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Naqsh Collective team at The Gate
Mall exhibition
Cancer to kill 5.5 million women a year by 2030
LAKE GENEVA
Montreux city has plenty to offer. There’s the lake, available for recreation of all kinds, touring the history-rich town and taking in the castle.
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The Peninsula
While stadium con-struction work continues to advance across Qatar, prepara-
tions for the first FIFA World Cup in the Middle East are also progress-ing in a surprising area: growing trees. At the most Northern tip of Qatar, 300 transplanted trees are already in place in a project which will increase in scale to a total of 16,000 trees of approximately 60 types in the coming years. A cen-tral part of the plans will be played by the Sidra tree, which has grown in the deserts of Qatar for genera-tions and has long provided shade and shelter to travellers.
A great effort in the design of all proposed host venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar has gone into building stadiums that will have a clear legacy use in years to come. These efforts have focused not only on the stadiums, but also on the pre-cincts that will include a number of services and green areas for the community.
This year, the Supreme Com-mittee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has kicked off construction of a tree and landscape grass nursery that will cater to the requests of these resources coming from all 2022 FIFA World Cup sites.
Works have started at the 880,000 square metre site next to Doha North Sewage Treatment Works Plant where the nursery will be located. The space will be divided into different areas
dedicated to planting landscape grass, trees and shrubs.
The nearby water treatment plant will supply water to the facil-ities that will have two 18,000 sqm lagoons with enough capacity for the facility to be independent for three days.
Talking about the project, Yasser Al Mulla, SC Landscape & Sport Turf Management Senior Manager, said: “This is a very ambi-tious project that we see as legacy.
We want to cater to all the areas surrounding all proposed 2022 FIFA World Cup stadiums by harvesting the section dedicated to landscape grass, which is around 440,000 sqm, three times per year. This means we will produce 1.2 million sqm of landscape grass per year. By using water from the sewage water treatment plant we are also ensur-ing that the project is as sustainable as possible.”
Al Mulla explained that the nursery will supply grass, trees and shrubs to the contractors building the surrounding area for the different sites, ensuring that the communities around the sta-diums have a green space for recreational activities: “A team will give advice to the contractors to ensure they are given best prac-tice on how to handle the trees. All trees that are taken from our nurs-ery will have a tag with all the information about their origin, name and life cycle that will be part of our database.”
The entire perimetre of the site will be planted with trees that will be elevated to serve as
windbreakers. The nursery will have approximately 60 different types of trees and shrubs including Sidra, Ficus and Acacia trees com-ing from Qatar as well as Asia and Europe. A section of 30,000 sqm will be dedicated to growing approximately 16,000 trees and another area will be used for trans-planted trees with space for approximately 3,000 trees.
“Trees are very delicate and they can live many years. To pro-tect them and make sure a transplant is successful they must be relocated in a place where they receive sunlight always from the same direction. The roots must be cut carefully in a one-metre diam-eter and always keeping soil in the roots. For transportation the tree has to be well wrapped and trimmed before it is replanted,” said Al Mulla.
Before the grass or the new trees are planted, 10 centimetres of soil will have to be added to make the land fertile. The trees will be grown on site for between two to five years before they are taken to the different sites.
Growing 16,000 trees for
2022 using recycled water
COVER STORY WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 201604
Amanda Loudin
The Washington Post
For the past 50 summers, music lovers have flocked to the banks of Lake Geneva to take in the Montreux Jazz Fes-
tival. Drawing more than 250,000 visitors over its annual two-week run, the festival looms large and dominates the Swiss town’s land-scape and culture. But Montreux has another claim to musical fame: It was where Freddie Mercury, the legendary lead singer and song-writer of Queen, came to find peace.
Like many well-known rock bands and musicians — including David Bowie, Deep Purple and Iggy Pop — Queen was drawn to Montreux by its quiet solitude and the lower taxes. The band mem-bers grew to appreciate the town so much that Mercury rented homes there. In 1979, they bought Mountain Studios, where they did much of their recording. Though Mercury died 25 years ago this month, a visitor today need only go slightly beneath the surface to find his spirit throughout the town.
I visited Montreux in June after a stay in Chamonix, France. With a return flight out of Geneva, I decided to tack on a couple of days in the town, drawn as much by its alpine lakeside location as its music history. I was charmed by both and upon arrival, drawn to the waterfront promenade for a stroll past the town’s restaurants, hotels and historical Chillon Castle.
When Mercury came to Mon-treux in 1978, it was not love at first sight. “He hated it,” says Peter Freestone, who was Mercury’s personal assistant from 1979 until his death in 1991. I spoke to Fee-stone via telephone from his home in Prague. “Early on, in fact, he said that the best place for the stu-dio would be at the bottom of the lake.”
Montreux, apparently, was too quiet for the famously energetic Mercury. “Back when Queen first got here, the town was tiny and there was absolutely nothing to do,” says Freestone. “But if you
wanted to record an album, it was perfect.”
Montreux began to appeal to Mercury once he had accepted his AIDS diagnosis in 1987, Freestone says. “At that point, Freddie needed and wanted peace and quiet, and the town could deliver it,” he explains. “The Swiss were very used to seeing famous faces in Montreux, and they tended to leave them alone.” Mercury could visit shops, eat out at local restau-rants and move about town without the throng of fans and media following him in Montreux as they did in his home town of London.
Indeed, the city has plenty to offer. If following in Queen’s foot-steps doesn’t appeal, there’s the lake, available for recreation of all kinds, touring the history-rich town and taking in the castle. It’s easy to enjoy it all in at a relaxed pace and simply people-watch along the promenade. As in most Swiss cities, the food is top-notch, albeit expensive. Montreux enjoys a temperate climate, and touring the area can be pleasant year-round. If jazz and crowds are not your thing, however, you proba-bly want to avoid early July.
On the banks of Lake Geneva
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Queen produced seven albums in Montreux, including the band’s 15th and final one, “Made in Heaven.” The band members knew they were recording on borrowed time; Mer-cury worked as much as his diminishing energy would allow, with the other three members accommodating his scheduling needs. “The band spent as much time as possible in the studio dur-ing this period,” says Julia Tames, media and communications repre-sentative for Montreux Riviera, the local tourist office where I checked in. “After he passed, the rest of the band finished the album.” (It was released four years after his death, in 1995.)
“If you listen to the lyrics of ‘A Winter’s Tale’ from the final album, you can hear and see everything in Montreux,” Freestone says.
The album’s cover was shot in three frames in Montreux, later com-bined. The blended photo shows the 10-foot Freddie Mercury statue that still overlooks the lake from the town promenade, the three remain-ing band members on the shores of the lake and the boat house of the home Mercury rented while in Montreux.
These days, fans of Mercury and
Queen can tour Mountain Studios, located on the top floor of the town’s casino. The control room is unchanged from Queen’s recording days except for a new recording con-sole. Visitors can also see some of Mercury’s performance costumes, handwritten lyrics and a wide vari-ety of memorabilia. A brass plate marks the spot where Mercury stood to record his final songs. Both an interior and exterior wall at the building are covered in signatures and handwritten tributes to Mercury.
To enter the studio, you must first pass through the dated, gilded casino and walk up to the second floor. Here Queen’s music loudly greets you, even if crowds do not. I had the studio to myself while there, and I meandered through its three rooms at my own pace.
Beyond the studio, “you can feel Freddie all over town,” Freestone says. There’s the statue, a bronze work by Czech sculptor Irena Sedlecka that was unveiled in 1996 and has become, local officials say, one of the 10 most visited tourist attractions in Switzerland. And sev-eral restaurants Mercury favoured still stand: Fans can have a meal at Brasserie Bavaria, a drink at Funky
Claude’s, or stay at the Montreux Palace, where Mercury and the band spent many a night.
I stayed down the road/prome-nade from the palace at the Royal Plaza. Although the location was good, the hotel has seen better days, and a heavy 1980s vibe permeates the property.
Visitors with a boat can get a view of a lakeside house that Mer-cury rented for several years — he called it the “duck house,” due to the
landlord’s decorating motif. Each fall, Freestone, who is semi-retired, spends a weekend hosting several boat tours, taking visitors to view the house and other sights. You can generally score tickets from Free-stone’s website or inquire about them at the tourist office. “We occa-sionally do walking tours as well, but that’s not quite as regular,” he says.
After Mercury’s death in 1991, surviving band members Brian May and Roger Taylor and manager Jim Beach set up the Mercury Phoenix Trust (MPT) to raise money for AIDS education and awareness projects around the world. For the past three years, the MPT has held a fundrais-ing party at the Montreux casino around Sept. 5, commemorating Mercury’s birthday. The event is open to the public; fans can pur-chase tickets through the MPT. This year marked what would have been his 70th. “It’s difficult to imagine Freddie at the age of 70,” Freestone says, “because he never wanted to slow down. We . . . use his birthday as an excuse to party, which is what he would have wanted.”
It was where Freddie Mercury, the legendary lead singer and songwriter of Queen, came to find peace.
COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 201606
Naqsh Collective team at The Gate Mall exhibition
Naqsh Collective team is proud to announce their participation in the solo exhibition The Journey of Sadu “Rih-
let Sadu” at the renowned The Gate Mall in Doha, Qatar, sponsored by Salam International.
The two sisters from Jordan will take you on a journey with their amazing, neatly designed, artwork collection that represents their strong bond to their heritage, fused with this region’s cultural elements represented in Al Sadu.
Nisreen Abudail, architect and founder, says: “I always dreamed of showcasing our Palestinian cul-ture through modern minimal art”. Through embroidery and mixing solid media to draw stories, she reminds us of how beautiful this art is. Nermeen Abudail, designer and founder: “Finding this graphical
treasure and recreating it was an enjoyable challenge, yet it was a duty to bring back the delights of our culture and mould them in a modern context to showcase it to
the world, specially our own.” They sure delivered their message with decisive elegance found in every piece that will be in display at The Gate Mall.
Visiting Naqsh Collective gal-lery in Amman is an exhilarating experience, where you are exposed to a tremendous amount of culture fused with modern art, transcend-ing through boundaries to bring together people from different backgrounds to share one love... the love of art and craftsmanship. From what is happening in the art and design scene, the two sisters are striding their way through the design world with tremendous potential, for their work is a major magnet to visitors in all the exhibi-tions they participate in throughout the Arab world so far and globally soon. If you are an art lover and have not heard of them yet, be sure to stop by The Gate Mall; you will be amazed by what you will see. The exhibition runs through November 9, in Maysaloun Hall, first floor, The Gate Mall.
Yellow Team takes Red Team with a squeaker win
Yellow Team’s John Lenard Go drilled in the winning basket after three attempts inside
the keyhole with 51 seconds left in the game to register a come from behind victory over Red Team, 38-36, in the Under 17 Division of Nissan Cup 2016 hosted by Pinoy Basketball of Qatar (PIBAQ) over the weekend.
Pat Carido, PIBAQ chairman who sits as temporary coach for Yellow Team in the absence of Jojo Longalong, applied pressure attack in the remaining four minutes of the game that paved the way for their remarkable comeback to seal a squeaker to the great excitement of the spectators.
It was the triumvirate of Go, Mark Manalo and Josef Andres who engineered the comeback rally after they complemented with rebounds, assist and baskets halfway through the final quarter that slowly drove them to inch closer and closer while
giving their opposing squad a hard time to respond in the offensive end.
“ We saw the weak areas in the play of the Red Team squad and took advantage of it to stage our rally,” Carido said.
Red Team has been dominat-ing the tempo all throughout the game leading as much as 10 points but however never gone beyond that edge as the Carido’s boys tried to bounce back at times to cut down the lead to single digits.
Go led his team with 12 points while Andres chipped in 11 points and Manalo with five points.
For their part, Red Team has only four players who scored in the entire game topscored by Razle Jan Fajardo with 13 points, Kim Biala with 12 points, Kyle Japson with seven and Kobe Baldomero with four. In the other game, Blue Team dumped Green Team with an over-whelming 26-point win, 50-24, in the lopsided match.
Blue Team slowly widened its lead early in the game and never looked back to stretched its edge up to 20 points in the fourth quar-ter. Jassim Abdulhamid and Barj De Leon equally top scored for Blue Team with 12 points each comple-mented by the 10 points of JV Lopez while Green Team’s Adrian Asun-cion 11 points was the only double digit score for the rest of the play-ers. The Nissan 21st Season Men’s
Championship Cup of Pinoy Bas-ketball of Qatar (PIBAQ) is presented by Ooredoo and McDon-ald’s Qatar. The tournament is brought by Qatar Basketball Fed-eration and the Philippine Embassy in Qatar and Co-Sponsored by Ali-cafe, Diana Jewellery and Watches, GO Sports, Philippine Airlines, Fil-ipino Community Center, Fraser Suites Hotel and Shuttersbug Photography.
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The St. Regis Doha offers a chance to win grand prize
The St. Regis Doha, the fin-est address in Qatar, is inviting both long-term guests and diners as well as new ones to indulge
in a collection of the finest experi-ences at The St. Regis Doha during this winter season for a chance to win the grandest of moments.
Centred on the collection of a set of five cards by guests when either dining or engaging in an activity at The St. Regis Doha, the unique collectable cards will not only be a memorable keepsake for guests but are also a welcome opportunity to try the many expe-riences of the Hotel.
This campaign was rolled out from November 1 and will conclude on December 31, 2016, following this The St. Regis Doha will announce the winner of its grand prize the first week of January 2017. The grand prize will be an all-inclu-sive two night stay at The St. Regis Doha Presidential Suite, a 720sqm suite for the truly worldly travel-lers that delights in having expectations transcended. This two storey suite, recently awarded Qatar’s Leading Hotel Suite by World Travel Awards 2016features two to three bedrooms and a pri-vate Majilis, along with the signature St. Regis Butler service and full access to the Hotel’s recre-ational facilities.
The Presidential Suite is poised to go beyond everyday excellence into another realm, as it merges
unsurpassed opulence and luxury with those of the traditional Mid-dle East.
Along with a weekend stay at The St. Regis Doha’s Presidential Suite for two, the grand prize will also include a romantic dinner in a Private Cabana together, compete with a 90-minute spa treatment for two, while enjoying some of the most refined St. Regis Traditions at the Hotel.
The campaign is underpinned by guests having to collect five unique cards across five different categories: the Gold collection, Navy collection, Red Collection, Green Collection and Purple Collection, by participating in at least one activ-ity of each card. The Winter Collective, the first campaign of its kind to be launched by The St. Regis Doha, is a unique opportunity to reward both repeat customers and new ones that dine at a variety of outlets and also use its unsurpassed facilities and services.
Additionally, guests that collect their cards at Remède Spa will receive a QR100 voucher on their next spa treatment, while guests that receive cards across any of the F&B outlets and restaurants at The St. Regis Doha will be rewarded with an exceptional 20% discount on food upon their next visit to the hotel’s outlets, excluding Hakkasan.
The Gold Collection, The Finest Address,includes a shisha experi-ence at Vine Terrace, Chef’s Table
at Astor Grill, couple’s treatment at Remède Spa, daily private cabana by the pool, or a group booking of over six people at any one of The St. Regis Doha’s restaurants exclud-ing Hakkasan. Meanwhile, Navy Collection, Experience Luxury, includes a stay at one of the majes-tic St. Regis suites, The St. Regis Doha Afternoon Tea Experience, 30- minute bespoke facial or massage at Remède Spa, couples set menu at The Club, or a private table at The Rooftop with a minimum of five guests.
While Red Collection, Beyond Expectation, comprises of either a night in the Astor or St. Regis suite, room service order (one card per stay), ordering a Spice Route Mary in Vintage Lounge, business lunch at Opal, or a 60 minute bespoke facial or massage at Remède Spa.
In the Green Collection, Home Away From Home, is the choice of a night in the Astor, Grand Deluxe or Superior Room, Burger Night at Opal by Gordon Ramsay, business lunch at Al Sul-tan Brahim, the St. Regis Grand Brunch, or a Signature Spa Body Therapy or Refinery Face and Body Treatment for Men.
The final card category, Pur-ple Collection, Family Traditions, gives guests the option to expe-rience the following with water sports rental, the family tradi-tions services, day pass at The St. Regis pool and beach area, sea-shell massage at atRemède Spa,
or Saturday tea party at Sarab Lounge.
Speaking ahead of the launch of the Winter Collection campaign, Tareq Derbas, Area General Man-ager of Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Middle East and General Manager of The St. Regis Doha, said:
“This campaign is an opportunity for The St. Regis Doha to reward all of its guests and customers whether they are long term ones or new ones, and it is our small way of say-ing thank you to them. By having to collect five different cards across five distinct categories, it allows guests to experience something that is beyond exceptional from a hand-crafted dining experience to a relaxing spa treatment, they are able to choose a bespoke moment at The Finest Address in Qatar.”
Upon paying the bill for any of the mentioned services across the different card categories, the Win-ter Collection card that corresponds to that respective service will be presented to the guest by the man-ager of the outlet. The St. Regis Doha is committed to providing unsurpassed luxury and services to each and every guest, and to be ahead of the curve in the way that it does so. For more information about The St. Regis Doha or to make a reservation, please contact the Hotel directly at +974 4446 0105, or email [email protected], and make sure to visit the website at www.stregisdoha.com .
FOOD WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 201608
Sara Moulton
AP
Any number of tasks may strike you as easy as pie, but anyone who’s ever actually made a pie can tell you that it actually
requires some care if you want it to turn out well.Consider apple pie. Its ingredients are few
and elemental: apples, of course, along with sugar, flavouring and pie crust. But choosing the right apples is a serious business. Likewise, you’ll want to do what you can to prevent the apples from shrinking in the pie shell as they cook, which simultaneously makes the bottom crust soggy and creates an unsightly gap between the filling and top crust.
An apple’s flavour intensifies as it is cooked. Unless you’re nuts about one particular variety, I’d advise you to pick a mix for your pie. The complexity of the flavours will make the pie that much more interesting.
Now, how to prevent that gap? Simple. Gen-tly pre-cook the apples, which drains them of liquid and shrinks their bulk. They’ll shrink no more once they’re added to the pie, which means there’ll be no gap between the filling and the top
crust. But don’t toss out that liquid! If you boil it down as detailed below and add it back to the apples, you’ll amp up the apple essence.
Deep-Dish Apple PieStart to finish: 3 hoursIngredients: Servings: 8
4 pounds firm apples, (mix of sweet and tart) peeled, cored and cut into 1/4-inch-thick wedges
1 pound applesauce apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1/4-inch-thick wedges
1/2 cup + 1 teaspoon granulated sugar, divided1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar1/4 teaspoon table salt1 to 2 tablespoons lemon juice1 teaspoon lemon zestDouble batch of pie dough, refrigerated1 tablespoon heavy cream
MethodIn a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat,
toss together all of the apples, 1/2 cup of the gran-ulated sugar, the brown sugar, salt, 1 tablespoon
of the lemon juice and lemon zest. Bring the mix-ture to a boil, reduce to a simmer and cook until the firm apples are just tender when poked with a knife, about 15 minutes. Transfer the apples to a large colander set over a bowl and let them drain for 15 minutes, shaking the colander every so often.
After the apples have drained, add the juices from the bowl to the Dutch oven and simmer until reduced to about 1/2 cup.
In the bowl, combine the reduced juices with the apples. Taste for seasoning and add addi-tional lemon juice if necessary. Cool to room temperature.
Meanwhile, remove 1 disk of dough from the refrigerator and roll it out between 2 large sheets of plastic wrap into a 12-inch circle, about 1/8 inch thick. If the dough becomes soft and/or sticky, return it to the refrigerator and chill until firm. Remove the plastic wrap from one side of the dough and flip it onto a 9-inch pie plate. Remove the second layer of wrap. Ease the dough down into the plate and press it into the bottom and sides gently without stretching it. Leave the dough that overhangs the plate in place; chill until the dough is firm, about 30 minutes.
Roll the second disk of dough between 2 large sheets of plastic wrap into a 12-inch circle, about 1/8 inch thick. Chill, leaving the dough between the plastic sheets, until firm, about 30 minutes.
While the dough chills, adjust the oven rack to the lowest position, place an empty rimmed baking sheet on the rack, and heat the oven to 425 F.
Remove the pie plate lined with the dough from the refrigerator and spoon the apple mix-ture into it. Remove the plastic from one side of the remaining dough and flip the dough onto the apples. Remove the second piece of plastic. Trim the excess dough hanging off the edge of the pie plate so it is flush with the edge. Pinch the top and bottom dough rounds firmly together and press them with the tines of a fork.
Cut four 2-inch slits in the top of the dough. Chill the filled pie for 10 minutes. Brush the sur-face with the heavy cream, then sprinkle evenly with remaining 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar. Bake the pie on the heated baking sheet until the crust is dark golden brown, 40 to 45 min-utes. Transfer the pie to a wire rack and let cool until ready to serve.
Mastering a better applepie
HEALTHWEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2016 09
Cancer will kill 5.5 mil-
lion women -- about the
population of Denmark
-- per year by 2030, a
near 60-percent increase in less
than two decades, a report said
Tuesday.
As the global population grows
and ages, the highest toll will be
among women in poor and mid-
dle-income countries, it said, and
much of it from cancers which are
largely preventable.
“Most of the deaths occur in
young- and middle-aged adults,”,
placing a heavy burden on fami-
lies and national economies, said
Sally Cowal, senior vice president
of global health at the American
Cancer Society, which compiled
the report with pharmaceutical
company Merck.
The review “highlights the
large geographic inequality in
availability of resources and pre-
ventive measures and treatment
to combat the growing burden
of cancer,” she told AFP. Can-
cer is already killing one in seven
women around the world, said the
report -- the second highest cause
of death after cardiovascular dis-
ease. All four of the deadliest
cancers -- breast, colorectal, lung
and cervical cancer -- are mostly
preventable or can be detected
early, when treatment is more
successful.
In poorer countries, a much
smaller proportion of cancer cases
are diagnosed and treated than
in rich ones, while a much bigger
group dies.
The relative burden is growing
for developing countries as peo-
ple live longer due to better basic
healthcare. Women in these coun-
tries are also increasingly exposed
to known cancer risk factors
“associated with rapid economic
transition,” said Cowal, “such as
physical inactivity, unhealthy diet,
obesity, and reproductive factors”
such as postponing motherhood.
“Due to these changes, cancers
that were once common only in
high-income countries are becom-
ing more prevalent,” said the
report entitled “The Global Bur-
den of Cancer in Women.”
It was presented Tuesday at
the World Cancer Congress in
Paris. According to the Interna-
tional Agency for Research on
Cancer, there were 6.7 million
new cancer cases and 3.5 million
deaths among women worldwide
in 2012. Of these, 56 percent of
cases and 64 percent of deaths
were in less developed countries.
“These numbers are expected
to increase to 9.9 million cases
and 5.5 million deaths among
females annually by 2030 as a
result of the growth and ageing
of the population,” said the new
report.
Regional differencesThe biggest concentration is
in eastern Asia, with 1.7 million
cases and a million deaths in 2012,
mainly in China.
The report said the highest
ratio of cancer cases per popu-
lation group are still reported in
high-income countries in Europe,
the Americas and Asia, but this
was partly due to better access
to screening and detection.
Deaths, however, were
proportionally much higher in low-
and middle-income countries with
reduced access to diagnosis and
treatment. The countries with the
highest death rate were Zimba-
bwe, Malawi, Kenya, Mongolia and
Papua New Guinea.
Breast and lung cancer are
the two most common types in
both rich and poor nations, with
colorectal cancer the number
three killer in developed coun-
tries, and cervical cancer in less
developed ones.
Cervical cancer can be staved
off by vaccination against the
cancer-causing Human papillo-
mavirus (HPV), and can be easily
detected through regular Papani-
colaou (pap) test screens. “Breast
cancer is the most commonly diag-
nosed cancer among women in
140 countries worldwide and cer-
vical cancer is the most common
in 39 countries, all of which are
LMICs (low- and medium-income
countries),” said the report.
It said the global economic
burden of cancer for both gen-
ders was about $286 billion (261
billion euros) in 2009, including
costs for treatment and care, and
loss of workforce productivity.
Cancer to kill 5.5m women a year by 2030
GARDENING WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 201610
Perry Stein
The Washington Post
Sarah Holway awoke one morning to a surprise: The art teacher’s DC school had been selected to help first
lady Michelle Obama break ground later that day on a vegetable gar-den on the South Lawn of the White House.
Holway was running an elemen-tary school garden, and she spent much of her time convincing co-workers how good such a program could be for the school. She made sure she was on that school bus to the White House on March 20, 2009, and she listened to the first lady tell the fifth-graders about the benefits of fresh and organic food - a con-cept then associated with elites and far from the mainstream.
“I knew school gardens were important, and I knew it felt like the right thing to do,” Holway said. “But that experience of the first lady doing it and highlighting its impor-tance validated my instincts.”
Holway later told a friend, Lau-ren Shweder Biel about the experience. Biel had been trying to start a neighborhood farmers mar-ket in northwest DC. Together, they decided to start an organization that would propel the nascent school gar-den movement in the nation’s capital to reach more children.
DC Greens, which they founded in 2009, now has a multimillion-dollar annual budget and 12 full-time employees who are involved in many of the city’s healthful-food access programmes, including a training program for school garden coordinators.
As Michelle Obama prepares to leave the White House, DC Greens wants to ensure that the legacy of her “Let’s Move” campaign - which aims to address the nation’s obesity problem - resonates in the District long after the Obama presidency’s end. “With Michelle Obama, it became a hep thing to put gardens in schools, but people weren’t think-ing how best they can be used, how they can be incorporated into the curriculum,” Holway said.
Soon after they started DC Greens, Biel and Holway testified before the Washington, DC, City Council in favor of a school gardens
component in the 2010 DC Healthy Schools Act.
The act passed and funded a full-time school garden specialist at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. That coordinator doles out grants for DC public and char-ter schools to have gardening programs, even allocating money so some schools can hire coordina-tors of their own. DC Greens has had a contract with OSSE to train the coordinators in gardening tech-niques, how to incorporate the garden into various class subjects and how to teach children the importance of healthful food. The number of schools with gardens in the District has grown from 82 in 2011 to 127 in 2016, according to OSSE data.
“When I spoke to teachers and administrators, it used to be really hard to convince them to build a school garden. I don’t see a whole lot of that anymore, and that’s in large part because of what’s hap-pening at the White House,” said Sam Ullery, OSSE’s school garden specialist. “We’ve been working with
DC Greens to ensure that school gar-dens are woven into the school and are an important part of the day for students.” DC Greens now has dis-tinct education, access and policy components. It started “School Gar-den Markets,” where children sell the produce grown on school grounds and other produce that DC Greens grows on its own farm.
DC Greens has a nearly one-acre farm in the District. The land serves as Walker-Jones’s school garden, and DC Greens also uses it as a space to train educators and community residents. The farm grows kale, okra, asparagus, blueberries and more.
To help offset costs, some of the produce and flowers are sold to high-end restaurants in D.C. such as Rose’s Luxury. The Dabney uses bor-age flowers - sometimes called starflowers - from the farm to adorn its desserts. DC Greens also oper-ates the city’s “Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program,” through which Unity Health Care prescribes fruits and vegetables to low-income patients. Those patients can take the prescriptions to designated places
where they can collect their produce.
Council member Mary Cheh, who crafted the DC Healthy Schools Act, said the school garden portion of the legislation has been one of its most successful components. She said the legislation was prepared before the Obamas moved into the White House but that the first lady’s work amplified the message of the bill. And DC Greens has helped ensure that the local schools most effectively leverage the resources made available through the legislation.
“It’s just been a wonderful expe-rience for everyone. I’ve been amazed by how successful it’s been,” Cheh said. “With any kind of legis-lation, you really want to have people out there who push it.”
In the past seven years school gardens have evolved from small patches of inconsistently plowed land that science teachers would use to teach children about plants and have become gardens that teach children about healthy living, sci-ence and social sciences.
One of Michelle Obama’s legacies? This nonprofit
BOLLYWOODWEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2016 11
Aishwarya is a director’s actor: Omung Kumar
Filmmaker Omung Kumar has praised the acting skills of former Miss World Aish-warya Rai Bachchan, who turned 43 on
Tuesday, and also said that she is a director’s actor.
“She is a good actress...but she is a direc-tor’s actor. So, she can mould herself completely for the character. When we decided to cast her as Dalbir Kaur for ‘Sarbjit’, she proved that and on screen, we saw her as a character and not as a glamorous diva,” Kumar said.
After clinching the Miss World crown in 1994, Aishwarya starred in many hit films like
“Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”, “Taal” and “Dhoom: 2”.
Kumar said that “after the release of ‘Sar-bjit’ (2016), people have changed their perception about her as an actress”.
What makes her so special?Kumar said: “Even after becoming such a
huge star, she is extremely hard working and a hardcore professional. She does not just work in a film, she collaborates with the director of the film.
She is very cooperative by nature, and that is why I share a very good bond with Aishwarya.”
“During our shooting of ‘Sarbjit’, she didn’t
even use mobile phone on set. That’s her ded-ication level. I wish her a very happy birthday and wish to see her growing as an artiste,” he added.
Meanwhile, a source has shared that the Padma Shri awardee, who has a daughter with actor Abhishek Bachchan, will celebrate her birthday with family.
Actress Gautami Tadimalla yesterday con-firmed that she is no longer staying together with actor-filmmaker Kamal
Haasan. Explaining the reason for parting ways, she said their paths have irreversibly diverged and it has taken her a long time to accept this truth. “It is heartbreaking for me to have to say
today that I and Mr. Haasan are no longer together. After almost 13 years together, it has been one of the most devastating decisions that I have ever had to make in my life,” Gautami wrote on her blog.
Although not married, Gautami and Haasan have been staying under the same roof for over
a decade. “It is never easy for anyone in a com-mitted relationship to realise that their paths have irreversibly diverged and that the only choices in front of them are to either compromise with their dreams for life or to accept the truth of their solitude and move ahead,” she said.
“It has taken me a very long time, a couple of years at the very least, to accept this heartbreak-ing truth and come to this decision,” she explained. Admitting that change is inevitable, she said she does not want to seek sympathy or assign blame via her post.
“Not all of these changes might be what we expect or anticipate but that does not, in any way, negate the very real impact of these diverging priorities in a relationship. This decision to set forth on my own at this stage in my life is per-haps one of the most difficult decisions any woman will ever have to make, but it is a nec-essary one for me,” she wrote.
To be a best mother to her daughter, she said she has chosen to be at peace with herself. Gau-tami went on to add that she will continue to be a fan of Kamal Haasan and admire his achieve-ments. “I have stood by him through all his challenges and they have been precious moments for me. I have also learned a great deal from working with him as costume designer on his films and I’m proud that I was able to do justice to his creative vision in those films.
Our paths have irreversibly diverged: Gautami
HOLLYWOOD WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 201612
Acting like creating magic: Benedict Cumberbatch
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IAANS
Oscar nominee Bennee-edict Cumberbatch, dict Cumberbatcchhhhhh, who plays a surgeon-t u r n e d - s o r c e r e rvested with powerful
magical powers and skills in “Doc-tor Strange”, has compared magic with acting. He says it’s all about making what you watch seem pos-sible, even though it is not.
Doctor Stephen Strange, hischaracter in Marvel Studios’ forth-coming film, was a celebrated butarrogant surgeon until an accident costs him his medical skills andcareer. In an attempt to restore histalents, he travels the world untilhe encounters The Ancient One, theenigmatic teacher who offers toteach him the ways of the Mystic Arts.
One of the inspirations for hischaracter was the radio show
“Chandu the Magician”, which fea-tured a magician who learned magic in India. Did he get a chanceto get trained by Indian yogis?
“It would have taken me little longer than I had to do this film, had I trained with the yogis. Wedidn’t do that, but we practisedmindfulness and meditation. It isa superhero film after all. There is no one who can teach you how to
be a superheeroor .. It’s’s an actting exer-cisesesese,” Cumbebeerbrbbaatchch said inin replyly to a ququququestionn bbby y IAANS in n a seleectct memeedididiidia aa inteerrraaction.n.
I had a great team helping me.“““II hhhad aaa g ggreat tteaeam m helping meme. So, it was fun. But who knows?Maybe, one day in future some magicians might come and we will have a chat. But I don’t profess to having any actual skills as a magi-cian... like acting, it’s about making what you watch seem possible, even though it is impossible, and there are ways of doing that,” headded.
The “Sherlock” star said that he has been practising meditation since he was 19. “Have I done itevery day? No. I haven’t because of my work or losing sight of howimportant it is,” said the actor, now 40.
He said it was important to build his character in the action-adventure. “The whole film is on the premise of the power of themind -- how the power of mind can change reality. We are talking about a superhero film with mag-ical elements,” said Cumberbatch.
The Scott Derrickson directo-rial transitions from one reality to another and into two, three, four dimensional worlds and beyond. And to present that, they have usedcomputer-generated imagery (CGI) in abundance.
HooH w wawas s iitt a actctining in suchh aa film? HHe saiaid d thhatat n not aallll s sceceneness weweree oo onlnly y y ababououtt CGCGI. “The magi-cal myststeerery y totour aandnd ssomomee ofof tthehedimensional stuff was, but notdidimemensnsiioonnal ststufuff f was, but not Hong Kong... Not all the interiors.There were fantastic sets,” headded.
Cumberbatch said that even when they used green screen ele-ments, he knew the context and so he never felt completely at a loss.
“There is no helmet or a mask.When they designed complexsequences, they had my face fea-tured in the animation and I was there for all of those moments in live action form. I am not spinningwebs like Spider-Man and doingthe impossible. Some were impos-sible, but thanks to the wire work,it made things look possible.
For the action sequences, he did a lot of training, causing inju-ries. “I broke my toe. There were arm and neck issues from stunt andwire work. But we were welllooked after. I naturally have tighthips and flat feet. So, it was diffi-cult to kick. I tried to build an arch in my feet. I did exercises,” he said.
Also starring Chiwetel Ejiofor,Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong,Mads Mikkelsen and Tilda Swin-ton, “Doctor Strange” will hit Qatar screens on November 3.
It is a superhero film after all. There is no one who can teach you how to be a superhero. It’s an acting exercise,” Cumberbatch said.
TECHNOLOGYWEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2016 13
Michael Thomsen
The Washington Post
“Battlefield 1”Developed by: DICEPublished by: Electronic ArtsAvailable on: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows
“Battlefield 1942” made war into an irreverent sport. Released in 2002 after a burst of World War II nostalgia driven by
“Saving Private Ryan,” “Band of Brothers,” and the “Medal of Honor” games, Swedish studio DICE designed a 64-person mul-tiplayer shooter that would emphasize cooperation across enormous maps using the fin-icky weapons of World War II. The mixture of unforgiving tactical simulation and the moment-to-moment drama of a rugby match created an ideal stage for improvisational slapstick. Players landed planes on top of other planes mid-air, used the game’s character animation to stage impromptu dances, and exploited the game’s physics system to launch tanks as if they’d come off a ski jump. The game accepted there would always be something fundamentally tasteless about translating war into play and basked in the uncanny schism.
“Battlefield 1,” the 12th main game in the series, is an unconvincing attempt to bring solemnity back to this raucous din. The game retains the series’ sprawling multiplayer matches, where team tactics feel like they’re on the verge of being lost in the chaotic hail of artillery fire, but it’s immediately clear that something has changed during the game’s somber opening cutscene.
“More than 60 million soldiers fought in ‘The War
to End All Wars,’” we read in spare white text against a backdrop of silence. “It ended nothing. Yet it changed the world forever.” This is a long way from the opening of “Battlefield 4,” which brought us a special ops soldier on the verge of drowning in a submerged 4×4 lamenting the fact that Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was on the radio and would probably be the last song he heard before dying.
“Battlefield 1” is built as an anthology, with five multi-level “War Stories” set in different loca-tions mostly during the last year of World War I, when automatic weaponry was conveniently most accessible. Every story is set up as a flashback, with its hero recounting how the war intruded on his life and drew him into the vortex of history where he was reduced to a name on a list. There’s a limousine driver-turned-gunner in an unreli-able Mark V tank, a brief tutorial appearance by the Harlem Hellfighters, and a climactic storyline that follows a young fighter under the tutelage of T E Lawrence seeking revenge against the Cen-tral Powers.
World War I might seem like rich source mate-rial for this kind of fragmentary, modernist reconstruction. The opening years of the war were fought under extreme constraints, by a signifi-cant percentage of teen soldiers, with as many as 250,000 under the age of 18 fighting for the Brit-ish, some as young as 14. And the war was widely protested both at home and in the ranks, with some 20,000 British troops courtmartialed for desertion or cowardice, and 3,000 sentenced to death for it.
“Battlefield 1” is strangely uninterested in his-tory despite its serious tone. Instead, the game uses its source material as a way to sentimental-ize suffering, an approach that starts to feel like self-justification for the game’s increasingly
inflexible design. As ever, the game’s sense of fun is inseparable from the player’s ability to shoot at as many things as possible - planes, tanks, peo-ple, zeppelins, field guns, more people, windmills, horses, trains. “In war, the only true equalizer is death,” one of the game’s characters says as he stares over the bay at Gallipoli, knowing he’s about to be killed by friendly artillery fire from an Allied warship below. You could say an even greater equalizer is the wish to not die, especially under friendly fire, and that imagining every life lost in war as nobly resolved to their fate in advance might not actually honor that sacrifice.
Another string of missions follows a poker-playing pilot through a bombing campaign, a crash landing in enemy territory that sets up a series of stealth missions in which bludgeoning the enemy to death with a shovel briefly replaces the shoot-ing, and which climaxes with a sunset set-piece mission that ends with him tumbling onto the surface of a burning zeppelin. After he has killed the German troops crewing it, we leave him lying in the wreckage glazed over with a calm that seems more like yogic afterglow than shellshock.
The “Battlefield” series has stormed through more than a century of warmaking in search of a good time - World War II, Vietnam, the Iraq War, and even a couple of trips into the near- and not-so-near future. Each game reduces war into the same essential struggle for control points, sniper nests, vehicle spawns, and mortar posts. Freed from the ersatz catharsis of the single player stories, “Battlefield 1’s” multiplayer modes get incrementally closer to depicting the hopeless repetitions of the war’s long and grueling stale-mates. In the new centerpiece mode, “Operations,” two teams of 32 compete for control of five dif-ferent quadrants across two enormous maps, one loaded after the other has been finished. Three
“Behemoth” vehicles occasionally appear to sway the tide for one team - either a zeppelin, a battle-ship, or armored train.
It’s a gratifying to play for a few hours, and the overlay of experience points and weapon upgrades offer formulaic but still effective rea-sons to keep coming back. Yet, all of it feels like it’s speeding further away from its source mate-rial. It’s a reminder that what we want most from history is the make-believe. We shouldn’t take history so seriously that we can’t think sideways about it for a bawdy laugh or two, but it’s self-delusion to demand reverence for sideways thinking. Playing “Battlefield 1” feels like a dis-service to both causes, neither irreverent enough to actually be fun nor respectful enough to illu-minate something about history. Instead, it feels like being asked to play a game of football at a funeral and then made to keep the noise down when you score.
Battlefield 1: An odd way to play with history
BABY BLUES
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by a merciless spirit, the family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.
OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL
NOVO ROYAL PLAZA
AL KHOR
ASIAN TOWN
MALL
LANDMARK
Inferno (2D/Thriller) 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 & 11:30pm The Accountant (2D/Action) 11:30am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:30, 11:00pm & 12:00midnightOuija: Origin of Evil (2D/Thriller) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 1:30, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:30pm & 12:00midnightBoo! A Madea Halloween (2D/Horror) 10:30am, 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 & 11:30pmThe Great Gilly Hopkins (2D/Comedy) 10:30am, 3:00 & 7:30pmHamlit Fraizer (2D/Arabic) 12:30, 5:00, 9:30pm & 12:00midnightAe Dil Hai Mushkil (2D/Hindi) 11:30am, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 & 11:30pm Shivaay (2D/Hindi) 10:00am, 1:20, 4:40, 8:00 & 11:20pmKeeping Up With The Joneses (2D/Action) 10:00am, 2:30 & 7:00pmJack Reacher: Never Go Back (IMAX/Action) 10:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40pm & 12:00midnight
Kaashmora (2D/Tamil) 1:00pm White (2D/Malayalam) 1:45pm Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2D/Hindi) 1:30 & 6:30pmThe Mermaid Princess (2D/Animation) 4:00pmOuija: Origin of Evil (2D/Thriller) 4:30 & 9:30pm The Accountant (2D/Action) 7:15 & 11:30pmThe Great Gilly Hopkins (2D/Comedy) 5:30pmBoo: A Madea Halloween (2D/Horror) 6:30pm Hamlit Frazier(2D/Arabic) 8:30pmJack Reacher: Never Go Back (2D/Action) 9:15pmShivaay (2D/Hindi) 10:45pm Kodi (2D/Tamil) 11:15pm
Shivaay (2D/Hindi) 1:00 & 10:30pm White (2D/Malayalam) 1:30pm Kaashmora (2D/Tamil) 1:00pm The Mermaid Princess (2D/Animation) 4:00pmOuija: Origin of Evil (2D/Thriller) 4:15 & 9:15pm The Accountant (2D/Action) 4:15 & 11:30pm Hamlit Frazier(2D/Arabic) 8:15pmBoo: A Madea Halloween (2D/Horror) 5:30pmJack Reacher: Never Go Back (2D/Action) 6:30pm The Great Gilly Hopkins (2D/Comedy) 7:30pm Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2D/Hindi) 1:30 & 8:45pm Kodi (2D/Tamil) 11:00pm
Shivaay (2D/Hindi) 2:00 & 8:00pm White (2D/Malayalam) 2:00pmThe Great Gilly Hopkins(2D/Comedy) 5:00pmThe Mermaid Princess (2D/Animation) 2:00 & 3:30pmKaashmora (2D/Tamil) 5:00pm Ouija: Origin of Evil (2D/Thriller) 5:00 & 11:30pm Boo: A Madea Halloween (2D/Horror) 7:00pmJack Reacher: Never Go Back (2D/Action) 7:00pmThe Accountant(2D/Action) 9:00 & 11:15pm Hamlit Frazier(2D/Arabic) 9:15pmAe Dil Hai Mushkil (2D/Hindi) 11:00pm
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (3D/Hindi) 10:45am, 5:00 & 11:15pmKaashmora(3D/Tamil) 11:00am, 5:00 & 11:00pm Kodi (Tamil)2:15pm & 8:15Storks (3D/Comedy) 11:15am & 1:15pm Shivaay (Hindi) 1:45 & 8:00pmAccountant (Action) 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30pm
Oppam (Malayalam) 9:30pm Welcome To Central Jail (Malayalam) 6:30pmShivaay (Hindi) 7:00pm Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Hindi) 10:00pmKaashmora (Tamil) 6:30 & 9:30pm Kodi (Tamil) 7:00 & 10:00pm
WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2016
VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER
CINEMA PLUS14
CROSSWORD CONCEPTIS SUDOKU
ALL IN THE MIND
08:00 News08:30 The Listening
Post09:00 Hard Earned10:00 News10:30 Inside Story11:00 News11:30 The Stream12:30 Fault Lines13:00 NEWSHOUR14:30 Inside Story15:00 Al Jazeera World 16:00 NEWSHOUR17:00 News17:30 The Stream18:00 NEWSHOUR19:00 News19:30 Witness20:00 News20:30 Inside Story21:00 NEWSHOUR22:00 News22:30 The Stream23:00 Witness
13:05 The Curse Of Oak Island
13:55 Mountain Men
14:45 Forged In Fire
15:35 Pawn Stars
16:00 American Pickers
17:15 Storage Wars Texas
20:10 Pawn Stars
21:00 Counting Cars
21:50 Ice Road Truckers
22:40 Time Team23:55 Counting
Cars
12:55 Bondi Vet13:50 Tigerfish:
Africa’s Piranha
14:45 Gator Boys16:35 Tanked17:30 Elephants In
The Room18:25 Big Fish
Man19:20 The Vet Life20:15 Tanked21:10 Untamed &
Uncut22:05 Weird
Creatures With Nick Baker
23:00 The Vet Life23:55 Gator Boys
13:30 Storage Hunters
13:55 Extreme Collectors
14:20 Alaskan Bush People
17:40 Street Outlaws
18:55 How Do They Do It?
19:20 Gold Divers
20:10 Storage Hunters
21:50 X-Ray Mega Airport
22:40 Magic Of Science
23:30 Fast N’ Loud
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Yesterday’s answer
Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is
a number-placing puzzle based on a
9×9 grid. The object is to place the
numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so
that each row, each column and each
3×3 box contains the same number only
once.
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