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OIL WELLOIL WELL

The smell of money hangs thick in the The smell of money hangs thick in the air as black crude oil bubbles up from air as black crude oil bubbles up from what is billed as the world’s oldest what is billed as the world’s oldest oil well. But this is not Texas or Saudi oil well. But this is not Texas or Saudi Arabia, it’s the sleepy Polish village of Arabia, it’s the sleepy Polish village of Bobrka that lays claim to the planet’s Bobrka that lays claim to the planet’s first oil well and rig.first oil well and rig.

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World’s first oil well still bubbling up black gold in Poland

The smell of money hangs thick in the air as black crude oil bub-bles up from what is

billed as the world’s oldest oil well, but this is not Texas or Saudi Arabia.

The sleepy village of Bobrka in southern Poland lays claim to the planet’s first oil well and rig, one that is still pumping up enough black gold to be profitable.

It was dug and built by hand in 1860 under the watchful gaze of Polish pharmacist and inven-tor Ignacy Lukasiewicz, a hum-ble man who pioneered the now ubiquitous use of petroleum by creating the kerosene lamp.

Thanks to him, “Bobrka became the birthplace of the world’s oil industry”, says Barbara Olejarz, who runs a local museum devoted to the origins of the sector and whose last name by coincidence means “oilman” in Polish.

“It all began there,” she said while pointing a finger at an obe-lisk built by Lukasiewicz and his circle to mark the launch of the oil field in 1854 and the founding of the world’s first oil company.

Despite giving birth to the sec-tor, it turned out that Poland did not have much oil.

It now produces around 20,000 barrels a day, or 7.3 million per year, worth some $584m (€466m) at current prices — a trickle by global standards. Refined locally, Polish crude covers just four to five percent of domestic demand, according to oil and gas expert Andrzej Szczesniak.

The five remaining wells at the Bobkra museum pump out a combined 423 barrels of crude per year, which is also locally refined and consumed.

And though he pioneered the oil industry, few out-side the country know about Lukasiewicz, due in part to his own humility.

“His modesty worked against him. He remained less known than other Polish sci-entists: Copernicus or Marie Sklodowska-Curie,” says Olejarz.

“He didn’t want to be the talk of the town, he didn’t like to stand out, he did everything during his lifetime so that he’d be forgotten and his wish has been fulfilled.”

Pipes at the Ignacy Lukasiewicz Museum of Petroleum Industry in Bobrka.

A Polish-Canadian driling rig.

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KeroseneBorn in 1822 in the southern vil-

lage of Zaduszniki — then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire — Lukasiewicz acquired a pharmacist’s diploma and an interest in the petro-leum found in the eastern Carpathian Mountains.

He ran experiment after experiment, sometimes triggering an accidental fire or explosion, before succeeding at refining crude oil and inventing the first kerosene lamp.

In 1853, he used it to light up the hospital in nearby Lviv, now part of Ukraine, and the following year he lit the world’s first kerosene lamp on a street in Gorlice. Next up came the need to learn how to extract fuel from the ground in high volumes.

“In Bobrka, the first drillers were actually well-diggers who dug holes with pickaxes, shovels and hammers. The work was hard and dangerous,” says Olejarz, citing hazards including cave-ins, flooding and gas leaks.

She spoke in front of the wooden tri-pod that surrounds the Franek well, which is equipped with a cable pulley for pulling up buckets of oil.

A RockefellerBy 1874, the Austro-Hungarian

Empire had identified 111 wells and drilling sites in Bobrka. The deepest well went down 150 metres (490 feet).

The wells would be extended later thanks to new drilling technology, much of which was developed in the United States.

“Some say that one of the Rockefellers either came here himself or sent his associates to seek advice on how to obtain kerosene from crude oil,” says Olejarz, referring to the wealthy US family behind the company that became energy giant ExxonMobil.

“And Lukasiewicz told them everything.”

When the Rockefellers asked how much they owed him for the advice, he was said to have replied that it was free because he was working for the good of humanity — not for money.

“He was particularly modest, the archetypal nice guy, someone with passion,” says Joanna Kubit, principal of the petrochemical technical high school in the nearby town of Krosno.

“His idea was that the oil industry should above all serve to improve life in this poor province of Galicia,” the name of the region when it was an impover-ished part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Sure enough, she says, the life of the region’s residents changed with the income generated by the sector and the considerable sums their wealthi-est resident spent on public utility projects.

Lukasiewicz set up vocational schools, social insurance and municipal credit bureaus across the region. He also financed university scholarships, churches, convents and monasteries.

“It was said at the time that every road in Galicia was paved with Lukasiewicz’s money.”

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By 1874, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had identified 111 wells and drilling sites in Bobrka. The deepest well went down 150 metres (490 feet).

Visitors watch a mulitmedia exhibit in the Ignacy Lukasiewicz Museum of Petroleum Industry in Bobrka.

A figure of Ignacy Lukasiewicz in his laboratory.

Oil lamps

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MES Indian School held its Ruby Jubilee Annual Sports Meet from November 2 to 9 . The six-day event, conducted sepa-

rately for boys’, girls’, junior, kindergarten and CBSE-i sections of the school kick-started with cultural presentations on the grass field.

“A sound mind resides only in a sound body. In the present day scenario sports and games play a pivotal role in maintaining the health of

students and MES always gives due importance to it,” remarked Principal, Sasidharan A P, while addressing the gathering.

Competitions were held in obstacle race, 4 X 100 metres relay, 100 metres race, 200 metres race, long jump, high jump and shot put. The colourful and synchronised march past and drill display by blue, green, red and yellow houses stole the heart of the spectators. The national champions and athletes of the school were the torchbearers in the function.

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MES celebrates Ruby Jubilee Sports Meet

Students taking part in various sports events.

IIS appointsnew teachersIdeal Indian School recently inducted a new batch of teachers into its faculty. Sixteen well qualified and experienced teachers in various subjects have joined the Boys’, Girls’ and Junior sections strengthening the already substantial faculty. The addition of new staff will lead to an improved student-teacher ratio.

Math is a family affair at Qatar Academy

The presence of parents inside their children’s classroom is not

an uncommon sight at Qatar Academy and it is particularly celebrated dur-ing Family Math Day. Organised in the Primary School, it has become an annual opportunity for parents to work together with their children in honing up their math proficiency skills.

Primary School Math Coordinator Joanna Mathison likewise shared this during the presentation for the parents which explored ideas on ‘how does my child best learn math?’ and ‘how can I support my child with math at home?’

As technology is also seamlessly inte-grated in QA’s classrooms, parents were also encouraged to steer their children towards responsible use of their devices at home by playing programs like Reflex Math a little every day and supporting

them in Mathletics. The former helps students to independently learn basic math facts after they have conceptual

understanding while the latter is an online learning platform that rewards students. Throughout all this, Mathison

notes, making math fun and being posi-tive about math is really important for the child’s learning. The Peninsula

Parents helping their wards with Math problems.

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To mark World Diabetes Day, a campaign led by the International Diabetes

Federation (IDF) and World Health Organization, Naseem Al Rabeeh Medical Centre, C-ring road branch, conducted Health talk on healthy living and diabetes. Dr Harid Mohammad, Medical Director for-mally inaugurated the function.

Dr Deepak Chandramohan (pic-tured), senior physician at Naseem Al Rabeeh, gave a talk on lifestyle patterns that encourage diabetes in the urban population. He advised on various lifestyle changes that are to be effected to reduce the incidence of diabetes. The dangers of diabetes, and the current guidelines in diag-nosis and management were also highlighted in the programme and he also answered questions from the gathering.

Dr Laxmi Murthy, consultant Ophthalmologist, Dr Zeba Iqbal, consultant gynaecologist, Dr Leenes

Paul. Pathologist, Babu Shanavas, Chief Executive officer and Rishad, Assistant Administrative Manager, addressed the gathering.

The management informed that the laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment will start soon and in house medical camps will be con-ducted. The Peninsula

WWICS to conduct seminar on immigration opportunities

The Associate Office of WWICS at Qatar is organising a seminar at Holiday Villa tomorrow. Immigration experts from WorldWide Immigration Consultancy

Services (WWICS) conducts seminars to apprise aspirants about various opportunities of living, working, studying or doing business in the country of their choice.

The expert panel of Lt Col B S Sandhu (Retd), Chairman & Managing Director, WWICS Group, Deepak Kochhar, Sr Vice President, WWICS Group, Daniel J Wycklendt, Chief Operating Officer, FirstPathway Partners (USA), Stephen Starr, Sr Recruitment Specialist (Canada), Gurpreet Sandhu, Registered MARA Agent, and Sandeep Chauhan, Asst Vice President, and Anwar Karim (pictured), Regional Manager Qatar and Kuwait operation of WWICS Group, would be present at the seminars to guide businesspersons, investors, skilled workers, pro-fessionals and students regarding numerous opportunities available to live, work, study or do business in their dream destinations.

The experts will detail about various immigration programmes dealt by WWICS. On top of their list will be the Express Entry System that is proposed to be introduced in January 2015. Post its opening, the Canadian Immigration scene will become entirely job oriented. With the new “Express Entry” Skilled Immigration system, applicants from across the world with the right educational qualifications, skills and work experience would require to market themselves to the Canadian employers and get employment offer from them. This programme will be directly linked to the employment needs of Canada. This programme is moving away from “passive processing to employment based system”.

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QTS unveils tickets for Mega Star Nite

Qatar Tamizhar Sangam (QTS) is organis-ing the Mega Star Nite – 2014 on Friday at

Qatar National Convention Centre. The main sponsor, Teyseer Motors, represented by Adnan Al Mannai, Group Administration Director, Medhat Greiss, General Manager, Pasupathy Anand, Business Development Manager, Hassan Ibrahim Ammar, Sales Manager, Suzuki Vehicles, launched the entry tickets for the mega event at a function held recently.

QTS Ex-President, Doraiswamy Kuppan, with current EXCOM members, Chidambaram, Ramesh Babu, Muniappan and Anand partici-pated in the event on behalf of Qatar Tamizhar

Sangam.S Raghunathan, Business Executive Manager

of Al Abraj Trading Est, Gowri Shankar, CMD of RSN Infotech, Satheesh Kumar V, Sales Manager of Instrol, Nagha Madhavan, General Manager of Sine Wave, and Amanulla

Vadakkangara, CE of Mediaplus, also attended the launch ceremony. The event will start at 6pm and will have performances by leading film stars and stand up comedians from India and an orchestra led by Laxman Sruthi.

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Adnan Al Mannai unveiling the ticket for the Mega Star Nite as other guests look on.

IAID celebrated held a Music Certificate Distribution Ceremony for the students who passed the LCM Summer 2014 Examinations.

Conducting the LCM Summer 2014 Exams is seasoned LCM Examiner Robert Langston who affirmed, “IAID’s standard was excellent and the facilities superb. I was very impressed by the school’s expanding musical programme.” A total of 170 stu-dents entered and successfully passed the LCM Summer 2014 Examinations held at IAID premises in June.

The ceremony was held at the Atrium of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar recently. The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra were the guest performers. The programme started with the launch-ing of IAID’s music commercial, followed by a speech

by IAID Director Rajesh Jadhav. The event closed with IAID Center Head Marianne Indrinal’s clos-ing remarks. She awarded a plaque of recognition with IAID Artistic Director Dimple Rajesh to the

Academy’s former music student and now member of the prestigious Vienna Boy’s choir, Tarun Thomas Mammen. Tarun’s parents received the award on their child’s behalf. The Peninsula

Qatar Philharmonic performs at the ceremony.

IAID holds certificate distribution ceremony

Naseem Al Rabeeh marks WorldDiabetes Day with health talk

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WINNER Chocolate Fruit Pan Cake

Ingredients:• Fruits: Small pieces of 1/4th red apple, ½ banana,

4 to 5 black seedless grapes, 15 to 20 seeds of pomegranate.

• 150 grams all-purpose flour • 2 tbsp baking powder • 1 tbsp coco powder • 1 tbsp chocolate chips • 2 tbsp sugar • 1 egg• 1/2 cup milk• 1 tbsp butter

Method:Batter preparationTake all-purpose flour, baking powder and coco

powder in a bowl. Pour yoke of one egg, ½ cup of milk and one table spoon of oil in the mixture. Mix it with the help of a hand blender. The batter is ready for use.

Preparing the pan cakeOn heated nonstick pan, take 1 table spoon of butter;

add small pieces of fruits — apple, banana and grapes.Fry it for one minute; add sugar (do not add sugar in the batter) and pour already prepared batter on it; spread chocolate chips and pomegranate seeds on it.

Cover the pan with lid until it cooks.The chocolate pan cake is more delicious when

served hot. Komal Mehta

Apricot Pancakes

Ingredients:• 1/4 cup golden apricots chopped• 1 cup refined flour (maida) • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder• 1/4 tsp salt• 1 egg • 2 tbsp castor sugar (caster sugar) • 1 cup milk• 2 tbsp melted butter• 4 tbsp peach marmalade• 4 tbsp sugar

Method:Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into a bowl. Break

egg into another bowl, add caster sugar, milk and two table-spoons melted butter and whisk well. Add the marmalade and mix well.

To make apricot compote, heat a non-stick pan and add sugar and apricots and cook for three to four minutes. Remove from heat.

Fold flour mixture into the egg mixture and mix well till the batter is smooth and without any lumps. Chill in a refrigerator for ten to fifteen minutes.

Heat a little butter on a non-stick tawa, pour a ladleful of bat-ter and spread it thinly. Cook, turning sides, till golden brown on both sides.

Place a spoonful of apricot compote on one side and fold. Transfer onto a serving plate. Make more pancakes with remaining batter. Serve hot.

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Chocolate Pancakes With Exotic Fruits

Ingredients:For Pancakes• 100 grams chocolate• 1 cup skimmed milk• 1 egg white • 1 tbsp cocoa powder• 3/4 cup refined flour (maida) • Oil to deep fry

Stuffing • 1 small apple• 2 small bananas• 1 kiwi fruit • 1 tsp butter• 1/4 cup castor sugar (caster sugar) • 2 tbsp fruit juice• 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds For garnishing • 1 cup fresh low fat cream• 1/4 cup sugar

Method:To prepare the pancake batter, melt chocolate in a double boiler,

cool it a little, add warm milk, egg white and mix gently. Add cocoa powder, flour and whisk till smooth. Transfer this batter into a bowl and chill for thirty minutes.

Wash and cut apple and kiwi fruit into half inch sized cubes. Peel bananas and cut into half inch sized cubes. Heat one tea-spoon of butter in a pan.

When it melts add castor sugar and mix well. Add fruit cubes, fruit juice. Lower heat and simmer till fruits are tender and totally dry.

Add pomegranate seeds and mix well. Remove the pan from heat and keep warm. Whip fresh low fat cream and sugar together and keep aside.

To make the pancakes, heat a non-stick pan, pour in just enough batter to cover the base of the pan, swirl to coat evenly. Cook till pancake sets and flip it to cook the other side.

Gently slide pancake onto a plate and similarly prepare more pancakes with the remaining batter. Divide filling into as many portions as the number of pancakes.

Place a pancake on a plate, spread fruit mixture on one half and fold the other half over. Serve topped with whipped cream.

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Frooty Loopy Pancakes Prep Time 30 minServings 4

Ingredients:• 2 large, super ripe bananas • 2 medium eggs • 5mg cinnamon powder• 1 green apple or half a pineapple - cored, sliced into rounds

1/2 inch thick and patted dry

Method:Mash the first three ingredients together until well combined. Dip the fruit into the mixture until coated, fry on a nonstick pan

until brown on both sides. Ps: You can top with whipped cream or ice cream in the centre.

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Arizona Pancake Layers

Ingredients:• 2 tbsp unsalted butter• 4 tbsp flour• 1/3 cup cheddar cheese • 2cups milk• 1/4 tsp black pepper• 1l4 tsp red chilli flakesFor tomato red sauce• 2 tbsp ketchup• 1 cup tomato puree • 2 tbsp oil• 1 tsp chopped garlic• salt to taste• 1/3 tsp black pepper, oregano, red chillies fakesFor the pan cakes • 2 cups flour • 2 eggs • 1 tsp salt• 1/4 tsp p.pepper• Water as requiredFilling • 2 cups chicken boneless cubed • 2 tsp garlic and ginger chopped• 2 tbsp oil• 1 cup bell peppers chopped

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• Onion chopped, mushroom, tomato: all together 1 cup • salt, soya sauce lemon juice and red chilli flakes to taste

Method:Cheese Sauce: Cook butter and flour until aroma comes add milk stir till becomes smoothAdd season and cook on low heat and set aside.Tomato Sauce: Heat oil and saute garlic then add puree and cook. Add seasonings and ketchup cook until becomes shiny set asidePancakes: Heat a non stick pan, grease with oil and pour batter and make thin pancakes

cook 1 min each side and set aside.Filling: Heat oil, add ginger, garlic, when aroma comes add chicken and soya sauce and cook

well. Add tomato puree, all vegetables and spices and cook until chicken and vegetables are tender and at the end add the lemon juice, toss and its ready.

Assembly: Take a deep dish, start with red sauce followed by cheese sauce. Then lay pan-cakes, then the filling — repeat until everything is utilized in to the top layer. Spread red and cheese sauce place bell pepper strip on it sprinkle grated cheese and bake 15 min and serve.

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Jaggery Coconut Pancake

Ingredients:• 1 cup coconut milk • ¼ cup jaggery grated• 1 medium fresh coconut scraped• 1 ½ cups rice flour • 1 tbsp oil + 1• 2 tbsp pistachios chopped• 2 tbsp almonds chopped• 2 tbsp cashewnuts chopped• 2 tbsp raisins • 1 tbsp roasted sesame seeds• Cinnamon powder a pinch

Method:Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non-stick pan, add pistachios, almonds, cashewnuts, raisins and sauté

till light golden.Add coconut, cinnamon powder and jaggery, sesame seeds , immediately switch off heat

and mix well. Transfer the mixture into a bowl and keep aside. Mix together rice flour, coconut milk and enough water to make a thick batter. Rest the

batter for 5-7 minutes.Heat a non-stick pan. Spread 1 tsp oil with the help of a tissue paper and reserve the paper

to use for other pancakes.Spread a ladle full of the pancake batter on the pan. Drizzle a little oil on the sides. Cook

till the underside becomes brown. Transfer onto a plate. Similarly make all the pancakes.Spread a little stuffing in the centre of each pancake and roll. Place the pancakes in the pan and heat turning sides till the jaggery melts. Aisha Mohammed Rafiq

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By Lisa Yockelson

One of the best gifts to bakers of all stripes must be the classic Bundt pan, for in it a batter bakes into easily sliced sections and looks as good with

a finishing top coat of glaze or icing as it does with a shower of confectioners’ sugar (effortless, and a dream for busy cooks).

Moist and full of character, the batter for my sweet potato cake finishes to a plump conclu-sion in that very tube pan. The use of sweet potato puree instead of pumpkin — the latter well loved in many fall breads and cakes — dis-tinguishes the batter with a rounded, less vegetal aroma and forms the perfect platform for the warm spices. Cooks with a lot of squash on hand needn’t worry: This batter gracefully accepts the substitution of pure pumpkin puree.

Though the plain cake entices, consider one of the following additions, to be first tossed with 2 1/2 teaspoons of the sifted mixture before being stirred into the batter just prior to scraping into the prepared pan: 1 cup of dried cranberries; 1 cup of dried tart (Montmorency) cherries; 1 cup of diced pitted dates; 1 cup of coarsely chopped walnuts; or a combination of 3/4 cup of raw, hulled pumpkin seeds and 1/3 cup of raw sunflower seeds.

Pantry ingredients plus a few other staples, deepened with the sweet potato puree, combine to make an impressive cake with a fairly close-textured, dewy crumb.

Serve the cake plain (it stands on its own beautifully), with maple syrup-sweetened dollops of whipped cream or with a side of poached fruit.

Brown Sugar-Sweet Potato Cake16 servings (makes one 10-inch cake)Make Ahead: The cake can be made a day in

advance and kept at room temperature.From Lisa Yockelson, author of Baking Style:

Art, Craft, Recipes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).

Ingredients3 cups flour1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder3/4 teaspoon baking soda3/4 teaspoon salt, preferably fine sea salt2 teaspoons ground ginger2 teaspoons ground cinnamon3/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg1/4 teaspoon ground allspice1/4 teaspoon ground cloves16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at

room temperature1 1/2 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar1/3 cup granulated sugar4 large eggs3 tablespoons light unsulphured molasses2 teaspoons vanilla extract15 ounces canned sweet potato puree (may

substitute canned pure pumpkin puree)Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting

Method:Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat the

inside of a 10-inch Bundt pan with flour-and-oil cooking spray.

Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves onto a sheet of wax paper.

Beat the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer

or hand-held electric mixer on medium speed for 4 minutes, or until quite creamy. Stop to scrape down the bowl.

Add the dark brown sugar in three additions, beating for 1 minute after each one. Add the granulated sugar and beat for 1 minute longer. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing for 30 seconds after each addition, to blend. Stop to scrape down the bowl. Blend in the molasses and vanilla extract on low speed.

Add the sweet potato puree; beat on low speed to incorporate. The mixture might look slightly curdled at this point, but it will smooth out once the sifted mixture is introduced. Continuing on low speed, add the sifted mixture in three addi-tions, stopping to scrape down the bowl after each one and mixing just until absorbed. Spoon

the batter into the prepared baking pan. Use a rubber spatula to smooth the top. Bake for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in the cake emerges clean. The baked cake will pull away slightly from the sides of the baking pan.

Transfer (in the pan) to a wire cooling rack to cool for 10 minutes, then invert the cake onto a separate cooling rack and remove the pan. Cool completely. Store in an airtight cake keeper.

Sift confectioners’ sugar over the top of the cake before slicing and serving.

Nutrition Per serving: 340 calories, 5 g protein, 51 g carbohydrates, 13 g fat, 8 g saturated fat, 75 mg cholesterol, 250 mg sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 29 g sugar

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Kim Kardashian looking to gift private island to daughter

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian will reportedly “buy a private island in Australia” and “build a theme park for daughter North”. The

34-year-old is secretly looking to purchase Turtle Island in Queensland, Australia, for the sum of five million Australian Dollars, reports mirror.co.uk. The Keeping up with the Kardashians star is hoping to build a private amusement park for her 16-month-old daughter with husband Kanye West.

Pink Floyd on top after 20 years

Legendary British rock band Pink Floyd has shot to the top of the British charts with its new album “The Endless River” after a

hiatus of 20 years.According to the Official Albums Chart, this is the band’s sixth

British number one. The last time they topped the charts was back in 1995 with live double album, “Pulse”.

They released their first record, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” in 1967, which reached number six in the British charts.

The latest score was announced on Sunday.The album has been created by using 20 hours of unreleased mate-

rial that the band wrote, recorded and produced with Rick Wright for Pink Floyd’s 14th and last studio album, “The Division Bell”.

Singer and guitarist David Gilmour said the album was a tribute to Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright, who died in 2008.

Wright appears on the record posthumously.“The Endless River” is the third album after co-founder Roger

Waters left the band in 1985. The two previous albums were “A Momentary Lapse of Reason” (1987) and The Division Bell (1994).

Gilmour has announced that this would be the last Pink Floyd album.

Shields regrets marrying Agassi

Model-turned-actress Brooke Shields says that soon after her marriage to former tennis star Andre Agassi, she realised it

was a mistake.The actress and Agassi split in 1999 after being married for two

years, but Shields feels she always had relationship doubts, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“It hit me all of a sudden — I knew I had made a mistake. For the next two years we saw very little of each other. I was working on my show, ‘Suddenly Susan,’ and he was playing at various tournaments.

“He alienated me when he lost and was on to the next tournament after he won. We were drifting apart,” she wrote on her biography.

Andre confessed he’d been “addicted to crystal meth” since their dating life began, but she says she had always hoped to work things out.

“I was the one who had supported him unconditionally when he told me (after we started dating) that he was basically bald and had been wearing hairpieces most of his adult life. Why would this have been any different? I would have been his biggest advocate and supporter,” she shared.

I am very simple: Ranveer Singh

Ranveer Singh has played a conman and a thief on the big screen, but the Bollywood’s sought-after actor describes himself as a simple

person, who doesn’t cheat or lie.Asked how innocent he is in real life, he said: “I am not a cheat or

a liar. I am very simple. I find excitement in my work and do it hon-estly. I don’t like negativity, manipulation and politics. So, I stay very far from them.”

“I’m blessed that I get an opportunity to do what I love for a living. I feel that you should approach life positively.”

“Whenever I have done bad to anyone or betrayed anyone, the only person who suffers is me. It eats me from inside, so I have realised you should not wrong anybody. I choose to live an honest and clean life,” he added.

His latest film Kill Dil, also featuring Govinda, Ali Zafar and Parineeti Chopra, released on Friday.

Happy New Year script lands at Oscars

After the bumper success of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Happy New Year, filmmaker Farah Khan has one more achievement to add to

it. The movie’s script has been included into the Oscars library.The filmmaker took to social networking website Twitter to share

her joy and delight over the news and thanked her co-writers for pen-ning the script.

“1 more reason 2 celebrate!! #HNY script goes to the Oscar library!! Bigg kiss to my co writers @mayurpuri n Althea k,” she tweeted.

The film had a starry ensemble with Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah and was released on October 24,

Farah Khan is one of the few female directors to carve a niche for herself with a number of successful films like Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om. The filmmaker will be attending the closing ceremony of the 20th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) Monday to showcase and emphasise women’s power.

“Now en route to kolkatta film fest closing ceremony!! Being felici-tated n also felicitating the Best woman director there!! More power!!,” she further posted.

Sohail to start girls volleyball team

Quite a few actors are getting associated with sports and keeping this in mind, actor-producer Sohail Khan has announced that he

will soon start a women’s vol-leyball team.

“Yes, this is the right time, even we are thinking there should be a team of female celebs,” said Sohail in a state-ment talking about the apt time for the girls brigade of Bollywood to get involved.

Superstar Salman Khan started Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) with Sohail and actor Suniel Shetty in 2009, where celebrities come together and play cricket.

Now his younger brother Sohail, at a recent conference, voiced his intention of starting the women’s volleyball team on the lines of CCL.

“It’s difficult to predict if they have any interest in cricket or not but we are planning that we should start female volleyball matches on the level of CCL. We hope we can start it by next year,” the actor added.


By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud

Dumb and Dumber To, the sequel to the 1994 comedy that raised stupidity to an art form, led the US and

Canadian box office this weekend, tak-ing in $38.1m and out muscling last week’s winner, Big Hero 6.

Hero, Walt Disney Co’s animated story of a boy and his robot, settled for a close second with $36m, accord-ing to estimates provided by tracking firm Rentrak.

Director Christopher Nolan’s space adventure Interstellar collected $29.2m for third place.

Dumb and Dumber To stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as dimwit-ted friends searching for the long-lost daughter of one of the buddies. The original film, Dumb and Dumber, was among 1994’s biggest hits, with $127.2m in domestic ticket sales.

“We felt it was going to do over $30m, but this is bordering on $40m,” said Nikki Rocco, president for domes-tic distribution at Universal Pictures, the Comcast Corp unit that released the film.

“The timing was right for a comedy of this nature, one with broad appeal,” Rocco added, noting the studio suc-cessfully broadened the film’s appeal to ethnic audiences, with Hispanics

making up 38 percent of ticket buyers.The weekend haul belied reviews,

which have been broadly merciless, with one critic opining that the film “isn’t just dumb and dumber, or even crude and cruder...it’s just dull -- and duller.”

So far the film, directed by brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly has scored a meager 27 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes film review aggregator website.

Big Hero 6, which features the voices of Damon Wayans, Jr, James Cromwell and Maya Rudolph, has col-lected $111.7m in the United States and Canada since opening on November 7, for a global total of $148m.

Disney said the film helped propel the studio’s strong year at the box office. On Friday it surpassed $4bn in global sales for the second time in its history.

New release Beyond the Lights, the story of a pop star struggling with the pressures of fame who falls in love with a policeman, took fourth place with $6.5m. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s third film follows well-received titles Love & Basketball and The Secret Life of Bees.

Gone Girl, director David Fincher’s box office hit starring Ben Affleck as a man suspected in his wife’s disap-pearance, rounded out the top five with

$4.6m, bringing its domestic haul to $152.7m.

Paramount, a unit of Viacom, distrib-uted Interstellar. Independent studio Relativity released Beyond the Lights. St. Vincent, a comedy starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts, earned $4m for sixth place. Brad Pitt’s World War II tank battalion drama Fury was seventh with $3.8m, just ahead of Nightcrawler, the Los Angeles thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an unscru-pulous video journalist who makes a

living by serving up gory footage of crime scenes to local television stations. The film took $3.03m.

Ninth place was taken by horror movie Ouija, with $3.02m, for fourth place. Rounding out the top 10 was Birdman, the comedy drama star-ring Michael Keaton as a washed up Hollywood superhero movie star attempting to resurrect his career on Broadway. The film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu took $2.4m.

Agencies

Kill Dil collects `200m in opening weekend

Director Shaad Ali’s Kill Dil, a thriller about guns and romance, managed to earn about `200m in three days, says an expert.

Produced by Aditya Chopra, Kill Dil features Govinda, Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar and Parineeti Chopra.

“Kill Dil hit about 1,800 screens on November 14 and the budget was about `250 to 300m. It has collected approximately `200m in three days. We were expecting more from it. It hasn’t been appreciated by people,” Rajesh Thadani of Multimedia Combines said.

Directed by Bharat Jain, horror movie 6-5=2, which released along with Kill Dil, couldn’t spook the moviegoers either.

“It was a disaster. It earned approximately `2.5m,” he said.M S Sathyu’s 1970s directorial Garam Hawa, starring Balraj Sahni, Shaukat

Azmi, Gita Siddharth and Farooq Shaikh, also re-released on Friday. While it was appreciated by the “niche audience”, it didn’t create fireworks at the box office.

“It earned between ̀ 5,00,000 and ̀ 1m. It is only for niche audiences,” said Thadani. IANS

Dumb and Dumber sequel overtakes Hero to win box office

BUSINESSPLUS | TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 201410

© GRAPHIC NEWSSources: International Energy Agency, OPEC Monthly Oil Market report, Energy Intelligence Group, Energy Information Administration

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HEALTH / FITNESS 11

How liver can improve diabetes management

Finding a way to stimulate glucose accumula-tion in the liver could help manage diabetes

and obesity, shows a new research, paving the way for new therapies to fight these increasingly common disorders.

The liver stores excess glucose, sugar, in the form of glycogen — chains of glucose — which is later released to cover body energy requirements.

Diabetic patients do not accumulate glucose well in the liver and this is one of the reasons why they suffer from hyperglycemia, that is to say, their blood sugar levels are too high.

“We have to find treatments to increase hepatic glucose because of its positive effect in diabetes and obesity,” said Joan Guinovart, head of the study from Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) in Spain.

“It is interesting to observe that what happens in the liver has direct effects on appetite. Here we reveal what occurs at the molecular level,” Guinovart explained. The researchers questioned why mice that accumulated most glycogen in the liver did not gain weight in spite of having access to an appetising diet.

In addition to observing that these animals ate less, the scientists found that the brains of these animals showed scarce appetite-stimulating mole-cules but rather many appetite-suppressing ones.

The key to the liver-brain link is ATP, the molecule used by all living organisms to provide cells with energy and which is commonly altered in diabetes and obesity, the researchers found.

The World Health Organisation estimates that 382 million people worldwide currently live with diabetes and for 2035 it forecasts that one in every 10 people will have this disease.

The study appeared in the journal Diabetes.

New Alzheimer’s-related memory disorder found

Alzheimer’s disease now has a new cousin as an international team of researchers

has determined criteria for a new neurological disorder called primary age-related tauopathy (PART).

Patients with PART develop memory impair-ment that is not at all different from those suf-fering from Alzheimer’s disease, but they lack plaques in the brain, formed from the accumula-tion of amyloid protein.

Amyloid plaque is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. “To make an Alzheimer’s diagnosis you need to see two things together in a patient’s brain: amyloid plaques and structures called neurofibrillary tangles composed of a protein called tau,” explained Peter Nelson, a professor of neuropathology at the University of Kentucky.

“However, autopsy studies have demonstrated that some patients have tangles but no plaques and we have long wondered what condition these patients had.”

Individuals who have tangles resembling those found in Alzheimer’s but have no detectable amy-loid plaques should now be classified as PART, the researchers proposed.

Awareness of this neurological disease will help doctors diagnose and develop more effective treatments for patients with different types of memory impairment, they added.

Until now, researchers have considered cases with only tangles to be either very early-stage Alzheimer’s or a variant of the disease in which the plaques are harder to detect. Agencies

By Dorene Internicola

A New York City fitness studio is following fast on the heels of the indoor cycling, or spin, craze by beckoning outdoor runners to come in from the cold for group tread-

mill classes.Equipped with 30 treadmills, lighting evocative of

dusk or dawn, and group training designed to hone the skills of marathoners and newbies alike, fitness experts say the Mile High Run Club (MHRC) might do a bit to burnish the image of the most used, least glamorous, of gym cardio machines.

Billed as the first treadmill studio, MHRC is the brainchild of founder and programme director Debora Warner, a running coach and group fitness instructor. She said the experience is similar to a group spinning class with many people on treadmills at the same time doing a structured class together.

“You can be very specific about incline, duration, number of reps,” said Warner, 43, “and that helps runners with their pacing outdoors. I don’t see tread-mills as a substitute for running, but it’s a great training tool.”

The treadmill is the most popular cardio machine at the gym, used by 40 percent of the over 60 mil-lion Americans who utilized a health club in 2013,

according to the 2014 Health Club Consumer Report of IHRSA, the trade association of the health club and fitness industry.

Nevertheless, it is viewed as drudgery, believes Connecticut-based exercise physiologist and running coach Tom Holland. “Running on a treadmill is a pretty horrible experience for most people and they generally don’t maximize their time,” said Holland, author of The Marathon Method.

He points out that while there is great value to interval training, steady running has its virtues, too.

“Most running coaches say for every hard workout, you need one or two easier ones,” Holland said.

Although Warner’s studio is dedicated to running, she noted that big gyms, such as Equinox, also offer treadmill classes. Crunch, another national chain, has also been integrating treadmill intervals into yoga and boot camp classes.

She offers group foundational and advanced classes. Both rely on repetitions of high-speed or intensity work followed by periods of rest or low activity, bookended by five-minute warm-ups and cool downs.

The classes also incorporate about 10 minutes of strength and power training, such as lunges, plyo-metrics (jumping), and stability training, which are all good for runners. Reuters


Treadmill studio classes put a spin on indoor running

Selfie-photo app to follow up fitness regime

A Croatian biologist has developed an app for smartphones that is able to follow up on the user’s physi-cal fitness by taking “selfie” photos on a daily basis. The photo-based app, called “BodyRecog - The

Body Shape Tracking App” was developed by Anita Busic and provides day-by-day analysis that measures the body’s percentage of muscular mass and fat, along with other fitness factors.

Busic said on the app’s official website (bodyrecog.com) that the application can provide advice on how to improve one’s physical fitness. The app seeks to help users lead a healthy lifestyle, as well as detect health risks, Busic explained.

After a change in lifestyle over a given period of time, according to the creator, new selfie photos can be used to reflect the extent of a person’s progress. Photos would also show parts that have been changed and how much is left to reach specific goals.

The application is based on the premise that visually observing the desired results may increase motiva-tion to continue a certain health programme. It is estimated that 50 percent of people who do not follow up on the achieved results stop caring altogether about their physical fitness.

Thanks to mobile communication devices the results may also be shared with others and their peer pressure can serve as additional motivation. The application has won October’s British Invention Show award in London, and its developers are currently negotiating with potential investors to market the app.

IANS

TECHNOLOGYPLUS | TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 201412

Online retailer expands R&D operations in England, two years after buying Cambridge-based startup Evi Technologies.By Chris Johnston

Amazon is planning to test drones in Cambridge, England, as the battle to offer consumers same-day deliveries heats up.

The US company announced with consider-able fanfare late last year that it was considering using drones as a way of dramatically reducing the time it takes to deliver orders to customers. At the time there was speculation that the move was little more than a publicity stunt. But Amazon said in July that it had sought permission from the US Federal Aviation Administration to test drones that could fly as fast as 50 miles per hour for up to 30 minutes at a time to deliver packages weighing up to 2.3kg (5lb).

Amazon is now expanding its R&D opera-tions in Cambridge – two years after buying Cambridge-based startup Evi Technologies – to take advantage of the talent pool of academics and researchers in the area. The lab will focus on Prime Air, Amazon’s name for its drones project, the blog TechCrunch reported.

Amazon has advertised a number of avia-tion-related UK jobs in recent weeks, such as a flight operations engineer for Amazon Prime Air: “Flight test experience, manned or unmanned, is preferred,” the advertisement stated. Other roles include a senior research scientist position and a site leader job.

Nick Bubb, a retail analyst, believed the idea of making deliveries by drone was impractical and had questionable economics. He added: “Cambridge probably isn’t a bad place to trial drones, as it’s a relatively dry part of the country and aircraft-free, but there are still bound to be accidents and collisions.”

Amazon is exploring a variety of ways to deliver orders faster than the overnight service it cur-rently offers. It has experimented with using taxis in San Francisco and Los Angeles to make multiple

deliveries bound for the same location, the Wall Street Journal reported this month. Last month, it introduced its first same-day collection serv-ice in Britain using a network of 500 newsagents and convenience stores under the Pass My Parcel brand. The service is only available for customers who sign up to Amazon Prime at a cost of £79 per year, although it also includes access to Prime Instant Video programming.

Google demonstrated its own drone-based deliv-ery service this summer, using a fixed-wing air-craft to deliver packages including chocolate bars, dog treats and cattle vaccines to a farmer in the Australian outback.

In September, German courier company DHL announced the first regular drone delivery service,

nine months after it launched its “parcelcopter” project. It will use an autonomous quadcopter to deliver small parcels to Juist, a sandbar island 7.45 miles (12km) off the German coast in the North Sea that is inhabited by 2,000 people. Deliveries will include medication and other urgent goods.

Although the flights are automated, DHL says the deliveries will be constantly monitored by a ground station to ensure safety and compliance with air traffic regulations.

A spokeswoman for Amazon Prime Air said: “We have multiple Prime Air development cent-ers, including R&D labs in Seattle and Cambridge. We’re always looking to add great talent to the team; the Cambridge-based Prime Air positions we have open are a reflection of that.” The Guardian

Amazon to begin testing same-day delivery drones in Cambridge

By Hayley Tsukayama

InboxA new, simpler approach for

your Gmail.Google isn’t giving up on Gmail,

but it has a few ideas about how it could be better. And to test those out, the tech giant has launched Inbox — an email app that works with existing Gmail accounts to revamp how we view, organize and deal with email.

The app, which is still in limited testing and therefore an invite-only service, takes cues from several smaller email apps and has added features such as the ability to make a reminder from an email or tell your account to resend an email at a later time.

Emails are also organised auto-matically into categories such as

“Promos,” so you spend less time wading through mailing list messages. Users can adjust what goes in which folders if the algorithm errs — which it does, on occasion.

The app also pulls in some of Google’s search expertise. Reminders to make dinner reservations, for example, come with information from its search engine on what number to call and when the restaurant is open.

Using Inbox rather than Gmail simplifies your email experience. For some people that may be nice, but for

those who don’t like having their mes-sages automatically sorted, it’s best to stick with standard email apps.

Free, but requires an invitation which users can request by e-mail-ing [email protected], for iOS and Android devices.

Disney Movies AnywhereDisney movies, now playing on

Android.If you’re a fan of Disney on the

really small screen, then you’ll be happy to hear that the company has added support for its online movie service, Disney Movies Anywhere, to allow you to watch films on your Android devices.

Previously, the Disney app had only given iOS users the option to stream or download movies from its 450-title collection.

The added support means that not

only can users watch movies on nearly every mobile phone and tablet, but they can buy a movie just once and watch it on any device they own. (As long, that is, as they download the app.)

If you’ve linked your iTunes and Google Play accounts to the Disney app, any new movie you buy via either service will show up on all your devices.

The app doesn’t have a comprehen-sive rundown of all Disney films, but it includes such classic animated fare as “Cinderella” or “The Little Mermaid,” in addition to live-action movies from the Marvel universe or the Muppets.

The service requires a free regis-tration, which asks for your email address and age.

Payment is handled by the iTunes store or Google Play. Free, but mov-ies must be purchased. For iOS and Android devices. WP-Bloomberg

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Hoy en la HistoriaNovember 18, 1916

1307: William Tell shot an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow, an act that inspired a Swiss revolt against Austria1991: Terry Waite, Britain’s last hostage in Lebanon, was freed2004: A law permitting divorce came into effect in Chile. Malta permitted divorce in 2011, leaving it illegal in only the Philippines and the Vatican City2012: Nintendo released the Wii U, the first video game console to support high-definition graphics

The World War I Battle of the Somme, which claimed over one million casualties, ended after five months which saw the first use of tanks in battle

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


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The Devil's Hand (2D/Horror) – 1:30, 5.45, 10.00pm

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– 10.05am, 1.00, 3.10, 5.20, 7.30, 9.40 & 11.50pm

9Interstellar (IMAX/Adventure)

– 11:30am, 2:45, 6.00, 9.15pm & 12:30am

10Jessabelle (2D/Horror)

– 11:00am, 3:20, 7.40pm & 12.00midnight

Dumb & Dumber To (2D/Comedy) – 1:00, 5:20 & 9.45pm

MALL

1Kill Dill (2D/Hindi) – 2:30 & 9.15pm

The Drop (2D/Drama) – 5:00pm

The Devil's Hand (2D/Thriller) – 7:00pm

Dumb & Dumber To (2D/Comedy) – 11.15pm

2The Tower (2D/Action) – 2:15pm


Jessabelle (2D/Thriller) – 6:30pm

Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 8.15pm

Vellimoonga (2D/Malayalam) – 11:15pm

3Dumb & Dumber To (2D/Comedy) – 2:30 & 6.30pm

Big Hero 6 (3D/Animation) – 4:30pm

Al Jazeera 2 (2D/Action) – 830pm


LANDMARK


Trash (2D/Adventure) – 5:00pm

The Tower (2D/Action) – 7:00pm


2Big Hero 6 (3D/Animation) – 2:30pm

Dumb & Dumber To (2D/Comedy) – 4:30 & 9.30pm

Al Jazeera 2 (2D/Action) – 6.30pm


3The Drop (2D/Drama) – 2:30 & 6.45pm

Vellimoonga (2D/Malayalam) – 4.30pm


Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 10:30pm

ROYAL

PLAZA


The Drop (2D/Drama) – 5.00pm

Trash (2D/Adventure) – 7:00pm


2The Tower (2D/Action) – 2:15pm


Vellimoonga (2D/Malayalam) – 6:15pm

Al Jazeera 2 (2D/Action) – 8.30pm


3Dumb & Dumber To (2D/Comedy) – 2:30 & 8.15pm

The Tower (2D/Action) – 4:15pm

Big Hero 6 (3D/Animation) – 6:30pm

Interstellar (2D/Adventure) – 10:15pm


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Events in Qatar

The Sound of Music Broadway theatrical show When: November 26-29; 7pm Where: Qatar National Convention CenterWhat: The world’s most-loved musical -The Sound of Music, comes to Doha. This iconic broadway musical show will be featuring lavish costumes and scenery, a wonderful live orchestra and starring a cast of the very best of London’s West End performers, this award-winning critically acclaimed production is an emotionally packed extravaganza.Entry: QR250-QR1200

Shirin Neshat: Afterwards When: Till February 15, 2015 Where: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art What: The first solo exhibition in the Middle East by internationally acclaimed artist Shirin Neshat. Occupying the entire ground floor galleries, the exhibition features existing and newly produced works. Free admission

Arabian Horse Exhibition When: November 27; 10am - 10pmWhere: Qatar Photographic Society – Building 18, Katara What: The Qatar Photography Society in collaboration with the Arabian Horses organisation is hosting the “Arabian Horses” exhibition which is a collective exposition of the society members, and includes 47 paintings featuring the beauty of photography and the splendour of the horses.Free entry

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

Yousef Ahmad: Story of ingenuity When: Nov 11- Feb14; 10am-8pmWhere: Qatar Museums Gallery, Building 10, Katara What: As a pioneer of Qatar’s modern art movement, Yousef Ahmad’s artistic journey has spanned over three decades, and his work has been influenced by his surroundings and emotional ties with Qatar’s culture and traditions. It showcases three phases in his career, from the early oil paintings that include the depiction of Al Zubarah Fort, to mixed media calligraphic pieces to new conceptual artworks.Free Entry

Wary of a public that has never really forgiven them for blighting their view

with a skyscraper 40 years ago, Paris authorities narrowly rejected plans for a 43-storey triangular-shaped building yesterday.

The 180m (590-foot) Tour Triangle was supposed to go up in the south-western corner of the city by 2017, but local lawmakers blocked the proposal by 83 votes to 78 in heated scenes at city hall.

Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she would launch a legal appeal against the vote, accusing councillors of displaying their voting cards in what was sup-posed to be a secret ballot.

“The law has not been respected,” she said.

Her deputy in charge of urban architecture, Jean-Louis Missika, said either the votes that were displayed publicly would be declared void, or the entire vote would have to be re-done.

The Triangle tower project was supposed to create 5,000 jobs with construction costs put at €535m ($670m) in 2011.

But many lawmakers will have been thinking of the scorn that is still directed towards the Tour Montparnasse—a brown carbuncle opened in 1973 that remains the only skyscraper in the city centre and

has made it all but impossible for developers to win approval for future high-rises.

Paris imposed a height limit of 37m in the wake of the uproar over the 210m tower in Montparnasse—which was accused of ruining both the view and a once-beloved artist district.

City developers later struck a com-promise with critics by quarantining high-rise buildings in the La Defense business sector just outside the centre.

‘A pyramidal monument’But the rules changed in 2010 when

the city decided to allow apartment blocks up to 50m and offices up to 180m in areas near the ring road. In July 2013, it gave initial approval to the Tour Triangle in the Parc des Expositions. Environmentalists and aesthetes were immediately up in arms.

They had formidable support, including from Norman Foster, the

celebrated British architect behind several skyscrapers including London’s “Gherkin”.

“I don’t see what Paris needs with a skyscraper,” he said at the time.

The UN’s cultural body Unesco also waded in, warning that new tow-ers would threaten the landscape of “one of the few remaining horizontal cities”.

The prestigious Swiss team behind the project, Herzog and De Meuron, rejected the criticism, saying the Triangle was “beautiful”.

Mayor Hidalgo backed the scheme despite polls showing a majority of Parisians opposed it.

Her deputy, Missika, called it one of the “future centres of Greater Paris” and a dynamic symbol of its ability to revitalise itself.

“It’s not a tower, it’s a pyramidal monument,” he said.

But Michel Carmona, an expert in the Haussmann style in which Paris was designed in the 1800s, said that such sudden breaks with the past were “a taboo” for Parisians.

“The unity of the Paris landscape is the envy of the world. It’s a test of talent for an architect to work within the Parisian template without breaking it,” he said. “Will the Tour Triangle attract foreigners? Not a chance.” AFP

Never a fan of heights, Paris

rejects triangle skyscraper

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