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• Dastras, poetry collection, unveiled during Mushaira session

• Indus Valley: Cultures and values

• Think beyond pies with canned pumpkin

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Ten years after the Asian tsunami devastated Sarath Kumara’s cinnamon plantation in Sri Lanka, forcing him to start over with nothing, the farmer faces a new threat from further afield.

SAVING SRI LANKA’SSAVING SRI LANKA’S CINNAMONCINNAMON

Gone With the Wind and its pernicious place in history

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By Amal Jayasinghe

Ten years after the Asian tsunami devastated Sarath Kumara’s cinnamon plantation in Sri Lanka, forcing him to start over with nothing, the farmer faces a new threat from further afield.

Sri Lanka is the world’s leading cinnamon supplier thanks to its centuries-old industry, whose lush, green plantations are strung along the island’s southern coast where European colonists and Arab traders once flocked.

But the industry says its product known the world over as “Ceylon cin-namon” is being undermined by a cheaper rival called “cassia cinnamon” grown mostly in China, Southeast Asia and neighbouring India.

“It took about four years before I could get any crops from new trees and it is only now they are giving a full yield,” Kumara, 54, said at his ancestral farm in Hikkaduwa, 100km (60 miles) south of Colombo.

“I have not seen cassia, but we know that some people (abroad) adulterate our cinnamon with cassia or sell cassia as Ceylon cinnamon.”

Kumara lost a brother and a sister-in-law, while half of his 9,000 trees were uprooted, when walls of water destroyed plantations in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and left 31,000 people dead and a million homeless across the country.

The industry eventually recovered to become stronger than ever thanks to international donors and a herculean effort by its farmers who replanted half a million cinnamon trees in Hikkaduwa, and adjoining Balapitiya area.

With cinnamon prices now soaring, the Sri Lankan industry fears whole-salers will increasingly turn to the cheaper product which is darker in colour and according to purists leaves a bitter aftertaste — but still label it “Ceylon cinnamon” or simply cinnamon.

The Spice Council of Sri Lanka wants to protect the brand “Ceylon cinnamon” and has approached the World Trade Organization and the European Union about gaining copyright or a patent.

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“In many Western countries, cassia is passed off as Ceylon cinnamon (in supermarkets and other shops),” council head Sarada de Silva said. “The true cinnamon is Ceylon cinnamon.”

The council wants the WTO to declare “Celyon cinnamon” a spe-cific product based on a “geographical indication” along the same lines as Champagne which comes from the region with the same name in northern France.

Under Portuguese, Dutch and finally British colonial rule from the 1500s, the Indian Ocean island was called Celyon and switched to Sri Lanka upon becoming a republic in 1972.

The aromatic spice — used in savoury dishes and desserts — grew naturally in Sri Lanka for centuries before Dutch invaders started com-mercial crops in the 17th century.

Tsunami forces upgradeSri Lanka’s industry, which supplies 80 percent of the world market,

is enjoying record export earnings for the island. High-grade cinnamon oil, extracted from the bark, has been fetching up to 65,000 rupees ($510) a kilogram.

Cinnamon earned Sri Lanka a record $135m from 13,866 tonnes exported last year compared to $47 million from 12,000 tonnes in 2005 — with Mexico, Colombia, Peru and the US the major buyers.

“Prices have never been so good,” de Silva said. “The challenge is to get our geographical indication recognised (by the WTO and others) That is the best way to deal with cassia.”

The tsunami tragedy pushed devastated cinnamon farmers to invest in better technology upon rebuilding their farms and oil mills, and are now reaping the rewards.

“After replanting, it took me four years to make money again,” farmer Upul Asanka, who lost his farm in the tsunami, said. “Initially there was salinity in the soil, but it is better now,” the 38-year-old said.

Kumara said he harvests his 9,000 trees every eight months, compared to every 18 months before the tragedy. “Since the tsunami our agricul-tural practice has improved,” Kumara said. “I notice that the replanted trees give a better crop,” he added.

Improved productivity has also allowed farmers to produce more of the lower-grade oil extracted from cinnamon tree leaves for use in balms, disinfectants, detergents and soap. The more expensive bark oil, meanwhile, is being sold for addition to high-end perfumes and even fizzy drinks.

The council has commissioned a study into the perceived health effects of cinnamon which some have long claimed lowers blood sugar levels and cholesterol.

Chef Dell’Ascenza Riccardo of Sri Lanka’s biggest luxury hotel chain, also known as “Cinnamon”, said he has started using the famed local product in his Italian dishes.

“I use it for my red sauce and many other dishes,” Riccardo said. “The diners feel something different and it makes a good impression.” AFP

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Sri Lankan cinnamon peeler Premasiri prepares a bundle of cinnamon sticks at a farm in the Hikkaduwa region.

PLUS | WEDNESDAY 1 OCTOBER 20144 CAMPUS / COMMUNITY

Ideal Indian School recently renovated its laboratories with latest equipment. The School installed new upgraded

computers and other multimedia aided learning methods in Junior, Boys’ and Girls’ Sections. In addition to upgrading

of laboratories, school is also introducing e-learning system equipped with Smart boards to add a new level of interactive teaching and learning process.

Ideal Indian School recently inducted a new batch of teachers from India into its

faculty in various subjects. Speaking on the occasion, Principal Syed shoukath Ali said that IIS is committed to maintain, upgrade and modernise the teaching and learning atmosphere in the classroom and also continuing to develop more effective

and innovative approaches in planning and managing school infrastructure, in order to ensure that the facilities meet growing student population and changing educational landscape.

The Peninsula

International Maritime Day observed at DMIS

The CBSE-i students of Doha Modern Indian School cel-ebrated the International

Maritime day recently by holding a special assembly.

The objective of the assembly was to increase the awareness of the students on global issues.

Arunima of Grade 5 delivered a speech on the contribution made by sailors to the economic growth of each nation. She applauded the efforts of the International Maritime Organization in protecting the marine environment.

Students of Grade 4 sang the song ‘Under the sea’ and students of Grade 5 staged a skit entitled ‘Making a Difference’. The skit con-veyed the priceless lesson of doing each one’s bit to make a positive

change in the world.Payoja of Grade 3 presented a

power point presentation on marine

life. The programme was anchored by Vedika of Grade 3. Aruna Suresh, the Headmistress congratulated the

students and reminded them of their responsibility towards conserving nature. The Peninsula

Gandhi Jayanti marked at DPS-MIS

The students of Preparatory Class of DPS-MIS conducted an assembly to commemorate the birth of Indian ‘Father

of Nation’ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the school auditorium.

Gandhi’s philosophy, principle and belief in non-violence were conveyed to the students through a prayer, enact-ment of the famous Dandi march, an action song and a song based on his famous three monkeys. The whole programme was presented by the lit-tle ones of Classes Prep D, F, K.

The assembly was attended by school Principal Asna Nafees, Vice Principal G Mala and Headmistress Mou Bera.

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IIS modernises facilities

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Stay In style at Wyndham Grand Regency for EidWyndham Grand Regency Doha is offering special packages during Eid Al Adha. Book a Deluxe Room for 1 night and get second night for free inclusive of buffet breakfast for two persons, two Angsana Spa gift vouch-ers, early check-in and late check-out, access to the fitness centre and swimming pool, plus free access to the internet anywhere in the hotel for QR1,555. This offer is valid during “Eid Al Adha” till October 10 for a limited number of rooms. This package is only for GCC citizens and residents.

Torch Doha unveils Eid packages

The Torch Doha launched a spe-cial Eid package for its guests. The food and beverage team at

the hotel has put together a special Eid Brunch served in the Flying Carpet res-taurant. The buffet will serve an exten-sive range of Arabic delicacies.

The live cooking station will feature variety of dishes including the tradi-tional lamb ouzi, fresh barbecue, sha-warma complemented by an enticing corner of authentic Arabic sweets.

The Eid special package includes accommodation starting from QR899 per room per night including breakfast at Flying Carpet restaurant, rooms equipped with iPad in-room solution and mood-lighting system and high-speed internet throughout the hotel.

While experiencing the hotel luxury services, guests can opt for a relaxing retreat at the Health Club, including massage services and swimming at heights in the cantilevered pool.

“We are proud to bring an authentic atmosphere during this special time of the year and take this opportunity to

wish everyone a Happy Eid,” said Hotel Manager, Sherif Sabry.

The newly-opened Torch Tea Garden Garden located on the 21st floor will serve afternoon tea every day and new menu items, including sharing platters, cheese and chocolate fondue.

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Dastras, poetry collection unveiled during Mushaira session

The Anjuman Muhibbane Urdu Hind Qatar (AMUHQ) organised a recital of Urdu poetry (Mushaira) at Radisson blue Hotel recently to

celebrate the 67th Indian Independence day. During this event a book — Dastras — was released

jointly by Chief Guest Captain Ravi Kumar, Defence Attaché of India Embassy, and Hassan Abdul Kareem Chougule. Dastras is a poetry collection written by Ahmad Ashfaque, a known poet in the region and joint secretary of Anjuman.

Obaid Tahir, the programme producer of Qatar Urdu Radio, spoke about the book and the unique writing style of Ashfaque.

The function was presided over by Chougule. Two guests came from India to attend the function — Farooque Syed, Editor of Gul Bootay, and Obaid Azam Azmi were guests of honour. Kumar in his speech said that only by changing the mindset, the development and preservation of civilization of Urdu is possible in the era of Facebook and WhatsApp. He also said that Urdu language is such that its sweet-ness could be felt. It is our responsibility to ensure its preservation.

Syed and Aazmi applauded the activities been carried out by Anjuman and other Urdu literary organizations. The president Chougule assured his support to all activities by Anjuman and announced the purchase of 100 copies of Dastras which will be distributed free of cost.

Nadeem Mahir, Vice President, convened the Mushaira. Prominent poets who read their poetry included Obiad Azam Aazmi, Amjad Ali Sarwar, Shaukat Ali Naaz, Aziz Nabeel, Fartash Sayed, Raquim Azmi, Tahir Jamil, Faizy Azmi, Qaiser Masood, Mansoor Azmi, Zawwar Hussain Zair, Athar Azmi, Shafiq Akhtar, Ahmad Ashfaque and Athar Ziya regaled the audience with their ghazals and nazms.

Khalid Daad Khan, President, proposed the Vote of thanks. The Peninsula

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Geographically, the ancient Indus Valley appears to have been extended over the northern parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the

northwestern parts of India. In this vast area of various terrains, archaeologists have revealed numerous sites attributed to the prehistoric times and particularly to bronze Age periods of 3300-1300 BC. They also seem to indicate that the peak of the ancient Indus valley cultures and values extended between the middle of the third millennium and the very beginning of the second mil-lennium BC. That was when the majority of the Indus Valley’s five million people used to be engaged in mining precious and semi precious stones in addition to carving seals used in Mesopotamia and trade locations in the Arabian Gulf such as Delmon land.

The results of the intensive excavations and field surveys have indicated the absence of large complicated temples such as those found in Mesopotamia and the Nile valley and this showed that the ancient people of the Indus Valley had very limited religious ceremonies.

While the ancient Mesopotamians and the Egyptians used to bury their dead in highly complicated cemeteries with all sorts of treasures and belongings, or were buried in communal or individual graves contain-ing few pots made of clay or metal and other belongings, so the deceased can use them in nether world. The ancient Indus valley people, mainly in Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, seems to have practiced supine burials (fractional burials) and sometimes cremated their dead.

Harrapa, the ancient city, was the first to have witnessed organised exca-vations conducted by C Masson in 1842. Thereafter many archaeologists sur-veyed the city in particular and the whole area in gen-eral and made limited exca-vations scattered here and there.

In 1949, M Wheeler initiated full-scale excavations in different parts of the Indus Valley. However, his missions were mainly concentrated in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro cities.

The results of his excavations and earlier and later excavations opened new horizons for studying in full details the ancient and the traditional cultures and values of the Indus Valley; in addition, to its ancient trade and cultural links through prehistoric and historic times with near and far localities such as Mesopotamia.

Studies, for example, revealed the importance of the technique and the use of ornaments in the Indus Valley through all periods and times. In addition to that, they also revealed the existence of orna-ments such as bracelets, rings, pendants, necklaces, armlets and anklets worn during ancient periods and in late historic times as symbols of a person’s age, social status, ethnic and religious identity.

Further studies have also revealed the different techniques in manufacturing vari-ous types of ornaments regardless of the material used.

As for cultural aspects, for Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro cities in specific and the Indus Valley in general, archaeologi-cal systematical activities reveal that since the discovery of the area accidently in 1856, more than one thousand sites along the Indus River were discovered. Harappa and Moreno-Doro, however were the most prominent discovery in the entire valley.

They appeared planned as urban cities enclosed with thick enclosure walls

built of bricks. According to the material found during the course of excavations, both cities were established during the middle of the third millennium BC. Inside those defensive walls houses were found built of bricks with one to three floors with numerous rooms. Some appeared to have had sepa-rated bathrooms.

To be continued next week

Indus Valley: Cultures and values

Dr Munir Taha

FOOD 7PLUS | WEDNESDAY 1 OCTOBER 2014

By Melissa D’Arabian

Let’s talk about one of the sea-son’s most iconic vegetables — canned pumpkin.

Yes, canned, because that’s how 99 percent of us get our pumpkin. Which is fine except for one thing — people overwhelmingly associate canned pumpkin with just one dish (pumpkin pie). But canned pumpkin actually has all sorts of uses in the kitchen, no matter what the season.

Pumpkin puree’s rich flavour and creamy sweetness work great in both sweet and savoury dishes. While we are so busy topping our pies with whipped cream, we have forgotten what a nutritional bargain this bul-bous squash actually is, packing tonnes of fibre and vitamins. And while it is naturally sweet, 1 cup has only about as much sugar as milk.

It often goes on sale this time of year. Since it stores so well, this is the time to stock up. (True story: I just used my final can of pumpkin from last fall this week in order to make today’s recipe.)

Some of my favourite uses for pump-kin puree include:

— Stirring 1/2 cup into brownie or chocolate cake batter to add nutrients and moisture.

— Adding 1/4 cup to smoothies for creaminess and vitamins.

— Slimming down baked goods by

swapping out part of the fat for pump-kin puree.

— Whisking a bit into stews or chilies for added richness and depth.

— Layering it with Greek yogurt, bananas, maple syrup and granola for

a super-charged morning breakfast parfait.

— Blending it with coffee, milk and spices for a homemade fall latte.

And let’s not forget that pumpkin is, after all, a squash. Why not consider

making a pumpkin puree soup? No laborious peeling and cubing needed! The sweet flavour pairs perfectly with spices, but feel free to use pumpkin puree in any of your favourite winter squash soup recipes. AP

Pumpkin Peanut Curry Bisque

Start to finish: 25 minutesServings: 4

Ingredients2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

(or coconut oil)1 small yellow onion, chopped

(about 3/4 cup)4 cloves garlic, chopped1 small Yukon gold potato, peeled

and cubed (1-inch cubes)1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored

and cubed (1-inch cubes)3 tablespoons Thai red curry paste2 cups reduced-sodium chicken

stock or vegetable stock1 cup water, plus more if needed15-ounce can pumpkin puree3 tablespoons smooth peanut butterSalt and ground black pepperChopped fresh mint or cilantro, to

serve

Method:In a large saucepan over medium,

heat the oil. Add the onion and cook until tender, but not brown, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, potato, apple

and curry paste. Cook, stirring con-stantly, until the curry paste is very fragrant, about 3 minutes. Increase the heat to high, add the stock and 1 cup of water.

Once the liquid boils, reduce the heat to medium-low, partially cover the pan, then let the soup cook until the potato and apple are very tender, about 15 minutes.

Remove the pan from the heat and let cool slightly. Stir in the pump-kin and peanut butter. Working in batches, transfer the soup to a blender and puree until smooth, about 1 minute. The texture should be like heavy whipping cream. If the soup is too thick, whisk in a bit of water. Season with salt and pepper. Divide between 4 serving bowls and top with mint or cilantro.

Nutrition information per serving: 250 calories; 120 calories from fat (48 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (2 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 28 g carbohydrate; 7 g fiber; 10 g sugar; 8 g protein; 770 mg sodium.

Think beyond pies Think beyond pies with canned pumpkinwith canned pumpkin

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HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS

DiCaprio steps out as ‘Mr Casual’

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio sported a casual look during an outing with friends in West Hollywood.

The actor wore a collared white T-shirt, cargo shorts, tweed cap and slip-on trainers Monday, reports dailymail.co.uk.

DiCaprio completed the look with a pair of sunglasses and sported a thick beard.

It’s believed the Oscar nominee is growing his facial hair for his upcom-ing role in The Revenant where he plays Hugh Glass, a 19th century fur trapper who is mauled by a bear.

The film, which is directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, also stars Tom Hardy, Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson.

Jolie gifts £2m watch to Pitt

Actress Angelina Jolie, who got married to actor Brad Pitt in August, has given him a rare watch worth two million pounds as a wedding gift.

Maleficent actress bought her man a much coveted 1952 Patek Philippe platinum chronometer, a legendary design by one of the most respected of all Swiss watchmakers, reports mirror.co.uk.

Jolie’s romantic gesture came to light after the watch was taken to a small shop in Gozo in Malta by a friend to be inscribed with the words “To Roly from Nessa”.

They are characters the duo play in the upcoming film By The Sea, which they are currently making in Malta.

“I did inscribe the watch, it was for Brad and it was a rare one,” said George Farrugia, who runs Dolindo Jewellers on the neighbouring island of Gozo.

“Oh yes, it was very valuable. I wasn’t nervous about the inscription because I knew I could do the work perfectly,” he added.

Cate Blanchett gets honorary doctorate

Actress Cate Blanchett received an honorary doctorate at Macquarie University here recently for her contribution in the field of arts, phi-

lanthropy and community.The Blue Jasmine actress delivered a passionate speech when she accepted

the honour at the varsity last week, reports femalefirst.co.ukShe hailed the arts as a ‘driver of innovation and exploration’.“The arts are what we stay alive for, what we work for all week, what

we dream about, what connects us and indeed, what some will say makes us human,” she said.

“Within this broad church is housed a myriad of professions — profes-sions which some of you will participate in, help change, shape and evolve and I’d like to say today that it is the arts that have always been the driver of innovation and exploration,” she added.

The 48-year-old who has sons Dashiell, Roman, and Ignatius with hus-band Andrew Upton, also stressed on the value of studying the arts.

Kaaka Muttai goes to Rome film fest

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ducer Dhanush’s Tamil drama Kaaka Muttai, which recently had its first world premiere at the Toronto I n t e rnat i ona l Film Festival, will next be screened at the Rome Film Festival starting on October 16.

M M a n i k a n d a n -directed Kaaka Muttai, about two brothers living in a slum, will be screened in Alice Nella Citt — a parallel and inde-pendent section of the festival.

The film, which is co-produced by filmmaker Vetrimaaran, will also compete for the Taodue Camera D’ORO Prize for the best debut film.

Kaaka Muttai features Ramesh, Ramesh Thilaganathan, Vignesh and Aishwarya Rajesh in lead roles.

TV’s comedians unite for Comedy Classes

After tickling the funny bone of audiences with stand-up comedy shows, Krushna Abhishek, Bharti Singh, Shakeel Siddiqui and Sudesh Lehri

have teamed up again, but this time they will entertain their fans through an innovative show titled Comedy Classes.

Produced by Optimystix, the sitcom going on air from October 7 on Life OK, is about an acting school called — Ache Din Institute. One can look forward to some funny moments with Krushna as acting guru and Bharti as a dance instructor, who has her own moves like BhartiNatyam.

Pakistani comedian Shakeel is expected to heighten the entertainment quotient as Urdu teacher, who can speak only seven sentences in the language. If that is not enough, Sudesh will join the entourage as music teacher, who mixes two songs to make his own version.

Ajit Thakur, general manager of the channel, says that they believe in serving the audience with “variety”.

“We didn’t want to do stand-up comedy, so we thought of doing sitcom. We got the best comedians together. It is a combination of Bollywood and comedy. It’s a Bollywood training class,” Thakur told reporters at the show’s launch. The event saw the actors performing too.

“We are planning to run it for five to six months. If it works, we will take a break of three months and then come back, so that the quality is not compromised,” he added.

Another highlight of the show will be the presence of actresses like Bruna Abdullah and Madhura Naik as students.

Vipul D Shah, the man who penned some of the most successful com-edies for the small screen namely Dekh Bhai Dekh and Shriman Shrimati, says comedy is his forte and he is just taking it forward with the show.

Our ‘Comedy Circus ran for over seven years. We thought of getting the same artists and do a sitcom. I am a producer, but also a writer. I’ve written for a few sitcoms like Dekh Bhai Dekh and Shriman Shrimati. So, I wanted to do what I am best at,” said Shah, one of the partners in Optimystix.

During the course of the show, Bollywood stars will up the glamour quotient.

“We will hopefully have the cast of Happy New Year. Maybe, we will teach Shah Rukh Khan how to act in one of the episodes. The stars will be presented according to the format of the show,” said Shah.

By E R Shipp

Well, fiddledeedee, as Scarlett O’Hara might exclaim: Gone With the Wind, the epic film of love

and war set against the backdrop of a doomed Southern slavocracy, is turning 75, with special screenings in movie theatres around the nation and an air-ing on TV, too.

While black film buffs and thrill seekers will be in these audiences, that was not the case when the block-buster saga premiered at Atlanta’s Loew’s Grand on December 15, 1939, with Depression-era patrons paying a whopping $10 for tickets.

In that New South that had replaced the antebellum South, there were no seats for black moviegoers. “Negro reaction to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind will have to wait until the film comes North,” the Pittsburgh Courier’s Atlanta correspondent reported in the December 23, 1939, edition.

For the GWTW premiere, Atlanta was a bastion of Old South pageantry, with 42 choristers from the oldest black church there, Big Bethel AME, dressed in “the garb of the old South,” according to the Baltimore Afro, to entertain the audience with Negro spirituals.

The film that went on to win 10 Oscars — including the first for a black performer — and that the American Film Institute considers one of the best films ever made, created nearly as much havoc in the equivalent of black Twitter — the black press — as General William T Sherman’s march through Atlanta during the Civil War.

It was 1939, when millions of despair-ing people were unemployed and liv-ing on some form of public assistance during the Great Depression. Black activists were crusading for a federal

anti-lynching bill. Europe was combat-ing Nazis and fascists while America dithered over whether to intervene. And Hollywood was promoting the lost cause in a war that had claimed 750,000 lives and brought about the legal abolition of slavery.

The Afro’s columnist Ralph Matthews warned Hollywood that it was on dangerous ground with GWTW: “This is more than a racial question; it is a matter of grave national concern, and the white guardians of the Ship of State should appreciate the dan-ger. With half the world on fire with national and racial hatreds, this is no time to reopen old sores at home.”

Black folks picketed from coast to coast. Some unions urged boycotts. In Chicago, the Defender called for “a mass protest” and in an editorial observed: “Gone With the Wind is prop-aganda, pure propaganda, crude propa-ganda. It is anti-Negro propaganda of the most vicious character. It is un-American propaganda. It is subversive.” In Philadelphia the president of the National Baptist Convention Inc. con-demned the film as a “disgrace.” Across the pond, the Defender’s London cor-respondent reported, “Africans, West Indians, Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Ceylonese, Burmese and other coloni-als” boycotted the film and registered their objections in Parliament.

Strangely, Roy Wilkins, the future NAACP chief, advised everyone to chill. In the Amsterdam News, Wilkins wrote: “It is my pleasure to report to my readers that in the lengthy and long-advertised film, Gone With the Wind, there is very little (almost noth-ing) over which the dark brothers and sisters can work up a good ‘mad.’ The authors of the film story have been exceptionally careful to avoid the dia-logue in the Mitchell novel which, if transferred to the screen, would have been inflammable material.”

Small favours.

Not long before the first announce-ment of plans to turn Mitchell’s best-seller into a movie, the Los Angeles Sentinel in a page 1 editorial predicted a disaster. “This kind of a picture of the Old South is false, and worse than that, it is a libel on the entire Negro peo-ple,” the editors wrote on January 28, 1937, while adding presciently that “our professional Hollywood hangers-on will be so blinded by the fact that a few Negroes will get jobs playing Uncle Tom and Aunt Dinah that they will think of nothing but praise for the studio that produces the film and the director that hires these actors to help perpetrate these lies in celluloid.”

In the months before roles were even filled, black newspapers were abuzz with speculation about who would win the plum roles, especially that of Scarlett’s faithful Mammy. Would it be Louise Beavers, best known then for her breakthrough role as the co-lead in the 1934 tearjerker Imitation of Life? Or would it be Lizzie McDuffie, an amateur thespian who found her-self at the top of the social heap as a personal maid to the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt? Both were apparently hired at various stages of the production but were ultimately replaced by Hattie McDaniel, who went on to become the first black Academy Award winner as best supporting actress in 1940.

Amid the speculation about what the Courier referred to as “its finan-cial effect upon the coloured colony” of Los Angeles, a strong current of wariness and skepticism presaged what transpired decades later with Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave: How would Hollywood treat the black char-acters? Would the film spew despised words like “nigger” and “darky” so lib-erally used in the novel? The California Eagle’s Earl J Morris castigated black actors who auditioned for parts by reading scripts containing such words and urged readers to write to David O Selznick, the producer, and to Will Hays, the movie industry’s chief censor.

GWTW inspired a new sophisti-cation in film criticism among writ-ers like William L Patterson in the Defender (“Gone With the Wind is a weapon of terror against black America. It is a weapon of lies and misrepresentations calculated to turn white America away from the demo-cratic struggle and against Negroes”); Ben Davis in the Cleveland Call and Post (“The picture openly refers to the

Negroes as ‘simple-minded darkies,’ resurrecting all the racial inferiority theories which science has discarded, and which Hitler and his fellow impe-rialists have picked up against the Jews and other minorities”); and Dan Burley in the Amsterdam News (“The David O Selznick production of Gone With the Wind, representing an investment of $3,000,000, is the most expensive attempt to date to show the too rapidly progressing Negro his ‘proper place’”).

To the dismay of editorialists and reviewers, black people flocked to GWTW when it reached theaters near them, like the Carver in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Liberty in Bedford, Virginia; the Lincoln in Washington; the Harlem in Baltimore; and the Victoria in New York City’s Harlem. Some columnists praised the film’s production values and performances. Just about everyone loved McDaniel, about whose performance Donald Bogle, the film historian, has written, “McDaniel’s Mammy becomes an all-seeing, all-hearing, all-knowing com-mentator and observer. She remarks. She annotates. She makes asides. She always opinionises.”

With the passage of time and a dif-ferent appreciation of the slavery era, as evidenced by 12 Years a Slave win-ning the Oscar for best picture this year, has GWTW’s time gone with the wind? Trey Ellis, the novelist and screenwriter, thinks so. He puts it in a category with Leni Riefenstahl’s bril-liantly rendered propaganda films for Hitler’s Third Reich: “It is in the serv-ice of something very pernicious.”

Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic, thought about that a few years ago as she watched the movie on TV. “As constructed entertainment, it kept holding me-the drive of the action, the characters, the melodrama. I kept watching it,” she told The Root. “At the same time, of course, I was snarling and growling and rolling my eyes in disgust moment after moment and also feeling, ‘God, it is very scary, the power of entertain-ment or artistic conventions to pull you in despite all your intellectual and emotional abhorrence.’”

To anyone planning to watch GWTW now, she offers this advice: “Watch it well armed with political, social and race history, and approach it as real critics of how film manipulates, how it can turn even your own impulses and instincts against you.” WP-Bloomberg


Gone With the Wind and its pernicious place in history

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Volcano craterLast major eruptionoccurred in 1979

HEALTH / FITNESS 11

How skin pigment protects us from UV rays

To protect the body from the dangerous ultra-violet (UV) rays from the sun, skin pig-

ment converts UV radiation into harmless heat through a rapid chemical reaction, a study says.

“In this way, the pigment disarms the energy in the UV light and prevents it causing harm-ful chemical reactions,” said Villy Sundstram, a professor of chemistry at the Lund University in Sweden. Pigment in skin and hair comprises two different types of melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin.

Eumelanin makes people develop a sun tan and gives colour to brown and black hair, whereas those with red hair and pale skin have high levels of pheomelanin.

“We found that eumelanin converts harmful UV radiation into heat with almost 100 percent efficiency,” Sundstram pointed out.

“The chemical reaction is incredibly quick, taking less that a thousandth of a billionth of a second,” Sundstram explained.

What happens in detail in the chemical reac-tion is that a hydrogen ion - a proton - is ejected from the pigment at the same moment the UV light reaches the pigment molecule.

The chain of events could be likened to the melanin getting rid of the energy of the UV light by shooting a proton projectile very quickly.

This projectile in turn gives off energy to the surrounding membrane tissue in the form of heat, thus converting dangerous UV radiation into harmless heat, the findings showed.

“By understanding how the body naturally protects itself against UV light, we can develop better sun protection products based on the same principles,” Sundstram maintained.

“This would provide better protection against skin cancer,” he emphasised.

The study appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Breathe easy with ‘Lung Flute’An Indian-origin scientist has developed a

hand-held “lung flute” that allows patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to clear lung mucus simply by blowing into the respiratory device.

It uses sound waves to break up mucus in the lungs. “The ‘lung flute’ improves symptoms and health status in COPD patients, decreasing the impact of the disease on patients and improv-ing their quality of life,” said principal author Sanjay Sethi, professor at department of medi-cine, University of Buffalo’s medical school.

The 26-week-long study demonstrated that patients using the “Lung Flute” experience less difficulty in breathing and less coughing and sputum production than a control group which saw no change in COPD symptoms.

Researchers followed 69 patients with COPD for six months. It was conducted at the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System (Buffalo VA).

“This study confirms and extends the results of a previous, eight-week study of 40 patients that was conducted in 2010 to obtain FDA approval for the ‘Lung Flute’,” Sethi added.

He has led a series of clinical trials demon-strating the safety and efficacy of the “Lung Flute”, including those that played a key role in the approval of the device for diagnostic and therapeutic uses by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Agencies

By Ben Hirschler

A raft of new cancer drugs promise better, longer-lasting treatments with fewer adverse side effects — but their high cost is a grow-

ing concern.Drugs that help the body’s own immune cells fight

tumours are expected to be used in multi-drug cock-tails, pushing the price of therapies costing more than $100,000 a year even higher.

At the same time, other expensive medicines are being combined to produce impressive results fight-ing diseases including breast and skin cancer.

Price — just as much as safety and efficacy — has proved a hot topic for nearly 20,000 oncology experts at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) annual congress in Madrid.

“It’s going to be a real problem for society,” said Solange Peters, a cancer specialist at the University Hospital of Lausanne and a member of ESMO’s edu-cational program. “We are working to make oncolo-gists more aware of the costs.”

It all spells an increased financial burden for healthcare systems already struggling to meet the demands of aging populations, and for individuals who have to pay out-of-pocket costs in markets such as the United States.

“Financial toxicity, or more generally the finan-cial burden of disease, is a side effect just as potent as fatigue or nausea in patients,” consultancy IMS Health said in a report last week, noting the average price of cancer drugs had almost doubled in the past decade to $10,000 a month.

America’s Health Insurance Plans, representing U.S. insurers, says it is alarmed by a coming flood of new cancer treatments that will carry “astronomi-cal price tags”, while pricing rows have also flared in Britain, France and Italy.

Treatment BackboneBy blocking a tumour’s ability to camouflage itself

from attack by the immune system’s cells, immuno-therapy has the potential to send cancer into long-term remission.

The approach has come of age this month with the first US approval of a drug blocking a protein known as Programmed Death receptor, or PD-1, from Merck and the first late-stage trial results for another PD-1 drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb presented at ESMO.

High prices are central to forecasts that sales of these new immune-boosting drugs from companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck & Co, Roche and AstraZeneca may top $30bn a year.

But an ESMO survey showed patients in poorer parts of Europe already lack access to existing drugs such as Roche’s Herceptin for breast cancer, so immunotherapies are likely to be out of reach in most of the 131 countries represented in Madrid.

Immunotherapies seem to work in more and more cancers, suggesting they could become the backbone of treatment in much the same way that chemo-therapy is today.

Clinical updates in Madrid showed the efficacy of

such therapies extending well beyond melanoma — the initial focus — to lung, kidney, bladder, head and neck, and stomach cancer.

ESMO president Rolf Stahel said they were likely to prove especially useful in diseases such as kidney and lung cancer, where slow growth favors the immu-nological approach.

Still, the new immunotherapies only help some patients and they do not act as quickly as other tar-geted drugs, suggesting the best approach will be to develop cocktails of medicines.

“Our vision is combinations,” said Johann de Bono from Britain’s Royal Marsden Hospital and head of ESMO’s scientific committee. “We have new avenues for really changing practice globally, though there are obviously fiscal costs and concerns.”

So far, doctors only have access to two types of immune system checkpoint inhibitors -- PD-1, plus the related target PD-L1, and CTLA4. But there are many other brakes and accelerators on the immune system that may be targeted. Some, like OX40, are already the subject of early trials.

BiomarkersJeffrey Weber, a cancer doctor at the Moffitt

Cancer Center in Florida, who has led much of the research on Bristol-Myers’ immune system drug Opdivo, is a big believer in the potential of immuno-therapy but shares the concerns about costs.

“We’ve kind of maxed out what we’re either will-ing or able to pay for these kinds of drugs, so it’s a problem when you start combining them,” he said.

“It can’t just keep going exponentially, so that eventually it will be $1m a year to get treated — that’s crazy.”

Competition between companies may help drive down the cost, he believes, since there is no strong evidence as yet to differentiate the new PD-1 or PD-L1 drugs, which he expects to play a central in future drug combinations.

There is also debate as to whether cancer patients should be tested before treatment to see if their tumors carry biological markers that would make them more likely to respond, thereby limiting the numbers eligible for therapy.

Such biomarkers are already used for other cancer drugs that only work if there is a specific gene muta-tion. But the situation is not black and white with the new treatments and some oncologists worry it could exclude patients who might benefit.

Drugmakers argue they need a fair price as reward for their investment, with cancer accounting for 23 percent of the $70bn spent by the industry on research last year, according to Thomson Reuters unit CMR International.

But they acknowledge the public purse is not bottomless.

“The willingness to pay in oncology will remain higher than in other therapeutic areas, because of the high need, but there will be a ceiling,” said Joerg Barth, head of oncology at Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim. Reuters

New cancer therapy comes of age, cost a ‘toxic’ side effect


TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 1 OCTOBER 201412

By Alexei Oreskovic

Google Inc is planning new and revamped streaming-music services in coming weeks, searching for a way to stand

out in an increasingly crowded field of rivals from Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc to Spotify.

Nailing music is one way for Google to raise chances of continued success as people spend more time on mobile devices.

Google’s YouTube service has become a low-profile titan in stream-ing through the popularity of music videos. Currently, videos must be cho-sen one track at a time. YouTube in coming weeks will launch new sub-scription and ad-supported YouTube music services able to play several tracks in a row, a person familiar with the plans said.

Google had been expected to launch the YouTube services by the end of summer and had offered few details.

Also coming soon: an update of Google’s existing $10-a-month All Access subscription-music streaming service. The new version will incor-porate technology acquired by Google with the purchase of Songza, a service known for its ability to recommend music, Jamie Rosenberg, Google’s Vice

President of Digital Content, said in an interview.

The variety of approaches risks con-fusing consumers, said Alex Luke, a venture capitalist at The Valley Fund, who has worked as an executive at music label EMI Music and was the director of music programming at Apple until 2011.

He argued that the winners in dig-ital music would offer radio-style pro-grams, downloads and let listeners put together their own playlists.

“The marketplace hasn’t found itself yet and you’re going to continue to see the big players like Apple and Google experiment,” Luke said. “The thing that Google and YouTube both have in their favour is these huge, active user bases.”

The latest music push comes 16 months after Google launched its All Access subscription service. Industry observers say All Access has strug-gled to stand out and set Google into a markedly different business than the free, ad-supported services that have long underpinned its success.

Google’s All Access subscription music service likely draws between 500,000 and a few million users, said Mark Mulligan of research and con-sulting firm Midia Research. That puts it in the same ranks as rivals Rhapsody and Deezer, but behind Spotify, which

has more than 10 million paying subscribers.

Apple has a Beats subscription streaming service, acquired with the Beats headphone line in May, and it has free iTunes radio, which analysts say has not been a breakout success. E-commerce giant Amazon launched its music service in June, providing streaming of a limited catalog of music to members of its $99-a-year Prime service.

The U.S. music market is worth $7 billion but royalty and market-ing expenditures mean most stream-ing music businesses currently lose money, according to estimates from Brian Zisk, executive producer of the SF MusicTech Summit.

Mulligan described Google’s music service in a “holding pattern”, arguing that Google should be at least as big as Spotify given Google’s resources and existing user base.

Google’s Rosenberg acknowledged the service is not the market leader, but said Google was encouraged by

what he called a “very healthy” por-tion of consumers who subscribed after a free one-month trial.

He saw no need to cut the $10 monthly subscription price.

“Is the bigger upside getting more people to try these services, or is the bigger upside dropping the price by a dollar or two?” he asked. “Right now we’re focused on creating broad aware-ness that the service exists.” All Access is now available in 43 countries, he said.

To stand out, Google envisions a service “that extends seamlessly to your wearable device or to your car,” and that’s intelligent enough to play “the right music for the right moment,” Rosenberg says.

Marc Ruxin, the Chief Operating Officer of Rdio, a competing, privately-held streaming service, said Google wanted to use music to keep its main service, search, top of mind.

“Google like any Internet company is in a war for attention, so they want as much user time on a daily basis that they can get,” he said. Reuters

Google searches for right note in online music business

In a matter of days, the new social network Ello, described as the “anti-Facebook” for its stand on privacy and advertising, has become perhaps the hottest ticket on the Internet.

Created last year as a “private” social network, Ello (www.ello.co) recently opened its doors on an invitation-only basis.

Because of the limited supply and strong demand, the invitations have been selling on eBay at prices up to $500. Some reports said Ello is getting up to 35,000 requests per hour as a result of a viral surge in the past week.

Ello appears to have caught on with its simple message which seems to take aim at frustrations of Facebook users.

“Ello doesn’t sell ads. Nor do we sell data about you to third parties,” the company says.

Its “manifesto” states: “We believe a social net-work can be a tool for empowerment. Not a tool to deceive, coerce, and manipulate — but a place to connect, create, and celebrate life. You are not a product.”

Ello’s policy states that the practice of collecting and selling personal data and mapping your social connections for profit “is both creepy and unethical.”

“Under the guise of offering a ‘free’ service, users pay a high price in intrusive advertising and lack of privacy.”

Based in Vermont, Ello was launched by a group of artists and programmers led by Paul Budnitz,

whose previous experience include designing bicy-cles and robots.

Budnitz says on his page that Ello was designed to be “simple, beautiful and ad-free.”

‘Different politics’Nathan Jurgenson, a social media researcher at

the University of Maryland, welcomed Ello’s fresh approach.

“I love these moments of new social media when conversation explodes, moved to imagine how social media can be different, questioning core assump-tions instead of just fretting and complaining -- all before this paint even dries,” he said on his Ello page.

“Ello is getting so much attention precisely because it promises social media of a different poli-tics. We’ve collectively come to the realization that the rise of social media has been accompanied by handing far too much power to far too few people, and there’s energy to shake things up, even if just a

bit.” Ello’s rise also comes amid complaints against Facebook from the gay community that the world’s biggest social network began disabling accounts using stage names instead of real names.

A San Francisco protest is planned against Facebook supporting “drag queens” who lost their Facebook accounts. Ello does not require real names.

Business plan?It remains unclear if Ello will end up being a flash

in the pan, or if it will develop a profitable business plan. Ello states it plans to remain “completely free to use,” but that it could start offering some pre-mium features for a fee. Some question if Ello can succeed on this kind of model and keep its principles.

But former Ello collaborator Aral Balkan said Ello has already been compromised by taking $435,000 in venture capital funding.

A designer and founder of ind.ie, a privacy advo-cacy group, Balkan said he worked briefly for Ello but left when he learned of the venture investments.

“When you take venture capital, it is not a mat-ter of if you’re going to sell your users, you already have,” says a blog post from Balkan.

“It’s called an exit plan. And no investor will give you venture capital without one. In the myopic and upside-down world of venture capital, exits precede the building of the actual thing itself. It would be a comedy if the repercussions of this toxic system were not so tragic.” AFP

‘Anti-Facebook’ social network gets viral surge

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaOctober 1, 1949

1869: The world’s first post card went on sale in Austria, issued to help soldiers to keep in touch with home1964: Japan’s Shinkansen “bullet train” made its first journey from Tokyo to Osaka1969: The supersonic Anglo-French Concorde aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time1994: Hungary suspended sales of paprika after lead-rich red paint was found in samples of the spice

The People’s Republic of China was formally established, with Mao Zedong (above) as Chairman of the Communist Party and Zhou Enlai heading the government

Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ALEXANDER SEVERUS, ANTONIUS PIUS, AUGUSTUS, CALIGULA, CARACALLA, CLAUDIUS, COMMODUS, DOMITIAN, GALBA, HADRIAN, HELIOGABALUS, JULIUS CAESAR, LUCIUS VERUS, MACRINUS, MARCUS AURELIUS, NERO, NERVA, OTHO, PERTINAX, TIBERIUS, TITUS FLAVIUS, TRAJAN, VESPASIAN, VITELLIUS.

Baby Blue by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARN ARABIC


At the Bank

Bank Ma�rif

The check Šeek

Money Mal

Postal money order �awala

What is the exchange rate of the American dollar?

Ma houwa siçrou �arfi aldolari al'amreekiyy?

I want to but three shares Oureedou an aštaree �ala�at ashoum

Pay this check Idfaç ha�a šeek

The signature Al'im�a'

I want to cash this check Oureedou an a�orouf ha�a šeek

Where is the exchange of�ce? Ayna maktabou al�iraffa?

When does the bank open? Mata yafta�ou alma�rif

High intrest Fa'ida mourtafiça

Note: ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised

HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 With 72-Across, what the

answers on this puzzle’s perimeter form

5 Beech and birch

9 “Yay!,” in a text message

13 Drink served either hot or cold

14 Qualified

15 Iberian river

16 Any hit by the Everly Brothers, e.g.

17 Swarm (with)

18 Brief reminder

19 Performs, as historical scenes

21 Turkish hospice

23 Taunt

24 Moved smoothly

26 Fictional Flanders and Plimpton

28 Not worthy of

32 Hack’s vehicle

35 Nancy Reagan’s maiden name

37 2007 documentary about the health care system

38 Wilson of “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou”

40 Put back to zero, say

42 Latin musician Puente

43 Celebrate noisily

45 Inspiration for Old Major of “Animal Farm”

47 Summer clock observance: Abbr.

48 Florida home for Hemingway

50 Caddie’s pocketful

52 Brew, as tea

54 Indonesian currency

58 Certain paint protector

61 Heed

63 Curve in a crown molding

64 Dress ___ (impersonate)

66 Nostalgic style

67 Writer Sarah ___ Jewett

68 Ski resort in Salt Lake County

69 Leaking, as a faucet

70 Nutcase

71 Take a gander

72 See 1-Across

DOWN 1 ___ Coyote (toon)

2 More bizarre

3 Control, as costs

4 Like calls from bill collectors, typically

5 Unit of power

6 Way overweight

7 Cheer in Chihuahua

8 Death

9 Cry upon arrival

10 High, in German names

11 “Coffee, Tea ___?” (1960s best seller)

12 Beep

13 Telephone attachment

20 Chest material

22 ___ Health magazine

25 Part of AWOL

27 Gracefully thin

29 ___ wash jeans

30 Times Square booth sign

31 Knee-slapper

32 One may pop on New Year’s Eve

33 Bide-___

34 Group of beauties

36 Ending with advert

39 Magazine launch of 1933 with a hyphen in its name

41 Wedding cake parts

44 “___ thousand flowers bloom”

46 Car gear

49 ___ relations

51 Suit company founded in Australia

53 Student of Socrates

55 Emcee’s delivery

56 Take ___ (travel)

57 Basketball target

58 Diner employee

59 Farming: Prefix

60 City NNE of Tahoe

62 “Babette’s Feast” author Dinesen

65 Mideast grp.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15

16 17 18

19 20 21 22

23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30 31

32 33 34 35 36 37

38 39 40 41 42

43 44 45 46 47

48 49 50 51

52 53 54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61 62

63 64 65 66

67 68 69

70 71 72

H D T V T U D O R P U P SA R O O I R A N I A P I AL I N C O L N M E M O R I A LS P E A R P A I R I N G S

B E D E L E T T E AJ E T C I V I L R I G H T SA M A K E E N Z O EM I K A M L K J R D A W N

E T D E P O S I I II H A V E A D R E A M R N AN E S U S E G R A BA T T A C K A D R E M I XW E A R E F R E E A T L A S TA R N E O M A N I O M A RY O D A R E N D S W A W A

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

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

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

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


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Events in Qatar

The Arabic Script When: Till September 30; 9am-6pmWhere: AaQool Atrium, Qatar Foundation Recreation Centre, Education City What: The display at this calligraphy exhibition includes authentic calligraphy artworks dating as far back as the 9th Century, and showcases the finest pieces from famous calligraphers Hamdulla Al-Amasi and Hafiz Osman, in addition to the exceptional work of Qatari calligrapher Ali Hassan Al Jaber.Free entry

Trapeze Exhibition and Acquisitions Program When: September 1 — November 1; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara What: The exhibition features the work of Qatari artists and their efforts to achieve a balance between reviving the heritage and traditions and preserve the cultural and popular memory, between their aspirations as artists yearning for the future enlightened by their country rising to the top ranks in various fields.Free entry

Radio Controlled Car RaceWhen: Till November 21Where: Aspire Zone What: Qatar’s best radio controlled car racers can converge at Aspire Zone and take part in a series of exciting races at the Zone Race Track. Only drivers that have cars suitable for the competition can enter the race. The circuit features an off-road track that is 350 m long and 4 m wide, over an area of 1,650 square meters. The type of cars being used on the track are 1/8 scale buggy and Truggy style cars.More info at www.lifeinaspire.qa

The Tiger’s Dream: Tipu Sultan When: September 29 - January 24Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: This exhibition delves into the life of Tipu Sultan, the South Indian ruler, statesman, and patron. Drawn entirely from the MIA collection, and featuring many objects which have never been displayed in Qatar, the centerpiece is a group of 24 paintings showing Tipu’s victory at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780.Free entry

Islamic Monuments of India – Photographs by Benoy K Behl When: Till October 4; 10am-10pm Where: Building 19, Gallery 2 What: A comprehensive view of the rich Islamic heritage of India is presented in this exhibition of 45 selected pictures through the eyes of renowned photographer Benoy K Behl. Benoy is a film-maker, art-historian and photographer who is known for his tireless and prolific output of work over the past 34 years.Free entry

World’s fourth largest sea dried up completely: Nasa

Aral Sea — the giant lake between Kazakhstan in the north and

Uzbekistan in the south — has dried up completely, says Nasa.

In the early 1900s, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world.

Today, the vast lake — formed 5.5 million years ago in Central Asia — in the middle of the Kyzylkum desert has shrunk to a level where water is no more visible to the eyes, revealed a series of images from Nasa’s Terra satellite.

A massive water diversion project begun by the Soviet Union in the 1960s caused it to shrink dramatically.

“It is likely the first time it has com-pletely dried in 600 years since the diversion of the region’s major river Amu Darya to the Caspian Sea,” Philip Micklin from the Western Michigan University was quoted as saying in media reports.

According to Nasa, this is happening because of low snowpack in the moun-tains that feed the lake.

Experts predict the giant lake will disappear completely by 2020.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme, more than

60 million people live in the Aral region - up fourfold since 1960.

Falcon has cataract surgery, gets new lenses

A falcon in New Hampshire has undergone eye surgery to remove

cataracts and has received new syn-thetic lenses.

Banner, a 4-year-old falcon, lost its sight and hasn’t been able to fly or hunt for the past two years. A team at Capital Veterinary Emergency Services in Concord removed the cataracts and put in artificial lenses in the hour-long procedure.

The Concord Monitor reports I-Med, a Canadian ophthalmology supply man-ufacturer, donated the 6-milimeter-wide lenses. Dozens of people in Montreal, California, Ohio, Germany and Abu Dhabi were involved in their design. A surgeon and veterinary ophthalmologist donated their time for the operation.

Banner’s owners, Nancy and Jim Cowan of the New Hampshire School of Falconry in Deering, say it’s the first time this surgery has been done on a falcon. Banner will need anti-inflam-matory eye drops for a few weeks to make sure her eyelids don’t become too irritated by the sutures in her corneas.

“When we first started looking for help, we heard a lot of anecdotal, ‘well

it can’t be done,’” Jim Cowan said.Nancy Cowan held Banner on her

glove as he shook a leather tassel a few feet away. He smiled when Banner turned toward it. “You can see something all right,” he said. “You can see something.”

Scientists unveil novel 3D printing method

In a first, Chinese scientists have developed a new conceptual liquid-

phase 3D printing method with “ink” consisting of a metal alloy that has a melting point slightly above room tem-perature. Compared with air cooling in conventional 3D printing, their liquid-phase manufacturing process prevents the metal ink from oxidation.

In recent years, these scientists state, metals with a low-melting point, especially metals that melt at room temperature, have attracted extensive attention in the areas of computer chip cooling, thermal interface materials and microfluidics.

“Such material has also been proposed as printing ink with evident value in direct writing electronics and 3D print-ing technology,” said Liu Jing from Beijing Key Laboratory of CryoBiomedical Engineering, part of the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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