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• DPS-MIS participates in California robotics competition

• Canon celebrates 80th anniversary of company’s first camera

• Witherspoon generating Oscar buzz in latest roles

• Diabetics pay little attention to salt warnings: Study

• Sony challenges Google Glass with its new ‘Smart EyeGlass’

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Apple’s highly anticipated entry into the world of wearable technology is the Apple Watch. The Apple Watch will monitor health and fitness, tracking the wearer’s motions, heart rate and sleep with built-in sensors, feeding the information into Apple’s Health app for the iPhone and iPad, allowing review and analysis of the data.

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By Adam Satariano and Tim Higgins

Apple, which moved the personal compu-ter from a desk to the pocket through the iPhone, now wants to put a gadget on people’s wrists.

The company yesterday unveiled Apple Watch, a line of watches with a rectangular face and rounded edges, with wristbands that can be swapped out. It is Apple’s first new product category since the Cupertino, California-based company introduced the iPad in 2010.

Apple debuted Apple Watch at an event near its headquarters in Cupertino, along with Apple Pay, which is designed to make iPhones into a digital wallet. The company also showed the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which come in screen sizes of 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches

The announcements are Apple’s most wide-ranging set of product introductions under Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, who suc-ceeded co-founder Steve Jobs in 2011. For the past three years, the company had made mostly incremental changes to existing products, rais-ing questions of whether it could build another hit product. With this lineup, the company is responding by leaping in to new areas of the fiercely competitive consumer-technology industry.

“We have some amazing products to show you,” Cook said as he began the presentation. “We think at the end of the day that you will agree that this too is a very key day for Apple.”

Apple unveils watch, bigger-screen iPhones

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Apple Watch, which was met with a standing ovation by the crowd at the event in Cupertino, has newly designed software that works with a dial on its side. The touch-screen device comes in two sizes, as well as in classic, sports and gold edition models. It can be used to detect pulse rate and has other health-tracking applications, as well as including apps for maps, photos, music and messages, the company said. An iPhone is required for Apple Watch to work.

“Apple Watch is the most personal device we have ever created,” Cook said at the event. “We set out to create the best watch in the world.”

Cook unveiled the watch after earlier intro-ducing Apple Pay, the mobile payments system. Apple is partnering with credit-card companies

including American Express Co, MasterCard Inc and Visa Inc for the service, which will be offered in the US starting next month.

In introducing a mobile-payments service, Apple squarely took aim at existing payments services.

“Our vision is to replace this and we’re going to start by focusing on payments,” Cook said as a picture of an old wallet was flashed on screen.

The company also posted an image of a leather billfold on its website with a message saying, “Wallet, your days are numbered.”

Apple Pay will work with services including mobile car- booking application Uber Technologies Inc., restaurant reservation system OpenTable and daily deals company Groupon Inc., the company said.

The new iPhones, meanwhile, will have rounded edges and a thinner frame than earlier models, as well as higher-resolution displays. The iPhone 6 costs $199 to $399 with a two-year contract, while the 6 Plus is priced at $299 to $499. The devices — which will come in silver, gold and space gray — will be available for pre-order on September 12 and ship September 19, the company said.

The new iPhones come with a custom A8 64-bit processor, which Apple said is 25 percent faster than the chips in previous models. The phones have a new motion processor for fitness and health-related applications. Apple said more than 200 carriers support the new handsets.

In a nod to how important Tuesday’s product lineup is to Apple, the company held the event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts near its headquarters in Cupertino. It was the same venue where it introduced the Macintosh 30 years ago and where Jobs revealed the iMac in 1998, taking Apple from near bankruptcy to the world’s most valuable company.

The event was filled with the usual theater of Apple occasions, with celebrities and moguls in attendance. Media from around the world also packed the more than 2,000-capacity theater. News outlets from fashion and lifestyle publications sat alongside business and technology press.

The new products have been anticipated for

months and company executives have stoked expectations in the past year. In May, Eddy Cue, head of iTunes, said products to be introduced later this year are the the best pipeline Apple has had in 25 years. In July, Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri echoed that by saying he was “expect-ing a very busy fall.” Cook chimed in and said the company has an “incredible pipeline” that “we can’t wait to show you.”

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The Management Committee of Birla Public School (BPS) honouring Principal A K Shrivastava during the combined celebrations of Teachers’ Day and Onam at the school premises. RIGHT: Teachers performing a dance to mark the festival of Onam.

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MES Indian School marked Teachers’ Day, on the birth anniversary of Late, Sarvepalli

Radhakrishnan, former President and a prominent Educationist of free India, at the KG Auditorium of the school. The occasion also witnessed the celebra-tion of Onam, the harvest festival of Kerala, with traditional fervour and gaiety.

“MES Management is proud to appreciate the efforts, dedication and determination of its teach-ers who create enlightened citizens for the society,” remarked Hasmal Ismail, Director, Cultural and Co-Curricular Activities, in his welcome address.

“Teaching is a Godly gift to mould the society and generation. Teachers’ Day is a tribute to all the teach-ers for their tireless efforts and sacrifices to shape the young minds,” said A Shamsuddeen, President Officiating, MES Governing Board, in his address. He also remarked the importance of Onam, which highlights the significance of universal brotherhood and selfless gesture.

“Teachers are the creator of the society and teach-ing is a way of thinking and life,” said Principal Sasidharan A P, while appreciating all the teachers for their dedication and sacrifice.

During the programme all the classes X and XII teachers were honoured with certificates of apprecia-tion from the Government of India for their commit-ment and dedication to bring out a covetous result in the public examination of the academic year 2013-14.

Ikbal N M, Head, Department of Social Science,

Rajendran S, Teacher, Department of Hindi and Mini Rajeev, Teacher, Junior Section, spoke on the occasion.

Teachers presented various cultural programmes like welcoming Mahabali, musical renditions, tradi-tional dances and a drama “Onam Fair”. Teachers and non teaching staff in their traditional attires and Ona Sadya (feast) by the MES Management added colour to the festival.

A Shamsuddeen, President Officiating, initiated the Ona Sadya with the first serve. Around 900 peo-ple enjoyed the grand feast on the occasion.

Members of the school Management, school offi-cials, Vice Principals, teachers, supporting staff and transport staff attended the function. P J Beilbey, Head, Department, Fine Arts, and Moideen Porati, Teacher, Department of Malayalam, directed and co-ordinated the programme. The Peninsula

MES marks Onam and Teachers’ Day

SIS celebrates OnamSpreading the message of prosper-ity, fraternity and equality, Malayalam Department of Shantiniketan Indian School celebrated Onam recently. The day witnessed various cultural pro-grammes including folk dance, folk song and group songs. The attraction of the day was the demonstration of ‘Puli Kali’ (Tiger Dance). Dr Subhash B Nair, Principal, Shihabudheen Pulath, Vice Principal-Admin, Dudley O’ Connor, Vice-Principal CBSE-i, Prabha Saji, Headmistress, Middle Section and Mehjabeen Hasan, Headmistress Primary, wished chil-dren and staff a Happy Onam.

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DPS-MIS participates in California robotics meetThe 2014 Global Conference on Educational Robotics was held at the

Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Midtown at University of Southern California from July 30 to August 3.

Teams from 62 different countries participated in this mega event. DPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) participated under the guid-ance of the Head of Computer Department Avishek Jha.

DPS-MIS team consisted of six students Yogesh Parthasarathy, Abhiram Ajith Kumar, Rishikesh Devsot, Ajay Menon, Solomon Richard, Rahul Murulidhara.

Great Mills High School, Maryland was declared the winner in this competition.

“It was a great experience for DPS-MIS students where they learnt to work as a team, make quick decisions, come to meet new people from various parts of the world with different cultures and got a chance to see different robots made by professionals and other contestants,” a school press release said.

This competition was the largest robotics competition held in 2014 with about 62 teams.

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Bharathi, an Indian association of Al Khor Community, conducted a seminar on Cancer Prevention and Management by Dr Ravindrasinh Raj, a specialist in surgical oncology. Guest Speaker discussed early symp-toms of different type of cancers and stressed to pay attention to alarming changes in the body. Chief Guest Dr Sameer Moopen, CEO of Aster DM Health Care, shared his personal experiences of screening cancer affected during medical camps, semi-nars and awareness programmes con-ducted in Qatar. Both guest doctors appreciated Bharathi’s attention and efforts towards Cancer awareness. Bharathi President Vishal J Mehta also spoke at the function. Harish welcomed the gathering. Meenkshi and Manisha felicitated the guests and M Srinivasan presented the vote of thanks.

Seminar on cancer prevention

Skills Development Centre organised the ‘Grand Finale’ of this year’s annual Summer Workshop with a cultural event at the Maestro Community Hall in Skills Development Centre. Chief Guest, Sonny Varghese, renowned public speaker and educational-ist, addressed the gathering and inaugurated the function. The students of Summer Camp per-formed various music and dance performance including a karate demonstration which showcased self-defence techniques. The two month workshop, ‘SWAS – 2014’, accommodated more than 100 students from various communi-ties and nationalities. Through this workshop students got exposure to various cultural and fitness programmes including personal-ity development sessions.

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Max announces travel promotion winners

In celebration of Ramadan and with an aim to satisfy its customers’ growing demands, Max, a part of the Landmark Group, had organised Max

Ramadan Travel promotion.Santosh Pai, COO of Landmark Group Qatar,

informed that the “Travel promotion gives a chance for customers to travel to their destination of choice at anytime during the year.”

Winner Naseema Palli Valaptil said they were very happy to hear the news and could not believe it the first time as this is first prize they have ever won. They have decided to travel to Malaysia during the next school vacation.

Second winner Mahmoud El Samani was excited to learn he is one of the winner of the travel voucher. He is yet to plan the trip.

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Microsoft Mobile Devices announced the availability of its affordable

smartphone Lumia 530 with the latest Windows Phones operating system in Qatar at all leading retail outlets for QR469. Combining Microsoft Office, Skype, XBOX games and the best of social apps, which allows users to easily switch between work and play mode.

Lumia 530 comes powered with OneDrive cloud services, allowing con-sumers to securely access, sync, and enjoy their files, photos, music, and games across smartphones, tablets, and PCs, with up to 15 GB storage for free. Consumers will be able to enjoy preinstalled native Lumia apps such as HERE maps.

“With high end apps, features and exceptional build quality at an amazing price, the Lumia 530 sets the bench-mark for affordable smartphones. The Lumia 530 demonstrates our focus on welcoming more people to the Windows Phone ecosystem with amazing devices

that light up Microsoft’s digital work and life experiences,” said Jon French, Vice President Middle East, Microsoft Mobile Devices.

Commenting on the local avail-ability, Jehad Al Qudah, Head of Mobility BU of CGC, Microsoft associate in Qatar, said: “By building on the momentum of the success-ful Lumia 520, the Lumia 530 will help us deliver an uncompromised smartphone experience to even more customers than ever before in Qatar. Available for only QR469, the Lumia 530 offers all the privileges of the latest Windows Phone 8.1 at a price suitable for all.”

The Lumia 530 will be available in a range of colours including bright orange, bright green and stylish neu-trals such as dark grey and white, along with a selection of changeable shells in a variety of colours.

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Canon Europe announced that its parent company Canon Inc is com-

memorating the 80th anniversary of Canon’s first camera, the Kwanon. Marking Japan’s first 35mm focal-plane-shutter camera, the Kwanon was produced in prototype form in 1934, the culmination of the dreams of engineers who wanted to catch up with Europe, the leading presence in the camera industry at the time.

The engineers who created the cam-era decided to name it Kwannon and the camera’s lens is called Kasyapa. Additionally, the top portion of the cam-era body featured an engraving depict-ing the thousand-armed Kwannon.

Masaya Maeda, Managing Director and Chief Executive, Image Communication Products Operations

at Canon Inc, said: “Over the 80 years since the birth of the Kwanon camera

prototype, Canon has continuously innovated to fulfil the Company’s never-ending ambition to create the world’s finest cameras. Leveraging the technologies and know-how it has acquired over its history, Canon will

continue contributing to the develop-ment of the photographic and video imaging culture through its technolo-gies and products designed to satisfy the expectations of our customers.”

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By Joe Yonan

I know what so many of you think about okra, because I hear it all the time. Slimy. Unappealing.

I won’t argue the first point, because that’s a verifiable fact. But I will take issue with the

second, partly because I don’t consider okra’s texture a deal-breaker. If you do, some cooking methods — particularly my go-to technique for so many veg-etables, high-heat roasting — can reduce the slime factor. (My favourite ways to eliminate it entirely are frying and pickling, but I save those for when I have much more time than on a typical weeknight.)

You can also combine okra with other things, so the slime is either absorbed or less noticeable, or you can cook it a little less, so it stays crunchy and fresh — especially if you choose smaller pods, which are less fibrous and packed with fewer seeds.

I thought of both of those techniques when I remembered a recipe for okra cornmeal cakes in my friend Virginia Willis’s 2011 book, Basic to Brilliant, Y’all. A Southerner through and through, Willis makes no apologies for okra, thankfully, and I knew her treatment would bring out its fresh, grassy flavours.

What do you do? Make a quick cornmeal batter into which you fold sliced okra and fresh corn kernels, spike it with a little jalapeño and garlic, then pan-fry it into little or bigger griddle cakes, depending on the occasion (cocktail party or casual lunch or supper). In keeping with her book’s schtick, Willis suggests a “brilliant” upgrade: to neatly layer the cakes with goat cheese or ricotta and thickly sliced tomato and stack them, Napoleon style. I was inspired by the jala-peño and thought about a Mexican direction instead, keeping the tomato slices but sprinkling them with feta (my usual stand-in for cotija or queso fresco), pumpkin seeds and cilantro.

As all the best recipes do, it inspired me to imagine a year’s worth of rotating seasonal treatments using the same concept: Black beans and cubes of roast pumpkin could go into the cakes this fall, asparagus and fava beans in the spring. But in late summer, the stars are corn and okra, the latter without a smidgen of slime.

Okra and Corn Cakes With Tomatoes, Feta and Pepitas

5 to 8 servings (makes about 15 cakes)This is a celebration of some of the South’s favorite

summer ingredients, bound in griddle-cake form.With the toppings, these become main-course-

worthy, but you can also serve them bare as a side dish or in miniature form as nibbles.

Make Ahead: The cakes can be refrigerated for up to 5 days; rewarm them in a low-heat oven or re-crisp them in a hot skillet before serving.

Adapted from Basic to Brilliant, Y’all, by Virginia Willis (Ten Speed Press, 2011).

Ingredients2 cups finely ground yellow cornmeal2 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus more as needed1 large egg, lightly beaten1 1/2 cups cold water, or more as needed8 ounces fresh okra (stems trimmed off), sliced

1/4-inch thick1 cup fresh or frozen corn kernels1 jalapeño pepper, stemmed, seeded and finely

chopped1 clove garlic, finely chopped1/4 cup mild vegetable oil, for frying3 medium-large tomatoes, cut into thick slices

(about 11/2 pounds total)8 ounces feta cheese, crumbled1/2 cup toasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas; see

NOTE)

1/2 cup lightly packed cilantro leaves, chopped

Method:Line a plate with paper towels.Whisk together the cornmeal, baking powder and

salt in a large bowl.Whisk together the egg and water in a separate

bowl until well blended.Add the egg mixture to the cornmeal mixture,

whisking until smooth, then add the okra, corn, jala-peño and garlic, stirring to incorporate. (The batter should be thick and wet enough to be barely pourable; add a little water as needed.)

Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium heat.

Scoop 1/4 cup of batter into the skillet; flatten the batter slightly. Repeat with more batter, being careful not to crowd the skillet. (You’ll probably get

only 3 or 4 cakes in each batch.) Cook the griddle cakes until the bottoms are brown and bubbles form on the tops and edges, 2 to 3 minutes. Turn over and cook until the other side is golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to the paper towel-lined plate. Lightly season the griddle cakes with salt. Repeat to use all of the batter, adding oil to the pan as needed.

While the cakes are still warm, top them with sliced tomatoes, feta, pumpkin seeds and cilantro. Serve right away.

NOTE: Toast the pumpkin seeds in a small, dry skillet over medium-low heat for a few minutes, until lightly browned and fragrant. You will hear them make popping sounds.

Nutrition: Per serving (based on 8): 330 calories, 12 g protein, 39 g carbohydrates, 15 g fat, 6 g saturated fat, 50 mg cholesterol, 730 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fiber, 5 g sugar

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HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS

Venice wedding for Clooney, Alamuddin

Actor George Clooney has announced he and his beau Amal Alamuddin will get married in Venice, Italy, by the end of the month.

The 53-year-old revealed they will tie the knot at a secret venue in the Italian city, reports dailymail.co.uk.

“I met my lovely bride-to-be here in Italy, whom I will be marrying, in a couple of weeks, in Venice, of all places,” he said during his acceptance speech at the Celebrity Fight Night event in Tuscany.

The Monuments Men star and the 36-year-old Alamuddin who got engaged in April, were initially rumoured to be getting hitched at the hunk’s villa in Lake Como, Italy.

Meanwhile, the couple, who secured their marriage licence at Chelsea Town Hall in London last month, are planning to write their own wed-ding vows for the romantic ceremony and will exchange them in front of a handful of guests.

This wedding will be Clooney’s second after he married Talia Balsam in 1989 before divorcing her in 1993.

Brangelina learning self-defence

Newly married couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are practising Krav Maga, a military-style self defence art, in preparation for their roles

in By The Sea. Pitt, 50, has only recently adopted the discipline, which the couple now practise several days a week, while Jolie started learning the self-defence art to train for her Tomb Raider role in 2001, reports dailymail.co.uk.

“Angelina previously learnt Krav Maga when she was doing Tomb Raider and loved it,” said a source.

The couple, who has six children together, Maddox, 13, Pax, 11, nine-year-old Zahara, eight-year-old Shiloh and six-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, are impressed with the fitness properties of the combat classes.

Pitt is believed to have lost more than 10 pounds after participating in the intense military-style exercise classes for just three weeks and is even letting his kids join in the fun.

“The whole family are learning the moves. Even the little ones are doing modified kids’ moves but Brad has been doing it for 45 minutes a day and has dramatically lost weight and beefed up his muscles for the film,” said the source.

Jungle Book writer to pen Top Gun 2

Writer Justin Marks, the man behind Disney’s upcoming live-action version of The Jungle Book, is in talks with the makers of Top Gun 2

to write the screenplay of the sequel to the 1980s classic.The film is to be made by Paramount and Skydance, reports holly-

woodreporter.com.Actor Tom Cruise is slated to return as ace pilot Maverick in a story

that aims to show the relevance of good old-fashioned pilots in today’s high-tech and drone-centric war environment.

The project lost some jet fuel when Tony Scott, the director of the 1986 original and who was to direct the sequel, committed suicide in 2012.

Bipasha wants to do ‘quirky’ film

Admitting to being “quirky” and “funny” offscreen, Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu said she would love to do a film like Bridget Jones’s

Diary, a funny take on women.In town to promote her forthcoming release Creature 3D, the dusky

Bengali beauty said: “I would love to do a film like Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001 British romantic comedy), I think I am quite funny and quirky in my real time.”

“But I have never done a film like that and I would like to work in a film that essays what a woman goes through in real life and a funny take on women. Yeah, I would love do a film like that,” she told reporters here.

The movie, slated to release on September 12, is a creature-based thriller directed by Vikram Bhatt. In the film Bipasha’s character Ahaana battles a creature, based on Indian mythology and shows her transformation from a “vulnerable and lonely” girl to a power-ful woman.

“When I saw Anaconda onscreen and saw Jennifer Lopez battling the giant creature, I wanted to do something like that one day and I am lucky that I got to do it in Creature 3D,” she quipped.

The actress, now in her fourteenth year in showbiz, said she would love to work with National Award winning director Srijit Mukherjee, who is currently shooting Nirbaak with Sushmita Sen.

“I want to work with Srijit. I like his films a lot. I keep on meeting him in Mumbai. He had offered me Nirbaak, but I was doing another film that time.

“I have told him that I want to do something like Baishe Srabon or Autograph. I really love those films and yes I would love to work with him,” she said.

Hate Story 3 to go on floors in November

Filmmaker Vishal Pandya plans to start shooting for Hate Story 3 from November. He wielded the megaphone for the first time to direct

Hate Story 2, a sequel to the Vivek Agnihotri-directed 2012 release, and the Sushant Singh, Surveen Chawla and Jay Bhanushali-starrer did well at the box office.

So now Pandya is looking forward to make Hate Story 3 and said it’s a “different story”.

“We don’t want to make a film just for the heck of it. Both Hate Storyand Hate Story 2 have raised the bar, so the third instalment is much more challenging,” Vishal Pandya said.

“We have come across a superb script, but I am not allowed to talk about it right now. I will start shooting for Hate Story 3 form November and the film will be widely shot abroad,” he added.

Pandya has yet to finalise the cast of the film.“We are still short-listing actors. I will be able to reveal the names in

the next two weeks,” he added.

Aditya, Parineeti to go on ‘food yatra’

The lead actors of Daawat-e-Ishq Aditya Roy Kapur and Parineeti Chopra will go on a ‘food tour’ to promote the film.

They will take a road trip from Mumbai to Chandigarh and on their way they will stop over to relish and cherish the various dishes. The makers of the romantic saga revolving around food have spent over two months to plan the trip and zero down on extraordinary eating places.

Interestingly, the release date of Habib Faisal’s directorial venture Daawat-e-Ishq, which has been produced by Yash Raj Films (YRF), was pushed to September 19 from September 5 to accommodate the ‘food yatra’.

“Aditya Chopra has been planning and having closed door meetings for this idea. Everyone at YRF is very excited about it,” said the film’s spokesperson in a statement.

Reese Witherspoon, who won an Oscar in 2006, is gen-erating critical buzz again, appearing at the Toronto

film festival in two based-on-true-life films.

“You never set out to make a film that’s going to get awards,” Witherspoon commented about the talk surrounding her performances in The Good Lie, about an American woman who takes in Sudanese refu-gees, and Wild, based on author Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir.

“I don’t even think about it,” she said. “If a movie can help one other person get through a tough time, that’s the gift.”

Her co-star in Wild, Laura Dern, however, welcomed the critics’ praise, saying “movies that have this level of truth and importance for all of us should be... seen by the world — and the more support, that’s great news.”

“Its not Chick flick!” said Wild director Jean-Marc Vallee, slamming reviews that mistakenly classified the movie.

The 38-year-old Witherspoon has been one of Hollywood’s highest-paid and most bankable box office draws since her breakout starring turn in the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde.

But she failed to gain credibility as a serious actress until her 2006 Oscar

win for her role as singer June Carter Cash — the wife of superstar Johnny Cash — in James Mangold’s biopic Walk the Line.

Wild is beautifully shot by Vallee, whose previous feature Dallas Buyers Club began its journey to Oscar success in Toronto last year.

Devastated by the death of her mother in 1991, Strayed self-destructs — destroying her marriage, becoming hooked on heroin and even becoming pregnant by a stranger.

In a bid to find her way out of despair, she embarks on a 1,100-mile (1,770 kilometre) hike along the US Pacific Crest Trail.

‘A beautiful journey’In a year with many strong male

film leads and few female ones so far, Witherspoon can take most of the credit for making this role happen: she contacted Strayed directly to buy the film rights after reading the book before publication.

“I just knew it would be one of the most important books in my life,” said the 38-year-old actress and producer.

Witherspoon sought out the acclaimed author to bring Wild to the silver screen, saying she felt a powerful connection to the protagonist.

“It’s about a beautiful journey to save yourself.”

Witherspoon promised Strayed she would get the movie made quickly and not let it “languish around Hollywood.”

For Strayed, everything Witherspoon said about why she thought it could work on film “thrilled me to the bone,” and her gut told her she could trust the actress.

The film — with a screenplay by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy and An Education) — shows Witherspoon in explicit scenes, inject-ing heroin and badly bruised from lug-ging a 75-pound “monster” backpack through the awesome California and Oregon wilderness.

The actor said she expected during filming to have “newspapers stuffed in the pack,” but Vallee insisted that “it actually has to be heavy.”

“It changed the way I walked,” Witherspoon said. It “dug into my shoulders, and my body quickly got tired of carrying this thing.

“And then after five and a half weeks of carrying it on my back, I got so used to it. It was like an appendage, and I missed it when it was gone,” she said.

During the film shoot, Vallee also ordered the actors not to apply any makeup, going as far as covering the mirrors in their on-set trailers to pre-vent lapses.

“It was raw,” said Witherspoon, but “if Cheryl could be brave enough to

tell every part of her story, I had to be brave enough to throw away my vanity and go for it.”

‘Something to offer’In The Good Lie, directed by Philippe

Falardeau, Witherspoon plays a sec-ondary role to the actors playing the refugees, several of whom actually lived the experience depicted onscreen.

Emmanuel Jal and Ger Duany were born in South Sudan and were among the more than 20,000 Lost Boys of Sudan who were displaced — and some orphaned — during the 1983-2005 civil war.

Fellow cast member Kuoth Wiel was born in a refugee camp in neighbouring Ethiopia.

Jal said reading the script for and making The Good Lie was “very, very difficult. It was like I was reading my own story. It was painful.”

Duany added, “My journey was very long before I came to the United States. I was among the kids that walked to Ethiopia.

“During that long walk we never thought that we would have some-thing to offer to the world. We were just looking for help — we didn’t know that we would come this far to share something important about our coun-try,” he said.

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

Starbucks goes coconuts in non-dairy milk test

Mooo-ve over milk, Starbucks Corp is testing coconut milk in stores in Los

Angeles, Cleveland and Oregon as alterna-tives to traditional dairy products grow more popular.

A Starbucks spokeswoman declined to say how many stores were offering coconut milk. She added that the coffee chain is not testing almond milk, a popular nondairy option, at this time due to the “critically important safety of our customers with nut allergies.”

Starbucks, which has nearly 11,800 cafes in the United States, regularly tests new prod-ucts. For example, it recently ran a trial of gluten-free items.

In Los Angeles, Starbucks rival Peet’s Coffee offers lattes and other drinks made with almond milk. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf since March has offered customers in all of its 179 US company owned stores the option of choosing almond-coconut milk.

Major coffee chains for years have offered soy milk as a milk alternative. Starbucks began offering soy milk in 1997.

Plant cells may help treat hemophilia

Treating hemophilia, a rare bleeding disor-der in which the blood does not clot nor-

mally, could be a lot cheaper and much safer as researchers have developed a way to use plant cells to treat it.

“This is a major step forward,” said study co-author Roland Herzog, College of Medicine, from the University of Florida in the US.

Patients with hemophilia bleed for a longer time than others after an injury as they lack the necessary proteins, which help in clotting, in their blood to stem the flow from a wound.

People with severe hemophilia typically receive regular injections of these proteins, called clotting factors, as a treatment for the disease.

But up to 30 percent of people afflicted with the most common form, hemophilia A, develop antibodies (inhibitors) that attack these life-saving proteins, making it difficult to prevent or treat excessive bleeding.

“Our technique, which uses plant-based cap-sules, has the potential to be a cost-effective and safe alternative,” said co-author Henry Daniell from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in the US.

The researchers had developed a platform for delivering drugs and bio-therapeutics using genetically modified plants to express proteins.

Using a combination of factor VIII DNA and another substance that can safely cross the intestinal walls and enter the bloodstream, the researchers fused the genes into tobacco plants.

The team fed the resulting plant solution to mice with hemophilia.

The mice fed the experimental plant mate-rial formed fewer inhibitors - on average, seven times fewer.

For human use, the goal would be to use lettuce plants instead of tobacco plants, the researchers said.

The study appeared in the journal Blood.Agencies

By Shereen Lehman

In a recent survey, most adults with diabetes knew that a high-salt diet is linked to high blood pressure and stroke — but most still consumed too much sodium anyway.

“Despite knowledge that a high salt diet is related to high blood pressure it was not a high level of concern for this population group,” Kristy Gray, a researcher with the University of South Australia School of Pharmacy and Medical Science in Adelaide, and her coauthors wrote in the journal Appetite.

Although there is some controversy about opti-mum sodium intake, the authors say there is also good evidence showing a reduction in salt intake may help prevent strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular events.

Moreover, people with diabetes are already at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, so they need to be extra careful, the authors point out.

Gray and her colleagues reviewed questionnaires answered by Australian adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. They also measured participants’ blood sugar, blood pressure, and the amount of sodium in their urine.

Of the 143 people who participated in the study, only about a third knew that salt contains sodium. Only 6 percent knew that the recommended upper limit for salt intake for Australians is 6 grams per day.

More than 80 percent knew that processed foods such as bacon and pizza are high in salt, and 90 percent knew that foods such as carrots are low in salt. But fewer than 30 percent of participants knew that white bread and cheese are high in salt.

About half of the study group believed their health would improve if they lowered their salt intake and three quarters agreed that food manu-facturers should do more to reduce salt.

But when asked which nutrients were their biggest “concern,” 65 people listed sugar, 41 said saturated fat, 35 said fat in general and only 10 said salt was their biggest worry.

Almost three-quarters of the participants said they look for the sodium content of foods when shopping and 38 percent said they often buy low- or reduced-salt foods.

And people who said they read the food labels tended to report lower sodium intake, although

there was no connection between label reading and sodium levels in urine, suggesting that even people trying to be careful about salt were still consuming too much of it.

On average, people with type 1 diabetes had lower sodium intake than those with type 2, and men had higher intake — a median of 2,907 milli-grams a day — compared to women, with a median of 1,962 milligrams a day.

Healthy people should limit their total sodium intake to 2,300 milligrams a day, or about the amount in a tablespoon of salt, according to the US National Institutes of Health. For adults with high blood pressure, the recommendation is no more than 1500 milligrams a day.

Lauren Graf, a dietitian at Montefiore-Einstein Cardiac Wellness Program in New York, called the new study interesting, and consistent with other research on hidden sodium in processed foods.

But hidden sodium is only one of many unhealthy aspects of processed foods that have the potential to affect heart health directly and indirectly, Graf pointed out.

“The ‘elephant in the room’ that they’re not say-ing is that there are so many things wrong with a lot of the processed food,” she said.

“So they’re basically trying to attribute the role of nutrition and blood pressure to one micronutri-ent - sodium — and the reality is there are many factors,” said Graf, who wasn’t involved in the study.

As an example, Graf said that refined carbohy-drates also tend to raise blood pressure.

“If a diabetic were to choose a low-sodium ver-sion of a highly processed cereal or bread, they’re going to have a false sense of security in terms of doing something good for their health because they should be limiting a lot of those foods for a lot of reasons,” she said.

Graf said the focus should be on shifting to eating real food and less processed food, which will auto-matically reduce the sodium content and increase the intake of beneficial antioxidants and fiber.

“There’s a lot of antioxidants in green leafy veg-etables and dark chocolate and nuts that actually seem to make the blood vessels more flexible and improve blood pressure,” she said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1rKIVuw Appetite, online August 13, 2014.

Reuters

Diabetics pay little attention to salt warnings: Study


TECHNOLOGYPLUS | WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 201412

By Samuel Gibbs

Sony is developing a pair of smartglasses to rival Google Glass product, and has pro-duced a slimmed-down pair of

glasses with an integrated screen in the lens.

The Sony Smart EyeGlass acts like a secondary screen for an Android smartphone, displaying information in the view of the wearer, overlaid on top of the real world.

They use a tiny projector and holo-gram system to display a crisp green image in the wearer’s vision, which appears to hover about 2m away.

“We’re developing some with indus-trial applications in mind, but our strengths are not in business so our primary focus is the mainstream con-sumer,” Hiroshi Mukawa, developer of the Eyeglass projector technology, said. “Of course, that’s very challenging.”

The glasses have a camera mounted in the left-hand lens and use an

accelerometer, gyroscope and compass to track the motion of the wearer’s head, overlaying information to create augmented reality. They connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, allowing Android apps to use the glasses for heads-up information.

Demonstration apps from several developers were on show, including augmented reality app Wikitude, which displayed landmark and other points of information pinpointing their location as the wearer looked around.

Another app, Cookpad, displays reci-pes and responded to voice commands while in the kitchen, taking a photo on command, while a social media applica-tion from Euclid Lab displays updates from those near the wearer.

The most impressive app being dem-onstrated used the camera to recognise faces and display their names, relieving the awkward meetings where you can’t quite remember the name of the chap you should know.

After 10 years in the making, the Smart EyeGlass smartglasses were shown off in near-final prototype form at IFA in Berlin, as Sony is getting ready to launch developer kit versions of the smart glasses within a year with an SDK for standard Android apps due to be released soon.

They currently require a small hand-held control device that packs the

battery, a touch strip, microphones for voice recognition and buttons for select-ing menu items.

Mukawa explained that the primary reason for having the small controller, instead of building it directly into the glasses was the weight of the battery, which would have made the glasses uncomfortable and that touch control-lers on the side of the head were dif-ficult to use.

The plan is to build the battery and a form of controller into the glasses before being released to the consumer in around two years.

“Our battery devision at Sony is working on a special battery designed for wearables,” Mukawa said. “The tiny battery we could fit into the glasses now without being uncomfortable would only last around two to three hours.”

“With batteries for wearables there is a significant safety concern that has to be addressed,” he said.

The glasses are still in early stages, but the prototype form is nearly final, with a few miniaturisation tasks left to do. Google Glass, although on sale to any consumer for £1,000 (in UK), are still described as a beta product for testing, rather than a final consumer product. Mukawa expects that Sony will not be far behind at the point of which Google finally releases their con-sumer smartglasses. The Guardian

Jawbone’s wristbands to accept data from rivals

Jawbone said it is opening its software to other device-makers in hopes of accelerating sales of

its activity-tracking wristbands.Jawbone said its software, called UP, can now

incorporate health and fitness data from any gadget, whether it be an Apple iPhone, Fitbit, or Google Android Wear device.

It will also pull in data from Apple’s wearable device. A Jawbone user who neglects to wear the band for a night, for instance, can pull sleep data from an iPhone or Android smartphone.

Jawbone’s UP can be used to track workout activ-ity, sleep patterns, and food and drink consumption

Jawbone hopes to “lead people to the Jawbone hardware” by taking a more open approach, com-pany spokesman Jim Godfrey said.

He stressed that Jawbone was not planning to

shutter its wearable hardware efforts, unlike Nike Inc, and hinted at sensor advancements in coming months.

Many industry executives are banking on an Apple wearable device dominating the nascent but fertile wearables market, despite efforts by Intel, Samsung, Fitbit and dozens of startups to popular-ize wearable devices that can track sleep and count steps, among other things.

Godfrey said the wearables market will ulti-mately be large enough to include products in multiple categories, including fitness trackers and smartwatches.

Twitter testing ‘buy’ button

Twitter Inc is testing a “buy” button in some tweets that allows a mobile user to buy directly

from a tweet.A small percentage of US users will be able to

see the “buy” button, Twitter wrote in a blog post. “Users will get access to offers and merchandise

they can’t get anywhere else and can act on them right in the Twitter apps for Android and iOS,” the company said.

Facebook Inc has also been testing a “buy” but-ton on its website that will let consumers purchase products that are advertised on its network.

Twitter said an entire purchase could be com-pleted in just a few taps of the smartphone screen.

Tapping on the “buy” button embedded in a tweet, the user will be prompted to enter shipping and payment information, which will be sent to the merchant for delivery.

The microblogging service company said it has partnered with social media shopping platforms such as Fancy and Musictoday for the initial test.

Twitter said it would add artists, brands and nonprofit organizations, such as Burberry, Eminem and Home Depot Inc, to the test. Agencies

Sony challenges Google Glass with its new ‘Smart EyeGlass’

The smartglasses link to a smartphone via Bluetooth for text and other data light actions, but Wi-Fi for streaming video and images.

Sony’s prototype smartglasses use a built-in projector to display text and images in both eyes, and includes cooking and maps apps.

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaSeptember 10, 1989

1914: U.S. film director Robert Wise, whose movies included The Sound of Music, and West Side Story, was born2002: Switzerland joined the United Nations, breaking with its traditional policy of neutrality2006: King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV of Tonga, ruler of the South Pacific nation for 41 years, died aged 882009: The Dubai Metro, the first mass transit system on the Arabian Peninsula, was officially opened

Hungary opened its border to the West, prompting a mass exodus of East German refugees which led eventually to the toppling of the Berlin Wall

Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

CARPALS, CLAVICLE, COCCYX, ETHMOID, FEMUR, FIBULA,HUMERUS, ILLIUM, ISCHIUM, MANDIBLE, MAXILLA, METACARPALS, PATELLA, PHALANGES, PUBIS, RADIUS, RIBS, SACRUM, SCAPULA, SKULL, STERNUM, TALUS, ULNA, VERTEBRA.

LEARN ARABIC

Baby Blue by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne


On the Bus

Where is the bus station? Ayna mawqif alba��?

I want to go to Beirut Oureedou al�ahab ila bayroot

Please give me a ticket Min fa�lik aç�inee ta�kara

What is the price of the ticket? Kam �aman altta�kara?

Is the place far? Hal almakan baçeed?

How far is it from here? Kam yabçoud min houna?

I want to get off here Oureedou an anzila houna

Wait for me a little Inta�irnee qaleelan

I want to sit here Oureedou an a�lisa houna

This seat is reserved Ha�a almaqçad ma�ooz

When will we arrive? Mata na�il?

Stop here, please Qiff houna min fa�lik

Thank you Šoukran lak

Note: 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

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overlap with the

nine standard

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only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Compliment after a dive

10 Word with cellar or door

15 2012 billion-dollar Facebook acquisition

16 Dermatologist’s case

17 Things employed to show the passage of time à la “Citizen Kane”

18 Some saucers

19 Mixed ___

20 ’50s-’60s sitcom nickname

21 Cant

22 Identifies

24 Small jerk

26 Accord

27 Brown refreshers

30 Caustic soda, chemically

32 ___ kwon do

33 Gridiron datum: Abbr.

34 So-called “potted physician”

36 Oscar-nominated film featuring a dentist-turned-bounty hunter

40 Home of Sky Tower, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere

41 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” girl

42 Morse bit

43 Contrarian’s abbreviation

44 Island where Artemis was born

47 Phishing lures

49 Disperse

51 Double ___ Oreo

53 Lead-in to type

54 Two-master

57 Sushi fish

58 Leader of Uganda’s independence movement

60 Subject of a landmark 2012 Supreme Court decision

62 Dice

63 Final say

64 Apply

65 Like Albert Einstein, ethnically

DOWN 1 Add zip to

2 “Hold on …”

3 Port on Lake Ontario

4 Result of drying out, maybe

5 Pasta, e.g., informally

6 “The African Queen” screenwriter

7 Attempt to cure

8 “Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat” duo

9 Bounty letters

10 E, F and G in D.C.

11 Jennifer of “Bound”

12 Quite a long

shot

13 Cause for some blacklisting

14 Who’s who in publishing?

23 Move furtively

25 Class graded on a curve?

26 Gather at harvest

28 Whites, informally

29 Brown coat

31 Expressed some delight

35 Perfume holders

36 Some Lamaze assistants

37 Drink with a straw

38 Have no help

39 Some, in Salamanca

45 Parliamentary home

46 Newsman Ray

48 What stress may be good for

50 “Roasted in ___ and fire”: Hamlet

52 Guy with a cooking show

55 Reassuring comment after a fall

56 Wide breach

59 What means the most at the end?

60 Beginnings of life

61 Bilk

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15 16

17 18

19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31 32

33 34 35

36 37 38 39

40 41

42 43 44 45 46

47 48 49 50 51 52

53 54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61

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I D A H O S A F T E R A L LA R R A N T T I A M A R I AN U C L E A R E N G I N E E R

G O O G L E S T R O N GS I E N N A A L E E

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B A R A I N A R U TE C A R D S V A R I E SG E N E R A L D I S A R R A YE M I R A T E S S I E R R AM E S S T E N T O L D S A W

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

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

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

14

EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

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


CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

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13:40 Doctors

14:10 Last Man

Standing

15:00 Call The

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15:55 As Time Goes

By

17:10 Eastenders

17:40 Doctors

18:10 Last Man

Standing

19:00 Dead Boss

19:30 Big School

20:00 Last Tango In

Halifax

20:55 Afterlife

22:30 Waking The

Dead

23:20 Dead Boss

23:50 The Weakest

Link

08:00 News

09:00 Orphans of the

Sahara

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World

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20:00 News

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13:45 Steve Irwin's

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Warriors

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15:30 Dogs 101

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Creatures Of

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Meyers

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22:00 Quest For A

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14:00 The Money Pit

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18:00 From Prada To

Nada

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Biggest

15:00 World's

Toughest Fixes

16:00 Hunter Hunted

18:00 Banged Up

Abroad

19:00 World's

Toughest Fixes

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21:00 Showdown

of The

Unbeatables

23:00 Ultimate Airport

Dubai

12:30 Coronation

Street

14:00 Criminal Minds

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16:30 Coronation

Street

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DeGeneres Show

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23:00 American

Horror Story:

Coven

13:00 Chasing

Mavericks

15:00 Europa Report

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End Of The

Street

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01:00 House At The

End Of The

Street

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17:00 Monsters

University

18:45 Captain Phillips

21:00 Inescapable

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02:45 Now You See

Me

13:00 Jamai Raja

13:30 Ek Mutthi

Aasmaan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Kasamh Se

16:00 Hum Paanch

16:30 Hum Paanch

17:00 Teenovation

17:30 Neeli Chatri

Waale

18:00 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

18:30 Ek Mutthi

Aasmaan

19:00 Jamai Raja

19:30 Jodha Akbar

20:00 Pavitra Rishta

20:30 Kumkum Bhagya

21:00 Qubool Hai

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22:00 Doli Armaano Ki

22:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

13:00 Good Luck

Charlie

13:25 Jessie

14:10 Austin & Ally

14:35 Win, Lose Or

Draw

15:00 Mako Mermaids

15:25 Hannah Montana

15:50 Disney Sing-

Along

16:10 Violetta

17:00 Camp Rock 2:

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18:30 Hannah Montana

19:20 Violetta

20:30 Sabrina: Secrets

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21:40 Sabrina: Secrets

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22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Shake It Up

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13:05 Storage Hunters

13:30 Lost And Sold

13:55 The Liquidator

14:20 Deadliest Catch

15:10 World's Top 5

16:00 Fast N' Loud

16:50 How It's Made

17:15 How Do They Do

It?

17:40 Gold Divers

18:30 Treehouse

Masters

19:20 Deadly Dilemmas

20:10 Lost And Sold

20:35 The Liquidator

21:00 You Have Been

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21:50 What Happened

Next?

22:40 Dynamo:

Magician

Impossible

23:30 You Have Been

Warned

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1Third Person (2D/Drama)

– 10.15am, 1.00, 3.45, 6.30, 9.15pm & 12.00midnight

2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Action)

3D – 10.00am, 2.30, 7.00 & 11.30pm2D – 12.15, 4.45 & 9.15pm

3Life Of Crime (2D/Crime)

– 12.00noon, 2.00, 4.00, 6.00, 8.00, 10.00pm & 12.15am

4Deliver Us From Evil (2D/Horror)

– 10.00am, 12.30, 2.45, 5.00, 7.15, 9.30 & 11.45pm

5Let's Be Cops (2D/Comedy)

– 10.30am, 12.45, 3.00, 5.15, 7.30, 9.45pm & 12.00midnight

6

Hercules (2D/Adventure) – 1.30, 5.45 & 10.00pmThe November Man (2D/Action)

– 11.00am, 3.30, 7.45pm & 12.30am

7Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 10.00am, 12.00noon, 2.00,

4.00, 6.00, 8.00, 10.00pm & 12.00midnight

8Jawasa Miri (2D/Arabic)

– 10.00am, 12.15, 2.30, 4.45, 7.00, 9.15 & 11.30pm

9Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action)

– 11.30am, 1.45, 4.00, 6.15, 8.30 & 10.45pm

10Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2D/Action)

– 10.30am, 12.45, 3.00, 5.15, 7.30, 9.45pm & 12.00midnight

MALL

1

The 7th Dwarfs (3D/Animation) – 2.15pm

The Singles Mom Club (2D/Comedy) – 4.00pm

Mary Kom (2D/Hindi) – 6.00 & 10.45pm

Deliver Us From Evil (2D/Horror) – 8.30pm

2

Jawasa Miri (2D/Arabic) – 3.00pm

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 5.00pm

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action) – 6.45pm

Peruchazhi (2D/Malayalam) – 8.45pm

Knight Of The Dead (2D/Action) – 11.30pm

3

Life Of Crime (2D/Crime) – 2.15 & 7.15pm

Boyhood (2D/Drama) – 4.15pm



LANDMARK

1


Life Of Crime (2D/Crime) – 4.00pm



Amara Kaaviyam (2D/Tamil) – 10.45pm

2


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action)

– 5.30, 9.30 & 11.30pm


3


Jawasa Miri (2D/Arabic) – 5.00 & 9.15pm

Deliver Us From Evil (2D/Horror) – 7.00 & 11.15pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1





Amara Kaaviyam (2D/Tamil) – 10.45pm

2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action)

– 3.00 & 11.30pm




3

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 2.30pm






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by Ameer Abdul Razak

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Textbook volcano pictures all wrong, say scientists

We have all grown up looking at pictures of erupting volcanoes

in textbooks. But those pictures are wrongful depiction of volcanic erup-tions, geophysicists say.

In the typical textbook picture, volcanoes, such as those that line the Hawaiian islands, are seen to be spew-ing magma, which gush out in the form of narrow jets from deep inside Earth.

“New seismology data are now con-firming that such narrow jets do not actually exist,” said Don Anderson, a professor emeritus of geophysics from the California Institute of Technology.

In fact, he adds, basic physics does not support the presence of these jets - called mantle plumes - and the new results corroborate those fundamental ideas.

“Mantle plumes have never had a sound physical or logical basis. They are akin to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So Stories’ about how giraffes got their long necks,” Anderson added.

The new measurements suggest that what is really happening is just the opposite: Instead of narrow jets,

there are broad upwellings which are balanced by narrow channels of sinking material called slabs.

What is driving this motion is not heat from the core but cooling at Earth’s surface.

Norway to rent Dutch prisons to cut convict queue

Norway plans to rent prison space in the Netherlands as the queue of

convicts awaiting cells is growing and renovation work at Norwegian jails is expected to cut capacity, the justice ministry said.

“At the moment, the queue is at 1,300 custodial sentences, and there is a great demand for detention space,” it said in a statement. “The Netherlands has already leased prison capacity to Belgium for several years.”

Norwegian prisons are known for their relatively humane treatment of inmates, with non-violent offend-ers often held in open prisons with some free personal movement, jobs, recreation facilities and focus on rehabilitation.

A deal for several hundred prison

places would allow Norway to avoid overcrowding and maintain its stand-ards while prison renovation work costing up to 4.4bn crowns ($700m) is carried out.

The Nordic country’s incarceration rate is around 72 for each 100,000 peo-ple, about a tenth of the level in the United States, and its re-offending rate of around 20 percent is among the low-est in the world.

“In Norway there is a capacity short-age, and right now we have a surplus,” Fred Teeven, the Dutch state secretary with responsibility for prisons, said in a letter to the Dutch parliament.

The Netherlands already has a con-tract to house overflow prisoners from Belgium — roughly half of whose popu-lation speaks Dutch — in a prison near the Belgian border.

“The situation with Norway will be different,” Teeven said, “because Norway is not an immediate neigh-bour, is not a member of the European Union and the language is different.”

A deal would provide for Norwegian sentences to be carried out from 2015 in accordance with Norwegian law on Dutch territory.

The Netherlands’ prison population stood at 11,160 at the end of 2012, and has been falling continuously since 2008, according to the Dutch prison service.

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

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

Alif by Sabah ArbilliWhen: Till September 17Where: InterContinental Doha The City What: Specifically created for Ramadan and Eid, Arbilli uses his gift for calligraphy art to create this collection of works centred around Alif – the first letter of Arabic alphabet and the first letter in the revelation of the Quran. The exhibit will remain on display in the lobby area of the hotel. Free entry

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

The Tiger’s Dream: Tipu Sultan When: September 29 - January 24Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: This exhibition delves into the life and times of Tipu Sultan, the South Indian ruler, statesman, and patron. Drawn entirely from the MIA collection, and featuring many objects which have never been displayed in Qatar, the centerpiece is a group of 24 paintings showing Tipu’s victory at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780.Free entry

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