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• SIS to launch new facilities for academic excellence

• How to make the perfect tomato soup

• Nissan’s small car excels at affordability

• Diets work, but the brand doesn’t matter

• Google’s Android One adds to Samsung’s worries in India

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Mary Kom:A motivational masterpiece

DESIGNSFOR TWEENS

Decorating a bedroom for a “tween-age” child is complicated. It’s great to give growing adolescents some creative freedom. But will they reject at age 12 the colour palette and furniture they begged for when they were 10?

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Tweenbedroom’s a balancing act

By Melissa Rayworth

Decorating a baby’s room is all about what mom and dad want. But decorating a bedroom for a “tween-age” child is more

complicated.It’s a great place to give growing ado-

lescents some creative freedom. But will they reject at age 12 the colour palette and furniture they begged for when they were 10?

Kids grow up fast enough that par-ents may not want to rush the process by removing all childhood whimsy from their rooms. But we also don’t want to redec-orate each time our kids get just a bit more mature. So we’re left walking the line between playful and Mom-I-can’t-believe-you-bought-me-this-furniture.

Here, designers Michelle Workman of Michelle Workman Interiors, Brian Patrick Flynn or Flynnside Out Productions and Betsy Burnham of Burnham Design offer advice on design-ing a tween bedroom that has ample stor-age, homework space and enough cool style to keep kids happy year after year.

Cooler ColoursKids love colour, but it’s practical to

start with a neutral base. Flynn suggests going all-white on walls and ceiling but adding texture “to keep all-white from reading flat or sterile.”

“I use 1-inch-by-10-inch pine planks on the walls and install it horizontally,” he says, “then have it all whitewashed or painted solidly. This brings architec-ture to the room and also creates a lin-ear backdrop for showcasing favourite things.”

Workman recently designed a bedroom for a 10-year-old boy with gray walls and cabinetry. “Gray allows you to layer either cool or warm colours on top,” she says, “whereas beige tends to only work with warm colours, and then the room becomes too warm.”

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She added a navy leather sofa (“a pullout for sleepovers,” she says, “and leather only gets better with age”), plus a rug, throw pillows, an ottoman and chairs that included shades of orange and turquoise. The result: playful but not immature.

Another approach: “Red, white and blue has become a modern classic for boys and girls,” Flynn says.

“For a masculine touch, I’m a fan of sticking with rich navy and fire-engine red. Girl spaces are an excel-lent fit for more muted blues such as robin’s egg or sea foam, and more poppy shades of red such as cherry,” he says.

What if your kids have their hearts set on colours you think won’t work?

Respect their input, Burnham says, but adjust the shades as necessary: “It’s your house, too. If you don’t want a school-bus-yellow wall, what can you live with? Maybe a dijon, or maybe the school-bus yellow is his bedside lamp.” If your daughter wants purple, “maybe it’s a gray lavender,” she says, or another shade of purple that “she won’t get sick of in six months.”

Wilder WallsFor walls, “tweens and teens tend

to favour bold patterns, and find wall-paper cool due to its vintage, retro appeal,” Flynn says.

“If wallpaper is too much of a com-mitment,” he adds, “consider a graphic treatment on the walls with paint. Stripes are classic and gender-neutral, plus they’re not too difficult to paint.”

Smarter StorageToys, trophies, books, papers and a

whole lot of electronics: Kids have an awful lot of stuff.

Burnham suggests choosing a wall “that can accommodate 18 inches of depth or 22 inches of depth,” and have built-in cabinets and shelves installed.

“Built-in cabinetry is so very handy in a tween room,” agrees Workman. It allows “an easy transition to a teen-age space” because you’re not dealing with furniture that the child may no longer like.

Custom carpentry can be expensive, but it’s an investment in your home’s value. You can save money by using less

expensive wood or MDF (medium-den-sity fiberboard manufactured to look like wood). And “don’t be afraid to use Ikea as a resource for inexpensive cabi-netry that can be given a built-in look by adding crown molding and base-boards,” Workman says.

For free-standing storage pieces, Flynn suggests hitting a flea market or garage sale: “This way, the tween has something cool that becomes a huge part of their room’s design, but also is packed with practicality. Some of my go-to items are Danish modern desks with sleek drawers, rustic metal lock-ers and three-drawer dressers to use as nightstands.”

Unexpected Finds“Tweens are still finding themselves,

so it’s tricky to decorate their rooms with one particular style,” Flynn says.

His preferred style for tweens? “Eclectic.”

Workman agrees that vintage pieces — especially those already banged-up and scratched to perfection — are per-fect for older kids’ bedrooms. Vintage chairs can be recovered in fresh fab-rics, and antique furniture can shine with a new coat of glossy paint.

“I like to use vintage items, and industrial style for a tween boy’s bed-room,” Workman says. “I created a huge lighted sign out of tin letters that spelled out the boy’s name. There was a definite cool factor to this, and it’s the type of ornamentation that won’t be too ‘baby’ later on.”

To tie disparate flea-market finds together, keep the colour scheme con-sistent. And to protect the tops of desks, dressers and tables, Burnham advises having a piece of glass cut to cover them.

“I am a real believer in creating a kids/tween/teen room that utilises classic ‘adult’ fabrics and furnish-ings,” Workman says. “I had a client that had no fear using antiques in her children’s rooms, and those children had a deep respect not only for their own space but for the rest of the home as well. She never had to redecorate those rooms, because they went from child to adult with only a change from stuffed animals and toys to guitars and drums.” AP

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SIS to launch new facilities for academic excellence

Shantiniketan Indian School (SIS), as part of its con-tinuous development plan,

is launching five new facilities to support quality enhancement in the academic arena.

The school has introduced mul-timedia enabled teaching facilities and Tech-Next E-learning digital content in the Secondary and Sr Secondary classrooms which will be extended soon to other classes to make learning enjoyable and meaningful.

The school website is made dynamic and interactive for effective communication with the stakeholders and for dissemination of information.

A new School Management and Information System [SIMS] is introduced to provide parents and teachers increased scope to interact more dynamically for the betterment of our children. It also gives access to the parents to the portal to track their wards progress on a real trial basis.

With the view of augmenting classroom instruction, SIS teach-ers have developed an e-learning portal. Children can access learn-ing resources from the portal and learn at their own pace. Different types of assessment tools are also available in the E-learning portal. The Portal is developed and managed by the school ICT department.

The school also developed an E-training portal for its teach-ers as practicing Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation needs enhanced in-service train-ing. The portal helps teachers to get updated at their own pace. The courses available in the por-tal includes CCE, Classroom Management, Question Paper design and Objective Assessment.

The Launching Ceremony of the new facilities for academic excellence will be held at 10am on September 6 in the Multipurpose Hall at Shantiniketan Indian School, Barwa Village.

E T Muhammed Basheer, Member of Parliament - India and former Education Minister in the Govt of Kerala, will be the Chief Guest andHamad Al Ghali Al Marri, Director - Private Schools Office - SEC, Dinesh Udenia, First Secretary - Indian Embassy, Nasser Al Malki, Director of the Shared Services Department- SEC, Rashid Ahmad Al Amri, Senior Education Specialist – SEC, will be the Guests of Honour.

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InterContinental Doha The City unveils signature dishes at Prime

Prime steakhouse at InterContinental Doha The City introduced a collec-

tion of signature dishes from the res-taurant’s own Chef Valentin Herbet (pic-tured). With his unique take on tradi-tional steak-house dishes, Chef Valentin has created exciting com-binations sure to delight and surprise diners.

The dishes include a creative twist on Surf and Turf pairing Black Angus tenderloin with handmade rock lobster tortel-lini as well as Wagyu beef short ribs braised for 24 hours and garnished with roasted butternut squash and wasabi spinach sauce.

For dessert, Chef Valentin has cre-ated a delectable Melting Sphere of dark chocolate, thyme-flavoured mousse and hot chocolate sauce.

“Chef Valentin has become well-known in the market so we wanted to celebrate his growing popularity as we refreshed the menu at Prime,” said Pascal Eggerstedt, General Manager, InterContinental Doha The City.

“Prime is known for its superb cuisine and quality, and we are thrilled to enhance the menu with these new signatures dishes. We look forward to diners experiencing

Chef Valentin’s culinary ingenuity.”Currently serving as chef de cuisine

at Prime, Chef Valentin earned his qualifications from the Ecole Superieur de Cuisine Française in Paris in 2009 and has since cooked in top Michelin Star establishments all over the world

with some of the finest executive chefs. During his tenure at Prime, the res-taurant was named Best Steakhouse in Doha by Time Out in 2013 and earned a Certificate of Excellence Award from TripAdvisor in 2014.

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The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra will travel to the Royal Albert Hall in London

next month to perform the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Iranian-American Behzad Ranjbaran in a sold-out appearance at the BBC Proms. The Philharmonic will also be joined by its Music Director Han-Na Chang and pianist Denis Matsuev. The con-cert, to be held on Sunday September 7, will be the first by a Gulf-based ensemble in the 120-year history of The BBC Proms, the world’s largest classical music festival.

In September 2013, Korean Han-Na Chang became the Music Director of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Trondheim Symfoniorkester, both appointments immediately fol-lowing her debut appearances with the orchestras.

Guest engagements in com-ing seasons include debuts with the Gothenburg, Cincinnati and Indianapolis symphony orchestras, while recent engagements include appearances with the Staatskapelle Dresden, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Seattle Symphony, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, the Grosses Orchester Graz and the Singapore, Tokyo, and Tivoli sym-phony orchestras. Han-Na Chang first gained international recognition for her precocious musical talents at the age of 11, when she won both the First Prize and the Contemporary Music Prize at the Fifth Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris in 1994.

At the BBC Proms Qatar

Philharmonic will perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Sergei Rachmaninoff ’s Second Piano Concerto. ‘The Sunrise‘ from ’Seemorgh‘, part of ’The Persian Trilogy‘, which opens the per-formance, will receive its Proms premiere. Born in 1955 in Tehran, Iran, composer Behzad Ranjbaran‘s musical education started early when he entered the Tehran Music Conservatory at the age of nine. He came to the United States in 1974 to attend Indiana University, and received his doctorate in com-position from the Juilliard School, where he currently serves on the faculty.

Following the Proms, Qatar Philharmonic will travel to Rome, Italy, alongside pianist Boris Berezovsky to perform in Santa Cecilia Hall on Tuesday September 9.

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Qatar Philharmonic with Han-Na Chang invited to perform at prestigious concert halls in Europe

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Wizard of Oz heroine Dorothy only had to click her ruby red slippers together and they would

spirit her home to Kansas.Now, an Indian high-tech start-up

is promising to do the same in real life with a new, GPS-enabled smart sports shoe that vibrates to give the wearer directions.

The fiery red sneakers, which will also count the number of steps taken, distance travelled and calories burned, will go on sale in September under the name LeChal, which means “take me along” in Hindi.

The shoes come with a detachable Bluetooth transceiver that links to a smartphone app to direct the wearer using Google maps, sending a vibrating signal to indicate a left or right turn.

They are the brainchild of 30-year-old Krispian Lawrence and Anirudh Sharma, 28, two engineering gradu-ates who founded their tech start-up Ducere in a small apartment in 2011 with backing from angel investors and now employ 50 people.

“We got this idea and realised that it would really help visually challenged people, it would work without any audio or physical distractions,” said Lawrence in an interview.

“But then we were trying it out on ourselves and suddenly we were like, ‘wait a minute, even I would want this,’ because it felt so liberating not having to look down at your phone or being tied to anything.”

“The footwear works instinctively. Imagine if someone taps your right shoulder, your body naturally reacts to turn right, and that’s how LeChal works.”

Growing sectorSmart shoes aimed at specific demo-

graphic markets — such as dementia sufferers and children whose parents want to keep track of their movements — are already commercially available.

But Lawrence and Sharma believe theirs will be the first to target mass-market consumers, and have focused on creating stylish rather than purely functional footwear.

As well as the red sneaker, they are marketing an insole to allow users to slip the technology into their own shoes.

“Earlier, wearable technology was always seen as machine-like, nerdy glasses or watches, but now that is changing,” said Lawrence.

They say they have 25,000 advance orders for the shoes, which will retail at between $100 and $150.

Demand has so far mostly been through word of mouth and through the lechal.com website. But the com-pany is in talks with retailers to stock the shoes ahead of the holiday season in India and the United States.

It forecasts it will sell more than 100,000 pairs of the shoes, which are manufactured in China, by next April.

Wearable technology is a growing global sector. Market tracker IDC fore-cast in April that sales would triple this year to 19 million units worldwide, growing to 111.9 million by 2018.

The industry’s rapid growth has given rise to fears about privacy, although Ducere says it will record no data on users and maintains robust security.

The company still hopes its prod-uct will be useful for visually impaired people, and experts at the L V Prasad Eye Institute in the southern city of Hyderabad are testing its suitability.

“It’s a perfect intuitive wearable item. You may forget to wear a belt or a helmet, but shoes you can never leave the house without,” said Anthony Vipin Das, a doctor at the institute.

“LeChal solves orientation and direction problems, it’s a good assist-ant to the cane.”

Possible problems include battery failure or loss of Bluetooth connectiv-ity, which Das says could be fixed by providing a live feed of a user’s posi-tion to a friend or relative, with their consent.

The company says it could use a por-tion of any future profits to subsidise the shoes for disabled users.

For all the shoes’ high-tech features, Lawrence’s favourite thing is that he no longer loses his phone — if the wearer moves too far from his or her phone, the shoes buzz to warn them.

“I’m a very forgetful person and the best part is that the shoes don’t let you forget your phone,” he said.

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Start-up launches shoes that show you the way

PLUS | THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 20146 FOOD

By Jeffrey Bloomer

The glowing scarlet tomato soup of my youth served mainly as a dipping sauce for grilled cheese, and

that’s the way it should be. The Campbell’s variety, paired with white bread and American cheese, was my introduction to comfort food. It was also the first meal I learned how to “cook” myself, speckling my mother’s kitchen with red splotches and burnt bread-crumbs. It was, and always will be, a perfect childhood meal.

Glad we got that out of the way. Any adult who has recently reached for a can opener to make tomato soup can attest to the inevi-table disappointment that results. The tinny purée slides out of the can and doesn’t improve no mat-ter how long you let it bubble on the stove. It has the mouthfeel of tomato-juice concentrate, dull and processed beyond recognition. When I prepared a can I found tucked into my family’s pantry one recent holiday, I felt betrayed. The soup tasted like diluted runoff

liquid from chopped tomatoes, and we won’t speak of the smell.

Given this grim reality, I was surprised to find so many odd and uninspired recipes for homemade tomato soup. Some are more accu-rately described as vegetable soup, so prodigious are their list of ingre-dients. Others drown the tomatoes in too-rich chicken stock. And some even call for canned toma-toes, which are preferable to the gritty varieties sold in winter but still result in the pallid flavours of their precooked brethren. No aro-matics can disguise a lackluster main ingredient.

And that really is the key: Tomatoes should be the star ingre-dient, and practically the only ingredient. Since I have no passed-down family recipe, the only kind that seems to exist for tomato soup, I finally adapted one from someone else’s grandmother. After making it many times, I’ve disregarded some of the instructions, but this recipe gets two things unforget-tably correct: The perfect tomato soup fully embraces its central ingredient, and, crucially, it should

only be made when the absolute best tomatoes are available. That time, roughly, is right now, when absurdly buxom tomatoes are spill-ing out of bins at supermarkets.

I seek no quarrel over what con-stitutes “bisque,” so I will stick to calling this a tomato soup, but the correct course is to include some cream. Its richness wonderfully balances the tomatoes’ lingering acidity. The key is to take a light hand, lest we forget our first rule and end up with a cream soup. And through many attempts of roasting, stewing and otherwise pulverizing tomatoes, I’ve come to appreciate my Internet-adopted grandmoth-er’s method of slowly cooking them in a couple pats of butter (not olive oil), letting the pulp break down and the juices flow.

Finally, you must once more resist the urges of your child-hood and leave the soup thick and chunky. You want the last bits of tomato to melt in your mouth, not in the pan. There will still be plenty of liquid — which, by the way, is pretty fantastic sopped up with a good grilled cheese. WP-Bloomberg

How to make the perfect tomato soupTomato Soup

Yield: 3 servingsTime: 35 minutes

Ingredients3 tablespoons butter4 to 5 medium ripe tomatoes, halvedFlaky salt and freshly ground black pepper1/3 cup cream1 large sprig of rosemary or thyme, optional

Method:Put the butter in a large skillet over

medium heat. When it melts, add the toma-toes, cut side down, and season with salt and pepper. Cook until the tomatoes have released most their juices (but aren’t charred), 10 to 15 minutes.

Turn the tomatoes over and cook until they begin to break down, 5 to 7 minutes.

Remove the pan from the heat. After 30 seconds, add the cream and stir, scraping the bottom of the pot as you go. Use the spoon to break down the tomatoes to a chunky but spoonable consistency. Add the thyme or rosemary sprig, if desired.

Taste and adjust the seasoning, and serve warm. (Store leftover soup in an airtight con-tainer in the refrigerator for up to a few days.)

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By Ann M Job

The 2015 Nissan Versa Note five-door hatchback is one of the lowest-priced new cars in the US market and is afford-

able at the petrol station, too.Starting manufacturer’s suggested

retail price for a base, front-wheel drive, 2015 Versa Note with five-speed manual transmission: just $14,990. This makes it one of the lowest-priced new cars in the US market.

A 2015 Versa Note with continuously variable transmission (CVT) that a driver operates like an automatic is $16,240. But even at that price, you could buy two Versa Notes for the price of an average new vehicle these days.

Petrol mileage is another reward for budget-conscious shoppers. The top US federal government fuel economy ratings for the 2015 Versa Note are a noteworthy 31 miles per gallon in city driving and 40 mpg on the highway, for an average of 35 mpg — the third-best figures for any non-hybrid and non-electric hatchback.

This is for the 2015 Versa Note with CVT and standard, active grille shut-ters that improve aerodynamics by automatically closing off some grille openings once the car is moving at more than 20 miles per hour.

In fact, filling the car’s 10.8-gallon tank costs only $37 at today’s prices, and a full tank can take you an esti-mated 378 miles.

And this is no cramped compact. The extremely roomy back seat’ can easily accommodate adults. Indeed, the 38.3 inches and 38 inches of back-seat legroom and headroom, respectively, in the compact Versa Note are more than that of the back seat of the larger, 2015 Chevrolet Malibu sedan.

Competitors to the Versa Note include low-priced, five-door hatch-backs such as the 2015 Honda Fit, which starts at $16,315 with six-speed manual and $17,115 with CVT. There’s also the 2015 Kia Rio 5-Door with a starting MSRP, including destination charge of $14,790 with five-speed man-ual and $17,900 with automatic trans-mission (all prices for US market).

Don’t confuse the Versa Note with the plainer-looking Nissan Versa sedan that has a starting retail price of $12,800. The Versa Note’s tall hatch-back body style is more attractive and makes for more practical interior space. But the 15-inch base wheels look small on the 5-foot-tall Versa Note.

Not much has changed for the 2015 model year, which is only the model’s second year.

Bluetooth hands-free phone connec-tivity is now a standard feature on all models, and there are two new trim levels — SR and SV — that have more features.

The test car was an SR, which included stylish, suede seats, rear spoiler, fog lamps, sport grille and front and rear fascias, rearview camera and 16-inch, alloy wheels. Yet despite the

sporty add-ons, the SR had the fuel-saving CVT and the same, 109-horse-power four cylinder that’s in all Versa Notes.

Acceleration was not quick, but it was steady and was accompanied by droning sounds from the CVT. Drivers who are accustomed to regular auto-matics, which have defined shift points that drop the engine revs, will wait and wait for the Versa Note’s high rev sounds to die down.

Torque from the Versa Note’s 1.6-litre, double overhead cam four cylin-der peaks at a meagre 109 foot-pounds at 4,400 rpm. This is less than the 114 foot-pounds of torque at 4,600 rpm that the 130-horsepower four cylinder in the Honda Fit generates. It’s also less than the 123 foot-pounds at 4,850 rpm that the Kia Rio’s 138-horse-power, 1.6-liter four cylinder generates.

The power difference — and the Versa Note’s light weight of just 2,414 pounds to 2,543 pounds — pays off in fuel mileage.

The test Versa Note SR averaged nearly 32 mpg in driving that was a majority city travel, and that was with-out the driver trying to maximize fuel economy.

Seats are perched a good bit from the car floor. But cushioning felt cheap and could be improved.

Front-seat passengers have good views out. There are good driver views out, too, while making right-hand turns, thanks to a small triangular window that’s built into the base of

each windshield pillar — a feature not found in some other cars with upright body styles and thick window pillars.

The Versa Note SR, riding on 16-inch, rather than 15-inch, all-season tires, communicated a good amount of road noise to the passenger cabin, partly because all Versa Note tires are the low rolling resistance kind that are designed to maximize fuel economy.

The car was a nimble handler and easy to manoeuvre and park, especially in tight parking garages.

And with a car this inexpensive and devoid of flash, a driver doesn’t worry much about leaving it parked on a street, either.

The liftgate at the back opens wide, and a low floor in the Versa Note makes loading easier than in some car trunks.

Total cargo room behind the rear seats is greater than in many car trunks — 18.8 cubic feet. Cargo space expands to 38.3 cubic feet when back seats are folded down.

There is a lot of hard, utilitarian plastic inside the Versa Note on the dashboard and interior doors. It’s not rich-looking.

The 2015 Versa Note earned four out of five stars in federal govern-ment crash tests. The car did best in side crash testing, where it garnered a full five stars. The overall average was pulled down, however, by frontal crash testing that rated only three out of five stars for passenger protection.

AP

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HOLLYWOOD NEWS BOLLYWOOD NEWS

By Subhash K Jha

It’s that life-defining moment when a character on screen transforms totally into a real life personality. We’ve seen Seema

Biswas, Ben Kingsley and Farhan Akhtar metamorphose into real life characters in front of our bewildered eyes.

Now it is Priyanka Chopra. She vir-tually transforms her physicality before entering the spirit and the soul of box-ing champ Mary Kom (MC).

And what a grand entry!Ladies and gentlemen, we give you

Priyanka as the gritty volatile boxer from Manipur who won’t take no for an answer. Penetrating a male domain like boxing in a gender-defying swoop, Priyanka’s MC takes us on a voyage of self-discovery where a plucky poor girl from rural Manipur goes right to the Olympics. It’s an incredible story filled with sound and fury signifying some-thing deep and seductive, just waiting to be told.

Hats off to debutant director Omung Kumar for bringing us one of the most inspiring biopics to have ever reached the silver screen.

“Mujhe bronze pasand nahin aata,” (I dont’t like bronze) barks MC’s coach. As we see Mary’s dreams come true

in front of our eyes, we know she was born to win.

The narrative has a soaring quality and texture. It simply takes off with scarcely any room for breathing space. The breathless quality of storytelling goes well with the protagonist’s stormy mercurial nature.

As MC’ story unravels in a flashback we meet a woman who is not affected by gender rules and discrimination that governs our society.

Very early in the tightly clenched narrative, we see MC get into a full-fledged scuffle with a school bully. Later she takes on another far more danger-ous bully who threatens to destroy her boxing career. In and out of the arena Mary never stops fighting.

“The rest of the world may be round. But your world is this square ring,” her coach reminds her pointing to the box-ing arena. The struggle, as depicted in the stunning unspoilt northeastern ter-rain of Manipur, captured with mes-meric intensity by cinematographer Keiko Nakahara, is manifold. Here it is a curse to be born a girl. And to be born a girl who wants to be a boxing champ!

You have to be kidding.Admirably the narrative doesn’t

over-sentimentalise MC’s struggle. This is “Mother India” without the glycerine and melodrama. As played by Priyanka,

MC is both gritty and giggly, plucky and precocious, a ferocious fighter and a tender mother.

Priyanka expresses every shade of her character with a pitch-perfect bravado. Her northeastern accent could easily have become caricatu-ral. The actress controls curbs and quantifies every component of her character’s personality without los-ing that basic element of spontane-ity without which Mary would have become mechanical.

I dare any other actress to play MC the way Priyanka has. Even Hilary Swank would have been stumped by MC’S mystical mix of the girlish and the aggressive. Priyanka gets the point.

My favourite sequences are the ones where MC shares tender marital moments with her husband. If it’s vital for a career woman to get a support-ive husband, it is equally essential for a film starring a female hero to have a co-actor who can play yin to her yang. Newcomer Darshan Kumar suffuses the screen with such supreme spousal sen-sitivity. He is a talent to watch.

Predictably enough a lot of the oppo-sition to MC’s dreams is shown to come from within her home. The skirmishes between MC and her father (Robin Das) and MC’s gender battle with the slimy executive of the boxing federation

(played with diabolic relish by Shakti Singh) are exceptionally filmy’, and I use that word in the truest cinematic sense.

The picturesque narrative, the richly flavoured music composed by Shashi Suman and Shivum (watch out for the poignant lullaby sung by Priyanka), the rapid fire editing, the framing of the shimmering shots and the incredibly aesthetic use of rich colours bear the unmistakable stamp of producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is billed as Creative Director.

Mary Kom is a motivational mas-terpiece. From first frame to last it grips your senses and irrigates the parched corridors of your heart like very few biopics in recent times. Kumar weaves seamlessly in and out of Mary’s remarkable life creating a work that is as dramatic as Mehboob Khan’s Mother India and as inspiring as Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi.

Priyanka’s powerhouse performance knocks the breath out of our solar plexus. She yet again proves herself the best actress of her generation.

Hereafter there will be an eternal confusion about whose face goes on the hoardings announcing Mary Kom’s box-ing events.

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How to Train Your Dragon 3 delayed

The third instalment of animated film How to Train Your Dragon 3 has been pushed back by a year.

DreamWorks Animation announced Tuesday that the sequel had been pushed almost a year back, from June 17, 2016 to June 9, 2017, reports aceshowbiz.com.

In the press release, the studio also announced that the creative team behind the first two films, writer-director Dean DeBlois and producer Bonnie Arnold, would back up the new film.

The cast, which included Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and Cate Blanchett, also returns as the voices of Hiccup, Astrid and Valka respectively.

Two private planes of Elvis go on sale

Two private aeroplanes that once belonged to legendary rock star Elvis Presley are now on sale and could disappear by 2015 from the late

singer’s Graceland mansion, where they have been on display for the last 30 years.

Both planes appeared this week on the aircraft sales website Controller with their descriptions and specifications.

The Lisa Marie, a 1960 Convair 880 named after Elvis’s only daughter, is a four-engine aeroplane with a private bedroom, a stereo system and a bathroom with gold fittings.

Hound Dog II, a JetStar, was used as a substitute aircraft while the Lisa Marie was being remodelled to suit the likings of the King.

The aeroplanes’ owner, K G Coker, who acquired them in 1977 after Presley’s death, said “they are museum pieces” and expresses a willingness to hear any serious offers, though he has avoided setting a price.

Up to now, the planes have been two of the most visited items at the Elvis Presley mansion in Memphis.

The last time the Lisa Marie flew was in 1977 on a trip from Los Angeles to the funeral of Elvis Presley, with his ex-wife Priscilla Presley and former Beatle George Harrison on board.

Jolie paid tribute to late mom at wedding

Angelina Jolie paid a tribute to her late mother Marcheline Bertrand at her wedding ceremony.

Prior to their nuptials, Brad Pitt had a special personalised message in honour of Marcheline inscribed inside the chapel at their home Château Miraval in France, where they walked down the aisle, reports people.com.

“Brad had a dedication to Marcheline engraved inside the chapel where we stood,” said Jolie, who married Pitt, on August 23.

But the personal dedication wasn’t the only thing the couple did to honour her late mother.

Jolie and her brother, James Haven, also wore pieces of jewellery that belonged to Marcheline, who died in 2007 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.

“I also wore a little flower ring that was hers, and Jamie wore an angel pin from her jewellery box,” she said.

Jolie also accessorised her custom made Versace wedding dress by wear-ing “a small gold locket with a photo of her mom inside it.”

Meanwhile, Jolie’s dress and silk veil featured “embroidered drawings” from her children.

Jayaram doesn’t want son tobank on his popularity

Actor Jayaram’s son Kalidas is set to make his acting debut in upcoming Tamil comedy Oru Pakka Kathai. And he has advised his son to make

his mark by hard work instead of banking on his popularity.Jayaram is a popular actor

in Malayalam as well as Tamil.“It’s a proud moment for me.

I’m finally launching my son in the industry. I haven’t given him too much advice but have asked him to prove himself by sheer hard work. I have also asked him to forget that he’s my son and treat himself as a newcomer,” Jayaram said.

“My popularity shouldn’t blind him. That was my most important advice to him,” he added.

Kalidas was launched by actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan. It was on Jayaram’s personal request that Kamal was present to launch his son.

Oru Pakka Kathai will be directed by Balaji Tharaneetharan of Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom fame. The rest of the film’s cast will be finalised soon.

I’ll be proud if ‘Dare 2 Dance’ is adapted abroad: Akshay

On Indian television, there are several reality shows that are adapted from international TV formats like “Celebrity Big Brother” and

‘Dancing With The Stars”. But Bollywood star Akshay Kumar hopes his new show “Dare 2 Dance” turns the tables.

Known to push his limits on the big screen, Akshay has dared to take creative liberties with “Dare 2 Dance”. He says it’s the first-of-its-kind show in the world, and that he’ll be glad if it is ever adapted internationally.

“I’ll be very proud if somebody from the international world calls up the channel’s team to say ‘We want to buy the rights of this show’. I’ll honestly be very proud,” Akshay said at the show’s launch yesterday.

Much to his delight, channel officials have already received a query regarding the show.

“On the basis of the promos, we have already got a query asking for the rights to the show from the eastern European market. It’s a produc-tion house from there,” Ajit Thakur, executive vice president and general manager, Life OK, revealed here.

Spread across 16 episodes, the show, to be aired on Life OK starting Saturday, mixes dance with adventurous dares. And Akshay, as the anchor and mentor dares them to groove mid-air, underwater, in the midst of fire and on ice among other rough and tough situations.

It has Indian as well as foreign contestants and has been shot in the picturesque Cape Town in South Africa.

For “Dare 2 Dance”, the actor has played roles other than just being the anchor. “He (Akshay) was called to anchor the show, but he played a stuntman, dancer, producer (well, almost), creative director and he even rapped for the title song,” Thakur said, praising the actor’s efforts to take the “small idea” of the show to a huge scale.

Akshay said he didn’t want to be a boring anchor. “It was boring to just stand and watch them doing the tasks, so I preferred enjoying with them and performing with them,” he said.

Thakur said: “Yes, my team called me and said we will have to increase the insurance amount because we never planned for Akshay to do the stunts. He was underwater, he did the ice-skating and he even went mid-air.”

Overall, it was a fun experience for Akshay. Meanwhile, Thakur is already contemplating over the next destination abroad for season two.

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Green offices make workers productive

Want to be happy and productive at work? Keep a plant next to your computer.

“Green” offices with plants make staff happier and more productive than “lean” designs stripped of greenery, new research shows.

It found that enriching a “lean” office with plants could increase productivity by 15 percent.

“Investing in landscaping the office with plants will pay off through an increase in office work-ers’ quality of life and productivity,” said Marlon Nieuwenhuis from Cardiff University’s school of psychology.

Researchers examined the impact of “lean” and “green” offices on staff ’s perceptions of air quality, concentration and workplace satisfaction.

They monitored productivity levels over the next months in two large commercial offices in Britain and The Netherlands.

The findings showed plants in the office sig-nificantly increased workplace satisfaction, self-reported levels of concentration and perceived air quality.

A green office increases employees’ work engagement by making them more physically, cognitively and emotionally involved in their work, added co-author Dr Craig Knight from the University of Exeter.

Glucose by-product damages ‘good’ cholesterol

In developments which could lead scientists to hunt for new drugs to fight heart diseases,

researchers have discovered that a substance formed from glucose in the body turns “good” cholesterol into “bad”, increasing risk of heart diseases.

The substance called methylglyoxal (MG) damages “good” high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol that helps remove excess levels of bad cholesterol or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from the body.

MG destabilises HDL and causes it to lose the properties which protect against heart disease, researchers said.

“By understanding how MG damages HDL we can now focus on developing drugs that reduce the concentration of MG in the blood, but it is not only drugs that can help,” said lead researcher Naila Rabbani from the University of Warwick in Britain.

According to her, “We could now develop new food supplements that decrease MG by increas-ing the amount of a protein called glyoxalase 1, or Glo 1, which converts MG to harmless substances”.

This means that in future we have both new drugs and new foods that can help prevent and correct low HDL, all through the control of MG, researcher noted.

There are currently no drugs that can reverse low levels of HDL.

A potentially damaging substance, MG is formed from glucose in the body.

Glo1 converts MG to harmless substances and protects us. MG levels are normally kept low in the body but they slowly increase with ageing as Glo1 wears out and is only slowly replaced.

The study appeared in the journal Nutrition and Diabetes.

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By Kathryn Doyle

When it comes to diet programmes, brand names don’t make much dif-ference, according to a new review. Low-carb or low-fat diets resulted in

the most weight loss, but despite a difference of a few pounds between groups, all the programmes in the study were about equally effective, said lead author Bradley C Johnston.

“The weight loss differences between branded diet programmes were small with likely little importance to those seeking to lose weight,” he said.

Johnston, of the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute in Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, said any diet pro-gramme should include exercise and behavioural support.

The analysis included 49 randomised control-led trials that tested 11 popular branded diets for at least three months. All of the participants were overweight or obese, and they all had daily nutrient or calorie targets. Some had exercise goals as well.

The low-carb diets, like Atkins, South Beach and Zone, require that no more than 40 percent of daily calories come from carbohydrates and another 30 percent come from protein.

The low-fat diets, including the Ornish and Rosemary Conley diets, specify that less than 20 percent of calories come from fat, and 60 percent come from carbohydrates.

Johnston and his team also included trials of moderate macronutrient diets, like Biggest Loser, Jenny Craig, Volumetrics, Nutrisystem and Weight Watchers, which also require around 60 percent of calories from carbohydrates but allow more from fat and less from protein than the low-fat diets studied.

Compared to no diet at all, each of the diets pro-duced more weight loss, but low-fat and low-carb were most successful, according to results in JAMA.

At the six-month point, people on low-carb diets had lost an average of 19 pounds, which dropped to 16 pounds at one year. Low-fat dieters lost an average of more than 17 pounds by six months, which also dropped to 16 pounds by one year.

Moderate macronutrient dieters lost an average of 12.5 pounds after one year.

The different diet brands within each category didn’t make much difference, the authors write. For example, among the low-carb diets, the Atkins diet resulted in about four more pounds of weight loss than the Zone diet at the six-month point.

“I think in general when people follow a specific plan and have a support system and guidelines that pull them away from their normal everyday behav-iour, I would expect to see weight loss,” said Lindsay Malone, a registered dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic who was not part of the new review.

While weight loss appeared slightly greater with low-carb versus low-fat diets, “with either one you’re making a lot of significant changes, eliminating junk food and junk calories,” Malone said.

She and her colleagues typically don’t endorse spe-cific diet brands. Instead, they sit down with patients and talk about their lifestyle, what has worked for them in the past, and recommend certain charac-teristics of diets individually, she said.

Though the moderate macronutrient diets in the review resulted in slightly less weight loss than oth-ers, they may still be the best choice for some people, she said.

“Moderate macronutrient provides the greatest variety so is easiest for some people,” Malone said. “If they are feeding a family or eating on the go a lot, maybe that is a little more doable for them.”

Though the brands themselves didn’t differ mean-ingfully, there are still advantages to branded diet programs, Johnston said.

“Branded diets are likely more effective than gen-eral dietary guidelines because they typically involve a comprehensive program including behavioural support and physical activity,” he said. “Some also include prepared foods, recipes and meal ideas.”

Health professionals can help assess which diet programme the patient is most likely to stick to and achieve lasting weight loss, as well as a diet’s poten-tial impact on other health measures like cholesterol and blood pressure, Johnston said.

“We know that you can achieve weight loss with more than one type of diet,” Malone said. “The diet that really should be presented or offered to people is the one they’re going to stick to.”

SOURCE: bit.ly/1c9i5E4 JAMA, September 2, 2014.Reuters

Diets work, but the brand doesn’t matter


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By Nivedita Bhattacharjee

Google Inc’s partnership with three Indian phone makers is set to rev up fast-growing demand for lower priced smartphones, and spell more trouble for Samsung Electronics

which is rapidly losing share in emerging markets.Micromax Infomatics Ltd, Karbonn Mobiles and

Spice Group are the first phone manufacturers to sign up for Google’s Android One initiative, which provides specifications for key hardware parts. Some of the new phones are due to hit the market this month.

The aim is a vast improvement in quality that would lead to a surge in demand for low-end Android phones. Currently many cheap emerging market smartphones run different and somewhat custom-ized versions of the Android operating system, which along with the many variations in hardware make apps on those phones prone to glitches.

While Google plans to push Android One globally, India, the world’s third-biggest and fastest growing smartphone market, offers fertile ground for immedi-ate results. Many Indians are buying a smartphone for the first time and a strong reception for Android One could promote common standards and consoli-dation in a market where more than 80 smartphone

companies operate.But any boom for higher-quality low-cost smart-

phones in India and other price conscious markets has the potential to exert intense pricing pressure on Samsung. The South Korean firm uses a customised version of the Android operating system but focuses on higher-margin offerings like its Galaxy S series.

“A major threat for Samsung is that Android One will accelerate the race to the bottom on smartphone pricing,” said Neil Mawston, a UK-based analyst at Strategy Analytics.

“Android One now makes Google a foe, not just a friend, for Samsung.”

A major strategy rethink for low to mid-tier prod-ucts is now in order for the world’s biggest phone maker and top seller in India, analysts say, particu-larly as Samsung is also losing share to Apple Inc at the higher-end.

Gains For GoogleFor Google, a strong uptake of Android One smart-

phones should increase access to the Internet and Google’s suite of products.

Analysts and industry sources also note the poten-tial for Google to expand revenue in ways more favourable to itself than in the past, as Android One phones won’t come with the heavy customization that

Samsung and other phone makers using the Android operating system provide.

That will mean more default settings for Google products and less competition from rival search engines and other app stores.

For the Indian phone manufacturers, they are banking on Android One to be the weapon that helps them grab further share as well as providing a launch pad for more exports.

Karbonn hopes the program will expand its over-seas revenue to near 20 percent in the next two years, from 5-7 percent now. It is looking to export to markets such as Europe, South Africa and Russia, Chairman Sudhir Hasija said.

Pricing PressureSamsung still leads India’s smartphone market —

a segment expected to propel the country’s annual cellphone shipment revenues to as much as $20bn by 2017, up from more than $14bn this year, according to Counterpoint Research.

But its grip is looking shakier. Its second-quarter smartphone market share tumbled to 25.3 percent from 33.3 percent in the first quarter, while No. 2 maker Micromax jumped to 19.1 percent from 16.7 percent. Karbonn has 5.9 percent.

How much immediate pressure Samsung will come under will depend on prices.

Announcing Android One phones in June, Google touted pricing under $100 (`6,000) but local media, citing industry sources, have said that may be too ambitious and the phones could be priced between `7,000 and `10,000.

Karbonn, Micromax and Google declined to com-ment on the reports. Spice did not respond to a request for comment.

While Samsung does sell cheaply priced phones in India, its marketing is focused on high-end products around ̀ 40,000. One of its most popular models sells for about `20,500. Samsung declined to provide its average selling price for smartphones in India.

Competition is coming not only from local players using Android One. Mozilla announced this month a low-cost smartphone in India based on its Firefox operating system and priced at just $33.

How Samsung responds to Android One in India is set to have big ramifications for other markets.

In China too, for example, Samsung has rapidly lost share, falling to rank No. 2 in the second quarter behind Xiaomi Inc, a firm which did not even place in the top five in the same period a year ago.

One key factor for Samsung to consider is whether it could and should adopt Android One for its cheaper phones.

“Samsung needs to figure out whether it’s going to stay in (the) market at the lower end and come lower or whether it’s going to maybe focus on higher level segments,” said Rachel Lashford, a Singapore-based analyst at tech research firm Canalys.

Samsung declined to comment on its strategy in India and other emerging markets. It said in a July earnings call it plans to revamp its mid-to-low-tier line-up with more aggressive pricing and a focus on a smaller set of products. Reuters

Google’s Android One adds to Samsung’s worries in India

Bioshock (£10.49)Quite a price, but Bioshock remains quite a game: a

supremely-creepy first-person shooter that sees you blasting away at genetically-modified nasties, while messing with your own biology to power up your abili-ties. And in answer to the obvious question: yes, the controls do work on a touchscreen. iPhone / iPad

Tiny Tower Vegas (Free + IAP)The two previous Tiny Tower games – Tiny Tower

and Star Wars: Tiny Death Star – were both brilliant. This one is pretty good too, at first glance: you build a pixelly hotel and casino, filling its floors with gambling, and then popping in to play yourself. iPhone / iPad

The Nightmare Cooperative (£2.49)It’s a good week for creative indie games on iOS – yes,

you can say that of most weeks at the moment – with The Nightmare Cooperative particularly worth your attention. It’s a clever “roguelike” adventure, where you have to guide a group of heroes to gather as much gold as possible. Full of character. iPhone / iPad

They Need To Be Fed 3 (£1.49)The previous They Need To Be Fed games were fab,

and this continues the trend: a beautifully-crafted platform adventure with a “360-degree” schtick that means you’re not restricted from going in one direction. Excellent stuff. iPhone / iPad

Madden NFL Mobile (Free + IAP)EA’s American football franchise returns for a new sea-

son, in its recently-adopted guise as a free-to-play game. Expect official players and teams, deep tactical depth, and an improving interface for touchscreens. iPhone / iPad

Swing Copters (Free + IAP)Yes, the sequel to Flappy Bird, from developer Dong

Nguyen. This time, instead of flapping a bird horizontally while avoiding pipes, you’re zig-zagging a propeller-headed char-acter upwards between platforms and swinging hammers. Manages the dubiously-impressive feat of being even more difficult and frustrating than its predecessor. iPhone / iPad

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The Forth Road Bridge in Scotland, with a centre span of 3,300ft (1,006m), was officially opened, connecting Edinburgh to Fife in the north

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HYPER SUDOKU

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How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

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8 Picture with a number

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16 One going around the bases?

17 Ends of some films

18 Warm-up?

19 Greasy spoon order

20 Where a bud hangs out

22 Successfully lure

23 Kind of figure

26 Highlighted, say

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32 Moon of Mars

34 Draft pick?

38 Electric ___

39 Jacket option

41 “___ bad!”

42 Much of the Plains States

44 Palliate

46 Staple of the house in “The Real World”

48 Still

49 “___ con Dios”

52 Transport for Miss Gulch, in “The Wizard of Oz”

54 What a chair needs

56 Hawaiian for “white”

57 PC whiz

61 Controversial 1715 measure of Parliament

63 Touch-type?

65 Infomercial testimonial

66 Reply to a schoolmistress

67 It clears the air

68 “The Hangover” co-star

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3 “The Sound of Music” chorus

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9 Handles online

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12 Sugar

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14 What polling may reveal

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25 Great white shark prey

27 Particular, informally

28 “Clueless” protagonist

29 Hershey candy

31 Distilled pine product

33 Places to find in-flight magazines

35 Advance on a table

36 Actor Jay of “Jerry Maguire”

37 Leave in

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43 Unreal

45 Former

47 “So long”

49 South American carrier founded in 1927

50 Heartburn

51 Cries of pain

53 Nursed, with “for”

55 ___ Torres, four-time Olympic swimming gold medalist

58 Company that follows Shin Bet security procedures

59 Tight-lipped sort

60 Border lines?

62 “Bad!”

64 Popular wood for wood chips

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

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NOVO

1Third Person (2D/Drama)

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

2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Action)

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

3Life Of Crime (2D/Crime)

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

4Deliver Us From Evil (2D/Horror)

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

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

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

6

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

– 11.00am, 3.30, 7.45pm & 12.30am

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

4.00, 6.00, 8.00, 10.00pm & 12.00midnight

8Jawasa Miri (2D/Arabic)

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

9Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action)

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

10Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2D/Action)

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

MALL

1

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

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

Mary Kom (2D/Hindi) – 6.00pm

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

Amara Kaaviyam (2D/Tamil) – 10.45pm

2

Jawasa Miri (2D/Arabic) – 3.00pm

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 5.00pm

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

Peruchazhi (2D/Malayalam) – 8.45pm

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

3

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

Boyhood (2D/Drama) – 4.15pm



LANDMARK

1


Life Of Crime (2D/Crime) – 4.00pm




2


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action)

– 5.30, 9.30 & 11.30pm


3


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

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

ROYAL

PLAZA

1






2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3D/Action)

– 3.00 & 11.30pm




3

Into The Storm (2D/Action) – 2.30pm






PLUS | THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2014 POTPOURRI16

Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

IN FOCUS

A cat resting on top of a car at Al Mamoura.

by Shivani

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MEDIA SCAN A summary ofissues of the daydiscussed by the Qatari communityin the media.

• The authorities have been urged to install electronic signs indicating speed limits. At night, many motorists cannot see the current signs, which are too small.

• With the new school year set to begin, people say nurseries are exploiting high demand by increasing their fees. People have asked for monitoring of their fees.

• Some nationals have complained about neglect of some mosques in outlying areas. Because of lack of maintenance, parts of the mosques are crumbling.

• Some people have lauded the inspection campaign against manpower agencies and called for its continuation to prevent illegal practices by the managers regarding domestic workers and their recruitment fees.

• There are complaints about some old traffic signs on some highways that cannot be read as they have faded or fallen down. People have called on the authorities to renovate or replace them.

• Random works, including excavations, related to infrastructure projects being carried out at the same time in many areas are causing problems to people, who have urged coordination between the authorities concerned and creation of a database for such works.

• People have urged review of the rule that prevents bachelors from living in residential areas as the rule has no clear mechanism of implementation and this is encouraging landlords and tenants to violate it. The practice is persisting because of lack of law enforcement.

2016 Nasa asteroid mission awaits your messages

Nasa has invited the public to sub-mit short messages and images on

social media that could be placed in a time capsule aboard a spacecraft to be launched in 2016 for an asteroid study.

Called the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), the spacecraft will rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2019, collect a sample and return the cache in a cap-sule to earth in 2023 for detailed study.

The robotic mission will spend more than two years atop the 500 metre wide asteroid and return a minimum of 60 grams of its surface material.

Topics for submissions by the public should be about solar system exploration in 2014 and predictions for space explora-tion activities in 2023. The mission team will choose 50 tweets and 50 images to be placed in the capsule. Messages can be submitted between Sep 2-Sep 30.

“It is exciting to think that some peo-ple may formulate predictions and then have the chance to make their predic-tions a reality over the next decade,” said Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project sci-entist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

IANS

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Events in Qatar

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

Brazilian Independence DayWhen: September 4–7; 6.30pm-8:30pm and 9pm–11.30pm Where: Ipanema, Marriott Marquis City Center Doha Hotel What: A four day celebration culminating on the Brazilian Independence Day. Explore the sounds, moves and flavours of Brazil — Live Brazilian Samba Band, Capoeira Performer, and Bahia Inspired Food Buffet at Doha’s award winning Brazilian restaurant – Ipanema. Tickets: QR290

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

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

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

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