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EYES ON THE TIES

From a symbol of power to a fashion statement, ties in all their guises are on show at a new exhibition dedicated to the neckwear at the Swiss National Museum.

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By Nathalie Olof-Ors

From a symbol of power to a fashion statement, ties in all their guises are on show at a new exhibition dedicated to

the neckwear at the Swiss National Museum.

They speak volumes about their wearer, whether sported by British regi-mental veterans and university alumni, or US presidential hopefuls — red for Republicans, blue for Democrats.

The subtle tie-codes at various points in history are set out step by step for visitors to the Zurich-based museum.

“The concept of the exhibition is to show the different facets and contexts of the necktie and also that it had dif-ferent meanings depending on the era,” co-curator Joya Indermuehle said.

Ties of various kinds were long worn as a symbol of social and political status.

They emerged in the 17th century when French aristocrats adopted the cravat, originally a simple scarf worn by soldiers from Croatia.

The name cravat was a nod to “Hrvat”, to the Croatian word for a Croat.

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Among the treasures on display in Zurich is a long lace cravat worn by Christian VII, king of Denmark and Norway, at his coronation in 1767.

From more recent history is a tie offered to US president Jimmy Carter in 1979 by American artist Jeffrey Vallance. Vallance’s “Cultural Ties” project involved sending neckties to a host of heads of state and asked them to give him one in return.

Alongside the somewhat psychedelic tie is a letter Vallance received from the White House.

“Although we can appreciate your interest, unfortunately, the President receives so many requests for souve-nirs and other momentos that it is not possible for him to comply with all of them. He believes it would be unfair to make an exception in this case when he has not do so for others. I hope you will understand,” it says.

Beyond monarchs and politicians, the exhibition also spotlights ties in the art world, including those of Port Art icon Andy Warhol, or from the punk movement.

Emancipation symbol for womenOthers include one sported by

German actress Marlene Dietrich, in a sign of the rebellious androgeny of the post-World War I Berlin cabaret scene.

A section of the exhibition is dedi-cated to women’s ties.

“We wanted to show that there were

contexts probably not so much known, like for example the women neckties in the 17th century,” said Indermuehle.

While aristocratic women had adopted neckwear, ties became a mark of the female challenge to male domi-nance from the 19th century onwards.

“It became a statement later on when George Sand or Colette started to use it as a symbol of emancipation,” said Indermuehle.

Despite that, neckties have remained a largely male preserve.

Zurich is a fitting location for the exhibition, given that quality cloth for ties fuelled the prosperity of a city now best-known for its banks.

Rival manufacturing hubs included Como in Italy and Krefeld in Germany.

In tribute to the Zurich manufactur-ers of the past, the exhibition includes a section of cloth production, with a huge image of a design used on the weavers’ “Jacquard” looms.

Britain was Zurich’s main export market in the 19th century, joined by the United States and Japan in the 20th century.

The sector was vulnerable to shifting economic winds, noted historian Alexis Schwarzenbach, who is researching the Zurich silk industry.

“The devaluation of the dollar in the 1970s practically wiped out the American market,” he said.

Swiss exporters also faced rising competition from Asian producers,

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just as male dress codes became more relaxed, and the sector slowly withered.

With ties no longer deemed essential in many circles, they have become a way to personalise men’s style.

“Tie-wearing has lost its obligatory side and returned via fashion,” said Isabelle Lartigue, head of menswear at Parisian trend-spotting company Peclers.

On the catwalks, ties are this year

facing tough competition from flow-ing scarfs, though retro-style knitted ties with square tips are back in, she said.

In Italian fashion, the current trend is to deploy ties in “almost theatrical style”, said Lartigue, while American designers are opting for ties that match the colour of the shirts.

The exhibition runs until January 18.AFP

Among the treasures on display in Zurich is a long lace cravat worn by Christian VII, king of Denmark and Norway, at his coronation in 1767.

A visitor faces a wall showing ties and bow ties by US artist Andy Warhol.

Ties belonging to the 850-piece of Florence-based professor Piergiovanni Marzili.

PLUS | TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 20144 CAMPUS

BPS takes initiatives to grow toxin-free vegetables

Birla Public School (BPS) set in motion ‘Kitchen Garden Programme’ by planting an olive sap-ling and a variety of seedlings with a view to

encouraging students and the community to produce their own vegetables and if possible fruit.

K P Mohanan, Minister for Agriculture, govern-ment of Kerala, India planted a sapling inaugurat-ing the ‘Birlasphere’ in the courtyard of school, an endeavour under the eco club of the school.

Addressing the gathering of students, staff and Indian community Mohanan said: “I am sure these efforts of the school are in the right direction to have a healthy community that knows what they eat. It is important that we produce our vegetables organi-cally in the context of the vegetables that are mostly commercially produced wrapped in toxic pesticides and chemical fertiliser.”

In the meeting of the Indian Community held at the auditorium of the school, the minister outlined the various agricultural initiatives that the govern-ment had started to encourage farming even if the land owned is only a cent or two.

Ambara Pavithran, an agripreneur of repute, joined the students and the community in planting the seeds with her skills in farming and expertise.

The school is organising study class for interested parents in the community to take place at school

shortly, and at different intervals of the season, there will be harvest of the yields involving the community.

C V Rappai, Chairman, and Dr Mohan Thomas, Director, were present on the occasion.

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K P Mohanan planting a sapling as school officials and students look on.

A library books exhibition was conducted at Bhavan’s Public School with the aim of inculcating and developing reading habits among the students. A large number of books covering various topics were exhibited for children to browse through. Picture shows students with School Librarian Saritha.

Doha RFC sends largest ever contingent to Abu Dhabi

Doha RFC’s Mini’s and Youth’s teams kicked off its season in the first round of the HSBC Youth Rugby Series in Abu Dhabi over the

weekend. Hosted by Abu Dhabi Harlequins, this mini and youth rugby festival was a showcase of emerging rugby talent in the Gulf and Qatar sent its largest contingent yet. Jason Morris, Doha RFC Vice Chairman, said: “The section continues to gather momentum and this weekend saw us travel with almost 300 players, parents, coaches and managers. We fielded teams in every age group and competition from U7 through to U16 and our U18 Colts and received many compliments on not only our style of play but also the attitude of all our teams. While these trip are the highlights of our season we are also working hard within Qatar to develop local competition in addition to our own home tournament in March 15.”

Morris, who is also the M&Y representative and coach, asserts that the “strong performances can only mean that additional silverware will be added to the DRFC trophy cabinet and reflects the commitment the players and coaches have shown through all the training so far”. The Peninsula

The young players of Doha RFC in action.

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Urdu Awards to be presented on Nov 13

The 18th annual Aalmi Frogh-e-Urdu Adab Awards will be presented to Pakistan’s Dr Saleem Akhtar

and India’s Dr Sharif Hussain Qasemi by Majlis Frogh-e-Urdu Adab, a Qatar- based literary forum in Giwana Hall, Radisson Blu, on November 13.

The Minister of Culture, Arts & Heritage, H E Dr Hamad Abdul Aziz Al Kuwari will be the chief guest.

“We are proud and very pleased that the Ministry of Culture, Arts & Heritage is con-tinuing to extend its support and co-operation to our annual func-tion, which it has been doing for the last many years,” Majlis Chairman Mohammad Atiq said.

Launched in 1996, the Aalmi F r o g h - e - U r d u Adab Award [ I n t e r n a t i o n a l Award for pro-motion of Urdu literature ] which comprises a gold shield & cash award of Rs150,000, given annually to two Urdu creative writers - one from India and the other from Pakistan, for their contribu-tion to the promotion of Urdu language and literature.

The 2014 awards were decided by two independent juries headed by Dr Gopi Chand Narang, former Chairman of India’s Sahitya Academy, and Intezar Hussain, reputed Urdu scholar and fic-tion writer from Pakistan. India’s well-known Urdu scholar Prof Shafey Kidwai and noted poet Prof Waseem Barelvi will be the guests of honour.

Immediately after the awards pres-entation ceremony, an international Mushaira will be held which will fea-ture top poets from Pakistan, India, UK, Germany, Kuwait and UAE. The Mushaira will be presided over by poet from Pakistan, Prof Anwar Masood. Majlis will also release a special souvenir on the occasion.

Guest poets from India for this year’s Mushaira are Prof Waseem Barelvi, Dr Nawaz Deobandi, Dr Kalim Qaiser, Chander Bhan and Rajesh Reddy.

Guest poets from Pakistan are Prof Anwar Masood, Rasa Chughtai, Abbas Tabish, Saud Usmani and Ambareen Hasib.

UK-based poet Basir Kazmi, Shafiq Murad from Germany, Khalid Sajjad from Kuwait, Zahoorul Islam Javed and Dr Zubair Farooq from UAE and Doha-based poets Fartash Syed and Qaiser Masood [ from Pakistan ] and Nadim Maher [ from India ] will also participate.

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Dr Sharif Hussain

Dr Saleem Akhtar

Qatar Mahe Souhrida Sangamam celebrated Eid Al Adha recently. The only Indian francophone expatriate forum under ICC organised games and entertainment for children and all the community members at Dhukan park and beach. Sadia Qatar sup-ported the event.

Q-Mass celebrations

Farewell party for Qafco employee

Pakistanis working at Qatar Fertilizer Company (Qafco) in Mesaieed recently organised a function to bid farewell to one of their colleagues Imran Mubashar Saeed. Ali Abrar was the chief guest of the function and Shoaib Sarwer conducted the proceeding. Ali Abrar, Saeed Akhtar, Shahid Mirza, M A Awan, Iqbal Akhtar, Farooq Ahmad, Saifullah, Amir Nazir and Sabir Hussain Sabir recalled memorable moments they shared with Imran during his stay in Qatar.

In collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Centre (JALC) Doha, Jazz at St

Regis will commence its first regional concert series taking place at The St. Regis Abu Dhabi and The St. Regis Doha respectively. Eight days of out-standing musical performances that are sure to inspire and thrill jazz afi-cionados and their families across the GCC, this event marks the start to several jazz events planned across the three St. Regis hotels in the Middle East in 2015.

In Doha, the Journeys with Jazz events start with Jazz in MIA Park on Wednesday. This is a free community event; award winning artists will per-form under the stars with the Doha city skyline as a backdrop. Thursday and Friday will showcase sounds of artists from New York, Brazil, France,

Italy and from around the region, cre-ating a Brazilian Carnival atmosphere at JALC Doha.

On Saturday, Journeys with Jazz cel-ebrates with a St. Regis Family Jazz Afternoon at JALC Doha. This is a free and interactive afternoon, where children will be inspired as they inter-act with the musicians.

The event aims to spread St. Regis’ passion for jazz alongside celebrating the art of play with Family Traditions at St. Regis, a global programme that provides enriching experiences for younger guests. At The St. Regis Doha, one Saturday every month is dedicated to the St. Regis Family Jazz Afternoon.

Journeys with Jazz finishes with a Samba Sunset Celebration on the pri-vate beach at The St. Regis Doha.

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Dominick Faranacci and Gregory Generet playing at JALC Doha.

St. Regis brings Journeys with Jazz events to Qatar

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Exotic Spring Mocktail

Ingredients:• 4 medium-sized raw mangoes• 2 lemon• 1 orange• Clear honey• 4 cups full cream yoghurt• 6-8 tbsp sugar• 2 tsp black rock salt• Salt to taste• 8-10 mint leaves

Method:Remove skin and boil raw mangoes.Cool and take out the pulp. Put the pulp in a

blender. Add salt, 3 tbsp sugar, black salt and little water. Blend well and keep aside. Prepare orange juice. Prepare lemon-mint juice with sugar and salt.

Mix salt and sugar with yoghurt. Add little water and churn well.

Now take tall glasses. Put crushed ice. First add yoghurt. Put 2-3 mint leaves.

Then add raw mango pulp,orange and lemon-mint juice. Mix lightly. Top with Clear honey. Serve immediately.

Riniki Ghosh

Sparkling Apple Lemonade

Ingredients:• 6 pink or red apples, cored, unpeeled, and cut

into chunks• 2 ½ tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice (roughly 1

½ lemons)• Chilled sparkling water or club soda• ½ Lemon, thinly sliced crosswise, for garnish• Fresh mint sprigs, for garnish

Method:Push the apples through a juicer. Pour through a fine-

mesh sieve into a pitcher, pressing the foam with a spoon; discard solids. Tip in lemon slices and mint; stir in the lemon juice to stop discolouration. Chill until ready to serve.

To serve, top with sparkling water or club soda to taste; stir to combine. For extra fanfare, pour into an assortment of chilled glass bottles and serve with straws.

Now, if you don’t have a fresh juicer, not to worry. You can make the old-school version: boil apples in enough water to cover, and simmer until soft. Strain into a pitcher, pressing the pulp with a spoon; allow to cool. To serve, add lemon juice, sugar to taste, ice, and top with sparkling water. Cooked apple lemonade will be pale, unlike the ones mixed with freshly juiced apple.

Althaha

Berry blast

IngredientsFor smoothie• ¾ cup blueberries• ½ cup raspberries• ½ cup strawberries, hulled• 170 gm skimmed yoghurt• Sugar, to taste (optional)For decorationWhole fresh strawberries, raspberries and blueberries

on cocktail sticks

Method:Place the berries, sugar — if using, and yoghurt in a

blender and pulse until smooth. Strain and discard seeds, if you like.

Pour into tall chilled glasses. Decorate with whole fresh blueberries, raspberries and strawberries on a cocktail stick and serve immediately.

This is a thick smoothie. Dilute with more yoghurt, or sub-stitute skimmed milk for yoghurt, if you like.

Jasseem

Lemon Cheesecake Drink

Ingredients:• 2 tbsp lemon juice• 1/4 cup cream• A pinch of nutmeg (grated)• 2 tbsp castor sugar• 1/2 cup yogurt• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence• 1 cup ice-cubes

Method:Blend together lemon juice, cream, castor sugar, yogurt,

vanilla essence and ice cubes in a blender for a minute. Pour into a glass and top it with grated nutmeg and serve chilled.

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All Rounder

Ingredients:• 60 ml orange juice• 30 ml pineapple juice• 30 ml lemonade• 30 ml fresh melon juice• crushed ice• aerated raspberry to top

Method:In a tall glass, first put the orange juice, then the pine-

apple juice, lemonade and crushed ice and top with the raspberry. Serve cold.

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Spicy Watermelon Mint Slush

Ingredients:• 2 cups cold water• 2 cups watermelon, seeded and chopped• 2 tbsp granulated sugar• 1 tbsp lime juice• 1/4 cup mint leaves• 1/2 jalapeno, roughly chopped • Crushed ice

Method:Combine cold water, watermelon, granulated sugar, lime

juice, mint leaves, jalapeno and ice. Blend until smooth. Chill and serve.

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Gooseberry Punch

Ingredients:• Gooseberry juice-2 tbsp• lemon juice-1tbsp• ginge rjuice-2tsp• sugar or jaggery juice-2tsp• salt-1/2tsp• mint-2 leaves• ice-4 cubes

Method:Cut the gooseberries and remove the seeds.Grind it well

and filter the juice. Add all the other ingredients. Garnish with mint and goose berry.

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BOOKS 7PLUS | TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2014

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (Penguin)

By Jennifer Ray Morell

In the belly of the high school where I work is the book room. It is dusty and cluttered, a catch-all for the many shipments the

school receives. Lining the walls, stacked to the ceiling, are textbooks, workbooks, and novels. I’m an English teacher, so it’s the novels that call to me. The books are old, with broken spines and taped covers. One that stands out is The Bell Jar. These cop-ies of Sylvia Plath’s first and only novel have traveled in backpacks and bags, through fights with parents and questions about the future, through blossoming and broken relationships, through acceptances and rejections from colleges, from the early ‘90s when they were purchased to today.

I remember receiving one of these copies when I was a student at the same school. Though it has largely become part of the high school canon, it existed in stark opposition to many of its counterparts. Mental illness is discussed in frank and graphic terms, and for many students, it is a text that stays with them in some way — either through a connection to the character or their inability to under-stand her point of view. Plath’s Esther Greenwood is candid and vulnerable, and though it was written 50 years ago, its emotional core still rings true.

Meg Wolitzer has written about teenagers before (most recently in The Interestings) but in her new novel, Belzhar — her first marketed to young adults — she homes in on the teenage experience, crafting a magical realm that rises from the pages of The Bell Jar.

Jam Gallahue is reeling from the death of her boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield, when she is sent to the Wooden Barn, a boarding school in rural Vermont for “‘emotionally fragile, highly intelligent’ teenagers.” She finds herself enrolled in Special Topics in English, an exclusive and highly secretive class, even though she hadn’t applied for it. It is a semester-long study of a single author, and Jam along with her four classmates have been given old red leather journals by their teacher, Mrs. Quenell. They’re told to write in the journals twice a week and hand them in on the last day of class. This semester they will be studying the works of Sylvia Plath.

Jam is reluctant to begin her jour-nalling assignment, “Because there’s nothing I want to write. I’m hardly going to put down on paper the things

I think about all the time, night and day. The person I think about. That’s only for me.” When Jam finally begins her assignment, she is shaken and confused, along with the other students in her class. But when she writes, “Reeve Maxfield was the per-son I’d been waiting to meet since I was born, but of course I didn’t know it,” she enters a trancelike state in which her past is restored and Reeve is alive again. When she comes to, five pages have been filled in her journal, but she has no memory of writing beyond the first sentence. Initially cautious, the other members of her class begin to reveal that they have also had the same experience: a few sentences written, and then a link back to their pasts before their lives became undone.

This motley group begins to meet in secret, breaking the strict rules of their school. Together, they talk to one another and slowly share their reasons for being sent to the Wooden Barn. There is Casey, a rich girl from New York City who has used a wheel-chair since an accident. Sierra, a young dancer trying to cope with the kidnapping of her younger brother. Marc, who’s discovered a secret that will unravel his family. And Griffin, a sullen and reticent boy from a nearby farm who holds his trauma close. Our narrator Jam is controlled in her tell-ing, keeping a few select moments of her time with Reeve at the forefront of her mind, while maintaining an air of secrecy with the group.

In between visits to “Belzhar,” their code for this shared experience through journalling, the students continue to read the works of Sylvia Plath. In The Bell Jar, Plath’s narra-tor Esther Greenwood describes her isolation: “(W)herever I sat — on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok — I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stew-ing in my own sour air.” When Mrs. Quenell asks the students in Special Topics if any of them is able to relate to The Bell Jar, Casey describes herself as “trapped in my own little bell jar on wheels.” Jam makes the connec-tion as well, and soon the entire class is engrossed in the conversation. But what are they really talking about: the text or their own lives?

Though the story of Esther Greenwood is highly autobiographical, Wolitzer understands that there are many kinds of trauma. Jam explains, “What the character of Esther Greenwood feels, I feel too. The other students in Special Topics probably would agree, even though everyone’s problems are really different.” When

they finally begin to reveal their secrets to one another, the class-mates start to rank their problems. Is a divorce as bad as a death? Does it matter? When Marc begins to make light of his own experience, explaining it away as not as hurtful or traumatic as what some of the others have been through, Casey makes a point that might seem simplistic to some adult readers but will be important to teens: “But it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you.”

As the semester continues, the students begin to realize the implica-tion of their journals. While for now they are relishing their previous lives, stuck in a past that has yet to betray them, they will soon run out of pages. Though the conceit of Belzhar at times feels forced, this “red-leather-journal-cure” — writing through a trauma — is simple at its core. Eventually, and with time, these students will have to choose a future distinct from their past in Belzhar, where time is frozen. They are at the beginnings of their lives, and the option that Mrs. Quenell holds before them is facing the past and moving forward.

Jam Gallahue muses that even as STEM fields are valued above the humanities, words and literature still matter. In portraying a group of trou-bled teens who find solace in a novel and a journal, Wolitzer is agreeing. In this respect they mirror Esther Greenwood herself, when Buddy Willard tells her that the poems she

so valued were merely dust. “People were made of nothing so much as dust,” Plath writes, “and I couldn’t see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems peo-ple would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn’t sleep.”

While Sylvia Plath also kept incred-ibly detailed journals about her life, she is famous for obsessing over the red leather thesaurus that once belonged to her father. Unlike the journals of Belzhar, this was a fixed point, a static connection to a past that had flitted by. While the fate of Esther Greenwood is ambiguous, punctuated by Plath’s own suicide following the publication of The Bell Jar, Wolitzer’s take in Belzhar is more optimistic. The “emotionally fragile, highly intelligent teenagers” in Mrs. Quenell’s class dis-cuss Plath’s suicide, with Marc ques-tioning if the novel is appropriate for them to read and Jam wondering if her parents would be angry about the assignment. Ultimately, the students decide that they can handle The Bell Jar, and in working through the novel, they slowly begin to escape their own personal bell jars. Enough background is given in Belzhar so that a familiarity with The Bell Jar is not necessary to enjoy the novel. But for those who are familiar with the text, this is a chance to see it again through the fresh eyes of teenagers, and a fine companion piece for those who are unsure of how to manage the darkness. WP-Bloomberg

Meg Wolitzer’s young adult novel examines The Bell Jar through fresh eyes

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Blue Ivy turns photographer

Singers Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy showed off her photog-raphy skills when she attended a private viewing at The Louvre here.Beyoncé posted a bunch of photos from their excursion throughout

the museum on her official website, which shows the two-year-old taking photographs of her parents.

The family enjoyed their cultural family outing on October 7, reports dailymail.co.uk.

Beyoncé wore a black t-shirt with a colourful image of the American flag over dark skinny jeans and spike earrings. Jay-Z looked casual in a silver foil style jacket and one of his iconic snapback caps.

Jay Leno honoured in Washington

American talk show host Jay Leno was honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor here. Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recognises artists who have made a significant

contribution to the world of American comedy. The ceremony took place at the Kennedy Center here Sunday, reports eonline.com.

Entertainers including his “Tonight Show” successor Jimmy Fallon came out to fête the comedian.

Praising Leno as “a trail-blazing comedian” and “someone to look up to my entire year”, Fallon thanked Leno for being someone who “showed me that hard work does pay off”.

Other celeb attendees included Seth Meyers, Garth Brooks, Ross Matthews and Kristin Chenoweth. Jamie Foxx and Betty White each sent video messages to the comedian.

Leno said he would “treasure” the award, which is for humor and added: “This means a tremendous amount to me. I am so touched by this”.

Clooney to throw another wedding party?

It seems that actor George Clooney’s wedding festivities are not over yet. The actor is reportedly throwing another party in Buckinghamshire to celebrate his wedding to British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin.

According to a report in The Sun newspaper, they are organising a bash at the Danesfield House in Buckinghamshire on October 24, reports contactmusic.com.

The duo exchanged vows in a ceremony in Venice on September 27.“Amal has a lot of her family in the UK, so it made sense for them to

hold another bash here following last month’s wedding,” a source said.However, the guest list still remains a secret as the hotel staff are told

to remain tight-lipped about it.“Hotel staff are under strict orders not to let slip who their upcoming

guests are -- but everyone is buzzing about their arrival,” the source added.

DDLJ begins 20th year at Maratha Mandir

Bollywood film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, considered an ode to love by many, has started its 20th year of uninterrupted run at the iconic

Maratha Mandir cinema hall here. The film changed the course of the nation’s cinema and became an unparalleled brand by catapulting itself into being the longest running film in the history of Indian cinema, read a statement from production banner Yash Raj Films.

Since its release on October 20, 1995, the classic love story has won over the hearts of generations for the past 19 years and is still watched by the youth even today, often playing to packed houses during its daily 11:30am show.

Starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, the movie made people fall in love with the characters Raj and Simran. Directed by Aditya Chopra, the film narrates the love story of a fun-loving London-bred Punjabi boy with a girl brought up in a conservative family. How he wins over girl’s side, forms the rest of the story.

The Yash Raj Films’ project will c o m p l e t e 1000 histor-ical weeks at the box office on December 12.

Govinda optimistic about villain role

Bollywood’s comedy king Govinda, who will be seen in a negative role in Yash Raj Films’s (YRF) Kill Dil, is not worried about how his new

avatar will be received as he says the production banner manages to present even a villain like a hero.

“I wasn’t sure that I would be able to do this role because I had to play a hardcore villain in the film. But my wife Sunita said, ‘Take up work that comes your way. Don’t sit at home, go out. Don’t wait for your films to get released’.

“Their (YRF’s) presentation can never go wrong, they present even a villain like a hero. So I was like, ‘Yeh achha villain hai bhai, jo hero ki tarah lag raha hai’ (This is a good villain, who looks like a hero’,” Govinda quipped.

The actor says he has done the role with “full honesty” to make it memorable for his fans.

Directed by Shaad Ali, Kill Dil also features younger actors like Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar and Parineeti Chopra.

Govinda is happy that he did the film, and he’s more than glad with the response that he has received for the movie’s trailer.

“I feel good now that I see the reactions to the promo. The audience is liking my role,” he said.

Hope HNY delivers happiness: SRK

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, whose “Happy New Year” releases Friday, hopes that the heist entertainer spreads joy amongst audiences. “Didn’t

get to see HNY but saw the smiling faces of all who saw it. I pray to Allah that it delivers happiness to the viewers,” Shah Rukh tweeted.

The movie was screened in Mumbai Sunday.Directed by Farah Khan, the movie also features Deepika Padukone,

Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Jackie Shroff, Vivaan Shah and Sonu Sood.

The film is produced by Shah Rukh’s Red Chillies Entertainments Pvt. Ltd.

SRK says the idea is to produce films “which are difficult to produce”.“Paheli was offbeat, Asoka and Ra.One were difficult to produce. I had

a visual effects company, so I could make them. I have to make films that are commercially viable,” he said.

By Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud

Brad Pitt’s gritty World War Two drama Fury con-quered all box office foes over the weekend, ringing up $23.5m in ticket sales

at theatres in the United States and Canada.

Fury kicked two-time box office leader Gone Girl to second place. The thriller starring Ben Affleck collected $17.8m from Friday through Sunday, according to data from tracking firm Rentrak.

Animated movie The Book of Lifeearned the No. 3 spot with a debut of $17m at domestic theaters.

In Fury, Pitt plays a hardened war veteran who leads men overcome by fatigue and travelling by tank in Nazi Germany during the final months of World War Two. Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal, Michael Pena and Logan Lerman play the rest of his US Army crew.

Critics gave high marks to Fury for strong performances and a fresh take on the genre, with 80 percent recom-mending the film in reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

The movie, which cost $68m to make, fell just shy of industry projec-tions of an opening of at least $25m.

“We’re in it for the long haul,” said Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution at Sony Corp’s movie stu-dio, which released the film, calling the figure “within the realm of what we expected” and “a very good start”.

Bruer noted that Fury appeals

strongly to men, but that “women who have seen it love it as well,” and that the film received an A- CinemaScore grade based on audiences’ ratings.

The Book of Life draws on Mexican art and wooden puppets to animate a colourful love story rooted in the Mexican Day of the Dead festivities. It follows childhood friends Manolo (Diego Luna), Joaquin (Channing Tatum) and Maria (Zoe Saldana).

The movie is a co-production of Reel FX Creative Studios and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s Twentieth Century Fox studios. The production cost $50m.

Fox also released Gone Girl, the big-screen book adaptation that stars Affleck as a writer who becomes a suspect when his wife disappears. The movie has collected $107.1m domesti-cally since its October 3 debut.

Walt Disney Co family film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day came in fourth, earning $12m, while newly released romance The Best of Me finished in fifth.

Based on a Nicholas Spark book, The Best of Me stars James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan as high school sweethearts who reunite years later. Released by privately held Relativity Media, it took in $10.2m, missing Boxofficemojo’s projection of an open-ing of around $15m.

A Relatively representative said the firm was confident the film would do well in the coming weeks, “given its word of mouth and strong CinemaScore.”

Dropping to sixth in its second week in theaters, action-horror film Dracula Untold — depicting the vam-pire as a flawed hero in a tragic love tale — earned $9.9m.

Robert Downey Jr’s much-antici-pated The Judge, co-starring 83-year-old Robert Duvall, fell to seventh place, with $7.94m, after a disap-pointing fifth place debut last week.

Horror flick Annabelle, about a haunted supernatural doll, was just

a hair behind with $7.925m, good enough for eighth. The film has earned just over $74m in three weeks.

The Equalizer, an adventure-action film starring Denzel Washington that is loosely based on a popular 1980s television series of the same name, earned $5.5m for ninth place.

And rounding out the top 10, sci-fi action film The Maze Runner took in $4.5m.

Reuters

Brad Pitt’s Fury allthe rage at box office

Irrfan to head Abu Dhabi film fest jury

Acclaimed actor Irrfan Khan will preside over the Narrative Feature Competition Jury at the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Film Festival

(ADFF).The actor, known for his performance in movies like The Namesake,

Slumdog Millionaire and Life Of Pi, will lead a jury comprising Algerian novelist and academic Waciny Laredj, English writer-director Steven Shainberg, Australian film director Cate Shortland and Palestinian actor Ali Suliman, it was announced on ADFF’s official website.

This year, the ADFF will be held from October 23 to November 1.This won’t be Irrfan’s first visit to the gala. Last year, his performance

in Anup Singh’s Punjabi film Qissa was highly appreciated. His Paan Singh Tomar was also screened at the fest in 2010.

An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Irrfan prefers to work in cinema that challenges audiences — a case in point is The Lunchbox, which garnered global attention for a narrative and treatment far distinct from regular Bollywood potboilers.

Apart from Irrfan, his Qissa director Anup Singh, a Geneva-based Indian filmmaker, will also be a juror at ADFF this year. He will be judg-ing projects in the New Horizons category along with Paris-based film producer Catherine Dussart, Syrian actor Bassel Al Khayat, Moroccan filmmaker Leila Kilani and film critic Charles Tesson, the artistic direc-tor of Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival.

As many as 197 films from 61 countries will be screened at ADFF this year. IANS


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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Soft drinks may age you as fast as smoking

Daily consumption of half-a-litre of sugared soda is linked with 4.6 years of additional biological aging, effects comparable to that

of smoking, finds a new study.The study found that drinking sugary drinks

is associated with cell aging, suggesting sugar-sweetened soda consumption might promote dis-ease independently from its role in obesity.

The study revealed that telomeres — the pro-tective units of DNA that cap the ends of chromo-somes in cells — were shorter in the white blood cells of people who reported drinking more soda.

“Regular consumption of sugar-sweetened sodas might influence disease development, not only by straining the body’s metabolic control of sugars, but also through accelerated cellular aging of tis-sues,” said senior study author Elissa Epel, profes-sor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

The length of telomeres within white blood cells has previously been associated with human lifespan.

“This is the first demonstration that soda is associated with telomere shortness,” Epel added.

This effect on telomere length is comparable to the effect of smoking, or to the effect of regu-lar exercise in the opposite, anti-aging direction, according to lead author of the study Cindy Leung, postdoctoral fellow at UCSF.

Short telomeres also have been associated with the development of chronic diseases of aging, including heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer.

The researchers measured telomeres after obtaining stored DNA from 5,309 participants, ages 20 to 65, with no history of diabetes or cardiovascu-lar disease, who had participated in a health survey during the years 1999 through 2002.

The findings appeared online in the journal American Journal of Public Health.

Simple test to predict post-surgery complications

A simple test may be able to identify which patients are most likely to experience wound-healing complications following a

cancer surgery to remove soft tissue sarcomas.As many as 35 percent of patients who undergo

surgery to remove soft tissue sarcomas experience wound-healing complications, due to radiation they receive before surgery.

Transcutaneous oximetry is a non-invasive test that measures the oxygen level of tissue beneath the skin.

Adhesive sensors are placed on the skin. The sensors contain electrodes that can sense oxygen. The test causes no side effects or discomfort to the patient.

“Transcutaneous oximetry represents a poten-tial tool for decisions regarding surgical timing or potentially other medical and surgical efforts to diminish wound complications,” said Lukas Nystrom of Loyola University Medical Center in the US.

Soft tissue sarcomas are cancers that originate in the soft tissues, such as muscles, fat, blood ves-sels, nerves and tendons.

The study followed 10 patients who underwent surgery for soft tissue sarcomas after receiving radiation treatment.

Patients with lower transcutaneous oxygen lev-els before surgery were more likely to experience wound complications.

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By Dorene Internicola

High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT, which has successfully sprinted from the playing fields of professional athletes to the fitness centers of everyday exercisers,

may be coming to a cubicle near you.Experts say even mini-interludes of this cardiovas-

cular workout, which alternates short, high-intensity intervals with longer, slower ones, can help fend off the sedentary perils of time-pressed, computer-shackled men and women.

Air boxing, in-place marching, wall push-ups and chair jogging are among the office-friendly cardio bouts that exercise physiologist Sean Foy suggests in this new book The Burst! Workout: the Power of 10-Minute Interval Training.

“We’re pushing people like athletes, and that’s great for the P90X and CrossFit crowd,” said Foy, who is based in Placentia, California.

“But for people who work in an office 12 hours a day, spending another hour at the gym might be unreasonable.”

The best exercise, he said, is the one you will do.Foy proposes a 4-3-2-1 formula that entails four

minutes of high-energy aerobic training to raise heart rate and metabolism, three minutes of resist-ance training to strengthen muscles and bones, two minutes of core-strengthening exercises for abs and back and one minute of breathing and stretching.

For the desk-bound, Foy said even a minute of activity can have a profound, positive impact on psy-chological, emotional and stress responses.

“Take a sedentary person and ask them to air box as quickly and as safely as they can and their heart

rate will be elevated,” he said. “The key element is to progress so over time the body will become stronger.”

The book, which is not limited to office-friendly activity, accommodates three levels of fitness: the beginner, the reasonably fit and the exerciser seeking maximum intensity.

A 2013 report by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) says that HIIT training has been shown to improve aerobic and anaerobic fitness, blood pressure, cardiovascular health, abdominal fat and body weight while maintaining muscle mass.

ACSM recommends at least 30 minutes of mod-erate-intensity physical activity five days per week, or 20 minutes of more vigorous activity three days per week.

Dr Mark Kelly, an exercise physiologist and lec-turer at California State University, Fullerton, said HIIT is very effective in achieving conditioning effects with short periods, if both the body and mind build up gradually to high intensity.

“Unfortunately you need to go really hard if you are going really short,” he said.

Kelly added that continuous moderate exercise also has its benefits.

“Many are claiming that just moving or standing is more beneficial for disease avoidance than a quick workout in a day surrounded by laziness,” he said.

Foy thinks the dialogue around fitness has to change.

“Too many people say the only reason they exercise is that they want to lose weight,” he said, adding that the fitness community should spread the word that exercise makes people feel better.

Reuters

High IntensityInterval Training commutes tothe cubicle


A team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist Srivas Chennu from University of Cambridge has found hid-

den signatures of consciousness in the brains of people in a vegetative state.

These signatures point to networks that could support consciousness even when a patient appears to be uncon-scious and unresponsive, thus helping doctors identify patients who are aware despite being unable to communicate.

“Understanding how consciousness arises from the interactions between networks of brain regions is an elusive but fascinating scientific question. But for patients diagnosed as vegetative and

minimally conscious, and their families, this is far more than just an academic question - it takes on a very real sig-nificance,” explained Chennu from department of clinical neurosciences at University of Cambridge.

“Our research could improve clinical assessment and help identify patients who might be covertly aware despite being uncommunicative,” he added.

The team used high-density electro-encephalographs (EEG) and a branch of mathematics known as “graph the-ory” to study networks of activity in the brains of 32 patients diagnosed as vegetative and minimally conscious and compare them to healthy adults.

The findings showed that the rich and diversely connected networks that sup-port awareness in the healthy brain are typically - but importantly, not always - impaired in patients in a vegetative state.

Some vegetative patients had well-preserved brain networks that look simi-lar to those of healthy adults.

“These patients were those who had shown signs of hidden awareness by following commands such as imagining playing tennis,” Chennu noted.

The findings could help researchers develop a relatively simple way of iden-tifying which patients might be aware whilst in a vegetative state.

IANS

‘Hidden’ consciousness found in vegetative patients

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 201412

By Stuart Dredge

Google is preparing a new tweak to its search engine to ensure that some of the most ‘notorious’ piracy sites

are less likely to appear when people search for music, films and other copy-righted content.

A previous promise to do this in 2012 has since proved controversial, with music and movie industry bod-ies regularly claiming Google did not follow through on that promise. This time round, Google says the results will be noticeable.

“In August 2012 we first announced that we would downrank sites for which we received a large number of valid DMCA notices,” wrote Google’s senior copyright counsel Katherine Oyama in a blog post published on Friday.

“We’ve now refined the signal in ways we expect to visibly affect the rankings of some of the most notorious sites. This update will roll out globally starting next week.”

Oyama did not give details on which sites are being demoted, or by how much their demotions will affect their rankings — the attribute that deter-mines how close to the top of its results a site appears when people search for relevant keywords.

Her announcement was made as Google published a new version of its How Google Fights Piracy report,

which was originally launched in September 2013 as a defence against claims by music and film rightsholders that Google was not doing enough on this front.

Oyama also said that Google has been testing new ad formats that show links to legal digital music and video services when people search using key-words including download, free and watch; and removing terms from its autocomplete feature if they “return results with many DMCA demoted sites”.

DMCA notices are the key to much of this: they’re the takedown requests sent by rightsholders (or anti-piracy companies acting on their behalf) to Google alerting it to links that lead to what they believe are infringing down-loads or streams.

“In 2013 we received just over 224 million DMCA requests for Google search results,” explains the updated report, which claims that the average time taken to deal with these requests is less than six hours.

“We ultimately removed 222M, which means we rejected or rein-stated less than 1 percent after review because we either needed additional information, were unable to find the page, or concluded that the material was not infringing.”

That’s individual links, but the latest change to Google’s search algorithm will focus on entire websites.

A guide to those most likely to be

affected can be found on Google’s online transparency report, which ranks sites by the number of takedowns it has received: RapidGator, 4Shared and Dilandau are the top three in the last year, with more than 7m DMCA notices each.

British music industry body the BPI was the most prolific takedown-sender in 2013, with 43.3m notices. Its chief executive Geoff Taylor has regularly criticised Google for not doing more to tackle piracy, but he welcomed the announcement.

“When fans search for music or films, they should get legal results – it’s as simple as that,” said Taylor in a statement that added he was “encour-aged” by Google’s latest action.

“If these new steps help guide more consumers to services like Spotify, Deezer and iTunes, which give back to music, instead of to fraudulent torrent or hosting sites, then they would rep-resent a step forward for artists, labels and all those trying to build a thriving

music economy online.”However, the BPI would like to see

rival search engines Bing and Yahoo follow suit, while also pressing for Google to delist entirely sites that have been “ruled illegal by the courts”, and to be faster at removing “pirate apps” from Android’s Google Play store.

The delisting request refers to sites that have been blocked by ISPs in the UK after the BPI secured high court orders: The Pirate Bay in 2012, Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy in February 2013, and another 21 sites in October 2013.

Google may push back against pres-sure to delist sites from its search engine, however. “Even for the websites that have received the highest num-bers of notices, the number of noticed pages is typically only a tiny fraction of the total number of pages on the site,” claims its updated report. “It would be inappropriate to remove entire sites under these circumstances.”

The Guardian

Google search changes to affect piracy site rankingsPromises new crackdown on ‘some of the most notorious sites’ in effort to win over music and movie rightsholders.

By Stuart Dredge

Snapchat reportedly has more than 100 million active users of its free photo and video messag-

ing app, but it has never made any money from them. Now it’s hoping to change that by running adverts within the app.

The first one appeared inside the app’s Recent Updates screen for American users over the weekend: a 20-second trailer for horror film Ouija, paid for by studio Universal Pictures.

“It’s the first time we’ve done any-thing like this because it’s the first time we’ve been paid to put content in that space. It’s going to feel a lit-tle weird at first, but we’re taking the plunge,” explained Snapchat in a blog post published before the ad launched.

The subject matter may have been scary, but Snapchat was at pains to tell its users that it wants to steer

away from “creepy” ad-targeting, as well as avoiding being too intrusive with advertising.

“The best advertisements tell you more about stuff that actually inter-ests you. Some companies spend a lot of time and collect a lot of data about you to figure that out. The product we’re releasing today is a lot simpler. An advertisement will appear in your Recent Updates from time to time, and you can choose if you want to watch it. No biggie. It goes away after you view it or within 24 hours, just like Stories. We won’t put advertise-ments in your personal communica-tion – things like Snaps or Chats. That would be totally rude. We want to see if we can deliver an experience that’s fun and informative, the way ads used to be, before they got creepy and targeted. It’s nice when all of the brilliant creative minds out there get our attention with terrific content.”

Neither Snapchat nor Universal said how much the latter is paying for the ad, although Universal’s executive vice president of marketing Doug Neil told AdAge why the studio was keen to advertise within Snapchat.

“We like to select media platforms that are appropriate for our audience. We’ve been closely following Snapchat and its adoption. It seems to be right in the core of our target audience for the movie Ouija,” he said.

“I think Snapchat has been talking to all the studios and entertainment companies and brands for a long time. They just haven’t had opportunities previously. We’ve been having conver-sations with them for a while and just waiting for when would be the right opportunity.”

In December 2013, Snapchat poached Emily White, the execu-tive responsible for bringing adverts to Instagram, to become its chief

operating officer. Neil added that Snapchat had specifically requested a video ad, and said that Sony had edited the trailer to fit in with the app by “using small video bursts the way a Snapchat Story would have been created”.

Snapchat has been growing fast in the last couple of years, with the Wall Street Journal reporting in August that Snapchat had more than 100m monthly active users, with around two thirds of them using it every day.

The company was valued at $10bn in its last funding round, despite its lack of revenues. It famously turned down a $3bn acquisition offer from Facebook in 2013 in favour of remain-ing independent.

Snapchat’s appeal to internet giant and brands alike is its popu-larity among teenagers and twenty-somethings. In August, research firm comScore claimed that 32.9 percent of 18-34 year-olds in the US were using the app, but this was closer to 50 per-cent for 18-24 year-olds. The Guardian

Snapchat messaging app gets its first ad

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Hoy en la HistoriaOctober 21, 1934

1824: British bricklayer Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement1979: Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigned over Israel’s refusal to negotiate with Palestinians2004: The World Wildlife Fund reported that the planet’s resources were being consumed at a rate that outstripped its capacity to support life2008: India and Pakistan reopened a trade route across Kashmir’s Line of Control for the first time in 60 years

Chinese Communist forces led by Mao Zedong, encircled by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Army, began their one-year “Long March” to safety in the north

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ANGUS YOUNG, BRIAN MAY, CARLOS SANTANA, DAVE GILMOUR, EDDIE VAN HALEN, ERIC CLAPTON, GARY MOORE, JAMES HETFIELD, JEFF BECK, JIMI HENDRIX, JIMMY PAGE, JOE SATRIANI, KURT COBAIN, MARK KNOPFLER, SLASH, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, TOM MORELLO, ZAKK WYLDE.

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Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARN ARABIC


With the Clothes Broadsuits Salesman

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Sweater Kanza

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Do you have hats? Hal çindaka qoubça?

Yes Naçam

No La

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Women's hat Qoubça nisa'iya

Men's hat Qoubça ri��aliya

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Napkin Mindeel

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HYPER SUDOKU

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 One way to stand

7 Sources of wool

14 Come up again, as a web page

15 Statement preceding a blunt truth

16 Title girl in a children’s book series set in Paris

17 Meter reading

18 Like the first two “Brandenburg” Concertos

19 City known as “Florence on the Elbe”

21 Prefix with -form

22 Trim

24 Plotter’s place

25 Sportscaster who lent his name to a popular video game series

26 Unconvincing

27 Fleet

28 Cinco follower

29 Wash. neighbor

30 One on the move

31 ___ the custom (traditionally)

32 1968 Beatles hit

35 Backs, as a front

37 Member of the familia

38 Big name in plastic

42 Almond ___ (candy brand)

43 Big hit

44 Earth sci.

45 What shouldn’t follow you?

46 Macbeth or Macduff

47 Golfer ___ Pak

48 Woman

49 Ogle

52 Justice Dept. division

53 “Modern Family” actor

55 Boxster competitors

57 In situ, as stones

58 “Psst!” follower, perhaps

59 Sonnet enders

60 Corona alternative

DOWN 1 Carrier of plates?

2 Asset for a mimic

3 Notoriety

4 Cry of mock incredulity

5 Wedding staple

6 River through Pomerania

7 “Evangeline” locale

8 More easygoing

9 Nabokov novel after “Lolita”

10 Justice Dept. division

11 Italian actress Cardinale

12 Nickname for Michael Jordan, with “His”

13 Welcome to one’s home

15 1963 movie with the tagline “Everybody who’s ever been funny is in it!”

20 The Jetson boy

23 Disregard

25 Caused a stir

27 Added stipulations

28 Nine-digit ID

31 Flying without ___

33 ___ loss

34 Hold forth

35 Titian subject with Bacchus

36 Witticisms

39 Summer drink

40 Pitcher’s woe

41 George Eliot and George Sand

43 Balance

45 Musical middle name

46 Time spent doing time, say

49 Dry

50 Marseille mates

51 “Glee” girl

54 Weirdo

56 Arabic name meaning “highly praised”

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14 15

16 17

18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25

26 27 28

29 30 31

32 33 34

35 36 37 38 39 40 41

42 43 44

45 46 47

48 49 50 51 52

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T K O S N E L L P O SC L I C T O T I E O V I DA E R O R O A S T N E V ET R I M M I N G T H E T R E E

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X E S S H U N T M S N

How to play Kakuro:The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number.Within each collection of cells - called a run

- any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Easy Sudoku PuzzlesPlace a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains allthe digits 1 to 9.


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16:00 Hum Paanch

16:30 Hum Paanch

17:00 Teenovation

17:30 Neeli Chatri

Waale

18:00 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

18:30 Bandhan

19:00 Jamai Raja

19:30 Jodha Akbar

20:00 Pavitra Rishta

20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

23:00 Best of Fear Files

12:15 A.N.T. Farm

13:05 Good Luck

Charlie

13:30 Jessie

14:55 Mako Mermaids

15:20 I Didn't Do It

15:45 Liv And Maddie

17:00 Dog With A Blog

17:25 Jessie

17:50 Sabrina: Secrets

Of A Teenage

Witch

18:15 I Didn't Do It

18:40 Win, Lose Or

Draw

19:05 Liv And Maddie

19:30 Violetta

20:20 Mako Mermaids

22:00 Good Luck

Charlie

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Shake It Up

23:10 Wolfblood

13:05 Storage Hunters

13:30 Savage Family

Diggers

13:55 Baggage Battles

14:20 Alaska: The Last

Frontier

15:10 Classic Car

Rescue

16:00 Fast N' Loud

16:50 How It's Made

17:15 How Do They Do

It?

17:40 Gold Divers

18:30 Tethered

19:20 Dual Survival

20:10 Savage Family

Diggers

20:35 Baggage Battles

21:00 Marooned With

Ed Stafford

21:50 Tethered

22:40 Dual Survival

23:30 Marooned With

Ed Stafford

08:00 News

08:30 Counting the

Cost

09:00 Al Jazeera World

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 The Stream

12:00 News

12:30 Viewfinder Asia

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 The Slum

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 The Cure

20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:30 The Stream

23:00 Al Jazeera

World

NOVO

1Enemies Closer (2D/Action)

– 10:30am, 12:30, 2:30, 4.30, 6.30, 8.30, 10.30pm & 12:30am

2The Best Of Me (2D/Drama)

– 10:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9.40pm & 12:00midnight

3Left Behind (2D/Action)

– 10:45am, 1:00, 3:15, 5.30, 7.45 & 10.00pm & 12.10am

4The Judge (2D/Drama)

– 10:30am, 1:10, 3:50, 6.30, 9.10 & 11:50pm

5Delhi Safari (2D/Animation) –11:00am, 1:00 & 3:00pm

Bang Bang (2D/Hindi) – 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm

6Dracula Untold (2D/Action)

– 11:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7.00, 9.00 & 11:00pm

7Open Windows (2D/Action)

– 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 5.00, 7.15, 9.30 & 11.45pm

8Gone Girl (Drama)

– 10.00am, 12.45, 3.30, 6.15, 9.00 & 11.45pm

9Dracula Untold (IMAX/Action) – 10:00am, 12:00noon,

2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8.00, 10.00pm & 12:00midnight

10Enemies Closer (2D/Action) – 11:00am, 3:15, 7:30 & 11.30pm

Annabelle (2D/Horror) – 1:00, 5:15 & 9.30pm

MALL

1Dolphin Tale (2D/Drama) – 2:00pm

Open Windows (2D/Action) – 4:00pm

Gone Girl (2D/Drama) – 6:00pm

The Judge (2D/Drama) – 8:45pm

Left Behind (2D/Action) – 11:15pm

2Enemies Closer (2D/Action) – 2:30pm

The Best Of Me (2D/Drama) – 4:15 & 6.30pm

Left Behind (2D/Action) – 8:45pm

The Judge (2D/Drama) – 11:00pm;

3Rajadhi Raja (2D/Malayalam) – 2:00 & 10.45pm

Enemies Closer (2D/Action) – 4:45pm

The Trials of Cate McCall (2D/Drama) – 6:15pm


LANDMARK




The Judge (2D/Drama) – 8:15 & 11.00pm



Left Behind (2D/Action) – 9:00 & 11.15pm





ROYAL

PLAZA




The Judge (2D/Drama) – 8:45pm;

Left Behind (2D/Action) – 11.15pm



Left Behind (2D/Action) – 8.45pm

The Judge (2D/Drama) – 11:00pm






PLUS | TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2014 POTPOURRI16

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IN FOCUS

A fountain seen at Al Wakrah.

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MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.

• The Central Municipal Council will study tomorrow rules and regulations for indoor swimming pools in homes and public places.

• Environment patrols have detected the first violation of erecting winter camps without a licence or authorisation in Al Rafah.

• Most parents complained about the rising private tuition fees. They said tuition for one hour costs between QR100 and QR200 for each student in primary and secondary classes and between QR150 and QR500 for high school schools for some subjects.

• The Qatarisation Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs said employing Qatars in the tourism

sector such as hotels is no longer difficult.

• Several citizens and experts demanded that Qatar’s culture and rules and regulations be explained to foreign expatriates. They said some behaviours, especially indecent dressing, rejected in the local community were due to lack of awareness.

• Citizens and experts called for new solutions to traffic congestion on most roads. They also said new cities should be built outside Doha to reduce traffic jams in the city.

• Qatar Petroleum announced its strategic plans to build new facilities to store oil from 2015 to 2030 to cope with demand during the period.

California woman gets stuck in chimney trying to sneak into home

A California woman who tried to sneak into a house through the chimney got stuck and had to

be rescued by firefighters, who used dish soap to help extricate the soot-covered intruder, authorities said.

Local media reports say the woman, identified by police as Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa, 30, tried on Sunday to enter the Los Angeles-area house of a man who said he met her online, and that when she got stuck she started scream-ing for help.

Firefighters who arrived found her about 7 feet (2 meters) down the chim-ney, which they took apart brick by brick down to the roof line, Ventura County Department spokesman Bill Nash said.

“She’s stuck in there and obviously she doesn’t need bricks falling down on her on top of that,” Nash said.

The team of about 10 firefighters spent two hours extracting the woman, pulling her out with straps after lubri-cating the chimney interior with dish soap, Nash said. She was then taken to a hospital for observation, he said.

Nunez-Figueroa was later arrested for illegal entry and providing false information to a police officer.

Reuters

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Events in Qatar

Jazz in the Park When: October 22; 7pm-8pm Where: Museum of Islamic Art Park What: At this free community event, award winning artists will perform under the stars with the Doha city skyline as a spectacular backdrop. Free entry

Journeys with Jazz: Brazil Carnival When: October 24; 9pm Where: JALC, Doha What: Artists from New York, Brazil, France, Italy and from around the region, will create a Brazilian Carnival atmosphere. Ticket: QR200

QRC Street Drag Championship Round 1 When: October 30-31; 6pm-9pm Where: Qatar Racing ClubWhat: Round 1 of the National Street Drag Championship. See participants unleash the power of their tuned street cars and bikes in the league based competition.Free Entry (www.qrczone.com)

Aspire International 6:50 Race — 2nd Edition When: October 31 Where: Aspire ZoneWhat: Aspire International 6:50 Race is a 50km Individual or Team Relay (5 persons) designed in Multi Lap format. The race will incorporate the 50km World Trophy Final allowing entrants to run alongside the world’s best long distance runners. The race will also feature the inaugural GCC 50km Championship. The minimum age requirement for the event is 18 years (16 years old for relay).Ticket: QR200 (More info at www.lifeinaspire.qa. Registration open)

Trapeze Exhibition and Acquisitions Program When: Till November 1; 10am-10pmWhere: Katara What: The exhibition features works of Qatari artists and their efforts to achieve a balance between reviving the heritage and traditions and preserve the cultural and popular memory, yearning for the future enlightened by their country rising to the top ranks in various fields.Free entry

The Tiger’s Dream: Tipu Sultan When: Till January 24Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: This exhibition delves into the life of Tipu Sultan, the South Indian ruler, statesman, and patron. Drawn entirely from the MIA collection, and featuring many objects which have never been displayed in Qatar, the centerpiece is a group of 24 paintings showing Tipu’s victory at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780.Free entry

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