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• Jeff Lemire: Descender comic is his big picture

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Qatari women are increasingly joining the workforce in the country, which offers support for new enterprises and encourages start-ups by university graduates.

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By Victoria Baux

Qatari women are increasingly defy-ing social constraints and joining the workforce in the booming energy-rich country, which offers support for new

enterprises and encourages start-ups by university graduates.

They benefit from a national “Qatarisation” programme, which aims to increase the number of working citizens by guaranteeing them jobs and high wages in industry and government departments.

The programme also helps people set up their own businesses in the country.

Maryam Al Subaiey, 28, started her own com-pany, Q-Talent, which sells items “Made in Qatar.”

“I was the director of programmes and creation at Qatar TV,” she said. “Before that I worked in marketing, and the ministry of foreign affairs. And I started several youth initiatives. So I just reached a point in my life where I wanted to cre-ate something that’s my own.”

H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser played a major role in opening the way for women in the Gulf state.

She chairs the Qatar Foundation, which special-ises in education and culture, and runs “Education City” that groups branches of a number of univer-sities, including Georgetown, and also a “Science

and Technology Park” in Doha. In 1999, women started to occupy senior government positions.

Minister of Information and Communications Technology H E Dt Hessa Al Jaber ranked fifth on Forbes list of “200 Most Powerful Arab Women - 2014: Government”.

At Carnegie Mellon University in Doha, Qatari women are four times more likely to join the business programme than their male peers, said Selma Limam Mansar, associate dean for education.

Subaiey remarked that “women here in Qatar... are treated like queens. We have all our rights... The opportunity is there for me and it’s up to me to go and grasp it or not.”

Qatar women explore new domains with start-ups

Maryam Al Subaiey and Caroline Carpentier hold a copy of “Qatar Success Stories - Inspiring Women”, inside Subaiey’s boutique.

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‘Culture still conservative’Caroline Carpentier, author of Qatar

Success Stories—Inspiring Women, studied the situation of women in all fields and came up with a series of portraits in her book.

“The older generations have paved the way for younger ones,” Carpentier said. “But it’s also a young country where opportunities exist” and where new businesses are well-supported.

To begin with, the country has a very favourable economic environ-ment, with a current GDP growth rate of 6.5 percent that is predicted to reach almost eight percent by 2017.

Young Qataris are increas-ingly invited to participate in the

construction and promotion of their state, where multi-billion dollar mas-sive infrastructure projects are being carried out in preparation for hosting the 2022 football World Cup.

At a February 23 forum for start-up creators, many of the new companies presented were run by young women, some of them still students.

Amal Al Shammari started the so-called “Embrace Doha” initiative that aims to provide support to expats in the Gulf country.

Foreigners, the vast majority of whom are men unaccompanied by any family, make up almost 90 percent of the country’s estimated 2.3 million population. Yet there are 585,000

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women in Qatar, the highest figure ever recorded.

“It’s not difficult for women to work here. We really believe in ourselves and we have a lot to give to the community, society and even to our country,” said Shammari.

But constraints remain, imposed by a patriarchal, traditional society.

“The culture is still conserva-tive... and they do think that women can’t do some things” the way men do them, she said.

And while the labour law stipu-lates equal pay for men and women, some sectors, such as agriculture and fishing, are reserved for men.

In 2012, only 35 percent of

women of working age were employed, a percentage that has slightly improved.

Yet Shammari said “this genera-tion is proving the opposite” with women leading and acquiring top positions in several fields.

At universities, young Qatari women are more likely to pursue their ambitions.

Mansar said “we have a major-ity of women in the programme, all the programmes, so 57 percent of the students are female.” And later on, they “go out and look for employment or start their own companies.”

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As part of the World Maths Day, Doha Modern Indian School conducted math-themed quizzes. The world Maths Day is observed worldwide on the first Wednesday of March every year. Sabu Thomas, Head of Department, addressed the senior students on the occasion and spoke about the relevance of mathematics in daily life. He emphasised the importance of changing the negative attitude towards Maths and liking the subject and hoped that the initiative by the Maths department would bring about a change. The Math teachers of each class prepared quizzes with questions having practical application.

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SIS basketball team reaches finals of SOP

Shantiniketan Indian School Level 1 boys team has reached the finals of the School Olympic Programme (SOP) competition organised by Qatar Olympic Committee and Supreme Education Council.

The SIS team won all its five matches convinc-ingly in the matches held at Gharafa Sports Club.

“It was a tremendous achievement for the team in a competition where a large number of inde-pendent and private schools participated with their best teams,” a school press release said.

Principal, Dr Subhash Nair congratulated the team and the Physical Education Department for their hard work and rigorous training. He also advised the team to work hard and win the final match too.

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Ideal Indian School wins Environment Day contest

Ideal Indian School emerged as run-ners up in the campaign and competi-tion on Global Environment Challenges organised by Indian Cultural Centre in Association with Ministry of Environment on the occasion of the Qatar National Environment Day.

The IIS team presented various eco-projects including awareness on saving electricity, conservation of water, reuse of paper, say no to plas-tics, planting saplings, orientation for teachers, designing of eco cor-ner etc. The team also won the sec-ond prize Project 5S-2015 -School Students Struggle for Sustainability and to Save Environment organised by Qatar Chapter of the Institution of Engineers- India.

The PeninsulaThe winning Ideal Indian School team with Principal Syed Shoukath Ali and Head of Science Department Riyaz.

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India’s celebrated Carnatic concert vocalists “RaGa sisters”, Ranjani and Gayatri, captivated a packed audience of Indian music lovers in

Doha last Friday with their mesmer-izing performance.

They delivered a scintillating per-formance to the Music Lovers of Doha at Al Falak Hall in Crowne Plaza Hotel.

The duo started off with a nice varnam in raag “Kalyani” (meaning auspicious), then picked up pace and kept the audience enthralled with a purandaradasar kriti on “malaya marutham” raag.

A very brief kalpanaswarams painted this beautiful raga where rare kritis are found. This was fol-lowed by an evergreen composition of Muthuswami Dikshitar, “Rangapura Vihara” on raag “Brindavana Saranga” which used to be a master piece of legendary singer the late Dr M S Subhalakshmi.

Their next rendition Ninne Nere Nammi, a thiagaraja kirti on raag

“Pantuvarali” captivated the audience. Gayatri explained the Nandanar char-itram and sang “ Vazhi Maraiththu Irukkudhe: in “Nattakkurinji” raag where the Uchcha sthayi (high Octave) of Gayathri and the Mandara Sthayi (Lower Octave) of Ranjani was a per-fect blend.

This was followed by an elaborate alapanai and the mood was set for Thodi raag, and the song selected was “Thanigai Valar Sharavanabhava” a kirti of Papanasham Shivam. The fast paced brigha laden “Vara Raga Laya” in Chenchu Khamboji by Thiagaraja was next and was delivered nearly to perfection, before the duo went on to render their main raag for the evening “Abheri” and sang one of the most popular kritis “Nagumomu”.

The audience were thrilled to listen to Nagumomu and also to the outstanding performance by the accompanying artists Rajeev Mukundan on Violin, Manoj Siva on Mirdangam and Anirudh Athreya on Kanjira.

Gopal Balasubramaniam, who heads the Music Lovers Group, said:”It was a wholesome concert packed with pathos, compassion, devotion and peace with a perfect order of various

raags, and said it was truly a memo-rable evening for all the music lovers of Doha with a fully sold out house for the first time in the history of MLG.”

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In the biggest ever Dolphin Energy Doha Dash, runners enjoyed the unique experience of

running on Qatar’s MotoGP track at Losail International Circuit in 5km, 3km and 1km races. The event also hosted a 1km walk specifically for ladies.

British runner and double gold

Olympic Champion, Dame Kelly Holmes, ambassador for the event took part in the 5km race, running alongside Qatari citizens, residents and athletes.

First place in the men’s 5km race was Mounier Bouzaiane and the women’s 5km was won by Katie Palfreeman, with impressive times

of 17m37s and 20m46s respectively. In the 3km race, 12-year old Ellie Walters won the ladies in a time of 12m54s and Ali Mohammed won the men’s in 10m56s. The winners of the 1km Mini Doha Dash were Erin King and Qusai Attiyat.

The trophies were presented by Dolphin Energy, GO Sport, Dame Kelly Holmes and Qatari hurdler Mariam Farid. Every participant who crossed the finish line was congratu-lated with a medal.

“Go Sport is delighted to have played an important role in bringing the community together for the Doha Dash on National Sport Day. The participation by Dame Kelly Holmes and the enthusiasm of all those who entered highlighted an extremely well organized event,” Andrew Fairall,

General Manager Al Mana Fashion Group – Sport Division.

Adel Ahmed Albuainain, General Manager, Dolphin Energy, said: “For the third year running the Dolphin Energy Doha Dash was a great success, with over thousands participating and hun-dreds of spectators cheering them on.

“The Doha Dash demonstrates our commitment to the importance of maintaining a physically active life and supports the vision and spirit of Qatar National Sport Day.

Jamie Cunningham, CEO & Founder of Professional Sports Group said: “The third Dolphin Energy Doha Dash was even bigger and better than previous years, proving it is a key fix-ture in the Qatar National Sport Day, and the Qatar sporting calendar. The Peninsula

This year’s Dolphin Energy Doha Dash biggest ever

RaGa sisters strike the right note with Doha audience

Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar celebrates Sport Day

For the fourth consecutive year, Sri Lankan Majlis Qatar (SLMQ) organ-ised a seven a side cricket tournament among the Sri Lankan community associations in Qatar to mark the Qatar National Sport Day at the Qatar

Cricket Association (QCA) grounds. Twelve teams participated in this year’s tournament and Zahira College Colombo Qatar OBA won the SLMQ Challenge Trophy 2015. Weligama Sports Club were the runners up.

The Man of the Match of the final award went to Assad Borham (Zahira OBA - Qatar). The Best Bowler was Fazil Jiffry (Weligama Sports Club) and the Best Batsman Gayan Maduranga (Weligama Sports Club). The Man of the Series was awarded to Himras Kayas (Zahira OBA – Qatar).

The Chief Guest Akram, Public Relations Manager – Qatar Cricket Association (QCA), gave away the awards, medals and certificates.

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Winners with the trophy.

The RaGa sisters in action. Below: A section of the audience.

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InterContinental Doha The City gives Strata new look and feel

InterContinental Doha The City unveiled a unique and enhanced concept at Strata Lounge located on levels 55 and 56. Both floors will now serve a

menu of contemporary Asian cuisine. In addition, the interior has been refreshed with a new modern décor creating a cool and vibrant place for socialising.

“We are so proud of the enhancements we’ve made in Strata Lounge,” said Pascal Eggerstedt, General Manager, InterContinental Doha The City. “Strata already offers the best view in Doha. With the crea-tive presentations of the new dishes and signature cocktails, and the fresh look and feel of the space, we’re providing an experience that can’t be found anywhere else in town.”

The new Strata menu features a selection of hot and cool temptations such as a divine duo of salmon and tuna tartar surrounded by crisp parmesan tuile and creatively presented in an ice bowl. A wide selec-tion of delectable sushi and sashimi is also available along with carpaccio in truffle oil and aged balsamic. For those craving a hot bite, Strata chicken lollipops or the wagyu beef sliders with Cajun wedges are sure to satisfy. Pan fried vegetarian dumplings and mixed chicken and shrimp dim sum served up in traditional Chinese steam boxes round out the menu.

Following the Izakaya-style of dining, the dishes are steadily brought to the table creating an informal yet sophisticated style of eating with a modern twist.

The refreshed interior of Strata features a mixture of stylish table and lounge seating in crisp white with pops of red. Enhanced with seductive lighting, Strata has been transformed into a sleek and inviting space in which to relax with the early evening sounds of ambient and chill out music. Moving into the late evening, Strata takes on another dimension as the

resident DJ’s artistic acoustics build into deep house and dance music.

“We are looking forward to providing our guests a unique journey that touches on every sense through-out the evening at Strata,” said Eggerstedt.

In conjunction with the refreshed concept, Strata will begin to implement new theme nights as well as continue its popular Pink Wednesday ladies night in which ladies have the chance to win high-end designer items each week. The Peninsula

Celebrating women of Wonder at Mövenpick Hotels & ResortsTo mark International Women’s

Day today, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts reflects on the special skills and talents of women, and highlights the important women’s causes its properties support.

Mövenpick’s five hotels in Jordan buy locally-made handicraft from several female cooperatives, thereby supporting a way for women to make a living through their artistic skills. Guests are also encouraged to visit these inspiring centres. Mövenpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea was the first hotel in Jordan to receive the Gender Equity Seal from UN Women, the United Nations’ entity for female empowerment. Women’s education is a priority at Mövenpick Resort & Residences Aqaba, which supports training centres and schools for girls. Recently, the hotel also hosted a field visit to the Taffileh Vocational Centre for Girls in an effort to promote career prospects within the hospitality sector.

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Wagyu SlidersSushi Assortment

McDonald’s Qatar will serve 28,000 free Egg McMuffins on March 9

McDonald’s Qatar announced that more than 28,000 free Egg McMuffins will be

redeemed by customers across Qatar on March 9, 2014 during National Breakfast Day.

Dubbed the World’s Biggest Breakfast, National Breakfast Day will witness more than 400 crew members in 28 McDonald’s restaurants across the country, who will serve thousands of customers in just four hours.

National Breakfast Day marks the third time McDonald’s has initiated an international celebration of this scale. In 2014 and in GCC alone, 230,000 Egg McMuffins were redeemed. Dozens of other markets across Asia, the Middle East and Africa also participated in what is considered the brand’s most successful international breakfast event.

Kamal Saleh Al Mana, Managing

Director of Al Mana Restaurants & Food Co, commented: “We are sure that there will be positive response to National Breakfast Day across Qatar. The goal of the celebration is to dem-onstrate to our busy consumers that

a packed schedule shouldn’t compro-mise a nourishing start to the day; we are certain that the volume of par-ticipation will exceed what we have observed last year.”

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COMICS 7PLUS | SUNDAY 8 MARCH 2015

By David Betancourt

When developing a story about a young robot boy in space, Jeff Lemire (pictured) expected the writing process for his next creator-owned

project to take him to the far depths of the universe.He landed in Hollywood instead.Before the first issue of Descender hit comic-

book shelves both physical and virtual Wednesday, Lemire’s science-fiction collaboration with artist Dustin Nguyen had to navigate multiple offers from Hollywood studios vying for the rights to develop Descender into a major motion picture.

It wasn’t the first time California called with interest in one of Lemire’s works. But the attention that Descender received after Lemire and Nguyen announced the synopsis last summer at Comic-Con was unlike any “heat” around any of his previous projects, the writer acknowledges.

Lemire and Nguyen ultimately decided to go with Sony, in part because after speaking with studio representatives, Lemire was confident he’d be able to concentrate fully on what he feels is the most important part of the Descender universe: the comic book itself.

“Dustin and I are very much focused on the comic. I think for us, I think the best thing we can do for the comic and the film is just to make the best comic book we can,” Lemire said. “That gives the studio better source material, and as exciting as it is to have a potential film, for Dustin and I our first love is always going to be the comic book. That’s really where our heart is.”

Although he’s excited to have Hollywood involved, Lemire has been determined not to have potential live-action developments hamper his writing process on a series that is just beginning. The film decision was a little stressful, he says, but the comic always remained the true big picture.

“I think one of the biggest things that went into us choosing Sony [was], we made it very clear — and they were very receptive — that we were going to tell the comic book the way we wanted to tell the comic. Meaning, if in the comic we wanted to veer left and they wanted to go right with the movie, we could do that,” Lemire said.

“We wouldn’t be influenced by whatever decisions they made on the film. Maintaining that freedom and that autonomy to your comic the way we wanted was really important, and Sony was really open to that,” Lemire continued. “I think they just want us to make the best thing we can, so they have something great that they can work with.”

Within the pages of Descender, readers will be introduced to Tim-21, a boy robot who wakes up after a decade of being “decommissioned,” according to Lemire. Tim-21 finds that the universe has turned on all robots. Robots and androids — anything with artificial intelligence — are being hunted down and destroyed. (Lemire envisions the series as being about 24 issues, but said it could still grow.)

“This young boy wakes up and there’s something secretly mysterious about him and his creation . . . that could save the universe or doom it, depending on the point of view,” Lemire said. “So he becomes the most hunted robot in this hostile galaxy. Jumping from one planet to the next, looking for the secrets of his origins, with human and robot allies and enemies at each turn.”

Parenthood and mankind’s ever-evolving relationship with technology were the inspiration points as Lemire began building the world of Descender. Watching the ease at which his 6-year-old son could handle a tablet — and remembering how personal home computers were not the rage when he himself was 6 — fascinated him.

“The differences in each of our experiences as kids, and the way we relate to technology, is so vast, and I try to project that forward another 50 or 100 years,” said Lemire. “The fear, and also sort of the wonder, that can come from that relationship with technology and mankind is certainly at the heart of Descender.”

Lemire said that he and Nguyen, who are both parents, enjoy stories that have young characters.

“We love telling stories about innocence and hostile environments and sort of coming-of-age stories,” Lemire said. “So [Descender] is definitely one of those.”

Artwork on his creator-owned projects is typically something Lemire would tackle on his own. But the freedom of project choices that came with ending his exclusivity to DC Comics after five years resulted in multiple offers (including from Marvel, Valiant, Dark Horse, Image). In this case, the best Lemire hoped for with Descender was to be paired with a good artist.

He said he got that, and then some, with Nguyen.“Dustin is a really unique artist in that he’s

incredibly gifted and incredibly good, but also he’s really fast. There’s not a lot of guys you can count on to fully watercolour-paint a monthly comic and you wouldn’t worry about the deadlines every month,” said Lemire, citing Nguyen’s background in architecture as a major asset when creating the visual world of Descender.

“I think before comics, he actually did some

kind of architectural design. [Descender] is a book about machines and robots, so we’re building all of these different robots and technology, and also just different planets and alien races and different cultures and the look of the aliens,” Lemire said. “There’s so much world-building that goes on. Dustin has that design background that he can make each of those worlds and each of those machines unique to one another.”

Despite success with various publishers, even Lemire has to admit this is a special time to be at Image Comics. He said the publisher continuously releases some of his favourite titles each month.

“The amount of quality books that Image has published each month is pretty amazing right now, and they’re all so diverse from one another,” Lemire said. “There’s no certain type of book they publish. Everything is so different, and that’s so inspiring as a creator, to read this stuff and see people taking chances and telling the kind of stories they want to tell.

“It’s hard not to get into that and want to do that as well. So that certainly was a big part of why Dustin and I went with Image” for Descender.

Yet Lemire isn’t through working with the “Big 2.” While he has wrapped up his final writing assignments for DC, his upcoming run on Marvel’s Hawkeye (with the high bar of following the run of Matt Fraction) also debuted on Wednesday, along with Descender. And yes, Lemire does see parallels in how he is following Fraction after many said that whoever had to follow Lemire on DC’s Green Arrow would likewise have big shoes to fill.

Lemire said that it’s nice to be able to work on projects at the Big 2 that he wants to do. But he does look down the line to a time when he might work solely on creator-owned works.

“I think ideally, it would be great just to do your own stuff. I think that’s the goal,” Lemire said. “Certainly, the dream for me is to get to a point where I was just doing creator-owned stuff. But I’d be lying if I said that it isn’t fun to write a superhero comic. Maybe just one Marvel or one DC book, just for the hell of it — [it] is kind of fun to play in those sandboxes. But it’s kind of good to be in the position where I am now, where I can do the projects at Marvel and DC that I really want to do, and not just have to do a certain amount to make a living.

“So that’s a good place to be.” WP-Bloomberg

Jeff Lemire: Descender comic is his big picture

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BOLLYWOOD NEWS

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Blanchett adopts baby girl, names Edith

Actress Cate Blanchett, who plays an evil step-mother in upcoming

movie Cinderella, and husband Andrew Upton, have adopted a baby girl and named her Edith Vivian Patricia Upton.

The news, confirmed by the Oscar winner’s publicist on Friday, comes amid some reports that the couple had named the child Vivienne, reports eonline.com.

Edith has joined brothers Dashiell John, 13, Roman Robert, 10 and Ignatius Martin, 6 in the family fold.

Though in 2013 Blanchett had com-pared handling three children while maintaining her film and stage com-mitments to a “military operation”, the

45-year-old star ultimately opted to add another troop to her brigade.Cinderella also stars Lily James, Richard Madden and Hayley Atwell.

Harrison Ford undergoes surgery

Veteran Hollywood actor Harrison Ford, who crash-landed his World

War II era aircraft in a golf course here, reportedly broke his ankle and pelvis, and underwent surgery.

The actor’s single-engine plane crash-landed in a Santa Monica golf course Thursday and he was taken to hospital, where he underwent surgery about four hours after the incident, a source close to the family told TV sta-tion KTLA, reports aceshowbiz.com.

The “Star Wars” actor experi-enced engine failure about 20 minutes after taking off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport and requested an emergency return to the airport. He fell short of reaching the runway and crashed-landed the aircraft in a nearby golf course.

His vintage World War II training plane hit a tree on the way down, preventing it from going into a nose-dive. Doctors who were playing golf at the time rushed to his rescue and pulled him out of the wreckage when they smelled fuel, out of fear it might explode.

The actor will make a full recovery, according to his representative.

Toy Story 4 to get romantic angle

The fourth instalment in the Toy Story franchise won’t just continue from where the last movie ended. It will be a love story, says Pixar

president Jim Morris.“It is not a continuation of the end of the story of Toy Story 3,” Morris

said in an interview with Disney Latino, reports eonline.com.“Temporarily it is, but it will be a love story. It will be a romantic com-

edy. It will not put much focus on the interaction between the characters and children. I think it will be a very good movie,” he added.

Morris says that fans of the first three films had found it to be a great ‘trilogy’ and thus, when a fourth film was announced, it left many won-dering if “Toy Story 3” can be topped.

“The third movie ended in a beautiful way and completed a trilogy. I think this movie is not part of this trilogy. It is a separate story, which in turn I do not know if (it) will be continued. Never begin a project with that in mind,” he added.

Toy Story 4 is due in theaters on June 16, 2017.

I still need to fit in: Abhay DeolBy Subhash K Jha

Abhay Deol, who is busy having “too much fun” in the US, says

he’ll return soon to filmdom. “Picky” about his movies, the actor feels a need to turn more “media savvy” to “fit in”.

In an interview, Abhay has spoken about what he’s been upto, his career, future plans and love life.

It’s been a while since we

saw you on screen. Where

are you? Have you migrated

to the US?

Ha ha, no. I haven’t migrated to the US!

When do you return to

India and to which projects?

I will return soon. I’m having too much fun here in the US! I have two confirmed projects back at home, a big commercial film and a small off beat radical one. I may have found the perfect balance.

Your last Bollywood outing One By Two proved to be damaging

on many counts. In hindsight do you think it was premature for you

to turn producer?

Nope, I learnt a lot in my outing as a producer and it has opened many new doors for me. In life you only learn from taking chances.

In spite of such thoughtful performances in recent films like

Shanghai and Chakrvayuh, why do we see so little of you on screen?

After so many years in Hindi cinema, where do you see yourself fit-

ting in?

It’s a media driven world and I guess I need to be more media savvy. I’m also very picky with my films. It’s hard to find the right fit. After so many years, I still need to fit in! I’ve heard many people say that to me. Maybe that is true, maybe or maybe that is not, I believe that if a filmmaker wants to work with you and use you for what you have, then he or she will do it. That’s how both Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! and Dev.D happened.

Out of curiosity, which films so far have been the most satisfying

and which the most unfulfilling for you?

Most satisfying would be Dev.D, Shanghai and Manorama Six Feet Under. They were heavily driven by the characters. Least satisfying would be the ones where I didn’t have much to do. I leave that to you to decide which ones.

Let’s talk a bit about the mindspace you are in right now. You’ve

always been a bit of a maverick. I remember you did a course in

welding. What are your pursuits other than acting at the moment?

I’m in a very good mind space. Ups and downs come and go, the important thing is to live them fully and understand them. The more experiences you have, the more you understand as long as you remain open.

Any chances of turning director in the near future?

Right now most of my focus is on the acting and producing front. All my energies are focussed on making the next film that will break the mould. I have no plans to turn director, I’m not in that mind space at all, so I wouldn’t go there until I feel sure that I am ready.

To turn to your private space a bit, when do we see you and the

lovely Ms. Preeti Desai tie the knot? How would you define your

relationship with her?

Haha I’m often asked this question! Not anytime soon. I don’t define relationships that can’t be. It’s everything and nothing at the same time. The kind that makes you learn how to live and how to be.


BY SHILPA JAMKHANDIKAR

Bollywood is looking for its next

superhero, one who can swoop

in to amuse audiences in a film

industry bereft of fresh ideas. Its

name might be Franchise Man.

At least two movie studios in India are

focusing on franchises, developing stories

that will span three films.

In the past, the Indian film industry

has used the term “franchise” loosely.

Typically, producers inch their way toward

sequels, greenlighting them only when the

first film is a hit.

The Krrish superhero series and the

Dhoom action franchise started as one-offs

a decade ago, but the third films in the

series released in 2013, earned more than

$40m at the Indian box office.

Bollywood is hungry for more fran-

chises to repeat that performance. Eros

International Media , one of its biggest

studios, has launched an in-house produc-

tion wing to “build franchises with lasting

value,” it said in a press release.

Independent studio Abundantia

Entertainment recently released Baby,

a fast-paced thriller about an elite anti-

terrorist squad, which opened to glowing

reviews. Work on a second film has begun.

“Franchises are about creating long-

lasting brands. If it has worked in other

sectors in India, why not entertainment?”

said Ajit Thakur, head of Trinity, the Eros

wing for franchises.

The studio board includes David Maisel,

the former chairman of Marvel Studios,

whose comic book characters Captain

America and Iron Man were effective movie

franchise anchors.

The source of the franchise fervor is

Hollywood, where such films are top gross-

ers at the box office. Even in India, the top

Hollywood hits over the last three years

have been franchises such as Avengers,

Spider-Man and Transformers. They have

done well because of recall value among

young moviegoers.

“India is skipping generations in terms

of audience tastes,” said Vikram Malhotra,

head of Abundantia Entertainment. He

said young adults were aligned to the West

in terms of what they watched.

Bollywood is notoriously short-sighted

about its content, and studios and produc-

ers often back stars rather than scripts.

Thakur of Trinity said backing a fran-

chise was risky in an industry that does

not believe in long-term planning.

“It is going to be new for the market,

thinking like this,” Thakur said. “We will

only greenlight a film if the character

graph can span three films.”

But it won’t be an easy decision.

“What if the first one doesn’t work?”

asks Vijay Krishna Acharya, the writer of

all three Dhoom films. Reuters

Franchise Man swoops in to save Bollywood

Tribeca Festival blends films, live performances

From a crime drama starring actress Glenn Close to an Arnold Schwarzenegger film about a deadly zombie epi-

demic to an expose of the financial cri-sis, the Tribeca Film Festival unveiled a varied slate of movies on Thursday.

After announcing the documentary and narrative films in competition on Tuesday, the festival revealed its full schedule of nearly 100 feature-length films.

As in previous years, the downtown New York event will pair films with live music, dance and comedy perform-ances linked to them.

“Mary J Blige - The London Sessions,” about the recording of one of the rhythm and blues singer’s albums, will be followed by a concert at the Beacon Theater. A special dance per-formance will accompany A Ballerina’s Tale, which offers a peek into the daily life of Misty Copeland of New York’s American Ballet Theatre.

“Seeing a film together alongside a live performance heightens the expe-rience, engages the imagination and brings audiences together is an unfor-gettable way,” Genna Terranova, the festival’s director, said in a statement.

The festival line-up will include the world premiere of Anesthesia, about a New York college professor mugged near his home and starring Sam Waterston, Glenn Close and Kristen Stewart.

Schwarzenegger, California’s former governor, will be back on the big screen in Maggie as a small-town farmer whose daughter is infected in an epi-demic threatening humanity.

And in The Wannabe, based on the events surrounding the trial of American mobster John Gotti in 1992, best supporting Oscar winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) embarks on a crime spree.

Documentaries, always a major component at Tribeca, include The Emperor’s New Clothes, an expose of the impact of the financial crisis by English writer/director Michael Winterbottom and comedian Russell Brand.

The festival, which runs from April 16-26, was founded in 2001 by actor Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal and investor Craig Hatkoff to revitalize the downtown New York neighborhood following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Reuters

HEALTHPLUS | SUNDAY 8 MARCH 201510

HEALTH / FITNESS 11

By Lisa Rapaport

Stretches that work several muscle groups at once are great for upper-body warm-ups before a workout, an Australian study finds.

Although athletes and coaches often swear by stretching, many common pre-workout routines may not actually enhance performance, said lead author Matt McCrary, a master’s degree candidate at the University of Sydney.

Higher load dynamic warm-ups are “the best bet” in most situations, said McCrary. For the upper body, these include push-ups, dumbbell back flys, and resisted lateral raises, he said.

Dynamic stretches focus on getting the blood flow-ing and increasing range of motion by using multiple muscle groups simultaneously. Unlike static stretches, which generally involve holding a single pose for a minute or two, dynamic stretches use a series of con-trolled movements.

To analyze the effect of upper body warm-ups, McCrary and colleagues reviewed findings from 31 past studies.

The review, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, included 628 people playing sports at many levels, from youth leagues to college athletics and adults in recreational activities. Most studies involved sports where upper body strength is essential, such as baseball, football, tennis, golf, kayaking and shot put.

The review found that high-intensity dynamic stretching improved strength and flexibility while delaying muscle soreness.

But low-intensity stretching had little effect on performance, which agrees with previous research on upper body warm-ups, McCrary said.

“Flexibility increases are generally unrelated to any type of performance improvements,” he noted.

Heating and cooling during a warm-up also does little to improve performance, the study found. While applying heat to specific muscles before strenuous activity may minimize the loss of flexibility in the days following the workout, this practice didn’t show other benefits.

And for baseball players, batting warm-ups didn’t work as well when bats were much lighter or heavier than those used during games.

“This runs somewhat contradictory to the pre-vailing narrative that higher load warm-up is better than lower load warm-up,” McCrary said. “The two theories here are that warm-up swings with a heavier weight bat significantly and sub-optimally alter swing mechanics and/or that a resisted movement longer in duration than a baseball bat swing is necessary to produce a warm-up effect.”

While high intensity dynamic stretching can help elite and professional athletes, the same warm-ups may not be a good idea for more casual exercisers, said Dr Kazuki Takizawa, an associate professor of sports training science and exercise physiology at Hokkaido University in Japan.

“Warm-up exercises may reduce injury by improv-ing performance for serious athletes,” Takizawa said in an email. “But recreational athletes and weekend warriors are at a lower physical fitness level, especially in aerobic capacity, and they may fatigue by warm-up exercise and reduce performance.”

Takizawa also made a distinction between endur-ance sports like long-distance running or cycling and more intense activities done for shorter periods.

“Short-term, high intensity exercises need vigorous warm-up,” Takizawa said. “But long-term endurance exercises do not.”

Because the study didn’t look specifically at injury prevention, it’s impossible to say for sure how intense dynamic stretching or other warm-ups might affect the risk for injuries, McCrary said.

“We haven’t really zeroed in on what kinds of warm-ups best prevent injuries,” he said. “Anecdotally, I feel like warm-ups definitely do play a role in injury prevention, however, further study is required before I’d be able to confidently make any recommendations or explain how or why this is the case.”

SOURCE: bmj.co/18VhZAH British Journal of Sports Medicine, online February 18, 2015.

Reuters

Air pollution can hamper your kids’ memory

Admitting your kids to schools located near busy roads or in areas with high levels of

air pollution could hamper their intellectual development, new research suggests.

Attendance at schools exposed to high lev-els of traffic-related air pollution is linked to slower cognitive development among seven to 10-year-old children, the findings showed.

“Children attending schools with higher traffic-related air pollution had a smaller improvement in cognitive development,” said Jordi Sunyer from the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The findings suggest that the developing brain may be vulnerable to traffic-related air pollution well into middle childhood, a conclu-sion that has implications for the design of air pollution regulations and for the location of new schools.

The researchers measured three cognitive outcomes (working memory, superior working memory, and attentiveness) every three months over a 12-month period in 2,715 primary school children attending 39 schools in Barcelona.

The increase in cognitive development over time among children attending highly polluted schools was less than among children attending school exposed to low levels of pollution, even after adjusting for additional factors that affect cognitive development, the findings showed.

Thus, for example, there was an 11.5 percent increase in working memory in a year at the lowly-polluted schools but only a 7.4 percent 12-month increase in working memory at the highly-polluted schools.

These results were confirmed using direct measurements of traffic related pollutants at schools. “Air pollution is a suspected develop-mental neurotoxicant,” the researchers noted.

New hormone that fights weight gain, diabetes

Too lazy to exercise? You may soon have a new excuse as scientists have discovered a

new hormone that mimics the effects of exercise and fights the weight gain caused by a high-fat diet. The newly discovered hormone, dubbed “MOTS-c” also reverses diet-induced and age-dependent insulin resistance, the findings showed. Insulin resistance could lead to Type 2 diabestes.

“This represents a major advance in the identification of new treatments for age-related diseases such as diabetes,” said sen-ior author of the study Pinchas Cohen from University of Southern California (USC) Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

Hormones are molecules that act as the body’s signals, triggering various physiologi-cal responses.

To test the effects of MOTS-c, the team injected the hormone into mice fed a high-fat diet, which typically causes them to grow obese and develop a resistance to insulin.

The injections not only suppressed both effects in mice, they also reversed age-depend-ent insulin-resistance, a condition that pre-cedes diabetes. While all of the experiments on MOTS-c to date have been performed on lab mice, the molecular mechanisms that make it function in mice exist in all mammals, includ-ing humans, the researchers noted.

Agencies

Stretch multiple Stretch multiple muscles at once muscles at once for upper-body for upper-body warm-upswarm-ups


TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 8 MARCH 201512

With a smartphone that slots together piece by piece like Lego, US Internet giant Google is try-ing to reinvent the mobile as most phone makers are honing sleeker

handsets. The company aims to challenge its rival Apple’s thin iPhones with the Google Ara project, giving smartphone aficionados the option to build their phone themselves.

Anlysts say tech boffins will love it but remain cautious about how popular it may be compared to polished conventional smartphones that sit snugly in the palm.

Google says the Ara phone is part of its bid to widen Internet access to users in developing coun-tries and could create a new industry for assembly-ready handset parts.

Google’s associate, US firm Yezz, presented a pro-totype of the build-your-own device at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s biggest wireless telecom trade fair.

The phone consists of a base structure on which various square, magnetic modular parts can be attached: screen, battery, camera, speakers and more. Google plans to release it in three sizes.

Ara would allow users to replace individual com-ponents rather than throwing the whole thing away and buying a new handset. It says the base unit will last at least five or six years.

“That is good for the environment,” said Annette Zimmermann, a telecom specialist at German con-sultancy Gartner.

Emerging marketsAra “could reshape the mobile landscape,” said

Paul Eremenko, director of the Ara Project, in a presentation to experts in January.

He said it aimed to gain six billion potential cli-ents — the current billion people who currently use smartphones “and five billion future users”, most of them in emerging markets.

Google says a mid-range Ara phone could cost between $50 and $100 to produce, but has not given details of the likely sales price, leaving questions marks over how sustainable such a product would be.

“Google is not looking to make money directly with Ara,” said Jerome Colin, a telecom expert at French consultancy group Roland Berger.

“It is basically looking to spread smartphones in countries with low purchasing power, and to unify the telecom world around its Android system.”

‘Paradox of choice’Tech fans and bloggers queued up to see the pro-

totype presented in Barcelona, but analysts were sceptical.

“The trend in mobile phones is to have small, thin, really integrated products. If you make a product modular it immediately means that you’re going to have to make compromises on that,” said Ben Wood,

head researcher at consultancy CCS Insight.“The other question mark I have is: beyond geeks,

who really knows” about components? he added.“If I said to you, which processor do you want in

your smartphone, I think you could stop people in the street and they’d just look at you like you’d landed from Mars.”

Eremenko acknowledged that consumers risked being overwhelmed by too many technical options when it comes to choosing components.

“We need to resolve the paradox of choice,” he said in January.

Google plans a test launch of the device in Puerto Rico by the end of this year.

“We will have to see if the public takes to it,” said Zimmerman. Google dominates the world of Internet searches and its Android operating system can be used on 80 percent of the world’s smartphones. It also holds a large market share in wireless tablet devices.

Its senior vice-president Sundar Pichai said in Barcelona on Monday that it was in talks with telecom companies about possibly using their net-works to operate its own mobile phone services in the United States. AFP

Build-your-own Google handset reconstructs smartphone

YouTube Kids

For families, a video collection with controlsYouTube can be a great way to kick back, learn

and explore with your children. But for some parents it can also feel dangerous, as if you’re always just a click or “recommended video” away from having to shield some eyes. Google has a new app for careful parents who want their children to use a version of YouTube made for young minds. The videos are in four categories — Shows, Music, Leaning and Explore — and have been pulled from the site’s more professional video producers such as Sesame Street, Khan Academy and the Vlogbrothers.

The videos that are easiest to find are aimed at the preschool set when you start the app, but there is content — particularly educational content

— that would suit a slightly older audience as well. The app gives parents the option to set a timer on how long children can use the app, enable or disable the ability to search and turn sound effects on or off. Search histories can be cleared. Free, for iOS and Android.

Alto’s AdventureIt’s all downhill from here, so enjoy the ride

On paper, Alto’s Adventure sounds boring: As the snowboarding main character Alto, you glide down a mountain until you crash. And when you

crash? Well, you head right back up to the top again. In practice, however, it’s so much more than its reverse-Sisyphean concept. Its stunning visuals, clever design and overall elegance make it not only a compelling game to play in spare moments, but a genuine time-suck. (That’s a compliment.)

The controls are simple. Alto jumps onto his snowboard when you tap and goes into a backflip when you hold your finger down. Timing is everything: You may make a beautiful jump, but muff the landing and end up with a face full of snow or hear a disconcerting thud. But the game is smartly designed to keep you from getting frustrated. The landscape changes each time you have to restart, so you don’t keep trying to get past the same point. It’s more expensive than the average mobile game, but well worth it. $1.99, for iOS. WP-Bloomberg

Prototype modular parts created by Yezz Mobile for Project Ara.

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Hoy en la HistoriaMarch 8, 2014

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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with 239 people aboard, vanished after leaving Malaysian air space. Satellite data indicated it ditched far off course in the Indian Ocean

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

AL FRESCO, BANQUET, BARBECUE, BARS, BISTRO, BRASSERIE, BREAKFAST, BUFFET, CAFE, CAMPFIRE, CANTEEN, CLUB,COFFEE HOUSE, COLLATION, DINER, DINNER, DRINK, EATING HOUSE, FEAST, FOOD, GRILL, HOTEL, LUNCH, MEAL, MOTEL, PICNIC, PUBS, REPAST, RESTAURANT, ROTISSERIE, SANDWICH, SNACK, SUPPER, TAVERN, TEA SHOP.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARN ARABIC


How to tell the time

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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 Bunch 5 Game similar to euchre11 “Arsenal of democracy”

prez14 Auto datum15 Credit card lure16 ___ Highway, classic

New York-to-San Francisco route17 Area in front of a

chancel18 Linoleum alternative19 Place of rest20 “Looky here!”22 Nabokov novel after “Lolita”23 Mario ___ (Nintendo

racing series)24 A series of

“insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster,” per Tom Stoppard

26 Flight setting 30 Helmet part31 Greater part of Turkey32 Sound a hot dog makes?33 End of a fairy’s wand

34 Outwit, in a way36 Goose : gaggle :: ___ :

knot39 Wedding feature, in two

different senses41 Interrupts, as a

broadcast43 South Australian exports45 Chosen people46 Overlook, as someone’s

flaws48 ___ notes49 Writer Philip50 Not worry about

something annoying55 Choler56 California county

between San Francisco and Sacramento

57 Similar58 “No ___!”59 Digs deeply60 Small price to pay61 Kind of fever62 Prophet on the Sistine

Chapel ceiling63 Evil “Get Smart”

organization

DOWN 1 In ___ with 2 Genesis matriarch 3 Place for a wasp’s nest 4 Hit 2012 Disney film 5 Went around 6 Men’s formalwear

feature 7 Picked locks? 8 Good or bad name 9 Means of enforcement,

metaphorically10 It’s just a guess: Abbr.11 Pebbles, e.g.12 “GoodFellas” co-star13 Jeremy of “The

Avengers”21 Corn syrup brand22 1966 Rolling Stones hit

… or an instruction to be followed four times in this puzzle

25 “Casino Royale” Bond girl ___ Green

26 KLM competitor27 Big bang maker28 Remote power source,

maybe

29 Booze32 One of the Wailers of Bob

Marley and the Wailers35 Don Quixote’s love37 Took in38 Tango twosome?40 Org. for which Edward

Snowden once worked42 “Hard” or “soft”

subjects: Abbr.43 Beastly

44 Bradley University site45 Stanley Kowalski’s

woman47 Dark-skinned fruit51 Rikki-tikki-___52 Furniture megastore53 11-Down pet54 Middle-earth creatures56 Reagan’s Star Wars

program: Abbr.

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17 18 19

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26 27 28 29 30

31 32

33 34 35 36 37 38

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49 50 51 52 53 54

55 56 57

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S H O R N W R I T EA V A T O C C A T A N O SS I T A T O M E G AP E R S O N A L B A G G A G ES W A K A N D E A T U P

A I R Y D A R K E N SB L A N K C H E C K H A L OL A N C E O P I E A S A NT O S E A W A V Y N E W 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

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EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

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


1American Heist (2D/Action) – 10:00am,

12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm

2Outcast (2D/Action) – 10:30am & 2:30pm

Outcast (3D/Action)

– 12:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:10 & 11:20pm

3Youm Maloush Lazmah (2D/Arabic)

– 4:25, 6:50, 9:00 & 11:30pmAsterix (2D/Animation) –10:45am, 12:40 & 2:30pm

4Focus (2D/Comedy) – 10:20am, 2:40, 7:15 & 11:40pm

Regatta (2D/Arabic) – 12:35, 4:50 & 9:25pm

5Life After Beth (2D/Comedy) –1:00, 5:10 & 9:20pm

The Wedding Ringer (2D/Romantic)

– 11:00am, 3:00, 7:10 & 11:20pm

6Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2D/Action)

– 1:15, 5:40 & 10:00pmKinsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action)

– 10:55, 3:15, 7:40 & 11:55pm

7 Asterix (2D/Animation) – 3:10 & 5:00pm Exists (2D/Horror) – 11:15am, 1:00, 6:55, 9:00 & 11:10pm

8The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

(2D/Animation) – 11:10am, 1:10 & 3:10pmProject Almanac (2D/Action)

– 5:00, 7:00, 9:10 & 11:35pm

9Focus (IMAX 2D/Comedy) – 11:30am, 1:40, 3:50,

6:00, 8:10, 10:20pm &12:30am

10American Heist (2D/Action)

– 10:50am, 2:50, 7:20 & 11:50pmOutcast (2D/Action) – 12:50, 4:50 & 9:30pm

MALL

1Asterix (2D/Animation) – 2:15pm

American Heist (2D/Action) – 4:00pm

Focus (2D/Comedy) – 6:00pm

Outcast (2D/Action) – 7:45 & 9:30pm

Project Almanac (2D/Action) – 11:30pm

2 Kaaki Sattai (2D/Tamil) – 2:00pm

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (2D/Action)

– 5:00 & 11:15pm



3 Serena (2D/Drama) – 3:00pm

Asterix (2D/Animation) – 5:00pm

Regatta (2D/Arabic) – 6:45 & 9:00pm

Dirty Politics (2D/Hindi) – 11:00pm

LANDMARK



Project Almanac (2D/Action) – 7:00 & 11:30pm

Regatta (2D/Arabic) – 9:15pm

2 Asterix (2D/Animation) – 2:15 & 5:45pm

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken(2D/Action)

– 4:00 & 11:30pm


3 American Heist (2D/Action) – 2:30 & 4:15pm

Regatta (2D/Arabic) – 6:00pm

Kaaki Sattai (2D/Tamil) – 8:00pm


ROYAL

PLAZA

1






2

Outcast (2D/Action) – 2:30pm

Kidnapping Freddy Heineken(2D/Action)

– 4:30 & 11:15pm





Regatta (2D/Arabic) – 7:00 & 9:00pm


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Muscle

12:40 How It's Made

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Battles

17:40 Backroad

Bounty

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Effect

19:45 The Big Brain

Theory

20:35 You Have Been

Warned

21:25 Gold Rush

22:15 Gold Divers:

Under The Ice

23:05 Alaska: The

Last Frontier

23:55 Overhaulin'

13:50 Ten Deadliest

Snakes

15:40 River Monsters

17:05 The Wild

Life Of Tim

Faulkner

18:25 Ten Deadliest

Snakes

20:45 The Wild

Life Of Tim

Faulkner

22:05 Alaskan Bush

People

23:00 River Monsters

23:55 Jurassica

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14:30 2 Broke Girls

15:00 Cougar Town

16:30 Til Death

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19:00 Brooklyn Nine-

Nine

19:30 Men At Work

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Project

20:30 Veep

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Larry Wilmore

22:00 Married

13:00 Barbie As

Rapunzel

14:30 The Happets

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The Voyage To

Monster Island

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The Magic Of

Pegasus

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22:45 Speed Racer

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Rambow

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The Movie

22:00 Every Day

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Encounters

14:00 Situation

Critical

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18:00 America's Lost

Treasures

19:00 Air Crash

Investigation

20:00 Wild Sri Lanka

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22:00 America's Lost

Treasures

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Heroes

12:00 Emmerdale

12:30 Coronation

Street

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16:30 Coronation

Street

18:00 Franklin & Bash

19:00 Castle

20:00 Scandal

21:00 Better Call Saul

22:00 House Of

Cards

23:00 Top Gear (UK)

01:00 Better Call Saul

02:00 House Of

Cards

13:00 There Be

Dragons

15:00 Grand Piano

17:00 Won't Back

Down

19:00 The Immigrant

21:00 Out Of The

Furnace

23:00 American

Hustle

01:30 Won't Back

Down

13:00 Great

Expectations

15:15 Step Up Revolution

17:00 The Legend Of

Hercules

19:00 Escape Plan

21:00 Welcome To

The Punch

23:00 CBGB

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13:30 Kumkum Bhagya

14:00 Qubool Hai

14:30 Jodha Akbar

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19:00 Hello Pratibha

19:30 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa

Li'l Champs 5

20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

21:30 Satrangi Sasural

22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Jodha Akbar

23:00 Best of Fear Files

00:00 Kumkum Bhagya

00:30 Qubool Hai

01:00 Jamai Raja

01:30 Servicewali Bahu

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14:20 H2O: Just Add

Water

14:55 Hank Zipzer

15:45 Jessie

16:10 Austin & Ally

16:35 Girl Meets World

17:00 Liv And Maddie

17:25 Dog With A Blog

17:50 Hank Zipzer

18:15 Jessie

18:40 Binny And The

Ghost

19:30 Austin & Ally

19:55 Dog With A Blog

20:20 I Didn't Do It

21:10 Good Luck

Charlie

21:35 Jessie

22:00 Gravity Falls

22:50 Sabrina: Secrets

Of A Teenage

Witch

23:10 Wolfblood

11:25 Extreme

Makeover: Home

Edition

12:05 Masterchef: The

Professionals

15:45 Come Dine With

Me

18:30 Bargain Hunt

19:15 Antiques

Roadshow

20:05 Come Dine With Me

20:55 New

Scandinavian

Cooking

21:45 The Roux Legacy

22:20 Extreme

Makeover: Home

Edition

00:00 Antiques

Roadshow

00:50 Come Dine With Me

01:40 New

Scandinavian

Cooking

08:00 News

08:30 People &

Power

09:00 Wukan Votes

10:30 Inside Story

11:00 News

11:30 Talk To Al

Jazeera

12:30 Soapbox

Mexico

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Al Jazeera

World

17:00 News

17:30 Listening Post

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:30 101 East

20:30 Inside Story

22:00 News

23:00 Aleppo Notes

from the Dark


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Astronomers find star speeding out of the galaxy

Astronomers have found a star hurtling through the galaxy faster than any other, the result of being

blasted away by the explosion of a massive partner star, researchers said.

The star, known as US 708, is traveling at about 746 miles (1,200 km) per second, fast enough to actually leave the Milky Way galaxy in about 25 million years, said astronomer Stephan Geier with Germany-based European Southern Observatory, which operates three telescopes in Chile.

“At that speed you could travel from Earth to the moon in five minutes,” noted University of Hawaii astronomer Eugene Magnier.

US 708 is not the first star astronomers have found that is moving fast enough to escape the galaxy, but it is the only one so far that appears to have been slingshot in a supernova explosion. The 20 other stars discovered so far that are heading out of the galaxy likely got their impetus from coming too close to the supermassive black hole that lives at the center of the Milky Way, scientists report in an article in this week’s edition of the journal Science.

Before it was sent streaming across the galaxy, US 708 was once a cool giant star, but it was stripped of nearly all of its hydrogen by a closely orbiting partner. Scientists suspect it was this feeding that triggered the partner’s detonation.

If confirmed, these types of ejected stars may pro-vide more insight into how supernova explosions occur. Since the explosions give off a fairly standard amount

of radiation, scientists can calculate their distances by measuring how bright or dim they appear and determine how fast the universe is expanding.

Massive octopus in Seattle nearly crawls out of aquarium

A giant male octopus caught on cell phone video scaling his glass display tank at the Seattle Aquarium and

reaching several tentacles over its open top has sparked Internet speculation that the massive mollusk was trying to mount an escape bid.

But aquarium officials say the octopus, named Ink, was not attempting a jailbreak in the video, which has gone viral on the Internet, but simply learning to embrace his new home with all eight arms.

“It was not an escape attempt,” aquarium spokesman Tim Kuniholm said of the video, in which Ink inched his way up the cylindrical glass tank to squeals from onlook-ers. “It’s a new exhibit and the animal was exploring his boundaries.”

A Seattle aquarium employee later put Ink’s arms back inside the case, and a so-called “evening cap” was fastened on top to help keep the curious fellow in place, Kuniholm said. “Octopuses are very inquisitive by nature, and in this case ... Ink is an overachiever,” he said.

Ink is one of two new giant Pacific octopuses on display at the aquarium. Found in Puget Sound, they are the world’s largest species of octopuses, weighing on aver-age about 90 pounds (41 kg) and measuring 20 feet (6.1 meters) across.

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