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EVENTSTHINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND
02 FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
Qajar Women: Images Of
Women In 19th Century Iran
This exhibition features the cen-
trality of the female form to the
artwork of the Qajar period in Iran
(1785-1925).
Through a variety of historical objects
from MIA’s collection, in juxtaposition
with photographs and contemporary
artworks inspired by the Qajar period,
they explore the meaning of the image
of women at the onset of modernity.
Where: The Museum of Islamic ArtWhen: Until June 11Ticket: Free admissionCheck http://www.mia.org.qa for details
Aspire In-Side-Out Fun Run
To encourage an active and healthy lifestyle, Aspire In-Side-Out Fun Run will be held on May 20 at Aspire Zone Warm Up Track for partici-pants above the age of 10 years. The untimed race of approximately
5km will involve making way through indoor and outdoor course, giving a chance for runners to explore different areas of Aspire Zone.
Where: Aspire ZoneWhen: May 20, 7pmFee: QR25 for 17 yrs and below; QR50 for over 18 years
OA wonderful opportunities for families to visit DeBakey school, learn about curriculum in the school and purchase books at the Book Fair. Several vendors will present books for students
aged 12 years and above.
Where: DeBakey High School, near Al Rayah Driving SchoolWhen: May 23 and 24Registration: http://debakeyatqatar.org/book-fair-registration/
Book Fair at DeBakey High School
The exhibition features an exhibition of conceptual Emirati artist Hassan Sharif, titled: “Hassan Sharif: Objects and Files”. The exhibition includes a selection of artist archives and
object installations from between 1981-1987, during which time Sharif established new, self-imposed systems of repetition, dura-tion and chance in the execution of his work.
Sharif’s works are showcased alongside four significant and influential artists from across the Arab world, including Faraj Da-ham (Qatar), Saloua Raouda Choucair (Lebanon), Inji Efflatoun (Egypt) and Farid Belkahia (Morocco).
Where: Ground floor of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in DohaWhen: Until September 4Time: 11am-6pm, Fri: 3pm-8pm, Monday closed Ticket: Free entry
Works from Mathaf Collection, vol. 2
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EVENTS
FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
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giving you headstart so that you book your tickets in advance.
Skydive Qatar at Al Khor Airport
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Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City Hospitals
It’s time to hit the Qatar Sky! Skydive Qatar is holding a skydiving event from May 3 to May 31 in which the adrenaline junkies can sign up and get a chance to jump from an aircraft at 13,000 feet over the
Al Khor desert. Both male and female certified instructors are available. Where: Al Khor AirportWhen: Unil May 31Tickets: Tandem jump (QR1,899 including a souvenir video & pho-tos); Certified Solo Jump (QR150 with Rig rental QR240 )
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A workshop on ‘Creating pages for a Family Book’ for kids above seven years will be held at Katara. The workshop will be in Arabic and English.
When: May 21; 4pm to 5:30pm and 6pm to 7:30pm Where: Katara Art Studio B19 Fees: QR100
28 May 2016 Flowers Origami
* Workshop will be in English. * Age 6 and above.
Where: Katara Art Studio B19 Time: 3pm-5pm and 5pm-7pmAdmission: QR100 per session
Origami Family Workshop
Creating pages for a
Family Book Workshop
A practical introduction to Islamic geometric pattern. In this one-day taster workshop, par-ticipants will be guided step-be-step through
the construction of an Islamic Geometric pattern, on paper using traditional techniques.
When: Until May 25; 5pm to 8.30pm Where: Katara Art Studio B19 Entry: QR200 for each workshopAge: 16+ Classes will be conducted in English
Art of Islamic Geometry
Workshop By Aziza Iqbal
TRAVELCosta Rica’s most popular phrase is “Pura vida,” or pure life, the full enjoyment of life’s simple pleasures.
04 FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
By Bruce Horovitz
The Washington Post
It is one thing to go to the beach and watch a sea
gull fly off with your bag of Doritos. It is some-
thing else entirely to go to the beach and watch
a white-faced capuchin monkey scamper off with
your banana.
This is life in Manuel Antonio, where the rain forest
touches the seashore. And for families looking for a
once-in-a-lifetime vacation that will not necessarily
break the bank - though it might bend it - this may
be the place.
Our family trip to Manuel Antonio, an alluring
beach hamlet on the central Pacific coast of Costa
Rica, was not born of some Groupon deal or a sud-
den exotic whim. We went because we missed our
daughter.
My wife, Evelyne, our 14-year-old daughter, Rebec-
ca, and I were visiting our 18-year-old daughter, Rachel,
who is spending a chunk of her “gap year” before col-
lege as a volunteer English teacher. We thought that
this trip would be mostly about reuniting as a family.
Instead, it quickly became something more like Family
in Adventureland. We immersed ourselves as best we
could in a daring culture that sent us on catamaran
rides, snorkeling, white-water rafting, banana-boating,
even parasailing.
Quite honestly, these are not the sorts of things
our family does on any given Sunday in Falls Church,
Virginia.
The central choice we made on Day 1 was this:
Sea beats land. Sure, there are heart-pumping active
volcanoes to see in Costa Rica, along with treks that
will take you and your family zip-lining through the
jungle. But with spring daytime temperatures in the
high 90s - and the humidity level often at the breaking
point - we chose to be in, near or around various bodies
of water for all five days of our vacation.
Near the end of most days, we’d typically find a
way to regroup on the tree-shaded part of Manuel An-
tonio’s spectacular public beach, where monkeys and
wild raccoons are common visitors. Here, many locals
stay until sunset and celebrate the colourful explosion
of the evening sky with high-fives and repetitions of
what seemed to be Costa Rica’s single most popular
phrase: “Pura vida,” or pure life, the full enjoyment of
life’s simple pleasures.
Another important key to our trip was the near-
flawless travel advice we got from Máximo Nivel, the
Miami-based international study abroad, cultural ex-
change and travel group overseeing Rachel’s gap year.
It connected us with M&J Travel Services in San Jose,
which offers relatively reasonable half-day and full-day
tours ranging from $59 (Manuel Antonio National Park)
to $175 per person (jet skiing) - prices that included
one or two meals and adventure aplenty.
They also included transportation - the company
even picked us up at our hotel - but we never regret-
ted renting a car. Yes, as we’d been warned, the roads
can be rough. The drivers can be aggressive. Specific
addresses are nonexistent - really. And an SUV with
full insurance can cost $100 a day. But it gave us the
freedom to go where we wanted when we wanted -
not to mention access to instant air conditioning, which
was no small thing in the relentless heat.
In Costa Rica, do it all
without breaking bank
05FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
At Manuel Antonio National Park you will come across monkeys, raccoons, iguanas, snakes, lizards and more in a pristine environment.
But the single best decision we made was our ho-
tel choice in Manuel Antonio: Hotel San Bada. We were
traveling, of course, at exactly the wrong time: spring break.
Rooms were hard to get, and prices were sky-high. Rates
were based on the number of people staying in the room,
and for the four of us, it was about $300 per night - and
worth it. San Bada is nearly flawless.
For one, it’s perfectly located at the entrance to the
national park. Every morning, when I stepped out onto our
fifth-floor balcony, I looked not only out at the ocean but
also down at trees dotted with wild monkeys and colorful
toucans. (Sure, the shrill sounds of monkeys chanting from
the jungle sometimes awakened me at night, but, hey, I
could think of far worse sounds to wake up to.)
The 67-room hotel is beautifully designed. Then, there
were the little things - such as the hotel maid, who doubled
as an artist, engineering every day’s clean towels into play-
ful animal sculptures, from monkeys to bears to rabbits.
The breakfast included in our cost was laden with fresh
fruits and other local treats and was big enough to serve
as lunch, too. And the hotel has three pools - a kiddie pool,
a decadent pool with a fountain and a swim-up bar in
the courtyard, and a sixth-floor rooftop pool where many
guests go to toast the sunset. Finally, the San Bada is just
a five-minute walk from the town’s tiny commercial area,
where street vendors offer hand-sliced coconuts and hand-
carved wooden toucans - an adventure in itself.
A more exciting adventure was parasailing. We went
with Aguas Azules, which will lift you up for rates starting at
$75 per person for 15 minutes. Melanie Moss, an American
lawyer who owns the business along with her Costa Rican
husband, told me that she’s never looked back since trad-
ing the corporate world in Manhattan for a beach-based
business that “makes people happy every day.”
At 63, I may not seem like a perfect parasailing can-
didate, but what the heck, what better way to see the
vast, blue Pacific Ocean? My wife and I went together,
strapped into a special harness attached to a parachute.
Biggest surprise: the silence. I was expecting the sound
of rushing winds, but as we were towed high above the
sea, there were no sounds at all, unless you could hear our
stomach flips. This is the sort of thing we probably would
have never let our teenage girls do on US soil, but in the
midst of a Central American vacation, we had no hesitation
whatsoever. We both claimed temporary vacation insanity.
Far more tranquil was our visit to Manuel Antonio
National Park. For this, we saved money by skipping the
guided tour and buying our own tickets for about $16 per
person. On the trail that leads down to the park’s beauti-
ful, unspoiled beach, we came across monkeys, raccoons,
iguanas, snakes, lizards and a sleeping sloth glimpsed high
in a treetop. The beach - about a half-hour hike from the
park’s main gate - ranks as one of the most beautiful I’ve
ever seen. But bring your own sandwich, pre-peeled fruit,
water and sunscreen because absolutely nothing is for sale
inside the pristine park, and tourists aren’t allowed to bring
in items such as chips (because empty bags might get left
behind as trash) and unpeeled fruit (because tourists might
be tempted to feed peels to the monkeys).
The following day, we embarked from the pier at the
nearby town of Quepos for a $79-per-person catamaran
and snorkeling trip, and a group of dolphins followed our
boat for several miles. Being nearsighted, I’d brought along
a prescription mask, so I was actually able to see all the
colourful angelfish right in front of my face.
Our favorite excursion was the $98-per-person, three-
hour white-water-rafting trip down the Savegre River,
including a stop to hike to a natural pool beneath a wa-
terfall for a swim. For novices such as us, it’s always the
guide who makes - or breaks - the experience. Our guide,
Miguel, was the feistiest of the lot. Whenever the waters
calmed, he kept inventing ways to dump each of us out
of the boat. At the end of the trip, a tourist in another raft
noted, with some envy, “I think your family spent more time
in the water than out.”
Not everything about our trip to Costa Rica was per-
fect. The heat was intense. The drivers created their own
rules. The toilets were not toilet-paper-friendly. And the last
catamaran tour we took to Tortuga Island initially seemed
too much like pre-manufactured fun.
But wait. On that same catamaran ride back to Puntar-
enas, the captain spotted the four of us at the boat’s bow,
watching our final family Costa Rican sunset. He must have
sensed our sadness. Somehow, he found a way to make us
laugh - then snapped a Christmas-card-worthy photo of
us. That jarred us out of our family funk, reminding us that
the shimmering gift in front of us was there to be relished.
Or, in Costa Rican lingo: Pura vida.
TRAVEL
Where to stay
Hotel San Bada
Adjacent to Manuel Antonio National Park
hotelsanbada.com
One of the few hotels next to Manuel Antonio
National Park, this four-star hotel has three pools
and is a short walk to the beach and to town. Rooms
start at about $200.
Where to eat
Falafel Bar
Calle Principal, on the road to Quepos
Delicious falafel offerings in a casual atmosphere
for less than $8.
Los Gemelos
In front of the entrance to Orotina on the main
road to Quepos
A lively cafe across from the ocean. Authentic
Costa Rican meals for less than $12.
Sol Frozen Yogurt
On the road from Manuel Antonio National Park
solfrozenyogurt.com
Serves creative ice cream concoctions and fro-
zen drinks. (I recommend the “Orange Dream”) for
about $6.
What to do
Aguas Azules Costa Rica
On Manuel Antonio beach next to Mary’s Chairs
costaricaparasailing.com
Parasailing sessions start at $75 for one ($140
for two) for a 15-minute parachute ride attached
to speedboat.
Rancho Los Tucanes
Manuel Antonio
rancholostucanes.com
White-water rafting - moderate, 2 1/2-hour raft
trips start at $98 for adults and children age 8 and
older. Bring a throwaway camera, not your phone.
Information
manuelantoniocostarica.com
IF YOU GO
Instead of bringing one home, find a spot where you can watch turtles in their natural environment.
06 FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
YOUNG EDITORS
By Ann Cameron Siegal
The Washington Post
Imagine being a turtle - hunting for worms, insects,
plants or even other turtles’ eggs to eat, or burying
yourself in mud or leaf piles for the winter. If you were
a box turtle, you would be among the only reptiles
able to completely withdraw into a shell, closing it tightly
for protection.
Turtles have been around for more than 200 million
years. Prehistoric turtles had teeth and were much larger
than today’s species, but their physical structure hasn’t
changed much. Horny ridges in turtle mouths long ago
replaced teeth and, along with sharp beaks, are used to
tear food or as defensive tools.
There are more than 300 turtle species worldwide.
If you’re interested in learning about these curious crea-
tures, we’ll give you a few ideas of where to look and just
what you’re looking at.
- How does the shell work?
Turtles cannot leave their shells. The top part (cara-
pace) of these bony protective coverings include the
turtle’s spine and ribs. The lower part (plastron) covers
the turtle’s underside. Both halves have sections called
“scutes” - made of keratin, like your fingernails - that
protect the bone underneath. The shell grows as the
turtle grows. Some turtles shed old scutes.
Land turtles tend to have rounded carapaces, hard
for predators to get their jaws around. Aquatic turtles
have swimming-friendly flatter carapaces. Scutes vary in
pattern, color, texture and size depending on the species
and age of the turtle. You might notice growth rings on
each scute. Like tree rings, these can help you estimate
a turtle’s age.
Jack Cover of Baltimore’s National Aquarium noted,
“If the turtle has a good year of abundant food and an
extended warm season, the distance between the rings
is greater.”
- Where are turtles found?
Many turtles, such as snappers, red-eared sliders and
eastern painted turtles, live in freshwater ponds and wet-
lands but lay their eggs on land or climb on logs to bask
in the sun. Their feet are webbed. Box turtles are land
dwellers and love wooded areas.
The northern diamondback terrapin, Maryland’s state
reptile and the mascot of the University of Maryland, is
found in the Chesapeake Bay’s brackish (slightly salty)
waters. “Similar to the uniqueness of our fingerprints, no
two diamondbacks have exactly the same coloration and
spot patterns,” Cover said.
Karyn Molines, a spokeswoman for Calvert County
parks, suggests a kayak or canoe trip for spotting a
diamondback.
“You’ll often see their eyes and noses popping up out
of the water,” Molines said.
- Are turtles good pets?
Having a pet turtle means being willing to care for
an animal that can live 20 to 80 years or more. Turtles
require very specific temperature, lighting, space, food
and cleanliness. They can possibly transmit the salmonella
bacteria to people. What would become of your turtle if
you got tired of caring for it? It’s illegal and cruel to just
drop it off in a woods or park.
The Humane Society of America says turtles are best
left in the wild. “To protect your health, the Earth and the
animals, please don’t get a turtle for a pet!” the organiza-
tion urges on its website.
Instead of bringing one home, find a spot where
you can watch turtles in their natural environment. Take
photos. You’ll learn more about their lives, and they’ll be
much happier.
What if?
Just because a turtle is out of water, doesn’t mean it’s
in trouble. It may be a female going to or from its nesting
site. Turtles in the road should safely be guided to a space
in the direction they were heading. But be careful: Turtles
can bite. Snappers in particular have long necks and can
whip their heads around quickly if they feel threatened.
A long life, built-in armour, cool colours: Turtle power!
Box turtlesPhoto by: Ann Cameron Siegal
Diamondback terrapin George Grall, The National Aquarium
07
YOUNG EDITORS
FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
A 2014 study showed that students are less likely to understand complex ideas when they are forced to take notes by computer instead of by hand.
By Jeff Guo
The Washington Post
For the past 15 years, educators have debated, exhaus-
tively, the perils of laptops in the lecture hall. Professors
complain that laptops are distraction machines; de-
fenders say that boring classes are to blame - students have
always doodled or daydreamed, so what’s the difference
that they’re browsing Facebook instead?
The remarkable thing about all the fuss is that, until now,
there hasn’t been really great data on how classroom com-
puting affects learning. There have been some small-scale,
short-term experiments. A 2003 study found that laptops
make it harder for students to remember what they had
just learned in lecture. A 2014 study showed that students
are less likely to understand complex ideas when they are
forced to take notes by computer instead of by hand. But
these were all contrived situations involving immediate re-
call. It’s less clear how laptop use affects students over the
course of a semester.
Now there is an answer, thanks to a big, new experi-
ment from economists at West Point, who randomly banned
computers from some sections of a popular economics
course this past year at the military academy. One-third of
the sections could use laptops or tablets to take notes dur-
ing lecture; one-third could use tablets, but only to look at
class materials; and one-third were prohibited from using
any technology.
Unsurprisingly, the students who were allowed to use
laptops - and 80 percent of them did - scored worse on the
final exam. What’s interesting is that the smartest students
seemed to be harmed the most.
Among students with high ACT scores, those in the
laptop-friendly sections performed significantly worse than
their counterparts in the no-technology sections. In contrast,
there wasn’t much of a difference between students with
low ACT scores - those who were allowed to use laptops
did just as well as those who couldn’t. (The same pattern
held true when researchers looked at students with high
and low GPAs.)
These results are a bit strange. We might have expected
the smartest students to have used their laptops prudently.
Instead, they became technology’s biggest victims. Perhaps
hubris played a role. The smarter students may have overes-
timated their ability to multitask. Or the top students might
have had the most to gain by paying attention in class.
The size of the laptop disadvantage was modest. The
average score on the final was 72 out of 100, and students
in sections with laptops scored about 1.7 points lower. But
it’s hard to understand what 1.7 points means without know-
ing how bunched up or far apart people’s test scores were.
So here’s another way to think about it. The average
score on the math section of the SAT last year was 511 out
of 800. The difference between exam grades in the laptop-
friendly sections and exam grades in the no-laptop sections
is equivalent to the difference between scoring a 511 and
scoring a 491 on the SAT’s math section. (That’s roughly
the same boost a high school student might expect from
hiring an SAT tutor.)
The researchers - Susan Payne Carter, Kyle Greenberg
and Michael Walker - were also surprised to find that the
tablet-only sections did just as poorly as the laptop-friendly
sections. Even though students were not allowed to check
email or play games on the tablets, the technology still
seemed to interfere with their learning.
Still, these results are probably on the optimistic side.
At West Point, sections are capped at 18 students, so the
instructors could easily call out people who were obviously
goofing off on their laptops. The problem of computer dis-
traction is probably much more severe at other colleges,
where lectures might hold hundreds of students.
The West Point study has lessons even for those whose
baccalaureate days are far behind them. This is yet more
evidence that multitasking doesn’t work . Beware of people
who take laptops into meetings - even “just to take notes.”
They’re probably not listening to you.
Why smart kids shouldn’t use laptops in class
COLOUR MEGUESS THE CHARACTER
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WHEELSThe Honda has given a lot of thought to the interior of this car. This is evident from the premium feel of the dashboard and the instrument panel.
08 FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
By Pramod Prabhakaran
The Peninsula
The first thing you notice in the new
Civic is its sporty exterior. The new
look uplifts the profile and gives
it a ‘ready to race’ eagerness.
The young and modern design is
matched by solid performance and features.
The all-new Honda Civic comes in three
variants – the 2.0 litre LXi and EXi and a new
turbo charged 1.5 liter DOHC Direct Injected
Inline-4 cylinder Engine called RS.
Don’t let the 1.5 litre engine fool you, it’s
packed with so much power, you will forget
that you are in a mid-segment car. The han-
dling is smooth and efficient and the brakes
are spot on.
Another very interesting aspect is the leg
room for the back-seat passengers. One of
my colleagues, who is a few inches above
6ft and always avoids the rear seat, was very
happy in the new Honda Civic as he could avoid folding
his legs in awkward positions.
The Honda has given a lot of thought to the interior
of this car. This can be seen from the premium feel of
the dashboard and the instrument panel.
The Exi panel looks chic and is very user friendly
with almost all options needed for a modern young
geek driver. Even if it’s not the very best available in the
industry, it is more than enough for a comfortable drive.
The two features which really stood out for me
are the Multi-Angle Rearview Camera and the Honda
Lanewatch.
The rearview camera helps you get a better look at
what’s behind you with three different viewing angles:
normal, top-down and wide. On-screen guidelines make
it easier to align the vehicle correctly when parking.
In the lanewatch option, when you switch on the
right turn indicator, the 7-inch touch-screen shows live
video from a camera mounted in the passenger-side
door mirror, revealing nearly four times more area than
the mirror alone. A very cool feature which is seen
only in premium cars. This is particularly very helpful
on Doha roads.
Other features like Remote Engine Start makes your
life easier in summer months as it allows you to start
the engine from a distance to pre-cool your Civic before
you even get in.
Civic’s new electric parking brake — the first in its
class — replaces the conventional hand lever with a
compact, easy-to-operate switch. In addition,
a convenient new Automatic Brake Hold func-
tion eliminates the need to keep your foot
on the brake when stopped on a hill or at an
intersection.
Launched by Doha Marketing Services
Company (Domasco) in Qatar, the all new
Civic is now available in Qatar and the agency
informs that the enquiries are encouraging
and most of the stocks are already booked.
The 2016 Civic design is sporty with its
athletic stance and low wide proportions.
Exterior is sleek with swept back bodylines,
sharp aggressive fascia and its bulging wheel
arches.
Standard features in all variants include
standard LED daytime running lights, dis-
tinctive C-shaped LED taillights, power side
mirrors with integrated LED turn signals, cap-
less fuel system and glass antennas.
The RS features signature inline LED head-
lights, license plate light, an aerodynamic wing
trunk spoiler with high mounted LED stop light,
LED fog lights premium black grille, twin silencers, pad-
dle shifters and 17” alloy wheels.
The 2016 Civic’s longer wheel base and wider body
gives passengers ample headroom, legroom, shoulder
clearance and side head clearance.
The Civic also offers automatic climate control,
steering wheel mounted controls for Blue Tooth Hands
Free Telephone (HFT), a 5 inch touch screen audio in
the LXi grade and a 7 inch touchscreen audio in EXi
and RS grades and USB jacks.
Some standard features in all grades include
60:40 fold down rear seats, rear seat armrest with
cup holders, rear ventilation ducts, sun visor extension
mechanism and map light.
New Honda Civic is ‘Simply Stunning’New Honda Civic is ‘Simply Stunning’
09FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
Here are a few easy to do measures to protect your hair during the summer months.BEAT THE HEAT
By Anisha Bijukumar
The Peninsula
Extreme climates are not really your best
friends, especially with the havoc they wreak
with your hair. Hair turn so dull and lusterless
during summer that it loses its nourishment.
And this is why extra care and protection
is required during the summer months. Simple and
small precaution while heading out in hot sun will go
a long way in ensuring your mane stays nourished and
healthy. Here are a few natural rules and measures to
protect your hair without turning it into a battle.
1 Cover Up
While heading out use a scarf or a hat to protect
your hair from direct exposure. This will also help retain
the moisture, protect against tangling when windy and
retain your hair colour for a few more days.
2 Opt for loose, comfortable hairstyle
Braid your hair, loose ponytails or short hair are
best to minimize the damage due to sun exposure and
to ensure that the sweat does not accumulate in your
hair. It is also ideal for keeping your hair under control
especially when it is hot and windy.
3 Wash less
Everyday hair wash can strip your hair of essential
oils, which in turn produces more oil and make you feel
the need to wash again. It is always best to just rinse
them in the shower using a mild shampoo.
4 Go for air-drying rather than blow-drying
It is best to let your hair dry naturally than using
a blow dryer as it already exposed to heat on a daily
basis during summer. In case you have to blow dry, try
to use it at a lower temperature.
5 Condition always
Conditioning helps de-frizz your hair. Use light
products than strong conditioner. Apply some coco-
nut oil to smoothen your hair and moisturize them
after washing.
6 Use some sunscreen
Shampoos with sunscreen tend to be stronger and
it might damage your tresses more than protect them.
Instead, after applying sunscreen on your body, just
run your hands through your hair and it will be enough
to protect your hair.
7 Pick a wide-tooth comb
Rather than running a hair brush through your hair,
it would be best to choose a wide tooth comb as they
tend to be gentler for untangling.
8 Trim them often
Once in a while trimming your hair will keep them
healthy especially during summer as the chances of
growing split ends is much higher.
9 Massage your hair once a month
Use warm oil (coconut, olive or almond oil) to mas-
sage your hair from the ends to the roots. Then wash
and condition your hair as usual. Your hair would have
an extra bounce.
Egg mask for shiny strong hair
Eggs are rich in proteins and vitamins and an egg mask
can help resolve common hair problems. To make it,
use the white of one egg and mix it with teaspoon of olive
oil, lemon juice and yogurt. Beat the mixture until it forms
a paste. Apply it throughout your hair from end to roots,
starting at your scalp. Leave it on for some time and rinse
it off with cool water and mild shampoo.
Tips and tricks Tips and tricks for hair care for hair care during summer during summer
LAUNDRY
10 FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
Six common mistakes consumers make when operating washing machines. How many are you guilty of?
By Jura Koncius
The Washington Post
Everything we know about doing laundry we
learned in childhood. “Most people will cook the
way their mothers cooked. We learn laundry ba-
sics the same way - from our parents,” says Jenifir
Provateare, who has been developing products for
the laundry industry for 20 years.
But it might be time to dump some of mom or dad’s
outdated laundry habits. “Technology has come a long
way since our mothers started doing laundry,” says
Provateare, a product development manager at Ne-
hemiah Manufacturing, a Cincinnati-based consumer
goods company.
That means most of us need to upgrade our laundry
smarts to keep our black T-shirts from fading and our
soccer uniforms free of grass stains. We have to read
the fine print of our washing machine manuals and
finally learn how to sort.
There is constant innovation in laundry products.
But some new products don’t measure up, Provateare
says. She is not a fan of pricey single-dose laundry
detergent packs because they don’t let you control
the amount of detergent. For a larger load when one
pack isn’t enough, you have no choice but to add two.
When you use too much detergent, the rinse cycle may
not get it all out, leaving a sticky residue on fabrics.
We asked Provateare to identify six common
mistakes consumers make when operating washing
machines. How many are you guilty of?
Never mastering the art of sorting: Many peo-
ple just sort by colour, especially if they plan to wash
everything in cold water. Uh-uh. Sort clothes by wash
temperature as indicated on the care label. Make cold,
warm and hot piles (very few things should be washed
in hot; it’s brutal on fabrics). Then sort those piles by
colour before washing. You may end up with a bunch of
small loads, but clothes will look better and last longer.
Being skimpy with detergent: Detergents are
quite concentrated and can be expensive, whether
you have a standard or high-efficiency machine. The
majority of people use liquids and many believe they
can get away with less than the suggested amount.
Not true. If you are stingy, the dirt on clothes just re-
distributes itself in the wash instead of going out with
the rinse. The dirt ends up on the rest of your clothes,
making them dingy. Confirm you are buying the type
of detergent your washer is designed to handle for
optimal use. Study the detergent box, bottle or cap to
make sure you are adding the recommended amount.
Stuck on cold: Consumers often select cold water
since it’s a less risky choice: It won’t shrink your skinny
jeans or cause your striped shirt to bleed. But cold wa-
ter is not always best and may not be getting clothes
clean or odors out. Read the care label instructions;
they may say to use warm. A good rule is to use the
warmest temperature your garment can handle, be-
cause, in general, you are going to get clothes cleaner
in warmer water.
The bleach effect: Do you use bleach on white
socks and underwear that contain elastic? Cease and
desist. Bleach actually eats elastic. Switch to a deter-
gent with pre-added bleach alternative or whitener.
Not treating stains as fashion emergencies: Waiting until the last minute to deal with stains has
consequences. Once a smudge or spot goes through
a warm water wash and heated dry, it probably
won’t ever come out. Carry a stain pen in your car,
tote or diaper bag. If you spill ketchup on your shirt,
immediately put a cloth or paper towel behind the
stain and rub with your pen. Most of the stain will
disappear. When you get home, spritz with stain
remover spray and wash right away in the warm-
est water the clothing can tolerate. The one major
exception: blood stains, which you should wash only
in cold water.
Being too lazy to wash new clothes or linens before use: If you get a new polo shirt or sheet set,
you should wash it by itself before you wear or use it.
(Provateare says she does; I have to admit, my mother
never washed anything before using it. I survived and
I boldly continue that dangerous practice.) Washing
first should remove any residual chemicals left over
from the manufacturing process. If you fail to do this,
chemicals could come in contact with your skin and
cause irritation or contact dermatitis. Provateare ad-
vises tossing new items into your washer set on cold.
This also helps set colors so they won’t bleed when
you wash items later with other laundry.
Common mistakes
you make when
washing your clothes6
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DESIGN
FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
These websites eschew the templated, user-friendly interfaces that has long been the industry’s best practice.
By Katherine Arcement
IANS
There’s an interesting trend in web design
these days: Making websites that look, well
... bad.
Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The
Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Busi-
nessweek features. All of these sites - some decades
old, some built recently - and hundreds more like them,
eschew the templated, user-friendly interfaces that has
long been the industry’s best practice. Instead they’re
built on imperfect, hand-coded HTML and take their
design cues from ‘90s graphics.
The name of this school, if you could call it that, is
“web brutalism” -- and there’s no question that much
of the recent interest stems from the work of Pascal
Deville.
In 2014 Deville, now creative director at the Fre-
undliche Grüsse ad agency in Zurich, Switzerland,
founded brutalistwebsites.com. He meant it as a place
to showcase websites that he thought fit the “brutalist”
aesthetic: Design marked by a “ruggedness and lack
of concern to look comfortable or easy” in “reaction
by a younger generation to the lightness, optimism,
and frivolity of today’s web design.” (In architecture,
brutalism describes a ‘70s architectural movement
characterized by large buildings with exposed concrete
construction.)
The term’s gotten a lot of pick-up in recent weeks,
since Deville’s site appeared on Hacker News and
promptly went viral. Deville saw unique visitors to
his site rise to more than 100,000 in 24 hours, with
160,000 page views. And the interest has not slowed
since then: Deville now receives over 100 site submis-
sions a day.
“It’s not only what you can see, it’s also how it’s
built,” Deville explained, of the submissions he selects
as emblematic of the style. “... In the code you can
see if it’s really a streamlined application or it’s a very
rough, handmade, HTML website.”
Intriguingly, Deville has found in his Q&As with cod-
ers and designers that few set out to mimic this newly
popular aesthetic; instead, they all arrived at the same
point out of a drive to create something original.
“(Brutalism) is interesting to me ... because it
doesn’t necessarily have a defined set of aesthetic
signifiers,” said Jake Tobin, the designer behind tru-
lybald.com. “What defines those signifiers is decided
by the platform it’s built on.”
His site, trulybald.com, is both the Internet home of
Truly Bald Records and a web playground, with flash-
ing colors, irregular spacing and a unique typeface: a
reaction to professionalism and digestibility built with
HTML, PHP and a simple text editor.
Nathaniel Smith, of tilde.town, echoed that
sentiment.
“I designed a brutalist web site to show that we can
still do wonderful things together on the web without
so-called ‘best practices,’” he told Deville, in an inter-
view published on his site on April 19.
There’s one big problem with this aversion to
rules, of course: It makes it that much harder to
pin “brutalism” down. Already, Deville says, it may
be time to dream up “a new definition of this kind
of website,” to include more of the iterations we’re
seeing now.
But brutalism remains one of those things where
you know it when you see it. And lately, you see it a lot.
“Look at Craigslist,” Deville says. “This is totally a
brutalist website . . . and commercially, very successful.”
The hottest trend in web design is
intentionally ugly, unusable sites
FILMS
12 FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
AL KHOR
ASIAN TOWN
NOVO
MALL
ROYAL PLAZA
BABY BLUES
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man.
VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER
List of movies running in Qatar cinemas. Get your friends or families together, grab a bucket of popcorn and enjoy a weekend flick.
Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.
X-Men: Apocalypse (Action) 3D 11:00, 11:40am, 2:00, 2:30, 5:00, 5:20, 8:00, 8:10 & 11:00pm 2D 10:00am, 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10pm & 12:00midnight Captain America: Civil War(2D/Action) 11:30am, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 & 11:30pmThe Jungle Book(2D/Adventure) 10:00am,12:00noon, 2:00,4:00&6:00pm Wyrmwood Road of The Dead (2D/Horror) 8:00, 9:50 & 11:40pmHassan Wa Baqloz (2D/Arabic) 11:00am, 3:10, 7:20 & 11:30pmKangar Hoppiena (2D/Arabic) 1:00, 5:10 & 9:20pmRatchet And Clank (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 2:30 & 6:10pmTerm Life (2D/Action) 11:50am, 4:20 & 9:50pmThe Trust (2D/Thriller) 12:40, 8:00 & 11:40pm Our Kind of Traitor (2D/Thriller) 10:00am, 2:30, 7:00 & 11:30pmCorrespondence (2D/Romantic) 12:10, 4:40 & 9:10pmAngry Birds (2D/Animation) 10:00, 11:55am, 1:50, 3:45 & 5:40pmHepta (2D/Arabic) 7:40, 9:50 & 11:55pmX-Men:Apocalypse(3DIMAX/Action)10:10am, 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40pm&12:30am
Pettson And Findus (2D/Animation) 1:30pmRatchet & Clank (2D/Action) 3:15pm
Wyrmwood: Road of The Dead (2D/Horror) 5:00pmCorrespondence (2D/Romantic) 6:30pm This Time (2D/Tagalog) 8:45pm The Jungle Book (2D/Action)4:15pmKing Liar (2D/Malayalam) 2:00 & 10:45pmOur Kind of Traitor (2D/Thriller) 9:00pmAngry Birds (2D/Animation) 5:00pm Hassan Wa Baqloz (2D/Arabic) 7:00pmSarbjit (2D/Hindi) 2:00 & 11:00pm X-Men Apocalypse (2D/Action) 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm
King Liar (Malayalam) 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30 &
10:00, 10:30pm, 12:30, 01:00 & 01:30am
Jacob’s Kingdom of Heaven (2D/Malayalam) 1:00 & 7:00pm
Brahmot Savam (Telugu) 12:30, 1:00, 4:00 & 7:00pm
Maruthu (Tamil) 4:00, 10:00pm & 12:45am
Angry Birds(Animation) 2:00 & 5:00pmX-Men Apocalypse (2D/Action) 8:00 & 10:45pm Ratchet & Clank (2D/Action) 3:45pm
Captain America: Civil War (2D/Action) 5:30pmSarbjit (2D/Hindi) 2:30 & 11:00pm This Time (2D/Tagalog) 7:00pm Hassan Wa Baqloz (2D/Arabic) 9:00pmPettson And Findus (2D/Animation) 1:30pmThe Jungle Book (2D/Action) 3:15pm Correspondence (2D/Romantic) 5:00 & 9:15pmOur Kind of Traitor (2D/Thriller) 7:15 & 11:30pm
X-Men (Action) 12:00noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00pm & 12:00 Angry Birds(Animation) 10:30, 11:30am, 1:30 & 3:30pm Brahmot Savam (Telugu) 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30pm King Liar (Malayalam) 5:30, 8:30 & 11:30pm
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PUZZLES
FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
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.
Yesterday’s answer
MEDIUM SUDOKU
CROSSWORD
Feeling lazy to go out? Stay inside with a hot karak, some healthy chips and start solving these puzzles. We have some number crunching ones and also the traditional crossword.
ALL IN THE MIND
Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.
AIRPLANE, AUTOMOBILE,
BICYCLE, BOAT, BUS,
CABLECAR, CIRCUIT,
COACH, CONVEYANCE,
CRUISE, DRIVE, EXCURSION,
FERRY, FLIGHT,
HELICOPTER, HOVERCRAFT,
JAUNT, JOURNEY, JUNKET,
LINER, LOCOMOTIVE,
MOTORBIKE, MOVEMENT,
NAVIGATE, RIDE, ROWING,
RUNNING, SAIL, SHIP,
SKATEBOARD, SLED, SWIM,
TAXI, TOUR, TRAIN, TRAM,
TRANSIT, TRANSPORT,
TRAVEL, TREK, TRIP, TRUCK,
VOYAGE, WALK.
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14 FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
PARENTINGMost ordinary aspects of our current lives will eventually comprise the details of stories we will tell our children someday.
By Kate Haas
The Washington Post
It was a rainy afternoon, and I was home moni-toring my 4-year-old, who was bouncing on the bed, his favourite indoor activity. As his velocity approached that of the “wocket ship” he was impersonating, I realized that it was time to in-
tervene. Wondering how best to wrangle him away from his launchpad, it occurred to me that a brief history lesson might be in order.
“Did I ever tell you about Uncle Jedd and the bed?” I asked.
As I’d hoped, Simon stopped jumping and looked at me expectantly.
“Once, when we were little,” I began, “Uncle Jedd was jumping on Grandma’s bed. And he crashed into her dresser and cut his head. There was blood all over his hair. We went to the hospital, and a doctor sewed up the cut with special thread. And after that, Uncle Jedd was always careful about jumping on the bed.” (This last bit was a downright whopper. Uncle Jedd did the exact same thing three months later, and had to be hauled right back to the emergency room.)
Simon gazed at me, wide-eyed, and I congratu-lated myself on the success of my moral tale. Then I wondered uneasily if I should have mentioned all that blood.
“Uncle Jedd jumped on the bed . . . when he was little?” my son finally asked.
I nodded.“Did you ever jump on the bed?”“Sometimes,” I admitted. “Not too high, though,”
I added virtuously.“When you were little?”“That’s right.”Simon stared at me. I had mentioned incidents
from my childhood before, but now I could see the realization blossoming in him. Mama wasn’t always a mama. She used to be little. Like me.
“Tell me another story about when you were lit-tle!” he burst out. “Tell me about Uncle Jedd on the bed again!”
Call me Scheherazade. Unlike the heroine of “A Thousand and One Nights,” I use my storytelling pow-ers not to appease a king but to satisfy the craving for narrative in my 4-year-old. Still, I often think of that wily and inventive bride when I’m in the car, the kitchen and especially at nap time, when Simon unfailingly demands, “Tell me a story about when you were little!”
A dedicated reader myself, I know all about the seductive lure of a good story. But as a parent, I’m tickled by my son’s fascination with the ordinary inci-dents of my childhood. After all, his shelf is filled with more exciting fare: Curious George, Max and those wild things, the entire population of Busytown. But dramatic plots don’t matter to him. My magic formula is simple: homey details and a setting in the bygone era “when Mama was little” (not long after dinosaurs roamed the earth).
At first I was bemused by how intriguing Simon finds these episodes. Then I realized that my son is beginning to develop a sense of perspective on the world. Only now is he grasping that his father and I have lives and pasts separate from his own. The no-tion that his all-powerful parents were children once is both fascinating and deeply comforting to Simon
- a fact I’ve learned to employ at strategic moments.“You know, buddy, I never liked getting my hair
washed, either,” I told him at bath time recently.Simon quit thrashing in the tub. “You didn’t?”“No way. The shampoo always got in my eyes. One
time Grandma had to chase me around the house to get me in the bathtub. I ran right out the front door; and guess what? I wasn’t wearing any clothes!”
Simon chortled at this hilarious scenario. He still wasn’t thrilled when the shampoo came out, but knowing I’d endured the same indignity seemed to reconcile him to the proceedings.
The Adventures of Little Mama series grew to in-clude such titles as “Going to the Swimming Pool,” “How We Mowed the Lawn” and - though I came to regret my folly - “When Mama Threw Aunt Megan’s Toy Chicken Out the Car Window.” Still, no tale ever attained the popularity of the original episode, “Uncle Jedd Jumping on the Bed.”
Until I began talking about it to Simon, I’d consid-ered my childhood happy but unremarkable. Weaving the events of those years into stories for my son has made me remember and savor details that have long been buried under the minutiae of adult life: the wet slickness of the swimming pool slide, the grating crunch of my sled’s runners hitting a patch of bare asphalt, the hot vinyl car seat sticking to my legs on a long summer trip, the slippery satin quilt on my grandmother’s bed.
Telling Simon about my childhood has made me realize that the simplest, most ordinary aspects of our current lives will eventually comprise the details of stories he’ll tell his own children someday. And if my boy turns out to be anything like his mother, he’ll find a way to dramatize them. I’m already anticipating how the grandkids will react to “When Daddy Put the Books in the Bathtub.”
On second thought, maybe I’ll tell that one myself.
1,001 stories: Sharing
tales of ‘When Mama
Was Little’ with my son
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POTPOURRI
FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016
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Photo of the week Photographer: Shaji Panicker
A bird spotted at Irkiya Farm.
By Bonnie S Benwick
The Washington Post
Although this is technically a tuna salad, it would be a disservice to call it that. Fresh, rosy raw tuna is briefly marinated with lime while you prep the crunchy
salad ingredients and a quick coconut milk dressing. So it might be a seviche, except there’s enough to make it an entree.
We bulked up the original recipe with fennel - you could use thinly sliced green cabbage instead - and added leaves from Chinese celery, which lend crunch and colour. Cutting the apple in this different way - julienne, with bits of red peel on the end - makes the garnish look pretty. The fruit adds a touch of sweetness. Serve with rye-toast crackers.
Based on a recipe from “Savour: Salads for All Seasons,” by Peter Gordon (Jacqui Small LLP, 2016).
Ingredients (4 servings)
One 12-ounce piece good-quality raw tuna1/4 teaspoon flaked sea salt, plus more for garnish1 lime1 medium red onion3/4 cup low-fat coconut milk1/2 teaspoon palm or raw cane sugar
1/2 fresh red Thai chili pepper1 large fennel bulb4 to 6 stems Chinese celery (see headnote)2 Ataulfo mangoes8 stems cilantro1 Gala or Honeycrisp apple1 scallion
Method:
Cut the tuna lengthwise into 4 equal portions; cut each portion into 1/4-inch slices. Place them in a glass or ceramic bowl. Season with the salt. Finely grate 1/2 teaspoon zest from the lime, then squeeze in 1 1/2 tablespoons of lime juice, letting them both fall into the bowl. Toss to coat, cover and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut the red onion in half, then into very thin slices. Place the slices in a medium bowl and cover with water; let them sit for 5 minutes, then drain.
Pour the coconut milk into a liquid measuring cup. Add the 1/2 teaspoon of palm or raw cane sugar, then finely grate 1/2 teaspoon of lime zest into the cup. Squeeze in a tablespoon of lime juice. Seed the 1/2 red Thai pepper, then cut it into thin slices; add them to the cup, stirring to form a dressing.
Discard the fennel bulb’s core, then cut the bulb into very thin slices, breaking them up as you distribute them
in a mixing bowl. Tear leaves from the Chinese celery (to taste) and add them to the bowl.
Peel the mangoes. Cut or shave the flesh into thin slices, adding them to the bowl of fennel. Add the drained red onion.
Drain the tuna, discarding the marinade. Add the fish to the mango mixture. Pour in three-quarters of the coconut dressing and toss to coat. Divide the salad mix among in-dividual plates. Tear the cilantro leaves and tender stems, letting them fall over each portion.
Cut out and discard the core of the apple. Cut the apple in half, then into thin slices. Cut the slices into matchsticks, catching a bit of the peel on the ends if you can. Trim the scallion, then cut the white and light-green parts on the diagonal into thin slices, scattering them over each portion.
Pour some of the remaining dressing over each por-tion. Garnish with the apple. Season with a sprinkle of the flaked sea salt. Serve right away.
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