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The release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child saw fans queuing up across the world, setting the stage for an avalanche of new movies, plays and books. 4-5

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BACK WITH A BANG: Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger, Jamie Parker as Harry Potter and Paul Thornley as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT

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for boys and girls from independent and Photographs for the competition should be Arabic-speaking private school students printed on A4 size art paper or photo paper. aged between 11 and 14 years. The girls will be Pictures should not have been published fully separated from boys in all the events and before and should not be downloaded from activities. internet. Entries for competitions be submitted to FCC Offi ce on or before Qatar Summer Festival September 21. More details can be obtained DATE: Until August 31 by contacting telephone number 4466-1213. VENUE: Doha Exhibition and Convention Center QSports Summer Camp Enjoy Qatar Summer Festival throughout DATE: Until September 1 the month of August under the theme ‘Color TIME: 8am-1pm Your Summer’. It will include a wide range of VENUE: Al Jazeera Academy summer entertaining events and activities, QSports summer camps are committed art zones, shopping promotions, in addition to providing a safe, fun and skill-based to a unique experience for kids between the ages of 4 and entertainment city. 14. We have a dedicated team of specialist kid’s coaches and classes and activities Garage Gallery are safe, planned, progressive, active, DATE: Until November 1 creative, inclusive and designed to maximise TIME: 8pm participation of all children by off ering a VENUE: Spaces at the Fire Station variety of activities. The Artists in Residence exhibition is a culmination of an intensive nine-month Yamativo Salsa Classes programme featuring works by 18 local DATE: Every Monday contemporary artists who have been working TIME: 7pm in the studios and spaces at the Fire Station VENUE: Radisson Blu since September 2015. The exhibition It’s always fun and always challenging. showcases new work and projects created Let’s meet and learn some moves every by the artists during their residency period, Monday night. You don’t need to do shedding light on the development of their anything, just join us. Level 1 (intermediate innovative ideas and diverse studio practices. level) 7pm and for beginner level 8pm. Be Photographic, sculptural, and installation- there are Radisson Blu Hotel Cabana Club. based artworks fi ll the Garage Gallery and showcase these talented artists. Cake Decoration Classes EVENTS Barzan Girls Center’s Summer DATE: Morning and evening Programme Combination of Sun, Sand and Surfi ng VENUE: Tavola Royal Plaza, Al Saad Street Playwriting Techniques Workshop DATE: Until August 25 DATE: Ongoing Tavola off ers a range of cake decorating DATE: Until Aug 12 TIME: 6pm VENUE: Aqua Park and kitchen skills classes. Tavola is the only VENUE: National Day Celebrations VENUE: Barzan Girls Center For the fi rst time ever in Qatar, it will be authorised Wilton method provider in the Committee headquarters Barzan Girls Center is organising its summer possible to ride up curved sidewalls at 90 . Theater Aff airs Center, in collaboration with programme, which continues for a month degrees to the direction of the water fl ow. National Day Celebrations Committee, will and targets girls aged 15 years and above. Giving visitors and especially surfi ng fanatics New Bootcamp Abu Hamour organise a workshop entitled “playwriting For registration, you can visit the centre’s an amazing experience available at Aqua DATE: Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday techniques” for the artist Abdul Rahman headquarters at 6pm. The programme aims Park. Come join us and also take advantage of TIME: 6pm al-Mannai. The workshop aims to produce to exchange experiences and information the extra free ticket you get anytime you buy VENUE: Doha British School Qatari theatrical texts that can participate in between the girls, establish the spirit of two Stingray Tickets. Located just minutes from Villaggio the National Day school theatre competition. cooperation between them, and to advance and a walk away from Ain Khalid Gate, the their characters through learning. It will Doha British School campus is our newest Summer Programme feature several educational programs, Bootcamp location. DATE: Until Aug 21 workshops, courses, camps, festivals, skills, The training takes place on the main grass VENUE: Virginia Commonwealth and trips. For enquiries, please call 44789392. playing fi eld surrounded by an athletics track. University There are showers available and changing Virginia Commonwealth University in Blood Donation Camp rooms. Qatar will organise its summer programme DATE: August 5 for all school students aged six years and TIME: 8am-4pm Pottery workshop for kids above. They can choose from a variety VENUE: Aster Medical Centre, Industrial DATE: Every Monday of programmes designed for various age Area TIME: 5pm-6pm groups, with the aim of learning new skills Care & Aware, a joint charitable venture Kids will learn a new hand building technique and making new friends during the summer of Aster Medical Centre, Malabar Gold & for creating and fi nishing artworks in clay. For holidays. Diamonds, Wellcare Group and KMCC more, call 44865201. Kozhikode District Committee, is organising a blood donation drive to raise awareness on Fitness Training the importance of blood donation among the DATE: Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday public with the support of Hamad Medical TIME: 6pm-7pm Corporation and felicitating blood donors on VENUE: MIA Park August 5 from 8am to 4pm. The drive will be There are fi tness classes in the park on held at Aster Medical Centre, Industrial Area. Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights TCA Science Summer Camp between 6 and 7pm. Open to all levels of DATE: Until August 4 fi tness. Bootcamp is an intensive and fun TIME: 8:30am-3:15pm way to train and also meet new people in the VENUE: TCA, C-Ring Road open and friendly group atmosphere. More Qatar’s most exciting summer camp is information, from Bootcamp, Qatar or info@ an unique science workshop to introduce bootcampqatar.com young children to the mysteries of science, through hands on make and take projects Vacation Competition with interactive experiments. For inquiries, DATE: Until September 21 FOODIE CHOICE Qatar Summer Festival at The Pearl call 6652-3871. VENUE: FCCe Offi c DATE: August 5- 27 The Women’s forum of Friends Cultural RESTAURANT: Atrium Lounge TIME: 6:30pm Qatar Summer Camp 2016 Centre has announced competitions for LOCATION: Sheraton VENUE: The Pearl-Qatar DATE: Ongoing until August 11 Qatar-based Malayalee students of grades A casual lounge that off ers light meals in The Pearl-Qatar will host several VENUE: TBA IV–XII. There are two competitions including a charming setting is the preferred venue entertainment activities and roaming musical Qatar Summer Camp includes a wide range Avadhikkalath — an article on vacation in Doha for connecting with colleagues, acts and parades at dedicated locations in of sporting, artistic, cultural and educational experiences and vadhikkalakazhchakal, on business partners or friends over freshly Porto Arabia as well as Medina Centrale from activities and events provided by some photography. Article on vacation experiences brewed coff ee, refreshing beverages and 6.30pm to 9.30pm on August 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, of the most prominent institutions and should be prepared in Malayalam or in baked sweets and savouries. Through the day, 20, 26 and 27. organisations in Qatar. The camp is open English with a minimum of 500 words. enjoy music.

Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY COVER STORY

HIGH DRAMA: Jamie Parker as Harry Potter and Sam Clemmett as Albus Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.. The return of Harry Potter Fans of the boy wizard were slipping into robes and painting lightning bolts on their foreheads to wizarding ways. While many fans are charmed to But it was far from over. Last rejoin the Hogwarts gang, others celebrate the midnight release of Harry Potter and Sunday marked the latest chapter worry that this expanding list of for Muggleland and its ballooning products could wreck their beloved economy. Fans across the world universe. The new book is being the Cursed Child. This marked the latest chapter were slipping into robes and promoted as the eighth in the painting lightning bolts on their series, yet it’s actually the script foreheads to celebrate the midnight to the play that opened recently for Muggleland and its ballooning economy. release of Harry Potter and the in London. Rowling, a powerful Cursed Child. hands-on author, is raising her Alison Nguyen, president of the wand to light the road ahead — but By Danielle Fox Harry Potter Literature Club at the is she actually just selling out? University of Minnesota, said she went numb at the close of Harry’s Casting a spell on fandom he boy who lived will stratosphere with Harry Potter, the When the end credits rolled on original adventures. “I don’t know Rowling became the world’s fi rst never die. His creator — best-selling book series in history, that fi nal movie in 2011, to casual what to look forward to,” she billionaire author, then dropped off and his production team she conquered Hollywood with an fans it seemed like Harry’s world thought at the time. that list after giving away a fortune — love him too terribly eight-movie fi lm franchise that had come to a natural conclusion Now she and millions of fans to charity. Still, recent industry much. After J K Rowling stands as the second-highest- — an epilogue sending the now know: Ahead lay an avalanche of estimates put the franchise’s worth catapultedT teen fi ction into a new grossing ever. 30-something characters on their new movies, plays and books. at $24bn. Tuesday, August 2, 2016 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

A fan poses for photograph next to a poster during the launch of the new book in .

An Indian fan of Harry Potter, dressed as the young wizard, poses for a photograph after picking up a copy of J K Rowling›s latest book in Bangalore.

So she’s not selling out, most fans But some recent moves leave say, she’s just selling. fans, including Kat Miller, creative “This play would never have and marketing director of fan site happened if this particular team MuggleNet, feeling confl icted. had never come to me,” Rowling Rowling, for the fi rst time, is said about Cursed Child on BBC publishing an e-book of the Radio 2 last year. “I didn’t go screenplay to Fantastic Beasts and looking for this; this found me.” Where to Find Them, the fi rst in Even if Rowling never picked up a trilogy of fi lms that will begin another quill in her life, fans would hitting theatres in November. continue building her empire, one Whereas the children’s book Poppy Miller as Ginny Potter and Jamie Parker as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.. time-extensive project at time. The Tales of Beedle and the Bard There are more than 746,000 and the original Fantastic Beasts story co-written with Rowling and Miller said she believes that the content will boost opportunities to fan-created stories on fanfi ction. textbooks expanded the universe, the play’s director, John Tiff any) as corporate side of Potter has lost meet her generation’s demands to net, in addition to Kickstarter- Miller said, the screenplay just the “eighth story.” Harry’s story is touch with the community. Its diversify the series. funded fi lms detailing the back capitalises on fans’ wallets and done, Miller said. Leave him alone, September relaunch of Pottermore, The casting of a black actor as stories of characters, such excitement. if you can. the offi cial fan website, shifted Hermione in Cursed Child divided as “Severus Snape and the “That, to me, felt like a money “Am I going to buy the script? focus to promotional materials the community into those who Marauders.” Conventions rise up move instead of a passion move, Absolutely. Do I have tickets to see instead of preserving fans’ “special thought it defied canon and those and “wizarding bands” wail in which is something we aren’t used the play? Absolutely,” she said. geeky place.” who appreciated more diversity. bookstores across the world. to from Jo,” Miller said, Jo being “Does that mean I’m really excited To Hawk, some of Rowling’s For the record, Rowling ruled on The beauty of this particular how fans address Rowling. about it? The jury’s still out.” tweets seem designed solely to get this matter with a tweet: “Canon: fandom, said Lori Campbell, who Keith Hawk, managing editor the fandom all atwitter for Warner brown eyes, frizzy hair and very teaches ‘Harry Potter: Blood, of MuggleNet and a car salesman Universe of possibilities Bros, such as when the author clever. White skin was never Power, Culture’ at the University from Pennsylvania, expects a Potter In today’s entertainment world, tweeted that Ron and Hermione specified. Rowling loves black of Pittsburgh, is its lack of backlash. TV series in the next 15 years. He goodbye is never forever. Witness will suff er marital issues. Hermione” with a kissing emoji. When something reaches peak welcomes new products — as long Marvel superheroes and Star Wars “What was the point of that?” Real-life Dumbledore’s Armies popularity, such as Potter, people as no one pretends they are canon, characters. After prequels and Hawk said. “It just sparked a raised more than $123,000 for usually “turn against it and want or part of or in line with the original sequels dry up, a movie studio may fury of Harry Potter debates and Haiti disaster relief, then also to disown it or tear it down,” series. “The more you take things as go to “another silo,” for example, everything, which is all good for flexed the fan base’s muscle by Campbell said in an e-mail. “I canon, the less believable the fake unpacking a side character’s story business.” pressuring Warner Bros to switch haven’t met anyone who USED to world is,” he said. for a Netfl ix series or yet another Rowling declined to be to fair-trade chocolate for park be a fan.” He said he would support movie, said Paul Dergarabedian, interviewed for this story. fare and merchandise in 2014. But whereas Lucas cashed out new Potter books taking place senior media analyst for comScore. As fans grow and mature, Fans hold a strong hand but when he sold Star Wars to Disney, in an alternative time frame, but To manage these properties, however, so does the franchise. would fl ee without Rowling’s stamp Campbell credited Rowling for otherwise, “I would tell (Rowling) Warner Bros hired acclaimed The University of Minnesota of approval, Dergarabedian said, keeping her work controlled and to her face, ‘No, that’s not canon. comic-book writer Geoff Johns is home to one of the world’s not that he expects her to ever fully authentic, from e-book rights to Don’t play with that.’ “ to oversee DC Comics as its chief largest intramural Quidditch sign off . merchandising. Fancy some fi sh Miller also has something to say creative offi cer, and the studio just teams; about 165 students play the “To be able to re-evaluate and and chips at Universal’s Hogwarts about Rowling’s marketing Cursed fi rmed up a team of four senior Potter-inspired sport with brooms reinvigorate a brand like this with theme park? They come with tartar Child (written by playwright Jack managers to handle the growing clamped between their thighs. Cally the original author is pure magic,” sauce and the author’s signoff . Thorne, working from an original Harry Potter universe. O’Neill, team president, said more he said. — Star Tribune/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY Children learn multiple skills at Inspirational 66-Summer Camp

he Inspirational 66-Summer Camp has been providing children with a number of activities to participate in. The aim of the camp is to help children learn life skills during their stayT at The Creative Academy-Qatar (TCA). The workshop started on July 10 with ice- breaker activities for students in all categories. Since then, the younger children have participated in activities such as “All About Myself,” “Surprise Box,” “Confi dence Building,” “I am Board,” “Good and Bad,”story-telling sessions and role-playing activities. Students in the intermediate category have participated in activities such as “Tell About Myself,” “I am Board,” “Communication,” “Playing Guess Me,” “Self-Awareness,” “My Shield,” and “Journaling the Best Tens.” The advanced group took on the challenge of turning “the hard quest” topics to “fun- plays.” Their activities consisted of “Know Myself,” “I am Board,” “Communication Vs Body Language,” “Goal Setting,” “The Power Within,” “Affi rmative Techniques,”and dubbing for a Charlie Chaplin fi lm. The summer programme is running until September 1. For those interested in more information, TCA can be contacted at 4437- 3259, 6633-1191. Tuesday, August 2, 2016 GULF TIMES 7 OFFBEAT COMMUNITY

CITIZENS: Sakir Doguluer, left, with his sister in law, Hatice Doguluer, centre, and his sister Mesure Dogan in their village, Haskoy, close to Izmir, Turkey.

citizens,” he explains. “The third generation is the generation who are researching what happened in the past.” In order to learn more about the history Afro Turks try to of the Afro Turks, Olpak founded an association in 2006. “Through our work, we want to recover knowledge about our culture, connect with Afro Turks from other regions, and research our history,” says the 63-year-old. But this remember a lost past has proven difficult. “When our grandfathers died, the year during the 19th century 10,000 African cultural knowledge was lost,” says Sakir By Elisabeth Kimmerle slaves were transported into the Ottoman Doguluer, who is also a member of the Afro Empire, which at the time stretched to the Turks’ Association. Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. The history of the African slaves is not s Sakir Doguluer walks through “That’s a million African slaves over the included in offi cial accounts, there is no Izmir’s old town, he senses century,” says Erdem. chapter about them in Turkish school the looks from passers-by. When the Republic of Turkey was textbooks. “You draw people’s interest. founded in 1923, the descendents of “Although there are several elements Everybody looks at you, the African slaves were given Turkish of the Ottoman slave system on the someA point their finger at you and laugh. citizenship. Normally released after 9 years curriculum, there is nothing about the They ask me where I come from,” says the of slavery, many had settled in villages on African slave trade,” says Hakan Erdem. 61-year-old. the Aegean over previous years. The historian attributes this to school In fact, Sakir Doguluer was born in a village After naturalisation, they were Turkish textbook authors knowing nothing about on the Aegean and has lived in Izmir since — but this integration also meant that the the topic. the 1970s. But, because is black, many of his African slaves’ history was largely forgotten. “If not even the historians know about it, compatriots don’t believe this until he shows Like many Afro Turks, Sakir Doguluer then who knows anything about the people them his Turkish passport. He is part of an doesn’t know his family’s roots. who live in this country and their history?” ethnic minority that is largely invisible in “Very few of us know how our ancestors Sakir Doguluer asks. “The majority of people this society: Afro Turks — the descendants of came here. Over time, those who did know don’t know that there are Turks descended African slaves under the Ottoman Empire. have died. My father said that we originated from Africans living in Turkey. That is why, in According to historian Hakan Erdem, it is in Sudan, but it’s impossible to say exactly.” the cities, we are assumed to be foreign. We impossible to determine precisely when the Mustafa Olpak has written a biography experience these diffi culties on a daily basis.” Ottomans began to trade African slaves. of his grandfather, who was sold into According to Mustafa Olpak, raising “But in the records of the 15th and 16th the Ottoman Empire as a slave. He has awareness starts in the education system. centuries, we already find African slaves in engaged intensively with the history of his “If children from primary school up learn the Ottoman Empire,” he says. Officially, ancestors. something about the people with different the Ottoman Empire abolished slavery in “The fi rst generation experienced that cultures in Turkey, they will understand 1857, but the slave trade continued illegally time with all its hardships. In the second that they are Turks, but have a different after that, he says. generation, they disowned the history of their skin colour and a different culture,” he says. Sakir Doguluer in the off ices of the Afro Turks According to Erdem’s assessment, every ancestors by saying that they are Turkish —DPA Association in Izmir, Turkey. 8 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY TRA Voyageurs National Park in the US

BONFIRE: Caron Daniel of Duluth snuggles by the campfire with her son Ayden, 8, at the Windmill CANOEING: A group from the Wilderness Inquiry canoes in Kabetogama Lake at Voyageurs Rock campground on Rainy Lake. National Park.

When the American Congress created charred, the other had been bit. Clearly at least By Kerri Westenberg Voyageurs as the 36th national park in 1971, two previous visitors — a fi re-stirring human prefacing its actual establishment four years and a tooth-whittling beaver — had found the later, it protected a wilderness of bears, moose wooden stick a useful tool. ur houseboat threaded the narrows and wolves, where French Canadian fur traders As the sun set, the lake turned from luminous of Ash River, turned to port at paddled two centuries ago, where boreal and white to pure blue topped with orange waves to Kabetogama Lake and encountered hardwood forests meet amid lakes and land. gunmetal gravy. Loons later cooed us to sleep. a dazzling vista. An enormous Then the Park Service, which turns 100 this year, canvas of blue — of sparkling water invited America to come explore. Land rich in history Oand clear sky — was cut through with a spiky Still, Bill Carlson, the park’s acting Our curious beaver at Blue Fin Bay is the line of green formed by distant tall pines. Islands superintendent, who has worked in the park for distant descendant of very lucky creatures: eased past, bearing such names as Wolf, Deer 28 years, hears this a lot — from Minnesotans: “A ancestors who survived a period of furious fur Point and Pine, while loons bobbed on the waves. national park? In Minnesota?” trade. The North Woods seemed to go on forever. I was getting my own education in that fact as Minnesota’s national park got its name We were motoring into Minnesota, USA’s I sat in a plastic chair atop a houseboat puttering from the French Canadian voyageurs who Voyageurs National Park, exploring just a speck about 5 miles per hour across Kabetogama. I paddled birchbark canoes through the area’s of its 134,000 acres of woodlands, 84,000 acres was fi lled with joy — the kind that can overtake maze of lakes and streams in the late 1700s of water, 500 islands and 655 miles of wild anyone given the narcotic trio of blue skies, calm and early 1800s, forging that trade — and an shoreline. That protected expanse, much of it waters and sunny skies. That distinct euphoria epic chapter in the American story. With the hugging the Canadian border, includes four felt familiar, from trips to other national parks help of the Ojibwe, who were guides, trappers, major lakes — Kabetogama, Namakan, Sand that are plane rides away. Somehow, I sensed it translators and more, trade goods fl owed west Point and Rainy, the farthest north and largest. more keenly in my home state, on this national and animal pelts east. The Voyageurs Highway Martha Sawaki, 17, of Coon Rapids, enjoys Together, this vast watery world holds land set aside for the enjoyment of all citizens. was legendary. At the end of the American the cool water of Kabetogama Lake during surprising treasures of ancient geology, human It helped that a boat-savvy friend had gamely Revolution, a treaty marked the new country’s a National Park Service Teen Ambassadors history and natural splendour. agreed to take on captain duties; she was at the boundary with as the “customary programme camping trip at Bald Rock Everywhere, the landscape announced iconic, upper helm, steering the boat beside me. Our waterway” between Lake Superior and Lake campground. rugged, marvellous Minnesota, writ large. two teenage daughters lolled on the deck behind of the Woods. A 55-mile stretch of that border us. Their occasional laughter carried on the edges the park. wind. Other signs of early settlement reveal Our plan for the day — moor at a sweet spot, themselves across the region. Rainy Lake’s Little swim, cook dinner in the full-fl edged onboard American Island, the epicentre of a short-lived kitchen — carried us halfway down the lake. 1890s gold rush, has abandoned mine shafts and We slipped into a designated houseboat site an old winch that men used to haul rock that near the end of a thin peninsula at Blue Fin Bay they hoped, futilely, held an abundance of the with plenty of time to play. A short path from precious metal. On Williams Island in Namakan the beach led to a fi re pit and just beyond that, Lake, old timber buildings nestle among giant another beach, where dragonfl ies divebombed red pines. They were part of the I.W. Stevens Pine among reeds. As we walked along the sandy Cove Resort, shuttered in 1959. shore to a rock outcropping, a common On the eastern tip of the road-less merganser glided past with ducklings perched on Kabetogama Peninsula, the park’s largest land her back. mass, the Kettle Falls Hotel sits tucked between I returned to the houseboat to make dinner. A Rainy and Namakan. The white clapboard beaver bobbed his head above the water not 20 charmer has been serving customers since 1913. feet from the boat, fl oated for a moment to eye The hardwood fl oors of the old saloon slant the massive intruder and descended below the dramatically, bemusing visitors who must arrive mineral-rich waters. He came up again, closer, to by boat. We headed to the hotel one day to eat stare us down. lunch, fi ring up the little motorboat that came We had chosen to land the houseboat at one tied to the houseboat for purposes of safety and of his favourite spots, it seemed. The forest just quick jaunts. beyond our gangplank revealed signs of his work. The land itself harks back to the deepest Cone-shaped stumps of trees bore tooth marks. history. Voyageurs marks the southern edge of Fresh wood chips mounded in a pile near the the Canadian Shield, a continent-spanning mass beach. of volcanic bedrock that is half the age of the After dinner, we lit a campfi re. At the fi re ring, Earth. Ice Age glaciers scoured away top layers, Elizabeth Herzog serves ice cream to customers at the Kettle Falls Hotel. a worn branch lay on the ground; one end was exposing Precambrian rock up to 2.5 billion years Tuesday, August 2, 2016 GULF TIMES 9 AVEL COMMUNITY S is iconic, rugged and marvellous

From 1944 through 1966, Jack Ellsworth spent summers on this hillside pursuing a singular vision of gardens, ponds and rock sculptures. The resulting set piece is the ultimate “outsider” art, created by an untrained visionary — in this case, someone inspired by nature and working with the natural world to transform an outdoor space. Toft was having a picnic of brats cooked over one of the grills on the property with her husband and their two sons. The boys and their father had been to the park the previous summer, and were so impressed by what they saw that they had to return with Frederique. A man walking the grounds from Florida shared a similar sentiment. “This is such a special place,” he told me. “I’ve been coming for 17 years. Wouldn’t miss it. And this time, I get to share it with my wife.” “Beautiful, isn’t it?” she asked. Yes, and the wonders range from massive to tiny. One day while the girls jumped from a cliff into water so dark it resembled coff ee, I studied the ground. It held entire galaxies of lichen. A growth that looked like olive- coloured paint chips clustered on a rock face. Cameron Giebink of Minneapolis starts on the Locator Lake Trail for a few days of backcountry A lady’s slipper, Minnesota’s state flower, in A miniature forest of evergreens marched camping on the Kabetogama Penninsula in Voyageurs National Park. bloom near the Kabetogama Lake Visiter’s across the granite. In a crevice, a tiny surprise: Center at Voyageurs National Park. A bright red caulifl ower look-alike sprouted from a stem no taller than my pinkie. old. It rises from forest fl oors and rims the lakes. On our last evening cruise, we spied large dark masses near the water. We pulled closer, ‘Outsider’ art in the woods fumbled for binoculars and saw two bears The Voyageurs crowds had gathered at lumbering into the woods. At that night’s stop, Ellsworth Rock Gardens — all 15 or so of us. a cluster of lady’s slippers hid among the trees. We docked at this most popular day-trip In Minnesota, there is no one defi nitive spot in the park and saw a site rare for our trip: landscape. Patches of prairie, like the ones that other people. We walked up a slope made by a swirled around the wagons of pioneers, sprout granite outcropping and quickly understood in the west. Across the north, hardwood forests the place’s appeal. Fanciful sculptures made stand where earlier swaths were felled to build with native rocks punctuated a hillside of grass fortunes and, with them, entire cities. In the east, and fl owers. Stone benches, a table and chair, rivers fl ow past soaring bluff s and pretty redbrick a dinosaur, a turtle, a dog: The fi gures, created towns. Such places are honoured, too, as national with hefty rocks carefully composed, went monuments and riverways. on and on. First, I was struck with delight. But Voyageurs National Park, with its sweep But after seeing the fi fth or sixth sculpture, of history, pristine forests and abundant something more like awe emerged. waters, is the crown jewel in the Park Service’s “Reading about the man who made this — Minnesota treasure trove, the largest and most all the work, so many years — almost brought prestigious of the lands the state shares with tears to my eyes,” said Frederique Toft, a the rest of America. French teacher at Benilde-St. Margaret’s After being immersed in its majesty, there is School in St. Louis Park. no more fi tting choice. —Star Tribune/TNS

Kevin Nelson, right, an interpretive park ranger, leads a tour group at the Kettle Falls Hotel.

Bailey Brewster, 16, from left, and her sisters Brianne, 14, and Brycelyn of Burnsville pose for a photo BIRDS EYE VIEW: A boat navigates the waters of Namakan Lake near Kettle Falls in Voyageurs near the entrance to Voyageurs National Park at Kabetogama Lake. National Park. 10 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY INFOGRAPHIC Tuesday, August 2, 2016 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Beyond sports: Off -the-field afterschool activities to challenge your child

rom soccer to lacrosse, sports discipline and respect for others. are what most parents initially think about when considering Cooking: With the expansive popularity extracurricular activities for their of cooking shows, kids have never had more children. However, today's schools interest in what goes on in the kitchen. Sign andF communities understand there's a need students up for cooking classes and they'll for diverse afterschool options that challenge learn proper cooking technique and whip kids in a variety of ways. up some tasty treats in the process. Soon "While participating in sports can have enough, you may be able to hand off one meal many benefi ts, to raise a well-rounded child a week to your chef-in-training. it's important to consider other afterschool activities that help them to develop diff erent Art: With the reality of many schools skillsets," says Ellen Marks, educational reducing or cutting art programmes, expert and curriculum director at Bricks 4 exploring art education outside of the Kidz. "Introducing a variety of activities classroom becomes even more important. helps kids have many experiences so they Kids love to create and there are a variety can discover their natural talents as well as of art programmes for the next Picasso or improve areas where they may struggle." another fantastic option with many nature- skills through STEM classes like Bricks 4 Rembrandt. Drawing programmes are wildly These extracurricular activities are based activities. Kidz. These group classes - available for popular, but also consider sculpture, pottery guaranteed to broaden your children's kindergarten through middle school - use and mixed-media classes. horizons and provide them with plenty of fun Theatre: Many kids dream of becoming LEGO Bricks, gears, motors and more to build and education: stars on their favourite TV shows, and theatre exciting projects. Music: Music afterschool activities experience is the fi rst step in exploring that exercise the brain in a variety of ways. Nature: Because we live in such a digitised interest. It's not just for high school students. Martial arts: Taekwondo (from Korea) Inherently creative, music is also very world, many school systems are now off ering Acting classes, musical theatre and play and Karate (from ) are both great technical. Learning about notes, chords and nature-based programmes that teach production are all great options enjoyed by options for children. Classes offer physical music theory is mathematical in many ways. important science and biology skills while students with a wide-range of abilities. exercise that improve balance and stamina, Explore choir, instrument classes and band instilling respect for Mother Nature. Check but parents enjoy many of the other camps to inspire your junior Mozart. out these types of programmes at school or STEM: Help your kids grow important benefits that often come from studying through your local nature centre. Scouts is science, technology, engineering and math martial arts, including increased focus, ©Brandpoint

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

Venus has a few days left in your romance zone before she heads off There is nothing worse than feeling as if you are missing out on With so much going on with the planets today and this week – lots of for Virgo. If you’ve been trying to work up the courage to ask him or something, is there? Hopefully with Mercury the communications chopping and changing around, your best bet is to go with the flow – her out, just do it already! king in your fun zone, you are organising with others to do things and really avoid any drama as much as possible. and be social.

CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

Be prepared to face an emotional and sensitive issue today Cancers, Your New Moon in your sign today is a the cosmic start to your New Having your ruler Mercury the communicator in your sign is always with the Moon moving into Leo today – a New Moon day in your Year Leos. What are your resolutions for the next 365 days? Buy a good thing for you. You rest easier with him guiding you. If there is second house of self–esteem. Don’t allow yourself to be judged by yourself a lottery ticket! something you really need to focus on, today’s the day. your bank account!

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Unless you are completely sure of your facts, don’t go around Be open to something new and exciting happening today Scorpios. Your need for adventure and travel will increase today Sags, with a making bold statements today Librans. With a New Moon in your A New Moon shining on your career and reputation zone is a great New Moon shining in Leo, your fellow fire sign and ninth house of eleventh house of friendship, hopes and wishes, this is the perfect start to the day and the rest of the week. overseas travel and higher education. time for you to reunite with good friends.

CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

Money – the biggest reason behind relationships breaking down – For those of you who are single, today’s New Moon shining in your In your sixth house of hard work, health and well–being, today’s New come up today with a New Moon shining in your eighth house. If you one on one relationship zone suggests that meeting someone new Moon makes it the perfect day to start that diet, eating better or and your other half or business partner can work things through and exciting is a distinct possibility. If not today, over the next few exercise regimen. You will be able to keep it up too, especially if you today and this week, great. weeks. Leos and Aries are both purrfect matches. have a Virgo workout buddy! 12 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY PUZZLES/CARTOONS

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Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Tuesday, August 2, 2016 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

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ACROSS DOWN 6. Torment (7) 1. Tell-tale (5) 7. Arouse (5) 2. Coarse (6) 9. Lighter (5) 3. Employ (3) 10. Suggest (7) 4. Occur (6) 12. Introductory (11) 5. Blame (7) 8. Grouse (7) 14. Chance (11) 11. Whale fat (7) 18. Plume (7) 13. Penury (7) 19. Gem (5) 15. Lampoon (6) 21. Tempest (5) 16. Hypothesis (6) 22. Dispossess (7) 17. Serious (5) 20. Wager (3)

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ACROSS DOWN 6. Shorten a card game (7) 1. Concerning a fight (5) 7. Hidden store of money, say (5) 2. Picture house showing "The 9. John Wayne's fists? (5) Iceman," perhaps? (6) 3. Food item a beggar has (3) 10. Experts I'd knocked over in 4. Look for a bird (6) Yesterday’s Solutions boats (7) 5 and 22Ac. Compulsory union 12. Sign just before the end of the membership? (7,7) QUICK CRYPTIC year (11) 8. Tea sure to make sober (7) Across: 1 Allegiance; 7 Pilot; 8 Gymslip; 10 Across: 1 Parliament; 7 Epsom; 8 Sighted; 10 14. Thoughtful new senator I'd 11. Castle used in sword fights (7) Outdated; 11 Fair; 13 Resign; 15 Asleep; 17 Overalls; 11 Abet; 13 Ulster; 15 Appear; 17 Item; 18 found in church (11) 13. Love affair in Cremona? (7) Oars; 18 Harangue; 21 Senegal; 22 Aroma; 23 Tandoori; 21 Neptune; 22 Manse; 23 Pronounced. 18. Nationalist making a man 15. County fringed by Oklahoma? cause public disorder (7) (6) Debauchery. Down: 1 Piste; 2 Rummaged; 3 Insult; 4 Magi; 19. Strength of spirit? (5) 16. Read it as a long, angry Down: 1 Allot; 2 Lethargy; 3 Gagged; 4 Arms; 5 5 Notable; 6 Revolution; 9 Determined; 12 speech (6) Collate; 6 Uproarious; 9 Peripheral; 12 Escalate; Epidemic; 14 Sweeper; 16 Gateau; 19 Owned; 20 21. Small company requiring a 17. Indicate where a fielder may driver? (5) stand (5) 14 Strange; 16 Garlic; 19 Glory; 20 Agra. Ruin. 22. See 5 Dn. 20. Girl returning to get a jewel (3) 14 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY POP SPOT in brief

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer/ Avril Lavigne is back with a new single but an old song. Bad Girl, which also features Marilyn Manson, was recorded in 2013 and appeared on Avril’s self-titled fifth studio album. But it is now featured in the forthcoming superhero movie, Suicide Squad, and has been released with an accompanying video which includes numerous clips from the film. Despite this, Bad Girl cannot be found on the Suicide Squad soundtrack album track listing. This has caused some observers to question if the song really is in the film. But major movie studios do not lease scenes from potential blockbusters to un-associated music videos. Suicide Squad debuts in cinemas on August 5. Avril’s Bad Girl video can be seen at www..com/watch?v=K3EgAgqIZJE

American quintet KoRn will issue their 12th studio album, The Serenity of Suff ering, on October 21. The album apparently marks a return to the heavier sounds of the band’s early albums. Lead guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch said of the new songs, “The music and vocals will be more intense than anyone has heard from us for a long time.” First single, Rotting In Vain, has just been released. “The song is about being in a dark place,” remarked singer/songwriter . “Being in situations or relationships where you’re stuck and just being abused. There seems to be no way out so you just sit there and rot.” LONG TIME IN THE MAKING: Jonas Blue says that after he got into DJing, he “always had this desire to have Fast Car as The is posted at www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq9j1qkj2Vc part of my set.” The Beatles

Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard has created a Turning Chapman’s Fast documentary film featuring live concert performances by The Beatles. Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years chronicles the band from 1962 to 66. It includes their performances at The Cavern Club in Liverpool when they first found fame through to their final concert Car into a modern dance hit at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on August 29, 1966. After premiering in London on September 15, the film will be released world-wide. ost fans of Tracy just came to me. I’d never previously his debut release, did Jonas feel daunted A new album, The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl, will be issued Chapman’s 1988 hit, experienced anything like that. It by the prospect of creating an equally as a companion piece to the documentary. Released on September Fast Car, probably was amazing. I went into the studio successful follow-up? 9, the songs are taken from the band’s three performances at The couldn’t imagine the and pretty much had the whole “Yes, to some degree. But I wrote the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles during 1964 and 65. song being remade into instrumental done in one night.” chord progression for Perfect Strangers Full details of the album and a trailer for the film can be found at (no Ma tropical house number. London-born Like so many other DJ/producers, soon after I’d fi nished producing Fast www.) thebeatleseightdaysaweek.com DJ/producer Jonas Blue was not among Jonas believes his vocal ability does not Car. I felt it was special but I again them. match his musical creativity. He needed needed a singer. My manager had a Lady Gaga “I wasn’t born when Tracy had her to fi nd a singer. meeting with the Island Records people enormous success with the song,” “The music is completely diff erent who mentioned a singer/songwriter Is Lady Gaga single again? Well, maybe. smiled 26-year-old Jonas, real name from the original. But I’d kept it in the named J.P. (John Paul) Cooper. He was The superstar singer/songwriter has been dating model/actor Taylor Guy Robin. “But Fast Car was one of same key so I needed someone who given the instrumental and sent back Kinney since they met on the set of her You and I video in 2011. They my mother’s all-time favourite songs. It could sing as low as Tracy Chapman. a rough version of Perfect Strangers became engaged on February 14 last year. always seemed to be on in the house or I knew no-one who could match her which sounded great. But the couple have rarely been seen together in recent times. This car when I was a kid. vocal quality so I put the song aside for “I loved the story J.P. was trying to fuelled newspaper and Internet rumours that they had split up. “I enjoyed it almost as much as my a couple of weeks. tell in his lyrics and his voice was so Gaga has now posted a message on social media confirming that she mum. After I got into DJing, I always “I went out for a social evening with soulful. I had this feeling of butterfl ies and Taylor are no longer together but says they are still in love and had this desire to have Fast Car as part my manager. We were in a pub when in my stomach when I fi nished Fast Car are just taking a break from each other. of my set. But I knew it couldn’t work. I heard a girl performing an acoustic and felt the same way when I fi nished “Taylor and I have always believed we were soulmates,” Gaga stated. The tempo was just too slow so I always set. That’s how I found Dakota. I told Perfect Strangers. I look for that feeling “Just like all couples, we have ups and downs and we have been knew I wanted to remake the song into a her about Fast Car but she wasn’t now with every song I make.” taking a break. We are both ambitious artists, hoping to work through dance track.” sure about doing it because she’d The butterfl ies augured well. Perfect long-distance and complicated schedules to continue the simple love The opportunity to do so came about never performed any dance songs. Strangers has matched the UK chart we have always shared. Please root us on. We’re just like everybody after Jonas moved into production. Thankfully, I persuaded her to give it a position of Fast Car. It has not yet else and we really love each other.” “Becoming a producer is the natural try. She came into the studio and her proved quite so successful elsewhere progression from DJing. Instead of vocals were perfect.” but has only just been released in most Bjork always playing tracks by other people, Not that Jonas expected his track to other countries. you have the chance to use your own become anything like so popular. “I’m really happy with the response Anyone visiting London between September 1 and October 23 might work during your sets. “It was just something I made to to Perfect Strangers. But getting two be interested in seeing the Bjork Digital exhibition at Somerset House. “I’d been writing songs since I was 11 include in my DJ set. I wanted young consecutive massive hits does put the It features Bjork’s various virtual reality and interactive videos. or 12 and created some tracks that I was people who may not know Tracy pressure on me to keep creating special Visitors will view the Icelandic singer / songwriter through virtual happy with. But I didn’t feel like I had Chapman’s original to hear a dance songs. reality goggles. Among numerous bizarre attractions, they will listen the special song with which to launch version of one of my favourite songs.” “I’ve been asked about releasing an to Bjork’s track, Mouth Mantra, while seemingly sitting inside her my recording career. Fast Car became a smash hit album or at least an EP. But I’d really mouth. “That changed last August when throughout the world. It topped the like to have about six singles to my The show is described as a multimedia exhibition and virtual reality I was out with friends. Everything I charts in , Hungary and Latvia, name before I release an album. I’m project which has never previously been seen in . Bjork wanted to do with Fast Car just popped hit number two in Britain and took hoping to issue two more singles this believes that by off ering what is eff ectively a private theatrical into my head. The arrangement, the pole position on the US and UK dance year so I might have an album out by experience, virtual reality provides a unique means through which sounds I wanted to use, everything charts. Having achieved so much with late-2017.” she can connect with her audience. Tuesday, August 2, 2016 GULF TIMES 15 BOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY Rustom will leave people thinking, arguing: Akshay

Neeraj Pandey (he has produced By Subhash K Jha Rustom) is all good by me. Neeraj’s standards of fi lmmaking and his script sense are irreproachable. So ollywood star Akshay Tinu had my full faith from day one. Kumar says his next I’ve not regretted my instincts for a movie Rustom — based second. on the sensational K M Nanavati case of a Isn’t it diffi cult for a new BMumbai naval offi cer — will make director to guide you? the audience think about India’s Tinu has pulled all of us together legal system. Excerpts from the into one creative vision so fast and interview: so well that I take my hat off to him. He’s a producer’s director and he The Rustom trailer has evoked doesn’t mess about for a moment. unprecedented response. Your He would forget to say hello to you response? as he had to be so engrossed with Gratitude is my biggest response. his work. But his practicality always I knew I liked the fi lm, I knew I brings him back to reality. Speedy found the concept interestingly man, fast paced, exactly what I like in gripping. But one never knows my directors, when they know what how the world will react to what they want and get it come hook or by I personally feel is intriguing and crook, they get their shot. interesting. SPEAKING HIS MIND: Akshay Kumar Yet another new leading lady Are you happy with the for you in Rustom. What was response? become too big and too distant for me such a character, one who has wished for a better response to one Ileana like as a co-star? What So far the response has been to impress. nothing but love and patriotism in his of the most patriotic fi lms I’ve ever impels you to work with so many mirrored to my own emotions and heart. But a crime is a crime ... This made. new girls? that is one of the greatest feelings But didn’t you feel cut off from fi lm will leave you thinking twice What impels me is change. an actor can experience, a shared the pre-release excitement back about the legal system, the action You mean Housefull 3? Keeping my audiences intrigued is a passion about one’s choices of home? of mankind and the ability to do the I see my comedies have helped very important part in keeping them projects is just so humbling that it Thanks to Steve Jobs and Mark right thing at the right time. critics loosen up. But jokes aside, interested in my career. When I star makes you want to hug all your fans Zuckerberg’s greatest inventions, It’s one of those fi lms that people Airlift made me feel proud to be opposite a fresh face, the audience and thank them for sharing their they kept me connected to the world will argue about on their way out of Indian. As for Housefull 3, I love has no idea what kind of connection eagerness in your work. which made me feel like I was at the theatres, questioning each other the fact that one of my favourite we will have. home feeling the love and support as on what they would do, given the franchises can still bring so much While the trailer was released, if I was only inches from everyone’s same circumstances and what would laughter to the crowds, people let What about Ileana? you were away on a holiday. Do excitement. they have done if they were on ‘that their hair down and let out whoops What about her? Ileana is a you regret missing out on the jury’. of laughter in the theatres. It’s the pleasure to work with of course. She excitement for your fi lm back Rustom is your fi rst fi lm on a heartiest feeling in the world. What has a competitive edge about her, but home? crime of passion ... It’s about a The year has so far been better feeling than to make people laced with a charming exterior. She I would have regretted not being on loving husband who murders his extremely kind to you. Your happy? likes to push herself in her scenes, holiday with my kids. I’ve made over wife’s lover. How diffi cult was it reaction to Airlift and Housefull 3 and takes a demanding day on the 130 fi lms, and luckily still counting. for you to portray this man who being big hits? Another semi-new director chin. Rustom may not be a physically But I only get so many years to throw loves his country and wife but is You make it out like I wasn’t in Rustom. What made you see a taxing movie but it was certainly my kids in the pool and watch them accused of murder by the law? deserving enough to have a kind spark in Tinu Suresh Desai? emotionally draining for all of us. — marvel at the world before they It was so thrilling for me to portray year!!! I personally couldn’t have Anyone that makes the grade with IANS

Nayanthara’s next venture to address water scarcity issue I can never be a director: Alia Bhatt Actress Nayanthara, who Alia Bhatt has showcased her acting prowess and singing awaits the release of big-ticket skills as well as her fashionable side, but the actress says she fi lms such as Babu Bangaram will never wear the director’s hat for any project. and Iru Mugan, has started The daughter of fi lmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and yesteryear working on a yet-untitled Tamil actress Soni Razdan added that she can plunge into the fi lm which will address problems fi lmmaking business as a producer, but never as a director. associated with water scarcity. “Maybe I can produce (fi lms) one day, but I don’t think I can “We are making this fi lm with ever be a director because being a director takes a lot. I don’t lot of social responsibility. It will think I have that capability,” Alia told IANS over phone from create an impact in the minds of Mumbai. the audience because it’s about Since her debut project Student of the Year in 2012, she water scarcity and it happens has delivered laudable performances in fi lms like Highway, to be one of the major problems 2 States, Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Kapoor and Sons and faced by people nowadays,” Udta Punjab. Her only setback was last year’s Shaandaar. fi lm’s director Gopi Nainar Asked if she takes any guidance from her family, she said: said in a statement. In the fi lm, “While making the fi lm no advice comes from my parents. Nayanthara will be seen as All advice comes from my director.” a district collector. The film The actress will next be seen in director Gauri Shinde’s also stars child artists Vignesh upcoming Dear Zindagi alongside superstar Shah Rukh Khan. and Ramesh, known for The fi lm will release on November 25. — IANS critically-acclaimed Tamil film Kaaka Muttai. The movie has NOT ME: Alia Bhatt completed its first schedule. FOR A CAUSE: Nayanthara — IANS 16 GULF TIMES Tuesday, August 2, 2016 COMMUNITY

BALL ROLLING: Filipino expats from various organisations in Qatar participated in Bowling for a Cause. Bowling contest brings cheer to Filipino expats Omnia Veritas’ meaning ‘Truth Around 32 teams from various companies and Filipino organisations Conquers All’ or ‘Truth Prevails’ comes from the emblem of the University of Santo Tomas where participated in the pre-anniversary celebration for AKP-Q organised in the Alpha Kappa Rho Fraternity and Sorority was founded. Members are called ‘Skeptrons’ a Greek word for the support of distressed OFWs. By Anand Holla the ‘ceremonial staff ’ or the sceptre carried by a monarch as a symbol of sovereignty. he sound of falling this event and making it a truly As for the Qatar unit, AKP-Q bowling pins brought memorable one.” was founded in June 2008 by seven news of relief and joy For AKP-Q, tending to the needs Skeptrons from diff erent chapters for several troubled of the community comes naturally. in the who moved to Filipino expats of AKP-Q shared with Community Doha and organised the Alpha Qatar,T last weekend. About 160 their grand history and how the Kappa Rho Qatar National Council. people, split into 32 teams, from Qatar unit of the organisation came “Their main objective is to unite all various companies and Filipino into existence. Established in the fellow Skeptrons around the Qatar organisations, participated in Philippines in 1973, the Alpha Kappa archipelago,” says AKP-Q, “These Bowling for a Cause ‘Isang Gulong, Rho Fraternity and Sorority, also fellow Skeptrons are heroic and Malaki ang Tulong’ organised by called AKRHO, made up of men and equipped enough to sacrifi ce their Alpha Kappa Rho-Qatar Chapter women from diff erent universities time, hectic schedules and even (AKP-Q) at the Qatar Bowling was formed to promote loyalty, unity fi nances to pursue their dreams and Centre. and pride in the fraternity amongst From left: AKP-Q Chairman Jayson L Mora, Philippine Labour Attache David to be recognised as one of the active The event was a pre-anniversary its members. Des Dicang, and AKP-Q Grand Skeptor Daryl Jan B Violenta. Filipino communities in Qatar. celebration for AKP-Q. The Today, it is registered as an Today, AKP-Q has been involved in benefi ciaries of the event were the International Humanitarian Service soon became notorious in the or to quit,” says AKP-Q, “If the numerous humanitarian services in distressed OFWs at the Philippine Fraternity that encourages members Philippines because of the initiation aspirant was able to complete the Qatar and abroad especially in the Overseas Labour Offi ce and to be involved in humanitarian rites members had to undergo to initiation rite, the aspirant would Philippines to show what AKP- the Overseas Workers Welfare projects and off er various services to join it. undergo the fi nal rite of initiation Qatar is all about.” Administration (POLO-OWWA). people. Founded in the Philippines, “Those who wanted to join the known as the Ritual where a heated AKP-Q is composed of six Philippine Labour Attache to Qatar it is now in several other countries fraternity had to undergo interviews coin would be placed at the back of chapters within Qatar – Doha, David Des Dicang was the guest such as the United States, Australia, and orientations followed by a the aspirant’s right wrist, leaving Mesaieed/Wakrah, Industrial Area, speaker at the event. Malaysia, Japan, , period when the aspiring member a circular scar as a sign of full Ras Laff an/Al Khor, Sanaya and Grand Skeptron of AKP-Q, Daryl Singapore, Qatar, Korea, UAE, is asked to do humiliating acts in membership to the fraternity.” Shahaniya – with 184 registered and Jan Violenta, told Community, “We , Canada, , , public. This would be followed by However, with the introduction active members. These chapters are are overwhelmed by the support and Thailand. an initiation rite where the aspirant of the Anti-Hazing Law by the under the ruling of AKP-Q National from the diff erent Qatar-based It was on August 8, 1973, that the would be blindfolded and receive Philippine government in 1995, the Council, the Chairman of which is organisations, most of which are Alpha Kappa Rho Fraternity and blows in the back of the thigh with fraternity initiation rites were no Jayson Mora, the co-Chairman is part of the Filipino community. Sorority was founded by 16 college a wooden paddle. Those who were longer sanctioned or approved by Lance Magpoc, the Grand Skeptron We would like to thank everybody students of the University of Santo unable to bear the pain were given the fraternity leadership. is Daryl Jan Violenta, and the Vice for contributing to the success of Tomas (UST). But the fraternity a choice to resume on another day The fraternity’s motto ‘Vincit Grand Skeptron is Robert Senoron.