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• HBKU welcomes Executive Master in Energy and Resources class

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Many seniors in US are living in wired homes. Their Many seniors in US are living in wired homes. Their medicine bottles will alert their doctors when they medicine bottles will alert their doctors when they

miss a dose. Pressure-sensing floor mats can miss a dose. Pressure-sensing floor mats can sense when they have fallen or let caregivers know sense when they have fallen or let caregivers know

when a patient has not showered for a while. when a patient has not showered for a while.

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By Hayley Tsukayama

As more baby boomers enter retirement, many may see their homes get a high-tech makeover.

Their medicine bottles will alert their doctors when they miss a dose. Pressure-sensing floor mats can sense when they have fallen or let caregivers know when a patient has not show-ered for a while. Sensors that custom-ers wear on their bodies can detect whether they are moving in a manner that would indicate they have taken a spill.

The aim of these upgrades is to allow an aging population to stay in their homes — and independent — longer.

The market is small but could explode as more people enter retire-ment, analysts said. The devices could provide independence to some elderly people, but they also pose familiar questions about how to best ensure privacy is protected.

The devices often mean adding “sensor platforms in what have tradi-tionally been protected spaces — your home, your office,” said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “Even something like a temperature sensor can be revealing. . . . It can easily tell if you’re home.”

The effort also pushes “telemedi-cine,” including videoconferencing with one’s doctor, into a more intimate space.

Receiving such data from a patient can make it easier for doctors to moni-tor their health, said David Lindeman, a gerontologist and director of the Center for Technology and Aging. Also, he said, monitoring people while they are in their natural environment rather than a clinical setting can also lead to more accurate diagnoses.

For some attempting to delay life in a nursing home, the connectivity can be critical, industry officials say.

MobileHelp’s alert and fall notifica-tion devices work inside and outside the home, giving customers a way to report emergencies no matter where they are. One customer said the device helped alleviate her fear of walking to her mailbox alone, said Robert Flippo, chief executive of MobileHelp.

“She’d literally sit at the window and watch for when someone walked by so she wouldn’t be alone when she went to check her mail,” he said.

Qualcomm, which offers a med-ical-connected home service called “HealthyCircles,” showed off the possibility of the smart home on the showroom floor at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month.

Homes can create high-tech safety net for elderly

The aim of these tech upgrades is to allow an aging population to stay in their homes — and independent — longer.

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Using a central receiver, Qualcomm says, it pulls data from a variety of tools patients use to monitor their health — smart scales, connected blood pressure monitors and glucose readers, for example — into a central location so the information can be analyzed at a glance. A patient por-tal, which users can pull up on their iPhone, iPad or Android devices, lets them easily report the effects of new medication and share small updates with their doctors, family members or other caretakers, Qualcomm says.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, which was one of the first in the coun-try to roll out a broad tele-health pro-gram that used videoconferencing and smart monitors, has seen a dramatic improvement since it was launched in 2003. Adam Darkins, a physician and national coordinator of VA’s tele-health program, said the program has reduced days spent in the hospital by 59 per-cent and hospital admissions by 35 percent for veterans of all ages across the country.

For every patient VA manages with the program, he said, the organisation saves $2,000 per year in costs, even when factoring in the cost of the pro-gram itself. Those savings come in part from being able to use tele-health to cut down on the time patients spend in the hospital and funds spent on

crisis care and to also increase the effi-ciency of each visit. And the benefit for patients — particularly for veterans who are often deeply attached to their home towns — is clear, Darkins said.

But widespread use of such technol-ogy can raise questions about whether patient’s personal details are being properly protected. More companies that have not traditionally dealt with health information are entering the market, said Hall, of the Center for

Democracy and Technology.It is also unclear how data-breach,

security and other laws apply to the growing ecosystem of new devices or how companies will set their own standards to protect the influx of data. “There are best practices we’d like to see,” Hall said.

Qualcomm and Honeywell, which offers the HomMed patient monitor-ing service, say their products comply with the Health Insurance Portability

and Accountability Act’s privacy and security protocols so a hacker cannot tap into confidential records.

“No devices are inherently HIPAA compliant,” said Stacey Force, a HomMed spokeswoman. “But the proc-ess by which you use that device, the way we handle our patient information and all the security levels that we’ve wrapped around the software are some of the components that help with that compliance.”

And then there are the devices themselves. The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project reported in October that while 35 per-cent of Americans have tablet comput-ers, only 16 percent of those 65 and older own that kind of technology.

A lot of thought, then, must go into designing products that do not intimidate seniors, said Bill Novelli, a professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business who works with an aging-issues center operated by the electronics company Philips. Flippo, of MobileHelp, said that for some of his older customers, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by even simple, one-button technology.

“We’ve had customers that have opened our box, seen that it has three pieces and then send it back,” he said. “That’s how sensitive they are to this.”

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PLUS | THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 20144 CAMPUS

MES Indian School honoured achievers in Islamic Studies and its Quran class recently. All students who have com-pleted the seven-year Islamic Studies course and received a certificate of merit in the Quran class annual examination 2013, were felicitated. Muneer Mankada was the chief guest. K P Abdul Azeez, general secretary, A P Khaleel, director, Islamic Affairs (Acting), members of the management and Siraj Ahmed Geetay, head, Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies, felicitated the students and gave away the prizes. Principal Sasidharan A P welcomed the gathering while Abdul Nazar M proposed the vote of thanks. Usman Mayyeri, teacher, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, coordinated the programme.

Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) held a luncheon recently to welcome the first

class of its Executive Master in Energy and Resources programme. The pro-gramme is being offered in partnership with Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, and HEC Paris.

The event, held at the HBKU Student Center, was attended by Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, presi-dent of Hamad bin Khalifa University, and deans of several HBKU partner universities.

HBKU’s Executive Master in Energy and Resources will integrate the dis-ciplines of geopolitics, public policy, technology, finance, management and strategy, and will prepare participants to conduct strategic analysis, reach effective decisions and manage their operations with a global understanding of E&R issues.

The newly appointed Dean of HBKU’s College of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Dr Mounir Hamdi, spoke at the event. A world-renowned researcher and a

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Dr Hamdi was Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before joining HBKU.

Dr Antoine Hyafil, the Academic Coordinator for the Executive Master in Energy and Resources, gave a small introduction about the programme. Addressing the students, Dr Hyafil said: “The HBKU Executive Master in Energy and Resources implements Qatar National Vision of building a knowl-edge economy through interdiscipli-nary learning on issues which are relevant to Qatar and the region. We are happy to see that the twenty-nine admitted students, twenty one men and eight women, come from a wide variety of backgrounds from oil and gas to engineering, finance, transportation and real estate. This diversity will certainly add value to the class discussions.”

Among the students admitted to the

programme is Yousef Al Jaber, Head of CSR and Institutional Affairs, Total E&P Qatar. Commenting on the pro-gramme, Yousef said: “This programme fits exactly with my career develop-ment. I studied Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar and the Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. I am interested in this because it focuses not only on oil and gas, but on all aspects of the energy industry. This will help give me a better under-standing of how the energy market is

developing, which will help me in my career.”

Abeer Al Dosari, Head of Administration and Shared Services, Facilities Management Directorate at Qatar Foundation, said: “This type of programme will give great benefit to our society as it goes along with Qatar’s vision, with Qatar Foundation as one of its pillars, to cultivate research and education. This programme comple-ments my background, having worked previously in the oil and gas industry as an accountant for Qatar Petroleum.”

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HBKU welcomes Executive Master in Energy and Resources class

BPS students visit Safari MallBirla Public School CBSE International Curriculum organised a visit to Safari Mall recently for students of Grade III. The pur-pose of the visit was to acquaint the students with the products they consume daily and their calorific and nutritional value, and to teach them to do a simple monetary transaction. A group of 77 students was taken to Safari Mall in Abu Hamour, near the school, and given the task of choosing stationery items which they use daily. They also learnt how buying and selling are done. The students were very enthusiastic about choosing the items and paying for them at the billing counter. In the end, the students received food hampers from the Safari management.

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A three-day art camp, ‘Colors of Paradise’, organ-

ised by Friends Cultural Centre (FCC), will start today at its premises in Al Hilal. The camp is being held as part of the annual cultural festival, ‘Qatar Keraleeyam’. The art camp is being held to promote art by encourag-ing Indian artists residing in Qatar.

It is a distinct art camp in which ten distinguished Indian art-ists will participate and demonstrate their artistic skills. The camp will help promote modern art and skilled artists.

The artists participating in the camp are Shajee Chelad, Santhosh K, Basith Khan M, Sageer Salih,

Sauman Paul, Sayeda Shemima Binta Zakia, Mahesh, Amit, Abraham Augusthy, Smitha Alony, and Prahladan.

Each day of the camp will have sessions led by the artists about modern trends and developments in the artistic field. Chelad, art-ist and teacher at Scholars International School, will give a talk about ‘Modern art and time’ tomorrow at 6pm. Shreekumar will lead

a session about ‘Drama, art and life’ on February 1 at 6pm.

The camp will be inaugurated today and the closing ceremony is scheduled to be held at FCC Centre on February 1 at 7.30pm.

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Taurus Engineering group has commenced operations in Qatar, catering to specialised machining and steel structural fabrication requirements. Speaking on the occasion of opening the engineering company in Industrial Area, CEO Rashid Essa A Al Sulaiti expressed his gratitude to the government for its sup-port in fast-tracking licensing formalities. He expressed hope that the company would become a major player in the market with his technically competent staff and the state-of-art machinery.

PAN NIT alumni to mark second anniversary PAN NIT Qatar, the alumni association representing 30 National Institutions of Technology in India, is celebrating its second anniversary at Ritz-Carlton Doha tomorrow. Highlights of the pro-gramme include ‘Brand NIT’, a key-note speech by the visiting director of a renowned NIT, and a message to the alumni by a leading NITian in Qatar, Dr Thomas Zacharia, Executive Vice President (R&D) in Qatar Foundation. The association elected its new execu-tive committee for 2014-16 recently. It re-elected Rakesh Soni as president, Harish Pujary as vice president, Shivesh Choudhury as general secretary and Navin Bannadi as treasurer.

Shingari Beauty Center recently organised its annual programme at its premises. Dr Sujatha, a gynaecologist at Al Ali Hospital, addressed more than 200 ladies who were present at the programme. There was a cake decoration class by Saritha Rafeeq and a cookery class by Rasia Althaf. Many games were organised for the ladies and children and gifts were sponsored by Argon Global Group, Malabar Gold and Al Zaman Exchange.

FCC art camp to start today

New executive committee

PLUS | THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 20146 WHEELS

Ready to embark on another exciting year, Kia Motors has unveiled the newest member of its popular Cerato family

in the all-new Koup 2-door sedan and the latest rendition of the award-win-ning Optima through its distributor in Qatar, Al-Attiya Motors and Trading Co (AMTC).

The launch of the Cerato’s Koup ver-sion comes after the successful intro-duction of the popular sedan model last year. With revamped, European-inspired looks, enhanced engine and refined interiors, the Cerato Koup looks to contribute further to Kia’s impressive and still-growing design legacy. Along with these, the Cerato Koup also brings loads of safety con-venience and technology features to provide a wonderful driving experience. Among these are the Sunroof, Rear-view Camera, Front and Rear Parking Sensors, Dual Full Auto A/C, Engine Ignition Push Button and Auto Cruise Control with a fine-tuned 2.0L MPI engine that produces 161 HP.

As stated by Hossam Shadi, Automotive Director of Kia Qatar: “The arrival of the all-new Cerato Koup completes the Cerato family here in Qatar and allows Kia to cater to customers in need of a car to suit and personify their stylish, exciting and outgoing lifestyle in the local market. We at Kia Qatar are happy to offer more solutions to our customer’s vary-ing needs for mobility by presenting a car option that is both sporty and styl-ish without having to charge exceed-ingly so.”

Available in a wide array of eye-catching colours, the Cerato Koup is undoubtedly one of the sportier and sleeker cars in the Kia line-up with its striking style, excellent features and smooth performance.

The refreshed Optima has brought refinement to the exterior styling as seen through the new head and rear lamps, radiator grille, bumper and alloy wheel designs.

Seeking to provide utmost conven-ience inside, the interior has been adjusted to have a more upscale feel and look as seen through the ergo-nomic seats, satin chrome accents and high-gloss finish on the centre fascia. The Navigation system platform has been improved as well with a bigger 8” screen and more functions. Still avail-able in 2.0L and 2.4L trims, the Optima has also increased noise reduction to further enhance the driver’s total experience.

Available also in the higher options are the Panoramic Sunroof, Front and Rear Parking Sensors, pre-mium Infinity Sound System, Driver Integrated Memory Power Seat (IMS), Auto Cruise Control and many more.

“The 2014 Optima allows Kia Motors to offer a solution for potential custom-ers who are in need of a refined, value-laden, stylish and reasonably priced mid-sized sedan. With its top-notch safety and convenience features, the

Optima is a game changer in that it offers the modern and high-tech driv-ing experience not usually associated with mid-sized sedans. We at Kia Qatar are confident that the 2014 Optima will

not only turn heads on the road but move people to see and try the car via test drive as well,” Shadi said.

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KIA Motors unleashes all-new Cerato Koup, Optima

KIA official with a young guest.

Koup main dash

BOOKS 7PLUS | THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2014

By Mark Lawson

The biographical movie, whether dramatising the life of Abraham Lincoln or an American cargo captain

seized by pirates, dominates current cinema. One of the more intriguing examples is Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, a pseudo-biographical drama in which much of the life of the writer and founder of Scientology L Ron Hubbard is given to a fictional character with a different name.

Amid a torrent of biographical fiction – topped by Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy – Hanif Kureishi, in his seventh novel, takes an approach more like Anderson’s. In The Last Word, Harry Johnson, a young biographer, is hired to write a life of Mamoon Azam, a giant of post-colonial literature who, after the death of his first wife, now lives in Somerset with Liana, his striking younger new wife.

From the moment that news of the plot got out, literary whispers and gos-sip columnists suggested the book is a roman a clef about VS Naipaul, a glamorously remarried Nobel laure-ate who invited to his Wiltshire retreat Patrick French, whose resulting biog-raphy, though apparently approved by Naipaul, presented him as a snob, bigot and adulterer.

In pre-publication publicity, Kureishi has played a bat straighter than the favourite openers of Naipaul and Mamoon – both cricket-lovers – on the matter of the novel’s possible rela-tion to real people. This insistence on the book’s distance from any one author-biographer model is both a legal precaution and an artistic liberation, which permits him to exaggerate enjoy-ably the fabled depravity of Mamoon, who is rumoured to have been guilty of both murder and devil worship in the past. This fictional Indian author is so evil that he is prone to sitting stroking a cat, like Ian Fleming’s Blofeld, in the west country lair where Harry lodges during the research period.

While Mamoon isn’t literally Naipaul, it is, in practice, almost impossible for the reader not to impose the face of the author of A Bend in the River on Kureishi’s descriptions of the terrifying writer’s “hooded eyes” and his nostalgic obsession with the great West Indies cricket teams. Mamoon’s conversation about other writers is described, in one of the book’s many savagely funny one-liners, as “more like road rage than literary criticism”, which sounds very like Naipaul’s demo-litions of his peers.

Yet, though vulnerable to the charge of being a disguised biographical assas-sination of Naipaul, The Last Word can also be read as an exercise in disguised autobiographical self-harm. Harry, while described as an English public school toff, often seems to merge with aspects of Kureishi’s public persona. Harry’s fear that he may be forced to teach creative writing if the Mamoon project fails also plays a humorous one-two with the line in the author’s biographical note about being profes-sor of creative writing at Kingston University.

Most writers are prone to uneven-ness between and within books, but Kureishi’s output is so erratic that the reader can sometimes only assume that he has been intermittently coshed on the head, dragged from his writing desk and replaced by an enthusiastic but untutored impostor.

True to this varying form, there are lengthy stretches in The Last

Word in which the reader starts to think that the 2014 Man Booker prize judges, if they can find space for an English writer among the threatened American influx, should look no fur-ther than Kureishi. These parts of the book teem with arresting aphorisms – “A writer is loved by strangers and hated by his family” – and pithy expo-sition of character.

There are also frequent enjoyable setpiece scenes, of which the finest is the celebratory dinner with admirers at which Mamoon, like some King Lear who has won the Nobel prize for litera-ture, subjects his guests to increasingly bleak toasts, including “Total self-destruction!” and “Death!”

Indeed, surprisingly for an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and prolific playwright, the dialogue veers between tape-recorder authenticity – Mamoon drawlingly warning Harry that “I hope you’re not writing this down in bad English to make us look like mad

people” – and unspeakably peculiar locutions.

Perhaps there is a hidden joke here about a young literary aspirant always sounding like something from a bad book. But, if so, it seems a curious strategy because the more obvious attempts at comedy – and at natural-istic dialogue – are frequently so sharp and entertaining.

Kureishi will be 60 this year and has recently sold his papers to the British Library – both landmarks in a literary life. And, around the diverting games of I-spy-Naipaul in The Last Word, the novel also contains deeper reflections on the businesses of writing, read-ing and biography, and their fate in what may be a post-literary culture. Although the magnificent comic mon-ster of Mamoon provides much of the book’s pleasure, it is finally as signifi-cant for what it is about as for whom it might concern.

The Guardian

The Last Word: Enjoyably erratic

Some parts of the book teem with arresting aphorisms – “A writer is loved by strangers and hated by his family.”

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list.

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again

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how

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see

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con

flic

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Assad.

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llain

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icon in

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ays

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ght

a “

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villa

in, pla

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recent

film

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gym

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alm

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work

put

in b

y t

he n

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com

er H

aroon,

who

was

spott

ed a

t th

e g

ym

by h

is b

roth

er S

ohail

Khan —

als

o t

he d

irecto

r o

f Ja

i H

o.

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oth

train

ed t

ogeth

er o

n t

he s

ets

and

befo

re t

he fi

lm. W

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met

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he s

ec-

ond t

ime, a m

onth

aft

er t

he fi

rst

(m

eeti

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I

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hat

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as

work

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ut

to t

one h

is

physi

que m

ore. A

nd I

had t

o fi

ght

a v

illa

in w

ho w

as

fitt

er,”

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an s

aid

in

a s

tate

ment.

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it

was

not

easy

for H

aroon t

o b

eat

up t

he s

uperst

ar.

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cto

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on t

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ork

ed o

ut

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ot

and a

lso a

dded t

hat

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an’s

“hom

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ooked”

food h

elp

ed h

im in a

chie

v-

ing a

fit

body.

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he s

ets

, S

alm

an b

hai

use

d t

o s

hare h

is h

om

e c

ooked d

iet

food

wit

h m

e. T

he b

row

n r

ice a

nd b

oiled c

hic

ken e

nsu

red t

hat

my d

iet

did

n’t

go h

ayw

ire. It

als

o h

elp

ed m

e p

erfo

rm

bett

er in t

he s

cenes,

” H

aroon s

aid

.T

he fi

lm,

whic

h a

lso f

eatu

res

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nd n

ew

com

er D

ais

y S

hah,

has

receiv

ed m

ixed r

evie

ws

at

the b

ox o

ffice s

o f

ar.

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huri

mak

es ti

ring

act

ion

sequ

ence

s lo

ok e

ffort

less

: Tra

iner

Kanis

hka S

harm

a, w

ho t

rain

ed M

adhuri

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it f

or a

cti

on s

equences

in

forth

com

ing m

ovie

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laa

b G

an

g, is

in a

we o

f th

e a

ctr

ess

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ays

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she m

ade a

ll t

he t

irin

g a

cti

on s

equences

look e

ffortl

ess

on s

creen.

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em

ber a

scene w

here M

adhuri had t

o t

wis

t a m

an’s

arm

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ick

him

hard.

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d w

ith h

er f

or a

few

hours

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re t

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hot,

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ittl

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pprehensi

ve. L

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r, I

was

shocked a

t how

com

forta

bly

she p

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it o

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he m

akes

all m

y o

therw

ise t

irin

g a

cti

on look e

ffortl

ess

on s

creen!”

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harm

a s

aid

in a

sta

tem

ent.

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6-y

ear-o

ld d

iva g

ot

train

ed i

n r

are m

arti

al

art

form

s like S

haolin

Kung F

u, Pekit

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irsi

a K

ali a

nd S

haolin C

hin

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or t

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ovie

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rie

f giv

en t

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e b

y d

irecto

r S

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en w

as

to d

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tunts

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anner t

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aest

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s realist

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her c

ould

it

be a

s su

ave

as

the m

atr

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aid

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a.

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as

taken a

back b

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adhuri’s

agilit

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nd h

er p

itch-p

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tim

ing. I

exte

nsi

vely

train

ed M

adhuri fo

r a

month

in S

haolin K

ung F

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des

stic

k

train

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haolin join

t lo

ckin

g, K

ali k

nif

e, sh

ort

stic

k a

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f course

, clo

se

com

bat,”

he a

dded.

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ted t

o r

ele

ase

March 7

, G

ula

ab

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ng a

lso f

eatu

res

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haw

la.

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asso

ciat

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lnes

s w

ith tr

uth

of li

fe

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inju

ry o

n t

he s

ets

of

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pp

y N

ew

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r has

left

Shah R

ukh K

han

“str

apped a

round t

he join

ts”.

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uperst

ar h

as

com

pared h

is c

ondi-

tion t

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is p

hiloso

phy o

f life

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een s

trapped a

round t

he j

oin

ts l

ast

few

days.

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d t

he t

ruth

of

life

through b

andages.

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too t

ight

not

too l

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it c

om

forta

ble

,”

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ukh p

ost

ed o

n t

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ggin

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ite T

wit

ter.

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ever,

for t

he a

cto

r, t

he “

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too t

ight

not

too l

oose

” philoso

phy

doesn

’t a

pply

to h

ugs

from

his

children.

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ot

too loose

or t

ight

philoso

phy o

f life

doesn

’t a

pply

to t

hese

hugs.

T

hese

ones

tighte

r t

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ett

er,”

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ed w

ith a

pic

ture o

f him

huggin

g

his

son A

ryan a

nd d

aughte

r S

uhana.

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pp

y N

ew

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r is

bein

g d

irecte

d b

y F

arah K

han a

nd w

ill

rele

ase

this

D

iwali.

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lm a

lso f

eatu

res

Deepik

a P

adukon

e,

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hek B

achchan

, S

onu S

ood, B

om

an I

rani and V

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mong o

thers.

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eron

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z ca

n’t r

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ista

nce

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ess

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eraon D

iaz

feels

her lungs

do n

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allow

her t

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ista

nces.

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ld s

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11PLUS | THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2014

By Andrew M Seaman

In large families, young kids can’t always get a lot of indi-vidual attention from parents — but healthy interactions

with an older sibling might help compensate for that, a new study suggests.

How older children interact with their siblings is tied to the younger children’s development, Canadian researchers found.

“The idea is that here is this effect of being in a large family where you don’t get that many resources, but if you get an older sibling that’s really attuned to your needs that would be a modi-fying effect,” Jennifer Jenkins said.

Jenkins is the study’s senior author and the Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education at the University of Toronto.

Previous research had found that children from large families tend to score lower on vocabu-lary, IQ and other academic tests, compared to those from smaller families.

“That’s been pretty well exam-ined that the larger the family, the less good the child’s skill in lan-guage and IQ,” Jenkins said. “It’s really thought of as a resource dilution.”

For example, if a couple has a second child, the attention they spent on their first child will then be split among both kids.

She cautioned that whatever effect a large family may have on a child is small, however.

To see whether an older sibling can possibly fill in for some of that

diluted attention, the research-ers used data from an existing trial that included families from Toronto with 385 young children who had a sibling at least four years older.

Mothers and older siblings were scored on how they interacted with the younger child.

For example, the researchers scored whether the older sibling or mother were sensitive to the younger sibling’s abilities and gave positive feedback.

The younger sibling’s vocabu-lary was also tested by having the child point to an object’s picture after its named was said out loud.

The researchers found that chil-dren with many siblings tended to score lower on the vocabulary test, compared to those who had smaller families.

Children from large families whose older siblings scored higher during the interaction, however, tended to score higher on the test than those whose older brother or sister scored lower during the interaction.

The association between an older sibling’s so-called cognitive sensitivity and the younger child’s score remained strong even when the researchers also accounted for traits that might have influenced the results, such as gender and age.

While the overall association may be small, Jenkins said many traits that are associated with similar cognitive delays are of a similar size.

“It’s multiple and multiple accu-mulating influences,” she said. “I think all of these small influences are worth paying attention to.”

Jenkins said the next step would be to develop a trial to test a pro-gramme that encourages older siblings to have better interac-tions with their younger brothers and sisters to see if that improves the younger siblings’ cognitive abilities.

That, she said, would also help show that the older sibling’s inter-actions cause better outcomes in their younger brothers and sisters instead of just showing that the two are somehow linked — as this study does.

The study also has some limita-tions, including not knowing what kind of interactions the younger children’s other siblings have with each other.

Jenkins and her colleagues write in the journal Pediatricson Monday that it’s also possible that the association is reversed and that the younger child’s abili-ties influence the type of interac-tions their older siblings have with them.

“Siblings really play this very strong role in how kids come out,” Jenkins said. “I’d like people to think about those sibling relation-ships a little bit more and then how to strengthen them.”

SOURCE: bit.ly/uFc4g2 Pediatrics, online January 27, 2014.

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Genes to decide what diet suits you best

Soon, genetic testing may identify what diet you should consume for a longer, healthier

life. Researchers have identified a group of genes that allow an organism to adapt to different diets and show that without them, even minor tweaks to diet can cause premature aging and death.

“The studies have revealed that single gene mutations can alter the ability of an organism to utilise a specific diet.

This could explain why certain diets work for some but not others,” explained Sean Curran, assistant professor at University of Southern California (USC).

In the age of commercial gene sequencing, people might be able to identify which diet would work best for them through a simple blood test, added Shanshan Pang from USC.

They studied caenorhabditis elegans — a one-milimetre-long worm that scientists have used as a model organism for years.

Curran and Pang identified a gene called ‘alh-6’ which delayed the effects of aging depending on what type of diet the worm was fed by pro-tecting it against diet-induced mitochondrial defects.

What we have learned in the worm could translate to a better understanding of the fac-tors that alter diet success in humans,” Curran said in the study appeared in the journal Cell Metabolism.

Finding a genetic basis for an organism’s dietary needs suggests that different individu-als may be genetically predisposed to thrive on different diets. This could be the start of per-sonalised dieting based on an individual’s genetic makeup, Curran stressed.

High folic acid may increase breast cancer risk: Studies

Folic acid supplements, if taken in high amounts, may increase the risk of develop-

ing breast cancer.“The experiment in my lab has shown for

the first time that folic acid supplements in doses 2.5-5 times the daily requirement ‘significantly promotes’ the growth of exist-ing pre-cancerous or cancerous cells in the mammary glands of rats,” said Young-In Kim, a physician and researcher at St Michael’s Hospital here.

Although some studies have found it may offer protection against breast cancer, recent studies have suggested that taking high amounts of folic acid may increase the risk.

“This is a critically important issue because breast cancer patients and survivors in North America are exposed to high levels of folic acid through folic acid fortification in food and wide-spread use of vitamin supplements after a can-cer diagnosis,” Kim added.

Cancer patients and survivors in North America have a high prevalence of multivitamin and supplement use, with breast cancer patients and survivors having the highest prevalence, said the study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Women are routinely advised to take folic acid supplements before becoming pregnant and while pregnant to prevent neural tube birth defects such as spina bifida.

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Sibling relationships tied to children’s vocabulary skills

Children with many siblings tended to score lower on the vocabulary test, compared to those who had smaller families.

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 201412

By Will Oremus

Do you consider yourself farsighted, but also happen to be near-sighted? Google may finally have a Glass for you.

The company this week unveiled a new line of wearable face computers that do some-thing the originals couldn’t: correct your vision. Prescription Glass comes in four different styles — “thin,” “split,” “bold,” and “curve” — and an array of colours. Designed by the same in-house team that turned the first geeky prototypes into the somewhat-less-geeky Explorer edition, the new high-tech specs could almost pass for the latest Warby Parkers on first glance.

On second glance, of course, that chunky trans-lucent prism is still there, hovering just in front of the wearer’s right lens. For better or worse, Glass is still inescapably — and unapologetically — futuristic-looking. But you’ll look a little less like Geordi La Forge and a little more like a standard-issue early-21st-century hipster in this incarnation, especially if you opt for the “bold” or “curve” versions. The frames will run $225, but some insurance plans will reimburse part of that cost.

The question now is whether integrating Glass — a singular noun that had always felt strange and science-fiction-y to pronounce — into a more familiar frame will convince the public that it’s more than a futuristic novelty item. Until recently Google has been at pains to present Glass as an experiment, a prototype, an exploratory project. The launch of a prescription Glass line feels like a big step toward mainstream consumerization, especially given the polished feel of the design. So far, though, the design of non-prescription Glass remains unchanged.

At a Glass Basecamp at Manhattan’s Chelsea Market last week, I met with Google’s lead designer for Glass, Isabelle Olsson, and tried on the new wares. Olsson met me sporting a pair of prescrip-tion Glass(-es?) on her own face, and while I noticed it immediately, the Glass itself seemed to melt into the background of the frames more quickly than I remember it doing on people wearing the non-prescription version. Or maybe I’m just getting more accustomed to seeing it.

The glasses themselves were surprisingly light on my face — not much heavier than my own, non-smart plastic frames. If they tilted in the direction of the Glass screen, it was hardly noticeable. The screen felt well-placed relative to the lenses, and on the whole I

felt only slightly nerdier than I usually do.I asked Olsson whether any of the criticism of the

initial Glass design had influenced her thinking about how to design the prescription version. She said that while she takes customer feedback seriously, espe-cially in the case of specific problems, she never felt a need to back off from the original design’s futuristic minimalism. “It’s not surprising” that there would be criticism along with praise, Olsson said.

“It is something completely new. But it’s also hon-est to the fact that it is completely new. It made a statement, and anytime you make a statement, it’s polarizing. To me that’s a good thing.”

But, I pressed, some people say Glass makes its wearer look like some kind of cyborg. To me, that’s not the worst thing in the world — after all, I write about futuristic technology for a living. But given that Glass is intended to be a consumer device and not just a fashion item, didn’t she feel any pres-sure to design for the least common denominator? Nope, Olsson said. “Half of what you have to do as a designer is trust your gut. If you’re not comfortable

doing that, then you probably shouldn’t be a designer. You should be an engineer, or something else.”

For the time being, those who want the device still have to fill out a form online and wait for Google to “invite” them to its Explorer beta-testing program (though the selection criteria are no longer particu-larly rigorous — if they ever were). And the cost is still an eye-popping $1,500, plus $225 for those who want the actual glasses frames. Later this year, though, the company plans to launch the product to the public at large. How low it’s able to get the price by that time will go some way toward determining whether Glass has a shot to be the next hot Christmas tech or remains largely a badge of early adoption and disposable income for the Silicon Valley set.

Asked how she expects people to react to the new designs, Olsson said, “I think people are going to be excited. Some people are going to be like, ‘Duh, why didn’t you do that in the first place?’ But I think mostly it’s really exciting for people who have been waiting for this for a long time.”

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A Google Glass for people who wear glasses

Epson has announced the Qatar launch of its new photo scanner that allows users to

scan and upload photos directly to social media, photo sharing websites and other cloud storage services. Featuring Digital ICE Technology, which removes dust and scratches from damaged film, the Perfection V550 Photo Colour Scanner is ideal for photo enthusiasts who want to enhance their photo collection.

The Perfection V550 Photo allows users to share photos much more easily with friends and family by uploading scanned images directly to selected social media platforms and photo sharing sites such as Facebook

or Picasa. Meanwhile, Digital Image Correction and Enhancement (ICE) Technology automatically removes dust, imperfections, scratches and fin-gerprints from scanned film, without the need for time-consuming manual retouching.

With a 6,400dpi resolution, an opti-cal density of 3.4 Dmax and built-in transparency unit, the Perfection V550 Photo can easily scan a wide range of media from standard pho-tographs, newspapers and A2-sized posters to filmstrips, mounted slides and medium format film with fast, high quality results.

Khalil El Dalu, General Manager, Epson Middle East, said: “Packed full

of technology and software to repair and restore original photographs, the Perfection V550 Photo scanner is ideal for users in the Middle East. It would be useful for anyone with a back catalogue of old memories that needs

to be brought back to life. Thanks to Epson ReadyScan LED technology, this high-quality scanner is ready to work within seconds after switching on and does not require time to warm up.” The Peninsula

Epson launches photo scanner for social media and photo sharing sites

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaJanuary 30, 1948

1934: A Soviet hydrogen-filled balloon reached an altitude of 22,000 metres (over 13 miles) into the stratosphere1979: White Rhodesians voted in favour of a new constitution aimed at black majority rule2005: Millions voted in Iraq’s first democratic election in 50 years2010: Guangzhou South Railway Station, one of the four largest rail passenger transportation hubs in China, was opened

Mahatma Gandhi, who led India to independence from British rule through his philosophy of non- violent civil disobedience, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ABANDON, ACCEPT, ADOPT, BANISH, BORROW, CAST OFF,CHOOSE, CLAIM, CLUTCH, COLLECT, CONFISCATE, DECLINE, DISCARD, DISOWN, DISPOSE, DROP, DUMP, ESCHEW, GRAB, IMPOUND, LEAVE, OBTAIN, PICK, PILFER, PINCH, PLUNDER, POSSESS, PURCHASE, PURLOIN, RECALL, RECEIVE, REFUSE, REJECT, RESIST, SEIZE, SELECT, SEQUESTER, SHED, SHUN, SNAP UP, SPURN, STEAL, TAKE, THROW AWAY, TURN DOWN, WELCOME, WITHDRAW..

LEARN ARABIC

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman

Zits by Dennis Young and Denis Lebrun

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

Pronouns

You Anta (m)

You Anti (f)

You Antouma (dual)

You Antoum (masculine plural)

You Antounna (feminine plural)

He Houwa

She Hiya

They Houma (masculine dual)

They Houm (feminine dual)

They Hounna (feminine plural)

I Ana

We Na�nou

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HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

CROSSWORDS

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

Puzzle is solved

by filling the

numbers from 1

to 9 into the blank

cells. A Hyper

Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku

13 regions

(four regions

overlap with the

nine standard

regions). In all

regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is

solved like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS 1 Disgraced Armstrong 6 Energize, informally11 Movie org. that created

a top-100 list from which all of this puzzle’s quotes come

14 Item in a squirrel’s hoard

15 Duct outflow16 One may play

something by this17 Memorable movie line

spoken by … Jack Nicholson

19 Boarding house?: Abbr.20 Tito of Latin jazz21 Ulster, e.g.22 … Haley Joel Osment26 Hand-held organizer,

briefly27 Aromatherapist’s supply28 Target31 Flawed, as mdse.34 Bern’s river37 … Renée Zellweger40 … Marlon Brando

41 Digital communication, for short?

42 Conjure up43 Many Sylvester Stallone

characters44 Singer DiFranco45 Capp and Kaline46 … Greta Garbo55 Cuckoo56 Cheesy treats57 Snap, Crackle or Pop58 … Debra Winger (heard

but not seen)63 2001 Will Smith biopic64 Nautical hazard65 Victors’ shout66 Kinsey topic67 Adorable one68 Many a deli offeringDOWN 1 “Well, ___-di-dah!” 2 Star pitcher 3 Hammerfest’s locale:

Abbr. 4 Often-filled breakfast

food 5 Come next 6 Do penance

7 Maestro Zubin 8 Like French doors 9 Mantel piece10 “Gangnam Style” rapper11 There was always a

point to what he wrote12 Like some attractions13 Steamed18 President Bartlet of

“The West Wing”21 Mustard, for one: Abbr.22 Mad magazine’s Usual

Gang of ___23 Barber who composed

“Adagio for Strings”24 Some laureates25 Pizza slice, often26 ___ visit (drops in)29 Calder Cup rink org.30 What “America’s Got,”

on NBC31 Texter’s “As I see it …”32 Stink33 Martha a k a the Big

Mouth34 Rocker Gregg who

married Cher

35 Alternative form of a gene36 Dappled horses38 Shipboard crane39 Shoebox letters44 Tiny soldier46 Gray matter output47 2008 Pixar robot48 Tack on49 Baked, so to speak50 Religion founded in Persia

51 Where to learn anglais52 Philip of “Kung Fu”53 Bygone theater chain54 Milo of “The Verdict”58 Key to the left of F159 Ascension Day, e.g.: Abbr.60 Avian pal of Eeyore61 Extinct flightless bird62 The ___ [fittingly]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21

22 23 24 25

26 27

28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

37 38 39

40

41 42 43

44 45

46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54

55 56

57 58 59 60 61 62

63 64 65

66 67 68

T B O N E A K A K O L A SY U L E S L E I A V A S TP R O B O W L E R Z E S T YE R G I A N S O R T I EB O Y Z N T H E H O O D

I O S A L S O R A NT U T U B U N T A L A

S H R I N K I N G I C E C A PB A A A C E S A D E NA T L A R G E O R G

S O A P B O X D E R B YD R A W O N O D E E L OO A T E N G O O N A H E A DT I T L E U K R P A D R ES L Y L Y M S S E D S E L

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

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

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

14

EASY SUDOKUCartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

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

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CINEMA / TV LISTINGS 15

TEL: 444933989 444517001SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

12:15 Dutch League,

Ga Eagles V Ajax

14:00 Omni Sport

14:30 Futbol Mundial

15:00 Brendan

Rodgers, Meet

The Boss

15:30 Fifa World Cup

Magazine

16:00 Scottish League

Highlights

16:30 Transworld Sport

17:30 90 In 30

18:30 Italian Cup,

Napoli V Lazio

20:15 Copa Del Rey,

Barcelona V

Levante

22:00 This Is Paris

22:30 Fifa World Cup

Magazine

23:00 Copa Del Rey,

Racing V Real

Sociedad

08:00 News

09:00 Orphans of the

Sahara

10:30 Inside Story

11:30 The Stream

12:00 News

12:30 People &

Power

13:00 NEWSHOUR

14:00 News

14:30 Inside Story

15:00 Witness

16:00 NEWSHOUR

17:00 News

17:30 The Stream

18:00 NEWSHOUR

19:00 News

19:30 The Cure

20:00 News

20:30 Inside Story

21:00 NEWSHOUR

22:00 News

22:30 The Stream

23:00 Indian Hospital

16:00 Football’s

Greatest

Teams; Celtic

17:00 English Premier

League Season

18:00 Sports News

18:15 English Premier

League Profile,

Arsenal

18:30 English Premier

League Football

20:30 Brendan Rodgers,

Meet The Boss

21:00 English Premier

League Midweek

22:00 English Premier

League World

13:40 Light In The

Piazza

15:25 Elvis On Tour

17:00 Hotel Paradiso

18:50 Meet Me In

Las Vegas

21:00 The Sandpiper

23:00 How The West

Was Won

01:30 Westworld

03:05 How The West

Was Won

12:10 Nothing

Personal

13:50 Foxfire Light

15:25 Cannon For

Cordoba

17:05 The Fantasticks

18:30 How I Won The

War

20:20 Shag

22:00 Little Man Tate

01:15 Soldier Boyz

02:45 Eureka

12:00 Mad Buddies

14:00 Rookie Of Year

16:00 Blame It On The

Bellboy

18:00 The Runway

20:00 Venus & Vegas

22:00 How To Make

Love To A

Woman

13:15 Mythbusters

15:20 Countdown To

Collision

16:10 Fast N' Loud

17:00 Ultimate

Survival

17:50 Dirty Jobs

18:40 Glory Hounds

19:30 Sons Of Guns

20:20 How Do They

Do It?

20:45 How It's Made

21:10 Auction Kings

22:00 Sons Of Guns

22:50 Street Outlaws

23:40 Hellriders

13:00 Naked Science

15:00 Mystery Files

16:00 Mega

Breakdown

17:00 Is It Real?

18:00 Bible's Buried

Secrets

19:00 Inside

20:00 Jurassic C.S.I.

21:00 City Of Ants

22:00 Mysteries Of

The Moose

23:00 Inside

13:20 Swamp

Brothers

14:45 Into The Pride

15:40 Wildest Africa

17:30 Wildest Islands

18:50 Karina: Wild On

Safari

20:15 Wildest India

21:10 Wild Alaska

22:05 Man, Cheetah,

Wild

23:00 Animal Heroes

13:15 Dragon Hunters

14:45 Missing Lynx

16:30 Over The Hedge

18:00 Brave

20:00 Ice Age:

Continental Drift

21:45 Missing Lynx

23:30 Over The

Hedge

MALL

1

Jai – Ho (2D/Hindi) – 2.30pm

Oru Indian (2D/Malayalam) – 5.15 & 8.00pm

Lone Survivor (2D/Action) – 11.00pm

2

The Nut Job (3D/Animation) – 2.15pm

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 4.00pm

Spiders (3D/Thriller) – 6.00 & 9.45pm

Ride Along (2D/Comedy) – 7.45pm

Raze (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm

3

Raze (2D/Horror) – 3.00pm

The Package (2D/Action) – 5.00pm

Lone Survivor (2D/Action) – 7.00pm

Labor Day (Drama) – 9.15pm

Sparks (Action) – 11.15pm

LANDMARK

1 Oru Indian (2D/Malayalam) – 2.30 & 8.00pm

Rummy (2D/Tamil) – 5.15 & 10.45pm

2

The Nut Job (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 4.15pm

Sparks (Action) – 6.15pm

The Package (2D/Action) – 8.00pm

Ride Along (2D/Comedy) – 9.45pm

Raze (2D/Horror) – 11.45pm

3

Spiders (3D/Thriller) – 3.00 & 1130pm

Labor Day (Drama) – 5.00pm

Lone Survivor (2D/Action) – 7.00 & 9.15pm

ROYAL

PLAZA

1 Oru Indian (2D/Malayalam) – 2.30 & 10.45pm

Rummy (2D/Tamil) – 5.15 & 8.00pm

2

Frozen (3D/Animation) – 3.00pm

Raze (2D/Horror) – 5.00pm

Sparks (Action) – 7.00pm

Lone Survivor (2D/Action) – 9.00 & 11.15pm

3

The Nut Job (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm

Labor Day (Drama) – 4.15pm

Spiders (3D/Thriller) – 6.15 & 1130pm

Ride Along (2D/Comedy) – 8.00pm

The Package (2D/Action) – 9.45pm

13:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

13:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

14:00 Doli Armaano Ki

14:30 Jodha Akbar

15:00 Snack Attack

15:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

16:00 Aur Pyaar Hogaya

16:30 Qubool Hai

17:00 Doli Armaano Ki

17:30 Pavitra Rishta

18:00 Bollywood

Business

18:30 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan

19:00 Do Dil Bandhe Ek

Dori Se

19:30 Jodha Akbar

20:00 Pavitra Rishta

20:30 Sapne Suhane

Ladakpan Ke

22:30 Silver Screen

(Jaanam Samjha

Karo)

13:00 Shake It Up

13:25 That's So Raven

14:10 Good Luck Charlie

14:35 Dog With A Blog

15:00 Wolfblood

15:25 Gravity Falls

15:50 Jessie

16:10 Violetta

17:00 A.N.T. Farm

17:45 Gravity Falls

18:10 Shake It Up

18:30 Good Luck Charlie

18:55 Dog With A Blog

19:20 Violetta

20:30 My Babysitter's A

Vampire

20:50 Wolfblood

21:15 Gravity Falls

21:40 Shake It Up

22:00 Austin And Ally

22:25 A.N.T. Farm

22:50 Good Luck Charlie

23:10 Wizards Of

Waverly Place

12:00 Two And A Half Men

14:30 Guys With Kids

15:00 Hot In Cleveland

15:30 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

16:00 The Colbert

Report

16:30 Two And A Half

Men

17:00 Late Night With

Jimmy Fallon

18:30 The Goodwin

Games

19:00 Guys With Kids

19:30 Hot In Cleveland

20:00 The Tonight Show

With Jay Leno

21:00 The Daily Show

With Jon Stewart

21:30 Colbert Report

22:00 Girls

22:30 Family Guy

23:30 Late Night With

Jimmy Fallon

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PLUS | THURSDAY 30 JANUARY 2014 POTPOURRI16

Editor-In-Chief Khalid Al Sayed Acting Managing Editor Hussain Ahmad Editorial Office The Peninsula Tel: 4455 7741, E-mail: plus@pen.com.qa / editor@pen.com.qa

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

• Some people have lauded the move by a commercial centre to put up a notice advising customers not to give tips to its employees, many of whom had begun expecting tips for their services to customers, who are entitled to quality service without having to tip.

• Many people have complained about long queues at car wash centres, and said that the number of such businesses is very few compared to the number of vehicles in the country, and this makes people spend a long time waiting to be served.

• People have demanded that the authorities quickly set down standards for building materials, to be followed by all construction companies, as many of them are using materials that do not meet the required specifications, and

this can affect the quality of buildings.• There is a suggestion to set up a

government committee to monitor and regulate the operation of heavy trucks to prevent malpractices and break the hold of some Asian citizens on this business.

• There is talk in the social media about the move by a private school to prevent 40 students from attending classes because their parents had not paid fees for the second semester. The school called the parents and told them not to bring their children to school unless they had paid the fees.

• There is talk about the expected listing of Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Company on the local bourse before trading in its shares begins in February.

IN FOCUS

Pigeons in flight at Souq Waqif.

by Abin Thomas

Send your photos to plus@pen.com.qa. Mention where the photo was taken.

Rashid Ali Al Mansoori, CEO, Qatar Exchange

He is also a Board Member of Qatar Financial Centre Authority and also of Qatar

Exchange. He served as IT Director at the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). He also served as IT Director at Qatar Olympics Committee and the Head of Applied Systems at the Ministry of Interior. He worked in various positions at Qatar Petroleum directly after graduation. Al Mansoori holds a BSc degree in Computer and Management Sciences (USA 1987). He has specialised expertise in the fields of administration, IT and finan-cial services.

Who’s who

If you want your events featured here, mail details to plus@pen.com.qa

Willaim Close When: Jan 30-Feb 2, 8pm -10pm Where: Drama Theater, building 16 Katara.What: World renowned installation artist and musician and his unique, one of a kind and entirely original musical instruments. Willaim has created 100 types of instruments. His work explores connection between architecture and music. Entry: QR75-QR100-QR200

Sarah Brightman In Concert When: Feb 9, 7pm-11pmWhere: Qatar National Conventional Center

What: International superstar SarahBrightman is the worlds biggest sellingSoprano. She pioneered the classical crossover music movement and is famed for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves. Sarah has been the first to be invited to perform at the Olympic Games on two occasions.Entry: QR290 to QR1200

Cinderella BalletWhen: Feb 5-Feb 8; two shows will be held per day: From 4 pm till 5 pm and 7pm till 8pm Where: Katara Drama Theatre What: Moscow State Academic Dance Theatre “Gzhel’s” Cinderella is performed to the choreography of Konstantin Sergeyev, under the revision of Natalia Permyakova.Tickets: QR50-QR75 (available at Virgin)

Souq Waqif Spring FestivalWhen: Jan 24-Feb 6Where: Souq Waqif What: The entire Souq is sprawling with shows for everyone, some of which are Winter Wonderland birds, LED sparklers, Comedy Waiters, Men in Coats etc. The venues for these activities are The SouqAlley, Art Gallery, Main Parking and Outdoor Theater.

Free Entry

Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim: A Leader’s Legacy When: Until Jan 30Where: QMA Gallery, Katara What: This exhibition presents new insights into Sheikh Abdullah’s life and legacy to Qatar’s people through exceptional artifacts, historic photographs, oral history interviews and original films. Free Entry

Second World Trade Festival When: Until Feb 5 Where: Al W’aab area What: A big tent has been built in Al W’aab area for families to enjoy the world trade festival that has various items such as clothing to accessories and food as well. The tent also has a fun area for kids.Free Entry

Events in Qatar