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HELPING HANDS

Along with socio-cultural Along with socio-cultural programmes, many expat programmes, many expat organisations in Qatar run organisations in Qatar run welfare schemes that benefit welfare schemes that benefit members and their families members and their families when they face an adversity.when they face an adversity.

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Hand in hand towards a secure futureBy Naseeb Jaleel

Expats often come together to form asso-ciations that suit their tastes and talents. Along with socio-cultural programmes, some expat organisations in Qatar run welfare schemes that benefit members

when they face an adversity. Three Indian organisations, namely Kerala Muslim

Cultural Centre (KMCC), Thrissur District Sauhrida Vedi (TDSV) and Indian Islamic Association (IIA) run family security schemes that financially support fami-lies of deceased or permanently disabled members.

Similarly, Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar (SLMQ) and Philippine Nurses Association Qatar Chapter offer educational and charitable assistance to their members.

The financial assistance schemes of the three Indian groups have some similarities. The KMCC, one of the first and largest organisations of expats in Qatar, calls its security scheme Social Security Scheme, while TDSV, an organisation for the welfare of expats from Thrissur district of Kerala, calls its scheme Kudumba Suraksha Paddhathi, and the IIA calls its scheme Swanthanam.

At least 4,000 individuals are enrolled in each of these schemes. Under these schemes each member has to contribute QR7-10 when any other member dies or suffers 75 percent permanent disability. If a member dies or becomes permanently disabled, KMCC, TDSV and IIA pay Rs500,000 to that mem-ber’s family. Under this scheme members can also get financial aid of up to Rs100,000-200,000 for treat-ment of cancer and cardiovascular or kidney-related diseases.

“We have given Rs500,000 to the families of five deceased members in 2014, and in 2013, 14 persons benefitted from the Kudumba Suraksha Paddhathi. Four thousand expats from Thrissur district are part of the scheme and they renew their mem-bership every year. ” said V K Salim, president of TDSV.

Members of TDSV can also make use of the Karunya scheme, which provides financial assist-ance for treatment of cancer, heart disease and renal ailments by paying QR10 and annual renewal fee of QR3. Under the scheme, Rs50,000 is given for cancer treatment for a family member of a member, for treatment of kidney ailments of a member or his/her spouse, and for a member’s open heart surgery.

If a subscriber to the Karunya scheme dies, Rs10,000 is given to the family.

“One affluent businessman who had luxury apart-ments and vehicles in Qatar and Kerala suffered losses in his business. At about the same time, he became bedridden after both his kidneys failed. When we got a request for support from him, we could only provide a meagre sum as he was not a member of the scheme, and we were reluctant to give that small amount to that formerly rich man. We were shocked when we came to know that even that little amount was a big sum for him in his condition. Such cases inspire us to take up new welfare schemes,” said P Muhsin, TDSV Karunya project coordinator.

The TDSV pays a monthly pension of Rs1,500 for two years to those who have been its members for two years and have returned to India. It also offers interest-free loans of up to Rs100,000 to TDSV members who earn a maximum salary of QR1,500 a month, for meeting the marriage or hospital expense of a family member.

The organisation also provides scholarships to meritorious children of members. Other TDSV welfare activities include annual medical and blood donation camps.

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The KMCC launched its Social Security Scheme in 2000 after col-lecting QR10 from each member. Till date, 147 families, including the fami-lies of 142 deceased members and five permanently disabled members have benefited from the scheme. Since 2006, KMCC has been giving a gift worth Rs50,000 to members returning to India for good, as part of its Sneha Poorvam KMCC project. In all, 534 members have received this farewell gift from KMCC so far.

“This July, KMCC will flag off our new umbrella project, Sneha Suraksha, in which a member has to pay QR1 daily to avail of the benefits. By pay-ing QR1 every day, participants in this scheme will get financial aid of Rs200,000 for treatment of cancer and kidney diseases, which are on the rise among expatriates. Once they end their expat life after spending ten years or more in Qatar, they can take home Rs200,000. The amount will be Rs100,000 if they have spent five to nine years in Qatar. All members who have spent five years or less in Qatar get Rs50,000.

“In addition, Sneha Suraksha scheme members’ families are enti-tled to Rs600,000 if a member dies or suffers permanent physical dis-ability. Those returning home from the Gulf also get this benefit if they die within two years of their return. Social Security coordinators of KMCC take care and coordinate all activities related to the scheme to ensure that the fruits of these projects reach the 21,400 KMCC members,” said KMCC General Secretary Abdul Nasar Nachi.

Four thousand expats benefit from the IIA’s family security scheme, Swanthwanam. All interested expa-triates can join the scheme by paying QR25 as enrolment fee and QR10 on the death of a member of the scheme. Families of the scheme’s members get Rs500,000 on the death of the member, even if this happens two years after the member has returned to India.

The IIA is trying to collaborate with private hospitals in Qatar to

get discounted treatment charges for ‘Swanthwanam’ members. It offers free air tickets to ailing members from the low-income category who cannot bear their travel expenses. Its volunteers periodically visit patients in hospitals and extend support to the needy, said C H Najeeb, secretary of the IIA Social Service Wing.

When a lone expat of any national-ity dies in Qatar, KMCC and IIA help complete the paperwork and official formalities for burial of the corpse in Qatar or for sending it to the home of the deceased.

Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar (SLMQ), the leading community association of the Sri Lankan community in the country, has been conducting social, educational, charitable and cultural activities for the past 13 years in Qatar as well as in Sri Lanka.

The organisation has played a role in rehabilitating victims of terrorist activities in Sri Lanka. It paid sala-ries to 35 preschool teachers for sev-eral years for providing education to children displaced by war.

Scholarships have been awarded to hundreds of needy students for several years to continue their ordinary level, advanced level, university and religious

education. The SLMQ has helped sev-eral schools establish libraries and sci-ence labs. It has also provided initial investment for printing of books to learn Arabic and the Koran.

The SLMQ provides financial assist-ance for setting up vocational training centres for women and also distrib-utes medical equipment to hospitals. Single mothers get financial assistance for starting self-employment ventures.

Along with other socio-cultural and sports activities, SLMQ organises an annual symposium, blood donation campaign and beach cleaning activities in Qatar, said Ameerudeen Moulana, president of SLMQ.

Mark Santos, vice president of Philippine Nurses Association Qatar Chapter, said his organisation provides assistance and guidance on matters

concerning socio-economic welfare and political rights to nursing professionals from the Philippines.

Hundreds of members make use of the PNA dormitory at an affordable price. Life members of PNA who have completed their regular membership for three consecutive years can get Philippine Peso 12,500 from a Mutual Aid fund and regular members can get Philippine Peso 3,000. In the event of death, the next of kin of members are entitled to a burial fee of Philippine Peso 3,000, which ensures proper burial of the corpse.

The PNA also provides higher edu-cation opportunities to meritorious individuals who have been members for three years, offering them grants/scholarships for higher studies.

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When a lone expat of any nationality dies in Qatar, KMCC and IIA help complete the paperwork and official formalities for burial of the corpse in Qatar or for sending it to the home of the deceased.

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Stafford Sri Lankan School organises junior concertIt is a tradition for Stafford Sri Lankan School to allocate a day in its academic calendar for primary school students to exhibit their talents, parents to have a chance to see their children perform in front of a large audience and for the school to discover talent in its quest to develop cultural skills.

The school held its junior concert recently and the Chief Guest was Babara Philips of the American Women’s Association Qatar and Kumudu Fonseka, Chairman of the School.

The event, which lasted two hours, began with the lighting of the traditional oil lamp followed by the school song, welcome speech by an year 3 stu-dent and a welcome dance by the students of the same grade.

The day was filled with dances and a drama which brought back memories of the Sixties and Seventies with songs such as Shalalala, Let’s Twist Again, Rock and Roll and Heal the world.

The day’s events came to a close with the vote of thanks delivered by a Year 3 student and singing of the National Anthem of Sri Lanka. The Peninsula

Qatar’s animal rescue organisation, 2nd Chance Rescue was given a cheque for over QR10,000 at the Gulf English School in Doha.

The Gulf English School awarded the donation to 2nd Chance Rescue officials during the schools assembly.

Students raised money for the ani-mal charity by creating an audio CD. The CD, with Songs from around the world including hits such as You Will Never Walk Alone and I Got Rhythm, was sold both at the school and at 2nd Chance Rescue sister organisation, Park View Pet Center.

Fiona Redfern-Pattison, Music Co-Ordinator, Gulf English School,

said: “We’re thrilled to give this money to 2nd Chance rescue. The children have worked incredibly hard to raise the amount, both through the CD and by raising money via family and friends. We chose 2nd Chance because of the work they do with schools and in the community, and it’s a great way to teach the children about animal welfare.”

Abdulla Al Naemi, Founder of 2nd Chance Rescue, said “This time of year will see a rise in the amount of aban-doned and stray cats and dogs left at our gates, so this donation will help us support these animals in need. A big part of our vision is education, both

The house-wise student leaders of Birla Public School at the house-wise Investiture Ceremony.

Gulf English School raises over QR10,000 for 2nd Chance Rescue

Rhonda Rooney, Abdulla Al Naemi and Fiona Redfern-Pattison at the function.

with children and adults, and to see how much these young people care and have learnt about our work is fantastic.”

2nd Chance Rescue offers edu-cational programmes for organisa-tions and schools in Qatar on animal welfare.

Donations of dog food, leads, col-lars, toys, blankets, treats and bowls are welcomed at the 2nd Chance Rescue facility in Qatar or via its partner organisation Park View Pet Center.

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Fifty One East and Sony Middle East and Africa announced the launch of the new wedge struc-ture in its latest range of Full HD TVs — the Bravia W850B series.

The new range of Bravia W850B series in 70-inch and 60-inch screen sizes is currently available at all Fifty One East outlets located in Al Maha Centre, City Centre Doha and Lagoona Mall in addition to all Virgin Megastores at Villagio and Landmark malls.

The W850B series incorporates the new innova-tive structure ‘Wedge’ — a form factor designed to increase stability at a time when screen size contin-ues to grow. By lowering the TV’s centre of gravity, Sony was able to achieve a smaller pedestal size than conventional TVs, opening up a world of viable instal-lation options despite a large screen surface. Several of the new Bravia models now feature a two-way stand, giving consumers the option to directly mount their new sets on the wall without having to purchase extra accessories.

Introducing One-Flick Entertainment, the Bravia TVs allow users to quickly select and enjoy content. To enhance efficiency, Sony has developed the One-Flick remote that features an intuitive touch-pad for users to search for content quickly and easily, besides offering a one-touch mirroring capability to reflect content from the smartphone screen onto the TV.

The W850B series additionally packs a unique Social Viewing feature that provides consumers with the convenience of sharing their viewing experiences via Skype with family, friends and loved ones, elimi-nating geographical distances.

FIFA fans can look forward to the Live Football Mode that transports them to the action of the sta-dium. Live Football Launcher also offers viewers the flexibility of watching previously-recorded footage from YouTube and the official FIFA video channel. Trivia on the game’s history is also provided.

Utilizing its display technologies, Sony additionally gives consumers accessibility to 500px, a premier

photography community via the new BRAVIA TVs. With this television, consumers are introduced to a world of stunning images that can be enjoyed in the best quality possible.

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Football fiesta at Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel

Champions Sports Restaurant at Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel will be launching the 2014 foot-ball matches with one big beach party.

On June 12-13, Champions is bring-ing a piece of excitement as the restau-rant turns into a Brazilian beach with 12 tonnes of sand inside the restaurant. The games will be broadcasted over 40 screens and DJ May Tox will spin his famous beats during game intervals.

The highly commended restaurant will be serving Brazilian inspired bev-erages and lip-smacking food and it doesn’t end there, June 14 onwards until June 26 Champions is bringing the football field straight to the fans.

For the second time this year the Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel held an event to thank its customers. The

Hotel’s Sales & Marketing team hosted a football fiesta thanking their customers for their continuous support and loyalty.

On an attempt to kick off the foot-ball fever, the hotel brought a piece of the football field to the loyal customers

over a 400 square meter field. Not only that, but also live cooking stations were set up serving staple food from some of the participating countries in the upcoming 2014 football matches.

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Italian Ambassador, Guido De Sanctis (left) and Andreas Wissdorf, General Manager for Renaissance Doha City Center cutting a ceremonial cake dur-ing the event held at the hotel.

Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels offers new open air Arabic Lounge to soak up the vibrant atmosphere of the souq with the launch of the Al Shurfa Arabic Lounge in the collection’s new Al Jomrok Boutique Hotel.

Al Jomrok is the latest hotel in the Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels group, managed by Al Rayyan Hospitality. Its new rooftop Lounge called Al Shurfa (“Balcony” in Arabic) is the perfect location for dining outdoors for a relaxed celebration with friends and family, taking in the sights and sounds of the bustling souq below and looking out across the city’s waterfront.

Visitors to Al Shurfa can enjoy the very best of Arabic cuisine from delicious traditional mezzeh to juicy Wagyu beef burgers, a range of mouthwatering filled club and panini sandwiches or wraps and to

finish, delectable Arabic desserts and cheese cake.

The laid-back, luxurious atmos-phere of Al Shurfa reflects the over-all ambience of Al Jomrok Boutique Hotel, which offers guests a stylish sanctuary in the heart of old Doha. Sophisticated, contemporary design is combined with historic touches such as Al Jomrok’s wooden floors and wall decor, which is inspired by Qatari architecture.

With the 2014 World Cup just about to kick off, all Al Shurfa diners will be able to indulge their passion for foot-ball and book their table to cheer on their favourite teams at the rooftop terrace, looking out over Doha.

Taleb Al Henzab, General Manager at Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels, said: “We are delighted to launch Al Shurfa rooftop lounge in our newest boutique hotel, Al

Jomrok. At Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels, our focus is always on creating luxurious, relaxing surroundings for our guests to enjoy the very best of world cuisine. Al Shurfa offers an unforgettable experi-ence with its shisha lounge and is the

ultimate location to take in a spectacu-lar sunset over Doha’s harbour, while sampling authentic Arabic delicacies. We look forward to welcoming all our new visitors to experience superb cuisine in this magnificent setting.” The Peninsula

Al Jomrok Boutique Hotel launches alfresco dining at Al Shurfa Arabic lounge

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By Steve Karnowsk

Seventeen-year-old Rudy Hummel hasn’t let one of the coldest winters in decades, drenching rain or clouds of mosquitoes pre-vent him from sleeping outside every night

for a full year.Hummel spent one last night recently in his tree-

house at his family’s home in Hermantown, near Duluth, making it 365 straight nights outside. He endured 76 subzero nights in a snow cave. The Boy Scout would pitch a tent while travelling, even using a hotel’s deck. By his count, he slept outdoors in 30 different places.

Hummel’s experiment became a fundraiser along the way for Habitat for Humanity and the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth. He invited friends over to sleep in his yard for his last night and urged other people following his adventure to donate and join them by sleeping out wherever they are.

Winter nights weren’t so bad, Hummel said, even when it got down to 27 degrees below zero one night. His cave, a hollowed out pile of snow called a quinzhee, kept the temperature about 10 degrees warmer than outside. But mostly he relied on lay-ers — a fleece liner inside a mummy bag inside two other sleeping bags, with two or three quilts over that. He’d wear up to three layers of pants and up to seven shirts.

“The worst nights of all were actually during sum-mer, the really hot, humid nights” that often turned stormy, he recalled. “I would be completely drenched with my own sweat.”

Two nights were especially tough, Hummel said. One was last summer, at Woodland Caribou

Provincial Park in Ontario, when he used a hammock with a mosquito net.

“There were so many mosquitoes that I couldn’t get to sleep because the buzzing was so loud,” he said.

And there was a rainy night as the snow melted this spring. He decided his quinzhee was unsafe so he pitched a tent on the driveway and got soaked moving his gear.

“That’s the only night where I’ve actually been cold,” he said.

Hummel said he got the idea last April to spend every summer night in his treehouse. In August, he decided to go for a full year. In December, he turned it into a fundraiser and started a website with links to his two charities.

He chose Habitat because he could have gone inside anytime, but knew that some people don’t have that choice. He also picked Hawk Ridge because he learned that the squirrels, owls and other creatures sharing his backyard weren’t just visitors. He had raised about $4,000.

Hummel had mixed thoughts about the end of his experiment, mainly because his bedroom was in “dreadful” shape after a year of disuse.

“I will have to do a significant amount of cleaning

before I can lay in my bed,” he said. “It’s amazing how much stuff accumulates in a place you don’t use.”

His parents are proud, but his mother, Gail Johnejack, laughed at the suggestion that she might be happy to have him back safe inside.

“If he pulled this off I’m pretty confident he could pull whatever off,” she said.

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BOOKS 7PLUS | WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2014

By Dominic Basulto

For this summer’s reading list, we bring you seven books published this year, each exploring the future of innovation from a different perspective. Some of the authors are YouTube stars with devoted online

followings; others are academics or researchers who are just now crossing over into the mainstream. What they all have in common, though, is the ability to explain advances from sometimes arcane scientific fields — neuroscience, genetics or synthetic biology — in a way that generates a broader public discussion about the future we want as a society.

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind

By Michio KakuDoubleday, 400 pp ($28.95)

While reading about neuroscience may not sound like the ideal way to lounge at the pool during the dog days of summer, Kaku is one of those rare science writers who appears to be just as comfortable on the set of “The Daily Show” as he is in a tradi-tional academic setting. His earlier books — Physics of the Future and Physics of the Impossible — made him into a YouTube favourite (who doesn’t want to know how to make a light saber?), and now he’s back with an overview of what might be possible in the future for the human brain: uploading memories, telekinesis, and playing our thoughts and dreams the same way we might a motion picture.

What Kaku argues, essentially, is that our sense of the future of the mind is fast evolving, thanks to advances made possible by such scientific endeavours as President Barack Obama’s brain initiative. It may still be some time off, but one day, Kaku says, we will be able to reverse-engineer the human brain.

Once that happens, we might be able to create human super-intelligence, treat mental illness or understand the meaning of consciousness.

Super Cells: Building with BiologyBy Nina Tandon and Mitchell JoachimTED, 103 pp ($1.99, Kindle)

If you’re a fan of TED talks, it’s time to check out one of the latest entries in the TED Books series. Nina Tandon and Mitchell Joachim take us on a whirlwind tour of the latest developments in

bioengineering and synthetic biology. Yes, the book appears to be a bit high on the techno-utopianism quotient, but at under 100 pages, it is a quick way to get updated on the latest advances in an emerging field the authors refer to as “bio-design.”

The book maps out the amazing future of the cell, as it is used for everything from creating personalized human tissue replacements to growing new types of food. It’s a future in which the biology of nature becomes the building block for future innovation. Super cells, the authors argue, are the key to new advances in fields that one doesn’t typically associate with biology, such as fashion and architecture.

The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

By Astra TaylorMetropolitan Books 288 pp ($27)

This book seems to be part of a broader zeitgeist (pioneered by the likes of Evgeny Morozov and Jaron Lanier) in which people question the type of future that we’ve been building with digital technol-ogy. There’s a sense, increasingly expressed online, that something is just not quite right — we give too much power to huge Internet giants such as Google and Facebook and all the former utopian potential of the Web remains unrealised. We were promised a “revolution” and ended up with something more like a “rearrangement” of power and influence.

Astra Taylor argues that the Internet is actu-ally contributing to the types of inequality that we observe throughout society and changing how we think about art and culture. Her back story is fas-cinating: “Unschooled” until the age of 13, she later (briefly) attended Brown University and made a documentary film about bad boy philosopher Slavoj Žižek. She is now one of the activist voices arguing against concentrating too much power in the hands of the Internet’s foremost players. If you’re won-dering why the Internet is full of stories about cats instead of deep investigative journalism, this may be the book for you.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryBy Elizabeth KolbertHenry Holt & Co 336 pp ($28)

At first glance, Kolbert’s book — with a woolly mammoth on the cover — would appear to be a book more about the past than the future. The book’s title refers to the five great extinctions in the world’s history. The sixth extinction is humanity’s own, brought about by radical changes to the planet’s ecosystem. Kolbert asks a poignant question: How is it possible that a technologically advanced society is slowly but methodically destroying itself?

This book will probably not go down well with the climate-change deniers, but it’s easy to see how this book is part of the new zeitgeist, especially now that the Obama administration has accepted the dire climate warnings from the United Nations as a reality. Kolbert brilliantly explains why such factors as biodiversity matter and why humanity needs to change its future by first realising what it is doing to the planet. She draws on the latest thinking in fields ranging from geology to marine biology to explain how and why extinction happens.

Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives - and Our Lives Change Our Genes

By Sharon MoalemGrand Central 272 pp ($28)

Moalem, a neurogeneticist by training, has fig-ured out how to cross the dividing line between popular science and entertainment. His books are obviously intended to cross over as many lines as possible, and he’s a frequent guest on popular media, like the “Today Show,” “The Daily Show” and “The

Dr. Oz Show.” Now he’s here to tell us how we can change our children’s “genetic inheritance.”

Moalem says that thanks to remarkable progress in understanding the human genome, we no longer need to assume that our genes can not be changed or that we’re forced to accept a certain genetic fate for our children. The human genome is fluid, and that would appear to open the future to a world of low-cost genetic screening and even genetic enhance-ments for our offspring.

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

By Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfeeW.W. Norton & Co 320 pp ($26.95)

This book has made headlines in economic and technology circles, leading to a debate about the way robots and machines are taking over from humans. It outlines the ways that the growth of exponential, recombinant and digital technologies is leading to a brighter future for humanity. What Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue is that the next age of machines has important implications for how we think about everything, from the future of work to the future of artificial intelligence. Thanks to these “brilliant technologies,” the global economy is on the cusp of a new round of dramatic growth.

Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By Ed Catmull with Amy WallaceRandom House, 368 pp ($28)The co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios explains

the secrets of creativity. This is not so much a book about the future as about how to unlock the creativity and innovation within all of us. Not surprisingly, the book — with a Pixar cartoon character on the cover — has been a hit with the casual reader as well as busi-ness managers eager to create a culture of creativity at work. What’s not to love? In a summer of blockbuster movies, find out from one of the Pixar geniuses how to go about making your own creative blockbusters.

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Parton supports Miley’s wild behaviour

Singer Dolly Parton is rushing to her ‘god-daughter’ Miley Cyrus’s defence after critics constantly slammed the pop star for perform-ing in a provocative manner while wearing raunchy outfits.

The country singer, who is the godmother of the 21 year-old, believes Cyrus is receiving an unfair amount of abuse for performing in racy outfits, reports contactmusic.com.

Parton can also relate to the former Disney Star, as she was also

victimized for similar things in her younger days.The 68-year-old explained how she was branded “trashy”, which is

similar to how Cyrus is perceived by many.“Back in the day, doing my own things my own way, and dressing and

all that, I got a lot of criticism. Lots of people thought I was making a mistake and that I was just trashy, which I was,” she said.

Road named after Priyanka’s father

On the first death anniversary of her father Ashok Chopra, Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra Tuesday announced that a street has been named as ‘Lieutenant Colonel Dr Ashok Chopra Marg’. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray was also present at the event.

“I don’t have words to describe anything. It’s a moment of pride for my family,” Priyanka told reporters during the inauguration of the newly named street off her residence.

Her father passed away in the battle with cancer last year, and she was extremely close to him.

The actress, who even has a ‘Daddy’s Li’l Girl’ tattoo, said: “It means a lot to me. My dad was someone who has touched many hearts through his work. Today, seeing this road named after him, people ask that just because he is Priyanka Chopra’s father...is this road being named after him?’ No, it’s not that.”

“I’m here today because I’m Ashok Chopra’s daughter. This road is being named after him because his community that he worked with...his friends, his family and all of you stood up and asked for it. So thank you very much on behalf of my father today.”

Mahesh Bhatt unveils Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s new albumPakistani singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s new album “Back 2 Love” was unveiled by Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt here.

The album, launched Monday, features 10 tracks including collabo-rations with Indian musi-cians including composer duo Salim-Sulaiman, and also a duet with singer Shreya Ghoshal, said a statement.

Bhatt and Khan had worked together in the former’s production ventures like Kalyug and Blood Money.

Khan’s new album was also unveiled at this year’s International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) in the US.

The video of lead track “Zaroori tha” features the couple of “Bigg Boss” fame Gauahar Khan and Kushal Tandon.

Meeruthiya Gangsters to go on floorsMeeruthiya Gangsters, written and directed by Zeishan Quadri — the writer of Gangs Of Wasseypur — was launched in Mumbai and the shooting will begin June 15.

Prateek Group in association with Friday to Friday Films & Entertainers launched Meeruthiya Gangsters on Monday.

“The intention of Meeruthiya Gangsters is realistic cinema at its best packaged and presented as pure commercial entertainment. We have chosen a cast which have proven their mettle in the acting field,” Quadri said in a statement.

Based on a real life incident, it features actors like Aakash Dahiya, Vansh Bhardwaj, Jaideep Ahlawat and Jatin Sarna.

“We are proud to be a part of a project where we believe that the con-tent is king. We believe that the story should be able to bind and hold the audience instead of stars. And we intend to produce more such films in that belief,” said Prashant Tiwari, chairman, Prateek Group.

The film’s shooting will begin in western Uttar Pradesh and Noida from June 15 and it is expected to release in February 2015.

Bullock ‘fine’ after break-in attemptActress Sandra Bullock is “fine” and “unharmed” following an attempted break-in at her home, according to her representative.

Joshua Corbett, 39, was arrested and booked on suspicion of residential burglary after he was allegedly caught attempting to gain access to the Gravity star’s Los Angeles property early Sunday morning, reports con-tactmusic.com.

Bullock was at home at the time of the incident, which occurred just hours after she attended the Guys Choice Awards in Culver City, California Saturday, and her repre-sentative has now spoken out to insist the actress is unhurt.

Bullock’s spokesperson told people.com: “An intruder was arrested on (her) prop-

erty... She is unharmed and is fine.”

Rihanna rents $7m home in LASinger Rihanna has moved into a new $7m mansion that she is report-edly renting for $60,000 a month after putting her own house there on the market for $15 million last month.

The “We Found Love” hitmaker, who has had a number of problems with stalkers in recent years, is rent-ing a unique steel and concrete home with state-of-the-art security in the Hollywood Hills here.

The 26-year-old singer’s towering new abode boasts a 60-ft grand entry, soaring ceilings and breath-taking views, reports radaronline.com.

Property records reportedly sug-gest that the Barbados-born star, who recently split from her on-again, off-again boyfriend Drake, is leasing the industrial-style property for approxi-mately $60,000 a month.

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By Laura Barnett

Anxiety has always been woven into the fabric of film-mak-ing. From the nail-biting Hitchcock thriller to the

bombastic Hollywood action movie, most films work to keep viewers on the edge of their seats; even a roman-tic comedy can bring a level of worry about whether everything will turn out as it should.

But can films actually help us under-stand anxiety as a clinical condition? Yes, says Jonathan Keane, film curator for the foundation’s first Anxiety arts festival, taking place in London this month (June). “The history of film,” he says, “is the history of anxiety. At a screening of the Lumiere brothers’ early film The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, people ran out screaming: they thought the train was coming right at them. But film doesn’t just make us feel anxious: it also stages anxiety, and helps us to understand how it works.”

Here, then, is a selection of films that do this best, as chosen by Keane and a panel of psychologists.

SafeTodd Haynes’s 1995 drama stars

Julianne Moore as a suburban house-wife who convinces herself she is being assailed by invisible pollutants. Psychologist Colette Hirsch of King’s College London says the character’s condition bears many of the hallmarks

of generalised anxiety disorder. “There’s a lot of ambiguity set up in the film,” she says. “This relates very much to the way people with the disorder apply negative interpretations to apparently innocu-ous things. In a 2010 study, we showed that if you help people to develop a more positive interpretation of situations - more like those used by the rest of the population - this reduces their tendency to worry.”

If only that treatment had been offered to Moore’s character: instead, she ends up ensnared in a sinister cult.

The Headless WomanFor Keane, this 2008 Argentinian

film - called a “masterpiece” by British film critic Peter Bradshaw - is a study of the importance of the “tipping point”: the moment when a particu-lar experience or incident kicks off an unhealthy cycle of worry. In the film, this comes when the main character, Veronica, hits something with her car, and doesn’t stop. Gradually, she becomes convinced that she has killed a child; the director, Lucrecia Martel, cleverly depicts her emotional disinte-gration. “It’s a brilliant exploration of how anxiety can cause people to start seeing things that aren’t there,” Keane says. “The character literally loses her head. There’s no easy resolution, but we do see her start to find closure. That’s useful, too, in reminding peo-ple with anxiety that there will be an end to it.”

SolarisIn Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 movie, a

psychologist, Kris Kelvin, is dispatched to help three astronauts apparently going insane on a distant space station. According to Vyv Huddy, a lecturer in clinical psychology at University College London, the film provides a compelling example of how those with an anxiety disorder will try to categorise their feelings, and then avoid exposure to their source. “We see that tendency in Kelvin’s behaviour,” he says. “We also get a sense of the anxiety created by being so far away from home, and the differ-ent ways people try to cope.” And with Kelvin gradually becoming implicated in the strange world of the space station, Huddy thinks it’s a useful film for clini-cians, too. “We see how difficult it can be,” he says, “to separate yourself com-pletely from the people you are treating.”

Waltz With BashirMade by Israeli film-maker Ari

Folman in 2008, this powerful anima-tion stands between documentary and autobiography: it’s an attempt, in film, to recover the director’s lost memo-ries of serving in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Nick Grey, a consult-ant clinical psychologist in London, says it is also a powerful evocation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), one of anxiety’s best-known manifestations. “The film deals with trying to complete gaps in memory,” he says, “and also with some of the powerful beliefs that people

with PTSD are left with: ‘I didn’t do enough’, ‘I abandoned him’. It’s those beliefs that keep the anxiety going.”

Opening NightGena Rowlands starred in her hus-

band John Cassavetes’ 1977 examina-tion of anxiety on- and offstage. She plays veteran Broadway actor Myrtle Gordon, whose confidence is severely shaken after a young female fan is killed in an accident. “There are two levels of anxiety here,” Keane says. “One is performance-related, and the other is about how a woman is to grow old when she has been so defined by her image. She begins to go off-script while act-ing - not unlike what we see in real life in people with anxiety problems. They sometimes start to say things that don’t make sense.”

Of course all these films - and the many others that describe anxiety, and its treatment - are works of art: none of them can be expected to offer the rigor-ous analysis of a clinical research paper. What they can do, though, is help cut through the levels of silence and misun-derstanding that surround this complex condition. “We seem to feel that anxi-ety is a personal problem,” Keane says, “and one we can’t do anything about. My hope is that anyone who sees these films - and others - will understand that they’re not alone. Anxiety often makes people feel that they’re stuck. Films like these might just be able to help get them moving.” The Guardian

Can film scripts help people understand anxiety?

EUROPEPLUS | WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 201410

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Poor brain function behind glaucoma?

In what could alter the entire treatment process for glaucoma — one of the world’s leading causes of irreversible blindness - scientists have discovered that the brain, not the eye, controls the cellular process that leads to glaucoma.

The study has found that in humans the brain plays a part in pruning optic nerve axon cells that can lead to vision loss. To reach this conclusion, ophthalmologists performed a data and symmetry analysis of 47 patients with moderate to severe glaucoma in both eyes.

In glaucoma, the loss of vision in each eye appears to be haphazard. They discovered that as previously disabled optic nerve axons recover, the remaining areas of permanent visual loss in one eye coincide with the areas that can still see in the other eye.

The team found that the visual field of the two eyes fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, resulting in much better vision with both eyes open than could possibly arise by chance.

“As age and other insults to ocular health take their toll on each eye, discrete bundles of the small axons within the larger optic nerve are sacrificed so the rest of the axons can continue to carry sight information to the brain,” explained William Eric Sponsel from the University of Texas at San Antonio, department of biomedical engineering.

According to researchers, the cellular proc-ess used for pruning small optic nerve axons in glaucoma is “remarkably similar to the apoptotic mechanism that operates in the brains of people afflicted with “Alzheimer’s disease”.

“The entire phenomenon appears to be under the meticulous control of the brain,” Sponsel added.

The results may help develop new treatments as well as contribute to the development of future therapies for preserving brain function in other age-related disorders like Alzheimer’s.

Study: Four tomatoes a day may reduce kidney cancer risk

Love tomatoes? You have more reasons to relish them as a tomato-rich diet may lower kidney cancer risk, especially in case of women.

Women who eat more tomatoes or other lycopene-containing fruits and vegetables may have a lower risk of developing kidney cancer, a study suggests.

“The amount of lycopene in the diet of the women who consumed lycopene at the highest level in the study would be equal to eating four tomatoes daily,” study researcher Won Jin Ho, a medical resident at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, was quoted as saying in a Live Science report.

Lycopene is an antioxidant that also gives tomato, watermelon, grapefruit and papaya its reddish col-our. In the new study, the researchers looked at nearly 92,000 post-menopausal women.

The amount of micronutrients including lyco-pene in the women’s diets was estimated from the information they provided on questionnaires when they enrolled in the study.

During the study period, 383 women were diag-nosed with kidney cancer. The results showed that only lycopene was associated with a lower kidney cancer risk.

Women who consumed the highest amount of lycopene had a 45 percent lower risk of kidney cancer compared with those who ate the lowest amount, the study noted.

“It is likely that the women received lycopene not just from tomatoes but also from tomato sauces and other fruits that contain lycopene,” Ho commented. Agencies


By Dorene Internicola

While older, over-weight or injured exercisers have always valued the

cushioning effects of water work-outs, a new wave of trendy, lively and high intensity group fitness classes is luring the young, the hip and the able-bodied into the pool.

Aqua Zumba, boot camp, and synchronized swimming are among the classes experts say put every muscle through a range of motion even the fittest can’t approach on dry land.

Lori Rose Benson of the YMCA of Greater New York said seniors populate daytime pool classes, but the evening attracts a younger, party-oriented crowd.

Synchronized swimming, a class of elaborate strokes and stunts set to music, has become a favourite among Brooklyn hipsters, she said. Aqua Zumba, also called “pool party,” is popular with the younger crowd throughout the city.

“Really, it depends on the time of day,” Benson said. “Aquatic exercise can have all the benefits of a really tough cardiovascular workout. It’s what you put into it.”

Three times a week at an Equinox fitness center in New York City, swim coach Ellis Peters leads Aqua Boot Camp, an hour-long interval workout he said takes aim at every major muscle group.

“I try to use every inch of the 25-yard (23-metre) pool,” Peters said of the class, which employs

flotation devices in a fast-chang-ing sequence of running, jumping jacks and core exercises.

“We usually don’t do any one thing more than a minute,” said Peters.

Moving through water is power-ful, he added, because the resist-ance, or drag coefficient, is 12 times what it is in air and works on the body in all directions.

“I can’t imagine a machine on land that would be able to

duplicate the omni-dimensional resistance of the water,” he said. “It doesn’t exist.”

Rhode Island-based Karen Kent said she plunged into pool work-outs after asthma began to ham-per her running style.

“I couldn’t run much in my 20s,” said Kent, an aquatic expert who wrote the water exercise chap-ter for the American College of Sports Medicine’s group fitness handbook.

She said even the most able-bodied like turning to water to relieve pressure and extend their range of motion.

“Even really strong athletes want to come to water to stretch muscles back out,” she said. “Water offers another piece of fitness you can’t get on the ground.”

The level of exertion feels less in the water, she added, so the right instructor can really ramp it up with deep water running and jog-ging intervals.

Kent said the pool tempera-ture for water workouts should be around 83 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit (28 to 29 Celsius), with air temperature about two degrees higher. That’s because unlike swimmers, who are com-fortable in the high 70s (mid 20s), the exercisers’ heads are above the water line.

“Swimming laps is different from doing exercise,” she said. “Every workout has something else to offer and a well-rounded athlete should do all of it.”

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“Moving through water is powerful because the resistance, or drag coefficient, is 12 times what it is in air and works on the body in all directions. I can’t imagine a machine on land that would be able to duplicate the omni-dimensional resistance of the water. It doesn’t exist.”

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TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 201412

Microsoft aimed squarely at hard-core video game players on Monday, open-ing fire with “Halo” and

a barrage of other titles for play on its new-generation Xbox One consoles.

Unveilings of blockbuster and entic-ing exclusive content came during an Xbox media briefing on the eve of the opening of the annual E3 video game extravaganza here.

Microsoft’s opening salvo in the battle to dominate E3 and invigorate Xbox One sales was to be met with return fire from Sony, which had its own grand event touting PlayStation 4 titles planned for later in the day.

The US tech giant announced the release for later this year of an addi-tion to its popular science fiction “Halo” series called “Halo: The Master Chief Collection,” as well as other exclusive titles “Sunset Overdrive,” “Forza Horizon 2,” and “Dance Central Spotlight.”

“We are committed to delivering amazing experiences that will help define this generation of games and delight the millions of passionate Xbox fans around the world,” said Phil Spencer, head of the Xbox division.

“Our goal is to make Xbox One the best place to play games this generation.”

Microsoft brought the focus back to games in a shift from stressing how Xbox is evolving into a multipurpose entertainment centre for films, televi-sion, music, and more.

“At the end of the day, what sells video game systems are blockbuster games,” said Phoenix Online Studios manager and strategy analyst Scott Steinberg.

Sony goes into the video game indus-try’s biggest annual trade show with an edge, its PS4 having trumped Xbox One in sales since the competing consoles hit the market in November.

‘Master Chief’ collectionMicrosoft played to its strength

with a “Halo Master Chief” collection for Xbox One that will let people play installments from the game dating back to previous generations of Xbox.

Typically older games aren’t com-patible with new-generation consoles, but the collection brings the array of “Halo” titles to Xbox One as a draw for new players as well as fans interested in replaying the past.

“It’s massive,” said Bonnie Ross, gen-eral manager of 343 Industries unit of

Microsoft Studios behind “Halo.” “It is also setting the groundwork for the future.”

The Master Chief collection will con-tain a live action series based on the franchise and produced in collabora-tion with filmmaker Ridley Scott.

The “Halo Nightfall” series is com-ing to the Xbox Live service for online game play and digital content, accord-ing to Microsoft.

“Now players can experience the whole Halo story, only on Xbox One,” Spencer said of the collection. “All play-able this holiday season.”

The collection also comes with access to a private test of a “Halo 5: Guardians” online multi-player game set to launch next year.

Microsoft played up content that will only be found on Xbox One. Sony is expected to do likewise with game play, titles or features people will only find on PS4.

While many blockbuster titles from third-party studios or publishers have versions tailored for both platforms, Microsoft and Sony are keen to con-vince gamers that their console is the better place to have fun or find entertainment.

Sony and Microsoft have also been courting independent game makers to add quirky or innovative new titles uniquely to their respective consoles.

Kevin Spacey gets gameSpencer touted that downloadable

content for a keenly-anticipated “Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare” game, complete with a character played by a virtual version of actor Kevin Spacey, will arrive first on Xbox One.

“Advanced Warfare” is slated for a November release.

A sassy “Sunset Overdrive” game exclusive to Xbox One is set in a world where a contaminated energy drink turned most inhabitants into mutants, and some of those unaffected are tak-ing advantage of the chaos.

Players take on the role of a wise-cracking, denim-clad hero who jumps, wall-runs, surfs power lines and more while blasting away with unusual weapons.

The title by Insomniac Games is due out on Xbox One in October.

Microsoft also touted Project Spark, which will let players create their own game worlds for one another.

Sony has already fired back, teasing PS4 titles “The Last Tinker: City of Colors” and “Fluster Cluck,” described as a cosmic adventure.

AFP

By Lily Hay Newman

There’s been buzz about folding screens for years, but it seems like the technology is finally mov-ing closer to reaching the mainstream. At a display tech conference in San Diego this week, Nokia and the Semiconductor Energy Lab’s Advanced Film Device group presented two new screens that look pretty bendy.

The first type is a folio style that folds in half like a book, and the second is a tri-fold design. Both are basic HD 5.9-inch organic light-emitting diode screens.

OLED is the tech of choice for folding screens because it uses thin, organic films that light up from

electrical current and can be made from flexible materials.

The screens are made by putting a release layer, sealing layer, color filter layer, and OLED layer together on a glass backing so they bond, and then removing the glass and replacing it with a more flex-ible structural layer. The folds in the screens can get down to a radius of between 2 and milimeters, and you can bend the screens about 100,000 times before they wear out. A flexible Kindle made of this stuff might not last a lifetime, but you could certainly tote it around in your pocket for a few years.

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Folding screens

Microsoft brought the focus back to games in a shift from stressing how Xbox is evolving into a multipurpose entertainment centre for films, television, music, and more.

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Hoy en la HistoriaJune 11, 1989

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U.S. tennis star Michael Chang, 17, became the youngest ever Grand Slam champion, defeating Stefan Edberg of Sweden to win the title at Roland Garros

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

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HYPER SUDOKU

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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character)14 Lettuce16 Black Sea getaway17 Land on the Black Sea:

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20 Dines22 Put down23 Pizazz24 Remark about the end of

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bows29 By and by30 Recoiled (from)31 Kind of printer for home

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Files21:50 Last Flight Of

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3Alien Abduction (2D/Horror)

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Man21:35 The Cafe22:00 Ashes To Ashes22:55 Lark Rise To

Candleford23:45 Eastenders

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Charlie15:25 Liv And Maddie15:50 Gravity Falls16:35 A.N.T. Farm17:05 16 Wishes18:30 Austin & Ally18:55 Mako Mermaids19:20 Violetta20:05 Liv And Maddie20:30 Jessie20:50 Dog With A Blog21:15 Mako Mermaids21:40 Austin & Ally22:00 Shake It Up22:25 A.N.T. Farm22:50 Good Luck

Charlie23:10 Wolfblood


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

• Many parents have complained about vehicles passing in front of some primary schools when students gather and play there, without any kind of protection.

• The residents of Al Thumama area have complained of smoke emitted by an organic fertiliser factory in the area, and urged the Ministry of Environment to intervene and take steps to safeguard their health. The residents urged the authorities to adhere to the policy of allowing factories only in places far from residential areas.

• Some people have complained about poor quality honey being sold in the streets and in front of shopping centres by vendors who claim it is original and can cure many ailments. In reality it contains sugar and other ingredients. People are asking what the consumer protection department and the authorities who regulate businesses are doing.

• The authorities have been urged to install more drinking water dispensers along the Corniche, especially since summer has begun, as there are too few of these now

and they are all located in one place, which makes visitors to the Corniche suffer.

• It has been suggested that the authorities monitor promotional offers announced by shopping centres, as many of them are fake while in some others old or poor quality products are sold at low prices. This is against the law, which stipulates that the consumers should get goods of reasonable quality and not be deceived by producers or sellers.

• Visitors to beaches have complained about some people parking their caravans on the beach and stopping people from using nearby areas citing their privacy and security. This does not allow other people to use many parts of beaches.

• There is discussion in the social media about online polling conducted by a local daily, in which 80.9 percent of the respondents demanded that the Supreme Education Council revoke the national examinations, while 14.6 percent asked for reducing its share in the students’ final scores.

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Events in Qatar

One Thousand and One Nights BalletWhen: June 16 & June 23; 8pm-9.15pm Where: Katara Opera House – Building 16 What: A spectacular show that evokes the fragrance of history and the East’s magic. Enchanting dance performances and pieces composed by Amirov merging East and West tunes.Tickets: QR100 to QR250 at Virgin Megastore (online)

Kings and Pawns When: Till June 21Where: Museum of Islamic Arts What: This exhibition uncovers the history of board games in the Islamic world, from India to Spain between 7th and 20th century.Free Entry

In Bloom (film screening) When: June 12-18, 7 PM Where: Katara Drama Theater Building 16 What: In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992, Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.Tickets available at DFI ticket outlet at Katara building 26(www.dohafilminstitute.com)

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

Qatar Brazil: A Journey from the Amazon to the Desert When: Till July 1, 10am-10pm Where: Qatar Photographic Society – Building 18, Katara What: From the Favelas of Rio to the Amazon rainforest, and from the vibrant cityscapes of Doha to the shifting sands of the Qatari desert; four photographers from two different continents documented their journey as moments captured in time; engaging in an inspiring exchange of artistic discovery and cultural dialogue. This is a photography exhibition to showcase the best works of Qatari and Brazilian photographers Aref Hussein, Abdullah Al Tamimi, Andre Joaquim and Leonardo Wen. Free entry

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