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THE GIFT THE GIFT OF LIFEOF LIFE

The total number of organ transplants done in Qatar in 2012 was 13 -- 12 in adults and one in a child. Hamad General Hospital expects to perform four transplants soon.

By Isabel Ovalle

Qatar, like the rest of the world, suffers from a short-age of organs for trans-plantation. Hamad General

Hospital, which has been performing transplants since 1986, is working to increase the number of donors, which is now around 450 in the local registry. To achieve this goal, experts have to deal with cultural factors and convince potential donors about the importance of donating.

Dr Yousef Al Maslamani, Director of Qatar Center for Organ Transplantation, stresses that there is a shortage of organs worldwide, with the number of transplants being performed hardly changing and the number of patients going up. “Every country is trying to come up with solu-tions to the problem; keeping in mind that in the West organ transplantation has been done for about 30 years,” said the expert.

Qatar has its own objectives in this regard, determined by local circum-stances. “In the West, they walked many steps to reach where they are, but here we are pressured by the health system to do the same, but in five years. They want to go fast and not wait 30 years to give the best to the people of Qatar,” added the specialist.

Dr Al Maslamani explained that Qatar had to address the issue in accordance with the local culture. To

this end, the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism was implemented here through the Doha Donation Accord, taking into account Islamic medical ethics.

Transplants are permissible in Islam, because they are a form of treat-ment for a medical condition. In gen-eral, organ donation is also allowed in Islam. “It is an invaluable gift to those in pain and suffering from organ fail-ure. Such a donation will not only help the patient but will also save his/her life,” reads a paper on Islamic rul-ings on Organ Transplant and Organ Donation, which can be found on the website of the organ donation cam-paign, odc.hamad.qa.

“We want to be fair to the poor and to the rich, to the donor and the recipi-ent, and to doctors as well,” said Dr Al Maslamani. “The declaration allows us to pay for the ticket, accommodation, transport and phone bill of the donor,” he explained.

In addition, HMC is working with Qatar Charity to help the children of deceased donors. “We already signed a contract so, for example, if some-one dies in an accident and the fam-ily donates the organs, Qatar Charity will support the children until they are older. We support the families of donors because this will help our pro-gramme succeed,” he said.

Orphaned children of donors are given priority in such support.

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IN SEARCH IN SEARCH OF MORE OF MORE DONORSDONORS

Dr Yousef Al Maslamani

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Transplants of kidney, liver, cornea, cartilage and heart valves are per-formed in Qatar. The Qatar Centre for Organ Transplantation is try-ing to introduce living relative liver transplant, which is not being done at present because it is more compli-cated and involves greater risks for the donor.

The total number of transplants done in Qatar in 2012 was 13 -- 12 in adults and one in a child. Infants usu-ally have to go through transplantation because they have renal complications from birth. This year, the hospital expects to perform four transplants soon.

The international success rate of transplants is about 90 percent in the case of dead donors and 95 percent when the donors are alive – figures that Qatar exceeds. Still, many Qataris choose to go abroad for transplants while expats undergo the procedure here, one reason being that it is free of charge.

HMC has six doctors who perform kidney transplants and four who do liver transplants. The transplant team includes many other profession-als, such as the team coordinator who deals with patients before the trans-plants, the donor coordinator, nurses,

lab technicians and physicians, among others.

Dr Al Maslamani admitted that the main challenge was increasing the number of donors. “In some coun-tries they have started taking organs from donors whose heart has stopped beating, but to do that we would need special equipment, while in cadaveric donors this is done in a very controlled environment.”

Nevertheless, the expert believes this kind of procedure cannot be per-formed in Qatar because of the culture. “Even if we give them a big talk, in the end they would say no because they’re not used to it.”

The days following a transplant are the most delicate for the patient. “In the beginning, the risk of complica-tions is higher. In a few months they can almost return to normal, but they have to take medication throughout their lives because their body will con-tinue attacking the donated organ,” explained the doctor.

The expert said potential donors should put themselves in the shoes of the patient and realise that the organ they can donate comes from the community and goes back to the community.

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Organ donation is an invaluable gift to those in pain and suffering from organ failure. Such a donation will not only help the patient but will also save his/her life.

About the Doha Donation Accord

The provisions of Doha Donation Accord were finalised in collaboration with the International Society for Organ Transplantation. The provisions include:

• Awarding of the Medal of Honour to organ donors and their families by the highest leader/authorities in Qatar.

• Offering living donors (kidney or part of the liver) privileges such as medical insurance for life, compensation for health problems, if any occur, life insurance, priority in renal transplantation if they suffer renal failure, or compensation for lost working days during organ donation.

• Giving the Medal of Honour to the families of deceased donors, social benefits according to their social status, and transportation of the body of the deceased to their home country.

For more information, go to http//odc.hamad.qa.

PLUS | THURSDAY 16 MAY 20134 CAMPUS

Over 100 participants from various schools contested in five events at Talent Quest 2013, organised by Savoy

Global at Birla Public School.Ideal Indian School topped the

overall points table to win the cham-pionship. Shantiniketan Indian School secured second place, while Doha Modern Indian School and Stafford Sri Lankan School finished a close third and fourth place, respectively.

In Spell Champ event, Azam Fahmy of Stafford Sri Lankan School won first place, Arjun Sreekumar of Doha Modern Indian School bagged second place and Arjun M of Shantiniketan Indian School finished third. In Just a minute event, Jason Ferrao of Ideal Indian School bagged the first place, Brian Danthy of Ideal Indian School won the second place and Amal Fathima of Shantiniketan Indian School finished third. The audience

was treated to brilliant dance moves in the Group Dance event and Stafford Sri Lankan School won the first place, followed by Ideal Indian School in the second place and Shantiniketan Indian School in the third.

In the AD ZAP event, Ideal Indian School topped, followed by Doha Modern Indian School in the second place and Shantiniketan Indian School in the third. The Dumb Charades event had the audience in splits and

the team from Ideal Indian School won the first place, followed by MES Indian School in the second and Doha Modern Indian School in the third place. Based on the overall points gathered by schools in each event, Ideal Indian School was declared the Champions of Savoy Global Talent Quest 2013. Hassan Kunhi, Managing Director of Scitech Arabia and President of Ideal Indian School, handed over the Champions Trophy. The Peninsula

Ideal Indian School wins Talent Quest 2013

IIS students and officials with the championship trophy.

MES Indian School won the Performance Excellence Award in the 5th International Olympiad of Mathematics 2012 organised by Silver Zone Foundation, New Delhi, recently. The competition was held for students of classes I to XII. A large number of students from across the world participated in the level 1 competition and MES Indian School won 33 medals (11 gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze medals) and certificates. In the level 2 competition, the school’s Maths team of 23 senior boys, girls, CBSE-i and juniors participated and came out with flying colours.

SIS inducts new student council

Shantiniketan Indian School held its investiture ceremony of the senior wing for the academic session 2013-14 recently. Vimal Krishna and Shilpa Susan were sworn in as Head Boy and Head Girl, respectively. The badges and sashes were

presented by the chief guest, guest of honour and other dignitar-ies. The Chief Guest, HamadNasar Mubarak, Sergeant, Community Police-South Zone, congratulated the badge holders and encouraged them to shoulder their duties with loyalty, truth and honour. “A grateful appreciation is placed on record to the management, staff and students of SIS for inviting me to such an august function. I extend all sort of support and cooperation from the Community Police Department for the ongoing progress of the school,” he assured.

AlHamad Al Marry, Sergeant, Community Police-South Zone, President of the school K C Abdul Latheef, Secretary Abdul Khadar and Principal Dr Subhash B Nair were present. The Peninsula

MES bags performance excellence award

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PLUS | THURSDAY 16 MAY 2013 MARKETPLACE66

Splash announces first winner of BMW promotion

In the run-up to the 20 years cel-ebrations, fashion retailer Splash announced the first winner, Hazel Tenorio, of its ‘BMW Promotion’.

The ceremony was held on May 10 at Centrepoint, Al Asmakh Mall. The winner was announced by govern-ment official Abdulla Al Kuwari, Head of Price Control Department, Santosh Pai, COO of Landmark Group, and Farhan Al Suwaidi, PR Manager of Landmark Group, along with Splash officials. Splash kicked off its 20 years celebrations, partnering BMW to offer a GCC-, Jordan- and Egypt-wide pro-motion which comes loaded with 20, 520i Executive 2013 model BMWs over a 45-day period, at a minimum spend of QR150. Shoppers also win gifts like Apple Macebook Air (Ali Mohamed), 32” LED TV (Ibrahim Ruru Mbuqail), iPad4 (Nour Kezzeh), iPhone 5 (Ramez Abd-Alrhman) and Samsung Note II (Maged Guoda Musatfa). The Peninsula The prize winners with Splash officials.

Skin & Soul Beauty Centre launches salon for men at Lagoona Mall

Skin & Soul Beauty Centre recently opened its latest branch dedicated to gentlemen’s grooming in Qatar. The opening event and launch took place in the Skin & Soul Men salon at Lagoona Mall.

Skin & Soul was established in 1999 in Lebanon by Owner and Director Hannan Najjar who expanded the brand into the Qatari market in 2006 with the first Skin & Soul Beauty Center for ladies in Al Hilal; the second branch followed in 2012 at Lagoona Mall and third branch, Skin & Soul Men, is also located at Lagoona Mall.

Najjar said: “It is not only our slogan but our belief and goal to make your visit to Skin & Soul ‘the experience you were meant for’.

“We are very proud of the success that we have had with our two ladies salons and know that our team of experts will make Skin & Soul Men just as successful by making sure all of our clients leave the salon with a feeling of relaxation and ultimate satisfaction.” The Peninsula

Officials at the opening of the Officials at the opening of the Skin & Soul Men salon.Skin & Soul Men salon.

Aster Medical Centre, a divi-sion of DM Healthcare, has collaborated with Hamad Medical Corporation, and

City Exchange to organise a blood donation drive on Friday, May 24.

The drive will be held at Aster Medical Centre in C Ring Road, near Labour department from 3pm.

“There is an increasing demand for donated blood, especially of the rare types. However, this demand would not be met without the help of the gen-eral public. Donating blood takes only a few minutes of our time but makes an immeasurable difference to those in need of it. It can save between three and five lives,” said Dr Sameer Moopan, CEO, DM Healthcare - Qatar.

Participants in the drive must have a valid Qatar ID and within the age bracket of 18 to 60 years.

They also must have a proper sleep of minimum six hours at night prior to donating blood.

Hamad Medical Corporation will screen participants to determine their eligibility for donating blood.

For registration, contact 33151015. Registration forms are also available at all City Exchange outlets.

“Apart from saving lives, we want to encourage the public to perform their social responsibility,” Dr Moopan said.

“We would like to take this oppor-tunity to urge the public to join the drive,” he added.

The Peninsula

Aster to host blood donation drive

G4S Qatar won the Best in PBITA Performance for Large Business Category at the bi-annual group conference of G4S Plc in Monte Carlo. Dr Saif Al Hajri, Managing Director, G4S Qatar, received the trophy from the Chairman of the Group, John Connolly. Dr Saif said: “This award is attributable to the combined efforts and hard work of my team who has done a great job all throughout. This will serve as a challenge to us to maintain our current position and further improve our performance for 2013.”

G4S Qatar wins award

HEALTH 7PLUS | THURSDAY 16 MAY 2013

By Adrienne LaFrance

It may sound like something out of science fiction, but doctors at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington are making

hearts. Not actual hearts, but three-dimensional synthetic models churned out by what looks like an ordinary printer.

The only one of its kind at a Washington area hospital, the printer uses data from individual patients to replicate the organs of those individu-als, reflecting their particular intri-cacies and deformities. The device synthesises images from CT scans or ultrasounds, translating that infor-mation into thin layers of plastic that are stacked until they form a three-dimensional object.

The technology, paediatric cardiolo-gist Laura Olivieri says, “is amazing.”

Olivieri says that holding the replica of a heart enables her to make connec-tions that she could not when look-ing at the actual organ on a computer screen.

“Because you’ve got a three-dimen-sional problem,” she says. “What we’re all trying to do is reconstruct how far away X and Y are. But now you can just take [the model], and hold it, and look at it, and say, ‘Oh, they’re that far away.’ “

In one recent case, Olivieri used a 3-D printer-produced model that she could take apart before the patient’s surgery.

“The cardiac anatomy of this patient is very rare,” said Olivieri. “And it’s not like there’s an FDA-designed device that will solve it.” The model allowed her to “look at the anatomy in 3-D and do some practice runs where the patient isn’t involved.”

To help prep a surgeon who needed to close the hole in an infant’s heart, Axel Krieger, a biomedical robotic expert at the center’s Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, created a model that used a mix of hard and soft plastics so the replica would feel like a real heart.

“We found the perfect combination of materials that actually allows you to place a suture through it or stick a needle through it,” Krieger said. “It feels similar to tissue. You can make a valve soft but the surrounding tissue hard, and then the bone really hard. So you can have different levels of the mechanical properties.”

He and his colleagues also modelled a dislocated spine by printing hard plas-tic vertebrae with softer, jellylike disks in between, so that it moved realisti-cally, enabling doctors to better under-stand the injury.

Children’s hopes to use the printer to create models for patients with rare or complicated conditions, and for those who need corrective procedures on complex congenital defects.

“Congenital heart disease is so struc-tural,” Olivieri said. “On some level, you can predict what a physiology is by looking at [a patient’s] anatomy. So a picture can predict how sick or how well a patient can be. That makes con-genital heart disease one of the perfect

applications for 3-D printing.”Once used primarily by industrial

companies for creating prototypes of such things as cars and jewel-lery, three-dimensional printing has expanded into much wider use in recent years. People are printing gui-tars, plane parts — even guns. One man has used a 3-D printer to make more 3-D printers. Last week, Staples announced that customers will soon be able to print 3-D objects in its stores.

In medicine, 3-D printing is rap-idly gaining a reputation as the next great promise. Bioengineers at Cornell recently printed an artificial ear — injected with cells from a cow’s ear — that looks and acts like a real ear. While not yet ready for clinical use, scientists say this kind of replica could help patients who lose ears in acci-dents or from disease, as well as those born with disfigured or missing ears. Doctors in Britain recently used a 3-D printer to create a partial prosthetic face for a man who had been disfigured by cancer. In February, the Food and Drug Administration approved a skull implant created by a 3-D printer.

Children’s National Medical Center isn’t yet making tissue with its 3-D

printer; its plans for doing so are in the “early stages,” according to Peter Kim, vice president of the institute. But the hospital is expanding the scope of work it is doing with the machine. Children’s, which has had its printer for about a year, has used the device to create a robotic scope designed to reduce human involvement in endo-scopic procedures; it has also designed forceps built to rotate a needle so it’s oriented properly when a doctor is stitching up a patient. The hospital is partnering with the University of Maryland to print medical devices that would break down in the body over time rather than requiring a follow-up removal procedure.

The machine at Children’s looks unremarkable, not much different than an industrial copier. It hums and whirs like a home printer. Peer through the printer’s glass surface while it’s run-ning and you can see a bloblike model taking shape.

Depending on how complex a job is, it can take anywhere from a few hours to an entire day to produce a model. Instead of ink, the printer uses liquid plastics, which cost about 40 cents a gram. The tiniest heart might use

about $30 of material; the plastic for a larger heart could run closer to $100. The models are built from bottom to top, each layer a thin plastic shaving on top of the one before.

“You have UV lights on both sides of the printer head,” Krieger said. “While it’s printing, it cures the level that is below. So it really builds it up stack by stack and cures it, so it solidifies and becomes hard.”

(And, no, printer jams aren’t just limited to the machines that spit out paper. “Absolutely, that happens with this printer,” Krieger said.)

Because of the high temperature during the process, models are sur-rounded with a soft filler material so that they don’t collapse on them-selves as they’re being printed. This means that when a job is complete, the finished product looks at first like a warm, gelatinous blob.

“A solid mass, you wouldn’t recognize it at all,” said Kevin Cleary, technical director of the institute’s bioengineer-ing initiative. “It’s like a diamond before you polish it up. Then you put it in a bath or in a power-washing machine to scrub it out.”

After the cleaning process, the model is complete.

The team at Children’s is making models in all colours, sizes and tex-tures. The beige model of an infant’s heart is walnut-size and hard as a clamshell, while a much larger heart model — representing a 24-year-old patient — is jet-black and rubbery. Sometimes doctors choose different colours and textures so they can better examine distinct anatomic qualities. In other cases, the choices are purely aesthetic.

“You can print with different col-ours, different materials,” said Kim. “Some of them are transparent and see-through. You can use different materials from hard to soft to silicon.”

Though the possibilities of 3-D printing are enormous, the technol-ogy is still new, and it’s expensive. The printer at Children’s cost about $250,000. A high-end ultrasound machine can cost about $270,000, and a portable CT unit is about $550,000, according to Laurie Hogan, the direc-tor of radiology services at Children’s.

Making 3-D models is also time-consuming. Just prepping ultrasound images for the printer can take many hours.

“The very first one I did was not even recognizable as a heart, and it probably took me like 25 hours to do,” Olivieri said. But doctors at Children’s believe the investment — in time and money — is worth it.

“Complex congenital heart disease, thank goodness, is fairly rare,” Olivieri said. But “this is something that’s going to really help us take care of them.”

For Olivieri, there’s also the thrill of being on the cutting edge.

“Not that long ago, people with congenital heart disease didn’t even survive,” she said. With new surgical techniques, and now 3-D printing, “I don’t even think we now realise what it’s going to be, what impact that will have.” WP-Bloomberg

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hearte

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of

the 2

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re t

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o m

outh

the s

tandard

logic

-vs-

em

oti

on, needs-

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any-

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ew

patt

er o

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tar

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kto

coun

t ti

me b

efo

re t

he n

ext

space

batt

le o

r r

ay-g

un s

hooto

ut.

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ecto

r J

J A

bram

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as

most

defi-

nit

ely

not

a f

an-b

oy f

or t

his

franchis

e

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e m

ade 2

009’s

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r T

rek,

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h

rein

troduced K

irk

, S

pock

an

d th

e

rest

of

the s

tarsh

ip E

nte

rpris

e g

an

g

wit

h a

tim

e-t

ravel

twis

t th

at

allow

ed

the W

illiam

Shatn

er-L

eonard N

imoy

orig

inal to

coexis

t w

ith a

n e

nti

rely

dif

-fe

rent

dest

iny f

or t

he n

ew

pla

yers.

Abram

s grew

up a

fan o

f S

tar

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rs,

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ext

space s

aga h

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be r

eviv

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wit

h th

e la

un

ch

of

a th

ird tr

ilogy.

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his

key c

ollaborato

rs,

screenw

rit

-ers

Robert

Orci, A

lex K

urtz

man a

nd

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on L

indelo

f, a

re T

rek

fan-b

oys

to

their

marrow

. T

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now

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world

, th

ey l

ove t

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world

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d l

ike m

any

fan

s, t

hey h

ave a

parti

cula

r fi

xati

on

on 1

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r T

rek:

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rath

of K

ha

n,

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est

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ran

chis

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ffer,

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creen o

r T

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2009

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d

tweaked e

lem

ents

connecte

d t

o W

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of

Kh

an, and I

nto

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rkn

ess

min

es

that

vein

furth

er.

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e o

f th

at

revis

itati

on

is c

ool in

an a

lternate

-his

tory w

ay,

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the fi

lmm

akers

rem

ain

so c

lose

ly i

n

orbit

aroun

d yeste

ryear’

s S

tar

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k

that

they w

ind u

p z

igza

ggin

g fi

tfully

through t

he E

nte

rpris

e’s

greate

st h

its.

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rkn

ess

opens

wit

h a

spla

shy

acti

on

sequen

ce to

again

sh

ow

th

e

cockin

ess

of

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Jam

es

Kir

k (

Chris

P

ine)

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ith h

is w

illingness

to fl

aunt

the r

ule

s —

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he icy inte

llect

of half

-V

ulc

an

Fir

st O

fficer S

pock (

Zachary

Quin

to),

who’s

willing t

o s

acrifi

ce h

is

life

to s

tick t

o t

he S

tarfleet

pla

ybook.

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cle

ar t

hese

tw

o y

oung’u

ns

don’t

pla

y w

ell

to

geth

er,

but

just

as th

e

space b

rass

is

about

to s

plit

them

up,

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rfl

eet

is h

it by savage te

rroris

t att

acks

by m

yst

erio

us

desp

erado J

ohn

Harris

on

(B

en

edic

t C

um

berbatc

h).

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irk, S

pock a

nd t

heir

Ente

rpris

e c

rew

are d

ispatc

hed t

o t

ake H

arris

on

out

wit

h w

eapon

s th

at

could

prove th

e

moth

er o

f all d

rone s

trik

es,

main

tain

-in

g t

he u

sual se

e-h

ow

-rele

vant-

we-a

re

conceit

of

the T

rek

cosm

os.

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loyalt

ies

slip

an

d s

hif

t as

the

Ente

rpris

e u

ncovers

the s

trange h

is-

tory o

f H

arris

on a

nd h

is c

onnecti

ons

to a

haw

kis

h S

tarfleet

adm

iral

(Pete

r

Weller).

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ng th

e w

ay,

Spock

h

its som

e

speed b

um

ps

in h

is r

om

ance w

ith Z

oe

Sald

an

a’s

beauti

ful

an

d bril

lian

t L

t U

hura,

while K

irk m

eets

Alice E

ve’s

beauti

ful and b

rilliant

Dr C

arol M

arcus

(Wra

th o

f Kh

an fans

well k

now

who s

he

is a

nd h

er im

porta

nce t

o S

tar

Tre

k).

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est

of

the g

ang k

eeps

up t

heir

routi

nes.

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udgeon

ly D

r M

cC

oy

(Karl

Urban)

grip

es

and m

oans,

helm

s-m

an S

ulu

(Jo

hn C

ho)

ably

ste

ers

the

ship

, navig

ato

r C

hekov (

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n Y

elc

hin

) does

his

precocio

us

shti

ck a

nd e

ngin

eer

Scott

(S

imon P

egg)

work

s his

technic

al

mir

acle

s. F

ine a

cti

ng h

as

rarely

been a

cornerst

one o

f S

tar

Tre

k, b

ut

much o

f th

e I

nto

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rkn

ess

cast

seem

s to

have

taken h

am

less

ons

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tain

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e s

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rouchy,

st

ick-u

p-h

is-b

utt

express

ion t

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hil

e C

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ith

h

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ost

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ccent

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h

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hre

k-t

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k S

cott

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brogue b

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ow

nrig

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onis

h.

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quabble

lik

e b

ratt

y

teens

early

on, P

ine a

nd Q

uin

to e

ven-

tually s

how

spark

s of

the K

irk-S

pock

frate

rn

al

love at

the core of

“Sta

r

Trek.”

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ig fi

nd h

ere i

s C

um

berbatc

h,

wh

o

join

s

Ric

ard

o

Mon

talb

an

, C

hris

topher P

lum

mer a

nd A

lice K

rig

e

in a

fair

ly lim

ited r

ost

er o

f great

Tre

k villa

ins.

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ith h

is r

um

bling v

oic

e a

nd s

tony

sta

re,

the sta

r of

Brit

ain

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c-

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pdate

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erlo

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arso

me a

nd

rele

ntl

ess

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ne-m

an a

rm

y w

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ruly

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ore t

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h for p

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rs,

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k s

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ore sequels

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torie

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11FOOD

Mumbai’s grand old Parsi cafes are a symbol of the city’s diverse cuisine and culture, but on a foodie tour of the city Rosie Birkett finds out they are a dying breed.

I eat the best creme caramel of my life in 26C heat, with life-sized cutouts of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge smil-ing down at me from the dining room’s

slightly slanting balcony. A pigeon snoozes on the lone chandelier, dusty beneath peel-ing turquoise paintwork, and ceiling fans whirr above crowded, chattering tables. I’m sitting in Britannia and Co Restaurant, one of the last remaining Parsi cafes in south Mumbai (or south Bombay as the locals so protectively still call it), and I’m full of food.

Opened in the 19th-century by Parsi settlers — Zoroastrians from Iran — these cafes, with their magnificently faded, time-capsule dining rooms and speciality dishes, are a gloriously eccentric part of the fabric of Mumbai. They are also democratic and inclusive places, where people of all back-grounds, classes and sexes meet.

They are also a dying breed. In 1950 there were about 550 of them, many of which grew from humble tea stalls; now only 15 to 20 are still open.

“It’s so sad there are so few left,” says British restaurateur Kavi Thakrar, who — along with his cousin Shamil and chef Naved Nasir — has created London’s Dishoom restaurants in the mould of these cafes. The three are acting as my guides on a food tour of Mumbai, and between them know this city’s cuisine inside out.

“Mumbai is a city of immigrants,” he says through mouthfuls of the deep, almost cheesily creamy cara-mel and sips of fresh lime soda — a quenching mix-ture of lime juice, salt, sugar and fizzy water that’s a must-order here. “It’s a huge mix and the cafes are the greatest example of that.”

On a wall, cultural tributes preside: a painting of Queen Elizabeth II next to a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, both hanging beneath a gilt-framed picture of Zarathustra, the Zoroastrian prophet worshiped by the Parsis. This unlikely trio sums up the essence of the cafes: Their legacy from the days of the Raj, their tolerance of all religions, and their Zoroastrian roots.

That the Britannia and Co resides in a corner site of the genteel Ballard Estate business district, in a grand, Renaissance-style building designed by Scottish architect George Wittet (famous for the city’s Gateway To India monument) is no accident.

“Many of the cafes hold sought-after positions in prime real estate,” says Shamil. “Hindus are supersti-tious about building on street corners, but the Parsis didn’t mind. That’s why they became such shared spaces and promoted tolerance.”

But just as their prime positioning has ensured longevity, so it now threatens their future, since the children of the current proprietors — most of whom took over the cafes from their parents — are more interested in property prices than the 14-hour work-ing days required to run them. It’s unlikely, Kavi and Shamil tell me, that most of these cafes will exist long after the current owners pass on.

Britannia and Co is open for lunch only, 12-4pm every day except Sunday, and around us people are

tucking into their chicken berry pulaos, this cafe’s most famous dish (along with the creme caramel). It’s a heavenly, sweet-sour confluence of fragrant pilau rice layered with moist chunks of chicken and a rich, spiced tomato sauce, topped with sour barber-ries, crunchy cashews and sweet, sticky caramelised onions. It’s a recipe that, while recreated across the world, is a secret fiercely guarded by 91-year-old proprietor Boman Kohinoor, whose wife brought it with her from Iran.

Kohinoor has a keen sense of humour. “Welcome back to the home of your ancestors. They’ve been here for 300 years and we’ve all been very happy,” he says when we’re introduced, before vanish-ing momentarily, only to reappear with armfuls of laminated photographs, including one of a famous Bollywood actor, which he holds up. “He’s a rascal,” he says with a waggling finger. “He never brings his wife — always other actresses.”

He proudly shows us letters from diners including George Bush Senior, Dick Cheney, and the Pope; one even carries the official letterhead of Windsor Castle. “Please give your Queen my love,” he says, “We are very short on space but we’d love to fit her in when she returns to the city.”

Born in 1923, the year his father set up the cafe, Kohinoor has worked here for the past 75 years, since he was 16, and he remembers a very different Mumbai from the now rapidly Americanising city: “There used to be 11 million people, now there are about 18 million, and there is so much pollution. Everything has gone up in price. In 1982 the berry pulao was 40 rupees, now it’s 400.” Which, at around £5 is still quite a steal, I almost point out, before glimpsing a sign above our table that reads, “Please do not argue with the management.”

In the days that follow, we probably get through

gallons of creamy, unspiced Parsi chai and sample the individual, freshly made food of several more cafes. Each cafe — apart from the touristy Leopold Cafe (near Electric House on Colaba Causeway), which still bears bullet holes from the 26/11 attacks, and Café Mondegar (Metro House, 5-A Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Colaba) — is crumbling in its own special way, each tan-gibly Parsi, with Zarathustra overseeing proceedings.

At Yazdani bakery and cafe (Fountain Akbar Ally, Saint Thomas Cathedral), we taste Mumbai’s best brun maska, hot toasted white buns slathered in melted but-ter with crunchy crusts that we dip into hot chai — the bread melting in the mouth like brioche. Yazdani is known for its baked goods, which it has been making since the early 1950s.

Owner Parvez Irani takes us into the bak-ery (which is usually strictly off-limits to females). It’s a 24-hour operation where a dozen or so bakers live in the rafters above the wood-fired ovens they tend day and night.

Naved says: “It’s difficult to choose a favourite cafe because each one is known for its own dishes.” But he’s particularly enam-oured with the deeply savoury, pleasingly fatty kheema pau (spiced minced lamb) at Radio (Building No 10, near Crawford Market), the most dilapidated of the places we visit. It is known to hold favour among the city’s gangsters, and eating on its worn, wooden tables, dwarfed by a cavernous, crumbling ceiling in the near darkness, you can sense that it could harbour a certain

menace.“This is the best kheema pau in Mumbai,” declares

Naved, scooping up the glistening meat with thin slices of red onion and the pau — the white fluffy bread buns found in all Parsi cafes. He has created his own version of this dish.

“They haven’t put any tomato in this,” he says. “It’s rich with ghee, garlic, ginger, coriander powder, chillies, peas and garam masala.”

Kyani and Co (JSS Road, Dhobi Talao, Kalbadevi) is a more convivial set-up, with prettily engraved dark-wood panelling, dappled mirrors, Scandinavian bentwood chairs and chipped mosaic flooring. As well as its confectionary and baked goods — almond sponges, biscuits and decorative cakes — this place is known for its breakfasts, and has a long, ram-bling egg repertoire that includes paneer bhurjee (stir-fried eggs), mutton scrambled eggs, and the repellent-sounding “half fry egg”.

“There’s a tradition of bodybuilding in Parsi cul-ture,” says Kavi, “hence all the eggs.” Sure enough, on the far wall are some sepia photos of triumphantly muscular Iranians. Amid students and locals we hoo-ver up plates of the akuri, masala scrambled eggs, which are flecked with tomato, onion, turmeric, chilli and coriander, and dip our butter-soft brun maska into the chai.

Owner Farooq Shokri is the third generation of his family to run the cafe, taking over in 2000. He shows us a stained, concise menu from 1975 — pointing out how he’s extended it to help cover the steeply rising rents — as well as a remarkable ink drawing of his father by the painter and film director M F Husain: Relics that, like the cafe, would be tragic to lose. “I’m the only one left,” says Shokri. “I don’t think about what happens after me. I just carry on.”

The Guardian

PLUS | THURSDAY 16 MAY 2013

Mumbai’s Parsi cafe culture

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | THURSDAY 16 MAY 201312

The hype and noise around Google Glass has been colossal — triggering discussions about privacy, the limits of wearable

computing, and social interaction in a world where the Internet is available just an eye-glance away.

But what’s it like to use Google Glass? I spoke to Michael DiGiovanni, an emerging technology leader at Isobar, a global digital marketing company — and who earlier this month released Winky, which is “Glassware” (an app for Glass) that lets you take a picture by winking.

DiGiovanni has quite a history in apps. As an Android developer for Barnes & Noble.com, he was instru-mental in the creation of the Nook app for Android devices and contributed to the reading experience of the Nook Color device.

As an independent mobile developer, he has brought apps through the entire development process from conception to release. His self-published software on the Android market totals over 300,000 downloads and none has less than four stars.

How long have you been using Google Glass, and what are your first impressions?

DiGiovanni: Two weeks ago I got to pick them up — and I’ve been using them non-stop. It takes a while to get used to them. But I’ve been wearing them while driving, walking, essentially all the time. It’s quite similar to wear-ing glasses — I don’t normally — but without something sitting in front of your eyeballs.

The display is just outside your nor-mal range of vision, so that you have to roll your eyes upwards — it sits on the top right. I turned it on by nods. You can still wear them while driving and know that you are not going to be interrupted by something popping up in your view.

The software experience is prima-rily voice activated. You say “OK Glass” and then “take a picture”, or “Google something” or “give me directions to somewhere”.

You can ask it maths questions, you know like “what is two plus two” as you can in Google, as well. As you take pictures, and emails and text messages come in, they go into your timeline which is shown in the display. If you’re driving or going somewhere, you get a Google Map with directions. It’s much better than having a sat nav — much less distracting, because you’re not really taking your attention down off the road — you still have your head up, though you do look up to the right.

You enhance the experience with

apps, called Glassware — think of them as micro-web pages. There’s some HTML that can be pushed in there. So I got the New York Times headlines pushed there into my timeline. But they don’t take priority over other things.

What about reports that people have developed headaches from using Google Glass for a while?

I haven’t had any headaches. People who have been those who have tried it very briefly, for a few minutes. One of the nice things about what Google’s doing now with this Explorers pro-gramme [in which it is seeding Glass with a few thousand people around the US] is that they let you pick them up from their offices and outlets. So you get a personalised service, where they fit them to your face. [Google Glass has adjustable elements for the bridge of the nose, like normal spectacles.]

If you’re wearing it incorrectly, so that the prism is blocking your view, then you will have something out of focus in your view and that will give you a headache, I think. So those peo-ple who’ve reported having headaches, I think it’s because they haven’t had them fitted right.

Here’s what I think — my wife got a new pair of eyeglasses the other day and had to go back to get them fitted perfectly. With Glass, you can bend them yourself, but they can do it much quicker at Google than you can on your own, because they’ve had the experience.

With the general consumer market, I would expect that they would have some sort of experience in store so that people don’t get a bad experience from trying to fit them on their own.

(That could explain the rumours that Google is going to set up stores specifi-cally to sell Google Glass: If it needs individual attention to get right, then it wouldn’t be the same as buying a phone or computer by mail order.)

Tell us about the Winky app [which allows Glass users to take a photo simply by winking].

The Winky app isn’t what Google considers normal Glassware. It’s basi-cally a mobile app like you would put on an Android phone. It’s undocumented, officially unsupported. We have the tools and debug capability to create it, and it works, but there’s no documentation.

What differentiates Glass from other products is the sensors for things like winking or voice recognition. At present, it only does a location update once every 10 minutes. But I think you could treat it like any Android device and change that to the default for those

— which is once every 20 milliseconds. Then you could get access to the camera and do stuff with computer vision. Or you could get access to the accelerom-eter [which detects sudden changes in velocity] and trigger it by, say, nods.

What’s the battery life like?There’s varying experiences with

that. It goes from two hours to six hours — I have seen people online say that they only got a couple of hours from it. But yesterday there was a new update, XC5, which is supposed to change that and improve the battery life. For instance, it used to be that when you took a photo it would automatically upload it to Google+. But the new update will only upload when it’s being charged and is connected to a Wi-Fi network. That should improve the battery life because it won’t have to connect all the time to take photos.

What are your general impres-sions of Glass?

This is much better put together than I ever expected to get. I don’t think it’s ready for the average consumer because of the battery life. And assuming the price point isn’t one that most people will want for something that is basically showing you email and text. I think peo-ple will be mostly using it as a cellphone accessory.

But in some businesses it could revo-lutionise working life. Anywhere you could use an extra hand, or have extra data in front of your eyes. So, you know, a restaurant chef who needs to see what the orders stacking up are. Or if you’re carrying something it means you don’t have to pull out your phone. Or a point-of-sale systems, where shop assistants can help customers directly on the shop floor.

What are the onscreen maps and directions like?

The Maps system is one of the best features currently. The walking direc-tions are really good — as you turn, you will see the screen turn with you. I’ve never been able to get that to work with my smartphone, that when I turn that

the map display turns with it. It means that rather than walking around and trying to find where you are, you know where you are.

When driving, I found it better than the GPS on my car dashboard. The best thing is that you aren’t taking your eyes off the road as much as you would when using a GPS.

I know it’s scary to some people to have a display up there by your eyes. But in practice, it’s not distracting at all. It’s easier to look at than the rear view mirror.

What smartphone are you using?I’ve got a Samsung Galaxy Note 2

with an extended battery. It connects to Glass via Bluetooth. Without a data connection, Glass is a bit limited.

What about storage — for those times when you aren’t wearing your Google Glass? I’ve heard that the arms don’t fold like standard glasses.

It’s true, the arms don’t bend. If you had to take them off — say if you’re going into some place that says you’re not allowed to wear them — well, I’d throw them around my neck. Or push them up into my hair, like sunglasses.

But there are certainly places that won’t want something that can do recording.

Google does provide a carry case for them, which it fits into. Women might be able to put that into their purse, but a man might be out of luck.

That’s one of the biggest problems — if you go somewhere and the owners don’t want you to have them, where do you put them.

How long did it take to get used to wearing them?

About three days.

Google Glass is expected to go on gen-eral sale either late in 2013 or in 2014. No price has yet been set, though “Glass Explorers” — of whom DiGiovanni is one — are paying around $1,500 per pair. Google Glass can work with iPhones; it uses the Bluetooth and data connec-tions. The Guardian

What it’s like to use Google GlassMuch about Google’s wearable computing project has come from people who haven’t used it. Charles Arthur spoke to one person who has — and who wrote an app for taking pictures by winking.

Michael DiGiovanni

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Hoy en la HistoriaMay 16, 1955

1763: French chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, who discovered chromium and beryllium, was born1943: The RAF dropped “bouncing bombs”, invented by Barnes Wallace, on dams in Germany’s Ruhr Valley1995: The Polish currency, the zloty, was floated on international currency markets2003: Five near-simultaneous suicide bombings killed 41 people in Casablanca, Morocco

Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut was born. She captivated audiences at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where she won a silver and three gold medals

Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ANNE MURRAY, BARBARA MANDRELL, BRENDA LEE, CHARLEY PRIDE, CHET ATKINS, CRYSTAL GAYLE, DOLLY PARTON, DON WILLIAMS, EMMY LOU HARRIS, GLEN CAMPBELL, HANK WILLIAMS, JOHNNY CASH, KENNY ROGERS, LORETTA LYNN, MARTY ROBBINS, MERLE HAGGARD, PATSY CLINE, ROGER MILLER, TAMMY WYNETTE, WAYLON JENNINGS, WILLIE NELSON.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARNARABIC

Polite words

Masculine Feminine Meaning

Tafadhal Tafadhalee Please sit/please help yourself

An Izh’nak An’izhnik With your permission

Demonstrations:

Hazha John Hazhihi Sera This is John/Sara

Zhalika Til’ka That is

Hal Hazha……..? Hal Hazhihi……? Is this... ?

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HYPER SUDOKU

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How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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unlike Sudoku

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21 1965 song with the lyric “Isn’t he a bit like you and me?”

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- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

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EASY SUDOKUEasy 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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Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport When: March 7-Jun 16 Monday–Thursday, Saturday: 9am-8pmFriday; 3pm-9pm (Sunday closed)Where: QMA Gallery, Bldg 10 What: The Qatar Museums Authority will exhibit ‘Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport’ at QMA Gallery in Katara Cultural Village. The exhibition was first held in London during the 2012 Olympic Games. The exhibit originated in Qatar, beginning at the Arab Games’ Athletes Village in December 2011, where photographer Brigitte and documentary maker Marian Lacombe set up an outdoor studio, working with female athletes. They then travelled to 20 Arab countries from the Gulf to North Africa, documenting images and videos of 70 Arab sportswomen. Free entry

My Journeys Through Yemen — Moudhi Al HajriWhen: Until May 25; 10am-10pm Where: Katara Gallery - Bldg 22

What: Moudhi Al Hajri is one of the most interesting Qatari photographers today, her drive and passion for photography as a form of art, and as a medium that allows her to engage with the world she inhabits, is heartfelt and deep. Her photography is extremely compelling and uses her camera to engage with the world at large and its peoples, in many cases even to give them a voice. The exhibition is an attempt to share her involvement with Yemen. Tickets: Free

Designed To WinWhen: Until June 23; 10am-10pm Where: Katara - Bldg 3 What: Katara Exhibition in Collaboration with the Design Museum in London.Designed to Win celebrates ways in which design and sport are combined, pushing the limits of human endeavour to achieve records and victories of increasing significance and wonder. There will be an extensive educational programme and visiting artists’ talks complementing the expo.Free entry

Disney on Ice100 years of MagicWhen: June 13-16(Check timings on website)Where: Qatar NationalConvention Centre What: A fanfare production bringing to life 65 of Disney’s unforgettable characters that span the decades, from 18 beloved stories. With Mickey and Minnie leading the fun, audiences enjoy breathtaking dance numbers.Entry: Tickets available online and at the outlets of Virgin Megastore. See http://www.disneyme.com for more information.

Events in Qatar MEDIA SCAN

• In support of the Central Municipal Council’s recommendation of assisting Qatar Animal Welfare Society, some people have demanded that the authorities concerned provide a permanent facility to accommodate stray animals.

• There are demands for setting up an emergency health centre for children in Al Shahaniya area, which lacks healthcare facilities, particularly for children.

• Some people are surprised at a two-day event organised by a school to sell domestic animals, without caring about the children’s safety and health.

• Statistics released by the Supreme Education Council show that 11 percent of school directors do not have a bachelor’s degree.

• There are demands for reviewing disciplinary regulations for students,

which should be developed and properly implemented.

• There is talk about the Supreme Council of Health’s report that includes plans for setting up nine new hospitals, 18 health centres and two medical commissions.

• People have demanded that the authorities concerned study the status of open spaces in residential areas and earmark some of them for playgrounds for youth to practise sports.

• There are complaints about manhole covers that jut above the road level damaging cars or causing accidents when drivers try to avoid them.

• There is discussion in social media about a statement released by the steering committee of Hamad International Airport saying that the airport would open by the end of this year.

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

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Seattle man dribbling soccer ball to Brazil dies after hit by car

A man less than two weeks into a planned journey to dribble a soccer ball from

his home city of Seattle to Brazil, the host nation for the 2014 World Cup, died on Tuesday after being struck by a car in Oregon, police and the man’s supporters said.

Richard Swanson, 42, was struck as he walked on the shoul-der of a road on the outskirts of Lincoln City just east of the Oregon coast, said Lincoln City Police Sergeant Randy Weaver. Swanson’s soccer ball was found nearby, Weaver said.

Swanson’s death was mourned in a post on the Facebook page titled “Breakaway Brazil,” which he had used to document his planned journey. It was supposed to culminate with his arrival in Brazil in time for the World Cup, which begins in June 2014.

“It is with a heavy heart to notify you that Richard Swanson passed on this morning,” said the post, signed “Team Richard.” “His team, family, friends, and loved ones will miss him and love him dearly. You made it to Brazil in our hearts, Richard.” Reuters