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China is seeing a domestic tourism boom that is bringing money to poorer ethnic minority regions and propping up their fading traditions, but is also encouraging commercialism and stereotyping.

ETHNICETHNICTOURISM IN CHINATOURISM IN CHINA

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Marching in dragon dances, cheering on buffalo fights, singing folk songs with villagers, an enam-

oured traveller ticked off the sights during a three-week tour of Chinese ethnic minority festivals.

The man — who flew across the country to southwestern Guizhou province to see the colourful traditions — represents both the benefits and downsides of ethnic minority tourism.

“Their culture is a bit more back-ward, but it’s because it’s backward that they have this simplicity,” said the traveller, surnamed He, in between recounting local customs and com-plimenting Miao women in embroi-dered outfits and towering silver headdresses.

Visitors like him are fuelling a

domestic Chinese tourism boom that is bringing money to poorer ethnic minority regions and propping up their fading traditions, but that can also encourage commercialism and stereotyping.

He, in his 40s and from northern China, acknowledged that a flood of tourism in other minority areas had doused their authentic feel.

“For those of us who have come to Guizhou early on, and experienced its simplicity, I really don’t know if these traditional ways will exist a few years from now,” he lamented.

A third of residents of Guizhou, one of China’s poorest provinces, are members of one or other of the coun-try’s 55 recognised ethnic minorities, and He was watching a major Miao festival in the township of Zhouxi.

Minorities on display in Chinese tourist boom

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Women with flowers pinned to sweeping hairdos and ribbons draping from waist to floor swayed in sync, as men blared bagpipe-like melodies from long reed pipes.

Nearby stood racks of ethnic cos-tumes for visitors to dress up in for photographs.

Wang Ahua, a 39-year-old dress-maker who cannot write, said she had enjoyed a rise in demand for her cos-tumes, with prices now topping 10,000 yuan ($1,600).

Visitors did not look down on her and were “very happy, very polite”, she said. “It’s good that they come.”

Better roadsChinese domestic tourism

expanded 10 percent last year, with Chinese logging 3.3 billion trips within their country, generating 2.6 trillion yuan.

Authorities have promoted the sec-tor, along with ethnic tourism, both to generate income and to promote China’s image of happy diversity.

Although 92 percent ethnic Han, China offers minorities preferen-tial policies and encourages them to appear in TV performances and political events in traditional dress.

In past decades, Guizhou and its minorities suffered heavily from the Communist imposition of collec-tive farming and the chaos of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, but it is now seeking to tap its ethnic riches — its income from tourism rose 30 per-cent in 2012 to 186 billion yuan, just

over a quarter of its economy. Tour companies operating in the province offer an array of ethnic sights: women in elaborate silver jewellery, wooden homes, batik, operas and a water festival.

The visitors bring benefits such as better roads and a chance to make money, said Jenny Chio, an anthro-pologist at Emory University who has researched tourism in Guizhou.

But they can also turn quiet vil-lages into crowded theme parks — a criticism of popular spots Lijiang and Shangri-La in neighbouring Yunnan province — and pressure locals to con-form to stereotypes.

“If a place becomes a tourism des-tination, the people who live there are kind of frozen in time” to maintain the

“fantasy bubble that tourists want to see”, said Chio.

To truly reap economic rewards, minorities needed to be seen instead as educated and modern, said Reza Hasmath, an expert on ethnicity in China at Oxford University.

“China’s not moving beyond this sort of, ‘let’s get to know the minority’, to ‘let’s try to integrate the minority’,” he said.

“We need to get to that stage to sug-gest that minorities can be very accom-plished individuals, that they are hard working, that they are skilled, that they should be employed.”

Intermarriage, an indicator of trust among ethnic groups, was estimated in China to be only one percent of minori-ties, he pointed out.

Tensions have run particularly high with Tibetans and Uighurs, who have carried out periodic self-immolations and knife attacks in response to what critics say is cultural repression by Beijing.

‘Nothing good’Residents of Zhouxi, which built a

plaza for festival shows a few years ago, said the influx of tourists was improv-ing ties between ethnic groups.

A mural on the road to the township shows cartoon versions of Guizhou’s ethnic traditions -- men beating drums and fighting buffaloes.

“It’s good to let other Chinese friends get to know our culture,” said Ceng Mingwu, a 21-year-old Zhouxi native and Miao dancer.

“Our economy has developed, and we’re getting a bit of publicity,” he said.

But 46-year-old resident Wang Zejun worried that Zhouxi could fall into the same commercial tailspin as a nearby village, Xijiang.

Five years ago Xijiang barely had vehicle access but prices had shot up and performers were now hired profes-sionals from outside, he complained.

Locals there could only find jobs as cleaners and many in Zhouxi had left Guizhou for work, he said, adding that his children, ages 18 and 20, lived 940km (590 miles) away.

“There’s nothing to see,” he said of Xijiang.

“The food is expensive and fake, and there’s nothing good there.”

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Sixty students (30 boys and 30 girls) from primary schools in Doha participated in the Future

Scientists Academy organised by Qatar University’s National Center for Educator Development (QU-NCED) recently.

The project, which is funded by ExxonMobil, is an active learning ini-tiative designed to expand young stu-dents’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and encourage them to pursue careers in those fields.

Participating schools were Omar Bin Al Qhatab, Abu-Bakir Al Sadeeq, Umm Maibad, Moza Bint Mohmed, Al Ahnaf Bin Qais, and Al Bayaan Complex.

Over five days, the students engaged in parallel activities such as using foren-sic science to solve a “murder,” creating a computer animation, firing rockets, and solving mathematical puzzles and challenges.

Under the supervision of College of Education (CED) professor Dr Nancy

Allen, the students had the opportunity to hear presentations from professionals in science fields and participate in activ-ities planned by NCED staff members. They also visited Exxon-Mobil Research Qatar (EMRQ) to learn about the cent-er’s work and programmes.

Commenting on the project, CED Dean Dr Hissa Sadiq said: “This is our commitment to nurturing young students’ dreams and ambitions by strengthening their knowledge in sci-ence, technology, engineering, and mathematics and orienting them on the wide range of careers they can pursue in these fields. These young talented stu-dents are the future of this country and we see it as our role to inspire them and unlock their potential. It was a joy to have them on campus with their bright minds and enthusiasm. They inspired us, as we hoped to inspire them. We are looking at expanding the program in the near future to provide this opportunity to more students”. The Peninsula

QU engages 60 primary school students in Stem project

Twenty one teams from 30 countries around the world took part in the international final of the “Henkel Innovation Challenge” in

Düsseldorf, Germany. The Qatari team representing GCC won the sec-

ond prize. With their vision of “Diadermine Allure” – the world’s first programmable beauty product – Jaasim Polin and Sarah Mustafa from the Carnegie Mellon University Qatar convinced the jury.

During the three-day-event students from all over the world showcased their innovative concepts and ideas to a panel of Henkel managers. The jury ulti-mately selected the Croatian team as having submit-ted the best product vision for the year 2050.

The second winners are awarded with €4,000 and along with the first and third placed teams, they will have the opportunity to meet Henkel CEO Kasper Rorsted in person.

“We are really excited – we didn’t expect to come so far in this challenge at all. But what counts almost just as much as winning the second prize is the

experience we made here in Düsseldorf: We really enjoyed the international atmosphere and met so many great people,” said Jaasim Polin.

The vision of team “Oryx” from Qatar: With “Diadermine Allure” users can treat their skin according to their individual needs thanks to smart substances and a special computer software. This visionary idea of a programmable beauty product convinced the jury members to award the students with the second prize.

This year’s winners of the “Henkel Innovation Challenge”, Daren Perincic and Dominik Benger, who are studying at the Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia, receive an around-the-world-ticket worth €10,000. Their product idea “H Design” by Schwarzkopf allows its users to change and design their own hair style through an app.

Third place was awarded to the Indian team, Geetika Goel and Mayank Nandwani from the Faculty of Management Studies Delhi. They devel-oped a sustainable surface coating called “eCoat”,

Qatari team representing GCC wins second prize in Henkel Innovation Challenge

Al Khaliji holds first aid training for employeesAl Khalij Commercial Bank has organised a workshop on first aid training

for its employees as part of its corporate social responsibility platform.A large number of employees participated in the workshop, which was held

in association with Hamad Medical Corporation, and tackled various first aid topics and procedures. The workshop was held at the bank’s headquarters.

This initiative was aimed at raising employees awareness on safety and health tips during emergency situations. This training will enable al khaliji employees to perform first aid when necessary, both in the work place and outside.

The training focused on, basic first aid training, covering common emergency situations such as strokes, heart attacks, unconsciousness, heavy bleeding, head injury, asthma, poisoning and other incidents. The training also featured an exhaustive session on the basics of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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Konkani Speaking Community to host family get-together

The Konkani Speaking Community (KSC) from India will host its

family get-together Dine and Dance at Diplomatic Club (Royal Tent) on April 24, starting from 8pm onwards.

The organisers have roped in Goa’s leading band “Lynx” and “Joyce & Aggie” with Lancy to provide foot tap-ping music for the show.

“Lynx has a reputation of pro-viding its audience, enjoyable evenings of good live music for dancing and lis-tening,” a KSC official said about the Goan band.

“The band encompasses classic music from the 1940’s to the modern day pop. This includes Jazz, Swing, Bebop, Country, Disco, Rock n Roll, Ballroom, Jive, Techno Pop, Rap, Reggae to Classic and Modern Rock,” added the official.

Besides English, the band also per-forms Hindi Pop, Konkani, Portuguese, Arabic, Swahili, Marathi, Spanish and several other languages.

The members of the band con-sists of Anthony Fernandes (Bass/Vocals), Frazer Pacheco (Keyboards/Vocals), Sandy Pacheco (Vocals), Savio Fernandes (Drums/Vocals) and Angelo Fernandes (Guitar /Vocals).

This event has been patronized by the Konkani Speaking Community mem-bers, from the Indian states of Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala. For details contact 55387299 or 55261473.

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Intertec hands over gifts to contest winners

Intertec Group, the authorised distributor of Samsung mobiles and tablets in Qatar, organised a gift giving ceremony recently.

Six winners, which include five quiz competition champions from the S5 launch at W Hotel on April 3 and an online winner from the competition conducted on www.intertecqatar.com/samsung, collected their gift hampers from Intertec officials.

“This is our expression of love to our valued customers. It’s always wonder-ful to give back the flagship products for their trust in us. We are planning lot more contest for Intertec-Samsung customers in coming months,” stated George Thomas, Group CFO and Advisor to the Chairman, Intertec Group, while congratulating the winners.

The ceremony has been held at the Old Airport Intertec-Samsung Showroom. Along with the winners, Intertec officials and showroom crew attended the event.

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Small and Medium Enterprises Development Company ‘Enterprise Qatar’ (EQ) recently

honoured the third cohort of its Entrepreneurship Programme at a ceremony in Doha. A total of 43 Qatari entrepreneurs have successfully com-pleted the course since its inauguration last February.

Ibrahim Al Mannai, Director of Learning and Development at Enterprise Qatar, said: “It is with great pride that we honour the third cohort of the EQ Entrepreneurship Programme that aims to nurture the Qatari youth’s business ambitions.”

“This course has proven to be a great success among the young generation,

in such a short period of time, because it arms them with all the necessary knowledge and skills they need to embark on their individual business journeys,” he added. “Additionally the growing interest in the EQ Entrepreneurship Programme will help foster a new generation of savvy Qatari business owners who will con-tribute to the growth and sustainability of the national economy.”

Meanwhile the topics covered in the course syllabus include the basic concept of entrepreneurship, the prin-ciples of setting up small to medium enterprises (SMEs), selecting a winning business idea, and the acquisition of the basic SME management skills including

strategic and business planning, mar-keting, management, financial auditing, and conducting feasibility studies.

Through the Entrepreneurship Programme, EQ adopts the latest the-oretical, practical and digital teaching methods to incorporate presentations, business simulation and business plans, as well as one-on-one and group coaching.

With the increasing interest in its courses and workshops, EQ is expected to expand its offerings in the near future in order to cater to all types of business persons including budding entrepreneurs and SMEs owners seek-ing diversification.

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Football tournament winnersTokyo Freight football team members celebrat-ing after their victory against Solar Qatar football team (5-0) in the final of QIA - All India Football Tournament held at Doha Sports Club. Khalid Al Kuwari, COO, Qatar Football Association, Abdullah Muhammed Al Nama, Marketing Director, Al Arabi Spots Club, Shine, Al Dar Exchange Manager, K K Mushafa, MD, Sports well, Mohamed Basheer, GM, Lulu Hypermarket Gharafa, Abdul Rauf, GM, Tokio Frights Services, Mohammed Khuthub, QIA Football Committee Chief Patron, and QIA officials were also present at the prize giving ceremony.

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Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros (AAB), Toyota’s exclusive Dealer in Qatar, and Belgium-based Overdrive Racing, announced Toyota as the single-largest entry brand in the

FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, as five race teams rev up for the Qatar Sealine Rally scheduled for April 21 to 25.

This international off-road racing event has five race teams from across the world, representing Toyota as a brand, as the entire race will be done in Toyota Hilux models with extensive modification.

R K Murugan, Sales & Marketing Director of AAB, said at a press conference that was held in Toyota Showroom recently: “We are happy to sup-port the Overdrive Racing team for all their logistical requirements in Qatar, and are sure that they will win this year’s Championship”.

Saudi Arabian driver Yazeed Al Rajhi has re-joined Overdrive Racing, and will drive a Toyota Hilux as part of a five-car team in this Cross-Country Rally, round four of the 2014 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, in Qatar.

In a bid to catch early season championship leader, Vladimir Vasilyev of Russia, Yazeed Al Rajhi now teams up with Polish drivers Marek Dabrowski and Adam Malysz, Brazilian Reinaldo Varela and Kazakh driver Kanat Shagirov in the event, which will take the five Overdrive cars and 32 rival teams through five gruelling selective sections in the Qatar desert from April 21-25.

“This is the second difficult desert event in a space of three weeks, and one where we achieved the out-right win with Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah in 2012,” said Overdrive team director Jean-Marc Fortin.

“Last year, two of our leading cars reached the finish in third and fourth overall. We have a good track record here,” he said.

“The Sealine Event lacks the difficult, soft dunes, and the very high temperatures that we experienced at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, but the event in Qatar is equally as challenging

in terms of the navigation and the varied terrain our drivers will cross and it is sure to be hot in mid-April. We are delighted to have Yazeed back

in harness in one of our cars and I am sure that he will be looking for the outright win or a podium at least.” The Peninsula

Q-Auto, the dealer for Audi in Qatar, unveiled the first Audi R8 V10 Plus in Qatar. Lighter

and more powerful than the Audi R8 V10, the Audi R8 V10 Plus is unmis-takably a driver’s car. The Audi R8’s V10 engine performance has been boosted from 525PS to 550PS.

The car is also equipped with CFRP elements (carbon-fiber-rein-forced polymer) that are especially designed for high-end automobile racing, along with powerful ceramic brakes, delivering an improved power-to-weight ratio. Unlike usual sports cars reputed for confined seating, the Audi R8 V10 Plus offers spacious convenience for comfortable driving.

Commenting on the new Audi R8 V10 Plus, Mohamed El Talkhawi, General Sales and Marketing Manager, said: “Audi is pleased to reveal the first Audi R8 V10 Plus in Qatar. We work hard to come up with models that complement the customers’ identity, but the Audi R8 V10 Plus exceeds usual expectations. Its sleek model and special compo-nents have been brought together to achieve something rare and uncom-mon, reflecting confidence, character,

just like its driver. The Audi R8 V10 Plus is only an example of the con-sideration Audi gives to imagination, and how we use that to design the unthinkable.”

On request, Audi customises the Audi R8 V10 Plus according to customers’ demands. Audi Qatar’s Brand Ambassador, Mohamed Al

Kuwari, was the first to order the car with specific requirements.

On receiving his new blue Audi R8 V10 Plus, Al Kuwari said: “Today is a very special day for me, because I have finally received my Audi R8 V10 Plus. Not only is it a rare sports car, but it has also been customised according to my specifications, which

adds to its perfection as it reflects who I am. I am honored to be the first to drive this car in Qatar, and for Audi to present this model only foregrounds the brand’s promise to achieve the best by providing the fin-est in the market. Once again, Audi has outdone itself.”

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By J M Hirsch

Despite the simplicity of this tart — the only ingre-dients are three vegetables and a few seasonings — it delivers big flavour in a beautiful package.

The secret is in the layering. Yukon Gold potatoes, onion and butternut squash are sliced paper thin, then arranged layer upon layer in a pan. As you stack, chopped fresh herbs are sprinkled between those layers, then the whole thing is roasted until the vegetables are buttery tender.

The result is a delicious tart that is vegan, yet filling. A mandoline is the best choice for getting the vegetables paper thin. If you don’t have one, use a food processor fitted with the thinnest slicing attachment. And if you prefer, sweet potatoes can be substituted for the Yukon Gold.

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Roasted Butternut and Herb Tart

Start to finish: 2 1/2 hours (30 minutes active)Servings: 6

INGREDIENTS1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper4 large Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled1 large yellow onion1 medium butternut squash, peeled and seededOlive oil cooking spray

METHOD:Heat the oven to 375 F. Coat a deep 7- or 8-inch

round springform pan with cooking spray.In a small bowl, mix together the thyme, oreg-

ano, rosemary, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Set side.

Use a mandoline or food processor to slice the potatoes, onion and squash as paper thin as possible. Keep the vegetables in separate piles.

Arrange a single layer of potato slices, slightly overlapping, over the bottom of the prepared pan. Spritz with cooking spray, then sprinkle a pinch of the seasoning blend over them. No need to season heavily.

Top the potatoes with a few onion slices. The onion will break into thin rounds. This is fine. You don’t need a full layer, just a scattering of slices. Top the onions with a single layer of butternut squash slices, slightly overlapping. Use your hand to gently, but firmly compress the layers. Spritz the squash

slices with cooking spray, then sprinkle a pinch of seasoning over them.

Repeat the layering and compressing in this man-ner, starting with the potatoes and continuing until the layers reach the top of the pan. You should use all of the potatoes and onion, but may have some squash left. Spritz the top with cooking spray, then sprinkle a bit more seasoning over the top.

Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 30 minutes, or until the top is lightly browned, the sides have pulled away from the pan and a knife inserted at the center passes easily through the vegetables to the bottom.

Remove the sides of the pan and let cool for 5 minutes before cutting into wedges.

Nutrition information per serving: 260 calories; 5 calories from fat (2 percent of total calories); 0 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 61 g carbo-hydrate; 7 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 5 g protein; 500 mg sodium.

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Sultan got shelved, but not Soundarya’s Rajinikanth animation dream

She ventured on the filmmaking journey with Sultan, but it got shelved. Unfazed,

Soundarya Rajinikanth says that it didn’t affect her animation dream and she fulfilled it with Kochadaiiyaan.

Starring her superstar father Rajinikanth, Kochadaiiyaan is Soundarya’s directorial debut, which is set to deliver ground breaking tech-nology — the `1.250bn project is said to be the country’s first motion capture photo-realistic 3D animated movie.

“I started Sultan six years ago when animation was not as advanced as it is today. For various reasons, Sultan got shelved, but my animation dream did not, so I continued dreaming. And today here I am with Kochadaiiyaan.”

“This is my first film and I hope to continue making films. Animation is my passion but at the end of the day I am a creative person, but yes, I will also do a live action film,” she added.

Soundarya always wanted to be a creative person.“I always wanted to be a creative person... My parents have encouraged

us to do whatever we wanted to do as an individual. It was a decision I made. I wanted to be behind the camera and my parents are happy about it,” she said about herself and her sister Aishwarya, who is also a filmmaker.

Kochadaiiyaan, featuring Deepika Padukone as the female lead opposite Rajinikanth, will hit the screens on May 9.

Comedy Nights has another celebrity fan

It wasn’t long ago when melody queen Lata Mangeshkar confessed her love for comedian Kapil Sharma’s popular show Comedy Nights with Kapil. And

now, it’s actor Vivek Oberoi who has joined the fans’ list.The Grand Masti star recently visited the sets of the comedy show and

had a good time.“Guess who stole Spider-Man’s costume? Lol. Watch out for spiderdadi

(played by Ali Asgar)... going crazy! I love Comedy Nights With Kapil,” Vivek tweeted.

“Had a super rocking time with Kapil Sharma, Navjot Singh Sidhu and spiderdadi!,” he posted on Twitter.

Big B begins filming R Balki’s next

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has started shooting for the untitled film directed by R Balakrishnan, is nervous about it.

“First day shoot new project R Balki...nerves, apprehensions, discomfort, uncertainty, butterflies! Only redemption, the director,” Amitabh posted on Twitter.

The film, which also features Raanjhanaa star Dhanush and actor Kamal Haasan’s younger daughter Akshara, is currently being shot in Goa and the 71-year-old is getting nostalgic too.

“It is hard to forget the various films that were shot here, in what circum-stances they were made and what they look like now. But each and everyone of those incidents etched a mark on my system.”

“The statue of a Portuguese celebrity, where during the shoot for Saat Hindustani, in the centre of the street, we had gathered to perform the rais-ing of the Indian flag, as a protest against a rule that had robbed us of our independence,” he posted on his blog srbachchan.tumblr.com.

“Then the various locations on the schedule under production, which have remained close and very close to us and to those that spent time with us. Locations such as the climax of Kabhi Kabhie, the boat and song sequences of The Great Gambler and the ride along the river Mandovi, passing by the hospital, now a Bal Bhavan, where Amjad Khan fought for his post accident treatment. And just so many moments,” he added.

Amitabh and Balakrishnan, popularly called R Balki, had also worked together in films like Cheeni Kum and Paa.

Ryan Seacrest to quit American Idol?

Anchor-producer Ryan Seacrest is reportedly planning to quit American Idol to focus on his career as a producer.

The 39-year-old, who has hosted the US reality singing competition since its first season in 2002, wants to jump ship before the FOX series gets cancelled due to declining ratings, reports contactmusic.com.

A source told gossip website RadarOnline.com: “Ryan is telling friends that this season of ‘Idol’ is likely to be his last. He’s lost the passion for it, and desperately wants to do different things at this point in his career, like produce the Oscars and start developing more of his original ideas.”

The presenter is also coming to the end of his $30m two-year contract with American Idol and so, he wants to focus his energy on being a pro-ducer, especially following the success of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

“Ryan’s reduced role in this year’s Emmys red carpet coverage is a clear move toward a life that involves less hosting and more producing. He wants to transition to behind the scenes more, and is getting fed up with the ‘interviewing people’ part of his job, when his heart is really in the work he does as a producer,” said a source.

Geldof’s husband to sell house where she died

Late model and TV journalist Peaches Geldof ’s husband Thomas Cohen has

reportedly decided to sell their house where she died.

The house, which is up for sale, is worth one million pounds and Cohen is said to be too upset to return to the house in Wrotham, Kent, reports mirror.co.uk.

Peaches died April 7. Cohen has reportedly told his friends that he wants to put it on the market once police finish investigating the death of the 25-year-old and move to a house in south-east London.

“Tom (Thomas) has said that he can’t return to the house, he wants to immediately sell the place and move. It is just too heartbreaking for him there, he is in bits and can’t bear to live in the place where his beloved wife died,” said a source.

Theroux to turn Aniston into businesswoman?

Actor-director Justin Theroux is reportedly helping his fiancée Jennifer Aniston to turn

the actress into a “businesswoman”.The 42-year-old is keen to “double” his

fiancée’s fortune and help her deal with her accounts, so that she can maximise her wealth, reports femalefirst.co.uk. “Justin knows exactly how much money Jennifer has right now, and he’s actively trying to help her double it, and turn her into a shrewder businesswoman,” said a source.

The couple are reportedly working together on projects to make more money between them for their future.

“Justin is regularly pitching ideas for how Jen can expand her business empire. They’re

working on projects that they can collaborate on and which can make them both a lot of money,” said the source.

The pair got engaged in 2012.

By Kim Willsher

Half a century has passed since a group of mostly young and almost exclusively male directors electrified the

culture-starved, postwar public with what would become known as nouvelle vague films.

Using handheld cameras and with a shortage of both money and celluloid, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette — among others — cre-ated a golden age of French cinema.

Their influence spread far; American director Martin Scorsese once said: “The French New Wave has influenced all film-makers who have worked since, whether they saw the films or not. It submerged cinema like a tidal wave.”

Later Agnes Varda, photographer-turned-film-maker, would become a leading member of the movement, but the female stars of the Nouvelle Vague were the actors; Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Fanny Ardant, Catherine Deneuve, Anna Karina ...

More than 50 years on, French cin-ema is still part of the country’s excep-tion culturelle. And a new “new wave” is under way, as an increasing number of women stamp their influence, on and off screen.

The evidence will be on view in London and elsewhere in the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema film festival, which begins this week. The French Centre National du Cinema et de l’Image Animee says the country’s film industry is undergoing a feminine ren-aissance. According to its research, 23 percent of feature-length films were directed by women last year, up from 18.4 percent in 2008.

Comparative figures are harder to establish elsewhere. In the US, a study commissioned by the Sundance film festival and Women in Film found that female directors were depress-ingly under-represented in Hollywood, though more active in independent films. Between 2002 and 2013, only 4.4 percent of the most successful films were directed by women, its survey found.

Even at Sundance, which prides itself on gender equality, women represented fewer than a third of workers on the 820 narrative and documentary films that have featured in the festival since 2002 though, in 2013, the balance was being redressed, with half the films in the festival’s dramatic section directed by women.

Isabelle Giordano, executive director of UniFrance Films, which promotes the country’s film industry abroad, commenting on a recent survey which found around 25 percent of film produc-ers in France were women, compared with around 3 percent in the US, sug-gested this was very much part of the French exception culturelle.

“I don’t know why it should be so, but it is. We have been told that in other countries, women have difficulty rais-ing the money to make films, which isn’t particularly the case in France, so maybe this is why. And maybe it reflects French society, where we have a lot of

working women. In any case, France is a good country for women in all aspects of the film business.”

Until now, the British cinema-going public has proven stubbornly resist-ant to the charms of French movies, Giordano said. She is hoping this year’s selected Rendez-Vous films will shift attitudes the other side of the Channel.

“They all tell stories in an origi-nal way that is very different to what Hollywood offers,” she said. “We’d like British cinema-goers to come and see something they may not have seen before; even if it’s a common theme, it’s often treated in a different way in a French film.”

Among the festival offerings is Les Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead) fea-turing one of the original nouvelle vague stars, Fanny Ardant, who after 60 films, 25 theatre runs and more than a dozen television series, is a grande dame of French cinema. Directed by Marion Vernoux, the film opens the festival on Wednesday and will be followed by a Q&A with the actress and the director.

The movie’s central theme will be familiar to those who have seen Hollywood’s “cougar” films: older, recently retired woman has an affair with younger man.

Vernoux’s direction and Ardant’s touch, however, transform the subject into a delightful, touching and funny story that avoids plummeting into cli-che and stereotype.

“A cougar? I most certainly am not. Good grief!,” Ardant told the Observer.

Ardant was discovered by inter-national audiences in 1981, when she starred opposite Gerard Depardieu in La Femme d’a cote (The Woman Next

Door), directed by Francois Truffaut (with whom Ardant had the first of her three daughters), but some film-goers will remember her more recent portrayal of opera diva Maria Callas in Franco Zeffirelli’s 2002 film, Callas Forever. Another film featuring in the festival is Violette, starring Emmanuelle Devos, a biographical drama about fem-inist writer Violette Leduc, who was encouraged and supported by Simone de Beauvoir (played by Sandrine Kiberlain), and who mixed with Albert Camus, Jean Genet and Jean Cocteau.

The films include Je m’appelle Hmmm ... (My Name is Hmmm ...), the directing debut of Agnes Trouble, better known as fashion designer agnes b. Quite what audiences outside of France will make of the bleak, occasionally impenetrable and frequently bizarre film - panned by French critics - about a young girl who runs away with a Scottish lorry driver to escape being abused by her good-for-nothing father, is anyone’s guess.

9 Mois Ferme (9-Month Stretch), a lively and original comedy, recounts the plight of an ambitious and uptight judge who, after getting drunk at a new year party, discovers she is pregnant by a hardened on-the-run criminal being hunted by police.

None of the French actors inter-viewed complained of a lack of signifi-cant roles for women in Gallic films, a frequent lament across the Atlantic.

Kiberlain, who won acclaim for her portrayal of Simone de Beauvoir and a Cesar - the French equivalent of an Oscar - for her, at times hilari-ous, interpretation of the workaholic, friendless judge in 9 Mois Ferme, said: “Personally, I feel I’ve been very lucky.

There are times when all you get are bad scripts and others when all you get are good. Recently, I’ve been getting all good ones.”

The Cesar-winning Ardant admitted she had enjoyed a long and successful career and had “no regrets but a little remorse”.

“I do feel that I have been rather ego-tistical and I rue not having been one of those people in Italy or Germany strug-gling for something. I have a certain sympathy for those guys in Colombia, what are they called? The Farc.”

It is difficult to know if Ardent is serious. Probably not. She has form for making mischief in interviews with contrary and provocative declarations.

“I once convinced a journalist that my father was the star of Battleship Potemkin and I was the baby in the pram that rolls down the steps,” she says with a giggle. “Even though it must have been obvious I wasn’t even born when the film was made.

“Still, I like being a contrarian, saying everything and its opposite”.

Not surprising, then, that Ardant was having none of the nouvelle vague feminine idea being promoted by Rendez-Vous organisers.

“I detest the whole notion of films made by women, for women, starring women,” she says, adding: “Perhaps it was my generation, but I was never a feminist, I found it all too narrow.

“I like the woman I play in Les Beaux Jours. She’s not a misfit or a victim, she is intelligent and she doesn’t fit into the usual boxes. She likes life, likes smoking, eating and is independent.

“I like her character. She is uncom-promising... and so am I.” The Guardian

PLUS | MONDAY 21 APRIL 2014

Marion Vernoux (left) and Fanny Ardant at the Bright Days Ahead film premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Water would be tested for radioactive contamination.

Water with what Tepco says would be negligible radiation levels would be discharged into the sea at the rate of 100 tons a day.

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Vitamin supplements no substitute for natural foods

Natural foods provide the best nutrition to the human body and there is no evi-

dence to prove that vitamin supplements can better a person’s health, medical experts have said.

“All kinds of natural food if taken in mod-eration are good for health. Nature is the best. It is better to have natural foods than tablets supplementing vitamins,” Seema Puri, associate professor at the Institute of Home Economy of Delhi University, said.

Cautioning against any kind of dietary sup-plements, she said even “superfoods” which claim to be fortified with minerals and cal-cium should be taken with caution.

Puri was speaking at the seminar “Vitamins-Do I need the multivit supple-ments” at the India International Centre here.

Asserting that natural food items were always the best, N K Arora, former professor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), said simple measure like washing vegetables first and then cutting them for cooking can preserve essential vitamins in them.

“It is only children who sometimes require supplements as they cannot get all kinds of vitamins from milk alone,” he added.

Naresh Gupta of the Consumers’ Forum, an organisation working for transparency in drugs, said vitamins are required in very small quantities and not necessarily always needed in high doses.

Weight loss surgery linked to appetite, taste change

Gone through a weight-loss surgery recently? Expect changes in appetite and

taste of food as a research says after gastric bypass surgery, patients frequently report sensory changes.

“These sensory changes are not all negative and could lead to more weight loss among patients,” said Lisa Graham from Leicester Royal Infirmary in Britain.

According to Graham, their day-to-day experience with patients who have under-gone gastric bypass surgery suggested these changes but surprisingly, little has yet been written about it in scientific literature.

During the study, 42 percent of respond-ents said their sense of smell changed. Seventy-three percent of patients noted change in the way food tasted and especially in their sweet and sour palate.

Interestingly, patients who experienced food aversions enjoyed significantly more post-operative weight loss and reduction in their body mass index (BMI) compared to their counterparts without such dislikes.

Graham believes the sensory changes are due to a combination of gut hormone and central nervous system effects.

“The results indicate that subjective changes in appetite, taste and smell are very common after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass,” Graham noted in the study published in Springer’s journal Obesity Surgery.

Agencies

By Kathryn Doyle

For people recently diag-nosed with type 2 dia-betes, eating lots of olive oil, fish and whole grains

slows progression of the disease more than restricting fat, accord-ing to a new analysis.

In a trial that followed par-ticipants for more than eight years, those following a so-called Mediterranean diet went sig-nificantly longer before needing diabetes medication and more of them had their diabetes go into remission, compared to those on a low-fat diet.

“There’s been lots of epi-demiology suggesting that a Mediterranean diet was beneficial with metabolic syndrome and dia-betes,” Dr. Leanne Olansky said.

“But this was a randomised con-trolled trial, so we know it really was the diet causing the results,” she said. “This is the kind of evi-dence that we use to determine if drugs are effective.”

“Everybody thinks of fat as being bad, but this shows that it depends on what kind of fat,” said Olansky, an endocrinologist at the Cleveland Clinic who was not involved in the new study.

People diagnosed with diabe-tes should aim to have a healthy diet, and a Mediterranean diet is a good, healthy option, lead study author Katherine Esposito said.

Cutting calories is important, and cutting fat is an easy way to cut calories, but according to this study, maintaining the right lev-els of healthy fats is important, she said.

“One of the main aspects of the Mediterranean diet is the percent-age of daily fat, which is higher than 30 percent of daily calories, however, the main fat is monoun-saturated, usually from olive oil in the Mediterranean basin,” said Esposito, of the Diabetes Unit at University Hospital at the Second University of Naples in Italy.

She and her colleagues

continued to follow participants in a previous study who had been divided into two groups — one assigned to follow a Mediterranean diet and the other a low-fat diet — when they were first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Both diets were designed to help prevent the disease from getting worse and to keep blood sugar under control without medication for as long as possible.

On both diets, women aimed to consume 1,500 calories per day and men aimed for 1,800 per day. Mediterranean dieters ate lots of vegetables and whole grains and replaced most red meat with poultry and fish. Monthly sessions with nutritionists helped them keep less than half of their calories coming from carbohydrates and at least 30 percent of calories from fat, mainly olive oil.

The low-fat diet restricted fatty

or sugary snacks, limiting fats to less than 30 percent of daily calo-rie intake.

At the end of a four-year study period, some of the participants in each group still hadn’t gone on medication.

At the six-year mark, all the people in the low-fat diet group had gone on diabetes medica-tion, but it wasn’t until the eight-year mark that all people in the Mediterranean diet group needed medication.

Diabetes “remission,” in which blood sugar levels appear healthy with no signs of diabetes, was rare overall but slightly more com-mon in the Mediterranean group, according to the results published in Diabetes Care.

Avoiding saturated fat, which often comes from red meat, could be important for diabetics, Olansky said.

“Although we don’t know exactly what it is about Mediterranean diets that helps control blood sugar, it likely has to do with high levels of fibber, less red meat, and more olive oil and fish, a good source of protein with unsaturated fat,” she said.

“The Mediterranean diet rep-resents an easy way to combine healthy foods with taste and fla-vour,” Esposito said. “Most of our patients continue to follow Mediterranean diet, even after the study ended.”

People on the Mediterranean diet tended to lose more weight than those on the low-fat diet, which may be because the Mediterranean diet is easier to stick to, Olansky said.

“Patients often ask us what they can do besides medication,” Olansky said.

“Often they want to try a life-style intervention before medi-cine, and this is a great example of something you could offer a patient.”

SOURCE: bit.ly/1gEtusZ Diabetes Care, online April 10, 2014. Reuters

Mediterranean diet may slow diabetes progression

Although we don’t know exactly what it is about Mediterranean diet that helps control blood sugar, it likely has to do with high levels of fibre, less red meat, and more olive oil and fish, a good source of protein with unsaturated fat.


TECHNOLOGYPLUS | MONDAY 21 APRIL 201412

By Vivek Wadhwa

Debates are raging about whether big data still holds the promise that was expected or whether it was

just a big bust. The failure of the much-hyped Google Flu Trends to accurately predict peak flu levels since August 2011 has heightened the concerns.

In my mind, there is no doubt that data analytics will one day help to improve health care and crime detec-tion, design better products, and improve traffic patterns and agricul-tural yields. My concern is about how we will one day use all the data we are gathering — and the skeletons it will uncover. Think about how DNA tech-nology is being used to free people who were wrongfully imprisoned decades ago. Imagine what supercomputers of the future could do with the data that present-day data gatherers haven’t yet learned to use.

Over the centuries, we gathered data on things such as climate, demo-graphics, and business and government transactions. Our farmers kept track of the weather so that they would know when to grow their crops; we had land records so that we could own property; and we developed phone books so that we could find people. About 15 years ago we started creating Web pages on the Internet. Interested parties started collecting data about what news we read, where we shopped, what sites we surfed, what music we listened to, what movies we watched, and where we traveled to. With the advent of LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and many other social-media tools, we began to volunteer private information about our work history and social and business contacts and what we like — our food, entertainment, our prefer-ences and spiritual values.

Today, data are accumulating at exponentially increasing rates. There are more than 100 hours of video

uploaded to YouTube every minute, and even more video is being collected worldwide through the surveillance cameras that you see everywhere. Mobile-phone applications are keeping track of our every movement: every-where we go; how fast we move; what time we wake. Soon, devices that we wear or that are built into our smart-phones will monitor our body’s func-tioning; our sequenced DNA will reveal the software recipe for our physical body.

The National Security Agency in US has been mining our phone metadata and occasionally listening in; market-ers are correlating information about our gender, age, education, location, and socioeconomic status and using this to sell more to us; and politicians are fine-tuning their campaigns.

This is baby stuff compared to what lies ahead. The available tools for

analysing data are still crude; there are very few good data scientists; and companies such as Google still haven’t figured out what is the best data to analyse. This will surely change rapidly as artificial-intelligence technologies evolve and computers become more powerful and connected. We will be able to analyse all data we have col-lected from the beginning of time — as if we were entering a data time machine.

We will be revisiting crime cases from the past, re-auditing tax returns, tracking down corruption, and learning who were the real heroes and villains. An artificially intelligent cybercop scanning all the camera data that were gathered, as well as phone records, emails, bank-account and credit-card data, and medical data on everyone in a city or a country, will instantly solve a crime better than Sherlock Holmes could. Our grandchildren will know of the sins we committed; Junior may wonder why grandpa was unfaithful to grandma.

What is scary is that we will lose our privacy, opening the door to new types of crime and fraud. Governments and employers will gain more control over us, and have corporations reap greater profits from the information

that we innocently handed over to them. More data and more comput-ing will mean more money and power. Look at the advantage that bankers on Wall Street have already gained with high-frequency trading and how they are skimming billions of dollars from our financial system.

We surely need stronger laws and technology protections. And we need to be aware of the perils. We must also realize that with our misdeeds, there will be nowhere to hide — not even in our past.

There are many opportunities in this new age of data.

Consider what becomes possible if we correlate information about a person’s genome, lifestyle habits, and location with their medical history and the medications they take. We could understand the true effectiveness of drugs and their side effects. This would change the way drugs are tested and prescribed. And then, when genome data become available for hundreds of millions of people, we could discover the links between disease and DNA to prescribe personalized medications — tailored to an individual’s DNA. We are talking about a revolution in health and medicine.

In schools, classes are usually so large that the teacher does not get to know the student — particularly the child’s other classes, habits and devel-opment through the years. What if a digital tutor could keep track of a child’s progress and learn his or her likes and dislikes, teaching-style pref-erences, and intellectual strengths and weaknesses? Using data gathered by digital learning devices, test scores, attendance and habits, the teacher could be informed of which students to focus on, what to emphasize, and how best to teach an individual child. This could change the education sys-tem itself.

Combine the data that are avail-able on a person’s shopping habits with knowledge of their social prefer-ences, health and location. We could have shopping assistants and personal designers creating new products including clothing that are 3D-printed or custom-manufactured for the indi-vidual. An artificial intelligence based digital assistant could anticipate what a person wants to wear or to eat and have it ready for them.

All of these scenarios will become possible, as will thousands of other applications of data in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and other fields. The only question is how fast will we get there — and what new nightmares we will create.

Wadhwa is a fellow at Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, director of Research at Duke University, and distinguished scholar at Singularity and Emory universities. His past appointments include Harvard Law School and University of California Berkeley. This piece reflects his opinion.

WP-Bloomberg

The rise of big data: A double-edged sword

The emergence of wireless technologies, smart products and software-defined businesses are playing a central role in cata-pulting the volume of the world’s data. Due, in part, to this

Internet of Things, the digital universe is doubling in size every two years and will multiply 10-fold between 2013 and 2020 – from 4.4 trillion gigabytes to 44 trillion gigabytes. This was revealed in the seventh EMC Digital Universe study conducted by EMC Corporation, which is the only study to quantify and forecast the amount of data produced annually. This year’s study was titled “The Digital Universe of Opportunities: Rich Data and the Increasing Value of the Internet of Things.”

The study shows that the amount of information in the digital universe would fill a stack of iPad Air tablets reaching 2/3 of the way to the moon (157,674 miles/253,704 kilometers). By 2020, there will be 6.6 stacks. It says today, the average household creates enough data to fill 65 iPhones (32gb) per year. In 2020, this will grow to 318 iPhones. And today, if a byte of data were a gallon of water, in only 10 seconds there would be enough data to fill an average house. In 2020, it will only take 2 seconds.

The number of devices or things that can be connected to the

Internet is approaching 200 billion today, with 7 percent (or 14 bil-lion) already connected to and communicating over the Internet. The data from these connected devices represents 2 percent of the world’s data today. IDC now forecasts that, by 2020, the number of connected devices will grow to 32 billion – representing 10 percent of the world’s data.

The study also found that currently, 60 percent of data in the digital universe is attributed to mature markets such as Germany, Japan, and the United States, but by 2020, the percentage will flip, and emerging markets including Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia will account for the majority of data.

“As more and more businesses capitalize on the social and mobile phenomenon, the enormity and potential of the digital universe grows, and businesses are presented with greater opportunities to analyze new streams of data and gain more value from the data they already have. IT departments must press the restart button to find new ways to innovate around existing infrastructure while position-ing themselves to dive into a future of third platform computing,” said Jeremy Burton, President of Products and Marketing, EMC Information Infrastructure. The Peninsula

Data in the digital universe to grow tenfold by 2020

There are more than 100 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, and even more video is being collected worldwide through the surveillance cameras that you see everywhere.

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaApril 21, 1926

1526: The Battle of Panipat in India marked the start of the Mughal Empire1959: Prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn was jailed in Panama for one day after her husband was accused of plotting a coup1997: The ashes of 24 people blasted off in the world’s first “space funeral”2010: The lease allowing Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to be stationed in Ukraine was extended by 25 years in return for cheaper gas

Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other nations, was born. Among living monarchs her 62-year reign is second only to Thailand’s King Bhumibol

Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

AFTERNOON, BEDTIME, DARKNESS, DAWN, DAYBREAK,DAYLIGHT, DAYTIME, DIURNAL, DUSK, EVENING, EVENTIDE,FIRST LIGHT, FORENOON, GLOAMING, LIGHT, MIDNIGHT,MOONBEAM, MOONLIGHT, MORN, MORNING, NIGHT, NIGHTFALL, NIGHTTIME, NOCTURNAL, NOON, RAYS, STARLIGHT, SUNBEAM, SUNDOWN, SUNLIGHT, SUNRISE, SUNSET, SUNSHINE, TWILIGHT.

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Pay this check Idfaç ha�a alšeek

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When does the bank open? Mata yafta�ou alma�rif

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Brick Mansions (2D/Action) – 4.30pm

Rio 2 (3D/Animation) – 6.30pm

Thenaliraman (2D/Tamil) – 8.30pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1

2 States (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 8.00pm

Thenaliraman (2D/Tamil) – 5.15pm


2

Rio 2 (3D/Animation) – 3.00, 5.00 & 7.00pm


Oculus (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm

3

Brick Mansions (2D/Action) – 2.30 & 11.15pm



Open Grave (2D/Horror) – 9.00pm

13:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

13:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Kumkum Bhagya

15:30 Pavitra Rishta

16:00 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

16:30 Qubool Hai

17:00 Word Match

17:30 Bollywood

Business

18:00 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

18:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

19:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

19:30 Jodha Akbar


20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki


13:10 Eastenders

13:40 Doctors

14:10 Casualty

15:00 Incredible

Journeys With

Steve Leonard

15:50 Saxondale

16:20 Lark Rise To

Candleford

17:10 Eastenders

17:40 Doctors

18:10 The Weakest Link

19:00 Only Fools And

Horses

19:30 Rev.

20:00 Waking The Dead

20:50 Spooks

21:45 Me & Mrs Jones

22:15 Upstairs

Downstairs

23:10 The Weakest Link

23:55 Eastenders

01:45 Only Fools And

Horses

13:00 My Boys

13:30 My Name Is Earl

14:00 The Neighbors

15:00 Two And A Half

Men

15:30 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

16:00 The Colbert

Report

17:00 Late Night With

Seth Meyers

19:00 2 Broke Girls

19:30 Trophy Wife

20:00 The Goldbergs

20:30 Parks And

Recreation

21:00 The Daily Show

Global Edition

21:30 The Colbert

Report Global

Edition

22:00 Girls

22:30 Silicon Valley

23:30 The Goldbergs


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Who’s who

Nasser Mohamad Al Hajiri, Chief Administration Officer,Barwa Bank

He has eight-year of HR and Change Management experi-ence. He has worked for Qatar

Petrochemical Co and Maersk Oil. His education includes a Bachelor’s in Manufacturing Engineering with Management from Coventry University, UK. He also obtained a MBA from University of Hull, UK. Currently he is enrolled for his DBA in USA. He has done his thesis for Universities on “Training Needs Analysis”, “Competency Based Training” and “Different Phases of Leadership”

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2nd Katara QatART Handmade Market When: April 25, 3pm-8:30pm Where: Katara Art Center

What: Many different kinds of handicrafts are on sale ranging from jewellery to paintings, clothes to home decors, photography to hand crafted cards and party supplies. Free Entry

Richard Serra: Concurrent ExhibitionsWhen: Till July 6, 8:30am- 5:30pmWhere: QMA Gallery Building 10, KataraWhat: Richard Serra is among the most important contemporary sculptors. The exhibition organised by the QMA in Doha is one of Serra’s most ambitious ever in that it brings together sculptures and drawings from different periods, ranging from the seminal One Ton Prop (House of Cards) of 1969 (on rare loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York) to a new large-scale work, Passage of Time, especially created for this occasion.Free Entry

Plants of Qur’anic Botanic Garden Exhibition When: Till April 30; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara Gallery — Bldg 18 What: The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development organises, in collaboration with the Qatar Photography Society and Katara the first exhibition of its kind. The exhibition includes 58 artworks of all the plants mentioned in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah. These pictures have been captured in Doha, Indonesia, Yemen and other Arab countries. Free Entry

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

VCUQatar Faculty Exhibition - Strange WondersWhen: Till May 6Where: Msheireb Enrichment Centre,

Sheraton Park, Corniche

What: VCUQatar annual faculty exhibition showcasing new work by current VCUQatar faculty and staff. This year’s exhibition takes its inspiration from Company House, one of the heritage buildings within Msheireb downtown area, which played an important part in the lives of Qatar’s original oil pioneers.Free Entry

Events in Qatar

Call him juror K-9. A compu-ter glitch is likely to blame for a summons that called a

German Shepherd to report for jury duty, court officials in New Jersey’s Cumberland County said.

Barrett Griner IV, of Bridgeton, said he opened a jury summons on Friday addressed to “IV Griner,” the name of his 5-year-old dog.

“It was just funny,” he said. “I got mail for my dog.”

The court did not actually request that a dog serve on a jury, said Mark Sprock, the local trial court administrator.

He said a computer probably mis-read Griner’s numerical suffix IV as his first name.

“It probably picked up that IV, which is usually after his name, from one of the databases and put it into his first name slot in the jury system,” Sprock said.

Typically, someone getting such an erroneous jury summons can call the court offices and the error will be fixed, he said.

Griner, 40, who works as a treat-ment plant operator at the local water

department, said he hasn’t yet made that call.

“I hope that the judge finds it kind of humorous,” he said.

“That’s all I need is to have the local county and judge think I’m making a mockery of his courtroom.”

Reuters

German Shepherd called to report for jury duty

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