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Aditya Arun and Mudra Patel, both are from grade XII, were crowned ‘Mr Birla’ and ‘Ms Birla’ in a

function organised by grade XI stu-dents to bid farewell to the eighth batch of 215 students going to sit for the Senior School Certificate Examination, ( Grade XII) in March-April 2017.

Aditya Arun and Mudra Patel walked down the ramp escorted by their teachers to slice a cake shared in honour of being con-ferred the prestigious title of the farewell ceremony. Thomas John, Head of the Department of Social Science, and Aleykutty Chandy, Headmistress, adorned them with crowns.

All students of the valedictory class were called on to the stage to decorate them with independent appellations awarded to them by the juniors. Class representatives

paid glowing tributes to the teach-ers and their alma mater.

Sharon Sara Varghese, Aranya Nandi, Anjana Elizabeth Abraham, Aranya, Syed Mohammed, Mus-tafa, Kalyani, Aashiya, Swayam, Tanishka Kadam, Akshay Abrham, Vaishnav Menon, Akshaya Karthikeyan, Aditya Arun, Anashwar Dinesh Kumar, Anagha-Sonu, Sebastian Bose, Neha Prasad, Neha Anto, Reshma Tony Karthik Sunil Chambath, Rebecca Sarah Bejoy, and Shreya Mariam Daniel addressed the gathering. School Principal, A K Shrivastava, and his leadership team presented every valedictorian student with an ano-rak each on behalf of the school as a memento. Senior leadership team consisting of Sr Vice-Princi-pal Shirley Rappai, Vice-Principal, George Edison, Bhanumati Ganti, Shiney, Durgashree, Shruti and Eleykutty Chandy attended the function.

BPS bids farewell to grade XII students

Do you yell, hit or use physical threats as a punishment for your children? If so, your children may be at a greater

risk of performing poorly in school, a study has showed.

The study by American researchers showed that students who were brought up harshly were likely to find their peer group more important than other responsibilities, including following parents’ rules. This further led them to engage in more risky behaviours in teenage. While females engaged in more frequent early sexual behaviour, males, on the other hand, indulged in wrongdoings like

hitting and stealing.“In our study, harsh parenting was related

to lower educational attainment through a set of complex cascading processes that emphasised present-oriented behaviours at the cost of future-oriented educational goals,” said lead researcher Rochelle F. Hentges from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, US.

Further, those relying on peers, instead of doing homework, decided to spend time with friends and felt that there is nothing wrong in breaking rules to keep friends.

The researchers found that direct as well

as indirect effects of parenting shapes a child’s behaviour and his or her relationship with the peers. “The study used children’s life histories as a framework to examine how parenting affects children’s educational outcomes via relationships with peers, sexual behaviour and delinquency,” Hentges added, in the paper published in the journal Child Development.

Teaching methods focussing on present-oriented goals and strategies like hands-on experimental learning, group activities may promote learning and educational goals for individuals, especially those who are brought up harshly, the researchers suggested.

Harsh parenting may affect your kid’s academics

COVER STORY SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 201704

Fazeena Saleem The Peninsula

Meet Dr Eman Nasralla, a Qatari woman who holds a PhD and Master degree in Modern Epidemiology and Biostatistics

from Imperial College London and a Bachelor of Science in Genetics from Cardiff University. According to Unesco, two percent of women worldwide peruse a doctorate in science and Dr Eman is one among them.

More Qatari women are coming up showing interest in science and researches; thanks to the various organisations, like Qatar Foundation, working relentlessly for the empowerment of them and also the enormous support Qatar gov-ernment provides for the cause.

The Peninsula spoke to Dr Eman, who works at Sidra as Manager of Events and Community Relations, and also several other women scien-tists to know their thoughts to coincide with the International Day of Women and Girls in Sci-ence, celebrated yesterday.

Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In the past 15 years, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engag-ing women and girls in science. Unfortunately, women and girls continued to be excluded from participating fully in science.

Speaking about her interest in studying Dr Eman said, “Since I was young, I always liked to investigate, research and fix things! This moti-vated me to focus on science streams as I wanted to do research and get results and information that will benefit the community and make pos-itive changes.”

After completing her undergraduate studies

Dr Nasralla faced the challenge of finding a suit-able job and she says, “The only challenge I faced, is when I completed my undergraduate studies, I couldn’t find a job that would fulfill my dreams

- which is to be a fully dedicated scientist. That’s because at that time there weren’t any fully established research labs and there were also difficulties in procuring lab materials.”

Highlighting on the importance Qatari girls taking up science she said, “In my point of view, Qatari girls are not as interested in Science as before. More girls are attracted to other majors and perhaps this is because the options in other fields are better?”

“Now that, Qatar has established research and science programmes at a few universities. It will encourage more young girls to consider careers in science. The more scientists we have emerg-ing from Qatar, the more it will support Qatar on its path to becoming a knowledge-focused economy. I also believe the media can help – by putting out more messages about the role of sci-ence in solving challenges in health, environment,” she added.

Some of the diverse female scientists work-ing in Research and Pathology divisions at Sidra also shared their views and experience in the field of science.

Moza Khalifa Al Kowari, another Qatari national who works as a Specialist focusing on the Molecular Bases of Hearing Loss in the Exper-imental Genetics section of Sidra’s Research Department, always liked science especially math and biology. “After I finished high school, I wanted to study medicine but fortunately I was accepted in Biomedical science. Then I worked in the field of human genetics where I started building my path in this filed,” says Moza.

Sharing about the role she plays at Sida Moza said, “My work is directly related to the concept

of personalised medicine. By studying genetic diseases and knowing the genetics causes of these diseases - we will help in designing per-sonalized health plans to help minimising patients’ risks, prevention of the disease and pre-cise treatment if it occurs.”

More Qatari women interested in science

Annalisa Terranegra - Investigator - Assistant

Level - Clinical Research Program Unit

Cristina Maccalli - Staff Scientist- Tumor

Biology Immunology and Therapy Unit

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Muna Al Hashmi, another Qatari national is working as a Technologist III in the Omics Core laboratories in the Translational Medicine sec-tion of Sidra’s Research Department.

“Coming from a Muslim background, the sci-entific interpretations of the Quran that make prescient statements about the nature of the uni-verse, biological development and other phenomena had a great impact in pushing me toward science,” says Muna. In her opinion, Qatari woman have a passion and love for sci-ence but the lack of knowledge to use it towards a career choice can be difficult. And she believes there is a need for more mentors in the field.

Coming from a genomic background speak-ing about her contribution at work Muna says,

“What we do is a whole genome sequencing and genomic research - which is in fact a personal-ized or Precision medicine that describes how genetic information about a person’s disease is being used to diagnose or treat their disease. In the future, medicine will be tailored and spe-cialized for each individual and not a generic prescription.” Dr Eva Thomas from Sweden who is the Division Chief of Medical Microbiol-ogy at Sidra was impressed to study science as her father was a physicist and has grown hear-ing about astronomy and scientific discoveries.

“ I studied in Sweden and there were very few women in science at the time. I think things have changed now. I never had any cultural challenges during my university years. The greatest chal-lenge occurred when I got married and had my children. This was in Canada and during that time I only had three weeks maternity leave for each child. I had to get a nanny and worked long hours. That was difficult,” she says

According to Dr Eva girls with a passion for science should just go for it without a second thought. Darawan Rinchai is a Post-doctoral fellow from Thailand who works at Sidra’s Tumor Biology, Immunology and Therapy Department. Her key motivation to studying science is “There is no end to expanding your scientific knowl-edge – there is always something new to discover. I am never bored!”

Her research role at Sidra is related to using a systems biology approach to understanding immune responses and identifying biomarkers

for cancer patients and their susceptibility to infectious diseases. This will help us understand and predict risk in individual patients – build-ing on the concept of offering personalized care.

Cristina Maccalli from Italy is a Staff Scien-tist in the Translational Medicine section at Sidra.

Since a child she was very fascinated and attracted to living being and nature.

“It occurs that I have received as a gift a book entitle” life under the microscope”, to me it was a really fascinating book and after the reading I have decided that I wanted to become a scien-tist. I was interested in the mechanisms that regulate life. A few years later my grandfather died of cancer and since I could see how terri-ble is this type of disease and how much suffering and pain it can cause, this raised my strong moti-vation to become biologist dedicated to investigation on cancer and to contribute to the improvement of cancer care,” says Cristina.

Her research role at Sidra focuses on the

profiling of neoplastic diseases – that can help predict diseases and the clinical outcomes in patients. This will enable us to provide patient-tailored therapeutic options. Our work will have a significant impact in advancing the treatment methodologies for patients at Sidra and hope-fully put Qatar on the world stage.

“Science while fascinating – is hard work and requires strong motivation especially if you get disappointing results! But do not be deterred – persevere as it can provide a lot of satisfaction. Especially the knowledge that you can contrib-ute towards improving healthcare, saving lives and positively impacting lifestyles and the envi-ronment,” says Cristina.

Annalisa Terranegra also from Italyis a Research Investigator in the Translational Med-icine (Tumor Biology, Immunology and Therapy Section at Sidra. Sharing her key motivation to studying science Annalisa said, “ I personally enjoy learning – and like being challenged with new discoveries and researching new tools and methods that will improve advances in medi-cine and healthcare.”

Her research role focus is in nutrition and how food and lifestyle contribute to the devel-opment of diseases such as obesity and diabetes including their impact on our gene functions. Our most promising approach is to provide indi-vidual diet therapy – factoring in the type of disease, life style, genetic background and local culture in Qatar.

Nicola James, a British Technologist III in the Translational Medicine section at Sidra developed an early interest in natural sciences as she was fascinated in finding out how things worked. Nicola part of the core facility involved in supporting the Qatar Genome Programme and will be working on reference genome assem-bly for this. “I hope the outcomes of this project will eventually have a positive influence on our understanding of the genetic make-up of the national population so that tailor-made health-care management strategies can be developed in the future,” says Nicola

Nicola says, “Ignore the stigmas and stere-otypes associated with male dominance in science; thankfully, due to my educational back-ground I have never found this an issue and in today’s modern society I think it is certainly diminishing.”

According to a study conducted in 14 coun-tries, the probability for female students of graduating with a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and Doctor’s degree in science-related field are 18 percent, 8 percent and two percent, respectively. In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly adopted res-olution declaring February 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Eva Thomas

Muna Al Hashmi

Darawan Rinchai - Post Doctoral Fellow-

Tumor Biology Immunology and Therapy

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Nicola James - Technologist III - Omics Core

MARKETPLACE SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 201706

The all-new, second-gen-eration Kia Cadenza sedan has been designed and engineered to build on the international suc-

cess of itsaward-winning predecessor, setting new standards for comfort, dynamics and in-car technologies in the large sedan segment.

The new Cadenza boasts a pre-cisely crafted cabin, cutting edge technology for connectivity and driver assistance, a stronger body structure, and power train enhance-ments for a more premium driving experience.

‘The simplicity of the straight line’ – Cadenza’s luxurious and refined design

Designed at Kia’s California design studio, birthplace of the 2012 Track’ster and 2014 GT4 Stinger concepts, as well as the iconic Soul, the Cadenza’s precision-sculpted exterior exudes confidence, with clean lines and expressive details. The design is heavily influenced by the design philosophy of Kia’s Chief Design Officer Peter Schreyer’s, which focuses on ‘the simplicity of the straight line’.

Head on, the Cadenza is more expressive thanks to the newly designed ‘face’.While the signature

‘tiger-nose’ grille is still an unmis-takable Kia design trait, it has evolved into a new hexagonal shape that emphasizes the Cadenza’s

width, with lines extending under-neath the headlights.

LED technology inside the ‘piano key’ taillights helps create vis-ual depth while also complementing the Z-shape light signature. Other details include the chrome trim that extends across the trunk lid to accentuate the wide stance, as well as chrome accents on the side mir-rors and rear quarter windows.

Exceptional interior comfort and refinement

The interior of the all-new Kia Cadenza is thoughtfully redesigned with even higher quality materials than the preceding model, and higher levels of craftsmanship throughout.

Class-leading interior spa-ciousness with expanded wheelbase

With an eye on intelligent pack-aging, interior designers lowered the front and rear seats by 11mm, for a more comfortable seating position and liberating additional headroom.

High passive safety levels and new Drive Wise assistance technologies

The all-new Kia Cadenza is built upon a strong foundation with a body structure composed of more than 50% Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS)

– more than twice the proportion

found in the outgoing model.

More responsive chassis and greater stability under cornering

The new Cadenza has been engineered to provide a balance between the ride comfort of a large sedan with responsive and agile steering characteristics.

Modern cabin with Kia’s latest comfort, convenience and info-tainment technologies

Brimming with technology, the cockpit is designed to provide a more harmonious human-machine interface with ergonomically intel-ligent design, intuitive controls, and a suite of enhanced convenience features available in various

markets, each engineered to make the driving experience enjoyable and effortless.

Efficient and powerful 3.3-liter V6 engine

The Cadenza comes with pow-erful and efficient 3.3-liter ‘Lambda’ V6 gasoline engine available. The new engine offers strong, willing,

‘everyday’ performance and high levels of mechanical efficiency. The all-new Kia Cadenza is now on sale and interested customers are encouraged to visit not only the Main Showroom but also The Gate Mall to visit the display. A test drive campaign for the Cadenza is also ongoing where participants will get a first-hand experience of the car.

All-new 2017 Kia Cadenza now in Qatar

IbnAjayan projects, the manag-ers of Asian Town and Labor City Projects, announced that

Asian Town is all set for Qatar National Sport Day celebrations. On 14th February, the national sports day activities will begin with a fun race at 8am in front of Asian Town Cricket Stadium.

Following the initial fun race there will be sports competitions including basketball, volleyball for men and women, Tug of war and

cricket match. The activities are planned in the cricket stadium ground and the outside parking area in front of it. The winners will be awarded with trophies and gifts.

Last Year, IbnAjayan Projects had organised sports day activi-ties in Asian Town and HE the Minister for Culture and Sports, Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali visited and participated in sports activities organized by IbnAjayan Projects.

Qatar-UAE Exchange and Al MIRQAB exchangeare Co-spon-sors of the event. IbnAjayan Projects, the organizers of the event, will distribute sports day special T-shirts and other gifts for all participants in the games and fun race. They will also distribute a limited number of T-shirts among the public.

Eight teams for basketball, 4 teams for volleyball-ladies, 4 teams for volleyball-gents and 8 teams for

tug of war is already registered for the competitions. Teams from the workers community also will par-ticipate in the tug of war competition. Apart from the sports activities there is a painting competition for kids also scheduled on the same day at the Asian Town Cricket stadium complex. Thousands from various Filipino communities participated in the event. The Tug of War Com-petition is managed by Indian Cultural Centre.

Asian Town all set for National Sport Day

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IANS

Want to boost academic performance of your daughter? Maintaining

a good exercise regimen along

with intake of green leafy vege-tables, nuts, cereals, seafood and poultry increases iron levels which may help her improve grade levels, a study has shown. The findings showed that female

students with good fitness and iron levels achieved higher grade point averages than unfit women who were deficient in iron stores.

“Low iron stores and low aerobic fitness may prevent female col-lege students from achieving their full academic potential,” said Karsten Koehler, assistant pro-fessor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US.

Iron helps the body with essential functions such as transporting oxygen in the blood, whereas a deficiency is associated with fatigue, lower work capacity and poor academic performance. Physical fitness is also known to

influence overall health, cognition and learning. For the study, the team analysed 105 women with an average Grade point average (GPA) of 3.68 to explore the lesser known combined effects of fitness and iron deficiency on grade point average.

In analyses of combined effects of iron status and fitness, GPA was found higher in women with normal ferritin -- blood cell protein that contains iron -- and higher fitness than in those with low ferritin and lower fitness and low ferritin and higher fitness. The study was published in The Journal of Nutrition.

Fitness levels may boost grades in girls

If you are homeschooling your kids, check if they are sleeping for longer hours. According to

researchers, children schooled at home sleep more than those who attend regular school hours.

To reach this conclusion, the team charted the sleep patterns of 2,612 students, including 500 kids who are homeschooled.

They found that homeschooled students slept an average of 90 minutes more than public and pri-vate school students.

The results suggest that 44.5 percent of public and private school teens got insufficient sleep during the school week, compared to 16.3 percentage of homeschooled teens.

“We have a school system that is set so that the youngest children, who wake up early, start school early and our adolescents, who need sleep the most are being asked to wake up and go to school at a time when their brains are physio-logically awake,” said the lead study author Lisa Meltzer from National Jewish Health in Denver.

“Adolescents need nine hours of sleep and if they’re only getting seven hours on an average, by the end of the week, they are 10 hours behind in terms of sleeping and that impacts every aspect of function-ing,” Meltzer added in the paper published in the journal in Behav-ioral Sleep Medicine.

Homeschooled kids do sleep more: Study

LIFESTYLE SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 201708

Travelling can sometimes take away your skin’s natural glow. Exhaustion, ignorance,

improper diet, hectic schedule and the changing weather are a deadly combination when it comes to ruin-ing a glowing skin. Always moisturise your skin and keep yourself hydrated, says an expert.

Here are a few tips by Megha Shah, cosmetologist, Beauty and Curves Clinic to keep your skin healthy and supple while you travel.

* Keep your moisturiser handy: Apply intense moisturising cream the night before you are travelling, this will help you keep your skin hydrated and moisturised, saving you from the adverse weather conditions.

* Sunscreen: Irrespective of the season, apply sunscreen generously to save your skin from the harsh effects of UV rays. This way you can protect your skin from tanning and

sunburns. * Cleanser: While trav-elling, your skin attracts a lot of dirt and dust which gets accumulated

on your skin and causes breakouts. A cleanser will wash it all out and keep your skin clean and refreshed.

* Comfort clothing: While going out, you will be engaged in activi-ties like trekking, games or simple roaming around, exploring the places; comfortable clothing will save you from the horror of irrita-tion, itching, and rashes that could happen due to uncomfortable, tight clothes.

Various issues like eczema, infections, heat bumps are common with tight clothes, therefore wear loose, comfortable clothes. Skin allergies and some types of contact dermatitis need to be diagnosed and taken care as one observes them.

*Drink water: Apart from keep-ing your body happy, water is a boon for your skin as well. Often, we skip drinking water while trav-elling simply because of avoiding the hassle to find a restroom. But this habit not only disturbs your system but ruins your skin.

Guide to safeguard skin while travelling

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The moon is at least 4.51 billion years old -- or 40-140 mil-lion years older than

previously thought, says new research based on an analysis of minerals from the moon called zir-cons. These minerals were brought back to Earth by the Apollo 14 mis-sion in 1971 and have now been studied by researchers from Uni-versity of California-Los Angeles (UCLA).

The moon’s age has been a hotly debated topic, even though scien-tists have tried to settle the question over many years and using a wide range of scientific techniques.

“We have finally pinned down a minimum age for the moon. It’s time we knew its age and now we do,” said Melanie Barboni, research

geochemist in UCLA’s department of earth, planetary and space sciences.

The moon was formed by a vio-lent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a “planetary embryo” called Theia. The new research would mean that the moon formed “only” about 60 mil-lion years after the birth of the solar system -- an important point because it would provide critical information for astronomers and planetary scientists who seek to understand the early evolution of the Earth and our solar system.

While scientists cannot know what occurred before the collision with Theia, these findings are important because they will help scientists continue to piece together major events that followed it.

Barboni was able to analyse eight zircons in pristine condition.

“Zircons are nature’s best clocks. They are the best mineral in pre-serving geological history and revealing where they originated,” added said Kevin McKeegan, a co-author of the study.

The Earth’s collision with Theia created a liquefied moon, which then solidified. Scientists believe most of the moon’s surface was covered with magma right after its formation. “Melanie was very

clever in figuring out the moon’s real age dates back to its pre-his-tory before it solidified, not to its solidification,” said Edward Young, a UCLA professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry in a paper published in the journal Science Advances.

Previous studies concluded the moon’s age based on moon rocks that had been contaminated by multiple collisions.

Our moon was formed 4.51 billion years ago

FOODSUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2017 09

M Carrie Allan The Washington Post

As a child, for reasons probably scrutable only to Dr Freud, I was viscerally repulsed by raw eggs. I spent hours over-

turning rocks to watch ants go about their panicked evacuations, and I was perfectly com-fortable handling frogs, earthworms and crayfish, but the mucosal drip of a cracked egg gave me an existential shudder.

That instinctual ew has faded; these days, I barely flinch when a tangle of pasta arrives shel-lacked in yolk, a pile of frisée appears with a poached egg quivering atop it, or a bartender tips a container of gloppy whites into a shaker for my drink.

But the sense-memory lingers. And because a few of my nearest and dearest are commit-ted vegans, when I started reading about the egg-substitute qualities of aquafaba - the liq-uid left after cooking legumes or emptying a can of chickpeas - I was intrigued.

An egg white replacer results in delicious baked goods (a sometimes weak spot in vegan cooking)? A liquid that usually gets poured down the drain turns out to be a miracle for those who don’t want to risk salmonella, trigger aller-gies or worry that their eggs may have come from a Bad Place? When I heard that this stuff was being used in drinks, it called for investigation.

In cocktails, egg whites are added prima-rily for texture. Shaken into a drink, they add a silkiness and a snowy foam on top, a luminous surface that can be left alone or marked up with bitters (think of the Morse code of Angostura topping a pisco sour). Could garbanzo bath water - purportedly awash in proteins that cre-ate similar effects - really serve as an understudy?

My curiosity was not universally shared. Usually, when I’m on a cocktail-testing drive, getting friends to come sample is easy. But when I mentioned I’d be making drinks with chick-pea runoff, my usual suspects became oddly busy, suddenly remembering important chores,

speaking engagements and child-care conflicts for imaginary offspring.

J P Fetherston, head bartender at the Colum-bia Room, admits he was skeptical. “I kind of have that typical meat-eater’s prejudice,” he says. “If it’s vegan, it can’t be half as good as the original version. But we tried it out, and the tex-ture was awesome. It held its shape very well. .

. . If you’re drinking something very light and delicate, like a drink or sake, maybe there’ll be a little residual pea- or bean-like flavor, but if you have anything in the drink that’s in any way robust, whether it’s the sweetener or the spirit, there’s no noticeable flavour once you’ve

shaken it up.”Scot’s Vacation1 servingThis riff on the famously fluffy Ramos gin

fizz was designed to stand up to the slightly saline flavour of aquafaba, the liquid from canned chickpeas.

You can use a pasteurized egg white if you prefer; or make this drink fully vegan by using coconut milk instead of heavy cream (in which case you may wish to reduce the simple syrup to 1/4 ounce).

Ingredients1 ounce fresh pineapple juice1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice1/2 ounce simple syrup (see NOTE)1 ounce heavy cream (may substitute coco-

nut milk; see headnote)3/4 ounce liquid from canned chickpeas

(aquafaba; may substitute 1 medium egg white, see headnote)

2 drops vanilla extract2 dashes Angostura bittersIce

StepsChill a Pilsener or Collins glass. Combine fruit

juices, simple syrup, heavy cream, aquafaba, vanilla extract and bitters in a cocktail shaker. Seal, then shake vigorously for at least 2 min-utes to whip air into the drink. Do not under-shake: The aeration is key to getting a good, fluffy head.

Add ice to the shaker; seal and shake for 15 seconds, until chilled. Strain into the glass and top with seltzer, if using.

NOTE: To make simple syrup, combine 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of water in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Cook for 2 minutes, then let the syrup cool completely before using.

You can save leftover syrup for several weeks in the refrigerator. Nutrition | Per serving: 290 calories, 0 g protein, 15 g carbohydrates, 11 g fat, 7 g saturated fat, 40 mg cholesterol, 15 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 13 g sugar

Chickpeas get you to a cocktail

HEALTH SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 201710

Consumption of fish oil, which is rich in omega 3 fatty acids, may be ben-eficial for patients with inflammatory diseases such as asthma.

The findings, led by researchers at Univer-sity of Rochester in New York, found that omega-3 fatty acid products can reduce the production of IgE -- the antibodies that cause allergic reactions and asthma symptoms in people with milder cases of asthma.

Once ingested, the omega 3 fatty acids convert to special pro-resolving mediators that halt inflammation without suppressing the immune system. However, in patients with severe asthma who use high doses of oral ster-oids, the omega-3 fatty acids were found less effective because the corticosteroids block the beneficial effects.

Previous studies have shown that certain fatty acids contained in fish oil regulate the function of B cells.

For the new study, published in the jour-nal JCI Insight, the team collected blood from 17 patients and isolated their B immune cells in the laboratory to explore the impact of pure omega-3-derived products on IgE and other molecules that fuel the disease.

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If the thought of staying fit makes you lose sleep, espe-cially over the hours in a gym or the food you will miss, you could not be further detached

from reality, says Rishabh Telang, fitness expert and level-2 crossFit trainer with Cult fitness centres.

“It’s a misconception that you need to daily spend hours in a gym to stay fit. It’s even all right to eat out once in a while,” says Telang, who has devised a novel model offering a combo of various activ-ities such as boxing, mixed martial arts (MMA), Zumba, strength and conditioning -- along with yoga and meditation. The key, he says, is to break the monotony of training.

“What happens in a conventional gym is that even if you do a exer-cise for your abs one day or chest

the next day, the whole process is repeated after a week. The monot-ony of doing the same exercises reduces your attendance over time,” he said in a telephonic interview.

Cult currently has eight fitness centres in Bengaluru and the fun way of staying fit that it shows attracted the attention of CureFit, a healthcare start-up launched by former Flipkart executives Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori.

CureFit, which is currently focusing on consolidating its pre-ventive healthcare services before venturing into the cure part of it, acquired Cult last year.

“With Cult, staying fit is never boring. The concept of group exer-cises and a combination of activities can keep people excited about vis-iting their fitness centres,” says Nagori.

“We often come across people

suffering the negative conse-quences of lifting weights or doing exercises in the wrong way,” Nagori says, adding that by the end of the year they would scale up the number of training centres to 20.

CureFit recently acquired the The Tribe fitness chain that also

offers a mix of activities just as Cult does. Explaining the advantage of engaging in activities that offer you functional fitness rather than just showing off your abs, fitness expert Shwetambari Shetty says that the body stops reacting to the same set of activities after some point of time.

Fitness should be fun; not difficult

Individuals who make protracted use of rec-reational drug amphetamine, popularly known as speed, ice, and ecstasy, may be

at risk of speeding up the biological ageing of their heart, new research suggests.

Amphetamine is a stimulant and is associ-ated with cardiovascular system effects, including speeding up the heart rate, sharply increasing blood pressure and boosting the risk of stroke, heart attack and aneurysm rup-ture. Long term use of amphetamine sends the sympathetic nervous system and production of the ‘fight or flight’ hormone adrenaline into overdrive, the study said.

The researchers found that the effects amphetamine were seen in both men and women and irrespective of other potential risk factors for heart disease and stroke.

“The study implies that recurrent habitual amphetamine abuse ages the cardiovascula-ture and likely the whole organism generally. It is therefore conceivable that stimulant abus-ers do physiological and cardiovascular harm,” said Albert Stuart Reece, associate professor

at University of Western Australia. However, “it’s not clear if this damage is reversible either, they add, suggesting that their findings add even greater impetus to the need to tackle the

“global stimulant epidemic,” Reece added.For the study the team measured the flow

of blood through the brachial artery in the upper arm and the radial artery in the forearm of 713 people in their 30s and 40s, in order to assess the degree of arterial stiffening (arter-ies harden as the body ages).

Recreational drug may accelerate ageing of heart

Intake of fish oil may help fight asthma

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IANS

Even at 74, Amitabh Bachchan is in no mood to hang up his boots. “There is these times,

the question raised by many, on why I do not retire and hang my boots up and relax... Thank you... But no thank you,” Amitabh posted on his blog.

“The profession shall retire me, or my body will... Till then one strives each hour, each day.”

He adds: “I do not have the money, the fame the recognition that is assumed... and they were not the consideration for achieve-ment. Who will define achievement... What is it? A peak, a mountain, a specified distance one must conquer? “Each human may have a concept or design of what they consider to be an achievement. It cannot be

normalised. So don’t normalise it for me.”

The veteran actor is one of the most iconic Indian celebrities known worldwide, and the film-going audience in India continues to love him for the ease with which he slips into myriad roles -- it “Paa” or “Piku”.

Sharing his views on retire-ment, Big B said: “Retirement for one is the acceptance of having conquered a peak. But there could be another peak to conquer after having conquered one. Who knows? Retirement is a forced lim-itation. Some accept and acknowledge it. God bless them.

“Why may anyone suggest that ‘I be blessed’?”

However, as a “flood of activ-ity” consumes most of his time, Big B finds himself in “complete leth-argy and desolation”.

Actress-producer Anushka Sharma has slammed rumours that her

rumoured beau and cricketer Virat Kohli has invested in her new production “Phillauri”.

She is upset that on one hand the media talks about issues of women empowerment, and on another, “this is what you do to ‘women in films’ who are trying to change the narrative & take charge of their own careers”.

In a statement, Anushka set the record straight that “Phillauri” is produced by Fox Star Hindi and her home banner Clean Slate Films.

“I have always led my career with dignity and often chose to maintain a dignified silence on many untruthful stories, that doesn’t mean you can take my silence as my weakness and say any-thing without checking with me or my team,” she said. “I am more than capable of producing and promoting my own films. Thank you,” added the actress, who runs Clean Slate Films with her brother Karnesh Sharma.

Their first production was the critically acclaimed “NH10”. “Phillauri”, which also features Anushka with Suraj Sharma and Diljit Dosanjh, is directed by Anshai Lal. Anushka plays a ghost in the film.

Veteran actor Anupam Kher, who will be seen as actor-comedian Russell Peterss father in “The Indian Detective”, says he always wanted to act in a funny

detective series. Anupam, who is currently shooting for the project here, took to Twitter to share some photographs from the set.

“Always wanted to act in a funny detective series. Thanks Russell Peters, Sandy Johnson (director) Mark Burton (pro-ducer). Trevor Hopkins for ‘The Indian Detective’,” Anupam tweeted. In one photograph, Anupam can be seen posing for a selfie alongside Peters. In another image, he can be seen dressed as a naval officer.

The profession shall retire me: Big B

Anushka refutes ‘bogus claims’ Wanted to act in a funny

detective series: Kher

HOLLYWOOD SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 201712

IANS

Stars like Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta have been announced as present-

ers at the 59th annual Grammy Awards.

The Recording Academy released this year’s full list of pre-senters on Friday, which include Dion, Lopez, Taraji P. Henson, Nick Jonas and Kelly Clarkson, reports etonline.com.

Late King of Pop Michael Jack-son’s daughter Paris, Camila Cabello and Jason Derulo will also be on hand to present, along with The Chainsmokers, Halsey, Pentatonix, Thomas Rhett, Travolta and Ryan Seacrest. Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Solange Knowles, Gina Rodriguez, Katharine McPhee and Laverne Cox

are also some of the presenters at the awards ceremony, which will be held on Sunday here.

The awards show, hosted by James Corden, will also feature two tribute segments to Prince and George Michael, who died in April and December year year respectively.

“The passings of two such crea-tive innovators were a huge loss for the creative community,” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of the

Recording Academy. “(We’re) humbled to pay hom-

age to their tremendous legacies on the Grammy stage.” Other artistes to hit the Grammy stage include The Weeknd, who is set to perform with Daft Punk, as well as Alicia Keys and Maren Morris, who will also collaborate on a duet.

Legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest will also perform with 15-time Grammy winner Dave

Grohl and Anderson Paak, who is nominated for two Grammys, includ-ing Best New Artist. Demi Lovato, Andra Day, Tori Kelly and Little Big Town are teaming up for a perform-ance celebrating the music of the legendary group Bee Gees and the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Fever”. Beyonce Knowles, Adele, John Legend, Bruno Mars, Metallica, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban are also set to perform.

Oscar nominees Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sting and Justin Timberlake, and 2014 Oscar

winner John Legend will perform at the 89th annual Academy Awards here later this month.

Miranda will be joined by actress-singer Auli’i Cravalho to perform the nominated “Moana” track “How far I’ll go”, reports variety.com. Musician Sting will perform “The empty chair” from

“Jim: The James Foley Story”. The song was co-written with three-t ime nominee J . Ralph.

Singer-actor Timberlake will per-form “Can’t stop the feeling!” from “Trolls”. He shares music and lyric credits with Max Mar-tin and Karl Johan Schuster.

Singer Legend will perform both nominated tunes from “La La Land” - “Audition (The fools who dream)” and “City of stars”. The two songs were performed by the film’s lead actors Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling respectively in the film. Legend’s own “La La Land” track “Start a fire” was not nominated. He previously won

for the song “Glory” from “Selma”.“We are thrilled to wel-come these world-class artistes to the Oscars,” show producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd said in a joint statement.

“These performances will not only celebrate the five extraordi-nary nominated original songs, but also the integral part music plays in movies. ”The 89th Academy Awards will be held on February 26 here.

The Batman” standalone film will be helmed by Matt Reeves, say sources. Reeves is in early talks to take over directing duties

after actor-filmmaker Ben Affleck stepped down from the role in late January. Affleck will still star in and produce the Warner Bros. movie.

Sources told variety.com that the “War for the Planet of the Apes” director has already com-mitted to helming the superhero movie, although a deal isn’t done yet.

An ad for the Oscar-nominated film “Lion”, set in India and Australia, highlighted the issue of US President Donald Trumps travel ban on seven predominantly

Muslim countries. The ad in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times featured young Indian actor Sunny Pawar, and it confronted the issue head-on, reports variety.com. “It took an extraor-dinary effort to get eight-year-old actor Sunny Pawar a visa so that he could come to America for the very first time,” the ad reads. “Next year, that might not be an option.” “Lion” is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Dev Patel), Best Supporting Actress (Nicole Kidman) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Lopez, Dion & Travolta to be presenters at Grammys

Timberlake, Sting & Legend to perform at Oscars

Matt Reeves to direct ‘The Batman’US travel ban tapped in ‘Lion’

TECHNOLOGYSUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2017 13IANS

Nasa is set to open discussions about a study that has proposed a system capable of landing on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in

search for life beyond Earth. The study that Nasa commissioned last year to assess the science value and engineering design of a future Europa lander mission submitted its report this week.

The report listed three science goals for the mission - the primary being search for evidence of life on Europa, the US space agency said.

The other goals are to assess the habitabil-ity of Europa by directly analysing material from the surface and to characterise the surface and subsurface to support future robotic exploration of Europa and its ocean.

The report also described some of the notional instruments that could be expected to perform measurements in support of these goals.

To discuss the report and receive feedback from the wider science community, Nasa announced two upcoming meetings scheduled for March and April.

Europa, slightly smaller than Earth’s moon, is widely believed by scientists to be having a global saltwater ocean beneath its icy crust.

This ocean has at least twice as much water as Earth’s oceans. While recent discoveries have shown that many bodies in the solar system either have subsurface oceans now, or may have

had in the past, Europa is one of only two places where the ocean is understood to be in contact with a rocky seafloor (the other being Saturn’s moon Enceladus). This rare circumstance makes Europa one of the highest priority targets in the

search for present-day life beyond Earth.The team for this study was tasked with

developing a life-detection strategy in Europa, a first for a Nasa mission since the Mars Viking mission era more than four decades ago.

Australian researchers have developed a mobile application to monitor and improve the mental health of taxi driv-

ers. Researchers from the University of Melbourne developed the app after a study dis-covered that taxi drivers were among the most stressed people in a workplace, Xinhua news agency reported.

The studyh found that two in three taxi driv-ers reported high levels of psychological distress due to long working hours and the prospect of being assaulted by passengers.

Nearly a third of drivers surveyed rated their physical health as poor, twice the aver-age for Australian men.

“We’re all used to messages about cutting the road toll, but there’s another road toll that is unique to taxi drivers -- the mental and phys-ical health hazards they face on the job,” Sandra Davidson from the University of Melbourne’s Department of General Practice said on Thurs-day. “Taxi drivers are mostly male, shift workers, recently arrived in Australia, and either too time poor or reluctant to seek help,”

Davidson said. “The biggest challenge is ena-bling taxi drivers themselves to make small but important changes to their routines, given that they have lots of ‘dead’ time that they can’t do much with, because they have to get their next fare.”

Davidson said the idea for the app came from survey findings that taxi drivers were spending large amounts of time on their smart-phones but were unlikely to seek mental health help.

Facebook has rolled out a new feature that shows full weather forecast on its mobile app and desktop site.

According to a report in TechCrunch, within the new Weather section, users can view a full forecast for a week ahead, powered by data from Weather.com. The new fea-ture, an extension of its earlier version

‘weather greetings’, can be accessed from News Feed or the mobile app’s ‘More’ menu.

“Facebook confirmed that the new fea-ture was launched to around 95 per cent of its global population this week,” the report noted. Facebook rolled out ‘weather greet-ings’ a year ago in News Feed, which would briefly update the weather on top of the News Feed. In the latest feature, users will see a similar weather information with a link to the full, five-day forecast. “We are doing this because our goal is to develop products that connect people to the things they care about most and create moments of joy in people’s day, like simply telling you that it’s going to rain later,” said an official.

App to aid drivers mental healthFacebook can be your new weatherman

Nasa to send lander to Europa in search of life

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick

discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

JOHN WICK 2

NOVO - Pearl ROYAL PLAZA

ASIAN TOWN

MALL

LANDMARK

John Wick 2 (2D/Action) 10:30, 11:00, 11:30am, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 11:00pm & 12:00midnightRings 3 (2D/Drama) 10:30am, 3:00, 7:30, 11:30pm & 12:00midnightKung Fu Yoga (2D/Action) 12:40, 5:10 & 9:40pmHeartbeats (2D/Romantic) 10:30am, 3:00, 7:30pm & 12:00midnightThe Space Between Us (2D/Adventure) 12:40, 5:10 & 9:40pmEl Karmouty (2D/Arabic) 11:00am, 3:20, 7:40pm & 12:00midnight Split (2D/Thriller) 1:00, 5:20 & 9:40pm La La Land (2D/Musical) 11:00am, 2:40, 7:20pm & 12:00midnightXXX: The Return of Xander Cage (2D/Action) 12:30, 5:10 & 9:50pm Live By Night (2D/Crime) 10:00am, 3:20 & 8:40pm Jolly LLB 2 (2D/Hindi) 12:30, 5:50 & 11:15pmThe Lego Batman (3D IMAX/Animation) 10:00am, 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 6:40, 8:50 & 11:00pm 2D 10:30am, 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 & 11:30pm

Balu Mahi (2D/Romantic) 2:00pm Singam 3 (2D/Tamil) 2:15, 7:00 & 11:00pm The Lego Batman (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:30 & 6:30pmThe Space Between Us (2D/Adventure) 4:45pm Heartbeats (2D/Romantic) 5:00pm John Wick 2 (2D/Action) 7:00 & 11:30pm Jolly LLB 2 (2D/Hindi) 8:30pm Kung Fu Yoga (2D/Action) 9:15pmRings 3 (2D/Drama) 9:45pm

Singam 3 (2D/Tamil) 2:00, 6:45 & 11:15pmThe Lego Batman (2D/Animation) 2:30, 4:30 & 6:45pmThe Space Between Us (2D/Adventure) 2:45pm Heartbeats (2D/Romantic) 4:45pm Kung Fu Yoga (2D/Action) 5:00pm Jolly LLB 2 (2D/Hindi) 6:30 & 11:15pm John Wick 2 (2D/Action) 9:00 & 11:30pm Balu Mahi (2D/Romantic) 8:45pm Rings 3 (2D/Drama) 9:30pm

Jolly LLB 2 (2D/Hindi) 2:00 & 11:15pm Singam 3 (2D/Tamil) 4:30, 6:00 & 10:45pmThe Lego Batman (2D/Animation) 2:00, 4:00 & 7:15pmThe Space Between Us (2D/Adventure) 5:00pm Kung Fu Yoga (2D/Action) 7:00pm Balu Mahi (2D/Romantic) 2:15pm Heartbeats (2D/Romantic) 9:00pm John Wick 2 (2D/Action) 9:00 & 11:00pm Rings 3 (2D/Drama) 9:00pm

Singam 3 6:00, 7:00, 9:00 & 10:00pm Jolly LLB 2 (2D/Hindi) 6:15pmJomonte (Malayalam) 6:15 & 9:15pm

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VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

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AL KHORSingam 3 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm Jolly LLB 2 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 &

11:30pm Jo Monte 11:15am, 5:15 & 11:15pm Balu Mahi 2:15 & 8:15pm

ROXYThe Lego Batman 2:00, 4:15 & 6:30pm Singam 3 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 8:30, 11:00, 11:15pm & 12:00midnight John Wick 2 (2D/Action) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 & 9:30pm

CROSSWORD CONCEPTIS SUDOKU

ALL IN THE MIND

08:00 News 08:30 People & Power09:00 The Boy Who

Started The Syrian War

10:00 News 10:30 Inside Story 11:00 News 11:30 Talk To Al

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13:40 Disney Mickey Mouse

14:10 Liv And Maddie

15:50 Jessie 17:05 Descendants

Wicked World 17:10 Elena Of

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The Middle 18:00 Gravity

Falls 18:25 Bad Hair

Day 20:00 Star

Darlings 21:20 Best Friends

Whenever 21:45 Austin & Ally 22:10 Dog With A

Blog 22:35 Jessie 23:00 Kirby Buckets

12:00 Deadliest Snakes Of South Africa

12:55 Bondi Vet13:50 Great Animal

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Animal Escapes

19:20 Treehouse Masters

20:15 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet

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10:50 Da Vinci’s

Machines

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Cosmos

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Cosmos

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Cosmos

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Encounters

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BRAIN TEASERSSUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2017 15

Yesterday’s answer

Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku

is a number-placing puzzle based on a

9×9 grid. The object is to place the

numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so

that each row, each column and each

3×3 box contains the same number

only once.

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.