The film tells the story of Shaar's efforts to set up a food truck and harness the culinary talents of the women living in the refugee camp of Burj al Barajneh, which was established in a southern suburb of Beirut in 1948 and is still home to thousands of Palestinians.
struggling to control the spread of the flu-like virus. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 organisers still insist the July 24-Aug.
9 showpiece will go ahead as planned despite Europe and the U.S.
Tilottama Verma, chief of the WCCB, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, said, 'As kuth is now cultivated in a very small area in Himachal, but its demand in ayurveda, the Chinese and Tibetan systems of medicine, is increasing, it is being trafficked across countries.
Shaar's project "Soufra" - which means a table laden with food - drew the attention of Hollywood actress and social activist Susan Sarandon, whose documentary - also called "Soufra" - was screened for the first time this week in Beirut.
World Players Association (WPA) executive director Brendan Schwab said that, while he was happy with the decision to postpone the Games, the delay in making it in the face of the growing coronavirus pandemic made the IOC look almost naive.
'We sent it to the Central National Herbarium in Howrah, West Bengal, and later National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow, for testing and they confirmed our suspicions that it is kuth,' Maranko said.
The complaint also claimed that Schwartz's sales offer initially cited the painting's frame, which had a Works Progress Administration plaque. It said those references disappeared after the GSA contacted Schwartz, who pulled the painting from eBay and then offered it again for three days in November 2015 for $10,50
Officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), western region, identified the plant as the rare 'Saussurea costus', or 'kuth', which grows only at high altitudes of 8,000-12,000 feet in very cold climate.
Also, the global Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has declared it a 'critically endangered' plant. So, any import or export in the plant around the world will take place only with a CITES certificate.
Schwartz told the Courier-Post website ) that he will argue that the U.S. General Services Administration has no right to the "1934 Farmer" painting that he purchased several years ago and carefully restore
"It just goes to show you that when people pull together, you know, things get bigger and bigger and bigger - and especially the school, how fabulous to have that happen," said Sarandon as she sang English nursery rhymes with the kids.
Echoing that view, the documentary's director Thomas Morgan said the project had helped to change how Shaar and the other women viewed themselves, "like they were contributors for the first time, (that) they were able to do something".
Suggesting a year's delay, he said the IOC was experienced in dealing with obstacles, citing the cancellations in 1916, 1940 and 1944 because of World Wars and the political boycotts of the Games in Moscow in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1984.
Shaar, who escorted Sarandon around the camp, said she also had plans now to establish a small restaurant which could serve as "a safe place for women to come and relax mentally and physically, to come to eat, drink and express themselves more".
The first person who had the honor of touching the capsule was a safety officer, says Satoru Nakazawa, who led the recovery mission. This enabled the JAXA team to locate the sample and send its helicopter team to fly out and collect it at approximately 4:47 a.m. To help locate the sample capsule, members of the Defence Force locked on to it as it first began burning through the atmosphere, tracking it with ground cameras and radar.
the football leagues in Europe are closing down because of the pandemic, the IOC was looking almost incredibly hopeful to the extent of being naive." (Writing by Brian Homewood Editing by Toby Davis) "The World Players Association has affiliates throughout the world and when sports of the level of the NBA, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, international rugby...
With its natural habitat - spread across Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, parts of Pakistan and China - constantly shrinking and its wild population almost gone, the Indian government has declared it a threatened plant variety.
The chairman of UK Athletics said last week the Olympics should be called off to spare athletes the stress of trying to train in the grip of a pandemic which has killed around 12,000 people since the virus surfaced in China.
LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - Calls from sporting organisations for this year's Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace on Saturday with USA Track and Field (USATF) and Brazil's Olympic Committee the latest to join the throng.
struggling to control the spread of the flu-like virus. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 organisers still insist the July 24-Aug.
9 showpiece will go ahead as planned despite Europe and the U.S.
Tilottama Verma, chief of the WCCB, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, said, 'As kuth is now cultivated in a very small area in Himachal, but its demand in ayurveda, the Chinese and Tibetan systems of medicine, is increasing, it is being trafficked across countries.
Shaar's project "Soufra" - which means a table laden with food - drew the attention of Hollywood actress and social activist Susan Sarandon, whose documentary - also called "Soufra" - was screened for the first time this week in Beirut.
World Players Association (WPA) executive director Brendan Schwab said that, while he was happy with the decision to postpone the Games, the delay in making it in the face of the growing coronavirus pandemic made the IOC look almost naive.
'We sent it to the Central National Herbarium in Howrah, West Bengal, and later National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow, for testing and they confirmed our suspicions that it is kuth,' Maranko said.
The complaint also claimed that Schwartz's sales offer initially cited the painting's frame, which had a Works Progress Administration plaque. It said those references disappeared after the GSA contacted Schwartz, who pulled the painting from eBay and then offered it again for three days in November 2015 for $10,50
Officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), western region, identified the plant as the rare 'Saussurea costus', or 'kuth', which grows only at high altitudes of 8,000-12,000 feet in very cold climate.
Also, the global Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has declared it a 'critically endangered' plant. So, any import or export in the plant around the world will take place only with a CITES certificate.
Schwartz told the Courier-Post website ) that he will argue that the U.S. General Services Administration has no right to the "1934 Farmer" painting that he purchased several years ago and carefully restore
"It just goes to show you that when people pull together, you know, things get bigger and bigger and bigger - and especially the school, how fabulous to have that happen," said Sarandon as she sang English nursery rhymes with the kids.
Echoing that view, the documentary's director Thomas Morgan said the project had helped to change how Shaar and the other women viewed themselves, "like they were contributors for the first time, (that) they were able to do something".
Suggesting a year's delay, he said the IOC was experienced in dealing with obstacles, citing the cancellations in 1916, 1940 and 1944 because of World Wars and the political boycotts of the Games in Moscow in 1980 and Los Angeles in 1984.
Shaar, who escorted Sarandon around the camp, said she also had plans now to establish a small restaurant which could serve as "a safe place for women to come and relax mentally and physically, to come to eat, drink and express themselves more".
The first person who had the honor of touching the capsule was a safety officer, says Satoru Nakazawa, who led the recovery mission. This enabled the JAXA team to locate the sample and send its helicopter team to fly out and collect it at approximately 4:47 a.m. To help locate the sample capsule, members of the Defence Force locked on to it as it first began burning through the atmosphere, tracking it with ground cameras and radar.
the football leagues in Europe are closing down because of the pandemic, the IOC was looking almost incredibly hopeful to the extent of being naive." (Writing by Brian Homewood Editing by Toby Davis) "The World Players Association has affiliates throughout the world and when sports of the level of the NBA, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, international rugby...
With its natural habitat - spread across Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, parts of Pakistan and China - constantly shrinking and its wild population almost gone, the Indian government has declared it a threatened plant variety.
The chairman of UK Athletics said last week the Olympics should be called off to spare athletes the stress of trying to train in the grip of a pandemic which has killed around 12,000 people since the virus surfaced in China.
LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - Calls from sporting organisations for this year's Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace on Saturday with USA Track and Field (USATF) and Brazil's Olympic Committee the latest to join the throng.