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• Texas A&M at Qatar celebrates 12th Academic Year

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• Excavations at A’ali in Bahrain

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Leaping, running and flying into the unknown is attracting a growing band of followers around the world ready to risk life and limb for the ultimate adrenaline rush.

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Leaping, running and flying into the unknown are attracting a growing band of followers around the world, ready to risk life and limb for the ultimate adrenaline rush.

From base jumping — where devotees jump off a cliff or tower with a parachute — to wingsuit divers who fly in a bird-man jumpsuit, to highlining — walking across a rope at high altitude — the sky has become the limit for extreme sports.

The death toll has also taken off.About 20 people a year are now killed base jumping or

in wing suits. The United States and Switzerland have had the highest casualties, with each recording more than 50 deaths since specialist groups started keeping statistics in the 1990s.

In France, four jumpers have lost their lives since the start of August.

Numbers have gone up along with the popularity of the daredevil pursuits. And both followers and victims have become ever more high-profile.

In August 2013, British stuntman Mark Sutton, who para-chuted into the London Olympics opening ceremony dressed as James Bond, died in a wingsuit accident in Switzerland after jumping from a helicopter.

American Brian Drake, one of the leading international wingsuit fliers, died along with well known French and New Zealand jumpers, Dan Vicary and Ludovic Woerth, in April.

The three leaped from a helicopter thinking they were jumping into a gorge, but fell onto an Alpine pasture before they could open their parachutes.

Once limited to a small club, extreme sports have taken off as technology develops and restrictions or security con-straints in everyday life become ever tighter.

Bungee jumping and delta plane gliding were the frontiers until the 2000s when the rise of social media brought the really extreme sports out of the shadows.

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There is a narcissistic side that did not exist in the past when the practices were more closed. The risks are being increased because once everyone has done something spectacular, you have to move on to something even riskier.”

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“Today a lot of the people in these sports put themselves in videos, and that changes everything,” said Nicolas Cazenove, a specialist in clinical psychology and health at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures in France.

Now videos of wingsuit jumps down mountainsides are all over the Internet.

Risk seekers“There is a narcissistic side that did not exist in the past when the practices

were more closed,” Cazenove added.“The risks are being increased because once everyone has done something

spectacular, you have to move on to something even riskier.”The technology and the equipment for extreme sports are now widely

available. A wingsuit jumper leaps from a plane or off a mountain in a suit that adds surface area to the body, enabling the jumper to glide like a bird before opening a parachute to complete the jump safely.

A wingsuit can be bought for as little as $500 (€375), and a beginner’s course for $1,950. It can take years to master the art safely, however.

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner went up 39km (24 miles) into space to jump to Earth in a pressurised wingsuit, making global headlines in October 2012.One year later, Alexander Polli, an Italian-Norwegian daredevil, leaped from a helicopter and reached speeds of up to 250km (155 miles) an hour as he hurtled toward and through a cave opening in Spain barely wider than he is tall. “There is an unbridled inventiveness,” Cazenove said.

“Also our society is imposing more and more physical protection and speed limits on everyday life and in sport. Extreme sport followers are looking for niches” in the rules, he said.

Overwhelmingly maleCecile Martha, a researcher in social psychology at the Institute of Movement

Sciences, Aix-Marseille University, monitored about 40 base jump followers — out of about 200 registered in France — for 18 months.

Martha, a specialist on risk-taking in sport, said that nearly all are males “who feel the need for powerful, higher than average sensations.”

“They are not impulsive, however,” the researcher added. “They go about it in a very meticulous way, and those who have the most accidents are the impulsive ones.”

Cazenove also said that base jumpers and wingsuit flyers “do not get enough highs from daily life.”

“More than seeking a confrontation with death, they have a desire to feel extremely alive,” the psychologist said.

Experts note a big difference between extreme sports and those like Formula One and motorcycle racing which have long been considered dan-gerous. “There are mortal risks in horse jumping, skiing, gymnastics, Formula One, sailing, motorcycling,” said Jean Griffet, a sociologist and specialist in water extreme sports such as apnea deep sea diving.

But the risk is reduced by crash barriers, padding and other measures and the sport is progressively learned, said Griffet.

“Extreme sport does not have this apprenticeship. When you base jump for the first time it is already a lethal activity, ruled by the law of all or nothing.” AFP

More than seeking a confrontation with death, extreme sports enthusiasts have a desire to feel extremely alive.

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Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) has introduced its new intake of students to life at the college with a week of orientation exercises.

The fresh cohort of students accepted to WCMC-Q’s Foundation and Pre-medical Programs spent four days taking part in a variety of sessions designed to help them acclimatize to their new surroundings before studies begin in earnest.

The orientation programme featured daily ice-breaker sessions to help the new students get to know one another, demonstrations of how to use WCMC-Q’s digital library, and advice about key study tech-niques and time-management skills. The students also received their new laptops, learned about the college’s computer services and were advised about academic integrity, before the week culminated with a treasure hunt and murder mystery evening on the final day of the program.

Dr Javaid Sheikh, Dean of WCMC-Q, offered words of encouragement to the new students.

“It is always extremely gratifying to see a new intake of students join the college,” he said. “They bring with them a great deal of talent, intellectual curiosity and a desire to work hard that permeates throughout the entire college and serves as an inspi-ration to all of us here at WCMC-Q.

“I am sure that each and every one of our new students will take full advantage of the opportunities available to them at the college, not just in terms of learning from our world-class faculty, but also by joining some of the many clubs and societies that make such an important contribution to the culture of WCMC-Q.

“I look forward to seeing them grow and develop both as people and as students, and I wish them all the very best in their new endeavour.”

WCMC-Q’s year-long Foundation Program is aimed primarily at Qatari high school graduates and

provides students with intensive coaching in the basic sciences and English language skills in preparation for the Pre-medical Program.

This year a total of 21 students are enrolled on the Foundation Program, of which 17 are Qatari. Fifteen of the Foundation students are female and six are male.

The Pre-medical Program is a two-year course of study that students must complete before they can be accepted onto a medical program. This year there are 43 students on the first year of the Pre-medical Program, comprising 24 female students and 19 male students. There are 14 Qatari stu-dents enrolled on the first year of the Pre-medical Program. Taken together, the 112 students on the Foundation Program and the first and second years of the Pre-medical Program represent a total of 20 different nationalities.

The orientation exercises also gave the students the opportunity to visit the Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Center and Katara Cultural Village, and to enjoy an evening of Arabic food and entertainment. The new students also contributed to community events by serving food at a lunch for

maintenance and catering staff, and by helping to gather and pack items donated to Qatar Charity’s Tayf Program.

These occasions were a great help to newly enrolled Qatari Foundation student Hissa Al Hail.

She said: “Orientation has been a great opportu-nity to meet other students, not just on my course but also some of the pre-med students who know the college quite well already. We are all just amazed and so happy to be here, and for me this is like a dream come true – I’m so proud and excited to be a student here.”

Australian Pre-medical student Sabiha Khan said that a desire to improve healthcare in the developing world had inspired her to train as a doctor.

“There is a shortage of doctors worldwide but the need in the developing world is particularly acute,” she said. “I am motivated by an interest in the sci-ences and the personal satisfaction I will gain from understanding medicine, but what really drives me is that I want to make a difference to the lives of people who currently don’t have access to the healthcare they need.”

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Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) hosted its newest students, the Class of 2018 at the 2014-2015 Academic Convocation cer-

emony recently at the Hamad bin Khalifa University Student Center. The event’s keynote speaker was Dr Dennis Roberts, associate provost at Hamad bin Khalifa University.

Speaking at the ceremony, Dr Mark H Weichold, Dean and CEO, welcomed the new Class, acknowl-edged the accomplishments of Texas A&M University at Qatar during the previous 11 years and said: “We welcome the Class of 2018, who joined our family as Aggie engineering students this week, to this vibrant Texas A&M University at Qatar community focused on leadership, commitment, service and excellence. This academic year marks our second decade in Qatar. The last 11 years has been spent enriching Qatar’s greatest natural resource and that is its people. We have had much to be proud of. In the coming years, as you study, learn and grow people at Texas A&M at Qatar, you will see this branch campus’ dynamic lead-ership manifested in education, discovery, development and collaboration. You will see it in engagement as we expand in more and ever-diversified partnerships with industry; collaborations as it fosters partnerships with world –renowned academics; enrichment as it con-tinues and grows its commitment to academic excel-lence; creativity as it produces new knowledge through research and scholarly undertakings; and outreach as it partners with the community to enhance its develop-ment with a focus on STEM education.”

“Our mission and vision remain the same,” Weichold continued. “Texas A&M at Qatar is dedi-cated to one goal and that is enriching Qatar’s great-est natural resource. A goal we accomplish through excellence in teaching, leadership in research, self-less service to the community. Through these funda-mental ideals, Texas A&M at Qatar does not simply develop engineers. It develops leaders of character who will guide Qatar’s development and achieve goals of both local and global significance.”

Dr Roberts addressed the new students and said: “I hope you appreciate that Texas A&M University at Qatar is an esteemed university in Qatar and

around the world; joining the ranks of the Aggies should not be taken lightly. You are among a very small number of young people around the world who have the opportunity to engage in university study, and especially at an institution so deeply respected for its rigor and its commitment in supporting and encouraging its students.”

“I wish you well. I also wish you challenge, confu-sion, and discomfort,” he continued. “Only by working the big questions and seeking to be present, achieving flow, and oscillating the intensity of your work will you be able to achieve what Texas A&M at Qatar knows is your fullest potential.”

Dr Hamid Parsaei, Texas A&M at Qatar Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and professor, emceed the event and Student Body President, Dina Mahmoud, welcomed the incoming class.

“It is my great pleasure and honor to welcome the Class of 2018 Aggie engineers. This year marks the 12th class of Aggie engineers admitted to Texas A&M at Qatar. We are deeply committed to educating the next generation — our students — to become global citizens. We aim to provide the very best education

and learning experiences and to develop them as leaders and lifelong learners ready to meet the chal-lenges of our ever-changing and complex world. We are celebrating the beginning of a new academic year that promises to bring many successes to Texas A&M at Qatar.” Dr Parsaei said.

“On behalf of the Student Body Government, we are very excited for this year’s Academic Convocation. It is a time when we welcome the incoming freshman class into our great Aggie family. I am incredibly thrilled to be part of this momentous occasion as I start my final year at Texas A&M.” Mahmoud said.

The program recognized both undergraduate and graduate classes and acknowledged Distinguished Student List awardees and Dean's Honor Roll recipi-ents from the previous fall and spring semesters.

“What a great feeling to start the new academic year, seeing our old friends and the fresh new faces,” said Mai Hamed, an award recipient and Mechanical Engineering major. “Things get more challenging the more the year progresses but it’s always an exhilarat-ing experience. These are the years to remember.”

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TAMUQ celebrates 12th Academic Year

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Jumbo Electronics unveils new range of cordless phonesJumbo Electronics Qatar has introduced a new range of cordless phones from AEG and vtech through their network of 17 showrooms spread across Qatar. Some of the main features are full ECO radiation-free and energy-efficient mode where the user can select automatically or manually to adjust the radio fre-quency power, advanced dual-antenna design to minimise interference and maximise reception range, retro-chic digital cordless phone with traditional rotary dialing design, blue-white backlit on dual LCD displays and on dual key-pads and touch sensitive digital answer-ing system among many other features. The futuristic designs and colours gives a lively atmosphere to the user.

Public registration and Facebook competition for unique obstacle course now open

Aspire Zone is set to host its first adventure racing obstacle challenge on Saturday, October 18, and registration is now open for teams willing to push their bodies and minds over a range of innovative tasks at this unique event.

Its ten exciting challenges include scaling the heights of the Olympic high diving board and then plunging deep into the pool below, summiting Aspires very own climbing wall, kayaking around the lake as well as trail running across the park to win the accolade of becoming an ‘Aspire Logistics Urban Adventurer’.

‘Urban Adventure’ will ask partici-pants to run from check point to check point around the incredible Aspire

Zone to fulfil each task, and so the competition will also give participants the opportunity to explore some of the lesser known areas of its unique facili-ties whether they are lifelong residents of Qatar or new to Doha.

Abdulla Al Khater, Acting Events and Venues Manager at Aspire Zone Foundation, commented on the event: “The inaugural ‘Urban Adventure’ challenge is for people who are up for a new physical challenge and out of the ordinary fun. The competition is specially designed to cater to all fit-ness levels, and will give members of the community the chance to experi-ence the increasingly popular sport of adventure racing.”

“Part of our mandate at Aspire Zone is to encourage residents to adopt healthy, more active lifestyles. Therefore, ‘Urban Adventure’ is just one example of a wider, multifac-eted programme that offers a vari-ety of activities offered year-round designed to inspire positive behavioural changes,” Al Khater concluded.

The competition is open to men and women aged 18 and above. The chal-lenges will be performed in teams of four with a designated captain and a dedicated reserve.

An online competition is now run-ning on the Aspire Zone Facebook page which also gives more fun facts about the ‘Urban Adventure’ challenge.

Furthermore, interested individuals and teams can find out more and even get ahead of their opponents with a taster of some of the challenges that will be part of an activation event to be held on Saturday, August 30, at Sports Corner at City Centre Mall between 15:30 – 23:00.

To register visit www.lifeinaspire.qa. The competition is limited to 20 teams.

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Over 500 people took advan-tage of a free medical camp conducted recently by Aster

Medical Centre, a division of Aster DM Healthcare, at the Religious Complex in Doha, in association with POSA.

People living in and around the region availed benefits of the free medical services and health awareness sessions, offered by a panel of four phy-sicians, one dentist and 15 paramedi-cal staff from Aster Medical Centre. At the camp, the participants availed free checkups for Blood Pressure, BMI and Blood Sugar levels, in addition to General Consultation and Dental screening.

The attendees were also given guid-ance on ways to maintain a balanced and nutritious diet. The camp educated the attendees on the importance of fol-lowing a healthy lifestyle and making necessary modifications in routines to lead a healthy and peaceful life.

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Commenting on the medical camp, Dr Sameer Moopan, Managing Director and CEO of Aster DM Healthcare – Qatar, said: “We are very pleased with the overwhelming success of the medical camp. We aim to create awareness among the peo-ple on following a healthy lifestyle.

Besides the free health checks and medical advice, our medical camps mainly focus on supporting the people to take preventive measures.”

“By reaching out to different sec-tions of the society, we hope to drive the message of better health for all. We would like to extend our gratitude

to POSA for their support in making this camp such a huge success,” Dr Moopan elaborated.

The medical camp was part of the Aster Community Good Health Programme (CGHP), a CSR initiative under Aster DM Healthcare.

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A’ali is a modern town located in the northeastern direction in Bahrain. A’ali town was known among archaeologists

since the nineteenth century for its distinctive more than eighty thousand ancient stone tumuli (burial mounds) mostly located in the northern parts of the Island.

According to archaeological excava-tions reports, which took place at some burials since the beginning of the last century, most of the tumuli is attrib-uted to the late fourth millennium BC down to the first half of the fourth century AD.

Since then up to present times, numerous archaeological activities took place at this promising town, where new shapes and types of tumuli char-acterised by circle-shaped wall ran around some of the scattered burials.

These discoveries during excavations convinced some archaeologists that these unique burials mounds might contain the remains of royal families or social elites.

After regular excavations at some of the large burials by Mackay in 1925, he described the results of his excava-tions as following: “In A’ali town Giant Mounds are located around where a person sees mounds higher than the palm trees. The burial chamber in A’ali cemeteries consist of two rooms, one directly on top of the other. These buri-als built of dried adobe, plastered on the inside and clad with limestone. The walls of the lower room were perpen-dicular, while those of the upper room were somewhat inclined near the ceil-ing. The size of the burial would range from small to large. One specific grave was 40 long, 6 feet wide, and 18 feet high. The burial ground surrounded on the outside by a wall of large rocks located several yards from the base

of mound. Archaeologists worked here before believe that these burials mounds were built between 2300-2000 B.C.”

In the year 1977, the writer joined a British Museum team working in Bahrain. While the team was working at Diraz area, an ancient temple, attributed to Dilmun era, was found. The writer concentrated his excavations on two adjacent burials (A and B) located in A’ali town. Both buri-als seemed to contain two semi-subter-ranean chambers and their entrances were on the southern side.

Fortunately, the latter burial (B), was less disturbed than the first

burial, apart from ran-dom pits dug in the eastern direction. As excavation continued inside the two chambers grave goods consisting of two small pottery bowls, a bronze bowl and a very fine Dilmun seal (ca.3rd-2nd) millennium BC were unearthed.

The composition of the seal reveal two bull-men with horned bear, dresses holding a standard on which rests a crescent moon beneath a raid disc standing on either side of a cross-hatched square. In the spaces however, there are filling motives con-sisting of two flags (banners) a jar and a bird.

In additions to this and that in burial B chambers, some 16 human skull and 38 femurs were found. Those remains were good pointers that at least 20 individuals were buried in those two chambers.

With them 16 stone and glass beads, one gold earring, fragments of 8 bronze bowls, 7 bronze bracelets and pottery sherds were unearthed. They all dated back between 800-500 BC, whereas the upper layer of the area of the two buri-als attributed to the Eleventh Century AD.

At the end of the season, all the found antiquities and the related regular written reports were hand over to the Bahrain Department of Antiquities.

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HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS

Taylor Swift prefers female pals,

Singer Taylor Swift, who is seen with girlfriends nowadays, says finding a

boyfriend “isn’t really possible” at the moment.

Swift has surrounded herself by a number of high-profile girlfriends, including singers Lorde and Selena Gomez and actress Lena Dunham. She says she would rather focus on female friendship than romance, reports fema-lefirst.co.uk.

“Without a doubt. Because the other alternative isn’t really possible right now,” she said.

“It just doesn’t seem like a possibility in the near future. It doesn’t ever work. What works is having incredible girlfriends who I can trust and tell everything.”

Swift has dated fellow singers like Harry Styles and John Mayer in the past.

Clooney’s ex ‘happy’ for him, Alamuddin

Actor George Clooney’s ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis is pleased he has

found happiness with Amal Alamuddin.The 35-year-old dated the Hollywood

star for 18 months until their split in 2011, and she is “happy” for her ex-boyfriend, who is getting married to Alamuddin, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“I am happy for him, but I am thinking only of my happiness,” she said.

The Italian actress is set to tie the knot with Brian Perri in September — the same month Clooney is getting hitched. But she says it’s just a coincidence.

“I chose the date some time ago and September is the most beautiful time — for those who do not know Sardinia (an island) — to appreciate it. Otherwise, I

would have had to wait a year,” she said.

Jackie Chan scared of needles

Chinese Kungfu star Jackie Chan is so terrified of needles that he can’t

stand the sight of them.Best known for his action and martial

arts roles on the big screen, he said that the “the sight of” a syringe is enough to make him pass out, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“Needles will always make me feel faint. Just the sight of one. If I break my finger, I just put it back in and keep filming,” he said.

“For ‘Rumble in the Bronx’ I broke my ankle in the morning and was film-

ing again by the afternoon... I can fight two people at once. But if three or four people attack me, I’ll just run away,” he added.

Katiyabaaz: A documentary maker challenges mainstream spaceBy Natalia Ningthoujam

The release of an 80-minute docu-mentary on Kanpur’s electricity

hassles against a big banner Bollywood film didn’t seem an alien concept to the makers of Katiyabaaz, who were confi-dent of “challenging the mainstream”.

Director duo Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar struggled their way for nearly three years to get a commercial release for Katiyabaaz across almost 50 screens in the country. They now hope the film spreads its light far and wide.

“We are sort of challenging the main-stream. We are trying to compete with the Bollywood space,” Mustafa said.

The co-directors were never wor-ried — not even when a film festival organiser once told them not to call Katiyabaaz a documentary because they are those films that are played before the “real film” begins.

“That’s the kind of mentality that has existed and somewhere our inten-tion was to break that. We didn’t want to go in to formulate Bollywood direction. Someone once told us this is a new genre. This is Bollywood documentary. Fahad and I were wary of accepting that tag,” said Kakkar.

Made at a budget of over `10m, the documentary has an entertainment factor too — courtesy music by Black Friday fame Indian Ocean band.

“We wanted the audience to be slightly entertained and carry some-thing home. We wanted a band that would capture the flavour of the place (Kanpur),” said Kakkar.

With a presenter as strong as production banner Phantom Films, co-owned by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and Vikas Bahl, and funding from international sources, Katiyabaaz had a limited release in cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kanpur and Lucknow on Friday.

It clashed with a movie as big as Yash Raj Films’ Rani Mukerji-starrer Mardaani. But the duo is set in their mission to get more eyeballs for their work via word-of-mouth, and eventually, more screenings even beyond India.

“We would love to get it released in Pakistan. We will go to Bangladesh and hopefully other South Asian countries. It has travelled to the Lahore and Sindh film festivals. We made small outings there and the response was phenomenal. In Karachi, people said, ‘This is not Kanpur. This is Karachi.’”

It’s this similarity and universality that they hope to cash in on.“The things are so familiar to everyone in the northern belt. Electricity

goes off everywhere and after all it is a human story. You could supplant Kanpur with Ghaziabad or Lahore or Meerut — there will be the same story, and that works,” said Kakkar.

The film, which won the coveted National Award for Best Investigative Film, has already been telecast in European countries and shown in thea-tres in countries like Italy and Britain. It will be on the TV in the US in November.

Bringing the film so far was not easy for the duo, who studied together in the capital’s St Stephen’s College. It took them two years to make it and eight more months to bring it to audiences. Funds were a major hurdle.

“We had no funds from India which was sad. We had reached out to a couple of people and they are still averse to take that risk in terms of getting returns on their investment. We were lucky to get funds from across the world. We got support from places like Busan and Amsterdam,” said Kakkar.

“With a documentary, the kind of investment you have to make is a blind chance you take. You don’t know if you’ll take two or three or four years to tell the story. You have to support your crew on ground and most importantly distribution is such a complex beast that you don’t know how to recover all that investment,” she added.

But having tasted success in bringing their project to shape, they believe times are changing.

“Independent cinema is finding place in theatres and we are a part of that change,” said Mustafa. IANS

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By Mary Milliken and Eric Kelsey

For all the talk about new-comers raising the game of television, the industry on Monday chose to bestow

its top Emmys on the long-running shows Breaking Bad and Modern Family and long-time television actors who held off challenges from film stars.

Breaking Bad, AMC’s unlikely tale of a teacher-turned-drug kingpin Walter White, won the night’s biggest honour, the Emmy for best drama series, for the second year in a row while lead Bryan Cranston took best drama actor for the fourth time in that role.

It was a nostalgic vote of sorts for the series after it ended on the fifth season with widespread acclaim and devoted binge-watching fans. It held off the ballyhooed HBO anthology, True Detective, the bayou thriller starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey and fellow film star Woody Harrelson, who Cranston beat.

“Thank you so much for this won-derful farewell to our show,” said Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, who also celebrated Emmy wins in best supporting actor and actress categories for Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn.

“This is indeed a wonderful time to be working in television,” Gilligan added. “I think you all know that.”

Modern Family, ABC’s light-hearted

take on contemporary family dynam-ics, won its fifth consecutive Emmy for best comedy series, leaving Netflix Inc’s dark jailhouse comedy Orange Is the New Black as one of the big losers of the night.

The 66th annual Primetime Emmys took a somber turn toward the end to remember Robin Williams, the versa-tile actor and comedian who died two weeks ago in an apparent suicide at the age of 63.

With a lump in his throat and a tremble in his voice, actor Billy Crystal remembered the madcap performer as “the brightest star in a comedy galaxy” and concluded: “Robin Williams - what a concept.”

Broadcasters Defy PredictionsThere were plenty of laughs in tele-

vision’s biggest night, from Julia Louis-Dreyfus passionately locking lips with Seinfeld guest star Cranston to Melissa McCarthy asking if her car would be towed.

When asked about the prolonged smooch later, Cranston quipped: “I think it’s not a question of ‘why?,’ more a question of ‘why not?’”

First-time Emmys host, comedian Seth Meyers, took early pokes at the stalwart broadcasters facing edgy com-petition from Netflix, the first outlet to win acclaim for original content streamed online with political thriller House of Cards.

But this year’s Emmys, handed out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, signalled that there was still plenty of love for the likes of ABC and CBS, particularly in the realm of comedy.

ABC’s Modern Family made history by tying 1990s NBC sitcom Frasier for the most comedy victories.

“Modern Family has been a big, beau-tiful dream for the last five years and we thank you for not waking us up,” said series co-creator Steven Levitan.

Although the big broadcasters did not have a horse in the race for best drama, Julianna Margulies won best drama actress for her role as lawyer Alicia Florrick in CBS’s The Good Wife.

“I feel like this is the golden age of television, but it’s also the time for women in television,” said Margulies. “I feel very grateful to be here.”

Mirroring HollywoodJim Parsons won his fourth lead

acting Emmy for playing the pedantic nerd Sheldon in the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, and Louis-Dreyfus won her third consecutive Emmy for her role as the foul-mouthed, gaffe-prone US Vice President Selina Meyer on HBO’s political satire Veep.

“I love the idea of being powerful and powerless at the same time, it mirrors Hollywood in some ways,” said Louis-Dreyfus of her Selina character.

In other comedy awards, come-dian Louis C K won his second writ-ing award for his FX show Louie, and Stephen Colbert’s Comedy Central fake news show The Colbert Report won the Emmy for best variety program for the second consecutive year.

The miniseries Fargo, based on the cult film from the Coen brothers, gave FX Networks its first Emmy for a pro-gram, but actors from the critically acclaimed miniseries lost out on awards despite being heavy favourites, espe-cially lead actor Billy Bob Thornton.

HBO’s The Normal Heart earned best TV movie honours for its depiction of the early fight against Aids.

The premium cable outlet HBO, owned by Time Warner Inc, scored more Emmys than any other network with 19 wins out of its 99 nominations. But it failed to win big in top-line cat-egories and its fan favourite, the medi-eval fantasy Game of Thrones, lost out again in the drama race.

One of the big surprises of the night was Sherlock: His Last Vow, which won a total of seven Emmys for the US public broadcaster PBS, more than any other show.

For the first time in some 40 years, the Emmys were moved up from their usual Sunday night spot in September so as not to conflict with NBC’s rat-ings-powerhouse Sunday Night Football and MTV’s Video Music Awards.

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Mariupol: Government forcesousted rebels from major portin June after weeks of fighting

Aug 25, Markyne: Ukraine militarysays it halted column of 10 tanksand two armoured infantry vehiclesthat crossed from Russia

Russia plans to send second aidconvoy to rebel-held areas

Dzerkalne: 10 Russianparatroopers seized

Sources: National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, wire agencies

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Pomegranate peel may cure deadly brain disorders

Do not throw that pomegranate peel in the garbage bin. In the near future, it may be a

source of drugs for two incurable diseases that affect the elderly.

Two years of research by a Nigerian scien-tist has shown that sufferers of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease could be helped by punica-lagin, a compound extracted from pomegranates.

Olumayokun Olajide from the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire showed how punicalagin could inhibit inflammation in spe-cialised brain cells known as micrologia.

He also found the painful inflammation that accompanies illnesses such as rheuma-toid arthritis and Parkinson’s disease could be reduced using the same drug.

“We do know that regular consumption of pomegranate has a lot of health benefits, includ-ing prevention of neuro-inflammation related to dementia,” Olajide added.

He recommended juice products that have real pomegranate that will have nearly 3.4 per-cent of the wonder compound punicalagin.

“Most of the anti-oxidant compounds are found in the outer skin of the pomegranate and not in the soft part of the fruit,” Olajide added.

Alzheimer’s has no cure and sufferers get pro-gressively worse but the new compound could prevent it or slow down its development, he said.

The research was published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research.

Eye changes can predict dementia

A loss of cells in the retina is one of the ear-liest signs of a form of dementia in people

with a genetic risk for the brain disorder — even before any changes appear in their behaviour, says a study.

The US Researchers discovered that before any cognitive signs of dementia were present, these individuals showed a significant thinning of the retina compared with people who did not have the gene mutation.

“The finding suggests that the retina acts as a type of ‘window to the brain’,” said Li Gan from San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical research organisation.

Retinal degeneration was detectable in muta-tion carriers prior to the onset of cognitive symptoms, establishing retinal thinning as one of the earliest observable signs of familial fron-totemporal dementia (FTD).

“This means that retinal thinning could be an easily measured outcome for clinical trials,” Gan added.

To reach this conclusion, Gan and Ari Green, an associate professor of neurology at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) studied a group of individuals who had a certain genetic mutation that is known to result in FTD.

Although it is located in the eye, the retina is made up of neurons with direct connections to the brain. “The retina may be used as a model to study the development of FTD in neurons,” said lead author Michael Ward, a postdoctoral fellow at the Gladstone Institutes and assistant professor of neurology at UCSF.

The study appeared in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Agencies

By Kathryn Doyle

Overweight patients with risk factors for heart disease should be sent by their doc-tors for “intensive behavioral counseling” about diet or exercise, according to new

recommendations from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

That includes overweight people with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, ‘metabolic syndrome’ or blood sugar levels higher then normal and on the cusp of type 2 diabetes.

A literature review commissioned for the govern-ment-backed USPSTF, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that intensive behavioural counselling can help lower these patients’ risk for heart problems.

“My message for patients would be that we have the ability by changing our behaviour to modify our risk for heart disease and stroke and your doctors can help you do that,” Dr Michael L LeFevre, the chair of the Task Force, said.

LeFevre is also vice chair in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia.

The recommendations are targeted to health care providers more than to patients, LeFevre said.

To patients, he says, “The most important thing that we can do right now is have you lose some weight, be more active but just offering that advice and giving you a pamphlet, we don’t really find any evidence that that’s helpful.”

Instead, the Task Force review found, intensive behavioural counselling — involving multiple ses-sions with experts in nutrition and exercise over an extended period, for several months to a year - can help people lose weight and bring down their blood pressure and cholesterol.

The researchers reviewed 74 studies of various lifestyle interventions and found that with intensive counseling, many health markers were improved one and two years later, and the risk of diabetes decreased.

“This crystallizes 25 years of research and a huge number of studies but I don’t think this is new or earth shattering information,” said Dr Jennifer S Lin of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland Oregon.

Lin was the lead author of the literature review.There is a great deal of data on people with heart

attack and stroke risk factors and most of those studies focused on a combination of diet and exercise counseling, so those kinds of programmes have the most evidence behind them at this point, she said.

“On average we’re talking about a few milligrams of cholesterol per deciliter of blood or a couple of

millimeters of Mercury decrease in blood pressure,” Lin said.

“We’re calling that a modest benefit applied to a population but even these modest benefits translate into health outcomes that patients can actually feel,” she said.

Patients can’t necessarily feel when their blood pressure goes down, but they can feel if they do or do not have a heart attack, she said.

The best counselling interventions are not only frequent but conducted by trained dietitians, nutri-tionists, health educators and physiologists, she said.

“They’re more than just didactic, more than class-room based interventions, they’re individualized,” she said.

One-on-one counselling gives experts time to assess the barriers to healthy diet and exercise for each person and help them overcome them, LeFevre said.

“We need to see people repeatedly, to work with them and reinforce what’s going on,” LeFevre said.

The USPSTF issued the same recommendation for the first time in 2012, but only for obese patients without heart disease risk factors.

While family physicians could provide these coun-seling services themselves, most of the programs studied involved referrals to experts in the same office or elsewhere in the community, he said.

“To be perfectly honest, a rate limiting step for implementation of this guideline is that there are a lot of doctors out there but (they) don’t really have the time or skills to do this themselves, or the resources,” LeFevre said.

Even sending patients to other experts means find-ing those people and coordinating care with nutrition and exercise programs and checking in periodically to see how things are going, he said.

Right now, larger health organizations like Kaiser Permanente in California or Group Health in Washington are most likely to be able to do this, he said. For doctors outside large health systems, it is much easier to order a blood test or write a prescription than coordinate long-term behavioral counseling, he said.

“It’s problematic that this kind of care is gener-ally not paid for by the US health system,” Lin said. “Those resources should be made more available.”

There are commercial diet and exercise programs which are legitimate and good at what they do but the patient needs to pay out of pocket, she said.

“Many primary care physicians and many patients would not have access to these types of interven-tions,” she said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1i46lF7 Annals of Internal Medicine, August 25, 2014.

Reuters

New recommendations New recommendations for overweight people for overweight people with heart riskswith heart risks


TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST 201412

By John Naughton

‘Be careful what you wish for,” runs the adage. “You might just get it.” In the case of the internet, or, at

any rate, the world wide web, this is exactly what happened. We wanted exciting services — email, blogging, social networking, image hosting – that were “free”. And we got them. What we also got, but hadn’t bar-gained for, was deep, intensive and persistent surveillance of everything we do online.

We ought to have known that it would happen. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, after all. Online services cost a bomb to provide: code has to be written (by programmers who have to be paid); servers have to be bought or rented, powered, housed, cooled and maintained; bandwidth has to be paid for; and so on. So there were basically only two business models that could have supported our desires.

One model involved us paying for stuff. But we (or most of us, anyway) proved deeply resistant to this idea. We had the fantasy that everything online should be free, after we’d paid an ISP for a connection to the net. So paying for stuff was a non-starter.

The companies that provided the “free” services therefore had to find another business model. And in the end they found one: it was called advertis-ing or, rather, putting advertisers in touch with the users of “free” services. And it turned out that the only way to do this involved intensive surveillance of everything those users did online.

Which brings us to where we are today, a world in which, as the secu-rity guru Bruce Schneier puts it: “The business model of the internet is sur-veillance. We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services. Corporations call it marketing.”

When you put it like that, it sounds as though our emerging dystopia is the product of some sinister plot. But it isn’t. It happened through the slow aggregation of lots of short-term decisions. There are no smoking guns in this story – and precious few evil geniuses.

In fact, if there are geniuses in the story, they were often naive. Not as naive perhaps as those of us who thought that free services were really free, but naive nonetheless. One of the nicest and most thoughtful of them is a guy named Ethan Zuckerman, who now heads the Centre for Civic Media at MIT. Just over a week ago,

he published an extraordinary article in the Atlantic describing the unwitting role he had played in committing what he calls “the internet’s original sin”.

From 1994 to 1999, Zuckerman worked for Tripod.com, helping to plan, design and implement a web-site that sold content and services to recent college graduates. When that business failed to catch on (it wasn’t “free”, remember), Tripod.com became a web-hosting provider and then an early type of social network.

“Over the course of five years,” Zuckerman writes, “we tried dozens of revenue models, printing out shiny new business plans to sell each one. We’d run as a subscription service! Take a share of revenue when our users bought mutual funds after reading our investment advice! Get paid to bun-dle a magazine with textbook publish-ers! Sell T-shirts and other branded merch!”

In the end, Tripod did find a route to financial viability. “The model that got us acquired,” Zuckerman explains, “was analysing users’ personal homepages so we could better target ads to them. Along the way, we ended up creat-ing one of the most hated tools in the advertiser’s toolkit: the pop-up ad. It was a way to associate an ad with a

user’s page without putting it directly on the page, which advertisers worried would imply an association between their brand and the page’s content. Specifically, we came up with it when a major car company freaked out that they’d bought a banner ad on a page that celebrated adult activities. I wrote the code to launch the window and run an ad in it. I’m sorry. Our intentions were good.”

I believe him. Zuckerman is a pat-ently good person and he now does great work in the public sphere. But what he inadvertently kicked off was an arms race in which internet com-panies, realising that the most valu-able ads are always those that are most likely to motivate the target to pur-chase something (which is why Google makes so much money), seek to learn more and more about each user in order to perfect the advertiser’s aim. The result is the dystopia that is the modern web.

It didn’t have to be like this, of course. But for the path of online his-tory to have been different, we – the users – would have to have been willing to pay for the privilege. You could say, therefore, that we have got the web that we deserve.

The Guardian

Paying the price of a free web

By Alex Hern

Vine, Twitter’s video-sharing service, will start allowing users to upload video clips created elsewhere, alongside a series of changes to

the app designed to make it easier to shoot the six-second videos the service shares.

While a number of unsupported tricks have let users upload videos created elsewhere to Vine, this is the first time the app has officially supported the feature.

“Every day, millions of people open Vine to share memories in the moment,” the company says in a blogpost. “Today, Vine has unlocked a new camera that gives you the freedom to create a Vine in any way you want.”

The changes will help Vine build out its member-ship by letting new users skip a stage which has sometimes been a stumbling block: signing up when they have nothing to film.

While many first-time users may not be in the position to film something right away, they are likely to have at least one video on their phone which they

do feel they can share. With the ability to upload that video to the service, they become an active user that much quicker, hopefully avoiding the longstand-ing difficulty parent firm Twitter has in encouraging new members to become active users.

That the new feature will also increase the gen-eral quality of the videos is another bonus for Vine, even if it does come with the risk of damaging the idiosyncratic visual language that has built up around the service.

Following in the footsteps of its parent com-pany, Vine is also attempting to change the nar-rative around how to measure its success. The company hasn’t released user numbers for a year,

since it confirmed it had 40 million registered users in August 2013, but in this latest update, it gives another figure: “Every month more than 100 million people watch Vines across the web and there are more than 1 billion loops every day.”

The focus on viewers, who may not be actively posting or even signed-up for the site, mirrors that of Twitter, which is also expected to reveal a new set of metrics for how to measure its own success.

As well as the ability to upload videos, Vine has introduced a few new tools to the built-in camera: users can now access a spirit level and flashlight while filming, and the focus-lock option will work within the app

“New camera tools offer more powerful ways to edit your videos, and you can now import existing videos from your phone and turn them into Vines. With this release, you have more control over what goes into your Vines and more freedom to manipu-late your content – right within the app,” it says.

The new iOS version of Vine is out and an Android update will follow.

The Guardian

Advertising has become the online business model but by its very nature it involves corporations spying on users to produce more targeted results.

Vine allows users to upload videos made

with other apps

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaAugust 27, 1859

1914: British naval forces lured German ships into a trap at Heligoland Bight during World War One1939: The world’s first jet-propelled aeroplane, the Heinkel 178, made its first flight in northern Germany1964: The musical film Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews, was released. It went on to win five Oscars1979: Lord Mountbatten, a relative of the British royal family, was killed by an IRA bomb on board his boat

The world’s first commercially productive oil well was drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania, sparking the rise of America’s multibillion-dollar oil industry

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ACCELERATION, BRISK, CHARGE, DART, DASH, FAST,FESTINATE, FLEET, FLIT, FLYING, HASTEN, HIGH VELOCITY,HOTFOOT, HURRY, HURTLE, LOCOMOTION, MOVE, PACE,QUICK, RACE, RAPID, RATE, RUNNING, RUSH, SCOOT, SPEED,SWIFT, THRUST, TRAVEL, WHIZZ, ZOOM.

LEARN ARABIC

Baby Blue by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

Parents and Relatives

Father Ab

Mother Omm

Son Ibn

Daughter Ibna

Boy �abiyy

Girl Bint

Grandfather �add

Grandmother �adda

Note: ç = ‘a’ as in ‘agh’ when surprised


HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Become inedible

6 Pull together

11 Big mouth

14 Start to type?

15 Nile Valley region

16 Org. with a noted journal

17 Classic Fender guitar, for short

18 Start of a quote about creativity by 58-Across/

39-Down

20 Did some woolgathering

22 Body of 100

23 Quote, part 2

26 One on “Judge Judy”

27 Home of the Brave?: Abbr.

28 Cyberaddress: Abbr.

29 In the manner of a milquetoast

32 Bagel and lox purveyor

34 Mark down, perhaps

35 Quote, part 3

41 Quench

42 Level

44 Bygone Japanese camera brand

47 Shipping letters

50 Biomedical research org.

51 “Agreed!”

52 Quote, part 4

55 High-ranking noncom: Abbr.

58 With 39-Down, speaker of this puzzle’s quote

59 End of the quote

61 Boos

64 “Bambi” deer

65 “Not ___ know of”

66 OH– or Cl–, chemically

67 Susan of “L.A. Law”

68 Shenanigan

69 Cross-dressing role for Streisand

DOWN 1 Many 16-Across

members

2 Food scrap

3 Red light locale

4 Asteroids game maker

5 End of an academic 28-Across

6 Kid’s cracker shape

7 G.I.’s civvies

8 Org. for D.A.’s

9 Serves on a panel

10 Opposite of out

11 Pillage

12 Dutch brew

13 Weak, as a brew

19 Deep perception

21 Gaseous prefix

23 Smidgen

24 Coordinate in the game Battleship

25 Suffix with hip or hoop

30 “___ be an honor”

31 Doorstep item

33 “Got it covered!”

34 Wish undone

36 “___ done!”

37 Be up

38 Trick-taking game

39 See 58-Across

40 Deutsch denial

43 Plato’s P

44 Like the potatoes in shepherd’s pie

45 “See ya!”

46 What’s taken home

47 Larry Bird, during his playing days

48 Object in the right hand of the king of clubs

49 Wedding hiree

53 Port-au-Prince’s land

54 Pax’s Greek counterpart

56 Aqua Velva competitor

57 Lav

60 Turncoat

62 Become inedible

63 NBC show since ’75

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14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31

32 33 34

35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43

44 45 46 47 48 49 50

51 52 53 54

55 56 57 58

59 60 61 62 63

64 65 66

67 68 69

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C A N O F C E O SM O D E S T M O U S E D R EI R A N S E R P E N T I N EM A N D M H A V EI N C M U C K E T Y M U C KC G I E M P I R E P R A YS E N S P A R E D T I L L

How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

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

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.


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Hercules (3D/Action) – 8.30pm

Anjaan (2D/Tamil) – 10.30pm

2

Guardians Of The Galaxy (3D/Action) – 2.00 & 4.15pm

Mardaani (2D/Hindi) – 6.30pm

Manglish (2D/Malayalam) – 8.30pm

The Expendables 3 (2D/Action) – 11.15pm

3



(2D/Adventure) – 4.45pm

Begin Again (2D/Comedy) – 6.45pm

El Feel El Azraq (2D/Arabic) – 8.45pm


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2





3







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2

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Lucy (2D/Action) – 9.45pm



3

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Mardaani (2D/Hindi) – 4.15 & 11.15pm



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

• Many visitors to Al Wakra health centre have complained about receptionists at the centre wasting time talking to each other even as a large number of people wait there to make enquiries.

• Some people have suggested fixing a date of expiry for the health card instead of the cardholders being informed by text messages, which people may forget or get confused about if they have many family members whose cards have to be renewed.

• There is talk about manpower recruiting agencies stopping recruitment of housemaids from some African countries because of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.

• People have demanded that the authorities create lanes for pedestrians and cyclists on main roads to encourage walking and the use of bicycles.

• A number of Qatari women have demanded that the health authorities license women practising cupping therapy and monitor them because it is a popular traditional treatment here, especially among women.

• Some people have demanded that the authorities strictly monitor car rental firms and set up a hotline for complaints against them as many of them are not respecting rules and keeping customers’ passports with them. The customers may not get back their passports immediately if they need them.

• There is talk about the opening of F-Ring Road in mid-September.

• There are complaints about the plastic barriers put up on roads during maintenance or construction work. People say the barriers move and sometimes partly block lanes, confusing drivers and causing accidents.

No selfies-on-wheels, warns UAE police

The selfie craze while driving on high-speed highways in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

has led the police to launch a new safe-driving campaign in Sharjah, media reported.

Describing the latest trend of clicking self-portraits while behind the wheel as “sheer madness”, Abdul Rahman Khatr, director of communications at Sharjah Police Traffic Department, said statistics showed most major accidents were due to using mobile phones while driving, Gulf News reported Sunday.

“The number one activity that should be occurring while you are behind the wheel is driving. Put the camera down and wait until you arrive at a safe desti-nation. Do not let that driving selfie or video be the last photo you ever take,” the report quoted Khatr as saying.

According to Khatr, a selfie taken with a hand-held camera have topped the traffic offences in the Emirate.

“Selfie photos have gotten a lot of attention lately,” he noted.

Under the new campaign, titled “Focus on the Road While Driving”, Sharjah Police has launched a crack-down on drivers who use their mobile phones while driving.

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Events in Qatar

United Nations of Comedy TourWhen: August 30; 7.30pmWhere: Qatar National Convention Center What: Vote to laugh at the 2nd Annual United Nations of Comedy (UNOC) at QNCC, Doha. The region’s funniest comedy tour brings you Elections 2014. That’s right. It’s The Republicants vs. The Dumbocrats, featuring Nemr Abou Nassar, Amir K, Sammy Obaid, Mo Amer, Ali Al Sayed, Khaled Khalafalla and Aron Kader. Tickets: QR 95-1000

The Belgian Saxophone Ensemble When: August 29; 8pm-10pm Where: Katara Opera House – Building 16 What: The Cultural Village Foundation in cooperation with the Embassy of Belgium in Qatar is presenting the Hommage à Sax by the The Belgian Saxophone Ensemble. Six mouthpieces, 60 fingers, 152 keys – but just one aim: to play their hearts out! The musicians in the Belgian Saxophone Ensemble have full mastery of all aspects of their instruments, and demonstrate their skill with acrobatic ease.Free entry

Family Fun When: Till September 27; 3pm-11pmWeekends 4pm-12pm Where: Doha Exhibition CenterWhat: Plenty of family entertainment is available at the Family Entertainment City staged in the Doha Exhibition Center, which includes activities such as ski slopes, rock climbing and a variety of alternate entertainment options, a food court, and live Arabic pre-school Baraem shows for the little ones. No fee at the entrance, only for some rides.Free entry

Building Our Collection: An Insight Into Museum Art Collecting When: Till August 30Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: The exhibition looks at why MIA collects Islamic art, and how the museum’s collecting practices shape our understanding of Islamic art through artistic and cultural connections between different regions of the Islamic world. The majority of featured objects have never before been on display.Free entry

Splash & Dash When: Till August 31Where: Aspire Zone What: Aspire will make two of its best facilities available for the community from July 2 until August 31, every Sunday and Wednesday from 7:30pm until 11pm. Aspire Dome Swimming Pool and the Indoor Athletics Track will host swimming and running open sessions. The online registration is open until August 31.Tickets required (more info at www.aspirezone.qa)

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