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Qatar

Coordinates: 25°30′N 51°15′E / 25.500°N 51.250°E / 25.500; 51.250

Qatar (/ˈkæˌtɑːr/,i/ˈkɑːtɑːr/, /ˈkɑːtər/ or i/kəˈtɑːr/;Arabic: قطر Qaṭar [ˈqɑtˤɑr]; local vernacular pronunciation: [ɡɪtˤɑr]), officially the State of Qatar (Arabic: دولة قطر Dawlat Qaṭar), is a sovereign country located in Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island of Bahrain, as well as sharing sea borders with the United Arab Emirates and Iran.

Following Ottoman rule, Qatar became a British protectorate in the early 20th century until gaining independence in 1971. Qatar has been ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-19th century. Qatar is a hereditary constitutional monarchy and its head of state is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The constitution was overwhelmingly approved in a constitutional referendum, with almost 98% in favour. In 2013, Qatar's total population was 1.8 million: 278,000 Qatari citizens and 1.5 million expatriates. After Saudi Arabia and Oman, Qatar is the most conservative society in the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Qatar (disambiguation)

Qatar is a country in the Middle East.

Qatar may also refer to:

  • Qatar, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
  • Qatar Airways, the state-owned flag carrier of Qatar
  • Qatar SC, a sports club based in Doha, Qatar
  • 2011 AFC Asian Cup

    The 2011 AFC Asian Cup finals were held in Qatar on 7–29 January 2011. It was the fifteenth time the tournament has been held, and the second time it has been hosted by Qatar, the other being the 1988 AFC Asian Cup. Japan won the cup after a 1–0 win against Australia, and earned the right to compete in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil as the representative from AFC.

    A television viewing audience of 484 million in 80 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, North America and North Africa witnessed Japan defeat Australia 10 in the final.

    Host selection

    Qatar, India and Iran all lodged interest in hosting the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, while Australia also considered making a late bid. Qatar officially submitted their bid on 19 June 2006, while India withdrew their interest and Iran failed to submit proper documentation for their bid on time.

    Qatar was announced as host nation on 29 July 2007, during the 2007 AFC Asian Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia. Due to FIFA regulations stating that confederation events can be hosted either in January or July, and July being peak summer heat in the Middle East, it was also announced that the tournament would be held in January of that year.

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Piss Factory

    by: Patti Smith

    Sixteen and time to pay off
    I get this job in a piss factory inspecting pipe
    Forty hours, thirty-six dollars a week
    But it's a paycheck, Jack
    So hot in here, hot like Sahara
    You could faint from the heat
    But these bitches are just too lame to understand
    Too goddamned grateful to get this job
    To know they're getting screwed up the ass
    All these women, they got no teeth or gum or cranium
    And the way they suck hot sausage
    But me, well, I wasn't sayin' too much neither
    I was moral school girl, hard-working asshole
    I figured I was speedo motorcycle
    I had to earn my dough, had to earn my dough
    But no, you gotta, you gotta relate, babe
    You gotta find the rhythm within
    Floor boss slides up to me and he says
    "Hey sister, you're just movin' too fast
    You're screwin' up the quota
    You're doin' your piece work too fast"
    "Now you get off your mustang, Sally
    You ain't goin' nowhere, you ain't goin' nowhere"
    I layed back, I get my nerve up, I take a swig of Romilar
    And walk up to hot shit Dot Hook and I say
    "Hey, hey sister, it don't matter whether I do labor fast or slow
    There's always more labor after
    She's real Catholic, see, she fingers her cross and she says
    There is one reason, there is one reason"
    "You do it my way or I push your face in
    We knee you in the John
    If you don't get off your get off your mustang, Sally
    If you don't shake it up, baby, shake it up, baby"
    Twist and shout, oh what I could will a radio here
    James Brown singing 'I Lost Someone'
    Or the Jesters and the Paragons and Georgie Woods
    The guy with the goods and Guided Missiles
    But no, I got nothin', no diversion, no window
    Nothing here but a porthole in the plaster, in the plaster
    Where I look down, look at Sweet Theresa's convent
    All those nurses, all those nuns scattin' 'round
    With their bloom hoods like cats in mourning
    Oh to me, they, you know
    To me they look pretty damn free down there
    Down there, not having to press those smooth
    Not having to smooth those hands against hot steel
    Not having to worry about the in-speed
    The dogma of in-speed of labor
    Oh then they put damn free down there
    The way they smell, the way they smell
    And here I gotta be up here smellin' Dot Hook's midwife sweat
    I would rather smell the way boys smell
    Oh, those schoolboys, way their legs flap
    Under the desk in the study hall
    That odor rising roses and ammonia
    And way their dicks droop like lilacs
    Or the way they smell that forbidden acrid smell
    But no, I gotta, I gotta put clammy lady in my nostril
    Her against the wheel, me against the wheel
    Oh, the in-speed-o, slow motion inspection is drivin' me insane
    In steel next to Dot Hook, oh, we may look the same
    Shoulder to shoulder sweatin' 110 degrees
    But I will never faint, I will never faint
    They laugh and they expect me to faint but I will never faint
    I refuse to lose, I refuse to fall down
    Because you see it's the monotony that's got to me
    Every afternoon like the last one
    Every afternoon like a rerun next to Dot Hook
    And yeah, we look the same
    Both pumpin' steel, both sweatin'
    But you know she got nothin' to hide
    And I got something to hide here called desire
    I got something to hide here called desire
    And I will get out of here
    You know the fiery potion is just about to come
    In my nose is the taste of sugar
    And I got nothin' to hide here, save desire
    And I'm gonna go, I'm gonna get out of here
    I'm gonna get out of here, I'm gonna get on that train
    And I'm gonna go on that train and go to New York City
    I'm gonna be somebody
    I'm getting, gonna get on that train
    Go to New York City
    I'm gonna be so big, I'm gonna be a big star and I will never return
    Never return, no, never return, to burn at this piss factory




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