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STREET ART STREET ART TRANSFORMS MALAGATRANSFORMS MALAGA

When the Spanish city of Malaga wanted to clean up its sleazy portside district, it called in the painters -- big international names in the street art movement.

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By Laure Fillon

When the Spanish city of Malaga wanted to clean up its sleazy portside district, it called in the painters —

big international names in the street art movement.

In streets formerly roamed by sex workers and drug dealers, the faded 19th-century buildings now bear weird and wonderful murals by street artists from Britain, the United States and beyond.

Far from covert acts of tagging, the works were ordered by local authorities tapping in to a once-renegade art move-ment that has now become respectable.

Along with newly pedestrianised streets, spruced-up parks and new street-lights, they have revived the Heredia district near the Guadalmedina river. It has now been dubbed “Soho”, after arty districts in New York and London.

“The idea originally came from the locals and a few businesses,” said Fernando Frances, director of the city’s Contemporary Art Centre and one of the organisers.

“We thought street art would contrib-ute to giving the cultural image that we wanted.”

Among the street stars recruited was US artist Shepard Fairey — known for a stylised portrait of Barack Obama, titled “Hope”, and the iconic “Obey” face logo.

Street artists spruce upSpanish port

Drawings seen by a street of Malaga. Artists transform a shantytown of M�laga with the MAUS (Malaga, art, urban, Soho) project which consists of interventions of urban art being the most famous large murals of recognised artists OBEY and DFace.

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A vast Fairey mural portrait of a woman with the slogan “Peace and Liberty” adorns one side of a 10-storey building at an entrance point to the district.

Opposite soars a design by British street artist D*Face, a giant close-up face-shot of a deranged fighter pilot.

Street to the netTraditionally a secretive genre ranging

from graffiti to stickers, stencils and cun-ning visual illusions, street art boomed in the 1980s and has since gone mainstream. Some of Fairey’s works, for example, have been bought by museums.

But Frances said it was not always easy to track down the artists, many of whom still work anonymously and without authorisation.

He managed to get hold of about 50 artists, however, and gave them free rein to brighten up the district’s public walls and shopfronts.

Among them was Dadi Dreucol, a 26-year-old local Spanish artist, who painted bizarre murals of black masked figures.

Dreucol has been painting since he was 12 but says the scene has taken off lately thanks to the internet.

“Before, you had to go where the paintings were” to see them, he said.

“Now you paint in the street, someone takes a photo and a second later it’s been sent and people can see it in Japan.”

Taking part in the project in his home city brought his work to the attention of a German gallery, which has granted him a three-month work placement.

Waiting for shoppersThe street art has also improved life for

some of Malaga’s other 568,000 inhabitants.Antonio Mancera, 63, smiles proudly at

the scaly chameleon design on the wall of his house by the Belgian artist Roa. He offers to show visitors around the district’s various murals.

“There was a desire to revive this neigh-bourhood,” he said.

Locals hoped the murals would lure tourists who generally shun the Malaga waterfront in favour of beaches further along the coast.

Now the street art has landed, some are trickling by.

“It is often their children who find out there is a street art scene” and take their parents to see it, said one local artist, Javier Calleja.

Authorities have held concerts and exhibi-tions, encouraging shops and art galleries to set up in the district.

Pedro Marin Cots, top town-planning offi-cial in city hall, said 34 businesses have been opened or renovated in the area since the project launched in July 2013.

Among them is a bicycle shop set up by Javier Marin, a 27-year-old with a hipster beard and horn-rimmed glasses.

Eight months after opening, however, he said shoppers are not yet flocking to the dis-trict. He is hoping for an increase in business come summer.

The city has issued a call for a second round of street art contributors.

“There’s a lot still to do before this will be a Soho like in the big cities,” Marin said.

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Traditionally a secretive genre ranging from graffiti to stickers, stencils and cunning visual illusions, street art boomed in the 1980s and has since gone mainstream.

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Bhavan’s Public School marks Republic Day

The Management, staff and students of Bhavan’s Public School celebrated the 66th

Indian Republic Day. The Indian National Flag was hoisted by the Chief Guest R O Abdul Kader, Vice Chairman, BHPS, followed by National Anthem and Flag song by the students and teachers. The Principal, V L Balasubramanian delivered the Republic Day Message.

The Vote of thanks was proposed by Pushpa Rajan, Activity Coordinator. Asha Shiju, Academic Coordinator compered the programme.

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Pearl School celebrated 66th Indian Republic Day with flag hoisting, singing patriotic songs and distributing sweets.

Sanskriti to organise programmes on environmental issues

Sanskriti Qatar, a socio–cul-tural organisation, in asso-ciation with Indian Cultural

Centre – Embassy of India and Ministry of Environment is organiz-ing various awareness programmes as part of Qatar Environment Day and subsequent campaigns.

“ICC is organising one month long programmes along with all affiliated community organisations on the occasion and being a responsible community organization, Sanskriti has taken it very seriously arrang-ing a series of related environment awareness campaigns. On January 30, Sanskriti is organising cleaning camp and a seminar on the subject – Personal Hygiene at Seashore camp in Al Khore from 8.30am onwards,” a Sanskriti press release said.

Renowned environmentalist and public speaker Dr Mohammed Shaheen Anodiyil, specialist in fam-ily medicine from Primary Health Centre department of Hamad Medical Corporation would present the topic.

“On January 31, Sanskriti is conducting special programme for families with a presentation on the importance of saving water, energy and environment by renowned key note speaker Sam Thomas, representing Tarsheed under Conservation and Energy depart-ment – Kahramaa. The presentation would follow an interaction session and interesting games related to the subject. The programs are open to public,” Sanskriti Officials said.

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Republic Day at Pearl School

Nivea partners with Sara Al Madani

Nivea announced the appoint-ment of Sara Al Madani as the first brand ambassador

for Nivea Invisible Black & White. An Emirati fashion designer and a successful business woman, Sara Al Madani founded her own line of clothes “Rouge Couture”.

“Sara Al Madani is a strong, passion-ate woman and an advocate – she is the perfect face for Nivea Invisible Black & White deodorants and embodies very well the values and beliefs of the brand,” said Elie Abrass, Senior Brand Manager at Beiersdorf Middle East.

Commenting on this new joint part-nership, Sara Al Madani said: “I am very excited to be joining the Nivea family. Nivea has been a part of me and my family’s daily routine since I was young. I’ve used Nivea Invisible Black & White for more than a year now; I believe in this product, and I want every woman to know that there is a solution to protect her clothes and feel comfortable everyday”.

“It just feels right for me to work with a brand that I personally use. It is such an amazing honor for me to be the first brand ambassador for NIVEA Invisible Black & White and I can’t wait to start this new venture,” con-cluded Al Madani. The Peninsula

Professionals from across the world will head online in their droves in January as they put their career

resolutions into practice, according to research released by LinkedIn. The insight, based on the behaviour of LinkedIn’s more than 300 million global members, reveals that January 21 is the busiest day for New Year career development on the world’s largest professional network.

To help people stand out from the crowd, the site recently released a list of the ten most overused ‘buzzwords’ on LinkedIn profiles in 2014 - guaranteed to lose the interest of would-be employer.

Coming in at the top spot for Qatar is “motivated”, closely followed by “extensive experience” and “dynamic”.

The 2014 buzzwords for Qatar profiles are: Motivated, Extensive Experience, Dynamic, Responsible, Track Record, Creative, Driven, Organisational,

Enthusiastic and ExpertBuzzwords for professionals from other

sectors:Marketing: Creative, Strategic,

MotivatedSales: Motivated, Strategic, DynamicHR/Talent: Organisational, Motivated,

Strategic To aid members in Qatar on their

professional journey, Darain Faraz, LinkedIn Spokesperson, recommends taking some time to think about one’s professional brand and how ‘Brand You’ can benefit from giving up buzzwords. “January is typically a time for professionals to explore career opportunities, since that is a popular area of focus for new years’ resolutions. With some simple updates to your profile, you can set yourself apart, and help Brand YOU as the best candidate for your next opportunity.” The Peninsula

Being ‘Motivated’and ‘Dynamic’ may be stalling your career: LinkedIn

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Jumbo Electronics Najma showroom gets new look

Jumbo Electronics showroom in Najma located within the Souq

Haraj was recently re-designed trans-forming it as a LG Digital Outlet.

Jennifer Kim, General Manager of LG Electronics, while thanking LG’s loyal customers for their patronage, mentioned that there would be more opportunities for LG patrons to visit specially designed LG Digital outlets such as this soon.

C V Rappai, CEO of Video Home & Jumbo Electronics, paid trib-ute to all LG & Jumbo customers for their continued patronage of Jumbo’s Products & Services. “It

was observed that many Jumbo cus-tomers are families who are in their third generation and that Jumbo is

grateful to them for their continued trust & confidence.”

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The Torch Doha received a World’s Best International Hotel Award for Best Hotel

category from the International Hotel Awards sponsored by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. The best hotels and hos-pitality related companies from more than 47 countries across the world have been competing to achieve one or more coveted International Hotel Awards.

The finest hoteliers from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the UK and the Americas and winners were revealed at a glamorous gala dinner at Grosvenor House Hotel in

London on Monday.Commenting on the event, Hotel

Manager Sherif Sabry (pictured), said: “It is a wonderful start for 2015 for our hotel. It is highly rewarding to be recognized in the International hospitality industry as a Best Hotel. We are proudly representing Qatar in the worldwide hospitality scene as the premier venue for those who are searching for state-of-the-art accom-modation with high-end technology and fitness facilities, in a prime loca-tion - Aspire Zone. We are committed to maintain our luxury and service excellence standards.” The Peninsula

Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels take home 5 World Luxury Hotels Awards

Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels (SWBH), the luxury, five-star hotel collection owned and managed by Al Rayyan Hospitality, received

five awards at the prestigious World Luxury Hotels Awards (WLHA), held in South Africa for the first time last December.

SWBH’s triumphant night began with winning the Best Hotel Management Company award in the glo-bal section, followed by Al Jasra winning the Luxury Boutique Hotel Award and Arumaila the Luxury Rooftop View Hotel Award in the continental sec-tion. Finally Al Najada grabbed the Luxury Romantic Hotel Award and Al Bidda the Luxury New Hotel Award.

Launched in 2006, the World Luxury Hotel Awards are one of the world’s most renowned hospitality awards events in which all major hospitality brands compete annually. The lure of winning one of the global Awards is compelling, as they are considered to be the most prized accolades for rating luxury and service standards. More than 1000 hotels from 87 countries signed up for the 2014 Awards.

Taleb Al Henzab, General Manager at Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels, said: “Our win reflects SWBH’s superior standards in the luxury boutique hotel

sector, particularly with respect to the hotels’ con-temporary design and unmatched style. Each of the Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels has their own unique identity with an ambience steeped in history and originality. Winning five of the most prestigious international awards clearly shows SWBH’s out-standing position in the hospitality industry.”

“Every hotel in the collection is individually built to reflect the historical meaning of its name. Besides we continuously seek to enhance our offerings with exceptional services and an excellent guest experi-ence which enables our visitors to enjoy every single moment of their stay in Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels” added Al Henzab. The Peninsula

Hotel officials with the awards.

The Torch Doha receives ‘The Best International Hotel Award’

Nestlé to hold healthy lifestyle campaign at Landmark Mall

As part of the “Choose Wellness, Choose Nestlé” campaign launched last year, Nestlé is invit-

ing all consumers in the Middle East to join its new activation in malls across the GCC, Lebanon and Jordan to help chil-dren adopt a healthy and more active life-style by donating footballs to the young generation.

Through fun, educational and interac-tive games, consumers will be able to participate and collect points that will determine the number of footballs that will be donated to children in schools. Nestlé nutritionists will also be present on the stands to give tips and tricks on how to adopt healthier lifestyles.

“In 2014, 260,000 people joined this ini-tiative to adopt a healthy lifestyle through pledging to Eat Healthier, Move More and Live Better. This year, by participating in the initiative through the in mall activations people will not only learn how to lead a healthy lifestyle for themselves, but also , contribute to the donation of footballs to school children,” said Zeinab Maktabi, Nutrition, Health & Wellness Manager at Nestlé Middle East.

These activations will be running at Landmark Mall from January 29 until the 31. “We at Nestlé, truly believe that Nutrition knowledge and an active life-style starts at a very young age, and this football donation is one way to encour-age kids to be active and live better,” she concluded. The Peninsula

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By Elizabeth Karmel

Sometimes it takes just a few simple ingredients to win my heart. That’s what fellow Southerner Ben Mims recently

did. And he did it with candy.Truth is, I’m generally not the sort

of person who makes candy at home. It can be a bit fussy and time-consuming and I don’t find the process nearly as satisfying as landing a slab of some-thing meaty over an open fire. But I’m still a sucker for a good sweet, and as I paged through Mims’ recent cook-book, Sweet and Southern: Traditional Southern Desserts, I was smitten with one of his simplest recipes.

It was his Aunt Barbara Jane’s pret-zel-peanut chocolate candies. Crunchy, salty and sweet, these chocolates are similar to bark, but easier. You simply mix everything together, then spoon it onto waxed paper to set up.

Of course, I’m never happy to just let things be. My mind was immedi-ately racing with ideas for riffing on this. Such a simple and versatile recipe could be taken in so many directions. I made Mims’ pretzel-peanut-semi-sweet chocolate version, but I also did cashew-coconut-chopped dried mango and dried cherry-toasted

almonds-chopped candied ginger versions.

They were all delicious! And what a perfect idea for, even the kids could do this.

Looking for other combinations? Mix whatever intrigues you; just stick to the proportions in the recipe and you should be fine. Or try these

combinations:— Pistachios, dried cherries and milk

chocolate— Toasted hazelnuts, raisins and

dark chocolate— Cornflakes, butterscotch chips and

milk chocolate— White chocolate, dried apricots

and cashews— Mini marshmallows, toasted

almonds and dark chocolate— Dark chocolate, orange zest, crys-

talized ginger and pecans— Crumbled cooked beef bacon, pea-

nuts and milk chocolate

Chocolate Candy Clusters

This recipe readily adapts to your tastes. Just stick with the proportions set out below and you can mix in what-ever you like. But a good rule of thumb is to offer a contrast of textures and flavors — crunchy and soft, salty and sweet, etc. It also helps if the mix-ins are roughly the same size. Pretzels or chips should be broken into smaller pieces, while larger dried fruits such as apricots should be chopped. And if you like, the chocolates can be sprinkled

with nonpareils before they set up.Start to finish: 30 minutesMakes 40 clusters

Ingredients:10-ounce bag bittersweet chocolate3 cups mix-ins (see ideas above)

Method:Line a baking sheet with kitchen

parchment.Place the chocolate in a medium

microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high in 10- to 15-second bursts, stir-ring in between, until the chocolate is completely melted and smooth. Stir in the mix-ins of your choice, making sure they are evenly distributed and coated with melted chocolate.

Using 2 teaspoons, drop large spoons-ful of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet. Let cool completely. Place in small decorative cupcake wrappers and store in an airtight container for up to 3 days, or refrigerate for up to a week.

Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Karmel is a barbecue and Southern foods expert. She is the chef and pitmaster at online retailer CarolinaCueToGo.com and author of three books, including Taming the Flame.

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An easy, customisable chocolate treat

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By Levi M Tillemann

From 2010 to 2014, US electric car sales surged from almost nothing to about 120,000 per year. But the haters and doubters per-sist. Analysts and investing forums are buzz-

ing about a coming stagnation. After all, in the past seven months the price of oil has collapsed from $115 a barrel to below $50. Petrol prices have plummeted, too, fast approaching $2 per gallon nationally, and commuters are rejoicing. That means a key selling point for electric vehicles — low fuel costs — is gone. The electric car appears to be in trouble.

Surprisingly, it is not. The floor of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit was stacked with glitzy new electric cars, from the BMW i3 to the Chevrolet Bolt to SUVs and micro-cars. That’s because today’s electric car boom isn’t really about oil prices at all; it’s about clean air. Under the leadership of California, a group of environ-mentally progressive states (Oregon, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut) has created market-based man-dates that set a floor under the electric-vehicle mar-ket. In other words, they’re forcing automakers to sell electric cars. The goal is to have 3.3 million of them on their roads by 2025. Thanks to clever policy design, the survival of electric cars doesn’t depend on the vagaries of the global oil market.

For more than a century, electric cars have repeat-edly lost out to oil. As early as the 1890s, electric taxi fleets were stealing market share from horse-and-buggy drivers in New York, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Even Thomas Edison was in on the game, spending more than a decade — and $1m of his own fortune — developing a battery technology aimed at electric cars.

Electric cars, however, couldn’t keep pace with the fast-improving internal combustion engine. Its range, power and portability were all superior, thanks to oil. By 1910, Henry Ford (a former Edison Illuminating Co employee) had effectively crushed the early elec-tric car. By 1927, half of all American families owned an oil-fueled car. Electric cars were no longer serious contenders.

But between 1969 and 1979, oil prices spiked, reviving interest in electric cars. In 1975, Congress took up a bill called the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development and Demonstration Act, which included $30m for studies and deployment. A year later, Congress overrode a presidential veto to authorise $160m for electric-vehicle research and testing over a five-year period. But when oil prices plummeted in the 1980s, policymakers retreated, halting funding for research.

Today, pessimists see a depressingly familiar

pattern: Energy prices spike; huge sums of capital flow from the government and the private sector into oil alternatives; energy markets crash; those funds vanish and industries wither. And, of course, the electric car dies.

What makes California different is that its elec-tric-car programme isn’t tied to oil prices — because the project predates the oil shocks by more than two decades. After World War II,a mysterious pall of smog strangled Los Angeles. California’s response was to build a potent architecture for researching and regulating air pollution. This eventually became the California Air Resources Board (CARB), a body that rapidly outpaced the federal government in the science and policy of pollution control.

By 1970, California’s regulatory infrastructure was so developed that the national Clean Air Act allowed the state to set its own standards for emissions — and gave other states the option to follow its strict guide-lines in lieu of those set by the federal government. If automakers wanted to sell cars in California — or in other states with similar regulations — their vehi-cles had to adhere to California’s emissions stand-ards. These efforts accelerated in 1975 when Gov Jerry Brown installed a new, aggressive chairman, Tom Quinn, at the state Air Resources Board. For a decade, CARB focused on cleaning up the exhaust from combustion engines. In 1990, with oil prices around $20 a barrel, CARB went even further, set-ting its sights on a car that didn’t pollute at all: a zero-emissions vehicle, an electric car.

California mandated that a certain percentage of cars sold in the state had to be electric — initially 2 percent by 1998 and escalating to 10 percent by 2003 — and then set about building a long-range strategic plan to help automakers fulfill the mandate. One key element was creating a market for car compa-nies to buy and sell zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) credits issued by the state for electric vehicle sales. If one automaker failed to sell electric cars, it could buy credits from a competitor who had succeeded. While building electric cars was expensive, so was

buying credits; it also took a toll on a company’s reputation and deprived manufacturers of the tech-nological insights they would gain by developing the cars. The incentives for automakers to push forward were in place.

Implementing the mandate was a long, iterative process, and the regulators’ initial goals proved to be overly ambitious. Over the decades CARB muddled through lawsuits and high-stakes policy brawls with automakers and the George W Bush administra-tion. Carmakers grumbled that California could not simply mandate innovation. “I wish that, instead of zero-pollution vehicles, CARB had mandated a cure for cancer,” Automotive News sneered. Then, for years, the Bush administration refused to grant California regulators a federal waiver for emission standards that until then had been practically pro forma.

But California kept going. Because the state was America’s largest auto market, it was too big for carmakers to abandon.

In 2010, automakers began selling a new genera-tion of truly mass-produced electric vehicles, starting with the Nissan Leaf. California’s market for cred-its rewarded companies such as Tesla and Nissan that got out in front. These companies have reaped hundreds of millions of dollars from selling credits to laggards that did not fulfill their quotas. In the third quarter of 2014, Tesla Motors earned $76m on ZEV credits alone.

California has also rewarded buyers of electric cars. It granted cash incentives to early adopters and gave them access to high-occupancy vehicle lanes so they could bypass the daily crush of rush hour. And California helped other states design their own incentive programmes, which include perks such as rebates, free city parking and in some places free charging. The benefits make electric cars more attractive financially, particularly since the upfront costs of purchasing one might not be offset by fuel savings for years.

Today America is the world’s largest market for electric cars, and about 90 percent of them are sold in states following California’s programme. The project took time to develop, but it finally broke the link between innovation policies and the capricious com-modity cycle. The electric-car effort is just the kind of strategic planning that will be needed to transi-tion away from fossil fuels, avoid the next oil shock and drive America toward a clean-energy economy.

Electric-vehicle sales may sag for a month or a quarter, but will cheap oil kill the electric revolution? Don’t bet on it. Electric cars are here to stay.

Tillemann is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of the forthcoming book The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future.

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As early as the 1890s, electric taxi fleets were stealing market share from horse-and-buggy drivers in New York, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Even Thomas Edison was in on the game, spending more than a decade — and $1m of his own fortune — developing a battery technology aimed at electric cars.

Why cheap petrol can’t Why cheap petrol can’t stall the electric carstall the electric car

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My children are my ‘bedrock’: Jude Law

Actor Jude Law says his children are his “bedrock”. The actor is father to 18-year-old son Rafferty, 13-year-old daughter Iris and 12-year-

old son Rudy with his ex-wife Sadie Frost. He’s also step-father to her 24-year-old son Finlay and has a five-year-old daughter Sophia with model Samantha Burke.

Also, his former girlfriend Catherine Harding is pregnant with his child.Law’s spoken out

and said he cannot “believe” just how long his career has lasted but is happy with the respective careers of his children.

“There’s always sensing the presence of age. I’ve done 57 films. Looking back, I can’t believe I’m still work-ing and maintaining my position. But I’m a happy man these days. Four children, another on the way.

“My 18-year-old’s in the business. My 24-year-old, a gifted musician on piano and guitar, studies music in college. They’re my bedrock,” he told pagesix.com.

He’s particularly stunned by his career success as he never expected to be such a big movie star.

“I remember early days in London’s National Theatre. Growing up in the ‘1970s, I didn’t dream of movies. Stage was possible. Movies, a dream. Now in the UK, I start in April filming (director Guy Ritchie’s) ‘Knights of the Round Table’. I play a king,” the actor added.

In his new movie “Black Sea”, Law plays a submarine captain and loved being able to do his own stunts.

“I loved doing my own physical stunts... In this film, I got totally caught up in the story of leadership, skill and its gritty action,” he said.

Gwyneth Paltrow to launch third cookbook

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is planning to launch her third cookbook. The Mortdecai actress announced on the “Rachael Ray Show” on Friday

that her new book will focus on “clean comfort food” for the whole family, because she always finds herself running out of ideas, reports people.com.

She also said that she might “do appetizers for a party section because that’s always a tough one.”

“It’s like you’re having a party, and you don’t want to be in the kitchen. Make-ahead trays and stuff you can stick in the oven,” she told Ray.

“I love easy party food and kid-family food, and that’s where I am right now,” added Paltrow.

This will be Paltrow’s third cookbook, following 2013’s It’s All Good and 2011’s My Father’s Daughter with Mario Batali.

Award functions are money making businesses, says Arjun Rampal

With the season of award shows on, actor Arjun Rampal says such functions are money making businesses except the National Award.

“I think it’s a money making business. National award is the only award which is not a commercial event and it’s the only award function which has got any weight,” said Arjun, who received the National Award for Supporting Actor for his role in Rock On.

The actor who hails from a non filmy background says he doesn’t feel like an outsider.

“I don’t feel as an outsider in this industry. I have immense respect for the Industry and will do anything and everything in my power to contrib-ute back to it,” he said.

I love to work with new people: Akshay

Actor Akshay Kumar says that he likes the idea of working with new talent and this is the reason why he has given “maximum” chances

to youngsters under his Hari Om Entertainment banner.

“I have given the maxi-mum break to new direc-tors, actors and actresses under my banner,” Akshay said.

The Khiladi Kumar, whose espionage action thriller film Baby, released Jan 23, has given breaks to actors like Trisha Krishnan and Vinay Virmani through his pro-duction company.

Also, the 47-year-old doesn’t feels hesitant in working with debu-tant directors like Sajid-Farhad in Entertainment and Ashish R Mohan in Khiladi 786.

“I love to work with new people as I love new ideas,” he said.

Akshay will next be seen in the action drama Mein Gabbar alongside Shruti Haasan. He will also be seen in the Bollywood remake of Warrior. The film will be released as Brothers in India.

Ranbir dons street-fighter look in Bombay Velvet

Donning soiled clothes and sporting hands wrapped in bandages, Ranbir Kapoor looks convincing as a street-fighter in his forthcoming film

Bombay Velvet.The film’s makers Fox Star Studios and Phantom Films unveiled a teaser

image of Ranbir yesterday to build excitement around the movie’s first poster that is set to release today, read a statement.

Ranbir was reported to have shot some cage-fighting scenes in the Anurag Kashyap-helmed romantic thriller for which he went through intensive boxing coaching.

And the teaser image plays on his edgy avatar in the film. Ranbir plays the character of the risk-taking daredevil Johnny Balraj.

His co-star Anushka Sharma plays his love interest in the film.Student of the Year director Karan Johar will be seen playing a negative

role in the film, which is set for a May 15 release.

Jagger’s daughter makes Mulberry debut

Model Georgia May Jagger, daughter of Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger, has made her first appearance for British label Mulberry in

their new Spring campaign.The 23-year-old has been unveiled as the face of the luxury label’s Spring

advertisements which aim to give the impression of “an impromptu photo shoot set up in a country house”, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

She stuns in the photos from the campaign which sees her posing next to a silver tea set, ornamental arm chairs and carrying the brand’s Delphie bag in a traditional-looking British sitting room.

Another shot shows the model sporting the Mini Cara backpack in front of a vintage bicycle with roses spilling from the back pocket of her jeans.

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By Guy Lodge

Just because people refer to an Oscar race as “competitive”, it doesn’t mean it’s an especially high-quality one. In some catego-

ries, multiple nominees of comparable mediocrity can fight for golden statu-ettes. In others, a surfeit of outstanding contenders are declared also-rans from the outset, simply because one nominee has unbeatable momentum. So it is in this year’s best supporting actor race, for which the word “race” is hardly fit-ting: four top-form actors have award-worthy work to offer, but one of them has had this whole thing licked for the better part of a year.

Note that I said four top-form actors. The exception, as agreed by pretty much everyone except those who voted to put him on the ballot – and even they can’t be entirely convinced – is Robert Duvall. A near-annual slot is reserved in this category for an esteemed veteran who has done a film the great service of showing up, usually to scowl in an ornery fashion before expiring wheez-ily on screen. In this regard, Duvall’s work in the title role of The Judge – a failed vehicle for Robert Downey Jr that has already slipped the minds of crit-ics and audiences – is a textbook slot-filler; certainly, no other branch of the Academy thought the film merited their attention. But Duvall, an Oscar winner and seven-time nominee, is 84-years-old (for trivia hounds, that makes him the oldest man ever nominated for an

acting Oscar), and working less fre-quently in roles even of this marginal calibre. Consider this a hat tip to a remarkable career, if not a remarkable performance.

Perhaps Mark Ruffalo will some day be the beneficiary of similarly cumula-tive respect. “Taken for granted” might be pushing it for an actor who has two Oscar nominations so far, but the hard-working everyman still gets less credit than he deserves for routinely pulling off complex characterisations with such disarming subtlety. He’s quietly marvel-lous as doomed Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in Foxcatcher, often serving as the decent, empathetic go-between for the more technically imposing per-formances of Steve Carell (nominated for best actor) and Channing Tatum (somewhat unfairly left out). It’s the kind of low-key work that often goes unrecognised by awards bodies, and given that the Academy evidently admired Bennett Miller’s icy film more than they liked it – Foxcatcher has five nods but no best picture bid – the nomi-nation seems like a win here.

Birdman got a fresh gust of wind beneath its wings over the weekend: after winning both a Producers’ Guild award and the Screen Actors Guild ensemble prize, its odds for best pic-ture have shortened considerably. No amount of momentum for the film, however, is going to lift Edward Norton out of the bridesmaid position, even if he’s arguably its most exciting ele-ment. Wickedly parodying himself as

an egotistical method actor who is at once galvanising and destroying the Broadway vanity project of Michael Keaton’s protagonist, Norton is evi-dently having a ball with his athletic nesting of a performance within a per-formance within a performance. Even if the film abruptly drops him in its second half, this is the kind of bravura turn that would be a frontrunner in most years – particularly with Norton on his third nomination and due for a win. Yet his award from the National Board of Review looks set to remain his biggest trophy of the season, as an even brasher performance that announced itself in Sundance last January cruises to victory.

And no, we’re not talking about Ethan Hawke, whose wry performance as a gradually reformed deadbeat dad in Boyhood took far longer than the front-runner to establish itself as an awards player. It’s one of the greater injustices of awards season that Patricia Arquette has taken statuette after statuette for her 12-year-long role in Richard Linklater’s indie phenomenon, while Hawke has yet to claim a single win. He crushes the heart without a sin-gle grandstanding scene, and delivers what might be the best acting work of his career. It could also be the apothe-osis of his long-term collaboration with Linklater, a relationship that has secured him two writing nominations, for Before Sunset and Before Midnight. Not that Hawke, ever the genial dude on both sides of the screen, seems to

care a whit.You need quite a performance up

your sleeve to beat that field, and “quite a performance” is the term for JK Simmons’s fearsome, pulverising turn as a sadistic music teacher in under-dog best picture nominee Whiplash. Though it might not be the deepest portrayal in the pack, it’s certainly the most formidable. An instantly imita-ble anti-villain character, complete with his own pithy catchphrase (“Yo, Whiplash!”), Simmons has captured the popular and critical imagination in a similar fashion to Mo’Nique’s Oscar-winning demon mother in Precious. And no one can begrudge this deadpan comedy specialist his day in the sun. The kind of character actor who view-ers can recognise but not necessarily name, Simmons couldn’t have counted on winning almost every critics’ award and precursor prize in sight. The Oscar, at this point, is a mere formality.

Will win: JK Simmons, WhiplashShould win: Mark Ruffalo,

FoxcatcherHey, where’s … Josh Brolin? Academy

voters liked Paul Thomas Anderson’s rheumy, peculiar adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel enough to rec-ognise its screenplay and costumes, so we can only hope Brolin wasn’t far off this shortlist for his inspired tragicomic turn as meathead cop Bigfoot Bjornsen in Inherent Vice. Swap him in for Duvall, and we’d be looking at one of the cat-egory’s all-time banner years.

The Guardian

Oscars 2015: Who will win best supporting actor?

SPAINPLUS | THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 201510

Casket find could reveal remains of CervantesResearchers looking for the remains of Miguel de Cervantes have foundpart of a casket bearing his initials. The bones inside the coffin, which

are apparently mixed up with those of other burials, are beinganalysed to see if they belong to the author of Don Quixote

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Human stem cells generate new hair in lab

In the first step toward the development of a cell-based treatment for people with hair

loss, US scientists have used human stem cells to generate new hair in the lab.

“We have developed a method using human pluripotent stem cells to create new cells capable of initiating human hair growth. The method is a marked improvement over cur-rent methods that rely on transplanting exist-ing hair follicles from one part of the head to another,” explained Alexey Terskikh, associ-ate professor from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham).

The stem cell method provides an unlimited source of cells from the patient for transplan-tation and is not limited by the availability of existing hair follicles, he added.

The team developed a protocol that coaxed human pluripotent stem cells to become dermal papilla cells.

They are a unique population of cells that regulate hair-follicle formation and growth cycle. Human dermal papilla cells on their own are not suitable for hair transplants because they cannot be obtained in necessary amounts and rapidly lose their ability to induce hair-follicle formation in culture.

“In adults, dermal papilla cells cannot be readily amplified outside of the body and they quickly lose their hair-inducing properties,” Terskikh noted.

The team developed a protocol to drive human pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into dermal papilla cells and confirmed their ability to induce hair growth when transplanted into mice.

The next step is to transplant human dermal papilla cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells back into human subjects,” Terskikh emphasised. The research was published online in the journal PLOS One.

60pc of type 2 diabetes preventable: Experts

Type 2 diabetes is preventable in up to 60 percent of cases if early signs are recog-

nised and acted upon, experts have said.“Eight percent of the Austrian population

suffers from diabetes but only two-thirds know they have it,” Xinhua news agency quoted Vienna General Hospital’s Thomas Stulnig as saying in a press conference.

He added that late diagnosis leads to enor-mous health costs and 20 percent of patients have long-term damage by the time of diagnosis.

He said the type 2 form of diabetes usually develops slowly and can be prevented in the 60 percent of cases by an intensive lifestyle change.

Warning signs for onset of the condition include fat accumulation on the stomach, under two-and-a-half hours of exercise per week, increased blood sugar levels, high blood pres-sure, and abnormal blood fat levels.

Austrian Academic Institute of Nutritional Medicine (OeAIE) head Kurt Widhalm said the most important things to counter the condition are weight loss of five percent, a reduction in fat content in diet of 30 percent, a reduction in saturated fat consumption, increased fibre intake of more than 15 grams per day, and at least four hours of exercise per week.

Agencies

By Shereen Lehman

People in nursing homes are more likely to be dehydrated than elderly people living in the community, new research suggests.

The study, involving patients admitted to hospitals in the UK, found that dehydration was more common among those who came from nurs-ing homes.

In serious cases, dehydration can lead to high lev-els of sodium in the blood, a condition called hyper-natremia that can increase the risk of dying in the hospital, the researchers say.

“We believe that when a hospital finds that more than a few people are admitted with a high sodium from an individual (nursing) home it should raise a warning flag,” Dr. Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the study’s senior author, said.

People in nursing homes may be at a greater risk of dehydration, especially if they require assistance and may not drink enough fluids on their own.

“We hope that this will highlight the importance of ensuring the older people are encouraged and supported to drink,” McKee said.

As reported in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, McKee and colleagues reviewed data on more than 21,000 patients aged 65 and over who were admitted to a hospital for the first time between 2011 and 2013.

Overall, 432 patients were admitted with high sodium levels, and 1,413 died in the hospital.

Patients from nursing homes were more than five times as likely to have high sodium levels as those who came from their own homes.

And dehydrated patients from any setting were five times more likely to die in the hospital.

McKee said the study didn’t look for reasons why nursing home residents were more likely to be dehydrated.

However, he said, reports have suggested that older people may avoid drinking because they fear no one will help them get to the bathroom in time, and also, some staffers may either fail to encourage them to drink or may actively withhold fluid to prevent them from wetting the bed.

Dr Cheryl Phillips, a geriatrician and senior vice president of public policy and advocacy for LeadingAge, in Washington, said dehydration is a significant problem in nursing home patients in the UK, other European countries, the US and Canada.

“Vulnerable elders are at risk for dehydration for a number of reasons,” Philips, who wasn’t involved in the study, said.

Phillips explained that with aging, the thirst that drives people to drink fluids changes and they’re not as likely to get thirsty as quickly.

Both kidney disease and certain medicines can also contribute to the problem, she said.

Phillips added that dehydration can happen quickly, especially when people have a fever or diarrhea – and nursing home staff may not always be aware of how high the risk is for some of the most vulnerable seniors.

She said having higher numbers of staff and bet-ter-trained and prepared staff can actually impact

the incidence of dehydration very dramatically.

While there isn’t much data that looks strictly at staffing and dehydration, “we can inter-polate because we do have data that shows that higher staffing levels lead to improved quality,” Phillips said.

“Families can be incredible eyes and ears,” she said, adding that family members who under-stand the nature of dehydration can also help prevent it.

She encourages family mem-bers to visit their elderly frail relatives at different times of day and make sure water is accessible and remind nursing home staff to encourage the patient to drink

fluids even though they may not feel thirsty.Philips notes that while the study found a higher

risk of dehydration in nursing homes, the risk can be very high for elderly people who live at home too.

“If you have people (at home) who are completely as dependent and as vulnerable as people are typi-cally in nursing homes, the risk of dehydration is also very high,” she said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/15gdUVd Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, online January 16, 2015.

Reuters


Patients from nursing homes were more than five times as likely to have high sodium levels as those who came from their own homes. And dehydrated patients from any setting were five times more likely to die in the hospital.

Nursing home patients more likely to be dehydrated

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 201512

By Stuart Dredge

Adventure Time has been a hit as a TV show and as a series of mobile games, but its latest interactive spin-off wants to get chil-dren creating as well as playing.

Released for iOS and Android devices, Adventure Time Game Wizard is a platform game featuring Finn, Jake and several other stars of the Cartoon Network show, which has stretched over six series since its debut in 2010, with a seventh to come.

However, the heart of the new game is its “Create”

mode, where children can make their own levels using a digital editor within the app, or by draw-ing scenery and items on paper then scanning their levels in using their device’s camera.

Cartoon Network worked with mobile developer Pixel Press on the app, building on technology previ-ously used for the latter company’s Pixel Press Floors app, which launched for iOS in April 2014.

The Adventure Time version’s pen-and-paper aspect involves downloading and printing out a “starter kit” of worksheets, with gridlines to help children plan blocky 2D scenery for their levels, before using “glyphs” to indicate features like lava, moving platforms, coins and power-ups.

Once created, levels can be shared via the in-game “Arcade” for other players to download and play. Cartoon Network is charging £3.99 upfront for the game with no in-app purchases. It’s the latest mobile game based on the show, following Card Wars, Ski Safari, Treasure Fetch and Time Tangle.

Game Wizard – and before it Pixel Press Floors – are part of a small but growing number of apps that aim to blend digital play with real-world creativ-ity, however. Other examples include SquiggleFish, where children draw and scan in sea creatures for a virtual aquarium; Foldify Zoo, where kids create animals on-screen, then print them out as papercraft versions to colour in; Drawnimal, which provides ani-mated faces for animals that children draw on paper; and colAR Mix, which turns coloured-in printable pictures into 3D animations. The Guardian

Adventure Time: New mobile game gets kids to create their own levels

By Samuel Gibbs

The long wait from the announcement of the Apple Watch in September to actu-

ally being able to buy it will finally end in April.

Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook announced the shipping date dur-ing an earnings call. The watch is the company’s first foray into wear-able technology beyond a fitness sen-sor made with Nike. Earlier reports had suggested it would be available a month earlier, in March.

The Apple Watch was first announced in September last year alongside two new larger iPhones, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The watch is designed to be paired with an iPhone, including older models as old as the iPhone 5. Similar to Google’s Android Wear smartwatches, the Apple Watch will not have phone capabilities, instead relying on the paired iPhone for an internet connection.

Apple described the Watch as the “most personal device we’ve ever cre-ated”, featuring a heart rate monitor and other health and fitness tracking features that feed into the company’s Health app and data sharing service.

While the month of launch is now known there are still many

unanswered questions, including that of battery life. Apple has stated that it will last a day on a full charge, but several reports have stated that it might only last around 2.5 hours of heavy use or three hours displaying the clock face.

Most competing smartwatches, including those from Samsung, will last over a day. Sony’s Android Wear Smartwatch 3, for instance, can last three days of normal use before charging.

Despite worries of battery life, the first generation of the Apple Watch is expected to be a sales success.

“Even if it only told the time, Apple is likely to sell millions of them with the first launch,” said Ben Wood, head of research at analysts CCS Insight. “Apple makes beautiful things and the Watch is beautifully engineered. Combined with its brand credentials it’s going to be a fashion statement and a status symbol with a much broader appeal than current smartwatches.”

No pinching and zooming necessary

The Apple Watch has a “digital crown” – a knob on the side of the watch that will act as a jog dial for adjusting functions including zoom-ing and setting the time, removing the need to place fingers on the small screen for some functions.

Beyond the time, the smartwatch’s screen will provide at-a-glance noti-fications and mobile payments using the company’s Apple Pay contactless payment service.

Several of Apple’s apps will be avail-able on the Watch, including voice-control tool Siri, Messages, Maps as well as information pulled from cal-endars, email and other iPhone apps. Third-party developers are expected to embrace the new platform in a sim-ilar manner to the iPhone and iPad, creating bespoke apps for the watch.

The smartwatch will come in three versions: the stainless steel Watch, aluminium Watch Sport and 18c gold Apple Watch Edition. Six different straps will also be available, each with a quick-remove clasp.

The Guardian

Apple Watch will be available in April

Game Wizard app encourages children to draw and share their ideas using either the touchscreen or pens and paper.

COMICS & MORE 13

Hoy en la HistoriaJanuary 29, 1995

1635: The Academie Francaise was founded by Cardinal Richelieu. It is still responsible for the regulation of French grammar and literature1730: Russian Tsar Peter II died of smallpox on the day of his wedding1820: Britain’s King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a 60-year reign that witnessed both the American and French Revolutions1900: The American Baseball League was founded in Chicago

Peru launched a major offensive against Ecuador over a stretch of border in the Andes disputed since 1821. A peace accord was finally agreed in 1998

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

ACCENT, ADDRESS, ARGUE, BABBLE, BLAB, BLUSTER, CANT, CHAT, CHATTER, COMMENT, COMMUNICATE, CONVERSATION,CONVERSE, DEBATE, DISCLOSE, DISCOURSE, DISCUSS, DISSERTATE, DIVULGE, GABBLE, GOSSIP, GUSH, IMPART, INFLECT, LANGUAGE, LECTURE, LINGO, MODULATE, MOUTH, NARRATE, ORATE, PALAVER, PARLEY, PATOIS, PONTIFICATE, PRATE, PREACH, RAP, SHOUT, SLANG, SPEAK, SPEECH, SPIEL, TALK, TELL, UTTER, WHISPER.

Baby Blues by Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

Zits by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Hagar The Horrible by Chris Browne

LEARN ARABIC


At the Bank

Bank Ma�rif

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Money Mal

Postal money order �awala

What is the exchange rate of the American dollar?

Ma houwa siçrou �arfi aldolar al'amreekiyy?

I want to but three shares Oureedou an aštaree �ala�at ashoum

Pay this check Idfaç ha�a alšeek

The signature Al'im�a'

I want to cash this check Oureedou an a�orouf ha�a alšeek

Where is the exchange of�ce? Ayna maktabou al�iraffa?

When does the bank open? Mata yafta�ou alma�rif

High intrest Fa'ida mourtafiça

Note: ç = ‘a’ in ‘agh’ when surprised

HYPER SUDOKU

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YESTERDAY’S ANSWER

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku

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6:15, 8:45 &11:15pm

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4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm

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5:10, 10:00pm & 12:20amSelma (2D/Drama) – 7:30pm

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Taken 3 (2D/Action)– 1:50, 6:30 & 11:45pm

7Paddington(2D/Family)– 11:00am, 1:00 & 3:00pm

Birdman (2D/Comedy) – 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 & 11:55pm

8American Sniper (2D/Action)

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Wild Card (2D/Crime) – 4:15 & 9:30pm

Darker Than Night (2D/Horror)– 6:00 & 11:15pm

Robot Overlords (2D/Action) – 7:45pm

2 The Book Of Life (2D/Animation) – 2:15pm

Black Hat (2D/Drama) – 4:00pm

Black Sea (2D/Adventure) – 6:15pm

Nagara Varidhi Naduvil Njan (2D/Malayalam) – 8:15pm

Baby (2D/Hindi) – 10:30pm

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Selma (2D/Drama) – 6:45pm



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Robot Overlords (2D/Action) – 5:00 & 9:00pm

Darker Than Night (2D/Horror) – 7:00 & 11:00pm

3 Hawaizaada (2D/Hindi) – 2:15pm


Nagara Varidhi Naduvil Njan (2D/Malayalam) – 7:15pm


Wild Card (2D/Crime) – 11:30pm

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Wild Card (2D/Crime) – 5:45 & 11:30pm


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Black Hat (2D/Drama) – 4:30 & 11:15pm


American Sniper (2D/Action) – 9:00pm

3 Book of Life (2D/Animation) – 3:00pm

Song of The Sea (2D/Animation) – 5:00pm

Darker Than Night (2D/Horror)– 7:00 & 11:15pm


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

By Amanda Lee Myers

A treasure hunter locked in a legal battle over one of the greatest undersea hauls in

American history has been arrested in Florida after more than two years on the lam, authorities said yesterday.

The US Marshals Service tracked Tommy Thompson to a Hilton hotel in West Boca Raton and arrested him on Tuesday, said Brian Babtist, a sen-ior inspector in the agency’s office in Columbus, Ohio, where a federal civil arrest warrant was issued for him in 2012 for failing to show up to a key court hearing.

Authorities didn’t immediately explain how they were finally able to track down Thompson, whom they called “one of the most intelli-gent fugitives ever sought by the US Marshals.”

Thompson made history in 1988 when he found the sunken S S Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold. In what was a techno-logical feat at the time, Thompson and his crew brought up thousands of gold bars and coins from the ship-wreck. Much of that was later sold to a gold marketing group in 2000 for about $50m.

The 161 investors who paid Thompson $12.7m to find the ship

never saw returns from the sale. Two of them sued — a now-deceased invest-ment firm president and the Dispatch Printing Company, which publishes The Columbus Dispatch newspaper and had invested about $1m. That legal battle is ongoing, and those close to Thompson say it was his undoing.

Gil Kirk, who heads a Columbus real estate firm and is a former director of one of Thompson’s com-panies, said last year that Thompson never cheated anyone. Kirk said proceeds from the 2000 sale of the gold all went to legal fees and bank loans. “He was a genius, and they’ve stolen his life,” Kirk said of those who sued.

Thompson went into seclusion in 2006, moving into a mansion called Gracewood in Vero Beach, Florida. Six years later, after the arrest war-rant was issued, Thompson vanished.

When the property’s caretakers searched the mansion, they found prepaid disposable cellphones and bank wraps for $10,000 scattered about, along with a bank statement in the name of Harvey Thompson

showing a $1m balance, court records said. Harvey, according to friends, was Thompson’s nickname in college.

Also found was a book called How to Live Your Life Invisible. One marked page was titled: “Live your life on a cash-only basis.”

Columbus attorney Rick Robol, who at one time defended Thompson’s company, has said there’s no proof Thompson stole anything. He said he’s been concerned about Thompson’s health, which is why he called the arrest “the best thing that can happen for everybody.”

Babtist said Thompson was arrested along with his longtime companion, Alison Anteiker, and the couple had been staying in a two-per-son suite at the Hilton for two years.

In one of the worst shipping dis-asters in American history, the S.S. Central America sank in a monster hurricane about 200 miles off the South Carolina coast in September 1857; 425 people drowned and thou-sands of pounds of California gold were lost, contributing to an eco-nomic panic. AP

Fugitive treasure hunter nabbed in Florida after two-year hunt

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