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Bulent Uygun is the first Turkish coach to

train a Qatari football team. Former player of

Turkey’s leading club Fenerbahce and coach

of Sivasspor, Uygun completes his one and

half years with Umm Salal and shares his

experience in Qatar and future plans.

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FOOTBALL

BY FEYZA GUMUSLUOGLU

Bulent Uygun is the first Turkish coach who has been training an Arab football team. Former player of Turkey’s leading Fenerbahce and coach of Sivasspor, Uygun has been considered among the best in football field. As he completes his one-and-half year with Qatari team Umm Salal, Uygun shared his experience in Qatar and future plans to Doha Today.

How would you define your experience in Qatar so far?

Qatar is a great place to live in. Turkey and Qatar are very similar to each other in terms of culture. Turks and Qataris have a lot in common. We had a long history going all the way back to Ottoman period. The two are important actors in regional and international arena. I am extremely delighted and honored to be of service here in this country. It is a place full of dreams.

What is your dream?My dream is to win the three cups (League, QNB and

Emir Cup) and finally become Asian champion. In order to reach these goals I work very hard. Every coach has his own style of coaching. I also have my own style and am trying to develop it by adopting new trends and develop-ments in the world soccer. I try to create a style that will consist of players who are skilful as Brazilians, disciplined as Germans, fun as Americans, serious as British and warrior as Turks.

Both in Turkey and Qatar, you have trained teams in trouble. Isn’t it challenging?

To be honest, I enjoy more working with troubled teams, rather than successful ones. Troubled teams give me a greater experience and I feel that I learn and improve myself more. Also, removing the negative energy on the team and achieving the unimagined is a great joy. Both in Turkey and Qatar, the teams were not doing very good when I took them over. But after a short period of time, we started to see good results.

If I ask you to count your ideal 11 in Qatar?Lecomte, Muhammed Musa, Luiz, Chico, Nam Tee and

Weiss from Lekhwiya, Abdulkarim, Al Haidos and Khalfan from Al Sadd, Pedro from Al Ahli , Muntari from Al Jaish.

You brought Turkish player Tuncay Sanli to Umm Salal. Any other transfer plan from Turkey?

We are considering few names right now. Probably we will make another transfer from Turkey for the next season. Gokhan Tore, Mehmet Ekici, Emenike, Sneijder, Burak Yilmaz and Mehmet Topal are the top names that I would like to see here in Qatar.

World Cup will be held in winter instead of summer. It caused a big controversy. Do you support the decision?

It is a very wise and right decision. For the first time ever, footballers will play without feeling tired or having end-of-season syndrome. They will play at their best performance and of course it will increase the quality of the games we will watch. Winter is the best time of the year in Qatar. With the best stadiums in the world, it will definitely be an excellent experience.

Bringing Qatar and Turkey closer through football

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Can a coach really change a team’s destiny?

The team and its coach are one. You can not think one without another. Of course a good coach can make a big difference. But we should also consider that in teams such as Barcelona, Real Madrid or Chelsea, with such players you will be champion whoever you bring as a coach. Winning the cup does not always make you the best coach. The same coach may not be that success-ful in an average team. Rijkaard, for instance, in Galatasaray, he did not show the same success as he showed in Barcelona and right now no one is talking about him.

Which qualification of you impressed your club Umm Salal?

My achievements at a young age in Turkey impressed them. When I met our President, Sheikh Faisal for the first time, he believed in me. I watched Umm Salal when I came to Qatar. After watch-ing, I told him that we would complete the league as fifth. He said it would be enough for the beginning if they avoid being relegated. Indeed, we would have completed the league as fifth if we won the last match.

How is Umm Salal before and after you?

It has been one and half year since I came. I took over Umm Salal in a posi-tion of 12 weeks without any single win. At first it was very difficult, as there was a great negative energy on the team. Despite two world famous coaches in a row yet no win, it was very challenging for me to change its destiny. But thank God we have done a good job. A lot has changed positively in only one and half year. We are no longer seen as a team that can be defeated easily. Our rivals take us more seriously now.

Qatar and Turkey have devel-oped a very strong relationship in the past few years. Can you see its reflection on sports field?

Both countries have excellent rela-tionship and this gives me a chance to act as a sports ambassador here in Qatar. In near future, we will witness a greater cooperation, not only in football but other fields as well, with the com-ing of more trainers and players. After Qatari and Turkish national teams play a friendly match, it will even increase.

What are the similarities and differences between Qatar and Turkey in terms of football style?

Turkey has a well established and developed football system. In Qatar, with the presence of Aspire academy, youth is being prepared in an excellent way. In Turkey, unfortunately young tal-ents are playing street football. With the vision and resources, Qatar has a great

sports culture, not only football. Young talents in Turkey are not as lucky as the ones here in Qatar. The government has a great vision, from education to sports. And it is a real chance for the youth here because they have a great support from the government.

Qatar is very active in football, as it owned Paris Saint Germain. Why is football that important for Qatar?

Qataris are key players in world economy. Being the owner of worldwide sports clubs is one of the best things that only Qatar can do! Football is one of the most popular sports in the world and being involved in this field makes you a key world player.

Football stadiums are usually empty here. How do you see football culture in Qatar?

There is a wide variety of sports activities here in Qatar. You do not have football games only, you have almost every thing from handball to fencing. Therefore the spectators are divided. Football stadiums are not full, but this does not mean that people do not watch football games. Also, Qatari people prefer bringing the stadium envi-ronment in their own ‘majles’. They like to watch the games in their comfortable places, having shisha with their friends.

Do you want to continue in Umm Salal or there is another team in your heart?

Each and every coach have a dream to train a national team. Of course per-sonally I have this dream, too. I would like to train Qatar national team one day.

Barcelona or Real Madrid?Barcelona!

Al Sadd recently signed a transfer agreement with famous Xavi. How do you see this transfer?

I congratulate the managers of Al Sadd for brining one of the best mid-fielders in the world. They did not only make a great contribution to their team, but also to Qatar. It is a great and exclusive transfer, maybe the best

one it could happen

among all the possibilities. For sure the new season will be much more com-petitive and delightful. In Umm Salal, we are like brothers with my President Sheikh Faisal. But, our budget is not as high as Al Sadd, Lekhwiya, Al Gharafa or Al Arabi. We try to make the best use of our current players. In terms of transfer, we are in contact with three international players right now, as well as Qataris. Our goal as Umm Salal is to win at least one cup next season.

Many famous coaches, includ-ing Zico, came to Qatar but they failed. Why?

Your real purpose of coming plays an essential role here. In general world famous coaches who are successful in their home countries face the same syndrome when they move to another country. If you come to Qatar only for economic concerns, then most likely you fail here. I did not come to Qatar to make money only. I came here to realize my goals and dreams. I am the first Turkish coach who came to this region. Despite our limited budget com-pared to other big clubs here, we have done a good job so far. Money is my last concern. My priority is to represent Turkey in the best possible way and to

Both countries have excellent relationship and this gives me a chance to act as a sports ambassador here in Qatar.

act like a sports ambassador here as the relations between Turkey and Qatar are excellent in all areas.

You said money is not your pri-ority, yet many people think that your salary here is much higher than in Turkey?

No, it is the same. People think that it is much higher but it is not. I was already among the best three coaches in Turkey, I was getting paid very well. Therefore there is no radical change in my salary.

Qatar has been harshly criti-cised in terms of the rights of workers who have been build-ing the future stadiums. What do you think about it?

Working in construction area is risky everywhere. Unfortunately some acci-dents occur, but it is not unique to Qatar. I think these kind of reports are not sincere, they are malevolent. The main purpose is not to take care of the workers but to attack Qatar for political reasons. Ignoring the killings of Muslims in Palestine or Syria, but paying attention only to the workers who have died in unfortunate accidents is Western hypocrisy.

The Peninsula

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CAMPUS

“Eat Healthy, Live Happy!” shouted the little buds of kinder-garten celebrating

‘Healthy Day’ at The Next Generation School (TNG).

Colourful charts and drawings related to healthy eating were made and displayed by the KG students.TNG Kindergarten students of Wukair and Nuaija campus actively participated in the fun filled activities, educating them about the importance of a good nutri-tion diet.

Teachers had organised educational activities for the students so that they can learn the benefits of complete nutri-tion and how a healthy lifestyle can be achieved by following the basic principle of a balanced diet.

Game session began with sorting the food items where students were formed into teams and they had to segregate healthy and junk food in the assigned boxes. Identifying food groups with the help of snakes and ladders game was quite an attraction for the students. Taste and Tell game was the favourite where different teams were blindfolded and asked to guess the name of the food they tasted. Painting and drawing activities were carried out in different classes.

“The purpose of this initiative is to improve lifestyle our students at the early stages. Eating right can improve

mental and intellectual wellbeing of the child and enable them to excel aca-demically,” said Principal Qudsia Asad.

Students also enjoyed “Feed the Man” activity where they were asked to select between healthy and junk food items and put the selected items in healthy or obese marked models. The activities were followed by students per-forming aerobics and exercise with their PE teacher.

“Easy availability of junk food has resulted in a significant rise in obesity especially among students and this is the main cause of poor performance in academics and sports. These activities

enable students to nurture their crea-tivity along with understanding the important aspect of eating right. We want the students to adopt the culture of having breakfast daily,” said Vice Principal Saeeda Agha. She added that frequent discussions with parents are held to encourage them to take special care of their children’s diet and provide them a healthy environment at home. These factors can contribute in preparing the children to progress and excel in the competitive world of today.

“These events are in line with the strategy of the TNG mission which is to encourage students to take active participation in extracurricular activi-ties to enhance their abilities,” said CEO Shagufta Bakali.

The Peninsula

TNG aims to go healthy

DPS-MIS holds Senior School Investiture CeremonyDPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) held its ‘Investiture Ceremony’ to induct the newly appointed senior wing Prefectorial Body of 2015-16 recently. The elected members were adorned with sashes and badges by the members of the DPS-MIS Executive Committee, Principal Asna Nafees and Vice Principal G Mala. Newly appointed Head Boy Amarnath Krishna and Head Girl Saumya Singh along with the other office bearers took charge of their duties and assured all of their commitment to serve the school and students. The Guest of Honour at the function was Sasidharan A P, Principal MES School. He was felicitated by DPS – MIS Management.

DMIS students stage street playThe CBSE-International wing at Doha Modern Indian School presented a street play named ‘Nukkad Natak’ as part of the theatre activities in the school. The students of Grade 9 and 10 showcased their talents and inter-est in social activism, staging the form of theatre that engages and con-fronts the audience directly. A play on ‘Conservation of Water’ was staged by the students of Grade 9. The students of Grade 10 presented glimpses of corruption that is deep rooted in the society, right from the school life to adulthood. Thought provoking questions and arguments on the evils of corruption were posed to the audience in the traditional street act.

05COMMUNITY


Zahira College Colombo Old Boys Association Qatar will hold its inaugural workshop of ‘Skills for the Future’ for professionals

on June 6, at Hotel Plaza Inn from 4pm onwards. This workshop is aimed at Sri Lankan professionals. Training pro-grammes have been in high demand in Qatar among many Sri Lankans to enhance their skills and knowledge.

“As part of our objective, Zahira College Colombo OBA Qatar is host-ing this event for about 150 Sri Lankan professionals employed in Qatar,” said the organisers.

This workshop will be conducted by well-known corporate trainer in Sri Lanka Munshif Hussain, founder and Chief Executive of Life Skills and Reyaz Jeffrey- Chief Executive officer, Amana Takaful Life- Sri Lanka. The presenters will speak on ‘Hi Tech vs Hi Touch (work

life balancing) and Your career; Making best out of it’

The event is sponsored by Amana Takaful Life- Sri Lanka, as the strategic partner and co sponsors are Sri Lankan Airlines, BPO+, General Takaful, Argon

Global, ME connectZahira College Colombo OBA Qatar is

a fellowship association operates under the patronage of Sri Lankan Embassy in Qatar.

The Peninsula

Ahlan Ramadan speech on June 6

The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Fanar will organise

Ahlan Ramadan speech by noted Islamic scholar Hussain Salafi (pic-tured) on the topic “Ahlan Ramadan” on June 6.

A h l a n R a m a d a n speech will be held at New Salatha in Abdu l Rahman Ibn Muhammad Assaman mosque near the Tariq bin Ziyad Independent School where special amenities for ladies and extensive parking is avail-able. The Peninsula

The organisers at the press conference.

Minibeast Ball held at Doha College Primary CampusYear 1 students at Doha College pri-mary campuses in Al Waab and West Bay completed their rainforest topic with a special Minibeast Ball recently. Students dressed as some of the crea-tures that they had studied, such as snakes, spiders, bees and ladybirds. The day-long celebration included a Minibeast parade, Minibeast Hunt, web weaving lessons and a Minibeast disco.

AMUAAQ, World Bihar Organisation honour Zafar Iqbal

AMU Alumni Association (AMUAAQ) Qatar hosted the reception in honor of Zafar Iqbal, renowned Indian Hockey

Player and Former Indian Hockey Captain, recently at the Radisson Blue Hotel.

Habibun Nabi, Chief Patron of AMUAAQ, welcomed the guests and dif-ferent association members.

A poetry session was held with promi-nent poets from Doha reciting their poems. Iqbal in his address lauded Qatar’s efforts to promote sports globally.

AMUAAQ Chairman M S Bukhari, Nabi and Munawar Haziq, Area Manager of Emirates- India, and Niaz Ahmed, President of KMCA, presented a memento

to Zafar Iqbal along with other dignitaries.Osama Shamsi presented the vote of thanks. The Peninsula

Zahira College Colombo Old Boys Association Qatar to hold workshop

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TECHNOLOGY

BY SAMUEL GIBBS

It is the smartwatch that broke crowdfunding records, with more than 78,000 people pledging over $20m in support of the Pebble

Time – a digital watch evolved to transplant the bings, bongs and vibra-tions of your phone from your pocket or bag to your wrist. This week those funders have begun to receive their smartwatches, as the Pebble Time entered an increasingly competitive and crowded field.

With smartphones at saturation point, and failing to dramatically improve, tab-lets only getting marginally thinner, and cameras, music players, portable gaming consoles and satnavs killed by smart-phones, wearables are currently the most innovative area of consumer technology. While fitness trackers led the way, 2015 is the year of the smartwatch.

Apple’s launch of its first smartwatch last month, expected to sell in the tens of millions, focussed public attention on the devices but the company isn’t alone in eyeing up the potentially lucrative market. Google’s Android Wear watches – made and sold by Motorola, LG, Sony, Asus and many others – dominate the Android side, while Samsung has launched not one but six smartwatches in the last 18 months.

Fewer than 3m smartwatches were sold in 2014, according to data from research firm CCS Insight, but 2015 is expected to see wearable technology sales boom to 75m with an estimated 36m smartwatches sold by the end of the year. Apple’s Watch alone is expected to account for two-thirds of smartwatch sales with all manufacturers – includ-ing traditional watchmakers working on smart models such as Tag Heuer and Swatch – likely to benefit from Apple introducing the technology to a wider audience.

“There are 1.2bn traditional watches sold every year and 23 percent of those are digital watches according to data from Statistics Brain, even if only a small pro-portion of those digital watches become connected, that’s a lot of smartwatches,” said Angela McIntyre from research firm Gartner. The Pebble Time is essentially a reinvention of the classic Casio watch – a simple timepiece that displays the

time, obviously, with messages and alerts pushed via a gentle vibration to the wrist from a connected smartphone.

Some, such as Apple, have tried to shoehorn an entire smartphone’s worth of functionality onto the wrist creating expensive, often-confusing trinkets. Others including Google have tried to guess what you need pushed to your wrist using advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning.

How useful a smartwatch could be comes down to how obsessive over noti-fications you are and how many you get

a day. The more notifications you receive, the more useful it becomes. It can act as a gateway to your smartphone allow-ing you to reduce notification overload, and just let the important ones or people through.

But they also have the capability to be much more than just a notification hub. Some have already started absorbing fitness tracker functions, becoming a remote control for the internet connected smart home and a walker’s dream, push-ing directions to the wrist.

Google’s Android Wear watches, such as the LG Watch Urbane, can use Google Maps to vibrate the wrist when it’s time to turn or take the next street. Apple’s Watch measures heart rate and taps wearers on the wrist to tell them to get up when they’ve been sitting for more than an hour, while the Pebble Time can remotely control the central heating through the Nest learning thermostat.

It is likely, however, to be style that increases the smartwatch’s reach. “The wrist is a commonly accepted place for technology, but it needs to be attractive and something people want to wear,” said head of research at CSS Insight Ben Wood.

“We’re in the stone age for wearables. In the next five years we’ll look back at smartwatches, which are all gadget bling right now, and laugh, but only if they

provide an experience that’s compel-ling beyond what could be done by just pulling out a smartphone. Contactless technologies including payments could be one such use.”

THE CONTENDERSPebble TimeThe newest kid of on the block costs

£130 and concentrates on doing a few things right, rather than many poorly. The e-paper screen is unique for smart-watches, and like a Kindle is constantly on and can be read easily in direct sun-light. The Time has the longest battery life of any smartwatch currently available, easily lasting for five days per charge, while it is the only smartwatch here that can be used with both an iPhone and Android smartphones.

Apple WatchApple’s Watch is the most expensive

smartwatch going, starting at £300 and stretching to £13,500 if you want it in gold. The premium iPhone-only smartwatch has more capabilities than most with a heart rate sensor and the ability to tap you on the wrist rather than simply shaking. But it’s software can be confused, it’s battery life is short and its screen only turns on when you lift your wrist.

LG Watch UrbaneThe latest of Google’s Android Wear

watches is big, round, shiny and fea-ture-packed with a heart rate monitor, always-on OLED screen and the ability to connect to an Android smartphone over Wi-Fi remotely. But the bulky watch will only fit larger wrists and lacks the style, fit and finish of similarly priced rivals. The battery only lasts a day and a half between charges.

Sony Smartwatch 3Sony’s square Android Wear watch

comes with all the trimmings of Google’s software, but instead of a heart rate mon-itor it has its own GPS chip for recording runs, strolls and marathons without need-ing a smartphone. The always-on LCD screen is viewable without a backlight - although there is a light if needed - and in direct light, and its battery lasts for up to three days between charges connected to an Android smartphone via Bluetooth.

The Guardian

2015 set to be the year of the smartwatch

An estimated 36m smartwatches are predicted to be sold by the end of 2015, as more consumers allow smart technology to grace their wrists.

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WHEELS

BY WARREN BROWN

Not everyone climbs into a sport-utility vehicle eager to take it off-road. Most SUV driv-ers and passengers simply want to get to the next point in a city or county, preferably

using a paved surface.As such, their primary concerns aren’t fording streams,

crawling over rocks, or climbing and descending steep, rugged hills. It is not the stuff they brag about. Their usual automotive boast, when it occurs at all, is about fuel economy.

At 29 miles per gallon on the highway, using regular-grade petrol at a cost still below $2.50 a gallon in many US communities, the stylish 2015 Jeep Renegade 4x4 Limited will provide much fodder for conversation.

Renegade buyers aren’t Jeep Heavy people. The Jeep Heavy crowd — devotees of models such as the Wrangler and the Rubicon — probably would not even consider a Renegade for their personal use. They know what Jeep’s US and European marketers know — the Renegade is a code-named rebel against Jeep’s rugged, but fuel-consumptive, body-on-frame build tradition.

The Renegade is one of the latest children of a cor-porate marriage of convenience — between a bankrupt Chrysler Corp and Italy’s seemingly always-struggling-to-expand Fiat. The merged company now operates under the name Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The Renegade — largely based on the Fiat 500X and 62-percent sourced from Melfi, Italy — is far more Fiat than Jeep.

That is likely to be offensive to Jeep chauvinists, whose spiritual home for all things “real Jeep” — their term, not mine — remains in the bowels of the Toledo South Assembly Plant, the Ohio factory that built the original Jeep CJ, the workhorse that helped drive America to glory in World War II.

What happened to Jeep and Fiat in the interim is the stuff of novels. I will shorten the story here. Let us start with Emperor Lee A Iacocca. Well, he wasn’t an emperor — just the chairman of Chrysler, which he used to buy American Motors in hot pursuit of the Jeep brand. I always regarded Iacocca as an imperious, bona fide marketing genius. The man knew how to build a brand.

Much of what anyone associated with the car business learned about marketing, they learned from him.

But emperors don’t last long in the automotive industry or anywhere else. There is always someone scheming to topple them. Iacocca, largely with Jeep profits, built Chrysler into a salable cash cow. His underlings knew this, pushed him out in the late 1990s and sold the cow — to Germany’s Mercedes-Benz, of all companies.

The Germans wanted Jeep but not Chrysler, which it regarded as inferior to all things in German automotive engineering. That Mercedes-Benz/Chrysler marriage, horribly abusive based on the telling of several Chrysler employees, ended in an ugly divorce barely nine years after it was consummated — although there is a lingering rumor it never was actually consummated.

At any rate, Chrysler was sent out on its own into a cruel financial world corrupted by derivatives, phony

real estate loans and other scams. World markets col-lapsed and automotive sales crumbled along with them. Chrysler went bankrupt. The US government was only too happy to help Sergio Marchionne, Fiat liege and now chief executive officer of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, pick up the pieces at a bargain price.

Marchionne, one of the savviest people in the glo-bal automobile business, wanted Jeep . . . and Dodge Trucks, which now runs under the name Ram. He got what he wanted, along with a US outlet for things Fiat, such as the 500X and the Jeep Renegade that is based on it.

From this viewpoint, it is a pretty good deal for every-body. Many US Jeep employees got to keep their jobs. Lighter, more fuel-efficient Jeeps are an environmen-tal and economic necessity. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles knows how to make them. WP-Bloomberg

Bottom line: The Jeep Renegade Limited 4X4 has mod-est off-road capability. The Trailhawk version of this model is better in the rough. But if you are a seri-ous off-roader, you should con-sider the Wrangler or Rubicon. The Renegade is a rebel only on paved roads.

Ride, acceleration and han-dling: The Renegade gets decent marks in all three. “Decent” means everyday city-suburban commut-ers should be happy with this one, especially in inclement weather.

Head-turning quotient:“Pretty” is an adjective usually not applied to things Jeep. It applies here. Be advised.

Body style/layout: The Jeep Renegade is new for 2015. It is based on the Fiat 500X crosso-ver platform. Like the 500X, it is

offered with front-wheel or four-wheel-drive. There are four trim levels — Sport, Latitude, Limited and Trailhawk.

Engine/transmission: The Renegade Limited 4X4 comes standard with a 2.4-litre, 16-valve inline four-cylinder gasoline engine with variable valve timing that deliv-ers a maximum 180 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque. The engine is linked to a nine-speed automatic transmission.

Capacities: Seating is for five people. Cargo capacity, with rear seats up, is enough for a week’s worth of provisions for a family of four. Put the rear seats down for a modest-haul run to your local big-box home goods store. The Renegade Limited 4X4 with the

2.4-liter engine can run on regular gasoline.

Mileage: I averaged 27 miles per gallon, mostly in uphill highway runs.

Safety: Standard equipment includes four-wheel disc brakes (ventilated front/solid rear); four-wheel antilock brake protection; emergency braking assistance; stability and traction control; dusk-sensing headlamps; tire pressure monitoring; side and head air bags.

Note: I strongly recommends purchase of the Jeep Renegade’s Advanced Technology Group. It will cost you about $2,000 but could save you far more than that in the daily world in which most of us drive.

Price: The Jeep Renegade is on sale this summer. The Limited 4X4 starts at $26,795 in US.

Nuts & Bolts

Heavy Jeep’s little cousin is fine in its own realm

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FOOD

BY J M HIRSCH

There’s no real shocker here – avocado pairs delightfully with a rich and meaty chili. But I decided to pair them in

a fresh way that is just right for sum-mer grilling season. Rather than sim-ply whip up a pot of chili and scatter some diced avocado over it, I decided to spoon mounds of chili into pitted avocado halves, top everything with cheese, then pop the entire delicious mess on the grill until melty and bubbly.

The chili in this recipe is intentionally simple and meaty. Of course feel free to substitute your favourite chili recipe, or add to mine as you see fit. But I wanted to keep things simple since this ends up being a two-part recipe – first the chili is made on the stove, then the stuffed

avocados are grilled.

Chili-stuffed AvocadosStart to finish: 30 minutesServings: 6

METHOD:• 2 tablespoons olive oil• 1 large yellow onion, minced• 2 garlic cloves, minced• 1 tablespoon chili powder• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika• 1 teaspoon ground cumin• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper• 1/2 pound lean ground beef• 1/2 pound loose sweet Italian

sausage• 15-ounce can tomato sauce• 6 avocados, halved and pitted

(leave the skins on)

• 2 cups shredded Monteray Jack cheese

• Sour cream, to serve• Fresh cilantro leaves, to serve

INGREDIENTSIn a medium saucepan over medium-

high, heat the oil. Add the onion and garlic, then saute for 4 minutes. Add the chili powder, paprika, cumin and cayenne, then cook for another minute. Add the beef and sausage, then saute until browned and cooked through, about 8 minutes. Add the tomato sauce and bring to a simmer.

While the chili comes to a simmer, heat the grill to medium.

With the cut side up, gently press each avocado half against the counter to slightly flatten the bottom to allow it to sit without tilting. Alternatively, use

a knife to trim off a thin slice of the rounded bottom.

Once the chili is at a simmer, spoon a heaping mound of it into the cavity of each avocado half. Arrange the filled avocados on a rimmed baking sheet for carrying to the grill. Top each with cheese, then bring to the grill. Carefully set each avocado half on the grill grates, close the grill and cook for 5 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and browning.

Arrange 2 avocado halves per serv-ing plate, then top each with a bit of sour cream and cilantro.

Nutrition information per serving: 750 calories; 560 calories from fat (75 per cent of total calories); 63 g fat (19 g satu-rated; 0 g trans fats); 95 mg cholesterol; 920 mg sodium; 25 g carbohydrate; 15 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 28 g protein.

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Stuff Avocados with a quick chili

09FASHION


BY JILIAN MINCER

Allison Armour loves fashion, but doesn’t need to keep it in her closet. The 24-year-old fre-quents privately-held chain Crossroads Trading Co, where she buys brand-name goods sec-

ondhand at a discount, then sells the items back when she wants to refresh her look.

Armour, a marketing manager for a nonprofit in Oakland, California, has picked up skirts and shirts, Oxford shoes for $30, a J Crew trench coat for $40 and a Dooney & Bourke satchel for $150, less than half its retail price. “When Iget tired of certain things, I put them aside and sell them back,” she said.

For Millennials – the roughly 77 million Americans born between about 1980 and 2000 — the allure of “no owner-ship” is moving beyond housing and cars.

A new industry based on sharing or renting clothing, electronics and small appliances is springing up from nothing about five years ago, posing a disruptive force to traditional retailers.

Battered by student loan debt and the Great Recession, Millennials place less emphasis on owning and more on sharing, bartering and trading to access coveted goods. These behaviors have propelled businesses such as car rental service Zipcar, taxi service Uber and home rental site Airbnb.

What Millennials do buy, and keep, is their smartphones. About 85 percent of people aged 18 to 34 own them, according to Nielsen research, and the devices are the doorway to the sharing economy.

Now these “NOwners,” as Jamie Gutfreund, chief mar-keting officer for Deep Focus, calls them, are propelling a new wave of privately-held companies such as chil-dren’s resale marketplaces Kidizen and Yerdle, which allow customers to swap or buy smaller-ticket items like used clothes and household goods. Deep Focus does market research on youth trends.

While their parents may have frequented thrift stores to save money, Millennials who have the income to buy new goods also see sharing and re-using as a way to promote environmental benefits such as reducing landfill waste.

“Instead of paying for something and getting rid of it with no value when you are done – swap and resale gives Millennials the ability to extend the value,” Gutfreund said. “It’s efficient and it’s green.”

Indeed, 59 percent of Crossroads shoppers said “being an environmentally friendly way to shop” was one of their favourite things about the store.

“A lot of people can’t afford the timeless brands new but they still appreciate the quality,” said Erin Wallace, director of marketing for Crossroads Trading and its sister store Fillmore & 5th, which has opened six boutiques since 2012.

Many of these new businesses are getting funding from traditional sources like individuals and private equity firms including Bain Capital Ventures but also from startup plat-forms such as Onevest.

“Just about every major industry is likely to experience disruption (because of the sharing economy),” said Joe

Atkinson of accounting and consulting firm PwC, whose April report that found that Millennials are among the most enthusiastic about sharing and account for almost 40 per-cent of those who have provided something.

FLOW OF STUFFDriven by demand and technology, membership at

Kidizen is growing 40 percent to 50 percent a month. The company was founded by two mothers with retail and marketing experience who wanted to share the endless flow of “kidstuff” that arrived with parenthood.

Members post photos, blog about their families, even send notes and lollipops in shipments to the next family. “It is a community where people have gotten to know each other,” said Dori Graff, 39, a co-founder. “That makes it sticky. People keep coming back.”

Yerdle estimates that American closets and garages contain $100bn in unused clothes, tools and other items, which it wants consumers to acquire from the site rather than buying new.

“They are shopping with things they don’t need any more,” said co-founder Andrew Ruben, 42, who previously led sustainability efforts at US discount retailer Walmart. Yerdle now has more than 300,000 members, and is grow-ing 30 percent month over month. He said the ultimate goal is to get people “to buy 25 percent fewer new items.”

It has no inventory costs because members post a photo of an item, and keep it until someone else wants it. Ruben said about 40 percent of the items go in their first day.

WORN WEARSome established retailers have taken note. Patagonia,

already popular with Millennials because of its quality and environmental reputation, has offered free repairs since the 1970s. More recently, it launched a program encouraging customers to trade in used clothing in good condition. They are resold at its Portland, Oregon store for about half the original price.

“We found that it encourages new customers to come to our brand,” said Nellie Cohen, 32, environmental marketing manager at Patagonia. “People come to see what is on the Worn Wear rack.”

Rent the Runway, founded in 2009, allows users to rent couture for special occasions. Not yet profitable, the company now has almost 5 million members, includ-ing celebrities and billionaires, and $1bn in inventory. It describes its typical client as a well-educated 29-year-old female professional.

“In the age of Facebook, people don’t want to be pho-tographed more than once or twice in the same dress,” Nova said. Reuters

Millennial ‘NOwners’ follow new fashion trading model

Anna Miranda shops for clothes at Crossroads Trading Company, which buys and sells used clothing, in San Francisco, California.

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HEALTH

To help elderly dementia patients in danger of wan-dering, a new system is being tested in Sakata, Japan,

that processes location information and other data picked up by vending machines and similar devices.

The system utilizes what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT, see below), and was developed in cooperation with Captain Yamagata Corp. — a semi-public corporation based in Yamagata city that is involved in Internet-related businesses — and the National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College, in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture. A rar-ity in Japan, the system is cost-effective compared to existing global positioning systems.

Wi-Fi devices installed around the city in stores and on vending machines pick up the signal from a device worn by an elderly person. Family members are notified of details, such as when the person passes a certain location, through automatic emails sent to their mobile phones.

The experiment is being conducted

in an area with a radius of about 1.5 kilometers in the Yawata district in Sakata. There are Wi-Fi installations in eleven locations in the area. The small-est transmitter is about the size of a 500-yen coin and can be worn around the neck like a pendant. It is powered by a button cell battery that costs around 1,500 yen (about $12) and lasts for two years. NTT East Corp. is providing free transmission.

Ten families in the area are par-ticipating in the experiment. Systems that use GPS to keep tabs on elderly people are available, but transmitters cost from 20,000-30,000 yen ($160- $240) to about 100,000 yen ($800). Furthermore, they use batteries that need charging every two days and have monthly connection costs of approxi-mately 10,000 yen ($80).

Hitomi Sato, deputy representative of the Yamagata branch of the Alzheimer’s Association Japan, emphasized poten-tial benefits such as the small, light devices being comfortable for elderly patients to wear, and easing the psy-chological and financial burden on

family members.Family members often delay report-

ing missing elderly persons for fear of inconveniencing neighbors, according to the Health and Welfare Department of the Sakata city government. If this

system becomes a reality, however, family members will be able to cope with the situation on their own.

A department official said it hoped to expand the usage area if the experiment is a success. WP-Bloomberg

System uses vending machines to help find elderly dementia patients

‘Hidden’ fragrance compound can trigger allergy: Study

Researchers have shown that a common fragrance chemical which is one of the main constituents of the lavender oil can cause allergic eczema. Linalyl acetate is not on the list of allergenic compounds by the EU Cosmetics Directive.

A team from Sahlgrenska Akademin at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has found that it can react with oxygen in the air to form strongly allergenic hydroperoxides. Thus, linalyl acetate can be a common cause of contact allergy. The study included 1,717 participants who were being assessed for eczema related to contact allergy.

Approximately two percent of them had allergic reactions to oxidized linalyl acetate. “That may seem like a small percentage but it is approximately the same result as for the fragrance compounds listed in the Cosmetics Directive,” said Lina Hagvall, one of the researchers.

In accordance with the EU Cosmetics Directive, makeup, ointments, shampoo, deodorants, toothpaste and other products must mention the ingredients in order for consumers to avoid the substances which they are allergic to.

The study has been published in the journal Contact Dermatitis.

Green tea may help prevent prostate cancer

Drinking green tea may help prevent prostate cancer in men with high risk of developing the disease, suggests a research led by an Indian-origin scientist.

The researchers, led by Nagi Kumar from Moffitt Cancer Center in the US, assessed the safety and effectiveness of the active components in green tea to prevent prostate cancer development in men who have premalignant lesions.

The researchers administered decaffeinated green tea capsules called Polyphenon E that contained a mixture of green tea substance called “catechins” twice a day. Laboratory studies have shown that catechins inhibit cancer cell growth, motility and invasion, and stimulate cancer cell death. The researchers compared the effects of Polyphenon E in 49 men to placebo tablets in 48 men over a one year treatment period.

The researchers found that people who had taken the green tea cap-sule had a significant decrease in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels.

Agencies

11INDIAN CINEMA


BY HARICHARAN PUDIPEDDI

In his illustrious career of over two decades, filmmaker Mani Ratnam, who turns 60 on Tuesday, has not only touched and entertained

thousands of lives with his movies, he has also inspired a whole generation of directors, writers, editors, music com-posers and several others from different crafts of cinema. And he continues to do so.

For filmmaker R S Prasanna, Ratnam’s Iruvar, which was about the relationship between cinema and politics in Tamil Nadu, is his guide on filmmaking.

“I think the kind of filmmaking that was done in the movie was world-class, and it was a biopic that was very differ-ent from Nayagan in terms of the nar-rative style. In Iruvar, there was a lot of international influence in terms of shots and angles,” Prasanna said.

“It was one movie where everything came together so brilliantly. It’s such an underrated movie and sadly. it didn’t do well at the box office,” he said, and added that it was Iruvar that brought him and his debut film’s cinematogra-pher Krishnan Vasant together.

Mani Ratnam’s tryst as film director began with the 1983 project Pallavi AnuPallavi, and there has been no look-ing back ever since. He produces most of his films, and has surprisingly, not assisted anyone.

Recalling his memorable experience of a Mani Ratnam film, actor Rahul Ravindran said it was his Nayagan that sowed his acting seeds.

“My earliest memory of falling in love with the medium and actually being conscious and aware that I was falling in love and fascinated with the mov-ies, was when I watched Nayagan as

a child,” Rahul said.“A part of me changed irrevocably

the day I watched it. I didn’t realise what it was that fascinated me, but just remember experiencing a sense of heightened excitement... The realization was more subliminal. Now I know that it was perhaps because the film was so searingly original in tone, so unique and new in execution compared to any film I had seen till that point,” he added.

It was that day, Rahul said, the seeds were sown. He eventually quit a cor-porate job and came to cinema to try his luck.

Sound designer Kunal Rajan said it

was Mani Ratnam’s Aayutha Ezhuthu, which had music by A R Rahman, which left a lasting impact on him.

“It was such a rich soundtrack with so many layers.... it had a new sound and that got me inspired,” Kunal said.

For composer K, two Mani Ratnam films that changed his perspective of music were Nayagan and Mounaragam.

“Nayagan had the most unbelievable music, especially its theme music, and it changed a whole lot of things for me. Even if I heard one line from the album, I could remember the whole scene with the music. Both Mounaragam and Nayagan have influenced my work,” K

said.He added that the theme music of his

Tamil thriller Yuddham Sei had a tinge of Mounaragam.

Writer-filmmaker Nandhini says it’s tough to pick one film of the auteur as all his films are like textbooks in different genres of filmmaking.

“For a commercial entertainer, I’d say Agni Natchathiram and Dhalapathy. As a romantic drama, Roja blew my mind. For crime or gangster movie, there’s Nayagan. And Iruvar for political drama, while Anjali for children and family audi-ences,” Nandhini said.

National Award winning editor K L Praveen admits it was Iruvar that showed him how a film could be cut in a lot of ways.

“I liked his work in collaboration with editor Sreekar Prasad. In Alaipayuthey, I loved the way ‘Kadhal sadugudu’ song was shot in reverse. It was cut so well,” Praveen said.

“I haven’t watched his latest film O Kadhal Kanmani. But I loved the way its promos were cut with city lights in the backdrop. Although it’s an old style, but the way Mani sir presents it, it looks really good,” he said.

Cinematographer Murali says he learnt the art of wide angle shots from Iruvar.

“In this film, Mani sir uses the faces of his characters to express most of the story. He achieved that using close-ups captured through wide lens and everything was shot in 4:3 com-positions. It was an experiment, but it worked so well,” said Murali, and added that Ratnam’s Mounaragam was one film that he felt was complete from all perspectives.

Filmmaker Mysskin admires Mani Ratnam film’s for his “aesthetic writing and visual skills”. IANS

Mani Ratnam continues to inspire

Why is Parineeti Chopra feeling privileged?

Actress Parineeti Chopra says she felt proud after having lunch with actor Varun Dhawan. The actress took to micro-blogging site Twitter to talk about the ‘privileged’

moment. Filmmaker Karan Johar also joined them for the lunch. “Karan and I honoured and privileged to have lunch with The Varun Dhawan. @karanjohar varundvn,” Parineeti tweeted.

The Ishaqzaade actress also shared a photograph with all the stars. While Parineeti is seen wearing a black dress, Varun sports a cool look with a denim jacket. Karan is in an all-black outfit.

Meanwhile, Varun is all set for his dance-based film ABCD 2. The sequel to the 2013 hit ABCD - AnyBody Can Dance fea-tures Shraddha Kapoor, choreographer-director Prabhudheva and international dancer Lauren Gottlieb. Directed by Remo D’Souza, the film is slated to release on June 19. IANS

Salman, Sonakshi recreate Karan Arjun magic

Looks like Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and actress Sonakshi Sinha are enjoying the Dubsmash video trend. The duo, who earlier paid a tribute to

veteran actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, have come out with another video. This time doing a lip-sync of a dia-logue from Karan Arjun. In the six-second video, posted by Sonakshi on Twitter on Sunday, Salman is seen lip-syncing his famous dialogue from 1995 film, where his character is asking his brother Arjun, played by superstar Shah Rukh Khan, to run and escape the goons before he gets killed.

In the video, one can see her pretending to run as if she is Arjun. “Now running... Get it, get it? @BeingSalmanKhan,” Sonakshi captioned the video. The

27-year-old, who has shared four Dubsmash videos of herself so far, will join musicians Vishal Dadlani and Salim Merchant as a judge on the singing based reality show “Indian Idol Junior”. IANS

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ENTERTAINMENT

BY STEPHANIE MERRY

You’ve seen the movie Survivor before, although it may have had a slightly less mundane title, such as North by Northwest, The Bourne Identity or The Fugitive. Survivor

borrows heavily from all of them; it’s a taut yet hack-neyed thriller about a wrongly-accused fugitive with the authorities close behind.

At least there’s a tiny twist here in that the person on the run is a woman.

Action staple Milla Jovovich plays Kate Abbott, a recent hire at the American embassy in London. She’s in charge of security, making sure potential terrorists don’t score American visas. She’s good at her job, too, which makes her unpopular with a group of killers who are plotting an attack on American soil.

The crew sends a relentless assassin (Pierce Brosnan) after her. He goes by the code name of the Watchmaker, and when his plot to blow up Kate in a restaurant bombing goes awry, the terrorists try a dif-ferent approach: Make her the prime suspect for the deadly blast.

Suddenly Kate’s face is flashing across every tel-evision in England, and she has to figure out how to evade both corrupt police officers and the icy, unyield-ing Watchmaker. Meanwhile, she has to solve the mys-tery of what these terrorists are plotting so that she can stop the attack before it kills a million Americans.

That’s a tall order, but any fan of the genre knows it’s completely doable.

There’s no question where any of this is going, and while the chase can be entertaining at times, the movie is ultimately forgettable.”The Fugitive” felt fresh because of its well-drawn, wry characters, and the “Bourne” franchise has heart-pounding action sequences and car chases. Survivor, by comparison, is a shell, follow-ing the rules of the genre without adding anything new.

When Kate escapes from an evil police officer (James D’Arcy) into the tunnels of the London Underground, it seems like a perfect opportunity for a thrilling and death-defying chase involving near misses with fast trains. No such luck.

Director James McTeigue frequently collaborates

with the visionary Wachowski siblings, and he directed V for Vendetta. How the man who blew up Parliament in such memorably spectacular fashion can’t add some originality to Philip Shelby’s script is the movie’s only real mystery.

One and a half stars. Rated PG-13. Contains vio-lence and strong language.

Ratings Guide: Four stars masterpiece, three stars very good, two stars OK, one star poor, no stars waste of time. WP-Bloomberg

Survivable, if not memorable

Robert Downey Jr travels with his furniture

Actor Robert Downey Jr reportedly takes his fur-niture with him when he is shooting away from his home in Malibu here.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron star, who has son Exton, three, and six-month-old daughter Avri with wife Susan Downey, shipped some of his favourite items from his home to his rental house in Atlanta in a bid to feel more at home there while he is shooting Captain America: Civil War.

“Whenever he rents a place, he has all the same fur-niture sent there so there’s consistency from rental to rental. It comes in big semis. He does it for a sense of comfort,” a source close to the 50-year-old actor told usmagazine.com.

The actor also regularly brings his family on location with him.

“I mean it’s natural for Exton to want to bite her once in a while. It can start off as a little peck and then it turns into a nibble. I think it’s just establishing dominance but she’ll be running stuff at some point,” he said.

Actor Martin Sheen thinks his wife Janet Templeton is the “scariest woman” he has ever met.

The 74-year-old star says the secret to his 50-year marriage to the actress, whom he married in 1961, is that she was never afraid to tell him the truth, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“I was fortunate enough to marry the scari-est woman I’d ever met. She did not know how to lie. It was impossible. For me, the truth was a sometimes thing. For her, it was eternity. She would always call me out, thank god,” Martin told Radio Times magazine.

The West Wing actor famously suffered a heart attack on the set of his 1977 film Apocalypse Now due to his heavy drinking, but he failed to get sober until ten years later. He has confessed they were hard times for

him and his wife, with whom he had his chil-dren Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Ramon Estevez and Renee Estevez.

Martin said: “Yeah, it wasn’t very endear-ing. I was a known alcoholic, and obviously troubled in a lot of areas.”

Martin, who describes himself as a “prude”, has now been sober for almost 30 years thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and his return to the Catholic Church, but neither of those institutions have affected his liberal attitude.

Speaking about gay marriage, he said: “I am not against anybody expressing their love to anyone else — it’s none of my business.”

Agencies

Martin Sheen calls his wife ‘scariest woman’

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HYPER SUDOKU

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16 Recommended

17 Photoshop effect

18 Bright lights

19 What naturals have

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22 Up

23 Sea-___

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25 Ring of islands?

26 Barely clear, in a way

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CROSSWORDS

ACCIDENTAL LOVE

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

SCREEN 1 Tomorrowland(2D/Adventure)

10:15am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 9:00&11:30pm

SCREEN 2 San Andreas (2D/Action)

10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 3 Mad Max: Fury Road (2D/Action)

11:35am, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 & 11:40pm

SCREEN 4 Unfriended (2D/Horror) 12:00noon, 4:00, 8:00pm & 12:00midnight

Accidental Love (2D/Romantic) 10:00am, 2:00, 6:00 & 10:00pm

SCREEN 5 Green Street 3: Never Back Down (2D/Action)

10:00am, 1:50, 5:50 & 9:50pm

The Two Faces of January (2D/Thriller) 11:50am, 3:50, 7:50 & 11:50pm

SCREEN 6 Jungle Master (2D/Animation) 10:45am, 12:35, 2:25 & 4:10pm

Spooks: The Greater Good (2D/Action) 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 7 Poltergeist (2D/Horror) 1:30, 5:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm

The Dinosaur Project (2D/Adventure) 11:30am, 3:30 & 7:30pm

SCREEN 8 Maggie (2D/Horror) 10:10am, 2:30, 6:50 & 11:20pm

Zanket Al Sittat (2D/Arabic) 12:20, 4:45 & 9:10pm

SCREEN 9 San Andreas (IMAX 3D/Action)

11:15am, 1:35, 3:55, 6:15, 8:35 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 10 San Andreas (2D/Action)

11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 & 11:30pm

NOVO

MALL

LANDMARK

ROYAL PLAZA

SCREEN 1 Avengers: Ages of Ultron (2D/Action) 2:15pm

Bhaskar The Rascal (2D/Malayalam) 5:00pm Maggie (2D/Horror)

7:45pm San Andreas (2D/Thriller) 9:30 & 11:30pm

SCREEN 2 Home (2D/Animation) 2:30pm

Zanket Al Sittat (2D/Arabic) 4:00pm

San Andreas (2D/Thriller) 6:00pm Unfriended (2D/Horror) 8:15 &

11:30pm Maggie (2D/Horror) 9:45pm

SCREEN 3 Mass (2D/Tamil) 2:15pm Jungle Master (2D/Animation)

5:00pm Welcome To Karachi (2D/Hindi) 6:30 & 11:00pm


SCREEN 1 Home (2D/Animation) 2:30pm Jungle Master (2D/Animation) 4:00pm

Mass (2D/Tamil) 5:45 & 10:30pm


SCREEN 2 Tomorrowland (2D/Adventure) 2:45pm

San Andreas (2D/Thriller) 5:00 & 9:00pm

Maggie (2D/Horror) 7:15 & 11:15pm

SCREEN 3 Jungle Master (3D/Animation) 2:30pm

Bhaskar The Rascal (2D/Malayalam) 4:00pm

San Andreas (3D/Thriller) 6:45pm Tomorrowland (2D/Adventure)

9:00pm Unfriended (2D/Horror) 11:30pm

SCREEN 1 San Andreas (2D/Thriller) 2:30, 4:45, 9:00 & 11:00pm


SCREEN 2 Jungle Master (2D/Animation) 2:30pm

Tomorrowland (2D/Adventure) 4:15pm

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 6:45pm

Maggie (2D/Horror) 9:15 & 11:15pm

SCREEN 3 Home (2D/Animation) 2:30pm

Jungle Master (2D/Animation) 4:15pm

Maggie (2D/Horror) 6:00pm Unfriended (2D/Horror) 7:45 & 11:30pm Zanket Al Sittat (2D/Arabic) 9:30pm

A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, D.C., where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause.Directors: David O. Russell

Writers: Kristin Gore, Matthew Silverstein

Stars: Jessica Biel, Raymond L. Brown Jr.,

Jenny Gulley

ASIAN TOWNSCREEN 1 Mass (2D/Tamil) 4:00 & 6:45pm

Bhaskar The Rascal (2D/Malayalam) 9:30pm

SCREEN 2 Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2D/Hindi) 4:30pm

Bhaskar The Rascal(2D/Malayalam) 7:00pm Mass (2D/Tamil) 9:45pm

SCREEN 4 Mass (2D/Tamil) 3:15, 8:00 & 10:45pm

Welcome To Karachi (2D/Hindi) 5:45pm

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CINEMA


DOHA EVENTS16

IN FOCUS

A view of sunrise from Al Wakra.Send your photos to [email protected]. Please mention where the photo was taken.

by Petar Isakovski

20-22 JuneVenue: Katara Art StudiosAdmission: QR500Time: 20:30-22.30

Garangao Packaging Workshop by Asmaa Al Kuwari. The workshop entry fee is QR500. To register send your name and phone number by e-mail to: [email protected] or call our Katara Education Team on: Tel: 44080233 / 44081357. Will start at 8:30pm on June 20 and will end by 10:30 pm on June 22.

8 APRIL - 11 JuneVenue: Museum of Islamic ArtAdmission: Free

This exhibition showcases Qajar artwork from the MIA collection that demonstrate the centrality of women in the artistic expression of 19th-century Iran and explores how these historic innovations continue to inspire contemporary artists.

11 JuneVenue: Museum of Islamic ArtAdmission: Free

The Museum of Islamic Art has partnered with Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha for a series of world class Jazz concerts in MIA Park. Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center and The St. Regis Doha.

June 10-15Venue: Doha Exhibition CenterTime: 13:00 to 22:00Admission: Free (Only ladies event)

Qatar’s largest women’s fashion exhibition showcasing of the latest Spring/Summer and Ramadan 2015 collections of Arab and Khaliji designed abayas, kaftans, jalabiyas and dresses. The exhibition will welcome more than 337 brands, with 89 designers coming from Qatar and the rest flying in from Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia to showcase their latest collections.

Garangao Packaging Workshop

QaJar Women: The Images of Women in 19th Century Iran

UNTIL 31 AUGUSTVENUE: Qatar Museums Gallery KataraADMISSION: Free

The exhibition will showcase Ismael Azzam’s distinctive portraits of painters and sculptors who have made a significant contribution to Arab Art, with the entire body of work created exclusively for this show. Ismail is of Iraqi origin, and moved to Doha in 1996.

Ismael Azzam: For Them - Exhibition

Till June 15Venue: Fire Station: Artists In ResidenceTime: 10:30 to 17:00 (Closed on Tuesdays)Admission: Free

The exhibition pays homage to “The Art Center”, the very first artist in residence initiative that took place in Doha in the early 1990’s and which ran for a decade. The name 555 is a play on the number 555 which residents used to dial to contact the Fire Station.

555 Exhibition At The Fire Station

Till 9 June Venue: Katara Building 22Admission: Free

Items deemed useless and tossed aside are thoughtfully restored into something of great value and beauty by Qatari artist Essa Al Mulla. The artist displays sheer versatility and innovation in his 40 varying artworks in which he puts together an immense collection of machines and old materials such telephone, old coins and radio which are currently of little or no value.

Margins and Creativity

Jazz in the Park

Till 11 JulyVenue: Museum Of Islamic ArtAdmission: Free

This exhibition focuses on the real and mythical animals that feature in the legends, tales, and fables of the Islamic world. Divided into the natural quadrants of earth, air, fire, and water, these marvellous creatures serve as the introductions and bridges for the stories in which they feature.

Marvellous Creatures: Animal Fables In Islamic Art

The Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition

Until 16 AugustVenue: Mathaf: Arab Museum Of Modern Art, Ground Floor GalleriesAdmission: FreeTime: 11:00 - 18:00 (Monday closed)

Wael Shawky produces film series based on literature and historical narratives, using a visual language that mixes fictional storytelling and documentary styles. The exhibition presents two newly completed film trilogies, each inspired by stories and scripts of literature; Cabaret Crusades (2010-2014) and Al Araba Al Madfuna (2012-2015).

Wael Shawky Comes To Doha

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