
ukh K
han i
n h
is s
on A
bR
am
. W
hen a
sked w
ho i
n t
he y
oung
set
of
acto
rs
has
the c
apabilit
y t
o b
e t
he n
ext
Shah R
ukh K
han, he s
aid
: “I
see t
he n
ext
SR
K i
n A
bR
am
, but
it w
ill
take t
ime.”
He s
aid
he h
as
dedic
ate
d t
his
year f
or s
mall t
hin
gs
and lit
tle h
appin
ess
.“E
ach y
ear,
we r
un a
fter t
o a
chie
ve s
om
eth
ing b
ig, m
ay it
be b
ig fi
lms,
aw
ards
... I
know
it
is a
ll im
porta
nt
and its
been 2
2 y
ears
and I
have d
ecid
ed
to focus
on s
mall t
hin
gs.
In t
he r
ace o
f catc
hin
g b
ig t
hin
gs,
we m
iss
small
thin
gs,
” S
RK
said
.“T
his
year,
I w
ant
to s
pend t
ime w
ith m
y c
hildren. I
look f
orw
ard t
o
spendin
g q
uality
tim
e w
ith m
y c
hildren. T
hey a
re g
row
ing o
lder a
nd g
ett
ing
busy
in t
heir
ow
n l
ives,
so I
am
tryin
g t
o g
et
into
it.
So, I
have d
edic
ate
d
this
year f
or s
mall lit
tle h
appin
ess
, “
he a
dded.
The a
cto
r w
ho h
as
achie
ved e
veryth
ing in lif
e s
ays
on t
he p
rofe
ssio
nal
front
he h
as
not
achie
ved e
veryth
ing. “O
n t
he p
rofe
ssio
nal
front,
I h
ave
not
achie
ved e
veryth
ing. T
here is
a long w
ay t
o g
o. I
try t
o g
et
bett
er w
ith
my e
ach fi
lm a
nd I
will conti
nue t
o d
o t
hat
till m
y last
breath
.”
Bol
lyw
ood r
emem
ber
s si
nger
Res
hm
a
India
n
film
fr
ate
r-
nit
y m
em
bers
were
saddened b
y t
he d
eath
of
legendary P
akis
tani
folk
sin
ger R
esh
ma i
n
Lahore y
est
erday a
nd
expressed th
eir
grie
f via
Tw
itte
r.A
cto
r
Kabir
B
edi
shared t
he l
ink o
f her
perfo
rm
an
ce
to
the
popula
r
son
g
La
mbi
ju
da
i an
d w
rote
: “I
n
mem
ory o
f th
e l
egen
-dary R
esh
ma,
a live
perfo
rm
ance o
f her.
Unfo
rgett
able
La
mbi
jud
aa
i.”F
ilm
maker A
nubhav S
inha p
ost
ed: “R
IP R
esh
ma. Y
ou w
ere a
gif
t to
us.
”A
uth
or a
nd j
ourn
alist
Sadia
Dehlv
i tw
eete
d:
“Just
heard o
f sin
ger
Resh
ma’s
death
. R
ecall m
eeti
ng a
nd l
iste
nin
g t
o h
er s
everal
tim
es
over
decades.
May h
er s
oul rest
in p
eace.”
The s
inger w
as s
uff
erin
g f
rom
throat
can
cer f
or a
lon
g t
ime,
an
d
breath
ed h
er last
in L
ahore y
est
rday m
ornin
g, reporte
d D
aw
n.
Resh
ma h
as
been
on
e o
f th
e m
ost
popula
r f
olk
sin
gers
of
Pakis
tan
. S
he a
ppeared o
n t
ele
vis
ion i
n t
he 1
960s
and r
ecorded s
ongs
for b
oth
the
Pakis
tani as
well a
s th
e I
ndia
n fi
lm indust
ry.
Som
e o
f her s
ongs
inclu
de D
am
a d
am
ma
st k
ala
nda
r, H
ai O
ra
bba
na
hio
n
lagd
a d
il m
era,
Sun
ch
ark
he
di m
ith
i mit
hi c
ook
ma
hiy
a m
ein
u ya
ad
aun
da,
Wey
ma
in c
hor
i ch
ori,
An
khiy
an
no
reh
en d
e a
nkh
yan
de
kol k
ol a
nd L
am
bi
jud
ai.
Mil
ey C
yrus’
s cr
azin
ess
is c
ry f
or h
elp
Pop s
tar M
iley C
yrus’
s fr
iends
are w
orrie
d a
bout
her a
nd t
hin
k t
hat
she is
headin
g t
ow
ards
a b
reakdow
n. T
he 2
0-y
ear-o
ld is
struggling t
o
cope w
ith t
he c
onst
ant
crit
icis
m a
nd p
ost
-breakup w
ith fi
ance a
nd a
cto
r
Lia
m H
em
sworth
. S
he h
as
indulg
ed in d
est
ructi
ve b
ehavio
ur lik
e n
onst
op
party
ing a
nd r
andom
hookups,
reports
show
biz
spy.c
om
.“S
he d
oesn
’t h
ave m
any r
eal fr
iends
and is
const
antl
y m
ess
ed u
p. S
he
never w
ants
to g
o h
om
e, never w
ants
to b
e a
lone a
nd d
oesn
’t w
ant
the
party
to e
nd. T
he w
ay M
iley h
as
been a
cti
ng is
a c
ry for h
elp
,” a
source s
aid
.“S
he’s
been a
cti
ng e
rrati
cally.
Everyone i
s w
orrie
d n
ow
that
Lia
m i
s gone. S
he’s
a m
ess
wit
hout
him
.“S
he w
as
so i
n l
ove w
ith h
im a
nd r
eally t
ook i
t hard. S
he’s
been g
oin
g
out
a lot,
tryin
g n
ot
to t
hin
k a
bout
Lia
m. S
he w
as
happy focusi
ng o
n L
iam
in
the b
egin
nin
g, but
she’s
narcis
sist
ic,” t
he s
ource a
dded.
Cyrus
and H
em
sworth
got
engaged in M
ay 2
012
and s
eparate
d r
ecentl
y.“S
he’s a
lways
lookin
g for m
ale
att
enti
on. It
’s u
ncom
forta
ble
to b
e a
round.
She’s
party
ing t
o m
ask
her t
rue feelings.
And s
he’s
really u
nhealt
hy -
she
barely
eats
... If
she c
onti
nues
acti
ng o
ut
at
this
rate
, sh
e c
ould
be h
eaded
straig
ht
for r
ehab. It
’s s
ad,” t
he s
ource s
aid
.
PLU
S |
MO
ND
AY
4 N
OV
EM
BE
R 2
013
Turk
eys
take
flig
ht
and
tim
e tr
avel
in
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11WHEELS
By Warren Brown
The numbers say the 2014 Nissan Versa Note 1.6 S hatchback, with a base price of $13,900, makes perfect marketing sense. It
is all most of us can comfortably afford in a new car.
The numbers, collected from a vari-ety of sources in the automotive and financial industries, are sobering. To wit:
— The average price of a new car sold in the United States in 2012 was $30,500.
— Barely 19 percent of the US popu-lation bought the estimated 16 million new cars and trucks sold in this coun-try last year.
— Residents of only one metro-politan area — Washington, with an average household income of $86,680 — could comfortably handle the monthly payments on a new automobile costing $31,000 or more.
“Comfortably” means buyers can make due car notes without jeop-ardising rent, mortgage, utility, food or other necessary payments. In the Washington metropolitan area, the home of hundreds of thousands of fed-eral employees, it also means a govern-ment that does not periodically shut down to entertain adolescent political squabbles.
— Of the 25 large US metropolitan areas in the 2013 Car Affordability Study, the primary source of this column’s data, produced by Interest.com, a company specialising in per-sonal finance, residents of the last-ranked metropolis in terms of average household income, Tampa, Florida, with $43,832 annually, could comfort-ably afford a new automobile priced
at $14,516.So, Tampa, the new Nissan Versa
Note 1.6 S is for you, as it is for all of us more interested in getting from one place to another than we are in making statements our bank accounts can’t afford.
It’s not such a bad deal. It just requires understanding and signifi-cant attitude adjustment. To wit: The Versa Note 1.6 S is a basic subcompact
automobile engineered to carry five people and their stuff safely, reliably, efficiently (27 miles per gallon in the city and 36 on the highway using regu-lar unleaded gasoline) without drama, good or bad.
If you approach this car with Walter Mitty racetrack performance fantasies, you are looking at the wrong automo-bile. The 1.6-liter in-line four-cylinder engine in the Versa Note 1.6 S gets
a maximum 109 horsepower and 107 pound-feet of torque — not exactly the stuff of throttle-jockey yore.
The little car’s interior is several steps above mediocre. Hard plastics abound and the cloth seats are, well, cloth — washable, cleanable cloth. Spill, stain, clean, let dry overnight. Drive the next day.
Let none of this mislead you into thinking that the Versa Note 1.6 S is “cheap” in all of the derisive meaning of that word. The subcompact car is well made. Fit and finish are excellent — all the plastic interior pieces fit well. And there are certain options — onboard navigation, electronic keyless entry, high-definition backup camera, sound system with radio data and speed-sen-sitive volume control — that make the Versa Note 1.6 S feel a tad upper-class.
Credit a growing awareness among global automobile manufacturers that most of the people in the 99 percent earnings group have 1 percent tastes. The trick is to satisfy those askew longings without busting manufactur-ing or marketing budgets.
Nissan seems to have done a good job of performing that magic with the Versa Note 1.6 S. It is a small economy car that does not make you feel bad about driving economy. It is reason-ably attractive and, with front and rear head air bags as standard equipment, reasonably safe.
The Versa Note 1.6 S is not the sex-iest ride in the world. But it under-stands the value of commitment. It will take you home when you’re laid off, help you get to the unemployment ben-efits office, and bring you back to work when that time comes. In the interim, you should be able to make monthly payments — even if you live in Tampa.
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Nissan Versa Note 1.6 S is sensible Nissan Versa Note 1.6 S is sensible and affordable, but lacking in thrillsand affordable, but lacking in thrills
Nuts and BoltsBottom line: The 2014 Nissan Versa Note 1.6 S is a very good economy
car. Compare with the Chevrolet Spark and Sonic, Toyota Yaris and Corolla, Ford Fiesta, Mazda 3 hatchback, Hyundai Accent, and Kia Rio hatchback.
Ride, acceleration, and handling: It gets decent marks in all three for drivers willing to obey posted speed limits and those who are not the least bit concerned about 0-to-60-mph acceleration times.
Head-turning quotient: Convent-friendly — that is, it reminds me of certain nuns who taught me in elementary school. I was always happy to see them, but I easily forgot that they were there.
Body style/layout: The Nissan Versa 1.6 S is the hatchback version of the Nissan Versa subcompact sedan, which was revised last year. The Versa Note is a subcompact, front-wheel-drive four-door hatchback offered in three trim levels — base S, mid-grade S Plus and top-of-the-line SV.
Engine/transmission: The car comes standard with a 1.6-litre, 16-valve in-line four-cylinder gasoline engine with variable valve timing (109 horse-power, 107 pound-feet of torque) linked to a five-speed manual transmission. A continuously variable automatic transmission is available.
Capacities: There are seats for five people. Cargo capacity with rear seats raised is 21.4 cubic feet. With rear seats lowered, cargo capacity is 38.3 cubic feet. The fuel tank holds 10.8 gallons of petrol.
Real-world mileage: Real-world mileage matched or exceeded, depending on driving conditions and load, the Environmental Protection Agency’s rating of 27 miles per gallon in the city and 36 on the highway.
Safety: Standard equipment includes ventilated front disc brakes and rear drum brakes; four-wheel anti-lock brake protection; emergency brak-ing assistance; electronic brake-force distribution; traction control; stability control; and front and rear head air bags.
Price: The base price of the 2014 Nissan Versa Note 1.6 S is $13,990 in US. Price as tested is $16,095, including $1,295 in options (interior “mood illumination” package, vehicle tracking and recovery system, compass and home link system).
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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 201312
By Samuel Gibbs
Google unwrapped a brand new version of its mobile software on 31 October called Android 4.4 “Kitkat”, featuring an
always listening intelligent search and more.
With Android 4.4 Kitkat Google has improved Android’s performance, added new features and services, as well as integrated new software to support the potential for innovative new uses.
Android 4.4 continues the confec-tionary naming scheme
Since its inception, Google has used both an increasing numeric value, like Android 4.4, as well as names taken from famous confectionary.
It started with Android 1.5 “Cupcake”, and continued through the alphabet via Android 1.6 “Donut”, Android 2.0 “Eclair”, Android 2.2 “Froyo” (frozen yoghurt), Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”, Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” and most recently Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”.
It was long-rumoured that the follow up to Jelly Bean would be “Key Lime Pie”, however in a deal with Nestle, Google named Android 4.4 after the Kitkat chocolate biscuit.
Always listening Google NowGoogle’s intelligent digital assistant
and smart search, Google Now, has been given much larger prominence within Android 4.4 Kitkat, integrating an always listening feature, which will instantly respond to voice commands triggered by the phrase “OK Google”.
Instead of having to launch a sepa-rate app, your searches can be made directly from the homescreen without having to tap any buttons, just by start-ing your commands with “OK Google”. This always-listening feature was first introduced with Google’s smart glasses Google Glass, which is voice-activated by the phrase “OK Glass”.
Full-screen immersionGoogle has taken steps with Android
4.4 Kitkat to make the experience of using apps like ebook readers or web browsers a much more immersive experience. It has changed the way the system-level interface elements are presented, including the status bar at
the top of the screen and the Android menu buttons at the bottom.
Instead of permanently bracketing your screen with two black bars, the top notification bar is now transpar-ent, allowing more of your homescreen wallpaper to shine through. The menu bar at the bottom of the screen can now also disappear when an app is put into a full-screen mode, allowing con-tent to take up the full real estate of the screen.
Dragging your finger down from the top of the screen or up from the bottom of the screen now reveals the notifica-tion or menu bars when in full screen applications.
Support for lower-end phonesAndroid fragmentation has been a
big problem for app developers ever since the operating system’s inception. Essentially it means that multiple ver-sions of Android that aren’t up to date exist on various devices. While that’s not an issue in and of itself, for devel-opers it presents a massive challenge as they have to programme their apps to support multiple versions of Android – all with differing capabilities.
Google has already taken steps towards minimising fragmentation through the decoupling of its own applications and services from the operating system into separate down-loadable apps. That allows users on
older versions of Android to update these apps separately through the Google Play store and gain access to the new services and features.
Now Google is taking its battle with fragmentation a step further by reducing the system requirements for Android 4.4 Kitkat. In doing this Google has made it possible to run Kitkat on much lower power devices.
Low-power sensors without bat-tery drain
Following Apple’s lead with the iPhone 5S and its low-power M7 motion co-processor, Kitkat also fea-tures support for low power sensors using a process called “hardware sen-sor batching”.
Essentially, Android will now queue up sensory input to be processed in batches, which means that the central processor doesn’t need to be in a high-power state all the time to accept and process data from the phone’s sensors
like the GPS, accelerometers and gyroscopes.
The end result is much improved battery life, while maintaining the data logging and sensory activities that facilitate great features like Google Now, fitness trackers and location reporting.
NFC payments enhancementGoogle has also taken steps to sim-
plify and hopefully accelerate the use of near-field communication (NFC) for payments. A significant propor-tion of Android phones come with an NFC chip built in, which is currently mainly used for pairing accessories and Bluetooth devices.
Now Google has baked a new fea-ture into Android Kitkat that aims to simplify the use of NFC applica-tions for payments called “Host Card Emulation”, which facilitates the con-nection between the applications and the NFC hardware within the Android device.
Google hopes that this new simplifi-cation within the Android software will help NFC payments, as well as other NFC uses gain traction.
Coming to a device near you soonFollowing the announcement of the
Nexus 5 smartphone and Android 4.4 Kitkat, various manufacturers announced that they would be updat-ing their smartphones with Kitkat.
Google announced that previous Nexus devices, including the Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 7 and 10 tablet computers would get the update within the coming weeks.
HTC also confirmed that it would be updating its HTC One line of devices, including the new One Max phablet to Android 4.4 Kitkat, with the HTC One seeing the update within 90 days.
Other smartphone manufacturers are currently looking at the update, although it is known that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will not get the Kitkat update. The Guardian
Google Android 4.4 ‘Kitkat’: Seven things you need to know
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Hoy en la HistoriaNovember 4, 1854
1879: The first cash register was patented by James J. Ritty of Ohio1918: Wilfred Owen, whose poetry deplores the cruelty of war, was killed in the final days of World War I1995: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist in Tel Aviv2003: The sun unleashed the biggest solar flare ever recorded, estimated by physicists to be over twice as big as the previous record
Florence Nightingale and her team of 38 nurses arrived in Turkey to set up a hospital at Scutari for British troops fighting in the Crimean War
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ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
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LEARN ARABIC
Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman
Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun
Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne
Fruits and Vegetables
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Onion Ba�al
Bananas Mawz
Dates Bala�
Dried date Tamr
Garlic �oom
Pomegranate Roumman
Cucumber �iyar
Lettuce �ass
Salad Sala�a
Strawberries Frayz
Mint Naçnaç
Quince Safar�al
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PLUS | MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2013
HYPER SUDOKU
CROSSWORD
CROSSWORDS
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku
Puzzle is solved
by filling the
numbers from 1
to 9 into the blank
cells. A Hyper
Sudoku has
unlike Sudoku
13 regions
(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.
ACROSS 1 Urban contemporary
6 “Git!”
11 Sports org. of 1967-76
14 Olive-colored bird
15 World powerhouse in table tennis
16 Word of logic
17 Bygone theory
of astronomy
20 Blanket
21 Round parts
22 Hideous one
26 Get-___ (starts)
29 Obituary word
30 Bugs
33 “Ugly Betty” actress
39 Governor, e.g.
40 “Idylls of
the King,” stylistically
41 1959 doo-wop classic
42 Alpine native
43 “Grazie ___!” (Italian for “Thank God!”)
44 Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dan
45 Thrust item
48 Uses for a base
50 Balderdash
54 E.E.C. part: Abbr.
55 It may be bitter
56 “I did it!”
57 Grp. in gray
58 Gridiron distance: Abbr.
59 Sporting boots, say
DOWN 1 Tube rating
2 It may be performed by people in robes
3 Unyielding
4 Part of 1-Down
5 “___ is human …”
6 It has
thousands of roots
7 Half of a classic religious symbol
8 ___-A-Che (rapper)
9 Response:
Abbr.
10 Wishy-washy reply
11 Deal preceder
12 Participant in
an 1899
conflict
13 ___ deal
18 Risqué West
19 Ones to whom an organization’s messages are sent
23 Frayed,
perhaps
24 Funny Carol
and family
25 “Woe is me!” types
26 Land visited
by Paul in the New Testament
27 Clarinet need
28 Concealments
31 “I’ll be right
with you”
32 Elided phrase in a Gershwin song
33 Easily corrupted
34 One-seat carriages
35 Assailed
36 Verona’s river
37 They have their pride
38 More crafty
46 Certain bird herd
47 Per
48 Wished otherwise
49 Supporter of the Heller decision, 2008: Abbr.
50 Allergy source
51 Played out
52 Abbr. after a telephone no.
53 One with two or three stripes: Abbr.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21
22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37 38
39
40
41
42
43 44
45 46 47 48 49
50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57
58 59
J U S T S A Y I N A S S E TE N C H I L A D A K O A L AJ E R U S A L E M C L U C KU V A I D E S A C H EN E W W A V E D E G R E E SE N L A C E A R M E P A T
N O T G O I N G A P ES P I E L F O P X E N O NC A N D Y B A R P E TH R H T A D A G R A T I SN A I V E T E F A S T O N EA N D I H A T E O C TP O I S E W H A T A S H O TP I N T O A E R O D R O M ES A G A N Y E S M A S T E R
How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run
- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER
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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate
Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.
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Dealers
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Alaska
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Survival
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17:00 Ellen DeGeneres
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Empire
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INTERNATIO-NAL NEWS
1:00 PM The latest news and events from around the world.
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MALL
1Kalbi Daleeli (2D/Arabic) – 2.30 & 7.00pm
Captain Phillips (2D/Action) – 4.30pm
Ender's Game (2D/Action) – 9.00 & 11.15pm
2
Djinn (2D/Horror) – 2.30pm
Escape From Planet Earth (3D/Animation) – 4.30 & 6.30pm
Captain Phillips (2D/Action) – 8.30 & 11.00pm
3Arrambam (2D/Tamil) – 2.30 & 5.30pm
Krrish 3 (2D/Hindi) – 8.30pm
Djinn (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm
LANDMARK
1Kalbi Daleeli (2D/Arabic) – 2.30pm
Krrish 3 (2D/Hindi) – 4.30 & 7.30pm
Captain Phillips (2D/Action) – 10.30pm
2
Kalbi Daleeli (2D/Arabic) – 2.30pm
Maximum Conviction (2D/Action) – 4.30pm
Captain Phillips (2D/Action) – 6.30pm
Ender's Game (2D/Action) – 9.00pm
Djinn (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm
3
Djinn (2D/Horror) – 3.00pm
Ender's Game (2D/Action) – 5.00pm
Kalbi Daleeli (2D/Arabic) – 7.15pm
Gravity (3D/Drama) – 9.15pm
Arrambam (2D/Tamil) – 11.00pm
ROYAL
PLAZA
1Arrambam (2D/Tamil) – 2.30 & 8.00pm
Krrish 3 (2D/Hindi) – 5.15 & 11.00pm
2Escape From Planet Earth (3D/Animation)
– 3.00, 5.00 & 7.00pm
Captain Phillips (2D/Action) – 8.30 & 11.00pm
3
Kalbi Daleeli (2D/Arabic) – 2.30pm
Djinn (2D/Horror) – 4.30pm
Gravity (3D/Drama) – 6.30pm
Arrambam (2D/Tamil) – 8.30pm
Ender's Game (2D/Action) – 11.15pm
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IN FOCUS
A dancing peacock at Qatar zoo.
by Yousuf Mohiuddin
Send your photos to [email protected]. Mention where the photo was taken.
MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.
• Directors and operators of schools outside Doha have demanded more school nurses as they are facing a severe shortage of nurses, with one nurse serving three schools.
• There is discussion in the social media about an intensive inspection campaign being conducted by inspectors from the Ministry of Municipality to ensure implementation of rules related to different types of signboards in all municipalities.
• There is talk about the completion of installation of electronic service facilities soon at Hamad International Airport.
• Parents fear that nurseries may increase their fees following the implementation of the new safety and security law, wherein the Ministry of Municipality and the Civil Defence directorate have made renewal of licences or issuance of new ones contingent on compliance with the law.
• Some citizens have demanded that the Traffic Department review Law No.
19/2007 to reduce fines and punishment for jumping traffic lights and driving in the opposite direction. They also want higher fines for speeding, use of mobile phones while driving, and parking in spots designated for people with special needs.
• There is talk about the approval of nine projects to produce white meat locally.
• There is discussion in the social media about visa traders, who bring unqualified workers into the country after giving wrong information about salaries and working conditions in Qatar.
• Hamad hospital is about to increase the number of rooms for weight-loss surgery to reduce the long waiting list.
• Some people have suggested reducing working hours for married women so that they can meet their family commitments.
• There is talk about the possibility of withdrawing contracts from companies that have failed to finish public park projects.
Msheireb Properties Chief Executive Officer Abdulla Hassan Al Mehshadi
Before becoming the CEO of Msheireb Properties, Al Mehshadi has worked as
Managing Director and Technical Affairs Director of the Private Engineering Office (PEO). He also worked as a Consultant to the Ministry of Environment. Al Mehshadi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Higher National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Huddersfield in the UK.
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Relics — Damien HirstWhen: Until Jan 22; Sun-Wed: 10:30am–5:30pm. Tuesday ClosedThur-Sat: 12pm–8pm, Fri: 2pm–8pmWhere: Al Riwaq Exhibition Space What: The most comprehensive survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever shown and his first solo exhibition in the Middle East. Free Entry
Once Upon a Butterfly...When: November 15; Saturday-Thursday: 10am–10pmFriday: 2pm–10pm Where: Anima gallery, Parcel 17, 30 La Croisette, Porto Arabia, The Pearl-Qatar
What: Solo exhibition by Lebanese German artist Said Baalbaki. Said Baalbaki’s paintings tell the story of the migrating butterfly. Since his early childhood, with the civil war in Lebanon, Said lived with suitcases. Memories of evacuation, of migration and of eventual immigration to Berlin. Said’s Suitcases share the butterfly’s destiny. Free Entry
L’âge d’or — exhibitionby Adel AbdessemedWhen: October 6 to January 5Where: Atrium and ground floor of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: Curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, the exhibition will showcase recent works, including drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos, many created by Adel Abdessemed.Entry: Free, open to all
Northern Legacy – Photographic Exhibition When: Until Nov 19, 2013; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery 1 - Bldg 13 What: Photographic Exhibition by Harold Crompton Robinson. Free Entry
Omar Khalifa – “Infinite”When: Until Dec 15; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Cultural Village What: This outdoor installation examines ‘the nature of being’. Using digital multiple exposure techniques, an image is crafted that gives a of other-worldliness and depth of perspective through the human form. Free Entry
Jazz in the ParkWhen: November 13, 7pm - 8pm Where: Museum of Islamic Art Park What: Renowned musician Warren Wolf will perform at the MIA Park. The Museum of Islamic Art has partnered with Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha for a series of free world-class jazz concerts in MIA Park. Free Entry
Events in Qatar
