ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 28 April 2013 18 Jumada II 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5683 Price: QR2 100 UAE firms Al Sadd, Lekhwiya for Project to clash in Heir Qatar 2013 Apparent Cup final Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Brookings honours PM Man held for Cameras to sending ricin letter to Obama TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI: monitor traffic Federal agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor yesterday follow- ing searches of his home and a former business as part of an at junctions investigation into ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and two other public officials. 24-hour footage from 33 crossings Everett Dutschke, 41, was taken into custody by FBI agents DOHA: Traffic congestions at enforcement agencies could be at his Tupelo home early yester- junctions will soon be cleared as traced through CCTV footages. day without incident, FBI spokes- authorities have installed sur- The cameras will only monitor woman Deborah Madden said in veillance cameras at 33 major the traffic movement and help a statement. It was not immedi- intersections in the country. The manage congestions efficiently ately known if Dutschke has been cameras will beam images to and investigate mishaps and traf- charged in the ricin investigation. control rooms round-the-clock. fic rule breaches. Dutschke faces other charges This kind of monitoring of traf- If the Traffic Department related to an April 1 indictment fic movements near traffic inter- needs footages of accidents for for fondling three different chil- sections have been absent so far, investigation, they can be readily dren between ages 7 and 16, from which meant that traffic and law provided, said Al Kubaisi. 2007 to 2013, according to court enforcement officials took time to The CCTV cameras will beam records. Ricin, which is made reach the area of congestion and images round-the-clock to the from castor beans, can be deadly disperse the traffic. control rooms of the National to humans and is considered a In addition to managing traffic Command Centre of the Ministry The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani was honoured potential terror weapon. movements efficiently and clear- of Interior and the Public Works by Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, in Washington, DC, to mark ten years of his REUTERS ing snarls, the surveillance cam- Authority (Ashghal) from the 33 See also page 10 membership in the institution. eras will be able to beam images junctions. to the control rooms of traffic rule A press statement issued by violations by motorists and acci- the Interior Ministry said yes- dents occurring at the junctions. terday the 33 junctions have “We can immediately dispatch been covered in the first phase of patrol teams to such hotspots and the traffic management project clear the congestion in no time,” launched by the Security Systems Guantanamo inmates’ hunger strike widens said project officer at the Security Department in close cooperation Systems Department, Lieutenant with Ashghal. WASHINGTON: The number statement. Five have been hospi- denied any mishandling of Islam’s monitor the hunger strikers and Ahmed Juma Al Kubaisi. Another 15 traffic light inter- of Guantanamo detainees par- talised but are not in life-threat- holy book. that President Barack Obama CCTV monitoring will also help sections will be covered under the ticipating in a hunger strike has ening condition. The strike, in its third month, remained “committed to closing” in investigating traffic rule vio- surveillance system soon. risen to 100 out of 166, a spokes- The rapidly growing protest has now turned into a larger pro- Guantanamo. lations and accidents near these Traffic signals can also be man for the US-run military movement began on February test by prisoners against their “Some progress had been made hotspots, the official added. remote-controlled to manage the prison said yesterday. 6, when inmates claimed prison indefinite incarceration without under this administration and Al Kubaisi clarified that the traffic, as they can be closed or Among those refusing sus- officials searched copies of the charge or trial over the past 11 under the previous administra- cameras were not meant for opened for more time as the need tenance, 20 have been given Holy Qurans in a way they con- years. tion,” White House spokesman security surveillance when arises. nasal feeding tubes, Lieutenant sidered blasphemous, according On Friday, the White House Jay Carney said. asked if vehicles wanted by law THE PENINSULA Colonel Samuel House said in a to their lawyers. Officials have said it continues to closely AFP Qatar’s first ‘roboceptionist’ will read facial expressions BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB promising but we’re still analys- ing the data,” Sakr said. DOHA: The next time you walk He added that one of the stu- up to the reception of Carnegie dent projects has focused on iden- Mellon University in Qatar tifying Arabic-specific accents (CMU-Q) and are greeted by the (similar to language) in facial chime of a female robot voice, expressions. don’t be surprised. It’s HALA, “What we have found so far is Qatar’s first robot reception- that expressions for positive emo- ist. The Roboceptionist, which tions are easy to identify, however, talks in English and Arabic, negative emotions (sadness, anger, will soon be able to identify disappointment) are harder to Arabic-specific accents (simi- recognise. More interestingly, lar to language) and read facial accents in expressions of disap- expressions, a faculty member pointment seem to be culturally associated with the project said driven,” said Sakr. recently. HALA, which means ‘hello’ in The Roboceptionist will become Arabic, is currently a static robo- portable and get more regional ceptionist placed at the front desk looks as there are plans for ‘Hala- of CMU-Q. It was a joint project 2’, which will eventually be taken of Qatar and CMU’s Pittsburgh to the community by the end of HALA, the Roboceptionist Computer Science faculty mem- this year. bers and students. “We are in the process of an email interview. Her interactions are the out- designing a new body that will “We have been busy deploying come of many computer pro- make her more portable. If and and administering an experiment grams. Hence, to put HALA in a when we do so, we will be able to measure human perception new setting, she needs to be pro- to take her into the community,” of politeness versus directness grammed further to enable her to Majd Sakr, Associate Teaching across two groups, native Arabic provide useful answers and have Professor of Computer Science and native English speakers. effective interactions. at CMU-Q told The Peninsula in Preliminary observations look THE PENINSULA Bangla death toll 352 Palestine govt talks Bouteflika in hospital SAVAR: Bangladesh made a RAMALLAH: Palestinian ALGIERS: Algerian President string of arrests yesterday over President Mahmoud Abbas yes- Abdelaziz Bouteflika was hospi- the collapse of a factory complex terday announced the start of talised after a minor stroke yes- which killed at least 352 people talks on forming a national unity terday, according to the state as exhausted rescuers battled to government. The announce- press agency report that quoted find more survivors among the ment came on the last day of the the PM as saying his condition corpses. Twenty-nine people statutory two-week period after was “not serious”. Bouteflika’s were pulled alive yesterday. prime minister Salam Fayyad health is a central factor in the Full report on page 11 quit. Full report on page 6 country’s stability. SUNDAY 28 APRIL 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Emir congratulates S Africa, Togo, Sierra Leone presidents Al Fikra announces winners DOHA: The Emir H H About 100 million fresh Arab graduates to enter job markets over the next 15 years: Expert Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Deputy Emir and Heir Apparent H H BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent DOHA: About 100 million fresh cables of congratulations to Arab graduates will enter into presidents of the Republic of job markets over the next 15 South Africa, the Togolese years, and providing them with Republic and the Republic of appropriate employment oppor- Sierra Leone on their coun- tunities, and entrepreneurial tries’ National Day. education and training is criti- The Prime Minister and cal, said Alex Sloan, Portfolio Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Director at the US-based Skoll Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Foundation here recently at Al Thani also sent similar cables Fikra award ceremony. to South Africa, Togo and Sloan said: “At the backdrop Sierra Leone presidents. of the biggest youth unemploy- ment crisis in the region, where 70 percent of the population is under the age of 25, with about Emir condoles with 100 million new graduates enter- ing the job markets over the next Russian president 15 years, access to the right edu- DOHA: The Emir H H cation, training and mentorship Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa is critical to get the Arab youth Al Thani and the Deputy to provide the skills they need to Emir and heir Apparent H H succeed.” Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al He added that the sense of Thani sent cables of condo- urgency is more because these lences to Russian President young people are in neighbour- Vladimir Putin, on the vic- ing countries. The CEO of Enterprise Qatar, Noora Al Mannai, with other officials. tims of the fire, which broke They need to be future lead- out in a psychiatric hospital ers, employees, customers and southeast of the Russian cap- contributors to the society.