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READERS’ FORUM Who is getting the service charge levied on customers This refers to the report Food lovers in Oman complain of too many ‘restaurant’ taxes (July 19). Invariably one pays a few hundred biasa’s even for a cup of coffee they buy from tea shops and undoubtedly a fair amount of tip after a meal at a restaurant. Few presumably walk out without tipping. And if there is already a service charge built into the bill value, place a board clearly stating “No tipping”. This is where doubts about who is getting the service charge being levied on customers. — Mohanarangan Sundaram, Muscat via Facebook Scan this QR code to send letters to the Readers’ Forum, containing not more than 200 words with full name, address and telephone number, may be sent by e-mail (akhtar@ timesofoman.com).
Parents need to get to know their children This refers to the report Juvenile crime in Oman rising (July 19). Kids are pampered to much. Most of the time the maids are the ones bringing up the kids. Parents hardly talk to kids about the reality and don‘t get to know their children better. Parents we should wake up. There is a lot that has changed from the world we grew in. Lets get to know our children, their friends and advice. And always do a counter check on them. They will hate you but at the end of the day it pays.May Allah guide us and protect us all. Ameen. — Yusra Salim, Kenya via Facebook
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Putin not admitting state’s role in doping
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ussian President Vladimir Putin is changing his tune about the doping scandal that has engulfed Russian Olympic and paralympic athletes. As proof mounts that the use of performance-enhancing drugs is a statesponsored system in Russia, Putin appears less and less willing to cooperate with international sports organisations and increasingly inclined to complain about political conspiracies against his country. The issue is no longer just Russian athletes’ participation in the Rio Olympics: It’s about Putin’s state being labeled as criminal. Putin’s reaction under these circumstances -- as when a Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine two years ago and Russia and its proxies were strongly implicated -- is to deny, deny, deny. As recently as March, an irritated Putin told government officials, including Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, that there was “no need to politicise anything or push any conspiracy theories.” His message was that Russia would win fair and cheaters held to account.On Tuesday, as the International Olympic Committee weighed responses to the latest damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), all Putin did was politicise things and push conspiracy theories. In a statement on his official site, he compared the doping accusations to the Western boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics: Now we are watching a dangerous repeat of political interference with sports. Yes, the forms of this interference have changed, but the idea is the same: To make sports an instrument of geopolitical pressure, of forming a negative image of countries and peoples. In the statement, Putin mentioned a widely reported draft of a letter to the IOC penned by United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) Chief Executive Officer Travis Tygart, in which Tygart called for Russian athletes to be banned from the Rio Games. Putin suggested USADA officials had seen the WADA report before publication or even “determined its tone and content.” If so, the statement said “a national structure of one state is dictating its will to the entire global sports community.” There is a reason Putin is doing what he specifically told his underlings to avoid just a few
months ago. The WADA report, authored by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, establishes for the first time that the doping system in Russian sports was state-run. The Moscow doping lab, according to the report, routinely relayed adverse findings against Russian and foreign athletes to the sports ministry and was told whether to “save” or “quarantine” the urine samples that contained traces of forbidden substances. “Saving” meant reporting a negative result on a positive test. “Quarantining” meant observing the standard procedure -- a code that usually applied only to foreigners and less promising Russian athletes who were not expected to win medals. According to the report, bottles containing urine samples with steroids were passed to a secret police agent who had a way of opening and resealing them, and the doped athletes’ urine was replaced with any “clean” urine the lab workers could get their hands on. At the 2014 Sochi winter Olympics, lab workers passed samples through a “mouse hole” to an adjacent room and got them back “clean” -- but only for athletes on a special “state programme” list. Russia won the most medals at the Sochi Olympics, and not a single one of its athletes was disqualified for doping. WADA owes its understanding of the scheme to Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow doping lab who is now in the US, telling all. In his statement, Putin tries to discredit the witness, saying Rodchenkov had been investigated by Russian law enforcement in 2012 for doping violations but the charges didn’t stick; now, Putin wrote, the investigation has resumed. Putin implied Rodchenkov was untrustworthy and WADA shouldn’t have relied “exclusively on the testimony of people of this kind.” The tactic is as lame now as it was when it was used in the aftermath of the downing of the MH17 over rebel-held territory in Ukraine, when Russia brushed aside compelling evidence of Russian involvement. The McLaren report describes in detail how Rodchenkov’s claims were checked using samples that had been sent from Moscow to an independent testing facility in Switzerland. - Bloomberg View
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR ARCHIVES JULY 2001 Majlis body mulls role of firms in economic boost MUSCAT: The Economic Committee of Majlis Al Shura yesterday hosted Salim bin Mohammed bin Sha’aban, undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil and Gas, in the framework of its study on the role of international and prominent companies in enhancing economic activities and local community development. The meeting discussed the role of Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), Omani LNG and other companies working in the field of oil and gas in awarding contracts to local companies and providing contributions to services, infrastructure and community projects.
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INFANT MORTALITY RATE per 1000 birth 1990
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1667: The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War and cedes Dutch New Amsterdam to the English.
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1865: Wild Bill Hickok kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in what is regarded as the first formal quick-draw duel. 0
1954: The French sign an armistice with the Viet Minh that ends the war but divides Vietnam into two countries.
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