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IEI

‘Mind like a shutter … eyes like a lens’

IEI Kuwait conducts photography workshopKUWAIT CITY, Oct 2: The Institution of Engineers (India), Kuwait Chapter con-ducted a Photography Workshop titled, “Mind Like a Shutter …. Eyes like a Lens ….” in association with FQ8 on Sept 23, 2016. To suit the theme and to have relevant ambience, beautiful venue of Live Theater located at Discovery Mall was selected. This workshop was divided into fi ve sessions and each session was delivered by the expert in the respective fi eld. This workshop was designed both for the young members of IEI Science Club as well as for senior members.

Dr Rumane Abdul Razak, Chairman, IEI Kuwait chapter in his welcome address ap-preciated members for their important role in participating in such knowledge sessions.

Dr Sushil Kumar from Indian Embassy inaugurated the function and congratulated all for coming up with such interesting and uniquely designed event.

Bishara Mustafa conducted the fi rst

session on topic “Basics of composition and copyrights laws”. Many useful tips were offered to the audience and copyright laws prevailing in industry were discussed. Second Session was conducted by Kiran Mithra who spoke on the topic, “Fine Art photography” and presented amazing photos from his collection. Session-3 was a live shoot conducted by Riyas who preferred to demonstrate the Portrait shoot on a gor-geous looking lady volunteer. All required professional photographic equipment was mobilized for the live shoot. Shafi mon con-ducted the fourth Session on the Advanced Photography. Last session was on food photography and it was conducted by Haris. He demonstrated live shoot for the food photography in an interesting and mouth-watering way.

On the sidelines of this workshop a photo exhibition was displayed where members had the chance to compete for the best entry.

An exhibition of classic cameras and photo-graphic equipment by Engr Joseph Panicker was another attraction.

M/s AAB world, a leading player in the photographic business sponsored all the prizes and gifts for the event.

Large number of members and guests attended this event and enjoyed the day long workshop.

Engr Rishabh Nath Jain, General Secre-tary, IEI Kuwait chapter delivered the vote of thanks. He thanked Dr Sushil Kumar for gracing the occasion, sponsors for their contribution, Team FQ8 for conducting the wonderful sessions and everyone present for their support to IEI Kuwait Chapter activities.

Workshop concluded with the presenta-tion of mementos to speakers and sponsor, raffl es and prizes for winners.

Packed food was served at the conclusion of the seminar.

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Share your story with Amricani: Do you or any of your family members, acquaintances or friends happen to have a story with the Ameri-can Missionary hospital in Kuwait (Mustashfa Lemraicani) during the years from 1914-1967, the offi cial period of offering medical services in Kuwait?

Please share with us your story or your memory during those old days by writing the event and sending it to the following email ad-dress: Mystory@darmuseum.org.kw

Notes: 1. Please send your story only to the above mentioned email. Story shared in Insta-gram, Facebook or Twitter will not be consid-ered.

2. Please write your story or memory and sign it with your full name, and your contact number.

3. It will be great if you send us your personal photos or those of the place related to the story (optional).

Your story will be part of a new book to be published by DAI.

I am confi dent that your contributions will be an essential part of the history of Amricani. Share

with us!

Oct 5

DAI storytime is back: Storytime at Yarmouk starts on Wednesday, Oct 5, at 4 pm. Storytime at Amricani starts on Saturday, Oct 8 at 3:30 pm. Registration is not necessary. We will start promptly on schedule, so please arrive a bit early.

Oct 6

IOC to conduct Arts Fest: Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) conducts its 10th Arts Festival- IOC-FEST-2016 for the Indian Community in Kuwait on Oct 6 and 7, 2016 at United Indian School, Abbasiya.

Various competitions will be held in two days with participation from children from all parts of Kuwait. The competitions will start with the classical dance followed by folk dance, mono act, mimicry, poster poetry and patriotic song on the fi rst day, ie. Thursday, 6th. The day long programmes will be continued on the second day (Friday, Oct 7) also with drawing/painting, elocution, poetry recitation, solo singing, essay writing and conclude with group dance in the evening. The competions will be conducted for different age groups on two different stages. We welcome all our dear ones to witness the chil-dren’s programme and request co-operation from everybody as received in the yesteryears.

The special memorial Award established in the

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It’s possible to live large on small footprint: Koones

Prefab housing books author turns focus on small housesBy Katherine Roth

Author Sheri Koones believes that prefab houses (or prefabulous, as she calls

them) are the homes of the future. Shes writ-ten fi ve books about them.

In the new Prefabulous Small Houses (The Taunton Press), Koones focuses on modestly sized homes and cottages, between 350 and 2,500 square feet.

It is defi nitely possible to live large but on a small footprint without cramping your style or budget, she said in an interview.

Compared to the basic modular homes of a decade ago, Koones says, these prefab residences are more elegant, eco-friendly and economical. Unlike traditional, on-site home building, they can be put up in a mat-ter of days or weeks.

The book profi les 32 homes across the country, and explains some of the latest technologies. In a foreword, Robert Redford

extols the ecological virtues of going prefab.Excerpts from Koones interview with The

Associated Press.AP: How did this book come about?Koones: Ive been writing about prefab

construction for a long time. If youre going to write about energy-effi cient, sustain-able homes, it really has to be prefab. The technology has come so incredibly far in recent years. And the more I traveled and looked around, the more I saw that there was a trend toward living smaller, and focusing on travel and other things instead of pouring all your time and resources into your home. Today, almost anything that can be built on-site can be built prefab. In Japan, most of the houses are prefabricated, and in Australia many of them are. Were slowly going in that direction, too.

AP: The homes featured in your book look very expensive. How economical are small, prefab homes?

Koones: Prefab houses can cost from 5 percent to 15 percent less than an on-site built house. And we know that building prefab saves time and energy both in the construction process and also in terms of maintenance. You wouldnt want someone to dump a bunch of car parts in your driveway and build a car there, so why would you want a home built that way? Its so wasteful.

AP: What design elements do these homes use to help them feel comfortable and roomy despite their diminutive size?

Koones: High ceilings, limited hallways and rooms used for multiple purposes are elements shared by many of the homes fea-tured in this book. The emphasis is on living well as opposed to living big.

AP: Could you talk a little about the new technologies that are becoming available?

Koones: I am wowed by the houses created by students for the Solar Decath-lon, sponsored by the US Department of

Energy every two years. These are really the architects, builders and manufacturers of the future. Three of the amazing homes in the book feature important Solar Decathlon innovations. The SU+RE House, built by a team at Stevens Institute of Technology, is designed to withstand the next hurricane on the New Jersey shore, and because it uses marine technology instead of stilts, its easier to access for a wider range of people. And the DesertSol House, built by students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, fi nds creative ways to save water and use it for cooling.

AP: What are the biggest misperceptions about prefab housing?

Koones: People still think of it as cheap and boxy. But if I were building a house today, its the only kind I would consider. All of the elegant houses in this book were custom-built and are anything but plain. Each is clearly unique and special. (AP)

This undated photo provided by The Taunton Press shows the cover of the book ‘Prefabu-

lous Small Houses’ by Sheri Koones. (AP)

An evening of words and verses

WFK holds soulful conclaveKUWAIT CITY, Oct 2: All of us inevitably must live through and respond to the highs and lows of our lives … Some of us choose to deny or get angry at the turbulence life entails, while some of us choose to accept in one’s stride, and emerge unscathed and stronger … It is not unusual for writers too, to experience the depth of their emotions; reso-nate with themselves and weave the lessons learnt into beautiful words of poetry. It is cer-tainly not unusual. However, there are those days and moments when quite a few of such minds coincidentally experience this renais-sance at the same time. That is what makes an evening, unusual.

Such a day of reckoning was experienced by the members of the Writers’ Forum, Ku-wait when they met for their monthly meet-ing on Sept 23, 2016 at the residence of Dr Navniit Gandhi. There are those days, when poets fi nd themselves not trying to wave emotions into words, but rather words themselves acquiring emotional overtones and tumbling out earnestly … It was one such evening which was presided over by Mrs Chhaya Athavale who writes poetry in Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi. Aamir Diwan who philosophises with words and verses in Hindi, graced the evening as the Chief Guest.

A short story, titled: ‘A Missed Marriage’, was read out in English by Rajesh Verlekar in the fi rst session. Vibheesh Tikkodi narrated a prose in Malyalam on the balance between

spiritualism and materialism — which the festival of Onam signifi es.

The second session witnessed some very powerful and soulful renditions and recitals by Syed Qamar Minto, Afroz Alam, Kamaal Ansari, Sayeed Nazar Kadapvi, and Shabbih Ahmed in Urdu, while the President of WFK — Umesh Sharma, Dr Navniit Gandhi, Ravin Singh, and Sunil Sonsi recited their respec-tive poems in Hindi. There was a young new participant — Sameen Azad-daughter of the WFK member and Urdu poet Syed Qamar Minto-read a verse in Persian from the poetry of Iranian poet Sa’adi—an extremely infl u-ential Persian poet from the medieval period. Sameen presented the English translation of the verse too.

It was an evening, which refl ected con-templation and depth — so very essential and rare to sustain a literary organisation … The Chief Guest- Aamir Diwan presented his poem in Hindi and congratulated the Presi-dent of WFK, for continuing to uphold the dignity of the WFK and for giving it the much-needed impetus to keep moving for-ward. Mrs Chhaya Athavale- the President for the evening presented her own poetry in Marathi and summed up the deliberations as ‘one of the fi nest ever meetings’, held by the WFK.

Dr Navniit Gandhi and Rajesh Verlekar were given special thanks for hosting this event.

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