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British Council in Doha has lined up a

whole year of events and activities for the

Shakespeare Lives 2016. As part of the

celebrations, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

staged the Hamlet in Doha.

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THE BARD VISITS DOHA

COVER STORY

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By Raynald C Rivera

The Peninsula

Four hundred years after his death,

William Shakespeare is still very

much alive in the literary oeuvre

of immortal poetry and plays he

had bequeathed to world stage.

In commemoration of the quadri-

centennial anniversary of the Bard’s

death, British Council and the Brit-

ish government has launched “Shake-

speare Lives 2016”, a year-round cel-

ebration of his works through events

and activities held around the world.

Coinciding with the celebrations,

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre takes the

unprecedented Globe to Globe Ham-

let world tour to bring Shakespeare’s

greatest play to nearly 200 countries.

“This tour came out of a festival

which Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

held a few years ago in which they

invited 37 countries from all over the

world to come and perform one of

Shakespeare plays in their own native

language. The idea was if the world

has come to the Globe why doesn’t the

Globe take a production to the world so

the idea to take Hamlet to every coun-

try in the world was born,” said Naeem

Hayat, one of the two actors who alter-

nate as Hamlet in the production.

On Wednesday Qatar became the

160th country where the 16-mem-

ber company had staged Hamlet. It

was met with applause from appreci-

ative theatre lovers in Doha during the

company’s single performance at the

Al Rayyan Theatre in Souq Waqif.

“The varied reactions of the people

offer us a very unique insight. We are

a company of actors who are in a very

lucky position because not many com-

panies get to experience audiences so

varied for such a very long period of

time playing the same story,” said Ha-

yat, as he narrated highlights of their

20-month long journey taking them to

libraries, theatres, palaces and com-

munity centres.

Reminiscent of the times when a

group of travelling players bring Shake-

speare’s masterpieces to people far

and wide, the play uniquely stands out

as the staging is simple so is the telling

of the story.

“It took us six weeks of rehearsals

and at the heart of it is learning to tell

the story as truthfully and simply as

possible so that the audience leave the

theatre with their own interpretation.”

Hamlet is arguably the most pop-

ular among Shakespeare’s tragedies

whose story is still very much relevant

up to this day.

“At the core of Hamlet is a very sim-

ple family story. It is essentially about a

family and family relationships - rela-

tionship between a father and his son,

between an uncle and his nephew, a

mother and his son. At its core are very

relatable human things like family and

love.” Wherever it is played, people are

able to connect to the main character

who has universal appeal.

“Everyone has a little bit of Hamlet in

him, that is why we can recognise the

character. There is this idea that Ham-

let may be an incredibly philosoph-

ical and intellectual man. He is very

smart and witty but also just a young

man trying to make sense of the world

around him as he finds himself in very

extreme circumstances.

“But he is at his core like all of us.

He asks questions what it means to be

a human being, what it means to be

alive, what it means to have a family,

what it means to fall in love – questions

we ask at different points in our lives.”

Taking Hamlet to all corners of the

world, Hayat believes, is very impor-

tant not only for entertainment but as

a means to spark creative process.

“Who knows who will be in the au-

dience and what they may take from

the story? There may be some bud-

ding writers there who may write very

unique Qatari stories. Encouraging

people to write their stories is part of it.

“The story of Hamlet goes way back

beyond Shakespeare writing it himself.

There is something very human and

very special sharing a story. That’s how

we grow up. That’s how cultures devel-

op and the more we can do that the

better. The more you can share that

with people who may never get the

chance to see a Shakespeare play or

may never have seen any theatre the

better.”

On a personal note, Hayat feels priv-

ileged to portray one of Shakespeare’s

popular characters on stage.

“It’s an incredibly beautifully craft-

ed human story with some of the most

beautiful language ever written in any

play throughout history and honestly it

is always a real pleasure to be able to

leave the stage having had the chance

to say ‘What a piece of work is a man”

or “To be or not to be” – these are

things that mean a lot to people and

it’s always a very humbling experience

be in a privileged position to be able to

say those words.”

The applause echoes long after the

curtain was drawn revealing the audi-

ence’s hunger for Shakespeare’s works.

And it seems their wait won’t be long

as the British Council in Doha has lined

up a whole year of events and activi-

ties for the Shakespeare Lives 2016.

The play was just a prelude to the

many the upcoming events lined up in-

cluding a concert by the Qatar Philhar-

monic Orchestra featuring music from

Shakespearean plays and films, screen-

ing of the film Much Ado About Noth-

ing at Katara, a visit of a famous com-

poser and educational programmes.

Much ado as Globe brings Hamlet to Doha

CAMPUS

04 | SUNDAY 17 JANUARY 2016

MES honours CBSE National Athletics Meet winners

The winning athletic team of MES

in the 20th CBSE National Ath-

letic Meet held at Raipur, India,

was felicitated at ceremony on

the school premises. The Chief Guest

Dinesh Udenia, First Secretary, Embas-

sy of India distributed medals and tro-

phies to the winners and congratulat-

ed the school and the athletes.

The Guest of Honour, Colonel Mo-

hammed Sulaiman Taib, Qatar Armed

Forces and Assistant General Secre-

tary in Qatar Athletics Federations,

appreciated the efforts taken by the

physical education department of the

school in harnessing the talents of the

athletes. K Abdul Karim, President of-

ficiating of MES Governing Board, an-

nounced an offer package as a ges-

ture of encouragement that includes

fee concession for the winning ath-

letes. Ahamed Isham, Director Sports

and Games, MES Governing Board, an-

nounced gift of gold coins to the mem-

bers of the Physical Education Depart-

ment.

The school principal appealed to the

parents to identify the innate talents of

their children and encourage them to

acquire skills in the area of their inter-

est. He also called for students to dedi-

cate whole-heartedly in accomplishing

tasks without bothering about end re-

sults, as excellence is only a journey to-

wards perfection and hence, not to be

complacent about the result.

A detailed report of the achieve-

ments of MES in the 20th CBSE National

Athletic Meet was presented by Akbar

Ali, HOD Physical Education Depart-

ment. Mohamed Ashiq, the captain of

the winning squad, recollected the mo-

ments during the meet.

Earlier, P K Mohamed, General Sec-

retary, MES Governing Board wel-

comed the gathering, while Farhan Ot-

takath, the Sports Vice-Captain of the

school, proposed a vote of thanks.

University of Calgary nursing students at DeBakey High SchoolNursing students from the University of

Calgary – Qatar are gaining experience

at DeBakey High School – Qatar for the

next few months. During their time

at DeBakey High School, the nurses

will interact with the students, Health

Science Technology teachers, and the

school nurse. This allows DeBakey

students and Calgary nurses to benefit

through classroom activities, as well

as providing lectures for DeBakey

students. The picture shows (from

left): University of Calgary nursing

students; Linda Mabrie, DeBakey

Executive Director; Valsa James,

DeBakey School Nurse; and Sarah

Balcom, Calgary Nursing Instructor,

during the welcoming ceremony.

COMMUNITY


M S Bukhari, a Qatar-based businessman and socio-cultural activist, was

presented with Bharat Samman Award 2016 For NRIs at a ceremony in New

Delhi by General V K Singh, Minister of State, External Affairs and Overseas

Indian Affairs, at NRI Diwas 2016, organised by NRI Institute.

The Indian Cultural Centre, un-

der the aegis of Embassy of

India, concluded the month-

long “ICC–Utkarsh Samman

2015”, an inter-school competition

on performing arts, participated by 13

Indian Schools in Qatar at ICC Ashoka

Hall with a prize distribution ceremo-

ny recently.

The Chief Guest R K Singh, Deputy

Chief of Mission, Indian Embassy, inau-

gurated the function. Anjali Singh was

the Guest of Honour.

Singh congratulated the ICC com-

mittee members and the special sub-

committee formed to conduct the

event and judges for the success of

the mega event, thereby fulfilling the

objectives of the Indian cultural Cen-

tre.

ICC President Girish Kumar gave

the welcome address. He highlighted

the importance of the competition for

the young generation.

He thanked students, staff and

management of all Indian Schools and

parents for their active participation

and promotion of performing arts in

the region. He also thanked Bhavans

school for providing the venue. IBPN

President K M Varghese encouraged

the students to nurture rich Indian cul-

ture.

Divakar Poojary, General Secre-

tary, ICC, compered the official func-

tion. Unnikrishnan, Head of In-house

Activities, ICC, introduced the judg-

es panel and the 10 subcommittee

members to the gathering.

Jayati Maitra briefed the audience

about the objective of the competition.

Vishal Mehta, Head of Membership, ICC,

conveyed a special compliments to the

gathering.

The month-long event was headed

by the Head of Cultural Activities Jayati

Maitra, Head of In-house Activities, Un-

nikrishnan and Vishal Mehta with the

support of other members .

“ICC Utkarsh Samman 2015” is initi-

ated to promote various forms of In-

dian classical dance, vocal music, key

board, arts & crafts and to encourage

the young performers.

13 schools take part in ICC-Utkarsh Samman

Cyprus Minister of Education visits ISL Qatar

ISL Qatar welcomed the Cyprus

Minister of Education Profes-

sor Costas Kadis and his delega-

tion, along with Dr Abdulaziz Has-

san Al Tamini from the Office of the

Minister of Education of Qatar. The

delegation met with Headmaster

Christopher Charleson and Man-

aging Director Amin Makarem to

learn more about the success and

growth of ISL Qatar’s international

education programme, with partic-

ular interest in the mother tongue

classes.

The minister said that the best

way forward, in order to integrate

people from across different cul-

tures, is to start with an inclusive

international education at a young

age, with special provision for dif-

ferent mother tongue languages.

Professor Kadis is hoping to apply

his findings to help bring the differ-

ent communities of Cyprus together.

Bharat Samman for Bukhari

MARKETPLACE


Bagel hosts dinner for Ambassadors of Change

An appreciation dinner was

hosted by Bagel Bar Coffee

House in Gulf Mall as way of

thanksgiving for the volun-

teers who are part of the Ambassa-

dors of Change programme of Future

318.

The programme inspires, moti-

vates and establishes young leaders

through social community events and

projects. Started in 2015, the Ambas-

sadors of Change currently has 10 ac-

tive Ambassadors who participated

in various projects of Future 318 such

as the Quit Smoking Campaign, World

Smile Day Qatar and Beat Cancer Boot

Camp.

The dinner, attended by Future

318’s Project Chairman Conchita

Ponce, Bagel Bar Coffee House Ex-

ecutive Chef Amr Seleem, SFQ Sports

Academy Business Development Man-

ager Ashley Reily, and Abdullah Ab-

dulghani & Bros Corporate Communi-

cation and CSR Manager Rassa Ram-

li, acknowledged the dedication and

support made by the volunteers mak-

ing the recent event a success.

Regency Group Holding an-

nounced that it has forayed

into the online travel space

with the launch of www.my-

holidays.com. The new website is de-

signed to meet the changing demands

of the evolving travel market, specifi-

cally in the GCC. www.myholidays.com

displays a variety of integrated serv-

ices and solutions for the traveller on

one single platform, thereby enabling

customers to book air tickets as well

as hotel rooms online.

The group has entered into the on-

line space with a unique advantage of

having understood the needs of to-

day’s customers. So, myholidays.com

has modelled its services to cater to

a customer’s inclusive travel experi-

ence. The website is also ahead of the

curve, as it is built on functionally sol-

id and technically sound foundation

to offer the best and fastest services

for its customers. The prime focus of

this website is to offer maximum cus-

tomer satisfaction.

www.myholidays.com is built using

the latest technologies, differentiat-

ing itself from the highly competitive

marketplace and also minimising risk

for the customers.

For instance, the advanced fraud

detection system will allow custom-

ers to book flights as well as hotel

rooms through a secured payment

gateway. The website also has its

own built-in Customer Relationship

Management (CRM) tool to serve the

customers in a quick and effective

manner.

The “share” button on this new

booking platform notifies the price of

air tickets and hotel rooms to custom-

ers via SMS, email and social media

channels. Further, the “Express Book-

ing” feature enables customers to buy

air tickets and book hotel rooms with

a single-click.

Regency Group launches online travel agency

Wyndham introduces Brew Parlor

Wyndham Grand is bring-

ing a new buzz to the

traditional coffeehouse

experience with the

launch of Brew Parlor: a fresh take

on afternoon happy hour where peo-

ple can meet, recharge, or simply take

a breather over cold-brewed coffee-

based drinks developed in partner-

ship with the brand’s “Chef de Caf-

feine,” award-winning culinary per-

sonality, Chef Stephanie Izard.

Coffee lovers will experience cold-

brewed pick-me-ups and hand-craft-

ed caffeinated cocktails from 4pm to

6pm every Sunday through Thursday

at Wyndham Grand’s Brew Parlor pi-

lot hotels in Doha, Qatar; Chicago, US;

Shenzhen, China; and Istanbul, Turkey.

Wyndham Grand’s Brew Parlor is

centred on cold-brewed coffee, an

artisanal yet approachable trend-

ing drink consisting of coffee brewed

with cold or room-temperature wa-

ter, producing a condensed, smooth,

and full flavour. Cold-brewed coffee

is making its presence known in cof-

fee shops around the world, reaching

$7.9m sales in the US — a 115 percent

increase over the past year according

to Mintel — and popping up through-

out Europe.

“We believe travel should be ap-

proachable by design, where every

day experiences, like the quick cup

of coffee our Wyndham Grand hotels

serve hundreds of thousands of times

a day, are transformed into moments

to savor,” said Mark Anderson, Vice-

President of food and beverage for

Wyndham Grand. “Brew Parlor invig-

orates those afternoon pick-me-ups

with innovative cold brew creations

developed with Chef Izard.”

FOOD


Six mistakes we are making while dining outBy Holley Simmons

The Washington Post

That thing you do all the time

when you eat out? Maybe you

shouldn’t. We asked industry

vets to pinpoint the most

common gaffes they see when they

venture into a dining room. Here are

six helpful pointers from District of

Colombia area restaurateurs, managers

and beverage directors. Think of them

as your New Year’s resolutions for

becoming a better diner in 2016.

Don’t stack empty plates. Elizabeth

Parker, General Manager at Crane &

Turtle. After you finish a course, it’s best

to leave the bussing to the staff at fine-

dining restaurants. A tower of plates

is “a visual signal to the people in the

dining room that the service isn’t good,”

Parker says. Additionally, though well

intentioned, handing your waiter your

empty plate can be counterproductive.

“If I’m trying to stack things in a very

safe and nice way, it ends up being not

helpful.”

Don’t touch your server. Justin

Abad, partner at Pop’s SeaBar. “It

sounds pretty straightforward, but

you’d be surprised,” Abad says of

grabby guests. “Most of the time

the intent is, ‘I’m excited to put this

order in or ask about this,’ but there’s

something about being tugged on the

shoulder.”

Don’t leave a meal unhappy. Daniel

Kramer, managing partner at Duke’s

Grocery. “If you have a problem or

something isn’t right, let us know so

we can fix it,” Kramer says. “We exist

for the opportunity to make you happy.

Please let us know early and often as

opposed to later or never.”

Don’t rub wooden chopsticks. Can

Yurdagul, co-owner at Sushi Capitol.

Disposable chopsticks can splinter

when snapped, but avoid rubbing

them together to smooth them out:

It sends a subtle message. “Your host

is supposed to serve you good quality

chopsticks,” Yurdagul says. And don’t

be afraid to go outside of your sushi

comfort zone! “Guests come in here to

try some exciting stuff,” Yurdagul says.

“Sometimes if a guest comes in and

gets a California roll and a spicy tuna

roll, we haven’t connected on that level.”

Go easy on the soy sauce. Kaz

Okochi, owner at Kaz Sushi Bistro. In

Japan, the proper sushi etiquette is

to dab — not dunk — your roll in soy

sauce. “You don’t want to overpower

the sushi,” Okochi says. “Plus, if you dip

it too long the sushi rice falls apart.”

Don’t play it too safe. Gabriela

Febres, co-owner of Arepa Zone.

“People walk away all the time,” says

Febres of people who are unfamiliar

with her product, a Venezuelan

specialty made of corn meal and often

meat and cheese. “But once they stop

and we explain, they’re hooked.” Keep

an open mind and you may discover

something delicious you normally

wouldn’t consider.

Eating veggies doesn’t equal to avoiding junk foodC

hildren who eat more carrots

and apples are no less likely

to eat candies and fries,

warns a new study, suggesting that

emphasising on avoiding “bad” food

is as important as adding “good” food

in children’s diet.

The researchers found that kids

who ate fruits and vegetables and

drank milk every day were as likely

to eat foods high in sugar and salt

as those who rarely ate healthy

foods.

“There has been a kind of

assumption that if you encourage

people to adopt healthy eating it

naturally leads to a decline in unhealthy

eating,” said study co-author Phyllis

Pirie from the Ohio State University in

the US.

Efforts to lower childhood obesity

rates often focus on adding “good”

foods, rather than on avoiding “bad

foods,” she said.

Trained interviewers met

with parents or guardians of 357

children two to five years old and

asked them to recall how often the

children ate certain foods in the

past week.

The research team asked them

about the children’s diets and

categorised foods and drinks into

healthy and unhealthy categories.

About half the children in the

study ate fruit two or more times a

day. Some rarely ate vegetables, but

more than a third had them multiple

times a day.

Regardless of age, there was no

evidence kids who frequently ate

fruits and vegetables and drank milk

were any less likely to partake in the

unhealthy foods.

FASHION


Will 2016 be the year of the Muslim fashion makeover?AFP

Dolce & Gabbana, never a fashion

house to shy away from bold

statements, claimed the first

fashion headline story of the year

last week with the news that it is launching

a collection of hijabs and abayas.

The ‘Abaya Collection’, aimed at clients

in the Middle East, features the Italian

house’s signature loud prints, centered

around daisies and polka dots that contrast

starkly against a black background. Lace-

trimmed hemlines, cut-out overlays and

a dash of jeweled embellishment ensure

that the lightweight pieces radiate glamour

while remaining conservative in structure.

Stefano Gabbana unveiled the collection

on Instagram, where it can be seen styled

with the house’s blinged-up accessories

to consolidate its fashion gravitas.

The news signals a change of direction

for Dolce & Gabbana, which is known for

its loud, lusty and occasionally exhibitionist

approach to fashion — but the house is

not the only one to have woken up to

the needs of the booming Muslim market

recently.

In 2014, DKNY unveiled a surprise

capsule collection in the Middle East,

timed to coincide with the pre-Ramadan

spending spree, featuring conservative

trousers, separates and dresses. Fellow US

label Tommy Hilfiger followed suit in June

2015 with a limited-edition selection of

cute party dresses for girls and full-length,

long-sleeved dresses and flowing maxi

skirts for women in soft shades of white,

black and teal. Not to be outdone, luxury

site Net-a-Porter.com also got on board

with its own ‘Ramadan Edit’ in a direct

attempt to target Muslim shoppers.

Dolce & Gabbana’s collection is less

cynical in its timing, and the news is

being heralded as the label’s smartest

business move for some time. As Muslim

fashion figures are gaining influence by

becoming increasingly integrated into the

industry — last July Uniqlo teamed up with

teen blogger Hana Tajima on an Islam-

appropriate fashion line and in September

H&M released its first-ever ad featuring

hijab-wearing Muslim model Mariah Idrissi

— it is clear that the worlds of Western

and Middle Eastern style are beginning to

find middle ground. Dolce & Gabbana’s

move will surely catalyse the movement.

So could 2016 be the year that fashion

finally begins to cater for all?

The news signals a change of direction for Dolce & Gabbana, which is known for its loud, lusty and occasionally exhibitionist approach to fashion — but the house is not the only one to have woken up to the needs of the booming Muslim market recently.

HEALTH & FITNESS


Most of young adults suffer from digital eye strainBy Ariana Eunjung Cha

The Washington Post

Do you have unexplained dry,

irritated eyes? Blurred vision?

Neck and back pain and

headaches? If so, your digital

gadgets may be (at least partly) to

blame.

The results of a new survey

released at the Consumer Electronics

Show by the Vision Council, a trade

group representing the nation’s eye

care products, shows that most

Americans are overexposing their eyes

to technology.

Nearly 90 percent said they spend

two or more hours on a digital device

each day, and many spend significantly

more time on them. One in 10 reported

spending at least 75 percent of their

waking hours looking at a screen.

“Our eyes are not built to stare at

digital screens all day,” said Justin

Bazan, medical adviser to the Vision

Council.

Adults younger than 30 may be

most vulnerable, with 73 percent

saying they are experiencing digital

eye strain symptoms as compared to

65 percent for all Americans. Women

also seem particularly at risk, with 70

percent experiencing problems as

compared to only 60 percent of men.

Dora Adamopoulos, a medical

adviser to the Vision Council and an

optometrist at Eye2Eye Optometry

Corner in Alexandria, Virginia, said in an

interview that more and more young

people have been coming in to her

practice in recent years complaining

that their eyes are tired, red, burning or

feel as though they have sand in them.

“I’m getting the millennials coming

in feeling symptoms you used to feel

in your early 40s,” she said. Often, all

they need is to reduce their use of

the devices, take frequent breaks and

maybe get filtering lenses.

Adamopoulos said she was “really

surprised” by just how much time people

are spending on screens these days.

“When you really look at some of

the data, children especially, and the

length of time (they are) spending —

and on not just one device but multiple

devices — it’s astounding,” she said.

In the report, many parents said they

allow their children to use devices for

three or more hours a day.

A person’s risk for eye strain is

determined by the frequency and

duration of use of such devices, the

use of multiple devices simultaneously

and the proximity of the screen.

Computer, iPad and smartphone

screens are thought to strain the eyes

because they emit blue light or high-

energy visible (HEV) light, which reaches

far deeper into the eye than other kinds

of light and can cause effects that are

cumulative. Previous studies have

shown that blue wavelengths that can

boost attention and mood in the day

can be disruptive at night.

The new report, based on a survey

of 10,000 Americans, found that the

way people use their digital devices

and their risk for eye strain varies

widely by age group — with those who

are youngest being affected more than

older generations.

20s: 87 percent use two or more

devices simultaneously and 73 percent

showed symptoms of digital eye strain.

30s: 67 percent spend five or more

hours each day on a digital device and

69 percent reported symptoms of

digital eye strain.

40s: 66 percent reported digital eye

strain. 50s: Nearly 65 percent reported

digital eye strain. 60s and older: 53

percent reported digital eye strain.

The Vision Council offers these

tips to relieve symptoms of digital eye

strain:

1. Use computer eye wear and

glasses with lens options that can help

reduce symptoms of digital eye strain,

block harmful blue light and improve

vision.

2. Follow the 20-20-20 rule:

Take a 20-second break from the

screen every 20 minutes and look at

something 20 feet away.

3. Build an optically optimal

workspace to mitigate outside irritants.

For example, reduce overhead lighting

to eliminate glare.

4. “High-five” the screen for the

correct viewing distance when sitting

at a computer.

5. Increase text size on devices

to better define content on the screen.

Adults younger than 30 may be most vulnerable, with 73 percent saying they are experiencing digital eye strain symptoms as compared to 65 percent for all Americans.

ENTERTAINMENT


Joy: A movie that lets entrepreneurs smileBy Virginia Postrel

Bloomberg

In the movies, an entrepreneur is more

likely to be a super-villain, or at the

very least a mobster, than someone

who builds a significant enterprise

without getting anyone killed. Even the

non-murderers are miserable jerks. Take

Aaron Sorkin’s angry, status-obsessed

Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network

or his Steve Jobs in the abysmal recent

movie by that name.

So it might be a surprise to discover

a big-budget, award-friendly new film

telling a tale of entrepreneurial ingenuity

where the protagonist is heroic and the

ending is happy. Except that in this case

the entrepreneur is a woman. Her gen-

der makes self-assertion, ambition, and

even a touch of ruthlessness unconven-

tional and therefore culturally acceptable.

The movie is Joy, starring Jennifer Law-

rence as the eponymous inventor of a

self-wringing “mop of the future.” Written

and directed by David O Russell (Ameri-

can Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook), the

film declares itself: “Inspired by the true

stories of daring women. One in particu-

lar.” The one is Joy Mangano, whose Mira-

cle Mop and other household inventions

made her a multimillionaire thanks to the

advent of home- shopping television.

Judging from the previews that accom-

panied the showing I went to Los Angeles,

distributors see Joy as a chick flick with

family values. The marketing is under-

standable. The story is female-friendly,

and both Lawrence and Mangano lend

themselves to women-oriented media

interviews. You start with the obvious

audience and build from there.

But Joy is more than a wholesome

paean to girl power. It’s a portrait of entre-

preneurial gumption, with a protagonist

whose journey is as relevant to men as

to women. On her way to fame and for-

tune, Joy must reawaken the creative

spark dampened by her dysfunctional

family, solve practical business problems

of financing and distribution, confront

her self-doubts, find her persuasive sales

voice and subdue adversaries who take

advantage of her inexperience and trust.

These aren’t uniquely female challenges.

“I think there was this studio mental-

ity for a long time that women and girls

can relate to a male hero, but boys and

men can’t relate to a female hero. But

that’s simply not true,” Lawrence said in

a recent Glamour interview. She was talk-

ing about The Hunger Games. She could

have been talking about Joy.

With a blue-collar protagonist who

takes a second mortgage on her house,

Joy is a quirky but unabashed affirmation

of the entrepreneurial American dream,

not just for Harvard dropouts with cod-

ing skills but for everyday people with

bright ideas. Giving Joy a tour of his stu-

dio, QVC executive Neil Walker (Bradley

Cooper) explains his philosophy with Old

Hollywood examples: “David Selznick, the

son of immigrants, married Jennifer Jones

from Oklahoma, America’s sweetheart,”

he says. “It just goes to show you that, in

America, the ordinary meets the extraor-

dinary every single day.”

The contrast to The Social Network is

telling. Both Joy and Zuckerberg see things

others miss. Both have to fight for their

ideas. Both get, and largely ignore, bad

advice from people who seem to know

“business.” Both spend a lot of time in

legal disputes.

But Joy celebrates creativity without

credentials. It acknowledges both extraor-

dinary gifts and ordinary life. While Sor-

kin’s Zuckerberg shows contempt for

anyone who doesn’t match his formi-

dable intellect, Joy treats everyone with

respect. “Even if I was a cleaning lady,

so what?” she tells her young daughter

when a playmate teases the girl about

the so-far unsuccessful mop. “There’s no

shame in hard work.”

When Walker questions Joy’s deter-

mination to represent her own product

on the air, telling her that QVC uses only

celebrities and spokesmodels, not regular

people, she spits his own idealism back

at him:

“You said to me that David Selznick,

the son of immigrants, married Jennifer

Jones, an all-American girl from Okla-

homa, because in America all races and

all classes can meet and make whatever

opportunities they can, and that is what

you feel — you reach into people’s homes

with what you sell. You said that.”

She wins the argument.

The respect extends to products and

customers. Joy acknowledges the wealth-

creating value of incremental improve-

ments even in the most mundane items.

“Skinny velvet hangers to make neater

closets. That’s a big deal to a lot of peo-

ple. I mean, who thinks of things like that?

Joy did,” says the voiceover of her grand-

mother near the movie’s close. (The real

Joy Mangano’s Huggable Hangers have

sold more than 631 million units, includ-

ing some hanging in my own home.)

Most of all, however, Joy makes its

protagonist an untragic hero. She gets

tough and she gets rich, but she winds

up neither lonely nor mean.

Audiences embraced Sorkin’s com-

pelling but dark fable of the friendless

tycoon as if it were a much sunnier story.

The real-world triumph of Facebook over-

powered the fictional desolation. “Watch-

ing this movie makes you want to run from

the theatre, grab your laptop and build

your own empire,” wrote one moviegoer. If

Hollywood won’t give people an inspiring

movie about big-time entrepreneurship,

audiences will imagine their own version.

But now they can see the real thing.

“Every entrepreneur and dreamer: drop

everything and go see this movie,” Wiki-

pedia founder Jimmy Wales enthused

Thursday on Twitter and Facebook. “I

cried for joy.”

Judging from the previews that accompanied the showing I went to Los Angeles, distributor to see Joy as a chick flick with family values. The marketing is understandable. The story is female-friendly, and both Lawrence and Mangano lend themselves to women-oriented media interviews. You start with the obvious audience and build from there.

ENTERTAINMENT


Chalk n Duster: Mawkishly executedBy Troy Ribeiro

IANS

Film: Chalk n Duster

Director: Jayant Gilatkar

Cast: Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad,

Juhi Chawla, Upasana Singh, Divya

Dutta, Arya Babbar and Rishi Kapoor

Rating: ***

Jayant Gilatkar’s Chalk n Dust-

er honestly and compassionate-

ly reflects our deteriorating edu-

cation system, albeit in a straight,

on-the-face and old fashioned manner.

Despite being mawkishly executed,

it is inspirational. It is the story of the

incredible teachers of Incredible India.

With the premise, “keep education

as education and not as business”, the

plot delves into the trials and tribula-

tions of the teachers at Kantaben High

School, who are being subjected to

the unwarranted harassment by their

overtly insensitive management, in

their bid to make their school nume-

ro uno.

While the treatment is overdramatic

and exaggerated, comparing tradition

with modernity, the messages hit the

right nerve. It especially hits you, when

you hear Science teacher Jyoti (Juhi

Chawla) speak directly to the audience,

“Can you imagine what the world would

be like without teachers?”

The screenplay is taut and engag-

ing despite the cliches. It blends the

teachers’ professional lives with their

domestic one, in ample measure, es-

pecially that of the senior mathemat-

ics teacher, Vidhya Sawant essayed by

Shabana Azmi and that of her younger

colleague Jyoti.

The performance by the ace star

cast is what keeps you hooked. With

her powerful screen presence and bril-

liant histrionics Shabana Azmi as the

mature and lovable Vidhya Ma’am, is

adorable.

Juhi Chawla, in a well-etched char-

acter packed with light comic, as well

as serious moments, supports Shaba-

na, literally and figuratively. She is sin-

cere and natural but does not offer any

new shade to her character or per-

formance.

The surprise package is Divya Dutta,

who holds her own and excels as the

antagonist Kamini Gupta, the school’s

principal. Her horrendous wig adds to

her thick-headed persona.

Of the male cast, Arya Babbar as

Anmol Parekh the pea-brained for-

eign returned MBA whose family con-

trols the school, supporting Kamini in

her endeavour, is passive and stereo-

typical.

Girish Karnad as Vidhya’s wheel

bound husband who is fond of playing

chess and Sameer Soni playing Jyoti’s

husband, are perfunctory. These flat,

one-dimensional characters who let

their spouses flourish are underdevel-

oped.

Of the rest of the supporting cast,

Upasana Singh as the Arts teacher

Manjeet and Richa Chadha as Bhairavi

Thakkar, the India News Reporter, are

wasted. And Rishi Kapoor and Jack-

ie Shroff in guest appearances are re-

duced to caricatures.

This modest subject is well mount-

ed. The film boasts of a decent produc-

tion set-up. The annual day function

with the well choreographed dances

and brilliant lighting is worth a men-

tion.

The background score at times is so

overpowering that it drowns the dia-

logues, but nevertheless the message

is loud and clear.

Cinematically this may not be a bril-

liant film, but it has its heart in the right

place as there is never an instance

when a teacher may not have tugged

your emotional chord.

A must-watch film for all those who

have been to school.

Amala too busy to take up acting full-timeA

ctress Amala Akkineni, who has

played a few cameo roles in the

last few years, says she’s only

open to do such roles but has no plans

of getting into full-fledged acting as

she already has too much on her plate.

The 47-year old currently heads An-

napurna International School of Film &

Media (AISFM), and is also an animal

activist and a co-founder of Blue Cross

of Hyderabad.

“I am not looking at full-time act-

ing. I wear many hats and I am ex-

tremely satisfied with what I am do-

ing right now. I am in leadership po-

sition in all the organisations I’m

associated with so it is not that I’m

looking for more,” Amala said.

Explaining why she prefers doing

cameo roles, she said: “I would defi-

nitely consider doing cameos because

it is important for me as being in ed-

ucation for cinema, film and media I

must be in touch with the industry I am

educating for”.

“It is a crucial part of my understand-

ing and being relevant in education.”

Every year I get two calls from re-

puted directors’ camps who ask me,

‘Amala will you come? I have absolute-

ly lovely cameo for you’. I show up and

I make that connect and understand

more of what I have to prepare the

younger generation for,” she added.

Last seen on the big screen in

Mohit Suri’s “Hamari Adhuri Kahani”,

Amala will next star with Kamal Haas-

an.

“It was a pleasant surprise. Kamal sir

asked me ‘Are you still acting, Amala?’

I said ‘yes sir but only cameos’. Mean-

ing I can’t up-and-out my family and

commitments and relocate to anoth-

er city, but I can do it for 10 days,” she

said.

“He sent Malayalam director (TK Ra-

jeev Kumar) to narrate me the script.

And it was very touching and a relevant

film. They will be filming it in US in Feb-

ruary. I’m excited to be a part of it,” she

revealed.

TECHNOLOGY


Fitbit takes on Apple watch with BlazeBy Stephen Pulvirent

Bloomberg

Last year was a big one for Fit-

bit. In April, Apple threw down

the gantlet to wearables and fit-

ness- tracker makers with the

Apple Watch, and in June Fitbit went

public in a larger-than-expected initial

public offering. With its first major re-

lease since these milestones, Fitbit has

come out swinging by introducing the

Blaze, the company’s first smartwatch

with some fashion sense.

Strictly speaking, the Blaze isn’t

Fitbit’s first smartwatch. That hon-

our goes to the Surge, famously worn

by President Obama when cruising

around with Jerry Seinfeld or walking

the First Dogs.

Still, the Blaze is Fitbit’s first watch

that doesn’t look like something you

might use for help in scaling Everest.

The silver and black watch definitely

looks a little like its fruit-branded com-

petitor, but it sports an open lug de-

sign that makes it appear a little lighter

on the wrist. The face still looks like a

screen, but at least it’s one that wants

to make a good impression.

A bunch of band options let you

customise the Blaze. It comes with one

of the textured rubber bands familiar

to Fitbit customers, in black, plum, or

blue, and you can purchase additional

rubber straps, real leather bands, and

a metal bracelet to swap in if those

are more your speed. The tracker itself

(the black square unit) swaps in and

out, and the bands are integrated on

the silvery frame around it. At least at

launch, you won’t be able to buy the

Blaze in its native state on any band

other than the active rubber, empha-

sizing that, at its core, this is a smart-

watch meant for fitness.

This brings us to an important point:

The Blaze isn’t a smartwatch that you

can weight down with apps or custom-

ise to organise your entire digital life. It

is primarily meant to be a detailed fit-

ness tracker that can be worn all the

time, offering a few additional features

for convenience.

Apart from interacting with Fitbit’s

own fitness app, the Blaze can push

calendar appointments, calls, and

texts, but it doesn’t get into the weeds

with such things as e-mail or Twitter

notifications.

The screen is a full-color display,

with a soft (but not dull) appearance.

You can navigate menus with the push

buttons on the frame or use the touch-

screen itself. Workouts and sleep are

automatically detected and the heart

rate monitor functions continuous-

ly, minimizing the number of times

you have to fiddle with it when you’re

merely doing daily activities. The Blaze

does need your phone to get GPS data,

but this helps with the multi-day bat-

tery life that Fitbit believes is crucial

for a product like this.

The Fitbit Blaze will set you back

$200 for the tracker and the rubber

strap that’s included. Additional rubber

straps will cost $30, leather options are

$100, and the steel bracelet is the most

expensive, at $130.

Fitbit plans in the coming months

to offer additional options made with

fashion partners such as Tory Burch.

While the base model is less ex-

pensive than Fitbit’s Surge, adding the

leather or metal band places it square-

ly in price competition with the likes of

the Apple Watch Sport and the Moto

360.

“It’s important to understand that

Fitbit has a singular focus on health

and fitness,” said Fitbit CEO and Co-

Founder James Park in an email when

asked about competing with other

smartwatches.

“With the introduction of the Fit-

bit Blaze, we have developed a smart

fitness watch that is fitness first, has

the most relevant smart features that

won’t overwhelm users ... This focus is

our competitive advantage.”

Manipulating activity tracker may soon be historyIANS

Have you been manipulating

your activity trackers to claim

reward or incentives from you

health care providers and insurance

companies? This may not be possible

from now on.

Researchers from the Rehabilita-

tion Institute of Chicago (RIC) in the

US have designed a new and interest-

ing way to train smartphone trackers

to spot the difference between fake

and real activity.

“We have shown how to train sys-

tems to make sure data is authentic,”

said lead study author Sohrab Saeb, a

postdoctoral fellow at the Northwest-

ern University.

In the study, scientists showed

smartphones rigorously trained on

normal and deceptive activity can

spot deceptive behaviour and gener-

alise it across individuals.

If the tracker learns how one per-

son cheats, it will recognise the same

shady behaviour in someone else.

The new method detects, for ex-

ample, when a cheater shakes the

phone while lounging on the couch,

so the tracker will think he’s broken a

sweat on a brisk walk.

While systems trained on normal

activity data predicted true activi-

ty with 38 percent accuracy, training

on the data gathered during the de-

ceptive behaviour increased their ac-

curacy to 84 percent, the researchers

pointed out.

As participants in the study varied

their methods of cheating, the activ-

ity trackers were tested and retrained

up to six times.

SCIENCE


Beachcombers on an Antarctic ice sheetBy Eric Niiler

The Washington Post

Nina Lanza is studying the solar

system by spending six weeks

on an ice sheet in Antarctica.

The 36-year-old staff scientist

at the Los Alamos National Laborato-

ry in New Mexico is on a treasure hunt

of sorts, scouring the windswept land-

scape for meteorites that have land-

ed on the ice and remained there un-

touched for thousands, if not millions,

of years. With no water or soil to cover

them, meteorites in Antarctica remain

in pristine condition for millennia.

To find them, Lanza and seven oth-

ers are snowmobiling through the

Trans-Antarctica Mountains. When they

find a promising spot, they get off their

vehicles and, like beachcombers scour-

ing sand for seashells, they walk slow-

ly and look carefully at the ground. The

meteorites have a distinct worn and pit-

ted metallic surface, which differenti-

ates them from other rocks formed in

Antarctica.

The expedition is part of the Antarc-

tic Search for Meteorites, sponsored by

the National Science Foundation, the

Smithsonian Institution and Nasa. Since

1976, the project has found more than

16,000 meteorites, most of which are

stored at the Smithsonian.

Why is Nasa involved? Lanza says

collecting meteorites is cheaper than

sending spacecraft across the solar sys-

tem to retrieve them. This year’s expedi-

tion continues until late January.

Lanza is posting tweets from the

expedition from her Twitter handle, @

marsninja, and members of the team

are contributing blog posts and photos

at caslabs.case.edu/ansmet. She spoke

with The Post in November from the

US Antarctic base at McMurdo Station

before heading out to her field camp

about 200 miles away.

How do you find the meteorites in

Antarctica?

We drive around on Ski-Doos and

look. When a meteorite falls into the

snow of Antarctica, it becomes incorpo-

rated into the glaciers. Strong winds will

(eventually) scour away the ice. These

are blue-ice areas where the snow has

been compressed over time, giving it a

bluish rather than white colour, and a

great place to see concentrated mete-

orites. The meteorites are waiting there

on the surface. We drive in formation on

these blue-ice areas and pick up rocks.

It’s remarkably low-tech. We’ve tried

using drones and robots, but it turns

out that humans are the best tools; our

eyes are better at picking them out.

How do you keep warm while

you’re doing that?

We each have a thick parka called

Big Red. We will be sleeping in Scott

tents, named after the Antarctic explor-

er Sir Robert Scott. They are about eight

foot square with a centre peak, and the

walls are double-layered canvas and

slope down. The floor of the tent is not

attached, because if your tent blows

away you don’t want to blow away with

it. (A recent blog post reported a tem-

perature of 3 degrees below zero and

winds of 52 mph, which kept the team

hunkered down for a time.) The stove is

inside the tent. It gets hot in there.

With the tough conditions, is it

hard some days to keep motivated

and get out there?

I am so thrilled to be contribut-

ing to the science. This project collects

the vast majority of the world’s mete-

orites, and this really impacts planetary

science. It won’t get old. This is a really

exciting personal adventure for me. It’s

easy to get cranky about little things, but

I’m one of these lucky people who get

to take part in this amazing experience,

and it is the wildest place I will ever be.

What can you learn from a mete-

orite?

(Nasa) has not gotten many (rock)

samples from other planetary bodies,

except for the moon and a comet. We

don’t have a lot of materials because

it’s hard to do and it is expensive. Mete-

orites represent materials from all over

the solar system that have fallen to us.

It a gift, a way to sample other bodies

without leaving Earth.

What are some of the questions

you ask once you get them?

The same as what you would do with

any rock. For example, you could learn

about the history of water in the solar

system. When did water first start? Was

there water in the primordial materials,

or did it come in from somewhere else?

What minerals are forming where, and

at what times? It’s about understanding

the fundamentals about how our solar

system formed and evolved. These are

fundamental questions that meteorites

help answer.

One of the most interesting things

from meteorites is every rocky body

has a unique signature in oxygen iso-

topes. (Isotopes have the same number

of protons as their base element but

different numbers of neutrons.) What

makes an element an element is the

number of protons, but you can add

additional neutrons to make an isotope.

Oxygen 16, 17 and 18 are the three sta-

ble isotopes of oxygen. Depending on

where you are in the solar system, you

can identify where the planetary bodies

are formed by looking at the number of

oxygen isotopes in them. That is some-

thing determined by studying meteor-

ites. That’s one of the key pieces of ev-

idence to support that the moon and

Earth formed from the same material,

because they have similar oxygen iso-

topes.

How did you get into science as a

young person?

My parents are both science types.

My mom majored in geology, and my

dad is a professor of nuclear engineer-

ing. They took me in 1986 to see Hal-

ley’s Comet when I was 7. They said,

“You are looking out into the universe.” I

knew this was what I wanted to study

for the rest of my life. As a kid I learned

everything I could about space mis-

sions. I really wanted to do space expe-

ditions. I’m excited I was able to make

my childhood dream of studying other

planets come true.

Two scientists documenting an Antarctic meteorite before recovery in the Miller Range of the Transantarctic.

The meteorites are waiting there on the surface. We drive in formation on these blue-ice areas and pick up rocks. It’s remarkably low-tech.

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EASY SUDOKU

15SUNDAY 17 JANUARY 2016

Yesterday’s answerEasy Sudoku Puzzles: Place a digit from 1

to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every

column and every 3x3 box contains all the

digits 1 to 9.

Yesterday’s answer

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like a normal Sudoku.

HYPER SUDOKU

Yesterday’s answer

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.

KAKURO

ACROSS

1 Sports wrap-up

6 Given a PG-13 or R, e.g.

11 Procure 14 Cause for a food recall

15 “Uncle!” 16 Historical span

17 *Youngest French Open champion

19 Bobby who won the Norris Trophy eight times

20 Expert

21 Doofus

23 Love like crazy

25 Lean-___ (rude shelters)

27 Like Hans Christian Andersen’s “Duckling”

28 Rio ___ (Texas border river)

29 Nick of “48 Hrs.”

31 ___ McIlroy, 2014 P.G.A. Player of the Year

32 Peter, Paul or Mary

35 ___ of roses

38 Tan who wrote “The Joy Luck Club”

39 *“Double Fantasy” singer

41 “Me, me, me!” attribute

42 Wood for model airplanes

44 Brand in contact lens care

45 Flying pest

46 Zoo heavyweight, informally

48 “You don’t think I will?!”

50 Arabian Sea sultanate

52 Ending with walk or trade

54 Storm drain cover

55 Maine city on the Penobscot River

57 Song of triumph

59 ___ Arbor, Mich.

60 What the ends of the answers to all the

starred clues are

65 Unaccounted-for G.I.

66 Do penance 67 “Remember the ___!”

68 Contented sigh

69 Pepé ___, amorous cartoon skunk

70 Fortuneteller’s deck

DOWN

1 Band with the 4x platinum

album “Automatic for the People”

2 ___-friendly (green)

3 Hoodwink

4 Payment to an ex

5 Jean-Luc of the U.S.S.

Enterprise

6 Ascend

7 Insurance or ticket counter

employee

8 Michael Jackson’s “Don’t

Stop ___ You Get Enough”

9 Nevertheless

10 Arnaz of “I Love Lucy”

11 *C.I.A.’s second-longest-

serving director

12 Flynn who played Robin Hood

13 Behind schedule

18 Big name in skin care

22 Dog that’s a little of this, a little of that

23 Doughnut shop lure

24 *“Splash” star

26 Situation after a leadoff single

28 Seize 30 Vietnamese neighbor

33 Ohio home of the Soap Box Derby

34 Slapping Stooge

36 Best-effort performance

37 Memorization 39 Talk incessantly

40 Elbowed 43 Serenade

45 Crunchy breakfast bowlful

47 Jolly Roger flier

49 Mount where Noah disembarked

50 Lead-in to care since 2009

51 Craze 53 Backbone

56 October birthstone 58 From scratch

61 Cut (off) 62 Scratch

63 Punk music offshoot

64 Habitual drunk

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CROSSWORD

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.

BRAIN TEASERS

Hoy en la HistoriaJanuary 17, 1991

1871: A U.S. patent was issued for an “endless wire rope way”, later used for the world’s first public cable car1966: A U.S. B-52 collided with a tanker over Spain, killing eight and releasing its H-bomb into the ocean1996: In Norway, four men were jailed for stealing Edvard Munch’s famous painting, The Scream, in 19942011: In the wake of protests in Tunisia, a man set himself on fire outside parliament in Cairo, Egypt

The U.S. launched air raids on Baghdad at midnight, signalling the commencement of Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation

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