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VIBRANTVIBRANT STROKESSTROKES

A doctor by profession and a self-taught painter, Sreekumar uses his brush to pursue his passion and inspire others despite a demanding career.

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By Raynald C Rivera

The hands that heal the sick create art to inspire a multitude. It’s quite a rarity to find a medical professional like Dr Sreekumar Padmanabhan a self-taught

painter who pursues his passion for art despite a demanding career to inspire others.

“If you’re passionate about art you should go for it. You can venture into any profession you want but don’t let your passion die; keep it ignited,” he advises those who have proclivity in the realm of art yet could not find time to follow their passion.

He related many instances he encountered many people who know painting but because of their jobs and other factors were not able to pursue it.

“Even though I’m such a busy doctor working from morning till night, I dedicate some time for painting,” he said, adding he spends one to two hours a day, three times a week to engage in a hobby which he likes since he was just a toddler.

This doctor, who has been in Doha for eight years now, has been painting in the last 43 years and his large body of work is a testament to his dedication to his art.

“When I was about two and a half and I could already hold a pencil, I started to venture into art. I have no formal training. I trained myself getting inspiration from works of great painters.”

With the number of his paintings reaching hundreds, he has never thought of making art

a career or obtaining financial benefit out of it. For him, art should be a vital element of the artist’s life nurturing him each day.

“Painting is something that naturally comes to me, like breathing. I don’t want to make a career out of it because when I do, that would compel me to create paintings to please some people. I don’t want to do painting for a particular sec-tion. I just want to feel happy of what I do.”

Balancing brush Balancing brush and stethoscopeand stethoscope

Pics: Qassim Rahmatullah

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Dr Sreekumar’s paintings are more of figuration than abstrac-tion. He immortalises real peo-ple on canvas as they are, not what he wants them to be.

“Mainly I do realistic paint-ings. I love realistic paintings. For the last 30 years, I have been focusing on human fig-ures because I like to convey message through human emo-tions, through posture, facial expressions.”

He describes his paintings

as “very simple” and does not require lengthy explanations for the viewer to understand so that the message is set straight devoid of any ambiguity.

Most if not all of his paint-ings depict sheer optimism and stimulates inspiration in many a viewer.

“As a doctor I always see suf-fering every day. People come to me only when they are suffer-ing, not when they are happy. I don’t like to paint suffering or

somebody who is sad. I try to avoid these because the world around us is already full of sadness.”

With mass media from newspaper to television to the Internet saturated with images of violence, killing, pain and human suffering, he sees to it bringing more positive figures through art as his mission as an artist.

“If I paint somebody dying, suffering or bleeding, nobody would like to hang it in their rooms; they would want a paint-ing that at least would make them feel better.”

He also sees to it to inspire the young through his works. He recently displayed 35 of his works in an exhibition in Bhavan Public School.

As an artist, he says his ulti-mate goal is to improve more as well as to help others through his paintings.

“I have hundreds of paintings in the possession of my friends and family back in India. I have over a hundred paintings in my house here and I would be very happy to sell them for charity or any good cause.”

A prolific painter, Dr Sreekumar has received nume-rous accolades both in India and abroad for his works. He has featured in many exhibi-tions, 10 of which were held in the UAE and eight in Qatar.

For the last ten years he has used acrylic and lately has been into oil painting which he says he would love to explore more in the future. With regard to his future prospects, he said one of the things he is working on is a wildlife series.

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Dr Sreekumar

PLUS | TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 20144 CAMPUS

Qatar Academy Pre-3 students go camping

The Preschool 3 class of Sandra Forth didn’t have to travel far to understand the concept of journey, they just organised a day of camp-

ing adventure right within the Qatar Academy campus.

“It was part of our Unit of Inquiry (under the Primary Years Programme) which was Where We Are in Place and Time and our Central Idea has to do with journey,” Forth shares. The camping was actually the culminating activity for the unit, the last activity planned by the class after six weeks of learning and understanding the idea of journey.

According to Forth, the unit began with the stu-dents reading books about camping and looking at characters that were travelling or going camping. “The students then generated questions like, ‘What kind of food can be eaten during camping?’, ‘Where we are going to sleep?’, ‘How do we make a tent?’” she says.

“Then over the next six weeks we went through the questions and answered it and started preparing things for the camping”. To further bring the lesson within the context of the students’ experiences, the class also looked into camping in the desert where “we found out that there are shrubs so the students made some shrubs with paper mache. We found out there were insects in the desert so we made some insects to put around the campground. We also col-lected rocks and sticks to make a fire”.

Literacy, numeracy and technology lessons were integrated all throughout the preparation. For instance, the class has seven tents and they wanted to make sure the same number of children was in each tent. So Forth took pictures of the children and they sorted themselves to find out how many of them would fit in a tent. “They don’t realize what they’re doing, but they’re exploring in a real concrete way math concepts,” Forth asserts. “The unit gives it context for them but it’s still meaningful with what we’re teaching in the classroom”.

On the day of the camping adventure, students and their parents began the day by exploring their dark classroom, set up to imitate an out-door campsite at night. After sharing the usual camp snack of hotdogs, the class headed outside where they roasted marshmallows in the specially made campfire. “Our initial idea was to have 1 or 2 tents, but by the end of the activity we had 8 tents in all and we had blankets and campfire

chairs brought in by our parents,” Forth says. She attributes the activity’s success to a strong sense of connection to the unit. “I think it’s because the students can identify with it – the camping, that is – and because it evolved slowly and over time they kept going home and talking about it a little more. So the parents felt they were involved right from the very start”.

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MES wins overall title in Schools Olympic Programme

MES Indian School won 30 medals and overall title in the Schools

Olympic Programme (SOP) organ-ised by the Qatar Olympic Committee under the auspicious of Supreme Education Council held at Al Rayaan Municipal Park recently.

The competitions were conducted in the preparatory, secondary, Level I and Level II categories separately for boys’ and girls’ for all the schools in Qatar. In the competitions MES Indian School won an unbeaten 30 medals (6 Gold, 7 Silver and 17 Bronze) to its credit and became the overall champions in the boys’ category.

Principal, Sasidharan A P, felici-tated the winners. The Department of Physical Education trained the MES Olympic team. The Peninsula

A mother helping her child. RIGHT: Primary School Principal Sandy Sheppard participating in the camping.

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Karnataka Muslim Cultural Association (KMCA), affili-ated to Indian Cultural Centre

under the aegis of the Embassy of India, celebrated the 59th Karnataka Rajyotsava by organizing an event for the kannadigas at the Al Maha Academy for Boys in Ain Khalid recently.

In keeping with the KMCA tradi-tion, special needs coordinator Iqbal Manna handed over aid to the presi-dent of ICBF (Indian Community Benevolent Fund) Arvind Patil.

The president Niyaz Ahmed wel-comed the gathering and Manjunath introduced the felicitations for the evening.

To recognise and honour the unsung heroes of Karnataka, KMCA flew in Devaraju S R, the ambulance driver from BGS Global Hospital in Kengeri, who helped in safe transport of a heart

for a transplant operation, which took place in Chennai.

Divakar Poojari an avid social worker and a prominent Kannadiga personal-ity, known for his selfless demeanour towards the larger Indian community residing in Qatar. He was also felici-tated during the evening.

Chief guest K M Varghese addressed the gathering and emphasised on the importance of keeping the rich cultural heritage alive among the expat com-munity residing in Qatar.

KMCA Lady’s wing distributed the prizes to the winners of the Explore Karnataka quiz competition held as a precursor to Rajyotsava celebration. Ruksana Shaikh compered the seg-ment and was helped by Aisha Rafique and Reshma Banu.

The quiz masters Arun Kumar and Milan Arun gave away the prizes in two categories.

The second issue of KMCA annual Souvenir, ‘Pragati’, was released during the event. Editor-in-chief and KMCA PR Ahmed Saeed Assadi presented the first copy to the guests.

KMCA joint secretary Mohammed Mujeeb proposed vote of thanks.

Indushree mesmerised the guests with her ventriloquism.

She presented the talking White Board, The Old Man Venky and The

SmartHat Dinku. The three part presen-tation was filled with humour by the duo Y Gundu Rao and N Ramanath who kept the crowd entertained with Kannada and Hindi jokes and adapted songs.

KMCA executive committee expressed their thanks to the sponsors Euro Parts, Golden Trading, SBMK, National Waterproofing, Proscape, ALM and QDC,

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KMCA celebrates Karnataka Rajyotsava

Divakar Poojari being honoured by the KMCA officials. A section of the audience.

Indushree entertaining the audience.

Malarvadi conducts handicraft workshopMalarvadi Kids organisation conducted 7th Handicraft workshop at Indian Islamic Association auditorium in Mansoura recently. The workshop was inaugurated by Qatar Kalabhavan Executive Director Mathew Muthalaly and workshop was conducted by Shibu Gopinathan, Saleel Jabbar, Mohamed Abdul Rahman and Rafla Raheem. More than 70 pre-registered girls in the age group of 10-13 attended the three-hour long workshop. Malarvadi Chief Coordinator Siddique P, welcomed the gathering, while Secretary Abdul Jaleel M M proposed the vote of thanks. Soudha Jabbar, Shamsudheen K, Abdul Kader, Ziyad, Asma Abdullah, Nadeera, Sainaba and Famitha controlled the function.

Participants with Rafla Raheem. RIGHT: Shibu, Saleel and Mohamed conducting the workshop.

PLUS | TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 20146 FOOD

WINNER Chocolate Covered Strawberry Milkshake

Ingredients:• 3 1/2 cups strawberries, cut up• 2 cups vanilla ice cream• Beat in a blender. Add a little milk if necessary.

(My ice cream was a little on the soft side, so I didn’t need any. Top with hot fudge and a strawberry).

For Hot Fudge:• 1/4 cup butter• 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips (I used 2 Hershey

Bars actually)• 1/4 cup cocoa powder

Method:Melt the butter in the microwave until bubbly. Stir in

the chocolate chips until melted. Return to microwave if necessary. Add cocoa powder and stir till smooth.

Nam

Sneaky Shamrock Shake

Ingredients:• 1 1/2 cups milk• 1/2 cup baby spinach• 4 peppermint candies• 3 cups vanilla ice cream

Method:Blend milk, spinach, and candies together in a blender until

smooth; add ice cream, working in batches, and blend until smooth and evenly green. Serve chilled with ice.

Shoaib

Bottle Gourd Milkshake

Ingredients:• 2 cups bottle gourd cooked in 1 cup milk and sugar till

soft and cooled• 3 cups chilled milk• 6 big scoops of vanilla ice cream• 4 tbsp sugar powdered or as taste• 12 pistachios soaked and peeled • 6 cashew nuts soaked• ½ tsp fennel seed powder for garnish• 3 white peppercorns powdered• 1 tsp poppy seed powder• 2 tsp melon seeds soaked• ½ tsp of green cardamom powder• A few strands of saffron soaked in 2 tbsp milk to sprinkle

while serving• Crushed ice as required

Method:In a blender/mixer, mix bottle gourd and all the other ingre-

dients and grind to a fine paste using the milk. Pour into tall serving glasses and serve cold garnished with

saffron, and a pinch of fennel seed powder. Aisha Mohammed Rafiq

Chunky Monkey Milkshake

Ingredients:• 3 scoops vanilla ice cream• 2 tbsp chocolate chips• 1/2 banana• 1 tbsp instant coffee• 2 tbsp chocolate syrup• 1 cup milk• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Method:Blend vanilla ice cream, chocolate chips, banana, instant

coffee, chocolate syrup, milk and vanilla extract for 1 minute. Serve chilled with crushed ice. Zuhaib

Fig Almond Milkshake

Ingredients:• 100gm dried figs• 100gm almond• 1 scoop vanilla ice cream• 1 tbsp honey or maple syrup• 200ml milk

Method:Soak the figs and almond in the water for 1 hour. Put all the

Ingredients in the blender and serve with ice cubes. Garnish with honey and fig slices.

M Uma

Cookies and Cream Milkshake

Ingredients:• 2 ripe large bananas, peeled, cut into chunks and frozen• 1/4 cup skimmed milk• 1/2 cup fat-free frozen whipped topping/ Cool Whip (frozen,

not thawed, Cool Whip will produce a creamier milkshake)• 3 (reduced-fat) Oreos

Method:Blend the frozen banana chunks and milk together until thick,

creamy, and smooth — about 4 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the blender as needed.

Add the Cool Whip and Oreos and blend for 1 minute. Pour into glasses and enjoy.

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Blaster Orange Milkshake

Ingredients:• 4 cups vanilla or orange ice cream • 2 cups chilled orange soda, like fanta• 3 tbsp orange squash• 2 tbsp orange marmalade with whipped cream to garnish• 1 cup ices

Method:Place all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.Garnish marmalade whipped cream and Serve immediately. Mehwish Mohammed

Gulkand Sithaphal Milkshake

Ingredients:• 1 tsp candied rose petals (gulkand) • Pulp of 2 large custard apples (sitafal) • 1/2 litre milk • 4 tbsp rose syrup• 12-15 Ice cubes • Rose petals for garnishing

Method:Blend together milk, custard apple pulp, candied rose petals

and ice cubes. Pour into four glasses. Drizzle rose syrup. Garnish with the rose

petals and serve chilled. Namz

Winter Blast Dry Fruit Shake

Ingredients:• ½ litre Milk• 6 dates • 4 figs • 6 almonds • 6 pistachios • 6 cashew nuts • 2 tbsps brown sugar

Method:Chop the dates, figs, almonds, pistachios and cashewsBlend the chopped ingredients with milk, in a blender along

with brown sugar.Winter Blast Dry Fruit shake is ready to serve. Fathima

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Strawberry Milk Surprise

Ingredients:• 2 cups fresh milk• 1 cup strawberry flavoured milk• 1 cup fresh strawberry puree• 1 cup whipped cream• 4 tbsp sugar• 4 tsp strawberry preserve• Strawberry ice cream• Strawberry wafer biscuits

Method:Pour fresh and flavoured milk in a blender. Add sugar and strawberry puree. Blend thor-

oughly.Swirl whipped cream. Pour in glasses.Add 1 scoop icecream in each glass.Top it with strawberry preserve. Serve immediately with strawberry wafer biscuits.

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Whoppers Malt Milkshake

Ingredients• 3 scoops frozen yogurt• 1/3 cup cold milk• 3 tablespoons chocolate malt syrup• Whipped cream topping

Method:Place ice cream, milk and chocolate malt syrup in blender. Blend until smooth. Garnish with whipped topping and cherry.

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Avocado Milkshake

Ingredients:• 1/2 ripe butter fruit/avocado • 2 cups cold milk • 1- 2 tbsps sugar

Method:Wash and cut avocado into two vertically. You will find a big seed inside. Remove it and

discard. Now scoop out the pulp using a ladle.Grind it in a mixer or juicer adding sugar or honey and cold milk.Adjust more or less milk

based on the desired consistency. Rupal Shah

WHEELS 7PLUS | TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014

By Jean-Michel Normand

If you stop at Porte Maillot, on the inner ring road of Paris, late on a Friday afternoon you will see dozens of cars pausing to pick up complete strangers and their luggage, then setting off to

some weekend destination.The huge roundabout, one of the capital’s main

hubs for co-voiturage, or carpooling, is a good indi-cation of how people’s attitude to cars has changed. The car is still an essential form of private transport, but its social value now finds an outlet in collective use. Carpooling, which is more economical, flexible and sociable than travelling alone, is one of the more visible aspects of a profound change also reflected in the growth of car-sharing (short-term rental) and peer-to-peer sharing.

Car-sharing services such as BlaBlaCar (10 mil-lion members in 13 European countries) or Autolib’ (170,000 subscribers in Paris) have become popu-lar for a growing number of people, particularly the young and urban. The trend raises many questions about the shifting status and dented image of an object that made such a deep mark on the 20th cen-tury. Leading brands acknowledge the crisis in the perception of motor vehicles in Europe and, to a lesser extent, in the United States. Fortunately for them, consumers in Russia, China, India and Brazil, among others, see things differently.

In western Europe there is plenty to suggest that interest in cars is cooling. Predictably the economic crisis has had an impact, but the experts report that the market overreacted to the downturn. “Car sales in the European Union, between 2007 and 2013, fell by almost 25 percent. Though the economic climate is expected to improve, we do not expect to see a return to pre-crisis volumes,” says Michel Costes, head of specialist consultants Inovev. Substantial investment in public transport has also contributed to a gradual decline in household spending on new cars.

One revealing sign is that, despite the price of cars having dropped in relation to average wages, most consumers think that replacing their vehicle is “beyond their means”. “The French have opted to spend more on other items such as homes and their upkeep, entertainment and information technol-ogy. Car ownership currently accounts for about 14 percent of average spending and is seen by a grow-ing number of households as a burden,” says Rémi Cornubert, a specialist on automobile trends at ana-lysts Oliver Wyman.

“The French love their cars,” President Pompidou asserted in the early 1970s, but these days few people would endorse such a claim. “The utilitarian compo-nent of the purchase is uppermost,” says Guillaume Paoli, head of dealers Aramis Auto. “Costs carry more weight with consumers than image or prestige. Nor does it make much difference if it’s new or second-hand. Even switching from one make to another is no longer an issue. There is every indication the car is no longer an emblematic object.”

The cause of greatest concern for manufacturers is the ageing customer base and the generation gap

it reveals. In France the average age at which people buy their first new car is close to 55. Meanwhile the under-30s account for less than 10 percent of cus-tomers. A typical carpooler is 33. These figures not only indicate the difference in buying power between generations, but reflect the dwindling interest in cars, a consumer good which the French – to an even greater extent than the German, Spanish, Italian or British neighbours – tend to view as suspect.

In a country with a long record of higher-than-average road casualties there are many reasons for such misgivings, motor vehicles being associated with pollution, congested cities and fatalities. The eco-nomic crisis seems to have exacerbated this malaise. The French still shun those who make too much show of their wealth and flashy cars may well be seen as ostentatious and somehow arrogant.

“With [French philosophers] Baudrillard and Bourdieu, France started questioning the consumer society some time ago,” says sociologist Eric Fouquier,

head of the market research firm Théma. “In the 2000s this critical sensibility really began to impact on purchasing patterns, accentuating the possible misgivings prompted by cars, easily perceived as a clumsy assertion of social status.”

Car culture in France is dogged by this sensitiv-ity to social inequality. Manufacturers have made their mark with popular, but non-conformist models that place the emphasis on practical qualities – the Citroën 2CV and Renault 4, 16 and Espace. The only exception to this tradition was the high-tech, yet middle-class Citroën DS. Rooted in a pragmatic, democratic approach to motor vehicles, this tradition has resulted in considerable variety but has done lit-tle to fetishise cars. In the land of luxury goods and high fashion, cars have been set apart. French car manufacturers ceased producing top-of-the-range models and sports cars as long ago as the 1950s. Compared with elsewhere in Europe, rich French people buy comparatively few Mercedes, Audis, BMWs or Jaguars – and not just to pay less tax.

However 86 percent of all French households still own a car. “There is a widening gap between those who are losing interest in cars, and those still drawn to objects they see as offering scope for differentia-tion. What is more, this split transcends other social distinctions,” Cornubert asserts.

But not all customers are “estranged drivers”; some are still prepared to pay more for extra fea-tures to personalise their car. In some cases this means they have to join carpool schemes, driving their own vehicle to cover the cost of the loan or just its upkeep. The industry will, nevertheless, have to come to terms with consumers who are solely con-cerned with a vehicle’s functional value.

“Just as in many other sectors, the car industry is shifting from manufacturing a product to delivering a service,” Costes explains. By entering into partner-ships with car-share operators, manufacturers such as Renault, PSA, Daimler and BMW have already committed themselves to this. But the industry is also focusing much of its attention on the arrival, circa 2018-20, of driverless cars.

The large manufacturers see this technological leap as a way of updating the image of the car, par-ticularly with the younger generation. But it may fuel a wholesale shift to car-sharing. After all, what is the point in owning a car you don’t even drive?

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France falls out of love with the carFor an increasing number of French drivers, car ownership is now seen as a burden and a vehicle as merely a service.

A sign in Paris for the electric car-sharing service Autolib’, which boasts around 170,000 subscribers in the city.

PLUS | TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 ENTERTAINMENT8 9

BOLLYWOOD NEWS

HOLLYWOOD NEWS

Swift shares ‘profound’ relations with fans

Singer Taylor Swift says her most “profound” relationship is with her fans, and she believes that developing her music year-after-year

helps her to “nurture” this bond.Swift says she constantly works on the “core” relationship she has

with her fans, reports femalefirst.co.uk.“People always talk to you about marriages and relationships, and

they say relationships take work, and you have to keep surprising each other.

“And that I think the most profound relationship I’ve ever had has been with my fans. That relationship takes work, and you have to continue to think of new ways to delight and surprise them,” she said.

The 24-year old singer also said that she felt like she was able to take risks with her latest album “1989” because of the special relationship she shares with her loyal supporters.

“You can’t just assume that because they were gracious enough to make you a part of their life last year, that they’re gonna want to do the same thing this year. I think that core relationship needs to be nurtured,” she added.

One Direction sweeps three EMAs

English pop band One Direction scooped three major awards despite not being there to receive them at the MTV Europian Music

Awards (EMA). Held at SSE Hydro Arena Sunday here — the first time the show has ventured to Scotland in 10 years — the night proved to be a triumph for One Direction. The five-piece group was named the winners of the Best Pop Act award, as well as Best Live.

The group, consisting of Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, also won the MTV EMA for having the ‘biggest fans’, beating the likes of Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber.

The band recorded a video message to accept their award on behalf of t h e i r loyal Directioners for Biggest Fans, but

21-year-old Malik was missing from the screen.

“We’re so sorry we can’t be with you tonight. Thank you so much for this, the award for Biggest Fans. Because of that we obvi-ously, obviously want to thank our incredible fans — thank you so, so much for all your support. We can never thank you all enough,” Styles said in

the video.The first award of the night

went to Grande, who took home the Best Song prize for her single

“Problem”. Alicia Keys revealed her growing baby bump as she arrived on

s t a g e with Emeli Sande to present the award to the 21-year-old hitmaker. Model Jourdan Dunn and Games of Thrones actress Jena Malone then took to the stage to announce the winner of the Best Hip-Hop award, which went to the show’s host Nicki Minaj.

Blunt to star in Friend’s directorial?

If all goes well, actress Emily Blunt could star opposite Rupert Friend in comedy film Barton and Charlie and Checco and Bill, which is

also the latter’s feature directorial debut.The duo last appeared alongside one another in the 2009 docudrama

The Young Victoria.Friend has written the script of Barton and Charlie and Checco and

Bill, and will produce it alongside Aaron L Gilbert of Bron Studios and Margot Hand, reports variety.com.

The film centres on a grifter who’s stuck in a rut and meets a woman who might change everything. They embark on a road trip adventure of con-artistry, disguise, lies and love while pursued by a Confederate newspaper mogul.

Anushka Sharma cheers for Kohli

Indian captain Virat Kohli had someone special in the stands when he hit his half-century in the match against Sri Lanka at Rajiv Gandhi

stadium on Sunday night — Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma.Anushka was seen cheering Kohli when he scored a run off De Silva

to complete his 50 and also became the quickest batsman to score 6,000 runs in ODIs.

The captain took off his helmet, kissed it and also blew a kiss off to Anushka, who responded with a standing ovation.

Anushka was seen during India’s tour of England and Kohli’s poor performance during the series was blamed on her presence.

Basu to make TV series Chokher Bali

Filmmaker Anurag Basu is set to recreate the magic of the film Chokher Bali, but on TV. The director has signed actress Radhika

Apte for the series. The show will go on air on new channel Epic.Radhika will be seen playing the role of Binodini, which was played

by Aishwarya Rai in Rituparno Ghosh’s film. The 2003 movie was based on the eponymous novel by Rabindranath Tagore. The story revolves around the life of a widow and the stigma attached to it.

Talking about bagging the role, Radhika said in a statement: “In Chokher Bali, I play the character of the young widow Binodini, who is very unjustly treated by the society and ends up in seclusion and loneliness.

“She attempts to destroy the life of the person she thinks is respon-sible (for her state). Despite her negative intentions, she comes across as very intelligent, wise and noble person and cannot be hated for her vulnerability.”

Radhika is excited to work with Basu, who has helmed popular films like Barfi! and Life in a... Metro.

“It was an absolute treat to work with Anurag Basu. It has been one of the most enriching experiences. He has a supreme capacity to bring out the emotional journey of the character through the actor. I think its splendid that one will get to see some historically essential literature presented on Epic,” she added.

Chokher Bali is not Basu’s first outing on the small screen. He made a serial named Love Story and was also seen judging an acting reality show India’s Best Cinestars Ki Khoj.

Choosy about films, says Ileana

She’s a star in the southern film industry, and she’s earned her share of appreciation in Bollywood courtesy Barfi!. Now Ileana D’Cruz

says she has become particular about the movies she picks.“I’m very choosy. I think that after doing 16 films down south, one

tends to get a bit choosy because you realise that you just need to slow down, take a step back, and decide calmly. I have to be careful about the films that I choose because I don’t want to make a fool of myself,” Ileana said here.

So how does she select a project?

“I don’t want to do a film that I am irritated about later on. I want to do a film which I wholeheart-edly enjoy. Like ‘Main Tera Hero’ was amazing. I started working from the age of 18 and I am 28 now... it’s been a very long time, so I want to take it easy and want to give some-thing special each time,” she added.

Currently, the actress is busy promot-ing her new movie “Happy Ending”, directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK. Releasing Nov 21, the film also features Saif Ali Khan, Govinda, Kalki Koechlin and Ranvir Shorey.


IMAX screens set a record for a November opening, as well for the big-gest percentage of the total take for a first-run release.

Initially linked to director Steven Spielberg, Paramount turned the film over to Nolan after Spielberg struck a deal with Disney in 2009. British-born Nolan brought a huge following from sci-fi

and comic book fans from his successes with the Dark Knight Batman films and Inception.

“Audiences love original movies and concepts,” said Megan Colligan, president of worldwide marketing and distribution at distributor Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc.

“It’s become sort of an event movie, with people planning for it and buying their tickets

in advance,” said Colligan.She added that the studio would be

focusing its marketing in the coming weeks towards Interstellar’s spectacle aspect to draw in families and younger men with the intent of sustaining its box office performance through the Thanksgiving holiday.

Rounding out the top five, low-budget Ouija, the top film for the past two weeks, made $6m while the Bill Murray-Melissa McCarthy comedy St. Vincent was No. 5 with $5.7m.

Gone Girl was distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film studio owned by 21st Century Fox. Comcast Corp’s Universal Pictures released Ouija. St. Vincent was released by the privately held Weinstein Company.

At number six was the Brad Pitt World War II tank drama Fury, with $5.5m. Nightcrawler, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a sleazy videojournalist, slipped to seventh place, down from the number two slot a week earlier. It pulled in $5.3m.

In eighth place was John Wick, star-ring Keanu Reeves as an ex-hitman, which scored $4.1m in ticket sales.

Ninth was Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day — based on a children’s book of the same name and starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner. It made $3.5m.

And rounding out the top ten was animated comedy The Book of Life, featuring the voices of Zoe Saldana

and Channing Tatum, with $2.8m.

Agencies

By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud

Big Hero 6, Walt Disney Co’s ani-mated superhero film featuring a flying robot, clocked $56.2m in US and Canadian ticket

sales to lead the weekend box office, topping director Christopher Nolan’s space adventure, Interstellar.

Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey, opened on Wednesday and recorded $50m over the three days from Friday through Sunday, and $52.2m over its five-day run.

If the final figures hold up, it would be only the fourth time in history that two new films had hit the $50m mark on the same debut weekend, the last time being June 2013 with Monsters University and World War Z, box office tracking firm Rentrak said.

Gone Girl, director David Fincher’s hit starring Ben Affleck as a husband suspected of murdering his wife, was third with $6.1m, according to esti-mates from Rentrak. It has taken in more than $145m since opening on October 3.

Inspired by a Marvel comic of the same name, Big Hero 6 is set in a fic-tional futuristic metropolis called Sanfransokyo, in which a 14-year-old computer whiz kid fashions a team of superheroes out of stu-dents from a university robotics lab.

With the help of a waddling, 6-foot-tall (183-cm) personal healthcare robot called Baymax, t h e team defeats a masked

villain who har-nesses the power of microbots to wreck havoc on the city.

Dave Hollis, Walt Disney Studios’ head of distribution, said the film got “a great response from kids, from parents and from non-parents,” adding “you need to transcend the family audience in order to a get a number like this.”

With the film

“delivering general audience segments ... we’re set up to do a great, long run,” Hollis added.

Interstellar, co-starring Anne Hathaway, features a team of space travellers who move through a worm-hole in search of a habitable planet after blight and dust storms render Earth unlivable. Made for $165m, the film was financed by Warner Brothers, Paramount and Legendary Pictures.

The film’s $13.4m from large-format

beats Interstellar to lead box office

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Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are expected to gather tocommemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of former president

Yasser Arafat, as the debate continues over what killed him

October 12, 2004: 75-year-oldPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat fallsill four hours after eating meal at hispresidential compound in Ramallah –where Israeli forces had kept himisolated since 2001, accusing him ofpromoting terror attacks

November 11Dies after sufferingmassive stroke.Doctors unable todetermine cause ofillness. No autopsyperformed

November 6, 2013: Afteryear-long analysis, Swiss teamreports finding elevated levelsof polonium in Arafat’s ribs,pelvis and clothes, but tests

cannot categorically provethat substance killed him

November 8: Palestinianinvestigative committeesays that Israel is “primeand only suspect” in Arafat’s

December 26: Russian teamfails to find enough evidencethat polonium killed Arafat.Palestinan investigators saythat results do not disprove

inquiry, finding that poloniumin Arafat’s body came from“natural environmental origin”

October 29: Flownto French militaryhospital outside Parisafter being diagnosedwith digestive andblood abnormalities

July 3, 2012: Al Jazeerareport says Swiss forensicexperts had discovered tracesof radioactive polonium-210on Arafat’s personal belongings,including his trademark keffiyeh scarf.Polonium is rare element, usuallymade in nuclear reactors

death. Israeli government officialsdeny any involvement

possibility of death by poisoning andvow to continue probe into his death

December 3: Leaked Frenchreport appears to contradict Swiss

November 27Arafat’s body exhumedon request of hiswidow, Suha, to findout if his death wascaused by poloniumpoisoning. Samplesof Arafat’s remains andsurrounding soil taken by Swiss,French and Russian forensic teams

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Turmeric pills to boost immunity, combat diseases

A compound found in turmeric may soon be available in the form of daily pills to boost

your immunity and combat inflammation in the body. A modified formulation of curcumin, a naturally occurring compound found in tur-meric, releases its anti-inflammatory goodness throughout the body, the findings showed.

Although known for promoting health by low-ering inflammation, currently available curcumin supplements are not absorbed well by the body.

Most curcumin in food or supplements stays in the gastrointestinal tract, and any portion that is absorbed is metabolised quickly.

“This study suggests that we have identified a better and more effective way to deliver curcu-min and know what diseases to use it for so that we can take advantage of its anti-inflammatory power,” said lead author of the study Nicholas Young from Ohio State University.

Curcumin powder mixed with castor oil and polyethylene glycol in a process called nano-emulsion, has the best potential against macro-phage-associated inflammation, the researchers found in a mice study. Macrophages are impor-tant cells of the immune system.

Overactive macrophages has been linked to cardiovascular disease, disorders that accompany obesity, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes and lupus-related nephritis.

“We envision that this nutraceutical could be used one day both as a daily supplement to help prevent certain diseases and as a therapeu-tic drug to help combat the bad inflammation observed in many diseases,” Young pointed out.

“The distinction will then be in the amount given - perhaps a low dose for daily prevention and higher doses for disease suppression,” Young added. The term nutraceutical refers to foods or nutrients that provide medical or health benefits.

The study appeared in the journal PLOS ONE.

Scientists genetically ‘edit’ human blood stem cells

Scientists have precisely edited human blood forming stem cells and T-cells to create

what could prove to be an effective technique for blocking HIV from invading and destroying patients’ immune systems. This new approach to HIV therapy might be ready for human safety trials in less than five years, the researchers said.

They used a relatively new gene-editing tech-nique called CRISPR Cas technology.

The new work is “a tremendous first step in editing out what makes human cells vulnerable to HIV”, said David Scadden from Harvard Stem Cell Institute. “It makes possible the idea that a person’s own immune cells can attack HIV without being susceptible to it. That’s a powerful concept,” Scadden added.

HIV specifically targets T-cells, a principal portion of the blood-based immune system, and enters via a gene receptor called CCR5 that serves as a doorway into the cells.

Once inside the T-cells, HIV replicates and kills off the host cells, leaving patients at the mercy of a variety of opportunistic infections.

Using the CRISPR Cas gene-editing technol-ogy, the researchers knocked the CCR5 receptor out of blood stem cells that they showed could give rise to differentiated blood cells that did not have CCR5.

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By Roxanne Nelson

Older adults could greatly benefit from breaking up their sedentary time through-out the day, even if it’s just shifting from sitting to a standing position, according

to a new study.“As a general finding, older adults should make

nine interruptions for every hour spent in sedentary behaviour,” said Luís B Sardinha of the Exercise and Health Laboratory at the University of Lisbon in Portugal.

“In fact, just the act of standing-up can be a path to achieve an improved physical function in older ages,” said Sardinha, who led the study.

Past research has tied physical activity and fit-ness among older adults to physical independence, which in turn is linked to a higher quality of life, lower healthcare costs and longer survival, Sardinha and his colleagues point out in the Journals of Gerontology: Series A.

But getting seniors to meet guidelines for moder-ate physical exercise or to join formal exercise pro-grams is not always easy, they note.

Past studies have also suggested that being sed-entary may prompt a cascade of changes in unused muscles that can negatively affect overall health. So the study team set out to see whether just getting up – not engaging in major physical exercise, just moving or standing to activate the muscles – might counteract the effects of being sedentary.

They tracked both physical activity and sedentary behavior in 215 adults between 65 and 94 years old using small accelerometers each participant wore on their hip for four days.

The researchers also assessed the participants’ physical functioning with a group of tests that measure strength, endurance, agility, balance and flexibility, all of which are con-sidered important to maintain-ing independence later in life.

Then the study team looked at how sedentary behaviour, taking breaks in sedentary behaviour and moderate to vigorous physical activity were associated with physical functioning.

They found, as other stud-ies have done, that moderate to vigorous physical activity was linked to better physical function.

About two thirds of the participants did some kind of

regular exercise, most in an organized program geared to older adults, where they worked out two to three times a week, Sardinha said.

“Still, our data revealed that only one fifth of the participants were meeting the recommendation of 30 minutes a day of moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity,” he said.

But the study also found that people who were more sedentary and took fewer breaks had a sig-nificantly lower physical function than others who were more active or who broke up their sedentary time more often.

“For the first time, we verified that even in par-ticipants spending more time in sedentary behav-iours — more than 8.6 hours a day — older adults who break-up this behaviour more often had better physical functioning,” Sardinha said. “This means about 80 breaks during the course of the day.”

He and his team acknowledge in their report that their study can’t say for sure whether breaks from being sedentary promoted better physical function-ing, or whether people with poorer physical function were simply less likely to get up and move around.

Nonetheless, when looking at it from a public health perspective, write the authors, it may be easier to get older adults to interrupt sedentary behaviour than to increase more formal and vigorous exercising.

There are “fewer practical limitations in doing so,” and the goal of reducing sedentary behaviour can be attained with a “relatively modest burden to a person’s time or financial resources,” the authors say.

Older adults can adopt different strategies to make sure that they keep moving, and most are very sim-ple, Sardinha said. These include standing-up and

walking around while talking on the telephone, limiting the amount of time watching tel-evision and standing up during commercials, or even standing-up to pick something up instead of asking someone else to do it.

“Our findings highlight that even though older adults may not meet physical activity rec-ommendations, if they break-up sedentary time more often they may experience benefits in aerobic capacity, skeletal muscle performance, flexibility, agility and dynamic balance, attributes that are relevant for physical function in the elderly,” Sardinha said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1vQzTZd The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, online October 16, 2014.

Reuters

Older adults can adopt strategies like standing-up and walking around while talking on the telephone, limiting the amount of time watching television and standing up during commercials, or standing up to pick something up instead of asking someone else to do it.


Just taking breaks from beingsedentary may benefit older adults

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 201412

By Sarah McBride

If Shubham Banerjee cannot lay claim to being the world’s youngest venture capital-backed entrepreneur, he comes very close.

Banerjee was 12 years old when he closed an early-stage funding round with Intel Capital, the company’s venture capital arm, last month for his prototype for a low-cost Braille printer. Since then, the San Jose, California middle-schooler has turned 13.

That’s young, even by the standards of Silicon Valley, where many venture capitalists unapolo-getically prefer to fund youth over experience.

Young entrepreneurs usually have reached at least their mid-teens when they hit it big. Nick D’Aloisio, founder of online news aggregator Summly, was 17 when Yahoo bought his company last year for $30m.

Brothers John and Patrick Collison, behind pay-ments service Stripe, were 16 and 19 when they sold an earlier business to a Canadian company for $5m.

After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high-tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille. One day, he wants to mass-produce the printers and sell them for about $350, far less than Braille printers cost now.

This past summer, he worked on incorporating an Intel Edison chip, a processor aimed at hobby-ists, into the printer. In September, Intel invited him to a conference in India to highlight uses for Edison. There, he got a big surprise.

Intel executive Mike Bell announced from the conference stage that the giant chipmaker would invest in his company, Braigo Labs. Until then, his funding consisted of the $35,000 his parents gave him.

“I turned back to my dad, and said, ‘What did he just say?’” Banerjee recalled. “I was all over the place.”

Banerjee and a spokesman for Intel Capital declined to disclose the size of the investment. A person familiar with the matter said it was a few

hundred thousand dollars. He plans to use it to build a better prototype of the printer and test it with more groups for the blind.

After the announcement, Banerjee had to bone up on unfamiliar terms such as “venture capital.”

He also needed to convince adults to co-sign his funding and patent documents. Among the com-pany officials he turned to: Braigo’s president, his mom, Malini.

Banerjee says he gets mostly As and Bs as a student at the Champion School in San Jose, California. Teachers have given him time off to

attend events like the conference in India and the Intel Global Capital summit this week in Huntington Beach, California. He catches up on school work on weekends, he says.

This is the second Intel investment connected to the Banerjee family. His dad, Neil, works for Kno, an education start-up that Intel bought last year.

While many young entrepreneurs who win ven-ture-capital cash end up ditching their education to focus on their businesses full time, Banerjee says he won’t take that path.

“It’s an after-school thing,” he says. Reuters

13-year-old entrepreneur gets Intel

funding for low-cost Braille printer

Shubham Banerjee, founder of Braigo Labs Inc, holds a printer in Palo Alto, California.

Next venture by founder of electric car firm Tesla aims to bring internet coverage to the billions who do not have it.

By Chris Johnston

After shaking up the automo-tive world with his electric car venture, entrepreneur Elon

Musk has set his sights skywards in a bid to bring the internet to the bil-lions who still lack access.

Musk is working on an embryonic $1bn plan to launch 700 satellites that are less than half the size of the small-est communications models currently in use.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the owner of electric carmaker Tesla is working with Greg Wyler, a satel-lite industry veteran and former Google executive, whose company, WorldVu Satellites, owns a considerable amount

of radio spectrum.Musk’s other venture, SpaceX, could

be used to launch the satellites into orbit. The pair are considering build-ing a factory in Florida or Colorado to manufacture the 110kg satellites. Two people familiar with the matter said WorldVu hoped to make the satellites for under $1m each — considerably less than they are currently made for.

Wyler had been working with the Google-backed startup O3b Networks, and in June it was reported that the search giant planned to spend $1bn on 180 small, high-capacity satellites.

The first four satellites launched by O3b were beset by technical problems, and Wyler quit Google after a year to join forces with Musk. Wyler has left O3b but remained a significant share-holder, according to the Journal.

The venture would face considerable technical and regulatory hurdles, and SpaceX may not be ready to launch satellites until close to the end of this decade. O3b could face losing the rights

to its radio spectrum by then.Satellite ventures are notoriously

expensive. About 15 years ago the tel-ecommunications group Iridium spent $5bn putting 66 satellites into orbit before collapsing into bankruptcy. The company aimed to create a telecommu-nications system that would allow users of handheld phones to make calls from anywhere on earth. However, just 55,000 customers were willing to spend $3,000

for a phone and pay $7 a minute for calls and a judge ordered the firm wound up.

Other, less expensive ways of bring-ing internet access to remote areas are being considered. Facebook has a team working on solar-powered drones that would fly at a height of 20,000 metres — around the same height that Google has proposed placing balloons with a similar aim.

The Guardian

Elon Musk plans satellite network for internet access

Elon Musk with the Dragon V2, a spacecraft developed by another of his ventures, SpaceX.

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Hoy en la HistoriaNovember 11, 2004

1790: Chrysanthemums were introduced into England from China1918: Poland was proclaimed an independent republic1926: Route 66, one of America’s most famous roads, was established. It ran from Chicago to Los Angeles, a distance of 2,448 miles (3,940km)2009: Scientists in South Africa announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Aardonyx Celestae, some 195 million years old

Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, symbol of his people’s struggle for nationhood for 40 years, died in a French military hospital at the age of 75

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John Wick (2D/Action) – 1:15, 6:00 & 11.45pm

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1Beauty & The Beast (2D/Romantic) – 2:30 & 7.30pm

Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 4:30pm

Horns (2D/Horror) – 9:30pm

Bullet (2D/Action) – 11:30pm

2Bullet (2D/Action) – 2:30pm

The Berlin File (2D/Crime) – 4.00pm

Vellimoonga (2D/Malayalam) – 6:15pm

John Wick (2D/Action) – 8.45pm


310 Years (2D/Drama) – 2:30pm

Big Hero 6 (3D/Animation) – 4:15 & 6.15pm


Varsham (2D/Malayalam) – 11:15pm

LANDMARK


Bullet (2D/Action) – 3:45pm


Jai Hind 2 (2D/Tamil) – 8:30pm


2Beauty & The Beast (2D/Romantic) – 2:30 & 8.30pm








ROYAL

PLAZA



Al Jazeera 2 (2D/Action) – 7.45pm


2Horns (2D/Horror) – 2:00pm

Beauty & The Beast (2D/Romantic) – 4.00pm







The Shaukeens (2D/Hindi) – 9:00pm



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Events in Qatar

The Sound of Music Broadway theatrical show When: November 26-29; 7pm Where: Qatar National Convention CenterWhat: The world’s most-loved musical -The Sound of Music, comes to Doha. This iconic broadway musical show will be featuring lavish costumes and scenery, a wonderful live orchestra and starring a cast of the very best of London’s West End performers, this award-winning critically acclaimed production is an emotionally packed extravaganza.Entry: QR250-QR1200

Shirin Neshat: Afterwards When: Till February 15, 2015 Where: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: The first solo exhibition in the Middle East by internationally acclaimed artist Shirin Neshat. Occupying the entire ground floor galleries, the exhibition features existing and newly produced works. Free admission

Longines Global Champions Tour When: November 13-15Where: Al Shaqab Horse Racing Academy What: Qatar will again host the Longines Global Champions Tour Championship Final at the Al Shaqab Equestrian Centre. This magnificent venue will see the best riders in the world pull out all the stops to win the overall title for 2014.Free entry

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

Yousef Ahmad: Story of ingenuity When: Nov 11- Feb14; 10am-8pmWhere: Qatar Museums Gallery, Building 10, Katara What: As a pioneer of Qatar’s modern art movement, Yousef Ahmad’s artistic journey has spanned over three decades, and his work has been influenced by his surroundings and emotional ties with Qatar’s culture and traditions. It showcases three phases in his career, from the early oil paintings that include the depiction of Al Zubarah Fort, to mixed media calligraphic pieces to new conceptual artworks.Free Entry

Direct brain-to-brain connection between humans established

Researchers have successfully rep-licated a direct brain-to-brain con-nection between multiple pairs of people as part of a scientific study on direct transmission of signals follow-ing the team’s initial demonstration a year ago.

Led by an Indian-origin scien-tist Rajesh Rao, the study involved six people and the team was able to transmit the signals from one person’s brain over internet and use these sig-nals to control the hand motions of another person within a split second of sending that signal.

“The new study brings our brain-to-brain interfacing paradigm from an initial demonstration to some-thing that is closer to a deliverable technology,” said co-author Andrea Stocco, research assistant professor of psychology.

“Now we have replicated our meth-ods and know that they can work reliably with walk-in participants,” Stocco added.

The research team combined two kinds of non-invasive instruments and fine-tuned software to connect

two human brains in real time. The process is fairly straightforward.

One participant is hooked to an electro-encephalography machine that reads brain activity and sends electrical pulses via internet to the second participant, who is wearing a swim cap with a magnetic stimulation coil placed near the part of the brain that controls hand movements.

Using this setup, one person can send a command to move the hand of the other by simply thinking about that hand movement.

“We will expand the types of infor-mation that can be transferred from brain to brain, including more com-plex visual and psychological phenom-ena such as concepts, thoughts and rules,” said Rao.

The researchers are also explor-ing how to influence brain waves that correspond with alertness or sleepiness.

For example, the brain of a sleepy airplane pilot dozing off at the con-trols could stimulate the co-pilot’s brain to become more alert.

The project could also eventually lead to “brain tutoring” in which, knowledge is transferred directly from the brain of a teacher to a student.

The study appeared in the journal PLOS ONE.

Bullet that makes 3D printed guns deadly weapons

A Pennsylvania-based machinist has developed a bullet designed to

be fired specifically from 3D printed guns. His ammunition uses a thicker steel shell with a lead bullet inserted an inch inside.

The shell is deep so that it can con-tain the explosion of the round’s gun-powder instead of transferring that force to the plastic body or barrel of the gun. “This allows a home-printed firearm made from even the cheapest materials to be fired again and again without cracking or deformation,” Michael Crumling, the 25-year-old machinist, was quoted in Wired.com.

“You should be able to fire an unlimited number of shots through the gun without replacing any parts other than the shell,” Crumling added.

He recently shot 19 rounds from a 3D printed gun of his own design at a testing session in York, Pennsylvania.

“This is a building block for the future of 3D printed firearms that will enable people to develop semi-automatic and even fully automatic weapons,” he concluded.

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