campus no escape from - the peninsula · and swiss chocolate, german candy sets, dozens of types of...

SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741

CAMPUS

FOOD

BOOKS

HEALTH

TECHNOLOGY

P | 4

P | 6

P | 7

P | 11

P | 12

• ASD students publish a book about respect

• Pickled peppers for the refrigerator

• In Burton’s The Miniaturist, a house is a life

• Start early for a lifetime of good vision and healthy eyes

• iPhone 6 Plus: It’s big and feels great

inside

LEARN ARABIC • Learn commonly

used Arabic wordsand their meanings

P | 13

UNEXPECTED FEAST UNEXPECTED FEAST FOR BELARUSSIANS FOR BELARUSSIANS

Ordinary Belarussians have never seen such Ordinary Belarussians have never seen such an abundance of gastronomic delights in an abundance of gastronomic delights in their isolated ex-Soviet country — famously their isolated ex-Soviet country — famously dubbed “Europe’s last dictatorship” — and dubbed “Europe’s last dictatorship” — and they have one man to thank: Vladimir Putin.they have one man to thank: Vladimir Putin.

P | 8-9

The Maze Runner:No escape from this cliffhanger

2 COVER STORYPLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014

Ordinary Belarussians have never seen such an abun-dance of gastronomic delights in their isolated

ex-Soviet country — famously dubbed “Europe’s last dictatorship” — and they have one man to thank: Vladimir Putin.

Inexpensive fresh seasonal fruits, French and Italian cheeses, Belgian and Swiss chocolate, German candy sets, dozens of types of Italian pasta and even cans of French cat food are suddenly gracing the shelves of neigh-bourhood stores in Belarus.

“Thank you, Vladimir Putin,” said engineer Vladimir Nesterovich as he bought his son a €1.70 ($2.20) box of Italian pastries at a supermarket in the capital Minsk.

European imports like Brie or Camembert were previously only avail-able at select gourmet food stores, at prices two to three times higher than in Europe — an unaffordable treat for most Belarussians.

But when the Russian strongman ordered a ban on EU food imports in August in retaliation for Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict,

Food fest inBelarus after Putin bansEU imports

3PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014

suppliers were suddenly forced to redirect imports to Belarus, driving prices down.

While Russian foodies are now forced to tighten their belts and learn to live without Swiss chocolates and Italian Parmesan cheese, ordinary Belarussians are eagerly discovering the joys of fine cuisine.

“I had never eaten foreign-made cheeses,” university lecturer Alexander Vasilyev said.

“But now I buy Mascarpone and spread it on my bread every morning. It turns out it is very tasty and I don’t want to eat until lunchtime.”

Pensioner Andrei Fokin added: “During this season I am buying as many imported vegetables and fruit as I want.”

A sales assistant at the supermar-ket confirmed that various types of Mascarpone had indeed proved a hit with customers, along with peaches and bell peppers at one euro ($1.30) per kilogramme.

“Peaches and peppers are already sold out,” she said on a recent afternoon.

This feast of fine food comes despite exhortations on state-controlled televi-sion that Belarussian-made products are best.

Run by authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, Belarus has been the subject of multiple EU sanctions and made self-reliance a key plank of its government policies.

According to its national programme of food security, domestic products must account for 80 to 85 percent of all food consumed in the country of 9.5 million.

Imports such as saltwater fish

account for only around a quarter of foods available in Minsk stores while food in provincial shops is nearly all locally sourced.

Belarussians on average spend more than 40 percent of their household income on food.

‘A golden age for exporters’As Belarussians lap up foreign-made

delicacies, local producers are also eager to cash in on Moscow’s confron-tation with the West by ramping up exports to Russia.

Last month, local food exports to Russia grew by seven percent, accord-ing to the agriculture ministry.

“A golden age has started for Belarussian exporters — a gold rush,” said Fyodor Privalov, head of the

Agriculture Centre at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. “Such opportunities happen once in 20 to 30 years.”

Privalov said Russian companies were eager to buy Belarussian-made products, saying lorries from as far as east of the Ural mountains were queue-ing up outside local food factories.

Predictably, the reorientation towards Russian markets is putting the squeeze on Belarussian consumers as local produce becomes more expensive or disappears from stores altogether.

The move comes hot on the heels of a swine flu outbreak that hit Belarus badly, a heavy blow to the industry.

As a result, meat has disappeared from many provincial stores, and meat prices have climbed 32 percent since the start of the year.

Some Belarussians lamented that the quality of local goods had recently gone downhill, blaming the change on exporters turning towards Russia.

Pensioner Leonid Deiko said he could no longer find his favourite kind of milk made by regional producers.

“I think all the good milk is being sent to Russia.”

And, he added, he could not care less about the sudden cornucopia of Western food.

“I don’t need imported products, I don’t even look at them.”

AFP

Russian companies were eager to buy Belarussian-made products, saying lorries from as far as east of the Ural mountains were queueing up outside local food factories.

CAMPUSPLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 20144

QU College of Pharmacy wins accolades

The Continuing Professional Pharmacy Development

(CPPD) programme at Qatar University’s College of Pharmacy (QU-CPH) won the ‘Outstanding Education Award’ at the GCC Pharmaceutical Congress held in Dubai recently.

The award is bestowed on the best programme covering com-munity needs such as patient safety, pharmacoviligance, health re-engineering and clinical phar-macy, adopting training and devel-oping academic staff, conducting research-related activities, and facilitating recruitment.

Accepting the award, CPPD Coordinator and CPH associate professor Dr Nadir Kheir said: “We are proud to receive such an honor for this program that con-tinues to grow and to have such a strong and valuable impact on the pharmacy and healthcare sector in Qatar. This follows recent successes in which the program achieved accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) early this year, and from the Supreme Council of Health Qatar Council for Health Practitioners last year. We will strive to ensure the program’s continuing quality and excellence.”

CPH Dean Dr Ayman El Kadi said: “This award recognition underlines our best efforts to add value to the goals of Qatar National Vision and the National Health Strategy. It also advances the College’s vision to be the best in the Middle East.” The Peninsula

DPS-MIS triumphs in CBSE swimming competition

DPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) hosted the CBSE Qatar

Cluster Swimming Competition recently in its Olympic-size indoor swimming pool. A total of 110 com-petitions were organised for four age groups — under-12, under-14, under-16 and under-19 for both girls and boys. Around 450 young and enthu-siastic swimmers from six schools participated in the competition.

DPS–MIS bagged the overall championship with 44 gold medals, 22 silver medals and 10 bronze medals. Al Khor International School secured second position. Seen in the photo are some of the winners with school officials. The Peninsula

ASD students publish a book about respect

The American School of Doha (ASD) will be hosting a book launch

to support the second book from its school values series. The storybook is titled Respect and was created by stu-dents and teachers from ASD.

Respect tells the story of Jessy, an Alien on a secret mission to Earth, as he visits The American School of Doha. Jessy must learn about humans, but he is taught so much more along the way, such as respect and kindness.

The book launch will feature ASD students, the writers and illustrators of Respect, as well as representatives from the AlFaisal Without Borders Foundation and the Global Citizenship Fund.

For information on this event, or to pre-order your copy of Respect, contact [email protected].

The Peninsula

IIS girls lift CBSE football title

Ideal Indian School (IIS) girls’ foot-ball team claimed the CBSE Clusters

Girl’s Football Championship held at MES Indian School recently defeating Al Khor International School in the finals scoring 4-3.

The team comprising 18 students captained by Nilfat Ibrahim quali-fied for the CBSE Nationals which is scheduled to be held in India next month.

Earlier, IIS team defeated MES Indian School scoring 4-2 to find their ways to the finals in a penalty shoot-out. The team is trained by Suman and other Physical Education faculty. Seen in the photo are team members with Principal Syed Shoukath Ali, Asst Headmistress Nazimabi, Head of Physical Education Nowfal and Coach Suman.

The Peninsula

5COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014

Doha Marriott re-launches Salsa restaurantMarriott opened the doors to the

renovated Salsa restaurant recently. Salsa features a colourful graffiti wall, which gives it a very funky feel. The restaurant also intro-duced a new newspaper-style menu.

The traditional Mexican/Tex-Mex pass around dishes were a great hit with the guests. During the evening, they also unveiled ‘Wing Stings’, which they claim as the hot-test wings in town. The guests were helped to a creatively put together ‘survival kit’ to douse off the sting.

The Peninsula

Bang & Olufsen introduced the state-of-the-art TV, the “BeoVision Avant 85’’, for its clients in Qatar. The new

model is an enhanced version of the acclaimed BeoVision Avant 55 intro-duced earlier this year in Qatar.

The latest design delivers an unex-pected and astounding home viewing experience which will soon be available at Bang & Olufsen Store in Lagoona Mall.

The majestic 85 inch screen size of BeoVision Avant 85 sets the perfect stage for a truly cinematic movie expe-rience with family and friends or an enthusiastic sports night with crystal clear action images and an engag-ing surround sound that unfolds an enthralling stadium sensation in the living room.

An extraordinary home experience:Following the successful reception

of BeoVision Avant 55, Bang & Olufsen now introduces an ambitious upscale of the popular format, which magnifies the unique features and combines them

with an impressive display size. Thus, the new flagship television displays Ultra High-Definition (4K) picture and the renowned Bang & Olufsen sound in one elegantly designed and beautifully crafted TV experience. The Peninsula

Bharathi prepares for annual night function

“Vasudhaivam Kutumbakam”-The World is One Family will be the

theme of annual night of Bharathi — an Indian association of Al Khor commu-nity. The annual function is popularly known as Indian Night. It is celebrated every year in association with Al Khor Club Management and this year it is scheduled for the end of November.

Klaus M Tiel, Head of Clubs, Recreation & Community PR, expressed that systematic planning and dedicated efforts of Bharathi Executive Committee will be essence of success of the mega event of com-munity Indians.

More than 300 participants and around 28 choreographers will be pre-paring for the mega event. A meeting with choreographers and committee members were held to discuss various aspects of the event. The Peninsula

Bang & Olufsen launches BeoVision Avant 85

The launch of BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports car has inspired

the German automaker to extend their eco-friendly theme to life-style accessories such as the BMW i Urban Mega Shopper.

As part of the i collection, the everyday travel bag is made from sustainable and modern materi-als including leather tanned using olive leaves and a felt-look fabric made from recycled PET. This lightweight tote has two compart-ments to carry everything, and its versatile design makes it easy to carry everywhere. This tote bag

has detailed blue colour handles and the stylish BMW i sub-brand signature.

The shopper is a part of the BMW i lifestyle accessory collec-tion which includes the BMW i Ballpoint Pen, BMW i notebook, and BMW i solar charger. To high-light the eco-friendly message, all the items are characterized with the BMW i signature in blue.

The BMW i Urban Mega Shopper bag is on sale at BMW Group importers across the Middle East for USD196.

The Peninsula

BMW unveils i Urban Mega Shopper Flavours of Morocco atRitz-Carlton Doha

The Ritz-Carlton, Doha will soon host chef Hassan Bouhout at the hotel from September 24 to 27.

The Lagoon restaurant will transform into a Moroccan oasis, where Chef Bouhout will be presenting the finest authentic Moroccan cuisine.

“We are delighted to be hosting Chef Bouhout at The Lagoon restaurant to share a range of Mediterranean and Arabic delicacies,” said Subin Dharman, Executive Assistant Manager of Food and Beverage. “To further enhance the flavor of the occasion, we have also arranged for a folklore band from Morocco to be present during Chef Bouhout’s visit, creating an authentic Moroccan vibe with live entertainment for a truly memorable experience.”

The buffet spread at The Lagoon Restaurant will feature dishes combin-ing spices such as cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, ginger, cayenne, paprika, anise seed and sesame seed. Chef Bouhout will offer an array of tantalizing, popular Moroccan dishes such as; couscous; plumped semolina grains served with a variety of toppings including tagine and lamb with apricots; bisteeya, a delecta-ble three-layer pie which is both savoury and sweet, wrapped with the thinnest of pastry; mechoui; tender roasted lamb; and djaj msharmel which comprises of succulent roasted chicken cooked with olives and lemon.

For a sweet finale there are des-serts such as kaab el ghzal or “gazelle’s horns”, a pastry stuffed with almond paste and topped with sugar; and honey cakes, which are pretzel-shaped pieces of dough, deep-fried and dipped into a hot pot of honey, sprinkled with sesame seeds. This can be accompanied by the popular Moroccan Green Tea with Mint.

The Peninsula

PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 20146 FOOD

By Cathy Barrow

In late summer, when the sun is strong and bright, all peppers begin to blush with colour. Whether sweet or hot, every variety of cap-sicum relies on the warmth of soil and sun to

ripen and turn red, orange, yellow or purple. The heat brings out the flowers, too, so the plants use this last burst to produce like mad. If you have a garden, you know the pleasure — and the challenge

— of the bounty.Enter the pickled pepper: a briny, crunchy, brightly

coloured snack that bumps up the interest quotient in any meal. This is a refrigerator pickle, with no canning necessary. In fact, the heat of a boiling-water canner plays havoc with the crisp factor, so this recipe works only when the results are kept cold.

The ratios are immutable. One part vinegar to one part non-chlorinated water. One tablespoon of salt for each quart of liquid. After that, it’s up for grabs.

Any vinegar will do; experiment with rice and fruit vinegars. Add a garlic clove, pickling spice, dill seed, Indian whole spices, pink or Sichuan peppercorns, sugar or honey, citrus zest. The accompanying recipe will get you started: Think of it as a road map.

Preparation of the pickle is paramount. Slice off the stem and green skirt (the top, at the base of the stem) unless the pepper is just-this-minute picked. Wilting stems don’t look or feel appealing when pickled. Keep snacking peppers, a.k.a. Yummy Peppers, whole. If you’re a heat-seeker, do the same with jalapenos. Pierce peppers with a paring knife to encourage the brine to seep into the middle of the each pepper in the jar. Core with a small spoon or scoop to extract the seeds, if you wish. I remove them just before serving because the seeds carry flavour, too. Whole pickled peppers are a flavourful, textural addition to any meal.

Jalapenos, sliced into rings, are convenient for scattering over scrambled eggs, tacos and burritos or stirring into corn bread batter. Serranos work as rings, although I prefer them in strips for sneaking into quesadillas and tortas.

Play with this recipe to find your personal pickled pepper, the one you prefer. Then pop a few jars in the refrigerator; the peppers last a month or longer (in my experience, the rings and strips hold up longer than whole peppers), and, although it seems impos-sible, we’re getting awfully close to that pickled-pepper-friendly, post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich.

Whole Pickled Snacking Peppers18 servings (makes 3 pints)In this one instance, as this is a refrigerator pickle

and will not be processed, there is no need to use a special canning jar. Use any pretty jar (with a tight-fitting lid) lurking in the back of the cabinet, or brine the pickles in a bowl you can cover.

Make Ahead: The whole peppers need 5 days’ marinating time before serving. The peppers can be refrigerated for at least 1 month.

From Cathy Barrow, author of Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving (Norton, November 2014).

IngredientsAbout 1 pound whole, small orange snacking peppers (often called Yummy Peppers; see Variation)3 teaspoons pickling spice (optional)3 strips lemon peel, each about 2 inches long (optional)2 cups non-chlorinated water1 cup distilled white vinegar1 cup apple vinegar1 tablespoon kosher salt1 tablespoon sugar3 cloves garlic (optional)

Method:Trim off and discard the stem ends of the peppers.

Use a paring knife to stab each pepper three or four times, so the brine will suffuse the pepper inside and out. Snugly pack the peppers into the jars. If using, add 1 teaspoon pickling spice and 1 lemon peel strip to each jar.

Combine the water, white and cider vinegars, salt, sugar and garlic, if using, in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil over high heat for 1 minute, making sure the salt and sugar have dissolved, then pour enough brine over the peppers to submerge them; there should be brine left over. Allow the peppers to absorb the brine for 15 minutes, then add more brine, pressing down on the peppers to encourage them to stay submerged. Repeat the brine additions every 15 minutes or so for the next hour. You might not use all of the brine in the end.

Cap and refrigerate for 5 days before serving.Variation: If you’d rather cut the whole peppers

into strips or rings, they will brine more rapidly and will be ready to eat in 2 days. WP-Bloomberg

Pickled peppers for the refrigerator

BOOKS 7PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014

By Verity Watkins

Jessie Burton (pictured) thought small when she wrote her debut novel, but much to her surprise it’s been sold in 30 countries

and, during one heady week in August, shifted more copies than J K Rowling’s recent offering.

“Unless you were a complete maniac you’d never expect that,” she said.

The Miniaturist is set in 17th-century Amsterdam, a world of water, dank mists and suppressed feelings, and tells of a young bride, Nella, whose wedding gift is a cabinet house — an exquisitely crafted miniature replica of her own house.

A bit like Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, it seems to have struck a rich vein with a clever plot premise backed up by scrupulous research.

To date it’s sold 31,453 hardback cop-ies overall, Burton’s publicist said, com-pared with 58,147 for The Silk Road,

written by Rowling as her alter ego Robert Galbraith.

Finding her marriage loveless, Nella pours her desires into constructing a miniature life, which takes on a super-natural quality as it mirrors her own.

The book was inspired by Petronella Oortman’s real cabinet house in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

“The miniatures up close are amaz-ing, the skill in shrinking something so beautifully but you can’t get at it: it’s out of your reach,” Burton said.

The 31-year-old Burton, after stints of child acting, read English at Oxford and drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She talked about what inspired her foray into literature.

What so intrigued you about the house?

Nella’s house is filled with the para-phernalia of everyday life: china, cots, screens pots and pans. Many of the artefacts are things which have not survived in actual size, so to social historians it is invaluable. It describes a life.

The Oortmans were real people, but you haven’t used their lives. How come?

It was only my Dutch editor that told me that Nella buried one husband and a child, then married again. I was very glad not to have known that. The only thing I wanted to take as a char-acter was the doll’s house.

Historical accuracy is important in terms of how they behaved, what they ate, but no one can know how those people truly thought.

In your own mind how far does the supernatural foretelling of the miniaturist character go?

The miniaturist for me is a question of perception and what people want to believe. Cornelia the maid is highly suspicious, whereas Nella sees her as

benign. I don’t believe there’s an objective

reality, we all construct our own sto-ries to make sense of our lives. The miniaturist could be simply a highly perceptive observer, but she’s deliber-ately ambiguous.

How much is Nella jumping to these suggestions because she can’t bear to take control of her own life?

What is the appeal of the Nella character for a 21st century woman?

I didn’t intend to write this charac-ter with a 17th-century crust inside a modern girl, but what she has is spirit and determination; she can be judg-mental as many 18-year-olds can be, and makes mistakes but yet she learns.

People are sympathetic to her will-ingness to adapt. She’s a survivor.

How did you create the watery city so well?

I set it in winter on purpose - mist, light and dark, the play of the visual. The Dutch were so obsessed with the water, and their relationship with it. The sea had twice flooded their land to great damage, tens of thousands of people drowned.

Who are your three favourite authors?

Of all time? Charlotte Bronte, Hilary Mantel, and Margaret Atwood.

You were an actress — what have we seen you in?

Not much. I did a lot of theatre work. When you see an actor on stage and you truly don’t know what they are going to do next, it’s exciting. I learnt that what a character doesn’t say is as important as what they do say.

You are digitally savvy. Is that important for authors?

Although we use social media so fluidly, and even ignorantly — I don’t think we’ve got the measure of what it means. For many people, our virtual lives are becoming as valid and solid as our real lives.

Perhaps if Nella had had Twitter she wouldn’t have been so concerned with her miniature house.

Will books be here in 50 years?Oh yes, definitely. I think the physi-

cal book will be clung to harder than people think. Reuters

In Burton’s The Miniaturist, a house is a life

I don’t believe there’s an objective reality, we all construct our own stories to make sense of our lives. The miniaturist could

be simply a highly perceptive observer, but she’s deliberately ambiguous.

PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014 ENTERTAINMENT8 9

HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS

By Michael O’Sullivan

Like the book that inspired it — the first of a trilogy that includes The Scorch Trialsand The Death Cure — The

Maze Runner movie is one heck of a cliffhanger. If the theatre had been selling tickets to the next installment of the dystopian thriller (already greenlighted by 20th Century Fox, although no release date has been set), I would have bought one before I left the lobby.

That’s about the worst thing I can say about the film: It’s not quite a full meal. But if the soup course is as satisfying as the salad, I’ll gladly wait a year for the next serving.

As incomplete as the narrative is, The Maze Runner delivers on almost every other level. Directed by Wes Ball, a creator of animated shorts and visual effects making his fea-ture debut, the adaptation of James Dasher’s novel is visually stylish, suspenseful and original. Ball has described the film as Lord of the Flies meets Lost — a somewhat grandiose-sounding pedigree that turns out to be surprisingly apt.

The Maze Runner is set inside a bucolic compound surrounded by a massive wall. Known as the Glade,

this village of thatched huts and hammocks appears to be a prison of sorts, inhabited by a gaggle of appar-ently amnesiac adolescent boys — Gladers — who have, over the course of their mysterious, three-year incarceration, developed a highly regimented tribal social structure featuring assigned jobs.

The most elite of these is the job of Runner. As it turns out, the wall conceals a maze, the door to which opens every day between sunrise and sunset. During daylight hours, Runners — and no one else — are tasked with exploring the maze’s contours, mapping them while looking for an exit. It’s a job made more complicated by the fact that the maze changes configuration while they sleep, and more danger-ous by the fact that its corridors are patrolled by monstrous, spider-like sentries called Grievers. Part machine and part muscle, Grievers will kill anyone who gets stuck inside the maze after dark.

Into this dead-end scenario lands a boy named Thomas (Dylan O’Brien). He’s the latest inmate to arrive via the subterranean freight elevator that ascends, once a month, into the middle of the Glade, carrying one more kid who can’t remember

anything except his name, along with another 30 days’ worth of supplies.

But something is different about Thomas, as several of the other boys note.

This observation, in and of itself, makes Thomas sound exactly like the hero of every other teenage drama. But Thomas isn’t especially fast, smart, strong, talented or brave. In fact, he’s just as scared as eve-ryone else, as he tells us. Yet he’s also so willing to question the status quo that, three days after his arrival, Thomas defies the Gladers’ rules and enters the maze, where he not only survives a night inside, but comes out having killed a Griever.

The sequences set inside the maze are viscerally claustrophobic, yet Ball evokes a visual mood that’s closer to the interior of a cathedral. The filmmaker has a knack for chills and thrills, ratcheting up the stakes and excitement every time Thomas — who is quickly recruited as a Runner after he discovers a previ-ously unknown portal — steps inside the maze.

But the movie is about more than a puzzle, or the Gladers’ search for answers to the questions of who put them there and why. It’s a parable about the power of curiosity. As the

saying goes, curiosity may kill the cat, but without it, how are you going to kick down the door onto the next of your nine lives?

The Maze Runner defies expecta-tions on several levels, not the least of which is its avoidance of the now seemingly requisite teen-romance subplot. Although a girl (Kaya Scodelario) shows up in the Glade soon after Thomas does, there is, refreshingly, no canoodling, merely an understandable perplexity among her male peers, who have been living so long in their enforced man cave that they’ve forgotten what anything else feels like. “Are all girls like this?” asks one of the youngest boys (Blake Cooper) with a tone of reverence and awe, as the new prisoner showers her cohort with a barrage of rocks, mere minutes after climbing out of the elevator.

So do they get out?That would be telling. And given

the torque of the twisty ending, it isn’t a yes-or-no question either. Sure, The Maze Runner unravels a few mysteries, but it spins even more. Thomas, as it happens, isn’t the only one dying of curiosity here. As the closing credits roll, you likely will be too.

WP-Bloomberg

Parents at sea about Clooney’s gift

Actor George Clooney is set

to marry Amal Alamuddin at the end of the month. But the actor’s parents are finding it hard to find him a wedding gift. In an interview with Grazia maga-zine, Clooney’s dad Nick and mom Nina shared their dilemma. They don’t know if he wants a gift or would prefer them to make a donation, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“I haven’t got them a wedding present yet because we haven’t decided what to get, or if they would prefer some kind of donation,” Nina said.

Clooney and Alamuddin became engaged in April of this year, and will wed in Venice later this month.

Khubsoorat: This one would make Hrishida smileBy Subhash K. Jha

Film: KhubsooratCast: Sonam Kapoor, Fawad Khan, Kirron Kher, Ratna Pathak ShahDirector: Shashanka Ghosh

Meet Mili Chakravarty, the doughty physiotherapist daughter of a Bengali father (played by an aptly nondescript actor) and a loudmouthed

Punjabi mother (Kirron Kher).“Everyone in my family has gone after my mother... even my father,”

Mili happily informs her open-mouthed royal hosts. She has come to treat the patriarch’s inert limps. But here’s the thing. It’s the spirit she wants to massage into awakening.

Khubsoorat, Shashanka Ghosh’s revisionist version of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1980 comedy, is a decorous yet devilish take on the original material, while the Rathod family, where Mili storms in, is nothing like the upper middleclass parivaar in Hrishida’s family.

In the earlier film, the family suffered from a case of matriarchal tyranny. Here the problems in the royal family are a bit more dense and deep.

Here the stiff-upper-lipped mother, interestingly played by Dina’s daughter Ratna Pathak Shah, has a serious problem with happiness. To laugh and enjoy makes her feel guilty for reasons that I’d rather not reveal.

Wisely, Ghosh has done away with the large joint family of brothers and their wives in the royal clan. The focus in the royal family is on the heir-apparent Vikram Rathod played with a jaunty flair by Fawad Khan.

Khan is unmistakably a prized discovery of the year. He plays a guy encumbered by his affinity to his mother’s brand of royal posturing but dying to get out of it.

Sonam Kapoor’s Mili provides just the excuse he’s looking for. Their scenes together are written in a rush of a mushy romance and sly sitcom.

The writing strives to be smart and slick and succeeds to a large degree. Very often the couple’s spoken words are accompanied by voiceovers sug-gesting lines that are left unspoken between them.

The texture of the togetherness between the Bengali-Punjabi girl and the Rajput royal prince is constantly perky. The wafer-thin storyline is kept vigilantly vibrant by the couple’s growing fondness. Class differences are brought out in handsomely mounted sensibly written scenes that are not over-anxious to involve us.

If Hrishikesh Mukherjee were alive, he would have surely chuckled at this winking wacky wallop of a homage. Shashanka Ghosh is reverent of the original without being slavishly faithful. The end result is a hugely engaging melange of a classic’s rebirth and sassy mirth.

Sonam sheds all her inhibitions to deliver an unselfconscious performance as the rebel with a domestic cause. She seems to have so much fun with her part we just can’t stop partaking of her delight.

The pace is often languid, though. While Sonam Kapoor does very well in her romantic scenes, the moments where she takes on matriarchal tyranny don’t work as effectively as Rekha’s mutinous moments with Dina Pathak in the original.

The dinner-table tension is undermined by the absence of a dramatic density in the conflict between an unrelenting woman and a girl determined to break her rules. At the end of the film, I found myself smiling and rooting for the couple’s inevitable reunion.

While Sonam comes into her own with a role that demands high-octane involvement from her on every level, Fawad is an ample royal foil. Kirron Kher as Sonam’s boisterous Punjabi mother is laugh-out-loud comfortable as the aggressive middleclass matriarchal bully.

Royalty or middleclass, this Khubsoorat is easily and serenely ensconced in worlds that are not only dissimilar but also irreconcilable. IANS

Harry Styles spends £10,000 on lamp

One Direction band singer Harry Styles has reportedly splashed out £10,000 on an arty lamp in a bid to make his home more fashionable.

Styles have spent the huge sum on the lamp, designed by his jewellery designer pal Dominic Jones and artists Thomas Campbell and Joe Armitage, to keep up with his fashionable friends, including Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne, reports mirror.co.uk.

“Harry’s got a real eye for style and takes decorating his pad very seri-ously. He might be away a lot with the band, but he wants to make sure his home is really classy,” a source said.

“He wants to show off his art to family and friends and is proud of his collection,” the source added.

The bejewelled lamp is being completed while Styles is on tour in the US and will then be delivered to his four-bedroom home in north London.

Jay Z, Beyonce renew wedding vows

Singers Jay Z and Beyonce Knowles, who have been surrounded by rumours that their marriage is in trouble, reportedly renewed their

wedding vows when the latter celebrated her 33rd birthday earlier this month.

The couple had a small ceremony in Corsica, France, with only family and close friends in attendance, a source told Grazia magazine, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“They were joined on a private beach by Beyonce’s mum Tina, their daughter Blue Ivy and a small group of close friends and recited a new set of vows during a short but very romantic ceremony, which doubled up as a birthday celebration.

“The small wedding party celebrated with food made by the couple’s private chef. Afterwards, they rented a luxury $500,000 a yacht to cruise around Italy, which they have been calling their second honeymoon.

“From now on, they intend to mark the day of the ceremony as their new wedding anniversary and have told friends they are focusing firmly on their future together,” the source said.

Jay Z and Beyonce wed each other in 2008, and have one daughter together in 2012.

No escape from this cliffhangerNo escape from this cliffhanger

PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014

SPAINPLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 201410

© GRAPHIC NEWSPictures: Getty Images

COUNTDOWN TO REFERENDUM

2006: Reformed version of�� giving regional government greater��comes into force

Nov: Snap electionsheld in Catalonia – newCatalan parliament has107 out of 135 MPs supportingself-determination referendum

Jan 2013: Sovereignty declarationadopted by Catalan parliament

Apr 2014: Spanish parliamentvotes against transferring referendumpowers to Catalonia

Sep: Hundreds of thousands ofCatalans form “V” for “vote” along�� calling for their right to vote

Sep 19: Catalan parliamentapproves bill enabling Cataloniato hold nonbinding referendumon Nov 9 – central governmentset to challenge law inConstitutional Court

2010: Constitutional Court inMadrid strikes down key provisionsof statute in response to complaint by��Court rules there is no legal basisfor recognising Catalonia as nation

Sep 2012:�� !��in independence rally in Barcelona

SpanishPrime MinisterMarianoRajoy rejectscall by Catalanpresident ArturMas (right) forgreater fiscalindependence

Catalonia is heading for a showdown with the Spanish government��

referendum on independence on November 9

50km30 miles SPAIN

Tarragona

BarcelonaLleida

Girona

P Y R E N E E S

FRANCE

S P A I N

ANDORRA

C ATA L O N I A

FRANCE

S P A I N

ANDORRA

C ATA L O N I A

M e d i t e r r a n e a n Se a

CATALONIA EYES INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM

HEALTH / FITNESS 11PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014

Yoga improves health, reduces stress: Experts

Yoga is the best way to tackle anxiety, stress and psycho neurotic disorders, easily result-

ing in better health and regulation of stress hormones, health experts said.

They said that it has been scientifically proven that yoga is very effective in curing dis-orders related to diet problems, hypertensions, diabetes, high cholesterol and obesity.”

“Yoga is a way of life. It can give people a stress free mind,” said S C Manchanda, senior consultant cardiologist, Gangaram Hospital in New Delhi.

Manchanda was speaking at a discussion on “Why is modern medicine looking at Yoga” held at the India International Center (IIC).

“People think that they can either go for yoga or the allopathic medicine to cure dis-eases. But they need to understand that Yoga is effective in lowering mental stress and giv-ing a better and happy life during and post-treatment like in heart-related diseases and diabetics,” he said.

According to the experts, over 2.5 million peo-ple in India die of heart-related diseases every year and currently over seven million citizens in the country are suffering from diabetes.

Ramesh Bijlani, former professor physiol-ogy at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said: “Seventy percent of the diseases in patients are caused due to the kind of lifestyle they have led in the last one decade or so, so for that it is compulsory for them to undergo medi-cation, but to get a happy and better life after treatment Yoga can be pursued on a daily basis.”

He said that yoga helps in bringing happi-ness, and being happy in life can curb up to 30 percent chances of suffering from any kind of diseases.

Naming some of the yoga exercises, Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College said, normal stretching, Pranayams and Savasans can keep one’s men-tal status healthy and keep stress and anxiety at bay.

Say cheese! Dairy products good for health: Study

Consuming dairy products is good for health and can also reduce the risk of metabolic

diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, new research shows.

Dietary guidelines recommend the daily con-sumption of 2-4 portions of milk-based products such as milk, yogurt, cheese, cream and butter.

“Additional well designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated popu-lations,” said Iwona Rudkowska, scientist at the endocrinology and nephrology department in the CHU de Quebec Research Center.

To study the link between dairy intake and specific metabolic risks in a healthy population, researchers studied the dairy eating habits of 233 healthy French-Canadians.

They also monitored how dairy consumption may have an effect on their overall metabolic health.

They findings appeared in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism.

Agencies

By Jessica Harlan

If your mother told you to eat your carrots so you’d be able to see in the dark, she was right. It turns out that feeding kids carrots is just one

of a number of things parents can do to promote a lifetime of healthy eyes and good vision.

Other things include regular eye exams, and sun-glasses or hats to shade kids’ eyes, experts say.

While so-called refractive error (that is, the need for vision correction) and eye disease is sometimes hereditary, and some eye disease is congenital, some issues are preventable, said Dr. Ron Weber, an Atlanta-based ophthalmologist.

For example, myopia, or nearsightedness, “not only has a genetic component but is also influenced by how kids use their eyes during childhood,” he said by phone.

He said that extended close work, such as reading, has long been suspected to cause nearsightedness. Recent support for the association has come from a study in which people with a higher level of education were more likely to have myopia, purportedly because they spend more time reading or working on comput-ers. Another study showed that children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to become myopic.

But these findings don’t mean kids should be dis-couraged from reading or working on the computer. Instead, Weber suggests, make sure a child’s envi-ronment is well-lit while they are doing close work. Parents should also help kids get into the habit of holding their reading material at the optimal dis-tance – about 18 to 22 inches, he said. Finally, taking a break every five minutes or so, to let the eyes relax and focus on an object in the distance, will also help.

One of the most important things a parent can do to help head off eye disease and vision problems is to make sure their child gets regular eye exams, beginning early in life.

“The majority of vision problems in children are preventable and treatable,” said Dr. Ida Chung, president of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. “Eye conditions, whether hereditary or not, can best be managed by having the child receive their first eye examination as early as possible.”

Chung recommends that children have their first eye

exam before turning one. The American Optometric Association has a recommended schedule of exams for older kids, available online at: bit.ly/1uBu4BC.

Children should also be tested for visual skills before starting school — not just sight, but how eyes track, depth perception, 3D vision, and sustained focusing. “If a child is found to have deficient visual skills, treatment with optometric vision therapy can result in dramatic improvements in a child’s visual comfort,” Chung said.

Finally, many parents don’t think of putting sun-glasses on their kids, but experts say it should be as second nature as other sun protection. “If your kid is in a situation where you’re putting sunscreen on their skin, that should prompt you to also put a hat on to shade their eyes, and maybe sunglasses,” said Weber.

Added Chung, “Children’s crystalline lens are par-ticularly susceptible to UV radiation and due to their young age (they) are at a higher risk of accumulative effects that lead to premature cataracts when they are older.”

She said that because children spend a lot of time outdoors, it’s important to make sure that the direct exposure to sunlight doesn’t damage their retinas. She advises parents to look for sunglasses that block out 99 to 100 percent of UV-A and UV-B radiation, screen out 75 to 90 percent of visible light, and have lenses that are gray for proper color recognition.

As for those carrots? “Vitamin deficiencies, par-ticularly vitamin A, can damage vision,” said Weber. “So, yes, carrots are good for your eyes. We also know now that macular degeneration, which is a disease of the elderly, is associated with a deficiency of antioxi-dant vitamins. The development (of this disease) can be slowed by eating antioxidant vitamins and fresh fruits and vegetables, especially greens. It’s good for kids to develop those habits now.”

Chung pointed out that eating a lot of carrots won’t have a direct effect on a child’s vision. But, she agreed, “Carrots do contain Vitamin A. The eye does need good nutrition to develop which includes Vitamin A.”

Omega-3 fatty acids are also important for proper eye and vision development, she added.

Reuters

Start early for a lifetime of good vision and healthy eyes

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 201412

By Charles Arthur

Too big. This thing’s too big. Waaay too big. It’s... actually, that screen is pretty nice, isn’t it? Wow, you really can

get a lot of content on there, can’t you? Hey, my hand’s getting used to the size. It’s quite comfortable, isn’t it?

And that’s how it goes with the iPhone 6 Plus. I expected to find it far too big, and at first my expectations were met. But give it a few minutes, perhaps a couple of days, and you’ll find yourself strangely attracted to its huge-seeming screen.

“Phablets”, as the 5.5in (14 cm)-plus screen size is described (which seems to derive from Scott Webster in June 2010, then referring to a 7in Huawei device), are increasingly popular. In Asia and particularly China, they’re very popular, though less so in the US and much less so in Europe. They make up about 15 percent of sales, although that’s growing fast.

Enter the iPhoneSince 2011, Samsung has had the

high-end phablet market to itself with the Galaxy Note range, now in its fourth generation. Now, it has competi-tion — and the Apple brand could badly dent its South Korean rival’s sales.

Compared to the 4.7in iPhone 6, the 6 Plus soon stops feeling absurd when you try them side by side. I often

found that I would reach for the larger screen, given the choice, just because you can read a lot more on it.

The battery life is also better (pro-portionally more of the phone consists of batteries); and it has the same pleas-ing, rounded feel of the 6.

The comparison becomes especially harsh against last year’s Galaxy Note 3, which has a 5.7in (14.5cm) screen at 1920x1080 pixels. The Note’s body is almost exactly the same size, but chrome-edged — which looks terribly retro now — with a wart-like cam-era. The iPhone 6 Plus camera sticks out too — an entire millimetre — but there’s no comparison in looks or feel.

CameraThe 6 Plus has optical image stabili-

sation (OIS) — long a staple of top-end Nokia (now Microsoft) Lumia phones — so that films taken while moving aren’t jerky. Instagram’s Hyperlapse got there first (calling on the gyro-scope), but the 6 Plus also adds 240fps slow-motion filming; expect this device to become the new “must-have” among photographers who like travelling light.

Screen and usabilityMany apps will need rewriting to

deal with the new screen, which feels as though it inflates text in apps that don’t use Apple’s text system. Then again, those who struggled to read text

on the 4in screen of the iPhone 5 will welcome the extra 88 percent of screen real estate. Apple has also introduced a “Zoomed” viewing setting that really does inflate everything as though you’d slapped a magnifying glass over it all — the “grandpa setting”, if you like.

Another concession to the gigantism is the “two-tap” gesture: double-tap the home button lightly, and in por-trait mode the top of the screen slides down to the halfway mark, so that you can reach any part of the screen with-out adjusting your hand position.

Apple’s other tweak, specifically for the 6 Plus, is that when the home screen is rotated into landscape mode, the dock moves to the side; in the Mail app, you get a “two-up” view, with email headers on the left and body text on the right. Other apps will probably follow suit in exploiting this.

Samsung, by contrast, offers vari-ous different user interface tweaks on the Note: there’s a quick app switching menu on the left-hand side, and you can also run two apps at a time (and resize each). The app switcher is just intrusive, though the two-up configu-ration clearly has potential uses (say, messaging while looking at a map). Samsung also has a stylus — though I’ve heard internal data that suggests it’s used only 10 percent of the time, which in turn implies a big chance for

Apple via the 90 percent.Many of the best things about the 6

Plus — widgets, third-party keyboards, “extensions” to create app-based workflows — will only be exploited by new apps that appear in the next few months as developers get to grips with the new size and the potential it offers them. For now, though, it’s a surpris-ingly big phone that becomes increas-ingly familiar with use.

PriceThe iPhone 6 Plus costs from

QR3199 for 16GB storage (for pre order at Ooreedoo website.

VerdictChoosing between the iPhone 6

Plus and the smaller iPhone 6 could be surprisingly difficult if your hand, and your wallet, is large enough. It is large, yet the extra screen space is a boon. But that also makes it unwieldy, and could increase the risk of dropping it. Compared to other phablets, it’s lighter and thinner – but not cheaper

Pros: large and thin; bright screen; best battery life of any iPhone; adap-tations for extra-large screen; iOS 8 allows third-party keyboards, work-flow extensions and widgets

Cons: pricey; may be unwieldy if you don’t have particularly large hand.

The Guardian

iPhone 6 Plus: It’s big and feels great

Apple’s first ‘phablet’, at 5.5in, feels ridiculously oversized but quickly feels familiar - as long as your hands are big enough.

SPECIFICATIONSScreen: 5.5in, 1920x1080 401ppi LED; 1300:1 contrast ratioProcessor: A8 64-bit ARM with M8 motion coprocessorRAM: 1GBStorage: 16GB, 64GB, 128GBOperating system: iOS 8Camera: back: 8MP with 1.5micron pixels, f2.2, Optical image stabilisation, 240fps video, sapphire lens cover, auto-HDR, face detection, 43-megapixel panorama, burst mode 10fps; 1080p video at 30fps or 60fps. Front camera: 1.2MP (1280x960), f2.2, 720p HD, burst mode.Connectivity: LTE, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0 with BLE, NFC; VoLTE (voice over LTE) capability, Wi-Fi call handoff capabilityDimensions: 158.1 x 778 x 7.1mmWeight: 172gOthers: TouchID fingerprint sensor; NFC payment capability for ApplePay

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaSeptember 21, 2013

1784: The first successful daily newspaper in the United States, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, was first published1964: Malta gained independence after 164 years of British rule1965: The United Nations welcomed three new members, Gambia, Singapore and the Maldives2010: Over 15,000 people fled their homes after a government offensive against rebels in southern Yemen

Al-Shabab gunmen attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi, killing 67 people. The militants claimed it was in retaliation for Kenyan military deployment in Somalia

Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS

ALL IN THE MIND Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

AFTERNOON, BEDTIME, DARKNESS, DAWN, DAYBREAK,DAYLIGHT, DAYTIME, DIURNAL, DUSK, EVENING, EVENTIDE,FIRST LIGHT, FORENOON, GLOAMING, LIGHT, MIDNIGHT, MOONBEAM, MOONLIGHT, MORN, MORNING, NIGHT, NIGHTFALL, NIGHTTIME, NOCTURNAL, NOON, RAYS, STARLIGHT, SUNBEAM, SUNDOWN, SUNLIGHT, SUNRISE, SUNSET, SUNSHINE, TWILIGHT.

Baby Blue by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne


LEARN ARABICFish

Salmon Salmoon

Tunny Tounn

Sole Samak moosa

Eel �anklees

Shark Qirš

Dolphin Doulfeen

Saw-�sh Samaki alminšar

Pilchard Samaki sardeen

Whale �oot

ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised

HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

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 Flies (along)

5 Clutter

8 What spies collect

13 Voyaging

14 Flaming Gorge locale

16 Who has scored more than 850 points in an official Scrabble game

17 Frolic

18 “Beloved” author Morrison

19 Bagpipe music, maybe

20 Delt neighbor

21 You might slip on it

22 Fragrant compound

23 Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott’s “The Bride of Lammermoor”

25 Security Council veto

27 Sure-___

29 Shellacs

31 First name in folk

32 ___ factor

37 Drippings, maybe

38 City in southern California

40 Unloading point

41 Food processor?

43 Overseas

44 Like some numbers and beef

45 Bill producers, for short

48 You might slip on it

51 Extemporizes

54 Theater’s ___ Siddons Award

55 Assign stars to

57 Distillery sight

58 Prefix with type

59 Plaintiff

60 Agree

61 Western German city

62 Shade providers

63 Genesis locale

64 Big name in tractors

65 ___-square

66 Wallop

DOWN 1 Rock and Roll Hall of

Fame inductee with only one Top 40 hit

2 British ___

3 Sign of puberty, maybe

4 For example

5 Certain horror film villain

6 Alma mater for David Cameron

7 Site of slippage … both geographically and in this puzzle

8 Thorough

9 “Make some ___!”

10 Calorie-heavy dessert

11 Richard ___, “War Zone Diary” journalist

12 What womanizers do

15 Glistening, as Christmas ornaments

21 Haunted house sounds

24 Actor Maguire

26 Lead-in to plane

28 Site of a piercing

29 Forest female

30 ___ Burgundy, the anchorman in “Anchorman”

33 Splenda competitor

34 Make pieces of pieces?

35 OPEC member: Abbr.

36 Barrett of Pink Floyd

38 ___ Israel Medical Center

39 Experiment site

42 The speed of sound

44 See 46-Down

46 With 44-Down, “key” invention of the 1830s

47 500 people?

48 Carefully examine

49 Appeared

50 Something to pare, informally

52 Genesis locale

53 Blocked vessel opener

54 Tore

56 Agenda part

60 One of the Bushes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 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 53

54 55 56 57

58 59 60

61 62 63

64 65 66

B Y O B S P U R P A R S ER O V E O G L E E T A I LA H E M B A T H S P O N G ET O R I I R A T B O N NT H I N G A M A B O B U F OY O T E A M O P A S T O R

O T I C S H O R EN I C K E L O D E O N

N I E C E T O M BO R W E L L B L I N K A TS K I T I M E S S Q U A R EE S S A M E N S T R E PB O S S Y P A N T S J A N EA M U S E L U A U O T O EG E E N A Y I P E B E T S

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

14

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.


CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

TEL: 444933989 444517001SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

0700 Atp Magazine

0730 Futbol Mundial

0930 Omni Sport

1000 Futbol Latino

1030 World Of

Athletics

1300 Spanish League

Real Sociedad

V Almeria

1500 Auto Speed

1530 Nfl Game Day

Extra

1600 Rugby Aviva

Premiership

Newcastle V

Northampton

1800 French League

Monaco V

Guincamp

2000 Spanish League

Cordoba V

Sevilla

2200 French League

1200 Epl Mini Match

New V Hul

1330 Uefa

Champions

League

Magazine

1500 Epl Leicester

V Man United,

Man City V

Chelsea

2030 Sunday Night

Live Levante V

Barcelona

0030 Epl Mini Match

Mnc V Che

14:00 The Michael J.

Fox Show

15:00 Raising Hope

16:30 My Name Is

Earl

18:00 Hot In

Cleveland

18:30 The Michael J.

Fox Show

19:00 How I Met

Your Mother

20:30 Wilfred

21:00 The Daily

Show With

Jon Stewart

21:30 The Colbert

06:00 Barbie Of Swan

Lake

09:30 Astro Boy

12:45 The Polar

Express

18:00 Astro Boy

20:00 Marvel's The

Invincible Iron

Man

21:45 Everyone's

Hero

23:30 Barbie Magic

12:00 The Beautician

And The Beast-

14:00 King Ralph-

16:00 Old Stock-

18:00 BASEketball-

20:00 Step

Brothers-18

22:00 The Big

Lebowski

13:00 Megastructures

14:00 Is It Real?

15:00 Wild Case Files

16:00 Zambezi

17:30 Close Quarter

Battle

18:00 Sea Patrol

19:00 Wild Case Files

20:00 Zambezi

21:00 Close Quarter

Battle

21:30 Close Quarter

Battle

22:00 Sea Patrol

23:00 Apocalypse

13:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres

Show

14:00 Criminal Minds

15:00 Royal Pains

16:00 Emmerdale

16:30 Coronation

Street

17:00 The Ellen

DeGeneres

Show

18:00 Criminal Minds

19:00 Parenthood

21:00 Defiance

22:00 Grimm

23:00 Breaking Bad

07:30 House At The

End Of The

Street-PG15

09:00 True Love-

11:00 Abandoned-

13:00 Dark Tide-

15:00 Snow Flower

And The Secret

Fan-PG15

17:00 True Love-

19:00 Knife Fight-

21:00 Machine Gun

09:00 Straight A's-

11:00 All Is Lost-PG15

13:00 The Sapphires-

14:45 White House

Down

17:00 Straight A's-

18:45 Life Of Pi

21:00 The Details

23:00 Parker

10:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

11:00 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

12:00 Doli Armaano Ki

12:30 Chef Special

13:00 Pavitra Rishta

13:30 Kumkum Bhagya

14:00 Jamai Raja

14:30 Bandhan

15:00 Doli Armaano Ki

15:30 Jodha Akbar

16:00 Kasamh Se

17:00 Hum Paanch

17:30 Hum Paanch

18:00 Teenovation

18:30 Zee Connect

Season 4

19:00 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

19:30 Bandhan

20:00 Jamai Raja

20:30 India's Best

Cinestar Ki Khoj

22:00 Qubool Hai

13:45 I Didn't Do It

14:10 Sabrina: Secrets

Of A Teenage

Witch

14:35 Mako Mermaids

15:00 Space Buddies

16:25 Prank Stars

16:35 Liv And Maddie

17:00 Liv And Maddie

17:20 Sabrina: Secrets

Of A Teenage

Witch

17:45 Dog With A Blog


18:30 Wolfblood




22:00 Good Luck

Charlie

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Shake It Up

23:10 Wolfblood

23:35 Wolfblood

06:50 Wheeler Dealers

07:40 Bike Battles

08:30 Siberian Cut

09:20 Outback Truckers

10:10 Alaska: The Last

Frontier

11:00 Porter Ridge

11:25 Porter Ridge

11:50 Americarna

12:15 Americarna

12:40 How It's Made

16:00 Lost And Sold

16:50 Storage Hunters

18:55 Dynamo:

Impossible

19:45 You Have Been

Warned

20:35 What Happened

Next?

21:25 Siberian Cut

22:15 Outback Truckers

23:05 Alaska: The Last

Frontier

23:55 Porter Ridge

NOVO

1Drive Hard (2D/Action) – 10:00 am , 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00,

8:00, 10:00 & 11:59pm

2A Walk Among The Tombstones (2D/Action)

– 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 & 11:55pm

3

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2D/Action) – 10:05am, 2:30, 7:00 &11:30pm

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action)

– 12:10, 4:45 & 9:15pm

4

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2D/Crime)

– 10:30am, 3:00 , 7:30pm & 12:10 amNo Good Deed (2D/Drama) – 12:45, 5:15 & 9:35pm

5The Giver (2D/Drama) – 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:15pm,

9:30 & 11:55pm

6

Elly Jay Ahsan (2D/Comedy)

– 11:00am, 3:15, 7:30, & 11:45 pmJawaza Miri (2D/Comedy) – 1:00 , 5:15 & 9:20 pm

7The Maze Runner (2D/Action) – 10:45 am, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45,

8:00, 10:15pm & 12:30 am

8

No Good Deed (2D/Drama) – 10.15am & 12.15amLets Be Cops (2D/Thriller) – 12:40, 3:15, 5:30,

7:45 & 10:00 pm

9The Maze Runner (2D/Action) – 10:10am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45,

7:10, 9:30 & 11:50 pm

10

A Walk Among The Tombstones (2D/Action)

– 10.00am, 2.40, 7.20pm & 12.15am The Maze Runner (2D/Action)

– 12:20, 5:00 & 9:40pm

MALL

1

The 7th Dwarfs (2D/Animation) – 2.30pm

Drive Hard (2D/Action) – 4.15pm

The Maze Runner (2D/Action) – 6.15pm

Daawat E Ishq (2D/Hindi) – 8.30pm

Sigaram Thodu (2D/Tamil) – 11.00pm

2

Third Person (2D/Drama) – 2.30pm

The Giver (2D/Drama) – 5.00pm

Munnariyippu (2D/Malayalam) – 7.00pm

The Giver (2D/Drama) – 9.15pm


3

Teenage Mutant Ninja (3D/Action) – 3.00 & 7.00pm

A Walk Among The Tombstones (2D/Action) – 5.00 & 9.00pm


LANDMARK

1

The 7th Dwarfs (2D/Animation) – 2.30 & 4.30pm




2

Teenage Mutant Ninja (3D/Action) – 3.00pm

Drive Hard (2D/Action) – 5.00 & 9.00pm


3

The Maze Runner (2D/Action) – 2.30 & 11.00pm

The Giver (2D/Drama) – 4.30 & 9.00pm


ROYAL

PLAZA

1


Drive Hard (2D/Action) – 4.45 & 6.30pm

Munnariyippu (2D/Malayalam) – 8.15 & 10.30pm

2

The 7th Dwarfs (2D/Animation) – 3.00pm

The Maze Runner (2D/Action) –5.00 & 7.00pm


3

Teenage Mutant Ninja (3D/Action) – 2.30 & 4.30pm

Khoobsurat (2D/Hindi) – 6.30pm

The Giver (2D/Drama) – 9.00 & 11.00pm

7:30 Rebel

Architecture

8:00 News

9:00 The Slum

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

12:00 News

12:30 The Cure

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:30 Listening Post

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 101 East

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

22:30 Talk To Al

Jazeera

23:00 Orphans of the

Sahara


PLUS | SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2014 POTPOURRI16

Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

IN FOCUS

A dhow waiting for passengers at the Corniche.

by Joecil Harder

Send your photos to [email protected]. Mention where the photo was taken.

If you want your events featured here, mail details to [email protected]

Events in Qatar

The Arabic Script When: Till September 30; 9am-6pmWhere: AaQool Atrium, Qatar Foundation Recreation Centre, Education City What: The display at this calligraphy exhibition includes authentic calligraphy artworks dating as far back as the 9th Century, and showcases the finest pieces from famous calligraphers Hamdulla Al-Amasi and Hafiz Osman, in addition to the exceptional work of Qatari calligrapher Ali Hassan Al Jaber.Free entry

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

Radio Controlled Car RaceWhen: Till November 21Where: Aspire Zone What: Qatar’s best radio controlled car racers can converge at Aspire Zone and take part in a series of exciting races at the Zone Race Track. Only drivers that have cars suitable for the competition can enter the race. The circuit features an off-road track that is 350 m long and 4 m wide, over an area of 1,650 square meters. The type of cars being used on the track are 1/8 scale buggy and Truggy style cars.More info at www.lifeinaspire.qa

The Tiger’s Dream: Tipu Sultan When: September 29 - 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

Family Fun When: Till September 27; 3pm-11pmWeekends 4pm-12pm Where: Doha Exhibition CenterWhat: Plenty of family entertainment is available at the Family Entertainment City staged in the Doha Exhibition Center, which includes activities such as ski slopes, rock climbing and a variety of alternate entertainment options, a food court, and live Arabic pre-school Baraem shows for the little ones. No fee at the entrance, only for some rides.Free entry

Banana peel study, ugly art research win Ig Nobel spoof awards

Researchers who measured the slip-periness of banana peels and the

reactions of reindeer to humans in polar bear suits were among the win-ners of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes for comical scientific achievements.

The annual prizes, meant to enter-tain and encourage global research and innovation, are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes which will be announced next month.

Among the 10 awards, four went to researchers that took a peculiar inter-est in food. A team of Japanese scien-tists earned the Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for example, for detailing the hazards of stepping on a banana peel in their paper titled “Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin.” Other teams earned prizes for studying what hap-pens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus in their toast.

Ig Nobel prizes this year also went to researchers who measured the relative pain people suffer while look-ing at an ugly painting, investigated whether cat ownership can be men-tally hazardous, and studied how peo-ple who routinely stay up late can be more psychopathic.

Former winners of real Nobels handed out the spoof awards at a ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The ceremony included a three-act mini-opera about people who stop eating food and instead nourish themselves entirely with pills, inspired by the pill-heavy diet of Google engi-neering director Ray Kurzweil.

A personal favorite of Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals and architect of the Ig Nobels, was a study by a team of Norwegian and German researchers who tested how reindeer react to seeing humans wearing polar bear costumes.

“I’ve never in my life met anyone who disguised himself as a polar bear to frighten a reindeer,” Abrahams said.

Missing Philadelphia dog found safe in Oregon, 3,000 miles from home

A dog that went missing in Philadelphia five months ago

has turned up 3,000 miles away - in a Portland-area animal shelter and officials say they have no idea how the Jack Russell terrier named Gidget made the cross-country trip.

“It is an absolute mystery to everyone how little Gidget ended up here,” said Deborah Wood, animal services man-ager at the shelter. “We are just thrilled

that she was microchipped and that the owner’s information was current.”

When Gidget was brought to the Bonnie Hays Animal Shelter in Hillsboro, Oregon, as a stray earlier this month, she had been missing since April 22.

Wood declined to name Gidget’s owners, saying they were trying to raise funds to bring the dog back east.

Armed with banana, man robs Philadelphia store, slips away on bike

A man armed with a banana robbed a convenience store in Philadelphia

and rode away on a bicycle with cash and cigarettes, a security surveillance tape showed.

The suspect strolled into Tejada Grocery and got in line behind another customer at the counter, where indi-vidual bananas were available for sale, according to the tape of Tuesday’s rob-bery, which was released by police.

As his turn at the cash register approached, the man stuffed a banana into the pocket of his hoodie and used it to simulate a gun.

Police said the man demanded cash and cigarettes. The robber rode then away on a bicycle, surveillance video showed.

Agencies

campus no escape from - the peninsula · and swiss chocolate, german candy sets, dozens of types of...

Documents