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Transformers: Age of Extinction: Series gets a reboot, but no transformation

Trundling down dun-coloured mountain slopes, they disregard hard stares and vulgarities from passing men, revelling in an activity that seemed unthinkable for previous generations of Afghan women –- riding a bicycle. The country’s 10-member national women’s cycling team is challenging gender stereotypes, often at great personal risk, training their eyes not just on the 2020 Olympics but a goal even more ambitious — to get more Afghan women on bikes.

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Bicycle a new metaphor of freedom for Afghan women

By Anuj Chopra

Trundling down dun-coloured mountain slopes, they ignore hard stares and vul-garities from passing men, revelling in an activity that seemed unthinkable for

previous generations of Afghan women — riding a bicycle.

The sight of a woman on a bicycle may not be unusual in most parts of the world, but it is a strik-ing anomaly in Afghanistan where strict Islamic mores deem the sport unbecoming for women.

The country’s 10-member national women’s cycling team is challenging those gender stere-otypes, often at great personal risk, training their eyes not just on the 2020 Olympics but a goal even more ambitious -- to get more Afghan women on bikes.

“For us, the bicycle is a symbol of freedom,” said Marjan Sidiqqi, 26, a team member who is also the assistant coach.

“We are not riding bikes to make a political statement. We’re riding because we want to, because we love to, because if our brothers can, so can we.”

One crisp morning, dressed in tracksuit

bottoms, jerseys and helmets, Marjan and half a dozen team members, all aged between 17 and 21, set out for a training ride from Kabul to the hills of neighbouring Paghman.

Mindful of turning heads and ogling eyes, they rode in the amber light of dawn through a landscape of grassy knolls, fruit orchards and tree-lined boulevards.

A little boy dressed in a grubby shalwar kameez stopped by the wayside and stared at the girls with wonder and amazement.

Up ahead, dour-looking bearded men in a Toyota minivan pulled up parallel to the cyclists -- their stares were more menacing.

But the wheels continued to spin as the women powered ahead undaunted.

They have become accustomed to the hostility, often accompanied by insults:

“You’re bringing dishonour to your families.”“Go home.”But the team say they are emboldened despite

such attitudes -- partly due to the encouraging support from unexpected quarters.

‘Living my dream’Fully cloaked in black, the mother of one

cyclist came out to cheer them on the way to Paghman, waving, applauding, and exuding enthusiasm that is not shared by most of her extended family.

“My daughter is living my dream,” said Maria Rasooli, mother of 20-year-old university stu-dent Firoza.

“My parents never allowed me to ride a bicycle. I can’t let the same happen,” she said, adding that she and her husband kept relatives and neighbours in the dark about their daughter’s sport because “they just won’t understand”.

Thirteen years since the Taliban were toppled from power in a US-led invasion, Afghan women have taken giant strides of progress with access to education and healthcare.

Female lawmakers are no longer an anomaly in Afghan politics and the ongoing election saw the participation of the country’s first woman vice presidential candidate.

That marks a sea change in women’s rights from the Taliban-era, when women weren’t allowed to leave their homes without a male chaperone and were brutally repressed and con-signed to the shadows.

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On a recent training session outside Kabul, three young Afghan men riding a motorbike swooped out of nowhere and sideswiped one of the cyclists, 18-year-old Sadaf Nazari, who tripped and tumbled on top of Marjan.

But gender parity still remains a distant dream as conservative attitudes prevail.

That sentiment is portrayed in a mural by graffiti artist Shamsia Hassani on the walls of a Kabul cafe: burqa-clad women trapped in a watery universe — an alle-gory of women in the post-Tali-ban era who have a voice but still cannot be heard.

‘Boys or girls?’It’s hard to reason with self-

proclaimed arbiters of “morality” who regard a woman mounted on a bicycle as unconceivably risque, say members of the cycling team.

On a recent training ses-sion outside Kabul, three young Afghan men riding a motorbike swooped out of nowhere and sideswiped one of the cyclists, 18-year-old Sadaf Nazari, who tripped and tumbled on top of Marjan.

Marjan badly injured her back

in the incident, which drove Mohammed Sadiq, head of the Afghan Cycling Federation who was trailing the women in his SUV, into a paroxysm of fury.

He chased down the men — the two pillion riders escaped, but he caught the driver by his collar and hauled him over to the police headquarters.

Sadiq, who established the team in 2003 after his own daughter expressed an interest in cycling, said the women’s safety was a constant concern — and plans for international troops to pull out of Afghanistan by 2016 has perpetuated those anxieties.

“If the Taliban return, the first casualty will be women’s rights,” he said in an interview in Kabul’s old city.

As he spoke, half a dozen young women, some sporting kohl-accented eyes and henna-dyed hair, convened in his living room for a discussion about nutrition

and diet with Shannon Galpin, an American competitive cyclist who is coaching the team for the forthcoming Asian Games in South Korea.

Back on the training ride, the exhausted girls gathered by a freshwater stream in Paghman to refuel on naan bread, raisins and cottage cheese.

Near a roadside kiosk where fresh plums, cherries and mul-berries dangled from strings, a curious Afghan man sidled up to Marjan.

“Are you with those cyclists going around the mountain?” he asked.

Startled, Marjan’s eyes darted around as she braced for trouble.

“Yes,” she replied hesitantly.“Are they boys or girls?” the

man enquired.Marjan’s face lit up with

bravado.“Girls,” she beamed proudly.

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BFPIS presents excellence awards top achievers

Bright Future Pakistani International School hon-oured its top achievers of the last academic ses-

sion in a ceremony held at the office of the Chairman of Board of Directors of BFPIS.

Two students, who excelled in Federal Board, Pakistan’s Examinations in the last session were awarded I-Pads in recognition to their outstanding results.

Masooma Safeer and Fatima Haji Mohammad topped not only the local schools in Doha but also succeeded to win Academic Scholarship from the Federal Board due to their results.

Abdul Rehman Mohd Al Meer, Chairman, BFPIS, handed over the aawrds to both students. He appreci-ated the exceptional performance of the students and lauded the efforts of the academic staff for maintain-ing high educational standards at BFPIS.

Qazi Mohammad Asghar, Member, Board of Directors, and Imran Waheed, Principal BFPIS, were also present on the occasion.

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PEC students achieve 100 percent sucess in SSC-II examination

Ayesha NadarAhmed Safiullah Bilal Shakeel

Abeer Yasmeen

Amna Sharif Duaa Tahir Abrar AhmadFatima Ali

Ahmad Shams

Hiba Shakeel

Aisha SultanKamran Januja

Ambreen RiazMaaz Khuram

Sufyan Rizwan

Khadija-Tul-Kubra

Sarah Saleem

Mariam M Amin

Taimiyyah

Khizra

Shaima Raees

Maryam M Farooq Azam

Tariq Shah

Muhammad Faizan Yousaf

Zubair Iqbal

Muhammad Khalid

Zulaika Musab Khan Niazi

The students of Pakistan Education Centre Doha Qatar achieved excellent results in the SSC Part-II Annual Examination 2014 conducted by the FBISE, Islamabad. Maaz Khurram got 999 marks out of 1050 and stood first at Pakistan Education Centre. Abeer Yasmeen Babar got second position by securing 993 marks while Ambreen Riaz stood third with 985 marks. As many as 140 students appeared in SSC-II Exam from PEC. 40 percent of them secured A1 and A grades, 47 percent B grades and others C grades.

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G4S Qatar recently organised “Cash360 Product Launch”, a cash solutions seminar, at the

Oryx Rotana Hotel. Selected clients from various financial institutions, retail outlets, non-government insti-tutions and other corporate custom-ers attended this event which aimed

to provide information and promote a technologically-advanced G4S Qatar offering for optimum cash manage-ment solution for retail and banking.

Dr Saif Al Hajri, G4S Qatar CEO, welcomed the guests, while Sherif Bukhtiar Daula, G4S Qatar Cash Solutions Director, and Neil Evans,

G4S Middle East Regional Cash Director, gave overviews of G4S Qatar cash business, and G4S Strategy on Cash360 — end-to-end solution on cash management cycle — respectively.

Fred Scherf, Managing Director and Owner of CashAccSys Pty Ltd, deliv-ered a presentation on various Cash360

cash acceptance devices and product models, and how this cash management solution can significantly affect the fast growing cash business worldwide.

Also, part of the programme was an actual product demonstration and one-on-one discussions with the clients.

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DMIS holds talent fest

DMIS organised the ‘Skill o Panorama’ talent fest reflecting the artistic and cultural talents hidden in the students and providing them

with a platform to express themselves. A wide variety of house–wise competitions were conducted on stage like dance, music, recitation, medley, elocution, jam, skit, face painting and fancy dress. Literary events like essay writing, shortstory writing, PowerPoint presentation, drawing competitions and collage mak-ing added colour to the fest. The Sapphire House came first with the highest score. “The joyous occasion marked the closing of the school and the beginning of summer break with students taking home with them the memorable moments of triumph and excitement,” a school press release said. The Peninsula

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Giant Ralph Lauren bag displayed at VillaggioTo celebrate the launch of the new variations of its iconic Ricky Bag, Ralph Lauren is

exhibiting a giant Ricky Bag at stores around the world. This month, the exhibit trav-elled to the Galeries Lafayette flagship in Paris, where a pop-up shop has been installed to showcase the new clementine giant Ricky Bag, before continuing its adventure to Qatar at the Ralph Lauren store at Villaggio Mall.

The giant Ricky Bag, in vibrant red, made its debut in September, 2013 at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City before greeting visitors in the entryway of the New York women’s flagship store on Madison Avenue and the Ralph Lauren Greenwich, Connecticut store. In February of this year it travelled all the way to Isetan Department Store in Japan.

Music Lounge, a music and arts training centre, located in Al Wakra, held its maiden Trinity College of London music exams recently. Out the 32 students who appeared, 25 students achieved distinctions and 7 got merits. This music school conducts regular classes in piano, keyboard, guitar, violin, drums, Indian vocals and dance. This is the first time Trinity College of London held music exams in Qatar. Music Lounge is a venture by celebrity pianist from India Stephen Devassy.

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By Michele Kayal

Apple pie may be as American as the Fourth of July, but it prob-ably wasn’t on the table when the holiday first began.

“There wouldn’t have been a whole lot of apples around this time of year,” says Mary Thompson, research historian at Mount Vernon, the plantation estate of George Washington. “They would have eaten them all from last year, and this year’s crop wouldn’t have come in yet.”

From blueberry to strawberry to the pie that combines them to represent the flag, pie is associated with Independence Day. But back in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the holiday was still new, pies weren’t celebratory at all. They were simply a way of life.

“These were not treats,” says Amanda Moniz, an executive of the American Historical Association and author of the blog History’s Just Desserts. ‘’They were con-venience foods and they were frugal food.”

Pies served multiple functions for early Americans. They were the original street food, Moniz says, a handy slice serving as plate, utensil and sustenance all at once. Crust was often made of coarse ingredients such as rye and suet, she says, and wasn’t meant to be eaten. It was simply a vehicle for the nutrition inside.

“Centuries ago this would have been fast food,” Moniz says. “People would have been walking through the street hawking pie. If you didn’t have your own cooking facility you could just buy a slice of pie the way you buy a hot dog from a cart today.”

But not all pies had disposable crusts. Hannah Glasse, author of the 18th century equivalent of Joy of Cooking, had several reci-pes for crust, as did Amelia Simmons, who wrote the 1796 American Cookery, the first American cookbook. Pies with a fine crust

provided an inventive way to handle inferior ingredients and those past their prime, says chef Walter Staib of Philadelphia’s historic City Tavern.

“You didn’t have any freezers, there were no aeroplanes,” Staib says. “Food looked pretty dishevelled after being in a cellar. Many pies were created to camouflage the look of the foods. They were all a byproduct of how the food looked. But the flavour was still there.”

Pies offered variety in the menu, culinary historians say. Unlike today’s well-trimmed, pre-tenderized meats, animal flesh in those days was tough and needed to be braised into submission. Pies provided an attractive delivery device. The soft, stewed meat and vegetables inside pliant pastry also provided the perfect texture for certain segments of the population.

“Pie was easy to eat,” Staib says. “People had very bad choppers because there was no dental hygiene.”

The configuration of the 18th century kitchen also had a lot to do with making pies a fixture on tables from cottages to presidential dinner parties. Hearth cook-ing was imprecise, and recipes descriptive, often referring to cooking in a “slow oven” or over a “quick fire.” ‘’Cakes are harder to bake,” says Susan Stein, senior curator at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. “Getting your fire exactly right requires a lot of skill. As a baker, pies are more forgiving than baking a cake.”

Pies both savoury and sweet were gener-ally eaten at room temperature, says Staib, which would have allowed busy cooks with small kitchens to make the pie in advance and free up the oven for other purposes.

But the line between savoury and sweet also was unclear. Savoury pies contained sweet elements, says Moniz, and sweet pies often contained savoury elements. And some pies were just plain strange.

July Fourth celebrations July Fourth celebrations didn’t always include piedidn’t always include pie

Strawberry Streusel Pie

Start to finish: 30 minutes, plus cooling

Servings: 8Ingredients:

For the streusel:1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour1 cup oats3/4 cup packed brown sugar1 teaspoon cinnamon1/2 teaspoon kosher salt12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks)

unsalted butter, diced

For the filling:2 quarts strawberries, hulled

and diced, divided1/4 cup granulated sugarPinch salt2 tablespoons cornstarch2 tablespoons lemon juiceZest of 1 lemon

Method:Heat the oven to 400 F. Coat

a 9-inch pie pan with cooking spray.

In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Use your hands or a pastry blender to mix in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press two-thirds of the mixture into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared pie pan. Gently press a sheet of foil into the pan,

then add pie weights or beans.To make the streusel

topping, spread the rest of the crust mixture evenly on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake both until lightly browned. The topping will be done in about 12 to 15 minutes; the crust will take 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the foil from the pie crust and set both pans aside to cool.

While the crust bakes, make the filling. In a large saucepan, combine half of the strawberries with the sugar and salt. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, then cook for 5 minutes, or until the strawberries are very juicy and starting to break down.

In a small bowl, combine the lemon juice and cornstarch. Stir into the simmering strawberries and cook, stirring, for 1 minute, or until thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining strawberries and the lemon zest. Spoon the filling into the crust and sprinkle the cooked streusel over the top. Allow to cool completely.

Nutrition information per serving: 430 calories; 170 calories from fat (40 percent of total calories); 19 g fat (11 g saturated; 0.5 g trans fats); 45 mg cholesterol; 64 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 32 g sugar; 5 g protein; 130 mg sodium.

(Recipe by Alison Ladman)AP

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By Pauline Askin

To help keep herself safe and sane while making television dramas in Afghanistan, Australian

producer Trudi-Ann Tierney devised an ever-more elaborate game of hide-and-seek in her head in case the Taliban launched a surprise attack.

Imagining what it would be like to hide in the top of a wardrobe, the middle of a lake or buried among a herd of goats, she men-tally weighed the pros and cons of them all, as she explains in her new book Making Soapies in Kabul.

A chain smoker who lived in the most polluted city in the world, she endured typhoid, six different types of stomach bugs and pneu-monia during what she said was the most exhilarating experience of her life.

Tierney spoke recently about living and working in war-torn Afghanistan which led to her first book.

What were you doing there?My first job in television in

Kabul was to write an eight part drama serial for our Pashtun audience sponsored by a for-eign embassy. It was to contain messages to counter narcotics. This concept of doing messaging through drama serials as opposed to a billboard was a very new idea in Afghanistan, where 86 percent of the country is illiterate.

How does producing a TV series in Australia differ from Afghanistan?

In Australia you’ve got plenty of resources and experienced and trained staff. In Afghanistan we had mainly untrained young peo-ple because television was banned for 10 years under the Taliban. The average age of our company was 24 years old.

What were some of the hardships?

Intense heat, working through Ramadan and crews working strictly to rule. Initially I thought I could lead by example, I’d lug a beach umbrella and a makeup kit up a hill in 40-degree (104 F) heat. I coaxed, I wheedled, I joked, I jabbed ... and finally, I yelled!

My crew stood waist deep in streams to get the best angles, trudged up mountains at 4am to film sunrise. They were very young, enthusiastic, hard-working young people with a willingness to learn how to make television.

Were you successful?Eagle Four (our mission to por-

tray the Afghan National Police as professional, hard-working and honest), was the biggest television drama production ever mounted in Afghanistan.

We received an international

award for this. Also, there was a spike in police recruitment during the course of Eagle Four.

Forty-five percent of Afghans have access to television, so it’s definitely seen as the most effec-tive tool to education, entertain-ment because illiteracy rates are so high.

Any embarrassing moments you remember?

We were doing an incredibly tough shoot and we had 15 child extras. Children on set at the best of times are difficult to deal with. Here were 15 Afghan chil-dren who probably barely watched television, let alone appeared on it. They had no concept of not looking at the camera. We were behind schedule and all the kids started wandering away. I called to my producer and said, “Where are those kids going?” She said, “They’re going to school”. I just completely lost my mind and I screamed,

“Nobody is going to school today - alright!” All the kids stopped and I literally stopped these kids from going to school.

I felt absolutely awful. I thought, “Here I am, I’ve come over here to try and help these people and I’m basically stopping the kids from getting an education!”

During long shoots, how did you pass the time?

One of my favourite games was “What would you do if the Taliban came now?” We would go to some location in the middle of nowhere, there’d be a bit of a mountain and a few trees and I’d literally think, “What would I do if the Taliban turned up?”

You had to be inventive. It was something to pass the time but also something that stuck in the back of your mind.

My favourite was the bam-boo stick and I honestly believed that could work. You’d get under the water and use the stick as a snorkel. The only trouble was I wouldn’t know when the Taliban had left and I could be under the water for hours and get bitten by a fish - that was the only setback with that one.

What are some of your mem-orable moments?

There were constantly people walking around the office looking like the walking wounded because our makeup artist had to practise her craft. It got a little bit excit-ing because everyone wanted to have a stab wound and everyone wanted to have a bullet wound. I’d have to say, “No! The makeup kit is going away for today” because I thought we’re going to run out of latex and have to get another makeup kit.

Making Soapies in Kabul” is published by Allen & Unwin.

Reuters

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Intense heat and crew working strictly to rule. Initially I thought I could lead by example, I’d lug a beach umbrella and a makeup kit up a hill in 40-degree (104 F) heat. I coaxed, I wheedled, I joked, I jabbed ... and finally, I yelled!

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Chris Brown to have own reality show?

Singer Chris Brown is likely to star in his own reality TV show. Black Entertainment Television (BET) is said to be eager to sign a deal with

Brown, who was released from jail earlier this month, as they want to create a series based on his life after prison and his battle to stay out of trouble, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“BET has made it clear to several production companies the network would absolutely air a Chris Brown reality series, chronicling his life after jail,” said a source.

The US network is said to have recently held a focus group here to gauge the reaction of prospective viewers. The majority of the participants said they would tune in to the show, just to watch the 25-year-old struggle.

Brown was released from jail June 2 after serving 108 days for violating his probation, which stemmed from his assault on his then girlfriend and singer Rihanna in 2009.

The “Yeah 3x” hitmaker, who was sent back to jail after being thrown out of court-ordered rehab in March, is determined to stay on the right track and only take the medication prescribed for his bipolar disorder.

comedy when evil men and robots are out to get Optimus Prime. One such person is Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer), the head of a CIA pro-gram aimed at destroying all Autobots. His henchmen include a Decepticon (a.k.a. a bad-guy Transformer) named Lockdown and a heartless creep played by Titus Welliver. When these preda-tors discover where Optimus Prime is hiding, neither the Autobot nor Cade’s friends and family are safe. Cue the action.

Some of the special effects are amaz-ing. Bay shot the movie in Imax 3-D, and he makes the most of the technol-ogy. Watching a steamship get sucked into the air by a spaceship, only to be thrown back to the ground, might have viewers covering their heads. The problem is quantity. There are so many action sequences related to so many story lines that midway through an epic fight, you might find yourself wondering what exactly started this particular battle and what the objec-tive is other than destruction for the sake of it.

All those minutes devoted to crunch-ing metal come at the expense of not

just character and plot development, but also simple transitions. The movie moves both too slowly and too quickly, as scene transitions appear to have been stripped or significantly short-ened during the editing process. Even the lengthy run time isn’t sufficient to develop the many story lines, from a subplot involving Tess’s secret boy-friend (Cade doesn’t let her date), to a scientist, played by Stanley Tucci, who wants to take old Transformer parts and create newer, better Transformers that he can control. We can all guess how well that goes.

Distractions, meanwhile, abound, whether they’re music-heavy slow-motion sequences that look reminis-cent of CSI: Miami or absurd product placement. The lingering close-up of a Beats Pill speaker is especially egregious.

And then there are the self-referen-tial scenes in which an older charac-ter, who once owned a movie theater, laments the current state of cinema: All these sequels, and they’re all just garbage, the man sighs. It might be funnier if it weren’t so true.

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By Stephanie Merry

It’s only natural to get a lit-tle excited about the title of Transformers: Age of Extinction, and not because it means another

instalment of talking machines battling to the death. It’s the word “extinction.” Could this mean that Michael Bay is throwing in the towel on his loud and lumbering franchise after this fourth chapter?

Ha.Actually, a fifth movie is reportedly

in the works. The extinction in the title refers to the fact that some loathsome Transformers were responsible for the annihilation of dinosaurs, and they may have a similar plan for humans. The movie begins in prehistoric times before bringing us to a modern-day reality, and the unfolding of all those eons feels like it’s happening in real time. The movie clocks in at an aston-ishing 2 hours 45 minutes.

This Transformers is technically a reboot, and one thing the movie has going for it is its lack of Shia LaBeouf. Instead, we follow a new cast of

characters led by Mark Wahlberg. He plays Cade Yeager, a kind of mad scientist inventor who runs a robot-ics repair shop in Texas. He can’t fix a machine to save his life, but when a decaying semi winds up in his care, he has no trouble bringing it back to life. Of course, this isn’t just some old truck: It’s Optimus Prime, the benevo-lent leader of the Autobots (a.k.a. the good-guy Transformers).

Wahlberg has a great screen pres-ence and gets off some good one-liners during the movie’s early moments. He’s a single father to the teenaged Tess (Nicola Peltz), and just when you’re wondering how this girl’s shorts could be so microscopic — Cade makes some comment about how she needs to remember to use cold water and air dry next time she’s doing laundry. But the relative pleasure of those first min-utes is thanks largely to T J Miller, best known as the outlandish Erlich on HBO’s Silicon Valley. He has a simi-lar role here, as a somewhat clueless bum with a hilariously outsized sense of self-worth.

But there isn’t a lot of time for

Adams gives first class seat to soldierActress Amy Adams reportedly gave her

first class seat on a flight to a US soldier and travelled in the economy cabin of her Delta flight from Detroit.

The 39-year-old, who was born on a mili-tary base as her father was in the army, was reportedly travelling from Detroit to Los Angeles on a busy Delta flight Friday morn-ing when she spotted a soldier in uniform and generously asked a flight attendant to swap their seats, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Eyewitness Jemele Hill, who co-hosts ESPN’s “Numbers Never Lie”, told NBC’s “Today” show via email from the plane: “When we were waiting to board, I saw her glance the soldier’s way and then she said something to the person she was travelling with. Once we boarded, I saw she was in first

class. I was upgraded to first class and she was a couple rows behind me.“I think she must have said something to the flight attendant, because

before we took off she had vacated her seat and the flight attendant brought the soldier to her seat.”

She added: “I just thought it was incredibly classy and thoughtful.”

Ek Villain: Deeply flawed, fatally self-defeatingBy Subhash K Jha

Film: Ek VillainCast: Siddharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor, Riteish DeshmukhDirected by Mohit Suri

Siddharth simmers and scorches the screen with his

implosive one man against the world act. As a loner on a ram-page after the love of his life is killed, he brings to the table a certain intensity which unfortunately, in this case, can only go this far and no further.

We are looking at a film that is deeply flawed and fatally self-defeating.

Much was expected from director after Aashiqui 2. Alas, Suri chooses to wallow in unnecessary and at times prolonged brutality rather than focus on the tender love story between the seething brute and the bubbly babe.

Not that there is anything new to offer in the love story. The silent indignant loner and the gregarious chirpy girl next door...haven’t we seen Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri take those two characters to the acme of perfection in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Mili?

Ek Villain is Mili over-heaped with a maelstrom of mayhem, mostly uncalled-for and sometimes atrociously out of place. The action sometimes borders on the utterly ludicrous. This isn’t first time when the director seems to enjoy visualizing the exploits of a sadistic serial killer. In Murder 2 too, the graphic gruesome killings of the serial offender were recorded with an embarrassing backhanded relish .

The killer in Ek Villain is a henpecked husband moonlighting as a guy who believes if life treats you bad, you use do the same with other people’s lives.

Providentially, this incoherent serial killer is played by Riteish Deshmukh who interprets the character with more cogency than it demands.

Suri diminishes the brutality of the serial offender by offsetting it with the love story between the criminally inclined introvert (Siddharth) and the sunshine girl (Shraddha) who insists on telling criminally unfunny jokes. Shraddha’s eyes speak volumes. So unfortunately does her mouth in this film. How I wish our cinema would stop equating volubility with vivacity.

More regrettable are the plot’s mood swings. In spite of the tragic overtones the love story never quite acquires the wings that you’d expect a romance between two such good-looking people to. In spite of some beautifully enacted moments of fragile passion between the lead pair, it all comes undone in the second-half when Siddharth and Riteish do a farcical face-off replete with the most atrocious dialogues and scenes that make them look like two school boys fighting over who’s larger.

The sinister often makes way for the silly, specially when musician Remo Fernandes shows up as a gangster replete with an accent that is as hard to identify as the Korean film that Suri has adapted into this strange brew of the brutal and the tender. Even more bizarre is Kamaal R Khan’s character.

However Shaad Randhawa playing cop displays a powerful screen presence.

There are many lapses of continuity in the storytelling all trying to pass off as a stylish non-linear love story told backwards. One of the turning points in the story when Siddharth’s character befriends his wife’s killer’s little son in a church, is such a wildly improbable shot in the dark, you wonder what the director was thinking!

In trying for a merger of mayhem and emotions the film finally falls apart like the shattered pieces of a broken heart. We expect so much and get so little. That’s life. IANS

De Niro stopped filming for World cupVeteran actor Robert De Niro had filming on The Intern halted so he

could watch a World Cup soccer game with fans in a nearby building.The 70-year-old actor took a break from shooting in Brooklyn, Thursday

to watch the USA play Germany in the World Cup after finding a group of fans in a nearby house who were hosting a viewing party, reports con-tactmusic.com.

Executives on the movie had originally asked officials at a nearby apart-ment building to help the movie legend be able to see the game in his trailer.

An email was sent which read: ‘’Our lead actor, Robert De Niro, would very much like to watch the World Cup game, today at 12 pm. Would it be possible to place a small portable satellite on the building rooftop ASAP and run a cable to the street to help facilitate this request?’’

However, following the request, a resident stepped in to invite the Taxi Driver star to watch it with them.

A neighbour told the Business Insider: ‘’We got another email from a neighbour saying he talked to the crew and apparently he found a house of people watching it and joined them.’’

Production was halted for two hours so the legendary actor could enjoy the game.


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Complex heart tests raise cancer risk

Radiation from standard X-rays do not significantly raise cancer risks for young children, in general, but children undergoing more complex procedures with higher radia-tion have higher risks, says a study.

“Cancer risk overall is relatively low, but we hope that this awareness will encourage providers to limit radiation exposure in chil-dren, when alternative procedures can offer the same benefit with less radiation,” said Jason Johnson, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the US.

Researchers reviewed medical records to find the most common imaging procedures, calculated how much radiation organs absorb during each procedure and then used a report from National Academy of Sciences in the US to analyse lifetime cancer risks based on the amounts of each procedure’s exposure.

Lifetime cancer risk increases ranged from 0.002 percent for chest X-rays to 0.4 percent for complex CT scans and cardiac catheterisations.

The study appeared in the journal Circulation.

Dynamics of cancer chain in cell membrane unravelled

In new findings, scientists have discovered how clusters of a protein are linked to cancer damage cell membranes.

The findings on these protein clusters, or aggregates, could help guide design of new anti-cancer drugs.

“The aggregate is a large substructure that imposes some kind of curvature on the mem-brane - that is really the major observation,” said lead researcher Alemayehu Gorfe from the University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston, US.

The researchers created coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of the Ras protein.

More than one-third of all human cancers are associated with somatic, or post-concep-tion, mutations in Ras proteins.

“Mutations on one of the Ras proteins, Kristen or K-Ras, are responsible for 90 percent or more of pancreatic cancer cases,” Gorfe said.

“It tells you that it is a very, very important anti-cancer drug target,” he added.

Scientists today have little understanding of how or what happens when Ras proteins form small, nano-sized clusters on the membrane.

“It is these nanoclusters, these transient substructures on the cell membrane that assemble and disassemble quickly, that are involved in signal transmission,” Gorfe said.

Gorfe’s computer simulations showed Ras proteins cluster together, or form aggregates, on the cell membrane. And this led him to question what they might do there.

Ras acts like a switch that must be turned on for cells to reproduce.

The problem is that when Ras genes get mutated, that switch just would not turn off, and that leads to out of control cell growth.

The study was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Agencies

By Kathryn Doyle

Older military veterans who have suffered a serious head injury are more likely to be diagnosed with dementia than uninjured veterans, according to a new study.

The report looked at traumatic brain injury (TBI), which includes concussions, skull fractures and bleed-ing inside the skull.

“There have been a fair number of previous studies that have looked at the relationship between TBI and risk of dementia, and some have found an associa-tion while others haven’t,” said lead author Deborah E. Barnes, from the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

She and her colleagues sought to clarify the rela-tionship by taking into account other conditions, like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

“And we found that, even after accounting for these other factors, older veterans with a history of TBI were 60 percent more likely to develop dementia,” Barnes said.

Dementia affects five percent of people in their 70s and 37 percent of those in their 90s, according to past research.

For the new study, the researchers examined the medical records of more than 188,000 US veterans ages 55 and older who had undergone a medical evalu-ation between 2000 and 2003 and did not have demen-tia at the time.

The veterans all visited the doctor again at least once between 2003 and 2012.

According to their records, 1,229 of the veterans had been diagnosed with TBI. Between 2003 and 2012, 196 of those with a history of TBI developed dementia, or 16 percent, compared to 18,255 of the veterans without TBI, or 10 percent.

Veterans with TBI also developed dementia an average of two years earlier than those without TBI, according to results published in Neurology.

“Of course, these numbers reflect population aver-ages, so there will be many individual veterans without

TBI who develop dementia and many with TBI who don’t,” Barnes said. “Having a TBI just increases the risk.”

Veterans with head injuries in the study were more likely than uninjured veterans to have other health problems including diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and PTSD.

“Head trauma is pretty controversial still,” said Dr. Rodolfo Savica of the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City.

“We know it can increase risk of dementia in the long run, but not everybody who is exposed to this trauma develops problems,” Savica, who wrote an edi-torial accompanying the study, told Reuters Health.

Other health issues that exist alongside head trauma are also important, he said.

Since veterans with TBI were more likely to have diabetes and high blood pressure as well, this is likely a group that is more prone to disease or more vulner-able, Savica said.

“We should follow up more carefully with these peo-ple,” he said. “Whenever you have additional (health issues), if you are depressed or have PTSD, you have to tell your doctor.”

Head injuries are common among both veterans and non-veterans, affecting as many as one in five Iraq and Afghanistan vets, Barnes said.

Veterans with head injuries may be able to lower their risk of dementia by engaging in physical, mental and social activities, making sure high blood pressure and diabetes are well controlled and getting treatment for any mental health conditions such as depression and PTSD, she said.

“We found that there was an additive relationship between mental health conditions and head injury, so that veterans who had both of these risk factors were more likely to develop dementia than those who only had one,” Barnes said.

“In addition, they may be able to lower risk of dementia by doing their best to minimize future head injuries by doing simple things to protect their brain, like wearing helmets and seat belts,” she said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/NwhhyY Neurology, online June 25, 2014. Reuters

Study links Study links traumatic traumatic brain injury to brain injury to increased increased dementia riskdementia risk


TECHNOLOGYPLUS | SUNDAY 29 JUNE 201412

Google is expanding its empire to cars, watches, businesses and televisions.

The technology titan laid out a sweeping vision at the opening of a sold-out develop-

ers conference in a keynote presentation streamed online to millions of people across the world.

“We are beginning to evolve our platforms beyond mobile,” Android and Chrome teams chief Sundar Pichai said of how Google’s twin operating systems are being adapted to work with one another and with new types of computing hardware.

Google’s goal, according to Pichai, is to have its software be a foundation for applications, services or digital content delivered seamlessly across the increasingly diverse array of Internet-linked screens in people’s lives.

A new LG G smartwatch and a freshly-announced Gear Live smartwatch by Samsung that both work with the “Android Wear” platform debuted Wednesday at the online shop Google Play.

On-stage demonstrations included ordering a pizza in seconds, fielding reminders and messages, and using voice commands on smartwatches.

An eagerly awaited Moto 360 smartwatch is due to join the Android Wear lineup later this year.

“These are the first three watches, but there are more on the way,” Pichai said.

Android on the roadAndroid Auto software for cars, synching smart-

phones with in-dashboard screens and controls, is being shared with automakers, and vehicles are set

to be equipped by the end of this year.Android Auto brings apps like Google Maps and

Spotify music service to an “interface built for driving,” according to a freshly formed coalition of technology and car companies called the Open Automotive Alliance.

Google also announced another shot at smart televisions with Android TV software for what are typically the biggest screens in homes.

Google is giving televisions “the same level of atten-tion that phones and tablets have enjoyed,” according to Android engineering director Dave Burke.

Android smartphones, complete with voice com-mand features, could be used to direct searches and more on television screens, an on-stage demonstra-tion showed.

Games from the Google Play shop could also be played on televisions.

Expanding Google empire“The Google empire is trying to grow,” Gartner

consumer technology research director Brian Blau said on the sidelines of the San Francisco keynote presentation.

“Google is trying to be more like Apple; create more consistent experiences with devices that work together.”

Handset or tablet makers are free to customize free Android software to suit hardware and set them-selves apart from rivals, but this has resulted in pop-ular applications working on some gadgets and not others in a situation referred to as “fragmentation.”

Apple, on the other hand, so tightly controls software powering iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices that developers can more easily target broad audiences.

Improving how well popular services or applica-tions work across Android devices should also entice users to “lock in” to the platform the way Apple devotees remain loyal to the Cupertino, California company’s gear, according to Blau.

“Lots of variations of Android make developers work harder to support all those devices,” the ana-lyst said.

“A consistent experience will help Google in the long run.”

Google also showed off steps it is taking to make Android devices along with its services offered in the Internet “cloud” amenable to workplaces.

Improvements include tools for separating per-sonal and company uses of mobile devices, as well as better handling of files made using Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint programs.

Pichai made a point of addressing criticism that women engineers are scarce in Silicon Valley firms.

Among those watching the conference online was a group of female developers in Nigeria, said Pichai, who noted that more than a fifth of those taking part in the conference are women.

“We are working hard to elevate women in com-puter sciences,” Pichai said.

AFP

Google announced it was work-ing on a low-cost smartphone aimed at emerging markets as

part of an initiative called Android One.The Android-powered handset will

be built with a basic set of features including FM radio, have a screen slightly smaller than five inches (12.7 centimeters) and be priced at less than $100, Google senior vice president Sundar Pichai said.

“We are going to be launching it around the world, but will launch in India first in the fall of this year,” Pichai said.

He added that Google was working with carriers in India to provide afford-able telecom service packages to go with the smartphones, which could in many cases provide Internet access for the first time.

The Android One initiative sets out to work with smartphone makers and others in the “ecosystem” to pool resources and standardize hardware platforms to provide “turnkey solu-tions” for making handsets, according to Pichai.

“There are many people -- billions of people, in fact -- who still don’t have access to a smartphone,” he said.

“We want to change that.”Low-cost phones powered by

Android have proven popular in devel-oping markets, but have been vexed by “fragmentation” because handset makers customize the software to suit different hardware or set themselves

apart from rivals.The variations result in popular third-

party applications typically not work-ing across the array of Android devices, frustrating users who want the latest fun, hip or helpful mobile mini-program.

Android One software for low-priced smartphones in emerging countries could bring some consistency across devices, according to Gartner con-sumer technology research director Brian Blau.

“Google really needs to have a solu-tion for emerging markets with low-cost devices,” Blau said.

“It is going to be a long, tough road to have an impact there; it is going to take years to bring the next two to three billion people onto the Internet.”

Internet everywhereGoogle is collaborating with handset

makers and others in the industry to field affordable smartphones that are high quality and come with reasonably priced data plans.

Handsets will be made by Google partners and launch with an initial range of “sub-$100” smartphones.

“We’ve long wondered what poten-tial could be unleashed if people everywhere had access to the latest technology and the world’s informa-tion,” Pichai said. “It’s time to find out.”

Google and Silicon Valley rival Facebook have made priorities out of connecting with people in parts of the world where Internet connectivity

is scan, unreliable or just non-existent.Having more people tune into

websites or services mean expanded opportunities to make money from online advertising or providing tools that connect shops with customers.

Google does not make money from hardware, with its own branded gadg-ets meant to set standards and show off software capabilities with an eye toward inspiring electronics manufacturers to raise their games when it comes to Android or Chrome devices.

Developing countries have become prime targets for smartphone makers, and Android software made available free to handset makers has proven to be popular with budget-conscious buyers. The news came a day after Microsoft said it would sell an Android-powered Nokia smartphone at a price of $135, a device also apparently aimed at emerging markets customers.

In April, Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones that could be used to boost Internet access to remote areas.

Google also is developing Project Loon, which uses large balloons for transmitting Internet signals to regions that are not currently connected.

“They are to some degree becom-ing an ISP (Internet service provider) because they have to,” Blau said of Google’s efforts to provide online con-nectivity through projects such as Loon and even Fiber high-speed broadband lines in the United States. AFP

Google making low-cost smartphone

Android spreading to cars, watches, TV

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Hoy en la HistoriaJune 29, 1956

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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

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unlike Sudoku

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ACROSS 1 ___ skirt

5 “The Tao of Pooh” author Benjamin

9 One with ergophobia

14 “Look what I found!” cries

15 Kind of tradition

16 “___ talk?”

17 “Good thing I don’t have the same problem!”

19 Following

20 River of film

21 1986 top 10 hit for Billy Idol

23 That’s the point

24 Meal at which to drink four cups of wine

25 Part of a pickup line?

28 “___, boy!”

29 Earth goddess created by Chaos

33 Expanse

36 “Apparently”

38 What fell in the Fall

39 That is the question

41 Robert of “Quincy, M.E.”

42 One who may need a shower?

44 Holder of a pair of queens

46 Shiner

47 Milk sources

49 N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Walker

50 Belgian battleground during W.W. I

52 Letters in car ads

54 “Truthfully …”

57 Brought up to speed

61 Yokel, in slang

62 Classic rock song in “Easy Rider”

64 G.W. competitor

65 P.D.Q. Bach’s “I’m the Village Idiot,” e.g.

66 Rep. Darrell of California

67 Like the myth of Ragnarok

68 Luxury hotel name

69 Locale for a Village People hit, informally

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2 “Don’t even think about it”

3 Bats

4 Showed politeness at the front door

5 Certain ring bearer

6 Relative of a gemsbok

7 ___ Schwarz

8 Fictional substance in a Disney film

9 Zodiac symbol

10 U.S.S. Enterprise chief engineer Geordi ___

11 Where reruns run

12 Overly precious

13 Mister, overseas

18 ___ Balls

22 Christmas hymn beginning

24 Events at which people are dead serious?

25 Some pyramids

26 In two, say

27 Ohio city WSW of Columbus

28 It’s possessive

30 Some buggy drivers

31 Name on a bottle of Sensuous Nude perfume

32 Half of an old comedy team

34 Caen cleric

35 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g.

37 Drifts away

40 Quaker product

43 Chardonnay feature

45 “Whatever!”

48 Fancy suite amenity

51 In and of itself

52 Ball mate

53 Mr. ___

54 What’s not for big shots?

55 38-Across’s genus

56 “Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears” poet

57 “I say” sayer

58 Menu section

59 Threat ender

60 Time of 1944’s Operation Neptune

63 “… goes, ___ go!”

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33 34 35 36 37

38 39 40 41

42 43 44 45

46 47 48 49

50 51 52 53

54 55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63

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

may only be

used once.

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

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


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A view after sunset from West Bay Lagoon.

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Dr Mohamed Al Khawaja, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Qatar University

He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Seattle University, MS

in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University. He has published 9 papers — 2 confer-ence papers and 7 other papers in very reputed journals (such as the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and the ASME, Journal of Heat Transfer). His research interest include MHD flows, heat exchangers, gas turbines, and thermal insulations.

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Events in Qatar

Hekayat Khaleejiya (Khaleeji Stories) - Stories from Kuwait When: July 2-3; 8pm-10pm Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: A quarterly screening series to showcase cinematic voices from the Gulf region. Q&A sessions with the filmmakers to gain insight into their work and process. (www.dohafilminstitute.com)Ticket: QR 35, students: QR 25

Building Our Collection: An Insight Into Museum Art Collecting When: Till August 30Where: Museum Of Islamic Art What: The exhibition looks at why MIA collects Islamic art, and how the museum’s collecting practices shape our understanding of Islamic art through artistic and cultural connections between different regions of the Islamic world. The majority of featured objects have never before been on display.Entry Fee

Etel Adnan in All Her Dimensions When: Till July 6Where: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

What: Mathaf presents an exhibition of the work of Lebanese-American visual artist, poet, playwright and essayist Etel Adnan, that is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. (for timings www.mathaf.org.qa) Tickets required

Richard Serra: Concurrent ExhibitionsWhen: Till July 6, 8:30am- 5:30pmWhere: QMA Gallery Building 10, KataraWhat: One of Richard Serra’s most ambitious exhibition ever — brings together sculptures and drawings from different periods, ranging from One Ton Prop (House of Cards) of 1969 (on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York) to a new work, Passage of Time, especially created for this occasion.Free entry

Qatar Brazil: A Journey from the Amazon to the Desert When: Till July 1, 10am-10pm Where: Qatar Photographic Society – Building 18, Katara

What: Four photographers from two different continents — Qatari and Brazilian photographers Aref Hussein, Abdullah Al Tamimi, Andre Joaquim and Leonardo Wen — document their journey engaging in an inspiring exchange of artistic discovery and cultural dialogue. Free entry

By Nick Perry

A judge ruled that a New Zealand schoolboy need not cut his hair

before returning to class and that his Catholic high school had been wrong to suspend him for having long locks.

Sixteen-year-old Lucan Battison was suspended last month from St John’s College in the town of Hastings. Principal Paul Melloy said Battison had breached a rule that states students must keep their hair short, tidy, off their collars and out of their eyes.

But Battison argued his naturally curly hair would look unruly if cropped and he was prepared to wear it in a bun to comply with the school’s standards. Rather than cut his hair, the student and his family took their case to court.

In his decision, New Zealand High Court judge David Collins found the schoolboy’s actions weren’t harmful or dangerous to other students, didn’t amount to serious misconduct, and therefore didn’t warrant suspension. He also found St John’s didn’t provide enough clarity in its hair rules to ensure students could comply with them.

While the school disagreed with Battison’s hairstyle, it didn’t dispute

his description of himself as a “typical teenager.” In fact, the school described him in court as a “nice young man.”

The judge noted that “an insight into Lucan’s character can be gleaned from the fact that in March this year he received a civil bravery award for partici-pating in the rescue of two young women, who nearly drowned in dangerous swim-ming conditions at a Hawke’s Bay beach.”

The judge also noted that Battison represented St John’s in rugby and loved attending the school, in part because his faith was important to him.

Battison’s parents Troy Battison and Tania Doidge said in a statement their son had never broken the rules because his bun kept his hair off his collar and out of his eyes. “In 2014, when girls’ hair lengths at school aren’t questioned, why should the rules be different for boys?” they said.

In his ruling, Judge Collins noted that one of Battison’s lawyers had tried to provide the school board’s dis-ciplinary committee with statements from two hairdressers, one of whom said Battison’s hair was already short and would “look like ‘an untidy afro’ if it was cut shorter,” but that the com-mittee apparently chose not to accept the testimony. AP

New Zealand schoolboy wins right to keep hair long

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